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Experts think that _________ recently discovered painting may be_________ Picasso. A. the; aB. a;
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According to a UN report, one third of the world population have no _________ to clean drinking water and health care. A. meansB. approachesC. waysD. access
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Ruth sold most of her belongings. She has hardly_________ left in her house. A. anythingB. nothingC. everythingD. something
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The performance of the host, _________ to please the audience and draw their attention, was greeted with a cold silence, however. A. had intendedB. intendedC. intendingD. to intend
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_______ for the doctor’s careful treatment, he _______ till last year. A. If it is not; can’t live B. Were it not; couldn’t live C. Had it not been; couldn’t have livedD. If it were not; wouldn’t live
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_______, I lost heart in English learning, but my teacher said to me, “Keep on working hard, and you’ll succeed ________.” A. At a time; in timeB. At one time; in time C. At a time; on timeD. At one time; on time
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_______ on rescuing her sick son, the poor mother has been working 16 hours a day. A. To bendB. Being bentC. Having bentD. Bent
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---What makes you decide to buy a new house in the town? ---This town is _______ pollution. A. far fromB. apart fromC. free fromD. away from
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He put up a picture of Yao A. reminded
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He didn’t take the airplane from Malaysia to Beijing, otherwise he _______ his life. A. would loseB. had lostC. would have lostD. will lose
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Jane tried to keep up a calm appearance, but her trembling voice ________ her _______. A. gave; inB. gave; outC. gave; upD. gave; away
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I’d rather have a room of my own, how A. to shareB. shareC. sharedD. sharing
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The school shop, ________ customers are mainly students, is closed during class time. A. which B. whereC. whose D. when
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I don’t think The Flowers of War by Zhang Yimou is popular among teenagers, _________? A. are theyB. isn’t itC. do ID. is it
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---Peter, where did you guys go for the summer vacation? ---We _______ busy with our work for months, so we went to the beach. A. wereB. had beenC. have beenD. will be
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I arrived in the classroom，ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English literature class．Having taught in the US for 17 years，I had no about my ability to hold their attention and to on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue． I was shocked when the monitor shouted，“ !” The entire class rose as I entered the room，and I was somewhat about how to get them to sit down again，but once that awkwardness (尴尬) was over，I quickly calmness and began what I thought was a fact—packed lecture，sure to gain their respect—perhaps their admiration．I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a(n) of achievement． My students diaries．However，as I read them，the happy mood was gradually by a strong sense of sadness．The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today． her next lecture will be better．”Greatly surprised，I read diary after diary，each expressing a theme．“Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework (哲学体系) of Western thought and laid the historical for all the works we’ll study in class，” I complained．“How they say I didn’t teach them anything?” It was a long term，and it became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as of my students．I thought a teacher’s job was to raise questions and provide enough background so that students could ＿ their own conclusions．My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide information as directly and clearly as possible．What a difference! ，I also learnt a lot，and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a＿ American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture. 1.A．certainty B．idea C．doubt D．experience 2.A．impress B．put C．leave D．fix 3.A．Attention B．Look out C．At ease D. Stand up 4.A．puzzled B．sure C．curious D．worried 5.A．found B．returned C．regained D．followed 6.A．more B．even C．yet D．still 7.A．thought B．sense C．emotion D．idea 8.A．shared B．borrowed C．kept D．read 9.A. replaced B. taken C. caught D. moved 10.A．Naturally B．Perhaps C．Fortunately D．Reasonably 11.A．different B．same C．similar D．usual 12.A．happenings B．characters C．development D．background 13.A．should B．need C．will D．must 14.A．immediately B．certainly C．simply D．gradually 15.A．that B．what C．those D．ones 16.A．difficult B．interesting C．ordinary D．unusual 17.A．draw B．get C．decide D．give 18.A．strange B．standard C．exact D．serious 19.A．Therefore B．However C．Besides D．Though 20.A．stricter B．happier C．worse D．better
