| —Daddy, look! Why ________ rainbow is like a bow? —Oh, it is apologizing to ________ angry sky. |
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| What he says makes no ________ to me. |
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| A. care B. sense C. interest D. meaning |
| With water ________ constantly, the brave soldier jumped into the river to save the drowning villager. |
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| A. to rise B. rising C. risen D. rose |
| —Can you work out the problem? —I can't ________ you explain how to do it. |
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| A. but for B. except C. apart from D. unless |
| The State Council has ________ a new economic policy on the benefits of the farmers. |
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| A. put up B. put forward C. put off D. put out |
| The best way ________ spoken English is to speak more every day. |
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| A. of learning B. to learning C. in learning D. about learning |
| I feel it is your husband who ________ for the spoiled child. |
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| A. is to blame B. is going to blame C. is to be blamed D. should blame |
| ________ he came in, I recognized him. |
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| A. The moment B. Shortly C. Soon D. Before long |
| You should read the ________ in the car repair manual(手册) carefully before you start. |
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| A. instructions B. constructions C. introductions D. explanations |
| The Prime Minister ________ by saying that he was satisfied with his visit in China. |
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| A. concluded B. conducted C. considered D. confused |
| Don't stop ________ you meet with a word you don't understand. |
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| A. at the time B. each time C. by the time D. sometimes |
| The police are searching everywhere for Mr.James, who they think is________ to the crime. |
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| A. linked B. worried C. united D. mixed |
| ________of being involved in the attempted murder, she was questioned by the police. |
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| A. Convinced B. Suspected C. Charged D. Confirmed |
| ________ you eat the correct foods________ be able to keep fit and stay healthy. |
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| A. Only if;will you B. Only if;you will C. Unless; will you D. Unless;you will |
| —Mom, I'm so tired. I can't walk any further. —________, my dear. You can make it. |
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| A. Come on B. No worry C. That's impossible D. No problem |
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| Les Paul is one of the most influential people in modern popular music. He was a skillful guitarist who played an energetic mixture of jazz and country songs. He was also an inventor. The electric guitar and recording devices he created changed the sound of popular music and greatly influenced rock and roll. Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solidbody electric guitars and the eighttrack recording device. He also perfected new recording methods to give special effects to his music. Les Paul was born Lester William Polfuss (POLLfuss)in 1915 in Waukesha, (WAHkuhshaw)Wisconsin. By the age of nine, he had taught himself to play the harmonica and had built a radio. He also learned to play the guitar and banjo. He could not read music, but he could play music that he heard. And he had a good sense of musical structure. Les Paul was soon performing in country bands in the Midwest. He left high school to perform full time on radio shows. He performed using the names "The Wizard of Waukesha", "Hot Rod Red" and "Rhubarb Red". He also started playing music influenced by great jazz guitarists including Django Reinhardt. By 1937, he had formed the Les Paul trio. He moved to New York City the next year. Les Paul played with many famous performers including the popular singer Bing Crosby. Around 1941, Les Paul invented his famous guitar. He wanted to make an instrument that could play a note longer than notes played on a traditional acoustic guitar. He developed a new kind of electric guitar that had a solid body. On an acoustic guitar, the strings vibrate and the hollow part of the instrument, or the sound box, also vibrates. Les Paul wanted an instrument in which only the strings vibrated. In the 1970s, Les Paul made two records with the country guitarist Chet Atkins. One was called " Chester and Lester". It won a Grammy Award in 1976. Starting in the early 1980s, Paul began playing in jazz clubs in New York City. He kept on performing weekly until a few months before his death. |
| 1. Which of the following shows the right order of Les Paul's experience? a. He moved to New York. b. He had taught himself to play the harmonica. c. He performed full time on radio shows. d. He began playing in jazz clubs in New York City. e. He invented his famous guitar. |
| A. abcde B. bcade C. bcdea D. bcaed |
| 2. According to the passage, the author develops the passage ________. |
| A. in order of time B. in order of importance C. by giving examples D. by listing reasons |
| 3. Which of the following best describes Les Paul? |
| A. He is a creative man. B. He is a lazy man. C. He is a naughty man. D. He is a crazy man. |
| 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? |
| A. He influenced Django Reinhardt. B. He had no good sense of musical structure. C. He could play and read music when he was a child. D. He made two records with Chet Atkins in the 1970s. |
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| John and Mary had a nice home and two lovely children, a boy and a girl. John had a good __1__ and had just been asked to go on a business trip to another city and it was __2__ that Mary needed an outing and would go along too. They __3__ a reliable woman to care for the children and made the __4__, returning home a little earlier than they had planned. __5__ they drove into their home town, they found a home in flames. Mary said, "Oh well, it isn't our fire; let's go home." __6__ John drove closer and exclaimed (惊叫), "That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn't be __7__ work yet. Maybe there is something we could do." John drove up and they were both __8__ to see the whole house in flames. A woman on the lawn was in hysterics __9__, "The children! Get the children! They are in the basement." __10__ Mary's protests (反对), John grabbed the water hose and soaked (浸湿)his clothes, put his wet handkerchief on his head and __11__ for the basement which was full of __12__. He found two nearly suffocated (窒息的)children and after carrying them to safety, he asked how many more children were __13__ there. They told him two more and Mary __14__ his arm and screamed, "John! Don't go back! It's __15__! That house will cave in any second!" But he shook her off and went back by __16__ his way down the smokefilled hallway and into the room. It __17__ a long time before he found both children and started back and at last when they came out into the__18__ and fresh air, he found that he had just __19__ his own children. It turned out that the babysitter had __20__ them at this home while she did some shopping. | |||
| ( )1. A.job ( )2. A.known ( )3. A.asked ( )4. A.preparations ( )5. A.Before ( )6. A.And ( )7. A.off ( )8. A.heart-broken ( )9. A.coughing ( )10. A.Apart from ( )11. A.reached ( )12. A.smoke ( )13. A.up ( )14. A.pulled ( )15. A.dangerous ( )16. A.pushing ( )17. A.meant ( )18. A.shade ( )19. A.helped ( )20. A.left |
B. family B. believed B. hired B. promise B. As B. So B. on B. conscience-stricken B. screaming B. In case of B. searched B. darkness B. away B. took B. useless B. feeling B. spared B. sunlight B. found B. charged |
B. family B. believed B. hired B. promise B. As B. So B. on B. conscience-stricken B. screaming B. In case of B. searched B. darkness B. away B. took B. useless B. feeling B. spared B. sunlight B. found B. charged |
D. boss D. hoped D. reminded D. trip D. Since D. But D. at D. poverty-stricken D. weeping D. In spite of D. sent D. danger D. down D. held D. stupid D. moving D. seemed D. crowd D. rescued D. forgotten |