---What did you do last weekend, Jack?
--- Well, I ____ to see a film, but in the end I stayed home doing nothing．
A．was going B．has gone C．went D．had gone
---You shouldn't have said that．Look! She is getting _____．
--- But I meant no harm．
A．unfair B．unconcerned C．unmoved D．uneasy
Developing science and technology must ____ people rather than harm them．
A．support B．benefit C．consider D．serve
---What about ____ passage?
---It's too difficult ____ passage for me．
A．a, a B．a, the C．the, a D．the, the
根据短文内荞，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空A处的最佳选项。选项中冇两项为多余选项。
Make the right choices
What is life’s greatest gift? 1______ Choice is the ability to select one course of action from a set of alternatives to achieve a goal. What is so great about choice? It transforms us from dumb animals into artists. Each of us becomes another Michelangelo. Choice becomes nothing other than the tool we use to sculpt (雕刻）our life. The tool doesn’t come free, however, for the price of choice is responsibility. 2______ The reward is happiness.
Life is not still. It is a flow. 3______ We constantly need to monitor where we are on
our journey. We need to ask questions: Am I moving closer to my goals? If not, what corrective measures can I take? What action will I take now to readjust myself to my goals? Choice is power. Choice is at the heart of life. It is the creative power of life.
4______ And your life becomes more convenient or comfortable because of them. For example, you decide which stores to shop at and which gas station to go to. But the decisions that we make to sculpt our lives are far more important than deciding where to shop. The more we appreciate the difference between minor and major decisions, the greater the probability that we will experience happiness and fulfillment.
All chess lovers realize that it isn’t necessary to win to enjoy the game. The pleasure is in the playing. Life is like a chess game. 5______
A． It is free will or choice.
B． You have to make choices every day.
C． Make the best moves you can under the circumstances.
D． But when we accept and carry it out, we get a great return.
E. Every choice we make leads us closer to or farther from our goals.
F. Life is full of hard choices, and the bigger they are, the harder they get.
G. Choose to carry out responsibilities not because you have to, but because you want to.
3D cinema has been around since the early 20th century, but Hollywood brought the technology back In 2007. Many thought it was just a trick to make more money. But then came Avatar, the first must-see movie in 3D.
But since Avatar, 3D cinema has struggled. In 2010, several 3D movies bombed at the box office. And by late 2010, Some people said the technology was dead. Of course, this isn’t the first time Hollywood has struggled with new technology. Although sound was added to movies in the late 1920s, it took audiences time to get used to the new technology. But in the end, sound and color became the standard. James Cameron, director of Avatar, thinks we’re going through the same process with 3D.
Some say cinemas are charging too much for 3D movies. In the US, seeing a 3D movie can cost up to $7.5 more than seeing it in 2D. Also, a recent study at California State University found audiences don’t actually enjoy movies in 3D any more than in 2D. Walter Murch , a famous movie editor, wrote in 2011 that human beings have no ability to process 3D images. Watching a 3D movie confuses our brain and this is why some people get headaches.
But James Cameron disagrees. In fact, he recently predicted that in five years all movies will be in 3D. And there are signs that 3D is fighting back. More 3D movies were put on the market in 2012 than ever before. The Lion King 3D recently made over US $150 million at the box office, and Cameron’s Titanic 3D made even more.
Who knows what the future holds for 3D? Steven Spielberg recently said, ‘Tm hoping 3D gets to a point where people dorft notice it. Because then it just becomes another tool and helps tell a story.”
1.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 probably means that in 2010, 3D movies______
A．were not successful B．became popular
C．developed quickly D．were of poor quality
2.The example of sound and color is used mainly to show that______.
A．Hollywood tends to absorb what is new
B．3D technology takes time to be accepted
C．Hollywood struggles with new technology
D．high technology helps to make better movies
3.In Walter Murch7S opinion, 3D movies______.
A．bring moviemakers great profits
B．are more expensive than 2D movies
C．do great harm to people’s health
D．are unsuitable for people to watch
4.What can we learn from the text?
A．Avatar was the first 3D movie.
B．3D cinema has existed for years.
C．Titanic 3D has made the most money.
D．2012 witnessed the coming of 3D’s time.
