At this time of last year, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from _____ effects the people are still suffering.
A. that B. whose
C. those D. what
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At this time of last year, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from _____ effects the people are still suffering.
A. that B. whose
C. those D. what
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Last year, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from ________ effects the people are still suffering.
A.that B.whose C.which D.what
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Last month, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from ___ effects some people are still suffering.
A. that B. whose C. what D. those
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In the countries of South and Southeast Asia, the elephant has been an important part of the culture, economy and religion for centuries. And nowhere more so than in Thailand. Unlike its African cousin, the Asian elephant is easily domesticated(驯化). The rare so-called white elephants have actually lent the power of royalty (皇室)to its rulers,and until the 1920s the national flag was a white elephant on a red background. To the early Western visitors, the country's romantic name was“ Land of the White Elephant".
Today, however, the story is very different. Out of work and out of land, the Thai elephant struggles for survival in a nation that no longer needs it. The elephant has found itself more or less deserted by previous owners who have moved on to a different economic world and a society in the western part. And while the elephant's problems began many years ago, now it has a very low national advantage.
How does the national symbol turn into ignored animals? It is a story of worse environment and the changing lives of the Thais themselves. According to Richard Lair, Thailand's expert on the Asian elephant and author of the report Gone Astray, at the turn of the last century, there may well have been as many as 100,000 national elephants in the country.
In the north of Thailand alone, it was estimated(估计)that more than 20,000 elephants were employed in transport, 1,000 of them alone on the road between the cities of Chiang Mai and Chiang Saen.
This was at a time when 90 percent of Thailand was still forest---a habitat that not only supported the animals but also made them necessary to carry goods and people. Nothing ploughs through thick forest better than lots of sure-footed elephants.
By 1950 the elephant population had dropped, but still to the number of 13, 397. However, today there are probably no more than 3,800, with another l,350 wandering free in the national parks. But now, Thailand's forest covers only 20 percent of the land. This deforestation(采伐森林)is the central point of the elephant's difficult situation, for it has effectively put the animals out of work. This century, as the road network grew, the elephant's role as a beast of burden decreased.
1.What can we know about African elephants from the passage?
A. It is of little value to domesticate them.
B. It is hard to domesticate them.
C. They are living a better life than Asian elephants.
D. Their fate is quite similar to that of Asian elephants.
2.Thailand was once called "Land of the White Elephant" because ________.
A. white elephant was a national symbol until the 1920s
B. white elephant is rarely seen and thus very special
C. white elephant has helped kings to gain the ruling authority
D. this name was so romantic that it was popular among visitors
3.Why is the Thai elephant "out of work", according to the author?
A. Because there are too many elephants but too few jobs.
B. Because the elephants can't do labor work any longer.
C. Because the government pays little attention to the problem.
D. Because the elephants are no longer useful to their owners.
4.The passage is most probably from ________.
A. a travel guide
B. a history book
C. a popular science magazine
D. an official announcement
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My faith in humanity (人性) was restored last night while working part-time at a local Bed, Bath & Beyond.
I was in the process of ringing out a female customer who had been having a ____ time recently. She had been in the night before and was back again to _____what she could afford to purchase. She was trying to buy ____for herself and her two young sons.
Finally, she made her ___one blanket and something else. She ____all of the cash, but it was only enough for one blanket. She was unable to make the ____of the purchases.
A gentleman, ____to make his purchase, watched ____and signaled to me as I was bagging up the blanket for the woman. He told me he wanted to ____everything else for her. I asked him if he was sure. He ___.
I quickly and quietly rang out the rest of the purchases ____I asked the female customer to wait a moment. The ____came to over $200. The man provided me with his credit card ____blinking. He ____off and he went.
I then told the female customer that all of the things were hers and she was ____and ready to go. She stared at me with complete ____on her face. The ____started. I started crying too.
In ten years of working this particular part-time job, I have never experienced such ___. There are good and ____people in this world. And they do not receive the credit they should.
Thanks to this customer for bringing a bit of ____and relief into that female customer's life and for restoring my faith in humanity.
1.A.free B.hard C.happy D.perfect
2.A.order B.predict C.determine D.learn
3.A.blankets B.presents C.shirts D.drinks
4.A.mark B.conclusion C.mistake D.decision
5.A.figured out B.turned in C.counted out D.left behind
6.A.rest B.amount C.price D.extra
7.A.arranging B.planning C.aiming D.waiting
8.A.angrily B.quietly C.impatiently D.anxiously
9.A.provide B.cover C.buy D.bring
10.A.waved B.refused C.admitted D.nodded
11.A.since B.while C.though D.if
12.A.total B.number C.service D.result
13.A.beyond B.by C.without D.against
14.A.accepted B.continued C.confirmed D.signed
15.A.checked out B.given up C.paid back D.turned down
16.A.sadness B.shock C.disappointment D.excitement
17.A.pain B.smiles C.story D.tears
18.A.selflessness B.weakness C.loveliness D.truthfulness
19.A.active B.optimistic C.great D.famous
20.A.expectation B.joy C.frustration D.luck
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She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last forever. But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa.
