This charming table lamp is a wonderful way to add customized color and accented lighting to a room. Turn on this light and give your home the soft glow while adding a natural style to your home. The lamp comes with an on/off switch for easy lighting control.
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* Perfect ambiance(情调) with soft glow; an all-in-combining the beauty of decorative lighting.
* Made with eco-friendly dark stained natural bamboo pole; parchment canvas shade.
* Designed for a 35 watt bulb (not included); on/off switch for easy lighting control.
* Measurements: (5.25 inches W×5.25 inches D ×8 inches H )
* Handcrafted by skilled artisan; light bulb not included.
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You will love this coffee table with a traditional style. You can place this elegant table in your living room for an instant style update. This beautiful pie-shaped table features a lift top for convenience, in a warm dark walnut finish that will add depth to your room. An angular apron(板) at the base, and silver metal feet complete the fine look. Create a warm and welcoming living room that is great for entertaining, with this excellent cocktail table.
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* Dark brown pie-shaped coffee table
* Wooden structure with dark brown walnut finish
* Unique pie-shaped design
* Features a lift top that raises the top surface
* Accented with silver finish legs
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The Home Office Desk by Coaster combines clean lines and functionality. Serving as a convenient computer space the wide glass-top desk includes a keyboard tray, two file drawers and two locking drawers to keep your work materials safe. Enjoy your work with this comfortable desk.
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1.What is the purpose of writing the passage?
A. To make advertisements for the three items.
B. To attract more and more tourists.
C. To make more money from the goods.
D. To make preparations for an auction.
2.What’s the advantage of the coffee table?
A. It is worth collection.
B. It makes the room more convenient.
C. Its top is purely made of silver metal.
D. Its shape can be easily adjusted.
3.We can infer from the passage that the Home Office Desk is ___.
A. totally made of dark walnut wood
B. meanwhile sold with a personal computer
C. designed to protect individual privacy
D. only allowed to be used at home
4.Which of the above goods has the least discount?
A. A charming table lamp. B. The Home Office Desk
C. The lovely coffee table. D. None of them
In the 1950s, a family that owned a farm near Beulah, Michigan kept a bull chained to an elm (榆树). The bull paced around the tree, dragging the heavy iron chain, which led to a groove (槽) in the bark . The groove deepened over the years. Though for whatever reason, it did not kill the tree.
After some years, the family took their bull away. They cut the chain, leaving the loop around the tree and one link hanging down.
Then one year, agricultural disaster struck Michigan in the form of Dutch Elm Disease. All of the elms lining the road leading to the farm became infected and died. Everyone thought that the old elm would be the next.
The farm owners considered doing the safe thing: pulling it out and cutting it up into firewood before it died. But they simply could not bring themselves to do it. It was as if the old tree had become a family friend. So they decided to let nature take its course.
Amazingly, the tree did not die. Nobody could understand why it was the only elm still standing in the county!
Plant experts from Michigan State University came out to observe the tree. They observed the scar left by the iron chain, now almost completely covered by bark. The experts decided that it was the chain that saved the elm’s life. They reasoned that the tree must have absorbed so much iron from the chain that it became immune to the virus.
It’s said that what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Or, as Earnest Hemingway put it, "Life breaks us all, but afterwards, many of us are strongest at the broken places."
1.What did the family do with the elm when the agricultural disaster hit Michigan one year?
A. They invited plant experts to observe it.
B. They pulled it out and chopped it up into firewood.
C. They prevented it from being infected by the disease.
D. They did nothing and just let it be.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. A groove formed because of natural forces.
B. The family decided to keep the tree because they had become attached to it.
C. All of the elms in Beulah, Michigan died of the disease.
D. The plant experts advised the family to chop it down.
3.What actually saved the elm?
A. The bull. B. The groove. C. The iron chain. D. The experts.
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Let nature take its course
B. Strengthened by our wounds
C. Constant dripping wears away a stone
D. Bend, but don’t break
阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A group of frogs was traveling through the woods and two of them fell into a pit(坑). All the other frogs gathered around it and watched as the two frogs tried to jump out. The pit was very deep and it looked as if there was no way , so they started yelling at the two frogs to . "The pit is too deep. You will die," they said together. When the frogs kept trying, the crowd yelled . After a while, one of the frogs believed what the others were saying, and fell down and .
But , the second frog kept jumping hard the negative remarks of those that kept yelling at her to accept the and just die. Finally, with one big leap, she it out of the pit!
In fact, the second frog was and unable to hear what the others had been saying. She thought they had been her on the entire time they were yelling! What she had considered as encouragement her to try harder and succeed. And that made all the !
With a positive and being deaf to others' opinions, the second frog reached her goals by using such as encouragement, instead of being by others like the first frog, who failed to develop her to struggle for survival. , when we overcome others' criticism or comments, we can do anything we set our minds to, just as the second frog did.
1.A. away B. out C. on D. over
2.A. give up B. give out C. drop out D. drop in
3.A. lost B. missed C. trapped D. tired
4.A. higher B. louder C. clearer D. bigger
5.A. died B. stopped C. rested D. watched
6.A. obviously B. disappointingly C. undoubtedly D. amazingly
7.A. besides B. for C. despite D. except
8.A. problem B. life C. chance D. fate
9.A. made B. jumped C. took D. saved
10.A. dumb B. deaf C. lame D. blind
11.A. calling B. holding C. cheering D. pushing
12.A. mistakenly B. Brightly C. roughly D. perfectly
13.A. let B. attracted C. inspired D. kept
14.A. result B. difference C. achievement D. progress
15.A. expression B.Emotion C. soul D. attitude
16.A. possibility B. certainty C. cruelty D. negativity
17.A. influenced B. threatened C. suspected D. advised
18.A. energy B. spirit C. potential D. mood
19.A. However B. Thus C. Finally D. Actually
20.A. surprising B. annoying C. discouraging D. confusing
Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize winner in Literature, grew up listening to folk tales that __ for centuries in his hometown.
A. have been told B. had been told C. were told D. have told
___ great the demand to succeed, one should never abandon his moral and social consciousness.
A. Now that B. As if C. Although D. However
____the problem, it follows that we must develop a plan of action.
A. Recognizing B. Having recognized C. Recognized D. Having recognizing
