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The space shuttle Discovery has had a long and busy career. For 27 years, it has worked for NASA, carrying astronauts to space and back on 39 missions. On March 9, 2011, after returning from its final voyage, the world’s most traveled spaceship was retired. A crowd of shuttle workers, reporters and schoolchildren waited to greet Discovery at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three minutes before noon, they watched as the shuttle appeared in the sky and made one last touchdown. “For the final time: wheels stop,” Discovery’s commander Steven Lindsey said when the shuttle rolled to a stop. Discovery’s final trip was to the International Space Station (ISS), a giant space lab in the sky. Discovery’s crew took care of the last U.S. construction project at ISS. They delivered 10 tons of supplies for the ISS. The six-person crew also dropped off an unusual companion for ISS’s researchers: a human-like robot named Robonaut 2. Astronauts will assemble（组装）R2 at the ISS over several months. Now, NASA is winding down its shuttle programme. NASA is to begin work on new spaceships that can travel longer distances. Discovery’s retirement is the first of three. Endeavor, another shuttle, is scheduled to make its final voyage soon. And Atlantis’s last trip is planned for the end of June. Museums across the country have requested the retired shuttles. The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C., was the lucky recipient（接收者）of Discovery. The museum’s collection contains hundreds of NASA artifacts. Where will the other shuttles go? You’ll have to wait to find out. NASA will announce its decision on April 12, the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launching. Stay tuned! 1.As part of the final mission, Discovery’s crew___________. A. carried researches to space B. assembled the Robonaut 2 at the ISS C. brought supplies to the ISS D. went on a spacewalk 2.The underlined phrase “winding down” in Paragraph 4 probably means _________. A. improving B. ending C. changing D. testing 3.What can we infer from the text? A. Discovery completed 39 missions during its two decades of space travel. B. The ISS is a big project and six researchers live on the station. C. American space exploration will focus on longer missions. D. The shuttles Endeavor and Atlantis will make their last missions next month. 4.According to the text, we can learn about ___________. A. people’s opinions of Discovery’s retirement B. the government’s concern about the shuttles’ future C. the shuttles’ final homes after retirement D. museums’ great interest in the retired shuttles
As educators, we often never know the influence we have on our students. It is always wonderful to have ___35___ students visit us and share the successes they have achieved. And those glorious moments, when we can instantly see the influence we have on a student, fuel us to continue making connections hoping to ___36___ in the life of every child. As a music teacher for twenty-seven years, I have always known that music ___37___ the soul. It can ___38___ all kinds of barriers to reach students in a very special way. It can be the ___39___ for each child to find their light. I would like to share a story about it. For a few years I was blessed with the opportunity to teach ___40___ students one afternoon a week. One of my most ___41___ students was a five-year-old girl called Vanessa, who had difficulty walking, and could not speak. We ___42___ sat on the floor for our music lessons and Vanessa liked to sit on my lap. One of her favorite songs was “John the Rabbit.” It was a call and response song where I sang the call and the students ___43___ twice while singing the repeating phrase, “Oh, yes!” Vanessa liked to ___44___ her hands together with mine and clap with me. We probably performed that song during every class, Vanessa and I clapping together. But she ___45___ said or sang a word. One day late in the school year, when the song was finished, Vanessa turned around, looked me dead in the eye, clapped her tiny hands twice and said the words “Oh, yes!” I opened my mouth in ___46___ and for that moment I was the one who could not speak. When my heart ___47___ started beating again, I looked over at the assistant teacher to find her also ___48___. Through music, we had made an awesome connection. Several years later, I passed Vanessa on the street in town. I stopped my car and waved to say hello. She waved back with a big ___49___ on her face and then clapped her hands twice, imitating the song we had ___50___ so many times in our music class. This precious little girl, ___51___ her connection with music, left an impression on me that will last forever. Every child has the ___52___ to learn and grow. It is up to us as educators to ___53___ the way to reach each and every one of our students. We all must find each child’s ___54___. 【题文1】A. late B. former C. recent D. present 【题文2】A. make it B. make sense C. make a mess D. make a difference 1.A. touches B. saves C. abandons D. feels 2.A. get across B. cut down C. take over D. break through 3.A. means B. direction C. process D. companion 4.A. disabled B. normal C. outgoing D. junior 5.A. awful B. elegant C. memorable D. sensitive 6.A. partly B. hardly C. nearly D. mostly 7.A. sang B. whispered C. yelled D. clapped 8.A. strike B. put C. hit D. shake 9.A. ever B. never C. still D. even 10.A. horror B. delight C. astonishment D. embarrassment 11.A. immediately B. completely C. slowly D. finally 12.A. scared B. breathless C. speechless D. clumsy 13.A. greeting B. smile C. expression D. affection 14.A. performed B. operated C. trained D. recorded 15.A. upon B. through C. from D. beyond 16.A. desire B. talent C. ability D. urge 17.A. discover B. change C. test D. make 18.A. strength B. dream C. light D. dignity
