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_________ scientist like her won’t be simply satisfied with _________ little progress that has been made.
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Because the scientists are always traveling towards the truth _________ arriving at them, they need to help one another to find the way.
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The _________ nature of the job will be made clear when you start.
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----Did you enjoy yourself at the concert? ----Yes, I could not have myself________. ----It was perfect.
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In this speech the scientist _________ the gold medal to his first teacher.
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Three boys were playing football in the street when one of them __________ an old lady. A. knocked off B. knocked into C. knocked up D. knocked over |
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She will have find some other work., for she can’t __________ this loud noise any more.
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It’s our belief that proof testing of English depends on how the language is used within a/an_________ society.
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The news came as no surprise to me, for I ________ of it.
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Father ________ for London no business upon my arrival, so I didn’t see him.
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He made eating a boiled shoe funny and we felt as if it ________ his best meal ever.
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The weather broadcast this morning says a snowstorm _____________.
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The meeting held in 1978 was _________________.
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My old car I had had ____________ yesterday.
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The Florida sun baked my shoulders as I worked along the 1-595 freeway near Fort Lauderdale, picking up rubbish. I paused to 16 the sweat off my forehead and look up at the cloudless blue sky. “ 17 “ can’t it rain?” I thought. That would 18 things off. I thought about my 19 , who were 20 sitting in an air-conditioned classroom at the high school right now. I’d had some 21 in school, so my parents decided to let met work 22 with my dad. We both worked for my uncle, who had taken 23 of a road maintenance company. It was up to us to keep the roads 24 of rubbish. The job was 25 and dirty, especially on hot days like this. I 26 why I ever agreed to do it. We continued our 27 route along 595, 28 for the overpass bridge. Then I noticed an area where some 29 were broken on the ground. They weren’t like that before. ‘ Dad! Pull over! I want to 30 something out.” I jumped off the truck and rushed to the bridge. Something was telling me to 31 … there wasn’t much time. 32 I saw a Toyota that 33 upside down in the trees. Maybe it was a stolen car that somebody 34 there. Then I noticed something 35 . It was a bloody leg poking out of the driver’s side window. “ Heeeelp” a lady moaned.
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Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis Cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless, “he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire. It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon. The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits(成就).Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many peiole dismissed his dream as fantasy. “John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ‘You are completely crazy,’”Saunders says. In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter(遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit. Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation. This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis. 1.The turning point in Saunders’life came when _____
2.We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.
3. What do we know about Saunders?
4. The underlined word “Intrigued” in the third paragraph probably means_____.
5.It can be inferred tat Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ______.
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November not only marks the publication of Toni Morrison’s eagerly anticipated(期待) eighth novel, Love, but it is also the tenth anniversary of her Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison is the first black woman to receive a Nobel, and so honored before her in literature are only two black men:Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, in 1986; and Derek Walcott, the Caribbean-born poet, in 1992. But Morrison is also the first and only American-born Nobel prizewinner for literature since 1962, the year novelist John steinbeck received the award. Like Song of Solomon, Love is a multigenerational story, revealing the personal and communal legacy() of an outstanding black family. As Morrison scholars will tell you, Love is the third volume of a literary master’s trilogy(三部曲)investigating the many complexities of love. This trilogy began with Beloved(1988), which deals with a black mother’s love under slavery and in freedom. Jazzy(1993), the second volume, tells a story of romantic love in 1920s Harlem. This latest novel looks back from the 1970s to the 1940s and 50s. The emotional center of Love is Bill Cosey, the former owner and host of the shabby Cosey’s Hotel and Resort in Silk, North Carolina, described in the novel as “the best and best-known vacation sport for colored folk on the East Coast.” We get to know Cosey through the memories of five women who survive and love him: his granddaughter, his widow, two former employees, and a homeless young girl. The latest novel, Love, had been described in the promotional material from her publisher as “Morrison’s most accessible work since Song of Solomon.” This comparison to her third novel, published in 1977, was an effective selling point. 1. What would be the best title for the text?
2. What can we learn about John Steinbeck?
3. The similarity between Love and Song of Solomon is that they both _____.
4. The novel Love mainly describes ______.
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS Back to the Future With the help of a local inventor’s time machine, Marty travels back to the 1950s. There his 80s hipness stands out, and he inadvertently interferes with the fledgling romance of his parents-to-be. Can Marty keep them together? He’d better, or his own future will fade away. Featuring: Christopher Lloyd, Michael J.Fox. A universal Pictures release, 1 hr. 55 min. Beethoven’s 2nd In this sequel to the popular Beethoven, our canine hero falls for Missy, who soon has puppies. Missy’s greedy owner, Regina, who sees only money in the little purebreds, separates mom and pups from Beethoven. His owners rescue the puppies, but Regina still has Missy. Featuring: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt. A Universal Pictures release, 1 hr. 26 min. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Despite the popularity of his treats, candy maker Willy Wonka shuts himself inside his factory. But then Willy holds a contest, offering five lucky children the chance to see his company. Poor but pleasant Charlie Bucket finds a ticket, as do four less-deserving children. Featuring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore. A Warner Bros. Release, 1 hr. 56 min. Cinderella Man Based on actual events, this film follows the life of Jim Braddock, a boxer in New York City during the Great Depression. After a series of losses, Braddock is forced into retirement. But he never gives up his boxing dream, and neither does his manager. Featuring: Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger. A Universal Pictures release, 2 hr. 14 min. Liar Liar Lawyer Fletcher Reede has never told the truth in his life. Then his son makes a birthday wish that his dad would stop lying for 24 hours. Suddenly, Fletcher’s mouth spouts everything he thinks. His compulsion brings disaster to courtroom, where he must defend a client whose case was built on lies. Featuring: Jim Carrey, Justin Cooper. A Universal Pictures release, 1 hr. 25 min. 1. Which of the following is probably the name of a dog?
2. Willy Wonka is _______.
3. Which film is about the life of a real person?
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Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game. Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers – most of them aren’t nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet. The problem is most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative(权威的), so it’d hard to know if what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute. 1. According to the text, an increasing number of American _____.
2. Some Americans stay away from doctors because they _____.
3.According to the study of Brown Medical School, ______.
4. Which of the following is the author’s main argument?
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假设你是李华，你的澳大利亚朋友Dick听说中国的中小学正在减轻学生的学习负担，来信询问有关情况。请你根据下表提供的信息，写一封回信，谈一谈减负给你的学习和生活带来的变化。 周末活动（减负前） 周末活动（减负后） 白天：上课、做作业 白天：参观博物馆，学习电脑、绘画等 晚上：做作业 晚上：看新闻、读书、看报 就寝时间：11:30 就寝时间：10:30 注意：1.词数100左右。2.开头已为你写好。 生词：reduce learning load减轻学习负担 Dear Dick, How nice to hear from you again. ... Best wishes, Li Hua
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