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The wedding took place in a Birmingham hotel. The bride and her father arrived in a new black American sports car. Her father looked nervous and uncomfortable in front of the cameras. The bride wore a silk wedding dress. She smiled nervously at the waiting photographers and went to a room on the first floor where she met her future husband for the very first time.
Carla Germaine and Greg Cordell were the winners of a radio station’s competition. The aim of the competition was to find two strangers prepared to marry without having met each other. Miss Germaine, 23, is a model. Mr. Cordell, 27, is a TV salesman. They were among the two hundred people who entered for a peculiar “experiment” organized by BMRB radio in Birmingham, England. Greg and Carla were among eight finalists who were interviewed live on radio. They took a lie detector test and the station also spoke to their friends and family about their personalities. The competition judges included an astrologer (占星家) who declared that they were suited.
The couple celebrated their wedding with a wedding breakfast and a party for 100 guests in the evening, but not everyone shared their joy. Miss Germaine’s mother looked anxious throughout the wedding and Mr. Cordell’s parents are reported to be less than delighted.
Organizations, including the marriage guidance service relate, have criticized the marriage. As one person put it, “we have enough problems getting young people to take marriage seriously without this. Marriage should always be about love.”
The couples are now on a Caribbean honeymoon followed by journalists. Their other prizes include a year’s free use of a wonderful apartment in the centre of Birmingham, and a car. But will it last?
1.What can we know about the couple from the passage?
A. The couple know each other before the wedding.
B. The bridegroom is a model and the bride is a TV salesman.
C. The bride is 4 years older than the bridegroom.
D. The couple can use an apartment free for some time as one of the prizes.
2. Some experts believe that ______ .
A. marriage without the couple’s meeting each other first ends up in divorce.
B. young people nowadays are too careless about marriage
C. taking a lie detector test can not solve all the marriage problems
D. most young people take marriage seriously except this couple
3. The goal of the competition was_______.
A. to find two strangers prepared to marry without having met each other
B. to win a free honeymoon
C. to win a year’s free use of a wonderful apartment
D. to make the radio station famous
4. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Two Strangers and a Wedding B. A Wedding Based on Love
C. A Short-lived Marriage D. A Well-Matched Couple
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The wedding took place in a Birmingham hotel. The bride and her father arrived in a new black American sport car. Her father looked nervous and uncomfortable in front of the cameras. The bride wore a silk wedding dress. She smiled nervously at the waiting photographers and went to a room on the first floor where she met her future husband for the very first time.
Carla Germaine and Greg Cordell were the winners of a radio station’s competition. The aim of the competition was to find two strangers prepared to marry without having met each other. Miss Germaine, 23, is a model. Mr. Cordell, 27, is a TV salesman. They were among the two hundred people who entered a special “experiment” organized by BMRB radio in Birmingham, England, Greg, and Carla were among eight finalists who were interviewed live on a radio. They took a lie detector（测谎仪） test and the station also spoke to their friends and family about their personalities. The competition judges include an astrologer（占星家） who declared that they were suited.
The couple celebrated their wedding with a wedding breakfast and a party for 100 guests in the evening, but not everyone shared their joy. Miss Germaine’s mother looked anxious throughout the wedding and Mr. Cordell’s parents are reported to be less than delighted.
Organizations, including the marriage guidance Service Relate, have criticized the marriage. As one person put it, “We have enough problems getting young people to take marriage seriously without this. Marriage should always be about love.”
The couple are now on a Caribbean honeymoon followed by journalists. Their other prizes include a year’s free use of a wonderful apartment in the center of Birmingham, and a car. But will it last?
1.How did the couple’s parents react to the wedding?
A. The bride’s mother shared their joy.
B. The bride’s father felt uncomfortable about the wedding.
C. The bridegroom’s parents were not that joyful.
D. The bridegroom’s parents were quite delighted.
2.Some experts believe that ________.
A. marriage without the couple’s meeting each other first ends up in divorce（离婚）
B. young people nowadays are too careless about marriage
C. taking a lie detector test can not solve all the marriage problems
D. most young people take marriage seriously except this couple
3.One of the prizes for the couple is ________.
