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I'd like to know something about your life in Paris. （）
A . You can tell me.
B . I wonder if you can.
C . I‘ll tell you.
D . I wonder if you could.
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He was（）the preparation of an international conference when I arrived in Beijing.
A . engaged to
B . engaged for
C . engaged on
D . engaged i
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Diana died on Sunday, August 31，1997, following a () crash in Paris.
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Failure to arrive on time for the appointment may result in the test being canceled.
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In the latter half of the 16th century, a form of drama arose in France called “French Light and Shadow”, which caused a great sensation when it was staged in Paris and Marseilles.
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Usually, I (work)_______ as a secretary at ABT, but this summer I (study)_______ French at a language school in Paris. That is why I am in Paris.
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下面哪一首电影金曲中有这样的歌词“And never let go till we’re gone. Love was when I loved you, one true time I hold to. In my life we’ll always go on. Near, far, wherever you are, I believe that the heart does go on.”（ ）
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5. But I realized that Old Ed was still on his mind when he spoke again,almost more to himself than to me: “I should have kept in touch. Yes,” he repeated,“I should have kept in touch.”
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We have been told that under no circumstances ________ the telephone in the office on the first day when I was offered a job there.
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I don't know where to stay when I arrive in the United States. I have never been t
A．A.the United States
B．B.the country
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E-C translation When I was indicted on May 7, no one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U. S. history.
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听力原文：M: Would you be interested in going to Paris with me this Sunday？ I want to take in a show.
W: I'd love to, if I don't have guesses coming. What about next weekend？
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do？
(16)
A．Meet her this weekend in Paris.
B．Ask someone else to the show.
C．Invite her guests to come along.
D．Go to Paris with her another time.
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Eric：I‘d love to come to your barbecue on Saturday but my cousin is arriving from California that day．
Sonia：That’s no problem．The more the merrier．I‘m glad__________．
A.I can hold such a barbecue for you
B.your cousin will be arriving from California then
C.We finally have a chance to get together
D.that you’re too busy to come to my barbecue
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My son, Johnny, opened a new restaurant, and on the opening day I helped out in the kitchen. By mid-morning, I noticed that the cakes we had ordered hadn't come. Johnny and I decided not to tell it to anyone else, hoping that the cakes would arrive soon.
They still hadn't come when, just before noon, a man eating in our restaurant wanted a cake. I suggested that I run to the bakery next door to get some, and Johnny readily agreed. Going out of our back door, I knocked on the back door of the bakery and bought a few from the baker's helper. That cake was the only one we sold all day.
After closing, Johnny and I sat discussing things with my daughter, who had been out from serving. "An interesting thing happened just before noon," she said. "The owner of the bakery next door came in and ordered a cake of ours. She wanted to compare it with hers."
We know from the passage that ______.
A．the baker next door came to help with the opening
B．the new restaurant did not prepare all its foods
C．the son and the daughter served at the tables
D．the customers enjoyed the cakes very much
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At 80,Peck was still vigorousand living in Paris（）
A．happy
B．alone
C．busy
D．energetic
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I watched people in the final moments before their___ ones arrive or depart.
A．loving
B．love
C．loved
D．being loved
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—Hello, Mr. Brown, I' m ringing about our component delivery. It’s not arrived yet and it’s already three o' clock in the afternoon.—Let’s see. . . It’s______reach you on Tuesday afternoon.
A．owing to
B．likely to
C．due to
D．subject to
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听力原文：W: Thank goodness! You've finally arrived. The conference started thirty minutes ago, and I was just beginning to panic.
M: Sorry for my being late. The traffic was extremely heavy this morning. The Fifth Avenue was totally a mess!
Q: How did the woman feel when she saw the man？
(13)
A．Excited
B．Embarrassed.
C．Worried.
D．Relieved.
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When I was in high school, I had almost no individual identity left. I was a Hillcrest Husky and all other high schools were enemies. I was a wrestler and all the other sports were wimps. I was on the debate team and everyone else was dumb.
