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The museum（）we visited last Saturday was set up twenty years ago.
A . where
B . to which
C . which
D . for which
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We had the winch（）last year.
A . to overhaul
B . overhauling
C . overhauled
D . overhaul
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When he finally emerged from the cave after thirty days, John was shockingly pale.
A . enormously
B . startlingly
C . uniquely
D . dramatically
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The Great Charter(or Magna Carta)was signed by King John at Runnymede in（）
A . 1162
B . 1164
C . 1210
D . 1215
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John and Alice got（）last year in Las Vegas.
A . marrying
B . marriage
C . married
D . to marry
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In 1215 King John was forced to sign the ( ), which was to limit the king's power :
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What did John Rockefeller do when he was 24?
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John ’ s record was on the team.
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There was a blackout last night and the electric lamps went out, so we had to resort___candles to light the room to study.
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John is ________ these days, so we cannot count on him.
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听力原文：W: Can you figure out what's wrong with John？ He doesn't talk to anyone since last week？
M: He's had a terrible time with his wife. But it has something to do with his parents.
Q: What conclusion can you draw from the conversation？
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A．He has some trouble with his parents.
B．His parents had a quarrel.
C．He and his wife might have had a quarrel.
D．His wife and his parents might have disagreed with each other.
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听力原文：M: There was a new quiz show on television last night, but we were just sitting down to dinner when it came on.
W: I watched it and it was great! The first four contestants won only small prizes, but the fifth left with a new luxury car.
Q: What happened last night？
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A．Four contestants failed to win prizes.
B．The man ate during the show.
C．The woman missed the show.
D．Five contestants won cars.
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—Was the driving pleasant when you went to Mexico last summer？—No, it______for four days when we arrived, so the roads were very muddy.
A．was raining
B．had been raining
C．would be raining
D．rained
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He was the last to arrive.（英译中)
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We had a party last month, and it was a lot of thin, so let's have ________one this month.
A. the other
B. more
C. another
D. other
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听力原文： Lecturer: In the last lecture, we looked...
听力原文： Lecturer: In the last lecture, we looked at the adverse effects of desert dust on global climate. Today we're going to examine more closely what causes dust storms and what other effects they can have. As you know, dust storms have always been a feature of desert climates, but what we want to focus on today is the extent to which human activity is causing them. And it is this trend that I want to look at, because it has wide-ranging implications. So, what are these human activities？ Well, there are two main types that affect the wind erosion process, and thus the frequency of dust storms. There are activities that break up naturally wind-resistant surfaces such as off-road vehicle use and construction and there are those that remove protective vegetation cover from soils, for example, mainly farming and drainage. In many cases the two effects occur simultaneously which adds to the problem.
Let's look at some real examples and see what I'm talking about. Perhaps the best-known example of agricultural impact on desert dust is the creation of the USA's 'dust bowl' in the 1930s. The dramatic rise in the number of dust storms during the latter part of that decade was the result of farmers' mismanaging their land. In fact, choking dust storms became so commonplace that the decade became known as the 'Dirty Thirties'.
Researchers observed a similar, but more prolonged, increase in dustiness in West Africa between the 1960s and the 1980s when the frequency of the storms rose to 80 a year and the dust was so thick that visibility was reduced to 1,000 metres. This was a hazard to pilots and road users. In places like Arizona, the most dangerous dust clouds are those generated by dry thunderstorms. Here, this type of storm is so common that the problem inspired officials to develop an alert system to warn people of oncoming thunderstorms. When this dust is deposited it causes all sorts of problems for machine operators. It can penetrate the smallest nooks and crannies and play havoc with the way things operate because most of the dust is made up of quartz which is very hard. Another example - the concentration of dust originating from the Sahara has risen steadily since the mid-1960s.
This increase in wind erosion has coincided with a prolonged drought, which has gripped the Sahara's southern fringe. Drought is commonly associated with an increase in dust-raising activity but it's actually caused by low rainfall which results in vegetation dying off.
One of the foremost examples of modern human-induced environmental degradation is the drying up of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Its ecological demise dates from the 1950s when intensive irrigation began in the then Central Asian republics of the USSR. This produced a dramatic decline in the volume of water entering the sea from its two major tributaries. In 1960, the Aral Sea was the fourth-largest lake in the world, but since that time it has lost two-thirds of its volume, its surface area has halved and its water level has dropped by more than 216 metres. A knock-on effect of this ecological disaster has been the release of significant new sources of wind-blown material, as the water level has dropped.
And the problems don't stop there. The salinity of the lake has increased so that it is now virtually the same as sea water. This means that the material that is blown from the dry bed of the Aral Sea is highly saline. Scientists believe it is adversely affecting crops around the sea because salts are toxic to plants.
This shows that dust storms have numerous consequences beyond their effects on climate, both for the workings of environmental systems and for people living in drylands ...
SECTION 4 Questions 31-40
Questions 31-32
Complete the notes using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer
Main focus of lecture: the impact of 【31】______ on the occurrence of dust st
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This text isthe one we leamed last week（）
A．a little difficult than
B．more than difficult
C．difficult more than
D．a little more difficult than
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John's job was to teach Joe English in Italy.
A．真
B．False
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How was he feeling about others' saying that he was lucky last time？
A．He quite agreed with them, for he was still alive.
B．He resented this opinion.
C．He thought it just OK since everything was gone for a long time.
D．He hated those people who had never had such an experience as his.
此题为多项选择题。
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Where was John and his wife's restaurant？
A．Near a station.
B．In a station
C．On a train.
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听力原文：I am Paul Newman from Coles. Some time ago we signed an agreement with you to build a link between our two companies. We have arranged for one of your representatives to visit me last week, but he failed to turn up by 4: 30. Naturally, I called your office to find out the reason, but the secretary I spoke to was very rode to me. Now, a week has passed, I have got no reply from your company.
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John was busy, ________ he could not come.
A．but
B．therefore
C．and
D．nor
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Due to the ________ influence, some Chinese learners of English wrongly passivize intransitive verbs like “die", as in “ John was died last year"。
A.interlingual
B.intercultural
C.intralingual
D.intracultural
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How important for John F. Kennedy was elected as the president of America?
A．It is a vitory of the Democratic Party.
B．It is a celebration of freedom to elect the people’s own president.
C．It symbolized ont only the end of Eisenhower’s presidency but also the beginning of a new presidency.
D．It signified the continuity of the presidency and the changes of some policies pushed forward by John
F．Kennedy.
此题为多项选择题。
