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Some villagers are resting themselves in ____shade. A. a B.an C.the D. /
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He prefers___indoors____out this afternoon. A. to stay;to go B. staying; to going C. staying;to go D.to stay; going
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—What made John wild _____ joy? —Being admitted to his dream university. A. with B. by C. at D. for
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So why not, he reasoned, _____ French the same way as he learned English? A. learn B. learning C. to learn D. learned
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I’m sure your suggestion will ____the problem. A. contribute to solving B.be contributed to solving C. contribute to solve D.be contributed to solving
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As a candidate, you must make a good____on everyone you meet if you want to win the election. A. decision B. situation C. impression D. position
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He felt very sad that though he worked very___indeed,he was not able to jump____. A. hardly; high B. hard; high C. hardly; highly D. hard; highly
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Our city has experienced ___this year as it did last year. A. twice as much rain B. rain twice as much C. as twice much rain D. twice rain as much
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It’s almost five years____we saw each other last time . A. before B.since C.after D. when
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Little _____ at that time that this“boring”subject would become his favourite later on. A. he knew B. he has known C. did he know D. has he known
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My meaning didn’t ___so I explained it a second time. A. get around B. get over C. get through D. get across
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—Jack failed the driving test again. —The question is_____ we can help him avoid making the same mistake. A. how B. why C. what D. whom
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Looking up ,I saw his eyes ___on me in curiosity. A. fixing B. to fix C. fixed D. having fixed
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So far it has been suggested that special stress _____ on pre-school education. A. is laid B. be laid C. has been laid D. have been laid
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—It shouldn't be so difficult to solve the problem if we all come to help． —That's right_ _． A．Many hands make light work B．Something is better than nothing． C．The more, the better D．The sooner begun, the sooner done
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| 16. 难度：中等 | |
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Once, my father and I were waiting to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there only one family _ us and the counter, who made a big on me. There were eight children, all probably under 12. You could they weren’t rich. Their clothes weren’t expensive but . The children were well-behaved., standing in line behind their parents and talking about what they would see that night. One could they had never been to the circus before. The mother was holding her husband’s hand while the father was smiling in . The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He proudly , “Eight for children and two for adults, please.” The ticket lady told him the price. The man’s wife let go of hand, her head dropped, and his lip began to tremble. The father leaned a little and asked, “How much did you say?” The ticket lady the price. The man didn’t have enough money. was he supposed to turn and tell his kids that he didn’t have enough to take them to the circus? Seeing this, my father put his hand in his pocket, a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground. Then my father _ down, picked up the bill and said the man, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.” The man knew what was going on. He wasn’t begging for it but certainly the timely help in such an situation. He took my father’s in both of his, squeezed(紧捏) tightly onto the , and with a rear running down his cheek, he replied, “Thank you, sir. This really _ a lot to me and my family.” 1.A. before B. between C. behind D. besides 2.A. difference B. effort C. impression D. suggestion 3.A. tell B. agree C. believe D. suppose 4.A. clean B. shabby C. simple D. common 5.A. disappointedly B. bitterly C. excitedly D. carelessly 6.A. sense B. expect C. doubt D. Recognize 7.A. surprise B. turn C. silence D. pride 8.A. laughed B. announced C. commented D. responded 9.A. my B. his C. her D. their 10.A. backwards B. away C. closer D. farther 11.A. refused B. recited C. reduced D. repeated 12.A. When B. Where C. How D. Why 13.A. time B. money C. chance D. courage 14.A. pulled out B. pulled up C. picked out D. picked up 15.A. jumped B. lay C. knocked D. reached 16.A. appreciated B. admired C. rejected D. offered 17.A. interesting B. embarrassing C. enjoyable D. unbelievable 18.A. pocket B. wallet C. arm D. hand 19.A. ticket B. bill C. pound D. paper 20.A. pays B. costs C. means D. gives
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A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps. One should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting us in age. Men often discover their similarity to each other by the common love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this: “Love my, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond(纽带) of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them. A good book is often the best container of a life preserving the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which become our steady companions and comforters. Books are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay(腐朽), but good books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. The great and good do not die, even in this world. Preserved in books, their spirits walked abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect(智者) to which one still listens. 1.The writer introduces the topic of the passage by . 2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean? 3.which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? 4.the passage mainly tells us that .
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Express delivery: How you can buy your groceries from a virtual supermarket Aug, 1st, 2011 Daily Mail A “virtual supermarket” consisting of posters of goods put on platform walls is set to be introduced at London Underground stations. Passengers “shop” by scanning QR—Quick Response—codes of the items they want to buy using their smart phones. These goods are later delivered to their home address. Supermarket giant(巨头) Tesco successfully trialed the hi-tech store in a South Korean underground station and there are now plans to bring the concept to Britain. NYPD to Scan Facebook, Twitter for Trouble Aug, 11th, 2011 Forbes The New York Police Department announced it will form a new unit to search social media as part of its law enforcement(执行) efforts, responding to the criminals’ growing use of these sites to plan and celebrate illegal activities. The NYPD unit created particularly to comb social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and BlackBerry messenger for information on planned crimes and their criminals. Space Junk(太空垃圾) reaching “tipping point”, report warns Sep 3rd, 2011 Toronto Sun The amount of debris(碎片) orbiting the Earth has reached “a tipping point” for crashes, which would produce more debris that may be dangerous to astronauts and satellites, according to a US study. According to the US Space Surveillance Network, the number of orbital debris jumped from 9,949 in December 2006 to 16,094 in July 2011. 1.The “virtual supermarket” would be introduced to Britain because of . 2.we can learn from the news that . A. people with mobile phones can shop at London Underground stations 3.what does the underlined word “comb” in the second piece of news mean? 4.The third piece of news will be in the section of the newspaper.
