It seems that houses________ like mushrooms a...

It seems that houses________ like mushrooms almost in the night during the housing boom. Which of the following is IMPROPER?

A.pop up B.spring up

C.shoot up D.stick up

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Saddleworth Moor in the north of England is a bare place. It seemed almost wired to me, then, that anyone should _____ the building of seven wind turbines( 风力发电机) to produce clean, renewable energy. Surely this was the perfect place to situate them--- basically dull, unattractive to tourists and ----- _____ ---windy. Yet Saddleworth is becoming another battleground in an increasingly confusing _____ over wind farming and the future of the planet.

Typical of this confusion is hearing Professor David Bellamy _____ the fight against wind farms. I had always thought of Professor Bellamy as an environmentalist had made the _____ assumption that he would be a natural supporter of wind power. However, on reflection, Bellamy would be better described as a conservationist, whose main aim is to preserve natural habitats of plants and animals from destruction, rather than a(n) _____ on climate change. He has fought against other renewable energies that _____ wildlife and wildness, and has described the wind turbines as weapons of mass destruction killing birds and bats.

Bellamy, along with other opponents, has argued the wind farms are in fact _____, and are only commercially successfully because they are so heavily funded. This argument has been put forward by several newspaper commentators recently , who have then gone to _____ nuclear power. This doesn’t take into account years of _____ from Greens who claim that nuclear power is both expensive and dangerous. And yet nuclear energy has recently been _____ by a leading green scientist , Professor James Lovelock, who was one of the first to draw attention to the problem of climate change. He argues that renewable energy such as wind simply cannot provide sufficient electricity for our energy needs.

And so it goes on. There are so many _____ claims, each apparently fronted by some outstanding scientists and backed up by a lot of statics. So who’s actually right? What’s the right solution? What _____ me is that we will take so long in deciding that it will be too late. The damage will have been done. Yet what I also _____ is how convenient these conflicting arguments are. We can avoid making any changes to our personal lifestyles by just doing nothing. Global warming isn’t down to me going to Barcelona by air for the weekend or having a dishwasher or driving everywhere; no, it’s because those people in Saddleworth won’t let us build our _____!

1.A.take over B.call for C.look into D.object to

2.A.vice versa B.or rather C.above all D.to date

3.A.debate B.concern C.advantage D.control

4.A.leading B.reporting C.watching D.abandoning

5.A.cautious B.basic C.common D.false

6.A.expert B.campaigner C.commentator D.columnist

7.A.exploited B.threatened C.restored D.attracted

8.A.unaided B.unfriendly C.uneconomic D.unbalanced

9.A.produce B.praise C.eliminate D.research

10.A.intentions B.passions C.opinions D.protest

11.A.advocated B.rejected C.proposed D.overlooked

12.A.expected B.successful C.conflicting D.personal

13.A.relieves B.amazes C.disappoints D.worries

14.A.predict B.recognize C.question D.ski

15.A.wind farms B.power plants C.animal habitats D.nuclear engines

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These days, it seems like everything is going digital. You can find almost everything on the Internet.

Many people find this way of life more convenient, because they can complete their daily chores（琐事） from the comfort of their own home.

Firstly, online shopping can be far less stressful than hitting the high street shops. There are no huge crowds of people or boring long queues. With online shopping, it’s just you and your computer. It’s like you have the whole shop to yourself! Secondly, online stores don’t have opening and closing times. This is perfect for anyone with a busy schedule. If you want to, you can even place an online shopping order at three o’clock in the morning!

In the busy modern world, there are clearly many advantages to online shopping. However, in my experience, there are also several cons… With online shopping, you can’t try before you buy, and that’s a definite disadvantage for me. Often, when my new clothes arrive, I find they don’t fit very well. It’s always annoying when a dress is a little too big, or when sleeves are too short… Sometimes, the clothes are not what I was expecting. A piece of clothing might look great in photos online, but quite different in real life.

In these cases, you want to return the item, but here lies the biggest problem with online shopping. You have to pay for your order’s delivery, and for an item to be returned to the warehouse! These charges are often very expensive, which suddenly make online shopping seem a little less convenient… That’s why I don’t choose to shop online very frequently. For now, I will continue to find the time for a trip to a real shop, where I know exactly what I’m buying!

1.What’s the main idea of the third paragraph?

