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Dear Sir,
I have to travel every day from So UK Road to the airport. Two buses travel along this route: No.49 and No.16. However, by the time No.16 reaches So UK Road, it is always full.__1.__
The timetable states that there are buses from So UK Road to the airport every ten minutes.__2.__ The instructions state that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting. __3.__
The instructions state that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday, I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. __4.__ There were 129 of them.
Clearly printed on the back of every bus is a sign that says “Maximum speed: 50mph.” ___5.__ Saturday morning a No. 49 bus traveled the distance in ten minutes, at an average speed of 60 mph. At times it must have done at least 80 or even 90 mph.
It is obvious that our bus companies have neither respect for the instructions nor consideration for their passengers. Can nothing be done about this?
Jerry
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A．I counted the other passengers as they got off. |
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B．Why is it that half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop? |
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C．The problem is that we have to pay more for our trip. |
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D．The distance from So UK Road to the airport is 10 miles. |
E. This leaves No.49 which sometimes has empty seats on it.
F. If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day?
Man has a big brain. He can think, learn and speak. Scientists thought that men are different from animals because they can think and learn. They know now that dogs, cats and birds can learn too. They are beginning to understand that. They make noises when they are afraid, or angry or unhappy. Apes(猿) can understand some things more quickly than human, one or two of them have learnt a few words. But they can not join words to make sentences. They can not think like us because they have no language. Language is a wonderful thing. Man has been able to build a modern world because he has language. Every child can speak his own language very well when he is four or five, —but no animal learns to speak. How do children learn it ? Scientists do not really know. What happens inside our body when we speak? They do not know. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain.
1.The best title for this passage is .
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A．Animal’s Language |
B．Man and Ape |
C．Brain and language |
D．Man’s Brain |
2.Men are different from animals in the way that .
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A．men can understand things quickly |
B．men can learn |
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C．men have learnt to use language |
D．men have brains |
3.An ape can not .
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A．make noises |
B．understand things |
C．learn words |
D．speak like man |
4.Scientists now know .
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A．how children learn to speak |
B．why apes can learn a few words |
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C．man’s brain helps him to learn to speak |
D．what happens when men speak |
5.Which of the following is NOT true ?
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A．Some animals can learn. |
B．Apes can understand some things more quickly than men. |
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C．Apes can put the words they know together. |
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D．Apes have no language though they can learn some words |
Advice to English learners
Learners of English, especially self-taught learners may have trouble in understanding speeches by native speakers. The following ways might help improve their ability.
First of all, do things step by step. It is not good to listen to something beyond your level. Better choose a suitable course and start with the first book. Go on to the second book only after you are sure you understand the first one.
Secondly, stick to one course of study. Don’t change books often. Never let your attention be attracted by another course just because it seems to be more “ fashionable”(时髦).
Thirdly, listen to the English news programme over the radio from time to time. Better go through the news stories in the Chinese-language newspaper first. That will make it easy for you to understand the English news on the radio.
Fourthly, if you have time, listen to some interesting stories in “special English” from the VOA or other listening materials of the same level as that of your textbook.
1.This is a piece of advice to learners of English in how to_____.
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A．improve their listening ability |
B．read fast |
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C．write better English and read fast |
D．speak correctly |
2. If you want to understand the English news programme on the radio, you should_________.
read the Chinese-language newspaper carefully
read again and again the Chinese-language newspaper
go through the Chinese-language newspaper
be able to recite the Chinese-language newspaper
3.“Beyond your level” means something_______.
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A．easy for you |
B．too difficult for you |
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C．not too easy and not too difficult for you |
D．just all right for you |
4. The author advised that once you have taken up a course, you should_______.
stick to it B. begin with the last book
C. take up other courses if you are more fashionable D. not do anything else
5.In this passage, VOA stands for______.
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A．a book |
B．a magazine |
C．a textbook |
D．a radio station |
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31—40的相应位置上。
Chuck’s Friend
In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks plays a man named Chuck Noland. Chuck is a businessman. One day Chuck is on a flight across the Pacific Ocean ____31_____ suddenly his plane crashes. Chuck survives the crash and lands on a ___32____ (desert) island.
On the island, Chuck has to learn to survive all alone. Perhaps the most difficult challenge is how to survive without friends. In order to survive, Chuck develops a ___33____ (friend) with an unusual friend – a volleyball he calls Wilson.
Chuck learns a lot about himself when he is alone on the island. He realizes that he hasn’t been a very good friend because he has always been thinking __ 34____ himself. During his five years on the island, Chuck learns how to be a good friend to Wilson. ___35____ though Wilson is just a volleyball, he becomes fond of him. He talks to him and treats him as a friend. Chuck learns that we need friends to share happiness and sorrow, and that it is important ___36____ (have) someone to care about. He ___37____ learns that he should have cared more about his friends.
A volleyball is certainly an unusual friend. Most of our friends are human beings, but we also make friends ___38____ animals and even things. For example, many of us have pets, and we all have ___39___ (favor) objects such as a lucky pen or a diary. The lesson we can learn from Chuck and all the others ___40____ have unusual friends is that friends are teachers.
完成句子
11．He was so excited that l couldn't make him _____ (平静下来)．
12. We are all _________ (相处得很好) each other in our class．
13．She _____ (为．．．．担忧)her son's future．
14．There has been ________ (一系列)cars accidents at the crossing．
15．Filling the blanks ________ (根据)what I have said．
单词拼写:根据首字母或汉语注释写出单词的正确形式。
1．His health s ________ terribly from heavy drinking in the past．
2．As far as I am c ______ ，I can't agree with what you have said．
3．The worker i _____ his own danger and jumped into the river to save the boy．
4．Now t ____ like to surf the internet；some even forget his own studies．
5．Soon the robber was found ________ (躲藏) in a mountain village．
6．I am now in a difficult _______ (情形，情况)．I badly need your help．
7．The news quite _______ (使他心烦意乱)him．
8. I like being __________ (忙碌的).
9. It’s my __________ (梦想) to see the Great Wall one day.
10. Usually, it’s so _________ (拥挤的) that I can’t find anywhere to sit.
