Ted couldn’t remember the exact date of the storm, but he knew it was Sunday because everybody was at church.
A. /, the B. a, /
C. /, a D. the, /
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The company and the effect brought about did great good to our business in the market.
A. it B. which
C. that D. what
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Nowadays, more and more young ladies, figures most are fine enough, are going on a diet.
A. who B. whose
C. of whose D. of whom
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The artist is said during the production and thus a pirated video was sold in every part of Kenya.
A. to be cheated B. being cheated
C. to have been cheated D. having been cheated
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, I believe, and you will find Tom is outgoing.
A. Having a talk with the student B. One talk with the student
C. Given a talk with the student D. If you have a talk with the student
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at the back of the room was a shy girl with two big eyes.
A. Sat B. Sit
C. Seating D. Seated
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if I had arrived yesterday without letting you know beforehand?
A. Would you be surprised B. Were you surprised
C. Had you been surprised D. Would you have been surprised
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Much disappointed as he is in the job interview, he still keeps his confidence.
A. to have failed B. failed
C. having failed D. failing
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I writing the paper as scheduled, but my mother’s illness interfered. I hope you will excuse me.
A. am to have finished B. was to have finished
C. was to finish D. ought to finish
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____regular training in nursing, she could hardly cope with the work at first.
A. Not received B. Since receiving
C. Having not received D. Not having received
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That was not the first time he us. I think it’s high time we strong actions against him.
A. betrayed... take B. had betrayed... took
C. has betrayed... took D. has betrayed... take
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The country’s chief exports are coal, cars and cotton goods, cars_____ the most important of these.
A. have been B. are
C. being D. are being
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His strong sense of humor was make everyone in the room burst out laughing.
A. so as to B. such as to
C. so that D. such that
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He’s as a “bellyacher”—he’s always complaining about something.
A. who is known B. whom is known
C. what is known D. which is known
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A hurricane swept through my village. Just as we were beginning to lose hope, it suddenly stopped. It is really “ ”.
A. All’s well that ends well B. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
C. It never rains but if pours D. A friend in need is a friend indeed
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Optimism and pessimism are both powerful forces. Each of us must choose which we want to ______ our future and our expectations. We can choose to laugh or cry, bless or ______. It’s our decision: from which perspective do we want to view life? Will we look up in ______or down in desperation?
I believe in the upward look. I choose to ______the positive and skip right over the negative.
An optimistic attitude is not a luxury(奢侈品); it’s a(n) ______. The way you look at life will determine how you feel, how you perform, and how well you will get along with other people. ______, negative thoughts, attitudes, and expectations ______themselves; they become a self-fulfilling prophecy(预言). Pessimism creates a dark place where no one wants to live.
Years ago, I drove into a service station to get some gas. It was a beautiful day, and I was feeling great. As I walked into the station to pay for the gas, the attendant said to me, “ How do you feel?” That seemed like a(n) ______question, but I felt fine and told him so. “You don’t look well,” he replied. This ______me completely by surprise. A little ______confidently, I told him that I had ______felt better. Without hesitation, he continued to tell me how bad I looked and that my skin appeared yellow.
By the time I left the service station, I was feeling a little ______. About a block away, I ______over to the side of the road to look at my face in the mirror. How did I feel? Was I affected with jaundice(黄疸)? Was every all right? By the time I got home, I was beginning to feel a little nauseous(恶心). Did I have a bad liver? Had I ______some rare disease?
On another beautiful day, when I went into that gas station, feeling ______again, I figured out what had happened. The place had recently been painted a bright, distasteful ______, and the light reflecting ______the walls made everyone inside look as though they had hepatitis(肝炎)! I wondered how many other folks had ______the way I did. I had let one short conversation with a total ______change my attitude for an entire day. He told me I looked sick, and before long, I
was actually feeling sick. That single ______observation had a great effect on the way I felt and acted.
The only thing more powerful than negativism is a word of optimism and hope. When a whole culture adopts an upward look, incredible things can be accomplished.