The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre museum(卢浮宫博物馆)where it is housed.
“The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has changed shape since experts checked it two years ago,” the museum said. Visitors have noticed the changes but repairing the world’s most famous painting is not easy. Experts are not sure about the materials the Italian artist used and their current chemical state.
Nearly 6 million people go to see the Mona Lisa every year, many attracted by the mystery of her smile. “It is very interesting that when you’re not looking at her, she seems to be smiling, and then you look at her and she stops,” said Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University. “It’s because direct vision(视觉)is excellent at picking up detail, but less suited to looking at shadows. Da Vinci painted the smile in shadows.”
However, the actual history of the Mona Lisa is just as mysterious as the smile. Da Vinci himself loved it so much that he always carried it with him, until it was eventually sold to France’s King Francis I in 1519.
In 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre by a former employee, who took it out of the museum hidden under his coat. He said he planned to return it to Italy. The painting was sent back to France two years later.
During World War II, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces.
Like many old ladies, the Mona Lisa has some interesting stories to tell.
1.The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means the Mona Lisa ________.
A.is losing its value
B.is being damaged after so many years
C.is getting more valuable with years passing
D.will rot away
2.Experts haven’t any repairs on the Mona Lisa because______.
A.it is now in a poor chemical state
B.they don’t know how to replace the wooden panel
C.they don’t have the materials Da Vinci used
D.they are afraid it will be done further damage.
3.The smile of the Mona Lisa can only be seen_______.
A.by indirect vision
B.at a distance
C.by direct vision
D.in shadows
4.From the last paragraph, we can infer that______.
A.many interesting stories have been written about the Mona Lisa
B.people are interested in the stories about the Mona Lisa.
C.some mysteries still remain to be solved about the Mona Lisa.
D.Many more stories will be told about the Mona Lisa.
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She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last forever. But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa.
The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre museum(卢浮宫博物馆)where it is housed.
“The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has changed shape since experts checked it two years ago,” the museum said. Visitors have noticed the changes but repairing the world’s most famous painting is not easy. Experts are not sure about the materials the Italian artist used and their current chemical state.
Nearly 6 million people go to see the Mona Lisa every year, many attracted by the mystery of her smile. “It is very interesting that when you’re not looking at her, she seems to be smiling, and then you look at her and she stops,” said Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University. “It’s because direct vision(视觉)is excellent at picking up detail, but less suited to looking at shadows. Da Vinci painted the smile in shadows.”
However, the actual history of the Mona Lisa is just as mysterious as the smile. Da Vinci himself loved it so much that he always carried it with him, until it was eventually sold to France’s King Francis I in 1519.
In 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre by a former employee, who took it out of the museum hidden under his coat. He said he planned to return it to Italy. The painting was sent back to France two years later.
During World War II, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces.
Like many old ladies, the Mona Lisa has some interesting stories to tell.
1. The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means the Mona Lisa ________.
A.is losing its value | B.is being damaged after so many years |
C.is getting more valuable with years passing | D.will rot away |
2. Experts haven’t any repairs on the Mona Lisa because______.
1.
A.it is now in a poor chemical state 2. | B.they don’t know how to replace the wooden panel 3. | C.they don’t have the materials Da Vinci used 4. | D.they are afraid it will be done further damage. |
3.The smile of the Mona Lisa can only be seen_______.
A.by indirect vision | B.at a distance |
C.by direct vision | D.in shadows |
4. From the last paragraph, we can infer that______.
A.many interesting stories have been written about the Mona Lisa |
B.people are interested in the stories about the Mona Lisa. |
C.some mysteries still remain to be solved about the Mona Lisa. |
D.Many more stories will be told about the Mona Lisa. |
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Last year, I was speaking at a gathering of wealthy male investors. The organizers posted the ____of a survey showing that only a small percentage of wealthy men believed their wives spent too much.
“What?” ____one participant, “Those guys have to be lying.”
There is no reliable ____of who spends more among the rich: men or women. Both will say the other is the ____spender.
A recent survey by Wilmington Trust, Campden Research and Relative Solutions proves the ____. The companies polled 40 women (I know, that is more like a show of hands than “survey”), each with a net worth of $25 million or more.
