How much did the woman pay for a tie last year?
A.30 dollars. B.60 dollars. C.120 dollars.
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How did the woman learn about the hotel?
A.On TV. B.On the Internet. C.In the newspaper.
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Where is the man’s raincoat?
A.At home. B.On the bus. C.In the office.
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What will the man do next ?
A.Examine the bike’s broken part.
B.Check the woman’s arm.
C.Repair the bike.
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What does the woman mean?
A.Alexander is not in now.
B.Alexander is busy now.
C.The man might call the wrong number.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A.Classmates.
B.Teacher and student.
C.Interviewer and interviewee .
2.What does the man want to do during the summer vacation?
A.Go sightseeing.
B.Do volunteer work.
C.Learn to drive.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What is the man worried about?
A.His son doesn’t like his major.
B.His son won’t make a good living in the future.
C.His son doesn’t get used to the university life.
2.What does the woman think the man should do?
A.Let Tony make his own choice.
B.Have a talk with his wife.
C.Give Tony some advice.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What did the man buy on Saturday?
A.A watch.
B.A shirt.
C.A pair of shoes.
2.What did the man do on Sunday?
A.He read a book.
B.He went swimming.
C.He did his homework.
3.What is the woman’s opinion about her trip to the amusement park?
A.Special. B.Boring. C.Exciting.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What did the man want to do last year?
A.Move house.
B.Buy a car.
C.Drop out of university.
2.What does the man think of his life?
A.Unsatisfying.
B.Enjoyable.
C.Worrying.
3.What did the man use to do at university?
A.He worked part-time.
B.He visited the woman.
C.He attended parties.
4.What does the woman do?
A.A student. B.A teacher. C.A designer.
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A.The film industry in India.
B.The brief introduction to Bollywood.
C.The comparison between Hollywood and Bollywood.
2.What does the speaker say about Bollywood?
A.It pays the actors much.
B.It produces 29,000 films a year.
C.It is the largest film industry in the world.
3.What do most Indians like doing during their free time?
A.Doing sports.
B.Singing and dancing.
C.Watching films.
4.How much do most Bollywood films cost?
A.$ 2 million.
B.$ 5 million.
C.$ 50 million.
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When I was reading a post about taking someone to the movies, something happened a couple of years ago suddenly hit me.
I used to drink Cokes and they had a competition where there was a code inside the bottle cap. You might win something so long as you went to a website and entered the code. I won some free Cokes. But what astonished and delighted me was the Grand Prize I won then.
The Grand Prize was free movies for a year. They pointed out that one movie a week was what free movies for a year meant. All of the tickets were valid(有效的) for one year from the day I received them. So I must use them in the following year. I used quite a few taking friends to movies we all wanted to see.
But the best thing I did with them was that I donated 20 tickets (all I had left by that time) to the local Women’s Transition House, a place where women and children could go when avoiding a bad situation in general and get help to make a new start.
My workplace team had decided to help people in need, so we collected donations for that particular New Year’s Day. I knew that the Women’s Transition House provided some childcare for the women so they could go for job interviews and things like that.
I put those tickets in a box and wrote a note on the outside, asking the Women’s Transition House staff to give movie tickets to women there over the holidays to have some fun to do, with or without their children, which made me really happy.
1.How did the author get the tickets?
A.By visiting a website by chance. B.By using some Cokes to get them.
C.By getting a code at the bottom of a bottle. D.By winning the prize for drinking Cokes.
2.How many tickets did the author and his friends use?
A.About 22. B.About 32. C.About 52. D.About 365.
3.Which of the following best describe the author ?
A.Lucky and caring. B.Creative and careful.
C.Responsible and cheerful. D.Thankful and generous.
4.Which of the following proverb can best explain the main idea of this article？
A.The roses in their hands, the flavor in mine.
B.Good luck favors those who are always ready.
C.Actions speak louder than words.
D.God helps those who help themselves.
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Recently, the organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics have suggested that breakdancing be included in 2024, making it closer to becoming an Olympic sport. The other 3 sports-surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing-will all make debuts in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. That is to say, audience will be able to watch these three sports as Olympic events for the first time.
