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My I have two（）instead of beans, please?
A . corn's ear
B . corn ears
C . ear of corns
D . ears of cor
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So I have a number of other up my sleeve， as well（）.
A . tricks
B . strict
C . trace
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I have lost my new English dictionary.（）
A . What a pity!
B . It's nothing.
C . It doesn't matter.
D . Not at all.
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I longed to have the opportunity of ( ) the panel discussion to state my view.
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I lost several （ luggage ） during my trip to New York.
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“My culture is important and I am proud of what I am. Japanese people have so much to offer.” This thought is a typical example of the unexamined cultural identity stage.
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1.This field is something I'm It has widened my horizons and made me .I have of others and how our daily lives are shaped
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I’d rather have a room of my own, however small it is, than ________ a room with someone else.
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I could see that my wife was _____ having that fashionable coat, whether I approved of it or not.
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With a profound sadness I have just said farewell to one of my best friends who is now lost to me forever. He has bought a television set.
The man who buys a television set departs from the world of living men and enters another word of shadows. I do not blame my friend. The real world, I suppose, is just too much for him as it is for millions of others.
My friend does not realize, of course, that he is in full retreat from actuality. He supposes, on the contrary, that he is boldly advancing into the fierce current of these times by bringing the world, with all its events and human figures, into his living room. That is the great current illusion. The shadows are mistaken for things.
Now, television is a wonderful invention. I have no word to say against it, so long as it is confined to other people's houses where, in my weaker moments, I may see it occasionally free. But it brings no one closer to life. It merely inter- poses a gaudy curtain between lift and the spectator. It is only the latest gadget contrived by thoughtful men to make sure that nobody does any real thinking for himself.
My friend will answer that he will now receive the best thoughts of the ablest minds in the world and see their faces as they deliver them. He will see events as they unfold at first hand, with a time lag of half a second or less.
Of course, he will. But he won't understand anything better. He will understand less than ever. For the grim, inescap- able fact of human understanding is that it must be private, must come from within and cannot be plastered on like stucco from the outside. A man may secure knowledge from others. He will never secure understanding. Though it is presented in a million different versions, the paramount problem of modern man is to find a satisfactory participation in modern life. And it is there that he is most obviously failing.
He can turn a screw on the assembly line, but as the finished automobile comes off at the end, he has no satisfaction in its creation. Or if he works in a white collar he can add up all the figures of business on an adding machine without once touching the realities a life as the country storekeeper touches them. He swarms in his multitudes to watch hockey game but he does not play hockey.
In other words, for the essential purposes of life, modern man is becoming a spectator, not a participant, a customer not a creator, a consumer in the main and only incidentally a producer. Thus by a law as old as Eden he becomes sick under a hectic outward flush. His physical diet is better than ever but he sickens by a secret malnutrition of the soul.
According to the author, his friend has bought a television in order to_____.
A．know the current events
B．entertain himself at leisure time
C．escape from the reality
D．kill time
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I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice, It is, of course, very exciting to have such an important【C1】______of my work. but the real pleasure was in the work itself.
Scientific research is like an exploraion of a voyage of discovery. You are【C2】______trying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead【C3】______and you have to try something different, but sometimes an experment does【C4】______and tells you something new and that it is really exciting,【C5】______small the new finding may be. it is great to think “I am the only person who knows this” and then you will have the fun of thinking what this finding will【C6】______and of deciding what will be the【C7】______experiment.
One of the best things about scientific research is that you are always doing something different and it is, never【C8】______.There are good times when things go well and bad times when they【C9】______ . Some people get discouraged at the difficult times. but when I have a failure my policy has always been not to worry but to start planning the next experiment,【C10】______is always fun.
【C1】
A．recognition
B．acknowledgement
C．realization
D．assessment
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I have only one purpose, the destruction of Hitler, and my life is much simplified thereby. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
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The error in the sentence "I lost my road" is an example of______.
A．addition
B．substitution
C．omission
D．misordering
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--- Jack, you look so great! --- Thanks! I have lost 20 pounds since I ______ my personal trainer six months ago.
A.hired
B.have hired
C.hire
D.had hired
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I lost my pen this morning.So I had to —— one
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The only thing that spoilt my joy a little was that I was so______to have anything typical of my country to wear at the dinner.
A．unfortunate as
B．unfortunate as not
C．unfortunate that
D．unfortunately that
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Regardless of what caused it, I am grateful that I have finally reached a point in my life ______I can appreciate my strengths, accept my weaknesses and try to be comfortable with everything in between.
A．why
B．where
C．which
D．what
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I have certainly seen lots of changes in my lifetime! I look around my home and see "mod cons" that I could never have dreamed of 50 or 60 years ago. I spent the early part of childhood in a cottage without running water or electricity and yet these days, I feel paralyzed if there is a power cut for even just an hour or two! So, I have changed too. Things that I couldn't even imagine in the past now seem quite normal.
Businessmen can travel from London to New York in three hours and lots of people exceed the seventy-mile-per-hour speed limit on motorways. A person of 75 is not old these days. A serious illness does not mean certain death because there have been so many advances in medical science. We no longer need to be afraid of contracting diseases like polio or smallpox. I can speak to my son in Australia from my own sitting room here in Manchester, watch athletes running a race on the other side of the world without moving from my own home and I can even do my shopping while I sit here in an armchair. I never need to worry about food going bad in the warm weather and, at the flick of a switch, I can have a hot meal in a couple of minutes. So, it seems, the quality of life has greatly improved since my own childhood.
I'm not convinced, however, that people are happier today than they were 50 years ago. We are certainly materially better off than we were but most people still seem to be weighed down by problems. My daughter and her family are a good illustration. They have a spacious, comfortable home with every labor-saving device you can think of. There's a washing machine, a clothes dryer, a food processor, a vacuum cleaner and all sorts of other household items which are designed to save time but it seems to me that my daughter and her husband just spend all that "saved" time working! They never relax and are always complaining of being tired and "stressed".
What is the passage mainly about？
A．How life has improved.
B．How life has become worse.
C．A comparison of life now and that in the past.
D．Memory of life in the past.
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Birds have a sharp sense of sight and dogs have a sharp sense of smelling.
A．sensitive
B．acute
C．edgy
D．bright
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听力原文： I am living in a small village in the country. My wife and I run a village shop. We have a very peaceful life, boring some might say. But we love it. We know all the people in the village and have plenty of time to stop and chat. I have plenty of time for my hobbies too—gardening, fishing, walking in the country side. I love the outdoor life.
It wasn’t always like this though I used to have a really stressful job, working till late in the office every evening and often bring work home at the week end. The advertising world is very competitive. And when I look hack, I can’t imagine how I stood it. I have no private life at all, no time for the really important things in life. Because of the pressure of the job, I used to smoke and drink too much. The crisis came when my wife left me. She complained that she never saw me and I had no time for, family life. This made me realize what is really important to me. I talked things through with her and decided to get back together again and to start a new and better life together. I gave up tobacco and alcohol and searched for new hobbies. Now I am afraid of looking back since the past life seemed a horrible dream.
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A．He was a gardener.
B．He worked in an advertising agency.
C．He worked on a farm.
D．He ran a village shop.
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—Have you ever been to Tibet —Yes. I have fantastic__________ of my trip there last summer.
A．time
B．experience
C．days
D．memories
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To my, this is one of the worst films I have ever seen（）
A．satisfaction
B．disappointment
C．relief
D．taste
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I have kept the portrait__________I can see it every day as it always reminds me of my？university days.
A．which
B．where
C．whether
D．when
