| — My cat's really fat. — You_______have given her too much food. |
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| A. wouldn't B. couldn't C. shouldn't D. mustn't |
| — I posted the letter a week ago. — Then they________the letter by now. It usually takes four days. |
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| A. can have received B. must have received C. would have received D. should have received |
| It has been suggested that the land ________ equally among the farmers. |
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| A. is shared B. should share C. be shared D. will be shared |
| Some people insisted that the person _____ a thief and insisted that he_________to the police station. |
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| A. was; be taken B. was; would be taken C. should be; should be taken D. be; be taken |
| ____ fired,your health care and other benefits will not be immediately cut off. |
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| A. Would you be B. Should you be C. Could you be D. Might you be |
| _______it rain tomorrow,we would have to put off the visit to the new bridge. |
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| A. Were B. Should C. Had D. Would |
| 用所给动词的适当形式填空 1. It's required that you____(start) before seven o'clock. 2. If only I_______(get)a good job in that company now. 3. The doctor ordered that she________(stay) in bed for a few days. 4. It's high time we_______(leave) for our hometown. 5. He speaks English as if he_________(study) it in England before． |
| What would have happened,_______, as far as the river bank? |
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| A. Bob had walked farther B. if Bob should walk farther C. had Bob walked farther D. if Bob walked farther |
| — I'm sorry I spent so much money, Dad ! — I wish you______so. |
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| A. hadn't done B. don't do C. haven't done D. wouldn't do |
| ________ here yesterday, he would attend the lecture with us today. |
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| A. Had he been B. If he were C. Were he D. Should he be |
| I__________sooner but I didn't know that they were waiting for me. |
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| A. had come B. was coming C. would come D. would have come |
| Frankly , I'd rather you ___________ anything about it for the time being. |
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| When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I could__1__ tough subjects and really Iearn something. One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he__2_ in class. When l took the first exam ,I was __3__ to find a 77 , C-plus , on my test paper, __4__ Fnglish was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne , who listened to my arguments but remained __5__ . I decided to try harder,although I didn't know what that __6__ because school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully,but got another 77. Again,I__7__ with Professor Jayne. Again , he listened patiently but wouldn't change his __8__. One more test before the final exam. One more__9__ to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and ,for the first time,__10__the meaning of the word" thorough". But my_11_did no good and everything _12__as before. The last hurdLe (障碍) was the final. No matter what _13_ got,it wouldn't cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the _14_ goodbye. I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final , I even _15_ myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I'd have __16_ with a test. A week later,l was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into Professor Jayne's office. He _17_ to be expecting me. " If I gave you the As you__18_,you wouldn't continue to work as hard. " I stared at him._19_ that his analysis and strategy (策略)were correct. I had worked my head _20 , as I had never done before I was speechless when my course grade arrived : A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I received my scholarship. I've always remembered Professor Jayne's lesson : you alone must set your own standard of excellence. | ||||
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| The Queen's English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen's Christmas broadcasts had found.Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received. Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany's University of Munich , wanted to discover whether accent (口音 ) changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. "As far as I know,there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records, " he said. He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音 ) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. "Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don't notice from year to year. " We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes, " he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. "In 1952 she would have been heard saying 'that men in the black hat ' . Now it would be ' that man in the black hat ' . Similarly, she would have spoken of ' the citay ' and ' dutay ' , rather than ' citee ' and ' dutee ' , and ' hame ' rather than 'home'. In the 1950s she would have been 'lorst', but by the 1970s 'lost'." The Queen's broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each Christmas, the l0-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 p. m. in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch(传统火鸡午餐 ) . The results were published (发表 ) in the Journal of Phonetics. |
| 1. The Queen's broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because________. |
| A. she has been Queen for many years B. she has a less upper-class accent now C. her speeches are familiar to many people D. her speeches have been recorded for 50 years |
| 2. Which of the following is an example of a less noble accen in English?____________ |
| A. dutay B. citee C. hame D. lorst |
| 3. We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on____________. |
| A. speech sounds B. Christmas customs C. TV broadcasting D. personal messages |
| 4. What is the text mainly about? ___________ |
| A. The relationship between accents and social classes. B. The Queen's Christmas speeches on TV. C. The changes in a person's accent. D. The recent development of the English language. |
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| I love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street.The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods , all at very good prices. You can get things you won't find in the shops any more. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet , but finding a new home for unwanted goods. The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity's appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations (捐赠物). They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal. Now there are over 7, 000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children's books, all 10 or 20 pence each. Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers , although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every moming you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don't encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open. The shops have very low running costs : all profits go to charity work . Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year ,funding (资助) medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children , homeless and disabled people , and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment. |
| 1. The author loves the charity shop mainly because of__________ . |
| A. its convenient location B. its great variety of goods C. its spirit of good will D. its nice shopping environment |
| 2. The first charity shop in the UK was set up to_________. |
| A. sell cheap products B. deal with unwanted things C. raise money for patients D. help a foreign country |
| 3. Which of the following is TRUE about charity shops? _________ |
