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When ______ to danger and conflict, men tend to increase blood pressure, feeling nervous or anxious. A. expose B. exposed C. to expose D. exposing
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He felt satisfied; he could _______ the way she looked that if he pushed her hard enough she would come in with him. A. care about B. believe in C. tell by D. give up
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Reduce it ______ half each month and before you know it, you will not be thinking of it anymore. A. to B. by C. in D. for
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The more I think about him, the more reasons I find for loving him _______ I did. A. as much as B. as long as C. as soon as D. as far as
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From 1902 to 1904, Picasso, the twentieth-century’s greatest western artist, painted a series of pictures _______ the main color was blue. A. when B. that C. where D. which
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It won’t be long ______ self-driving cars appear on the market. A. until B. after C. when D. before
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Investors are also concerned that once the economy improves, people might lose ______ interest in further education. A. 不填 B. a C. an D. the
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It ______ him over 10 years to work on his one-man helicopter and at last he succeeded. A. spent B. cost C. took D. paid
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After the long journey, the three of them went back home, ＿＿＿＿＿＿ . A. hungry and tiredly B. hungry and tired C. hungrily and tiredly D. hungrily and tired
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What’s strange is that through the middle of the building ______. A. lies a light railway B. does lie a light railway C. a light railway lies D. does a light railway lie
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Claire's car wasn't there, so she ______ have gone to her mother's. A. would B. should C. can D. must
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Would you mind ______ the door? I can’t make it with both hands occupied. A. to open B. for me to open C. opening D. my opening
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It was the first time that I ______ such a strong typhoon. A. have experienced B. had experienced C. experience D. experienced
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If it ______ fine tomorrow, we would go boating on the Lianhua Lake. A. were B. is C. will be D. would be
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______ a clear head when in danger and you’ll protect yourself from serious harm. A. To keep B. If you keep C. Keeping D. Keep
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Because Skyler and Kreed are speechless teens with autism (自闭症), making friends hasn’t always been easy for them. Now that they have each other, their friendship is stronger than what any word could ever describe. Aside from having autism, 14-year-old Skyler is currently deaf and is losing his sight. He also has no effective means to communicate. Kreed, 17, uses a device to communicate and has multiple medical conditions. Once Kreed learned Skyler was also speechless, their friendship began. “We were able to explain to Kreed that Skyler is deaf and also speechless like him,” Kreed’s mother, Erin Polk, said. “He seemed to understand and ever since then has wanted to be with Skyler and calls him his best friend.” The best friends, who live down the street from each other, hang out just like typical teenagers. They eat pizza and French fries and watch movies together. They also give each other a helping hand. “Kreed will help Skyler by leading him to places he is afraid to walk into,” Polk said. “We think his lack of good sight makes it scary for him in new places, so Kreed will always offer his hand to help him through those times.” For Kreed, his best friend role has given him confidence. According to his mom, being able to help others helps him as well. “Skyler has given Kreed more social confidence. By having a friend, he can 100 percent be himself and finally to be able to actually help another peer rather than being the person always helped,” she said. Even though they're speechless, the teens communicate in their own way by giving certain looks or connecting through touch. Kreed doesn’t mind if Skyler gets close to him or touches him, which seems to please Skyler. According to Polk's blog, the teens simply want to be around each other. It's clear that something unites Kreed and Skyler, but it's more than their autism or speechless communication. It's their beautiful friendship --- that clearly has no boundaries. 1.From the passage, we can learn that Skyler and Kreed ______. A. have something in common B. are of the same age C. are unable to see each other D. have no ability to communicate 2.How does Kreed help Skyler? A. By taking him where he dare not go alone. B. By giving him good advice on where to go. C. By taking him to the places where he used to go. D. By getting rid of his scare on the way to school. 3.According to his mother, by helping Skyler, Kreed ______. A. has gained confidence B. is also benefited C. is able to communicate better D. is more outgoing 4.We can infer that in Skyler and Kreed’s culture, it is the custom for people ______. A. to touch each other a lot in small talk B. to talk to each other in close distance C. to avoid eye contact while chatting D. to keep their distance while chatting
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Girls do better at school Around the world, girls do better than boys at school. These are the findings of a recent study that looked at the test results of 1.5 million 15-year-olds in 74 regions across the globe. The level of gender equality in those regions made no difference to the results. Other causes, such as the income level of the region also had little impact on the findings. In only three regions – Colombia, Costa Rica and the Indian state Himachal Pradesh – was the opposite with boys doing better. So what are the causes of girls’ stronger performance? In the UK, girls outperform boys in exams that are taken at the age of 15 or 16, called GCSEs(普通中等教育证书). According to education expert Ian Toone, this is down to the way girls and boys are brought up. “Boys are encouraged to be more active from an early age, whereas the restless movements of baby girls are calmed… Hence, girls develop the skill of sitting still for longer periods of time, which is useful for something like studying for GCSEs." He goes on to say that boys often get together in larger groups than girls. Because of this they are more likely to be influenced by peer(同龄人) pressure and develop a gang mentality (帮派心态). He says that GCSEs require a lot of personal work and are not viewed as 'cool' in a childish culture. This is backed up by research in the UK that says girls are out-performing boys at the age of five. So what is the answer? Should girls and boys be educated separately? Or do exams and school curricula need to be changed to better reflect boys’ skills? These are the questions facing educators in many countries. 1.What are the two things that made little or no difference to the results? A. Gender equality and intelligence. B. Gender equality and income level. C. Income level and feelings. D. Income level and intelligence. 2.According to Ian Toone, girls do better at school than boys because girls ______. A. study harder B. are cleverer C. can sit still longer D. are more restless 3.What does Ian Toone say can influence boys? A. Gang mentality. B. Personal work. C. Peer pressure. D. Childish culture. 4.What could be changed to include the skills boys have? A. Exams and school curricula. B. Ways of education and evaluation. C. Outdoor activities and performances. D. Separate education and different curricula.
