I found the lecture hard to follow because it...

I found the lecture hard to follow because it __D__ when I arrived.

A. started　　 B. was starting

C. would start　　 D. had started

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I found the professor's lecture quite difficult to follow because it ___________ when I arrived.

A.started B.was starting C.would start D.had started

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___ she was invited to the lecture made her very happy.

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When it comes to hard, noisy traveling, we’ve found that sometimes we’d rather read about it than actually go. Here are some bestsellers for armchair travelers.

The Station by Robert Byron. In 1928, the 22-year-old man made a journey to Mount Athos, resulting in one of the best travel books ever written, matched only by Byron’s own, much more famous The Road to Osciana.

In Darkest Africa by Henry Monton Stanley. It’s about his great efforts to save an unlucky German doctor Eduard Schnitzer, who had no desire to be rescued at all.

A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs by Sir Steven Runciman. A to Z and around the world. He provides priceless information of long-gone princesses, priests, and places.

South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Sir Ernest Shackleton. As the planet started the global war, Shackleton and his brave group of explorers made an unsuccessful but heroic journey to cross Antarctica from 1914 to 1917.

The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005 Reading through this final listing of all the nice hotels and wonderful restaurants in France is better than going there, listening to Chirac talk about the poisonous American culture, and spending the price of this book for a tiny cup of tea and a cookie the size of your thumb.

The Past Is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal. This great book of an armchair exploration tells us what has happened in the past and shows the relationship between us and the past travelers.

1.This passage is written ________.

A. to warn readers against traveling

B. as an introduction to famous travelers

C to sell more books about travels

D. to tell people where to travel

2.The underlined phrase “armchair travelers” in the first paragraph refers to those who ________.

A. like to read about travels instead of travel themselves

B. find fun teaching others how to travel to other places

C. like to write about their strange traveling experiences

D. can only travel with special equipment for the disabled

3. which of the books has a very low price according to the passage?

A. A Traveler’s Alphabet: Partial Memoirs.

B. South: A Memoir to the Endurance Voyage.

C. The Michelin Red Guide: France 2005.

D. The Past Is a Foreign Country.

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Henry Monton Stanley, was saved by a German doctor in Africa.

B. In his book, Lowenthal focuses more on history than the present.

C. It took Shackleton and his men 3 years to cross Antarctica.

D. The Station is no more famous than The Road to Osciana.

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Accustomed to _____ in the countryside, Mr. King found it hard to live in the city.

A．live              B．living             C．having live         D．have lived

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The children found it hard to_______to their new school.

A. suit         B. fit           C. match     D. adapt

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The professor tried his best to make the students__________what he was saying but he found it hard to make himself ___________.

A. understand; understand

B. understand; understood

C. understood; understood

D. understood; understand

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63. The children find it hard to a______ to the new surroundings when moving to the new school,

64. When he was very young, the boy was very i____________, doing a lot of things all by himself.

65. All my classmates agreed to the plan but I was o_________ to it.

66. The menu in the restaurant usually v_______ from season to season.

67. Charles Dickens was one of the greatest n___________ of the 19th century.

68. During my a_________, he will be in charge of this department.

69. All he had done was i_________ , so he was put in prison.

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Which of the following sentences is WRONG?

A.There was a time when I hated going to school.

B.It is the first time that the girl has seen such an animal.

C.It is high time that we took some measures to deal with it.

D.Every time when we stopped,everybody would stare at us.

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When you are little, it’s not hard to believe you can change the world. I remember my enthusiasm when, at the age of 12, I addressed（向……演讲） the people at the Rio Earth Summit. “ I am only a child,” I told them.” Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this world would be. At school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not to be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do. You grown-ups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect your words.”

I spoke for six minutes and received a standing ovation. Some of the people even cried. I thought that maybe I had reached some of them, that my speech might actually spur（刺激）action. Now, ten years from Rio, after I’ve sat through many more conferences, I’m not sure what has been achieved. My confidence in the people in power and in the power of an individual’s voice to reach them has been deeply shaken.

When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I’m learning that as we have to make choices—educa-tion, career, lifestyle—life gets more and more complicated. We are beginning to feel pressure to produce and be successful. We are taught that economic growth is progress, but we aren’t taught how to seek a happy, healthy way of living. And we are learning that what we wanted for the future when we were 12 was idealistic and naive（天真的）.

Today I’m no longer a child, but I’m worried about what kind of environment my children will grow up in. I know change is possible, because I am changing, still figuring out what I think. I am still deciding how to live my life. The challenges are great, but if we accept individual responsibility and make choices, we will rise to the challenges, and we will become part of the positive tide of the change. I hope this goal will be met through our common efforts. Thank you all.

1.The purpose of what the speaker said at the age of 12 was to________.

A．end poverty and make schools beautiful

B．find environmental answers and show off

C．focus people’s attention on some social problems

D．find a wonderful place and clean it up

2.What does the underlined word “ovation”in the second paragraph refer to?

A．A long period of laughing.            B．A cold and unfriendly welcome.

C．An expression used for greeting.

D．Great applause or cheering.

3.The information in the text is presented mainly through________.

A．question and answer     B．a personal lecture

C．cause and effect         D．listing steps in a process

4.Which of the following best describes the speaker?

A．He is an experienced educator.

B．He is an impolite man.

C．He is a man of great worries.

D．He is a man of social responsibility.

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