根据短文内容，从下列A-F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。 选项中有一项为多余项。
A. Wash yourself as often as possible B. Avoid being in hot sun C. Keep away from smoke and alcohol D. The importance of skin E. Have a balanced diet F. Be sure to have enough water |
1.__________
When it comes to your skin, there is an important fact that you must keep in mind: Your skin is the largest organ of your body. Therefore, skin health and protection is crucial. Your skin does everything for you. It can keep your body hydrated and regulate your body’s temperature.
Now, here are some helpful tips for you to protect your skin:
2.________
Protection against harmful rays from the sun is one of the most important steps that you need to take. With this in mind it is necessary for you to avoid strong sunlight as often as possible. As for sunscreen you need to buy products that contain UVA-1, UVA-2 and UVB protection.
3._______
Your diet also has a direct impact on the health of your skin. The most important aspect of your diet in relation to the health of your skin is to make certain that you eat a proper amount of food items that contain the proteins and nutrients necessary for cellular maintenance, repair and regeneration.
4._________
Water is also important to the health of your skin. While you certainly have heard it before, it actually is true that you should drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of fresh water every day. There are many health benefits to be derived from drinking water daily, including maintaining healthy skin.
5.________
Finally, when it comes to the health of your skin today and into the future you should avoid smoking all together. In addition, you should drink alcohol only in moderation. Both smoking and excessive alcohol consumption can negatively impact the health of your skin in significant ways.
The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”
“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”
“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all your people do?”
“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”
“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”
“That’s good, sir.”
“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.
“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”
After the girl told me they had no backup(备用) computer, I said. “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?”
“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”
“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.
“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t’t take you if you didn’t’t have a ticket.”
“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”
“I wouldn’t know,” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows. ‘IT’ can’t tell me.
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.
1.The best title for the article is _______.
A. When the Computer Is Down
B. The Most Frightening Words
C. The Computer of the Airport
D. A different travel
2.What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?
A. She could sell a ticket.
B. She could write out a ticket.
C. She could answer the passengers’ questions.
D. She could do nothing.
3.Why do you think they had not a backup computer?
A. Because it was easy down
B. Because it was not relied on .
C. Because it was not useful.
D. Because it was very expensive.
4.The last paragraph suggests that _______.
A. a modern computer won’t be down.
B. computers can take the place of humans
C. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people
D. there will be great changes in computers
5.What kind of feeling did passengers have when the computer was down?
A. upset B. determined
C. encouraged D. happy
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1. If you are an English beginner, you’d better choose________.
A. General English B. High School ESL
C. Night Classes D. Academic English
2.Which course would be helpful for students who want to take the IELTS exam?
A. Course 1. B. Course 2.
C. Course 3. D. Course 4.
3.How much will you pay if you spend two weeks taking the High School ESL course?
A.$ 200. B.$ 300. C.$ 500. D.$ 600.
4.What can we learn from One on One according to the passage?
A. Its lessons are given in the morning.
B. It’s especially designed for English beginners.
C. It’s more expensive than the other courses.
D. Its lessons are designed to only improve writing skills.
5.If you are only free in the morning, you may choose________.
A. Course 1 or Course 5 B. Course 3 or Course 4
C. Course 2 or Course 4 D. Course 1 or Course 3
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five, he gave￡12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
1. Johnson became a rich man through ___________.
A. doing business B. making whisky
C. cheating D. buying and selling land
2. The gift of money to the school suggests (暗示) that Johnson ___________.
A. had no children
B. was a strange man
C. was very warm-hearted and fond of children
D. wanted people to know how rich he was
3.Many people wrote to Johnson to find out ___________.
A. what kind of whisky he had
B. how to live longer
C. how to become wealthy
D. what to inject in his neck
4. The newspaperman ___________.
A. should have reported what Johnson had told him
B. shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had
C. was eager to live a long life
D. should have found out what Johnson really meant
5. When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that ________.
A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening
B. he needn’t an injection in the neck
C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well
D. there was something wrong with his neck
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I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large ________ across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would________ his taxi on the road. I________ why he did not park it in the garage.
Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home ________ work, leave his taxi and go out for his ________ affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was ________ .
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I ________ to be outside one evening two weeks later, when the garage door was ________ and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely ________ I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But deep inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n） ________ . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. For him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n） ________ .
We go to bed every night and ________ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a party as close friends or go for a vacation as a ________ . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we ________ the social ladder（梯子）And we never use our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on ________ we are than what we do!
1.A. window B. garage C. door D. yard
2.A. park B. stop C. check D. repair
3.A. knew B. understood C. asked D. wondered
4.A. for B. out of C. without D. from
5.A. business B. national C. personal D. public
6.A. wasteful B. useful C. wonderful D. careful
7.A. appeared B. happened C. expected D. intended
8.A. broken B. closed C. shut D. open
9.A. once B. before C. when D. until
10.A. driver B. engineer C. father D. son
11.A. experience B. earning C. life D. position
12.A. stay up B. wake up C. take up D. warm up
13.A. family B. company C. team D. whole
14.A. build B. climb C. stand D. lay
15.A. who B. what C. which D. where
--- I’m afraid I can’t return the book to you before Friday.
---_______.
A. Don’t be afraid B. Be careful
C. Forget it D. Take your time
