I’ll spend half of my holiday practicing English and _______ half learning drawing.
A. another B. the other C. other’s D. other
—I’ll do the washing-up. Jack, would you please do the floors?
—_______.
A．Yes, please B．No, I don’t C. Yes, sure D. No, not at all
英语中“please. ” “thank you” “sorry”等礼貌用语具有增进友谊，改善关系、化解矛盾神奇的力量，因而被称为“magic words”。请 “Magic Power of Polite Words”为题写一篇100词左右的英语作文。代表裁不限（叙述文评论文说论文……）
请认真阅读下面对话，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，在答题卡上标有题号的横线上，写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式、使对话通顺。
M＝Mum
S＝Sara
P＝Peter
(When Sara came home from work, she found her mother in an anxious state)
S: What’s wrong, Mum? You seem upset.
M: It’s your (1.) y sister Jill. She should have been here an hour ago.
S: Don’t (2.) w , Mum! It’s not all that late and she has probably not (3.) r how late it is. I think she’ll be here soon.
(Just then Sara’s brother Peter came into the kitchen.)
P: What’s up? Mum’s on the phone and she seems as though she’s going to cry.
S: It’s Jill. She should have (4.) r home by now and Mum’s getting anxious.
P: You needn’t feel so anxious Mum! You know what teenage girls are like. I’m (5.) s she’s all right.
M: I can’t help but he concerned. I’ve just rung Lucy and she said Jill left her outside the cinema ages ago to get the bus home.
P: Well, the bus service isn’t very frequent in the evenings. Perhaps she (6.) m one and is waiting for another. Have you tried (7.)p her on her mobile?
M: Yes, but there’s no reply. That made me even more worried. I think (8.)s must have happened to Jill.
Do you think we should call the (9.)P ?
S: Calm down, Mum! You’ll make yourself ill. Perhaps she switched her mobile (10.)o in the cinema and forgot to switch it back on again. Or it may need to be charged.
Every day we experience one of the wonders of the world around us without even realizing it. It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the impressive technology of transport. The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other’s minds. This ability comes so naturally that we tend to forget what a miracle (奇迹) it is.
Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animal. Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing, Birds can fly thousands miles by \observing positions of the stars in the sky in relation to the time of day and year. In Nature’s talent show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act. If we reduce it to basic terms, it’s an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we breathe out.
Not that we don’t have other powers of communication. Our facial expressions convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or disappointment. The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad. This is so-called “body language”. Bristling (直立的) fur is an unmistakable warning of attack among many animals. Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to take second place in any animal gathering.
Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display. Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how did human beings acquire this amazing skills ? Biologist can readily indicate that particular area of our brain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn’t tell us how that part of our bodies originated in our biological history.
1.According to the passage, the wonder we take for granted is .
A. our ability to use language
B. the miracle of technology
C. the amazing power of nature
D. our ability to make noises with mouth
2.What feature of “body language” mentioned in the passage is common to both human an animals?
A. Lifting heads when sad.
B. Keeping long faces when angry.
C. Bristling hair when ready to attack.
D. Bowing heads when willing to obey.
3.What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?
A. Body language is unique to humans.
B. Animals express emotions just as humans do.
C. Humans have other powers of communication.
D. Humans are no different from animals to some degree.
4.This passage is mainly about .
A. the development of body language.
B. the special role humans play in nature
C. the power to convey information to others
D. the difference between humans and animals in language use
Modern inventions have speeded up people’s loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boats (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientist; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.
However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.
There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
1.The new products become more and more time-saving because .
A. our love of speed seems never-ending
B. time is limited.
C. the prices are increasingly high.
D. the manufactures boast a lot.
2.What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to ?
A. Imaginary life B. Simple life in the past.
C. Times of inventions D. Time for constant activity.
3.What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?
A. Critical B. Objective. C. Optimistic. D. Negative.
4.What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The present and past times.
B. Machinery and human beings.
C. Imaginations and inventions.
D. Modern technology and its influence.
