When I was in college twenty-five years ago, I spent four summers working as a maid in housekeeping at a grand hotel in downtown Chicago. I did not enter the world of housekeeping enthusiastically. I had been hoping to get a job as an office assistant. When that failed, I had no choice but to work as a maid.
It was tiring work, cleaning up to eighteen rooms a day. My poor attitude reflected my disdain(蔑视) for cleaning toilets, changing bed sheets, dusting, and vacuuming eight hours a day for the comfort of total strangers who rarely left a tip. My maid work was just so-so until the day I was assigned to the eighteenth floor.
That was Lorena’s regular floor. The only time another maid set foot on it was on Lorena’s day off. If you left a little rubbish on the floor, a small tissue under the bed, or a pillow uncleaned, Lorena would hunt you down when she returned. She’d ended her lecture to me with, “Take some pride in your work.”
She did. And so did Rosalie, Helen, Annette, Pearlie, Earline, and all the other career maids with more than one hundred years of experience among them. Their commitment to doing a good job and their belief that their work was a reflection of their character stuck with me throughout my professional career. I learned a lot from them those four summers.
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1以约30词概括上文的主要内容。
2以约120词谈谈暑假生活，内容包括：
(1) 你是否做过暑期工；
(2) 你打算如何度过高考后的暑假；
(3) 你认为怎样过暑假才有意义。
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1作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事．也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
2作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
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根据以下提示，用5句话写一篇英语短文介绍微博，包括以下内容：
1. 微博的基本信息；
2. 微博的主要影响。
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基本信息： （1） 微博：一种网上日记 （2） 话题：从日常小事到全球重大事件 （3） 内容：定期更新、公开、简短、140字以内 主要影响： （1） 正面：便于人们表达心声、交流想法；信息的传播比以往更快更广 （2） 负面：可能泄露隐私**或其他重要的个人信息；误导性***信息使公众无法辨清是非 |
*微博 microblog ** 隐私 privacy ***误导性 misleading
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Allan, James，Brown, Della and Edward 正在查找网站来帮助他们解决问题。阅读第46至50题中的各人情况说明和A至F六家网站的介绍，并从所给的（A、 B、 C、 D、 E、 F）中选出符合各人情况的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
1.Allan: The weather report said that a hurricane would hit the city. Tom wants to find information on how to protect his family from being destroyed during the hurricane.
2.James: Before learning about a butterfly, James was asked by his biology teacher to learn more about a butterfly in the process of doing research and then write a letter to humankind.
3.Brown: Thousands of animals around the world face extinction. Many more are threatened each year. Brown focuses on the situation of endangered animals and tried to understand how all living things are connected.
4.Della: Modern technology makes fishing easier. Yet overfishing has caused a lot of problems. China has taken some measures to solve the problem. Della wants to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of overfishing on some threatened species and tried to find out effective solutions.
5.Edward: Great leaders changed our lives. Edward, who studies politics, wants to find out detailed information about some famous political leaders of foreign countries.
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A．http://www.net.org/marine/csb/ This site is devoted to saving the Chilean sea bass, or Patagonian toothfish, from extinction. It suggests actions people can take to protect the fish, and it offers the flash movie “Please Don’t Eat Me!” |
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B．http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/entyouth/ This site, created by the University of Kentucky Entomology(昆虫学) Department, provides photographs and facts about various insects we live with. You will find what you want to know about insects here. |
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C．http://www.mountvernon,org/learn /index.cfm/ This is the definitive(最完整可靠的) site for thoroughly researched historical data on President George Washington. The educational resources include biographical information, a feature(专题节目) on George Washington and slavery, electronic trading cards, and an online quiz. |
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D．http://www,artlex.com/ |
Here you will find definitions of more than 3,200 terms used in discussing visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and cross-references.
E. http://www.fema.gov/kids/
This visually appealing government site teaches kids how to be prepared for disasters and prevent disaster damage. The site also tells teachers and parents what to do to help children after a disaster. It is appropriate for all ages.
F. http://www.nwf.org/
Find information on wildlife protection programs and wild animals through the articles, photos, quizzes, and games at this site. Learn how you can help protect wildlife which has close relationship to human beings.
Death Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes. Death Valley can be dangerously cold during the winter months. Storms in the mountains can produce sudden flooding on the floor of the Valley.
The air temperature during the summer has been as high as fifty- seven degrees Celsius. The sun can heat the ground so that the temperature of the rocks and soil can be as high as seventy -four degrees Celsius.
Death Valley contains evidence of several ancient volcanoes that caused huge explosions. Evidence of one of these explosions is called Ubehebe Crater. The explosion left a huge hole in the ground almost a kilometer and a half wide. In many areas of Death Valley it is easy to see where the ground has been pushed up violently by movement deep in the Earth. This movement has created unusual and beautiful rock formations. Some are red. Others are dark brown, gray, yellow or black.
The area was named by a woman in 1849. Thousands of people from other parts of the ountry traveled to the gold mining areas in California. They were in a hurry to get there before other people did. One group trying to reach California decided to take a path called the Old Spanish Trail. By December they had reached Death Valley. They did not have to survive the terrible heat of summer, but there was still an extreme lack of water. There were few plants for their work animals to eat.
The people could not find a pass through the tall mountains to the west of the Valley, Slowly, they began co suffer from a lack of food. To survive, they killed their work animals for food and began to walk out of the Valley. As they left, one woman looked back and said, "Good -bye, death valley. ” The name has never been changed.
