The pipes have oil or water inside them, which is heated and sent to the storage tank until ______ to produce electricity.
A.needed B.needing
C.to need D.having needed
According to the national population survey concluded recently, Florida is home to the largest population of people aged 65 and older, and this group ______ over 17 percent of the state’s population.
A.takes up B.holds up
C.makes up D.keeps up
People with simple names enjoy quicker career advancement because names which are hard to pronounce inspire negative ________ from superiors.
A.considerations B.consequences
C.expectations D.reactions
Although an earthquake has just happened, people here still ______ their lives as usual.
A.go about B.go through
C.get about D.get through
Most shoplifters (商店扒手) agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief.
_____ the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape________. It is known, in the business, as “hoisting”.
But the hoisting game is not________it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know___________ they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.
As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed______and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court.
Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court______for shoplifting using an evidence of a videotape clearly showing a couple______ dresses. It was an important test case which______ other stores to install similar equipment.
When the balls, called sputniks, first make a(n)______ in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to______shoplifters. Their______ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.
It did not take long, _______, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable______.Soon after the equipment was ______ at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman _____ putting bottles of perfume into her bag.
“As she turned to go,” Chadwick______, “she suddenly looked up at the ‘sputnik’ and stopped. She could not______have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she ______ have had a feeling that I was looking at her.”
“For a moment she paused, but then she ______to the counter and started putting everything ______ . When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store.”
1.A.As B.With C.For D.Since
2.A.noticed B.noticing C.unnoticed D.unnoticing
3.A.how B.that C.which D.what
4.A.if B.that C.how D.why
5.A.at rest B.at attention C.at work D.at shock
6.A.case B.theft C.discussion D.conversation
7.A.trying B.wearing C.stealing D.packaging
8.A.stopped B.kept C.encouraged D.called
9.A.difference B.influence C.appearance D.function
10.A.attack B.calm C.excite D.frighten
11.A.somehow B.somewhat C.anyhow D.somewhere
12.A.however B.thus C.therefore D.anyway
13.A.respect B.interest C.fright D.courage
14.A.in operation B.in case C.in trouble D.in advance
15.A.publicly B.bravely C.quickly D.secretly
16.A.replied B.repeated C.recalled D.requested
17.A.possibly B.politely C.pleasantly D.patiently
18.A.could B.would C.should D.must
19.A.came B.left C.returned D.rushed
20.A.off B.in C.up D.back
There are many things we remember from our childhood—the games we played, the music we listened to...but what about earning pocket money? This was our first ever wage for completing tasks such as tidying our bedroom or sorting the laundry. Our reward was a handful of coins that we safely stored. 1.
There was a time when cash was the main currency for financial transactions (交易). These days, though, using credit cards, or making cashless payments, are the most convenient ways of paying. 2. Research has found that 84% of British parents currently give notes and coins to their children—usually 7 pounds a week as an allowance.
But banks predict that by 2028 only one in ten transactions will be with cash, and that is something today’s children will have to deal with. One issue is that children may not understand the value of cash because they never see it. 3. They either should find a new way to hand out pocket money, or needn’t bother to pay it at all.
Still, solutions are available. Giving children lessons at school about finance is important. 4. The trick is to go and get some coins so that children have the opportunity to interact with them. Besides, bank accounts for older children can be opened to give them cash cards to use. Whatever method a parent chooses to adopt, their children will get some idea of the value of pocket money. 5.
A. Parents face a dilemma too.
B. This, in turn, makes the buying much easier.
C. They have completely taken the place of cash.
D. So how do parents hand out pocket money at present?
E. But parents need to teach their kids that money doesn’t grow on trees!
F. But now, it seems that parents’ attitude to handing out cash is changing.
G. And parents are advised to get children started with money as young as possible.
