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根据下面的英文提示，结合生活中的实例，谈谈你对失败的看法。 In fact ,there aren't always bright sunshine and gentle breeze, birds' singing and flowers fragrant in our daily life . We have so many failures and hardships that someone will be disappointed and give up the hope of success, but life is what you make it. _____________________________________________________
完成句子（共10题，每小题2分，满分20分） 1. for too long does harm to our health. (expose) 在太阳下晒太久对我们的健康有害。 2.Unluckily, yesterday I had a case stealing something, which mad me feel extremely terrible. (accuse) 很不幸，昨天我碰到这种情况：有人指责我偷了东西，这令我感到糟糕透了。 3.It is I for the thing. (blame) 是我应该为这件事负责任。 4.My husband and I are very busy, and only once in a while to see my parents. (go) 我丈夫和我都很忙，我们只是偶尔回家看一下我的父母亲。 5.Would you come over to my house .（if) 如果你方便的话到我家来一下。 6.Meanwhile you have to prepare the next question (depend). 同时，你必须须根据那个陌生人所说的来准备下一个问题。 7. The teacher is surprised that he in his English study in the past few months. (progress) 老师很惊讶，在过去的几个月里他在英语学习上取得了很大的进步 。 8.You cannot be too careful, because the more enthusiastic the stranger appears, he is to take you in. (likely) 你要相当小心，这个陌生人表现得越热情，他就越可能会欺骗你。 9.If your skin , it can be very serious. (get) 如果你的皮肤烧伤了，有可能会很严重。 10.It seems that the conflict with better communication ,but they were both unwilling to give in. (avoid) 好像这个矛盾通过更好的沟通原本是可以避免的，但是双方都不愿让步。
Deep in the Amazon forest, thousands of people still live in isolation from the rest of the world. In a recent press release, the Brazilian government confirmed the existence of another isolated tribe of about 200 people living in the Vale do Javari reservation. The 200 people living in the Vale do Javari reservation. The reservation, located near the Peruvian border, is about the size of Portugal. At least another 14 isolated tribes, with a total population of about 2000, call the area home. The newly observed group lives on four large straw-roofed buildings and grows corn, peanut and other crops. Brazil’s National Indian Foundation (BNTF) first noticed the reservation in the forest using satellite maps, but it wasn’t until April that an airplane expedition was able to confirm the tribe’s existence. “The work of finding and protecting isolated groups is part of Brazilian public policy,” said the BNIF officer for Vale do Javari, Fabricio Amorim. “To confirm something like this takes years of hard work.” BNIF estimates there are 68 isolated tribes living in the Amazon. The organization uses airplanes to avoid disturbing the tribes through personal contact, but that doesn’t mean others are so respectful of their right to privacy. Illegal fishing, woodcutting and hunting bring people into the protected area. Oil exploration on the Peruvian side of the border is another threat. All kinds of criminals also invade the lands of the local groups, said Amorim. The outsiders can damage the land and influence the cultures of indigenous(土著的)peoples. They can also bring diseases which can wipe out the whole population that still lack even basic antibiotics(抗生素). Brazil’s indigenous peoples won the legal right to their traditional lands in Brazil’s 1988 Constitution, which stated that all indigenous lands shall be divided and turned over to tribes within five years. Indigenous groups now control 11 percent of Brazil’s territory, including 22 percent of the Amazon. Allowing indigenous groups the right homelands is not just a matter of human rights. The rest of the world can benefit from their knowledge. Mark Plotkin has spent years living with the people of the Amazon and learning from their traditional healers. In his lecture, he pointed out that many useful materials and knowledge, including numerous drugs, can be gained from listening to the indigenous groups of the Amazon. Besides this, they are also more effective at protecting the land, and less expensive, than hired rangers(护林人). 1.The underlined word in the first paragraph probably means “a state of ”.
2.From the passage we can learn that the tribes in the Amazon forest .
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to Amorim?
4.The last paragraph is mainly about .
