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I'm very glad to have received the letter you sent me two weeks before. I have been thinking about the question you ask me. On my opinion,you should come back after finished your studies abroad. For one reason, what you are studying are badly needed nowadays in our country. It will be quite easily for you to find a good job. In fact, I know a few big company in our city are hoping to hire people like you. For another reason, I think it will be too much more convenient for me to look after your parents as they are getting old. But this is only my point. It is up to you make a right choice.
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Sandstorms have been a major disaster for many Asian countries for centuries. Scientists have tried many ways 1.(solve) this problem and in China, a mass campaign has been started to solve it.
Sandstorms are strong, dry winds that carry sand. They are often so thick 2. you can’t see the sun, and the wind is sometimes strong enough to move sand dunes. It was the most 3.(frighten) and the most dangerous situation to have been 4. (catch) in a sandstorm.
Northwest China is part of the sandstorm center in Central Asia. 5.(sandstorm) in China appear to have increased in recent years as a result 6.“desertification”.
Sandstorms sometimes affect Beijing. Citizens wake up to an orange sky and strong winds 7. cover the city in a thick, brown yellow dust. The storms sometimes continue all day and traffic moves very slowly because the thick dust makes 8. difficult to see.
The Chinese Central Weather Station can forecast a sandstorm some weeks before it arrives in Beijing, but the 9.(strong) of the storm sometimes surprises people.
The desert is only 250 kilometers away to the west of Beijing. In order to prevent it 10.(come) nearer, the government has planted more than 30 billion trees and plans to continue planting for the next five years.
An old carpenter(木匠）about to retire was telling his boss about his plans to stop working with building and enjoy life with his wife and kids. He was so ____ about retiring that he wasn't even looking forward to the ____ of that month. All he wanted was to ______ .
The boss was upset about losing a _____ worker and as a personal favor asked the man to work _____ the construction(建筑）of one last house. The old carpenter didn't want to ____ it but he couldn't refuse his boss the last favor（帮助，善意的行为）. So he took the job, but it was clear that his ____ wasn't in it. He just wanted to get it finished and get ____. As a result, he was careless and ____ bad quality material in the ____ of the house. It was a sad way to finish ____ an excellent career(事业，生涯）with so many years of ____.
When the house was done， his boss ____ it. He gave the ____ to the house to the old carpenter and said "This is your house. It's a gift for you after so many years of hard work."
The carpenter was ____. "What a shame!" he thought. If he had known that it was his house he would have done things _____
Remember that you are the ____ of your own life. You construct（建设） your ____ a little bit every day. You hit a nail here, build a wall there and so on. Life is a do-it-yourself _____ Your acts and ____ now will build the house you will live in later on. So do it right.
1.A. disappointed B. upset C. excited D. confident
2.A. payment B. party C. holiday D. prize
3.A. retire B. change C. quit D. relax
4.A. caring B. nice C. pretty D. lazy
5.A. off B. on C. in D. with
6.A. complete B. accept C. buy D. handle
7.A. heart B. future C. state D. family
8.A. away B. up C. down D. on
9.A. brought B. got C. set D. used
10.A. course B. wall C. building D. roof
11.A. such B. so C. thus D. this
12.A. laziness B. forgetfulness C. hard work D. housework
13.A. receive B. test C. came to see D. repair
14.A. house B. drawing C. key D. document
15.A. overjoyed B. shocked C. angry D. moved
16.A. perfectly B. thoughtfully C. badly D. differently
17.A. boss B. carpenter C. designer D. inspector
18.A. honor B. family C. life D. way
19.A. project B. drama C. goal D. lesson
20.A. words B. behaviors C. choices D. feelings
Once upon a time, there was a selfish9（自私的）man. 1. He could not share his things with anyone, not even his friends or the poor. One day, the man lost thirty gold coins. He went to his friend’s house and told him how he lost his gold coins. His friend was a kind man.
As his friend’s daughter was coming from shopping, she found thirty gold coins. 2. The girl’s father told her that the gold coins belonged to his friend and he sent for (派人去叫)him.
When the selfish man arrived, his friend handed the coins to him. After counting the gold coins, the man said that ten of them were missing. He said that he would recover the remaining（其余的）coins from the kind man. 3.
