—Tony, we are moving this weekend.

—___! Wish you happiness in your new flat.

A.Go ahead B.Congratulations C.Made it D.Definitely

 

—Hi, sir, may I __ seats with you? I want to sit next to my mother. —With pleasure.

A.give B.take C.exchange D.have

 

My brother is so interested in languages that, he is now learning _____ third language besides Eng-lish and French.

A.不填 B.the C.a D.that

 

One year after the earthquake, a new school building was _____, and students could study again.

A.gone up B.turned up C.picked up D.put up

 

With winter _____, the weather gets colder and colder.

A.appearing B.approaching C.leaving D.passing

 

In my father’s study there are _____ books about how to keep fit.

A.a great many B.large amounts of

C.a great deal of D.a large amount of

 

—Why did you move to this village?

—To _____ the traffic and noise in the city.

A.get along B.get away C.get along with D.get away from

 

—Why don’t you join us in the game?

—Because my homework _____ yet.

A.didn’t finish B.hasn’t finished C.wasn’t finished D.hasn’t been finished

 

—Lucy, it is said that you have changed your job.

—Yes, this job is more _____ because of the pay.

A.attractive B.fortunate C.amusing D.professional

 

The music played by Lang Lang _____ very pleasing to the ear.

A.sounds B.hears C.listens D.listens to

 

—How’s Jack doing in Britain?

—I wrote an email to him last week, but _____ I have had no reply from him.

A.from now on B.so far C.just now D.later on

 

Only one child of the thirty passengers in the plane _____ after the air crash.

A.survived B.starved C.shouted D.shook

 

The apartments in the city center are always expensive. I can’t _____ one with all my money.

A.take B.afford C.supply D.support

 

—Shall I get you something to drink?  

—Thanks, but don’t _____. I have to leave now.

A.make B.annoy C.disturb D.bother

 

My family used to live in _____ city of Shanghai but now have moved to _____ countryside.

A.a; a B.the; the C.a; the D.the; 不填

 

    A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband.For many months she had liked a beautiful_______, and knowing her husband could_______it, she told him that was all she wanted.On the morning of the_______, her husband told her how_______he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her.He_______her a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and_______a Bible._______, she raised her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you give me a Bible” She was so_______that she left him.

Many years passed and the lady was very_______in business.She owned two large companies.She________her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to________him. But before she could, she________a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions (财产) to her.She needed to go back and________things.

When she arrived at his house, sadness________her heart. She saw the still new________, just as she had left it years before. With________, she opened it and began to turn the pages.A ring________from the Bible to the floor and a________could be seen.She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days.And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LUV U ALWAYS”.

________your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it’s because it is better packaged the way it isAlways appreciate little thingsthey usually lead you to bigger thingsThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the________.

1.A.watch B.ring C.coat D.box

2.A.afford B.like C.design D.guess

3.A.holiday B.performance C.birthday D.meeting

4.A.proud B.kind C.sorry D.brave

5.A.lent B.asked C.gave D.moved

6.A.carried B.found C.missed D.held

7.A.Politely B.Lightly C.Patiently D.Angrily

8.A.calm B.upset C.grateful D.careless

9.A.failing B.lonely C.successful D.poor

10.A.wondered B.hoped C.realized D.explained

11.A.visit B.understand C.catch D.help

12.A.passed B.wrote C.sent D.received

13.A.take care of B.pay  for C.look  for D.give   away

14.A.covered B.broke C.left D.filled

15.A.car B.Bible C.letter D.table

16.A.smiles B.laughter C.tears D.interests

17.A.hid B.dropped C.disappeared D.made

18.A.book B.pen C.flower D.card

19.A.If B.But C.Although D.So

20.A.hand B.eye C.face D.heart

 

Taking a Child Fishing

There is nothing quite like seeing the smile on a young person’s face when they catch their fish. Here are some simple steps that can be taken to help children and parents enjoy these early fishing experiences.

1.

