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In early January this year, the rate of UFO reports were steady, around three per weeks. When, however, on Monday, January 16, a science fiction film about visitors to outer space was shown on television, there was the immediate increase in reports of sightings from all parts of the States. The commanding officer, Wayne Tyler, who directly responsible for the study of all such reports, decided to making his findings known. They wrote an article, which said that all UFO reports could be explained for quite naturally by aircraft movements. Follow this explanation, there was a rapid drop in the number of reported sightings, because the rate remained above the previous level.
翻译短语 (用近期学过的书上和维词短语)
1.在闲暇时
2.给……估价
3.因……批评某人
4.把……和……结合起来
5.以……为……的背景;以……为背景
6.受够了某人
7.脆弱的经济
8.弹性工作时间
9.视觉盛宴
10.节日气氛
11.毫无例外
12.笑脸
13.以失败告终
14.如果……发生；倘若(event)
15.没有前途
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Two men travelling through a forest together promised 1.(help) each other whatever danger threatened them. They had not gone far before a bear rushed at them from some bushes. One man was a good 2.(climb), and quickly climbed a nearby tree, but the other,3.(see) that he had no chance alone against the bear, fell flat on his back and pretended to be 4.(die).
The bear came up to him and sniffed at him. Thinking the man was dead, he went off into the wood again 5. hurting him. When the bear had gone, the other traveler came down from his tree, and 6.(smile) asked his companion what the bear had said to him. “For I could see,” he said, “that he put his mouth close to your ear.”
“He told me to tell you,” 7.(reply) the other, “that you were a coward（懦夫）, and that in future I should not trust those 8. make fine promises, but will not stand by 9.(they)friends in danger.”
Don’t trust fine promise 10. you are sure of the person who makes them.
I had offered to watch my 3-year-old daughter, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was getting some work done in my study while she ______to be having a good time in the other room. No problem, I figured. But then it got a little too______ and I shouted, “What are you doing?” No response. I ______my question and heard her say, “Oh…nothing.” Nothing?
I got up from my desk and ran out ______the living room, where I saw her running across the hall. I followed and watched her as her little behind（小屁股）made a quick______into the bathroom. I had her________! I told her to turn around. She ______. I pulled out my big Daddy voice, “Young lady，” I said，“turn around!”
______, she turned toward me. In her hand was what was left of my wife’s new lipstick. And every square inch of her face was______with bright red! As she looked up at me with fearful eyes. I heard__________voice that had been shouted to me as a child. “How could you… You should know…How many times have you been______…What a bad thing to…” It was just a matter of my picking out which old ______ I was going to use on her so that she would know what a bad girl she had been. But ______ I could let loose, I looked______ at the sweater on her. In big ______ it said, “I’M A PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL (天使)!” I looked back up into her tearful eyes and, ______seeing a bad girl who didn’t listen, I saw a little angel full of ________that I had come dangerously close to______. “Sweetheart, let’s take a picture so Mommy can see how _______you look.” I took the picture and thanked God that I didn’t ______ the chance to prove what a perfect little angel he had given me.
1.A. happened B. liked C. appeared D. pretended
2.A. long B. quiet C. calm D. strange
3.A. asked B. answered C. raised D. repeated
4.A. into B. of C. from D. for
5.A. way B. turn C. change D. progress
6.A. followed B. scolded C. cornered D. fooled
7.A. laughed B. listened C. agreed D. refused
8.A. Slowly B. Eagerly C. Angrily D. Unfortunately
9.A. filled B. marked C. printed D. covered
10.A. every B. such C. any D. one
11.A. told B. beaten C. frightened D. forbidden
12.A. reports B. notice C. advice D. words
13.A. as B. when C. since D. before
14.A. up B. down C. in D. on
15.A. signs B. letters C. messages D. figures
16.A. because of B. instead of C. in spite of D. as a result of
17.A. value B. sadness C. pities D. tricks
18.A. preventing B. getting rid of C. destroying D. losing sight of
19.A. dirty B. ugly C. special D. silly
20.A. have B. get C. take D. miss
How do actors and actresses memorize hundreds of lines? Memorizing lines takes practice and constant repetition. However, there are a few ways to make the memorization process run smoothly and quickly.
