Mrs. Keller had a big family. Her husband had a factory in the town. One of her sons was a lawyer and the other two were drivers. And her two daughters worked in the post office. The old woman stayed at home and could do all housework and wouldn`t employ anybody.
One evening, the telephone rang while the old woman was preparing supper. She went to answer it. She was told that one of her sons died in a traffic accident. She heard this and fell in a faint. When she came back to life, she was in hospital. And she needed to be helped after that.
Several months later she was told on the telephone her daughter died while she was being operated on. The old woman was so sad that she had to be in hospital again. From then on she was afraid to answer any telephones and sometimes she was afraid hear the bell. Of course it brought them some trouble and some important business was held up. So her husband advised her to see a psychiatrist. The man examined her carefully and then asked her some questions.
“You will soon be all right if you follow my advice, Mrs. Keller” said the psychiatrist(精神病医生).
The old woman took the medicine the doctor gave on time and tried to forget her dead son and daughter. And two months later she went to see the psychiatrist again.
“You have saved me, Doctor, ”the old woman said, as soon as she saw him.
“Are you afraid to answer the telephone now ?”
“No,” answered Keller.
“I dare answer it whether it rings or not ”
1.Mrs Keller could do all housework because ______.
A. she had no money to employ a helper.
B. she was strong enough to do all at home
C. she didn`t believe anybody
D. only she was free at home
2.The old woman fell in a faint because _____
A. she went to answer the telephone.
B. she was very ill that evening
C. she walked in the room carelessly
D. she heard the news about her son`s death.
3.After she came out of hospital, Mrs Keller wasn`t ___as before.
A. strong B. able
C. clever D. sad
4.___made the old woman not answer the telephone.
A. The doctor`s advice B. Her husband`s suggestion
C. Her poor health D. The two pieces of bad news
I’ve seen a couple of the other Fast Furious films but this one is definitely best. Dominic Toretto (played by Vin Diesel), Brian O’ Conner (Paul Walker) and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) are planning to steal $100 million from businessman Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida). At the same time, agent (联邦特工) Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) is chasing after them. The story’s pretty fast-moving and the car chase at the end is amazing.
—Derek
Well, if I’d known it was an action film, I wouldn’t have gone to see it. I mean, I can’t stand action films. And I’ll tell you another thing – I can’t stand Vin Diesel. I mean he can’t act to save his life. The film would have been much better with someone like Mau Damon or George Clooney. The only good thing about it was the soundtrack (电影配乐) which was pretty good. And I won’t be going to see any other Fast & Furious movies either!
—Zoe
Well it started off all right, but the romance between Mia and Brian was a bit inadequate (不足的) and the whole thing lost its way. It was as if the director couldn’t decide whether he was making a thriller, an action movie or a romantic comedy (喜剧), so he ended up making none of them.
—Mario
It was amazing! I can’t believe it was really over two hours long. It just flashed by. The direction was superb； Justin did a really good job. And the acting was great. I know Vin Diesel isn’t going to win an Oscar or anything like that but he’s good at what he does. And the plot! I laughed out loud quite a few times. The funny thing is, I would not have bothered seeing it if my friend hadn’t suggested going.
—Megan
1.What does Mario think of the Fast & Furious movie?
A. It is pretty good. B. It is really thrilling.
C. It is disappointing. D. It is violent.
2.Megan went to see the Fast & Furious movie because ________.
A. she knew it was an Oscar winner B. she likes action films very much
C. her friend recommended it to her D. her favorite director shot it
3.Where does this text probably come from?
A. A film poster. B. A film review.
C. A newspaper advertisement. D. A research paper.
假定你是李华，最近你校学生会向即将毕业的高三学生征集旧书、二手物品，由学生会组织爱心义卖活动以资助本校经济困难的学生。请根据下面的提示，为校报英语角写一篇活动报道。内容包括：
(1)活动时间和地点；
(2)活动过程；
(3)你对活动的感悟。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：义卖charity sale
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1. They also make TV accessible to people who live far way from cities and satellite dishes can often be seen distributing throughout the countryside and remote areas.
2. The project has benefited from the country in many aspects.
3. There is something important about being together and sharing life what cannot be found over a telephone wire.
4. Not only has aspirin proved vital for reducing fever and helping stop pain, but there are also other things that aspirin can help.
5. In 1999, aspirin was over 100 years old, and yet there had been more discoveries about how it can help increase the length of people’s lives.
With mobile phones, these problems increase. Many times you 1. (talk) with a friend, only for your friend to interrupt the conversation to answer a call. 2.some reason, a typical mobile phone call is nearly always give greater 3. (important) than a face-to-face conversation. Yet, once again, most mobile phone calls are about rather small matters. When 4. (ask) later what the call was about, your friend always answers, “Oh, nothing really”. If the call was really about ‘nothing’, then why was it so important as to interrupt your conversation and waste your precious time.
Using the mobile phone for text messages is the 5. (bad). In one study, girls average 80 text messages 6.day, and boys average 30. What do people talk about in text messages? While these messages always seem important at the time, most people cannot really remember 7. the next day.
Phones and text message focus on building relationships with many people. However, these relationships are often quite 8. (stability). Many teenagers say that 9. they have a lot of friends, they really have no best friend. Meanwhile, real relationships are often sacrificed, 10. whatever personal peace one has is destroyed whenever the mobile phone rings.
Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor cars _______ a hundred miles in more than an hour, aircraft cross the world within a day, _______computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of _______seems never-ending. Every year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts(吹嘘) of _______ precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but _______a cost. When we lose or _______ half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag(时差). Our bodies feel that they have been _______ behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at _______results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit(传播) harmful _______ into our brains, a consequence we do not like to ________about.
However, how do we ________ the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it ________to sit down and do nothing or even just one thing at a ________. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen ________to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into ________world.
There was a time ________ some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation (耕作) of the ________or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking (多重任务) there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a ________of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor ________. Modern machinery has ________people from that primitive existence.
1.A. get B. cover C. make D. fly
2.A. while B. thus C. when D. as
3.A. time B. product C. speed D. transportation
4.A. wasting B. saving C. losing D. spending
5.A. in B. on C. with D. at
6.A. gain B. earn C. drop D. miss
7.A. come B. forgotten C. left D. felt
8.A. airplanes B. computers C. sea D. cars
9.A. radiation B. prevention C. combination D. destruction
10.A. wish B. think C. tell D. carry
11.A. control B. handle C. do D. deal
12.A. good B. difficult C. uncomfortable D. easy
13.A. second B. day C. year D. time
14.A. quietly B. meaningfully C. enthusiastically D. actively
15.A. all B. another C. else D. other
16.A. what B. which C. where D. when
17.A. surface B. water C. land D. island
18.A. view B. way C. pathway D. point
19.A. faced B. expressed C. charged D. based
20.A. kept B. remained C. cleared D. freed
