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Simba did not tell Rafiki who he was because he had lost his memory of the past.
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Can anyone explain why he had that terrible attitude?
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You _______ all the trouble had you known he was not there.
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He wished that he had asked her to dance, and that he knew her name. （ ）
A、他真希望自己请她跳舞,又知道她的芳名,那该有多好。
B、他真希望自己当时请她跳了舞,现在又知道她的芳名,那该有多好。
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Last night I woke up covered with cold sweat. I dreamed that my visa had _____ ( 过期 ).
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Not until he had fulfilled his mission did he realize that he was seriously ill.
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If he had followed the doctor’s advice, he __________ quite all right now.
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He __________ in bed all day long because he had a bad headache.
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By the fifth night, he had 追上_____ them all.
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（Hardly he had) entered （the office) when he realized （that he) （had forgotten) his wallet
(Hardly he had) entered (the office) when he realized (that he) (had forgotten) his wallet.
A．Hardly he had
B．the office
C．that he
D．had forgotten
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He didn't realize the value of friendship ______ he had lost it.
A．if
B．as
C．while
D．until
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He got__________（沮丧的) when he learned that his team lost again.
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He was too______to admit that he had been wrong.
A．impervious
B．versatile
C．obstinate
D．erratic
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He notofoed his friends that his address had changeD．
A.informed
B.observed
C. mocked
D. misled
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While the secretary ____ his desk, he found the long lost report.A.had been cleaning
B.is cleaning
C.has been cleaning
D.was cleaning
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ANow that we Bhave lost all the money, its no use Cto turn on me and saying Dits all my fault.
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It is his own _____ that he lost his gold watch.
A．responsibility
B．defect
C．fault
D．flaw
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Soon after his appointment as secretary-general of the United Nations in 1997, Kofi Annan lamented that he was being accused of failing to reform. the world body in six weeks. "But what are you complaining about？" asked the Russian ambassador: "You've had more time than God." Ah, Mr. Annan quipped back, "but God had one big advantage. He worked alone without a General Assembly, a Security Council and [all] the committees."
Recounting that anecdote to journalists in New York this week, Mr. Annan sought to explain why a draft declaration on UN reform. and tackling world poverty, due to be endorsed by some 150 heads of state and government at a world summit in the city on September 14th16th, had turned into such a pale shadow of the proposals that he himself had put forward in March. "With 191 member states", he sighed, "it's not easy to get an agreement."
Most countries put the blame on the United States, in the form. of its abrasive new ambassador, John Bolton, for insisting at the end of August on hundreds of last minute amendments and a line-by-line renegotiation of a text most others had thought was almost settled. But a group of middle-income developing nations, including Pakistan, Cuba, Iran, Egypt, Syria and Venezuela, also came up with plenty of last-minute changes of their own. The risk of having no document at all, and thus nothing for the world's leaders to come to New York for, was averted only by marathon all-night and all-weekend talks.
The 35-page final document is not wholly devoid of substance. It calls for the creation of a Peacebuilding Commission to supervise the reconstruction of countries after wars; the replacement of the discredited UN Commission on Human Rights by a supposedly tougher Human Rights Council; the recognition of a new "responsibility to protect" peoples from genocide and other atrocities when national authorities fail to take action, including, if necessary, by force; and an "early" reform. of the Security Council. Although much pared down, all these proposals have at least survived.
Others have not. Either they proved so contentious that they were omitted altogether, such as the sections on disarmament and non-proliferation and the International Criminal Court, or they were watered down to little more than empty platitudes. The important section on collective security and the use of force no longer even mentions the vexed issue of pre-emptive strikes; meanwhile the section on terrorism condemns it "in all its forms and manifestations, committed by whomever, wherever and for whatever purposes", but fails to provide the clear definition the Americans wanted.
Both Mr. Annan and, more surprisingly, George Bush have nevertheless sought to put a good face on things, with Mr. Annan describing the summit document as "an important step forward" and Mr. Bush saying the UN had taken "the first steps" towards reform. Mr. Annan and Mr. Bolton are determined to go a lot further. It is now up to the General Assembly to flesh out the document's skeleton proposals and propose new ones. But its chances of success appear slim.
Who have recently listened to the story in the first paragraph of the text？
A．Ambassadors.
B．UN officials.
C．The world's leaders.
D．Reporters.
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I don't know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony's “Funeral Oration”, Grey's “Elegy”, and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all.
He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc. , and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London. I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms--a bedroom and a sitting room--in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.
We may conclude, in regard to the author's development as a writer, that his father ________.
A．made an important contribution
B．insisted that he choose writing as a career
C．opposed his becoming a writer
D．insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer
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他感到本应属于自己的快乐被剥夺了。He felt that he had been of the pleasure that was his due.
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When John Milton writer of“Paradise Lost” entered Cambridge University in 1625 he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St.Paul’s School London.Like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar schools he had learned not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it smoothly and correctly.His pronunciation of Latin was English however and seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.
Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way.They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart easier.They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English.As they increased their skill they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original.The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them.All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in .
After several years of study the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read.And as they began to read Latin poems they began to write poems in Latin.Because Milton was already a poet at ten his poems were much better than those painfully put together by the other boys.During the seven years Milton spent at university he made regular use of his command of Latin.He wrote some excellent Latin poems which he published among his works in 1645.
1.What does the passage mainly tell about？[]
A.How John Milton wrote“Paradise Lost”
B.How John Milton studied Latin
C.How John Milton became famous
D.How John Milton became a poet
2.Which of the following is true of John Milton’s pronunciation of Latin？[]
A.It has a strong Italian accent
B.It has an uncommon accent
C.It was natural and easy to understand
D.It was bad and difficult to understand
3.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A.Milton’s training in Latin was similar to that of the other boys
B.Milton hadn’t learned any foreign language except Latin before going to college
C.Milton’s Italian friends helped him with Latin when talking
D.Milton's classmates learned Latin harder but worse than Milton
4.Which of the following is suggested in the passage？[]
A.The schoolmaster mainly helped those who were bad at Latin
B.The schoolmaster usually stood beside the schoolboys with a stick in his hand
C.The schoolboys could repeat Latin grammar rules from memory
D.Some of the schoolboys were quick at writing compositions in Latin
5.What is the meaning of the underlined part“Latin should be beaten in”that the writer wishes you to understand？[]
A.Schoolboys should be punished if they were lazy to learn Latin
B.Schoolboys should be encouraged if they had difficulty in learning Latin
C.Schoolboys were expected to master Latin in a short time
D.Schoolboys had to study Latin in a hard way
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He thought he had lost his______for good. However, he found his pillow already taken by the dog when he entered the room.
A．beautiful yellow little dog
B．yellow beautiful little dog
C．little yellow beautiful dog
D．beautiful little yellow dog
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Now that we have lost all the documents, its no use______me and saying its all my fault.
A．talking on
B．coming on
C．counting on
D．turning on
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Only we hen he had caused an accident,（)that he had made a driving mistake.
A．A.he realized
B．B.does he realize
C．C.he then realized
D．D.did he realize
