--- Do you think I should join the singing group, Mary?
--- ______ If I were in your shoes, I certainly would.
A．None of your business． B．It depends.
C．Why not? D．I don’t think so.
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You’ll find this English map of great ______ in helping you to get round Paris.
A．price B．value C．cost D．worth
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Getting all your teammates ______ in a game is the key to victory.
A．trapped B．settled C．stuck D．involved
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How can you expect him to make any progress ______ you never give him a chance to have a try?
A．when B．unless C．once D．until
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The dangerous virus ______ in the next few weeks in the laboratory can cause fatal diseases.
A．studying B．studied
C．to study D．to be studied
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--- Alex came back home the day before yesterday.
--- Really? Where ______ at all?
A．had he been B．has he been C．had he gone D．has he gone
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Father made a promise ______ I passed the exam, he would buy me a PS4.
A．if B．that if C．whether D．that
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--- When did you last see your first teacher?
--- On ______ Friday last June, at ______ celebration of her 40th year of teaching.
A．a; the B．a; a C．/; a D．/; the
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Restaurants in every corner of Tianjin not only provide job opportunities but ______ lots of taxes.
A．result in B．result from
C．bring up D．bring in
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No driving after drinking is a rule that every driver ______ obey in our country.
A．will B．shall C．may D．can
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______ with a gradual rise of seawater, some nations in the Pacific are considering moving in the near future．
A．Facing B．To face
C．Being faced D．Faced
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Another food crop raised by Indians ______ was strange to the European was called Indian corn.
A．when B．whose C．which D．where
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--- Let’s go to Tianjin Music Hall. The soft music makes me relaxed.
--- ______. It makes me sleepy.
A．Bless me B．Me, too
C．Not me D．Let me see
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If you had had everything ready yesterday, you ______ in such a hurry now.
A．wouldn’t have been B．wouldn’t be
C．hadn’t been D．haven’t been
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______ the warning message, more lives would have been lost in the flood.
A．But for B．Except for
C．Regardless of D．Instead of
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“Are you going shopping today?” my husband, Roy, asked when I answered the telephone. “I to,” I said. Thanksgiving was only a couple days away. My money was and I knew I had to be creative in my shopping that day.
For a few seconds, Roy sat on the other end of the line. The nervousness gradually increased under the wordlessness, which I couldn’t wait to break through. “Why do you ask?” I whispered, what he might say.
“Nancy, there’s a family with six kids that will not have anything to for Thanksgiving. The little one is only five years old. While you’re at the store could you buy something for them?” My head began to spin when I was thinking about the fifty dollars I had for our family’s Thanksgiving dinner.
In the back of my mind I the hungry guests who would be coming to our house for dinner. I put my head down on my desk, already feeling . There’s no way possible, I thought. But the compassion (怜悯) I heard in my husband’s struck a nerve inside me.
I replied, “ but only if God helps.”
I finished my work and all the way to the nearest grocery store. I entered the parking lot and noticed a big in the grocery store window: Turkeys---29 cents a pound. “Thank God!” I said to myself.
I went inside, but when I read the sign my heart . “Limit one.” But I needed at least two so I decided to find the manager. I the problem. He made an exception. To my , I had enough money. I was even able to purchase a package of cookies for the five-year-old child who had 3 my heart, even though I had never met her.
Later that afternoon, Roy and I made a special delivery to a home with children of all ages. I will never forget the on the six kids’ faces.
By far, that was the greatest of my life.
1.A．plan B．refuse C．fail D．agree
2.A．private B．enough C．endless D．limited
3.A．nervously B．silently C．friendly D．excitedly
4.A．arranging B．receiving C．fearing D．blaming
5.A．eat B．do C．pay D．say
6.A．freely B．possibly C．gently D．regularly
7.A．lent B．pulled C．hidden D．saved
8.A．invited B．organized C．counted D．connected
9.A．affected B．defeated C．satisfied D．bored
10.A．voice B．face C．heart D．body
11.A．Bad B．Poor C．Sure D．Afraid
12.A．angered B．worried C．wondered D．prayed
13.A．flower B．sign C．book D．word
14.A．sank B．fell C．ended D．held
15.A．explained B．promised C．required D．corrected
16.A．horror B．sadness C．credit D．surprise
17.A．broken B．stolen C．operated D．supported
18.A．covered B．shaped C．filled D．made
19.A．sorrow B．loneliness C．disappointment D．smiles
20.A．year B．season C．Thanksgiving D．reward
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Cool temperatures, golden colors of autumn and dramatic events are just three reasons to visit Oregon’s Washington County this fall. The season brings a large number of places to see and things to do. We’ve collected some of the best reasons why you should plan a trip here in the coming months.
