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His company went()after he failed in the business.
A . decent
B . negative
C . bankrupt
D . acute
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When Rip Van Winkle woke up and went back to his village,he found he had slept in the hill for()
A . 10 years
B . 20 years
C . 50 years
D . None of the above
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He went ahead()all warnings about the danger of his mission.
A、in case of
B、in place of
C、in spite of
D、regardless of
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Seeing the big crowd coming towards him, he started to run down the hill, but ______ and went down on his hands and knees in the melting snow.
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He went to work by train and bus at 8:00 in the morning and got home at 6:30 in the evening. 翻译为“他早晨8点乘火车和公共汽车去上班,晚上6:30分到家。”是对还是错?
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Dick was a sailor on a big ship. It went to Japan and Australia, __21__ Dick was often on the ship for several months at a time. When he woke up in the morning and looked out, he only saw the sea, __22__ sometimes a port.
When he was twenty-four, Dick __23__ and bought a small house with a garden in his wife's town. It was far away fromthe sea. Then he had to go back to his ship, and he __24__ home for two months. He went from the port to the town by bus, and was very happy to see his wife again.
The next morning he slept until 9 o'clock. Then he woke up suddenly and looked out of the window. There were trees a few feet __25__. He was very frightened and jumped out ofbed, shouting, "We've hit land!"
21.
A.or
B.did not come
C.so
D.got married
E.away
22.
A.or
B.did not come
C.so
D.got married
E.away
23.
A.or
B.did not come
C.so
D.got married
E.away
24.
A.or
B.did not come
C.so
D.got married
E.away
25.
A.or
B.did not come
C.so
D.got married
E.away
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People in Edinburgh began to ignore Burns when he went there next winter because
A.his trips there were too frequent
B.their interest in his poems began to decrease
C.they disapproved of his habits
D.they could not catch up with his fast-paced life style
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He purchased a ticket and went up on the top deck.
A.bought
B.took
C.showed
D.made
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He went______to study______after he graduated from the university.
A.abroad...further
B.abroadly...furtherly
C.abroad... furtherly
D.abroadly...further
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I () Billy not to walk on the ice but he just went on.
A.A.persuaded
B.B.suggested
C.C.offered
D.D.warned
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In the year 1845, Henry David Thoreau went into woods to live nearly all by himself for almost two years. When he came out, he published a book based on that experience. The book is_______.
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The modern sailing ship was developed by a man who never went to sea. He was Prince Henry of Portugal, the younger son of the Portuguese king and in English princess.
Prince Henry lived in the fifteenth century. As a boy he became devoted to the sea, and he dedicated (devoted) himself" to improving the design of Ships and the methods or sailing them. In 1416, when he was twenty-two. Henry founded a school for mariners, to which he invited everyone who could help him —— Jewish astronomers, Italian and Spanish sailors, and Arab mathematicians and map makers who knew how to use the crude compass of the day and could improve it.
Henry's goal was to design and equip vessels that would be capable of making long ocean voyages without having to hug (keep close to) the shore. The caravel carried more sail and was longer and slimmer than any ship then made, yet was tough enough to withstand gales at sea. He also developed the carrack, which was a slower ship, but one that was capable of carrying more cargo.
To Prince Henry the world owes credit far development of craft that made oceanic exploration possible. He lives in history as Henry the Navigator.
1.Prince Henry's principal achievement was that of ______
A、making oceanic exploration possible
B、improving the compass
C、founding a school for mariners
D、inventing the clipper ship
2.Prince Henry''s goal was to design vessels that could ______.
A、make long deep-sea voyages
B、travel faster than those in use at that time
C、explore the coastline of. Portugal
D、carry larger crews and more cargo than existing ones
3.Prince Henry started his school for the purpose of ______.
A、helping mariners
B、improving ship design and sailing methods
C、studying astronomy and mathematics
D、improving his own skill as a sailor
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______, he went to the supermarket to buy some food.
A.Late
B.Later
C.Lately
D.Latter
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听力原文: A friend of mine told me that when he was a young man, he went to work as a teacher in one of the states of India.
One day, he received an invitation to join at the ruler's palace. Very pleased, he went to tell his colleagues. They laughed and told him the meaning of the invitation. They had all been invited and each person who was invited had to bring with him a certain number of silver' and gold coins. The number of coins varied according to the person's position in the service of the government. My friend's income was not high, so he did not have to pay much.
Each person bowed before the ruler. His gold went onto one heap; his silver went onto another heap. And in this way he paid his income tax for the year.
This was the simple way of collecting income tax. The tax on property was also collected simply. The ruler gave a man the power to collect a tax from each owner of land or property in a certain area, if this man promised to pay the ruler a certain amount of money. Of course, the tax collector managed to collect more money than he paid to the ruler. The difference between the sum of money he collected and the sum of money he gave to the ruler was his profit.
What do we know about the speaker's friend?
A.He was once a friend of the ruler.
B.He was a tax collector.
C.He was a government official.
D.He was once a school teacher in India.
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Which of the following is a cleft sentence强调句? A、It is a difficult book to read. B、It was not until he went back that the other people left. C、It is surprising that the 9-year-old boy goes to college. D、It is no good arguing with him.
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Rigoberto Padilla, 21, came to the USA from Mexico when he was 6. He went to school in Chicago, joined the honor society and dreamed of becoming a lawyer-all while living here illegally. Padilla's status wasn't a problem until he applied for college and couldn't qualify for financial aid without a Social Security number, he says.
