_________in Brother Xili’s clothes, he soon b...

_________in Brother Xili’s clothes, he soon became the focus of attention.

A. Dressing　　　　　　 B. Dressed

C. Get dress　　　　　　　 D. Being dressed

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Because of his strange clothes, he immediately became the ___ of attention when he entered the hall.

A.concentration B.point C.focus D.aim

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His father got him a jib in a bank but soon it became clear ______ he was not fit for that kind of work .

A．that              B．why              C．what             D．whether

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As soon as _______ new film was released, it became _______ great hit in all big cinemas across the country.

A. a ; the               B. the ; a              C. the ; /              D. a ; a

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He sat there with his attention ________ the wonderful view of the city.

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Why don’t you take off your clothes and have them washed? They will soon _______ in the sun.

A. hang out            B. warm up        C. dry out            D. clean up

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Don't bother Tom, he is________with the experiment on water molecules in the lab.

A. focused       B. fixed      C. occupied        D. concentrated

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When Webster was young ,he was a teacher .But he quickly became tired of the books he used in class .They were all about the English people and places .Since he wanted books that would be interesting to the American children ,he wrote three books with many American examples .

Webster worked hard to change the spellings of American English .He wanted words to be spelled in the same way they were pronounced .For example ,he thought the word laugh should be spelled laf.And he tried many ways to ask people to help him to do this .

One day he walked into a print shop and gave the boy there a piece of paper .Young man ,he said ,when you print any book in the future ,please don’t spell the words like the English people do .For example ,when you see these words :theatre ,centre ,colour ,and labour ,please always print them as theater ,center ,color ,and labor .The boy studied it and answered ,OK,but I must ask my boss first.

With the money he made from his books ,Webster could start his great work ,which took him more than twenty years to finish .In 1828 ,the first American English dictionary was born .And today, Webster’s dictionary is thought to be most important American English dictionary in the whole world .

1．Webster didn’t like the books used in American schools because________.

A．he was born in America

B．there were too many mistakes in them

C．American children were not interested in them

D．they were too difficult for American children to understand

2．In Webster’s opinion ,the word“colour”should be spelled as “color”according to its________.

A．meaning      B．use      C．pronunciation      D．wording

3．What’s the printer’s attitude（态度）towards Webster’s advice？

A．He was for it.                   B．He was against it .

C．He had no idea about it .          D．He thought it impossible

4.  The best tittle foe this passage should be_______

A. webster

B. webster and His Dictionary

C. The first English Dictionary

D. The Differences between American English and British English

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In January, British actor Eddie Redmayne made headlines around the world as he became the latest member of smartphone refuser. “It was a reaction against being glued permanently to my iPhone during waking hours,” he explained, turning instead to an old-fashioned “dumb phone” handset that could only make and take calls.

He is not alone. There is a small but busy market for phones that are simple and cheap at a time when smartphones are becoming ever more complex and expensive. Basic phones — handsets with some basic functions such as playing music and accessing the Internet — are gradually being replaced by low cost smartphones, according to Francisco Jeronimo, research director for European mobile devices at IDC, the research group. But there is still a significant demand for older-style phones.

Strategy Analytics, a research group, estimates that 44,000,000 basic phones were sold in 2015, accounting for 2 percent of the global market. Some phonemakers, such as Sony and LG, have already turned their back on the market. But others like Microsoft and Samsung are still producing devices every year aimed at the basic phone market.

Many smartphone users beef about having to buy devices that are easily broken, require daily recharging and which will be replaced by a new, better version within a year. Even basic smartphones offer more functions that not many people need.

Some users buy phones with limited or no Internet connections in a conscious attempt to keep away from the modern digital world. Analysts say that there is a growing number of “second phoneys” who use an expensive smartphone during the day, but turn to cheaper, pocket-sized devices when they go out in the evening.

Light Phone founder Joe Hollier falls into this camp. He has developed a credit card-sized phone without a data connection and no extra functions other than to make calls. He describes a feeling of huge relief when the ability to check emails or status updates is removed. Light Phone functions as a companion device to a smartphone but Mr Hollier hopes it will also encourage people to unplug from the modern Internet world.

1.What is the function of paragraph 1?

A. To lead to the topic.　　 B. To summarize the whole passage.

C. To analyze the situation of phone usage.　　 D. To deepen the theme.

2.The expression “beef about” may be replaced by “________” in the passage.

A. care about　　 B. approve of

C. complain of　　 D. think over

3.Joe Hollier developed the new card-sized phone to ________.

A. save money　　 B. relax the mind

C. save time　　 D. keep healthy

4.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Some people prefer basic phones to smart phones.

B. What are the functions of basic phones.

C. The old-fashioned phones have many advantages.

D. The future of smartphones is gloomy.

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In the United States, when one became rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.

The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.

It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.

Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ because ‘Jones’ is a very common name in the United States.’ “Keeping up with the Joneses”came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.

People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are ‘Jonses’ in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.

1.Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ______.

2.It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to ________.

3.The underlined word “neighbourhood” in the second paragraph means ________.

4.Arthur Momand used the name ‘Jones’ in his series of short stories because’ Jones’ is ________.

5.According to the writer, keeping up with the Joneses is ________.

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