A. The differences among online stores.

B. The methods of online shopping.

C. The opening time of online stores.

D. The advantages of online shopping.

2.Which word can replace the underlined word“cons”in the fourth paragraph?

A. Comparisons.　　 B. Concentration.

C. Disadvantages.　　 D. Disagreements.

3.According to the author, what is the biggest problem with online shopping?

A. The waste of time and electricity.

B. The expensive charges for the returned item.

C. The disadvantages of not trying before you buy.

D. The lost experience of walking in a real shop.

4.What’s the author’s attitude towards online shopping?

A. Disapproval.　　 B. Doubtful.

C. Curious.　　 D. Favorable.

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I like the house with a beautiful garden in front, but I can’t afford______．

A．one         B．this         C．it               D．that

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---- Mary quitted the job again last week.

---- Why did she do a thing like that? It seems to make no__________.

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A child, who has once got interested in a tale, likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to “tell” a story than just “read” it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce his own as an improvement on the printed text, according to his child’s actual situation, so much the better.

There is a charge made against some fairy tales, as they probably harm children by frightening them or leaving them sad feelings. To prove it, an experiment has been done to show that children who have heard terrible fairy stories often feel more uneasy than those who have not. As for fears, there are some cases where children get timid (胆怯的) by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition may weaken the pain of fear.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that the stories are not objectively true, and that those giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets etc. do not really exist, so children should be taught to learn the reality by studying history, instead of being got fond of the strange side in fairy tales. Those, who prefer to create such stories, are so peculiar (奇怪的) that it is hard to argue with them. If their creative exaggeration (夸张) were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.

Not once is a fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world, but not every child is clever enough to be aware of it. Parents should choose their children’s “bed-time” reading materials with much care. Only the fairy stories containing positive effect will make a clever and caring child with rich imagination.

1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ______.

A．repeated without any change

B．treated as no more than a joke

C．made some changes by parents

D．set in the present situation

2.According to the passage, when a child hears a terrible fairy story, ______.

A．he will get more interested

B．great fear can take place in him

C．he will like it to be repeated

D．an experiment is being done

3.The word “sound” in Para.3 can be understood as ______.

A．fashionable        B．forgettable        C．available          D．believable

4.The author mentions “sticks” and “telephones” to prove that ______.

A．fairy stories are all made up

B．fairy tales lead to misunderstanding

C．children are cheated by old stories

D．there is more concern for children

5.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that ______.

A．they are made up far from the truth

B．they are so full of imagination

C．they are not interesting at all

D．they make history difficult to teach

6.It makes sense that parents choose fairy stories with ______ as “bed-time” reading materials..

A．formal printings     B．creative scenes     C．positive effect      D．terrible characters

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A woman liked the water from the pump so much that she had it______ to her house every day.

A. deliver　　　　　　　 B. to be delivered

C. delivered　　　 　 　 D. being delivered

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A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ____.

A．repeated without any change              B．treated as a joke

C．made some changes by the parent          D．set in the present

2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is ____.

A．in a realistic setting                      B．heard for the first time

C．repeated too often                      D．told in a different way

3.The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ____.

A．makes them less fearful

B．develops their power of memory

C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4.The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that ______.

A．fairy stories are still being made up

B．there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

C．people try to modernize old fairy stories

D．there is more concern for children's fears nowadays

5.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A．they are full of imagination

B．they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

C．they are not interesting

D．they make teachers of history difficult to teach

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A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say, so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when _______.

A. it is repeated without any change　　 B. it is treated as a joke

C. some changes are made to it by a parent　　 D. it is set in the present

2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.

A. in a realistic setting　　 B. told in a different way

C. repeated too often　　 D. heard for the first time

3.The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.

A. develops their power of memory

B. makes them less fearful

C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A. they are full of imagination

B. they make teachers of history difficult to teach

C. they are not interesting

D. they are just made up of the stories which are far from the truth

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As a rule, a child who has once been happy with a tale likes to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say, so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when 　　　　　 .

A.it is repeated without any change B.it is treated as a joke

C.some changes are made to it by a parent D.it is set in the present

2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is 　　　　 .

A.in a realistic setting B.told in a different way

C.repeated too often D.heard for the first time

3.The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it 　　　　 .

A.develops their power of memory B.makes them less fearful

C.makes them believe there is more to be afraid of D.encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that 　　　　 .

A.they are full of history B.they make teachers of history difficult to teach

C.they are not interesting D.they are just made up of unreal stories

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