| 完形填空 I heard a story about two workers who were interviewed by a reporter.The reporter asked the first worker,"What are you doing?" His __1__ was to __2__ that he was almost a slave,an underpaid bricklayer who spent his days __3__his time,placing bricks on the __4__of one another. The reporter asked the second worker the same question.His response,__5__,was quite different."I'm the __6__ person in the world," he said."I get to be a part of important and beautiful pieces of architecture; I help turn simple pieces of brick into fine and delicate masterpieces." They were both __7__.The truth is,we see in life what we want to see.If you search for __8__,you'll find __9__of it.If you want to find __10__ with other people,your career,or the world in general,you'll certainly be able to do so and find life is unfair to you always. But the __11__ is also true.If you look for the extraordinary in the __12__,you can train yourself to see it.The question is,can you? Can you see extraordinary things that exist in our world,the extraordinary beauty of nature and the incredible miracle of human life? There is so much to be __13__ for,so much to respect. Life is precious and extraordinary.__14__ your attention on this fact and little,ordinary things will __15__ on a whole new meaning. | ||||
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| 语法填空 We arrived at Chiang Mai at 9 p. m.It wasn't 1.________two days later that we were able to take a closer look at Thai elephants.2.________our stay there,we visited the Measa Elephant Camp,some 20 minutes' drive from the city center.The camp,3.________ stands aside a rushing river in a lush tropical valley,is the home of 78 elephants.When we arrived there in the early morning,many black elephants,some with creamy white tusks,4.________(enjoy) their daily bath in the river. At Measa,we were amazed by the elephants' 5.________(astonish) skills.They could not only play football and 6.________harmonica (口琴),but also paint incredibly wonderful pictures with 7.________ trunks.Little wonder then that Bangkok's little elephant accomplished the feat (技艺) vividly 8.________(describe) in the primary school textbook. At the end of the Thailand tour,everybody in the group seemed to be attracted by these elephants as all of 9.________rushed to purchase elephant sculptures,toys,ornaments and Tshirts.I was no 10.________(except). The elephantpendant (坠饰) key chains I bought turned out to be popular gifts for my colleagues. |
| 阅读理解 Across the United States,there are several places where two independent towns grew together to become one citybut kept both their names. WinstonSalem is one of them.It's a midsized city in what's called the plateau(high land),between the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North Carolina.The Winston part is a relatively new place,founded early this century.It's home to the nation's biggest openair tobacco market. The giant R．J.Reynolds Tobacco Company's headquarters is in WinstonSalem,and Winston is the name of one of Reynolds' bestknown cigarette brands.Fastgrowing Winston soon surrounded the much older town of Salem,so in 1913,people in the area voted to combine them into a single place. From a historical and tourist point of view,Salem,or Old Salem,as it's called today,is the interesting and unusual part of town. Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians.They spoke German,and their community was religiously based,with single men and single women living apart in separate dormitories.The Moravians greatly valued women's work and brainpower.In fact,one of the nation's oldest boarding schools for young womenthe Moravians' Salem Academy founded in 1772－is still in operation. Over the years,Salem lost its Moravian character.That all changed,though,when a nonprofit group began to rehabilitate the historic area.These days Old Salem is what's called a living history museum,with exhibits,music,and tours of 18thcentury houses,taverns and Moravian dormitory buildings just seven blocks from the tallest skyscraper in WinstonSalem. The historic community is booming again.Just as R．J.Reynolds is taking in millions of dollars making cigarettes across town,Old Salem is generating about D|S15 million a year in tourism revenue and donations. 1. From the passage we can know that________. A. WinstonSalem is the name of a city B. Salem is home to the tobacco market C. the city WinstonSalem has two names D. Old Salem is the name of a tobacco brand 2. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that________. A. the two cities benefited each other B. Salem developed faster than Winston C. R.J.Reynolds Company has moved into Salem D. the combination meets the wishes of the people 3. The city Salem is special for its________. A. boarding school B. lifestyle and tradition C. respect for brainpower D. religious belief 4. The underlined word "rehabilitate" in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to "________"． A. reconstruct B. evaluate C. enlarge D. decorate 5. What will probably be talked about in the following part? A. Some other attractions in WinstonSalem. B. How Winston makes profits from tourism. C. Other examples of cities combined by two parts. D. Something about the boarding school for women. |
| 阅读理解 Watch out,Yahoo.There's a search engine out there with super speed and accuracy.It's really cool. Google is the Web's largest search engine.In just two years it has gained a reputation for surprising speed and accuracy,delivering exactly what you're looking for in a second.The site now does this 40 million times a day-a number achieved without spending a penny on a TV or newspaper ad. Google doesn't need them.In the past six months alone,the site has won a Webby(the online version of the Oscar) for technical excellence,set a new record for search engines by indexing a billion Web pages. Yahoo still has 10 times the audience,but Google consistently ranks first in customer satisfaction: 97% of users find what they're looking for most or all of the time."You see people smile when they use it,like they've found something no one else knows about," says Danny Sullivan,editor of an online newsletter. No one is smiling more than Larry Page,27,and Sergey Brin,26,who seem certain to become billionaires when the company goes public,probably sometime next year.They make a great comedy duo.When they first met as Ph.D.students,the pair say,they found each other horrible－"I still find him horrible," adds Brin-but were driven together by a computerscience project aimed at coming up with better ways of searching the Web. The idea behind Google is that traditional search engines are stupid.They think relevance is based on repetition: if you type in a request for Tiger Woods,say,you'll get websites listed according to how many times those words appear.Not only is this no guarantee of quality,but it's also open to abuse.If you own a Tiger fan site and want to lead more people to it,simply type his name thousands of times in the site's source code. 1. The first paragraph serves to________. A. compare two websites B. bring out the topic C. put blame on Yahoo D. give the background of the topic 2. What does the underlined word "them" in the third paragraph refer to? A. 40 million times. B. Achievements. C. TV and newspaper ads. D. Web pages. 3. Which of the following wins greater customer satisfaction? A. Yahoo. B. Google. C. Page. D. Brin. 4. It can be inferred that Page and Brin________. A. work for Google B. are Tiger fans C. hated each other D. work for Yahoo 5. We can learn from the last paragraph that________. A. Google is open to abuse B. Google remains a traditional search engine C. Google thinks relevance is based on repetition D. Google is better than traditional search engines 6. 用30词左右概括文章大意 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |