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William Berloni, 59, is Broadway's dog expert, training and managing dogs for musicals and plays that need a well-behaved dog. He also works on movies and TV shows with all kinds of animals, including cats, pigs, sheep, snakes and rats. His retired (退役的) actors, including 30 dogs that have acted in shows such as “Annie” and “Oliver!” live with him and his wife on a farm in Connecticut. Berloni's main playmates as a kid were his dog, cat and rabbit, but he says he never thought he would become a professional (职业的) animal trainer. He wanted to be an actor. But while working as an assistant for the pre-Broadway production of “Annie” in 1976, he was given the job of finding a dog to play Sandy. Berloni visited an animal shelter (收容所), where lost dogs and other pets are kept until they are adopted (收养). Shelters take in a lot of animals — so many that some shelters kill pets that aren't quickly adopted. “I didn't know that animals were killed,” says Berloni, who ended up adopting a dog on the day it was supposed to be put down. The dog, which Berloni named Sandy, turned out to be a perfect fit for the show after a little training. The pair learned from each other, with Berloni becoming better and better as a trainer. Sandy starred in almost all of the show's 2,377 Broadway performances and enjoyed retirement on Berloni's farm when the production's first Broadway run ended in 1983. Since then, Berloni has made a point of finding all his dogs at shelters. Nessa is one of his dogs who plays Toto in “The Wizard of Oz”. After about a year of working together, Berloni and Nessa are like old friends. She's happy to lie on his leg, even when she's not performing. Nessa gets prizes in return for performing, but “Love is the big motivator (动力),” Berloni says. 1.What do we know about Berloni? A. He was once a Broadway actor. B. He is good at dealing with animals. C. He keeps all kinds of animals on his farm. D. He wanted to be an animal trainer when he was a child. 2.The underlined phrase “put down” in paragraph 3 can most probably be replaced by_____. A. rescued out B. moved down C. kept in D. made dead 3.In Berloni's opinion, he builds a good relationship with his dogs mainly because of _____. A. his professional training B. the dogs' good state C. his great care D. the big prizes
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It was the night before the composition was due. As I looked at the list of ________, “The Art of Eating Spaghetti(意大利面条)” caught my eye. The word “spaghetti” ________the memory of an evening at Uncle Alien’s in Belleville ________all of us were seated around the table and Aunt Pat ________ spaghetti for supper. Spaghetti was an foreign ________in those days. Never had I eaten spaghetti, and ________ of the grown-ups had enough experience to be________it. What laughing ________ we had about the________respectable method for moving spaghetti from plate to mouth. ________, I wanted to write about that, but I wanted to put it down ________ for my own joy, not for Mr. Fleagle, my composition teacher. ________him, I would write something else. When I finished it the night was half gone and there was no time left to write a ________ composition for Mr. Fleagle. There was no choice next morning ________ to hand in my work. Two days passed before Mr. Fleagle returned the ________ papers. He said, “Now, class, I want to read you a composition, ‘The Art of Eating Spaghetti’. ” My words! He was reading my words out ________ to the whole class. ________ laughed, then the whole class was laughing with open-hearted enjoyment. I did my best not to show________, but what I was feeling was pure happiness, ________ my words had the power to make people________. 1.A. topics B. articles C. books D. names 2.A. called for B. took in C. brought back D. took up 3.A. since B. when C. after D. where 4.A. cooked B. served C. got D. made 5.A. experience B. treat C. treatment D. way 6.A. none B. one C. earns D. neither 7.A. careful about B. interested in C. good at D. fond of 8.A. lessons B. sayings C. speeches D. arguments 9.A. officially B. naturally C. frequently D. socially 10.A. Roughly B. Probably C. Suddenly D. Fortunately 11.A. exactly B. simply C. directly D. gradually 12.A. As for B. Apart from C. instead of D. Thanks to 13.A. short B. proper C. satisfied D. long 14.A. only B. yet C. or D. but 15.A. written B. graded C. collected D. signed 16.A. loud B. instantly C. rapidly D. calmly 17.A. People B. I C. Nobody D. Somebody 18.A. shock B. anxiety C. pleasure D. face 19.A. while B. although C. for D. so 20.A. laugh B. satisfied C. think D. excited
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阅读下面材料，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。 James Bender, in his book How to Talk Well tells the story of a farmer who grew awardwinning corn.Each year he won a blue ribbon.One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.“How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year？” The reporter asked.“Why，” said the farmer, “didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen(花粉) from the ripening corn and carries it from field to field.If my neighbors grow bad corn, crosspollination(异花受粉) will slowly reduce the quality of my corn.If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.” He is very much aware of the connectedness of life.His corn cannot improve unless his neighbors' corn also improves.The lesson for each of us is this: If we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn. （写作内容） 1．突出：人与人之间本应和睦相处、互帮互助、共同进步； 2．以约30个词概括短文的要点； 3．以约120词发表你的看法，谈谈你的认识。 （写作要求） 1．作文中可以使用实例来支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容论述，但不得直接引用原文中的句子； 2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。 （评分标准） 概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