Almost everyone who visits Death Valley visits a huge house called Scotty' s Castle. The building design is Spanish, with high thick walls to provide protection from the fierce heat.
The castle is named for Walter Scott , called Scotty. by his friends. He was a gold miner. He told everyone that he built the house with money he made from his gold mine. Many people believed him. But it was not really the truth.
1. The first two paragraphs discuss Death Valley' s ________.
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A．geography |
B．climate |
C．location |
D．size |
2.The volcanoes mentioned in the third paragraph proved ________.
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A．a valley that is formed by explosions |
B．a place where volcanoes are still active |
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C．a good example of the violence of nature |
D．a symbol of rock formations in history |
3.The woman who named Death Valley intended to ________.
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A．explore the mystery of the valley |
B．find an area with plants for animals |
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C．experience the terrible heat of summer |
D．look for gold in California |
4.If the passage continues, it will be about ________.
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A．the truth about Scotty's Castle |
B．why Spanish built the castle |
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C．when the castle was built |
D．where the castle lies in |
5.The main idea of the passage is about ________.
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A．the interesting place in Death Valley |
B．the facts about Death Valley |
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C．the origin of Death Valley |
D．the route to visit Death Valley |
When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you're at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it.
Cigarette? Cup of coffee? No, it's the third most addictive thing in modem life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their longing to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.
The costs are becoming more and more evident, and I don't mean just the monthly bill. Dr. Chris Knippers, a counselor at the Betty ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality. Sounds extreme, but we' ve all witnessed the evidence: The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, notes that cell - phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e - mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don't have as many friends as our parents. " Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends," he says.
If the cell phone has truly had these effects, it's because it has become very widespread. Consider that in 1987, there were only l million cell phones in use. Today, something like 300 million Americans carry them. They far outnumber wired phones in the United States.
1. From the first two paragraphs, we can know________.
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A．cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes |
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B．cell phone addiction is good for building personal relationships |
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C．people are longing to have their own cell phones |
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D．cell phones are the same as cigarettes |
2.Cell phone addiction has caused the following effects EXCEPT________ .
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A．a barrier to personal contact |
B．fewer friends |
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C．an escape from reality |
D．a serious illness |
3. The underlined word "curb" in Paragraph 2 means “________. ”
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A．ignore |
B．control |
C．develop |
D．rescue |
4.The example of a woman talking on the phone in the car supports the idea that________ .
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A．women Use cell phones more often than men |
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B．talking on the phone while driving is dangerous |
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C．cell phones do not necessarily bring people together |
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D．cell phones make one - on - one personal contact easy |
5.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
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A．Cell phones Are the New Cigarettes |
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B．Cell phones Are Harmful to the Society |
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C．The New Report about the Cell phone |
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D．The Disadvantages of the Cell phone |
Not long ago the movie 2012 came into screen. The people were threatened by those scenes of destroying flood, severe earthquake, terrifying hurricane and constructions representing human civilization being destroyed and even swallowed by disaster. Luckily, they are just the director' s imagination, but the present situation is not heading a positive direction, either.
Take my own experience in Alaska as an example. Once I took a trip to the glacier. Along the way there stood signposts marking the snow lines of different years. They started from the foot of the mountain, but it was at the top when I finally saw melting glaciers(融化的冰川). My heart ached seeing the beautiful blue ice melting at every second.
Sad but true, they are the effects of global warming and the result of our human impact. Furthermore, each year the rising sea level will kill 56 million people, and that’s about the population of the entire Italy. According to studies, if the temperature keeps on rising like this, by the year 2050, some islands and coastal cities including New York, Shanghai, Tokyo and Sydney will be drowned in water.
Our fortune is in our own hands. It depends on us to shape our future, to reduce future human impact and find ways to form a peaceful relationship with our environment. Therefore, it's time for actions to be taken right now. Contribute a little to energy saving by using more efficient light bulbs and less hot water. Let recycle become our habit by thinking twice before throwing something away. Let us take public transportation as our first choice when going to a certain place. It might cost more time for now, but it' s to the benefit of a permanent future. Take care of every tree and grass around us by watering them or simply just avoid destroying them.
In a word, small drops of water make a big ocean. The earth does not belong to us. On the contrary, we belong to the earth. Please bear in mind that the earth is our home. It is our responsibility to build a brighter and better future of our planet and prevent what happened in the movie 2012 from becoming reality.
1. Why does the author talk about the movie 2012 in the passage ?
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A．To give example. |
B．To lead into the topic. |
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C．To make prediction. |
D．To provide the evidence. |
2.How did the author feel when he took a trip to the glacier?
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A．Worried. |
B．Puzzled. |
C．Scared. |
D．Bored. |
3.It can be inferred from the third paragraph that________ .
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A．56 million people in Italy have been killed owing to the rising sea level |
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B．Some islands and coastal cities will be drowned in water by the year of 2050 |
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C．Human being will be in danger if we don't take actions to prevent the global warming |
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D．It is certain that what happened in the movie 2012 will come into reality |
4.According to the passage, you are advised to ________.
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A．drive our own private cars instead of taking buses to some place |
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B．recycle everything that is used |
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C．go to see the movie 2012 at once |
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D．work together to take good care of our planet |
5. What does the author mean by saying "small drops of water make a big ocean"?
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A．Think twice before taking action. |
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B．It's our duty to protect the ocean. |
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C．Everyone together can make a difference. |
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D．It's important to save every drop of water. |
