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The dog's collar was so（）that it came off over his head.
A . loose
B . slight
C . broad
D . excessive
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Chris was very _____ of his own abilities so he never gave up his faith.
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One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.
However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you？"
"You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a kindness. "He said," Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart. "As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but it also increased his faith in the human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.
Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called in to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately, he rose and went down through the hospital hall into her room.
Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room and determined to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave special attention to her case.
After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was positive that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words...
"Paid in full with a glass of milk."
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly
Tears of joy flooded her eyes.
The boy tried to earn money to pay for ______.
A．traveling expenses to school
B．school tuition fee
C．his meals
D．a glass of milk
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When the manager pointed out that the error was in the clerk's own handwriting, he curled _____ and admitted his fault（）
A．out
B．away
C．down
D．up
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The driver stopped his car so abruptly that he was hit by the cab behind him.
A．impolitely
B．violently
C．suddenly
D．maladroitly
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He was pursuing his ___ of collecting stamps for so many years.
A．love
B．like
C．hobby
D．fun
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The problem was so complicated that Mr. Smith had to______his brains.
A．crack
B．check
C．rack
D．block
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His speech was so interesting that it was constantly______by applause.
A．interfered
B．interrupted
C．troubled
D．disturbed
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His brother is ill.So he has to do some e()work
1.His brother is ill.So he has to do some e( )work.
2.At first he thought English was hard,Bue later he became i( )in it.
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A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancée (未婚妻). The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present on her birthday. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he had no idea how to do it, as he had very little money. The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: gold watches, diamond… but all these things were too expensive. There was one thing he could not take his eyes off. It was a beautiful vase. That was a suitable present for his fiancée. He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him.
The young man told him everything. The manager felt sorry for him and decided to help him. A bright idea struck him. The manager pointed to the corner of the shop. To his great surprise the young man saw a vase broken into many pieces. The manager said: "When the servant enters the room, he will drop it."
On the birthday of his fiancée the young man was very excited. Everything happened as had been planned. The servant brought in the vase, and as he entered the room, he dropped it. There was horror on everybody's face. When the box was opened, the guests saw that each piece was packed separately.
6. The story took place ______.
A. in France B. in the United States
C. in Germany D. in England
7. Which of the following is true？
A. A rich young man fell in love with a beautiful girl.
B. The young man had enough money to buy a beautiful vase.
C. The young man loved the girl but the girl didn't love him.
D. The young man's family was poor while the beautiful girl is rich.
8. Why did the young man want to buy a present for the girl？
A. He wanted to give her a Christmas present.
B. He fell in love with her.
C. Her birthday was coming soon.
D. They were going to get married.
9. Why did the shop manager come to talk to the young man？
A. He looked very excited.
B. He was poorly dressed.
C. He looked pale and sad.
D. He said he wanted to buy a beautiful vase.
10. On the birthday of his fiancée, the young man was excited because ______.
A. the girl was in love with him
B. the girl looked beautiful
C. he was not sure whether his trick would be seen through
D. the girl was happy and gay
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Gooch, who as captain of that touring party was the main target, felt under so much per______ pressure that at one stage he actually had thought of quitting his job.
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The rain was so heavy that the man was wet to the skin; his whole body was______ and trembling.
A．stiff
B．straight
C．steady
D．hard
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1 For the Greeks, beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call-lamely, enviously whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person's "inside" and "outside," they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable, so seductive-and so ugly. One of Socrates' main pedagogical acts was to be ugly-and teach those innocent, no doubt splendid-looking disciples of his how full of paradoxes life really was.
2 They may have resisted Socrates' lesson. We do not. Several thousand years later, we are more wary of the enchantments of beauty. We not only split off-with the greatest facility-the "inside" (character, intellect) from the "outside" (looks); but we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent, talented, good.
3 It was principally the influence of Christianity that deprived beauty of the central place it had in classical ideals of human excellence. By limiting excellence (virtus in Latin) to moral virtue only, Christianity set beauty adrift-as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment. And beauty has continued to lose prestige. For close to two centuries it has become a convention to attribute beauty to only one of the two sexes: the sex which, however fair, is always Second. Associating beauty with women has put beauty even further on the defensive, morally.
4 A beautiful woman, we say in English, but a handsome man. "Handsome" is the masculine equivalent of-and refusal of-a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones, by being reserved for women only. That one can call a man "beautiful" in French and in Italian suggests that Catholic countries-unlike those countriesshaped by the Protestant version of Christianity-still retain some vestiges of the pagan admiration for beauty. But the difference, if one exists, is of degree only. In every modern country that is Christian or post-Christian, women are the beautiful sex-to the detriment of the notion of beauty as well as of women.
The author means _________ by "whole persons" in Para. 1.
