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原文:I am convinced that china's reform, open up and stability will provide the business community of asian and european coutries with tremendous investment and trade opportunities.译文:我们相信亚欧国家的商界会给中国的改革开放和稳定带来可观的投资和贸易良机。
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Quickly I told what I had done and Mother stated firmly that she would take up the matter of lunches the next day!
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When I grew up a little, I began to ______ the meaning of words in economics such as financial crisis and unemployment in life, that is, inferior food and thriftier life.
A.recover
B.appreciate
C.exaggerate
D.address
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听力原文:W: Raise your hat a little bit and hold the saddle and smile a little. You look wonderful posing like that. Shall I press the shutter?
M: Wait a minute. Let me put on a cowboy hat.
Q: What are the speakers doing?
(16)
A.Riding a horse.
B.Shooting a movie.
C.Playing a game.
D.Taking a photo.
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听力原文:I thought this suit was a good bargain but soon after I returned home, I washed it and found it shrunk so much that I would ask for a refund from the store.
(28)
A.The store should compensate me for the suit.
B.Even though the suit was of bad quality, I would take it due to its low prices.
C.Soon after I bought the coat, I had it shortened to fit my size.
D.The store refused to take my suit of inferior quality.
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The shop girl almost called me stupid when I said that camera wasn't to my ______ and a bit cheap-looking.
A.astonishment
B.taste
C.delight
D.knowledge
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听力原文:M: Turn your head a little bit leftward and look straight to this direction.Get relaxed and you look great posing like that.Shall I press the shutter?
W: Give me a second.I'd like to put on a little bit of lipstick.
Q: What are the speakers doing?
(19)
A.Choosing cosmetics.
B.Taking photos.
C.Doing hairstyle.
D.Playing a game.
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Too Late to Regret it When I was a junior, I met a second-year student in my department. He wasn't tall or good-looking, but he was very nice, attractive and athletic. He had something that I admired very much. He was natural, warm, and sincere.
I disregarded (不顾) my parents' disapproval. We were very happy together. He picked me up from my dorm every morning, and after class we would sit alongside the stream that ran through campus, or sunbathe (晒太阳) on the lawn. At night he would walk me back to my dorm. He came from a poor family, but in order to make me happy, he borrowed money from his friend to buy presents and meals for me. Our fellow students looked up to him as a role model, and the girls envied (妒忌) me. He wasn't a local, but wanted to stay here after graduation. I thought we had a future together.
However, when I got a part-time job during the summer vacation, people began giving me a lot of pressure, saying that a pretty, intelligent girl like me should find a better guy to spend time with. This was also what my family thought. He spent the summer in his hometown, so I was all by myself. When he got back, I began finding fault with him. But his big heart and warmth soon drove all unpleasant thoughts away. However, I had no idea how badly I had hurt him and that things would get worse.
I had a good part4ime job off campus that paid pretty well. With my good performance at school, I also got admission to graduate school at one of China's best universities. He, on the other hand, did not do so well at school or at work. I had to worry about his living expenses, job and scores.
Almost all my colleagues and friends advised me to break up with him. Then we had a quarrel last June. He was in great pain, and my cold words and bad moods started turning him away.
Graduation time was drawing near, and he said he wanted to go back to his hometown. He said that he couldn't put up with me anymore. I was shocked and looked at him in despair.
True love happens only once, but I found it out too late.
第36题:When did the author fall in love with the boy?
A.When she was a junior.
B.After she had a quarrel with him.
C.When she was a second-year student.
D.After she found a part-time job.
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Speaker A: ______Speaker B: Do you know that place next to the travel agency on South Street?Speaker A: Sure. I'll go and have a look.
A.Cool! Your dress is new. How much is it?
B.How do you like your new dress?
C.Where do you get your new dress?
D.How much did you spend on your new dress?
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听力原文:M: If I'd only looked earlier, I could have found a nearer apartment for less money.
W: Yes, now that all the students are returning, the only apartments left are distant and expensive.
What is the man's problem?
A.He doesn't like his neighbor.
B.He is dissatisfied with the present apartment.
C.He lived in a near and cheap apartment.
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听力原文:W: I'm really looking forward to this trip with our geology class. But I'm not certain if I have the strength to carry a backpack up and down the mountain, especially when it's full of tools.
M: They are taking two donkeys to carry the tools. We just have to carry our personal items, like clothing and sleeping bags.
Q: What does the man mean?
(17)
A.He doesn't know what tools to bring.
B.He doesn't mind helping the woman.
C.The woman won't have to carry the tools.
D.The donkeys will carry the woman's personal items.
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Yesterday my friend and I went to the supermarket nearbyWe found that there were ______nothing worth buying.
