—What terrible weather!I simply can’t get the car________.
—Why not try________the engine with some hot water?
A.started; filling B.to start; filling C.started; to fill D.to start; to fill
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—Raymond,you feed the birds today, ________?—But I fed it yesterday.
A.do you B.will you C.didn’t you D.don’t you
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—Oh,dear,I gave you $100 last week.You spent too much.—All________food.It’s not a little expensive.
A.for B.to C.about D.on
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—Do you know whom they will have ________the parts of car together?—Sorry,I have no idea.
A.fix B.fixed C.to fix D.fixing
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—Can you see ________?—No. Let’s go and have a look.Maybe we can help them.
A.what are they doing there B.what was happening there
C.what’s going on there D.what are they talking there
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I want to search for some information about Confucius________I can use for the report.
A.who B.what C.which D.whom
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—Do you like entertainment shows,Mary?
—Yes,actually I like many other TV programs ________entertainment shows.
A.except B.beside C.besides D.except for
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Since the road is muddy,it ________last night, ________?
A.must be rained; wasn’t it B.must have rained; didn’t it
C.must rained; didn’t it D.must have rained; wasn’t it
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It was the third time________she ________History Museum.
A.that; visited B.that; have visited C.which; had visited D.that; had visited
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We should try our best to prevent the air pollution________.
A.from living a better life B.to live a better life C.live a better life D.lives a better life
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—This is the reason ________he gave for his absence from school.
—It is the least believable excuse ________I have ever heard.
A.that; that B.why; / C.why; which D.for which; that
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I’m sick of ________net bars.It’s too noisy there.
A.dropping at B.dropping in at C.dropping in D.dropping on
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She is one of the few girls who ________ passed the examination.
A.was B.were C.has D.have
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When Nancy was at college, she ________ three foreign languages.
But I am surprised to find that she ________ all except a few words of each.
A.spoke; had forgotten B.had spoken; had forgotten
C.spoke; has forgotten D.had spoken; has forgotten
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The film brought the hours back to me ________ I was taken good care of in that far-away village.
A.which B.who C.when D.where
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Every summer a great many students travel to other countries looking for work and adventure. Most of the chances are in seasonal work, mainly connected with tourism and service The pay is usually poor, but most people work abroad for the_________of travel. You can pick grapes on farms in France, entertain kids on American summer camps, and, of course, there are________ jobs in hotels and restaurants.
But it is not easy now to find work. “_________you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,” says Althea Ellis, an adviser on_________for students. “If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris, the owner will expect you to speak _________. British students only have a _________advantage for jobs in the USA and Australia.”
________enjoys the experience. Sarah James was employed to help forty American children in Europe. The two teachers with the children had never been _________. One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill and was _________home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the__________they made, and what’s worse, Sarah herself was robbed on her only free evening of the entire trip. “I did visit a lot of new places,” she says, “but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was __________and it really was a 24-hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”
“The trouble is, students expect to have a(n)__________time of it.” Althea Ellis points out. “After all, they see it as a __________. In practice, however, you have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual work. You’ll have a job when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. In other words, you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that employs you. But you have __________employment rights. As soon as the holiday season __________, they’ll get rid of you.”
1.A.pains B.comfort C.difficulty D.excitement
2.A.always B.hardly C.never D.seldom
3.A.If B.Unless C.Because D.Although
4.A.health care B.vacation work C.language studies D.tourist safety
5.A.Italian B.English C.French D.Spanish
6.A.country B.language C.reading D.culture
7.A.No one B.None C.Not everyone D.Everybody
8.A.abroad B.employed C.sad D.respected
9.A.driven B.ridden C.left D.flown
10.A.friends B.decisions C.noise D.destruction
11.A.nice B.high C.fair D.poor
12.A.hard B.easy C.difficult D.terrible
13.A.holiday B.job C.festival D.study
14.A.few B.little C.all D.much
15.A.starts B.lasts C.approaches D.finishes
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Dinner customs are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana, this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana,dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules about time. Whenever a guest arrives,a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table.
In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else .But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw because it is very hard. You must chew fufu well,or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.
1.From the passage we know that in Ghana ________.
A.people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening B.the rules for dinner time aren’t strict
C.dinner is always at six in the evening D.a family offers food only at four in the afternoon
2.If you are a dinner guest in Ghana,the host always takes you to ________.
A.the dining room first B.the living room first C.the kitchen first D.the garden first
3.People in Ghana usually eat________.
A.with their spoons B.with their fingers
C.from the other side of the dish D.from one side of a dish to the other
4.In fact,most dishes in Ghana ________.
A.have fufu in them B.are too hard to eat
C.are not very hard D.are cooked with the powder of some plants
5.When you eat fufu,you'd better ________.
A.cut it with a saw B.use your right hand only C.chew it well D.all of the above
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During the Second World War, Winston Churchill was the British Prime Minister. One day he had to go to the British Broadcasting Corporation to make an important speech to the nation.
An hour before the time of this speech, he stopped a taxi in the street and asked the driver to take him to the BBC, but the taxi-driver, who did not recognize him, said he could not take him anywhere just then, because he wanted to go back to his home at the other end of London to hear Churchill make a speech on the radio. Churchill was so pleased when he heard this. Churchill answered that he gave the man a pound, which was worth quite a lot in those days.
"All right, get in," said the driver happily, opening the door of the taxi. "I'll take you, and to hell with Churchill and his speech ! "
1.During the Second World War, Winston Churchill was the ________.
A.Australia Prime Minister B.American Prime Minister
C.British Prime Minister D.French Prime Minister
2.An hour before the time of this speech, he stopped a ________ in the street and asked the driver to take him to the ________.