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There is a wonderful story about a young girl who had no family and no one to love her. One day, feeling very sad and lonely, she was walking through a grassland when she noticed a small butterfly caught in a thorn (荆棘) bush. The young girl carefully released the butterfly. Instead of flying away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy. The young girl rubbed her eyes in disbelief. “For your wonderful kindness,” the good fairy said to the girl, “I will give you any wish you would like.” The little girl thought for a moment and then replied, “I want to be happy.” The fairy leaned toward her and whispered in her ear. Then the fairy disappeared. As the little girl grew up, there was no one in the land as happy as she. Everyone asked her the secret of happiness. She would only smile and answer, “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl.” When she was very old and on her deathbed, the neighbors all gathered around her, believing that her unbelievable secret of happiness would die with her. “Tell us, please,” they begged, “Tell us what the good fairy said.” The lovely old woman simply smiled and said, “She told me that everyone, no matter how secure they seemed, no matter how old or young, how rich or poor, had need of me.” 1.Noticing the butterfly was caught by the thorn, the orphan girl _______. A. helped the butterfly escape from the thorn B. felt sad, but she didn′t go up to help it C. fell down on it too[ D. failed to help it release from the thorn 2.The butterfly _________ after it was saved by the little girl. A. flew away B. still died C. changed into a fairy D. was more beautiful than before 3.The only thing that the little girl wanted was_________. A. to be rich B. to have her own parents C. to have a lot of friends D. to be happy 4.The neighbors all gathered around the old happy woman when she was dying, because ______. A. they loved this woman deeply and they didn′t want her to die B. the woman had lots of money to be shared after she died C. they wanted to know the secret of her lifetime happiness D. they wanted to pray for her after her death
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Money Matters for Students GETTING A GRANT（补助） Who pays? The Local Education Authority (LEA) for the area in which the student is living. Who can get this money? Anyone who gets a place on a first degree course, although a student who has already attended a course of advanced further education may not. Students must also have been resident in the UK for at least three years, which can exclude (排除) some students from overseas. SPECIAL CASES If a student has worked before going to college: A student who is 26 or more before the course starts and who has worked for at least three of the previous six years will get extra money--￡155 a year if 26, increasing to a maximum of ￡615 at 29 or more. If a student is handicapped (残疾的): LEAs will give up to ￡500 to help meet extra expenses—such as buying a tape recorder for a blind student, extra heating or special food. Banking: Most of the big banks offer special services to students who open accounts (in the hope that they will stay with the bank when they become rich officials). A student won’t usually have to pay bank charges as long as the account stays in credit. Some banks allow students to overdraw by ￡100 or so, and still don’t make charges (though they do charge interest). 1.A student from Japan who has been staying in England for a year and intends to go to college in a few months will _________. A. get money if he is taking a first degree course B. be unable to get money from any LEA C. get money from any LEA when he has finished his course D. have to open a bank account before he gets any money 2.Which of the following is TRUE? A. A student already attending a course of advanced education is sure to get a grant. B. A student aged 30 can get extra money—￡615 a year. C. A student usually must pay back charges when the account is in credit. D. Students are allowed to overdraw by ￡100 or so in any bank. 3.Why is it likely that a bank will welcome new students as their customers? A. They know students receive money regularly. B. They charge students extra. C. They hope students will be rich in the future. D. They need student accounts in term-time. 4.Where can you probably read this passage? A. A notice-board in a college.B. A dictionary. C. A newspaper.D. A banking office.
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Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best. For example, to absorb heat from the sun to heat water, you need large, flat, black surfaces. One way to do that is to build those surfaces specially, on the roofs of buildings. But why go to all that trouble when cities are full of black surfaces already, in the form of asphalt (柏油) roads? Ten years ago, this thought came into the mind of Arian de Bondt, a Dutch engineer. He finally persuaded his boss to follow it up. The result is that their building is now heated in winter and cooled in summer by a system that relies on the surface of the road outside. The heat-collector is a system of connected water pipes. Most of them ran from one side of the street to the other, just under the asphalt road. Some, however, dive deep into the ground. When the street surface gets hot in summer, water pumped through the pipes picks up this heat and takes it underground through one of the diving pipes. At a depth of 100 meters lies a natural aquifer (蓄水层) into which several heat exchangers (交换器) have been built. The hot water from the street runs through these exchangers, warming the ground-water, before returning to the surface through another pipe. The aquifer is thus used as a heat store. In winter, the w 1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the first two paragraphs? A. Arian de Bondt got his idea from his boss. B. Large, flat, black surfaces need to be built in cities. C. Heat can also be collected from asphalt roads. D. The Dutch engineer's system has been widely used. 2.For what purpose are the diving pipes used? A. To absorb heat from the sun. B. To store heat for future use. C. To turn solar energy into heat energy. D. To carry heat down below the surface. 3.From the last paragraph we can learn that _________. A. the system can do more than warming up the building B. some pipes have to be re-arranged in winter C. the exchangers will pick up heat from the street surface D. less heat may be collected in winter than in summer 4.What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows? A. What we shall do if the system goes wrong. B. What we shall do if there are no asphalt roads. C. How the system cools the building in summer. D. How the system collects heat in spring and autumn.