It’s a Harvest Season
Autumn marks the height of the agricultural season, which not only means a variety of autumn fruits and vegetables at the farmers’ markets, but also means that the season is heating up with fun, family farm events. Three apple festivals this fall will celebrate the diversity and deliciousness of Oregon-grown apples.
The Colors Are Changing
On a cool, autumn day, the rural, agricultural and forested scenery of Oregon’s Washington County comes alive with bright red, orange and yellow leaves --- a stark contrast to the deep, dark green of the trees that share these landscapes.
Bird Migration Season Is in High Season
September and October are busy months for bird watchers. Migratory and native birds call Washington County “home”, whether it’s for the winter or they’re just visiting on their southern voyage.
Wine Harvest Season Brings Signature Tasting Events
Celebrate the splendor of Oregon wine at two of the region’s biggest wine events, which happen annually in the fall. The North Willamette Harvest Trail and Grand Tasting is a full-day guided bus tour to three wineries featuring hands-on experiences, vineyard exploration, a wine country lunch, and wine tastings.
Experience Tree-to-Tree Adventures at Sunset
Enjoy the crisp temperatures and rich colors of the season at Tree to Tree Adventure Park, an aerial ropes course with six challenging courses and zip-line park, all rolled into one. These are the final months to enjoy this fun and exciting attraction until it closes for the season in November.
Plan your own Oregon’s Washington County autumn getaway. Read this great digital visitor guide for ideas and inspiration.
1.When you go to the farmers’ markets ______.
A．you can get kinds of apples for free
B．you can make friends with farmers
C．you can join in the celebrations
D．you can feel satisfied with fun
2.The bird watchers go to Washington County ______.
A．because they are attracted by colorful leaves
B．because the native birds leave their home
C．because they can see different kinds of birds
D．because the birds start their southern voyage
3.It can be inferred from the fifth paragraph that ______.
A．the wine event is to be held in the coming winter
B．farmers are good at growing grape in Oregon
C．the three wineries are most famous in America
D．few tourists like tasting the wine in wineries
4.If you love the aerial ropes course ______.
A．you must face six competitions in Oregon
B．you should have experience in rolling
C．you must take ropes course in advance
D．you can visit Oregon in the fall season
5.Which is the best title for the passage?
A．Reasons to Visit Oregon’s Washington County
B．Washington County Welcomes its Best Season
C．Charm of the Colorful Season
D．Take Adventures in the Coming Autumn
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Is it okay to keep exercising when you have a cold? What about the flu? With winter viruses going around, it’s important to know how to alter your training if you do catch a germ or two.
“The guidelines are pretty easy,” says Dr Lorenzo Masci from the Alphington Sports Medicine Clinic. “Anything above the neck --- so if you’ve got a cold for example, a runny nose or a sore throat --- then you should probably cut down your exercise by half and do 50 percent of what you normally do.”
“If you’ve got anything below the neck, like muscle pain, joint pain or fever, you shouldn’t really exercise at all until those general symptoms settle down,” Lorenzo says. He points out that a cough would also fall into this more serious category. “For example, if anyone comes in with a fever and a runny nose, I’d tell them to stop exercising until the fever and the muscle ache settles. Then they can start their training again at 50 percent once all those symptoms settle, even if they’ve got a bit of a runny nose or a sore throat.”
“The reason we tell people to stop exercising is because if you exercise when you’re unwell it can make the illness worse and prolong it.” There is a second reason Lorenzo advises his patients to stop exercising when they have “below the neck” symptoms. In the event you have an illness which affects your heart, exercise can sometimes actually lead to death.
Lorenzo advises to take zinc (锌) and vitamin C as a way of preventing colds. But he admits that this is controversial --- some studies have shown that these supplements can improve immune function while other studies have cast doubt on the issue. The good news is that if you exercise regularly, you’re likely to improve your immune function. “If you exercise too much, it can predispose (使倾向于) you to coughs and sniffles,” he points out. This is often the case for excellent athletes who train every day, such as triathletes (铁人三项运动员). “But what we do know is that if you exercise at a moderate level, your immune system improves such that you’re probably at a lower risk of developing coughs and colds.”
1.How many guidelines does Dr Lorenzo mainly suggest on doing exercises when people catch a cold?
A．One. B．Two. C．Three. D．Four.
2.How should people do exercises with a fever or a cough?
A．They should probably reduce their training time by 50%.
