Who won the race in the end?
A. Robert. B. The man. C. The woman.
How much will the woman pay for the book?
A. $13. B. $24. C. $15.
阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
Do you know when and where the first film was made? It was in the 1880s, more than 120 years ago, that William Friese-Green made what we now think of as a film. The fathers of modern film are thought to be the Lumiere brothers from France. The first films ever made were silent. It was not until in 1927 that the first full-length “talking film” was shown in New York.
In 1896, film was introduced to China. The first Chinese film, Conquering Jun Mountain, was made in 1905. The first film made only by Chinese was The Difficult Couple, which was made in 1913. The Chinese film industry developed quite quickly—between 1948 and 1966, more than 600 full-length films were made, most about war.
People like to enjoy themselves when they are free and so they kill time in the cinema. Besides, they can learn more about the society, like various cultures, by watching films. Finally, although films present true pictures of life, they are higher than life. Good movies usually offer people hopes and faith.
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1. 用约30个单词写出上文的概要：
2. 用约120个单词介绍一部你喜欢的电影、电影人物或演员并阐述带给你的启示。
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1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句：
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
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内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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请阅读下面各题，根据中文或首字母提示，在空格内填入一个最恰当的单词，使句子语法正确，语义完整。并将完整的单词写在答题卡相应题号的横线上。
1.“Look at those pretty little girls’ dresses” is a__________, because it is not clear whether the girls or the dresses are ‘pretty’.
2.The beautiful palace makes the city become a main tourist a__________ in that country.
3.You could e__________ yourself to unnecessary risks when driving alone in an unfamiliar city.
4.It is universally acknowledged that by reading the __________(摘要), you can determine which articles are worth reading in full.
5.By investing wisely she __________(积累) a fortune, and she frequently donates large sums to charity.
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Unless you’re one of the lucky few who already know what their passion is and what they really enjoy, you will be spending a lot of time trying new things and figuring out what you’re good at and what you like. Don’t be afraid to try new things and fail in them; failing builds character. You have a lot of growing up to do in your 20s, a lot of self-examination and exploration. Use this time wisely to get to understand yourself as best as you can — not that you won’t change as you continue to get older, but it’s definitely a time of discovery, getting to know yourself and what you want in this world and what you have to contribute in the world.
Life is about change; don’t go against it and just go with it. Learn from your mistakes and grow. Let go of things you can’t change. Sometimes change will be so painful that you will want to tear your heart out, but you’ll be okay if you just hang on and know that no matter what happens, you will be alright. Win, lose or draw, life will go on and you’ll get another chance to start your life over if things haven’t gone according to your plan.
Nothing lasts forever. Enjoy every moment that you have. Enjoy life and practice being present at the moment because time goes by extremely fast. There will be both good and bad times. The bad thing about ups is that there are always downs. It’s important to really enjoy the good moments in life because you’ll need those memories to reflect back on when the bad times come. The first 10 years after high school go by at a really high speed and before you know it you’re 28 and wondering how the time has escaped you.
Choosing a life partner is hard. Relationships in general are hard, not just romantic ones but friendships, and family relations as well. Stay in touch with people who you really care about and who really care about you. Make an effort to stay an active person in their life if you really care. You will not have as many close friends as you get older and you will probably lose some friends as well. Remember that it is okay because not everyone who comes into your life is meant to stay forever; let them go and try their best to love the people who are still in your life.
Happiness, love and confidence come from within. Life is what you make of it and what you put into it. You can create whatever life you want, and if you create that life and it doesn’t work for you any more, guess what? You can create a whole new life that does work. You may not have a choice in things that happen to you but you have a choice in how you react to them. Try to stay positive no matter what life throws at you and get through the tough times by talking to friends, family and an adviser if you need to.
Things nobody tells you while you grow up | |
You’re going to spend a lot of time 1. things. | • Try new things and fail in them with no 2. because failing builds character. • Use your 20s wisely to know yourself as best as you can. |
Assume change will come. | • Don’t 3. change. • Another change will come to 4. your life if things haven’t gone according to your plan. |
Time is a 5.resource. | • Make an enjoyment of every moment because time 6.. • Good memories help you go 7. bad times. |
Relationships don’t come easy. | • 8. people who you really care about and who really care about you. • Let someone go and love those who 9.. |
You get what you put in | • Choose the way you react whatever happens to you. • Stay positive and turn to others if 10.. |
There are two basic modes of judgment: criticism and praise. The former consists of identifying a subject’s flaws; the latter of noting its worthwhile qualities.
