For centuries, the only form of written correspondence（通信）was the letter. Letters were, and are sent by some form of postal service, the history of which goes back a long way. Indeed, the Egyptians began sending letters from about 2000 BC, as did the Chinese a thousand years later.
Of course, modern postal services now are much more developed and faster, depending as they do on cars and planes for delivery. Yet they are still too slow for some people to send urgent documents（紧急文件）and letters.
The invention of the fax（传真）machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more. When you send a fax , your are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service. It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for business to be able to fax documents to each other.
The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent, but, as a way of fast correspondence, it has been largely taken the place of by email. Email is used to describe messages sent from one computer user to another.
There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send someone an email, then he will receive it extremely quickly. Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned.
However, if you write something by email, which you might later regret, and send it immediately, there is no chance for second thoughts. At least, if your posting a letter you have to address and seal（封）the envelope and take it to the post box. There is plenty of time to change your mind. The message is think before your email!
1.We can learn from the text that_______.
A. the postal service has over the years become slower
B. email is less popular than the fax service
C. the postal service has over the years become faster
D. the fax service has a history as long as the postal service does
2.It can be inferred from the text that ______.
A. the fax machine was invented after the 1980s
B. letters have been used in China for about 1,000 years
C. the fax service had been fully developed by the 1980s
D. letters have been used in Egypt for about 2,000 years
3.In the last paragraph , the writer mentions “think before you email” to show that______.
A. you’d better not send your email in a hurry
B. you may regret if you don’t seal your envelope
C. you may regret before you send something by email
D. you need plenty of time to send an email
4.The text mainly deals with ________.
A. the invention of fax machines
B. the advantage of fax machines
C. the advantage of emails
D. the progress in correspondence
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For centuries, the only form of written correspondence（通信）was the letter. Letters were, and are sent by some form of postal service, the history of which goes back a long way. Indeed, the Egyptians began sending letters from about 2000 BC, as did the Chinese a thousand years later.
Of course, modern postal services now are much more developed and faster, depending as they do on cars and planes for delivery. Yet they are still too slow for some people to send urgent documents（紧急文件）and letters.
The invention of the fax（传真）machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more. When you send a fax , your are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service. It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for business to be able to fax documents to each other.
The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent, but, as a way of fast correspondence, it has been largely taken the place of by email. Email is used to describe messages sent from one computer user to another.
There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send someone an email, then he will receive it extremely quickly. Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned.
However, if you write something by email, which you might later regret, and send it immediately, there is no chance for second thoughts. At least, if your posting a letter you have to address and seal（封）the envelope and take it to the post box. There is plenty of time to change your mind. The message is think before your email!
1.We can learn from the text that_______.
A. the postal service has over the years become slower
B. email is less popular than the fax service
C. the postal service has over the years become faster
D. the fax service has a history as long as the postal service does
2.It can be inferred from the text that ______.
A. the fax machine was invented after the 1980s
B. letters have been used in China for about 1,000 years
C. the fax service had been fully developed by the 1980s
D. letters have been used in Egypt for about 2,000 years
3.In the last paragraph , the writer mentions “think before you email” to show that______.
A. you’d better not send your email in a hurry
B. you may regret if you don’t seal your envelope
C. you may regret before you send something by email
D. you need plenty of time to send an email
4.The text mainly deals with ________.
A. the invention of fax machines
B. the advantage of fax machines
C. the advantage of emails
D. the progress in correspondence
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Vampires (吸血鬼), creatures of myth, have been around in one form or another for centuries. Terrifying but also attractive, they are as popular in the early 21 st century as ever, as the current popularity of Twilight series, and its hero Edward Cullen, show.
Vampires first appeared in fiction in the 1700s. in 1895 Irish novelist Bram Stoker published Dracula, introducing the world’s most famous vampire.
But just what is it about these drinkers of human blood that continues to fascinate us? Speaking to Eric Lewis of the Times and Transcript website, academic Deborah Wells said that vampires are “culturally adaptive”. “We create very different vampires to fit different times. Edward Cullen is not the same as Count Dracula,” she said.