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任务型阅读 How to Study Smarter, Not Harder Here are some of our favorite tips that will help any student study smarter, not harder： Recite As You Study Recitingsaying things out loud—should first take place as you read through each paragraph or section.Test yourself.This will help you to understand as well as learn faster because it is more active than reading or listening.It will also help you to notice your mistakes and the topics you have trouble understanding. Study the Middle The best time to review is soon after you've learned something.You are more likely to remember the material at the beginning and the end of the lesson, so make sure you focus on the middle when you review. Take Fuller Notes Notes should be in your own words, brief and clear.They should be tidy and easy to read.Writing notes will help you better than just underlining as you read, since it forces you to rewrite ideas in your own words. Sleep on it Study before going to bed, unless you are very tired.It's easier to remember material you've just learned after sleeping than after an equal period of daytime activity, because your brain continues to think even after you've fallen asleep. Combing Memory and Understanding There are two ways to remember：by memorizing and by understanding.Multiplication tables, telephone numbers, and math formulas are better learned by rote(死记硬背)while ideas are best learned by understanding. The more ways you have to think about an idea, the more meaning it will have：the more meaningful the learning, the better you can remember it.Pay attention to similarities in ideas and concepts and then try to understand how they fit in with thing you already know.Never be satisfied with anything less than a completely clear understanding of what you are reading.If you are not able to follow the thought, go back to the place where you first got confused and try again. Titles： Tips on ________in a smarter way
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The problem with students using Google is not that the search leader is unable to offer useful educational content. It's that finding that content using simple search terms is a difficult art to master. But some educational companies and organizations aim to make it easier to find useful educational content among the Web. They are forming a working group to come up with more detailed criteria(标准)that could eventually be added into the search lines for Google, Bing, and Yahoo ! The project was encouraged by a joint move by those major search engines to help users do more effective Websearches. The idea behind the new education corporation is to determine a common “framework” for narrowing search results for education content—by subject area，or source type，or content type, or any number of possible criteria. The goal is also to persuade publishers of educational content to use a matching set of tags(分类)to help the search engines sort out their content more easily. Search engines are used by college students, but they were not designed for them. This has been a subject of much handwringing (绝望) among professors, who worry that students are not finding the most reliable content on the Internet even if more and more content providers of good fame—textbook publishers, scholars, universities and many others—have been putting useful academic resources on the open Web. Michael Johnson, a member who will be serving on a working group devoted to developing the framework over the next six months or so, said “The project is aimed at benefiting the publishers of educational content as much as students. ” 1.What may annoy students using Google to help them? A. They can't search useful educational content at home. B. Google doesn't provide valuable educational content. C. It's hard to find educational content in simple and effective ways. D. There are so many students searching the same using Google now. 2.To improve Web searches for students the working group will ________. A. demand the major search engines offer more content B. train more students to surf safely on the Internet C. ask students to use more kinds of search engines D. link better standards to the major search engines 3.What may publishers of educational content help in the joint move? A. They should produce less educational content with better quality. B. They can set standard tags to match with searched contents. C. They may develop better searching software. D. They will provide more educational content. 4.From the third paragraph we can see ________. A. not all content providers of good fame offer reliable content B. textbook publishers shouldn't put resources on the open Web C. college professors don't believe in content on the Internet D. college students don't know how to use search engines
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Whenever anyone measures educational success, East Asian countries are always top scorers. But in a recent league table, a European country, Finland, was top of the class. South Korea was still in second place, though. Britain was at number 6. In Korea the school day is longtypically 7 or 8 hours, followed by hours of private tutoring in the evenings. All_this_hothousing leaves Korean students so tired, they sometimes fall asleep in class next day. Worries about the effects of late night cramming (填鸭式) led the government to force cramming schools to close by 10 pm.Finnish children spend the least time in class in the developed world, often finishing just after lunch, with about one hour of homework a day. Private tuition is uncommon. The British and American school day is quite long in comparison, around 6 hours, and secondary school pupils do 2 or 3 hours of selfstudy a night. The Korean education system, like many in Asia, is intensely competitive, with students even competing to get into the best cramming schools, to help them get ahead. Finnish education is far less cutthroat. Classes are all mixed ability, and there are no league tables. British schools again occupy the middle ground, with quite high levels of competition for places at university, and schools and universities battling to come top of league tables for everything from exam results to student satisfaction. Korea and Finland both do well, yet their education systems are so different. However, there are some similarities in Korea and Finland. In those countries, teachers have high status in society, and education is very highly valued. Those attitudes can't change quickly. But it can be done. They might be the star pupils now, but until the 1970s, Finland's educational system was poor. Their thoroughly different approach to schooling has taken them to the top in just a generation. 1.The students spend the least time in school in ________. A. the UK B. Finland C. the USA D. Korea 2.The underlined phrase “all this hothousing” in Paragraph 2 probably refers to ________. A. private evening tutoring B. selfstudy at home C. longhour study D. school study 3.From Paragraph 3, we can know that ________. A. Finnish students are less stressed in study B. there're also many cramming schools in Britain C. students in Korea are the most competitive in Asia D. British schools are less competitive than universities 4.According to the author, the key to improving education is ________. A. the attitude B. the schooling time C. star pupils D. new teaching approach
