On rainy days, accidents ______ happen sometimes on steep roads．
A．should B．shall C．must D．can
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On rainy days, accidents ______ happen sometimes on steep roads．
A．should B．shall C．must D．can
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On rainy days, accidents ______ happen sometimes on steep roads．
A．should B．shall C．must D．can
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On a rainy day I was riding my bike to pick up my son ___ a terrible accident happened ahead.
A．who B．which C．while D．when
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_____ occurred to me that the murder happened ____ a rainy day.
| A．What; in | B．What; on | C．It; in | D．It; on |
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2. The Xi’an _____ happened on December 12, 1936 in Chinese modern history.
| A．Incident | B．Accident | C．Event | D．Affair |
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—When did________accident happen?
—Oh, it was on________Sunday towards the end of this summer, as far as I can remember.
A．an; the B．/;the C．the; a D．an;/
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Imagine a stranger walking past you on a cold, rainy day. “Lovely weather, isn’t it?” the stranger says. Do you laugh, or even smile? If not, you may not have a dry sense of humor.
British people, and particularly the English, are well-known for our dry sense of humor. We often say the opposite of what we mean in order to be funny, and tell jokes in a tone of voice that makes it sound like we are being completely serious. As US writer Julian Tan put it on the HuffPost Students blog: “It is as if it is ‘Opposite Day’ every day in Britain.”
If the people of Britain are known for having a “stiff upper lip” and not showing emotion, then our dry sense of humor shows this through jokes. Often it will take a long time or several beers, to get a British person to tell you what they actually think about something and get behind the wall of humorous sarcasm (讽刺) that they have in front of them.
English comedian Ricky Gervais put it like this: “We play jokes on our friends. We use sarcasm as a shield (护盾) and a weapon. We avoid being serious until it’s absolutely necessary.”
It can be annoying and confusing if you haven’t been raised with these types of jokes: “Why did he just say such a ridiculous thing? Is he making fun of me?” But it is also true that understanding this type of humor is a good way to make friends with people in the UK, even if you don’t find it funny.
It’s important to remember that the person telling the joke may actually be making fun of himself or herself, not you. One of the characteristics of British humor is “its strong theme of self-deprecation” (making fun of oneself), according to Tan. So don’t worry – often, English people, and British people in general, just want to make fun of themselves!
1.According to the passage, we can know that someone with a dry sense of humor can ___________.
A. not use sarcasm as a shield and a weapon.
B. not make friends with people in the UK
C. pretend to play jokes on their friends
D. say funny things in a serious way
2.Which of the following words best describes British humor according to Julian Tan?
A. Opposite. B. Annoying.
C. Ridiculous. D. Funny.
3.The underlined phrase “stiff upper lip” in Paragraph 3 refers to a quality of ___________.
A. remaining calm
B. communicating feelings
C. taking a positive attitude
D. focusing attention
4.It can be inferred from the passage that _______________.
A. British people are famous for being emotional
B. British people’s humor is often misunderstood
C. it’s a tradition for British people to make fun of each other
D. it doesn’t take a long time to make friends with British people
5.The passage is mainly about ____________________.
A. why British people like laughing at themselves
B. some tips on how to make British people laugh
C. the importance of humor in British culture
D. what British humor is like
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When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in late October 1931, he had no way of knowing that his life was about to change completely. The class ____ that day was to show how ____ a container of water would bring oxygen bubbles(气泡) to the surface. The container John was about to heat, ____ , was not like the containers students everywhere had used. Someone had been ______ and put the wrong label(标签) on the bottle. And ____ John heated it with a Bunsen burner, the container ______ , sending the liquid flying in all directions. John Wilson came away from it, completely ______.
Wilson spent the next two months in hospital. After he returned home, his parents ______a hard time to find a way to deal with the ____ that had happened to their lives. But Wilson did not ____ the accident as a disaster. He knew he had the rest of his life to live. He learned Braille(盲文) quickly and continued his ____ at the esteemed Worcester College for the disabled. There, he not only ____ as a student but also became an accomplished rower, swimmer, actor, musician, and orator.
Many people, faced with the _____ John Wilson met with, would have _____of their experience. Perhaps they would have considered themselves to be ____ by ill fortune and discouraged in their ____ to do anything significant with their lives. Wilson, however, lost his sight but found a ____. Through his practical action and life attitude, he proved to us ____ that it’s not what happens to us that _____our lives — it’s what we make ______ what happens.
