阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Tom has many friends and he is very popular at parties．Everyone 1. (admire) him for his great sense of humor, 2. his six-year-old daughter, Jenny. Recently, one of Tom’s 3. （close）friends asked him to make a speech at a birthday party．Tom agreed because he loved to do so. He prepared the speech 4. （careful）and on that day he went to the party with his daughter. At the party he had included a large number of funny 5. （story）in the speech and, of course, it was 6. great success. As soon as he had finished, Jenny told him she wanted to leave. Hearing this, Tom was a little disappointed but he 7. (do) as his daughter asked. On their way home, he asked Jenny 8. she had enjoyed the speech. 9. his surprise, she said, “N0, I didn’t. I didn’t like to see so many people 10. （laugh）at you.”
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
For two years my life was a complete mess because I was addicted to（对……上瘾）drugs. I took my mother's trust and forgiveness for granted. Despite（尽管）all the times I_______ from her, lied to her, and begged her to give me money, she _______ left me. Not once did I stop to take her feelings into consideration. I was never _______for any of the things she did for me.
Then one night, while wandering（闲逛）through the streets, I got pulled over by two police officers. I was _______and they found drugs in my pocket. That night I should have been put into_______ ，but they called Child Protective Services and I was placed in a foster home instead.
That night reality hit me hard. Away from my mother, I cried myself to sleep. I _______ everything she had done for me. I _______ her so much. I started thinking about the sound of her voice, the music she listened to, the _______and taste of her food, even the clothes she would wear.
I started _______ at all the times she would be singing and I would shout at her to “shut up”， _______ when she'd hug me and say “I love you” and I would _______ her away. I took all these things for granted and it was then that I felt _______ a big part of my life she really was.
That night I prayed_______ in eight years. I prayed to God for forgiveness for all the things I had done before. But most importantly I prayed to him for turning my life around.
My _______ has turned around now. I have stopped taking drugs and am living with my family in Baldwin Park. My relationship with my mother is_______ than ever. Now I know the feeling of my mother and I know how to thank her.
1.A. heard B. stole C. escaped D. hid
2.A. never B. always C. ever D. even
3.A. suitable B. ready C. worried D. thankful
4.A. hit B. questioned C. searched D. invited
5.A. bed B. prison C. room D. hospital
6.A. remembered B. forgot C. found D. expected
7.A. hated B. discouraged C. missed D. hurt
8.A. shape B. smell C. weight D. size
9.A. calling back B. bringing back C. turning back D. looking back
10.A. or B. but C. yet D. since
11.A. put B. take C. push D. keep
12.A. what B. how C. that D. which
13.A. for the last timeB. for the first time C. for a short time D. for a long time
14.A. hobby B. attitude C. idea D. life
15.A. nicer B. better C. worse D. Further
阅读下列材料，从所给的六个选项（A、B、C、D、E、F）中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余选项。
The people below travel abroad. Read the following stories and decide what problem each traveler experienced while traveling.
_______1. David got lost in an isolated place. To make matters worse, he had an accident and couldn’t walk freely. So he was in great need of help.
_______2.Paul had to buy a hamburger and ate it in the park instead of eating his mother’s delicious chicken, with which he couldn’t go through the customs（海关）.
______3.Ann was stopped at the customs because she was carrying medicine without a doctor’s prescription. How regretted she was not to have done that!
_______4.Sally offended some of the people in the town when she was visiting by wearing wrong clothes. She should have found out about local customs and followed them.
_______5.Jack didn’t get a transit card when he changed planes an airport, which made him very worried. So he was not allowed to get on board.
A. My mother was worried about me. She cooked me all my favorite dishes and put them into a box to take with me on my journey. But the customs officer checked all the plant and animal products at the airport. Unfortunately it was illegal（违法）for me to bring into the country the kind of food my mother had given me and so it all had to be thrown away.
B. It was very hot so I put on some shorts and a T-shirt to go sightseeing. I hadn’t gone very far when I found everyone was looking at me, and they didn’t seem friendly to me. One woman even spat on me as I walked past. I decided to get off the crowded streets and so I turned down a small, quiet street.
C. During the four-day walking tour, I was amazed by mountain scenery and the ancient ruins we passed on our hike. On the last day, we arrived at the ruins of Machu Picchu in time to see the sunrise over the Andes. I spent the day visiting the ruins of that ancient Inca city before catching the train back to the capital city of the country.
D. When I got off the plane at the first airport. I saw someone handing out cards to some of the passengers, but I didn’t know what they were for, so I didn’t take one. When I tried to board the second plane they asked for my transit card, which I didn’t’ have. I was worried they were going to send me back to London.
E. I had been walking for about an hour when suddenly I slipped and fell down a riverbank. I hurt my ankle and couldn’t stand up. I didn’t know how I could get back to the village. I hadn’t told anyone what I was going, so no one would know where to look for me when they realized I was missing.
F. When I arrived, a customs officer at the airport looked in my bag and found the pills in a small box. He wanted to know what the pills were for and why they weren’t in their proper bottle with my name and the doctor’s name on it. I explained that the bottle had been too big and heavy. Then he wanted to know if I had a letter from my doctor explaining about the pills.
Eat like a king in the morning, a prince at noon, and a farmer at night. This saying is all about the importance of breakfast. And now scientists can tell us just why it’s so important. According to a study carried out at Imperial College London, UK, skipping the first meal of the day not only means you eat more at lunch, but also that your brain wants to find more unhealthy foods.
The study suggests that there is a special part of our brain called the orbitofrontal cortex (眶额皮层), which plays an important part in making choices about what we eat. It is used for identifying the taste of food, especially when skipping breakfast. It is more likely to target high-calorie foods when you’re on an empty stomach.
