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As we took our seats on the bus, I noticed a woman（）with a young adult close to us.
A . sit
B . be sit
C . sitting
D . sit
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In the west, round tables are the standard.
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The national final of the FLTRP Cup consists of 2 rounds.
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The Kiowas came into possession of Tai-me, the object and symbol of their worship－the Sun Dance religion. This object was worshiped by all tribes that regarded the sun as deity.
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In the Romantic Age of English literature, Wordsworth and () came to be known as the \Lake Poets\.
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It seems as if the sun_____round the earth since it rises in the east and sets in the west.
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Copernicus maintained that the earth_____round the sun.
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The teacher said that the earth _______round the sun.
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My hands and feet were ________ with cold as I waited for the bus.
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听力原文：Yesterday morning Ann ran as fast as she could to catch the bus. Unfortunately she missed it and was late for class.
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A．Ann didn't run fast enough to catch the bus. Therefore she missed the class.
B．Ann ran very fast but she still missed the class.
C．Ann missed the bus and was late for class even though she hurried.
D．Ann didn't run so she missed the bus.
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A nurse and her elderly uncle were waiting for a bus at a corner in downtown Chicago. Buses came by, not the one they wanted. The woman finally half-entered one of the buses and asked the driver if the bus she wanted stopped at that corner.
The driver looked at her but made no answer, so she repeated the question. To her surprise, he then closed the door, on her arm, and drove off.
The woman, her arm stuck in the door, ran alongside the bus, shouting. Passengers said the driver stopped after almost a block only because they, too were shouting.
When the driver finally did stop and open the door, the woman jumped on the bus to get his bus number. Then he took off again and went another couple of blocks before other shouting passengers persuaded him to stop and let the woman off.
After the driver' s bossed at a tax-support governmental company(CTA) heard of the incident, they looked into it and set his punishment: a five-day suspension (停职) without pay. That struck me as rather light.
But Bill Baxa, the company' s public-relation man, "That' s a pretty serious punishment.
Five days off work is a serious punishment for dragging a woman alongside a bus by her arm？ Baxa said, "Any time you take money away from someone, it is a terrible punishment. The driver make $14 an hour. Multiply(乘)that by 40 and you can see that he lost."
Yes, that come to $560, a good sum. But we know that people in the private company are fired for far less every day. If the people who run the bus company think that the loss of a week' s pay is more than enough, I offer them a sporting suggestion: Give me a bus. Then have their arms in the doorway of the bus, and I' 11 slam the door shut, shut the bus quickly and take them for a fast one block run.
And I'll pay $560 to anyone who is bold enough to try it. Any takers？ Mr Baxa？ Anyone？
I didn't think so.
The nurse half-entered one of the buses because ______.
A．the bus they wanted didn't stop
B．She wanted the driver to stop the bus
C．She wanted to get some information from the driver
D．She and her uncle couldn't wait any longer at the corner
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请判断“just”在每个句子中所表达的意思是否正确 The instructor nodded to Ellen as she came into the classroom. （This means the instructor did not speak or extend her hand; he only nodded.) _____ The instructor just nodded to Ellen as she came into the classroom.
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Darwin's great work, The Origin of Species, is now generally accepted as one of the most important books ever written. But when it first came out in 1859, it was both derided and bitterly condemned by scientists and laymen.
Much of opposition to The Origin of Species arose from Darwin's claim that all living creatures, including man, are somehow related. Many people were outraged by the suggestion that man shared a common ancestor with animals such as apes and monkeys. They attacked Darwin for saying that man had descended from the apes.
But Darwin never actually said this. He believed that modern men and modern apes have both descended from the same ancestor. But at some time in pre-history, millions of years ago, men and apes began to develop separately, and ever since have continued to take on different characteristics. Today, more than 90 years after Darwin's death, this is the opinion which scientists continue to hold.
In his works, Darwin described the progression of life from its earliest forms. First came the invertebrate-creatures without a backbone. Then invertebrates evolved into fish; fish into amphibians; amphibians into reptiles; and reptiles into birds and mammals.
Fossil remains found after his death show that Darwin was right. Perhaps the most amazing fact about his theory is that he managed to work it out with the aid of only a few fossil discoveries.
Fossil remains were not the only information which we now possess but which Darwin lacked. He did not know that apes have the same diseases as men; nor that they and men have the same kind of blood. Nor did he know about the modern uses of radiation which enable scientists to tell the age of fossil remains and so estimate the speed at which evolution has taken place.
Which of the following best describes the passage as a whole？
A．The Origin of Species is a very significant book.
B．Darwin's discoveries were proved to be right though the Origin of Species was severely attacked.
C．The evolution of men has gone through a very long process.
D．It was impossible for Darwin to prove his ideas only with the aid of fossils.
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After the Civil War (1861-1865),as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into______ use.
A、house
B、home
C、household
D、family
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The Internet first came to life in 1969, and originally served as a vehicle for transmitting mostly scientific information among university and government computer networks.
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The development of so called high level language came into being as a result of ______.