About half the respondents(受调查者) inherited(继承) their ___, a quarter ___ it from their husbands and the other quarter earned it __. That is roughly in line with other surveys of __ women and the source of their money. One interesting note: among the self-made women, 90% got their money from owning a business, rather than ____ a salary.
As for ____, almost all the women (90%) described their spending habits as “below their means.” The report on the survey said that is possibly ____ they do not view their extreme wealth as defining their success.
“Women tend not to spend as much as ____and splash(泼洒得使到处是) their names all over the place,” said one woman in the survey, describing her spending as conservative and her lifestyle as “below the radar.”
Many women also worried about wealth having ____ effects on their children and didn’t want to spend lavishly(挥霍) to ____ a bad example.
At the same time, 70% of the women said they “buy nice things when ____.” And 93.5% of the women said they were responsible for making ____ on major purchases, which ____ that they do a lot of the big spending.
Of course, for truly major purchases a house in Aspen, Colo., a Gulfstream, a Feadship the couple probably makes the decision _____.
But what about other ____ ? Do you think men or women do most of the high-end spending?
1.A. directions B. reasons C. times D. consequences
2.A. cried B. sighed C. shouted D. laughed
3.A. data B. measure C. division D. news
4.A. better B. bigger C. smaller D. worse
5.A. affairs B. message C. point D. report
6.A. spirit B. money C. habit D. cost
7.A. bought B. robbed C. got D. earned
8.A. itself B. herself C. ourselves D. themselves
9.A. wealthy B. poor C. ordinary D. honest
10.A. making B. earning C. taking D. spending
11.A. buying B. wasting C. spending D. saving
12.A. when B. if C. whether D. because
13.A. women B. youth C. adults D. men
14.A. serious B. good C. bad D. various
15.A. send B. set C. do D. give
16.A. necessary B. possible C. pleased D. anxious
17.A. plans B. decisions C. appointments D. suggestions
18.A. notices B. stresses C. implies D. intends
19.A. away B. together C. as well D. out
20.A. purchases B. effects C. differences D. examples
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THIS was the year the Earth struck back.
Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, snow storms, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter of a million people in 2010 – the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined.
"It just seemed like it was back-to-back and it came in waves," said Craig Fugate, who heads the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. It handled a record number of disasters in 2010.
And we have ourselves to blame most of the time, scientists and disaster experts say.
Even though many catastrophes have the ring of random chance, the hand of man made this a particularly deadly, costly, extreme and weird(古怪的) year for everything from wild weather to earthquakes.
Poor construction and development practices conspire to make earthquakes more deadly than they need be. More people live in poverty in vulnerable(脆弱的) buildings in crowded cities. That means that when the ground shakes, the river breaches, or the tropical cyclone hits, more people die.
Disasters from the Earth, such as earthquakes and volcanoes "are pretty much constant," said Andreas Schraft, vice president of catastrophic perils for the Geneva-based insurance giant Swiss Re. "All the change that's made is man-made."
The January earthquake that killed well more than 220,000 people in Haiti is a perfect example. Port-au-Prince has nearly three times as many people - many of them living in poverty - and more poorly built shanties than it did 25 years ago. So had the same quake hit in 1985 instead of 2010, total deaths would have probably been in the 80,000 range, said Richard Olson, director of disaster risk reduction at Florida International University.
In February, an earthquake that was more than 500 times stronger than the one that struck Haiti hit an area of Chile that was less populated, better constructed, and not as poor. Chile's bigger quake caused fewer than 1,000 deaths.
Climate scientists say Earth's climate also is changing, bringing extreme weather, such as heat waves and flooding.
In the summer, one weather system caused oppressive heat in Russia, while farther south it caused flooding in Pakistan that inundated 161,200 square kilometers, about the size of Wisconsin. That single heat-and-storm system killed almost 17,000 people, more people than all the worldwide airplane crashes in the past 15 years.
Scientists have calculated that the killer Russian heat wave—setting a national record of 43.9℃—would happen once every 100,000 years without global warming.
1.What is responsible for the most human deaths in 2010?
A.Natrual disasters. B.Terrorist attacks.
C.Poor buildings. D.Too rapid developrnent.
2.According to Andreas Schraft, ________.
A.earthquakes are happening more often because of human beings
B.earthquakes are causing more damage because of human beings
C.stronger houses should be built to limit storm damage
D.Port—au—Prince is now overpopulated
3.The main point of the article is to________.
A.list the natural disasters that occurred in 2010
B.give the details of some natural disasters of 2010
C.warn that more natural disasters are to strike
D.blame humanity for not helping those affected by the disasters
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After many years of hard work, his dream _________ at last.
A.come true | B.was come true | C.was realized | D.realized |
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