A.bus; BBC B.taxi; VOA C.taxi; BBC D.bus; VOA
3.The taxi-driver wanted to go back to his home________of London to hear Churchill make a speech ________.
A.on the other end; to the radio B.in the other end; in the radio
C.at the other end; on the radio D.at the other end; in the radio
4.What do you think of the driver?
A.He cared for money most.
B.He cared for Churchill more than for his speech.
C.He cared for Churchill and his speech more than for money.
D.He cared for Churchill's speech more than for Churchill himself.
5.Can you imagine Churchill's expression after he heard the driver's last word?
A.Dumbfounded. B.Worried. C.Surprised. D.Happy.
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People often say that the Englishman's home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal to him. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than flats, and many people own their homes. This means that they can make them individual (个体的); they can paint them, and change them in any way they like. Most house have a garden, even if it is a very small one, and the garden is usually loved. The house and the garden are the private space of the individual.
People usually like to mark their space. Are you sitting now in your home or on a train? Have you marked the space around yourself as your? If you are on the train you may put your coat or small bag on the seat beside you. If you share a flat you may have one corner or chair which is your own.
Once I was travelling on a train to London. I was in a section for four people and there was a table between us.The man on the space on my side of the table at all. I was angry. Maybe he thought that he owned the whole table. I had read a book about non-verbal communication, so I took various papers out of my bag and put them on his briefcase! When I did this he stiffened and his eyes nearly popped (瞪出)out of his head. I had invaded (侵犯) his space! A few minutes later I took my papers off his case in order to read them. He immediately moved his case to his side of the table. Of course, it is possible that he just wanted to be helpful to me!
If you are visiting another country you may feel that you don't have any private space. Hotel rooms look much the same in every country in the world. All day long,you share public spaces with other people. You see the local people in their private spaces and you feel lonely and "outside". Local people can create their private spaces by talking about things you don't know about.And you even feel that they like you to be outside them so that they will enjoy being inside even more! This is one of the difficulties of being a traveler! But if you understand it then it helps you.Haven't you enjoyed being part of a group and "owning" a bit of space?
1.The writer was angry as he was travelling on a train to London because ________.
A.he had no place to sit
B.someone had invaded his "space"
C.too many people shared a section with him
D.some other people talked about things he didn't know about
2."… you feel lonely and 'outside'" in paragraph 4 means that ________.
A.you are alone outside the house
B.you feel lonely because you travel on your own
C.you are alone and therefore you go outside to have some fun
D.you feel lonely and you don't belong to that place or that group of people
3.In Paragraph 4, the pronoun "them" refers to "________".
A.public spaces B.private spaces C.local people D.other countries
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.British people dislike marking their space.
B.You always feel at home in another country.
C.Most British people prefer living in houses to flats.
D.You can't mark your private space in a foreign country.
5.The main purpose of the passage is to tell readers to ________.
A.own private spaces by living in houses
B.have one corner of their own in public places
C.realize the importance of"space" in communication
D.create their private spaces by talking with local people
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Kids Camp at the Zoo
How do you feed bears and tigers? And what exactly do they like to eat, anyway? These were just a couple of the questions kids got a chance to ask at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, North Dakota.
About two dozens kids took part in the zoo’s first Junior Zookeeping Camp.1. “I like seeing the animals and seeing how the zookeepers take care of them,” said Christopher Brady, and eight-year-old kid.
A number of zoos across the country are holding camps for kids this summer. The kids are learning all about the animals.2.That includes the cleaning of the waste from those animals. “It isn’t just petting animals or doing the easy stuff,” zookeeper Greg Schmit said. “It’s actually a lot of work.”
At the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, Illinois, 9-year-old Elise McCormack learned that the best place to take a blood sample from a dolpin is from the tail. “3.” She said.
And at the Hattiesburg Zoo in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, kids are learning all about the native habitats of the zoo’s animals—the lands where those animals originally came from. “I really like learning about the animals and getting to see and pet the animals. ” 10-year-old Susan Worley said.
4. “The reindeer are pretty cool,” 11-year-old Patrick Litton said. And some kids surprised themselves, for example, some kids got a chance to touch a corn snake.
“Every day, there is animal interaction,” said Krissy Hamilton of the Hattiesburg Zoo. “That helps kids develop a greater appreciation for animals.5.”
A.What animals do these kids actually like best?
B.The kids have learned how to care about the animals
C.How do those kids learn to feed the animals in the zoo?
D.You can see the veins（静脉）on the tail if you are close enough.
E.And it also gives them something they’ll remember forever.
F.There they could get a close look at many of the zoo’s residents.
G.They are also learning about some of the routine work of zoo-keeping.
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补全对话。
A:Sit down, please, take it easy. What’s your name, please?
B:Alice.
A:1.?
B:My house was broken into last night.
A:2.?
B:Yes. At 6 o’clock, my husband and I left home attend a friend’s birthday party.We didn’t get home until midnight. When I opened the door, we found that someone had entered our house by the window.
A:3.?
B:Yes. My diamond necklace is gone,so are my computer and two valuable vases.
A:4.?
B:The man living opposite our house said he had heard a sound of glass being broken at about 11. After a while, he saw a tall man with long hair come out of my house.
A:Well,5.. If we have any news, we’ll let you know.
A.Have you got anything stolen?
B.We’ll look into the case right away.
C.What’s the matter, Madam?
D.Can you describe what happened last night?
E.Don’t worry too much about such a case.
F.Can you tell me anything more?
G.We are sure to find out the thief.
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