You can’t imagine what trouble I had _____ this English article into Chinese.
A. to translate B. translated
C. translating D. been translating
His handling of the situation was ________, which was spoken highly of later by everyone present.
A. respectable B. admirable
C. believable D. responsible
Classrooms in some schools are equipped with seats that can be _____ to the height of a person.
A. grown B. adjusted
C. folded D. expanded
假设你是李华。你的外国朋友来信询问你的寒假生活和你对未来的憧憬。请写一封信进行回复。回信须包括如下要点：
1. 欢天喜地过春节；
2. 认真复习，准备高考；
3. 你所向往的大学及理由。
注意：
1. 词数不少于100；
2. 可适当加入细节，以使内容充实、行文连贯；
3. 信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear John,
I am pleased to hear from you. Now I will
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Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua
We stayed at the Altapura for 9 nights over the Christmas period. The hotel benefits from a perfect location with easy ski in and ski out. The ski room is well equipped and the staff are very friendly and helpful in fitting the correct skis and boots.
Overall the hotel is well appointed and conveniently located with its own underground car park, a selection of restaurants and spa facilities. We particularly enjoyed lunches on the sunny terrace(露天平台) facing the slopes and have a late afternoon drink at the bar area in the comfortable chairs and sofas which are surrounded by two fires.
We support the repeated comment in all the reviews that there is no control over the temperature in the room. We were also surprised the bathroom floor was not heated. This is to be expected at any five star hotel in the Alps and is a standard these days in so many homes that for a hotel not to have it is disappointing.
Our main letdown with the hotel was service and this was broken down to the actual servicing of the room and the overall operation of the hotel. By our third night we did complain to the management and the GM Praveen was quick to meet with us and crack all the issues as well as offer us a drink and dinner on the house, which was highly appreciated.
The managements’ timely response to our issues is why we have given this review 4 out of 5. Otherwise we would have given this hotel 3/5.
Overall if you are looking to stay at the highest resort in Europe and want to be guaranteed snow, then the Altapura is the place to stay at in Val Thorens.
1.What is the passage mainly about? (No more than 10 words)
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2.What is the repeated comment in all the reviews? (No more than 15 words)
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3.The underlined word “crack” in the 4th paragraph can be replaced by _______. (One word)
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4.Why did the author give the review 4 out of 5 instead of 3? (No more than 15 words )
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5.If you go traveling, what kind of hotel would you like to stay in? Why? (No more than
20 words)
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It’s well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also “remember” things incorrectly, with damaging consequences in the classroom, courtroom, and other areas of life. Now, researchers show for the first time that bumblebees(大黄蜂) can be unreliable witnesses too.
Bumblebees are rather clever animals, which explains why Chittka has been studying learning and memory in the insects for the last 20 years.
Most times when people have studied memory in animals, errors in performance have been taken to mean that the animals failed to learn the task or perhaps learned it and then forgot. But what if animals can experience a more interesting type of memory failure?
To find out, Chittka first trained bumblebees to expect a reward when visiting a yellow artificial flower followed by one with black-and-white rings. During subsequent tests, bees were given a choice between three types of flowers. Two were the types they’d seen in the training before. The third had yellow-and-white rings, representing a mixed-up version of the other two. Minutes after the training, the bees showed a clear preference for the flower that recently rewarded them.
One or three days later, however, something very different happened when the bumblebees’ memory was put to the test. At first, the bees showed the same preference displayed in the earlier tests, but as the time went on, they began selecting the flower with yellow rings, even though they’d never actually seen that one in training before.
Chittka says that insects make similar errors in the conjunction (结合) of long-term memories as humans do. The ability to extract (提取) common features between different events in the environment might come at the expense of remembering every detail correctly. In bees, with their limited brain capacity (容量), the pressure to store main features of several objects rather than each individual object might be much greater, compared with humans.
1.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Human memory can fail sometimes.
B. Bumblebees make false memories too.
C. Humans are not as clever as bumblebees.
D. Bumblebees have extraordinary memory.
2.Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined word “subsequent”?
A. scientific B. accurate
C. following D. exceptional
3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Memory failure influences students’ study effects.
B. Bumblebees’ memory is complicated and worth studying.
C. The bees couldn’t make out which flower had rewarded them days later.
D. Bumblebees are stupid insects with limited brain capacity.
4. What does the test mentioned in Paragraph 4 tell us?
A. Short-term memories serve the bees well.
B. The yellow artificial flower appeals to the bees.
C. Bumblebees like the flowers with yellow-and-white rings.
D. Bees have remarkable abilities to distinguish colors.
5.We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. Chittka thinks that bumblebees failed to remember the color of the flowers
B. Researchers have learned that bumblebees are unreliable animals
C. There exist no similarities between the memory errors in humans and bees.
D. It is less challenging for humans than bees to store main features of several objects.