A.almost
B.nearly
C.near
D.about
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We can make mistakes at any age. Some mistakes we make are about money. But most mistakes are about people. "Did Jerry really care when I broken up with Helen?" "When I got that great job did Jim really feel good about it, as a friend?" "Or did be envy my luck?" "And Paul-- why didn't I pick up that he was friendly just because I had a car?" When we look back, doubts like these can make us feel bad. But when we look back, it's too late.
Why do we go wrong about our friends or our enemies? Sometimes what people say hides their real meaning. And if we don't really listen, we miss the feeling behind the words. Suppose someone tells you, "You're a lucky dog." Is he really on your side? If he says, "You're a lucky guy" or "You're a lucky gal," that's being friendly. But "lucky dog" ? There's a bit of envy in those words. Maybe he doesn't see it himself. But bringing in the "dog" bit puts you down a little. What be may be saying is that be doesn't think you deserve your luck.
"Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for" is another noise that says one thing and means another. It could mean that the speaker is trying to get you to see your problem as part of you life as a whole. But is he? Wrapped up in this phrase is the thought that your problem isn't important. It's telling you to think of all the starving people in the world when you haven't got a date for Saturday night.
How can you tell the real meaning behind someone's words? One way is to take a good look at the person talking. Do his words fit the way he looks? Does what he says square with the tone of voice? His posture? The look in his eyes? Stop and think. The minute you spend thinking about the real meaning of what people say to you may save another mistake.
Note: guy = boy; gal = girl
In paragraph 1, when the writer recalls some things that happened between him and his friends, ______.
A.he feels happy, thinking of how nice his friends were to him.
B.he feels he may not have "read" his friends' true feelings correctly.
C.he thinks it was a mistake to have broken up with his girlfriend.
D.he is sorry that his friends let him down.
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The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition - and I told the sisters: You take care of the other three. I take care of this one who looked worse. So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand as she said just the words "Thank you" and she died.
I could not help but examine my conscience before her and I asked what I would say if I was in her place. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself. I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much more - she gave me her grateful love. And she died with a smile on her face. So did that man whom we picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. "I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for", he said at the end . And it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel - this is the greatness of our people. And that is why we believe what Jesus has said: I was hungry, I was naked, I was homeless, I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for, and you did it to me.
And with this prize that I received as a Prize of Peace, I am going to try to make the home for many people who have no home. Because I believe that love begins at home and if we can create a home for the poor I think that more and more love will spread. And we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace, be the good news to the poor, the poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But to a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out from society, that poverty is so full of hurt and so unbearable… And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
What can be learned from the second paragraph?
A.The woman should have paid more attention to herself.
B.The man couldn' t blame anyone.
C.The author is religious.
D.The man died in the street.
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—How did you like the fashion show last night?—I didn't see anything wrong with the clothes, they looked pretty nice to me. —Do you really think people can wear that stuff and walk around in streets?
A.Impressive. It’s a good way to show off women’s sense of style. and wealth.
B.It was cool. The clothes are more beautiful than the people wearing them.
C.Nothing serious. It’s only a show to attract the eyes of fashion fans.
D.It was dumb. I think it’s stupid for women to wear clothes like that.
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I don't know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony's “Funeral Oration”, Grey's “Elegy”, and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all.
He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc. , and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London. I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms--a bedroom and a sitting room--in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.
We may conclude, in regard to the author's development as a writer, that his father ________.
A.made an important contribution
B.insisted that he choose writing as a career
C.opposed his becoming a writer
D.insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer
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听力原文:M Oh boy, I just made a stupid financial move. Yesterday, I joined a gym, and I just found out that the community race center has exactly the same equipment as the gym for about half the price.
W Ouch, that hurts. How big a price difference is it?
M The gym is $49 a month; the community race center is only $27. And it's a lot closer to my house.
W Is there any way you can get out of the gym contract? Check the fine print; these contracts often let you out within the first 2 weeks or so.
What does the man say he did?
A.Hurt himself at the gym
B.Joined a gym near his work
C.Lost his gym membership card
D.Found out about a cheaper gym
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I have certainly seen lots of changes in my lifetime! I look around my home and see "mod cons" that I could never have dreamed of 50 or 60 years ago. I spent the early part of childhood in a cottage without running water or electricity and yet these days, I feel paralyzed if there is a power cut for even just an hour or two! So, I have changed too. Things that I couldn't even imagine in the past now seem quite normal.
Businessmen can travel from London to New York in three hours and lots of people exceed the seventy-mile-per-hour speed limit on motorways. A person of 75 is not old these days. A serious illness does not mean certain death because there have been so many advances in medical science. We no longer need to be afraid of contracting diseases like polio or smallpox. I can speak to my son in Australia from my own sitting room here in Manchester, watch athletes running a race on the other side of the world without moving from my own home and I can even do my shopping while I sit here in an armchair. I never need to worry about food going bad in the warm weather and, at the flick of a switch, I can have a hot meal in a couple of minutes. So, it seems, the quality of life has greatly improved since my own childhood.
