The milkman ________ the spotted cow, from among a herd of two hundred.
A. selected B. held
C. elected D. separated
假设你叫李华，你的外国朋友John想了解中国的春节，请根据以下提纲，给他写一封短信，字数在120个左右。首段已给出，字数不包括在内。
1、春节在中国人中的地位
2、春节前，人们……
3、春节期间，人们……
参考词汇：对联couplet 爆竹firecracker
How time flies! Four months have passed since we saw each other last time. I can’t help but miss
you. You asked me about Chinese Spring Festival. Now I’d like to tell you something about it.
Your sincerely
Liu Hua
One day an archer (弓箭手) drew a big crowd while practicing shooting. He was very
s1..He shot so accurately that the on-lookers cheered with 2.(兴奋). He became very proud of his skill，but among the crowd 3.old oil seller only nodded his head indifferently.
He went over to the old man and questioned him 74.he could do that. The old man shook his head. Then the archer asked, “What do you think of my skill?”
“Just okay, but nothing special. You’ve gained your accuracy from constant practice. That’s all.” The old oil seller r5.
“What can you do, then?” The archer asked.
The old man said 6..He just put a bottle on the ground and covered its mouth with a coin that had a little hole in the middle. 7.(拿，举) his oil jar high, he began to fill the bottle. A thread of oil came down from the jar i8.the bottle just through the hole of the coin. Everybody around watched with their eyes9.（大）. However, the old man said, “This is nothing special. I can do this because I have 10.for long.” And after he said these words, he left.
Later, people use this story to mean “practice makes perfect.”
Here’s a movie-a sharp, sugar-rush of fun that’s guaranteed to entertain the entire family.
With some terrific computer-generated effects, a great cast and a fun-packed storyline, Robots is the best animated film(动画片) since The Incredibles. Yep, it really is that good.
Set in a world populated by robots, Ewan McGregor plays Rodney Copperbottom, a young robot who leaves his small-town home to pursue his dream of becoming an inventor.
But after arriving in Robot City, his hopes of getting a job at Bigweld Industries are destroyed when he learns the firm has been taken over by the evil Ratchet (Greg Kinnear).
Egged on by his controlling mum, Madame Gasket (Jim Broadbent), Ratchet plans to reduce half on Robot City’s citizens to scrap metal by refusing to sell the spare Pans they need to survive.
Instead, he wants to make a fortune selling expensive upgrades that few can afford. As he says, “Why be you when you can be new?”
Aided by a few misfit robots known as the Rustles-including Robin Williams as the cowardly(胆小的) Fender (“I’m made of a metal called Afraidium”)-Rodney must track down the firm’s founder, Bigweld (Mel Brooks), and convince him to save the city from Ratchet’s plans.
The first thing that’ll strike you about the movie is the thought that’s gone into creating Robot City. It’s a wondrous world full of mechanical marvels including wind-up cars and walking streetlamps.
Also terrific are the special effects. This might be animated movie but at times you’ll catch yourself thinking it’s really a live-action film.
Of course, there have been plenty of animated movies that looked the part but were let down by a weak storyline(see Shark Tale, for example).
But Robots grips(扣人心弦)right from the start thanks to a heart-warming and thoroughly engaging plot that never bores.
My only complaints are with Williams who, as usual, has a one-in-10 success rate with his jokes. Also a letdown is a romantic subplot between Rodney and a shapely robot called Cappy (Halle Berry) that doesn’t go anywhere.
Complains aside, this is a mechanical marvel that’ll have you bolted firmly to your seat.
BEST QUOTE(引述)：Fender：“Even though you had a discouraging day, just remember there’s another one coming tomorrow.
BEST BIT：Check out those amazing images.
WORST BIT：Robin Williams’ character does an unfunny Britney Spears dance routine.
IF YOU LIKED…Ice Age, The Incredibles, Toy Story…YOU’LL LIKE THIS.
1.This piece of writing is a _____.
A. film review B. commercial advertisement
C. movie poster D. 1iterary essay
2.The cast of Robots is made up of all the following actors or actresses EXCEPT ______.
A. Ewan McGregor B. Britney Spears
C. Robin Williams D. Halle Berry
3. What is Shark Tale an example of?
A. A great cast. B. Special effects.
C. A poor plot. D. Clumsy animation.
The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as “would you really marry a woman who works?” And today it’d be “would you marry one who doesn’t?”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump”.
Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he brought her typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
1.The book Gone with the Wind was_______.
A. written in “ The Dump”
B. awarded ten Academy Awards
C. first published on a newspaper
D. adapted from a movie
2.The underlined phrase “tower over” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _________?
A. be very pleased with
B. be much taller than
C. show great respect for
D. show little interest in
3.Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?
A. Because she was rich enough.
B. Because she was injured then.
C. Because her husband didn’t like it.
D. Because she wanted to write books.
4.We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that________.
A. her height made her marriage unhappy
B. writing stopped her working as a reporter
C. her interest in writing continued as an adult
D. her life was full of hardship and sadness
5.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House
B. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.
C. A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.
D. Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.
Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you’re doing your holiday shopping online, make sure you’re holding a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation（感觉）of warmth encourages emotional warmth while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions — those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist John A. Bargh.
Psychologists have known that one person’s perception（感知）of another’s “warmth” is a powerful determiner in social relationships. Judging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a “cold” person may be more capable. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies’ conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth “mother” rather than one made of wire, even when the wire “mother” carried a food bottle. Harlow’s work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills.
Feelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universal. Although no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm” or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries.
To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college students. A research assistant who was unaware of the study’s hypotheses（假设）, handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form. The drink was then handed back. After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of “Person A” based on a particular description. Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink.
“We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly,” says Bargh.
1.According to Paragraph 1, a person’s emotion may be affected by ______.
A. the visitors to his office
B. the psychology lessons he has
C. the things he has bought online
D. his physical feeling of coldness
2.The author mentions Harlow’s experiment to show that ____________.
A. adults should develop social skills
B. caregivers should be healthy adults
C. babies need warm physical contact
D. monkeys have social relationships
3.In Bargh’s experiment, the students were asked to _______________.
A. evaluate someone’s personality
B. write down their hypotheses
C. fill out a personal information form
D. hold coffee and cold drink alternatively
4.We can infer from the passage that _____________________.
A. abstract thinking does not come from physical experiences
B. physical temperature affects how we see others
C. feelings of warmth and coldness are studied worldwide
D. capable persons are often cold to others
5.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Drinking for Better Social Relationships.
B. Experiments of Personality Evaluation.
C. Physical Sensations and Emotions.
D. Developing Better Drinking Habits.