It’s easier to teach young children to fish if your attention is towards them and not towards your own fishing. If you are also trying to fish, this can make that difficult for both of you. 2. When they need your help, you can hand down your tool and they can keep fishing.

Keep trips short.

Children have short attention periods. 3. Take this into consideration when planning a trip. When it stops being fun for them, it’s time to call it a day.

Bring plenty of snacks and drinks.

Even though most of these trips will be short, they will get hungry and thirsty. Bringing plenty of snacks and drinks gives them a little break from fishing. 4. You can use this time while they are eating or playing to do some fishing yourself.

Other than fishing.

Just because they are on a fishing trip doesn’t mean that they have to finish all the time. Let them do things besides fishing as long as it isn’t interfering (打扰) with the people fishing around you. 5.

A stop on the way home for ice cream or other treats can also be a fun part of the trip. Remember it’s all about them having fun and hopefully wanting to go fishing with you again.

A.Let them help make choices.

B.Make the fishing trip about them.

C.Children love to feel like they are helping out.

D.This can be more exciting to them than the actual fishing.

E.The same is true if you bring a few small toys for them to play with.

F.One way to solve this problem is for you to use the tool the child can use.

G.An hour or possibly two will be about all of the fishing they can handle in a day.

 

    If you think English means endless new words, difficult grammars and sometimes strange pronunciations, you are wrong. Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?

According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter. This is the area of the brain which processes information.It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles.

The study also found the effect is greater when the younger people learn a second language. A team led by Dr. Andrea Mecheli, from University College London, took a group of Britons who only spoke English.They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals” who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners.

Scans showed that grey matter density in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference.

“Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language, ”said the scientists. It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.

Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills.“Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible (灵活的), ”he said, “You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”

The findings were matched in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of 2 and 34. Reading, writing, and comprehension were all tested.The results showed that the younger they started to learn, the better. “Studying a language means you get an entrance to another world, ” explained the scientists.

1.The main subject talked about in this passage is ________.

A.science on learning a second language B.man’s ability of learning a second language

C.language study can help improve brain power D.language learning and maths study

2.In the second paragraph, the writer mentions “exercise” in order to ________.

A.say language is also a kind of physical labor

B.prove that one needs more practice when he (she) is learning a language

C.show the importance of using the language when you learn it

D.make people believe language learning helps grey matter work well

3.The word “bilinguals” (Paragraph 3) probably means ________.

A.researchers on language learning B.second language learners

C.persons who can speak two languages D.active language learners

 

    I arrived in the classroomready to share my knowledge and experience with 76 students who would be my English literature class.Having taught in the US for 17 yearsI have no doubt about my ability to hold their attention and to impress on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

I was shocked when the monitor shouted“stand up”The entire class rose as I entered the room and I was somewhat confused about how to get them to sit down againbut once the embarrassment was overI quickly regained my calmness and admiration.I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a strong sense of achievement.

My students kept diaries.Howeveras I read themthe rosy glow was gradually replaced by a strong sense of sadness.The first diary said“Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today.Perhaps her next lecture will be better.”Greatly surprisedI read diary after diaryeach expressing a similar theme.“Didn’t I teach them anythingI described the entire Western philosophy (哲学) and laid the historical background for all the works we will study in class”I complained.“How should they say I didn’t teach them anything

It was a long termand it gradually became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as those of my students.I thought a teacher’s job was to raise interesting questions and provide enough background so that students could draw their own conclusions.My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide exact information as directly and clearly as possible.What a difference!

HoweverI also learned a lotand the experience with my Chinese students has made me a better American teacherknowing how to teach in a different culture.

1.The writer wants to tell us through his experience that ________.

A.Chinese students are hard to teach

B.he has no experience in teaching Chinese students

C.Chinese students has made him a better American teacher

D.different countries have different cultures even in teaching

2.We can know that on the first day the writer ________.

