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Charles Dickens is often thought of as one of the greatest British writers. February 7 marked the 200th anniversary of his birthday. Yet for many, his language is old-fashioned and his stories often improbable. So why do so many people know and read Dickens today? One reason is the British government’s insistence that every child studies a Dickens novel at school. Alongside William Shakespeare, Dickens is on every English literature school reading list. His stories, though often long by today’s standards, are great moral tales. They are filled with colorful characters. Earlier this month, a ceremony was held in Portsmouth, where Dickens was born. Prince Charles said at the ceremony, “Dickens used his creative genius to campaign passionately for social justice… His characterization (人物刻画) is as fresh today as on the day it was written.” His books stand out from many other writers because of his insight into human nature. Dickens, like Shakespeare, tells us truths about human behavior. They are as true in the 21st century as they were to his readers in the 19th century. Readers have returned to Dickens’ books again and again over the years to see what he has to say about their own times. No surprise then that it was Dickens whom Britons turned to during the economic crisis in the last couple of years. Dickens helped them make sense of a world that was rapidly falling apart. The BBC adapted one of his less well-known novels, Little Dorrit, into a popular television drama that introduced many Brits to the novel for the first time. A dark story about greed and money, it was the perfect illustration of bad times. As long as Dickens’s novels have something to say to modern audiences, it seems likely that he will remain one of Britain’s best-loved writers. 1. In the article, the author intends to tell us ______. A. why Dickens’ novels still appeal to readers in modern times B. that Dickens’ works are no longer popular among young people C. why the British government puts Dickens on school reading lists D. that Dickens and Shakespeare’s works are required for study at school 2.In Britain, people still read Dickens because of ______. a) romance in his books b) moral value in his books c) his colorful characters d) his insight into human nature e) government education requirement f) his prediction of the current economic crisis A. abdf B. bcde C. bdef D. abed 3.We can infer from the article that ______. A. it’s better to read Dickens in time of difficulty B. Dickens was a great social observer of his time C. human nature seems worse during bad times D. Dickens’s novels are short and easy to read 4.Which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Little Dorrit is one of Dickens’ best-known novels. B. Dickens’ novels are of greater value during economic crisis. C. Dickens’ works have gained more popularity than Shakespeare’s D. Dickens’ novels are still of realistic significance to today’s world.
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1.What is the main purpose of the passage? A. To present a discovery on a scientific research. B. To give information about a kind of medicine. C. To teach patients ways of recovery from illness. D. To show the importance of taking proper medicine. 2.What can be inferred from the passage? A. There are only four possible side effects of TOVIAZ. B. Don’t take TOVIAZ if you are allergic to its ingredient. C. It’s unwise for people under 18 years old to use TOVIAZ D. You may feel excited while eating TOVIAZ with alcohol. 3.Which of the statements about taking TOVIAZ is TRUE? A. It’s OK to take it with food or without food. B. Chew the tablet well before you swallow it. C. Use TOVIAZ in hot environment to cure heat illness. D. If you miss a dose, do take it right away on the same day.
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He stopped by the fence in front of the house where he lived with his aunt Polly. He looked at it, and all joy left him. The fence was long and high. He put the brush into the whitewash and moved it along the top of the fence. He repeated the operation. He felt he could not continue and sat down. He knew that his friends would arrive soon with all kinds of interesting plans for the day. They would walk past him and laugh. They would make jokes about his having to work on a beautiful summer Saturday. The thought burned him like fire. He put his hand into his pockets and took out all that he owned. Perhaps he could find something to pay someone to do the whitewashing for him. But there was nothing of value in his pockets. So he put the bits of toys back into his pockets and gave up the idea. At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea came to him. It filled his mind with a great, bright light. Calmly he picked up the brush and started again to whitewash. While Tom was working, Ben Rogers appeared. Ben was eating an apple as he walked along the street. When he came close to Tom, he stopped. Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look at Ben. Ben stared a moment and then said: “Hello! I’m going swimming, but you can’t go, can you?” No answer. Tom moved his brush carefully along the fence and looked at the result with the eye of an artist. Ben came nearer. Tom’s mouth watered for the apple, but he kept on working. Ben said, “Hello, old fellow, you’ve got to work, hey?” Tom turned suddenly and said, “Why, it’s you, Ben! I wasn’t noticing.” “I’m going swimming. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d rather work. You seem to like it very much.” “Like it? Well, I don’t see why I shouldn’t like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?” Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved his brush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here and there, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested. Soon he said, “Tom, let me whitewash a little.” Tom thought for a moment, was about to agree; but he changed his mind. “No, no, it won’t do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. It has got to be done very carefully. I don’t think there is one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it well enough.” “No — is that so? Oh come, let me just try. Only just a little.” “Ben, I’d like to, but if it isn’t done right, I’m afraid Aunt Polly ...” “Oh, I’ll be careful. Now let me try. I’ll give you half of my apple.” “Well, here — No, Ben, now don’t. I’m afraid ...” “I’ll give you all of it.” Tom gave up the brush with unwillingness on his face, but joy in his heart. And while Ben worked at the fence in the hot sun, Tom sat under a tree, eating the apple, and planning how to get more help. There were enough boys. Each one came to laugh, but remained to whitewash. And when the middle of the afternoon came, Tom had won many treasures. The fence had been whitewashed three times. If he hadn’t run out of whitewash, Tom would have owned everything belonging to his friends. He had discovered a great law of human action that in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to get. 1.Why did Tom take all his bits of toys out of his pockets? A. Because he was tired and wanted to play with his toys. B. Because he wanted to exchange his toys with his friends. C. Because he wanted to give his toys to his friends. D. Because he wanted to know if he could buy help with his toys. 2. Tom was about to agree to let Ben whitewash when he changed his mind because ______. A. Tom wanted to do the whitewashing himself B. Tom planned to make Ben give up his apple first C. Tom was unwilling to let Ben do the whitewashing D. Tom was afraid Ben couldn’t do the whitewashing well. 3.We can learn from the passage that ______. A. Tom was fond of whitewashing the fence B. Tom had a lot of friends who were ready to help him C. Tom managed to let other boys do the whitewashing for him D. Tom was better at whitewashing the fence than others 4.Which of the following is the most suitable title for this passage? A. The Happy Whitewasher B. Tom And His Fellows C. Whitewashing A Fence D. How To Make Things Difficult To Get
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Ereading and ebooks are slowly conquering the world.Compared to traditional paper books，ebooks in some schools and universities attract more interest because the information flow seems much easier to manage and comes in a greatly higher quantity. Japan is known for the reformminded attitude towards the gadget(精巧装置) world and for the fact that it is one of the first countries that encouraged in the educational system the emailing of homework. The digital textbook looks like the logical step in the world of learning.It is natural but it is also completely untraditional. The plan of the largest publishing companies to get in line with the trend is to save a large quantity of paper and make the kids become interested in learning using a cool gadget.Many USA universities and colleges have made students be used to the procedure of downloading the courses and of course the procedure involves interactive software and also the chance of using the computer. The traditional education system is still unwilling when it comes to giving up books.The standard approach of information taught out of a book and Shakespeare read out of an old school novel makes studying English as traditional as it can be. In a world where kids would rather see the movie than read a book，the digital age has brought along a completely different flavor to reading.Bringing that flavor in school will make teaching a greener and also a completely different matter. 1.Why are ebooks so popular in the world? A．It's cheap to buy. B．It's effective to use. C．It's convenient to bring. D．It's the latest fashion. 2.Which of the following words can best take the place of the word “reformminded” in the second paragraph? A．Oldfashioned. B．Aggressive. C．Rejecting. D．Progressive. 3.In America，the students are encouraged to________． A．apply the procedure of downloading the courses B．communicate with their teachers using computer C．research some interactive software for their studies D．do their homework in computer instead of in paper 4.What's the author's attitude to the digital textbooks? A．Being against. B．Being for. C．Not mentioned. D．Being neutral.
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Over the last 25 years, British society has changed a great deal – or at least many parts of it have. 1. . Ideas about social class – whether a person is “working - class” or “middle - class” – are one area in which changes have been extremely slow. In the past, the working-class tended to be paid less than middle-class people. The typical working man would collect his wages on Friday evening and then, it was widely believed, having given his wife her "housekeeping", would go out and squander the rest on beer and betting. The old style of what a middle-class man did with his money was perhaps nearer the truth. He was-and still is - inclined to take a longer-term view. Not only did he regard buying a house as a most important thing, but he also considered the education of his children as extremely important. 2. . Only in very few cases did workers have the opportunity （or the education and training） to make such long-term plans. 3. . In a large number of cases factory workers earn as much as their middle – class supervisors (管理者). Social security and laws to improve century, have made it less necessary than before to worry about "tomorrow". Working-class people seem slowly to be losing the feeling of inferiority(自卑感). In fact there has been a growing tendency in the past few years for the middle-classes to feel slightly ashamed of their position. 4. .They generally tend to share very similar tastes in music and clothes, they spend their money in having a good time, and save for holidays or longer-term plans when necessary. There seems to be much less difference than in precious generations. 5. . As long as this gap exists, there will always be a possibility that new conflicts and jealousies will emerge, or rather that the old conflicts will re-appear, but between different groups. A．Nowadays, a great deal has changed B．Both of these provided him and his family with security C．As a result, differences in life – styles and attitudes came into existence D．However, we still have a wide gap between the well – paid and the low - paid E．In recent years, the working – class people have begun to design long – term plans F．In some ways, however, very little has changed, particularly where attitudes are concerned G．The changes in both life – styles and attitudes are probably most easily seen among younger people