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What will the future be like? Good or bad? A lot of science-fiction writing imagines a world which is dark and scary. In Blade Runner, Harrison Ford hunts robots in a chaotic (混乱的) Los Angeles. Planet of the Apes shows a hopeless future for humankind. There's a word to describe the kind of future world which often appears in science fiction: dystopia. It means an imagined place where things are unpleasant or bad. The opposite is utopia. But does tomorrow's world have to be so disappointing? No. A new project wants to use the power of science fiction to inspire people to create a better future. Project Hieroglyph brings together writers, scientists, engineers and artists to create optimistic stories about things which really could happen in the next 50 years. It's just a matter of making an effort. Experts say it's easier to create a dystopia than write a feel-good story. There's more conflict in a world full of problems, and stories are interesting when there are a lot of problems to solve. No challenge, no story! But the project produced a book with some promising plots. One of them is about environmentalists who fight to stop entrepreneurs (创业者) from building the first hotel in Antarctica. Well, there's conflict there and it seems reasonable, so it could be a good story. But will these stories actually change anything or just keep us entertained? Ed Finn, the book's editor, thinks the former. He says: "A good science-fiction story can be very powerful. It can inspire hundreds, thousands, millions of people to do something that they want to do." The influence of science fiction can already be seen in modern research, says Professor Braden Allenby. He asks: "Why are people working on, for example, invisibility cloaks (斗篷)? Well, it's Harry Potter, right?" Time will tell how far we can go. Let's dream big and think outside the box. Who knows the wonderful things we can come up with? 1.The underlined word “utopia” in paragraph 2 most probably means “______’. A. a real world where people can do anything they like B. an imagined place where things are unpleasant or bad C. an imaginary perfect world where everyone is happy D. a wild and terrible place where no one can live happily 2.Experts say it’s easier to create a dystopia than a feel-good story because ______. A. a dystopia needs less imagination B. a feel-good story is more interesting C. there is no conflict in a feel-good story D. there are more problems to solve in a dystopia 3.Professor Braden Allenby takes “invisibility cloaks” as an example ______. A. to cause readers’ attention B. to amuse science fiction readers C. to introduce a science fiction story D. to show the influence of science fiction 4.What is the best title for the passage? A. What is science fiction? B. Can science fiction help us? C. What will man do in the future? D. Shall we live a better life in the future?
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Four out of the 48 self-driving cars on public roads in California have been involved in accidents in the last eight months, according to the state's Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency began issuing permits for the testing of self-driving vehicles in September 2014. Three of the four cars belonged to Google, the fourth to parts supplier Delphi. Both firms denied their vehicles had been at fault. Under Californian law, details of car accidents remain secret. However, Google said its driverless cars had never been the cause of an accident and that the majority of "minor fender-benders(擦撞)" had been in the form of rear-end(后尾) collisions from other drivers. "Safety is our highest priority. Since the start of our programme six years ago, we've driven nearly a million miles automatically, on both freeways and city streets, without causing a single accident," said a spokesperson. Delphi told the BBC its vehicle was hit while still at a crossroads and was in human driving mode at the time. "A police report indicates the fault of the accident is with the second vehicle, not Delphi. No-one was hurt in the incident," said a spokesperson. An unknown source told the Associated Press that two of the accidents occurred while the vehicles were occupied by human drivers, and all four vehicles were going very slowly at the time of the collisions. Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car programme, wrote in a blog post that there have been 11 accidents involving Google cars since the project began six years ago but not one has been caused by one of its vehicles. "Rear-end crashes are the most frequent accidents in America, and often there's little the driver in front can do to avoid getting hit," he said. 1.What is the passage mainly about? A. Self-driving car accidents. B. Motor vehicle problems. C. Self-driving vehicle problems. D. Traffic accidents in California. 2.We can learn from the passage that the self-driving cars ______. A. caused the accidents when driven by human drivers B. hit other cars and caused the accidents C. were responsible for the accidents D. were knocked into from behind 3.The passage intends to tell us that the self-driving cars ______. A. are just road killers B. need to be improved C. are in good quality D. shouldn’t be produced
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Create Beauty Yourself In itself life is neutral (中立的). We make it beautiful, we make it ugly; life is what energy we bring to it. 1. If you simply sit there and you want it to be beautiful, then it will not be --- you have to create beauty. Beauty is not there like an object or a rock. Beauty has to be created. You have to give a sight to reality, you have to give color to reality, you have to give a song to reality --- then it is beautiful. So whenever you participate in creating beauty, it is there; whenever you stop creating, it is not. 2. Happiness is a creation; so is misery. You get only that which you create, and you never get anything else. That is the whole philosophy of karma: 3. Life is just a blank cloth---you can paint a beautiful scene, or you can paint black ghosts (鬼) and dangerous people. 4. You can make a beautiful dream or a bad dream. Once this is understood, things are very simple. You are the master; it is your responsibility. Ordinarily we think that life has some objective beauty and objective ugliness.5. It gives you all that is needed: Now do it yourself! It is a do-it-yourself affair. A. You get only that which you do. B. What is beauty? C. If you pour beauty into life, it is beautiful. D. It's up to you. E. No! Life is just an opportunity. F. Life is not what you think it is. G. Beauty is a creation; so is ugliness.
