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The old lady is quarrelling with others as if she（）mad.
A . was
B . is
C . are
D . were
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When she was told that her cat was killed by the neighbor’s dog, the old lady _____ tears.
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The policeman rushed into the room only ______ an old lady lying on the ground.
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the theme of Volunteer is about how a volunteer helpled an old lady who felt hopeless to her llife.
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Which paragraph of the text shows the author is a lady?
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5. The old lady was so weak she could not hardly climb stairs.
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What can we learn from the lady's comment？
A．Most Londoners were frightened.
B．Most Londoners became rather confused.
C．Most Londoners took Exercise Flood Call calmly.
D．Most Londoners complained about the trouble caused by the Call.
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The old lady felt_____when she stayed in the big house______after her husband died.
A．alone; lonely
B．alone; alone
C．lonely; alone
D．lonely; lonely
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In old times, people wondered about the changes of seasons, about the stars, the moon and the sun. They could not explain these things, and so they made up "why" stories about them.
The ancient Greeks told about Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, who kept the earth all green all year. One day her daughter Persephone was kidnapped(绑架) by Hades, the god of the dead. Demeter was so unhappy that she let everything on earth die. At last, Hades permitted Persephone to return to her mother for part of the year. During that period, everything on earth grew well again. One season, however, Persephone had to stay with Hades. During that season, the earth remained cold and bare. So winter was explained.
American Indians told of an old woman who stood on a high mountain. When the moon was full, she cut off bits of it and threw these bits about the sky. This explained where the stars came from, and why the moon became small.
Hundreds of stories like these were passed down by word of mouth. Later, these stories were put in books. Today we read them not for explanation of natural wonders but for enjoyment.
The ancient Greeks explained ______.
A．how the year was divided into four seasons
B．how Demeter's daughter was saved
C．why they loved Demeter and hated Hades
D．why they had a winter season
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While being questioned on the court, the man denied ______ the old lady’s necklace.
A．having taken
B．taking
C．to have taken
D．to take
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This is news on the hour, Ed Wilson reporting. The President and First Lady will visit Africa on a goodwill tour in May. They plan to visit eight African countries.
Reports from China say the Chinese want closer ties between China and the U.S. and Western Europe, A group of top Chinese scientists starts its ten-nation tour next month.
Here is in Miami, the major is still meeting with the leader of the Teacher's Union to try to find a way to end the strike. City schools are still closed after two weeks.
In news about health, scientists in California report findings of a relationship between the drinking of coffee and increase of heart disease among women. According to the report in American Medical Journal, the five-year study shows this: Women who drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a greater chance of having heart disease than women who do not.
In sports, the Chargers lost again last night. The Wingers had better results. They beat the Rifles 7 to 3. It was their first win in their last five matches.
That's the news of the Hour. And now back to more easy listening with Jane Singer.
To improve the ties between China and the U. S. and Western Europe, China ______.
A．will send a group of Chinese scientists to pay a visit to the U.S. and Western Europe
B．will send some scientists to visit U.S. and the Western Europe
C．has expressed its strong wishes
D．has given many reports to improve the ties
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While being questioned by the police, the man denied______ the young ladys purse.
A．having taken
B．taking
C．to have taken
D．to take
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Mr Li （)made a radio the news.
A.Listen to
B.listening to
C.to listen to
D.listen
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Most new words are made up from other earlier words; language-making is a conservative process, wasting little. When new words unfold out of old ones, the original meaning usually hangs around like an unrecognizable scent, a sort of secret.
There are two immense words from Indo-European, gene and bheu, each a virtual anthill in itself, from which we have constructed the notion Of everything. At the beginning or as far back as they are traceable, they meant something like being. Gene signified beginning, giving birth, while bheu indicated existence and growth. Gene turned itself successively into kund jaz (Germanic) and gecynd (Old English), meaning kin or kind. Kind was at first a family connection, later an elevated social rank, and finally came to rest meaning kindly or gentle. Meanwhile, a branch of gene became the Latin gens which emerged as genus, genius, genital, and generous; then still holding on to its inner significance it became "nature" (out of gnasci).
While gene was evolving into "nasture" and "kind" bheu was moving through similar transformations. One branch became the English word "build". It also moved into Greek, as phuein, meaning to bring forth and make grow; then as phusis, which was another word for nature. Phusis became the source of physic which at first meant natural science and later was the word for medicine. Still later, physic became physics.
Both words, at today's stage of their evolution, can be taken together to mean, literally, everything in the universe. You do not come by words like this easily; they cannot just be made up from scratch. They need long lives before they can signify. "Everyting," C. S. Lewis observed in a discussion of the words, "is a subject on which there is not much to be said." The words themselves must show the internal marks of long use; they must contain their own inner conversation.
The passage is mainly concerned with ______.
A．how to coin new words
B．where to trace the origin of language
C．the evolution of words
D．language and nature
此题为多项选择题。
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Questions 20 and 21 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.
A police spokesman said the devices were made safe by explosive experts in the Ardorn district, where a woman was shot in the leg and 13 police officers were injured during a second successive night of violence. Northern Ireland’s police chief had earlier called on community leaders to work together to end the violence. The violence has erupted sporadically throughout a summer of Sectarian tension in northern Belfast.
Questions 20 and 21 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the news.
