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| A poet is in his words The writings of William Shakespeare are today little read by young people in Britain. His young readership is limited to those who choose to study literature at university. Still, in British schools, _____ to study the poet, and when something is made compulsory, usually the result is boredom, resentment or both. Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen-for many of the young, reading them can seem like being forced to eat medicine, especially when people are at an age when they are beginning to discover themselves and wanting to claim their independence. This was my experience of the classics at school. But when I reached my late teenage years, I had a change of heart. Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world confused me. I wanted answers, so I turned to books to find them. I went on to take a PhD in literature and have taught the subject in universities in Britain and China. I have never regretted it. There is something in literature that people want, even if they don't read books. You see this in the popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works, the recent film version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice being a case in point. These popular adaptations may help increase people's interest in the classic. Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare's actual play. If that is the case then I welcome the trend. But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing. Shakespeare is a poet and his greatness is in his language. Reading someone else's rewriting of his work is like peeling (剥皮) a banana, throwing away the fruit, and eating the skin. Take on the original. It really is worth the effort. |
| 1. Find a sentence from the text which can explain the title. _______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words to complete the sentence. (within 5 words) _______________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why are the adaptations of great works popular? _______________________________________________________________________________ 4. Do you think it necessary to read the original? Why? (within 30 words) _______________________________________________________________________________ 5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese. _______________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 1. _______ (掌握了一些事实和数据), customers are better able to deal with the often powerful arguments given by a salesman. (arm) 2. Had you come earlier, I ________ (有时间) to talk with you now. (have) 3. "Can you tell me ________ (究竟在哪儿) you lost your money?" her mother asked. (it) 4. _______ (当谈到) the super star, all the students in class will pick themselves up at once. (come) 5. _______ (尽管她很虚弱), she managed to finish her work. (as) 6. Since he graduated from the university, he ________ (一直工作) in this factory. (work) 7. It's very surprising that Guo Jingming's novels ________ (竟然很畅销) among the teenagers. (sell) 8. If it were not for the fact _________ (她生病了), she would attend tonight's Super Girls' Voice. (be) 9. Our total income of 2009 was _________ (三倍) in 2000. (what) |
| 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最 佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 |
| W: Hello, Old English Restaurant. 1______ M: Yes. I'd like to book a table for tonight. W: Yes,sir. What time? M: Eight o'clock. W: Certainly. For how many people? M: 2______ W: Ten of you! But we don't usually accept large parties, sir. M: 3______ W: What's your name please, sir? M: Michael Peterson. W: Mr. Peterson...Of course! 4______ We'll put two tables together. M: Thanks. W: What food would you prefer for today, sir? We have fresh seafood tonight. M: 5______ A. I know, but we are regular customers. B. What are you doing? C. That'll be all right. D. Can I help you? E. There are five people in my family. F. No, we would like to eat vegetables. G. There are ten of us. |
| Tim is in good shape physically _____ he doesn't get much exercise. |
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| That's the new machine ______ parts are too small to be seen. |
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| As a child, Jack studied in a village school, _____ is named after his grandfather. |
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| After graduating from college, I took some time off to go travelling, _____ turned out to be a wise decision. |
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| — Your mum is very kind. — Yeah, My mum is pretty considerate, you know what _____, she always arranges everything around me. |
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| A person ____ e-mail account is full won't be able to send or receive any e-mails. |
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| I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city _____ name will create a picture of beautiful trees and green grass in our mind. |
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| Gun control is a subject _____ Americans have argued for a long time. |
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| Because of the financial crisis, days are gone ______ local 5-star hotels charged 6,000 yuan for one night. |
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| Einstein liked Bose's paper so much that he _____ his own work and translated it into German. |
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| Many of them turned a deaf ear to his advice, ______ they knew it to be valuable. |
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| Look out! Don't get too close to the house _____ roof is under repair. |
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| The English play _____ my classmates acted at the new year's party was really a great success. |
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| I couldn't do my homework with all that noise ______. |
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| A live program on TV is calling on people to _____ money or some other things to the people who have suffered from the flood in Henan Province. |
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| After Yang Liwei succeeded in circling the earth, Chinese astronauts _____ walk in space. |
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| Students are encouraged to _____ the design competition for robots at the university. |
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| The plan has to be _____ to meet the real situation. |
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| The man I _____ yesterday is Mr. White. |
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| The organization is badly _____ of hands. |
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| Sue is good at singing and her voice sounds _____. |
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| Shut the window, _____ it'll get too cold here. |
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| In my opinion, what Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng _____ good to our country's international positions. |
