My partner wants to keep the company small _____ I’d like to expand it.
A. andB. orC. howeverD. while
With the successful launch of Tiangong-I, which was ______ breakthrough in space field, China's space dream took a step closer to ______ reality.
A. a; / B. the; a C. a; the D the; /
---Jenny, I think I’ll just have some coffee for a change．
---______．The coffee I bought yesterday is in the cupboard．
A. Change it, pleaseB. Never mind C. With pleasureD. Help yourself
你和美国的网友Peter相互了解对方国家的传统节日，请根据下表要求写一篇关于感恩节( Thanksgiving Day)的文章，放在你的微博里，请Peter赐教。
起源 | 美国 |
目的 | 最初为感谢印第安人，现在人们常在这一天感谢他人 |
庆祝国家 | 美国和加拿大 |
时间 | 美国：每年11月的第四个星期四 加拿大：每年10月第二个星期一 |
庆祝方式 | 休息两天，家人团聚，互相问候，表达感恩 |
传统食物 | 火鸡 |
注意：
1．请使用规范英语，词数不少于100;
2．可适当加入细节，以使内容充实、行文连贯；
3．参考词汇：火鸡Turkey。
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阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
Denielle Steel, America's sweetheart, is one of the hardest working women in the book business. Unlike other productive authors who write one book at a time, she can work on up to five. Her research comes before writing takes at least three years. Once she has fully studied her subjects, she can spend twenty hours nonstop at her desk.
Denielle Steel comes from New York and was sent to France for her education. After graduation, she worked in the public relations and advertising industries. Later she started a job as a writer which she was best fit for. Her achievements are unbelievable, 390 million copies of books in print, nearly fifty New York Times best-selling novels, and a series of “Max and Martha" picture books for children to help them deal with the real-life problem of death, new babies and new schools. Her book published in 1998 about the death of her was shot to the top of the New York Times best-selling list as soon as it came out. Twenty-eight of her books have been made into films. She is listed in the Guinness Books of World Records for one of her books being the Times best-seller for 381 weeks straight.
Not content with a big house, a loving family, and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Denielle Steel considers her readers to be the most important resource and has kept in touch with them by-email. While she is often compared to the heroines of her own invention, her life is undoubtedly much quieter. But if she does have anything in common with them, it is her strength of will and her inimitable (独特的 ) style. There is only one, Denielle Steel!
1.What is the main idea of the passage? (No more than 10 words)
2.Please explain the underlined word "content" in English. (No more than 5 words)
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3.What may children know after they have read "Max and Martha" picture books? (No more than 20 words)
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4.List at least three Danielle Steel's achievements in book business? (No more than 30 words)
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5.Why aid Danielle Steel value her readers a lot? (No more than 25 words)
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One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England, an adolescent boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had referred him to me. "This boy has lost his family," he wrote. "He is understandably very sad and refuses to talk to others, and I'm very worried about him. Can you help?" '
I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn't have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically.
The first two times we met David didn't say a word. He sat there, only looking up to look at the children’s drawings on the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon - in complete silence and without looking at me. It's not easy to cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David won once or twice.
Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed, took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why did he never look at me?
"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought. "Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering." Some months later, when we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly.
"It's your turn," he said.
After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times about his biking with some friends, an d about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.
Maybe I gave David something. But I also learned that one - without any words – can reach out to another person. All it takes is a hug, a shoulder to cry' on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens.
1.When he first met the author, David________.
A. felt a little excited
B. walked energetically
C. looked a little nervous
D. showed up with his teacher
2.As a psychologist, the author_______ .
A. was ready to listen to David
B. was skeptical about psychology
C. was able to describe David's problem
D. was sure of handling David's problem
3.David enjoyed being with the author because he ______.
A. wanted to ask the author for advice
B. need to share sorrow with the author
C. liked the children's drawings in the office
D. beat the author many times in the chess game
4.What can be inferred about David?
A. He recovered after months of treatment.
B. He liked biking before he lost his family.
C. He went into university soon after starting to talk.
D. He got friends in school before he met the author.
5.What made David change?
A. His teacher's help.
B. The author's friendship.
C. His exchange of letters with the author.
D. The author's silent communication with him.
