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Joker found one of the biggest diamonds in the world in his own backyard. He sold the stone to a diamond dealer for over three hundred thousand dollars. In New York, the diamond was resold，this time for almost eight hundred thousand dollars. The true value of a diamond is never known until it has been cut. Once cut successfully, its value can increase a thousand times. It’s easy to understand why the owner of the Joker diamond went to the best diamond cutter he knew, Kaplan. The cutter studied the diamond for twelve whole months.

When he felt he was ready to start work, he discovered a flaw （瑕疵）. He had to begin with his calculations all over again, or he might have made the stone useless. Six more months passed, and Kaplan finally said to the owner, “I am ready to start my work. There will be one excellent diamond that will be comparable to any in the world, plus eleven small diamonds of first-class quality. ” Kaplan waited a few more days until he felt he was in the best physical and mental （精神的） condition possible. He picked up his tools and held his breath as he made the first blow. The diamond split （切开） exactly as he promised.

1.A diamond dealer is a person ______,

A. in the diamond business　　 B. who stores diamonds

C. who cuts diamonds　　　 D. who sells diamonds

2.The owner of the Joker diamond thought that if the diamond was cut successfully, it might be worth ________.

A. $300, 000　　　　 　　 B. $500, 000

C. $300, 000, 000　　　　 D. $800, 000, 000

3.Kaplan studied the diamond for ________.

A. one year　　　　 　　　　　　 B. more than half a year

C. over eighteen months　　 D. more than two years

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Joker found one of the biggest diamonds in the world in his own back yard. He sold the stone to a diamond dealer for over three hundred thousand dollars. In New York, the diamond was resold. This time for almost eight hundred thousand dollars. The true value of a diamond is never known until it has been cut. Once cut successfully, its value can increase a thousand times. It’s easy to understand why the owner of the Joker diamond went to the best diamond cutter he knew, Kaplan. The cutter studied the diamond for twelve whole months.

When he felt he was ready to start work, he discovered a flaw (瑕疵). He had to begin with his calculations (计算) all over again, or he might have made the stone useless. Six more months passed, and Kaplan finally said to the owner, “I m ready to start my work. There will be one excellent diamond that be comparable to any in the world, plus eleven small diamonds of first-class quality.” Kaplan waited a few more days until be felt he was in the best physical and mental (精神的) condition possible. He picked up his tools and held his breath as he made the first blow. The diamond split (切开) exactly as he promised.

1.Joker found one of the biggest diamonds in the world _______.

A. in a minute　　　　　　　　　　 B. at the foot of a big mountain

C. in his own backyard　　　　　　 D. in a garage

2.A diamond dealer is a person _______,

A. in the diamond business　　　 B. who stores diamonds

C. who cuts diamonds　　　　　　　 D. who sells diamonds

3.When the diamond was resold, _______.

A. the dealer lost a lot of money

B. Joker made some more money

C. the dealer got 800,000 dollars

D. Kaplan got 800,000 dollars

4.The owner of the diamond thought that if the diamond was cut successfully it might be worth _______.

A. $300,000　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. $500, 000

C. $300, 000,000　　　　　　　　　 D. $800, 000, 000

5.Kaplan studied the diamond for _______.

A. one and a half years　　　　　　　　 B. more than half a year

C. over eighteen months　　　　　　　　 D. more than nineteen months

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1.When can you spend the night in a tour?

2.What is the time that Cook’s Cottage is open on Saturday in the summer?

3.The Anchorage Restaurant is ____________.

4.If you want to buy the best products in Australia, you may call ________.

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Allen Cook and his daughter Melissa found a crack（裂缝）in one of the ceilings while decorating her house. What they discovered within turned out to be part of a beautiful,heartwarming____story.

"The envelope was____and yellow.It has never been____.In the letter she was talking about the baby she was going to have."Allen Cook told CNN,____May 4 of that year,the typed letter was written by a woman named Virginia to her husband,Rolf Christoffersen.At the time,he was a sailor abroad.The envelope was____"return to sender" and never____its way to her husband until this week.Allen's daughter called and visited a man named Rolf Christoffersen in Santa Barbara,California.

"Someone googled my name and called me at my office____I have the same name as my father." Christoffersen's son,66,told CNN.The younger Christoffersen wasn't yet born when his mother Virginia wrote the letter,but Seventy-two years later,her____were finally heard by her husband.Christoffersen____called his father,who is now 96 and also lives in California,and read the letter to him____.

"I was so surprised and____to find out that a letter like that_____.I am still very____,"the elder Christoffersen told CNN.The long-lost letter is believed to have fallen through a crack in the____floor of the house,where the Christoffersens used to live.