Different as they are, Wells believes vampires are “the perfect containers into which we can pour our current cultural anxieties”, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is powerful, yet old and physically ugly. Stoker’s book dealt with fear of the fall of the British Empire, real fears in the day in which it was written.
According to the website Bookrags, today’s vampires have all our cultural desires, money, power and sexual attraction. Represented by Cullen, they are noble, handsome young men whom women find irresistible. What’s more, vampires challenge traditional ideas about death, science and parental authority. This may be why teenagers are drawn to vampire tales.
“In many ways, the vampire story shows up teenage concerns,” said wells. “The emotional intensity (强度) of the relationship with the vampire matches the intensity of how it feels to have your first real love affairs. Your first real love, it really feels like life and death.”
55．The best title for this passage should be_______.
A．Vampires may continue to drink our blood
B．Vampires have been around us for long
C．Why Twilight is so popular nowadays
D．We still like the story about vampires
56．What is the image of the vampire in Bram Stoker’s book?
A．Anxious but perfect.
B．Powerful, old and ugly.
C．Terrifying but also attractive.
D．Afraid of the fall of the British Empire.
57．According to the website Bookrages, today’s vampires_______.
A．desire money, power and sexual attraction
B．may not think highly of parental authority
C．dare to give up traditional ideas
D．are likely to be resisted by women
58．Which of the following statements is true according to Wells?
A．People need different vampires in different times.
B．Our current cultural anxieties are hidden in vampires.
C．The vampire story reflects the conches of the teenagers.
D．The relationship with the vampire equals your first real love.
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Folk music includes many musical variations over the centuries. This form of music is 1. (energy) in English-speaking countries.
In the 1960s, folk music 2. (become) very popular thanks to artists like US song-writer Bob Dylan and Canadian singer Leonard Cohen. At that time, folk music used traditional instruments and had lyrics（歌词）that focused on social issues such as poverty and war. The power of folk music was 3. big as to inspire political and artistic movements. One of Dedylan’s famous songs, Blowin’in the Wind 4. (honor) as an “all-purpose progressive anthem (圣歌）” and it suggested 5.some things would change. The song served 6. the center of several protest movenments.
Contemporary folk musicians still use traditional instruments and strong story-telling techniques 7. (set) their tunes apart, but their lyrics are much less serious. And they have involved elements of other kinds of music.
The British band Mumford& Sons is one of the most recent examples. When Mumford& Sons burst on the scene back in 2011 with their 8. (one) performance in America, they were met with great enthusiasm. The media began to talk about “ a new folk rock”.
Their songs are rich in reference to the Bible and poets as well. Their music removes all politics and becomes an exercise in romantic 9. (explain) for nice men with mandolins (曼陀铃）. And most 10.(important), their songs are nice to listen to and sing along with.
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For many years, scholars have regarded My Mortal Enemy as somewhat of an enigma. Written in only a few months during the early spring of 1925 and published in 1926, Willa Cather’s shortest novel was sandwiched in between The Professor’s House (1925) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). While the subject matter of these latter two works can be traced to Cather’s experience in the desert Southwest, My Mortal Enemy seemingly has nothing to do with these subjects or her Nebraska roots; it appears to have come out of nowhere, puzzling those who have tried to fit this rather irregular work into a logical progression of Cather’s artistic development. The question of what caused Cather to write such a novel at this point in her career, for example, has still not been answered definitively. One commonly held hypothesis (假说) was first voiced by Marcus Klein, who in his 1961 introduction to the novel wrote that for Cather, “The story of Myra Henshawe must have been a personal crisis”. Klein, though, acknowledged that he could not prove his theory, “because there is available no record other than the novel”. Emmy Stark Zitter has recently argued that in My Mortal Enemy and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) Cather exercises the autobiographical impulse (冲击) by putting details of her own life into her fiction, but, like Klein, she is unable to name which “details” of her life Cather drew on in writing My Mortal Enemy.
