My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel 1.(encourage) by his compliments.
One day, 2. we learned the new word “eccentric” in class, we 3. make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do it by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy 4. clothe never fit him.” Hearing this, the whole class burst into 5. (laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. 6. class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate 7. (drop) out of school if he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must 8. (hurt) him deeply.
Not until then did 1 realize words could be powerful in 9. positive and negative ways. We should avoid 10. (hurt) others if we can’t always be encouraging them when we speak.
1.So ______ (impress) was the lecture that there were no empty seats m the hall, which made a deep impression on us.
2.We obtained permission from the directors to use some of our funds, which ______ (permit) us to do more purchases.
3.Nowadays, women can have children and jobs as well. It’s good to have the two ______ (combine).
4.1 have bought the same dress ______ she is wearing.
5.They walked off, leaving me ______ (seat) there all by myself.
6.The book mainly deals with the trouble teens might have ______ (distinguish) right from wrong.
7.He set sail once again, this time with 25 ships, ______ which only 14 made it to Greenland.
8.Everything ______ (arrange) as you wished, your concert is bound to be successful.
9.We were driving on the road when a big rock rolled down the hill and we only just escaped ______ (hit).
10.Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments which ______ (date) back to over 5,000 years.
One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by ______. because we’d never seen geese there before. I wondered where they came from and why they’d ______ our pond.
“As the days passed, I couldn’t ______ getting a closer look and started talking to the geese. They craned their necks and raised their heads ______ but seemed to realize I was a ______ and not an enemy. I felt ______ we were bonding.
One day as they were ______ in the grass near the driveway, I discovered the reason for their ______ —the male had a broken left wing. He was ______ to fly, and his lifelong mate would not leave him ______. I marveled (惊叹) at the ______ between them.
I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should ______. He explained that sometime a broken wing will heal by itself and suggested letting ______ take its course.
On the first day of November, I was ______ in the vicinity (邻近) of the geese with my tractor. I caught some ______ from the comer of my eye.
Both geese were running toward the pond, wings beating ______. The geese gained enough altitude to clear a neighbor’s house, then ______ back toward me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of ______.
I grew ______ them during their stay at our pond, and I miss them. I’ll never forget their ______ to each other. We could all learn a lesson or two from this pair.
1.A. anger B. surprise C. terror D. sorrow
2.A. cleared B. destroyed C. chosen D. disturbed
3.A. resist B. imagine C. escape D. admit
4.A. naturally B. happily C. sadly D. cautiously
5.A. hunter B. helper C. friend D. guard
6.A. whether B. even if C. how D. as though
7.A. jumping B. feeding C. working D. growing
8.A. absence B. delay C. visit D. departure
9.A. unable B. curious C. eager D. afraid
10.A. mad B. calm C. around D. behind
11.A. bond B. quarrel C. conflict D. competition
12.A. do B. cure C. share D. check
13.A. chance B. nature C. fate D. knowledge
14.A. playing B. experimenting C. working D. fighting
15.A. atmosphere B. division C. response D. movement
16.A. wildly B. occasionally C. slowly D. aimlessly
17.A. floated B. circled C. slid D. skipped
18.A. order B. place C. sight D. control
19.A. angry with B. fond of C. tired of D. grateful to
20.A. sympathy B. objection C. adjustment D. devotion
Right now you are reading English. That means that you are using your brain in a very active way. Reading is a very active process. 1.. When you read a text, you have to do some or all of these:
• Imagine a scene in your head
• Understand clearly what the writer is trying to say
• Agree or disagree with the writer
There are also many advantages associated with reading, including:
2.
You will usually meet with new words when you read. If there are too many new words for you, then the level is too high and you should read something simpler. But if there are, say, a maximum of five new words per page, you will learn this vocabulary easily. You may not even need to use a pocket dictionary because you can guess the meaning from the rest of the text. 3..
A model for writing
When you read, it gives you a good example for writing. Texts that you read show you structures and expressions that you can use when you write.
Seeing “correctly structured” English
When people write, they usually use “correct” English with a proper grammatical structure. 4.. So, by reading you see and learn grammatical English naturally.
5.
