We have been seeing good cooperation between tourism industries across the Taiwan Straits ______ shape since July, 2008.
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A．taken |
B．to take |
C．taking |
D．being taken |
A lot of attention ______ to greenhouse gas emission. Look at those environmental posters.
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A．is paying |
B．is being paid |
C．has paid |
D．had been paid |
进入高三以后，大部分同学觉得时间紧了，学习任务重了，所以有些同学课间十分钟休息时间也在看书做题，请你以 A Ten-minute Break为题，用英语写一篇短文，描写这一现象并谈谈自己的看法和做法。
注意：1、词数120左右；
2、短文中不能出现本人相关信息。
1. A new study indicates that those who watch movies in which actors smoke a lot are much more likely
of smoking.（develop）
一项新的研究显示经常观看有演员吸烟镜头的人更有可能养成吸烟的习惯。
2. The stability of a society depends on the extremes of human behaviour.（respond）
一个社会的稳定取决于该社会对人们的极端如何作出回应。
3. from her brothers since the age of seven, she made several attempts to get in touch with them but in vain.（separate）
她自从七岁就与兄弟们分开了，她多次尝试和他们取得联系但都没有结果。
4.. I requested that Tom me by next Friday.（return）
我要求汤姆下周五以前把那本书还给我。
5.. I suppose by the time I come back in two years’ time the new school （set）
我想两年以后我回来时这所新学校就会建起来。
6.. Barach H. Obama， is an inspiring story, is the first American to move upward to the highest office in America.（success）
奥巴马的成功是一个鼓舞人心的故事，他是第一位在美国升至最高官员的非裔美国人。
7.. Hardly when he phoned his parents.（land vi）
他一安全下飞机就给父母打了个电话。
8.. Israel offers automatic citizenship to all Jews who want it, （whichever）
犹太人只要愿意，均可自动加入以色列国籍，不管他们说何种语言。
9. In order to start reading this book you that the physical symptoms your were experiencing were due to anxiety.（idea）
开始读这本书之前，你一定已经了解到，你身体的不适症状是源于焦虑。
10. I showed him a map of China in the Ming Dynasty on it.（with）
我给他看了一张明朝时的中国地图，所有的边界都画在上面。
“Oh please God, no, no!” Stephen Eldredge cried out when he saw his wife, Shelli, badly wounded on the side of the road. She had broken actually every long bone in her body, along with her pelvis, jaw, and cheekbones. He was terrified his bride would bleed to death.
Stephen and Shelli had married just six months before near their home in South Jordan, Utah. They were in Hawaii on a family vacation with two of their sons. The family had rented electric motors and headed towards a nature preserve near Waikiki. But Shelli had fallen behind and the family turned back to make sure she was okay.
Shelli lost so much blood that her heart couldn’t function properly and she went into shock at the hospital. Physicians were able to make her come to herself. On the first and second days there, she lived through half a dozen operations. On day three, the worst of Stephen’s fears came true. Shelli didn’t wake. She had shown heart failure and lung failure. “I thought every heartbeat would be her last,” Stephen says.
As days passed with no change, one doctor gently asked if it was time to let Shelli go. An MRI（核磁共振）showed her brain didn’t have much chance of supporting life. Stephen couldn’t bear the thought of trapping his wife’s beautiful spirit in a body that would never work. If he kept her alive, what kind of life would she have ? He called family, religious leaders, and physician friends in Utah for guidance.
And he decided there still was a chance.
The family moved Shelli to a Utah hospital closer to home. In the next few weeks she started opening her eyes, but it wasn’t entirely clear how conscious she was. Nearly seven weeks after the accident, Stephen was joking with his sister in the hospital room when he saw Shelli smile, a big toothy grin. “Did you understand that?” he asked. She smiled again. Stephen fell to his knees in thanks.
