The Living Statue
Every day, Maria Marks makes her living by dressing in an antique (古式的) wedding dress, covering her skin in white clown paint and standing completely still on a pedestal (基座) in London's Covent Garden until a coin is thrown into her hat. So, what exactly draws the crowd when Maria “performs”? “Well, people want me to prove that I'm human. They watch carefully to see if I will breathe,” Maria says.
The Magician
Thirty-one-year-old Matthew Tate has built up many impressive magic tricks to shock and thrill his audience. They watch wide-eyed and open-mouthed. At the end of my interview with Matthew, I ask him if he can tell me just one of his secrets. My question is met with a wide smile and, of course, complete silence!
The Actor
Michael Webster has been an actor in London for almost fifteen years. He tells me all about the ups and downs of a typical actor's life. “You always try to give a perfect performance, often under imperfect conditions. And then there is always the worry about where the next job will come from,” he explains. “But standing in front of an audience knowing that they expressly came to see me perform fills me with great joy!”
The Circus Performer
Twenty-year-old Chinese-born Zhao Jian tours the world as a hand balancer with a circus troupe (马戏班). She has to follow an exceptionally hard programme, waking at 5:30 in the morning each day to begin eight hours of physical exercises. “I practice a move over and over again before I'm ready to perform it. Then when I'm on stage I balance on one hand for six minutes, which needs unbelievable strength and patience,” Zhao says.
1.What attracts people to Maria Marks?
A. Her funny performance.
B. Her strange appearance.
C. Their interest in antique clothing.
D. Their uncertainty about her realness.
2.Who travels widely to perform?
A. Zhao Jian. B. Matthew Tate.
C. Michael Webster. D. Maria Marks.
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The Living Statue
Every day, Maria Marks makes her living by dressing in an antique (古式的) wedding dress, covering her skin in white clown paint and standing completely still on a pedestal (基座) in London's Covent Garden until a coin is thrown into her hat. So, what exactly draws the crowd when Maria “performs”? “Well, people want me to prove that I'm human. They watch carefully to see if I will breathe,” Maria says.
The Magician
Thirty-one-year-old Matthew Tate has built up many impressive magic tricks to shock and thrill his audience. They watch wide-eyed and open-mouthed. At the end of my interview with Matthew, I ask him if he can tell me just one of his secrets. My question is met with a wide smile and, of course, complete silence!
The Actor
Michael Webster has been an actor in London for almost fifteen years. He tells me all about the ups and downs of a typical actor's life. “You always try to give a perfect performance, often under imperfect conditions. And then there is always the worry about where the next job will come from,” he explains. “But standing in front of an audience knowing that they expressly came to see me perform fills me with great joy!”
The Circus Performer
Twenty-year-old Chinese-born Zhao Jian tours the world as a hand balancer with a circus troupe (马戏班). She has to follow an exceptionally hard programme, waking at 5:30 in the morning each day to begin eight hours of physical exercises. “I practice a move over and over again before I'm ready to perform it. Then when I'm on stage I balance on one hand for six minutes, which needs unbelievable strength and patience,” Zhao says.
1.What attracts people to Maria Marks?
A. Her funny performance.
B. Her strange appearance.
C. Their interest in antique clothing.
D. Their uncertainty about her realness.
2.Who travels widely to perform?
A. Zhao Jian. B. Matthew Tate.
C. Michael Webster. D. Maria Marks.
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The old lady ______by selling used newspapers.
A. gets her living B. makes a life
C. earns her living D. earns a life
高一英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
By the time he was twelve, Edison ________ to make a living by himself .
| A．would begin | B．has begun | C．had begun | D．was begun |
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
By the time he was twelve, Edison _______ to make a living by himself.
| A．would begin | B．has begun | C．had begun | D．began |
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
The man making _____ living by cheating the public ended up in ______ prison.
A．a, the B．不填，不填 C．a, 不填 D．不填, the
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The fiddler crab (蟹) is a living clock. It indicates(=shows) the time of day by the color of its skin, which is dark by day and pale by night. The crab’s changing color follows a regular twenty—four hour plan that exactly matches the daily rhythm (节奏) of the sun.
