It was a time_______ the killer whales helped the whalers catch the baleen whales.
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The most important thing about cotton in history is ______part that it played in _______Industrial Revolution.
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B．the；∕ |
C．the; the |
D．a; the |
请以“中秋节的等待”为题，用英语写一篇短文，描述下图的内容，并就此发表你的评论。
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Waiting on the Mid-autumn Festival
1. Those people, who had w______________ the 7.23 Train Crash in Wenzhou, said they would never forget the horrible scenes.
2. Canadian teen pop star Justin Bieber, who has a t________ for music, is said to be the richest teenager in Hollywood.
3. It’s reported that the famous HK star couple, Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung, have got d___________ to end their unhappy marriage.
4. A___________ the plan means we have to give up what we have done and start things all over again.
5. When you cut down a tree, you can see its a____________ ring.
6. Where there is an escalator, there is a sign saying, “The elder and children should be a______________ by adults when taking the escalator(自动扶梯).”
7. When her husband died in the accident, she received many letters and calls of s_______.
8. “One World, one Dream” fully r____________ the universal values of the Olympic Spirit----Unity, Strength, Harmony and Participation.
Though I have traveled in hundreds of trains, few unusual things have ever happened to me. But one day in a train something did happen. I do not mean that I was hurt: no one was hurt.
I do my work in a hot country far away from England. Every September I go there to do my business, and every July I come back to England to have a rest. So every September I go to Paris and take a train from the great French city to Mendova, and at Mendova I catch my ship.
There is one very fast train from Paris to Mendova, and it suits me well. It goes as far as Endoran, but it stops at Mendova for a few minutes to let travelers get out or in. It is called The Flying Bluebird. It reaches Mendova at seven minutes past nine in the morning, and it is never late.
A ship leaves Mendova at half past eleven, and so you will understand that The Flying Bluebird suits me very well. I always travel by it, and I have nearly two and a half hours at Mendova to go from the station to the ship. That is more than enough time.
Well, one September night, I took my place in The Flying Bluebird as usual. The train leaves Paris at nine o’clock every night, and I was in my place soon after half past eight. There were three or four people there with me, but very soon a lot of others got into the train. When no more people could sit down, they began to stand up near us and also in the corridor（走廊）. In a short time the corridor was full too, and it was impossible for any more travelers to get into the train.
I could see a lot of other people outside the corridor windows, but they could not get in, and the train left Paris without them. The man sitting next to me started to ask all kinds of questions: “Where do you work? How long does it take you to get there? Are you married? How many children do you have? How much money do they pay you every year? How much do you have in the bank? How much do you spend every month?”
He asked questions for about twenty minutes but I did not give him any clear answers, and at last he stopped and began to read the paper.
I usually sleep quite well in the train, but this time I slept only a little. There were too many people, and there were too many things: small bags, large bags, coats, hats, boxes, newspapers and food. As usual, we got angry about the window. Most people wanted it shut, and two of us wanted it open. But that always happens. It was shut all night, as usual.
When I awoke in the early morning I felt hot and dirty, and glad that the journey was reaching its end. At seven minutes past nine The Flying Bluebird stopped. We were at Mendova, and I stood up thankfully. I took my two suitcases, held one in each hand, and tried to move towards the door into the corridor. In order to get out of the train, I had to pass down the corridor to the door at the far end. There was no other way out.
I could not even into the corridor. There was a suitcase on the floor by my feet, and three men were standing in my way. I felt a touch of fear. I had to get out, you see; I had to catch my ship, which left at half past eleven. And the train did not stop again until it reached Endoran, two hundred miles away.
“I must get out!” I cried. Everyone there understood me, but no one could move.
At last I was able to put one foot over the suitcase on the floor, and I nearly reached the door into the corridor. But then, very slowly, the train began to move. It was taking me away!
“Stop!” I cried. “I want to get out!” But no one outside the train could hear me, and the people inside did not care much. The train moved a little faster. What could I do? I was not even in the corridor.
Fear made me think quickly. In front of my eyes, just, above the door, was a notice that told everyone how to stop the train. I had to pull an iron thing near the notice. I did not waste time. I pulled it.
Well, a noise started above our heads. That was to show everyone that there was something wrong. It was not a small sound. Possibly the men in my ship two miles away could hear it. Then the train stopped.
No one likes to stop a train if there is no need. But I had to catch my ship. That was the only thought in my mind: to get out and catch my ship.