A.was disappointed at her students’ performance B.felt very confident about herself at first

C.felt she didn’t teach them much D.was very confident about her students

3.At the beginning of the lessonthe writer got confused because of ________.

A.cultural differences B.her own embarrassment

C.students’ embarrassment D.students’ admiration

4.The writer learnt from their diaries that the students wanted to ________.

A.raise interesting questions B.know more about background

C.draw their own conclusions D.know more about exact facts

 

    As a child, I was really afraid of the dark and of getting lost. These fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments. Maybe it was the strange way things looked and sounded in my own room at night that scared me so much. There was never complete darkness, but always a streetlight or passing car lights, which made clothes on the back of a chair take on the shape of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no wind. A very low sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the day. My imagination would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would lie very still so that the “enemy” would not discover me.

Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, especially on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home. That was no problem. After school, though, when all the buses were lined up along the street, I was afraid that I would get in the wrong one and be taken to some other strange places. On school or family trips to a park or a museum, I wouldn’t let the leaders out of my sight.

Perhaps one of the worst fears of all I had as a child was that of not being liked or accepted by others. Being popular was so important to me then, and the fear of not being liked was a serious one.

One of the processes growing up is being able to realize and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that scared us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.

1.The author had _______ kind(s) of fears when she was a child.

A.One B.two C.three D.none

2._______ would scare the author at night.

A.Streetlight and car lights B.Wild animals and enemies

C.Moving curtains and wind D.Clothes and walls

3.When she went to some other places, she would _______.

A.walk away without others B.take a bus by herself

C.follow others closely D.make sure not to take a wrong bus

4.Which of the following would be possibly true when she was a child______.

A.She thought being popular among people was important.

B.She was always the leader of the others.

C.She always got poor grades.

D.She was not liked by others at all.

 

    “A child is dying out of breath!” I had just began my working day in the city, when these words came through the radio of the police car I was driving. I turned on the red lights and siren (警笛) and drove off as fast as I could, “Just my luck!” I thought. I did not know this city well and my first call of the day was a life­and­death sudden happening several kilometers away.

I got to the house. A mother, filled with fear, handed me her baby, her face already blue. Was I too late? Dear me!

I did what I had been taught to do in such a serious condition. A small thing flew out of the baby’s mouth onto the floor. It was a button. Thank heaven! The holes in it let a little air through.

A doctor rushed into the room with an oxygen bag.The baby began to cry at the top of his voice, burned red and started to look for his mother. He was angry but was saved.

1.The writer of the story is ________.

A.a policeman B.a driver C.a doctor D.the boy’s father

2.The writer turned on the red lights and siren in order to ________.

A.show that he was a police

B.have the people in the streets make way for him

C.warn the people in the streets of the danger ahead

D.tell the people in the streets that he did not know the way well

3.The baby was still living when the writer got to the house because________.

A.the writer arrived in time B.the writer had been taught what to do at that time

C.the button was not big enough D.the button happened to have holes in it

4.What did the writer mean when he said to himself “Just my luck!”

A.It was a good chance for him to practice what he had learned before.

B.He was happy to have such a serious matter on his working day.

C.He was not at all happy to have so serious a matter on his working day.

D.He had been long waiting for the day to come.

 

假定你是李华,你的外国笔友Jack打算暑假期间来中国体验生活,发来邮件询问相关信息。请你回复邮件,内容包括:

1.表示欢迎;

2.推荐内容;

3.你的祝愿。

注意:1.词数100左右;  2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(),并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线()划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2. 只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

It was a rain and cold night. I finish my evening classes and was about to go back to my house. I got into a taxi and told the driver my destination. To my surprise, the driver made an apology, says he didn’t know the way. What come a taxi driver didn’t know the way? I was a little of angry. At the moment, an old couple stopped our car. Their destination was the same as me, so he let them in. The two greeted us but the grandpa told the driver the way. From their conversation I knew the driver was a farmer and he has been a taxi driver just for three days.