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The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like “I never do anything right” into positive ones like “I can succeed”. But was positive thinking advocate Norman Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positive thinking? Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journal Psychological Science that says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are. The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing (引证) older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better. If you tell your friend who is slow to learn that he has the potential of an Einstein, you’re just underlining his faults. In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays against funding for the disabled. When the essayists were later praised for their sympathy, they felt even worse about what they had written. In this experiment, Wood, Lee and Perunovic measured 68 students’ self-esteem (自尊). The participants were then asked to write down their thoughts and feelings for four minutes. Every 15 seconds, one group of students heard a bell. When it rang, they were supposed to tell themselves, “I am lovable.” Those with low self-esteem didn’t feel better after the forced self-affirmation (自我肯定). In fact, their moods turned significantly darker than those of members of the control group, who weren’t urged to think of positive thoughts. The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治疗) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them. In the fighting, we not only often fail but can make things worse. Meditation (静思) techniques, in contrast, can teach people to put their shortcomings into a larger, more realistic viewpoint. Call it the power of negative thinking. 1.The first paragraph is written _________. A. to raise an argument about positive thinking B. to introduce the power of positive thinking C. to encourage people to have positive thoughts D. to introduce the $11 billion self-help industry 2.According to the study of the Canadian researchers, _________. A. positive thinking is not as powerful as negative thinking B. encouraging positive thinking may actually discourage people C. happy people can think positively while unhappy people can’t D. getting people to think positively can strengthen their confidence 3.What does the underlined sentenc A. You are pointing out the mistakes he has made. B. You are reminding him that he is not intelligent. C. You are not taking his mistakes seriously enough. D. You are showing he has great potential in spite of faults. 4.We can learn from the last paragraph that _________. A. negative feelings must be got rid of B. there’s no point in thinking positively C. it doesn’t make sense to think negatively D. negative thinking is not always negative
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When I was fourteen, I earned money in the summer by cutting lawns (草坪), and within a few weeks I had built up a body of customers. I got to know people by the flowers they planted that I had to remember not to cut down, by the things they lost in the grass or stuck in the ground on purpose. I reached the point with most of them when I knew in advance what complaint was about to be spoken, which particular request was most important. And I learned something about the measure of my neighbors by their preferred method of payment: by the job, by the month—or not at all. Mr. Ballou fell into the last category, and he always had a reason why. On one day, he had no change for a fifty, on another he was flat out of checks, and on another, he was simply ou Then, one late afternoon in mid-July, the hottest time of the year, I was walking by his house and he opened the door, mentioned me to come inside. The hall was cool, shaded, and it took my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim light. “I owe you,” Mr. Ballou, “but…” I thought I’d save him the trouble of thinking of a new excuse. “No problem. “The bank made a mistake in my account,” he continued, ignoring my words. “It will be cleared up in a day or two. But in the meantime I thought perhaps you could choose one or two volumes for a down payment (首期付款). He gestured toward the walls and I saw that books were stacked (堆放) everywhere. It was like a library, except with no order to the arrangement. “Take your time,” Mr. Ballou encouraged. “Read, borrow, keep. Find something you like. What do you read?” “I don’t know.” And I didn’t. I generally read what was in front of me, what I could get from the paperback stacked “You actually read all of these?” “This isn’t much,” Mr. Ballou said. “This is nothing, just what I’ve kept, the ones worth looking at a second time.” “Pick for me, then.” He raised his eyebrows, cocked his head, and regarded me as though measuring me for a suit. After a moment, he nodded, searched through a stack, and handed me a dark red hardbound (精装本) book, fairly thick. “The Last of the Just,” I read. “By Andre Schwarz-Bart. What’s it about?” “You tell me,” he said. “Next week.” I started after supper, sitting outdoors on an uncomfortable kitchen chair. Within a few pages, the yard, the summer, disappeared, and I was t To this day, thirty years later, I vividly remember the experience. It was my first voluntary encounter (接触、遇到) with world literature, and I was stunned (震惊) by the concentrated p “Keep it, then,” he said. “Shall I suggest another?” I nodded, and was presented with the paperback (平装本) edition of Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa ( a very important book on the study of the social and cultural development of peoples-- anthropology (人类学)). To make two long stories short, Mr. Ballou never paid me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught anthropology at Dartmouth College. Summer reading was not the innocent entertainment I had assumed it to be, not a light-hearted, instantly forgettable escape in a hammock (吊床) (though I have since enjoyed many of those, too). A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper season, at an internal in the daily business of things, will change the course of all that follows. 