1.A. shape B. decide C. preview D. transform
2.A. forgive B. curse C. praise D. regret
3.A. vain B. anger C. action D. hope
4.A. highlight B. analyze C. evaluate D. introduce
5.A. necessity B. opportunity C. quality D. identity
6.A. Actually B. Consequently C. Similarly D. Contrarily
7.A. rely on B. feed on C. go on D. take on
8.A. familiar B. ordinary C. odd D. easy
9.A. got B. took C. stopped D. made
10.A. more B. less C. quite D. too
11.A. never B. ever C. once D. always
12.A. uneasy B. unconcerned C. unsatisfied D. unaffected
13.A. got B. came C. took D. pulled
14.A. come up B. brought up C. picked up D. put up
15.A. fine B. upset C. sick D. calm
16.A. gray B. blue C. yellow D. red
17.A. in B. over C. off D. through
18.A. quit B. adapted C. answered D. reacted
19.A. liar B. onlooker C. attendant D. stranger
20.A. positive B. negative C. careful D. rigid
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Four apps for students to learn English
Quizlet
Quizlet is a learning app—a computer program you use on your mobile device. It can help users build and test their knowledge of English words and terms. Quizlet has word sets for millions of subjects. And, it is quickly becoming a useful mobile tool for language learners.
Socrative
In Socrative, teachers can create timed learning games. In class, students compete individually or as part of a team against classmates. One game students love is called space Race. In this game, if a team answers a question correctly, their rocket moves forward. This team whose rocket gets to the end first wins. Also, teachers can use Socrative as an “exit ticket, ”a question they can ask students about what they learned in that day’s class. Students write their answers on their mobile devices. Then, the teacher can show the answers on a shared video screen.
QR Codes
AQRCodeisakindofsignthatasmartphonecanreadwithitscamera. When your phone camera reads a QR code, it takes you to a website, image, video or anything you want to share. For example, one will take you to the VOA Learning English website.
Evernote
Evernote lets users store and share notes, images and recordings in one place. Teachers can also use Evernote to give homework.
1.Which is the best for students to build up vocabulary?
A. Quizlet.
B. QR Codes.
C. Evernote.
D. Socrative.
2.What’s the purpose of the text?
A. To make an advertisement.
B. To encourage using mobile phones.
C. To improve English learning.
D. To introduce some learning apps.
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The year 2018 will mark the 100th anniversary of the deadliest influenza outbreak in history. It is estimated that the influenza pandemic(瘟疫) of 1918 killed more than 50 million people around the world. Other estimates go much higher. Because of a lack of medical record—keeping, we may never know the exact number.
The influenza was a fast killer. Some victims died within hours of their first symptoms. Others died after a few days. “their lungs filled with liquid and they choked to death. ”The 1918 flu pandemic was also different from other outbreaks. It struck many young, healthy people. Viruses usually affect sick or old people.
Although modem medicine effectively controls many diseases, influenza remains difficult to protect against, The World Health Organization estimates that every year influenza kills 250, 000 to 500, 000 people around the world. Each year, medical scientists develop flu vaccines(疫苗) which offer immunity(免疫)from some influenza viruses. But they can only guess which form of the virus will spread.
Health officials remain concerned about another flu pandemic. New forms of the flu virus appear regularly. One example was the “swine flu”or H1N1outbreak in 2009. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Infectious diseases in the United States says that virus caused a true pandemic.
To stop the next pandemic, scientists are now researching how to create a universal influenza vaccine. In October 2017, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the U. S. announced the Universal Influenza Vaccine Initiative. The university said researchers are leading an international effort to develop a universal influenza vaccine that will protect everyone against all forms of the flu anywhere in the world. The university added that researchers will begin tests in early 2018, the Human Vaccines Project, a public—private partnership, is funding the project. However, until a universal influenza vaccine is available, today’s seasonal flu vaccine remains important.
1.What do we know about the influenza in 1918?
A. It swept across the whole Europe.
B. No one survived the first few days.
C. It killed the largest number of people.
D. It struck only young and healthy people.
2.Why is influenza difficult to protect against?
A. It spreads too rapidly.
B. It is quite easy to catch.
C. No vaccine is available.
D. It’s hard to judge the form of virus.
3.What does the author want to tell by mentioning H1N1in 2009?
A. New forms of flu virus keeps appearing.
B. It was the most serious in recent years.
C. Itwascausedbythesamefluvirusof1918
D. The H1N1virus was deadly as well.
4.What can we learn about the universal influenza vaccine?
A. The development is quite costly.
B. It will be used all over the world.
C. It can protect against all forms of flu.
D. Itwillsooncomeintousein2018
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Scientists from the University of East Anglia have identified four new man-made gases that are contributing to the damage to the ozone(臭氧) layer. Two of the gases are accumulating at a rate that is causing concern among researchers.
Worries over the growing ozone hole have seen the production of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases restricted since the mid 1980s. But the precise origin of these new, similar substances remains a mystery.
Lying in the atmosphere, the ozone layer plays a critical role in blocking harmful UV rays, which cause cancers in humans and reproductive problems in animals.