The novelist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, born 200 years ago, was a poor housewife with six children, and she suffered from various illnesses. Driven by the hatred of slavery, she found time to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which became the most influential novel in American history and caused great change, both at home and abroad. Today, however, the book has a different reputation, owing to the popular image of its character, Uncle Tom, whose name has become a saying for a cowardly（懦弱的）black man who betrays his race. But this view is wrong: the original Uncle Tom was physically and morally strong, an inspiration for black people and other oppressed（被压迫的）people worldwide. Indeed, that was why, in the mid-19th century, Southerners attacked Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a dangerously destructive book, while Northern reformers—especially black people—often praised it. The book was influential overseas too. In Russia it inspired Vladimir Lenin, who recalled it as his favorite book in childhood. It was the first American novel to be translated and published in China, and it fueled anti-slavery movements in Cuba and Brazil. The book’s progressive appeal was the character of Uncle Tom himself: a strong man who is notable because he does not betray his race; one reason he gives up escaping from his plantation（种植园）is that he doesn’t want to put his fellow slaves in danger. And he is finally killed because he refuses to tell his master where two runaway slaves are hiding. Unfortunately, these themes were lost in many of the stage versions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The play, seen by more people than those who read the book, remained popular up to the 1950s and still appears occasionally. But in the play, Stowe’s revolutionary themes were drowned. But it doesn’t have to be that way; indeed; during the civil rights era it was those who most closely resembled Uncle Tom—Stowe’s Uncle Tom, not the embarrassed one of popular myth—that proved most effective in promoting progress. Both Stowe and Uncle Tom deserve our reconsideration and our respect. 1.Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin because she .
2. Which of the following is TRUE about the influence of the book?
3.What can we learn about Uncle Tom in the book?
4.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
After two classes, I started to recognize several of the faces in each class. There was always someone braver than the others who would introduce themselves and ask me questions about how I was liking Forks. I tried to be diplomatic, so mostly I just lied a lot to appear to be skilled at dealing with people. At least I never needed the map. One girl sat next to me in both Trig and Spanish, and she walked with me to the cafeteria for lunch. She was tiny, several inches shorter than my five feet four inches, but her wildly curly dark hair made up a lot of the difference between our heights. I couldn't remember her name, so I smiled and nodded as she gossiped about teachers and classes. I didn't try to keep up. We sat at the end of a full table with several of her friends, who she introduced to me. I forgot all their names as soon as she spoke them. They seemed impressed by her bravery in speaking to me. The boy from England Eric, waved at me from across the room. It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them. They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room. There were five of them. They weren't talking, and they weren't eating, though they each had a tray of untouched food in front of them. They weren't staring at me, unlike most of the other students, so it was safe to stare at them without fear of meeting an over interested pair of eyes. But it was none of these things that caught and held my attention. I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all extremely, inhumanly beautiful. They were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine, or painted by an old master as the face of an angel. It was hard to decide who was the most beautiful -- maybe the perfect blond girl, or the bronze-haired boy. 1.What does the underlined word “diplomatic” mean?
2.From the passage, we can infer that _______________.
3. According to the last two paragraphs, why did “they” catch “my” attention?
4.According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?
Mothers can still offer comfort, even from a distance, a new study has found. The results show that simply hearing their mothers’ voice over the phone works just as well at calming the nerves of stressed children as a real-life pat on the shoulder. The soothing（抚慰的）effect is most likely due to the release of the hormone（荷尔蒙）, oxytocin（催生素）, in the brain, the researchers say. This “love hormone” is known to quell stress and is likely to be involved in social connections, including those between a mother and a child. Previous work has revealed that this hormone is released during physical contact with a mother. “But it’s clear from these results that a mother’s voice can have the same effect as a hug, even if she isn’t actually standing there,” said the researcher, Leslie Seltzer, a biological scientist. Seltzer tested a group of 61 girls, aged 7 to 12, by having them make an unprepared speech and solve a series of maths problems in front of a group of strangers, sending their hearts racing and levels of cortisol—a hormone associated with stress—soaring. Facing a challenge like that raises stress levels of a lot of people. Once stressed, a third of the girls were comforted in person by their mothers with hugs. A third of the girls watched an emotionally neutral 75-minute video. The rest were handed a telephone with their mothers on the line. For the girls who interacted in person or over the phone with their mothers, the levels of the “love hormone” rose significantly, and the stress-marking hormone was washed away. This effect didn’t show up for participants who watched the video. Seltzer is now testing the amount of oxytocin released with other communication methods—like text messaging—and hopes to see the research spread out from human subjects. “It’s not just us, of course. Lots of very social species have voices,” she said. “on the one hand, we are curious to see if this effect is unique to humans. On the other, we’re hoping researchers who study vocal communication will consider looking at oxytocin release in other animals and apply it to broader questions of social behavior and evolutionary biology. 1.Mothers’ voice over the phone can reduce children’s nerves according to the study, because .
