All the family members went to the cinema ______________ Grandpa. He preferred to enjoy Beijing opera on TV at home.
Many Chinese people are willing to use Huawei’s products instead of ___________ (外国的)ones.
Think of your own problem, and you can _________ (get to know and understand )that you need to change.
It's reported that a middle school student can be trained as a ___________ (a man who flies a plane) in Nantong.
(an excerpt from The all of the Wild)
Buck did not read the newspapers. So he did not know that there was trouble ahead. Trouble for every dog warn strong muscles and warm long hair, from Seattle to southern California. Some men had found a yellow metal in the Arctic darkness, and thousands of other men were rushing there. Those men wanted dogs that were heavy, with strong muscles for working hard and furry coats to protect them from the cold.
Buck lived at a big house in a sunny valley in California which was owned by Judge Miller. And Buck ruled over it all. He was born there. and had lived there for the four years of his life. There were many other dogs, but they lived together in the Kennels (狗窝), or inside the house. But Buck was neither s house dog or a kennel dog. The whole of Judge Miller’s lands was his. Buck was king — king over all the creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller’s lands, humans included.
His father, Elmo, a huge St Bernard, had been the judge’ s inseparable (不可分离的) companion. And when he died, Buck took his father’s place. He was not so large — he weighted only sixty kilograms — for his mother, Shen, had been a Scottish sheepdog. He had had a good life and he was proud of himself, for he had not become a house dog. Hunting and other outdoor activities had hardened his muscles, and swimming had made him healthy.
This was Huck in the autumn of 1897, when the discovery of gold in the Klondike brought men from everywhere to the frozen north. But Buck did not read the newspapers. And he did not know that Manuel, one of the gardener’s helpers, was not a good guy. Manuel gambled (赌博) and wasted the little money he had. And one time when the judge was away on business, and his sons were busy with an athletics club, Manuel did something terrible. No one saw him and Buck go off on what Buck thought was a walk. No one saw them arrive at the railway station, where Manuel sold Buck to a man who was waiting for him.
Manuel put a rope round Buck’s neck, under his collar. Buck accepted this because he knew Manuel, but when the rope was given to another man, he growled dangerously. And when the rope was tightened round neck, he started to choke and jumped at the man in anger. The man fought him off and forced Buck to lie on his back, and tightened the rope even more. Buck had never been treated so badly in his life, and he never been treated so badly in his life, and he had never so angry. The his strength drained away and he soon became unconscious (失去意识的). He was still unconscious when the train arrived and the two men threw him into the baggage car.
1.What kind of dog did the gold-seekers want?
A.Heavy dogs with short hair. B.Strong dogs with long hair.
C.Small dogs with furry hair. D.Kennel dogs with furry hair.
2.From paragraph 2 and 3, we can infer ________.
A.humans in the house all respected Buck
B.Buck’s dad and mother were not large in size
C.Buck was satisfied with his life in Miller’s house
D.Buck’s muscles made him different from dogs nearby
3.Manuel stole and sold Buck because he needed money________.
A.to support his sons’ club B.to make up for gambling
C.to help with gardening D.to discover more gold
4.The author mentioned the sentence “Buck did not read the newspapers.” twice in order to show that ________.
A.Buck didn’t learn a lot about the information in the newspapers
B.Buck didn’t expect himself to be involved in a dangerous situation
C.Buck didn’t realize Manuel was such a bad guy who would sold him
D.Buck didn’t suppose himself to be strong enough to help discover gold
Humans are social animals. They live in groups all over the world. As these groups of people live apart from other groups, over the years and centuries they develop their own habits and ideas, which form different cultures. One important particular side of every culture is how its people deal with time.
Time is not very important in non industrial societies. The Nuer people of East Africa, for example, do not even have a word TIME that is in agreement with the abstract thing we call time. The daily lives of the people of such non industrial societies are likely to be patterned around their physical needs and natural events rather than around a time schedule (时间表) based on the clock. They cook and eat when they are hungry and sleep when the sun goes down. They plant crops during the growing seasons and harvest them when the crops are ripe. They measure time not by a clock or calendar(日历), but by saying that an event takes place before or after some other event. Frequently such a society measures day in terms of “sleeps” or longer periods in terms of “moons”. Some cultures, such as the Eakinos of Greenland measure seasons according to the migration of certain animals.
Some cultures which do not have a written language or keep written records have developed interesting ways of “telling time”. For example, when several Australian aborigines want to plan an event for a future time, one of them places a stone on a cliff or in a tree. Each day the angle of the sun changes slightly. In a few days, the rays of the sun strike the stone in a certain way. When this happens, the people see that the agreed - upon time has arrived and the event can take place.
In contrast (成对比), exactly correct measurement of time is very important in modern, in detribalized societies. This is because industrialized societies require the helpful efforts of many people in order to work. For a factory to work efficiently (well, quickly and without waste), for example , all of the workers must work at the same time, Therefore, they must know what time to start work in the morning and what time they may go home in the afternoon. Passengers must know the exact time that an airplane will arrive or depart. Students and teachers need to know when a class starts and ends. Stores must open on time in order to serve their customers. Complicated (复杂的) societies need clocks and calendars. Thus, we can see that if each person worked according to his or her own schedule, a complicated society could hardly work at all.
1.By saying “Humans are social animals”, the author means ________.
A.they live all over the world.
B.they are different from other animals
C.they live in one area as a whole
D.they are divided into many groups
2.Time is not very important in non industrial societies. This is because people in those societies ________.
A.don’t have the word TIME in their languages
B.don’t get used to using clocks and other timepieces
C.don’t measure time in their daily lives
D.don’t need to plan their daily lives around an exact time schedule
3.The Australian aborigines’ way of “telling time” is based on ________.
A.the change of the sun rays
B.the movement of the earth in relation to the sun
C.the position of the stone
D.the position of the tree or the cliff
4.Which of the following night be the best title for this passage?
A.Time and Culture
B.The Measurement of Time
C.Time schedule and Daily Life
D.Clock, Calendar and Society