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Having a website is not enough today.In fact, for a website to be indexed by Google, it may take about a month. Even after this, it's not likely that it will appear on such engine rankings when a search is made. This is because there are millions of web pages that can be accessed at any given moment. Thus, they need to advertise website is more important than having a website. Online advertising methods are very different from traditional ones. One of the methods to advertise website companies is use of banner ads. Companies use flash ads or banner ads placed in strategic locations around the web. However, the most common way of advertising today is the use of linkbuilding. Usually, Google and Yahoo will index web pages based on their popularity. Therefore, advertising website campaigns should be targeted towards ensuring your website has relevant links that are both outbound and inbound. Inbound links link back to you while outbound links come from your website to other relevant sites. Usually, linkbuilding in any of your advertising website campaigns will have some measure of success. If you link to other relevant websites, they will more likely be willing to link back to you. Paid links can help if you have some extra cash to spare. Payperclick campaigns also go a long way in advertising website campaigns. Search engines like Google and Yahoo provide payperclick services based on the keyword used. Thus, ensure that you do careful research on keyword relevance before starting a payperclick campaign. Good web design also plays an important role in not only attracting new clients but also maintaining them. Take time to design the website, your links, icons and look of the website. This will go a long way in your advertising website campaign. Traffic generation takes time and effort, but it is time and effort well spent. 1.It is hard for a website to be indexed by Google and Yahoo mainly because it ________. A. doesn't work properly B. doesn't pay for the link to it C. doesn't have the proper keywords D. doesn't stand out among others 2.What can we learn about linkbuilding according to the text? A. It mainly refers to those inbound links. B. Payperclick services are only provided by Google and Yahoo. C. General keywords play an important role in the process. D. Paid links are not advised to use by those new websites. 3.Before starting a payperclick campaign, people should ________. A. find the relevant keywords correctly B. design their web pages creatively C. find proper search engine like Google D. pay Google and Yahoo in advance 4.The text is for those who want to ________. A. design their websites better B. develop their websites eagerly C. advertise on Google and Yahoo D. win advertising website campaigns
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Computer hackers have now got their hands on mobile phones. A phone virus program can ______ your phone do things you have no control over, computer security experts ______. It might ______ the White House or the police, or forward your personal address book to a marketing company. Or it could simply eat into the phone's operating software, turning it ______ and erasing your personal information. Similar viruses have already made mobile phone owners ______ in Japan and Europe. Mr.Hypponen, chief technical officer of a computer security company in Finland, said a virus “can get your ______ and send them elsewhere. And it can record your ______. ” Mobiles are now able to surf the net, send emails and ______ software. So they are an easy ______ for the same hackers who have sent viruses to computers over the past decade. “It's technically ______ now，” said Stephen Trilling, director of research at antivirus ______ maker Symantec Corp based in the US. “If the phone is connected to the ______ , it can be used to transmit threats and ______ targets just as any computer can. ” In Japan, if you opened a certain email message ______ your mobile phone, it would cause the phone to repeatedly ______ the national emergency (紧急)number. So phone operators had to ______ emergency calls until the ______ was removed. In Europe, the mobiles' short message service, ______ SMS, has been used to send codes that could damage phones. Mobile users can ______ viruses, of course, by sticking to their traditional phones ______ web links, some experts said. 1.A. get B. force C. make D. damage 2.A. speak B. talk C. tell D. say 3.A. lead B. cause C. control D. call 4.A. off B. out C. down D. on 5.A. interested B. angry C. excited D. terrified 6.A. messages B. passages C. news D. information 7.A. voice B. passwords C. music D. address 8.A. make B. destroy C. download D. develop 9.A. job B. task C. mission D. target 10.A. possible B. impossible C. useful D. valuable 11.A. hardware B. software C. computer D. equipment 12.A. computer B. television C. Internet D. radio 13.A. strike B. visit C. inquire D. attack 14.A. in B. by C. on D. with 15.A. send B. dial C. count D. press 16.A. cancel B. forbid C. stop D. prevent 17.A. bug B. mistake C. fault D. email 18.A. and B. not C. or D. but 19.A. stop B. avoid C. kill D. find 20.A. beyond B. with C. over D. without
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He would rather ________lectures to the students than ________to different boring conferences. A. to give；be invited B. give；be invited C. giving；be invited D. giving；being invited
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（题文）—I wonder why he has been acting so strangely these days. — Recent pressure at work may ________ his behavior. A. account for B. make for C. stand for D. change for
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