Finally____just before Mother's Day,it is now another meaningful____to Virginia Christoffersen."It's____and reading her words____me just what a wonderful person she was and her much she____us,"her son said,through ____.

1.A. cartoon　　 B. foll　　 C. war　　 D. love

2.A. old　　 B. new　　 C. worn　　 D. magic

3.A. posted　　 B. opened　　 C. cleaned　　 D. removed

4.A. Fetched　　 B. Guided　　 C. Dated　　 D. Delivered

5.A. listed　　 B. named　　 C. advertised　　 D. marked

6.A. tried　　 B. found　　 C. felt　　 D. fought

7.A. because　　 B. now that　　 C. so　　 D. but

8.A. summaries　　 B. feelings　　 C. words　　 D. diaries

9.A. especially　　 B. immediately　　 C. anxiously　　 D. actually

10.A. by fax　　 B. by email　　 C. through the Internet　　 D. over the phone

11.A. scared　　 B. sad　　 C. happy　　 D. calm

12.A. existed　　 B. disappeared　　 C. escaped　　 D. moved

13.A. excited　　 B. embarrassed　　 C. energetic　　 D. talkative

14.A. double　　 B. nearby　　 C. downstairs　　 D. upstairs

15.A. welcomed　　 B. approached　　 C. received　　 D. arrived

16.A. motivation　　 B. connection　　 C. application　　 D. devotion

17.A. Valentin's Day　　 B. Mother's Day　　 C. Thanksgiving Day　　 D. Father's Day

18.A. urged　　 B. suggested　　 C. advised　　 D. reminded

19.A. loved　　 B. remembered　　 C. treated　　 D. helped

20.A. laughter　　 B. tears　　 C. effort　　 D. difficulty

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Barack Obama is one of the most powerful people in the world.

In a speech, he o  his success to those hardships he went through: “I was nobody at first, but I wanted to make a d . I learned the ______(精神) of perseverance(坚持不懈) from people around me. L  a hard life, my mom struggled to put herself through school, and make ends m . My grandmother kept doing her job as well as she could and ended ______ being vice president at a bank. ________ you do, remember that making your mark on the world is hard. Be patient and determined, r of the setbacks and failures you may _______ across in achieving success. No one of achievement has________(躲避) failure. They learn from mistakes and don’t quit.”

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Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest thinkers in the world, began his career as an artist. Very little is known about Leonardo’s early life. He was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci. As a boy, Leonardo showed a great interest in drawing, sculpting and observing nature.

However, because Leonardo was born to parents who were not married to each other, he was barred from some studies and professions. He trained as an artist after moving to Florence with his father in the 1460s. It was an exciting time to be in Florence, one of the cultural capitals of Europe. Leonardo trained with one of the city’s very successful artists, Andrea del Verrocchio. He was a painter, sculptor and gold worker. Verrocchio told his students that they needed to understand the body’s bones and muscles when drawing people.

Leonardo took the teacher’s advice very seriously. He spent several periods of his life studying the human body by taking apart and examining dead bodies. While training as an artist, Leonardo also learned about and improved on relatively new painting methods at the time. One was the use of perspective(透视) to show depth. A method called “sfumato” helped to create a cloudy effect to suggest distance. “Chiaroscuro” is a method using light and shade as a painterly effect.

Leonardo’s first known portrait now hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D. C. He made this painting of a young woman named Ginevra de’ Benci around 1474. The woman has a pale face with dark hair. In the distance, Leonardo painted the Italian countryside.

He soon received attention for his extraordinary artistic skills. Around 1475 he was asked to draw an angel in Verrocchio’s painting “Baptism of Christ.” One story says that when Verrocchio saw Leonardo’s addition to the painting, he was so amazed by his student’s skill that he said he would never paint again.

1.Which of the following words can be used to describe Leonardo according to the third paragraph?

A. Stubborn.　　 B. Creative.

C. Pessimistic.　　 D. Determined.

2.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Verrocchio felt shame at his own work.

B. Verrocchio thought Leonardo’s work terrible.

C. Verrocchio thought highly of Leonardo’s work.

D. Verrocchio didn’t believe Leonardo could paint well.

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Leonardo was prevented from some studies because of his parents.

B. Leonardo thought his teacher’s advice was unreasonable.

C. “Sfumato” is a method to show depth by using light and shade.

D. “Baptism of Christ” made Leonardo known across the world.

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LONDON: The Edinburgh Festival, the biggest arts festival of its kind in the world, got under way in the Scotland capital on Sunday with a concert that included Hector Berlionz's To Deum, under the direction of Christoph von Dohnanyi.