2.The underlined word “quell” in the second paragraph probably means “ ”.
3. From the study, we know that .
4.From the last paragraph, we can conclude that .
It may not be news to parents of teenage girls, but researchers have confirmed that no one can stop their 16-year-old daughter from deciding how the family spends its money. The willpower and determination of teenage girls give them a big say in how a family’s money is spent on everything from food and meals to mobile phones, and, of course, clothes. Teenage boys did not show up at all in the analysis, which was designed to find out the influence of young people on household spending. The findings on the spending power of teenage girls were calculated from Office for National Statistics records of family spending during the 1980s and 1990s. Researchers examined how much money went on services and leisure goods in different kinds of homes. They checked spending on food, restaurant meals, alcohol, tobacco, services, heating, transport, clothes and sports in 2,745 British families. They found that teenage girls in the UK typically played an active role in family decisions about the allocation（分配）of household resources. But older children— those over the age of 21 who are still living with their parents—appear to have no say in household decisions. They also tried to calculate to what extent the bargaining power of a teenager affected family budgets. “Every parent knows that children, even at a very early age, have their own preferences with regard to consumption, researchers said. “But children are only interested in a limited range of goods—mainly sweets and toys—and parents are able to use punishment to reduce their children’s bargaining power or remove it.” When they become teenagers, however, girls are much more independent and they are capable of earning their own money, which improves their bargaining power in family decisions. The researchers could not explain why girls have more influence over spending while the evidence for boys is much less conclusive. However, this study could be of great significance to market research and how marketers target children. 1. From the passage we can learn that .
2.What does the underlined part “give them a big say” in the second paragraph mean?
3.It appears that household decisions are NOT affected by .
4.How can parents reduce children’s bargaining power?
Dear son, The day that you see me old and I am already not in good health, have patience and try to understand me. If I get dirty when eating, if I can not dress, have patience and remember the hours I spent 31 it to you. If, when I speak to you, I 32 the same things thousand and one times, do not 33 me, listen to me. When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story 34 you got to sleep. When I do not want to have a 35 , neither shame me nor scold me. Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I 36 , in order that you wanted to bathe. When you see my 37 little about new technologies, give me the necessary time and do not look at me with your mocking( 嘲弄 ) smile. I taught you 38 to do so many things: to eat good, to dress well, to confront life…. When at some moment I lose the memory or the 39 of our conversation, let me have the necessary time to remember, and if I cannot do it, do not become nervous, as the most important thing is not our conversation but surely to be with you and to have you 40 to me. If ever I do not want to eat, do not force me. I know well 41 I need to and when not. When my 42 legs do not allow me to walk, give me your 43 , the same way I did when you gave your first 44 . And when someday I say to you that I do not want to 45 any more ---- that I want to rest forever, do not get 46 . Someday you will understand. Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived. Some day you will discover that, despite my mistakes, I always wanted the 47 thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you. You must not feel sad, angry or impotent( 无可奈何 ) for seeing me 48 you. You must be next to me, try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you 49 living. Help me to walk, help me to end my way with love and 50 . I will pay you by a smile and by the immense love I have had always for you. I love you, Son. Your father
The shortage of entry-level job is the main reason that more university students are business of their own right after graduation.
The economic plan announced by the government soon after the crisis was greeted enthusiastically .
Do please your work; you must concentrate on what is important for your future development.
As technology continues to advance，we must learn and adapt or we'll risk becoming a dinosaur.
Although China has developed its economy greatly, its per capital GDP is still one-tenth of the United States.
--What should I do? ---You should slow the bleeding by pressure to the wound until the police and ambulance arrive .
Some American women were the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.
Public attitudes towards people with disabilities must be changed. The disabled more opportunities to develop their potential.
Some 6.6 million tickets are through the London website over a six-week period and organizers say all applications will be treated equally.
In 21st century universities in the US, there is little room for traditional literature because students feel a lot of to study science.
请从下列人物中选择你最喜欢的一位，用英语写一篇120词左右的短文。要求根据所给信息作适当发挥，且需包括以下三部分内容： 1．对该人物的简单介绍； 2．喜欢该人物的理由； 3．从该人物身上得到的启示。
下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。 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。 例如： It was very nice to get your invitation to spend ∧ weekend with you. Luckily I was the am
on evening. Sport is necessary for everyone. It help you keep fit. Fitness is important if you want to be healthy throughout yours life. The best way to keep fit is to get plenty exercise by doing sport. According to scientists, doing sport can benefit to people a lot mentally as well as physically. The more sport they do, the happy they will feel. Besides, sport can help people develop will and determination. These qualities help people achieve their goals so they will not give up so easily when faced difficulties. What's more, sport builds team’s spirit, which is good for the whole society. It helps people work close and smoothly and think about others, not just themselves. As conclusion, sport is good for your health and happiness, and for society.
