When does the restaurant close? A.At 11:...

How did the woman get to work in the past?

A.By bike. B.By bus. C.On foot.

What does the woman want to do first?

A.Wash the clothes.

B.Do the dishes.

C.Sweep the floor.

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1.International support has caused a wave of optimism in the Ellesmere Company, as many employers are willing to stay late in their offices and work overtime.

2. Give me for free a printer, and I’ll buy your computer.

3.Last Saturday morning, he woke with a shock from his dream, thinking he was late for work.

4.In the past, most schoolteachers were men, but today there are more women than men.

5.Jenny suddenly saw her former English teacher Bruce on her way back home, but he turned around and disappeared.

6.I don’t know how Mickey managed to keep the car on the road for so long. At the end, it was practically in such a bad condition that parts are breaking off.

7.It has been raining continuously since the beginning of September and I will make use of the fine weather tomorrow to do my laundry.

8.The marble sculpture on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris, part of whose arms were lost during its transport to France, is called the Venus de Milo.

9.People in this area still practice the custom which first appeared in the sixth century.

10.The apartment I live in now belongs to my friend George. It is close to the bus stop and the rent is only $ 120a week.

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1.With the help of the Cassini  spacecraft,  NASA scientists  have found e _____ to prove that chemical reactions (反应) are taking place deep below the surface of Enceladus, Saturn’s (土星) sixth largest moon.

2.A  report said wealthier families tended to create more chances to help their children a _____ skills valued

by the labor market.

3.Whether in p _____ metropolises (大都市), or in remote (偏远的) countryside, every kid is supposed to be provided equal educational opportunities.

4.In  a  digital world, d _____ the convenience modern technology brings, paper books are still valued by many people.

5.A new study suggested that having people think of you as constantly busy and needed at work is a far better way to show off social s _____.

6.We really shouldn’t have bought this house, because it will cost far more than we can afford to r _____ it. We didn’t realize what a bad state it’s in until we moved in.

7.The car’s i _____ is very impressive --- wonderful leather seats and a wooden dashboard (仪表盘).

8.The Grammy Awards is truly an award for artistic achievement, not just sales or chart position. It is recognizedas one of the most p _____ awards in field of music.

9.In the extremely heavy storm last week, many car owners were o _____ to abandon (放弃) their cars and evacuate (撤离) on foot.

10.We got so wet in the heavy rain that our clothes c _____ to us. It was really uncomfortable.

11.Even  though  this  area  was  seriously  damaged  during  an  earthquake, the  r _____ of a 12th century monastery (修道院) can still be seen on the site.

12.The shop said they could replace the newly bought air-conditioner for free as it was still under g _____.

13.After weeks at sea, it was wonderful to feel firm ground b _____ our feet once more.

14.Whatever happens, don’t sign any c _____ before you have examined its terms and conditions in detail.

15.In fact, Santa has an official in Lapland where he greets visitors all year round. But as it happens, people known more about Santa than the country he comes from --- Finland, a nation of o _____ natural beauty.

    A city child’s summer is spent in the street in front of his home, and all through the long summer vacations I sat on the edge of the street and watched enviously the other boys on the block play baseball. I was never asked to take part even when one team had a member missing --- not out of special cruelty,  but because they       took it for granted I would be no good at it. They were right, of course.

I would never forget the wonderful evening when something changed. The baseball ended about eight or eight thirty when it grew dark. Then it was the custom of the boys to retire to a little stoop (门廊) that stuck out from the candy store on the corner and that somehow had become theirs. No grownup ever sat there or attempted to. There the boys would sit, mostly talking about the games played during the day and of the game to be played tomorrow. Then long silences would fall and the boys would wander off one by one. It was just after one of those long silences that my life as an outsider changed. I can no longer remember which boy it was that summer evening who broke       the silence with a question: but whoever he was, I nod to him gratefully now. “What’s in those books you’re always reading?” he asked casually. “Stories,” I answered. “What kind?” asked somebody else without much interest.

Nor do I know what drove me to behave as I did, for usually I just sat there in silence, glad enough to be allowed to remain among them; but instead of answering his question, I told them for two hours  the story I      was reading at the moment. The book was Sister Carrie. They listened bug-eyed and breathless. I must have told it well, but I think there was another and deeper reason that made them to keep an audience. Listening to a tale being told in the dark is one of the most ancient of man’s entertainments, but I was offering them as well, without being aware of doing it, a new and exciting experience.

The books they themselves read were the Rover Boys or Tom Swift or G.A.Henty. I had read them too, but at thirteen I had long since left them behind. Since I was much alone I had become an enthusiastic reader and I had gone through the books-for-boys series. In those days  there was no reading material between children’s and grownups’ books or I could find none. I had gone right from Tome Swift and  His  Flying  Machine  to Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie. Dreiser had hit my young mind, and they listened to me tell the story    with some of the wonder that I had had in reading it.

The next night and  many nights  thereafter,  a  kind of unspoken  ritual ( 仪 式 ) took place. As it grew dark, I would take my place in the center of the stoop and begin the evening’s tale. Some nights, in order to taste my victory more completely, I cheated. I would stop at the most exciting part of a story by Jack London or Bret Harte, and without warning tell them that that was as far as I had gone in the book and it would have to be continued the following evening. It was not true, of course; but I had to make certain of my new-found     power and position. I enjoyed the long summer evenings until school began in the fall. Other words of mine have been  listened to by larger and more fashionable audiences, but for that tough and athletic one that sat  close on the stoop outside the candy store, I have an unreasoning love that will last forever.

1.Watching the boys playing baseball, the writer must have felt _____.

A.bitter and lonely B.special and different

C.pleased and excited D.disturbed and annoyed

2.The writer feels grateful even now to the boy who asked the question because the boy _____.

A.invited him to join in their game

B.liked the book that he was reading

C.broke the long silence of that summer evening

D.offered him an opportunity that changed his life

3.According to Paragraph 3, story-telling was popular among the boys basically because _____.

A.the story was from a children’s book

B.listening to tales was an age-old practice

C.the boys had few entertainments after dark

D.the boys didn’t read books by themselves

4.The boys were attracted to Sister Carrie because _____.

A.it was written by Theodore Dreiser

B.it was specifically targeted at boys

C.it gave them a deeper feeling of pleasure

D.it talked about the wonders of the world