Time out
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Time out — London’s arts and entertainment weekly. This magazine offers the best listings and reviews of arts, music, films and nightlife, and it is a necessary guide to the entertainment capital of the world. If you’re not using Time out, you’re losing out on London.
School Sport Magazine
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School Sport Magazine is the only publication of its kind to celebrate the sporting achievements of schools, pupils and teachers in the UK. The purpose of the magazine is to report sporting news and record national and regional school sporting events as well as interviews with famous sport stars about their own sporting schooldays. Five issues (期) a year.
Time
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Every week, Time keeps you well informed of world news, covering all the matters that affect your life, from political struggles to scientific progress, environmental problems, and what’s new in business, fashion and arts. Its feature articles give you brief but true information and unique insights from world-leading journalists. Time is a great magazine, which can help you develop a truly global perspective.
FourFourTwo
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FourFourTwo is a monthly football magazine for grown-up readers. Feature articles and wonderful action photographs will keep you attracted. You can read interviews with big name football stars, from today, tomorrow and yesterday. You’ll love it!
1.Among all of the above, there is/ are ________ weekly magazine(s).
A.one |
B.two |
C.three |
D.four |
2. Which of the following magazines will probably provide you with articles about paintings and their painters?
A.Time Out & School Sport Magazine. |
B.School Sport Magazine & FourFourTwo. |
C.Time Out & Time. |
D.only Time. |
3.Which of the following magazines is suitable for a 13-year-old boy who wants to know about a famous football star’s playing experiences at school?
A.Time Out. |
B.School Sport Magazine. |
C.Time |
D.School Sport Magazine or FourFourTwo. |
4.We can learn from the passage that ________ .
A.all of the magazines are intended for adults. |
B.among all the magazines, only School Sport Magazine is about sports. |
C.Time Out & School Sport Magazine might be published in the United Kingdom. |
D.among all the magazines, Time Out will cost you the least. |
5.The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ________ .
A.advertise four best-sellers |
B.introduce four popular magazines to readers |
C.ask readers to decide which of the four magazines is the best |
D.get more people to buy these magazines |
Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
You are mistaken if you think all Chinese people speak in the same way. Have you ever seen a person from Shanghai try talking to someone 48 Guangzhou? 49 is quite likely that both of them may feel puzzled! The Chinese language, as a whole, uses the same set of character, 50 even the same characters can have different pronunciations. That is 51
it is difficult for people to understand each other. Luckily, the widespread use of Putonghua in China has made a great contribution 52 people’s communication, though people from different areas tend to speak with various accents.
People in Northern Europe are 53 luckier. Even though people from Sweden , Denmark and Norway have their own official languages, it is very convenient 54 them to communicate with one another. Do you know why? That is because their languages are quite similar, though not without small distinctions. 55 , they can communicate easily in their mother tongues.
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D.Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
There once was a happy monkey in the jungle. He was wandering all days, eating delicious fruit when hungry and 36 when tired. One day he came upon a house, where he saw a bowl of the most beautiful 37 . He took one in each hand and ran back into the forest.
The monkey tried to eat them, but hurt his teeth. The apples were made of wood, but they were beautiful, and when the other monkeys said that they 38 them, he held onto them even tighter.
The monkey admired his new possessions proudly as he wandered the jungle. The two apples glistened (闪亮) red in the 39 , and seemed perfect to him. He became so attached to them that he didn’t even notice his 40 at first.
A fruit tree reminded him, but he felt the apples in his hands. He couldn’t bear to set them down to reach for the fruit. In fact, he couldn’t 41 , either, if he was to defend his apples. This proud, but less happy monkey continued to walk along the forest trails (小路).
The apples became 42 , and the poor little monkey thought about leaving them behind. He was tired and hungry; he couldn’t climb trees or collect fruit with his hands 43 . What if he just let go (释放)?
Letting go of such 44 things seemed crazy, but what else could he do? He was so tired. Seeing the next fruit tree and smelling its fruit, the monkey stopped. He 45 the wooden apples and reached up for his meal. He was happy again.
Like that little monkey, we 46 carry things that seem too valuable. Letting go of them seems crazy. But 47 : only with open hands can we receive something else.
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_______ snacks and drinks, but they brought cards for entertainment when they had a picnic in South Bank Parklands.
A.Not only they did bring |
B.Not only did they bring |
C.Not only brought they |
D.Not only they brought |
It was about 600 years ago _______ the first clock with a face and an hour hand was made.
A.that |
B.until |
C.before |
D.when |
You didn’t let me drive. If we _______ in turn, you _______ so tired.
A.drove; didn’t get |
B.drove; wouldn’t get |
C.were driving; wouldn’t get |
D.had driven; wouldn’t have got |