根据首字母或英文提示写单词：
1.To our d_________, our football team won.
2. The doctor spent much time c_________ the patient of his cough.
3.He went to London without having _______________ (achieve) any success.
4.One of the ____________ ( testing strength, skill or ability) tasks that all government are facing now is how to develop economy rapidly without doing great harm to the environment.
5.He hurt his legs. There is no p__________ that he will win the game.
6.His cheerful spirit is __________( infect) and so everywhere he goes, people around him feel joyful.
7.Many factories have been constructed in our city since last year, and a power station is under ____________ (construct).
8.Are you satisfied with his ______________ ( arrange) for the meeting?
9.They hurried back home only to find their houses __________ (break) into.
10.___________ (absorb) in his work, Newton boiled his watch when he wanted to boil an egg to eat.
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以下是有关博物馆、音乐厅、剧院、大学等的信息：
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A．National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside represents the full collection of museums and galleries in the city and offers the Eight Pass for a small fee, this enables the visitor a year's unlimited visits to all eight establishments. |
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B．Although it is mainly associated with classical music, the Philharmonic Hall has branched out into popular music and the varied programme now includes country, rock, jazz and pop concerts; similar acts can be seen at the Empire. There is also the Picket on Hardman Street, and The Life Cafe on Bold Street also has live music, including the occasional big name wanting to play in a smaller venue. |
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C．London Theatre may be separated into three parts. One section encompasses the sophisticated end of the theatre spectrum- plenty of Shakespeare and excellent modern plays. There are also the 'West End' shows- this refers to the big productions, not to where they're located. There are many big-production plays and operas that make for a great evening out. |
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D．Humanities College will set targets in three humanities-based specialist subjects. Applicants must choose a minimum of one key subject from history, geography or English. They will choose two other subjects from the following: religious education, citizenship, classics, English, history and geography. |
E. Dance performances tend to center on Sadler's Wells theater, where contemporary dance, ballet and opera can all be found. The Royal Festival Hall and the The Barbican Centre also house excellent productions, and the ICA is a mecca for experimental dance.
F. Sefton college is the leading specialist catering training centre in the education sector. Everyday we offer healthy, innovation and exciting menus, which meet the government standards. We have provided catering and cleaning services to Saint Francis Xaviers College and the whole Liverpool for many years and recently won the contract to supply catering to Manchester. So join us, you will get lot of practice.
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66. Jon Murphy: I have worked for six months in California and have been to places as far as Bangkok, Australia, Canada and throughout Europe. Working with the communities is fantastic.
67. James Barton: I suppose I was born with a love of music. Everyday, I listen to music for at least two hours and music bands are my favourite.
68. Jane Lake: I was at university studying Religious Studies and English. And now my area of practice is painting and drawing.
69. Dave Kirby: I met my great friend Andrew Schofield and it was probably he who introduced me to the theatre and plays.
70. Gary Birkett: Being a chef involves a lot of work. Not only do you have to cook but you learn about stock control, sourcing quality food, compiling rosters and creating attractive and exciting menus.
In many cultures white is often associated with something positive. A white-collar job, for instance, is the kind of job many people look for, working with your brain and not your hands.
White has a clean and pure image. That is why doctors, dentists, and nurses usually wear white uniforms. Babies are dressed in white at baptisms（洗礼）and brides wear white wedding gowns at weddings. White in these cases is the symbol of innocence or purity.
Sometimes white is used in expressions that are not good. “Whitewash” is one such expression. At first, “whitewash” meant to paint over something with white paint to make it look better. However, it means something different today: to hide or to cover up mistakes or failures.
A “white elephant” is another example of white used in a negative way. In ancient Thailand, a white elephant was regarded as a sacred animal, but it was very expensive to keep. The kings of those days presented a white elephant to the people they wanted to ruin. Once they received this holy, royal animal as a gift, they were not allowed to sell or kill it. Today, a “white elephant” means something that is big, useless, and unwanted. In America, when people want to get rid of their furniture or clothes, they often have a “white elephant sale”.
1.The text is mainly about________.
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A．the meanings of white in English culture |
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B．the history of some English idioms |
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C．some interesting customs in English culture |
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D．some useful English words and expressions |
2.Which expression has an historical background?
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A．White-wash. |
B．White-collar. |
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C．White elephant. |
D．White elephant sale. |
3.In which statement does “white” have a negative meaning?
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A．A boy is dressed in white at baptisms. |
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B．A bride wears a white wedding gown. |
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C．A man whitewashes his crime. |
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D．A girl finds a white collar job. |
4.From the text we can learn that _______.
