It is acknowledged that ___ shortest distance between persons is ___ sincere smile..
A. A; the B. The; /
C. The ; a D. A ; /
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He hasn’t got any hobbies---_______ you call watching TV a hobby.
A. If B. When C. Unless D. Since
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---Why did you give up the job in Australia?
----Because I don’t want to stay far away from my family. You know, my family means ______ to me.
A.everything B. nothing
C. anything D. Something
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--- Have you told Joan the bad news that her grandfather fell off the bike and hurt seriously?
--- Yes. I told her ________I saw her this afternoon.
A.while B. the moment C. until D. Suddenly
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—Your colleague's spoken English is quite good, Amy．
— No wonder, as she in the USA for two years．
A.worked B. has been working
C．had worked D. has worked
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He had a wonderful childhood, ________ with his mother to all corners of the world.
A. travel B. to travel
C. travelled D. Travelling
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--- We expected you yesterday．
--- I'm sorry, I you to say that I couldn't be here until today．
A．must have called B．would be calling
C．could have been calling D．should have called
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When the audience heard the alarm, they all hurried to they thought was an emergency exit door．
A．what B．which C．where D．Who
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----Tom, you’ve got an A in the final English exam. Congratulations!
----Thanks. But I never thought the result came out so fast. The papers ______ when I left the teacher’s office just now.
A. had been marked B. were still being marked
C. are still marking D. had been marking
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Clean water and fresh air are essential for our daily life, _______ we can’t live.
A. by which B. without which
C. that D. on which
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Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for ____ hands. Most people were reluctant（不情愿） to work on _____ along the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful _____that raged across the Atlantic， wreaking havoc（浩劫，灾难） on the buildings and crops. As the farmer __ applicants for the job， he ______ a steady stream of refusals.
____， a short， thin man， well past middle age， approached the farmer. “Are you a good farmhand？” the farmer asked him.
“Well， I can ___ when the wind blows，” answered the ____ man.
Although ____ by this answer， the farmer， desperate（不顾一切的） for _____， hired him. The man worked well around the farm， ______ from dawn to dusk， and the farmer felt satisfied with the man's work.
Then one night the wind howled loudly in from offshore. ____ out of bed， the farmer grabbed（抓起） a lantern and ____ next door to the hired hand's sleeping quarters. He ____ the little man and yelled， “Get up！ A storm is coming！ Tie things down before they blow away！”
The little man ____ in bed and said ____， “No sir. I told you， I can sleep when the wind blows.”
Enraged by the response， the farmer was tempted to ___ him on the spot. Instead， he hurried outside to prepare for the storm. To his ___， he discovered that all of the haystacks（干草垛） had been covered with tarpaulins（油布）. The cows were in the barn， the chickens were in the coops（鸡笼）， and the doors were barred. The shutters were tightly secured. Everything was tied down. Nothing could blow away.
The farmer then understood what his hired hand ____， so he returned to his bed to also sleep ____ the wind blew.
1.A. took B. applied C. hired D. got
2.A.field B. farm C. garden D. park
3.A.winds B. flood C. hurricane D. storms
4.A. visited B. trained C. saw D. interviewed
5.A.accepted B. offered C. refused D. received
6.A.Surprisingly B. Finally C. Obviously D. Luckily
7.A. sleep B. do C. work D. help
8.A.strong B. young C. kind D. little
9.A.pleased B. puzzled C. surprised D. satisfied
10.A. work B. pleasure C. man D. help
11.A. busy B. sad C. tired D. happy
12.A.Coming B. Leaving C. Going D. Jumping
13.A. rushed B. ran C. went D. moved
14.A.beat B. stroke C. shouted D. shook
15.A. rolled over B. put on C. got up D. sat
16.A.delightly B. happily C. Firmly D. angrily
17.A. kill B. instruct C. fire D. inform
18.A. regret B. joy C. surprise D. sadness
19.A.expected B. prepared C. meant D. offered
20.A.when B. while C. after D. as
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In a cold winter, a couple had to move out from the luxury villa because of bankruptcy. The husband worked day and night to support the family but with no care of his wife. So she thought, “he doesn't love me anymore, he just cares his business...not me”.
One day, she began to take a bath, he stopped her at the door, "Let me take it first, OK?" "Why not let me shower first," she asked. "I was tired, sweetie, you take it later, OK?" She was totally depressed.
On a morose day, she found nothing to do and turned on his computer, a few words blurred her eyes...it was his diary:
Today, I was quite sad, she asked me why I was always taking the bath first, and I said to her, I was exhausted. She was unhappy, in her mind, I treated her not as well as usual, but how can I do? I wasn’t as rich as before! We moved to the small apartment, there was only a shower in such a freezing winter. But I found that if one person took the shower first, the room could get a little warm, so every time I rushed to the bathroom first. I was thinking that, when she took the shower, the room would get warmer, at least1℃, 2℃or 3℃
Now I can't give her comfortable life, bring her the luxury restaurant, buy expensive dresses for her, but at least, I can give her 1℃ love.