As hinted (暗示) in the above statements by Klein and Zitter, much of the general uncertainty about the meaning of My Mortal Enemy can be traced to the absence of a persuasive theory as to who the real-life models for the novel’s characters were and what Cather’s relationship to them was. Cather herself wrote in a 1940 letter that, in James Woodress’s paraphrase, “she had known Myra’s real-life model very well, and the portrait drawn in the story was much as she remembered her”; Cather also added that the woman had died fifteen years before My Mortal Enemy was published, and that many relatives of this model later wrote to her to say that they recognized the “real” Myra from her description in the novel. Given such hints and Cather’s liking for drawing on her experiences in Nebraska for characters, settings, and plots, it is quite understandable that scholars have thus looked to Red Cloud and Lincoln for possible sources of the people and events depicted in My Mortal Enemy.
In light of the evidence presented in this article, though, I believe that Cather intended her comments about the model for Myra Henshawe to serve as red herrings (转移注意力的言语) that would protect her relationship with the couple who were the prototypes (原型) for the Henshawes, both of whom were still alive in 1925. Mark Madigan has recently confirmed how Cather in 1905 had to hold off publishing “The Profile (传略)” because of fears that the main character might recognize herself and commit suicide, and twenty years later Cather would have been well aware of how her description of the Henshawes might have affected both the real-life wife (who died in 1929) and husband (who died in 1949) if they had recognized themselves. It is my argument that the Henshawes were modeled after people Cather knew not in Nebraska but rather in New York: S. S. and Hattie McClure. Myra’s uncle, John Driscoll, was modeled after Hattie’s father, Professor Albert Hurd.
Possibly most important, identifying the Henshawes as the McClures allows us to more conclusively identify Cather herself with Nellie Birdseye. Nellie and Cather, both Midwestern onlookers and recorders, experienced four distinct stages in their relationships with the Henshawes and the McClures (especially with S. S.) My Mortal Enemy, I believe, was an extended attempt by Cather to deal with certain aspects of her own past and to move on in a world stripped of romantic illusion.
【小题１】The underlined word “enigma” in Paragraph 1 means “________”.
A. adaptation B. abstract C. best-seller D. mystery
【小题２】Cather didn’t have My Mortal Enemy published immediately ________.
A. so as not to annoy the relatives of the prototype for Myra
B. for fear that the prototype for Myra should be badly hurt
C. because she meant to polish it by adding some new material
D. because she was forbidden to do so by the real-life couple
【小题３】We can infer from the passage that ________.
A. Myra Henshawe is particularly true to her prototype
B. Cather had a good relationship with the real-life model
C. the writer considers My Mortal Enemy as a great work
D. scholars will put an end to their argument about the novel
【小题４】In the passage, the writer ________.
A. restored the truth behind Myra
B. presented his own hypothesis
C. made a revision to Zitter’s idea
D. renewed part of Klein’s fiction
【小题５】The proper title for the passage is ______.
A. uncovering Cather’s personal secret
B. unlocking the scholars’ imagination
C. unfolding the plot of My Mortal Enemy
D. unmasking Cather’s “mortal enemy”
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It was ______ the 19th century_____ heat was considered to be a form of energy.
| A．not until; that | B．until; that |
| C．not until; when | D．until; when |
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He has written many fiction stories, _____ this is only an example．
A．among which B．for which C．of which D．by which
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Can’t you see the sign there ______ “For ______ only!”
| A．says; staff | B．written; staffs | C．speaking; staffs | D．reading; staff |
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Many psychologists in the early twentieth century believed that humans use only 10 percent of their brains, and even the great Albert Einstein once wrote that most people use only a small portion of the grey matter between their ears. It's a theory that has often been put forward in television documentaries; magazines, advertisements and books over the past century.