— I’m mad at what Jack said yesterday. — ________ ! He was just making a joke. A. Take your time B. All the best C. Lighten up D. Not at all
There is no doubt that our educational system leaves something __________. A. being desired B. to be desired C. to desire D. to have been desired
The boy ________ avoided being run over by a speeding car when crossing the busy street the other day. A. hardly B. slightly C. narrowly D. gently
I would love _____ to the party last night but I had to work extra hours to finish a report. A. to go B. going C. to have gone D. to be going
It’s reported that workers on London’s underground train network will go on strike（罢工）in ________ with colleagues losing their jobs at ticket offices. A. annoyance B. sympathy C. companion D. scare
He is the first person you can think of to rely on, for he is always willing to ________ whoever is in trouble. A. cut out B. figure out C. test out D. help out
His ex-husband, whom she _________ last year, is now living in America. A. divorced B. got divorced C. got married D. married to
These natural parks are important for preserving animals, which would ________ risk dying out. A. merely B. rather C. otherwise D. moreover
The Sina Microblog provides a good ________ for those who want to express their opinions and exchange their ideas with others. A. platform B. boundary C. teamwork D. relationship
As the clock ________ midnight, cinemas across the country screened the film, _________ China one of the first countries in the world to show it. A. knocked; making B. hit; made C. beat; which made D. struck; making
We’re all ready to put it into operation; __________, we’re going to take action as soon as possible. A. on the whole B. in general C. all in all D. in other words
We should give the disabled encouragement to live _________ as we do. A. as a rich and full life B. as rich and full a life C. so a rich and full life D. so rich and full a life
Had they known what was coming next, they ___________ second thoughts. A. may have B. could have C. must have had D. might have had
— What made Bill so angry? —____________. His girl friend promised to come at 8:30, but she hasn’t come yet. A. Having kept waiting B. Being kept waiting C. To be kept waiting D. He was kept waiting
People Who Moved China, hosted by CCTV, honors the people _______the valuable contributions should be remembered by every Chinese. A. whose B. of whom C. that D. of which
The manager urged older staff ________early retirement and new staff _______ more time for work. A. take up; to set aside B. took up; set aside C. would take up; to lay aside D. must take up; lay aside
The monkey suddenly emerged ________ the tree, frightening Lucy into screaming. A. from B. behind C. from behind D. on
21st Century, _____ weekly newspaper, provides us with ______ variety of fresh articles about campus studies and life. A. a; a B. the; the C. a; / D. the; /
假如你班要就“如何为高考做准备”开一个班会，请写一篇发言稿，谈谈你对高考备考过程中要注意的事项及建议理由：
注意： 1. 词数100-120 ，开头已为你写好（不计入总词数）； 2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 3. 参考词汇：明确的 (definite) 评价(estimation) No doubt every Senior 3 student wishes to be successful in the National College Entrance Examination. ____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
下面文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），并在该句下面写出该加的词。 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。 A Frenchman was once visiting London．He wished to take a walk to see a city．But he was afraid he might get lost because he knew no words of English．So before he left his hotel, he stopped in the first corner and carefully copied in his notebook the names of the street that he was staying．Then he walked on．At last, he got being lost．After several hours he found a policeman．The Frenchman tried his best to explain the policeman that he didn’t know the name of his hotel, and he knew the name of the street．He then showed the policeman that he copied in his notebook．It was read: “One-way street”．
