—Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?
—I went to Ningxia and ____________there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.
A. stayed B. have stayed
C. had stayed D. am staying
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_____ as a salesgirl in a department store for 3 years, I decided to set up my own business.
A. Worked B. Working
C. Having worked D. To work
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_____ time passed, things seemed to get worse and worse, which was beyond our imagination.
A. If B. As
C. Since D. With
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I’m really tired _________Tom. He had me __________for two hours in the rain.
A. of; waiting B. with; wait
C. of ;waited D. from; waiting
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It was only __________he reached school ___________he realized that it was Sunday.
A. when; did B. when; that
C. that; when D. that; which
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When _____ for his views about his teaching job, Philip said he found it very interesting and rewarding.
A. asking B. asked
C. having asked D. to be asked
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They were having an English class _____ the earthquake happened.
A. as B. after
C. before D. when
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He found it increasingly difficult to read, _____ his eyesight was beginning to fail.
A. for B. though
C. but D. so
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（题文）(2014·湖南) There is no greater pleasure than lying on my back in the middle of the grassland, ___________ at the night sky.
A. to stare B. staring
C. stared D. having stared
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—I hear Tom has passed the exam.
—_____ He didn’t even spend a single hour preparing for it.
A. No problem! B. I believe so.
C. You must be joking! D. It’s a crazy idea!
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After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled(回忆), Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices. “Everyone else was already admitted to college,” her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the family home. “So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said, ‘You have to let me in .’ ”
“Impressed--she was a National Merit (全国英才) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil. Yale did, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for the Yale Daily News and decided to be a journalist,” her mother said.
On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces shelled(炮击) the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.
“She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday”, Mrs. Colvin said. “Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it.”
Mrs. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict （冲突）zones. “If you knew my daughter,” she said, “it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying ‘Don’t do this.’ This is who she was, absolutely who she was and what she believed in: cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.” “So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism,” her mother said.
1.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1, we can infer that ________ .
A. Yale was her last choice
B. Marie Colvin was confident of herself
C. Yale must keep its promise to Marie Colvin
D. Marie Colvin was good at persuading
2.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin’s life ?
a. She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.
b. She was admitted to Yale University.
c. She studied in Brazil as an excellent student.
d. She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.
e. She began to take an interest in journalism.
A. d→e→c→a→b B. b→c→d→e→a
C. e→d→c→b→a D. c→b→e→d→a
3.From the last paragraph, we can know that Mrs. Colvin ________.
A. dislikes the choice of her daughter B. cares little about her daughter
C. knows her daughter very well D. doesn’t fully appreciate her daughter
4.What can be the best title of the text?
A. Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area.
B. Applying for Top Universities, a Successful Case
C. Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest.
D. Recalling Her Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria.
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To a growing number of US students in China, study in the ancient country is no longer just a cultural experience it has become an important part of their future professional careers.
Sam Gor, a 26-year-old student from Santa Clara, a county near San Francisco, said the purpose of his studies in Beijing was to help him find a good job when he goes back to the United States. "Culture matters," he said. "But more importantly, to learn Chinese and get a better understanding of the country may help me professionally." As a new student at Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), Gor hopes to find a job in Santa Clara's local government when he goes back home in one year. "I need to learn Chinese if I want the job, as we have a large Chinese community there."
Gor is not alone in his thinking. While the number of US students in China has grown from less than 100 in the early 1980s to more than 10,000 for the time being. Many of them are here to boost(提高) a professional skill as much as to enjoy a new culture.
“In the past, foreign students came to China simply for our culture,” said Xu Quihan, director of BLCU’s foreign students office. “But because of China’s rapid economic and social development, being able to speak Chinese has become a useful tool to a student’s future job”
There are more US students who choose to stay in the country instead of going back after graduation. Stephanie Schubmehlo, a 23-year-old from Rochester, New York State, said she would like to stay in Beijing after graduation. “I love the city, and I can earn myself a living here if I can speak good Chinese,” she said, adding that some of the US students she knows shared the same idea.