单词拼写（每空一词，共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 1.The whole city are discussing how to make the chemically p____________ river clean. 2.The Christian Church used to think the earth was the c__________ of the solar system, which is completely wrong. 3.Many so-called m____________ art works are really hard to understand. 4.At her story, we were all d____________ moved, almost to tears. 5.English g_____________ might be boring but it is necessary in language learning. 6.To my surprise, it t________ out that I was wrong! 7.Only by u__________ force could the door be opened. 8.She was so tired after the long journey that she f__________ fast asleep. 9.Always keep the matter of s_________ in mind when you’re driving. 10.You can get b__________ by hot liquids, steam, fire, the sun, chemicals and so on.
Getting rid of dirt, in the opinion of most people, is a good thing. However, there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt. In the early 16th century, people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease, as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538, the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. So did the king of England in 1546. Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way. Henry IV, King of France, was famously dirty. Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath, the king ordered that, to avoid the attack of disease, the nobleman should not go out. Though the belief in the merit (优点) of dirt was long-lived, dirt has no longer been regarded as a nice neighbor ever since the 18th century. Scientifically speaking, cleaning away dirt is good to health. Clean water supply and hand washing are practical means of preventing disease. Yet, it seems that standards of cleanliness have moved beyond science since World War II. Advertisements repeatedly sell the idea: clothes need to be whiter than white, cloths ever softer, surfaces to shine. Has the hate for dirt, however, gone too far? Attitudes to dirt still differ hugely nowadays. Many first-time parents nervously try to warn their children off touching dirt, which might be responsible for the spread of disease. On the contrary, Mary Ruebush, an American immunologist (免疫学家), encourages children to play in the dirt to build up a strong immune system. And the latter position is gaining some ground. 1.The kings of France and England in the 16th century closed bath houses because ________. A. they lived healthily in a dirty environment. B. they thought bath houses were too dirty to stay in C. they believed disease could be spread in public baths D. they considered bathing as the cause of skin disease 2.Which of the following best describes Henry IV's attitude to bathing? A. Afraid. B. Curious. C. Approving. D. Uninterested. 3.How does the passage mainly develop? A. By providing examples. B. By making comparisons (比较). C. By following the order of time. D. By following the order of importance. 4.What is the author's purpose in writing the passage? A. To stress the role of dirt. B. To introduce the history of dirt. C. To call attention to the danger of dirt. D. To present the change of views on dirt.
If there is one thing I’m quite sure about, it is that in a hundred years from now we still be reading newspapers. Not those newspapers are a necessity. Even now some people get most of the news from the television or have the radio switched on in the background or in the car. Many buy a paper only on Saturday or Sunday. But for most people a newspaper has become a habit passed down from generation to generation. The basic British character won’t change, and one of the characteristics of the British is that we don’t much like talking to each other when we get up. So what better way is there to keep yourself thinking in the morning than to wrap yourself in a newspaper? Over the past couple of centuries, human beings have developed a close relationship with the newspaper. It has become as natural as breathing or enjoying the sun. And it is not just the British who love newspapers. On suburban trains in Calcutta, for instance, just one person in the whole car will buy a newspaper and read aloud the best bits to his fellow passengers, much to everybody’s enjoyment. The nature of what is news may change. What essentially (本质上) makes news is what affects our lives and the big political stories, the coverage of the wars, earthquakes and other disasters, will continue much the same. I think there will be more coverage of scientific research, though. It’s already happening in areas that may directly affect our lives, like genetic engineering. In the future I think there will be more coverage of scientific explanations of why we feel as we do, whether it’s love or depression. We develop a better understanding of how the brain operates and what our feelings really are. It’s quite possible that in the next century newspaper will be transmitted electronically from the national equivalents of Fleet Street (伦敦的舰队街，以报馆集中而著称) and printed out in our own homes. In fact, I’m pretty sure that that is how it will happen in future. You’ll be probably selecting from a menu, making up your own bespoke newspaper by picking out the things you want to read and say. You might even have an intelligent screening device (装置) to do the job for you. I think people have got it wrong when they talk about the competition between the different media. They actually have a relationship, feeding off each other. It was once predicted that television would kill off newspapers, which hasn’t happened. What is read on the printed page is more enduring (持久的) than pictures on a flickering screen or sound lost in the sky. And as for the Internet, it’s never really satisfying to read something just on a screen. 1.The author of the passage is most probably from _______________. A. Russia B. India C. Britain D. America 2.According to the passage, the future of newspapers ____________. A. will be mainly connected with scientific research B. will report more important political activities C. will directly cover more on scientific research D. will build a bridge between different people 3.The underlined part “bespoke newspaper” of the passage probably refers to _____________. A. a newspaper which dares to report the truth B. a newspaper edited to one’s own interest C. a newspaper edited and published for the public D. a newspaper which only covers the life of family members 4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. It was centuries ago that newspapers came into being . B. Televisions have taken the place of newspapers . C. The Internet will gradually take the place of newspapers. D. The nature of news may remain the same over generations.
