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It seems that some people are not satisfied with _____ the earth. That’s why they want to live on Mars.
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Though he has suffered from cancer for so many years, it is so strange that he has ______ to the present day.
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“... she felt the strange beast that had slumbered so long within her bosom stir, stretch itself...” In this sentence, the “strange beast” symbolizes Vera’s strong desire to conquer.
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4 A Oh, no! That’s the phone again!B Do you ____ me to answer it?
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Ellen suggests that they record Titannic so that they can watch it...
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it’s not just one of us who’ve felt the heavy hand of interference. Oh, no, all
three of us live in constant dread knowing that at any time disaster can
strike.
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It&39;s so calorie-dense that it&39;s very difficult for average people to burn off all the calories they consume in a day when sugar is a major com______ of their diet.
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◑Why does the professor say this:◑She is concerned that no one can understand her.◑She knows that the theories can seem strange at first.◑There is no more time to review the material.◑She wants to apologize for discussing an emotional topi
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It is strange that he______so.
A．would say
B．would speak
C．should say
D．will speak
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It’s an activity when the target language is used by the learner for communication purpose （goal） in order to achieve an outcome that can be shared with others. Learners are meaning what they are sayi
A、Grammar Translation MethoD
B、Task-based Learning Approach
C、Audio-lingual MethoD
D、Total Response MethoD
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听力原文：W: I sold the idea to the bosses by refusing to take no for an answer. It was tough at first, but they finally agreed that it was a good idea.
M: Yes, I believe the key to salespeople is not accepting your first refusal.
Q: What does the man say about salespeople？
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A．Salespeople must be persistent.
B．Salespeople don't sell enough.
C．Salespeople sell too much.
D．Salespeople are inconsiderate.
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The men who race the cars are generally small,with a tight, nervous look.They range from the early 20s to the middle 40s, and it is usually their nerves that go first.
Fear is the driver's constant companion, and tragedy can be just a step behind.Scarcely a man in the 500 does not carry the scars of ancient crashes.The mark of the plastic surgeon is everywhere, and burned skin is common.Sometimes a driver's scars are invisible, part of his heritage.Two young drivers, Billy Vukovich and Gary Bettenhausen, raced in their first 500 in 1968.Less than 20 years before, their fathers also competed against one another on the Indy track-and died there.All this the drivers accept.Over the years, they have learned to trust their own techniques, reflexes, and courage.They depend, too, on a trusted servant-scientific engineering.Though they may not have had a great deal of schooling(an exception is New Zealand's Bruce McLaren, who has an engineering degree), many drivers are gifted mechanics, with a feeling for their engines that amount to kinship.A few top drivers have become extremely wealthy, with six-figure incomes from prize money, endorsements, and jobs with auto-product manufacturers.Some have businesses of their own.McLaren designs racing chassis(底盘).Dan Gurney's California factory manufactured the chassis of three of the first four ears in the 1968 Indy 500, including his own second place car.Yet money is not the only reason why men race cars.Perhaps it isn't even the major reason.Three-time Indy winner(1961,1964,1967)A.J.Foyt, for example, can frequently be found competing on dirty tracks in minor-league races, where money, crowds and safety features are limited, and only the danger is not.Why does he do it？ Sometimes Foyt answers, "It's in my blood." Other times he says, "It's good practice." Now and then he replies, "Don't ask dumb questions."
1.The statement "it is usually their nerves that go first" means ________.
A.at first they all have a nervous look
B.they often find they can't bear the tension even if they are in good condition
C.someday they find they can't make responses to any risk
D.they can continue their career at most until the middle 40s
2.It can be inferred that a car accident is often coupled with ________.
A.a plastic surgeon
B.a companion
C.a risk
D.a fire
3.The invisible scars of the drivers mentioned in the second paragraph refers to ________.
A.the regrets left by their fathers
B.the fears left by their fathers
C.the cars left by their fathers
D.the heritage left by their fathers
4.Bruce McLaren is different from most of the drivers in that ________.
A.he himself designs chassis
B.he has an engineering degree
C.he manufactures chassis
D.he is a gifted mechanic
5.A.J.Foyt often takes part in minor-league races for ________.