1.By saying “culture matters”, Gor
A. questioned the popularity of Chinese
B. expressed his difficulty in learning Chinese
C. showed the differences between two languages
D. stressed the importance of learning about another culture
2.Compared with that of the past, the present number of US students in China
A. has decreased greatly
B. remains slightly unchanged
C. has been over 100 times larger
D. has nearly doubled
3.We can infer from the text that in 1984 US students learnt Chinese
A. just for the fun of it
B. to experience a different culture
C. to ensure themselves a promising future
D. for both cultural and professional purposes
4.In Xu Qiuhan’s opinion,
A. Chinese is too difficult for foreign students
B. more and more Americans will study in China
C. professional skills are more important than culture
D. China’s development makes Chinese professionally useful
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When Luke went to university he thought he would be on a new journey in life and getting his own place. In the UK, it’s common to fly the nest at a fairly young age. Many choose a flat-share; others make plans to get on the property ladder.
But the current economic situation forced Luke back to his mum’s house at the age of 27. And he’s not alone: a quarter of young adults in the UK now live with their parents. The Office for National Statistics said more than 3.3 million adults between the ages of 20 and 34 were living with their parents in 2013.
Lack of jobs and the high cost of renting accommodation made Luke change his plans. He’s upset. "There’s something very difficult about being an adult living in an environment where you’re still a child," he says. "It limits me socially; sometimes I feel it limits me professionally."
Indeed, many young people have no choice but to stay at "the hotel of Mum and Dad".
Krissy had to return home after a year away and now lives in rather terrible conditions, sharing the family’s three-bedroom house with her sisters. She says they end up getting on each other’s nerves when it’s time to use the bathroom in the morning.
Of course, living with your parents is not unusual in some countries. Economic conditions, culture, or family traditions mean many young people stay at home until they get married. Even then, it can be too expensive to rent or buy a house and the married couples continue to live at one of their parents’ homes.
But some parents seem to enjoy having their kids back at home. Janice’s daughters are part of what’s being called "the boomerang generation". She says, "I get to share their lives with them, and I’ve got to know them all as adults. We have the sort of conversations that good friends do."
So for some it’s a win-win situation — spending time with your families, and saving money.
1.How is the passage developed?
A. By listing figures B. By making comparisons
C. By analyzing causes D. By giving examples
2.We can learn from the passage that .
A. living with parents is common in some countries
B. all the parents enjoy living with their children
C. the author approves of children’s living with parents
D. Janice belongs to a group called "the boomerang generation"
3.What does the underlined sentence mean in the fifth paragraph?
A. They get on very well with each other.
B. They shout at each other angrily.
C. They finally make each other annoyed.
D. They are unwilling to share with each other.
4.What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To persuade children into living on their own after getting married.
B. To show the present situation of young people living with their parents.
C. To compare the advantages and disadvantages of living with parents.
D. To present the problems young adults may face after going to university.
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“Can I hug you?” community nurse Joyce Jebambula asks with a smile as she welcomes me back to her village. “Of course,” I say as I put my arms around her. It’s an unbelievable moment. Just at the height of the outbreak more than a year ago, there was an “avoid body contact” rule here. It’s now been removed.
One of the most challenging parts of reporting this outbreak over the past 18 months is that I haven't been able to touch anyone in the worst-affected countries. When Ebola(埃博拉病毒) survivors described in tears describing losing their families, I had to almost sit on my hands to avoid reaching out to comfort them.
The outbreak was declared over in Sierra Leone on 7 November. I returned for the celebrations. But despite reaching this long-awaited milestone, all is not well.
Ibrahim Koroma, 21, clings to (紧紧抓住) his survivor's certificate (证明) outside the home. All 17 of his family are now dead. The certificate is one of his most prized possessions. "He does not pose any risk to the community" it reads.
Ibrahim tells me how his landlord has allowed him to stay in one of the rooms of his former family home until the end of the year. He says he doesn't know what he'll do after that. He does some part-time work, relying heavily on help from neighbors. His two little sisters and little brother died in the very room where he now sleeps. He says he often lies awake thinking about them, feeling very bad.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was the worst on record. In past outbreaks there had only been a few hundred deaths and a few hundred survivors. It was thought Ebola could live for only three months. But research has now shown it can linger for at least nine months. Scientists are still trying to find how long it could be infectious.
1.When interviewing Ebola survivors, the author _______.