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| The hill ____ is covered with trees is called Mang Hill. |
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| Can you lend me the novel ____ the other day? |
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| Sam was hired by the hospital to _____ the elevator. |
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| He's got himself into a dangerous situation _____ he is likely to lose control over the plane. |
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| One spring afternoon five years ago, Jimmy Liao was crying in the hall of Taipei's Sherwood Hotel; life seemed 1 . The people who laughed as they walked past were taking their 2 for granted, just as he 3 himself. Now, however, he felt 4 -and he couldn't even show his disappointment in his 5 . Seeking more personally satisfying 6 , he had just left a successful job as a commercial artist when it seemed that fate (命运) played a cruel 7 on him. It was at this time that he developed cancer and was 8 to work. But that moment in the hotel was a turning point for Jimmy. He began to 9 the fact that there is no such a thing as fate, only 10 . Since then, he has published several imaginative, illustrated (带插图的) books. According to Jimmy, you are 11 you choose to be. You can give up or you can work to be a happier person. Jimmy realized that, while the world 12 seems unfair, your choice can change your life. This idea can be 13 in Jimmy's books, where his characters show the powerlessness they feel 14 making their choices. The message that goes with Jimmy's drawings, however, is 15 . Though the world may make us feel small, we must be 16 . Everything will be all right for us-as it is for the "small people" in Jimmy's books-if we make choices that are 17 for us. In spite of his new 18 and wealth, Jimmy prefers working 19 at home with his wife and daughter. He spends his mornings drawing. To Jimmy, living a life as he chooses means much more than money and fame could 20 . | ||||
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| Across the world, 1.1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. More than 2.5 billion people lack basic sanitation. The combination proves deadly. Each year, diseases related to inadequate water and sanitation kill between 2 and 5 million people and cause an estimated 80 percent of all sicknesses in the developing world. Safe drinking water is a precondition for health and the fight against child death rate, inequality between men and women, and poverty. Consider these facts: The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect water is 6 kilometers. Only 58 percent of children in sub-Saharan Africa are drinking safe water, and only 37 percent of children in South Asia have access to even a basic toilet. Each year in India alone, 73 million working days are lost to water-borne diseases. Here are three ways you can help: (1) Write Congress Current U. S. foreign aid for drinking water and sanitation budgets only one dollar per year per American citizen. Few members of Congress have ever received a letter from voters about clean drinking water abroad. (2) Sponsor a project with a faith-based organization Many U.S. religious groups already sponsor water and sanitation projects, working with partner organizations abroad. Simply putting a single project by a U.S. organization can make safe water a reality for thousands of people. (3) Support nonprofit water organizations Numerous U.S.-based nonprofits work skillfully abroad in community-led projects related to drinking water and sanitation. Like the sample of non-profits noted as follows, some organizations are large, other small-scale, some operate worldwide, others are devoted to certain areas in Africa, Asia, or Latin America. Support them generously. |
| 1. The three facts presented in the passage are used to illustrate that ____. |
| A. poverty can result in water-borne diseases B. people have no access to clean drinking water C. women's rights are denied in some developing countries D. safe drinking water should be a primary concern |
| 2. The intended readers of the passage are ____. |
| A. Americans B. overseas sponsors C. congressmen D. U.S.-based water organizations |
| 3. The main purpose of the passage is to call on people to ____. |
| A. get rid of water-related diseases in developing countries B. donate money to people short of water through religious groups C. fight against the worldwide water shortage and sanitation problem D. take joint action in support of some non-profit water organizations |
| 4. What information will probably be provided following the last paragraph? |
| A. A variety of companies and their worldwide operation. B. A list of non-profit water organizations to make contact with. C. Some ways to get financial aids from U.S. Congress. D. A few water resources exploited by some world-famous organizations. |
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| The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues (疫病) that flesh receives. The most widespread fallacy (谬误) of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses (病毒) passing on from person to person. You catch a cold, and it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes. During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches (战壕),cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds. In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp (奥斯维辛集中营), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds. At the Common Cold Research Unit. England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be dipped with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose. In the cold we have nothing to do with catching colds, but why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on. No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors (止痛片) such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms (症状). |
| 1. The writer offered _____ examples to support his argument. |
| A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 3 |
| 2. Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage? |
| A. The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time. B. Colds are not caused by cold. C. People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors. D. A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one. |
| 3. Arctic explorers may catch colds when _____. |
| A. they are working in the isolated arctic regions B. they are writing reports in terribly cold weather C. they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions D. they are coming into touch again with the outside world |
| 4. Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit _____. |
| A. suffered a lot B. never caught colds C. often caught colds D. became very strong |
