China _______ rapid progress in space technology in the last 10 years.
A．made B．has made
C．had made D．were making
假如你叫李华，最近你校在为一批来自英国的假期学生征寻住宿家庭，你有意申请。
请用英语写封自荐信，说明你申请的理由：
1．住房宽敞，环境好，交通便，亦有私家车；
2．父母和我都擅长英语，乐于交流；
3．曾经接待过来自美国的朋友。
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I’m a newcomer here of a small town. I would describe myself as shy and quietly. Before my classmates, it seems always difficult for me to do things well as them. I’m sure they will laugh to me and see me as a fool. So I feel happy every day.
Besides, I have few friends. I don’t know that they don’t like to talk with me. Sometimes, we talked to each other very well in class, but after class we become stranger at once. I am trying to improve the situation since it doesn’t seem to work. Can you tell me about what I should do?
句型变换：（共8小题，每题1分，满分8分）
1.In addition to all her other qualifications, Bessie was also an expert cook.
________ ________ all her other qualifications, Bessie was also an expert cook.
2.Some officials’ ill behavior has greatly affected the public confidence in our government.
Some officials’ ill behavior has a great ________ ________ the public confidence in our
government.
3.All computers are made up of five units though they are of different kinds.
All computers ________ ________ five units though they are of different kinds.
4.Although the weather is unbearably cold, many pests will be killed by it.
Unbearably cold ________ the weather ________, many pests will be killed by it.
A child, who has once got interested in a tale, likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to “tell” a story than just “read” it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce his own as an improvement on the printed text, according to his child’s actual situation, so much the better.
There is a charge made against some fairy tales, as they probably harm children by frightening them or leaving them sad feelings. To prove it, an experiment has been done to show that children who have heard terrible fairy stories often feel more uneasy than those who have not. As for fears, there are some cases where children get timid (胆怯的) by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition may weaken the pain of fear.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that the stories are not objectively true, and that those giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets etc. do not really exist, so children should be taught to learn the reality by studying history, instead of being got fond of the strange side in fairy tales. Those, who prefer to create such stories, are so peculiar (奇怪的) that it is hard to argue with them. If their creative exaggeration (夸张) were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.
Not once is a fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world, but not every child is clever enough to be aware of it. Parents should choose their children’s “bed-time” reading materials with much care. Only the fairy stories containing positive effect will make a clever and caring child with rich imagination.
1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ______.
A．repeated without any change
B．treated as no more than a joke
C．made some changes by parents
D．set in the present situation
2.According to the passage, when a child hears a terrible fairy story, ______.
A．he will get more interested
B．great fear can take place in him
C．he will like it to be repeated
D．an experiment is being done
3.The word “sound” in Para.3 can be understood as ______.
A．fashionable B．forgettable C．available D．believable
4.The author mentions “sticks” and “telephones” to prove that ______.
A．fairy stories are all made up
B．fairy tales lead to misunderstanding
C．children are cheated by old stories
D．there is more concern for children
5.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that ______.
A．they are made up far from the truth
B．they are so full of imagination
C．they are not interesting at all
D．they make history difficult to teach
6.It makes sense that parents choose fairy stories with ______ as “bed-time” reading materials..
A．formal printings B．creative scenes C．positive effect D．terrible characters
When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation (住所). I suggested that they should stay at ‘bed and breakfast’ houses, because this kind of accommodation gives foreign visitors a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.
“We didn’t stay at ‘B&B’ (bed and breakfast) houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.”
I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought “VACANCIES” meant “holidays”, because the Spanish word for “holidays” is “vacaciones”. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said “VACANCIES”, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said “NO VACANCIES”, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!
We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word “DIVERSION” means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word “DIVERSION” on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, their car was soon stopped.
English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris, when someone offered me some more coffee, I said “Thank you” in French. I meant that I would like some more. However , to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that “Thank you” in French means “No, thank you”.
1.My Spanish friends wanted advice about ______.
A．learning English in England
B．finding places to stay in England
C．driving their car on English roads
D．going to England to have fun
2.I suggested that they stay at ‘B&B’ houses because ______.
A．it would be available for them to practice English
B．it would be much cheaper than staying in hotels
C．it would be convenient for them to have dinner
D．it would be easy to find accommodation there
3.“NO VACANCIES” in English means ______.
A．no free rooms B．with free rooms C．not away on holiday D．no holidays at all
4.If you see a road sign that says “DIVERSION”, you will ______.
A．get held by the traffic policemen
B．have a lot of fun and enjoy yourself
C．find the road is blocked by people
D．have to take another different road
5.When someone offered me more coffee and I said “Thank you” in French, I ______.
A．didn’t really want any more coffee
B．wanted the coffee pot taken away
C．really wanted some more coffee
D．wanted to express my politeness