A．a shorthand method by which one symbolic statement could represent a sequence of many machine language instructions
B．a way that would allow the same program to run on several types of machines
C．both A and B
D．none of the above
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听力原文： As you probably know, log structures are gaining popularity. They are no longer just the simple country homes that we think of as the traditional log cabin. Some upscale homes now incorporate natural round logs in sealing beams and walls. People seem to think that the rounded logs give their homes a cozy warm atmosphere. And even people who want to build a traditional log cabin on their own can buy a kit with precut logs that fit together like pieces of lig-saw puzzle. Before showing you some slides of modem log houses, I'd like to give you a little historical background on the subject.
Log cabins were first built in the late 1600s along the Delaware river valley. The European immigrants who settled there brought centuries' old traditions of working with logs. And in this heavily wooded area logs were the material in hand. Log cabins were the most popular in the early 1800s with the settlers who were moving west. They provided the answer to the pioneer's need for a sale and sliding boards for windows. But the log buildings that have probably had most influence on modern architects are those of the mountain retreats of wealthy New Yorkers. These country houses which were popular in the early 1900s typify what's known as the Adoroundyx style. Now let's look at those slides.
What is the speaker mainly discussing？
A．Traditional European architecture.
B．Techniques for building log cabins.
C．The history of log structures.
D．How to build a home by yourself.
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Joe came to the window as the crowd chanted "Joe, Joe, Joe.
A.jumped
B.maintained
C.repeated
D.approached
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The death of her father came as a trance,____ Mary seemed never to have recovered.
A．A.from which
B．B.in which
C．C.at which
D．D.on which
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At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along with the White Whale's flank, he seemed strangely oblivious of its advance—as the whale sometimes will---and Ahab was fairly within the smoky mountain mist, which, thrown off from the whale's spout, curled round his great Monadnock hump; he was even thus close to him; when, with body arched back, and both arms lengthwise high-lifted to the poise, he darted his fierce iron, and his far fiercer curse into the hated whale.
Question:
1. From which novel is this paragraph taken？
2. What is the name of the novelist？
3. What is the theme of the novel？
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Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, summed up the four chief qualities of money 2,000 years ago. It must be lasting and easy to recognize, to divide, and to carry about. When we think of money today, we picture it either as round, flat pieces of metal which we call coins, or as printed paper notes. But there are still parts of the world today where coins and notes are of no use .A traveler there might starve if he had none of the particular ‘ local money ’.
Among isolated peoples ,who are not often reached by traders from outside ,commerce usually means barter ,which is a direct exchange of goods .Perhaps it is fish for vegetables or meat for baskets .For this kind of simple trading, money is not needed ,but there is often something that everyone wants ,such as salt to flavor food, shells for necklaces ,or iron and copper to make into tools. These things — salt ,shells or metals — are still used as money in out-of-the-way parts of the world today.
Salt may seem rather a strange material to use as money ,but in countries where the food of the people is mainly vegetables ,it is often an absolute necessity .Cakes of salt ,stamped to show their value ,were used as money in Tibet until recent times, and they can still buy goods in parts of Africa.
Cowrie seashells have been used as money at some time or another over the greater part of the Old World. These were collected mainly from the beaches of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean ,and were traded to India and China. In Africa ,cowries were traded right across the continent from East to West .Four or five thousand went for one Maria Theresa dollar ,an Australian silver coin which was once accepted as currency (货币) in many parts of Africa.
Metal was used as money in many parts of the world .Iron ,in lumps ,bars or rings is still used in many countries instead of money .It can either be exchanged for goods ,or made into tools or weapons. The early money of China ,apart from shells ,was of bronze ,often in flat ,round pieces with a hole in the middle ,called ‘ cash ’.The earliest of these are between three thousand and four thousand years old — older than the earliest coins of the eastern Mediterranean.
Nowadays ,coins and notes have supplanted nearly all the more picturesque forms of money ,and although in one or two of the more remote countries people still store it for future use ,primitive money will soon be found only in museums.
1.Nowadays we think of money as() .
A.pieces of metal or metallic paper
B.made of either metal or paper
C.some printed notes and papers
D.round and flat sheets of paper
2.In some parts of the world a traveler might go hungry() .
A.even if his money was of the local kind
B.even if he had no coins or notes
C.if he did not know the local rate of exchange
D.even if he had plenty of ready money
3.What can we infer from the passage？
A.Isolated peoples exchange goods by means of barter.
B.Salt cakes are taking the place of picturesque forms.
C.Seashells could be traded with Maria Theresa dollars.
D.The Chinese were among the earliest users of metal ‘ cash ’.
4.Primitive types of money will be used ().
A.to replace more picturesque forms
B.as exhibits to be shown in public
C.at local country markets and shops
D.as entrance tickets in museums
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请找出下列句子中需要首字母大写的单词并将正确答案填入空中。 Just as an alarm started ringing, Cindy came out of the building shouting, “help! There’s a fire in the barn!”
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The round trip fare is not___ as much as the one-way fare（）
A．\
B．fourth
C．twice
D．third
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She_______her breath as the horse came toward the finish line.
A．A.took
B．B.held
C．C.tied
D．D.closed