| A. The operating costs are very low. B. The staff are usually well paid. C. 90% of the donations are second-hand. D. They are open twenty-four hours a day. |
| 4. Which of the following may be the best title for the passage? |
| A. What to Buy a Charity Shops B. Charity Shop : Its Origin & Development C. Charity Shop : Where You Buy to Donate D. The Public's Concern about Charity Shops |
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| A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools : Don't start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce (确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically these sleepyhead students aren't used to the early hour. " Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies, " says Mary Carskadon, a professor looking at problems of adolescent (青春期的) sleep at Brown's School of Medicine. Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And , at a more basic level, she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns. Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood , no less,as commonly thought. Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer to stay up later at night and sleep later in the morning. But it's not just a matter of choice-their bodies are going through a change of sleep patterns. All of this makes the transfer from middle school to high school-which may start one hour earlier in the morning-all the more difficult , Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the "sleep late , rise late" pattern, adolescents are up against difficulties when it comes to trying to be up by 5 0r 6 a. m. for a 7 : 30 a. m. first bell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their bodies' way of saying,"l need a timeout. " |
| 1. Carskadon suggests that high schools should not start classes so early in the morning because_______. |
| A. it is really tough for parents to enforce bedtime B. it is biologically difficult for students to rise early C. students work so late at night that they can't get up early D. students are so lazy that they don't like to go to school early |
| 2. The underlined phrase " nod off" ( Paragraph l) most probably means"__________". |
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| 3. What might be a reason for the hard transfer from middle school to high school? __________ |
| A. Adolescents depend more on their parents. B. Adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns. C. Adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood. D. Adolescents need more sleep than they used to. |
| 4. What is the text mainly about? _________ |
| A. Adolescent heath care. B. Problems in adolescent learning. C. Adolescent sleep difficulties. D. Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns. |
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| Topping the class academically was certainly an advantage. Studying was a breeze for Nigel. The reward was certainly incomparable to the little effort that he had to put it. It began when he was selected to help the teachers in the computer laboratories. The peak of his school career came not when he topped the school but when he was selected for the nationwide competition.Unlike everyone else, Nigel wanted to join the contest because he liked playing with the Lego sets and making something out of them. Nigel spent the next two months rebuilding the robot. It was during the time that Nigel found out about the prizes for the competition as well as another competitor, Alicia, from a neighboring school. His early intentions were forgotten. Getting the thousand-dollar prize was more important than anything else. Nigel decided to befriend Alicia.Unaware of his intentions, she told him all about the robot that she had been building for the competition. He even helped her to put the finishing touches to her robot. He was glad with the way things had progressed. His robot looked even better than Alicia's and it was able to bounce a ball with its arm , something Alicia had failed to do. On the day of the competition, he saw Alicia. Everything dawned on her the minute she saw him among the competition. She stared at him, puzzled at rirst, then angry and finally a look of helplessness came over her. The flashbulbs of the camera exploded in Nigel's face. The robot had performed actions so unique and different that the specialists' judgments were the same. Nigel was so personal with himself that he did not even notice the girl standing a few feet away from him. Without her,he would never have won the competition. |
| 1. What reward did Nigel receive for doing well in his school work?_________ |
| A. He was offered a part-time job. B. He was honored with a scholarship. C. He helped his teachers construct a robot. D. He helped in the computer laboratories. |
| 2. Nigel's original intention of joining the contest was to_________. |
| A. be the top student of the school B. being great honor to his school C. construct a robot with the Lego sets D. win the thousand-dollar prize |
| 3. Why did Nigel help Alicia finish her robot?___________ |
| A. He tried to make friends with her. B. He was fond of building robots. C. He intended to help her. D. He didn't want her to suspect him. |
| 4. What is the author's attitude towards Nigel's actions?_________ |
| A. He is mildly critical. B. He is strongly critical. C. He is in favor of them. D. His attitude is not clear. |
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| Celebrity (名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption (消费) on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product.Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don't sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a result , celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others' products to developing their own. Celebrity clothing lines aren't a completely new phenomenon,but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers ,and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they're started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands.The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale rapidly,covering almost all the products of daily life. However,for every success story , there's a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product's origin is ,if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the initial (最初的 ) attention dies down, consumer interest might fade , loyalty (忠诚) returning to tried-and-true labels. Today, celebrities face ever more severe embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity's shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego's (自我的 ) potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition,many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying goes ; success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashion-like celebrity-has always been temporary. |
| 1. Fashion magazines today_________. |
| A. seldom put models on the cover B. no longer put models on the cover C. need not worry about celebrities' market potential D. judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly |
| 2. A change in the consumer market can be found today that________. |
| A. price rather than brand name is more concerned B. producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements C. producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements D. quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned |
| 3. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly________ . |
| A. decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products B. damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public C. cut short the artistic career of a celebrity in show business D. influence the price of a celebrity's products |
| 4. The passage is mainly about___________. |
| A. celebrity and personal style B. celebrity and market potential C. celebrity and fashion design D. celebrity and clothing industry |
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The Thanksgiving Day____1____ (come) ;a school teacher asked her class of first graders to draw a |