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1.In the market, vegetables are sold by ________ kilogram. I mean, by weight.
2.We were about to set off ________ it suddenly began to rain.
3.The two ladies are ____ the same age.
4.Mr. Smith ________ a book about China last year but I don’t know whether he has finished it.
5.Time ________ (permit), we’ll go to visit the Great Wall on National Day.
6.It will certainly be of great help to Tom, if there is a good environment, enough books and ______ (equip), as well as instruction from his teachers and friends.
7.Our present technology makes ________ possible for nations to develop new resources.
8.He had no choice but ________ (wait).
9.Lincoln said, “ Give me six hours to chop down a tree, _______ I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe(斧头).
10._______Amy didn’t know was that her kindness would set off a chain reaction.
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1.There was such a long queue waiting for the tickets that e_________ we gave up.
2.Her job is to a________ labels to the luggage of the passengers at the station.
3.The new railway under c_________ can lead to Shenzhen.
4.Man has already begun e_________ the Mars, hoping to find signs of life there.
5.He refused my invitation for v_________ reasons.
6.This ________ (理论) helps to explain how animals communicate with each other.
7.The new owners have tried to give the restaurant a more family-friendly ______ (气氛).
8.Her _______ (主修的) subject is chemistry.
9.It’s not a problem worth _______ (争论)about.
10.He was ________ (逮捕) for drunk driving.
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Most students do an IQ test early in their school career. Even if they never see their results, they feel that their IQ is 1. determines how well they are going to do in life. When they see other students doing 2. (good)than them, they usually believe that those students have 3. higher IQ and that there is nothing they can do 4. (change) facts. However, new research into EQ suggests that success is not 5.(simple) the result of a high IQ.
While your IQ tells you how 6.(intelligence) you are, your EQ tells you how well you use your intelligence. Professor Salovery, who 7. (invent) the term EQ, gives the following description: At work, it is IQ 8. gets you promoted. Supported by his academic research, Professor Salovery suggests that when 9.(predict) someone's future success, their character, 10.is measured by EQ tests, might actually matter more than their IQ.
Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a ______ of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she ______ hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men ____the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to the girl to find out where her grandmother’s house was, ______ they could get the money they had seen ______ , the girl was not at home at the time, so the robbers ______ a small amount of cash from her mother and left.
Because the ______ is still under investigation, local police aren’t saying ______ else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers ______ the girl in the past.
Two other______were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was _____. The robbers left peacefully after ______ that the girl was not at home and that no one else there knew anything about the ______ that had appeared in the photo.
Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to______citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social betworks and to suggest users of websites _____ doing so. The police say it is _____ that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address, ______ that the robbers knew the girl in another way. ______ , they suggest, a posting by a friend on his or her site could have _____ such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those postings on other pages that ______ the girl’s name.
1.A. picture B. story C. blog D. video
2.A. got B. made C. remained D. kept
3.A. ran into B. broke into C. knocked at D. looked at
4.A. even if B. as if C. so that D. in case
5.A. Fortunately B. Usually C. Finally D. Suddenly
6.A. spent B. left C. took D. asked
7.A. robber B. family C. case D. girl
8.A. Few B. much C. little D. many
9.A. ignored B. followed C. remembered D. knew
10.A. Members B. adults C. characters D. neighbors
11.A. Escaped B. harmed C. killed D. buried
12.A. Showing B. understanding C. recognizing D. discovering
13.A. cash B. grandmother C. house D. website
14.A. inform B. warn C. rob D. accuse
15.A. Enjoy B. consider C. keep D. stop
16.A. Strange B. important C. necessary D. possible
17.A. Or B. so C. but D. and
18.A. Instead B. However C. Therefore D. Besides
19.A. Taken up B. set up C. given away D. put away
20.A. drew B. contained C. attracted D. called
You may ride on your bicycle in a rush to get to school every morning.1. You may also watch taxis crawl their way through traffic jams.
No matter where you are, all big cities around the world have traffic jams these days. But although they all have their problems, many cities also have a type of transport (交通) that has become a cultural icon (圣像).
In London, to avoid the traffic above ground, people use the "underground",also called the"tube".2. It brings a lot of convenience to its own residents and visitors and it is the pride of many Londoners. With 12 lines and 275 stations across the city, the tube, is normally the quickest and easiest way of getting around London. In London, you are never far from a tube station.
3.They serve as a quick and easy way of getting across Manhattan, where the subway doesn't take you everywhere. Stopping a cab is easy; just stick out your arm like you do in any city. But, with over 12,000 yellow cabs in the Big Apple, they also cause traffic jams.
Since 1873 when the first cable car started public service, the slow and noisy vehicle has been a symbol of San Francisco. Although once damaged by a serious earthquake and challenged by cars, it is never caught in traffic jams and provides better views than the subway. 4.
But there are no such symbols in Los Angeles. If you visit you' d better rent a car. 5.It can take hours to get across town by bus. The subway covers just a small part of the city center. The light rail line only runs between the Long Beach hotel area and the city center. That' s why Angelenos love their private cars more than any other people in the world.
A. No wonder it’s always the first choice for commuters and tourists there.
B. You may fight to get a bit of space on a bus or on the subway.
C. The city has the oldest and most complicated underground railway system in the world.
D. The city' s public transportation is terrible.
E. At this time every day, bike rides will be the most reliable means of transportation.
F. New York is famous for its yellow cabs.
G.There will always be one for you to every corner, fast and no worry.
Young people almost never get a good press(评论) these days. “Their outlook is centered on trashy books and films,” expressed one citizen in a letter I recently came across in the Daily Mail. It seems that people have been complaining about the young since ancient times. However, the young are probably no worse than they’ve ever been. And I think they’re better. Teenagers today are brighter, more energetic, more outgoing, and more interesting than any generation before.
The truth is, we hear plenty of bad news about youth, but we never hear about the majority. Surely they all want to be footballers or attractive models? Not a bit of it. When research company Britain-Thinks examined teenagers attitudes earlier this year, they found that the most popular goal (shared by some 70 percent) was to “have a job you love”, followed by having a university degree, owning your own home and being in a happy, long-term relationship. It tallies with another study by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, which found that what made teenagers happiest wasn’t a new smart-phone or pair of shoes, but “the simple things in life” such as close friends, going swimming and spending time with their parents.
Indeed, the more you look at the young, the more impressive they seem. They are, of course, more technologically knowledgeable and skillful than any generation before them. But the interesting thing is that they’re not merely consumers; they’re creators. Think of all those young people developing their own websites or machines.
Seventeen-year-old Nick D’Aloisio is an example. He invented a news-summary app (应用程序)called Summly and sold it to Yahoo this year for a reported £18 million. The company offered him a job in California, but he turned it down. “I’ll be staying in London,” he explained. “I want to finish my A levels and I couldn’t really live on my own out there.”
Of course they aren’t perfect, and every generation has its fair share of bad apples. But I think our future is in safe hands.
1.The underlined part “tallies with” in Paragraph 2 probably means “ ” .
A. leads to B. focuses on
C. agrees with D. belongs to
2.The example of the seventeen-year-old is to show that young people .
A. Are quite creative B. can find a job easily
C. can earn a living by themselves D. are homesick for their hometown
3.What’s the author’s attitude towards the young generation?
A. Worried. B. Surprised.
C. Uninterested. D. Hopeful.