1.Why was the husband always taking the bath first?
A. Because he was tired from work.
B. Because he wanted to get the bathroom warmer.
C. Because he didn’t love her anymore.
D. Because he treated his wife not as well as usual.
2.What does the underlined word “bankruptcy” in the first paragraph probably mean?
A.crash B.failure C. moving D. diseases
3.The best title of the passage may be ______.
A trouble B. Husband and wife
C. A romantic love story D.1 ℃ love
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One kind of female butterfly mates only once in its life -- and then closes its wings to avoid "harassment" when pursued by persistent and unwanted males, a Japanese researcher said.
Observations of the Small Copper Butterfly, a colourful orange and black butterfly, showed that some females closed their wings when males flew by, but only when they were males of their own species, said Jun-Ya Ide, an associate professor at Kurume Institute of Technology in Fukuoka, western Japan.
"When we looked into why, the males were courting the females. They do this very stubbornly, so the females sometimes try to get away -- or prefer to stay unobserved," he added.
Ide and his colleagues brought a model of a male butterfly near the females to test their reactions and found that young females that had yet to mate kept their wings open, but those that had already mated closed them.
Not only can the persistent attentions of unwanted suitors harm the delicate females, fleeing from them -- with the male often in pursuit -- uses up strength and can even shorten their lives, he added.
"Closing their wings makes them less visible, helping them avoid communication with their own species. We figured they were trying to avoid harassment by males," Ide said.
1.What does the word “harassment”mean in the paragraph？
A. attack B. embarrassment
C. sexual invasion D. threat
2.Why some some females closed their wings when males flew by？
A. because they close their wings to avoid "harassment" when pursued by persistent and unwanted males.
B. because the female butterfly mates only once in its life.
C. because they don’t like the male butterfly at all.
D. because they are afraid of the male butterfly.
3.According the the passage, which is correct?
A. The females closed their wings when males flew by.
B. Only the model of a male butterfly can make the young female butterflies to keep their wings open.
C. The female butterfly mates only once in its life
D. Not only can the persistent attentions of wanted suitors harm the delicate females, fleeing from them with the male often in pursuit -- uses up strength and can even shorten their lives.
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2011 Top Education News
| "Tiger Mother" became well known both in the US and China after the publication of the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, a professor of Yale University and a Chinese immigrant mother. In the book, Chua describes how she educates her two daughters in a strict "typical Chinese" way. | The South University of Science and Technology of China (SUSTC), became "China's first independent university"-the only university to recruit students through its independent exam rather than the National College Entrance Exam adopted by almost all public universities in China. |
| Wuhan schoolboy Huang Yibo, 13,known as the deputy chief of all Wuhan's young pioneers, became an overnight sensation after blogging about watching prime time news on China's Central Television since he was two years old and reading People's Daily since the age of seven because his father asked him to do so. | The First Experimental Elementary School of Weiyang district in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, hit the headlines for requiring students with a poor performance to wear a green scarf, distinguishing them from the good performance of the red scarf, a symbol for the Young Pioneer organization. |
| Dong Fan, a professor from Beijing Normal University, the director of the university’s real estate research center, refused to see any of his students who do not possess 40 million yuan by the time they are 40. Dong said people who had received high-level education should be ashamed if they do not live a wealthy life. | The No 4 classroom building on the campus of Tsinghua University, one of China's elite colleges, took on the name of a popular clothing company, the Hong Kong-based Jeanswest Clothing in May. A golden-colored plate bearing the name of the company was affixed on to the wall of the teaching building. |
1.How many pieces of the news above have something to do with family education?
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D.5
2.Which of the following statements is True according to the news above?
A. Tsinghua University became "China's first independent university".
B. Students caring about environmental protection will wear a green scarf.
C.“Tiger Mother” is famous for her book about how she educates her two daughters.
D. Huang Yibo began to read People's Daily at the age of two.
3.We can infer from the news about Dong Fan that _______.
A. he tends to measure success by money
B. he spares no efforts to help his students
C. he works hard
D. he is a professor of Yale University
4.All the six pieces of news above deal with the subject of ______.
A. education B. parents C. students D. Schools
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Half of the world’s population is affected by Asian monsoons（季风）, but monsoons are difficult to predict. American researchers have put together a 700-year record of the rainy seasons, which is expected to provide guidance for experts making weather predictions.
Every year, moist （潮湿的）air masses，known as monsoon，produce large amounts of rainfall in India, East Asia, Northern Australia and East Africa. All this wet air is pulled in by a high pressure area over the Indian Ocean and a low pressure area to the south.
