The crazy fans___________ patiently for two hours, and they will wait till the movie star arrives.
A．are waiting B．had waited
C．have been waiting D．will wait
There are two roads leading to the power station along the river．You can take___________ of the roads．
A．either B．any
C．neither D．both
某英语报举办以勤俭节约为主题的中学生英语写作大赛：要求参赛者根据以下四幅图内容，用英语描述发生在李华身上真实的故事并阐述其意义。
注意：1、文章的开头已给出，不计入总词数；
2、词数120左右。
参考词汇：节俭thrift
One day， Li Hua went shopping in a supermarket. At the checkout, he had to buy a shopping bag for what he had bought.
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阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1)汉语提示；2)首字母提示；3)语境提示，在每个空格内填人一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。
A boy trembled in the cold winter, wrapping his arms around himself on a bus stop bench. He
wasn’t1._______ (穿着)warm clothes and the temperature was -10oC. A heartbreaking scene! But the good 2.d_______ of the ordinary people who witnessed the 11-year-old Johannes were both joyous3.________inspiring. A woman，sitting next to the boy，discovered he was4._______ a school trip and was told to meet his teacher at the bus stop. She selflessly5.c_______ her own coat around his shoulders. Later, 6._______woman at first gave him her scarf, then wrapped him in her large jacket. Throughout the day, more and7._______ people offered Johannes their gloves and even the coats off their backs. 8. _______ (事实上), it was a hidden camera experiment by Norwegian charity SOS Children’s Village as part of their winter campaign to gather donations to send much-needed coats and blankets to 9.h_______ Syrian children get through the winter. Synne Ronning, the information head of the organization, also noted that the child was a10.v_______ who was never in any danger during the filming.
For many centuries，countless scholars have asked the question：What is beauty? As designers update the latest fashions and artists create their masterpieces, what is considered beautiful changes at an alarming pace.
Fifty years ago，the full-figured Marilyn Monroe was a symbol of the American aesthetic(美学的)value；today，many Hollywood actresses different in appearance from Marilyn’s have taken her place. However，aesthetic values not only differ from generation to generation，but do so along cultural lines as well. Often, what is considered disgusting to one civilization is just the aesthetic appeal in another. Thus it is difficult to give an absolute definition(定义)of beauty.
As fundamental(基础的)physicists，my colleagues and I like to believe that we are involved in a search for a beauty that affects definition. The beauty that we search for is not what is set up through the work of people and subject to the tastes, but rather what has been laid down by nature Physics allows its students to look past outer appearances，into a deeper beauty. As a human being，I am attracted by the visual appeal of a wave crashing on the beach. As a physicist, however I am able to see the deeper beauty of the physical laws that govern such a phenomenon.
In truth，since Albert Einstein put forward the idea that there might be one main physical theory that governs the universe，aesthetics have become a driving force in modern physics. Einstein and other later physicists have discovered that：Nature, as its most fundamental level，is beautifully constructed. The extraordinary simplicity of the laws that govern the universe is really breathtaking . As Einstein said, it would seem more likely that we should find ourselves living in a“chaotic(无秩序曲)world，in no way graspable through thinking”. Yet we are now closer than ever to a full understanding of the universe’s beautiful clockwork. As new discoveries and technologies allow us to examine the physical world on deeper and deeper levels，we find that the beauty itself becomes much deeper.
1.The reference to“Marilyn Monroe”in Paragraph 2 mainly serves to___________.
A．provide an example of today’s beauty standards
B．show there is no fixed definition of aesthetics
C．compare traditions of the East to the West
D．discuss her abilities as an actress
2.When appreciating a wave crashing on the beach，a physicist sees the beauty of___________.
A．the visual attractionB．the powerful sounds
C．the physical laws behindD．the lovely creatures
3.Why are Albert Einstein’s words mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A．To detail the functions of physical laws.
B．To highlight the range of Einstein’s influence.
C．To show that Einstein doubted the beauty of physics.
D．To stress the very simplicity of the laws of the universe.
4.The passage is mainly to___________.
A．present a special way of seeing beauty
B．emphasize the influence of physics
C．discuss the awareness of cross-culture
D．argue the traditional ideas on value
What’s the greenest place in America? If you answered something like the warm sunlight of Santa Barbara, you’d be wrong. The greenest place in America has almost no sign of nature— the buildings outnumber the trees— and the air isn’t all that great. What it has is density(密度)and efficiency— the twin qualities that finally define green in the global warming time. Applying those standards，the greenest place in America is New York City— particularly，the overcrowded，overpriced island of Manhattan, which produces 30％ less per-capita(人均)greenhouse gas than that of the nation．
It’s that density that makes Manhattan so green. Manhattan’s population density is 800 times the national average. Density comes with negatives，certainly— small living spaces，air pollution— but it also enables amazing efficiencies．Over 80％ of Manhattanites travel to work by public transport, by bike or on foot— compared to an average of about 8％ everywhere else in the country. Manhattan’s apartment buildings are far more energy-efficient than the houses in the suburbs.
What’s true of New York City is more or less true of other American urban areas, which explains why a growing part of the environmental movement now focuses on greening cities, hoping to attract more Americans back downtown. There’s an effort to make cities more sustainable(可持续的)，by improving public transport，reducing air pollution and upgrading energy efficiency. But even more important, it is quite urgent to change decades of government policies that have been in favor of the suburbs，with disastrous consequences for energy，the environment and the climate.
That’s exactly the difficult point. For all the high efficiency and convenience and richness of living in a city，there are disadvantages too．New York，for example，has some of the highest childhood asthma(哮喘)rates in the U.S.
So it’s welcome news that New York has continued to push its P1aNYC scheme, a long-term program to make the city greener and more sustainable over the next decades. Recently it announced an update to the plan that includes phasing out heavy heating oils in New York City apartment buildings by 2030，to be replaced with cleaner natural gas.
1.Manhattan is considered as the greenest place in America because of its__________
A．buildings and treesB．density and efficiency
C．sunlight and natureD．transport and population
2.We can infer from the passage that___________.
A．New Yorkers have urged the city government to carry out green policies
B．the public transport and living space are quite satisfactory in New York
C．life in the countryside is more comfortable and energy efficient than that in cities
D．the significance of making cities greener is gained in promoting energy efficiency
3.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to___________.
A．New York cityB．PlaNYC scheme
C．ManhattanD．Santa Barbara
4.The underlined part “phasing out” in the last paragraph probably means___________.
A．rapidly promoting dealing with
B．widely suggesting researching on
C．gradually stopping using
D．immediately forbidding producing
5.What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Manhattan the Greenest Place in America?
B．The Higher Density，the Greener City?
C．PlaNYC Scheme：New York City’s Future
D．Living in Cities Does Good to the Environment