The festival, which runs until August 31 this year, includes as its high points Peter Stein’s staging of Wagner’s Parsifal, with Claudio Abbado directing the Gustav Mahler youth orchestra. The concert programme includes American pianist Richard Goode, bass baritone Thomas Quasthoff and violinist Christian Tetzlaff. New to the programmes this year will be 25 late evening classical music concerts.

Earlier this month, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest show-case in the world for performance art, officially got under way with theatre, dance, poetry and music presentations.

Many of the fringe artists, who can enter the fringe festival upon payment of a small fee, were inspired this year by the event of September 11.

Thousands of people flock to Edinburgh from around the world during the festival, which is over 50 years old. It aims to promote and encourage arts and to reflect international culture. It consists of various dance, music, opera, and theatre presentation taking place across the city during the three-week run.

1.Who will perform in the concert on Sunday?

2.When did the Edinburgh Festival begin?

3. What did the Edinburgh Festival never have before?

4.Which of the following statements about the Edinburgh Festival is true?

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根据首字母或汉语提示，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

1.The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, which is ________ (access) through a computer.

2.According to the relevant documents, several import duty will be ________ (lay) off.

3.When what a scientist does is not working, a scientist sets aside all of the ________ (assume) and starts over.

4.The police were a bit ________ (suspect) of the package that was left in the corridor.

5.If people had got the warning earlier, they wouldn’t ________ (panic) at the sudden attack of epidemics.

6.There are very few sites that would appeal to you the i________ you lay your eyes on them.

7.Most employees enjoy the ________ (flexible) of their working arrangement.

8.Many candidates will come across the question: why do you think you are q________ (合格)?

9.Measure should be taken to preserve those a________ (原作的) works of art from ancient times.

10.Practice is the only c ________ (评判标准) of truth and the standard of practice should be first and fundamental in the theory of knowledge.

11.She asked for her parents’ ________ (approve) before going out with her boy friend.

12.As we all know, English people are a________ (习惯于) to using weather as a subject of starting a conversation.

13.He made a________ (保守的) guess at the employment rate this year.

14.USTC is one of the country’s most d________ (杰出的) universities producing numerous outstanding students.

15.His teacher suggested that he c________ (请教) more experts for further evidence.

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In 2006, one of the biggest music feuds(积怨) in history ended when Apple (the iPad and iPhone company) and Apple Corps (The Beatles' record label) settled their differences. The argument had been over the ''apple'' logos they both have as part of their trademarks(商标). Shortly after, The Beatles' music was launched for download. While the band's hit songs didn't make as big an impact as commentators(评论员) lad predicted, the event still led to plenty of press coverage.

But iTunes isn't the only technology linked to The Beatles. The Beatles: Rock Band is a video game for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii which allows you to become The Beatles. Released in 2009, the game includes a drum kit, guitar and microphone so you can sing and play along to your favourite songs. Not surprisingly, the game was a huge success, selling more than two million units. A remastered box set of all The Beatles' albums was released on the same day, which also sold well.

Films about The Beatles are also popular. Recent movies include Nowhere Boy, which is a film about the life of John Lennon. It's directed by Sam Taylor-Wood and stars Aaron Johnson and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Magazines and newspapers are still often filled with Beatles stories, and the zebra crossing near Abbey Road recording studios(where the 1969 album of the same name was recorded), was ranked Grade II listing in 2010, which means it’ll be protected. This followed similar recognition for Abbey Road studios itself.

And the future for The Beatles? Well, the band could still top the charts as there are unreleased tracks that still haven't seen the light of day. A strange experimental track called Carnival of Light, and a 27-minute jam of Helter Skelter have never been heard by the public.

Will they ever be released?

1.According to the passage, The Beatles' hit songs in 2006 ______

A.did not have ''apple'' logos B.were not well received as expected

C.couldn't be downloaded D.had a bad impact on commentators

2.Why is The Beatles: Rock Band mentioned in Paragraph 2?

A.To show the increasing popularity of video games.

B.To highlight the technological application of The Beatles.

C.To promote the online sales of technological devices.

D.To emphasize the music talent of the rock band.

3.From the passage we know John Lennon is ______.

A.a member of The Beatles B.the director of Nowhere Boy

C.a game developer D.the lead actor of Nowhere Boy

4.The protection of the zebra crossing implies that ______.

A.the road was in bad state and needed protection

B.the road was a desirable place t report Beatles stories

C.the road made it difficult to recognize Abbey Road studios

D.the road was of historic importance and deserved attention

5.What makes The Beatles' topping the charts possible?

A.Classical music. B.Unreleased songs. C.Strange works. D.Public curiosity.

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