I’m also new to Zhengzhou. Sometimes I make direction mistakes, but there is always a person can help me. It was cold outside, but I felt real warm.

 

    My father never kept anything for emotional purpose-except once. I was the only one in my family who cared about baseball and I always _______ watching my heroes at Yankee stadium. One winter, I wrote down a _______ for the summer dates and dreamed every night. To my surprise, one evening I saw my father_______ it before going out to work.

The following Sunday, he told me, “Let’s put away some money into a _______each week, and maybe we can go to Yankee Stadium this summer.” I _______ washed out a jar and _______a label:YANKEE STADIUM FUND, 1960.

Each of us _______ to the jar weekly. _________, we still hadn’t gone to a game because my father had had to work every Saturday. So one day. I _______ him of the remaining time, and then he ________ me, “Don’t worry and we’ll have a ________ Saturday.”

On the morning of the last game, I was waiting hopelessly with no ________ of my father who had been to work when he suddenly appeared and yelled, “I got two ________!”

I could hardly ________ when we finally sat together, father and son, ________ my New York Yankees. I sat cheering, but for my father, all I could see is a face________ tiredness from working all week.

In 1963, my father died suddenly while working. In his bedroom, I noticed a ________ ticket in his yellowed book, which________, October 1, 1960, General Admission. My father, who ________ nothing for emotional reasons, had decided to keep this, a (an) ________of our afternoon together.

1.A.dreamed of B.worried about C.tried out D.lived on

2.A.schedule B.note C.letter D.novel

3.A.exploring B.checking C.tearing D.examining

4.A.bottle B.jar C.bowl D.cup

5.A.slowly B.patiently C.immediately D.unwillingly

6.A.attached B.identified C.created D.bought

7.A.referred B.contributed C.donated D.attended

8.A.However B.Moreover C.Therefore D.+Furthermore

9.A.accused B.informed C.inquired D.warned

10.A.rescued B.scolded C.comforted D.encouraged

11.A.grey B.terrible C.boring D.free

12.A.signal B.sign C.reply D.company

13.A.balls B.coins C.tickets D.flags

14.A.breathe B.imagine C.stand D.jump

15.A.greeting B.watching C.hearing D.playing

16.A.lined with B.decorated with C.equipped with D.coupled with

17.A.pretty B.plain C.used D.faded

18.A.spoke B.wrote C.read D.mentioned

19.A.created B.abandoned C.produced D.saved

20.A.impression B.gift C.present D.memory

 

    People often say that “failure is the mother of success”. 1. As a result, Manalo, a professor of educational psychology in Japan says, “We know we shouldn’t give up when we fail—but in reality, we do.”

Manalo and Manu, a professor of learning sciences in Swiss, put together a special issue (专利) last December on benefiting from failure. The issue’s 15 studies provide teachers and educational researchers with a guide for achieving success. 2. Another confirmed that advice on failures is most constructive when the receiver is prepared to experience unpleasant feelings.

Manalo and his co-authors also focused on overcoming one everyday form of failure: not completing a task. They asked 131 students to write an article about their school experiences. Half of the students received instructions for their writing, and half were left to their own. 3. Afterward the researchers found that those in the instructed group were more willing to complete their articles, compared with those who lacked guidance—even if the latter were closer to being done. 4.

5. Stephanie Couch, the director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, holds the opinion. Couch, whose work was also featured in the special issue, says that we should tell them to think of failure as part of a process toward success.

A.However, all were stopped before finishing.

B.The saying shows the importance of success.

C.Teaching students not to fear failure makes goals achieved more easily.

D.One study reported that the sooner students fail, the sooner they can move forward.

E.Though having some truth to it, the saying does not tell us how to turn a loss into a win.

F.They believed that learning how to fail can help people avoid becoming lasting failures.

G.Knowing how to finish, in other words, was more important than being close to finishing.

 

    A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.

“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.

They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.

While this first robotic fly is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.

Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”

1.Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly?

A.They did not have sufficient fund.

