Step By Step is the only one of the books ___...

Step By Step is the only one of the books ________ with the tape in the bookshop.

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The boy sitting by the window is the only one of the students who             from the countryside in our school.

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There are many books on the shelf. But only one of them is ______.

A. worth to read       B. worth being read              C. worthy of reading     D. worth reading

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The girl sitting by the window is the only one of the students who _______ from the countryside in our class.

A．was              B．were             C．is                D．are

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The girl sitting by the window is the only one of the students who _______ from the countryside in our class.

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The boy _____ by the window is the only one of the students who _____ from the countryside in our school.

A. seated; are　　　　 B. seating; was

C. sat; were　　　　　　 D. sitting; is

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Amazon Charts

The Top Five Most Sold & Most Read Books of the Week

No. 1 It — Now a major film BY STEPHEN KING

Stephen King’s terrifying, classic # 1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature (Chicago Sun-Times)”— about seven adults who return to their hometown to fight a nightmare they had first been troubled with as teenagers…an evil without a-name: it.

Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It.

No. 2 A Column of Fire — # 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY KENFOLLETT

In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral looked down on a city split by religious conflict. As power in England shifted dangerously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clashed, testing friendship, loyalty and love…

No. 3 A Game of Thrones — NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES BY GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

From a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any you’ve ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has launched a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance and adventure fill the pages of this magnificent saga, the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantasy fans everywhere.

No. 4 The Cuban Affair — INSTANT # 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY NELSON DEMILLE

Brilliantly written with his signature humor and real experience from his research trip to Cuba… Nelson DeMille is a true master of genre.

No. 5 Sleeping Beauties BY OWEN KING, STEPHEN KING

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the “highest of high-stakes stories: What might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?”

In a future so real and near that it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep. And while they sleep, they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare…

1.According to the article, which book is co-authored?

A.It B.A Game of Thrones

C.The Cuban Affair D.Sleeping Beauties

2.According to the passage, which books have been adapted for television or the big screen?

A.It and A Game of Thrones B.Origin and The Cuban Affair

C.A Game of Thrones and Origin D.Sleeping Beauties and A Column of Fire

3.According to the article, which of the following statements is true?

A.The Cuban Affairs is a novel written with a serious tone.

B.The story in A Column of Fire is set in a modern European country.

C.It describes a frightening story set in Derry, a location familiar to readers of Stephen King.

D.The author of A Game of Thrones has also written other books, including Bags of Bones.

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It is one of the oldest magic tricks in the book—a magician locks a woman in a box, with her head and feet sticking out from either end, and saws (锯) it in half. But when she finally jumps out of the box, the woman is unharmed.

This trick was introduced nearly a century ago. It has been around for some time, but it never goes wrong. Why is it so successful? The answer is simple: the human mind is easily fooled.

Our brain processes the world around us based on information that sensory organs, including the eyes, pick up. For instance, when we see a cow or a horse standing behind a tree, we automatically “fill in” the part of the animal’s body that is hidden from our sight. “So the brain is taking this kind of very sparse (匮乏的) information about the world and it’s generating this rich world by filling in information,” Stephen Macknik, a scientist at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, US, told Science magazine.

But since our brains are filling in the gaps, sometimes they get it wrong. They tend to be driven by our previous experiences and we expect things to go as they have in the past even if sometimes they do not.

This tendency explains magicians’ success in fooling people with well-known coin tricks. For example, when you see a magician throw a coin up and down in one hand and then fake a coin thrown to the other hand, you would naturally believe that the coin is in the other hand.

Apart from the information gaps, magicians also use the “blind spots” theory when doing their shows.

The most well-known experiment demonstrating this theory is called the “invisible gorilla (大猩猩)”, in which volunteers watch a video of two basketball teams. They are asked to count how many times the teams wearing white shirts pass the ball. In the meantime, a person dressed as a gorilla walks onto the court. But shockingly, half of the viewers don’t notice the gorilla, even when they appear to be looking directly at it.

Magicians employ this tactic (招数), what they call “misdirection”, in almost every one of their acts. They direct our attention somewhere else using comedy and music, which can make us miss stuff during the performance.

1.The magic trick is mentioned in the first paragraph to ________.

A. introduce the steps of the magic trick

B. prove magic tricks seldom go wrong

C. reveal how magic tricks are designed

D. get us to wonder how magicians trick the mind

2.We can conclude from the passage that the human mind is easily fooled because our brain ________.

A. may have difficulty remembering what we just saw

B. fills in information about the magic world

C. is influenced by our previous experiences

D. processes far more information than our sensory organs pick up

3.What does the underlined word “invisible” in paragraph 7 refer to?

A. Unnoticed.　　 B. Unimportant.

C. Unpleasant.　　 D. Unprepared.

4.During the “invisible gorilla” experiment, people watching the video ignore the “gorilla” because ________.

A. they don’t look directly at it

B. they are not interested in it

C. they are too focused on counting

D. they consider it to be a distraction

5.Why do magicians usually use comedy and music when they play magic tricks?

A. To get viewers to stay focused on the show.

B. To make the show more fun and exciting.

C. To draw viewers’ attention away from a secret action.

D. To create information gaps between magicians and viewers.

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With everything arranged properly, the project is surely to _________ smoothly as planned, step by step.

A. improve       B. increase             C. progress                 D. occur

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The step you have taken is ________ much risk（冒险）.

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