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| I don't think I'll need any money, but I'll bring some ____. |
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| Most animals little connection with _____ animals of______ different kind unless they kill them for food. |
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| Let Harry play with your toys as well, Clare you must learn to ______. |
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| Someone called me up in the middle of the night, but they hung up _____ I could answer the phone. |
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| If you want to change for a double room, you will have to pay ______ $11. |
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| _____ production up by 60%, the company has had another excellent year. |
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| I've worked with children before I know what _____ in my new job. |
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| — How are you today? — Oh, I _____ as ill as I do now for a very long time. |
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| The WTO cannot live up to its name ______ it does not include a country that is home to one fifth of mankind. |
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| The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see _____ the next year. |
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| Why don't we take a little break? Didn't we just have _____? |
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| The reporter said that the UFO _____ east to west when he saw it. |
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| At the beginning of this century, medical scientists made an interesting discovery: we are built not just of flesh (肌肉) and blood but also of time. They were 1 to show that we all have a 'body clock' 2 us, which controls the 3 and fall of our body energies, 4 us different from one day to the next. The 5 of a 'body clock' should not be too 6 since the lives of most living things are controlled 7 the 24-hour night-and-day cycle (循环). We fell 8 and fall asleep at night and become 9 and energetic during the day. If the 24-hour cycle is 10 most people experience unpleasant 11 , For example, people who are not 12 to working at night can find that 13 of sleep causes them to 14 badly at work. 15 the daily cycle of sleeping and 16 , we also have other cycle which 17 longer than one day. Most of us would 18 that we feel good on some days and not so good on 19 ; sometimes our ideas seem to flow and at other times, the 20 do not exist. | ||||
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| New York, 10 November 5:27pm, yesterday. Biggest power failure in the city's history. *Thousands of people got stuck in lifts. Martin Saltzman spent three hours between the 21st and 22nd floors of the Empire State Building. "There were twelve of us. But no one panicked. We passed the time telling stories and playing word games. One man wanted to smoke but we didn't let him. Firemen finally got us out." *"It was the best night we've ever had.," said Angela Carraro. who runs an ltalian restaurant on 42nd Street. "We had lots candles on the tables and the waiters were carrying candles on their trays. The place was full and all night, in fact, for after we had closed, we let the people stay on and spend the night here." * The zoos had their problems like everyone else. Keepers worked through the right. They used blankets to keep flying squirrels and small monkeys warm. While zoos had problems keeping warm, supermarkets had problems keeping cool."All of our ice cream and frozen foods melted," said the manger of a store in downtown Manhattan. "They were worth $50,0000." * The big electric clock in the lobby (大厅) of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in downtown Manhattan started (滴答) again at 5:25 this morning. It was almost on time. |
| 1. Throughout the period of darkness, Martin Saltzman and the eleven others were ______. |
| A. nervous B. excited C. calm D. frightened |
| 2. In what way was the night of November 9 the best night for Angela Carraro? |
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| 3. How long did the power failure last? |
| A. Nearly 12 hours. B. More than 12 hours. C. Nearly 24 hours. D. More than 24 hours. |
| 阅读理解。 |
| The easy way out isn't always easiest. I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug, my husband of one month, to a special meal. I glanced through my cookbook and chose a menu which included homemade break. Knowing the bread would take time, I started on it as soon as Doug left for work. As I was not experienced in cooking, I thought if a dozen was good, two dozen would be better, so I doubled everything. As Dong loved oranges, I also opened a can of orange and poured it all into the bowl. Soon there was a sticky dough (面团) covered with ugly yellowish marks. realizing I had been defeated, I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so I wouldn't have to face Doug laughing at my work, I went on preparing the rest of the meal, and, when Doug got home, we sat down to Cornish chicken with rice. He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed disturbed. Twice he got up and went outside, saying he thought he heard a noise. The third time he left, I went to the windows to see what he was doing. Looking out, I saw Doug standing about three feet from the rubbish bin, holding the lid up with a stick and looking into the container. When I came out of the house, he dropped the stick and explained that there was something alive in out rubbish bin. Picking up the stick again, he held the lid up enough for me to see. I felt cold. But I stepped closer and looked harder. Without doubt it was my work. The hot sun had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast (酵母) made the surface shake and sigh as though it were breathing. I had to admit what the 'living thing 'was and why it was there. I don't know who was more embarrassed (尴尬) by the whole thing Doug or me. |
| 1. The writer's purpose in writing this story is ______. |
| A. to tell an interesting experience B. to show the easiest way out of a difficulty C. to describe the trouble facing a newly married woman D. to explain the difficulty of learning to cook from books |
| 2. Why did the woman's attempt at making the bread turn out to be unsuccessful? |
| A. The canned orange had gone bad. B. She didn't use the right kind of flour. C. The cookbook was hard to understand. D. She did not follow the directions closely. |
| 3. Why did the woman put the dough in the rubbish bin? |
| A. She didn't see the use of keeping it B. She meant to joke with her husband. C. She didn't want her husband to see it. D. She hoped it would soon dry in the son. |
| 4. What made the dough in the rubbish bin? |
| A. The rising and falling movement. B. The strange-looking marks. C. Its shape. D. Its size. |
| 5. When Doug went out the third time, the woman looked out of the window because she was ______. |
