Last week I went to a grocery store, just to check it out. The person in front of me at the checkout was pregnant(怀孕) and________a couple of containers of milk. No big_________, so I thought she would finish it quickly and I could be on my way. Her method of__________was a VIC card and it kept telling her that it wasn’t working. A manager__________and told her to come to a __________register; maybe there was a problem with the machine. After I checked out, I noticed she was still there, trying to get her card to_________.
It was obvious that the young woman was getting_________about the purchase so I offered to_________her purchase. She was shocked that I had even offered but finally_________my help. She thanked me and I went on my way with a smile from her.
Everyone needs a_________hand sometimes and you never know when it will be your _________. Today I found that it was indeed my turn.
I went boating north of the city. I t was a very hot, sunny day,_________I bought a large container of soft drink, thinking it would be plenty to drink. I didn’t realize the________that would have on me. Before I got back to shore, I________that I finished the bottles.
When I got back to shore and managed to drag my boat to the car, I was very hot and_________. Seeing a drinking fountain(饮水器), I________my problem was solved... but it wasn’t working at all. Though I was embarrassed, I had no choice but to_________a family who were having a picnic nearby if they had an extra bottle of water, which they________gave me. The bottle of water wasn’t a big deal to them, but it made all the__________to me.
The little things that can be done for others don’t usually________important to the people doing them, but it can be huge to the receivers.
1.A. protecting B. buying C. exchanging D. delivering
2.A. deal B. chance C. promis e D. debt
3.A. arrangement B. permission C. payment D. judgment
4.A. came over B. came across C. came about D. came to
5.A. ugly B. artificial C. difficult D. different
6.A. change B. open C. work D. measure
7.A. anxious B. confident C. sensitive D. curious
8.A. leave for B. pay for C. account for D. look for
9.A. deserved B. accepted C. permitted D. doubted
10.A. amazing B. frightening C. helping D. interesting
11.A. belief B. charge C. reward D. turn
12.A. however B. so C. besides D. therefore
13.A. rain B. wind C. mist D. heat
14.A. learnt B. recognized C. realized D. determined
15.A. thirsty B. energetic C. painful D. rude
16.A. pretended B. remembered C. thought D. forgot
17.A. affect B. admire C. find D. ask
18.A. sadly B. angrily C. unwillingly D. gladly
19.A. connection B. difference C. relationship D. distance
20.A. appear B. appeal C. consider D. appoint
Living with other students may be a wonderful experience. If you can deal with it well, you and your roommates will probably enjoy a happy life and even build a lifelong friendship.1.
Choose your roommates carefully if you are given a permission. Combining the living spaces of several students into one location can be an exciting and rewarding experience for the outgoing students.2..
Divide the bills equally. Some students are far less responsible than their roommates.3.Resentment(怨恨) is quick to build when everyone has to pay the bill for a fellow student who cannot seem to pay his/her share of the money.
Carry your part of the load. Everyone has to clean the bathroom and the kitchen sometimes. Don’t avoid your part of responsibility. Student accommodations can get messy and it involves everyone keeping their rooms tidy.
4.Put your roommates’ interests above your own. Life will be far more enjoyable when everyone is concerned about the feeling, property, and studies of each other.
Be open and honest. Hostility(敌意) between roommates may cause problems that can’t be fixed. Everyone brings different standards and expectations to group living.5.Disagreements can be managed more friendly when you are willing to be open and listen to others.
A. If you are on the shy side, or prefer a quiet group, pick quieter roommates.
B. It is quite easy to get along with outgoing students.
C. They tend to let their part of the bill slide.
D. It’s in everyone’s best interest to put them into the open.
E. Telling a lie or saying rude words to your roommates may hurt their feelings.
F. Think about someone else before you think about yourself.
G. Here are few tips for student accommodations.
You’ll probably never go to Mars or sing on the stage with the Rolling Stones. But if virtual reality (VR) ever lives up to its promise, you might be able to do all these things—and many more—without even leaving your home. Unlike real reality, virtual reality means simulating(模拟) bits of our world. Apart from games and entertainment, it’s long been used for training airlines pilots and doctors and for helping scientists to figure out complex problems such as the structure of protein molecules.. Then how does it work?