You can read as fast or as slowly as you like. You can read ten pages in 30 minutes, or take one hour to explore just one page. It doesn’t matter. The choice is yours. You can not easily do this when speaking or listening. This is one of the big advantages of reading because different people work at different speeds.
A. Working at your own speed
B. Learning vocabulary in context (语境)
C. This is not always true when people speak
D. Focusing on exactly what you want to learn
E. you should write down unknown vocabulary in whole sentences
F. Not only do you learn new words, but you see them being used naturally
G. It is true that the writer does a lot of work, but the reader also has to work hard
Equipped only with a pair of binoculars (双筒望远镜) and ready to spend long hours waiting in all weathersfor a precious glance of a rare bullfinch (红腹灰雀), Britain’s birdwatchers had long been supposed to be lovers of a minority sport. But new figures show bird-watching is fast becoming a popular pastime, with almost three million of us absorbed in our fluttering (飞来飞去) feathered friends.
Devoted birdwatchers, those prepared to travel thousands of miles for sighting of a rare Siberian bird, are fast being joined by a new breed (类型) of follower whose interest is satiated by watching a few finches (雀科鸣鸟) on a Sunday walk or putting up a bird-box in the back garden.
“Almost three million UK birdwatchers is certainly possible if you include everyone with only a casual interest,” Stephen Moss said in his newly published book——A bird in the Bush: a Social History of Birdwatching——which records the pursuit from the rich Victorian Englishman’s love of shooting rare birds to the less offensive observational tendencies of birdwatchers today.
Television wildlife programmes have helped to fuel the new trend. Last summer, BBC 2’s Britain Goes Wild was a surprise success. It pulled in three million views and led to bird-houses selling out across the UK as 45,000 people promised to put up a box.
Birdwatchers networking system first came to the attention of the nation in 1989, when a birdwatcher caught sight of the first Vermivora chrysoptera— a golden-winged songbirdfrom North America-to be seen in Britain. He put a message out on the network service Birdline, and the next day 3,000 birdwatchers proved the full pull of a truly rare bird as they visited the Tesco car park in Kent., where it had settled. Today, birdwatchers can log on to www.birdline.co.uk or have news of the latest sightingtexted to their phones.
“Multimillion-pound spending on binoculars, bird food and boxes point to the increasing numbers of birdwatchers.” Said David Croack, the editor of Bird Watching magazine “The number of people involved is so big that they have great potential to influence government decisions affecting the environment.”
1.The word “satiated” in paragraph 2 can best be replaced by “ ”.
A. affected B. shared
C. satisfied D. narrowed
2.What happened after the message offing a Vermivora Chrysoptera was put on the network?
A. Birdwatchers helped the rare bird settle in Kent.
B. Large numbers of birdwatchers went to view the bird.
C. Many birdwatchers logged on to the website for details.
D. Birdwatchers showed their determination to protect the rare bird.
3.Which of the following CANNOT he true according to the passage?
A. Television wildlife programmes started the popular pastime of bird watching.
B. The network service has contributed to the rapid development of bird watching.
C. Birdwatching in Britain was long considered a sport with a small group of followers.
D. The current situation of birdwatching may promote the protection of the environment.
Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1,248,000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs” — a loose term given to everything from discarded (丢弃的) prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫，维护) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper (雨刷) an angry note intended for someone else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such as poster discovered in our drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is; can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such as Richard Prince, may raise endless possibilities. What was the cowboy in Orince’s Untitled doing? Was he riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It’s anyone’s guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理), we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?
In the absence of established facts, the vast collections of found photographs give our minds an opportunity to wander freely. That, above all, is why they are so fascinating.
1.The first paragraph of the passage is used to .
A. remind readers of found photographs
B. advise reader to start a new kind of business
C. ask readers to find photographs behind sofa
D. show readers the value of found photographs
2.The underlined word “them” in Para 4 refers to .
A. the readers B. the editors
C. the found photographs D. the self-published magazines
3.By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate that .
A. memory of the past is very important to people
B. found photographs allow people to think freely
C. the back-story of found photographs is puzzling
D. the real value of found photographs is questionable
4.The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as .
A. critical B. doubtful
C. optimistic D. satisfied