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A．a white-elephant sale is useful to the poor |
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B．the white color is important in our daily life |
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C．a white-collar job used to be easy to get |
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D．expressions with white have different meanings |
5.The author develops the text mainly by ______.
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A．analyzing its cause and effect |
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B．providing typical examples |
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C．comparing different ideas |
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D．following the time order |
The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues (瘟疫) that flesh receives. The most widespread fallacy (谬误) of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one.
If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches (战壕) cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds. In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp (奥斯维辛集中营), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be dipped with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.
No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain-killer pills such as aspirin, but all they do is relieve the symptoms.
1.How many examples are offered by the writer to support his argument?
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A．4 |
B．5 |
C．6 |
D．3 |
2.Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage?
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A．The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time. |
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B．Colds are not caused by cold. |
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C．People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors. |
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D．A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one. |
3.Arctic explorers may catch colds when _______.
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A．they are working in the isolated arctic regions |
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B．they are writing reports in terribly cold weather |
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C．they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions |
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D．they are coming into touch again with the outside world |
4.Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit _______.
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A．suffered a lot |
B．never caught colds |
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C．often caught colds |
D．became very strong |
5.The passage mainly discusses _______.
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A．the experiments on the common colds |
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B．the fallacy about the common cold |
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C．the reason and the way people catch colds |
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D．the continued spread of common colds |
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the great nineteenth century English novelist, was born near Portsmouth. His father ran heavily into debt and when he was twelve, he had to go and work in a factory for making boot polish. The only formal education he received was a two-year schooling at a school for poor children. In fact, he had to teach himself all he knew. He worked for a time as junior clerk in a lawyer's office. After that, he worked as a reporter in the law courts, and later in parliament, for London newspapers. His career as a writer of fiction began in 1833 with short stories and essays in periodicals, and in 1837 his comic novel The Pickwick Papers made him the most popular author at his time in England.
He was a great observer of people and their places because he was attracted by life and conditions in mid-nineteenth century London. He wrote 19 novels all his life and in many of them, Dickens gave a realistic picture of all classes of England society, showing deep sympathy for the poor and unfortunate, exposing the injustice and inhumanity（不人道） of the bourgeoisie（布尔乔亚阶级）.
Many of his novels like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and so on drew attention to the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago.
Dickens criticized capitalist society from the point of view of bourgeois humanism. He wished to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor, but failed to find any effective means to achieve that end.
1.Dickens only received a little formal education because______.
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A．he wanted to teach himself |
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B．he wanted to work and made a lot of money |
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C．he was too poor to afford any more formal education |
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D．he wanted some working experiences to be a novelist |
2.According to Dickens, the society at his time in England was________.
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A．just |
B．poor |
C．comfortable |
D．unsatisfying |
3.Which of the following novel made Dickens the most popular writer at his time in England?
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A．Oliver Twist |
B．The Pickwick Papers |
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C．A Tale of Two Cities |
D．Great Expectations |
4.According to the passage, which of the following about Dickens is true?
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A．He didn't go to school at all. |
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B．He only wrote about poor people and showed deep sympathy for them. |
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C．He began to write fictions when he was 21 years old. |
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D．He found some effective ways to improve the living conditions of the poor. |
5.It can be inferred from the passage that________.
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A．Dickens had a miserable childhood |
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B．Dickens tried many different jobs before he became a professional writer |
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C．Dickens wrote many novels but only some of them are popular |
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D．Dickens criticized capitalist society and helped to improve the living conditions of the poor |
In the United States, when one became rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.
It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ because ‘Jones’ is a very common name in the United States.’ “Keeping up with the Joneses”came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are ‘Jonses’ in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
1.Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ______.
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A．want to be as rich as their neighbours |
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B．want others to know or to think that they are rich |
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C．don’t want others to know they are rich |
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D．want to be happy |
2.It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to ________.
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A．live outside New York City |
B．live in New York City |
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C．live in apartments |
D．have many neighbours |
3.The underlined word “neighbourhood” in the second paragraph means ________.
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A．a person who lives near another |
B．people living in an area |
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C．an area near the place referred to |
D．an area in another town or city |
4.Arthur Momand used the name ‘Jones’ in his series of short stories because’ Jones’ is ________.
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A．an important name |
B．a popular name in the United States |
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C．his neighbour’s name |
D．not a good name |
5.According to the writer, keeping up with the Joneses is ________.
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A．correct |
B．interesting |
C．impossible |
D．good |
