In front of our house ________ we used to swim.
A. a river lies that B. does a river lie where
C. lies a river which D. lies a river where
--- Jim, do you have the time?
--- _______.
--- Never mind. Thanks anyway.
A. Of course, I do. The time is 10:30
B. Sure. But I’m afraid it’s too late for me
C. Yes, it’s half past nine
D. Sorry, but I left my watch home
--John has put forward_______most challenging question for us to answer.
--Yes, it really is. I have never heard_____ harder one.
A.the; / B.a; a C./; the D.the; the
请根据以下表格中的信息介绍2010年上海世博会：
|
时间 |
2010年五月一日——十月三十一日 |
|
地点 |
上海 |
|
主题 |
城市让生活更美好 |
|
宗旨 |
促进城市多元化、经济的繁荣、科技的创新 |
|
参展者 |
200多个国家、机构和7000万人参加，展示各国在工农业、科学、技术、文化艺术方面所取得的成就。 |
注意：不要拘泥于要点，可以适当发挥，词数120左右
参考词汇：促进：promote 产品博览会：exposition 创新：innovation.
Time flies as an arrow. I'm already in the second half 1._____
of Senior Grade 3 before I realized it. It is only a little more 2._____
than one month before I graduate middle school. At 3._____
the present, I'm busy reviewing my lessons in order to 4._____
taking the college entrance examination. I hope to go to 5._____
Beijing University, that is one of the best universities not 6._____
only in China but also in the world. I'll try my best to turn 7._____
my dream to reality. Most of my classmates are also 8._____
studying very hard to realize our wishes. I do believe everyone 9._____
will be able to enter a very good university and college. 10._____
Our brains work in complex and strange ways．There are some people who can calculate the day of the week for any given date in 40,000 years, but who cannot add two plus two．Others can perform complex classical piano pieces after hearing them once, but they cannot read or write．
Dr．J．Langdon Down first described this condition in 1887．He called these people idiot savants．An idiot savant is a person who has significant mental impairment （损伤） , such as in autism ( 孤独症，自闭症) or retardation．At the same time, the person also exhibits some extraordinary skills, which are unusual for most people．The skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory．
One of the first descriptions of a human who could calculate quickly was written in 1789 by Dr．Benjamin Rush, an American doctor．His patient, Thomas Fuller, was brought to Virginia as a slave in1724．It took Thomas only 90 seconds to work out that a man who has lived 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours has lived 2,210,500,800 seconds．Despite this ability, he died in 1790 without ever learning to read or write．
Another idiot savant slave became famous as a pianist in the 1860s．Blind Tom had a vocabulary of only 100 words, but he played 5 ,000 musical pieces beautifully．
In the excellent movie Rain Man, made in 1988 and available on video cassette, Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant who amazes his brother played by Tom Cruise, with his ability to perform complex calculations very rapidly．
Today we more clearly recognize that the idiot savant is special because of brain impairment．Yet not all brain impairment leads to savant skills．Some studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop idiot savant skills．However few people wish to participate in such experiments．There are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one's brain．The term idiot savant is outdated and inappropriate．Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots．
1.What does the passage mainly talk about?
A．Idiot savants have areas of outstanding abilities．
B．Human Beings have complicated thinking process．
C．The brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired．
D．The reasons why people have wonderful skills vary．
2.Which of the following can be done by Rain Man?
A．He can play wonderful pieces of classical music．
B．He can guess out exactly the length of a man's life．
C．He can memorize the contents of the pictures fast．
D．He can count matches dropped on the floor quickly．
3.What can you infer from the passage?
A．Idiot savants have real talents for art and math．
B．Dr．Down is the first person who found idiot savants．
C．Few people wish to risk becoming savants by brain operations．
D．Intentional left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants．
4.Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
