【題目】—Waiter, ____?
—Wait a minute, sir. That’s $ 80 altogether.
A. would you charge me
B. how much did we eat
C. may I have the bill, please?
D. would you take the money
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【題目】Britain's most popular lie has been disclosed, with one in four people admitting using “sorry I had no signal" when returning a missed mobile phone call, a survey found.
Researchers found the average Briton tells on average four lies every day or almost 1500 every year.Almost one in six men admitted they were most likely to lie to their wife or girlfriend, on average at least twice a day.The most popular lie was saying you had no mobile phone signal, with one in four people admitting regularly using the little white lie.It usually came after they hit the “ignore" button when their mobile rang.
Three quarters of people think women are better liars.The research found 46 per cent of girls have been caught lying, compared to 58 of men.
The second most common fib is “I haven't got any cash on me” when asked for money by beggars and Big Issue sellers.“Nothing's wrong – I'm fine” came third followed by “You look lovely” and “Nice to see you”.
Modern technology turned out to have contributed to many lies with “I didn't get your text” in 18th, “Our server was down” in 20th and “My battery died” in 26th place.Other lies to make the top ten included “I'll give you a ring”, “We're just good friends” and “We'll have to meet up soon”.“I'm on my way” and “No, your bum doesn't look big in that” completed the top ten.
In many cases perhaps it is better to delight someone with a fib than destroy someone with the truth, according to a spokesman for One Poll, which carried out the research of 4,300 adults.He added: ‘As a nation we just like trying to be nice and not upsetting people.Often little white lies can cover what we actually want to say.Most of these were considered completely harmless.’
【1】“You look lovely” and “Sorry, I had no signal” ranked __________ on the popular-lie list.
A.fourth and tenth B.fourth and first
C.third and tenth D.third and first
【2】What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 mean?
A.sentence B.expression
C.excuse D.lie
【3】How many lies does an average Briton tell on average every month?
A.About 120 B.About 360
C.About 1,500 D.About 4
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【題目】Do you still remember the museum _____ we visited three months ago?
A. where B. when C. which D. what
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【題目】A light drizzle (小雨) was falling as my sister Jill and I ran out of the Methodist Church, eager to get home and play with the presents that Santa had left for us and our baby sister, Sharon. the street from the church was a gas station. It was for Christmas, but I noticed a standing outside the locked door, huddled(擠在一起) under the narrow overhang in an attempt to keep . I wondered briefly why they were there but then about them as I raced to keep up with Jill.
Once we got home, there was barely time to our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents’ house for our Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was there, standing outside the closed gas station.
My father was driving very slowly down the highway. The closer we got to the turnoff for my grandparents’ house, the the car went. , my father U-turned in the middle of the road and said, “I can’t it!”
“What?” asked my mother.
“It’s those people back there at the gas station, standing in the . They’ve got . It’s Christmas.”
When my father into the service station, I saw that there were five of them: the parents and three children — two girls and a small boy.
My father down his window. “Merry Christmas. You are on the bus?” my father asked.
The man said that they . They were going to Birmingham, where they would have a family .
“Well, that bus isn’t going to come along for several hours and you’re getting standing here. Why don’t you all get in the car and I’ll 60 you up there.”