The organizers stressed that four sports had been chosen since they would reflect the city’s identity and help take the Olympics to the street. They added that the purposes were to deliver a Games that was able to keep up with the times and encourage new audience and attract young people. Breakdancing is a typical example which can be played without the limitations of time and places in urban and other environments.
As one of the sports at the Young Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in 2018, breakdancing now could see its popularity greatly raised. But the International Olympic Committee(IOC) needs to approve the French suggestion before it can be formally added to the 2024 Paris Olympics sports programme.
With new IOC rules first introduced to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Host cities can select sports and propose them for inclusion in those Games if they are popular in that country and add to the Game’s appeal.
Antonio Espinos Ortueta, the president of the World Karate Federation said, “Our sport has grown rapidly over the last years. We believe that we have met all the requirements and that we have the perfect conditions to be added to the sports programme. However, we have learned today that we still haven’t had the chance to prove our value as an Olympic sport.”
1.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “debuts” in paragraph 1 ?
A.announcements. B.appearances. C.admissions. D.advertisements.
2.What can we learn about breakdancing?
A.It attracts people of all ages.
B.It is the symbol of Paris.
C.It was performed in 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics .
D.It can be played anytime and anywhere.
3.What does IOC do in selecting sports?
A.Give useful advice. B.Offer enough support.
C.Give detailed explanations. D.Have the last word.
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to Antonio Espinos Ortueta’s words?
A.He thought it easy for a new sport to be included in Olympics.
B.He thought breakdancing was far from ready to be an Olympic event.
C.He couldn’t be sure of the final decision of IOC.
D.He found it likely for breakdancing to be performed in Olympics.
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Will people remember less with Internet users becoming more and more dependent on the Internet to store information? If you know your computer will save information, why do you store it in your own personal memory, your brain?
Professor Betsy Sparrow, together with her research team, has carried out some experiments in a recent study, wanting to know how the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they offered people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.
In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the computer. The information was in a specific computer folder( 文 件 夹 ). Surprisingly, people later remembered the folder locations better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called “transactive memory(交互记忆)”.
According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.
Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesn’t mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.
1.Why does the text begin with two questions?
A.To make a comparison. B.To introduce the main topic.
C.To show the author’s attitude. D.To list some examples.
2.What can we learn about the first experiment?
A.The Sparrow’s team typed the information into a computer.
B.The two groups remembered the information equally well.
C.The first group did not try to remember the information.
D.The second group did not understand the information.
3.What do people usually do in transactive memory?
A.They remember how to find the information.
B.They organize information like a computer.
C.They change the quantity of information.
D.They bear the information in mind.
4.What is Sparrow’s attitude towards the influence the Internet has on people’s memory ?
A.Negative. B.Passive. C.Objective. D.Doubtful.
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Chopsticks
When were chopsticks invented?
In fact, before the invention of chopsticks, Chinese ancestors actually used hands to eat, but how did they eat soup and porridge? 1. Chinese Started to use chopsticks about 3,000 years ago in the Shang Dynasty.
Who invented chopsticks?
The records of using chopsticks have been found in many written books but have no exact evidence. However, many stories are about the invention of chopsticks. One says that Jiang Ziya, an ancient wise man,created chopsticks. 2. But there is no exact historical record about the invention. We can only say that smart ancient Chinese invented chopsticks.
How to use Chinese chopsticks?
3. you can do it if you practice it for some time, even if you are a foreigner. The key to managing chopsticks is keeping one chopstick in position while moving the other to pick up food. Remember to practice with patience.
4.
Chopsticks are usually held in the right hand, and left-handed chopstick use is considered as improper in China. Playing with chopsticks is thought to be impolite. It is considered to be polite and thoughtful to pick up food for the elderly and children.
A chopstick-themed museum in Shanghai
If you are truly interested in chopsticks, it will be a good choice for you to pay a visit to the Shanghai Chopsticks Museum. The museum gathered more than 2,000 pairs of chopsticks from China, Korea, Japan and Thailand.5.
