They say “____”, but there is every chance that Usian Bolt will strike again later this week, when he will try to break the 200 meters world record he set in Beijing.
A．A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
B．Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
C．Where there is a will, there is a way
D．Failure is the mother of success
His heart racing, and tears ____ his eyes, Jack carefully unlocked the box.
A．filled B．filling C．to fill D．being filled
英语之角组织一次户外活动，假如你是负责人，用英语写一份通知，要点如下：
●活动目的：练习英语口语
●活动地点：市政府广场 (City Square)
●活动时间：2011年4月30日
●参加对象：英语之角成员
●活动形式：骑自行车，放风筝等
注意：1. 格式已给出。
2. 词数100左右；
3. 可适当增加内容，以使行文连贯。
Notice
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Thank you.
假如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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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：在错的词下面划一横线，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，多着（从第11处起）不计分。
I like travel very much. I had been to most
of the interested places in Britain already and I just
don’t want other cold English summer. So I’ll go
abroad for change this year. Where I’d like
to is France, Spain, or Italy. Though going abroad
has the trouble of changing money abroad. But
when I just think of the sun I’d enjoy for, the new
places I’d see, the people I’d meet, I get excited.
In fact, which I’d really like to do is to practice my
French and Spanish. It would do me a lot at work.
When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven’t had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don’t need one. I have a mobile phone and I’m always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices（装置）tell the time—which is why, if you look around, you’ll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007.
But while the wise have realized that they don’t need them, others—apparently including some distinguished men of our time—are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling command shocking prices, up to £250.000 for a piece.
This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra functions—but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years’ school fees for watches that allow you to do these things?
If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds’ worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world.
Watches are now classified as“investments”(投资). A 1994 Philippe recently sold for nearly £350, 000, while the 1960s Rolexes have gone from £15, 000 to £30, 000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It's a toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up—they’ve been rising for 15 years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that £350, 000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Timex.
1.It seems ridiculous to the writer that_______________.
A．people dive 300 meters into the sea
B．expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones
C．cheap cars don’t run as fast as expensive ones
D．expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell
2.What can be learned about Swiss watch industry from the passage?
A．It’s hard for the industry to beat its competitors.
B．It targets rich people as its potential customers.
C．It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising.
D．It’s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches.
3.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A．Watches? Not for Me! B．My Childhood Timex
C．Timex or Rolex? D．Watches—a Valuable Collection
O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank, when some money went missing from the bank O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader’s surprise.
1.In which order did O. Henry do the following things?
a. Lived in New York. b. Worked in a bank. c. Traveled to Texas.
d. Was put in prison. e. Had a newspaper Job. f. Learned to write stories.
A．c. e. b. d. f. a B．e. c. f. b. d. a
C．e. b. d. c. a. f. D．c. b. e. d. a f
2.People enjoyed reading O. Henry’s stories because __________.
A．they had surprise endings
B．they were easy to understand
C．they showed his love for the poor
D．they were about New York City
3.O. Henry went to prison because_____________.
A．people thought he had stolen money that was not his
B．he broke the law by not using his own name
C．he wanted to write stories about prisoners
D．people thought he had taken money from the newspaper
4.What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing?
A．He was well-educated. B．He was not serious about his work.
C．He was devoted to the poor. D．He was very good at learning.
