A closet (储藏室) is a years - long collection of exactly what makes you the person you are. The _________ rose in my chest when my mom recently decided to move _________ it meant we would have to _________ out Dad's closet, nearly a decade after his death.
In the years after his death, I would sometimes walk into that closet. I had moved many miles away, starting a life elsewhere as my mom took pains to slowly _________ her home-sweeping away the dust of sadness, and making it once again a place for _________ and gathering.
In the closet, I could _________ the dad I had before he had a brain cancer. I _________ that would go away when my mom moved.
I rolled around _________ in bed. Could I stand to see this closet one last time before Mom moved? Would I find the _________ to help clear that stuff out?
Then, a __________: ''I had no idea, '' my mom said. ''I cleaned it out already. ''
The announcement knocked me sideways. What had she thrown out? Would seeing this __________ closet to which I’d __________ attributed such meaning jolt (震动) my heart and cause me to have a meltdown?
I flew home shortly thereafter, trying to keep my mind __________ it with fitful naps (打盹) on the plane. When I finally got through the front door, I knew where I was going: to see this empty closet that I swore would __________ me.
I pulled the doors open. What happened next __________ me: There was no panic—just __________. Sure, Dad's stuff was mostly __________, but I realized then that I didn't need to see it to __________ what we had. The objects were just an outer layer above the warm __________ I held within.
__________, clothes don't make the man, and though objects may help us tell a story, they are not stories themselves.
1.A.happiness B.relief C.tension D.mercy
2.A.if B.unless C.though D.because
3.A.pick B.clean C.find D.take
4.A.evolve B.design C.decorate D.love
5.A.depression B.warmth C.regret D.sleeping
6.A.support B.blame C.remember D.protect
7.A.anticipated B.confirmed C.swore D.worried
8.A.excitedly B.nervously C.mercifully D.hopelessly
9.A.strength B.chance C.privilege D.excuse
10.A.reply B.shock C.comfort D.blessing
11.A.outdated B.fashionable C.empty D.familiar
12.A.randomly B.openly C.secretly D.purposely
13.A.with B.off C.in D.to
14.A.crush B.raise C.heal D.astonish
15.A.surprised B.pressed C.frightened D.puzzled
16.A.excitement B.reluctance C.peace D.regret
17.A.worn B.sold C.gone D.left
18.A.discover B.understand C.abandon D.remember
19.A.services B.memories C.relationships D.events
20.A.Above all B.In addition C.By contrast D.After all
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________ athletes for several years, he decided to bring Chinese culture to more people through tai chi.
A.Having coached B.Coached C.Coaching D.Being coached
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The reform and opening-up policy introduced in the late 1970s ________ another boom in sci-fi appetite in China.
A.gave off B.showed off C.laid off D.kicked off
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Royal Dutch Shell is launching a $ 300 million and forestry program, at a time when an increasing number of oil companies are putting money in carbon offset (碳补偿)plans to meet climate goals. The company will spend the money over the next three years on projects to store carbon, including large forests in the Netherlands and Spain, and will start offering motorists the option of purchasing carbon offsets when they buy petrol at the pump.
The executives of the company explained that these carbon offset projects were a new business opportunity for Shell, as well as a way to meet its climate targets. “We believe that over time we will be building a business, because these carbon credits will become more valuable as carbon becomes more limited," they said. Shell recently decided to cut its net carbon footprint (碳排放)by 2-3 percent in five years, which includes emissions (排放)from the products it sells. The company plans to produce carbon credits from the forestry projects, then sell these credits on to customers buying its oil and gas products, or apply the credits to its own operations to lower its carbon footprint.
Plants absorb carbon dioxide as they grow and restoring forests and other natural areas is considered one of the simplest ways to store carbon. However, the voluntary market for carbon credits based on forestry projects has its critics, as projects in developing countries can be hard to monitor. Shell's move has also been criticized by some environmentalists. They worried that there was a risk of " greenwash when companies invested in forestry projects. "There is an entire debate about whether forestry projects truly reduce emissions or not," they said, pointing out that planting in one area could cause deforestation (滥伐森林)to another.