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey were the first to discover a huge “hole” in the ozone over Antarctica in 1985. The evidence quickly pointed to CFC gases, which were invented in the 1920s, and were widely used in refrigeration. Extraordinarily, global action was rapidly agreed to deal with CFCs and the Montreal Protocol to limit these substances came into being in 1987. A total global ban on production came into force in 2010.
Now, the newly discovered four new gases can destroy ozone and are getting into the atmosphere from as yet unidentified sources. Three of the gases are CFCs and one is a hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC), which can also damage ozone.
The research has shown that four gases were not around in the atmosphere at all until the 1960s, which suggests they are man-made. The scientists discovered the gases by analyzing polar snow pack. Air from this snow is a natural archive of what was in the atmosphere up to 100 years ago. There searchers also looked at modern air samples, collected at remote Cape Grim in Tasmania.
They estimate that about 74,000 tonnes of these gases have been released into the atmosphere. Two of the gases are accumulating at significant rates. However, they don’t know where the new gases are being released from and this should be investigated. Possible sources include chemicals for insecticide (杀虫剂)production and solvents (溶液) for cleaning electronic components. The three CFCs are being destroyed very slowly in :the atmosphere—so even if emissions (散发)were to stop immediately, they will still be around for many decades to come.
Of the four species identified, CFC-113a seems the most worrying as there is a very small but growing emission source somewhere, maybe from agricultural insecticides. We should find it and take it out of production.
1.What do we know about the newly discovered gases?
A. Some are surely produced by the development of agriculture.
B. The CFCs will have a long impact once they are released.
C. They gather together in the atmosphere at a medium speed.
D. Their amounts are not large enough to cause damage to us.
2.The underlined word “archive” in Paragraph 6 is closest to the meaning of “ ”.
A. state
B. resource
C. phenomenon
D. storeroom
3.What will the scientists probably attempt to do about the gases next?
A. Find out what can replace things like insecticides and put them into use.
B. Find out how they destroy ozone and get rid of those in the atmosphere.
C. Find out where they are exactly from and stop them from being released.
D. Find out if HCFC is more harmful than CFCs and take proper measures.
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The First Hello
The man from the telephone department got off the bus, and made his way to the tea stall, wiping the sweat off his head, face, then slipping his handkerchief under his shirt to wipe his neck and back. It was a year ago that the phone line had been installed, six months later men from the public works department had come to put up the phone booth—a neat box-like structure, with a glass window, and wooden ledges, yellow in colour. And days after that, a painter had taken an entire day to colour in broad, black brushstrokes, the words: STD Booth, local and STD allowed.
No one could tell that the last word had been misspelled. Besides, he had taken the entire day. After he had a cup of tea, he left, waving cheerfully. And now months later, someone else was here again.
Everyone watched the man as he sat on the bench. No one said a word, and soon the sound of him slurping his tea filled the hot afternoon. A few leaves fell, heavy in the heat, and sometimes a car passed, on its way to the main city farther away.
When the man had finished, he tried to pay but the tea shop owner who sat behind his steaming kettle and the washed upturned cups, waved him away.
“You are our guest here.”
So the man took his handkerchief out again and wiped his face.
They crowded around him as he shut himself up in the phone booth. When the children pressed their nose against the glass, he shooed them away, as he took out a shiny black soon changed to an excited yell as they saw him dial a number, pressing a finger into the ringed dialer of the phone and letting it go all the way in a half-circle. A while later, they hear him say into the mouthpiece, “Hello.”
“Hello, ”the children around the booth took up the cry, the teashop owner broke into a smile and the men waiting for a bus smiled and said hello to each other. The sadhu(印度的僧人)who sat under the banyan tree nodded wisely. As the sound carried, more hellos were heard. The women winnowing grain giggled as they tried the word tentatively, the shepherds feeding their flocks called out to their sheep, laughing as they used the word.
“It’s a big occasion, ”said the headman, in an awed(敬畏的) voice.
“It is.” agreed those around him. The telephone man emerged and handed over a small chit of paper to the headman. “This is the telephone number.”
The headman looked at it respectfully as if it were a mantra(符咒). The others around him read out the numbers slowly, digit-by-digit.
The telephone man was now too tired to notice the cheering around him. He knew he had to wait long before the bus to take him back arrived. As he sipped his second cup of tea, he remembered something else.
“Oh, you can’t start using the phone now. The minister will come next month and inaugurate it. ”
No one said a word. No one was surprise. They had waited so long; a month more did not really matter.
1.In the story, fitting a working telephone booth .
