| — Our head teacher has resigned. She is said to be pregnant. —What a great surprise! |
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| A. Guess what! B. For what? C. How come! D. What for? |
| One reason for her preference for city life is she can have easy access to places like shops and restaurants. |
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| A. that B. how C. what D. why |
| —My car is really cheap at that price. —Yes, it is a real , I must say. |
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| A. bargain B. exchange C. trade D. business |
| This box all the books you need, an English-English dictionary. |
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| A. contained; included B. included; contained C. contained; including D. included; containing |
| —How do you find your new classmates? —Most of them are kind, but is so good to me as Bruce. |
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| A. none B. no one C. every one D. some one |
| She felt of what she had done to the poor. |
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| A. shameful B. shame C. shameless D. ashamed |
| the goal of "Education for All", the Chinese government is making joint efforts. |
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| A. To achieve B. Achieving C. Achieve D. Having achieved |
| What me is his words. |
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| A. annoyed; annoyed B. annoying; annoyed C. annoyed; annoying D. annoying; annoying |
| They've us 150 000 dollars for the house, shall we take it? |
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| A. provided B. supplied C. shown D. offered |
| Vacation is good for us. Though we can't our troubles in life for ever, we can leave them behind when we are on vacation. |
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| A. move B. discourage C. replace D. remove |
| I'm afraid I'm not to help with the show, for I am very busy with my own project. |
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| A. positive B. convenient C. available D. enthusiastic |
| We should consider the students' request the school library provide more books on popular science. |
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| A. that B. when C. which D. where |
| —Don't worry if you can't come to party —I'll save cakes for you. |
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| A. the; some B. a; much C. the; any D. a; little |
| —Why are you making so much noise? —I just can't help . |
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| A. so B. that C. this D. it |
| Some of you may have finished unit one. , you can go on to unit two. |
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| A. If you may B. If you do C. If not D. If so |
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| When I was seven, my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven't had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don't need one. I have a mobile phone and I'm always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices (装置) tell the time-which is why, if you look around, you'll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007. But while the wise have realized that they don't need them, others-apparently including some distinguished men of our time-are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling command shocking prices, up to ￡250 000 for a piece. This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra functions-but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years' school fees for watches that allow you to do these things? If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds' worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world. Watches are now classified as "investments" (投资). A 1994 Patek Philippe recently sold for nearly ￡350 000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from ￡15 000 to ￡30 000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It's a toy for self satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up-they've been rising for 15 years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that ￡350 000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Timex. |
| 1. The sales of watches to young people have fallen because they . |
| A. have other devices to tell the time B. think watches too expensive C. prefer to wear an iPod D. have no sense of time |
| 2. It seems ridiculous to the writer that . |
| A. people dive 300 metres into the sea B. expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones C. cheap cars don't run as fast as expensive ones D. expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell |
| 3. What can be learnt about Swiss watch industry from the passage? |
| A. It targets rich people as its potential customers. B. It's hard for the industry to beat its competitors. C. It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising. D. It’s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches. |
| 4. Which would be the best title for the passage? |
| A. Timex or Rolex? B. My Childhood Timex C. Watches? Not for Me! D. Watches—a Valuable Collection |
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| Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world.Women's education may be an unusual field for economists, but increasing women's contribution to development is actually as much an economic issue as a social one. And economics, with its focus on incentives(鼓励), provides an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of(剥夺)an education. Parents in low income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else' s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy(预言)becomes self fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle(恶性循环)of neglect. An educated mother, on the other hand,has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle. Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits.But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 percent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant effect on health practices, including family planning. |
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