According to Edward Cook , a weather expert at Columbia University in New York., the complex nature of the climate systems across Asia makes monsoons hard to predict. In addition, climate records for the area are too recent and not detailed enough to be of much use. Therefore, he and a team of researchers spent more than fifteen years traveling across Asia, looking for trees old enough to provide long-term records. They measured the rings, or circles, inside thousands of ancient trees in more than 300 places.
Rainfall has a direct link to the growth and width of rings on some kinds of trees. The researchers developed a document they are calling a Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas. It shows the effect of monsoons over seven centuries, beginning in the 1300s.
Professor Cook says the tree-ring records show periods of wet and dry weather. “If the monsoon basically fails or is a very weak one, the trees affected by monsoons at that location might put on a very narrow ring. But if the monsoon is very strong, the trees affected by that monsoon might put on a wide ring for that year. So, the wide and narrow ring widths of the chronology that we developed in Asia provide us with a measure of monsoon variability.” With all this information, researchers say they can begin to improve computer climate models for predicting the behavior of monsoons.
“There has been widespread famine and starvation and human dying in the past in large droughts. And on the other hand, if the monsoon is particularly heavy, it can cause extensive flooding.” said Eugene Wahl, a scientist with America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “So, to get a sense of what the regional moisture patterns have been, dryness and wetness over such a long period of time in great detail, I would call it a kind of victory for climate science.”
1.What’sthe passage mainly about？
A. The effects of Asian monsoons.
B. A breakthrough in monsoon prediction.
C. The achievements of Edward cook.
D. The necessity of weather forecast.
2. It is difficult for experts to predict Asian monsoons because_________
A. it is hard to keep long-term climate records.
B. they are formed under complex climate systems.
C. they influence many nations.
D. there is heavy rainfall in Asia.
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Long and details climate records can offer useful information for monsoon research.
B. The Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas has a monsoon record for about 1,300 years.
C. The trees affected by monsoon grow fast if the monsoon is weak.
D. The rainfall might be low although the monsoon is strong in monsoon-affected areas.
4.What do we know about the research according to Eugene Wahl?
A. It will help people prevent droughts and floods.
B. It should include information about human life in the past.
C. It has analyzed moisture models world wide,
D. It is a great achievement in climate science.
5.Which of the following best describes the tone of this passage?
A. Humorous B. Pessimistic
C. Matter-of –fact D. Friendly.
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When Steve Jobs was born on Febuary24,1955, in San Francisco , California, his unmarried mother decided to put him for adoption（收养）because she wanted a girl. So in the middle of the night, his mother called a lawyer named Paul Jobs and said, “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” But his mother told his future parents to promise that they would send Jobs to college. After Steve Jobs graduated from high school, he went to college but only after six months did he decide to drop out because it was so expensive that he had to sleep on the floor in his friends’ rooms.
Jobs and a friend(Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. He named their company ----Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent as a fruit garden in Oregon.
After 10 years of hard time and failures, starting from two kids working in a garage, Apple computer eventually grew into a big company with over 4000 employees.
At 30, Jobs , however, was fired from the company he co-founded. But after he had to leave the company, Apple was under heavy pressure from competitor Microsoft and suffered heavy losses. Apple needed Steve Jobs and he was appointed as Apple’ CEO in1997. Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability（盈利） and introduced new products such as the IPod, the IPhone and the IPad.
Steve Jobs once said, “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t be discouraged. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find your interest. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.”
1.Why did Jobs’ mother abandon him? ( within 6 words)
2.What did Jobs do half a year later in college? ( within 5 words)
3.When was Jobs removed from Apple? ( within 2 words)
4.What happened to Apple after Jobs left it？ ( within 10 words)
5. What do you think is the most important thing to lead Jobs to success? (1 word )
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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（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜钱（\）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. 每句不超过两个错误；
2．每处错误及其修改仅限一词；
3．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Yesterday morning I went to city library to do some reading. I had just got off the bus when I saw two foreign student reading a map at the street corner, with a puzzling expression on their faces. Obvious, they had trouble finding their destination, so I went over and asked that I could do for them. They told me that they wanted to visit the Haiminghu Lake Resort, so didn’t know how to get here. Hearing this, I showed them to the nearest bus stop and tell them which bus to take. When I saw them get on the bus, I felt very proud of me because of I was able to help foreigners with my poor English.
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大多数人都希望受到别人欢迎，但并非都能做到。请根据下表问卷调查结果，写一篇题为How to be popular的英文短文。
| 45%的人认为 | 1、改善外表，穿着得体，精神状态好 2、经常微笑，待人友善 |
| 55%的人认为 | 1、培养对他人的体贴 2、当个好听众 |
| 自己的观点 | (至少两点) |
注意：1、短文须包括所有要点，可适度发挥。
2、开头已为你写好，但不计人总词数。
3、词数：100-120
How to be popular
Many people desire to be popular with others, but not everyone can achieve this goal．What is the secret to popularity?
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