下面文章中有五处（第81-85题）需要添加小标题。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各段意思的小标题。选项中有一项是多余选项。 A. Use business recordings B. Speak slowly and clearly C. Learn telephone manners D. Practice often with a friend E. Always be considerate of your friends F. Make sure you understand the other speaker Telephone tips If the phone rings and someone speaks in English, don’t be afraid to answer it! The fear of talking on the phone in a second language will disappear if you practice often. Here are a few tips for helping you improve your ability to answer a call in English. 81._______________ Listening to someone speaking in a second language over the telephone can be very challenging because you cannot see the person you are trying to hear. However, it may be even more difficult for the person you are talking with to understand you. You may not realize that your pronunciation isn’t clear because your teacher and fellow students know and understand you. Pay special attention to your weak areas of your pronunciation when you are on the phone. 82._______________ Don’t pretend to understand everything you hear over the telephone. Even native speakers ask each other to repeat and confirm information from time to time. This is especially important if you are taking a message for someone else. Learn the appropriate expressions that English speakers use when they don’t hear something properly. Don’t be afraid to remind the person to slow down more than once. Keep your telephone in an area that is away from other noise distractions such as a radio or television. 83._______________. Ask another student to practice talking on the phone with you. You might choose one night a week and take turns phoning each other at a certain time. Try to talk for at least fifteen minutes. You can talk socially, or role play different scenarios in a business environment. The most important thing about practicing telephone English is that you are not able to see each other’s mouths. 84. _______________. There are many ways to get free telephone English practice. After business hours, you can call and listen to recorded messages. Write down what you hear the first time, and then call back and check if your notes are accurate. Make sure you have a pen handy so that you can repeat the information and check your comprehension. 85._______________. The way that you speak to your best friend on the phone is very different from the way you should speak to someone in a business setting. Many speakers make the mistake of being too direct on the telephone. It is possible that the person on the other line will think that you are being rude on purpose if you don’t use formal language in certain situations. Sometimes just one word such as could or may is necessary in order to sound polite. Take the time to learn how to answer the phone and say goodbye in a polite manner, as well as all the various ways one can start and end a conversation casually. Listening to someone on the telephone is like listening to a taped recording in class. The only difference is that you have to talk back! Follow the tips above and remember that practice makes perfect!
Sport is not only physically challenging, but it can also be mentally challenging. Criticism from coaches, parents, and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create an excessive amount of anxiety or stress for young athletes(运动员). Stress can be physical, emotional, or psychological and research has indicated that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable. The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable experiences can take place. Young athletes can, for example, learn how to cooperate with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware, at all times, that their feedback to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters may take their parents' and coaches' criticisms to heart and find a flaw (缺陷) in themselves. Coaches and parents should also be cautious that youth sport participation does not become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In today's youth sport setting, young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game many parents and coaches focus on the outcome and find fault with youngsters' performances. Positive reinforcement should be provided regardless of the outcome. Research indicates that positive reinforcement motivates and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout. 1.An effective way to prevent the burnout of young athletes is ______
2.According to the passage sport is positive for young people in that ____ .
3.Many coaches and parents are in the habit of criticizing young athletes ______ .
4.According to the passage parents and coaches should _____________ .
5.The author's purpose in writing the passage is ____________ .
Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftop. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it is that most city people --- myself included --- usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors. My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life. I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply. Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We have television, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers. Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought, “Before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touched the moon.” 1.The best title for the passage would be _________.