1.
For most performers, there is no quicker way of memorizing lines. To learn lines, an actor must recite the play loud over and over again. Most rehearsals (彩排) encourage this by running through the lines or having a “read through”. By the time opening night arrives, most actors have spoken their lines hundreds of times.
Listen to your cast members.
Sometimes inexperienced actors spend rehearsals just looking at fellow performers, waiting patiently to say their next line. 2. This will help the actor learn his lines better because the context of the dialogue is absorbed.
3.
Because there is often not enough rehearsal time, many performers find ways to listen to the play’s dialogue during everyday activities. They use a tape recorder or an MP4 player to listen to the lines from each relevant scene (剧情). Some actors prefer to record the lines of all the characters, including their own. 4. Others like recording the lines of fellow cast members (参演人员), and they leave a blank space so that they can insert their dialogue while listening to the recording.
Think positively and don’t panic.
Most actors will experience stage fright before the opening night. Actors forget lines now and then. When it happens, however, most of the time the audience never notice. If you forget a line in the middle of your performance, don’t freeze. Stay in character. Keep the scene going to the best of your ability. If unfortunately you forget a line once, you will probably never forget that line ever again. 5.
A. Record your lines.
B. Practice makes perfect.
C. Read lines loud and repeat them.
D. Read lines loud and remember them in a flash.
E. Sometimes embarrassment is the toughest method of memorization.
F. Then, they not only listen carefully, but they also speak all of the lines.
G. Instead, they should be listening carefully, responding in character at all times.
Forests are always losers at the Olympics, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.
For the winter games in PyeongChang, South Korea, virgin forest was destroyed on Mount Gariwang to accommodate ski runs. For the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a ski run is set to wipe out part of the Songshan National Nature Reserve. And let’s not forget the 240 acres of Atlantic Forest that were leveled for the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro to make way for a golf course.
For the upcoming Tokyo games, environmental and human rights advocates have been raising alarms about the use of tropical (热带的) wood to build the New National stadium. Activists have fought against such environmental destruction. The damage is often permanent, threatens endangered plants and animals and in some cases, causes conflicts with native people. But frequently the country’s organizing committee, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have found ways to make it reasonable — despite a paragraph in the Olympic Charter (宪章) that states that the IOC’s role is to “encourage and support a responsible concern for environmental issues”.
“As it stands now, the IOC has little authority over a city’s local organizing committee, which finally plans the event, ” Chappelet, professor of public management at the University of Lausanne, told Earther. “Even if the IOC is dissatisfied with the way host cities have prepared for the games, they have no built-in systems to watch them so that they strictly follow the Olympic Charter.” The only thing they can do if they’re not happy is to withdraw (= take back) the right to organize the game. “But the IOC could include more enforcement (执行) systems into the contract they make with the host city,” he added. That contract must be signed and obeyed by everyone and those who break it must be fined.
Boykoff, the author of several books on the Olympics, suggested a similar solution. “The IOC could insist that host cities take their ecological (生态的) promises into account first, but instead they look the other way, time and time again,” he said.
1.What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. Popularity of the Olympics. B. Different needs of the Olympics.
C. Importance of protecting forests. D. Problems caused by the Olympics.
2.The IOC is expected to ______ according to the Olympic Charter.
A. lead the fight against destruction
B. withdraw the rights of host cities
C. ban the destruction of the environment
D. promote a responsible concern for the environment
3.The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 4 refers to ______.
A. the IOC B. built-in systems
C. host cities D. the games
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A. IOC Stresses Its Active Role B. Prized Forests Lost Big
C. Perfect Solutions are found D. Conflicts Arise at the Olympics