What will city life be like in the future? Some people think that life in the cities is going to be horrible. They say that cities will become more and more crowded. As the number of people increases, there will be less space for each person. This overcrowding will cause other problems — more crime, dirtier streets , and worse problems with traffic than we have now. How will people find enough drinking water, energy (such as gas and electricity ), and housing? Because life will be hard, people who live in cities will worry more, and they may become sick. For these reasons, some say that nobody will want to live in city areas. How can we deal with such problems as overcrowding, crime, and traffic? In some cities, thousands of people are already sleeping in the streets because there is little suitable housing — and because houses are too expensive. The crime rate isn’t going down. Instead, it is increasing so fast that many people are afraid to go out at night. Traffic is also getting worse. More and more often, traffic jams are so bad that cars don’t move at all for several streets. These problems have been getting worse, not better, so many people see no hope for the future of the city. Los Angeles, California, for example, has no subway system and buses are slow. Instead, many commuters (乘、开车上班族) drive many miles from their homes to work. Many of these drivers spend several hours each day on busy freeways. New York, however, has a big transit system — buses, commuter trains, and subways. Because the public transportation is crowded and dirty, many people drive private cars, and the traffic jams are worse than that in Los Angeles. A taxi driver complains, “I was driving home, but in forty-five minutes I moved only two miles! Finally, I turned off the engine and just sat there. A lot of people left their cars where they were in the middle of the street and went into a bar for a few beers!” On the other hand, some cities have clean, fast and pleasant public transportation systems. In Paris, France, and Toronto, Canada, for example, anyone can use buses or subways to move quickly from one part of the city to another. 1.What do some people think is the main problem of the future city like? A. Poor housing. B. Overcrowding. C. Environmental pollution. D. Traffic jams. 2.The best way to work out the traffic problem in Los Angels might be _________________. A. cutting down the number of private cars B. providing more buses in the freeway C. building a subway system D. persuading people to live nearer to their workplaces 3.Which of the following sentences is NOT TRUE? A. Thousands of people are already sleeping in the streets. B. The crime rate isn’t going down. C. The traffic jams are so bad that cars don’t move at all for several streets. D. Many people have a positive attitude towards the future of the city.
It was the summer of 1965. DeLuca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plans for the future. “I’m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,” Deluca recalls saying. “Buck said, ‘you should open a sandwich shop.’ ” That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $ 1,000. DeLuca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn’t cover their start-up costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000. But business didn’t go smoothly as they expected. DeLuca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn’t know how badly, because we didn’t have any financial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs. DeLuca was managing the store and going to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They’d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, ‘ We are so successful, we are opening a second store.’” And they did — in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error. But the partners’ learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, DeLuca would drive around and hand-deliver the checks to pay their suppliers. “It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn’t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out,” DeLuca says. And having a goal was also important. “There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal,” DeLuca adds. DeLuca ended up founding Subway Sandwich, the multi-million-dollar restaurant chain. 1.Deluca opened the first sandwich shop in order to _________________________. A. support his family B. pay for his college education C. help his partner expand business D. do some research 2.Which of the following is true of Buck? A. He put money into the sandwich business. B. He was a professor of business administration (管理). C. He was studying at the University of Bridgeport. D. He rented a storefront for DeLuca. 3.What can we learn about their first shop? A. It stood at an unfavorable place. B. It lowered the prices to promote sales. C. It made no profits due to poor management. D. It lacked control over the quality of sandwiches. 4.They decided to open a second store because they ______________________. A. had enough money to do it B. had succeeded in their business C. wished to meet the increasing demand of customers D. wanted to make believe that they were successful 5.What contributes most to their success according to the author? A. Learning by trial and error. B. Making friends with suppliers. C. Finding a good partner. D. Opening chain stores.