A．persons of beauty
B．persons of virtue
C．persons of excellence
D．none of the above
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"A writer's job is to tell the truth," said Hemingway in 1942. No other writer of our time had so fiercely asserted, so pugnaciously defended or so consistently exemplified the writer's obligation to speak truly His standard of truth-telling remained, moreover, so high and so rigorous that he was ordinarily unwilling to admit secondary evidence, whether literary evidence or evidence picked up from other sources than his own experience. "I only know what I have seen," was a statement which came often to his lips and pen. What he had personally done, or what he knew unforgettably by having gone through one version of it, was what he was interested in telling about. This is not to say that he refused to invent freely. But he always made it a sacrosanct point to invent in terms of what he actually knew from having been there.
The primary intent of his writing, from first to last, was to seize and project for the reader what he often called "the way it .was." This is a characteristically simple phrase for a concept of extraordinary complexity, and Hemingway's conception of its meaning subtly changed several times in the course of his career--always in the direction of greater complexity. At the core of the concept, however, one can invariably discern the operation of three aesthetic instruments; the sense of place the sense of fact and the sense of scene.
The first of these, obviously a strong passion with Hemingway is the sense of place. "Unless you have geography, background," he once told George Anteil, "You have nothing." You have, that is to say, a dramatic vacuum. Few writers have been more place-conscious. Few have s carefully charted out she geographical ground work of their novels while managing to keep background so conspicuously unobtrusive. Few, accordingly, have been able to record more economically and graphically the way it is when you walk through the streets of Paris in search of breakfast at corner café… Or when, at around six o' clock of a Spanish dawn, you watch the bulls running from the corrals at the Puerta Rochapea through the streets of Pamplona towards the bullring.
"When I woke it was the sound of the rocket exploding that announced the release of the bulls from the corrals at the edge of town. Down below the narrow street was empty. All the balconies were crowded with people. Suddenly a crowd came down the street. They were all running, packed close together. They passed along and up street toward the bullring and behind them came more men running faster, and then some stragglers who ere really running. Behind them was a little bare space, and then the bulls, galloping, tossing their heads up and down. It all went out of sight around the corner. One man fell, rolled to the gutter, and lay quiet. But the bulls went right on and did not notice him. They were all running together."
This landscape is as morning-fresh as a design in India ink on clean white paper. First is the bare white street, seem from above, quiet and empty. Then one sees the first packed clot of runners. Behind these are the thinner ranks of those who move faster because they are closer to bulls. Then the almost comic stragglers, who are "really running." Brilliantly behind these shines the "little bare space," a desperate margin for error. Then the clot of running bulls-closing the design, except of course for the man in the gutter making himself, like the designer's initials, as inconspicuous as possible.
According to the author, Hemingway's primary purpose in telling a story was ______.
A．to construct a well-told story that the reader would thoroughly enjoy.
B．To construct a story that would reflect truths that were not particular to a specific historical period
C．To begin from reality but to allow his imagination to roam from "the way it was" to "the way it might have been"
D．To report faithfully reality as Hemingway had experienced it.
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In 1998, Dr. Pan began to study at OSU in America. Since the campus was so big, he sometimes needed to take the school_______________ to go to the classroom from his apartment.
shuttle bus
double-decker bus
minibus
single-decker bus
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His kidney was given to his daughter so as to sav,e her life.
A．transformed
B．transported
C．transmitted
D．transplanted
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Questions 27～31 are Based on the following passage. One airline chief executive officer (CEO) was the master of the personal touch. Spending hours with his employees and getting, to know their joBs, he persuaded them to accept pay cuts in return for an ownership stake. The concession put the company so solidly in the Black that the CEO was aBle to sell it for $ 860 million．Another CEO scolded managers in front of others, cut one third of the work force and so emBittered the survivors that his airline Began to lose money, and the Board of directors fired him.
In any test of knowledge or IQ, the two CEOs would have dueled to a draw. The difference was their aBility to handle relationships, argues Daniel Goleman in Iris new Book, Working With E- motional Intelligence. Building on his 1995 Bestseller, Emotional Intelligence, Goleman now proBes how EI relates to the world of work．As he did in his earlier Book, Goleman masterfully ex- plains how a low EI hinders people's full intellectual potential By flooding the Brain with stress hormones that impair memory, learning and thinking. The heart of the Book, though, is an analysis of data collected from more than 150 firms on what distinguishes so-so performers from superstars. Goleman's findings : conventional intelligence takes second position to emotional intelligence in determining joB performance. In joBs ranging from repairman to scientist, IQ accounts for no more than 25 percent of the difference Between, say, a successful high-tech entrepreneur and a failed one. In another surprise, the contriBution of IQ shrinks and the contriBution of EI rises with the difficulty of a joB and how high it ranks in an organization. Based on traits that companies say distinguish winners from losers, Goleman concludes that EI carries much more weight than IQ in deter- mining success at the top.
