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| 情景对话。 |
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— Hello. I'm calling about the apartment you advertised. |
| A. No, I have another one B. Well, it's a one-bedroom apartment. C. It's kind of you D. How about 10 a.m.? E. Yes. I have one. F. What kinds of apartments do you prefer? G. Sounds good. |
| — What about your journey to Mount Hua? — Everything was wonderful except that the car we rented _____ on the way back. |
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| A. broke up B. broke down C. broke out D. broke in |
| Boys and girls，please remain _____ and keep quiet until the electricity supply returns to normal. |
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A. seated B. seating C. to seat D. seat |
| Five men and three women make up the temporary group to look into the case. In other words，it _____ eight people. |
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| A. consists of B. is consisted of C. is consisting of D. is being consisted of |
| According to the present findings, we can draw a conclusion _____ so far a large number of people have died of cholera in this town. |
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| A. whether B. that C. what D. if |
| Though computers can do a lot of work man can't do，they can't completely _____ human beings. |
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| A. replace with B. instead of C. take place D. take the place of |
| Life in London has so many _____-nightclubs，good restaurants and so on. |
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| A. collections B. instructions C. attractions D. expressions |
| He tried to deal with the increasing burden of his work，but he finally _____ and had to take a complete rest. |
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| A. broke off B. broke away C. broke out D. broke down |
| To their great fear，they found _____ in the heaviest snowfall they had ever had. |
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A. they were catching B. themselves caught C. they had caught D. themselves catching |
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— Did you meet with the famous space hero，Yang Liwei? — _____ I had come here earlier! |
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A. If only B. If not C. But for D. For fear |
| — Could you please tell us about some good ways to learn English? — My suggestion is that reading often and writing regularly _____. |
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| A. are needed B. is needed C. be needed D. should need |
| _____ by the problem that was put forward at the meeting，the people in the audience had _____ looks on their faces. |
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| A. Puzzled; puzzling B. Puzzled; puzzled C. Puzzling; puzzling D. Puzzling; puzzled |
| When you come to the fence，you can see a notice _____ there saying "_____ the grass". |
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| A. putting up; Keep off B. putting up; Keep away C. put up; Keep out D. put up; Keep off |
| If I were you, I would take it easy; _____ is no need to be nervous. |
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| A. it B. this C. there D. which |
| As is known to all，it is teachers and parents who will have a big _____ on the development of children. |
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| A. change B. affection C. influence D. impression |
| 阅读理解。 |
| Willa Cather once said, "When people ask me whether writing has been a hard or easy road,I always answer with the famous saying: The end is nothing；the road is all. That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never used the computer with the thought that one more task had to be done." Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were, like her, simple and full of the vigor of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from child to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the great plain with its wild flowers, wheat fields and rivers. "It's a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it very dull; they like a church tower, an old factory, a waterfall, the country all made to look like a German Christmas card...But when I come to the open plain, something happens. I'm home. I breathe differently." |
| 1. Willa Cather wrote because she found writing _____. |
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| A. simple and lively B. opened up a road to success C. neither too hard nor too easy D. interesting and enjoyable |
| 2. What was the place like where Cather grew up? |
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| A. It was cold,plain and without a church. B. It was vast,open and flat. C. It was like a German Christmas card. D. It was a colorful world of wild flowers. |
| 3. When she said "It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold.", Willa Cather meant that _____. |
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| A. you either love the place or hate it B. you decide either to stay or to leave C. some find the place warm; others find it cold D. some find the place peaceful; others find it wild |
| 4. What happens when Cather comes to the open plain? |
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| A. She breathes differently from others. B. She wants to make the place her home. C. She feels completely comfortable. D. She finds the place similar to her home. |
| 阅读理解。 |
| Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others, as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted (扭 曲的) one. Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different at all! Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and,one hopes,will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity (快速) and ease of travel,there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be,at least the greater ease of travel today has revealed (展示) to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not: some different kind of animal from themselves. |
| 1. Every country criticizes ways of life in other countries because they are _____. |
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| A. distorted B. normal C. similar to each other D. different from its own |
| 2. One who travels in a foreign country and learns its language will _____. |
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| A. find out why its people are different B. argue in favor of this country and the language C. know the country and its people better D. like its inhabitants and their language |
| 3. The knowledge one gains by traveling in a foreign country is often _____. |
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| A. from second-hand information B. gathered from other sources rather than its inhabitants C. gained from the arguments about the country D. different from what one had before the travel |
| 4. In this passage,the author wants to say _____. |
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| A. differences between peoples will gradually disappear because of the ease of travel B. differences between peoples do exist even though different nationalities behave exactly alike C. differences between peoples will continue to exist and the world will be a dull place D. differences between peoples will not exist as one hopes |