In January, the University of Illinois-Chicago junior was charged with drunken driving. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor (轻罪), paid a fine and got court supervision, but that brought him to the attention of immigration officials and triggered deportation proceedings. "It was one mistake in my life," he says.
Padilla's impending deportation, catapulted (猛投) him into a campaign to stop the deportation of college students and recent graduates. Lawmakers, students, members of the clergy and other acti-vists hope to buy the students time and use their stories to push for laws that would allow them, and perhaps millions of other illegal immigrants, to earn legal status, says Joshua Hoyt of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agreed last week to delay Padilla's deportation for a year, making him one of at least seven young illegal immigrants who have had their deportations delayed since June, according to Dream Activist, one of the groups spearheading the campaign. Family ties and community standing are among the factors ICE considers when asked to delay a deportation, says ICE spokesman Richard Rocha.
"I want to graduate college and give back to this country," Padilla says. His supporters flooded the Department of Homeland Security with thousands of faxes and designed a Facebook page telling 2 800 members how to help. The Chicago City Council passed a resolution in his behalf, and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. , introduced a bill specifically for him that would allow him to stay. "Why would we deprive ourselves of outstanding students and future leaders?" she asks. "They had no part in the decision to come here. "
There are 12 million illegal immigrants in the USA. Activists call for an overhaul of immigration law that would offer them a way to earn legal status. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Dill. , introduced a bill Tuesday that would give illegal immigrants who pay fines, pass background checks and meet other requirements a path toward legal residency. College students who are illegal immigrants fail under a separate proposal called the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act--the DREAM Act. Requirements would include arrival in the USA at 15 or younger, a five-year residency or more, and at least two years of college or military service. Versions of the act have been introduced since 2001 without success.
Padilla could be deported because ______.
A.he was charged with drunken driving
B.he had no Social Security number
C.he did not get the financial aid in the college
D.he was an illegal in,migrant
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Pepys and his wife Jane had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666.They were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow(微弱的光) of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning, its glow had become so bright that Jane woke her husband to watch it. Pepys slipped on his dressing-gown and went to the window to watch it. It seemed fairly far away, and after a time he went back to bed. When he got up in the morning, it looked, though the fire was dying down, as though he could still see some flames. So he set to work to tidy his room and put his things back where he wanted them.
While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard the fire was a bad one; hundreds of houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to the Tower of London and climbed upon a high part of the building so that he could see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning. The man of the Tower told him that the fire had started in a baker's.shop in Pudding Lane(小巷) ; the baker's house had caught fire from the over-heated oven(烤箱) and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, as it is said, at Pie Comer.
What is the passage about?
A.The Great Fire of London.
B.Who was the first to discover the fire.
C.What Pepys was doing during the fire.
D.The losses caused by the fire.
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One night when Mr. Robinson was asleep,he was woken up by some strange noise outside his house.“Thieves,”he thought. Jumping out of bed,he took his gun and hurried to the bedroom window. The room was not shining and the night was rather dark. But he could see a white shape. It looked like a man in the garden. He pointed his gun at it,fired and went back to bed. Early in the morning,he went down to the garden. His shirt was hanging from a tree. He had washed it the day before and hung it on the tree do dry. It had a hole right through the middle. Mr. Robinson was really frightened out of his life when he saw it and began to tremble(颤抖)。 His neighbour arrived at that moment.“How are you today,Mr,Robinson?”he asked in an anxious voice. “You don’t look well.”
“I’m all right,thank you,”said Mr. Robinson. “But I’m lucky to be alive. You see that shirt there?”
“Yes?”said the neighbour.
“If I’d been wearing that shirt last night,”said Mr. Robinson,“I’d be a dead man now.”
1、When Mr. Robinson jumped out of his bed and went to the window,he saw ________ in the garden.
A、a thief
B、something like a man
C、a white shirt on a tree
D、nothing
2、Who had hung the shirt on the tree the day before________
A、A thief.
B、Mr. Robinson himself.
C、Mr. Robinson’s neighbour
D、Mr. Robinson’s wife.
3、After firing the gun,Mr. Robinson________
A、went back to bed
B、went to the garden to see what it was
C、felt no longer afraid
D、looked for the shirt he had washed the day before
4、The next morning Mr. Robinson’s neighbour came and saw him looking________
A、surprised
B、unhappy
C、sick
D、angry.
5、The title“A Narrow Escape”suggests that one has________
A、succeeded in escaping to escape
B、failed.
C、run away
D、only just avoided death
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He went to school instead of __________ home. ()
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Instead of going home,he went to the cinema after school.
A.代替
B.而是
C.不愿意
D.不着急
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Xuan Zang, a famous monk in the Tang dynasty, went west in 627 to seek dharma. He traveled all over the Ganges River and the Indus valley, and visited more than 110 countries. After returning to China
A.Biography of Monk Xuan Zang
B.A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
C.the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions
D.Pilgrimage to the West
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He can’t put the clock back, so he ___ to the fact.A.went back
B.retreated
C.restored
D.resigned
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The winner went back to the small village ________ he was brought up.
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Our usual walk was to or from the subway on which he traveled to work. He went to work sick, and despite nasty weather. He would make it to the office even if others could not. It was a matter of prid