A. to spend their honeymoon wherever they like
B. to use an apartment free for some time
C. to have a wedding dress free
D. to own an American sports car
4.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. A well-matched couple
B. A wedding based on love
C. A short-lived marriage
D. Two strangers and a wedding
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The wedding took place in a Birmingham hotel. The bride and her father arrived in a new black American sport car. Her father looked nervous and uncomfortable in front of the cameras. The bride wore a silk wedding dress. She smiled nervously at the waiting photographers and went to a room on the first floor where she met her future husband for the very first time.
Carla Germaine and Greg Cordell were the winners of a radio station’s competition. The aim of the competition was to find two strangers prepared to marry without having met each other. Miss Germaine, 23, is a model. Mr. Cordell, 27, is a TV salesman. They were among the two hundred people who entered a peculiar “experiment” organized by BMRB radio in Birmingham, England, Greg, and Carla were among eight finalists who were interviewed live on a radio. They took a lie detector（测谎仪） test and the station also spoke to their friends and family about their personalities. The competition judges include an astrologer（占星家） who declared that they were suited.
The couple celebrated their wedding with a wedding breakfast and a party for 100 guests in the evening, but not everyone shared their joy. Miss Germaine’s mother looked anxious throughout the wedding and Mr. Cordell’s parents are reported to be less than delighted.
Organizations, including the marriage guidance Service Relate, have criticized the marriage. As one person put it, “We have enough problems getting young people to take marriage seriously without this. Marriage should always be about love.”
The couple are now on a Caribbean honeymoon followed by journalists. Their other prizes include a year’s free use of a wonderful apartment in the center of Birmingham, and a car. But will it last?
1.How did the couple’s parents react to the wedding?
A. The bride’s mother shared their joy.
B. The bride’s father felt uncomfortable about the wedding.
C. The bridegroom’s parents were quite delighted.
D. The bridegroom’s parents were not that joyful.
2.Some experts believe that _____.
A. marriage without the couple’s meeting each other first ends up in divorce
B. young people nowadays are too careless about marriage
C. taking a lie detector test can not solve all the marriage problems
D. most young people take marriage seriously except this couple
3.One of the prize for the couple is _____.
A. to spend their honeymoon wherever they like
B. to use an apartment free for some time
C. to have a wedding dress free
D. to own an American sports car
4.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Two strangers and a wedding B. A wedding based on love
C. A short-lived marriage D. A well-matched couple
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It took place at the Biltmore Hotel. My grandmother, my mother, and I were having lunch after a morning spent shopping. I gladly ordered a Salisbury steak. When brought to the table, it was accompanied by a plate of peas. I do not like peas now. I did not like peas then. I have always hated peas.
“Eat your peas,” my grandmother said.
“Mother,” said my mother in her warning voice. “He doesn't like peas. Leave him alone.”
My grandmother did not reply, but leaned in my direction, looked me in the eye, and spoke out the fateful words that changed my life, “I’ll pay you five dollars if you eat those peas.”
I only knew that five dollars was a huge, nearly unimaginable amount of money, and awful as peas were, only one plate of them stood between me and the possession of that five dollars. I began to force them down my throat.
My mother looked livid (铁青色的). My grandmother had a self-satisfied look and said, “I can do what I want, Ellen, and you can't stop me.” My mother glared at her mother. She glared at me. No one can glare like my mother. If there were a glaring Olympics, she would undoubtedly win the gold medal.
I, of course, kept shoving peas down my throat, and every single pea made me want to throw up, but the magical image of the five dollars floated before me, and I finally swallowed every last one of them. My grandmother handed me the five dollars with satisfaction. My mother continued to glare in silence.
That night, at dinner, my mother served two of my all-time favorite foods, meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Along with them came a big, steaming bowl of peas. She offered me some peas, and of course I declined. My mother fixed me with a cold eye as she heaped（堆积) a huge pile of peas onto my plate. Then came the words that were to haunt (萦绕) me for years. “You ate them for money,” she said, “You can eat them for love.”
1.From the passage, we can conclude the mother’s attitude towards the author is .
A. sympathetic but disappointed B. annoyed but satisfied
C. sympathetic and scared D. scared and disappointed
2.The author uses “fateful words” in Paragraph 4 to show that he .