B.No ready-made components were available.

C.There was no model in their mind.

D.It was hard for them to assemble the components.

2.What do we know about the robotic fly?

A.The robotic fly has been put into wide application.

B.The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system.

C.The robotic fly can collect information from many sources.

D.The robotic fly can fly well with the cooperation of individual components.

3.Which of the following can be learned from the passage?

A.The robotic fly can replace animals in some experiments.

B.Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.

C.The robotic fly is designed to learn about insects.

D.There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.

4.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A.The Development of Robotic Fly

B.Robotic Fly Promotes Engineering Science

C.Harvard’s Efforts in Making Robotic Fly

D.Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect

 

    Boomerang children who return to live with their parents after university can be good for families, leading to closer, more supportive relationships and increased contact between the generations, a study has found.

The findings contradict research published earlier this year showing that returning adult children trigger a significant decline in their parents’ quality of life and wellbeing.

The young adults taking part in the study were “more positive than might have been expected” about moving back home – the shame is reduced as so many of their peers are in the same position, and they acknowledged the benefits of their parents’ financial and emotional support. Daughters were happier than sons, often slipping back easily into teenage patterns of behaviour, the study found.

Parents on the whole were more uncertain, expressing concern about the likely duration of the arrangement and how to manage it. But they acknowledged that things were different for graduates today, who leave university with huge debts and fewer job opportunities.

The families featured in the study were middle-class and tended to view the achievement of adult independence for their children as a “family project”. Parents accepted that their children required support as university students and then as graduates returning home, as they tried to find jobs paying enough to enable them to move out and get on the housing ladder.

“However,” the study says, “day-to-day tensions about the prospects of achieving different dimensions of independence, which in a few extreme cases came close to conflict, characterized the experience of a majority of parents and a little over half the graduates”.

Areas of divergence included chores, money and social life. While parents were keen to help, they also wanted different relationships from those they had with their own parents, and continuing to support their adult children allowed them to remain close.

1.What is the finding of the previous research?

A.Boomerang children made their parents happier.

B.The parents were looking forward to their children’s return.

C.The parents’ quality of life became worse than before.

D.Boomerang children never did any housework.

2.What are college graduates’ attitudes towards returning home?

A.They are ashamed of turning to their parents for help.

B.They are glad that they could come back.

C.They are doubtful about whether they should return.

D.They are proud to be independent from the family.

3.What is the reason for the “boomerang children” phenomenon?

A.The children want to keep in closer touch with their parents.

B.The parents want to provide support to their children.

C.It is harder for the children to secure a satisfying job.

D.There is more housework needed to be done by the children.

4.The underlined word “divergence” in paragraph 7 may be best replaced by ________.

A.disagreement B.harmony C.responsibility D.cooperation

 

    Rebecca Munkombwe, an 11-year-old girl from Zimbabwe, is regarded as a hero for saving a 9-year-old friend from the jaws of a crocodile by jumping orthe crocodile and gouging () its eyes out.

According to Zimbabwean media, Rebecca and her friends had just got back from a swim in a stream near their home village when they heard the screams corning from the water. She was shocked to see her 9-year-old friend Latoya Muwani being dragged into the water by a crocodile. While all the other children were running scared, Rebecca ran toward the water, jumped on top of the crocodile and started beating it with her bare fists. However, that didn’t seem to bother the crocodile at all, so she then used her fingers to gouge its eyes out until it loosened its grasp of Latoya. Once she was free, Rebecca swam with her to the bank.

Surprisingly, the 11-year-old heroine managed to save her young friend without suffering any wounds, while Latoya was lucky to escape with just mild wounds that were later treated at a regional hospital. Latoya’s parents praised Rebecca’s courage and thanked her for saving their daughter’s life. “I was at work when I learnt that my daughter had been attacked by a crocodile while swimming. For a moment I thought of the worst before I learnt that she’d survived after being saved by Rebecca,” Latoya’s father, Fortune Muwani, said. “I don’t know how she managed to do that, but I’m grateful to her.”