Does the crab actually keep time, or does its skin simply answer to the sun’s rays, changing color according to the amount of light strikes it? To find out, biologists kept crabs in a dark room for two months. Even without daylight, the crab’s skin color continued to change exactly on time.
This characteristic (特性) probably developed gradually in answer to the daily rising and setting of the sun, to help protect the crab from sunlight and enemies. After millions of years it has become completely regulated (受控制) inside the living body of the crab.
The biologists noticed that once each day the color of the fiddler crab is especially dark, and that each day this happens fifty minutes later than on the day before. From this they discovered that each crab follows not only the rhythm of the sun but also that of the tides (潮水). The crab’s period of greatest darkening is exactly the time of low tide on the beach where it was caught!
1.The fiddler crab is like a clock because it changes color ______.
A. in a regular 24—hour rhythm B. in answer to the sun’s rays
C. at low tide D. every fifty minutes
2.The crab’s changing color ______.
A. tells the crab what time it is B. protects the crab from the sunlight and enemies
C. keeps the crab warm D. is of no real use
3.When the fiddler crabs were kept in the dark , they ______.
A. did not change color B. changed color more quickly
C. changed color more slowly D. changed color on the same timetable
4.The crab’s color—changing ability was probably developed ______.
A. in the process of evolution (进化) B. over millions of years
C. by the work of biologists D. both A and B
5.The best title for this selection would be ______.
A. The Sun and the Tides B. Discoveries in Biology
C. A Living Clock D. A scientific Study
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The days are gone _______physical strength was all you needed to make a living.
A. when B. that C. where D. which
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As prices______ too much in town, he decided to go to the countryside and make a living by______ sheep.
| A．raised; raising | B．rose; rising |
| C．raised; rising | D．rose; raising |
高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Which room will the woman go to?
A.Maria’s room. B.The dining room. C.The living room.
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One day in my class，Maria shared her feelings about money，“Money worries me.I think I want to live without money because I hate it.I HATE MONEY.”We were all touched by Maria's words as they reminded us of the spiritual burdens that money managing can bring to us.After class I offered to help Maria deal with her financial problems.She hesitated to accept my offer，and I could see from the expression on her face that she was afraid of what it might involve.I quickly promised her that I wouldn't make her do more than she was able to.I told her frankly that I didn't enjoy managing my money any more than she did hers and wouldn't burden her with guilt，judgments，or impossible tasks.All I would ask her to do was to let me help her look at her fears and try to make some sense of them.
Maria still resisted my offer，and I can remember the excuses she gave me as they were the repeated complaints I had heard from so many people.“I'll never understand money，”she said.“My facts are meaningless.”“I don't deserve to have money.”“I never have enough.”“I have too little to manage.”“My financial position isn't worth looking at.”and the most devastating one of all，“I just can't do it.”
Going home that day，I couldn't get Maria out of my mind：her attitude conveyed the same negativity and fear that I believed annoyed many people.I was sure it was this attitude that prevented people from managing their money effectively.My counseling(咨询)has taught me that these anxieties are inseparably connected to our selfdoubts and fear for survival.Many of us are terrified of handling our money because we don't believe we can do it well，and to do it wrong would put our very existence at risk.
On a deeper level we know that money is not the source of life，but sense of worth drives us to act as if it were.It locks us up in selfdoubts and prevents us from tapping into the true source of our management power，our spirit.
1.The underlined word“devastating”in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A．convincing B．interesting C．shocking D．valuable
2.Maria's words moved the author and others because they were ________.
A．in the same financial trouble B．in the same financial condition
C．of the same family background D．of the same feeling over the issue
3.As for money managing，the author intended to tell Maria how to ________.
A．overcome her fears B．make wise decisions
C．avoid making mistakes D．learn the necessary skills
4.Maria wouldn't take the author's offer of help for fear of________.
A．being forced to share her money with others
B．having to do something beyond her reach
C．being found guilty of making impossible errors
D．showing her judgment about money
5.According to the author，people's anxieties about managing money result from their understanding of money as the only source of ________.
A．life B．values C．spirit D．power
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