Don’t be taken in by products to help you lose weight in a week.
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A．to claim |
B．claiming |
C．claimed |
D．claim |
Suddenly, a tall man driving a golden carriage the girl and took her away, Into the woods.
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A．seizing; disappeared |
B．seized; disappearing |
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C．seizing; disappearing |
D．seized; disappeared |
After that, he knew he could any emergency by doing what be could to the best of his ability.
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A．get away with |
B．get on with |
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C．get through |
D．get across |
Once______ in the exam, the students who’ve done it would be punished.
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A．caught cheated |
B．catching cheating |
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C．being caught cheating |
D．caught cheating |
In 2006, the UK government started to allow universities in England and Wales to charge British students tuition fees. More than 80 percent of students in England and Wales now take out a student loan in order to go to university. They use the loan (贷款) to pay for tuition fees, books and living expenses. Although the interest on student loans is quite low, it begins as soon as the student receives the loan. The average student in England and Wales now graduates from university with debts of around £12,000. Students of medicine usually have debts of more than £20,000. That is a lot of money. It means graduates cannot afford to buy a house for many years. They even struggle to pay rent on a flat, because they have to start paying back the student loan after graduating. If you start to earn over £15,000 a year, the government takes repayments directly from your monthly salary. Is it any surprise, therefore, that the average British person does not leave their parents’ home until they are 30 years old?
You might think that a British person with a degree will find it easy to get a well-paid job. However, most people in white-collar jobs seem to have a degree these days, so there is a lot of competition. Also, British companies tend to value work experience over a piece of paper. Like everyone else, graduates usually have to start at the bottom and work their way up. That can be very frustrating for them, since they are often over-qualified for the work they are doing. While at university, they have dreams of getting an exciting, challenging job. Therefore, life after university ends up being quite disappointing for a lot of graduates.
All of the above is beginning to make British people question whether a university degree is really worth the money.
1.What's the best title of this passage?
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A．What's a University Education worth in the UK? |
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B．There is a lot of competition in the UK |
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C．There won't be any University Place left for British students |
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D．It doesn't cost students more and more to attend university |
2.What's the following is true?
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A．University Education is really worth the money in England |
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B．University Education is worth all over the world except in England |
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C．British education is becoming more expensive for a majority of British students |
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D．British students don't like to go to university |
3.We can infer from the passage ____
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A．The average British person didn't leave their parents' home until they are 35 years old |
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B．Having a degree doesn't get aBritish person a good job |
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C．Students are graduating without larger and larger debts. |
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D．things are easier for students from other countries coming to study |
in the UK without money
4.The word "interest" in paragraph2 means_______
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A． money paid for a week's work |
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B． money borrowed from a band |
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C． a regular monthly salary |
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D． extra money paid on a loan or bank savings |
Disease, poverty, hate, love－Charles Dickens’ stories opened his readers eyes to the most important themes of his age. Two hundred years on, his stories still speak volumes across the world, proving that Dickens’ legacy（遗产） was far greater that just “great-literature”. February 7 marks the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birthday. To mark this date, BBC writer Alex Hudson listed six things Dickens gave the modern world. Let’s take a look at two of them.
A White Christmas
Dickens is described as “the man who invented Christmas” － not the religious festival, but the cultural aspects that we associate with the festive season today. In the early 19th century, Christmas was barely worth mentioning, according to critic and writer Leigh Hunt. The committee which ran the Conservative Party even held ordinary business meetings on Christmas Day－unthinkable in the West nowadays, when everyone but the most necessary workers takes at least three days off. Many people believe that Dickens’ popular descriptions of the festive period became a blueprint for generations to come. In his classic novel, A Christmas Carol, he not only put forward the idea of snow at Christmas, but also painted a picture of glowing warmth－“home enjoyments, affections and hopes”. In his biography of Dickens, Peter Ackroyd wrote: “Dickens can be said to have almost single-handedly created the modern idea of Christmas.”
“Dickens” poverty
Dickens was one of the first to take an honest look at the underclass and the poor of Victorian London. He helped popularize the term “red tape” to describe situations where people in power use needless amounts of bureaucracy(官僚作风) in a way that particularly hurts the weaker and poorer members of society.
“Dickensian” has now become a powerful word for describing an unacceptable level of poverty. In 2009, when the president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in the UK wanted to talk about poverty in some areas of Britain, she did not use words like “terrible” or “horrific”, but rather described it as “life mirroring the times of Dickens”.
1.The article is mainly about .
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A．a brief introduction to Charles Dickens’ |
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B．the characters in Charles Dickens’ stories |
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C．Charles Dickens’ impact（影响力) on the world |
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D．Charles Dickens’ achievements in literature |
2.Why is Dickens’ called “the man who invented Christmas”?
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A．Because he created both religious and culture festival. |
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B．Because one of his novels helped to shape Christmas celebrations. |
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C．Because his novels have something to do with Christmas. |
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D．Because he was the first man to have proposed celebrating Christmas. |
3.We can learn from the passage that .
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A．Charles Dickens’ novels reflect(反映) the true life at his age |
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B．Dickensian is widely used to describe the Christmas |
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C．Every person can take three days off for Christmas |
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D．The theme of Charles Dickens’ stories is about poverty |
4.What can we infer from the passage?
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A．Dickens gave the modern world six things. |
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B．Dickens is still popular today in Britain. |
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C．Dickens invented Christmas |
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D．Agreements made by the underclass of society |