Local authorities confirmed the crocodile attack, adding that the number of such incidents was increasing. Apparently, the lack of easily accessible water sources (水源) is forcing women and children to use unprotected sources like this crocodile-infested (遍布鳄鱼的) stream.

1.What made Rebecca Munkombwe a hero?

A.Her catching a crocodile hare-handed.

B.Her rescuing a drowning friend in time.

C.Her helping a friend out of deadly danger.

D.Her making friends with a wild crocodile.

2.Which of the following words can best describe Rebecca?

A.Brave and smart. B.Calm and careful.

C.Honest and considerate. D.Courageous and patient.

3.What message do Fortune Muwani’s words convey?

A.He knew every detail about the rescuing process.

B.Latoya’s conditions were far better than expected.

C.Latoya’s being attacked by a crocodile sounded unbelievable.

D.He regretted not accompanying Latoya while she was swimming.

4.Why were crocodile attacks on the rise?

A.Because people have poor awareness of safety.

B.Because people enjoy getting close to animals in the wild.

C.Because people have little knowledge of accessible water sources.

D.Because people have to share limited water sources with wild animals.

 

Dive into Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater art exhibits from around the world

Creating the world's first underwater sculpture(雕像) park in Grenada in 2006, and with over 1,000 underwater artworks across the globe, deCaires Taylor has artfully highlighted the threats to our oceans while actively helping to create new life in them.Here are some of the underwater art exhibits.

Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park

Grenada, West Indies

Installed in 2006 after Molinere Bay suffered destructive damage from the 2004 Hurricane Ivan, these 75 underwater art pieces formed the world's first underwater sculpture park and was name done of National Geographic's 25 Wonders of the World.It now provides a new habitat for marine life,and it also draws divers and glass-bottomed boats away from more delicate reefs nearby.

Ocean Atlas

Nassau, Bahamas

Off the coast of Nassau sits the world's largest underwater sculpture, shallow enough for divers to view.This 60-ton,16-foot tall statue of a young Bahamian girl appears to hold up the ocean, just like her Greek namesake (同名人物) Atlas, who suspended the heavens in Greek myth(神话) .

The Rising Tide

London, U.K.

Unlike most of deCaires Taylor's works, these sculptures can be seen from land,on the banks of the River Thames, emerging during low tide. Within sight of the Houses of Parliament, they are a nod to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and are a reminder of rising sea levels and the denial of climate change.

Museum of Underwater Art

Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Expected to open to the public in early 2020, deCaires Taylor's latest project aims to rehabilitate parts of the world's largest reef system. Works in the underwater museum include a partially-submerged(半淹没的)figure that changes color as the sea warms and which can be seen from shore, and even a submerged coral-covered greenhouse.

1.What do deCaires Taylor's underwater art exhibits have in common?

A.Becoming National Geographic's Wonders of the World.

B.Sharing names with gods in Greek myth.

C.Changing colors with water temperature.

D.Combining art with saving ocean creatures.

2.Where can you see the largest underwater sculpture?

A.Grenada. B.Nassau.

C.London. D.Great Barrier Reef.

3.Which is intended to save the world's largest reef system?

A.Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park.

B.Ocean Atlas.

C.The Rising Tide.

D.Museum of Underwater Art.

 

听下面一段独白,回答以下小题。

1.Why do some people say they never have dreams according to Dr. Garfield ?

A.They forget about their dreams.

B.They don’t want to tell the truth.

C.They have no bad experiences.

2.Why did Davis stop having dreams?

A.He got a serious heart attack.

B.He was too sad about his brother’s death

C.He was frightened by a terrible dream.

3.What is Dr. Garfield s opinion about dreaming?

A.It is very useful.

B.It makes things worse.

C.It prevents the mind from working.

4.Why do some people turn off their dreams completely?

A.To sleep better.

B.To recover from illnesses.

C.To stay away from their problems.

 

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