It took me a long time before I was able to fully appreciate what they __ for me.
A．had done B．did C．would do D．were doing
Luckily, the man escape death when a fire broke out in his home on Sunday morning.
A．hardly B．gently C．slightly D．narrowly
Directions: Write an English composition in 120～150 words according to the picture and direction given.
近年来学习英语热持续升温，许多幼儿园开设了英语课。然而，许多专家认为孩子不宜过早学习外语，应该先学好中文，请就幼儿园是否应该开设英语课谈谈你的看法并说明理由。
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1.我忘了提醒他面试的时间。(remind)
2.那所学校规定学生不可以将手机带入校园。(it)
3.当你紧张的时候，深呼吸可以帮你冷静下来。（breath）
4.微软公司确认，他们找到了新的合作伙伴以对抗竞争对手苹果公司。(confirm)
5.在西方，超过18岁的年轻人独立生活被认为是理所当然。（take for granted）
The old-fashioned general store is fast disappearing. This is, perhaps, a pity, because shopping today seems to lack that personal contact which existed when the shopkeeper knew all his regular customers personally. He could, for instance, remember which brand of tea Mrs. Smith usually bought or what sort of washing-powder Mrs. Jones preferred. Not only was the shop a center of buying and selling, but also a social meeting place.
A prosperous general store might have employed four or five assistants, and so there were very few problems in management as far as the staff were concerned. But now that the supermarket has replaced the general store, the job of the manager has changed completely. The modern supermarket manager has to cope with a staff of as many as a hundred, apart from all the other everyday problems of running a large business.
Every morning the manager must, like the commander of an army division, carry out an inspection of his store to make sure that everything is ready for the business of the day. He must see that everything is running smoothly. He will have to give advice and make decisions as problems arise, and he must know how to get his huge staff to work efficiently with their respective responsibilities. No matter what he has to do throughout the day, however, the supermarket manager must be ready for any emergency that may arise. They say in the trade that you are not really an experienced supermarket manager until you have dealt with a flood, a fire, a birth and a death in your store. (Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)
1. Why is it a pity that there are fewer old-fashioned general stores now? _____________________________.
2. The shopkeeper was often the most well-informed person in the neighborhood because _____________________________.
3. The words “… a flood, a fire, a birth and a death …” in the last sentence refer to _____________________________.
4. What must the manager do every morning? ___________________________.
A.The reason why few mummies are left today.
B.The three most famous Egyptian mummies.
C.Mummy and mummification.
D.A safe passage to the afterlife
AB. The reason why Egyptians made and gave up making mummies.
AC. Different ways to make mummies.
When you think of a mummy what comes to mind? Most of us usually picture an Egyptian mummy wrapped in bandages and buried deep inside a pyramid. While the Egyptian ones are the most famous, mummies have been found in many places throughout the world, from Greenland to China to the Andes Mountains of South America.
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A mummy is the body of a person that has been preserved after death. Normally when we die, bacteria and other germs eat away at the soft tissues (such as skin and muscles) leaving only the bones behind. Since bacteria need water in order to grow, mummification usually happens if the body dries out quickly after death. The body may then be so well preserved that we can even tell how the dead person may have looked in life.
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Mummies are made naturally or by embalming（以香油涂尸防腐）, which is any process that people use to help preserve a dead body. Mummies can be dried out by extreme cold, by the sun, by smoke, or using chemicals such as natron（氧化钠）. Some bodies become mummies because there were favorable natural conditions when they died. Others were preserved and buried with great care.
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The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a person's body after death was essential to ensure a safe passage to the afterlife. Over time almost all Egyptians who could afford to became mummies when they died -- a total of about 70 million mummies in 3,000 years. By the 4th century AD, many Egyptians had become Christians and no longer believed that mummification was necessary for life after death. Eventually, the Egyptians gave up the art and science of making mummies.
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So where did all the mummies go? Sadly, most were grabbed in ancient times by robbers looking for treasures wrapped up in the bandages. Countless mummies were also destroyed during the Middle Ages, when they were ground into powders to make supposedly magical pills. Later on, modern treasure hunters rushed into their tombs carelessly looking for artifacts and souvenirs. Even industry aided the destruction by using mummies' bandages to make paper or burning their bodies for fuel.
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The best preserved mummies are those of the pharoahs and their relatives. These mummies tended to be more carefully embalmed and protected from harm. The mummies that have survived allow us to look back into the past and know something of the ancient Egyptians and their time. Three of the most famous Egyptians mummies are Tutankhamen, Seti I and Rameses II (Ramses the Great).
