On the annual International Volunteers Day, the world _____ the work of millions of people who give their time to help others.
A.abolishes B.accompanies C.acknowledges D.appeals
书面表达(满分25分)
假设你叫李华, 今年暑假期间作为语言交流学生去伦敦生活了一个月, 住在Kitty家里, 回国后你给Kitty写一封感谢信, 须包含以下内容:
1. 英语交际能力大幅提高
2. 伦敦美景给你留下深刻印象, 尤其是牛津大学迷人的校园
3. Kitty的妈妈做的许多美味的饭菜
4. 请她有机会到中国观光旅游并到她家做客
注意:1.信件开头结尾已经写出, 不计入总词数 ;2.可以增添细节使内容连贯流畅 ; 3. 词数120左右
August 28,2010
Dear Kitty,
Iam writing to express my sincere thanks to you for warm-hearted reception during the past month. This is really an unforgettable experience in my life.
………….
Thank you again for all the perfect arrangements. Do give my best regards to your parents.
Yours,
Li Hua
完成句子(满分15分)
1.You can also explore Frick’s beatiful home and garden _________________
(很值得参观). (worth)
2.With so many different forms of poetry ______________ (选择), students may eventually want to write poems of their own. (choose)
3. She was late for the wedding ceremony. If she had been there on time, the bride and bridegroom ____________________________ (会更高兴). (feel)
4._______________________ (没有用)crying over split milk. (use)
5.It is your efforts, not your intelligence, _______________ (决定) your success. (determine)
6. I can’t understand _________________ (是什么) that made the lady change her mind. (it)
7. Coming into the room, I found them ____________________ (坐在桌边) playing chess. (seat)
8.In some places in London, missing a bus __________________________ (意味着再等一个小时). (mean)
9.I wish the old temple _______________________________ (拆毁) last month . (pull)
10. ____________________________ (毫无疑问) the earth is becoming warmer and it is human activity that has caused this globlal warming. (doubt)
When someone says, “Well, I guess I'll have to go to face the music,” it doesn’t mean he is planning to go to a concert. It is something far less pleasant, like being called in your boss to explain why you did this and did that, and why you did not do this or that. Terrible music, indeed, but it has to be faced. At some time or another, every one of us has had to “face the music”, especially as children. We can remember father’s angry voice: “I want to talk to you!” And only because we did not obey him. What an unpleasant business it was!
The phrase “face the music” is known to every American, old and young. It is at least one hundred years old. Where did the expression come from?
The first explanation came from the American novelist James Fenimore Cooper. He said, in 1851, that expression was first used by actors while waiting in the wings (舞台的两侧) to go on stage. After they got their clue(暗示) to go on , they often said, “It’s time to go to face the music. ” And that is exactly what they did face the orchestra (乐队) which was just below the stage.
An actor might be frightened or nervous as he moved on to the stage in front of the audience(观众) that might be friendly, or perhaps unfriendly, especially if he forgot his lines. But he had to go out. If he did not, there would be no play. So “face the music” came to mean: having to go through something, no matter how unpleasant the experience might be, because you knew you had no choice.
1.The expression “face the music” means ______.
A. plan to go to a concert
B. get one’s clue to do something
C. have to go through something far less pleasant
D. disobey what one's father says
2.The passage tells us that the expression was first used by _____.
A. children B. novelists C. actors D. audience
3.In the last paragraph the Chinese meaning of the word “line” is _______.
A. 老板 B. 同事 C. 角色 D. 台词
Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new 47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families. The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs.
Fox Point is operated by Palladia, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy people. Palladia received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.
ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for 500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused by housing. So he recently announced that the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the city’s supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP’s green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York’s DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.
1.What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?
A.To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people.
B.To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.
C.To show how the environment-friendly building works.
D.To compare old and new boiler rooms.
2.What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?
A.Lower running costs. B.Costing less in construction.
C.Less air to be lost in hot days D.Better prices for homeless people.
3.It can be learned from the text that_______________.
A.New York City is seriously polluted
B.people’s daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City
C.a great number of people in New York City don't have houses to live in
D.some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City
4.What is the main purpose of this text?
A.To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.
B.To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.
C.To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.
D.To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.
Some people were eating and drinking in a coffee house. A young woman was sitting alone at a table. She was wearing a beautiful diamond necklace. There was an ugly man at a table not far from her. He was looking at her necklace all the time.
Suddenly the lights went out. The coffee house was in darkness. The woman started to shout. She was very frightened. A few minutes later the lights came on again. The woman was crying. Her necklace was missing.
The manager quickly closed all the doors. He telephoned the police. No one could get out of the coffee house. The policemen soon came. The police inspector told his men to search everyone. The necklace was not on anyone. They then searched the whole coffee house. The necklace couldn’t be found.
The police inspector then looked at the faces of all the people in the coffee house. He saw the ugly man and looked at the man carefully. He went up to the man and picked up the bowl of soup that was on his table. He then poured the soup into a glass. The necklace fell out. The policemen caught hold of the man and took him away. The young woman was happy to get back her necklace.
1. A young woman lost her necklace in ______________.
A. a hospital B. a shop C. a coffee house D. a restaurant
2.The manager closed all the doors and _______________.
A. searched everyone in the coffee house
B. searched the whole coffee house
C. telephoned the police
D. looked at all the people in the coffee house
3.The police inspector found the necklace in __________.
A. a cup of coffee B. a bowl of rice
C. a glass of milk D. a bowl of soup
4.The necklace was stolen by ___________.
A. a beautiful girl B. an old woman
C. a young student D. an ugly man