B．They should stop exercising until they recover.
C．They should start exercising at 50% after their runny nose settles.
D．They should do half of what they normally do.
3.What is the worst result if people don’t stop exercising when they are unwell?
A．Worsening the illness.
B．Prolonging the illness.
C．Affecting the heart.
D．Bringing about threat to life.
4.What can be proved from the last paragraph?
A．Zinc and Vitamin C can help to prevent colds.
B．The more exercises we do, the stronger our immune function will be.
C．Doing exercises regularly can help us prevent colds.
D．Excellent athletes seldom get coughs or sniffles.
5.What is this passage mainly about?
A．Relationship between exercises and flu.
B．How to do exercises.
C．How to cope with flu.
D．When to do exercises.
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When it came to role models, Diana Ortiz said her mother, Marcia Dominguez, was the “hero”. Ms. Dominguez came to the United States from Cuba in 1979. She went to college and got a job as a social worker --- all the while raising three children in America mostly on her own.
“It was always school first,” Diana said, “My mom had us in a straight line. If we got out of line, she corrected us. She was a perfect woman. She was beautiful, she had the education and she had everything --- but the illness took over. When I was 11, it frightened me to see how quickly my mother’s health was ruined by cancer. A week before I turned 14, my mother died at age 50. I had tried to prepare myself, but on the first morning I woke up without my mother, the sense of loss was painful.”
Diana had not seen her father for five years, who refused to provide for her. Diana then entered the city’s foster care system. She has spent about four years in foster homes.
Despite Diana’s hard teenage years, the values her mother had planted in her mind inspired her to go after higher education. Since August 2010, she has been a fulltime student majoring in law. A public organization offers her tuition but she has part-time jobs to help people like her and earn more life experience. Her goal is a job in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
For now, Diana works 20 hours a week as a cashier at Marshalls, earning $7.25 an hour. In November, she moved into her own public housing studio apartment on the Lower East Side. She pays $236 a month in rent. Although she is out of foster care, Diana has been speaking at workshops for foster youths. She emphasizes that nothing should get in the way of their success, not the trials of their lives or what they may have lost.
“I tell the young who have the similar experience like me, ‘Why are you going to let what happened to you affect you in the long run?’ ” Diana said. “ ‘Why are you going to sit there and feel sorry for yourself? You’re wasting precious time.’ It is a message my mother would approve of. My mom taught me that everything is not given to you. You have to go out and get it.”
1.Which of the following words can be used to describe Ms. Dominguez?
A．Learned, independent and strict.
B．Positive, simple and graceful.
C．Hardworking, dependent and tough.
D．Kind, determined and lonely.
2.What did Ms. Dominguez find most important for her children?
A．Staying in a straight line for coherence.
B．Making punctual self-correction.
C．Struggling to run after perfection.
D．Receiving excellent education.
3.How did Diana grow up after her mother passed away?
A．She was provided for by a law institute.
B．She depended on foster care system.
C．She relied upon the people like her.
D．She supported herself by doing part-time work.
4.What made Diana go on with her education despite there are so many difficulties?
A．The sense of loss from her mother’s death.
B．The eagerness to achieve success.
C．The deep influence of her mother’s values.
D．The wish to win prizes to please her mother.
5.With provided tuition, Diana still works after school because she knows ______.
A．success comes with her own struggle and efforts
B．rich experience helps her find better jobs
C．her tuition will be increased sharply
D．nobody is perfect in the world
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I’ve just got to talk about this problem I’m having with my postman. It all began a year ago, after the birth of his first child. Not wanting to appear rude, I asked him about the baby. The next week, not wanting him to think I had asked out of mere politeness the week before, I asked all about the baby again. Now I can’t break the habit. I freeze whenever I see him coming. The words “How’s the baby?” come out on their own. It holds me up. It holds him up. So why can’t I stop it? The answer is that I want him to like me. Come to think of it, I want everyone to like me.
My sister had the same problem with the caretaker of her block of flats: “All he ever does is complain; he talks at me rather than to me, never listens to a word I say, and yet for some reason I’m always really nice to him. I’m worried in case I have a difficulty one day, and he won’t lift a finger to help.”
What about at work? Richard Lawton, a management trainer, warns: “Those managers who are actually liked by most of their staff are always those to whom being liked is not the primary goal. The qualities that make managers popular are being honest with staff, treating them as human beings and observing common politeness like saying hello in the morning.” To explain the point, Richard mentions the story of the company chairman who desperately wanted to be liked and who, after making one of his managers fired, said with moist (湿润的) eyes that he was so, so sorry the man was leaving. The employee replied: “If you were that sorry, I wouldn’t be leaving.” The lesson being, therefore, that if you try too hard to be liked, people won’t like you.
