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Yesterday evening I was watching the evening news on TV. The news was about a prize for scientific discoveries. The ______ said something that caught my ______. “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the ages of 25 and 30.” Being a little over 30 myself, I wanted to ______ with him. Nobody wants to think that he has passed the age of making any ______. The next day I went to the public library, spending several hours, and ______ to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. The announcer was right!
First, I looked at some of the ______ discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that ______that bodies of different weights ______ at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he ______ his world-changing Theory of Relativity. Well, ______ of that. Yet I wondered if those “best years” were true in other ______.
Then how about this in ______? Surely it needs the wisdom of ______ to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people ______ their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln ______ the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six!
But why don’t best years come after 30? After 30, I ______, most people don’t want to take risks or try new ways. Then I thought of people ______ Shakespeare and Picasso. The ______ was writing wonderful ______ at the late age of 50, _______ the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was 90!
Perhaps there is still hope for me.
1.A. announcer B. conductor C. speaker D. hostess
2.A. mind B. care C. attention D. surprise
3.A. disagree B. talk C. meet D. advise
4.A. chance B. discovery C. research D. fortune
5.A. happened B. wanted C. succeeded D. managed
6.A. last B. scientific C. oldest D. modern
7.A. found 
B. proved C. doubted D. showed
8.A. disappear B. move C. drop D. fall
9.A. invented B. improved C. published D. made
10.A. plenty B. enough C. much D. all
11.A. fields B. science C. courses D. ages
12.A. election B. politics C. leaders D. society
13.A. age B. brain C. living D. leadership
14.A. finished B. won C. started D. defeated
15.A. led B. devoted C. began D. gave up
16.A. guess B. know C. believe D. agree
17.A. as B. to be C. like D. about
18.A. first B. writer C. poet D. former
19.A. painting B. idioms C. fiction D. works
20.A. when B. while C. who D. after
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I was watching the news on TV ________ the power went off.
A．when B．as C．while D．until
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All Chinese watching TV cheers when they heard the news that China would build space station soon.
A. broke out B. burst into
C. burst in D. burst out
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Watching TV all evening or playing video games wasn’t exactly what he ______ mind for the National Day.
A. had on B. had in C. kept of D.kept from
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By the time you _________ your work this evening, I will be watching my favorite Korean TV series.
A. get through B. had got through
C. will have got through D. have got through
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No sooner _____ on the TV than I heard the news that Mr. Obama had been elected President of the USA one more.
A. I turned B. did I turn
C. I had turned D. had I turned
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The news that China bans time-travel TV dramas and movies got a lot of attention on the Internet. Yet, time travel in China is a bit different from time travel in common sense. It is anything but science fiction and always goes backwards in time. There is minimum imagination involved--no ever-ending circles that mess up present and future, no advanced technology, no new social orders or new human forms from the twenty--whatever century, everything is a known historical fact when you travel through in China．
It is not even called time travel; rather the Chinese people refer to it as time crossover. Time crossover has been an extremely popular theme for online novels for years (in fact, it is an indispensable part of China's online culture), and didn't get picked up by TV and the big screen until recent two years. Most of time-travel dramas and movies are adapted from popular online novels and like in other cases adaptations are never better than the original books．
The main plot of time-travel novels or TV dramas can be very well summarized in one sentence: from nobody to somebody. Time travel in China is more about escaping from the reality than about realizing wild dreams.
In China, there is no need of time machine either. People travel backwards in time via the possession of antiques presence at historical places of interest encounter of life-threatening accidents or simple a look into the mirror. Some time-travel novels even start with ''I wanted togo back to history so much that one morning when I opened my eyes I was back.'' Technology is not relevant at all．
Though China is not short of histories to go back to, people have their own preferences and it is pretty much a gender thing．If the main character is male then he usually goes back to special times in history when he is able to help build up or tear up a dynasty. A typical example is A Step Into the Past (寻秦记), the first time-travel TV drama in China, which tells the story of how a SWAT member helps to unite China and build up Qin Dynasty.
On the other hand, female characters primarily go back to Qing Dynasty partly because Qing Dynasty has the most number of princes to fall in love with. YongZheng Emperor is the favorite. As can be seen in Startling by Each Step (步步惊心), a Qing time crossover classic, a girl goes back to Qing Dynasty and falls in love with YongZheng Emperor and his brothers．
1.The writing purpose of this passage is to __________.
A．Analyze why the time-travel TV dramas are banned in China
B．Show the difference between time travel in China and in other cultures
C．Introduce the characteristics of the time-travel TV dramas in China
D．Advise people to watch the time-travel TV dramas in China
2.It can be inferred from the passage that__________ .
A．China now has banned any forms of productions about time travel
B．The main character always follows a set pattern in the time-travel TV dramas in China
C．Adapted from online novels, time-travel TV and movie productions enjoy more praise
D．All the time-travel productions are about heroes and their success
3. The news mentioned in the very beginning is intended to________ .
A．prove author's view B．give an example
C．work as a topic sentence D．introduce the topic
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-----Why was our foreign teacher unhappy yesterday?
-----News about the hurricane(飓风) striking her country________an attack of homesickness.
A．set aside B．set out C．set off D．set about
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——Why was our foreign teacher unhappy yesterday?
——News about the tsunami striking her country ____ an attack of homesickness.
A.set for B.set out C.set about D.set off
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John was cleaning the window and ________Mary was watching TV.
| A．at the meantime | B．when | C．meanwhile | D．while |
B. proved C. doubted D. showed