1.A. experiment B. discussion C. analysis D. management
2.A. bringing out B. turning over C. heating up D. picking on
3.A. therefore B. instead C. besides D. however
4.A. light-hearted B. absent-minded C. cold-blooded D. bad-tempered
5.A. as B. if C. once D. though
6.A. leaked B. exploded C. collapsed D. melted
7.A. dumb B. lame C. deaf D. blind
8.A. called for B. drove off C. went through D. depended on
9.A. catastrophe B. coincidence C. dilemma D. drawback
10.A. elect B. appoint C. regard D. recommend
11.A. education B. occupation C. contribution D. recovery
12.A. survived B. shone C. competed D. registered
13.A. discrimination B. resistance C. circumstances D. uncertainties
14.A. dreamed B. thought C. approved D. complained
15.A. criticized B. motivated C. surrounded D. interrupted
16.A. preferences B. requirements C. failures D. attempts
17.A. bridge B. vision C. reward D. cure
18.A. dramatically B. occasionally C. abruptly D. roughly
19.A. limits B. predicts C. determines D. replaces
20.A. of B. from C. for D. up
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A rainy day can be a chance to recharge. While you relaxed on the sofa with a movie, the raindrops falling on your windows might one day provide the power for your TV. This is the idea behind an invention that harvests energy from water.
The technology is based on the triboelectric (摩擦电的)effect. An engineer at the University of Hawaii, David Ma knew that it’s possible to generate electricity by rubbing two things together. So, he thought, “Why don’t we use water?”
A drop of water sliding across a surface coated with two different materials would generate enough friction to create an electrical charge. By placing metal wires that the drop of water touched as it moved, it should be possible to harvest electricity, he reasoned.
It worked. In fact, the researchers lit up 15 LED bulbs with a single moving water drop.
This is not the first time that scientists have got electricity from water-generated friction( 摩 擦 ). Earlier experiments, though, harvested the charge produced in a surface by a sliding drop of water. There, the surface had acted as an electrode(电极). This is different. The energy of friction is being harvested from the water itself.
“It turns out,” Ma says, “the charge in the water drop is way more than the charge produced in the other electrode.” In fact, his team’s model generated almost 100 times more power than previous experiments from a single drop of water.
“The technology could someday power phones, sensors or other small electronics,” says Christopher Oshman, an engineer at the Colorado School of Mines. “This work is a step toward harvesting the energy of moving objects all around us, including ourselves, to power the electronic appliances we use every day,” he says.
Ma has shown that the technology can work in a lab, Oshman says. Next, the Colorado researcher would like to see it tried on a larger scale, such as on an umbrella.
1.How did the author introduce the topic of the text?
A.By telling a story.
B.By raising a question.
C.By giving an example.
D.By imagining a situation.
2.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A.The wire. B.The drop of water.
C.The surface. D.The electricity.
3.What is unique about Ma’s technique compared with earlier experiments?
A.The water itself acts as an electrode.
B.It is based on the triboelectric effect.
C.It produces electricity from water-made friction.
D.It uses a surface coated with two different materials.
4.What does Oshman say about Ma’s technology?
A.It has a promising future.
B.It will do well on an umbrella.
C.It works well in the real world.
D.It will replace batteries someday.
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It was a rainy day. I was riding on a bus downtown to go to . I was sitting next to a man in a business suit and didn’t much attention until we both got off at the same stop and walked to the same to get a morning paper.
The man running the stand was having a bad day. He was and unsmiling as we purchased our papers, which served to only more gloom(抑郁) to my day. The businessman caught my eye and . He then continued to smile and thanked the newsstand owner for the and for being open on such a morning to make sure we were able to get our papers. , he expressed his appreciation for something most of us would take for granted.
The newsman only with a cold expression. The businessman then pleasantly wished him a pleasant day. As we , I asked this man why he had to be pleasant to the newsman when he obviously didn’t care about and didn’t respond to his expression of and friendliness. The businessman smiled at me and said, “Why would I let someone else what I say and what I feel or what kind of day I’m going to have?”
We then to go to our respective work places. To this day, I don’t know anything about that business man. But I’ve never the words he said or the way his smile seemed like a ray of light on a gloomy day. That was a good deed 25 years ago, but the this had on my life has lasted. I never had a to thank him personally, but the way in which I choose to look at life as a result of those words is his legacy (遗赠) to me and my thanks to him.
We cannot control people and situations that come to us, but we can always control our response to them. And in such decisions lie our control and personal power to make a positive difference. And it’s something anyone and everyone can do.
1.A. school B. church C. work D. hospital
2.A. draw B. pay C. make D. attract
3.A. market B. stand C. office D. library
4.A. curiously B. gradually C. eventually D. obviously
5.A. rude B. modest C. angry D. kind
6.A. add B. refer C. devote D. apply
7.A. shouted B. waved C. confirmed D. smiled
8.A. quickly B. luckily C. brightly D. loudly
9.A. book B. present C. paper D. food
10.A. In short B. After all C. On average D. As usual
11.A. responded B. objected C. appealed D. disagreed
12.A. ran out B. left behind C. turned away D. put aside
13.A. attempted B. continued C. intended D. expected
14.A. excitement B. gratitude C. impression D. assessment
15.A. ignore B. manage C. control D. enjoy
16.A. travelled B. disappeared C. separated D. drove
17.A. forgiven B. shared C. evaluated D. forgotten
18.A. effort B. lesson C. effect D. pain
19.A. wish B. chance C. right D. power
20.A. positive B. proper C. fortunate D. nervous
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