【1】A. Across B. Over C. Through D. Past
【2】A. checked B. kept C. closed D. opened
【3】A. man B. family C. group D. team
【4】A. active B. close C. warm D. dry
【5】A. talked B. forgot C. cared D. wondered
【6】A. enjoy B. touch C. count D. collect
【7】A. grand B. pleasant C. rich D. annual
【8】A. forever B. still C. already D. always
【9】A. slower B. faster C. farther D. closer
【10】A. Actually B. Quickly C. Suddenly D. Naturally
【11】A. understand B. miss C. control D. stand
【12】A. wind B. outside C. rain D. cold
【13】A. luggage B. trouble C. children D. worries
【14】A. hurried B. turned C. pushed D. pulled
【15】A. rolled B. took C. pressed D. forced
【16】A. catching B. waiting C. expecting D. riding
【17】A. did B. had C. have D. were
【18】A. plan B. celebration C. reunion D. party
【19】A. anxious B. wet C. lost D. helpless
【20】A. run B. send C. help D. find
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【題目】目前,越來越多的中學生利用周末上各種各樣的輔導班或是請家教,請根據(jù)以下表格所提供的信息寫一篇短文,并談談自己的觀點。
有必要 | 沒必要 |
跟老師學比自學好 鞏固課堂所學 學到更多東西 | 易對老師形成依賴 學生需要休息 輔導班以營利為目的 |
注意事項:
1. 條理清晰、語意連貫,不要逐字逐句翻譯;
2. 詞數(shù):120詞左右;
3. 參考詞匯:strengthen vt. 鞏固
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【題目】The family sphere(范圍) used to be defined by its isolation from the public realm. There was the public male realm(領域)of "rational accomplishment" and cruel competition, and the private female and child-rearing sphere of home, intuition(直覺)and emotion. The private realm was supposed to be isolated from the realities of adult life. For both better and worse, television and other electronic media tend to break down the difference between those two worlds. The membrane around the family sphere is much more permeable(可滲透的). TV takes public events and transforms them into dramas that are played out in the privacy of our living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms.
Parents used to be the channel through which children learned about the outside world. They could decide what to tell their children and when to tell it to them. Since children learn to read in stages, books provide a kind of natural screening process, where adults can decide what to tell and not tell children of different reading abilities. Television destroyed the system that separated adult from child knowledge and separated information into year-by-year slices for children of different ages. Instead, it presents the same information directly to children of all ages, without going through adult filters.
So television presents a real challenge to adults. While a parent can read a newspaper without sharing it with children in the same room, television is accessible to everyone in that space. And unlike books, television doesn't allow us to flip(翻轉)through it and see what's coming up. We may think we're giving our children a lesson in science by having them watch the Challenger take off, and then suddenly they learn about death, disaster and adult mistakes.
Books allow adults to discuss privately what to tell or not tell children. This also allows parents to keep adult material secret from children and keep their secret keeping secret. Take that same material and put it on The Today Show and you have 800,000 children hearing the very things the adults are trying to keep from them. "Television takes our kids across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the street."
More importantly, children gradually learn that adults are worried and anxious about being parents. Actually, television has also places families under a lot of stress.
How Television Changes Childhood?
Main comparisons | Contexts | |
Distance between __【1】_and the outside. | Homes used to be isolated from the ____【2】__realm. | |
Homes nowadays are __【3】_to the outside world. | ||
Media through which children can obtain information | In the past, children might learn __【4】__about the outside world with the help of parents and ___【5】___. | |
More information is got directly through TV and other electronic media, which breaks down the __【6】___ between adult world and the child world. | ||
___【7】___ of the information children get | Traditionally, kids could only knew what they should learn at their age, carefully___【8】__by their parents. | |
Everything can possibly be known by children, including many aspects of __【9】__ life. | ||
Effects on family education | ||
Parental instruction | Families are now under greater stress than before. Adults are anxious about being parents and faced with new __【10】_____. | |
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【題目】Barack Obama, Lady Gaga and Steve Jobs—what do they have in common? They are, of course, all Americans. And according to a survey by social networking site badoo. com, they all best illustrate(舉例說明) the word “cool”.
But just what does it mean to say someone is “cool”? Most would answer that it is something to do with being independent-minded and not following the crowd.
Yale University art professor Robert Farris Thompson says that the term “cool” goes back to 15th century West African philosophy(哲學). “Cool” relates to ideas of grace(優(yōu)雅) under pressure.
“In Africa, ” he writes, “coolness is a positive quality which combines calmness, silence, and life. ”
The modern idea of “cool” developed largely in the US in the period after World War Ⅱ. “Post-war ‘cool’ was in part an expression of war-weariness (厭戰(zhàn)情緒) . . . it went against the strict social rules of the time, ” write sociologists Dick Pountain and David Robins in Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude.
But it was the American actor James Dean who became the symbol for “cool” in the hugely successful 1955 movie Rebel without a Cause. Dean plays a tough guy who disobeys his parents and the authorities(權威). He always gets the girl, smokes cigarettes, wears a leather jacket and beats up bullies(欺凌弱小者). In the movie, Dean showed what “cool” would mean to American young people for the next 60 years.