20. Altogether how many people were injured during the violence？
A.1.
B.2.
C.13.
D.14.
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Reading became difficult for the old lady, so the optician______her a pair of glasses to make her reading possible.
A．proscribed
B．inscribed
C．prescribed
D．described
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Private enterprise is the thing. We went to a party on the river earlier this summer. The host【B1】is old enough to know better, served a lunch made with his home-made wine. As I was driving, I was【B2】to decline, but my wife politely took a glass and subsequently fell upstairs. The wound【B3】weekly dressing by the district nurse, a talkative soul who enjoyed the social【B4】of her work. She stayed for most of the afternoon, admiring things and gossiping about village life. At about the【B5】time I called in the regional crime officer, to advise me on how to make the house reasonably secure against the child criminals who commit most of the【B6】in these parts. He,【B7】, was a companionable soul and made an afternoon of it.
And why is it that when I write to a public utility【B8】as the gas board. I get a printed card to tell they received my letter and will shortly act on it？ The money spent on printing, typing, filling in and stamping these cards【B9】add up to a very large sum indeed, when spread over all these industries. No commercial house sends such acknowledgements. Money,【B10】it reaches a public service, loses the value that was stamped on it by the trouble to get it.
【B1】
A．here
B．she
C．which
D．who
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The lady formed a friendship with the old shoemaker because________．
A.she had the heels of her shoes repaired by him
B.he did a good job to the heels of her shoes。
C.she went into his shop every few days to talk with him
D.he taught her all important piece of wisdom
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Attempts to ______this old system have been made in every presidentialelection in the past one hundred years, but the system has survived all assaults.
A、break down
B、break in
C、break up
D、break through
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The motto of the Ritz-Carlton is we are Ladies and Gentlemen serving Ladies and Gentlemen.（）
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Everyday,the old lady walks___Ren Min Theatre.
A．pass
B．past
C．passing
D．passed
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The decline in American manufacturing is a common refrain, particularly from Donald Trump. "Wedon&39;t make anything anymore," he told Fox News, while defending his own made-in-Mexicoclothing line.
Without question, manufacturing has taken a significant hit during recent decades, and further tradedeals raise questions about whether new shocks could hit manufacturing.
But there is also a different way to look at the data.
Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: instead of having toomany workers, they may end up with too few. Despite trade competition and outsourcing, Americanmanufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every years. Millennialsmay not be that interested in taking their place, other industries are recruiting them with similar orbetter pay.
For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers－and upward pressure on wages. "They&39;re harder to find and they have job offers," says Jay Dunwell, president of Wolverine CoilSpring, a family-owned firm, "They may be coming [into the workforce], but they&39;ve been pluckedby other industries that are also doing an well as manufacturing," Mr. Dunwell has begun bringinghigh school juniors to the factory so they can get exposed to its culture.
At RoMan Manufacturing, a maker of electrical transformers and welding equipment that his fathercofounded in 1980, Robert Roth keep a close eye on the age of his nearly 200 workers, five areretiring this year. Mr. Roth has three community-college students enrolled in a work-placementprogram, with a starting wage of $13 an hour that rises to $17 after two years.
At a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the coppercoils he&39;s trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors. It&39;s his first week on the job. Askedabout his choice of career, he says at high school he considered medical school before switching toelectrical engineering. "I love working with tools. I love creating." he says.
But to win over these young workers, manufacturers have to clear another major hurdle: parents,who lived through the worst US economic downturn since the Great Depression, telling them toavoid the factory. Millennials "remember their father and mother both were laid off. They blame iton the manufacturing recession," says Birgit Klohs, chief executive of The Right Place, a businessdevelopment agency for western Michigan.
These concerns aren&39;t misplaced: Employment in manufacturing has fallen from 17 million in 1970to 12 million in 2013. When the recovery began, worker shortages first appeared in the high-skilledtrades. Now shortages are appearing at the mid-skill levels. "
The gap is between the jobs that take to skills and those that require a lot of skill," says Rob Spohr,a business professor at Montcalm Community College. "There&39;re enough people to fill the jobs atMcDonalds and other places where you don&39;t need to have much skill. It&39;s that gap in between, andthat&39;s where the problem is."
Julie Parks of Grand Rapids Community points to another key to luring Millennials intomanufacturing: a work/life balance. While their parents were content to work long hours, youngpeople value flexibility. "Overtime is not attractive to this generation. They really want to live theirlives," she says.
A、says that he switched to electrical engineering because he loves working with tools。
B、 points out that there are enough people to fill thejobs that don ’t need much skill 。
C、points out that the US doesn’t manu facture anything anymore。
D、believes that it is important to keep a close eye on the age of his workers。
[E] says that for factory owners，workers are harder to find because of stiff competition。
[F] points out that a work/life balance can attract young people into manufacturing。
[G] says that the manufacturing recession is to15 blame for the lay-off the young people’s parents 。
41.Jay Deuwell______________
42.Jason Stenquist______________
43.Birgit Klohs______________
44.Rob Spohr______________
45.Julie Parks______________
41__________
42
43
44
45
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After you, please! the gentlemen said politely to the lady when they came to the entrance
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Ladies or gentlemen, whether young or old, _______ some money of yours to the poor people in the mountain area who are suffering.
A．to donate
B．donating
C．donate
D．will donate