The selfish man left the gold coins and went to the court（法庭）. The judge（法官） then sent for the girl and her father. When they arrived, he asked the girl how many gold coins she found.4. The judge then asked the selfish man how many gold coins he lost and he answered forty gold coins.
The judge then told the girl to keep the gold coins and that if anybody was looking for them, he would send for the girl. The judge told the selfish man that if anybody reported that they found forty gold coins, he would send for him.5. But it was too late. The judge did not listen to him.
A. But the girl’s father refused.
B. He liked everything to be his own.
C. She replied thirty gold coins.
D. As a kind man, he was always ready to help others.
E. When she arrived home, she told her father what she found.
F. It was then that the man said that he had lost thirty gold coins.
G. Now he had no choice but to return the ten missing coins to the man.
About ten men in every hundred suffer from colour blindness in some way; women are luckier only about one in two hundred is affected in this manner. There are different forms of color blindness. A man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green---a strange world indeed.?
In certain occupations, colour blindness can be dangerous and candidates are tested most carefully. Colour blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help to see in a bright light and to tell the difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods” but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but not colour. Wait until it is dark tonight, and then go outside. Look round you and try to see what colors you can recognize.?
Birds and animals which hunt at night have eyes which contain few or no cones at all, so they cannot see colors. As far as we know, bats and adult owls cannot see colors at all only light and dark shapes. Similarly cats and dogs cannot see colors as well as we can.?
Insects can see ultraviolet rays which are invisible to us, and some of them can even see X-rays. The wings of a moth may seem gray and dull to us, but to insects they may appear beautiful, showing colors which we cannot see. Scientists know that there are other colors around us which insects can see but which we cannot see. Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes like blue, but do not like yellow. A red light will not attract insects but a blue lamp will.
1.Which of the following is true about the people who suffer from colour blindness?
A. Very few of them may think that everything in the world is in green.
B. Some of them may see everything in shades of green.
C. Few of them may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green.
D. Few of them can tell the difference between blue and green.
2.When millions of rods in our eyes are at work in darkness we can see __________.
A. shapes only B. darkness only
C. colors only D. both A and C
3.According to the passage, bats and adult owls cannot see colors because __________.
A. they hunt at night B. they cannot see light
C. they have no cones D. they have no rods
4.According to the passage, dogs and cats __________.
A. as well as human beings can not see some colors
B. have less rods than human beings
C. can see colors as well as human beings
D. have fewer cones than human beings
5.Which of the following is NOT true about insects?
A. All insects have their favorite colors.
B. Insects can see ultraviolet rays which are invisible to men
C. The world is more colorful to insects than to human beings
D. Insects can see more colors than human beings.
In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business .But he was not a good artist .So he invented a very simple camera (照相机).He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden .That was the first photo.
The next important date in the history of photography (摄影术) was in 1837. That year, Daguere, another Frenchman ,took a picture of his reading room .He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly ,even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype.
Soon, other people began to use Daguerre’s way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all around the world .people took picture of famous buildings, cities and mountains.
In about 1840, photography was developed .Then photographers could take picture of people and moving things .That was not simple .The photographers had to carry a lot of film and other machines. But this did not stop them ,for example, some in the United States worked so hard.
Mathew Brady was a famous American photographers. He took many picture of great people .The picture were unusual because they were very lifelike(栩栩如生的)
Photographers also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century .Some photos were nor just copies of the real world .They showed feelings,like other kinds of art.
1.The Daguerreotype was____________.
A. a Frenchman B. a kind of picture
C. a kind of camera D. a photographer
2.If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in the year of 1840, he had to__________.
A. watch lots of films B. buy an expensive camera
C. stop in most cities D. take many films and something else with him.
3.Mathew Brady______________.
A. was very lifelike B. was famous for his unusual pictures
C. was quite strong D. took many pictures of moving people
4.This passage tells us_____________.
A. how photography was developed B. how to show your ideas and feelings in pictures
C. how to take pictures in the world D. how to use different cameras
5.The first photo taken by Niepce was a picture of ____________
A. his business B. his house
C. his garden D. his window
