Father ____ that we four brothers try our best to help our uncle ___ everything he had done for us.
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A．suggested; in return for |
B．hoped; in exchange for |
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C．wished; in terms of |
D．supposed; in turn |
We need ____ refrigerator, so we are going to buy ____ from the department store this afternoon.
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A．a; it |
B．the; one |
C．a; one |
D．the; the one |
目前，沙尘暴多次肆虐我国，请你写一篇报道描述你家乡城镇的这些情况，呼吁大家植树造林，保护环境。
要点提示：1原来树林随处可见；2.毁林种粮，树林减少；3沙尘暴侵袭；
4植树造林，保护环境 词数：100左右
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
If you are hungry, what do you do? Have your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? 71 But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars．So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow．When mind loses its freedom to grow, creativity gets a full stop．This might be the reason why we all sometimes think "What happens next?", "Why can't I think?"
72 Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood．Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to get help from reading．
Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you． 73 Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas．If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams!
This is nothing but creativity． 74 Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words．
So guys, do give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading． 75 Go and get a book!
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A．The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed． |
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B．Why not do some reading while you are hungry? |
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C．Just like your stomach, your mind is also hungry． |
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D．Now what are you waiting for? |
E．Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading．
F．Reading can help you make more friends, too．
G．Also this makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary．
The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889, in memory of the 100th birthday of the French Revolution. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England, opened the tower. Of the 700 suggestions that were handed in, Gustave Eiffel’s was chosen.
However, at first, it was not well accepted by all and a group of people — including many well-known writers and painters at that time — were fiercely against its design.
Being about 300 meters in height, and 7,000 tons in weight, it was the world’s tallest building until 1930. It was a great project for France. 300 workers took two years to build it. It isn’t an ordinary building, since it is almost made of steel. For example, its body moves around at most 12 cm in heavy wind. Moreover, its height changes up to 15 cm according to the temperature.
It was almost destroyed in 1909, but was saved because of its antenna(天线), which is used for communication at that time. Beginning in 1910 it became part of the International Time Service. French radio and French television have also made good use of its height.
The Eiffel Tower has also seen a few strange things. In 1923, a journalist rode a bicycle down from the first level of it. And in 1954, a mountain climber climbed on top of it and tried to measure its exact height.
Anyway, although its birth was difficult, it is now well accepted all over the world. It has been considered as one of the symbols of Paris.
1.The passage mainly tells us ________.
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A．the history of the Eiffel Tower |
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B．some information about its design |
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C．what the Eiffel Tower was used for |
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D．how it became one of the symbols of Paris |
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to this passage?
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A．Many people couldn’t accept the Eiffel Tower at the beginning. |
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B．It was the world’s tallest building for hundreds of years. |
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C．A journalist rode down from the Eiffel Tower in 1954. |
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D．The Eiffel Tower was saved because of its height. |
3.The French Revolution took place in _______.
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A．1889 |
B．1923 |
C．1789 |
D．1930 |
When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority(优先). This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.
Music tells us who we are because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values as well as the social environment it comes from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity as a society.
Music provides a kind of perception (感知) that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotive (情感的) meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other .They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.
Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebrations, the meaning and value of peace and love.
So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
1.According to paragraph 1, students .
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A．regard music as a way of entertainment |
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B．disagree with their parents on education |
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C．view music as an overlooked subject |
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D．prefer the arts to science |
2.In Paragraph 2, the author uses jazz an example to .
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A．compare it with rock music |
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B．show music identifies a society |
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C．introduce American musical traditions |
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D．prove music influences people’s lifestyles |
3.According to the passage, the arts and science .
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A．approach the world from different angles |
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B．explore different phenomena of the world |
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C．express people’s feeling in different ways |
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D．explain what it means to be human differently |
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
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A．Music education deserves more attention. |
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B．Music should be of top education priority. |
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C．Music is an effective communication tool. |
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D．Music education makes students more imaginative. |
