_____ you may have, you should gather your courage to face the challenge.
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A．However serious a problem. |
B．What a serious problem. |
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C．However a serious problem. |
D．What serious a problem. |
—My cousin would like to risk _____ the weight-loss pills rather than _____ in a gym.
—Really? She must be mad.
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A．to take; work out. |
B．to take; working out. |
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C．taking; working out. |
D．taking; work out. |
Entering the orchard, you will find apple trees are ______ fruit, fragrance drifting around.
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A．filled with |
B．heavy with |
C．loaded with |
D．mixed with |
假设你是李华，暑假期间你们将组织由外国学生参加的中国城市多元文化之旅活动——“Discovering China”，你刚到北京的美国朋友Tom 来信询问活动有关事宜。请你根据以下要点，给他写一封回信：
1.活动目的：
2.日程安排：（1）时间：一周；（2）路线：昆明—井冈山—上海—苏杭；
3.发出邀请。
注意：
1.词数120—150；开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
From your letter I know it’s the first time for you to be in my country and you are eager to know what China is really like.
阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。(请注意问题后的词数要求)
[1]Some expressions describe people who are important，or who at least think they are．One such expression is bigwig．
[2]In the seventeenth century，important men in Europe began to wear false hair，called wigs．As years passed，wigs began to get bigger．The size of a man’s wig depended on how important he was． The more important he was—or thought he was一 ．Today，the expression bigwig is used to make fun of a person who feels important．People never tell someone he is a bigwig．They only use the expression behind his back．
[3]Big wheel is another way to describe an important person．A big wheel may be the head of a company，a political leader，a famous movie star．They are big wheels because they are powerful．What they do affects many people．Big wheels give the orders．Other people carry them out．As in many machines，a big wheel makes the little wheels turn．Big wheel became a popular expression after World WarⅡ．It probably comes from an expression used for many years by people who fix parts of cars and trucks．They said a person roiled a big wheel if he was important and had influence．
[4]The top of something is the highest part．So it is not surprising that top is part of another expression that describes an important person．The expression is top banana．A top banana is the leading person in a comedy show．The funniest comedian is called the top banana．The next is second banana．And so on．Why a banana?A comedy act in earlier days often included a part where one of the comedians would hit the others over the head with a soft object. The object was shaped like the yellow fruit：the banana．Top banana still is used mainly in show business．Yet the expression can also be used to describe the top person in any area．
1.What’s the best title of the text ?(no more than 7 words)
2.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 6 words)
3.How and when is “bigwig” used in a proper way nowadays?(no more than 20 words)
4.Complete the following sentence with proper words from Paragraph 3 . (no more than 3 words)
As a big wheel makes the little wheels turn in many machines, powerful people give orders for others to .
5.Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.
"It's this time of year when the weather starts warming up and frogs start breeding - but they haven't been breeding," says John Wilkinson, research and monitoring officer at the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust (ARC).
Amphibians (两栖动物) are just one of the groups of animals that nature observers fear may have problems reproducing this year, as groundwater levels are even lower now than in the infamously dry summer of 1976, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). According to the UK's Centre for Hydrology and Ecology the average rainfall so far this winter has been the lowest since 1972.
"If ponds dry up totally," says Mr. Wilkinson, "you could have lots of dead tadpoles." Drier and windier conditions could also make it more difficult for juvenile amphibians to survive their journeys between wet habitats.
But Peter Brotherton, the biodiversity manager for Natural England, says that "drought is part of nature's cycle", and, at present, a lot of animals, plants and insects are still in hibernation. This means that the population picture is unclear. "However, when we get extreme events, we get animals dying," he says. "And what is worrying is that normally at this time of year we expect soil to be near saturation（湿润）after winter."
Charlie Kitchin, the RSPB's site manager of the Nene Washes in Cambridgeshire, says the 2,000-acre wetland and grassland area is now struggling following two winters with relatively little winter rain and no flooding. One species that could suffer, he says, is the black-tailed godwit（黑尾豫）. "There are only 50 breeding pairs in the country, and we have 40 of them, and everything is bone-dry," Mr Kitchin says.
But one bad nesting season, he says, is "not the end of the world". "One of the features of flood plains is that they're volatile anyway," he adds. "But if they fail to breed another year, the population is likely to dip again."
1.According to the passage animals may have problems reproducing this year mainly due to _____.
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A．drought |
B．hibernation |
C．windier conditions |
D．extreme events |
2.What really worries Peter Brotherton is that ________.
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A．drought is part of nature’s cycle |
B．animals are still in hibernation |
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C．soil at this time is far from saturation |
D．the population of animals is still unclear |
3.Which of the following is NOT true of Charlie Kitchin’s words?
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A．Drought has so far continued for two winters. |
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B．Animals could survive one bad nesting season. |
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C．The black-tailed godwit is in danger of extinction. |
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D．40 black-tailed godwits live in the Nene Washes. |
4.The underlined word volatile in the last paragraph can be replaced by ________.
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A．losing water |
B．undergoing changes |
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C．breeding animals |
D．suffering flood |
5.It can be learnt from the text that ______________.
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A．groundwater levels this summer are lower than those of 1976 |
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B．the average rainfall this year has been the lowest since 1972 |
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C．windier conditions could also cause some amphibians’ death |
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D．flooding plays no useful role in wetlands and grasslands |