A. couldn’t help comforting them with hands
B. kept comforting them with hands
C. held their hands to show sympathy
D. couldn’t touch them with hands.
2.Ibrahim Koroma values his certificate because it_________
A. is a sign of his contributions
B. shows he is a healthy person
C. has been the only one for patients so far
D. is a great honor to have it in his village
3.We can learn from the passage that___________
A. Ebola can only survive a few days
B. Ibrahim’s neighbours treat him badly
C. Ebola still influences Ibrahim’s life
D. there were once 17 people in Ibrahim’s family
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To celebrate the end of our exams, my friends and I went to a fast food restaurant. We____hamburgers and Coca Cola at the counter. When our____came, I started walking towards an empty table. By bad luck, my purse strap(带子)got____on a chair and the tray(托盘)that I was holding slipped____my hands and went flying in the air. The tray, and its contents,_____on a man who was just about to____a bite of his sandwich. I stared, greatly____, as the drinks soaked(浸湿)his white shirt.
Then I____my eyes and prepared myself for his burst of____. Instead, he said “It’s OK” to____me before he disappeared into washroom.
Still shaky and unsure____to do next, my friends and I went to a table and sat there, trying our best to look____. A moment later, the man came out of the washroom and____our table. My heart almost stopped____. I thought he was going to ask for my father’s____and call him.
To my surprise, he merely smiled at us, handed us some cash and said, “___ yourself new hamburgers. ”He then walked____without even finishing his food.
He could have made what was already an uncomfortable situation worse, ____he chose a different way and gave us a reason to believe that there is still____in this world. I’ll never____his actions.
1.A. demanded B. made C. arranged D. ordered
2.A. turn B. food C. bill D. menu
3.A. fixed B. tied C. cut D. caught
4.A. by B. in C. from D. out
5.A. knocked B. hung C. stood D. fell
6.A. chew B. take C. swallow D. taste
7.A. discouraged B. disappointed C. shocked D. annoyed
8.A. rolled B. rubbed C. narrowed D. closed
9.A. bitterness B. anger C. anxiety D. sorrow
10.A. comfort B. satisfy C. encourage D. praise
11.A. what B. who C. how D. which
12.A. mild B. honest C. calm D. modest
13.A. pushed B. laid C. drew D. approached
14.A. breaking B. beating C. sinking D. trembling
15.A. number B. position C. job D. help
16.A. Prepare B. Buy C. Find D. Cook
17.A. away B. around C. up D. on
18.A. so B. since C. although D. but
19.A. kindness B. happiness C. politeness D. brightness
20.A. oppose B. refuse C. forget D. ignore
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Tu Yoyo was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1.Oct. 5. She was the first Chinese citizen2. (win) a Nobel Prize in science. Tu3. (share) the prize with the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan.
Tu is a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine now. She 4.(give) the prize for 5. (develop) artemisinin (青蒿素) , a new drug therapy against malaria( 疟疾)，6. has saved millions of lives worldwide, especially in developing countries.
Tu and her colleagues joined a government project to find a new malaria drug in the late 1960s. They made 380 herbal extracts from two thousand recipes from traditional Chinese medical books. In 1971, after nearly two hundred 7. (fail), Tu’s team 8. (final) found an extract that was 100% effective against the malaria parasites-atremisinin. In 2001, the World Health Organization made artemisinin 9. (it) first choice in the treatment of malaria.
“The discovery of artemisinin is a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine. It’s the achievement of the research team. Winning the prize is 10. honor for Chinese science and traditional Chinese medicine,” Tu said.
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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：在错的词下面一横线，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限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Everyone have a dream. We are on the way to achieving it whether the way is smooth or tough. As Senior 3 student, I have the same dream as my classmates that I can be admitted to an ideal university. In the past three year, I have done everything I can to equip myself with that I have learnt from my teachers. Not only have I enjoyed the pleasure of study but also I have got more closer to my dream. Anxiety and pressure do discourage from me at times and with the encouragement of my teachers and classmates, I think I’ll make it.
I’m sure that there has still a long way to go to achieve my dream. No matter what challenging it is, I’ll make it come true. As the proverb said, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
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假如你是李华，你的笔友Jim最近沉溺与玩电脑游戏，对学习没有兴趣。请你给Jim写一封信表示你的担心，并谈谈沉溺于电脑游戏的危害，以及你的看法和建议。
注意：1. 词数100词左右 2. 可以适当增加内容使行文连贯
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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