2.The writer felt sorry for himself because __________.
3.What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
4.Modern things are mentioned mainly to ___________.
5.The author wrote the passage to __________.
As computers become all the more popular in China, Chinese people are increasingly relying on computer keyboards to input Chinese characters. But if they use the computer too much, they may end up forgetting the exact strokes of each Chinese character when writing on paper. Experts suggest people, especially students, write by hand more. Do you write by hand more or type more? In Beijing, students start using a computer as early as primary school. And computer dependence is more widespread among university students. Almost all their assignments and essays are typed on a computer. All the students interviewed say they usually use a computer. It’s faster and easier to correct if using a computer. And that’s why computers are being applied more and more often to modern education. But when people are taking stock in computers increasingly, problems appear. “When I’m writing with a pen, I find I often can’t remember how to write a character, though I feel I’m familiar with it.” “I’m not in the mood to write when faced with a pen and paper.” Many students don’t feel this is something to worry about. Now that it’s more convenient and efficient to write on a computer, why bother to handwrite? Many educators think differently. Shi Liwei, the headmaster of a famous primary school in the capital said, “Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic (审美的) value. But those characters typed with computer keyboards only maintain their practical value. All the artistic beauty of the characters is lost. And handwriting contains the writer’s emotion. Through one’s handwriting, people can get to know one’s thinking and personality. Beautiful writing will give people a better first impression of them.” To encourage students to handwrite more, many primary schools in Beijing have made writing classes compulsory(必修的) and in universities, some professors are asking students to turn in their homework and essays written by hand. 1.Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
2.The students interviewed prefer to write using a computer mainly because __________.
3.Which of the following statements in NOT the advantage of handwriting?
4.The underlined expression “taking stock in” probably means ___________.
5.We can draw the conclusion from the passage that ___________.
He almost didn’t see the old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front her Mercedes and got out. Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe; he looked poor and hungry. He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how she felt. He said, “I am here to help you, ma’am. Why don’t you wait in the car where it’s warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.” Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt. As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was just passing through. She couldn’t thank him enough for coming to her aid. Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened, had he not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were many people who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way. He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, “And think of me.” He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight. 1.This story most probably took place_______.
2.When the man approached the old lady, the first thing he did was to______.
3.The underlined part in Paragraph 6 suggests that________.
4.Which of the following words can best describe the man?
5.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______________.
About ten years ago, I was on a plane going west, and a young woman boarded and sat across the aisle (过道) from me. I ___41____ her for two reasons. She was very attractive, and she was holding a teddy bear about half her ____42____. I teased her by asking if she had a ___43___ for the bear. She laughed and said no. About halfway through the flight she ___44____ over and told me she was going to Tucson to enter rehab (进行康复治疗). She ___45___ to share her life story with me. She had been working as a dancer in a nightclub. That ___46____ had led her down a dark ____47____ to drugs and alcohol. As I listened to her story. I was ____48____ at all she had gone through. I listened to all she shared and told her I was sure she was going to ____49___ it. At the end of the flight, she ___50____ me for listening to her. A few years later, I got a ___51____ in the mail saying, “Wow, it’s been years since we met on that plane. It is ___52____ how you touched my life.” She went on to tell me that she had ____53____ to stay away from drugs, and had been working for a radio station. She felt she had achieved things she could not have ____54___ that day on the plane. We agreed to set up a time to get ___55___. When I saw her, she was ____56____ the attractive young woman I remembered. She told me that that little ___57___ we had had turned her life around. She had boarded the plane ___58___ anything would work in her life, and my affirmation (肯定) of her as a person and of her ___59___ had given her the last bit of ___60___ she needed to work through her problems. The young woman taught me it’s never too late to make a new start in life.
— I need to advertise for a second-hand mountain bike. — _______？David just plans to sell his present one.
According to a report, cigarette smoking____ in all indoor public places in China already.
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