Shelli’s recovery has been slow but steady. Initially, she couldn’t remember much of the previous months, including her own wedding. Shelli has endured 17 operations so far and may require more surgery. She will definitely need more months of recovery. But she is able to walk. “She’s got her life back. She’s able to love and be loved, and be the person she was.” Elovie says.
When Shelli hears about each step in her recovery, she calls it “miracle after miracle”. As for his experience, Stephen says, “This is a story of fear that was slowly replaced by faith.”
1. We learn from the first two paragraphs that .
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A．Stephen and Shelli left home to hold the wedding ceremony. |
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B．Shelli was mainly wounded in the back |
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C．the couple were in Hawaii when the accident happened |
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D．the accident happened on their way to Waikiki |
2. In the hospital room Shelli smiled for the first time after the accident because .
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A．she liked people telling jokes. |
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B．she had remembered all that had happened |
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C．she was excited that she got her life back |
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D．she understood the joke being talked about |
3. By saying “miracle after miracle”, Shelli means that .
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A．she suffered what a terrible accident |
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B．she appreciated the care of her husband so much |
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C．the love for her family got her life back |
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D．it really surprised her that she survived so many operations |
4.. After reading the passage, what impresses us most may be that.
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A．Stephen’s not giving up |
B．the doctor’s skill and hard work |
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C．Shelli’s bravery and persistence |
D．the couple’s faith |
Holiday Inns and McDonald’s. both saw unmatched growth in the 1960s. Their growth opened another direct business operation—franchising.
These operations have the same general pattern. The franchisor, the parent company, first establishes a successful retail business. As it expands, it sees a profit potential in offering others the right to open similar business under its name. The parent company’s methods and means of identification with consumers are included in this right. The parent company supplies skill, and may build and rent stores to franchisees. For these advantages the franchisee pays the franchisor a considerable fee. However, some of the advantages and disadvantages are different.
By extending a “proven” marketing method, a parent can profit in several ways. First, the franchisee’s purchase price gives the parent an immediate return on the plan. Then the sale of supplies to the franchisee provides a continuing source of profits. As new businesses are added and the company’s reputation spreads, the values of the franchise increases and sales of franchises become easier. The snowballing effect can be dramatic. Such growth, too, bring into play the economies of scale. Regional or national advertising that might be financially impossible for a franchisor with 20 franchises could be profitable for one with 40.
The parent, then, finds immediate gains from the opportunity to expand markets on the basis of reputation alone, without having to put up capital or take the risk of owning retail stores. Added to this advantage is a less obvious but material one, Skilled, responsible retail managers are rare. People who invest their capital in franchises, though, probably come closer to the ideal than do paid managers. In fact, the franchisee is an independent store operator working for the franchisor, but without an independent’s freedom to drop supplies at will. Of course the factory’s costs of selling supplies are less. But also certainly the franchisee buying goods that have had broad consumer acceptance will not casually change supplies, even when the contract permits. If the hamburger is not what the customer expected, they may not return. Having paid for the goodwill, the franchisee won’t thoughtlessly destroy it.
1. Franchising refers to a business operation in which a successful parent company .
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A．sells name-brand goods to a private investor |
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B．rents proven ideas and techniques for investment |
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C．sells the right, the guidance to a business under its name |
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D．takes no advertising responsibility for individual investors |
2.. The advantages of franchising to the parent company are all the following EXCEPT .
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A．an immediate investment return |
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B．the profit from the sale of supplies |
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C．the ownership of additional retail stores |
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D．the possibility of profitable advertising |
3. The passage mainly tells the reader .
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A．the advantages and disadvantages of franchising |
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B．the benefits of franchising to the franchisor |
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C．the unmatched economic growth in the 1960’s |
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D．some regional and national business operation |
4.. What will the author probably discuss after the last paragraph?
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A．More advantages of franchising. |
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B．Negative aspects related to franchising. |
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C．The standard of consumer acceptance. |
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D．Risks of investment besides franchising |
