Months ago we sailed ten thousand miles acros...

Months ago we sailed ten thousand miles across this open sea, which _______ the Pacific, and we met no storms.

A. was called        B. is called   C. had been called    D. has been called

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Months ago we sailed ten thousand miles across this open sea, which _______ the Pacific, and we met no storms.

A. was called      B. is called      C. had been called D. has been called

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The cinema ______ ten years ago when we first moved to this town．

A．built　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　     B．has built

C．was built　　　　　　　　 　　　　     D．would be built

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Three years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona, thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers. No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their kind for 50 years. To the researchers’ surprise, they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from Mexico and set free at the same time. Within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure, and the poor birds were back in cages, on their way to the safety of the Arizona reintroduction programme.

Ever since then, the programme has enjoyed great success, mainly because the birds now being set free are Mexican birds illegally caught in the wild, confiscated （没收） on arrival north of the border, and raised by their parents in the safety of the programme. The experience shows how little we know about the behaviour and psychology （心理） of parrots, as Peter Bennett, a bird researcher, points out: “Reintroducing species of high intelligence like parrots is a lot more difficult. People like parrots, always treating them as nothing more than pets or valuable ‘collectables’.”

Now that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out, biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds. Last year was an important turning point: conservationists founded the World Parrot Trust, based at Hayle in Cornwall, to support research into both wild and caged birds.

Research on parrots is vital for two reasons. First, as the Arizona programme showed, when reintroducing parrots to the wild, we need to be aware of what the birds must know if they are to survive in their natural home. We also need to learn more about the needs of parrots kept as pets, particularly as the Trust’s campaign does not attempt to discourage the practice, but rather urges people who buy parrots as pets to choose birds raised by humans.

1.What do we know about the area where the five parrots were reintroduced?

A. Its landscape is new to parrots of their kind.

B. It used to be home to parrots of their kind.

C. It is close to where they had been kept.

D. Pine trees were planted to attract birds.

2.The reintroducing experience three years ago shows that man-raised parrots

A. can find their way back home in Jersey

B. are unable to recognize their parents

C. are unable to adapt to the wild

D. can produce a new species

3.Why are researches on parrots important according to the passage?

A. The Trust shows great concern for the programme.

B. We need to know more about how to preserve parrots.

C. Many people are interested in collecting parrots.

D. Parrots’ intelligence may some day benefit people.

4.According to the passage, people are advised ______.

A. to treat wild and caged parrots equally

B. to set up comfortable homes for parrots

C. not to keep wild parrots as pets

D. not to let more parrots go to the wild

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This ship set sail and gradually disappeared where the sea ________ the sky.

A．meets    B．reflects

C．catches    D．connects

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Years ago, I flew 3,000 miles across the country to take a new job at a non-profit organization. This was a very _________ transition (转变), I thought. Before the _________, the founder of the organization promised to eventually promote me to a senior leadership role, _________ in the end I wound up deeply disappointed. Three months into the new job, they hired someone else to _________ that position.

This _________ promise left me hurt and angry by the decision made. How could this _________ to me? The promise of being on the senior leadership team was a huge factor in my decision to _________ the job offer. As a result, I moved my family across the country and couldn’t easily move back. This was a _________ time for me. _________ my head sought answers and my heart __________ emotions, my wife, Elba, gave me the best __________. She said, Stay focused… stay faithful. This meant keeping your eyes on the __________ at hand and staying faithful to the task. It wasn’t easy, but these words __________ my attitude and actions during that time. I remained focused and faithful until a __________ chance opened at another organization.

When facing an unexpected __________ of events at work, it can seem much easier to slack off (懈怠), get angry, blame others or do foolish things, but these __________ can be costly and self-destructive. Fighting the bad with bad doesn’t __________ up to good. Good can come from bad through our __________. Spiritual and personal lessons are weaved into __________. The lessons I gained during that time have helped me to __________ life’s ups and downs.

1.A.precise B.puzzling C.relaxing D.bright

2.A.move B.project C.promotion D.interview

3.A.so B.and C.but D.for

4.A.rid B.fill C.test D.find

5.A.fixed B.known C.broken D.expected

6.A.appear B.return C.belong D.happen

7.A.make B.accept C.desire D.appreciate

8.A.vital B.common C.fundamental D.difficult

9.A.If B.Until C.When D.Because

10.A.felt B.battled C.ignored D.valued

11.A.advice B.topic C.reputation D.gesture

12.A.job B.trouble C.honor D.choice

13.A.stopped B.guided C.proved D.separated

14.A.secure B.practical C.vivid D.wonderful

15.A.turn B.success C.direction D.permit

16.A.lessons B.gurneys C.responses D.behaviours

17.A.add B.cut C.bring D.hold

18.A.urges B.efforts C.growth D.experience

19.A.culture B.approach C.hardship D.relation

20.A.give away B.look into C.put away D.get through

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When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science.

Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA material—some of it unearthed by miners in Alaska—to conclude that today’s domestic dog originated in Asia and accompanied the first humans to the New World about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Wayne suggests that man’s best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America. “Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge,” said Wayne. “They can pull things, carry things, defend you from fierce animals, and they’re useful to eat.”

Researchers have agreed that today’s dog is the result of the domestication(驯化) of wolves thousands of years ago. Before this recent study, a common thought about the precise origin of North America’s domestic dog was that Natives domesticated local wolves, the descendents(后代) of which now live with people in Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48.

