My dad loved pennies, especially those with the elegant stalk of wheat curving around each side of the ONE CENT on the back. Those were the pennies he grew up with during the Depression (大萧条).
As a kid, I would go for walks with Dad, spying coins along the way—a penny here, a dime (一角硬币) there. Whenever I picked up a penny, he'd ask, "Is it a wheat?" It always thrilled him when we found one of those special coins produced between 1909 and 1958, the year of my birth.
One gray Sunday morning in winter, not long after my father's death in 2002, I was walking down Fifth Avenue, feeling bereft. I found myself in front of the church where Dad once worked. I was warmly shown in and led to a seat. Hearing Dad's favorite "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God", I burst into tears. We'd sung that at his funeral. After the service, I shook the pastor's hand and stepped onto the sidewalk—and there was a penny. I bent to pick it up, turned it over, and sure enough, it was a wheat. A 1944, a year my father was serving on a ship in the South Pacific.
That started it. Suddenly wheat pennies began turning up on the sidewalks of New York everywhere. I got most of the important years: his birth year, my mom's birth year, the year he graduated from college, the year he met my mom, the year they got married, the year my sister was born. But alas, no 1958 wheat penny—my year, the last year they were made.
The next Sunday, after the service, I was walking up Fifth Avenue and spotted a penny in the middle of a crossing. Oh, no, it was a busy street; cabs were speeding by—should I risk it? I just had to get it.
A wheat! But the penny was worn, and I couldn't read the date. On arriving home, I took out my glasses and took it to the light. There was my birthday!
I found 21 wheat pennies on the streets of Manhattan in the year after my father died, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
1.The writer's father loved pennies with wheat because _____.
A. when he first saw it, he began to love it
B. when he saw the wheat, he thought of his time during the Depression
C. when he was young, he had a lot of pennies with wheat
D. when he was a child, he never got a coin with wheat
2.The underlined word "bereft" (in Para.3) means _____.
A. alone
B. disappointed
C. upset
D. discouraged
3.Which of the following statements about the author is NOT true?
A. He was born in 1958.
B. He went to church because of his father.
C. He once worked in a church.
D. He knew the church well.
4.The best title for the passage would be _____.
A. My father's life story
B. Pennies from Heaven
C. My father's hobby
D. Living in New York
假设你是李华，你的好友Peter今天上午来你家找你陪他练习汉语口语。你因临时有急事外出，让他扑了个空。请根据以上情景，给Peter写一封信。内容如下：
1. 表示歉意；
2. 解释具体原因，并希望他能谅解；
3. 告诉他下次练习的时间、地点及话题。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 书信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Peter,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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。每处错误仅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 week I visited my friend Li Lei. His mother sincerely asked us to stay for lunch with them, and I agreed. There was only three people for lunch all altogether. However, my friend’s mother prepared eight dish and we couldn’t finished the food at all. As a result, the food that was not finished thrown away in the end. When I went back home I saw some homeless people beg the street, where reminded me of the wasted food. I felt really sad. What I wish that no food will be wasted from now on! In this way, nobody on the earth will be hungry.
Chopsticks are shaped pairs of equal-length sticks that have been used in the kitchen and on the table in almost all of East Asia for over 6, 000 years. First 1. (use) by the Chinese, chopsticks later spread to other locations 2. (include) Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
In ancient China, chopsticks signified far more than tools 3. take food to the mouth, and they also signified status and rules “can” and “can’t”. During the Northern Song Dynasty,4. official named Tang Su once had dinner with the emperor. He was not well informed in noble table manners and 5. (lay) down his chopsticks horizontally on the table before the emperor did. As a result, he was sent to a frontier area as a 6. (punish).
Actually, there were over a dozen taboos concerning chopsticks. For example, they could not be placed 7. (vertical) into a dish, as this was a way of making sacrifices to the dead. Diners could not tap 8. push a dish with chopsticks, nor use a chopstick as a fork. When taking food, they could not let their chopsticks go from one dish to another or cross over 9. of others. When diners wanted 10. (put) down their chopsticks during a meal, they would place them lengthways on a chopstick holder or on the plate on their right-hand side. Many of these chopstick taboos are valid to this day.
The following is a beautiful speech by Sundar Pichai, a senior executive at a big IT company. At a ________, a cockroach (蟑螂) suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started ________ out of fear. With a panic-stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands ________ trying to get rid of the cockroach. Her ________ was contagious (传染的), as everyone in her group also got ________. The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but it ________ on another lady in the group.
Now, it was the ________ of the other lady in the group to ________ the drama. The waiter rushed forward to their ________. In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter. The waiter stood ________, calmed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt. When he was ________ enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and _________ it out of the restaurant.
Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, I picked up a few thoughts and started wondering ________ the cockroach was responsible for their behavior. If so, then why was the waiter not ________? He handled it near to perfection, without any ________. It was not the cockroach, but the ________ of the ladies to handle the disturbances caused by the cockroach that disturb the ladies. I ________ that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbances ________ by their shouting that disturbs me. It’s not the traffic jam on the road that disturbs me,________ my inability to handle the disturbances caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.________ than the problem, it’s my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.
1.A. hotel B. zoo C. school D. restaurant
2.A. pointing B. jumping C. checking D. screaming
3.A. separately B. elegantly C. desperately D. carefully
4.A. reaction B. surprise C. settlement D. excitement
5.A. angry B. anxious C. ready D. steady
6.A. stepped B. died C. landed D. took
7.A. turn B. right C. power D. interest
8.A. finish B. continue C. improve D. increase
9.A. side B. scene C. rescue D. relative
10.A. back B. alone C. firm D. aside
11.A. confident B. certain C. brave D. strong
12.A. pushed B. threw C. brought D. helped
13.A. how B. that C. whether D. why
14.A. defeated B. overcome C. welcomed D. disturbed
15.A. panic B. hesitation C. pause D. delay
16.A. inability B. fear C. trouble D. doubt
17.A. expected B. realized C. included D. argued
18.A. ignored B. concerned C. caused D. dealt
19.A. and B. but C. or D. just
20.A. Better B. More C. Worse D. Truer
Language is part of our daily lives, no matter where we live in the world. It is the same with music, whether you listen to it on the radio on your drive to work or sit before an orchestra. Both language and music play a huge role in our culture. 1.
Both language and music have a writing system. In English we record language using the alphabet, which is a collection of letters. In the same way, we use notes to keep a record of music. Just as you are reading this collection of letters on the screen and find meaning in it, musicians read notes and create meaning in the form of music which we can hear.2. By writing pieces of text or music, we are able to share experiences through time. I can read the ideas or hear the composition of someone who lived hundreds of year ago, which is really quite exciting.
3. You can make a good guess at where someone is from by listening to the language they use. In the same way, we know that styles of music are different around the world, giving us the opportunity to explore many different cultures through their music and providing us with music for every situation.4. Even if you don’t like Britpop melodies, you may love the energy of Latin American salsa music.
Both share emotion. How do you know that I am angry? Of course you may be able to see it in my face, but you will know for sure through my words.5. Music can show you exactly how the composer was or is feeling, and allows us to share in that emotion. When you feel happy, you might want to sing and dance to a happy song to celebrate your happiness. In contrast, you have probably also listened to sad music when you were feeling down. I think we have all used music to express or process our emotions, often combining it with language in the form of song lyrics.
A. Both vary with culture.
B. Here are some of their similarities.
C. They have some distinguishing characteristics.
D. So just as you read English, you can read music.
E. Similarly, music can sound angry, sad or happy.
F. This also means that there is something for everyone!