We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. I dressed them nicely for the party, and told them that their job was to join Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang. Mommy would introduce them to the guests, and then they would take the guests’ coats upstairs and put them on the bed in the second bedroom. The guests arrived. I introduced my two daughters to each of them. The adults were nice and kind and said how lucky we were to have such good kids. Each of the guests made a particular fuss over Kelly, the younger one, admiring her dress, her hair and her smile. They said she was a remarkable girl to be carrying coats upstairs at her age. I thought to myself that we adults usually make a big “to do” over the younger one because she’s the one who seems more easily hurt. We do it with the best of intentions. But we seldom think of how it might affect the other child. I was a little worried that Kristen would feel she was being outshined. I was about to serve dinner when I realized that she had been missing for twenty minutes. I ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom, crying. I said, “What are you doing, my dear?” She turned to me with a sad expression and said, “Mommy, why don’t people like me the way they like my sister? Is it because I’m not pretty? Is that why they don’t say nice things about me as much?” I tried to explain to her, kissing and hugging her to make her feel better. Now whenever I visit a friend’s home, I make it a point to speak to the elder child first. 1. The underlined expression “make a big ‘to do’ over” (paragraph 4) means ______________. A. pay much attention to B. have a special effect on C. list jobs to be done for D. do good things for 2.We can conclude from the passage that _______________________________. A. parents should pay more attention to the elder children B. the younger children are usually more easily hurt C. people usually like the younger children more D. adults should treat children equally 3.The guests praised Kelly for carrying coats upstairs because of her __________________. A. beautiful hair B. pretty clothes C. lovely smile D. young age 4.Kristen felt sad and cried because ________________________. A. the guests gave her more coats to carry B. she didn’t look as pretty as Kelly C. the guests praised her sister more than her D. her mother didn’t introduce her
Standing on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a police officer saw a car moving slowly at 18 MPH. He _36_ to himself, “This driver is just as _37 as a speeder!” So __38 _ he turned on his lights and pulled the driver over. 39 the car, he noticed that 40 were five old ladies — two in the front seat and __41__three in the back, their eyes wide and faces white as ghosts. The driver, obviously 42_ , said to him, “Officer, I don’t understand. I was _43__ exactly the speed limit! _44__ seems to be the problem?” “Ma’am,” the officer replied, “You weren’t _45__, but you should know that driving _46__ than the speed limit can also be a(n) __47 to other drivers.” “Slower than the speed limit? No, sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly…Eighteen miles per hour!” The old woman said a bit __48_ . The police officer, trying to _49_ a laugh, explained to her that “18” was the route number, _ 50_ the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the old woman smiled and thanked the officer for _51_ out her error. “But before I let you _52_ , Ma’am, I have to ask if everyone in this car is all right? These women seem very _53_ and they didn’t make a single sound the whole time.”The police officer asked. “Oh, they will be all right _54 a minute, officer. We just _55__ Route 128.” 1.A. turned B. thought C. came D. agreed 2.A. dangerous B. well C. silly D. soon 3.A. tightly B. immediately C. privately D. deadly 4.A. Suspecting B. Blaming C. Starting D. Approaching 5.A. those B. they C. there D. these 6.A. other B. more C. else D. another 7.A. confused B. worried C. delighted D. excited 8.A. increasing B. reaching C. lowering D. doing 9.A. How B. What C. When D. Where 10.A. running B. breaking C. speeding D. concentrating 11.A. slower B. safer C. faster D. higher 12.A. guide B. demand C. aid D. danger 13.A. nervously B. proudly C. roughly D. constantly 14.A. control B. give C. make D. show 15.A. or B. but C. not D. and 16.A. pointing B. speaking C. taking D. squeezing 17.A. drive B. go C. laugh D. run 18.A. united B. exhausted C. worried D. tolerated 19.A. in B. after C. for D. with 20.A. sped up B. left out C. broke down D. got off
___________ from the top of the hill, the town looks like a diamond. A. Having seen B. Seeing C. To see D. Seen
— Do you know Laura’s address? — _____________. As a matter of fact, I don’t know any Laura, either. A. I think so B. I’m afraid not C. I hope so D. I’d rather not
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