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单词拼写 1.He was__________（好奇的）to know what was happening in the office. 2.By__________（碰巧）, we arrived here at the same time. 3.More and more citizens are suggesting ways to__________（保护）the historically important architecture. 4.Once this balance of nature is __________（扰乱）, it may result in a number of possibly unforeseen effects. 5.He is really a child of__________（运气）. 6.They put the food at the__________（入口）to the cave. 7.Chew your food well before you __________（吞咽）it. 8.The teacher made him clean the classroom for a week as a__________（惩罚）for breaking the school rules.
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Doris Lessing, a novelist whose books have swept across continents and reflected her concern about the social and political issues of her time, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. The award came with about $1. 6 million. Ms Lessing never finished high school and largely educated herself through reading. She has written dozens of books of fiction, as well as plays, non-fiction and two volumes of autobiography. She is the 11th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ms Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in what is now Iran. Her father was a bank clerk, and her mother was trained as a nurse. Attracted by the promise of farming riches, the family moved to Zimbabwe, where Ms Lessing had what she had called a painful childhood. She left home when she was 15, and in 1937 she moved to Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia, where she took jobs as a telephone operator and a nursemaid. She married at 19 and had two children. A few years later, feeling as if she were put in prison, she deserted her family. Afterwards she married Gottfried Lessing, and they had a son. When she divorced Mr Lessing, she and her son, Peter, moved to London, where she began her writing career. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in Britain in 1949. Ms Lessing's strongest influence may be that she inspired a generation of feminists（女权主义者）with her breakthrough novel, The Golden Notebook. The book was published in 1962, which wrote about the story of Anna Wulf, a woman who wanted to live freely and was, in some ways, Ms Lessing's secondary personality. She wrote about the inner lives of women and rejected the opinion that they should abandon their lives to marriage and children. 1.Ms Lessing's family moved from Iran to Zimbabwe because______________. A.farming could make them become well off B.her laid-off parents could find jobs C.she could receive a better education D.she could have a chance to take up writing 2.It can be learned from the passage that__________. A.Doris Lessing is Ms Lessing's pen name B.Doris May Tayler is the name of Ms Lessing's birthplace C.Anna Wulf is Ms Lessing's name used before D.Doris May Tayler is Ms Lessing's once-used name 3.Which of the following statements is true? A.Ms Lessing is the llth person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. B.Ms Lessing got down to writing after graduation from high school. C.Ms Lessing married three times and had three children. D.Ms Lessing disapproved of women abandoning their lives to their marriage. 4.We can know from the passage that________. A.Ms Lessing's writing career took off in her twenties B.The Golden Notebook was about Ms Lessing's broken marriage life C.Ms Lessing's books are in connection with social and political issues of her time D.the failure of Ms Lessing's marriages was due to her devotion to her career
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Although problems are a part of our lives, it certainly doesn’t mean that we let them rule our lives forever. One day or the other, you’ll have to stand up and say—problem, I don’t want you in my life. 1. Problems with friends, parents, girlfriends, husbands, and children—the list goes on. Apart from these, the inner conflicts within ourselves work, too. These keep adding to our problems. Problems come in different shapes and colors and feelings. But good news is that all problems can be dealt with. Now read on to know how to solve your problems. Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problem can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help. 2. Talking helps you move on and let go. Write your problems.3. When you write down your problems, you are setting free all the tension from your system.You can try throwing away the paper on which you wrote your problems.By doing this, imagine yourself throwing away the problems from your life. Don’t lose faith and hope. No matter what you lose in life, don’t lose faith and hope.Even if you lose all your money, family...you should still have faith.4. Your problems aren’t the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there are another one million people whose problems are huger than yours.5. Your problems might just seem big and worse, but in reality they can be removed. Go about and solve your problems because every problem, however big or small, always has a way out. A．But the truth is that when you talk about it，you’re setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you. B．When we have a problem，a pressing，critical，urgent，life－threatening problem，how do we try and solve it? C．Tell yourself：when they can deal with them，why can’t I? D．Of course，we’ve been fighting problems ever since we were born. E．We can often overcome the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack. F．Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don’t want a real person to talk with. G．With faith and hope，you can rebuild everything that you lose.
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语法填空 Charles Babbage was born in 1791 in Britain. He was in poor health in his 1.（young）so he had to be educated at home. Concerned 2.his health, his mother was advised that he should not be taught too much. However, the boy showed 3.early interest in mathematics and worked 4.（hard）at it than anyone else. Later he 5.（admit）into Cambridge University. In 1827 he became a professor of mathematics. He worked selflessly, 6.（devote）a lot of his wealth and energy to computing machines. In 1834 he 7.（invent）the Analytical Machine which is the prototype（原型）of a computer. This was a great achievement but Charles Babbage never produced a real computer. Finally in 1871, Charles Babbage, 8. is remembered as the "grandfather of computing", died 9. （peaceful）. However, his principles are still those on 10. modern computers are based.
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