A.prize money
B.blood test
C.cheers from the crowd
D.Enjoyment
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Many continue to believe that it ’ s not possible for them to become brainwashed without their knowledge. “ I hit the mute button during commercials, ” they say. Or, “ I digitally record my shows bef
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It's strange that she _____ in the exam.
A．A.failed
B．B.fails
C．C.should have failed
D．D.had failed
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It doesn't matter when or how long a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That's what all doctors' thought, until they heard about Jercy Page. Jercy Page, it was said, never slept. Could this be true.'？ The doctors decided to see this strange man by themselves.
Jercy Page was ninety years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw Jercy Page sleeping. Actually, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.
The only rest that Jercy Page got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Page remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason？ No one could be sure.
The main idea of this passage is that ______.
A．large numbers of people do not need sleep
B．a person was found who actually didn't need any sleep
C．everyone needs some sleep to stay alive
D．people can live longer by trying not to sleep
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It is implied at the end of the passage that highly original individuals feel isolated because they’s__________.
A. fail to acknowledge and use an acceptable form. of communication.
B. actually differ from other individuals in the same period.
C. have little in common with the society of the time.
D. refuse to admit parallels between themselves and tbe society.
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Why is it considered strange that there are so many shy people？
A．Because it is considered by psychologists to be an undesirable trait.
B．Because it is not a trait associated with social animals.
C．Because our ancestors were not shy, so we should be like them.
D．Because shy people could not have survived in early human society.
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Man&39;s first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it. The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature-no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then, did man come to invent the wheel？ Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the carcass of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.
It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected, at their centers by a string stick. This would roll along just as the logs did, yet be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and axle came into being and with them the first carts.
1、The wheel is important because__________.
A.it was man’s first real invention
B.all transportation depends on it
C.every machine depends on it
D.both B and C
It was remarkable of man to invent the wheel because__________.A.it led to .many other inventions
B.man had no use for it then
C.there were no wheels in nature
D.all of the above
The wheel was probably invented by__________.A.a group of early hunters
B.the first men on earth
C.a great prehistoric thinker
D.the man who made the first cart
The wheel is called__________.A.simple
B.complicated
C.strange
D.unusual
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！
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It seems strange that in the past ten years Mike and I might just as well have been in different worlds.
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Life on land probably began about 430 million years ago, though it has existed in the water for perhaps much as 3 000 million years. When we think of the first life on land, we probably think of strange animals coming out of the oceans, but, in fact, no animals could have been living if plants had not been on land first. Plants had to be on land before animals arrived. They supplied the first land animals with the surrounding and food necessary, since the plants are the only form. of life that
is able to get and store energy.
The first plants to exist out of the water were probably certain kinds of algae (海藻) which were followed by other plants that grew close to the ground and needed water in which to reproduce. Once their move to land had been made, however, evolution (进化) took place quickly. By the end of 100 million years, plants had developed their roots (根), and some had got tree-like forms since height was very important in gaining sunlight. About 300 million years ago, much of the world was covered with forests of huge trees. In most ways they were like modern trees. They had loots, leaves, wood, but mostly they had not developed seeds.
The main idea of the first paragraph is ______.
A．life on land probably began about 430 years ago
B．the first animal on land came from oceans
C．there wouldn't be animals without plants
D．plants are the only form. of life that is able to get and store energy
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I'm in Paris, and a strangely quiet Paris it is. Nothing is going nowhere. If they're not on strike here, they're stuck in a traffic jam. It took me two hours to go two miles yesterday evening. And this morning many of the taxis, too, have joined in, leaving me with no alternative but to start walking. And it' s bitterly cold!
The strikes are serious protests about serious issues, but I'm struck, as so often on these occasions, by something much more mundane. People are once again talking to people; strangers are going out of their way to befriend strangers, allies for a week or two in their shared frustration. Parisian motorists, even, normally the most competitive of individualists, have been seen leaving notes in their parked cars saying where they are going and when they expect to leave in case anymore wants a lift.