A. regarded these words as dangerous
B. didn't expect it to be so influential
C. believed in the existence of fate (命运)
D. knew they would change his life
3.The mother looked livid because she thought .
A. the way her son ate the peas was harmful to his health
B. she had lost face for losing the competition of glaring
C. her son shouldn’t have had peas because of money
D. her mother shouldn’t have been so kind to her son
4.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. A powerful mother and a more powerful grandmother.
B. An argument caused by a plate of peas.
C. A choice between money and love.
D. The haunting of a plate of peas.
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Usually, a wedding's main focus is on the bride and groom. However, one couple were upstaged by a huge brown bear that they invited to be a part of their special day.
Denis and Nelya, both 30, from Moscow, Russia, hired 21-stone Stepan to play the role of ringbearer — and he even turned up to their ceremony wearing a black bow tie.
The bear, which stands seven-foot tall, was very involved with the ceremony, even posing for photos with both bride and groom.
At one point he even acted as the registrar and joins paws with the couple as they professed their love for each other. Standing underneath a cream fabric canopy(华盖) and surrounded by greenery, flowers and fruit, Stepan helped the couple on their wedding day.
Denis said, “We both knew Stepan is a very kind bear but still it is a huge, unpredictable animal so we were a bit scared, but still happy to be able to make our dream come true. It was a fantastic experience to have this photo shoot with Stepan. We will absolutely remember this day forever.”
Stepan the bear first found fame in May 2016, when a series of photos of the tame animal were published. He was adopted by Russian couple Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko aged just three months after being discovered by hunters in the forest, having lost his mother.
Svetlana said, “Stepan likes nothing more than to cuddle up with us on the sofa at night while we're watching television. He absolutely loves people and is a really sociable bear — despite what people might think, he is not aggressive at all. We have never been bitten by Stepan.”
1.The underlined word “upstage” in paragraph 1 probably means ________.
A. attract B. over-drop C. bite D. surprise
2.What do we know about Stepan?
A. Stepan is not happy at all at the wedding ceremony.
B. Stepan was discovered by Denis and Nelya.
C. Stepan is popular since he was born.
D. Stepan caught the guests’ attention.
3.Where might the passage be taken from?
A. A travel brochure. B. A newspaper.
C. A science fiction. D. A popular novel.
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It’s a tradition that, at the wedding ceremony, the hands of the bride and groom would be tied together with a length of ribbon to symbolize that their lives were fastened together______.
A.necessarily B.deliberately C.permanently D.temporarily
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________ the morning of the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom have to serve tea to their parents.
A．In
B．At
C．To
D．On
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The bride and groom gave _____ attended their wedding some gifts to share their happiness.
A. whomever B. whoever
C. whom D. who
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It took place at the Biltmore Hotel, which, to my eight-year-old mind, was just about the fancies place to eat．My , my mother, and I were having lunch after a morning spent shopping．I ordered a Salisbury steak．When brought to the table, it was by a plate of peas．I do not like peas now．I did not like peas then．I have always hated peas．And I was not about to eat them now．"Eat your peas," my grandmother said．
"Mother," said my mother in her voice．"He doesn't like peas．Leave him alone."
My grandmother did not reply．She in my direction, looked at me in the eye, and said the words that changed my life: "I'll pay you five dollars if you eat those peas."
I had absolutely no idea of the coming ． I only knew that five dollars was an enormous, nearly amount of money, and as awful as peas were, only one plate of them stood between me and the of that five dollars．I began to force the terrible things down my ．
My mother was very angry．My grandmother had that look of someone who has thrown down an unbeatable trump card（王牌）．"I can do what I want, Ellen, and you can't stop me." My mother glared at her mother．She glared at me.
I, of course, kept shoving peas down my throat．The made me nervous, and every single pea made me want to throw up, but the magical image of that five dollars before me, and I finally swallowed down every last one of them．My grandmother handed me the five dollars in a（n） way．My mother continued to glare in silence．And the ended．Or so I thought．
My grandmother left for Aunt Lillian's a few weeks later．That night, at dinner, my mother served my favorite foods．Along with them came a big, steaming bowl of peas．She offered me some peas, and I certainly 16 ．My mother fixed me with a cold 17 as she put a huge pile of peas onto my plate．Then came the words that were to 18 me for years．
"You ate them for ," she said．"You can eat them for love."
