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He took the other road to avoid （） her.
A . meeting
B . tomeet
C . meet
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If you are asked to chair a meeting, remember the following six golden rules for meeting（）.
A . treatment
B . requirement
C . management
D . improvement
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Most of the measures F.D.Roosevelt took in the first hundred days he was in the White House were to（）
A . stop bank failures
B . prevent radical actions in the United States
C . prevent the further worsening of the economic situation and lessen the personal sufferings of the people
D . prevent further worsening of the unstable political situatio
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It took the experts several days to decide on the for the new airport。
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The boy was so interested in the radio that he took it to see how it runs.
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. In this sentence, what is the underlined part called?
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判断正误：When you are interviewing, you could use a comfortable sitting posture, for example, sitting close to the back of the chair.
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He is able to make a _____ note of all the phone numbers. That proves he has an instinct for numbers.
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It took the experts several days to decide on the for the new airport。
A、source
B、earth
C、site
D、character
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After a slow start, the plan soon took ______and was accepted by all.
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G. G. Byron took an active part in the revolutionary work of the Carbonari when he was in Italy.
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Choose the best Chinese translation for the sentence. Tom took Laura to a Western movie, but Laura didn’t like the movie at all.
A．汤姆带着劳拉去看了西部电影，劳拉不喜欢。
B．汤姆带着劳拉去看了西部电影，劳拉根本不喜欢。
C．汤姆带着劳拉去看了一场西部电影，不过劳拉根本不喜欢。
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The official was arrested for inability to______all his fortune he has enjoyed.
A．clarify
B．intensify
C．verify
D．justify
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Ken and I met and saw each other just three times before he left for Vietnam. He never gave me flowers or candy. There were no moonlight walks, no lingering good-byes on the front porch. Our courtship took place by mail.
I felt sorry for him, far from home in the service of his country. Writing to him seemed almost a patriotic duty. But as we got better acquainted, our letter-writing pace increased—to as many as three a day. I started driving home at lunch to collect the mail.
Then Ken came back in leave, and we surprised ourselves by getting mantled and going overseas together. Romantic？ Not really, because then he left on a three-week mission, making our honeymoon a by-mail event too.
We didn't set out to defy romantic customs; it just turned out that way, and stayed that way. We had been married seven years before we remembered our anniversary—and then only because my mother phoned to wish us a happy one. It took another ten years for us to notice Valentine's Day.
To celebrate our alertness that year, we decided to have a conventionally romantic evening; a quiet, just-the-two-of-us dinner at a nice restaurant.
When we arrived at the restaurant, we were told there would be a 40-minute wait, and so we headed for another nice, but not so romantic place. About halfway to our second choice, Ken realized that the restaurant would not honor our credit card and we were low on cash. I sighed and said, "I do have enough for a fast-food place." Clearly, we were veering far off the conventional coupe.
While Ken placed the order, I gathered napkins and straws and went to select a romantic spot in the nonsmoking area. There I found a woman methodically turning chairs up onto tables. "This section's closed," she said.
"But it's the only nonsmoking section," I protested. She pointed across the room. "You can sit over there."
"That's the smoking section," I argued.
"I know," she said. "But you don't have to smoke."
I started to protest but stopped to choke back a laugh. Maybe because she thought I was going to cry, she removed the opened chairs from a table and said, "This okay？" I thanked her and, after she had gone, sat giggling until Ken arrived with the hamburgers.
Surrounded by a forest of upside-down chair legs, we had our Valentine dinner. It wasn't exactly quiet, with grill workers yelling at each other in the kitchen past the swing door near our table. But it was just the two of us, if you didn't count the person with the mop who kept humping our chairs.
According to the context, "flowers or candy, moonlight walks, lingering good-byes" are to indicate ______.
A．some examples of conventional customs
B．an intimate friendship
C．a special relationship
D．an ordinary acquaintance
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What did he do all this for.
A．To know if animals like chickens could be posted.
B．To amuse the reader with an unlikely answer to the chicken-or-egg puzzle.
C．To know if eggs would break on the way to their destination.
D．To show that he was highly intelligent.
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If George took the job in Birmingham, he would have to leave his family at Wyeford.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
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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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One peculiar feature of the feudal system of England was that all landowners took the oath of allegiance to______.
A．their immediate lord
B．the king
C．either their immediate lord or king
D．their immediate lord and the king as well
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He put his hands in the worn－out jeans and took out _______ pennies.
A.a handful of
B.the hand of
C.a hand of
D.the handful of
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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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When the new manager took______the store, he made it more profitable.
A．out
B．on
C．over
D．in
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Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absentminded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyze their embarrassing lapses in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings. Nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random.
One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. "The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer," explains the professor. "People program themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman's custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the program." About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these "program assembly failures."
Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselves doing--an average of twelve each. There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are at our zaniest, These are two hours some time between eight a.m. and noon, between four and six p.m. with a smaller peak between eight and ten p.m. "Among men the peak seems to be when a changeover in brain 'programs' occurs, as for instance between going to and from work." Women on average reported slightly more lapses--12.5 compared with 10.9 for men--probably because they were more reliable reporters.
A startling finding of the research is that the absent-minded activity is a hazard of doing things in which we are skilled. Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number of errors we make. But trying to avoid silly slips by concentrating more could make things a lot worse——even dangerous.
In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects ______
A．to keep truck of people who tend to forget things
B．to report their embarrassing lapses at random
C．to analyze their awkward experiences scientifically
D．to keep a record of what they did unintentionally
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Man depends on water for many things. He needs it for drinking. He needs it for growing food. He needs it for keeping himself clean and free from illness. He needs more and more water for industry. People often forget how necessary water is for industry. Imagine, for example, the immense quantities of water used by the great cooling towers of steel works. The demand for water is growing every day. It is closely connected with the increasing population and with the pressing problem of providing enough food. But the world has not yet found ways of storing enough water to satisfy all these important needs, not even in west countries like England. Great efforts are being made today to store water, particularly in hot countries where the rainfall is small.
Three-quarters of the world is covered with water. But only three percent of this water is fresh. All the rest is salt, and fills the oceans and the great inland seas. It is the salt that makes sea water useless to man. If you take the salt away the water can be used for drinking and for watering plants.
In 1962 President John Kennedy of the United States said, "When man discovers how to mm salt water into fresh water cheaply, he will have made a much more important scientific advance than when he first landed on the moon".
Human beings need water for【46】,【47】and【48】and【49】.
Main idea: The【50】
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英语翻译
1.Mr.Smith lives in a tall building.He lives on the 14th floor.Every day he takes a lift up and down.
2.One Sunday afternoon he drove his nine-year-old son to go shopping.
3.They shopped all afternoon and bought many things.They drove back and carried all the things up to the lift.
4.Suddenly they saw a piece of paper on the wall.It said,"Dear sirs,there is something wrong with the lift.Please use the stairs now."
5.The son was very happy.He took a bag and ran upstairs quickly.But Mr.Smith walked and walked.
6.At last they stood in front of their door,feeling very tired.Mr.Smith began to look for the keys,but he could not find them.
7.Suddenly he shouted in a loud voice,"Oh,no.I've leftmy keys in the car.Bill,could you run down and get the keys for me?"
8.But Bill said,"I'm sorry,Dad.I ran all the way up here and I'm very tired.This time you should run down and do the things by yourself."