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Falling off a box car and landing on my head, I lost my sight when I was four years old. Now I am thirty-two. I can _______ remember the brightness of sunshine. It would be wonderful to see again, _______ a tragedy can do strange things to people. It occurred to me that I might not have come to _______ life as I do now if I hadn’t been blind. My parents and my teachers saw something _______ me, and they made me want to _______ against blindness. The hardest _______ I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have _______ down and become a chair rocker for the rest of my life. When I say _______ in myself, I am not talking about _______ the kind of self-confidence that ________ me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. But I mean something bigger than that: I am a real positive person ________ imperfections. It took me years to obtain this ________. It had to start with the ________. Once a man gave me an indoor ________. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take it with you,” he ________ me, “and roll it around.” The ________ stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ________. At the School for the Blind I ________ a new kind of baseball called ground ball. All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my ________. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made ________. 1.A. clearly B. hardly C. roughly D. completely 2.A. so B. and C. thus D. but 3.A. love B. hate C. ignore D. miss 4.A. of B. for C. to D. in 5.A. get B. fight C. find D. drop 6.A. method B. experience C. lesson D. manner 7.A. broken B. put C. settled D. lay 8.A. courage B. ambition C. belief D. power 9.A. firmly B. simply C. fairly D. slightly 10.A. stops B. gives C. pushes D. helps 11.A. despite B. except C. unless D. unlike 12.A. description B. existence C. intelligence D. recognition 13.A. problem B. trouble C. incident D. event 14.A. chair B. baseball C. game D. design 15.A. urged B. blamed C. greeted D. teased 16.A. goals B. words C. baseballs D. ideas 17.A. valuable B. reasonable C. impossible D. unbearable 18.A. discovered B. equipped C. formed D. invented 19.A. limitations B. advantages C. puzzles D. personalities 20.A. sense B. progress C. mistakes D. friends
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 As an adult, she tried hard to become American’s first woman architect (建筑师). Young architects at that time 1. (usual) learned their skills by working in the drafting rooms of professional architects. Most architects didn’t want women working for them. But Louise 2. (manage) to make a well-known architect give her a chance. She worked 3. six in the morning to six in the evening. She wasn’t paid much. 4. she learned a lot as she worked, and her employer allowed her to use 5. (he) large library. In 1881, after five years of work and study, Louise set up her own office. She advertised, “The first 6. (profession) woman architect in the country 7. (be) ready for business.” Louise believed that she should not be limited to designing private 8. (home) just because she was a woman. She looked for a variety of jobs and designed storage buildings, factories and schools. She did very well, inspiring other women 9. (become) architects. She often spoke out for 10. fair treatment of women and equal pay for equal work.
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请根据句义及首字母，用正确的形式完成句中的单词。 1.On a cold r__________ night, he was found sleeping at a street corner, wet all over. 2.I'd like to emphasize the i__________ of reading exam questions carefully. 3.The stranger spoke in such a f__________ voice that the frightened child began to cry. 4.The boss dismissed the e__________ immediately he saw him smoking in the office. 5.At last, he was reduced to b___________ on the streets, homeless.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 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（从第11处起）不计分。 Dear Sir, I’m Li Hua from Shenzhen. When I was reading the ad, the aim of this activity impresses me greatly. I think instructive to learn to live together by living together. There is no doubt that it is a good opportunity for the only child as me to learn to share and work together. Therefore I recommend me to you without hesitation. As a boy of 17, I am outgoing, good at English and have an experience of working well with children aging from 7 to 12. I think it was a kind of win-win activity. For one thing, I can help take care of the children. For another thing, I can improve my English, make more friend, and enrich my life during the summer vacation. To conclude, I am readily to take on the job. I am looking forwards to your early reply. Sincerely yours, Li Hua
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假如你是李华，你的笔友Mike 从媒体上得知前段时间全国多地包括宁波等地出现雾霾，非常担心，写E-mail询问有关情况，请你回复。回复应包括以下要点： 实况描述 2.影响和成因 3.生活启示 注意：1.词数：100-120词。 E-mail的开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 2.生词：雾霾 haze Thank you very much for your concern. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua
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