The experts say it all starts in childhood. “If children feel they can only get love from their parents by being good,” says Zelda West-Meads, a marriage guidance consultant, “they develop low self-confidence and become compulsive givers.” But is there anything wrong in being a giver, the world not being exactly short of takers? Anne Cousins believes there is. “There is a point at which giving becomes unhealthy,” she says. “It comes when you do things for others but feel bad about it.”
I am now trying hard to say to people “I feel uncomfortable about saying this, but…” and tell myself “Refusal of a request does not mean rejection of a person” and I find I can say almost anything to almost anyone.
1.Why does the author ask the postman about his baby?
A．He is interested in the baby.
B．He wants to create a good impression.
C．He wants to be always polite to him.
D．It’s a way to start a chat with great politeness.
2.What could we find out about the author’s sister and the caretaker?
A．She doesn’t want to risk displeasing him.
B．She doesn’t pay attention to him.
C．He often refuses to help her.
D．He is impatient of her overreaction.
3.Managers are more likely to be popular if they ______.
A．help the staff with their problems
B．make sure the staff do not lose their jobs
C．encourage the staff to be polite to each other
D．do not make too much effort to be liked
4.The underlined words, “compulsive givers”, in the fourth paragraph refer to the people who ______.
A．are willing to help others
B．couldn’t bear to turn down requests
C．are unconfident of denying demands
D．are less selfish than takers
5.What is the author’s intention of writing this passage?
A．To show how to let others like you more.
B．To prove how to create a harmonious atmosphere.
C．To encourage people to have more self-confidence.
D．To suggest ways of dealing with difficult people.
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The high school grades of Tom Monaghan, who was born in 1937, were so low that he graduated at the bottom of his class. The local university turned down his application, but he managed to enter the University of Michigan. A few weeks later, he dropped out because he lacked money for school fees. In 1960, Monaghan agreed to buy a pizza store with his brother, who gave up a year later.
For the first year, Monaghan worked all the time but hardly made any money. He soon found himself deep in debt. He began making the business simpler, selling only three sizes of pizza, instead of five. This change helped Monaghan make a profit, which allowed him to expand his three stores under a new name, Domino’s.
However, during the following years Monaghan experienced a series of setbacks. In 1967, a fire destroyed his store in Ypsilanti, Michigan, which served as the company’s offices. Most of the damage was not covered by insurance. In an effort to recover his losses, Monaghan continued to expand his franchise, but was unable to keep up with the growth. Without Monaghan’s guidance, many of the new stores closed down. By 1970, Monaghan was $1.5 million in debt and facing lawsuits from nearly 150 debtors. In the following financial settlement, Monaghan lost 51 percent of his company to the bank.
But Monaghan concentrated on building the 49 percent of the business he still owned. Slowly, he began to work his way out of his financial difficulties. He defended himself in court since he could not afford a lawyer. He sold his furniture and his car. In about a year, he managed to pay off all his debts.
These hard times taught him a valuable lesson in how to run a business. By 1978, two hundred Domino’s stores had opened. Five years later, the number of stores was over a thousand; by 1989, the chain had more than five thousand stores. The company had more than six thousand pizza delivery stores when Monaghan sold it for $1 billion in 1998.
1.What seemed to be the reason why the local university turned down Monaghan’s application? (No more than 10 words)
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2.How did Monaghan expand his three stores under a new name, Domino’s according to the second paragraph? (No more than 15 words)
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3.What does the underlined word “setbacks” mean in the third paragraph? (Only one word)
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4.How did Monaghan finally succeed after he lost 51 percent of his company?
(No more than 15 words)
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5.What do you think of Monaghan? Give your reasons. (No more than 20 words)
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假设你是李津，为响应国家厉行节约的号召，请你以“为资源、为环保，厉行节约”为主题，向某英语报社编辑写一封信，表达你对此主题的看法，提出你的建议。
内容主要包括：
1．节约与资源的关系——节省资源造福子孙等；
2．节约与环保的关系——减少浪费改善环境等；
3．举例说明中学生该如何厉行节约；
4．倡导社会保持节约的优良传统。
注意：
1．词数不少于100；
2．开头和结尾已经写出，不计入总词数；
3．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Editor,
I’m writing to share my opinions about trying to save both for natural resources and the environment.
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Best wishes!
Yours sincerely,
Li Jin
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