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A person should eat right，get some exercise，or he or she will look terrible in 25 years.And if the person drinks and smokes? Even____．That's the message from Blue Cross Blue Shield.The ____，called “Future You”，uses a digital camera and computer to compare a person's current image with his or her future ____ without changes in bad habits. “Smoking can __ _ your skin，” said Anna，a creative operation manager，“You can see what the results of the toxins(毒素) and the chemicals in__ ___are.” Along with the potentially____ __sight of one's older self，Future You offers sciencebased___ __on what to eat，how much to exercise and other ways to ____ __ your health.But will it work? Too ___ _ to tell was the verdict(意见) of Anna.“I want to see some data！” she said. Generally，Anna said，men show____ ___concern about their appearance than women.“Women say，‘That looks like my ____ __on the screen，’” she said.“Men are more likely to ___ __，‘Yeah，go ahead.Put it on Facebook.’” The project was raised more than a year ago to improve the overall(总体的) health of the people who are ___ __ of this company.In addition，the growth in the ranks of ___ __customers would bring down the overall cost of health care.In coming weeks，two new ones will be ____ __ in locations such as the American Tobacco Campus and the Museum of Natural Science.If users __ __，their information will be stored as secrets without names to create a database of good and bad ___ ___． The process is free and the response is not ____ ___，at least according to Valencia Robertson，one of a line of people who waited to ___ __ the instrument on Thursday.“I'm good，” Robertson said after ___ _ her future image.“It's not going to be a big difference.” 1.A.easier B．happier C．bitter D．worse 2.A.instrument B．picture C．place D．structure 3.A.wealth B．character C．appearance D．education 4.A.reflect B．bother C．ruin D．affect 5.A.cigarette B．beers C．medicines D．foods 6.A.confusing B．convincing C．depressing D．exciting 7.A.opinion B．plans C．thought D．advice 8.A.break B．damage C．preserve D．change 9.A.possible B.natural C．early D．clear 10.A.deeper B．less C．higher D．stronger 11.A.son B．father C．daughter D．mom 12.A.guess B．say C．doubt D．wonder 13.A.customers B.managers C．secretaries D．cleaners 14.A.cautious B．smart C．careless D．generous 15.A.showing up B．thought out C. sold out D.dying out 16.A.know B．agree C．come D．listen 17.A.habits B．choices C. methods D．plans 18.A.nice B．cool C．strange D．bad 19.A.repair B．sell C．try D．buy 20.A.drawing B．viewing C．picturing D．imaging
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Long ago, in a far-away place, an old tribal chief found himself terminally ill. So he called three most promising young villagers to his bedside and said, “As I 1. (leave)you soon, I hope you can do one more thing for me. Young men, you three are all 2. (usual)strong and resourceful, so I’d like you to strive to climb that high mountain we have always been worshipping 3. a sacred place. Try to reach the top and then turn back to tell me about your findings. Three days later, the first young man returned smartly dressed and said 4. (smile), “Lord, I’ve been to the mountaintop5. I saw flowers of all sorts, spring water and singing birds. That’s a real nice place. ” The old tribal chief replied with a smile, “Son, I’ve been there before. It’s not the mountaintop 6. the foot of the mountain. You can leave now. ” A week later, the second young man also returned. “Lord, I’ve been to the mountaintop 7. a forest of tall pine trees and vultures circling in the air. That’s a really nice place. ” “What a pity! ”said the chief. “Son, you’ve been halfway up the mountain rather than to the summit. Now you can leave. ” A month later, the third young man showed up in rags, his hair off-colored but his eyes clear and bright. “Lord, I succeeded in reaching the summit. There was nothing there but the highland wind and the blue sky 8. (hang)over the land. ” “So you saw nothing at all? Not even9. butterfly? ” “No, Lord, nothing. All you can see is yourself. You just feel how insignificant you are in this infinite universe10. standing at the top! ” “Son, you’ve reached the real mountaintop. Congratulations! You will be undoubtedly made our new tribal chief! ”
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Show respect for parents is one of the Chinese traditional moral value. As most of the students today are “the only child” in their family, they often regard them as the “centre” of the family, without caring many about their parents. Our school start a programme when the new year came. It is “Respecting parents programme”. Ten “Do’s” have worked out for the students to follow clearly and easily. They include: “Remember your parents’ birthdays and express your the best wishes to them; tell “hello” to your parents see them returning home; and tell your parents where you go when you leave home.” The programme has been successfully.
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假如你是李明，最近，你的朋友张华因考试不利，情绪低落，学习消极应付。请你用英语给他写一封email，指出其消极行为可能带来的不良后果，并结合自身实际，提出应采取的积极态度和应对方法，鼓励他努力学习。 词数：100左右。 Dear Zhang Hua， I'm sorry to hear that
Yours truly， Li Ming
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