A. was a process that had already taken 12 months
B. was in the charge of the headman
C. was finished more than a year ago
D. was an artistic challenge for a local painter
2.A misspelled word on the booth .
A. was a joke hared by the painter and the local people
B. made the painter miss his tea break
C. went unnoticed by the local people
D. kept everyone occupied for an entire day
3.When the man from the telephone department arrived.
A. the hot afternoon was filled with quiet expectation
B. there was a sudden rush of activity in the village
C. he was greeted like a regular customer
D. he learned about the village while having a nice drink
4.What can be inferred from the story?
A. The man from the telephone department had a mentally demanding job.
B. Only the minister had the authority to make the first call.
C. It was a distant village free from modern technology.
D. Few of the local children went to school for education.
5.The examples of the children, the teashop owner, the men waiting for the bus, the women and the shepherds are given to illustrate .
A. the local people’s curiosity for the new thing
B. the ignorance of the local people
C. the local people’s enthusiasm for English learning
D. the popularity of the man from the telephone department
6.What words can be used to best describe the local people?
A. Innocent and cooperative.
B. Friendly and respectful.
C. Patient and competent.
D. Independent and admirable.
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Your life is composed of all the little things we experience everyday, and knowing how to find joy in some of those little things is one of the easiest ways to let happiness slowly fill your cup. In order for that to happen, you need to do two very simple things, put yourself in such situations that you can experience happiness there, and then find a way to savour the experience and let it sink into you.
To put yourself in the position of experiencing happiness every day, Lahan Catalino, Ph.D, at the University of California, San Francisco, recommends an approach called “prioritizing positivity”—organizing your day-to-day life on purpose so that it contains situations which naturally give rise to positive emotions. It involves both carving out time in your daily routine to do things that you really love and heavily weighing the positive emotional consequences of major life decisions, like taking a new job, and you will regularly find yourself.
Then how can we find away to savour the happy experience and let it sink into you? Here is what psychologist Rick Hanson, the author of Buddha’s Brain explains.
Let a good fact become a good experience.
Often we go through life and some good thing happens—a little thing like we checked off an item on our To Dc list, we survived another day at work, the flowers are blooming, and so forth. Hey, this is an opportunity to feel good. Don’t leave the money lying on the table: recognize that this is an opportunity to let yourself truly feel good.
Really enjoy this positive experience.
Practice what any school teacher knows: if you want to help people learn something, make it as intense as possible—in this case, as felt in the body as possible—for as long as possible.
When sinking into this experience, sense your intention that this experience is sinking into you.
Sometimes people do this through visualization, like by sensing a golden light coming into themselves or a soothing balm inside themselves. You might imagine a jewel going into the treasure chest in your heart—or just know that this experience is sinking into you, becoming a resource you can take with you no matter where you go.
It might seem a little cliche to say“stop and smell the roses”, but it’s moments like those that can be stored in your happiness bank and withdrawn later. Living a happy life can be as simple as accepting the happiness that’s already around you. If you want more, it’s OK to go out and achieve it, but don’t forget where happiness really comes from.
| Let 1. Come Naturally With the “Little Things” | |
| 2.to let happiness come your way | *Put yourself in situations 3.you experience happiness. *Find a way to savour the experience and let it sink into you |
| Giving 4.to positive things | *Organize your everyday life 5.to experience positive emotions. *6.your time to do things you love as well as heavily weighing the positive emotional consequences. |
| Enjoying the experience and letting it sink into you | *Let a good fact become a good experience so that you have the 7.to feel good. *Really enjoy the positive experience as long as possible *When sinking into this experience, be 8.of your intention so that it becomes a resource to take with your wherever you go. |
| 9. | *Happy moments like “stop and smell the roses” are 10.. *Living a happy life can be as simple as accepting the happiness already around you. |
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Urban public bike service isn’t a new phenomenon. Government-sponsored public bike systems have been introduced into many cities in China Mobike, a new kind of public bike rental service, started in Shanghai and has expanded to Beijing. People can use this service by scanning the QR code(二维码) on the bike to unlock the smart lock. The standard cost of this service is 1 yuan per 30 minutes. Users can pay with popular mobile payment methods such as Alipay and WeChat. Mobike now has more than 10, 000 bikes in Shanghai, allowing most riders to find a bike anywhere within a diameter(直径) of 300 meters. Many people ride a Mobike for a short trip, such as from home to the subway, subway to the work place or to a grocery store. Experts say Mobike is a good supplement(补充) to the public bike rental service since city people are now fond of “Green Riding”, and environmentally-friendly means of transportation. Just because of this, the company providing the service is increasing the number by hundred every day.
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