Unless ______ , we’ll have to shut down some branch companies for lack of money.
A. discussed B. financed C. encouraged D. renamed
It’s ______ good feeling for people to admire the Shanghai World Expo that gives them ______ pleasure.
A. /; a B. a; / C. the; a D. a; the
高三阶段学习比较紧张，科学的学习方法显得十分重要。最近你在你班做了一个有关学习方法的调查，下表是你调查出的两种不同的学习方法，请你用英语简述表格内容并提出你的建议（至少两点）。
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一些同学 |
上课专心听讲，经常向老师请教疑难问题 |
花较少的时间完成作业，早休息，上课保持旺盛的精力 |
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上课打瞌睡，漏掉许多要点 |
花较多的时间完成作业，熬夜学习，导致注意力无法集中 |
注意：1．可根据内容要点适当发挥，但不要逐条翻译。
2．词数150左右。
3．文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Recently, I have made a survey in my class on how they study. They have different methods.
1.Within this huge country, there are frozen wastes, vast mountain ranges, enormous open plains, countless rivers and __________ endless forests.
2.__________ to the natural environment, many people feel that New Zealand is perfect for outdoor activities.
3.__________ Australia’s relatively small population, its outstanding performance in the Olympic Games was really amazing.
4.On 4 July1776, the Declaration of Independence was __________.
5.__________ it is generally true to say that humans like colour, our choices are not necessarily random.
6.Geldof __________ the concert to raise money for and public awareness of the famine.
7.On top of this, according to the United Nations, hunger and malnutrition __________ ten million lives every year. In fact, hunger is the number one global health risk, killing more people than any disease.
8.The virus is __________ in three ways—through unprotected sex, blood-to-blood contact and mother-to-child transmission.
9.Dr David Ho, a Chinese American leading Aids expert, has __________ his body and soul to bringing up-to-date technology and international attention to China’s Aids problem.
10.As many smokers may tell you, nicotine is very physically addictive, which is why many people have trouble __________ smoking.
认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格只填一个单词。
Ticket tax fuels Indian cinema strike
Cinemas in Mumbai, Bollywood’s homeland are striking against high taxes on ticket sales.
Owners of Mumbai’s single-screen theatres will keep their shutters (百叶窗) down until Friday to protest about taxes, which they say are driving them out of business.
More than a third of single-screen cinemas in the state of Maharashtra have closed down in the last five years. According to the Cinema and Exhibitors Association of India, just 700 are still in operation. The association blames the closing down on Maharashtra’s high rate of entertainment tax. Its president, R V Vidhani, says that cinemas must pay a tax for every ticket sold, which is 45%, and this makes it hard to break even. It’s the highest of all states across India. The majority of the states in India pay zero entertainment tax. Mr Vidhani says his members had decided to go ahead with a one-week closure after getting no response from the state government on the matter.
It is not just a high tax rate contributing to the shrinking（收缩）number of traditional cinemas, however. Large costs and declining box office takings also make times tougher.
Mr Vidhani has run the New Excelsior Theatre in South Mumbai since 1974. Last week a screening of Bollywood movie Tanu Weds Manu sold just 71 tickets despite a capacity of more than 1,000. Whether it’s a full house or an empty screening, running costs are more or less the same. “Air conditioning, regular business — every expenditure (支出) is the same, but the income has stopped.”
The cricket (板球) World Cup is not helping matters, according to Mr Vidhani. “The World Cup is creating the biggest problem,” he says. “These people are crazy so far as the cricket is concerned. When India is playing, occupancy in the theatre is just 15%.”
Mumbai’s city centre is dotted with empty cinemas.
So after remaining empty for six years, the Novelty theatre is perhaps more fortunate than its neighbours: it is to be reborn as a four-screen multiplex cinema.
Over the last decade the number of multiplexes in India has risen sharply. Despite higher ticket prices, with more choice on offer and typically newer facilities they pose fierce competition to the traditional single-screen theatres.
“Competition from the multiplexes is really tough,” Mr Vidhani says. “Then there is competition from the movie window being narrow. Movies are being released much quicker on television than they used to be so people can pretty much watch movies for free at home.
“With rising incomes, everyone’s going out and buying DVD players or VCD players. Content is available for the asking whether it is official or pirated(盗版).”
Unless single-screen theatres can become special destinations in their own right, while also offering up-to-date facilities, Jehil Thakkar thinks the decline is a trend that will continue, especially as multiplex cinemas spread to smaller towns.
“They are large corporate chains,” he says. “They have the ability to spend money on branding and advertising, so to a large extent the small cinema guys are fighting a losing battle.”
Ticket tax fuels Indian cinema strike
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l Cinemas in Mumbai have to pay a tax (3) ▲ than any other places in India. l It costs a lot to (4) ▲ a cinema whether it’s a full house or an empty screening. l The occupancy is (5) ▲ by people’s enthusiasm for cricket. l Single-screen cinemas are (6) ▲ with competition from multiplex cinemas, which offer more choices and (7) ▲ facilities. l A quicker release of movies on television is to (8) ▲ . l People prefer to watch DVD or VCD rather than go to the cinema. |
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Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you’re doing your holiday shopping online, make sure you’re holding a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions—those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist John A. Bargh.
Psychologists have known that one person’s perception (知觉) of another’s “warmth” is a powerful determiner in social relationships. Judging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even trumping (打败) evidence that a “cold” person may be more capable. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies’ conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth “mother” rather than one made of wire, even when the wire “mother” carried a food bottle. Harlow’s work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills.
Feelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universal. Although no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm” or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries.
To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college students. A research assistant who was unaware of the study’s hypotheses (假定), handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form. The drink was then handed back. After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of “Person A” based on a particular description. Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink.
“We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly,” says Bargh.
1. In Bargh’s experiment, the students were asked to _______.
A. evaluate someone’s personality
B. write down their hypotheses
C. fill out a personal information form
D. hold coffee and cold drink alternatively
2.We can infer from the passage that _______.
A. abstract thinking does not come from physical experiences
B. feelings of warmth and coldness are studied worldwide
C. physical temperature affects how we see others
D. capable persons are often cold to others
3.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Drinking for Better Social Relationships
B. Experiments of Personality Evaluation
C. Developing Better Drinking Habits
D. Physical Sensations and Emotions
