No one knows exactly when the first people ar...

. No one really knows exactly when the first people arrived in_____we now know as California.

A. that              B. which         C. what           D. where

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Exactly when the first people arrived in ________ we now know as California, no one really knows.

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No one really knows exactly when the first people arrived in ______ we now know as New Zealand.

A. that         B. which         C. what         D. where

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No one knows exactly when the first people arrived in _______ is now called California.

A. where        B. what         C. which          D. that

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No one knows exactly when the first people arrived in _______ is now called California.

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Wheels are everywhere around you and me, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia.

The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didn’t become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around.

But it could also be because of a difficult situation. While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces weren't going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them. Eventually, road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modern road design.

In the mid-1700s,a Frenchman came up with a new design of road--a base layer (层)of large stones covered with　 a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At around the same time, metal hubs(the central part of a wheel)came into being, followed by the pneumatic tire (充气轮胎) in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads(柏油路). As wheel design took off, vehicles go faster and faster.

1.What might be the reason why transport wheels wasn’t that popular for some time?

A. Few knew how to use transport wheels.

B. Humans carried farming tools just as well.

C. Such animals as horses and bulls were still a good means of transport.

D. The existence of transport wheels was not known.

2.How is the last paragraph mainly developed?

A. By giving examples.

B. By following time order

C. By making comparisons.

D. By making classifications.

3.What is the passage mainly about?

A. The beginning of road design.

B. The history of public transport.

C. The developmentt of transport wheels.

D. The invention of fast-moving vehicles.

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根据中文意思完成句子 (每条横线上只能填写一个单词)

1.没有人真正知道第一批人确切在什么时候来到我们现在称之为加利福尼亚的地方。

Exactly when the first people arrived in ________ we now know as California, no one really knows.

2.小孩子很容易受骗。

Children are easy _________　 ________　 _________.

3.但愿科学家们的耐心和决心得到了回报。

If only the scientists’ patience and determination ________　 ________　 _________.

4.所有破坏世界和平的企图注定都会白费心机。

All attempts to destroy world peace _________　 _______ to be _______　 ________.

5. 一旦经过调教谈吐得体，三个月后她就可能在大使的花园舞会上冒充公爵夫人。

_________　 ________ to speak properly, she could pass herself off in two months as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.

6.希金斯教授认为借助优美的发音和准确的语法伊莱扎可以为上流社会所接受。

Professor Higgins thought that Eliza could be accepted into the upper class ________　 ________　 ________ beautiful pronunciation and proper grammar.

7.使人们欣慰的是，那座1000多年历史的寺庙得到了很好的保护。

To everyone’s relief, the temple which _________　 _________ over 1000 years ago is well preserved.

8.他返回事故现场，结果被捕了。

He returned to the scene of the accident, only _______　 ________　 _______.

9.二战期间犹太人经历了许多艰难困苦。

During World War II Jewish people ________　 ________ a good __________　 hardships.

10.似乎只有用来毒杀蛇的药粉。

There only seem to __________ powders _________ to kill snakes.

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No one knows for sure when advertising first started. It is possible that it grew out of the discovery that some people did certain kinds of work better than others did them. That led to the concept of specialization, which means that people would specialize, or focus, on doing one specific job.

Let’s take a man we’ll call Mr. Fielder, for example. He did everything connected with farming. He planted seeds, tended the fields, and harvested and sold his crops. At the same time, he did many other jobs on the farm. However, he didn’t make the bricks for his house, cut his trees into boards, make the plows (犁), or any of other hundreds of things a farm needs. Instead, he got them from people who specialized in doing each of those things.

Suppose there was another man we shall call Mr. Plowright. Using what he knew about farming and working with iron, Mr. Plowright invented a plow that made farming easier. Mr. Plowright did not really like farming himself and wanted to specialize in making really good plows. Perhaps, he thought, other farmers will trade what they grow for one of my plows.

How did Mr. Plowright let people know what he was doing? Why, he advertised, of course. First he opened a shop and then he put up a sign outside the shop to attract customers. That sign may have been no more than a plow carved into a piece of wood and a simple arrow pointing to the shop door. It was probably all the information people needed to find Mr. Plowright and his really good plows.

Many historians believe that the first outdoor signs were used about five thousand years ago. Even before most people could read, they understood such signs. Shopkeepers would carve into stone, clay, or wood symbols for the products they had for sale.

A medium, in advertising talk, is the way you communicate your message. You might say that the first medium used in advertising was signs with symbols. The second medium was audio, or sound, although that term is not used exactly in the way we use it today. Originally, just the human voice and maybe some kind of simple instrument, such as a bell, were used to get people’s attention.

A crier, in the historical sense, is not someone who weeps easily. It is someone, probably a man, with a voice loud enough to be heard over the other noises of a city. In ancient Egypt, shopkeepers might hire such a person to spread the news about their products. Often this earliest form of advertising involved a newly arrived ship loaded with goods. Perhaps the crier described the goods, explained where they came from, and praised their quality. His job was, in other words, not too different from a TV or radio commercial in today’s world.

1.What probably led to the start of advertisement?

A. The discovery of iron.

B. The specialization of labor.

C. The appearance of new jobs.

D. The development of farming techniques.

2.The writer makes up the two stories of Mr. Fielder and Mr. Plowright in order to __________.

A. explain the origin of advertising

B. predict the future of advertising

C. expose problems in advertising

D. provide suggestions for advertising

3.The last two paragraphs are mainly about __________.

A. the history of advertising

B. the benefits of advertising

C. the early forms of advertising

D. the basic design of advertising

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No one knows exactly when our ancestors started talking, but new evidence suggests that____ might have happened a long time ago.

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In the United States, when one becomes 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 neighbors.

The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began eaming  $  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 verywealthy neighborhood 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 neighbors.

It was like a race, but one could never finish his 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 neighbors. 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 "Joneses" 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______.

A. want to be as rich as their neighbors

B. want others to know or to think that they are rich

C. don't want others to know they are rich

D. want to be happy

2. It can be inferred (推断) from the story that rich people like to_______.

A. live outside New York City            B. live in New York city

C. live in apartments                   D. have many neighbors

3. According to the writer, it is ________ to keep up with the Joneses.

A. correct    B .interesting    C.  impossible     D.  good

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