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| Jeanne Calment, a French woman, became a record breaker on 17 October of 1995, when at the age of 120 years and 238 days, she became the longest-lived human being on record. A Japanese man died in 1986 at the age of 120 years and 237 days. Jeanne Calment lives in a small old people's home in the south of France; her husband, her only child and her grandson have all died. She is nearly blind and deaf and is always in a wheelchair, but her doctor describe s her as being more like a 90-year-old in good health than someone of 120. She still has a lively sense of humor. When asked on her 120th birthday what she expected of the future, she replied: A very short one. She also remarked that she thought the good Lord had forgotten all about her. So what is the key to a long life? According to some doctors, diet, exercise and no smoking are the three important factors. Jeanne Calment has followed two of the tips. She has always eaten a healthy diet, and she used to do exercises every day until she broke her leg at the age of 115. However, until recently she drank two glasses of strong red wine a day, and she does smoke(now only a little). Besides, Jeanne Calment might have got very good genes (基因) from her parents. Her father lived to the age of 94 and her mother to 86. A local lawyer bought her house when she was 80 under an agreement that he would pay her some money every year until her death. It must have seemed a good move at the time, but so far the lawyer has paid her at least three times the value of the house. Every year on her birthday Jeanne Calment sends him a card saying: Sorry, I'm still alive! |
| 1. How does Jeanne Calment feel about her old age? |
| A. She is miserable and unhappy. B. She is cheerful and humorous. C. She would like to live much longer. D. She feels she is going to die very soon. |
| 2. Jeanne Calment owes her good health and long life to ______. |
| A. smoking only a little every day B. her giving up smoking and drinking C. drinking two glasses of strong red wine every day D. the good genes from her parents, a healthy diet and some exercises |
| 3. Which of the following could best replace the word "move" in the fourth paragraph? |
| A. deal B. trick C. march D. sport |
| 4. Why does Jeanne Calment say" Sorry, I'm still alive" to the local lawyer every year on her birthday? |
| A. Because she had an agreement at 80 with the lawyer which was to her advantage. B. Because she has asked the lawyer to pay her more rent than they first agreed. C. Because the lawyer has paid her much more money than the value of the house. D. Because the house she sold to the lawyer isn't worth the money he has already paid. |
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| Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word "obey" is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises. Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these can't be said to show the baby's intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This selfimitation (模仿) leads on to deliberate (有意 的) imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech. It is a problem we need to get out teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use at seven months of "mama" as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds. |
| 1. Before children start speaking _____. |
| A. they need equal amount of listening B. they need different amounts of listening C. they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions D. they can't understand and obey the adult's oral instructions |
| 2. Children who start speaking late _____. |
| A. may have problems with their listening B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them C. usually pay close attention to what they hear D. often take a long time in learning to listen properly |
| 3. A baby's first noises are _____. |
| A. an expression of his moods and feelings B. an early form of language C. a sign that he means to tell you something D. an imitation of the speech of adults |
| 4. The problem of deciding at what point a baby's imitations can be considered as speech _____. |
| A. is important because words have different meanings for different people B. is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually B. is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age D. is one that should be completely ignored (忽略) because children's use of words is often meaningless |
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| "Sesame Street" has been called "the longest street in the world". That is because the television program by that name can now be seen in so many parts of the world. That program became one of American's exports soon after it went on the air in New York in 1969. In the United States more than six million children watch the program regularly. The viewers include more than half the nation's pre-school children, from every kind of economic (经济的), racial (种族的), and geographical group. Although some educators object to certain elements in the program, parents praise it highly. Many teachers also consider it a great help, though some teachers find that problems arise when first graders who have learned from "Sesame Street" are in the same class with children who have not watched the program. Tests have shown that children from all racial, geographical, and economic backgrounds have benefited from watching it. Those who watch it five times a week learn more than occasional (偶然的) viewers. In the US the program is shown at different hours during the week in order to increase the number of children who can watch it regularly. The programs all use songs, stories, jokes, and pictures to give children a basic understanding of numbers, letters and human relationships. But there are some differences. For example, the Spanish program, produced in Mexico City, devotes more time to teaching whole words than to teaching separate letters. Why has "Sesame Street" been so much more successful than other children's shows? Many reasons have been suggested. People mention the educational theories (理论) of its creators, the support by the government and private (私人的) businesses, and the skillful use of a variety of TV tricks. Perhaps an equally important reason is that mothers watch it along with their children, This is partly be- cause famous adult stars often appear on it. But the best reason for the success of the program may be that it makes every child watching feel able to learn. The child finds himself learning, and he wants to learn more. |
| 1. "Sesame Street" is actually _____. |
| A. a street in the US B. a program for children C. a program for teachers D. a program for students |
| 2. Children who often watch the program _____. |
| A. can have problems in school B. will find it a great help C. will take no interest in their studies D. will be well educated |
| 3. What is special about the program? |
| A. It offers great fun. B. It makes children feel able to learn. C. It is shown at different hours during the week. D. Children learn and enjoy themselves while watching. |
| 4. Why is "Sesame Street" so popular in the world? |
| A. Because it is supported by the government and businesses. B. Because it uses a variety of skillful tricks. C. Because mothers watch it along with their children. D. Because it makes every child watching it feel able to learn. |
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