—Has John repaired his washing machine?
—He had it________，because he was so busy.
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A．to repaired |
B．repair |
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C．repaired |
D．to be repairing |
—Excuse me sir，where is Room 301?
—Just a minute.I’ll have Bob________you to your room.
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A．show |
B．shows |
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C．to show |
D．showing |
Every year，Tom remembers to have some flowers________to her mother on her birthday.
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A．send |
B．sent |
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C．sending |
D．being sent |
At a meeting, a well-known speaker lifted up a bill of 20 dollars before starting his speech.
Facing 200 people, he asked, “Who wants this 20-dollar bill?” A great many hands were put up. Then he continued to say, “I intended to give it to any one of you, but allow me to do a thing before giving it to you.” Suddenly he crumpled （揉）it into a round mass. Then he asked, “Who wants it? ” Still some hands were lifted up.
He asked again, “Well, how could it be if I do it like this?” he threw the bill onto the ground, stepped on it and twisted it. As he picked it up, the bill had become not only dirty but wrinkled.
“Who still wants it?” Still a few people put up their hands.
“My dear friends, you have had a meaningful class. No matter how I treated this bill, you still want it, because it is worth 20 dollars. On your life road, you may be knocked down（击垮） or even broken into pieces by your determination(决心) or unfavorable（不利的） situations. We may feel ourselves worth nothing, but, my darling, remember that whatever happens in the future, you should never lose your value（价值） in the God’s heart. You’re particular ---- never forget it.”
1.The underlined word “wrinkled” in the third paragraph probably means ________.
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A．broken |
B．having small lines or folds in it |
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C．flat |
D．having holes on it |
2.The speaker did this test in order to _____________.
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A．tell the audience that one should never lose one’s own value |
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B．tell the audience that God values money most |
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C．test if some of the audience were extremely interested in money |
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D．play a trick on the audience |
3.What would the speaker probably talk about next?
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A．How money can make people crazy. |
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B．How to avoid being knocked down in one’s life. |
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C．How to keep one’s value of life. |
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D．How to give a meaningful class |
For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?
Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part，this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped.
In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrel on unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends. Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the topic is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong，for both wish to be considered an authority—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.
1.Why does the author compare the parent teen war to a border conflict?
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A．Both can continue for generations. |
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B．Both are about where to draw the line. |
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C．Neither has any clear winner. |
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D．Neither can be put to an end. |
2.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?
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A．The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict. |
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B．The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict. |
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C．The teens accuse their parents of misleading them. |
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D．The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents. |
3.Parents and teens want to be right because they want to__________.
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A．give orders to the other |
B．know more than the other |
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C．gain respect from the other |
D．get the other to behave properly |
4.What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?
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A．Causes for the parent-teen conflicts |
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B．Examples of the parent-teen war |
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C．Solutions for the parent-teen problems |
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D．Future of the parent-teen relationship |
A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers．“last week, ” said he, “my umbrella was stolen from a London church．As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back．”
“How did you write your advertisement?”asked one of the listeners, a merchant．
“Here it is, said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper．The other man took it and read, “Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella．The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No．10 Broad Street．”
“Now, ”Said the merchant, “I often advertise, and find that it pays me well．But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance．Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it </PGN0332.TXT/PGN>fails, I'll buy you a new one．”
The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote：“If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No．10 Broad Street．He is well known．”
This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door．In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colours that had been thrown, and his own was among them．Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter．
1.The result of the first advertisement was that ______________.
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A．the umbrella was found somewhere near the church |
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B．the man got his umbrella back |
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C．the man wasted some money advertising |
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D．nobody found the missing umbrella |
2.The merchant suggested that the man should _______________.
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A．buy a new umbrella |
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B．write another and better advertisement |
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C．go on looking for his umbrella |
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D．report the police |
3.“If it fails, I’ll buy you a new one,” suggested that the merchant
_______________.
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A．wanted to buy him a new umbrella |
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B．didn’t know what to do |
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C．was rich enough to buy one |
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D．was quite sure of success |
4.The story is mainly about _________________.
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A．a useless advertisement |
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B．how to make an effective advertisement |
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C．what the merchant did for the umbrella owner |
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D．how the man lost and found his umbrella |