Remove the technology of modem life, it seems, and we often start to be nice to one another again. Technology can isolate us, for all its benefits. It started, I guess, with the chimney. Before there were chimneys, we all had to huddle together in one room Just to keep warm, master and maid, cowman and son of the house. Then some unknown genius came up with the idea of the chimney, and the social stratification of society increased dramatically as all withdrew into their own quarters. Central heating, which is, more truthfully, decentralized heating, made it worse, and now we have our walkmans, our microwaves, or, if we' re really trendy, the Internet and e-mail. You can get by, these days, without actually speaking to anyone at all. Just the odd grunt to show that you' re alive !
I liked the survey which asked teenagers how they laid a table for a meal. Did they put the knife on the fight and the fork on the left, or did they put them both together？ And 40 percent said one and 20 percent the other, but 40 percent didn't know! They had never sat down at a table together but had always, as they say, been grazers, helping themselves from the fridge and carrying the food off to their own comer to munch on their own.
If progress means that we don' t need to talk to each other anymore, then I'm getting worried. You can' t begin to love and befriend your neighbors if you never talk to them, and vice versa, they can't love you. It becomes a recipe for a world of solitaries. But most of us weren't destined to be hermits. People need people to be truly people, as the Parisians, in spite of all their frustrations, are discovering again this week. "Try walking instead" was my motto for this morning, but perhaps the motto for us all this festive month might be "Turn it off, whatever it is, and try talking instead!"
According to the author, the advent of modem technology may NOT______.
A．isolate us from the test of the society.
B．enable us to enjoy a much more convenient life.
C．leave people alone so that they may become truly people.
D．help people become grazers who are used to helping themselves from the fridge and carrying the food off to their own comer to munch on their own.
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阅读理解 I’m John. This is my brother Jack. This is our room. This is my backpack. It’s on the bed.阅读理解 I’m John. This is my brother Jack. This is our room. This is my backpack. It’s on the bed. That’shis back pack. It’s on the chair. His computer gameis on it. Where’s my computer gameIs it on the chair, too No, it isn’t. It’s under it! Our computer is on thedesk. An alarm clock is next to it. Our booksaren’t on the desk. They’re in the bookcase. It’snext to the bed. 根据短文内容 ,判断下列句子的正 （）5. The books are in the bookcase.
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The idea that "parents don't matter"— shorthand for the view that how parents treat their children has no effect on the kids' behavior, values, achievements and other outcomes—just won't go away. I can【62】believe it's been more than 10 years since I wrote about the【63】claim that only genes and peers【64】children; once parents contribute an egg or sperm, they have no effect on how their kids【65】
So I was【66】by what's being called "the largest meta-analysis ever conducted on the association between parenting styles and delinquency (犯罪，尤指青少年). " The meta. analysis, in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, looked at 161 published and unpublished studies【67】the question, and found that how well parents【68】their children, whether they expressed rejection or hostility, and a number of other【69】indeed had an effect.
What's particularly interesting is the【70】of the effect. An association can be statistically significant without being【71】significant; that is, there can be true cause-and-effect, but a tiny effect. Not so in this case.【72】kids for good behavior. had an effect size of 11%, for instance; not huge, but not tiny (it means that 11% of the difference between kids' levels of delinquency is due to whether their parents rewarded them for good behavior, something that reduces delinquency). Being authoritative also【73】delinquency, again with an effect size of 11%,【74】being authoritarian (独裁) increased delinquency, with an effect size of 12%. Put the two together and being authoritarian as opposed to authoritative【75】for a swing of 23%. Physical【76】and verbal aggression also were associated with more delinquency.
The "parents don't matter" school might【77】that little delinquents-to-be bring out the worst in parents, who turn authoritarian. It is the kids'【78】tendencies that cause later delinquency, according to this argument, not how parents【79】. The【80】with this claim is the many studies showing that whether you are an authoritarian or an authoritative parent "is most often determined before your first kid is even born, and is highly【81】upon your own experience of discipline.., and your general political/personality orientation," as clinical psychologist Nestor Lopez-Duran wrote.
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A．nearly
B．hardly
C．truly
D．mainly
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It is necessary that those computer-controlled motors to generate force feedback be made as small as possible because they have to be put on the user&39;s body.