Shell said it would rely on the third party to ensure its forest program to meet the Voluntary Carbon Standard and strict biodiversity requirements. Mark Lewis, head of climate change investment research at BNP Paribas, said, " Planting trees to offset emissions, as far as it goes, is a step in the right direction."
1.What is popular among oil companies these days?
A.Studying climate changes.
B.Launching forestry programs.
C.Working out carbon offset plans.
D.Attracting motorists to buy their petrol.
2.How will Shell Company make profits from its carbon offset projects?
A.By quitting the emissions of its products.
B.By reducing its carbon footprint by a quarter.
C.By limiting the oil used by its own operations.
D.By putting carbon credits it produces on the market.
3.What concerns some environmentalists about forestry project?
A.The projects can't really stop carbon emissions.
B.The projects are hard to monitor in poor countries.
C.The projects may lead to deforestation in other forests.
D.The projects haven't met strict biodiversity requirements.
4.What does the underlined word "greenwash" in paragraph 3 mean?
A.Discount. B.Cheat.
C.Decline. D.Change.
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Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work, others that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes,accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales (童话)
The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained €10,000 with a cutting from the Braunschtveiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag; similar plain white anonymous (匿名)envelopes, each containing €10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.
The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least €190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of €500 inside , with a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.
"I was driving when I heard the news,” Claudia Neumann, the boy’s mother, told DerSpiegel magazine. “I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless. ”
The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible .and for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.
“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing," Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.
Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said: “Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know. ” However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.
1.The Braunschweiger Zeitung is the name of .
A.a church B.a bank C.a newspaper D.a magazine
2.Which of the following is TRUE about the donation to Tom?
A.The donation amounted to €190,000.
B.The donation was sent directly to his house.
C.The money will be used for his education.
D.His mother felt astonished at the donation.
3.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A.the donator is a rich old man
B.the donation will continue to come
C.the donation comes from the newspaper
D.the donator will soon be found out
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Money Is Raised by the Newspaper
B.Newspaper Distributes Money to
C.Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes
D.Robin Hood Returns to the City
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Directions:Write an English composition in around 150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
为保护环境,政府提倡垃圾分类,但许多小区的落实情况不尽人意,请你写一封电子邮件向有关部门负责人反映这一现状,并提出合理建议。
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Just as team members today have assigned doing roles, there should also be thinking roles. By knowing how other members of your team and organization think — and by others knowing how you think — everyone can be more productive. So how should you evaluate how you and your team think? After a lot of trial-and-error, we developed a three-step method that delivers practical and meaningful results.
Focus. Do you tend to pay the most attention to ideas, process, action, or relationships? For example, in the morning do you think about the problems you need to solve, the plans you need to make, the actions you need to take, or the people you need to see? This isn’t about picking one to the exclusion(排除) of the other. It’s about where your focus naturally lands.
Orientation(方向). A good way to identify your orientation is thinking about what tends to bother you in meetings. Are you more likely to complain about getting dragged into the weeds or about things being too general and not specific enough? These dimensions are complementary(补充的) to personality, skills, and traditional roles.
Combination. By combing these two dimensions you can know about the thinking style at work in whatever context or setting you chose. When you know your thinking style, you know what naturally energizes you, why certain type of problems are challenging or boring, and what you can do to improve in areas that are important to reaching your goals. Once you know your style, it helps to share it with others, and have others share theirs with you. In this way, your thinking style becomes a useful tool — a kind of social currency — for the team. Imaging you put together a team to work on a new initiative(行动). Wouldn’t you like to know who is energized by big-picture strategy discussions and who finds them frustrating? Who likes to work on the details of the execution? And who is energized by managing the team dynamics?
The landscape of business is changing rapidly, and we have to find new and better ways to connect and communicate. We all want to work better together, the challenge is actually making it happen. Understanding collaboration(合作)through the way of thinking rather than doing is a practical and powerful step forward.