A. Which hand to hold chopsticks?
B. Chopstick manners in China.
C. Chopsticks were introduced to many other countries because of their lightness.
D. Using two slim sticks to pick up food is actually not difficult.
E. The oldest one among them was from Tang Dynasty.
F. There also go around some other stories.
G. They had to use sticks to eat them.
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I used to have what everyone might call a good life a few years ago, which was because I had a permanent ____ that paid the bills, I had a good family that I was really close to, and I had a place to live in and money in the bank for trips and____ . However, I was bored even if there was nothing much wrong in my life. I wanted more. I really wanted to live ____ and make sharp memories instead of the ____ ones of everyday life, ____ I was a little afraid. I had never had any ____ in myself. When I was a child, even buying something in a shop caused me a great deal of____ , and even though I did get better as I got older, I never___ that childhood shyness. And I tried everything, like reading books about confidence. I took tiny steps towards my goals. But none of them really___ .
As a result, I___ that the small steps weren’t enough. Soon afterwards, I signed up for an internship( 实 习 工 作 ) teaching English in Vietnam, a huge step which seemed____, one that frightened me as much as it ____ me. I was looking forward to it. And then eventually the day came and I left my home as well as my loved ones. I stayed all alone in a distant country where the local food was ____ and the streets were dirty. I had no idea whether I could ____ everything this very strange environment would___ at me.
I had been in Vietnam for more than five months, teaching, exploring and laughing. I had learned to ____ myself, my skills, my abilities and my decisions. After that period of time, I returned home and was ____ , even to myself, not to mention to others. The ____ that had controlled my life and the self-doubt completely___ . That one big chance___ everything for me, and in me.
1.A.job B.home C.address D.solution
2.A.fines B.medals C.rewards D.treats
3.A.selflessly B.easily C.brightly D.peacefully
4.A.valuable B.sweet C.unforgettable D.ordinary
5.A.but B.so C.or D.and
6.A.shame B.pride C.confidence D.doubt
7.A.amazement B.stress C.joy D.responsibility
8.A.employed B.doubted C.inspected D.overcame
9.A.helped B.failed C.survived D.continued
10.A.imagined B.decided C.predicted D.promised
11.A.equal B.reasonable C.impossible D.unimportant
12.A.excited B.disappointed C.impressed D.ignored
13.A.perfect B.necessary C.tasty D.strange
14.A.add to B.give up C.deal with D.suffer from
15.A.point B.shout C.throw D.aim
16.A.accept B.trust C.excuse D.forgive
17.A.unrecognizable B.unreliable C.unconcerned D.unsatisfied
18.A.respect B.fear C.courage D.tiredness
19.A.picked up B.held on C.broke out D.went away
20.A.drew B.changed C.made D.bought
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1 个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
On April 22nd, the UNEP(United Nation Environment Programme) called for increasing protection of Antarctica, 1.is the world’s most southern continent. 2.(scientist) say climate change and human activity have 3.(increasing) led to the melting of massive pieces of Antarctic ice. Not only is the disappearance of ice affecting wildlife 4.the area such as seals and penguins, but also causing oceans and seas around the globe 5.(rise).
This leads to an even 6.(big) threat to coastal cities. For instance, Venice, an ancient city of Italy, has long been threatened by the rising sea levels. So far, this situation 7.(make) worse by the fact that its ancient houses 8.(build) on a body of water are slowly sinking. In addition, the salty water is also destroying both famous buildings 9.priceless artworks of Venice. Therefore, it’s high time that action should be taken to fix 10.serious problem.
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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:在错的词下划一横线，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仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改 10 处，多者(从第 11 处起)不计分。
As the winter vacation is around the corner, our class has a discussion which topic is what to do during the holiday. Some are in favour of stay at home. They think it will be perfectly to celebrate the Spring Festival with our family members. Besides, they could save money for other purposes. But they will lose chance of getting to know more about the outside world. Therefore, others prefer to travel since it can increase their knowledges and broaden their horizons. But they will spend more money and meet some difficulties while traveled. In my view, it will be too much better to stay at home, because I will be able to do what I like.
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假定你是李华，在高一上学期结束后即将进入新的班级。在过去的这一学期中，你的英语老师 Leon 给予了你很多帮助。请你用英语写一封信，内容包括:
1. 感谢对方的指导和鼓励；
2. 入学以来学习英语的收获；
3. 表达决心和祝愿。
注意:1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mr. Leon,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
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