But nearly all scientists now agree the 10 percent theory is completely unfounded. In fact, they question how this figure was ever arrived at in the first place and what areas of the brain are supposed to be unneeded. The theory supposes that if 90 percent of the brain were removed, a person would Still be able to function normally, while in reality it is known that damage to even a small area of the brain can result in extremely serious physical injury different activities and that many areas of the brain are used at the same time for some complex activities or thought processes.
Throughout the course of one day, most .areas of the brain are active at some time, even during sleep. The 10 percent theory suggests that certain areas o' the brain are not used, but scans slow activities throughout the entire brain and not in any separate part. The final argument against the 10 percent theory is the fact that doctors carefully map the brain before removing brain cancers so that they don't affect other essential areas.
From an evolutionary point of view, it's highly unlikely butt our comparatively larger brains would have evolved from our ancestors if the extra areas were not needed. In fact, there is absolutely no evidence support the 1p percent theory.
1.How did the 10 percent theory get such widespread popularity?
A. It was promoted in various types of copular media.
B. Albert Einstein argued strongly in support.
C. It was proven in scientific research.
D. Few people could prove it wrong.
2.The underlined word "unfounded" is chest in meaning to _________.
A. undiscovered B. unproven C. unknown D. unnecessary
3.Which of the following is true according to the writer?
A. We use less than 10% of our brains.
B. Most brain disorders affect the same part of the brain.
C. The brain is less active during times of sleep.
D. The 10 percent theory does not make evolutionary sense.
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A. People today use more of their brain than in the past.
B. Scientific opinion about the topic of brain use is equally divided.
C. Our understanding of the brain has changed greatly in the past decades.
D. Modern scientists have a complete picture of how the brain works.
5.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To present two sides of brain theory.
B. To criticize the 10 percent theory.
C. To explain how brain works.
D. To describe the history of brain research.
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178. This is the only article of those that ______ written by him.
| A．was | B．were | C．is | D．Were |
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For centuries, people have tried to invent a perfect universal written language and Chinese has actually been considered before. Francis Bacon used to assume that a language like Chinese and its writing system would have qualified. Chinese doesn’t use an alphabet based on sounds, but symbols indicating meaning.
Chinese character has its special relationship between the sign and what it symbolized. Each character represents a word or a concept and you pile them up together like Lego bricks, children’s plastic building toys, to build more words. Some of them also look like what they represent. For example, a mountain may look just like a mountain with a peak in the middle. And fire resembles some blazing (燃烧的) logs. When you put them together and you get volcano. Isn’t that amazing?
While some of them look like what they represent, most of them really don’t. In fact, some of them are incredibly complicated. For instance, “Biang” is the name of a kind of noodle, which has 57 strokes (笔画). It is very hard for people to pronounce or recognize this character, let alone writing it out correctly. Chinese is so complicated that since the 1950s, a simplified system of characters has been used in mainland China. But there is a problem. Chinese characters often represent whole works, and there are a lot of them. In the Chinese dictionary there are around sixty four thousand characters.
So Chinese characters might not become a universal writing system soon. The trouble is not just inventing one, but getting people to use it. It wouldn’t be easy for the whole world to agree on the same set of meanings. After all, language needs a cultural context. You cannot really just use a universal language as you like.
1.What can we learn from Francis Bacon?
A. He believed that Chinese writing system was perfect.
B. He managed to invent a universal written language.
C. He recommended Chinese to use alphabets based on sounds.
D. He thought written Chinese language could be used globally.
2.How does the author explain the characteristic of Chinese character?
A. By analyzing structures of toys. B. By comparing concepts.
C. By giving examples. D. By collecting data.
3.Why do Chinese people use a simplified system of Chinese characters?
A. It is hard to pronounce Chinese characters.
B. It is difficult to recognize or write Chinese characters.
C. It is fashionable to use simplified Chinese characters.
D. It is complicated to look up Chinese characters in the dictionaries.
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A. How to write simplified Chinese characters.
B. Why people need a universal written language.
C. Chinese is a perfect universal written language.
D. Whether Chinese are suitable to be a world language.
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