Dog remains from a Fairbanks-area gold mine helped the scientists reach their conclusion. Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永冻层) until Fairbanks miners uncovered them in the 1920s. The miners donated the preserved bones to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where they remained untouched for more than 70 years. After borrowing the bones from the museum, Leonard and her colleagues used radiocarbon techniques to find the age of the Alaska dogs. They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A.D., before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. The bones of dogs that wandered the Fairbanks area centuries ago should therefore be the remains of “pure native American dogs,” Leonard said. The DNA of the Fairbanks dogs would also expose whether they were the descendents of wolves from North America.

Along with the Fairbanks samples, the researchers collected DNA from bones of 37 dog specimens(标本) from Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia that existed before the arrival of Columbus. In the case of both the Alaska dogs and the dogs from Latin America, the researchers found that they shared the most genetic material with gray wolves of Europe and Asia. This supports the idea of domestic dogs entering the New World with the first human explorers who wandered east over the land bridge.

Leonard and Wayne’s study suggests that dogs joined the first humans that made the adventure across the Bering Land Bridge to slowly populate the Americas. Wayne thinks the dogs that made the trip must have provided some excellent service to their human companions or they would not have been brought along. “Dogs must have been useful because they were expensive to keep,” Wayne said. “They didn’t feed on mice; they fed on meat, which was a very guarded resource.”

1. The underlined word “remains” is closed in meaning to ______.

A. leftover food     B. animal waste

C. dead bodies    D. living environment

2. According to the study described in Paragraph 4, we can learn that ______.

A. ancient dogs entered North America between 1450 and 1675 AD

B. the 11 bones of ancient dogs are not from native American dogs

C. the bones discovered by the gold miners were from North American wolves

D. the bones studied were not from dogs brought into North America by Europeans

3. What can we know from the passage?

A. Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs.

B. Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in 1920s.

C. Latin America’s dogs are different from North America’s in genes.

D. Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge.

4. The first humans into the New World brought dogs along with them because ______.

A. dogs fed on mice                    B. dogs were easy to keep

C. dogs helped protect their resources      D. dogs could provide excellent service

5.What does the passage mainly talk about ______.

A. the origin of the North American dogs

B. the DNA study of ancient dogs in America

C. the reasons why early people entered America

D. the difference between Asian and American dogs

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I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large 21  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would 22  his taxi on the road. I 23  why he did not park it in the garage.

Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home 24  work, leave his taxi and go out for his 25  affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was 26.

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 27  to be outside one evening two weeks 28 ,when the garage door was 29 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely 30  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But31 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）32  . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and 33 him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a（n）34  .

We go to bed every night and 35 every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a 36 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 37. We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we 38 the social ladder—how much bigger and better a 39we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on 40  we are than what we do!

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My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at ___36___. As for me, I ___37___ both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.

The last time Dad and I set sail together is really ___ 38___. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and ___39___Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the ___40___lake. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything ___41___well with the tiller（舵柄）in his hands.

When we were in the middle of the lake, a ___ 42___ wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit ___43___. Dad was always at his best in any___44___, but at this moment he___45___.

"John!___46___!" he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.

In my memory he could fix any___ 47___. He was the one I always___48___for strength and security. Before I could respond, a___ 49___ of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller ___50___it was too late. Another huge wall of water ___ 51___the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely ___52___of him.

I swam to Dad ___ 53___and assisted him in climbing onto the hull（船壳）of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little awkward about his flash of ___ 54___. "It's all right, Dad. We are safe now," I comforted him.

That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start___55___for my father.

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My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at________36________. As for me, I________37________both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.

The last time Dad and I set sail together is really________38________. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and________39________Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the__40__ lake. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything ________41________

well with the tiller (舵柄) in his hands.

When we were in the middle of the lake, a________42________wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit__________43________. Dad was always at his best in any________44________, but at this moment he ________45________.

“John! ________46________!” he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.

In my memory he could fix any________47________. He was the one I always________48________for strength and security. Before I could respond, a________49________of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller________50________it was too late. Another huge wall of water________51________the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely________52________of him.

I swam to Dad________53________and assisted him in climbing onto the hull (船壳) of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little awkward about his flash of________54________. “It’s all right, Dad. We are safe now,” I comforted him.

That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start________55________for my father.

1. A. boating       B. running      C. swimming         D. teaching

2.A. enjoyed        B. desired      C. hated            D. learned

3. A. unforgivable B. unforgettable    C. cheerful         D. regretful

4. A. sent          B. ordered      C. invited      D. allowed

5. A. calm          B. icy          C. stormy       D. thundery

6. A. finished         B. went             C. seemed       D. sounded

7.A. strong             B. gentle       C. cold             D. hot

8.A. repeatedly         B. lightly      C. hardly       D. violently

9. A. danger            B. place            C. sport            D. job

10.A. suffered      B. fell             C. froze            D. withdrew

11.A. Look          B. Help             C. Run          D. Jump

12.A. problem       B. relationship     C. machine      D. boat

13. A. turned to        B. lived with       C. argued with D. objected to

14. A. fountain         B. stream       C. shower       D. wave

15. A. if               B. for          C. after            D. but

16.A. got through       B. poured into C. turned over D. lifted up

17. A. ashamed      B. protective       C. tired            D. afraid

18.A. hopelessly        B. quickly      C. slowly       D. helplessly

19.A. pain          B. anger            C. fear             D. shame

20. A. making up        B. getting ready    C. paying off       D. looking out

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