1.The purpose of the author writing the first paragraph is to __________.
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A．answer some questions |
B．express some unusual feelings |
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C．arouse the readers’ curiosity |
D．give some advice in advance |
2.What do we know about the author and the man sitting next to him?
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A．They talked with each other all night |
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B．They got angry about the window |
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C．The author didn’t understand the man’s words |
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D．The author didn’t like the man’s foolish questions |
3.On this journey on The Flying Bluebird, the author felt uncomfortable because ___________.
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A．he couldn’t find a seat by the window |
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B．he was angry with the man sitting next to him |
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C．there were too many people on the train |
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D．the window was kept shut all night |
4.It can be learned from Para. 10 that the author was afraid that ____________.
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A．he would have to spend another sleepless night on the train |
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B．he would miss the ship that went where he worked |
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C．more people might crowd into the train |
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D．he would have to buy another ticket |
5.The noise in the underlined sentence “a noise started above our heads”（Para.15）was made by __________.
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A．the angry passengers shouting at the top of their voices |
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B．the ship that was lying two miles away |
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C．the falling of boxes and suitcases to the floor |
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D．the train itself telling people that something was wrong |
6.What would be the best title for the text?
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A．A Bad Experience on the Train |
B．A Train that Is Never Late |
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C．A Quick and Wise Decision |
D．A Journey to Mendova |
Going to school means learning new skills and facts in different subjects. Teachers teach and students learn, and many scientists are interested in finding ways to improve both teaching and learning processes.
Sian Beilock and Susan Leving, two psychologists at the University of Chicago, are trying to learn about learning. In a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school, Beilock and Levine found a surprising relationship between what female teachers think and what female students learn: If a female teacher is uncomfortable with her own math skills, then her female students are more likely to believe that boys are better than girls at math. “If these girls keep getting math-anxious female teachers in later grades, it may create a snowball effect on their math achievement,” Levine told Science News. The study suggests that if these girls grow up believing that boys are better at math than girls are, then these girls may not do as well as they would have if they were more confident.
Just as students find certain subjects to be difficult, teachers can find certain subjects to be difficult to learn—and teach. The subject of math can be particularly difficult for everyone.
The new study involved 65 girls, 52 boys and 17 first-and second-grade teachers in elementary schools in the Midwest. The students took math achievement tests at the beginning and end of the school year, and the researchers compared the scores.
The researchers also gave the students tests to tell whether the students believed a math superstar had to be a boy. Then the researchers turned to the teachers: To find out which teachers were anxious about math, the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came across math, such as when reading a sales receipt. A teacher who got nervous looking at the numbers on a sales receipt, for example, was probably anxious about math.
Boys, on average, were unaffected by a teacher’s anxiety. On average, girls with math-anxious teachers scored lower on the end-of-the-year math tests than other girls in the study did. Plus, on the test showing whether someone thought a math superstar had to be a boy, 20 girls showed feeling that boys would be better at math—and all of these girls had been taught by female teachers with math anxiety.
According to surveys done before this one, college students who want to become elementary school teachers have the highest levels of anxiety about math. Plus, nine of every 10 elementary teachers are women, Levine said.
1.Sian Beilock and Susan Levine carried out the new research in order to ___________.
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A．know the effects of teaching on learning |
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B．study students’ ways of learning math |
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C．prove women teachers are unfit to teach math |
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D．find better teaching methods for teachers |
2.The underlined part in paragraph 2 most probably means that girls may ___________.
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A．end up learning math anxiety from their teachers |
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B．study the ways their female teachers behave |
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C．have an influence on their math-anxious female teachers |
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D．gain unexpected achievement in such subjects as math |
3. In the study, what were the teachers required to do?
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A．Prepare two math achievement tests for the students |
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B．Tell their feelings about math problems |
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C．Answer whether a math superstar had to be a boy |
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D．Compare the students’ scores after the math tests |
4.What is the finding of the new study?
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A．No male students were affected by their teachers’ anxiety |
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B．Almost all the girls got lower scores in the tests than the boys |
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C．About 30% of the girls thought boys are better at math than girls |
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D．Girls with math-anxious teachers all failed in the math tests |
5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
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A．117 students and teachers took part in the new study |
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B．The researchers felt surprised at the findings of their study |
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C．Beilock and Levine are interested in teaching math |
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D．Men teachers are better at teaching math than women teachers |