Close your eyes and think of virtual reality and you probably picture something like this: a man wearing a wrap-around headset and data gloves wired(用线连接) into a powerful workstation or supercomputer. What makes VR different from an ordinary computer experience is the nature of the input and output. Where an ordinary computer uses things like a keyboard, mouse, or speech recognition for input, VR uses sensors(传感器) that find out how your body is moving. And where a PC displays output on a screen, VR uses two screens (one for each eye), surround-sound speakers, and maybe some forms of touch and body feedback(反馈) as well.
VR has been generally used by scientists, doctors, dentists, engineers, architects, archaeologists, and the army for about the last 30 years. Difficult and dangerous jobs are hard to train for. How can you safely practice taking a trip to space, making a jump from an airplane, or carrying out a brain operation? All these things are obvious applications of virtual reality.
Like any technology, virtual reality has both good and bad points. Critics always warn that people may be addicted to alternative realities to the point of ignoring their real-world lives—but that criticism has been leveled at everything from radio and TV to computer games and the Internet. Like many technologies, VR takes little or nothing away from the real world: you don’t have to use it if you don’t want to.
1.What equipment do we need for virtual reality?
A. a keyboard, a headset and a supercomputer.
B. a headset, data gloves and a supercomputer.
C. A headset, data gloves and a speech recognition.
D. A keyboard, a mouse and a speech recognition.
2.According to the passage, which is NOT the applications of VR?
A. Entertainment B. Operations
C. Scientific experiments D. School education
3.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. The advantages of virtual reality.
B. The influences of virtual reality.
C. The importance of virtual reality.
D. The applications of virtual reality.
4.What is the writer’s attitude towards VR?
A. mbiguous B. Appreciative
C. Disappointed D. Uninterested
5.According to the passage, virtual reality means_________.
A. experiencing things that don’t really exist.
B. Creating something that doesn’t exist.
C. Imagining beautiful things in our mind.
D. Cloning something that has died out.
The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety.
That didn't stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.
Parbati Barua's father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up -- how to catch wild elephants.
Parbati hasn't always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old fife. "Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase," she says.
But Parbati doesn't catch elephants just for fun. "My work," she says, "is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man." And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill.
The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. "Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans," she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!
1.For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to .
A. get long lasting excitement B. keep both man and elephants safe
C. send them back to the jungle D. make the angry elephants tame
2.Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, .
A. she spent her time hunting with her father
B. she learned how to sing love songs
C. she had already been called an elephant princess
D. she was taught how to hunt tigers
3.Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because________ .
A. they are caught and sent for heavy work
B. illegal hunters capture them and kill them
C. they are attacked and their land gets limited
D. dogs often bark at them and chase them
4.The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India______ .
A. people easily fall victim to elephants' attacks
B. the man-elephant relationship is getting worse
C. elephant tamers are in short supply
D. dogs are as powerful as elephants
5.The underlined word “captured” in the last paragraph probably means “__________”.
A. found B. caught
C. attacked D. chased
假定你是学生会主席李华，邀请交换生peter参加你校在本月举行的文明校园（civilized campus）创建活动。请根据以下要点，给他写一封电子邮件。
1.活动目的；
2.活动内容(倡导语言美、行为美、环境美）；
3.表示欢迎。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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。
Last year, I went to Australia for a short-term study like an international student. One of my classmates suggested we shared our favorite recipes for foods from our own countries during New Year’s party. We all agreed to this wonderful idea and cooked my unique dishes for the party. Hariyati from Indonesia shared a kind of cookie what was shaped like elephant ears. Susan from South Africa prepared some sweet dumplings packed in several banana leaf. Chiemi from Japan cooked special rice balls mixing with fish. And I was served Daoxiao noodles, my hometown — Shanxi’s local food. These variously foods were all delicious. Therefore, my favorite was still Chinese food.
