1.她心情沮丧，只是默默地流泪。
She ____________________________mood that she did nothing but weep.
2.那时他别无选择只好减肥。
He ____________________________________________ at that time.
3.我正思量着怎样才能引起她的注意力。
I’m wondering _______________________________________________.
4.尽管年纪小，他已出国学习深造几年了。
Although he is young, he _______________________ education for years.
5.不仅仅这些歌曲，这首曲子也非常值得聆听。
Not only these songs but this piece of music ________________________.
6.他宁愿被嘲笑，也不肯放弃他的梦想。
He would rather ______________________________________his dream.
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Classic Is Never Gone
Every year hundreds of films are produced, yet how many are forgotten after six months? Movies come and go, as throwaway as popcorn bags left on the floor of a cinema. But of those few films that people do remember, there is one that is truly “evergreen”(常青).
Whether you are young or old, or where you are in the world, the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind never seems to become unpopular. Last year the film celebrated its 75thbirthday.
The movie comes from a best-selling book of the same name by US writer Margaret Mitchell. Hollywood was soon interested in turning the novel into a movie.
The story is set in the periods before, during and after the American Civil War (1861-1865). It is about relationships between members of high-class families living in the south of America.
The Civil War period piece highly rewarded the time and effort of the filmmakers who worked on it. Over twenty years, no studio went beyond it in making the most money of any film ever made. It’s the kind of movie that every studio dreams of making.
Topic: the film Gone With the Wind | |
Basic information | It celebrated its 75thbirthday last year. |
It is1.on a best-selling book of the same name by US writer Margaret Mitchell | |
Main idea : | It is set in the period before, during and after the American Civil War. |
Success | It is evergreen and always stays in people’s3. |
It seems to be4.among people all around the world, young or old. | |
For over twenty years, it held the5.for making the most money of any film ever made. | |
Every studio dreams of making a film like it. | |
1.Don’t worry, granny. The timetable says the last bus _________ (leave) at 9:05 p.m.
2.The kid doesn’t know what else he should pay attention to _________ (reduce) the pollution.
3.--Excuse me, when can we use the chairs? --Not until they _________ (mend) tomorrow.
4.--Why didn’t you answer my phone? --Terribly sorry, I _________ (enjoy) the film ‘This is it’.
5.Poor Teddy can’t stand up straight because he _________ (lie) in bed for days with a bad cold.
6.You can’t imagine how much difficulty I had _________ (achieve) the balance between my family and my work.
7.People were told that the plane _________ (not take) off until the rain stopped.
8.As soon as Justin finishes the job , he _________ (allow) to have two weeks off.
1.With his friends’ help , he managed_____(get) school in time.
2.Without their help , we could not have done it so______(success).
3.Edison is one of the greatest______(invent) in the world.
4.Like______(fight) pilots , our astronauts would be able to blast into space at the drop of a hat.
5.The writer of this book is______(know) , but I like him very much.
6.For perhaps the ________ (hundred) time, I tried to think like Albert Einstein.
7.What does it take to reach your audience and make a ________ (last) impression?
8.Have the quakes on one side of Earth just ________ (shake) the other side?
Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed really hard to get the thread(线) to run smoothly around the needle(针).
Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamed that he had been caught by terrible soldiers whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the prison and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears(矛) raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practical sewing machine.
Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.
To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all kinds of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images(图像) which the conscious part may not know at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called“secret messages to ourselves ”.
1.According to the passage, Elias Howe was _______.
A. the first person that solved problems in his sleep
B. much more hard-working than other inventors
C. the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked
D. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams
2.The problem Howe was trying to solve was _______.
A. what kind of thread to use
B. where to put the needle
C. how to design a needle which would not break
D. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle
3.Thomas Edison is spoken of because _______.
A. he also tried to invent a sewing machine B. he got some of his ideas from dreams
C. he was one of Howe's best friends D. he also had difficulty in falling asleep
4.What does the underlined phrase “secret messages to ourselves” mean?
A. Strange images are used to communicate ideas.
B. Images which have no meaning are used.
C. We can never understand the real meaning.
D. Some specially trained people can know them.
Depression(抑郁症)is a serious problem today. One expert says that depression is like cancer because it is “widespread, costly and deadly”. Depression hits one person in five around the world. Over any six-month period, between five to seven percent of the world's population will be suffering from a serious depression．
A recent research shows that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression as young adults.
The researchers used a nationwide long-term survey of teenage health to investigate(调查) the relationship between media(传播媒介) use and depression. They based their findings on more than four thousand teenagers who were not depressed when the survey began in 2000.
As part of the survey, the young people were asked how many hours of television or videos they watched daily. They were also asked how often they played computer games and listened to the radio. Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day. More than two hours of that was spent watching TV.
Seven years later, in 2007, more than seven percent of the young people had signs of depression. The average age at that time was twenty-one.
The researchers say they did not find any such relationship with the use of other media such as movies, video games of radio etc. But the study did find that every extra hour of television meant an eight percent increase in the chances of developing signs of depression. Young men were more likely than young women to develop depression given the same amount of media use.
The study didn’t explore if watching TV causes depression. But one possibility is that it was taking time away from activities that could help prevent depression.
Last December, the journal Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives. Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people. The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially active, to read, to take part in religious services and to vote.
1.The survey shows that of all the media uses.
A. most teenagers prefer to listen to the radio
B. teenagers enjoy watching TV very much
C. computer games are teenagers’ favourite
D. magazines are mentioned in the survey
2.The result of the research seems to prove.
A. media uses do no harm to teenagers
B. teenagers are more likely to develop depression
C. those who don’t watch TV won’t develop depression
D. TV probably causes teenagers to grow up with depression
3.According to the passage, we can infer that _______.
A. watching TV may lead to happiness
B. social activities can prevent depression
C. a teenager should play more video games instead of watching TV
D. it was easier for young women to develop depression than young men
4.What is the best title for this passage?
A. Media use is harmful to teenagers
B. Adults, Media use and Depression
C. Teens, Television and Depression
D. Take great care of teenager’s depression