At my high school, everyone had a group; no one was an individual. Wait, I take that back. There were a few individuals, but they were completely outcast from our social order. Never in my life can I remember stronger feelings of hate in high school. But we never called it hate. We called it loyalty.
As adults, most of us are better at being an individual than we were in high school, but the influences of group identity continue to promote competition and prejudice in our world. If you are like me, you want to avoid teaching rivalry, conflict and prejudice to your children.
One possible strategy for stopping the negative influences of group identity would be: recognize and replay. Look for the prejudice in your life and replace it with charity. Treat every person as an individual and ignore the social classifications created by a group-dependent world.
A good friend and I once discussed our differing religions beliefs. He identified with a certain group and I with another. Because of our dependence on group identity, our conversations revolved around the beliefs of the groups. Our individual beliefs, which were quite similar, took a back seat while we discussed topics we knew little about. We defended our groups even when we did not understand or know the official group position on many issues. The resulting rivalry has damaged our friendship ever since.
My behavior. in this situation is exactly what scripture and wisdom teach us to avoid. How stupid I was to judge my friend by a group standard! How stupid I was to defend my own group even in areas I knew nothing about! I hope I can teach my children to behave differently.
Here, I have used religious beliefs to point only one area in which the influence of group identity can create problems. There are many others to consider also. Some of these are marriage, race, culture, language, geographic origin, education, and behavior. We should treat all people as individuals regardless of these conditions.
Finally, loyalty and group identity are not always bad. At times, they can help a lonely person to feel loved or a broken soul to feel success. Group identity can also help us to live a higher standard. But positive peer pressure should never replace individual, one-to-one acts of service and love.
According to the article, ______came along with group identity.
A．rivalry
B．prejudice
C．conflicts
D．all of the above
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I'm in Paris, and a strangely quiet Paris it is. Nothing is going nowhere. If they're not on strike here, they're stuck in a traffic jam. It took me two hours to go two miles yesterday evening. And this morning many of the taxis, too, have joined in, leaving me with no alternative but to start walking. And it' s bitterly cold!
The strikes are serious protests about serious issues, but I'm struck, as so often on these occasions, by something much more mundane. People are once again talking to people; strangers are going out of their way to befriend strangers, allies for a week or two in their shared frustration. Parisian motorists, even, normally the most competitive of individualists, have been seen leaving notes in their parked cars saying where they are going and when they expect to leave in case anymore wants a lift.
Remove the technology of modem life, it seems, and we often start to be nice to one another again. Technology can isolate us, for all its benefits. It started, I guess, with the chimney. Before there were chimneys, we all had to huddle together in one room Just to keep warm, master and maid, cowman and son of the house. Then some unknown genius came up with the idea of the chimney, and the social stratification of society increased dramatically as all withdrew into their own quarters. Central heating, which is, more truthfully, decentralized heating, made it worse, and now we have our walkmans, our microwaves, or, if we' re really trendy, the Internet and e-mail. You can get by, these days, without actually speaking to anyone at all. Just the odd grunt to show that you' re alive !
I liked the survey which asked teenagers how they laid a table for a meal. Did they put the knife on the fight and the fork on the left, or did they put them both together？ And 40 percent said one and 20 percent the other, but 40 percent didn't know! They had never sat down at a table together but had always, as they say, been grazers, helping themselves from the fridge and carrying the food off to their own comer to munch on their own.
If progress means that we don' t need to talk to each other anymore, then I'm getting worried. You can' t begin to love and befriend your neighbors if you never talk to them, and vice versa, they can't love you. It becomes a recipe for a world of solitaries. But most of us weren't destined to be hermits. People need people to be truly people, as the Parisians, in spite of all their frustrations, are discovering again this week. "Try walking instead" was my motto for this morning, but perhaps the motto for us all this festive month might be "Turn it off, whatever it is, and try talking instead!"