I'm not convinced, however, that people are happier today than they were 50 years ago. We are certainly materially better off than we were but most people still seem to be weighed down by problems. My daughter and her family are a good illustration. They have a spacious, comfortable home with every labor-saving device you can think of. There's a washing machine, a clothes dryer, a food processor, a vacuum cleaner and all sorts of other household items which are designed to save time but it seems to me that my daughter and her husband just spend all that "saved" time working! They never relax and are always complaining of being tired and "stressed".
What is the passage mainly about?
A.How life has improved.
B.How life has become worse.
C.A comparison of life now and that in the past.
D.Memory of life in the past.
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The electrician found himself looking forward more and more_____to the holiday at home.
A.anxiously
B.eagerly
C.worriedly
D.seriously
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One day one of them said to the king. "After much thought and study. I have found out that Ihert. is only one way for you to get well. You must wear the shirt of a happy ]nail. "
So Ihe king sent his men to every part of his land to look for a happy man. First they visited me rich They asked all thesepeoplethesamequostion. "Arc you happy?" Bul every one of them answcred. "No. 1 don't know what real happiness means. "
One day nile of the king's men mci a woodcutter (伐木工)
"Are you happy?" asked die king's man.
"As happy as the day is long. " answered Ibc woodcutter.
"Oh. goodt" said the man. "Give me your shirt. "
"Why?" said Ibe woodculter. "I beven'l got one. "
The king wasn't happy because he wtm ill.
A.True.
B.False.
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There came a guest who had booked a standard room. But after checking, I found that there was no standard left. I checked the record of this guest, and found that he had always booked deluxe rooms.
I felt that it was perfect chance to up-sell. I checked the booked room with the guest, “Thank you very much for your reliance on our hotel, Mr. Gao. It’s my pleasure to serve you. This time, you have ordered a standard large-bed non-smoking for three nights, right?” “Yes.”
”I suggest you are on a business, right? I’d like to suggest you try our executive floor. It’s newly decorated, and you will enjoy the top-level service. And there are many preferential treatments.”
“Really? Then what preferential treatments can I have if I take that?”
“Mr. Gao, you need to use the internet to deal with you business, right? The Internet service is not free, but you may have one-hour free Internet use each day if you take the ECF. In addition, 80 yuan’s free laundry service, 6 tins of free soft drinks, and so on. And for all of these, you will only need to pay another 20 yuan.”
Here I stopped to observe the reaction of the guest. He kept silence for a while, looking hesitated. Then I said. “Maybe your concern is not how much you will pay, but rather whether the room is worth the price. Would you like to make your decision after having a look at the show room?”
The guest felt very hard to turn down my warm-hearted offer, so he decided to take an executive room for three nights.
30、The guest booked a deluxe room in Lisa’s hotel()
31、Lisa wanted to earn more money by recommending a higher-priced room()
32、The guest can use the Internet for free is he takes the executive room()
33、Lisa really knew why the guest hesitated()
34、At last, the guest accepted Lisa’s suggestion()
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It is a blow for the Ugly Bettys and Plain Janes ——research shows that good looks lead to better pay. A study of 4,000 young men and women found that beauty boosted pay checks more than intelligence.
It is unclear what is behind the phenomenon but it may be that beauty creates confidence. The self-confident may appear to be doing better than they are and will not hesitate about asking for a pay rise.
Researcher Jason Fletcher, of Yale University in the U.S., rated the attractiveness of the 4,000 men and women. Just over half were judged average, while 7 percent were felt to be very attractive and 8 percent were judged unattractive or very unattractive. The volunteers also sat an IQ test and reported their salary. It became clear that pay scales were far from fair. For instance, a 14- point increase on the IQ score was associated with a 3 to 6 percent increase in wage. But being of above-average looks increased pay by 5 to 10 percent .
For a plain person to be paid the same as a very attractive one , they would have to be 40 percent brighter, the journal Economics Letters reports.
Dr Fletcher said:“The results do show that people ’s looks have an impact on their wages and it can be very important.”
6.What is the “plainness penalty ”?
A.To be paid less for being ordinarily-looking
B.To be laughed at for being ordinarily-looking
C.To be fired for being ordinarily-looking
D.To be questioned for being ordinarily-looking
How many people were rated as very attractive in Jason Fletcher ’s study?A.About 280
B.About 4,000
C.About 2,000
D.About 320
What ’s the average annual salary of a good-looking person?A.£2,500
B.£25,000
C.£22,500
D.£27,500
Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage ?A.IQ is less important than appearance
B.Confidence makes people prettier
C.Good looks earn an extra penny
D.How Plain Janes get a higher salary
Good-looking people are usually paid more probably because________ .A.they look smarter
B.they have higher degrees
C.they are better at pleasing others
D.they are more confident
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I stood up ______ him and said I had always found him to be honest.
A.by
B.with
C.for
D.at
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Students can read and look up all new words in the dictionary.()
此题为判断题(对,错)。