My friend went home, ________me to conduct the band.
A.to leave B.leaving
C.left D.having left
When I first arrived ________San Francisco,I had a difficult time ________certain aspects of the American way of doing things.
A.at;to understand B.in;to understand
C.in;understanding D.at;understanding
假设你是高一（1）班学生李华。最近你所在的爱乐社团（Music-lovers Club）将举行招募新社员的活动。请你根据以下信息为社团写一份宣传简介，并欢迎同学们参加。
●成立时间：2013年9月
●现有成员：学生20名；老师2名
●主要活动：1）学习音乐知识
2）欣赏音乐节目
3）组织社团演出
注意：1. 简介的开头已为你写好；
2. 词数不少于100。
Music-lovers Club
The best club you deserve to join! _______________________________________
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A library is a place where a large collection of books are lined. However, quite different from traditional ones, a new library which opened last month in San Antonio, Texas, US is very special in the thing —there is not a single book in it.
In fact, the world’s first “bookless” library, known as BiblioTech, looks more like an Internet café—instead of bookshelves. It has iPads, laptops and desktop computers to use on site and 500 e-readers for members to borrow. Most importantly, there is no printed material, reported Time.
“Our digital library is stored in the cloud, so you don’t have to come in to get a book,” Laura Cole, BiblioTech’s special projects coordinator, told CNN. The library at the moment has a collection of 10,000 e-books and is trying to add more.
The idea of a bookless library no longer seems new since e-books have been around for quite some time. At the end of 2012, 23 percent of Americans aged 16 and older read e-books, up from 16 percent the year before. At the same time, the proportion(比例) of Americans who read a printed book fell from 72 percent to 67 percent.
“Not all libraries are going to be like us,” Nelson Wolff, a local official told CNN. “But we surely do hope it’s going to drive them to do so. The world is changing, and libraries can’t stay the same —if they want to stay connected with the changing world.”
Also, located in a low-income (低收入的) neighborhood where 40 percent of families don’t have a computer and half are not available(可获得的) to broadband Internet service, BiblioTech provides digital convenience to people who lack it.
All in all, the newly-born library, though young, may be promising in the future soon to come.
Title | A1.__________Library |
Introduction | ●A new library came into2._____ last month. ●It has no book in it at all. |
Features of the library | ●Computers, iPads and laptops took the3._____ of bookshelves. ●4.______ borrow e-readers to read. ●There is no printed material. ●Books are stored in the 5.______. ●More e-books will be 6._______ |
7.______ for its bright future | ●People are 8._________ with e-books for long. ●The changing world 9._______people to do so. ●Such bookless libraries meet low-incomers’ 10.______ |
Conclusion | The bookless library may be promising in the future. |
Ask any student to say one thing they know about Charles Dickens, and it is very likely they will say Oliver Twist. His classic tale of a poor orphan boy strikes at the heart of all those who have ever wanted "more", as Oliver did.
And now, Dickens' classic scenes of the lives of the Victorian British poor will appear in a big screen movie, "Oliver Twist," an adaptation of his classic tale directed by Roman Polanski.
The new film is not meant for younger viewers, and is meant for children over 13. For those old enough to enjoy it, however, the film shows just how long people have been enjoying Dickens' remarkable literature. His short stories and essays began appearing in magazines in 1833. "Oliver Twist" was published in 1837 - more than 165 years ago.
"Oliver Twist" tells the story of an orphan forced to live in a workhouse headed by the awful Mr Bumble, who cheats the boys who work there out of their already low pay. Oliver decides to escape to the streets of London, where he meets a thief called Fagin, played by Sir Ben Kingsley, who leads him into a world of crime. Several of Dickens' books have been made into films and television series, including 2002's "Nicholas Nickleby" and 2000's "David Copperfield." And several versions of "A Christmas Carol" have entertained audiences for years.
In his novels, Dickens wrote about several important issues. He talked about the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1824 in "Oliver Twist"; the French Revolution in "A Tale of Two Cities"; and helping the poor in "Hard Times.” One of Dickens' best-known books is the first Christmas book he wrote - "A Christmas Carol" (1843), about a mean man.
We thought this would be a good time to take a look at the man behind the words and see what kind of experiences helped shape and affect one of the best — known writers of all time.
1.The “workhouse” in paragraph 4 should be ___
A. a building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime they have committed
B. a place where dancing is taught or trained for international performance
C. a building where very poor people were sent to live and given work to do
D. a place where films are made or music is recorded
2.How many works are mentioned in the passage?
A. 3 B. 4 C 5 D. 6
3.The passage show many things about Oliver except that____
A. he is forced to live in a workhouse by Roman Polanski
B. he meets a thief, Fagin, in the streets of London
C. he lives a hard life in his childhood
D. Fagin trains and forces Oliver to do some crimes
4.The fifth paragraph mainly tells us ___
A. Dickens’s birth and schooling
B. Dickens’s work experience
C. Dickens’s works and themes
D. Dickens’s influence and contribution
In America, square dancing has been the most popular form of folk dancing since the early days. In early times, when men and women worked in groups to build a barn (谷仓) or harvest crops, they danced when the work was done. The music came from the violin for the most part, but if there was no one to play a musical instrument, clapping was used to produce the rhythm to which people dance. The early settlers danced in a store, in a barn, or in a farm kitchen.
A square is formed by four couples （对）who stand facing the centre of the square. Each couple stand on one side of the square, the boy on the left and the girl on the right.
The caller is an important part of the dance, since he tells the dancers which steps to do. If the dancers do not know the steps, he teaches them. It takes time to learn to be a good caller, and good callers are always in demand（被需要）.
These are the names of some of the steps the dancers do: Form a square; Circle; Honour your partner; Swing your partner; Form a star. There are many more. As the callers tell the dancers what to do next, they move to form the pattern（图形）he calls.
Large or small numbers of people can dance at one time. Sometimes 800 or 1,000 people may be dancing at the same time. Or there may be only one square of eight people.
Special clothes are worn by some when dancing. This makes the dance more colourful to watch. The special clothes are different from place to place. Women often wear full skirts of various colours with a pretty blouse. Men have coloured shirts and western trousers that they wear only when square dancing. In some country areas, everyone wears his best clothes.
Today in some parts of the United States you will find some schools, clubs, or groups square dancing for fun.
1.From the passage we know that square dancing came from_______.
A. the clubs B. the schools
C. big cities D. the countryside
2.How many steps do the dancers usually do while square dancing?
A. At most four. B. At least one thousand.
C. At most eight. D. At least five.
3.For what purpose do the American men and women dance?
A. For money.
B. To lose weight.
C. For fun.
D. To show their beautiful clothes.
4.If 800 people dance at the same time，how many squares can be formed?
A. 200 squares. B.100 squares.
C. 400 squares. D. One big square.