What possible argument could I gather against that? There was none．I ate them that day and every other time they were thereafter．
1.A．grandmother B．sister C．brother D．father
2.A．covered B．accompanied C．replaced D．ruined
3.A．passively B．particularly C．sincerely D．certainly
4.A．warning B．pleasant C．terrific D．bored
5.A．came B．walked C．leaned D．waved
6.A．harmful B．fateful C．truthful D．grateful
7.A．appetite B．doom C．fortune D．criticism
8.A．unacceptable B．uncertain C．unimaginable D．undeniable
9.A．possession B．thought C．reference D．offer
10.A．mouth B．face C．stomach D．throat
11.A．interested B．surprised C．offensive D．self-satisfied
12.A．peas B．glares C．words D．gestures
13.A．floated B．faded C．escaped D．rolled
14.A．peaceful B．showy C．hurried D．encouraging
15.A．incident B．silence C．lunch D．shopping
16.A．hesitated B．accepted C．declined D．complained
17.A．hand B．voice C．look D．eye
18.A．push B．benefit C．trouble D．cheer
19.A．money B．pressure C．fun D．love
20.A．awarded B．refused C．served D．mentioned
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It took place at the Biltmore Hotel, which, to my eight-year-old mind, was just about the fancies place to eat．My , my mother, and I were having lunch after a morning spent shopping．I ordered a Salisbury steak．When brought to the table, it was by a plate of peas．I do not like peas now．I did not like peas then．I have always hated peas．And I was not about to eat them now．"Eat your peas," my grandmother said．
"Mother," said my mother in her voice．"He doesn't like peas．Leave him alone."
My grandmother did not reply．She in my direction, looked at me in the eye, and said the words that changed my life: "I'll pay you five dollars if you eat those peas."
I had absolutely no idea of the coming ． I only knew that five dollars was an enormous, nearly amount of money, and as awful as peas were, only one plate of them stood between me and the of that five dollars．I began to force the terrible things down my ．
My mother was very angry．My grandmother had that look of someone who has thrown down an unbeatable trump card（王牌）．"I can do what I want, Ellen, and you can't stop me." My mother glared at her mother．She glared at me.
I, of course, kept shoving peas down my throat．The made me nervous, and every single pea made me want to throw up, but the magical image of that five dollars before me, and I finally swallowed down every last one of them．My grandmother handed me the five dollars in a（n） way．My mother continued to glare in silence．And the ended．Or so I thought．
My grandmother left for Aunt Lillian's a few weeks later．That night, at dinner, my mother served my favorite foods．Along with them came a big, steaming bowl of peas．She offered me some peas, and I certainly ．My mother fixed me with a cold as she put a huge pile of peas onto my plate．Then came the words that were to me for years．
"You ate them for ," she said．"You can eat them for love."
What possible argument could I gather against that? There was none．I ate them that day and every other time they were thereafter．
1.A．grandmother B．sister C．brother D．father
2.A．covered B．accompanied C．replaced D．ruined
3.A．passively B．particularly C．sincerely D．certainly
4.A．warning B．pleasant C．terrific D．bored
5.A．came B．walked C．leaned D．waved
6.A．harmful B．fateful C．truthful D．grateful
7.A．appetite B．doom C．fortune D．criticism
8.A．unacceptable B．uncertain C．unimaginable D．undeniable
9.A．possession B．thought C．reference D．offer
10.A．mouth B．face C．stomach D．throat
11.A．interested B．surprised C．offensive D．self-satisfied
12.A．peas B．glares C．words D．gestures
13.A．floated B．faded C．escaped D．rolled
14.A．peaceful B．showy C．hurried D．encouraging
15.A．incident B．silence C．lunch D．shopping
16.A．hesitated B．accepted C．declined D．complained
17.A．hand B．voice C．look D．eye
18.A．push B．benefit C．trouble D．cheer
19.A．money B．pressure C．fun D．love
20.A．awarded B．refused C．served D．mentioned
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