"We can not afford limited progress. We need rapid progress," Ban said at the Third World Climate Conference in Geneva, by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
A. organized B. being organized C. organizing D. was organized
-- Alison, I'm sorry. I can't come to the wedding with you tomorrow morning. -- ________?
-- My grandma was severely ill, so I have to stay in the hospital to look after her.
A. How is it B. How come C. So what D. What's the problem
Double ovens are a good idea, especially ________ you are cooking several meals at a time.
A. though B. if C. that D. unless
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（ √ ）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
After I finished the school this year, I began 1.__________
to look for work. Now several month later, I still 2.__________
hadn‘t found the job that I was interested. Last Sunday 3.__________
morning I received a phone call from a man calling him 4._________
Mr Smith. He said to me on the phone, "I hear that you do 5.__________
very well in your studies. I may have a job for you." 6.__________
I entered his office with a beaten heart. How I hoped 7._________
that I will go through the job-hunting talk today and he 8.___________
would take me on as a lab assistant. But to my surprised, 9.___________
what he said disappointing. He only needed a model. 10.___________
It’s interesting that the arrival of snow has effect on people in different countries. For some countries it is an important happening to celebrate each year, while for others a catastrophe(灾害) or even a wonder.
But there are countries between these two kinds that normally expect snow some time over the winter months, but never receive snow regularly or in the same quantities every year. Britain is one of them, for which the arrival of snow quite simply causes problems. Within hours of the first snowfalls, however light, roads are blocked, trains and buses have to stop in the middle of the way. Normal communication is affected as well: telephone calls become difficult and the post immediately takes more time than usual. And almost within hours, there are also certain shortages----bread, vegetables and other things-----not because all these things can no longer be produced or sent to shops, but mainly because people are frightened and go out and store up with food and so on…just for fear that something bad should happen.
But why does snow have this effect? After all, the Swiss, the Austrians and the Canadians don‘t have such problems. It is simple because there is not enough planning and preparation. We need money to buy equipment to deal with snow and ice. To keep the roads clear, for example, requires snow-ploughs(扫雪机) and machines to spread salt. The reason why a country like Britain does not buy snow-ploughs is that they are used for a few days in any one year, and the money could be more useful in other things such as hospital, education, helping the old and so on..
1.According to the writer, Britain is a country ________.
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A．which has regular snow |
B．which is not well prepared for snow |
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C．for which snow is a catastrophe |
D．for which snow is a wonder |
2.After a few hours’ snowing there are often some shortages of food because ______.
A. shops have closed down B. people buy as much as they can
B. farmers cannot produce any more D. people eat more vegetables in winter
3.The words "two kinds" in the passage mean the countries ______.
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A．which have weather as yearly happening to celebrate or as rare(少见) weather |
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B．which either have heavy snow or light snow |
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C．to which snow either causes problems or no problems |
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D．which either have snow-ploughs or no snow-ploughs |
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman‘s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement(退休) at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by modern living conditions.
This important change in women’s life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women‘s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left schools at the first chance, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women usually marry younger, more married women stay at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with the both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.
1.According to the passage, around the year 1900 most women married ________.
A. at about twenty-five B. in their early fifties
C as soon as possible after they were fifteen
D. at any age from fifteen to forty-five
2. We are told that in a common family about 1900 _________.
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A．many children died before they were five |
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B．seven or eight children lived to be more than five |
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C．the youngest child would be fifteen |
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D．four or five children died when they were five |
3.When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth-century mother _________.
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A．would be healthy enough to take up paid jobs |
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B．was usually expected to die fairly soon |
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C．would expect to work until she died |
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D．was unlikely to find a job even if she wanted one |
4.According to the passage, the women of today usually _________.
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A．marry instead of getting paid work |
B．marry before they are twenty-five |
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C．have more children under fifteen |
D．have too few children |