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The New York Philharmonic(爱乐乐团) came to an unexpected stop on Tuesday night when an audience member’s cell phone started ringing and wouldn’t stop. Conductor Alan Gilbert was nearing the end of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony(交响乐) when the interruption began. As eh New York Times writes, the symphony, “contains some of the most spiritual and peaceful music ever written.” As the cell phone continued to ring, the iPhone’s signature ringtone, Gilbert stopped the entire performance. And yet shockingly the phone continued to ring. “Nothing happened,” Gilbert told the Times, “Nobody was to blame for it. It was unbelievable.” Gilbert said minor cell phone interruptions have become common and rarely interfere with a live performance. The Philharmonic does what it can to remind to audience to turn off their cell phones before the performance begins. But the audience and performers stood by in astonished silence as Gilbert asked the offender(肇事者) to silence the phone, only to hear it continue. Mr Gilbert said audience pointed out two people sitting where the sound was coming from. “They were staring at me firmly,” he said of the couple. Eventually, the man put his hand in his pocket and the ringing stopped. The conductor said he asked the man if he was sure the phone was quieted. “Then he nodded his head,” Mr Gilbert said. People in the hall had been shouting for the sound to stop. Mr Pelkonen reported that they yelled: “Thousand-dollar fine!” “Kick him out!” “Get out!” Once the phone was finally silenced, Gilbert apologized to the audience. They responded with cheers and applause(掌声). And the performance continued. 1.The underlined words “interfere with” in the third paragraph means “ ”. 2.What do we know about the offender? 3.What does the writer of this passage intend to imply? 4.What can be the best title for the passage?
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899—July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. His writing style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image(形象) affected later generations. Hemingway produced most of his works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Hemingway was raised in Illinois. After high school he reported for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign journalist. Advised and encouraged by other American writers in Paris—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, he began to see his work appear in print there, and in 1925 his first important book, a collection of stories called In Our Time, was published. A year later, he published The Sun Also Rises, a novel with which he scored his first solid success. The writing of books occupied Hemingway for most of the postwar years. He remained based in Paris, but he traveled widely for bullfighting(斗牛), fishing, and hunting that by then had become part of his life and formed the background for much of his writing. Hemingway’s love of Spain and bullfighting resulted in Death in the Afternoon (1932). His position as a master of short fiction had been advanced by Men Without Women in 1927. The harvest of Hemingway’s considerable experience of Spain in war and peace was the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). In the public view, however, the novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) overshadowed such works. Shortly after he published The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway lived in Florida and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where ended his life in the summer of 1961. 1.Which best arranges Hemingway’s works in the correct order of time? C. b, a, d, f, e, c D. b, d, a, e, c, f 2.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 probably means that A Farewell to Arms . 3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? 4.It can be concluded from the passage that .
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Around the world coral reefs(珊瑚礁) are facing threats(威胁) brought by climate change and great changes in sea temperatures. While ocean warming has been the primary focus for scientists and ocean policy managers, cold events can also whiten corals. A new study by scientists compared damaged to corals exposed to heat as well as cold stress. The results show that cool temperatures can cause more damage in the short term, but heat is more destructive(破坏性的) in the long run. Climate change is widely known to produce warming conditions in the oceans, but extreme cold-water events have become more frequent and serious as well. In 2010, for example, coral reefs around the world faced on of the coldest winters and one of the hottest summers on record. During a unique experiment, corals under cold temperatures suffered greater damage in just days compared with heat treated corals. Yet the researchers found that corals were eventually able to adjust to the cold conditions, make their health stable and continue to grow. However, over the long term corals subjected to heat suffered more greatly than those in cold, with evidence of severe whitening and growth stoppage, which leads to death. The coral’s ability to adjust to cool temperatures surprised the researchers, who say the study’s results show the complexities(复杂性) of monitoring coral health in response to different environmental factors(因素). “Global warming is associated with increases but also decreases of temperatures,” said Deheyn, one of the researchers. “Not much has been known about the comparative effects of temperature decrease on corals. These results are important because they show that corals react differently to temperature differences, which is important for future management of coral reefs in the field of climate change.” 1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? 2.We can learn from the passage that . 3.According to the research, . 4.Scientists reached the conclusion through . A. news report B. scientific study C. great imaginationD.natural conditions
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Everyone has their own way of learning a foreign language. When I was ten years old, I _______(开始)to chat with foreigners. But I was very shy. G________, I became more and more confident with their help. The f______ year, I went to Yangzhou with two foreigners. I became their g____. First, we came into the Shouxi River, which they wanted to look around ______ boat. After that, they wanted to buy some souvenirs. The sellers couldn’t speak English, _____I tried my best to put_______ they said into English. Next, we went to a small zoo, where we took some _______.This was an unforgettable _____(挑战). I hope I can catch many opportunities in the in the future, then I can speak English, because I think practice makes ______.
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假如你是李华，某校高三年级学生，你想给曾经教过你的外教Alan写一封邮件请教在英语学习上遇到的一些问题。主要内容包括： 英语成绩不理想； 2。恐难进心仪大学；3。花时多，收效少 …… 要求：1. 不要逐条翻译，可适当发挥，行文通畅；2. 词数：120左右 Dear Alan, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Best wishes
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