According to the author, the advent of modem technology may NOT______.
A．isolate us from the test of the society.
B．enable us to enjoy a much more convenient life.
C．leave people alone so that they may become truly people.
D．help people become grazers who are used to helping themselves from the fridge and carrying the food off to their own comer to munch on their own.
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Tile media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I re member experiencing the events related to the People's Park that were occurring on campus. Some of these events were given national media coverage in the press and on TV. I found it interesting to compare my impression of what was going on with perceptions obtained from the news media．I could begin to see events of that time feed on news coverage. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the distinctions between these realities.
Electronic media are having a greater impact on the people's lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the electronic city. Consider the information that television brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your consciousness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on "live action" such as the fires or the rescue efforts. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened．This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these realities.
In 1992, many people watched in horror as riots broke out on a sad Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, seemingly fed by video coverage from helicopters. This event was triggered by the verdict (裁定) in the Rodney King beating. We are now in an age where the public can have access to information that enables it to make its own judgements, and most people, who had seen the video of this beating, could not understand how the jury (陪审团) was able to acquit (宣布……无罪) the policemen involved．Media coverage of events as they occur also provides powerful feedback that influences events. This can have harmful results, as it seemed on that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday night the public got to see Rodney King on television plea ding, "Can we all get along？" By Saturday, television seemed to provide positive feedback as the Los Angeles riot turned out into a rally for peace. The television showed thousands of people marching with banners and cleaning tools. Because of that, many more people turned out to join the peaceful event they saw unfolding on television. The real healing, of course, will take much longer, but electronic media will continue to be a part of that process.
The best title for the passage is______.
A．The 1992 Los Angeles Riots
B．The Impact of Media on Current Events
C．The 1989 San Francisco Earthquake and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
D．How Media Cover Events
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I used to think education was the most important thing in my life. Recently my attitude has begun to change, although I still hold that it is essential for everyone in the world today. As a top junior student in my college, I was asked to make a speech on how to learn English well. Standing in front of the audience and facing so many freshmen, I was trembling. I didn&39;t remember any word that I had prepared. I ran out of the conference room without finishing my speech, leaving everyone puzzled. I cried that night in my room, feeling that I was a loser. Studying takes so much of my time that I feel unable to really develop myself. I am just storing knowledge; yet fail to communicate with others. I have received many awards in school, but they don&39;t necessarily reflect anything about me. I don&39;t know how to socialize. When I leave school I fear I will be of no use to society.
I realize that everyone has her or his own way of living. I want to change my lifestyle. Of course I will keep studying. Yet I plan to look for a part-time job, which might turn out to be a good chance to get to know society. I still believe that working my hardest does make me happy. I will still stay on in college, but I will not allow it to shelter me from the real world.
1. From this passage, we know that the author回答.
A. does not think education is the most important thing in her life any more
B. thinks that communication with other people is more important than education
C. realizes that it is more important to really develop oneself than just to store knowledge
2. By saying that she is "a junior student" in her college, the author means that she is回答.
A. a student in her third year in college
B. a very young college student
C. younger than most students in college
3. The author thinks the awards she has received 回答.
A. show that she is a top student
B. show how much time she has spent in learning
C. don&39;t necessarily reflect her real self
4. The author fears that she will be of no use to society, mainly because回答.
A. she feels she is a loser
B. she does not know how to communicate with others
C. studying takes too much of her time
5. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage, when the author says that she wants to find a part-time job？回答
A. The job might enable her to get to know society.
B. She wants to change her lifestyle.
C. She wants to get some shelter from the real world.
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In 2014, Alibaba was listed on_（）
A．The Stock Exchange of Hongkong
B．Shanghai Stock Exchange
C．New York Stock Exchange
D．NASDAQ
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When I was listening to Mozart, there was ____ on the door. （ ）
A:knock
B:a knock
C:the knock
D:knocking