1.The author found the first book Mr. Ballou gave him _________. A. light-hearted and enjoyable B. dull but well written C. impossible to put down D. difficult to understand 2.From what he said to the author, we can infer that Mr. Ballou _________. A. read all books twice B. did not do much reading C. read more books than he kept D. preferred to read hardbound books 3.The following year the author _________. A. started studying anthropology at college B. continued to cut Mr. Ballou’s lawn C. spent most of his time lazing away in a hammock D. had forgotten what he had read the summer before 4.The author’s main point is that _________. A. summer jobs are really good for young people B. you should insist on being paid before you do a job C. a good book can change the direction of your life D. a book is like a garden carried in the pocket
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单词拼写（共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分） 1.The teacher taught us how to a_________ classic literature. We should know the background of the work, its plot, major characters, character development and so on. 2.Recently, our school has put forward a new rule that students are p__________ from eating snacks in the classroom. 3.He has been living in Britain for many years and has got a___________ to driving on the left. 4.Who will be offered the position of manager when it becomes v_________? 5.Unfortunately, she has lost the ring which is one of her most treasured p_____________. 6.The speaker r_________ to his past experiences in his speech which was delivered on the previous day. 7.On the run from the FBI, he made a d___________ attempt to hijack a plane. 8.The acts of v__________ at Kunming train station shocked people all over the country. 9.The 10.The doctor is skilled at treating heart trouble and never accepts any gift from his patients, so he has a very good r____________.
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句子翻译 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分) 1.罗伯特·彭斯是苏格兰的文学巨匠，他的诗歌作品往往运用想象触及强烈的情感。 Robert Burns is Scotland’s __________ _________ _________ whose poetry tends to use imagination and _________ __________ ________ _________. 2.在文莱用食指来指东西会对人们造成冒犯，因此当我们在文莱时应该努力适应用拇指来指东西。 Pointing with one’s first finger can __________ ___________ to people in Brunei, so we should try to _________ _________ using our thumb to point when we are in Brunei. 3.大风过后使得村庄一片混乱，但是所幸的是它并未对人们的生活造成影响。 The strong winds left the village _________ __________ 4.根据查尔斯·狄更斯的小说《远大前程》改编的这部现代影片是以19世纪初的英格兰为背景。 The modern film _________ _________ Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations is set in England _________ __________ __________ __________. 5.联合国的职能不仅仅只是局限于解决国际间的政治冲突，另外，它还能促进对人权的尊重。 The function of the UN _________ _________ __________ __________ solving international political conflicts. __________ __________, it also promotes respect for human rights.
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下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。 注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2.只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。 Once a king asked an artist to paint a picture for him. He told the artist he didn’t want to any shadows in the picture, just sunshine, but the artist did so. When the king saw the finish picture, he was disappointed. Without shadows, everything in the picture looked flat and real. The point of the story was that we need both shadows and sunshine to have a completely picture, just as we need both rain and sun to have living world. People, too, need both sadness and happiness. We often learn some important lesson during sad times. So when we feel sad, we should try to stop and think about that we might learn of the experience.
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阅读下面的短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。 Language follows power. In an increasingly globalized world, some languages become the kings in terms of trade and communication. They jump geographic boundaries, pushing smaller languages toward 1. . According to National Geographic magazine, one language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth are 2. to disappear as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin or Spanish. This is 3. Google.org is launching a new campaign called the Endangered Languages Project. It aims to digitally record the world’s little-known tongues and the heritages to which they are central. What kind of languages are disappearing? Languages like Arogonese, which can be found in northern Spain, for example. Spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, this language seems to 4. (disappear) within a few generations. Navajo and Ojibwa, both native to the Americans, are also close to extinction. Koro is the native language of a small population 5. in the mountains of northeast India. It’s spoken by about 4,000 people. The Endangered Languages website will record roughly 3,500 of the world’s little-spoken tongues. “ 6. every language that dies, humans are in danger of losing an enormous cultural heritage”, writes Loek Essers on the website Computerworld.com. “As each one disappears, an understanding of how humans relate to the world around them, as well as scientific, medical, and botanical（植物的）knowledge, are all lost, 7. is the expression of a community’s humor, love, and life.” Users of the website can find 8. which can be identified by their location on a map, or reached by means of a list that has been broken down into four categories: at risk, endangered, severely endangered, or unknown. 9. can upload video or audio samples as well as share their knowledge of a language. “Languages are alive and in constant change, and their extinction is not new,” write the site’s creators. “ 10. today we have the tools and technology that could become a game changer.”
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