Often, the greater intellectual challenge — as a reader, as a viewer, and as a manager — is to recognize when something is truly great.
“Managers in particular seem to have a hard time with this” said Adam Grant, the author of Originals: How Nonconformists Move the World, in a lecture at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Grant points to the work of his former student Justin M. Berg, who is now a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University. While at college, Berg studied circus performers who were trying to make their circus world-famous. Berg asked the performers to submit videos of their works and then asked the artists themselves, circus managers, and regular audience members to evaluate them. He wanted to know, between the performers and the managers, who could predict which acts would most resonate (共鸣) with the audience members.
What Berg found is that the artists themselves were terrible judges of their own works. “On average,” Grant explained, “when they looked at 10 videos, they ranked their own videos two spots too high.” The reason, he said, is that “they’ve fallen in love with their own work.” The circus managers, however, are too negative about these works,” Grant said, “and they commit a ton of false negatives, rejecting really promising ideas.”
So why is this? Why do managers tend to find flaws, not reasons for praise? To answer that, Grant turns to the example of Seinfeld, an American sitcom (情景喜剧), which was rejected by director after director at NBC. Grant said, “You know, I realize that this show makes no sense and it’s really about nothing, and you can’t identify with any one of the characters. But it made me laugh and that’s what a sitcom is supposed to do.” The managers, by contrast, were too focused on whether Seinfeld looked like what had succeeded in the past to recognize its novel brilliancy. Years of experience had trained them to believe that a certain type of show would be successful, and prejudiced them against something that broke that mold.
But Grant says it wasn’t just experience that prevented those managers from appreciating Seinfeld. It was also that they had bad motivation. As he explained, “If you are a manager and commit a false positive, you are going to embarrass yourself, and potentially ruin your career.” Managers, he says, are terrified of committing false positives, meaning saying something will be a hit.
False negatives, by contrast, present little costs. “If you reject a great idea,” Grant said, “most of the time, no one will ever know.’’ Managers like to make safe bets and don’t mind the invisible losses.
Berg’s work was again inspiring. Berg found that there was one group whose nature did line up well with what was actually be popular with audiences: other circus artists. “They were the best forecasters by far,” said Grant. “Unlike the artists themselves, the peers could take a step back” and see a work’s flaws. But, unlike managers, the peers “were also really invested in the creative process” which enabled them to recognize when something was novel and worth the risk.
One conclusion from this would be to free managers from certain decision-making processes. But since that’s not typically possible, perhaps instead managers can be taught to think like peers, and Berg found that that can be done relatively easily. “All he did,” Grant explained, “was that he asked managers to spend five minutes brainstorming about their own ideas before they judged other people’s ideas.” “That”, Grant said, “was enough to open their minds. Because when they came in to select ideas, they were looking for reasons to say no. Get them into a brainstorming mindset first, and now they’re not thinking evaluatively but creatively.”
1.What does the underlined word “flaws” in the first paragraph mean?
A. Features. B. Dangers.
C. Values. D. Faults.
2.What can we learn about the works the circus performers submitted?
A. The circus performers committed false negatives towards them.
B. They couldn’t resonate with the audience members.
C. Both the circus performers and managers made prejudiced judgments about them.
D. The circus performers held the same opinion as the circus managers did about them.
3.By mentioning the sitcom Seinfeld, Grant intends to tell us ________.
A. why it has been popular among Americans
B. how an unknown play succeeded in the end
C. why managers tend to criticize rather than praise
D. how false positives make managers overlook its brilliance
4.Compared to false positives, false negatives ________.
A. can’t make more invisible losses
B. are more acceptable among managers
C. can potentially ruin managers’ careers
D. can make managers feel more embarrassed
5.According to Berg, managers are advised ________.
A. to think both evaluatively and creatively in judging an idea
B. to spend five minutes brainstorming before judging an idea
C. not to participate in certain decision-making processes
D. to reject any ideas that are not worthwhile
6.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A. The art of recognizing good ideas
B. The key factors in decision-making
C. The influence of false negatives
D. The two basic modes of judgment