| A. surprised at his being interested in the bin B. afraid that he would discover her secret C. unhappy that he didn't enjoy the meal D. curious to know what disturbed him |
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| Decision-thinking is not unlike it often matters not only what you think, but also what others think you think what you think they think you think. The mental process (过程) is similar. Naturally, this card game has often been of considerable interest to people who are, by any standards, good thinkers. The great mathematician John von Neumann was one of the founders of game theory. In particular, he showed that all games fall into two classes; there are what he called games of 'perfect information', games like chess where the players can't hide anything or play tricks; they don't win by chance, but by means of logic and skills. Then there are games of 'imperfect information', like poker, in which it is impossible to know in advance that one course of action is better than another. One mistaken idea about business is that it can be treated as a game of perfect information. Quite the reverse Business, life itself are games which we must normally play with very imperfect information. Business decisions are often made with many unknown and unknowable factors (因素), best poker players. But few business people find it comfortable to admit that they are taking a chance, and many still prefer to believe that they are playing chess, not poker. |
| 1. The subject discussed in this text is ______. |
| A. the process of reaching decisions B. the difference between poker and chess. C. the secret of making good business plans D. the value of information in winning games |
| 2. An important factor in a game of imperfect information is _______. |
| A. rules B. luck C. time D. ideas |
| 3. Which of the following can be used in place of "Quite the reverse"? |
| A. Quite right. B. True enough. C. Most unlikely. D. Just the opposite. |
| 4. In the writer's opinion, when making business decisions one should _______. |
| A. put perfect information before imperfect information B. accept the existence of unknown factors C. regard business as a game of chess D. mix known and unknown factors |
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| Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men. in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilisations (文明), broken up by long 'dark ages' in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men. However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? That's much more difficult. When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive (原始的) in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps through the cribe, These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can't think of. So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live because. we are careless or greedy (贪婪) or quarrelsome. our grand-children will not bother to think of excuses for us. Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set you imagination free when you think about the future. |
| 1. A particular mention made of Stapledon's book in the opening paragraph _______. |
| A. serves as a description of human history B. serves an introduction to the discussion C. shows a disagreement of views D. Shows the popularity of the book |
| 2. The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order to show that ______. |
| A. human history is extremely long B. life has changed a great deal C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future |
| 3. Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to _______. |
| A. tools used in farming B. ideas about modern life C. unknown things in the future D. hunting skills in the Stone Age |
| 4. According to the writer of the text, imagining the future will _______. |
| A. serve the interests of the present and future generations B. enable us to better understand human history C. help us to improve farming D. make life worth living |
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| Excused from recycling (回收利用) because you live in a high rise with a rubbish chute (垃圾道)? You won't be for long. Miami's Mark Shantzis has made it simple for those living in tall buildings to use the chute and recycle too. In Shantzis' Hi-Rise Recycling System, a chute leads to a pie-shaped container with six boxes that can turn around when operated. The system, which fits in the same space as the chute and container now in use, enables glass, plastic, paper, metal, and other rubbish to go into separate boxes. The system is controlled from a board next to the chute door. The board has a button for each class of recycling materials (as well as for unrecyclables). At the press of a button, a microcomputer locks all other floors' chute door and sets the recycling container turning until the right box comes under the chute. The computer also counts the loads and gives a signal by phone when the box is full. And a particular piece of equipment breaks up the nonrecyclables Sorting (分类) recyclables before they are collected saves the use of expensive materials recovery equipment which otherwise has to do the sorting. Such equipment often makes recycled materials very expensive, so expensive that tons of recyclables remain wasted. Shantzis believes his system could help recycled materials become more cost-effective. |
| 1. The purpose in writing this text is _______. |
| A. to encourage people to recycle their rubbish B. to introduce a recycling system for high rises C. to describe the use of computer technology in recycling D. to explain the need for rubbish collection in high rises |
| 2. When he says "You won't be for long" the writer means that _______. |
| A. you'll soon be living in a cleaner building B. rubbish chutes will become out of date before long C. you won't wait long for your turn to recycle rubbish D. it won't be long before you'll have to recycle your rubbish |
| 3. Before dropping rubbish into the chute you have to ______. |
| A. lock the other floors' chute doors B. check if the container is full C. press the correct button D. break up the rubbish |
| 4. The biggest advantage of this new system is that ______. |
| A. it readuces the cost of recycling B. it saves time and space C. it saves money for people living in high rises D. it makes better use of the existing recovery equipment |
| 短文改措。 此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断； 如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正： 该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。 该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该回的词。 该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正的词。 注意：原行没有错的不要改 | ||
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| 书面表达。 假设你是李华，在美国探亲。2000年2月8日清晨，你的目击一起交通事故。警察局让你写一 份材料，报告当时所见情况。根据下列图画写出报告。  注意：1. 目击者应该准确报告事实； 2. 词数100左右； 3. 结尾已为你写好。 |
| ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ About two minutes later I stopped a passing car and took the old man to the nearest hospital. Li Hua |