Today the focus of “cool” has changed to athletics (體育運動) stars. Often in movies about schools, students gain popularity on th athletics field more than in the classroom. This can be seen quite clearly in movies like Varsity Blues and John Tucker Must Die.
But many teenagers also think being smart is cool. Chess and other thinking games have been becoming more popular in schools.
“Call it the Harry Potterization of America —a time when being smart is the new cool, ” writes journalist Joe Sunnen.
【1】Barack Obama, Lady Gaga and Steve Jobs are mentioned in the first paragraph to ________.
A. introduce the topic
B. draw our attention
C. tell us what they have in common
D. tell us what is “cool”
【2】If you were considered “cool” in Africa in the 15th century, you ________.
A. thought and acted differently from the majority
B. had a calm and quiet attitude towards life
C. didn’t observe rules and authorities
D. had all kinds of “bad” manners
【3】The heroes in Varsity Blues and John Tucker Must Die are likely to be those who ________.
A. do very well in their studies
B. are very skilled at sports
C. are good at chess and other thinking games.
D. have supernatural powers like Harry Potter
【4】Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?
A. It is generally considered “cool” to be independent-minded and not to follow the crowd.
B. “Cool” was used as early as the 15th century.
C. Disobeying one’s parents and the authorities is considered “cool” among American young people nowadays.
D. Getting the first place in an exam can also be considered “cool”.
【5】What does the article mainly talk about?
A. The origin of the word “cool”.
B. The kinds of people who are “cool”.
C. The changing meaning of the word “cool”.
D. How to be a “ cool” person.
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【題目】My family moved from Taiwan to a small town in central Georgia,where my dad got a visa for his family and a job. I had just learned English,and from what little I could gather from my classmates,Santa Claus would come down one’s chimney(煙囪) and put toys in one’s stocking on Christmas Eve! What a great country,I thought.After I looked up “stocking” in my Chinese-English dictionary,I knew what I had to do.
On that fateful night,after everyone went to bed,I took my longest,cleanest knee sock and attached it to a nail already on the mantel(壁爐).Obviously,the previous owners of this house were no strangers to this Santa character.
I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ran to the fireplace.To make a sob story short,I was hit with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told. I burst into tears,quickly took down the sock,and stuffed it in the back of a drawer.Santa was dead.
Every December since then,the topic of Christmas memories would unavoidably come up,and I would amuse my friends with my poor-little-me story.I had to make it as funny as possible,or else I would cry.
How could I know that Santa was just late? Nine years ago,on Christmas Eve,an older man with a white beard and a red cap knocked on my front door.He said,“I’ve been looking for you for twenty-five years.” He handed me a bulging red stocking,winked,and left.On top of the stocking was a card. It read: “For Becky—I may have missed you in the second grade,but you’ve always lived in my heart.Santa.”
Through tear-blurred eyes,I recognized the handwriting of Jill,a friend I had met just two months before.I later discovered that the older man was her father.Jill had seen the hurt little girl underneath the thirty-something woman and decided to do something about it.
So now I believe that Santa is real.I don’t mean the twinkle-eyed character of children’s mythology(神話) or the creation of American holiday marketers.Those Santas annoy and sadden me.I believe in the Santa Claus that live inside good and thoughtful people.This Santa does not return to the North Pole after a crazy delivery but lives each day purposefully,really listens to friends,and then plans deliberate acts of kindness.
【1】What does the underlined part “what I had to do” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Waiting for Santa Claus.
B. Putting a stocking on the mantel.
C. Asking for gifts from her parents.
D. Looking up “stocking” in the dictionary
【2】It can be inferred from the passage that the author’s parents ____.
A. didn’t love their child at all
B. didn’t know the previous owners of the house
C. didn’t know much about Christmas tradition
D. didn’t have enough money to buy the author Christmas presents
【3】When the author told her friends about the story,she felt ______in her heart.
A. proud B. amusing C. hate D. regret
【4】By writing the passage,the author speaks highly of ________
A. friendship
B. parenting
C. religion
D. culture
【5】The author of the passage is probably ________.
A. a teenager
B. a primary school student
C. a middle-aged woman
D. a native American
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【題目】There is a saying that ______, “Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for the rest of his life.”
A. go B. went C. goes D. is going
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