People develop ______ preference for a particular style of learning at ______ early age and these preferences affect learning.
A. a; an B. a; 不填 C. 不填; the D. the; an
开学之初，学校讲政治校园中一些不文明的行为，假如你是班长，请根据以下要点准备一篇英语演讲稿，呼吁同学们规范自己的行为，做文明学生。
列举一些不文明行为以及影响，如：乱丢垃圾，随地吐痰，乱涂，大声喧哗，打架等。
2. 怎样改善这种状况。（至少两点）
注意：1. 词数：100左右，开头和结尾以为你写好，不计入总词数；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：文明的 civilized 乱涂 scribble
Dear fellow classmates,
It’s a great pleasure for me to make a speech here.
That’s all. Thank you.
假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。
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（∧），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。
I went shopping in the center of the city yesterday afternoon. It was six o’clock before I was going home by bus. The bus was full of passenger, all of whom kept silent. A mother with her little son were sitting nearby. All of a sudden, the son cried loudly. The mother tries to do what she could make him stop crying. However, the son went on crying. After a long time, a man seating next to the mother said angrily, “Why don’t you give the child what she wants.” The mother answered quiet, “I would if I could, and what he wants is your hat.” Hearing of this, all the passengers burst into laughter.
Are you simply moving through your day without fully living? I think many of us have done this. Everyone wants to fully live every day. 1. So I’ve decided to share with you some ways to help you enjoy every moment.
Sit in the morning. When you wake up, in the quiet of the morning, sit on the floor. I often use this opportunity to stretch. I feel every muscle in my body. 2.
3. I like to take breaks from work, and go outside for a slow walk. Pay attention to your breathing, to everything around you, to the sounds and light of objects.
Read in silence. Find a quiet time, and a quiet place, and read a good novel. Have no television or computers on nearby. 4. It might seem difficult to let your mind move from the present into the time of novel, but it’s a great patience in focus. Also, I love a good novel more than almost anything else.
Look at someone in a grateful way. 5. If you want, you can tell that person how thankful you are to him.
A.Work with force.
B.Walk slowly.
C.But this is easier said than done.
D.And just put yourself in the world of the novel.
E.It’s a way of building something good into your life.
F.I also just sit, and focus on my breathing going in and out.
G.Find someone you care about and be grateful for his existence.
She belongs to no one but the whole world that can understand her language. Her music is appreciated across the globe but it is Singapore, China, Thailand and Britain that have helped to shape her talent.
Violinist, Vanessa-Mae, best known for her pioneering mix of pop and classical music, has just completed her Asian tour. She has a magic power that has attracted an audience from around the world but the violin genius has always drawn fans by blazing a new trail.
“I don’t like playing it safe, I like jumping into new styles,” she said. She started her Asian performance tour in China’s Hong Kong on September 19 and visited the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumper. The tour, aiming to promote her new album, “The Best of Vanessa-Mae”, ends in Thailand’s capital Bangkok on September 30.
The graceful and beautiful musician has attracted lots of fans in the places she has visited. She said although she enjoys trying out different forms of performance, including fashion shows and singing, she feels more comfortable with her violin. She has promised her fans she will never abandon the classical music that was the foundation of her training.
Vanessa-Mae, now 23, first picked up the violin at five. After six months of intensive training in Beijing, he turned professional at 10. it was her fusion (融合) of classical and rock in her 1995 album “The Violin Player”, that shot the then 17-year-old to international recognition. The record sold 3 million copies worldwide.
She has a Chinese-Singaporean mother and a Thai father. She was born in Singapore and grew up in Britain. Vanessa-Mae has released seven albums and plans two more in the near future—first a classical album,, then a pop recording.
She has said she wants to perform for the next 10 years, but after that she may settle down with her boyfriend, a 33-year-old wine-dealer from France, and concentrate on writing music.
1.Vanessa-Mae started her Asian performance tour .
A. to concentrate on writing music
B. to go on a lobng journey
C. to sell her new album “The Best of Vanessa-Mae”
D. to attract her fans
2.She has given performance in these forms EXCEPT .
A. playing the violin B. fashion shows
C. singing D. playing the piano
3.What can we know about Vanessa-Mae from the passage?
A. Her music is a mix of pop and classical music.
B. She has released nine albums.
C. Her music is a fusion of Chinese and Western music.
D. Being born in Singapore and growing up in Britain have resulted in popularity of her music.
If a diver surfaces too quickly, he may suffer the bends. Nitrogen (氮) dissolved (溶解) in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressure. The consequence, if the bubbles (气泡) accumulate in a joint, is sharp pain and a bent body — thus the name. If the bubbles form in his lungs or brain, the consequence can be death.
Other air-breathing animals also suffer this decompression (减压) sickness if they surface too fast: whales, for example. And so, long ago, did ichthyosaurs (鱼龙). That these ancient sea-animals got the bends can be seen from their bones. If bubbles of nitrogen form inside the bone they can cut off its blood supply. This kills the cells in the bone, and consequently weakens it, sometimes to the point of collapse. Fossil(化石)bones that have caved in on themselves are thus a sign that the animal once had the bends.
Bruce Rothschild of the University of Kansas knew all this when he began a suty of ichthyosaurs bones to find out how widespread the problem was in the past. What he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompession over the 150 milllion years. To this end, he and his colleagues traveled the world’s natural-history museums, looking at hundreds of ichthyosaurs from the Trassic period and from the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
When he started, he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression. Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite. More than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffered the bends before the died, but not a single Trassic specimen showed evidence of that sort of injury.
If ichthyosaurs did evolve an anti-decompression means, they clearly did so quickly — and, most strangly, they lost it afterwards. But that is not what Dr Rothchild thinks happened. He suspects it was evolution in other animals that caused the change.
Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have sufaced to escape a predator (捕食动物) such as a large shark. One of the features of the Jurassia oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles, both of which were fond of ichthyosaurs lunches. Trassic oceans, by contrast, were mercifully shark-and crocodile-free. In the Trassic, then, ichthyosaurs were top of the food chain. In the Jurrasic and Cretaceous, they were prey (猎物) as well as predator —and often had to make a speedy exit as a result.
1.Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bends?
A. A twisted body.
B. A gradual decrease in blood supply.
C. A sudden release of nitrogen in blood.
D. A drop in blood presure.
2.The purpose of Rothchild’s study is to see .
A. how often ichthyosaurs caught the bends
B. how ichthyosaurs adapted to decompression
C. why ichthyosaurs bent their bodies
D. when ichthyosaurs broke their bones
3.Rothchild’s finding stated in Paragrapg 4 .
A. confirmed his assumption B. speeded up his research process
C. disagreed with his assumption D. changed his research objectives
4.Rothchild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs .
A. failed to evole an anti-decompression means
B. grdually developed measures against the bends
C. died out because of large sharks and crocodiles
D. evoled an anti-decompression means but soon lost it