However, the many examples of CEOs and other people in top positions who have the emotional intelligence of a snake -- But still were CEOs -- undermine the case for EIs indispensaBility in Business. But even if you accept that EI determines who excels, you have to wonder if it should. Goleman descriBes how 112 entry-level accountants were judged more or less successful By their Bosses according to their level of EI rather than their actual skill. No wonder so many auditors fail to notice cooked Books.
第27题：According to Goleman, the Biggest difference Between the two CEOs descriBed in the first paragraph lies in__________
A．their attitude toward their employees
B．their emotional intelligence
C．their conventional intelligence
D．their Business strategy
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An eleven-year-old boy in a small town wanted to be a driver. But he was born without arms (手臂). His uncle taught him to usa his fuel as hands. He couldn't go to school so he spent all his time watching (看) trains coming and going because he lived near the slabon. How he wished he could be a train diver!
One day he saw an empty (空的) train and lie climbed (爬) in. It's lied no difficulty in starting it with his feet. goon the train was traveling at forty miles (英里) an hour. The railway officials (官员) could see tile boy in the wain and tried to stop the wain. The train arrived at a small station a little away from the town and then the boy drove it back. When he was near the town. a worker caught up with (追上) the train and stop it. At flint he was very angry (生气). hut he laughed when the boy said simply. "I like trains. "Well. I'm glad you don't like planes？ the worker said.
An eleven-year-old boy wished lo he ______.
A．a plane driver
B．a train driver
C．a teacher
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Tom's parents died when he was young, so he was ______ by his uncle.
A、brought up
B、brought out
C、grown up
D、taken out
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There was a man who had four sons. He hoped his so...
There was a man who had four sons. He hoped his sons could learn not to judge things too quickly.
So one day he gavehis four sons a task, asking each of them to go to see a pear tree at a distance in different seasons.
The first son set out in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in autumn.
When all of them returned home, the man called them together to describe what they had seen.
The first son said the tree was ugly, bent, without leaves and therefore hopeless.
The second son said it was not like that, but the tree was covered with green buds (芽 and full of hope.
The third son disagreed, saying that it was full of flowers which smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, and that hehad never seen such beautiful scenery.
The last son disagreed with all of them, saying that the tree was filled with fruits, full of life and happiness.
The man told his four sons that all of them were correct, because they only saw the tree in one season. He told themthat they could not judge a tree or a person only by one season, and that only when all the seasons were over could theyknow a tree or a person fully.
We can learn more from this story. If we just give up in winter, we will miss the hope of spring, the beauty of summerand the harvest of autumn in our life.
The man wanted his sons not to____________
A.have a harvest too soon
B.accept a task loo quickly
C.make a conclusion too soon
D.give n description too quickly
According to the second son, the tree was————
A.lifeless
B.hopeful
C.fruitless
D.beautiful
In the eyes of the third son, the pear tree was a beautiful view.A.in spring
B.in winter
C.in autumn
D.in summer
When the youngest son saw the tree, it was a season of.A.harvest
B.promise
C.coldness
D.sweetness
What can we learn from the last paragraph？A.We can enjoy sweet fruits in autumn.
B.We can enjoy a beautiful view in summer.
C.We should not lose hope when we are in difficulty.
D.We should lose hope when we are feeling cold.
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Andy was frightened of Tommy’s death so as to speed his escape（）
是
否
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He hadn't come out after so long and his girlfriend was puzzling.（）
此题为判断题(对，错)。
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句子中词性转换正确的选项是______。 Mr Bennett was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor,reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and 20 years had been insufficient to make his wife understand h
A．prep．→v．
B．n．→v．
C．adj→v．
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It is often difficult for a man to be quite sure how much tax he ought to pay to the government because it depends on so many different things：whether the man is married;how many children he has;whether he supports any relations，how much interest he receives，how much he has spent on his house during the year，and so on. All this makes it difficult to decide exactly how much the tax is.There was an artist who was always very careful to pay the proper amount.
One year，after posting his check as usual，he began to wonder if he had paid enough，and after a lot of work，with a pencil and paper，he found that he had not. He thought that he owed the government something.
He was just writing another check to send it to the tax collector when the postman dropped a letter into the box at the front door. Opening it，the artist was surprised to find inside it a check for five pounds from the tax collector. The official explained that too much had been paid，and that therefore the difference was now returned to the taxpayer.
11. According to the passage，to decide the exact amount of tax to be paid is ____________.
A. simple
B. easy
C. difficult
D. interesting
12. It is mentioned in the passage that one has to pay tax according to ____________.
A. how much education one has received
B. whether one is single or married
C. how old one’s children are
D. where one lives
13. The word “proper” in the second paragraph means __________.
A. small
B. big
C. right
D. wrong
14. After a lot of work，the artist thought that he had paid the government ____________.
A. less tax than he should have
B. more tax than he should have
C. as much tax as usual
D. just enough tax
15. Why did the tax collector send a letter to the artist？
A. To send him a new tax form.
B. To return the money overpaid.
C. To remind him of paying the tax.
D. To explain the rules of tax paying.