What Kind of Thinker Are You? | |
Introduction | ● Both assigned doing roles and thinking roles are _______ important among team members. ● Team members knowing how each other think can _______ productivity. |
Three steps in _______ thinking styles | ● The first step is to identify the focus of your _______ in a particular context. ● It is not about making an either-or _______, but about finding where your focus naturally lands. |
● The next stop is to identify _______ your orientation swings toward the big picture or the details. ● It can help others form a full understanding of you. | |
● The third step is to _______ these two dimensions and see your thinking style at work. ● It _______ to the understanding of other team members’ thinking styles. | |
_______ | ● In this rapidly changing world, understanding ________ others think instead of what they do can help you work better together. |
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My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. America was where all my mother’s hopes lay. She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China. But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
“Of course you can be a prodigy, too,” my mother told me when I was nine. “You can be best at anything.” We didn’t immediately pick the right kind of prodigy. At first my mother thought I could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were training films. My mother would poke my arm and say, “Ni kan” — You watch. And I would see Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or pursing her lips into a very round O while saying, “Oh my goodness.”
Soon after my mother got this idea about Shirley Temple, she took me to a beauty training school and put me in the hands of a student who could barely hold the scissors without shaking. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. My mother dragged me off to the bathroom and tried to wet down my hair.
“You look like Negro Chinese,” she complained, as if I had done this on purpose.
In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. I was Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.
In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. My mother and father would adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel the need to sulk for anything.
But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. “If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good,” it warned. “And then you’ll always be nothing.”
Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table. She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom. My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.
The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. A teacher was quoted as saying the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly.
“What’s the capital of Finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.
All I knew was the capital of California, because Sacramento was the name of the street we lived on in Chinatown. “Nairobi!” I guessed, saying the most foreign word I could think of. She checked to see if that was possibly one way to pronounce “Helsinki” before showing me the answer.
The tests got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen of hearts in a deck of cards, trying to stand on my head without using my hands, predicting the daily temperatures in Los Angeles, New York, and London.
And after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to die. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations. Before going to bed that night, I looked in the mirror and when I saw only my face staring back—and that it would always be this ordinary face—I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl! I made high pitched noises like a crazed animal, trying to scratch out the face in the mirror.
And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me—because I had never seen that face before. I looked at my reflection, blinking so I could see more clearly. The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not.
1.The underlined word “prodigy” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.
A.talent B.professor C.leader D.superstar
2.Why did the mother and the girl watch Shirley’s old movies on TV?
A.Because the mother was a fan of Shirley Temple.
B.Because Shirley Temple’s hairstyle was popular among children.
C.Because the girl resembled Shirley Temple in appearance.
D.Because the mother wanted her daughter to be a Chinese Shirley Temple.
3.How did the girl feel about the tests she did every night?
A.She felt confident and finished it smoothly.
B.She got through the tests successfully, but painfully.
C.She failed the tests and began to lose confidence.
D.She eventually sadly found herself ordinary and ugly.
4.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 13 mean?
A.The mother was not sure about the answer and wanted to confirm it.
B.The mother expected her daughter to know the right answer.
C.The answers were more than one and the mother checked them.
D.The mother was so disappointed as to give up her daughter.
5.What might happen after the last paragraph?
A.The girl might try her best to become famous and successful.
B.The girl might follow her heart and do what she really likes.
C.The girl might do whatever her mother asks and becomes a different image.
D.The mother might change her attitude and listen to her daughter’s words.
6.Which of the following can be the best title of the text?
A.Being Myself or Not B.Educational Failure
C.Difficult American Childhood D.Mother’s Experience
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—Why didn’t you call me then?
—Oh, my cell-phone was power off. I ________ you otherwise.
A.would call B.had called
C.have called D.would have called
高三英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
As we all know, every minute, full use of our lessons, will do good to our students.
A.which makes; studying B.when made; to study
C.that is made; to study D.which is made; studying
高三英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析