Scientists did an experiment on this. Dr Tony Goldstone from Imperial College London, scanned (扫描) the brains of 21 men and women, around the age of 25. On the first day, these people skipped breakfast before the scans. On the second day, they had cereal (谷物), bread and jam as breakfast. After the scan on both days, they had their lunch.
When the volunteers had skipped breakfast, they ate around 20 percent more at lunch, compared with days when they had eaten breakfast. Their brain scans also showed the orbitofrontal cortex was especially responsive to high-calorie foods. “We believe that it identifies the value of foods – how pleasant, how delicious something is,” Goldstone told The Guardian.
1. From Paragraph 1, we learn that _____.
A. scientists found out why eating breakfast is important
B. it’s easy to lose weight without breakfast
C. there’s no need to have good food for supper
D. eating breakfast makes your brain smarter
2. Which of the following is NOT true about the orbitofrontal cortex?
A. It is part of our brain.
B. It tells people to eat breakfast.
C. It decides which food we like.
D. It is active toward high-calorie food.
3. Which is the correct order for the experiment on the first day?
① The volunteers skipped breakfast.
② The volunteers had lunch.
③ The volunteers had a brain scan.
A.①②③ B.③②① C.①③② D.③①②
4.In the experiment, the volunteers without breakfast ate about 20% _____ at lunch.
A. of the usual breakfast
B. more than the usual breakfast
C. of the usual lunch
D. more than the usual lunch
5.Which of the following can be the title for this passage?
A. Breakfast still most important
B. Three meals a day
C. Experiments on breakfast
D. Experiments on lunch
When I was in college, I remember hearing about a book titled “Looking Out for Number One”. I never read the book, but the title has always stuck with me. I think it was because the title turned me off. I hadn’t been taught to be so selfish that I should be focused on only me . I thought I needed to be helping others and, along the way, I would also be helping myself. Now, I realize I should have at least considered learning more about looking out for number one.
Over 30 years after seeing the book about looking out for number one I’m realizing number one, me, is the person I should be concerned about first. Jeffrey Gitomer asks the question, “Who is the most important person in the world?” Most people answer, the customer. He then asks, if there were only two people left in the world, the customer and you, who would you want to survive ? Now the answer is me.
It makes me sense that if we can’t help ourselves first, we will never be prepared to help others. We all need to learn to control our lives and make the best decisions for ourselves. That will put us in a position to help others in the future . But many of us are slow to understand this.
It has been said that happiness will bring success, but success doesn’t always bring happiness. We all want to be happy and successful. For some of us can be very happy when our basic needs are met and our family are safe. Others will seek high levels of success thinking that will bring happiness. I’m sure we can think of a person who is very successful, according to the world’s standards (标准), but they don’t appear to be happy at all. This is because they have been so busy working for somebody else’s goals that they haven’t considered their own needs.
1.Who does the writer think is the most important person in the world now?
A. Others B. Himself
C. The customer D. Jeffrey Gitomer
2.The underlined words“ turned me off” in Paragraph 1 probably mean “________”.
A. made me excited B. made me bored
C. made me surprised D. made me pleased
3.From the third paragraph we can learn ________.
A. we should help others instead of ourselves
B. we need help others make the best decisions
C. helping others can help control our lives
D. actually few of us understand this idea earlier
4. Why do some successful people not feel happy at all?
A. Because they don’t believe success always brings happiness.
B. Because their basic needs are not completely met.
C .Because they seek for too high levels of success.
D. Because they haven’t been working for their own goals.
5. The best title for the passage is “______________”.
A. Considering Our Own Needs First
B. The Most Important in the World
C. Helping Others First
D. Happiness and Success
Teaching materials for learning Chinese are provided here. There are sites where you may find interesting instructions suitable for you. Here are some sites to begin your surfing.
You may start with these pages from this website — just to get a little taste of it without working too hard.
● Listening to the sound of Chinese
Play a few words of Chinese on your computer.
● A few Chinese words
Each word is enlarged for easy study.
If you are studying Chinese, these tools can help.
● Zhongwen site
More than a dictionary!
● Clavis Sinica
Excellent program by Professor David Porter. It gives individual word’s definition, pronunciation as well as much more information when you click on that word. If you are studying Chinese, this is a very useful tool.
● Chinese Character Visual Dictionary
If you like to know more, go to the following sites on the Internet.
● The Chinese Outpost
Pronunciation, Character and Grammar by Mark Andrew Baker. The best. A must-visit site.
● Internet Based Chinese Teaching and Learning
● Rainland Kids discover Chinese — Site is in Germany
If you want to have a better understanding of China, go to this one.
● Wanfang Data
As an affiliate (分支) of Chinese Ministry of Science &Technology, Wanfang Data has been the leading information provider in China since 1950s. With a wide range of database resources and value-added services, Wanfang Data has become a gateway to understanding Chinese culture, medicine, business, science, etc.
1.The underlined lines are probably some ______.
A. books
B. tips for learning Chinese
C. websites
D. dictionaries for learning Chinese
2. This passage is most probably from ______.
A. a TV programme B. the Internet
C. a newspaper D. a teacher’s class
3.If you want to know each Chinese word’s definition, pronunciation and much more information, you’d better surf ______.
A. Zhongwen site B. Chinese Character Visual Dictionary
C. A few Chinese words D. Clavis Sinica
4. If you want to know China about its culture, medicine, business, science, you’d better surf ______.
A. Chinese Character Visual Dictionary
B. Wanfang Data
C. Rainland kids discover Chinese
D. The Chinese Outpost
5.The underlined word “gateway” in the last paragraph probably refers to ______.
A. an opening in a wall that can be closed by a gate
B. a place through which you can go to another place
C. a method of getting or achieving something
D. the space when a door is open
