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Some of the passengers escaped serious ()in the traffic accident.
A . enquiry
B . wound
C . inquiry
D . injury
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The word"motel" comes from"motor + hotel". This is an example of__________ in
morphology.
A . backformation
B . conversion
C . blending
D . acronym
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It is not indeed, my friend, but this child has seen this man in the full career of his success and villainy. And it is his wish, even at the cost of some pain and fear that he should see him now.
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I ______ your early visit to China when I will be able to pay back some of the hospitality I received during my memorable stay in your beautiful country.
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My impression of the service in the hotel was that it had really _____.
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Some people say I bear a striking _____(相像) to my father. I look just the same as my father was in his childhood.
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Looking out of the window of our hotel room, there are lots of mountains in sight.
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Which of the following items should usually not be included in the hotel bill?
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After some work with a coloured pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. In this sentence, what is the underlined part called?
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He wrote beautifully — these columns he wrote in Life magazine, some of _________ are included in my book.
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Curt Carlson, the wealthiest man in Minnesota, owned a hotel and travel company with sales reaching in the neighborhood of $ 9 billion.
A.precisely
B.merely
C.substantially
D.approximately
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We are all in Class 1. Some of my c_________ go to school together(一起)
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The angry woman sat in the station office. "The railway should pay me $12. "She said to Harry, the man who【21】the ticket. "My ticket was【22】May 22nd, and there was【23】train from Jersey that night. My daughter and I had to stay in a hotel. It cost me$12."
Harry was worried. He remembered【24】the woman a return ticket. After he【25】the Jersey timetable for May 22nd, he knew she was right. However, had he made【26】mistake?【27】what to do, he smiled at the child, "Did you have a nice holiday in Jersey?" he said to her. "Yes," she answered shyly. "The seashore was【28】and I can swim【29】!"
"That's fine," said Harry. "My little girl can't swim a bit yet. Of course, she's only three..."
Harry turned to the mother, "I remember your ticket, madam," he said. "30 you didn't get one for your daughter,【31】you?"
"Well," the woman looked at the child. "I mean she hasn't started【32】yet. She is only four. "
"A four-year-old child【33】have a ticket, madam. A child's return ticket to Jersey costs $13.50. So if the railway pays your hotel bill, you will【34】. $1.50. The law is the law, but since the mistake was【35】..."
Saying nothing, the woman stood up, took the child's hand and left the office.
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A.bought
B.sold
C.got
D.paid
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Are you the kind of person who likes staying in unusual places? If the answer is "yes", then try the world's coldest hotel in Jukkasjarvi in the north of Sweden. But go in winter or all you'll find is a pool of water, because the hotel melts every spring!
The man who runs the Attic Hall Hotel is Nils Yngve Bergqvist. He built his first ice building for an art exhibition in 1991 and he designed the present hotel—over 200 meters square—himself. It took workmen about two months to pile 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base. As the weather got colder, the snow froze and then they removed the base. The whole building and everything in it are made of snow—except for the wooden front door. There's a theatre which Nils uses for a jazz club, a radio station and a large ice bar. As you can imagine, hot drinks are popular with the guests! The rooms have no doors; there's no furniture, no heating and everyone sleeps on ice beds. But the 800 people who stayed at the hotel this winter seemed to like it. If you want to stay in one of the ten ice rooms, it will cost you about £30 a night. You will receive a survival certificate from the manager.
When the winter's over, Nils holds his annual contest to predict the day that the hotel will fall. The person that guessed the day correctly last year receives a large painting from an ARTic Hall exhibition. Nils's ice hotel is becoming world-famous and he loves his work.. He's already excited about his next project — an ice hotel that will have more complicated architectural features and, he says, will be bigger and better.
What do we know about the Artic Hall Hotel?
A.It is completely made of snow.
B.It is designed by Nils's friend.
C.It is built once a year.
D.It has a wooden base.
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I've known the joy of seeing some of my students’work published.
A.我知道当一些学生的作品得以发表时,他们心中充满了喜悦。
B.令我感到高兴的是,我看到一些学生的作品在报刊杂志上登出或出版。
C.当看到一些学生的作品得以发表,我尝到了其中的喜悦。
D.我心中充满了看到一些学生的作品得以发表的喜悦。
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I was just a boy when my father brought me to Harlem for the first time, almost 50 years ago. We stayed at the Hotel Theresa, a grand brick structure at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue. Once, in the hotel restaurant, my father pointed out Joe Louis. He even got Mr Brown, the hotel manager, to introduce me to him, a bit paunchy but still the champ as far as I was concerned.
Much has changed since then. Business and real estate are booming. Some say a new renaissance is under way. Others decry what they see as outside forces running roughshod over the old Harlem.
New York meant Harlem to me, and as a young man I visited it whenever I could. But many of my old haunts are gone. The Theresa shut down in 1966. National chains that once ignored Harlem now anticipate yuppie money and want pieces of this prime Manhattan real estate. So here I am on a hot August afternoon, sitting in a Starbucks that two years ago opened a block away from the Theresa, snatching at memories between sips of high-priced coffee. I am about to open up a piece of the old Harlem -- the New York Amsterdam News -- when a tourist asking directions to Sylvia's, a prominent Harlem restaurant, penetrates my daydreaming. He's carrying a book: Touring Historic Harlem.
History. I miss Mr Michaux's bookstore, his House of Common Sense, which was across from the Theresa. He had a big billboard out front with brown and black faces painted on it that said in large letters: "World History Book Outlet on 2,000,000,000 Africans and Nonwhite Peoples." An ugly state office building has swallowed that space.
I miss speaker like Carlos Cooks, who was always on the southwest corner of 125th and Seventh, urging listeners to support' Africa. Harlem's powerful political electricity seems unplugged -- although the streets are still energized, especially by West African immigrants.
Hard-working southern newcomers formed the bulk of the community back in the 1920s and '30s, when Harlem renaissance artists, writers, and intellectuals gave it a glitter and renown that made it the capital of black America. From Harlem, W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Zora Neal Hurston, and others helped power America's cultural influence around the world.
By the 1970s and '80s drugs and crime had ravaged parts of the community. And the life expectancy for men in Harlem was less than that of men in Bangladesh. Harlem had become a symbol of the dangers of inner-city life.
Now, you want to shout "Lookin' good!" at this place that has been neglected for so long. Crowds push into Harlem USA, a new shopping centre on 125th, where a Disney store shares space with HMV Records, the New York Sports Club, and a nine-screen Magic Johnson theatre complex. Nearby, a Rite Aid drugstore also opened. Maybe part of the reason Harlem seems to be undergoing a rebirth is that it is finally getting what most people take for granted.
Harlem is also part of an "empowerment zone" a federal designation aimed at fostering economic growth that will bring over half a billion in federal, state, and local dollars. Just the shells of once elegant old brownstones now can cost several hundred thousand dollars. Rents are skyrocketing. An improved economy, tougher law enforcement, and community efforts against drugs have contributed to a 60 percent drop in crime since 1993.
At the beginning the author seems to indicate that Harlem
A.has remained unchanged all these years.
B.has undergone drastic changes.
C.has become the capital of Black America.
D.has remained a symbol of the dangers of inner-city life.
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I went to the cinema with some of my friends______Saturday.
A.in
B.on
C.at
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完成下列各题 Once a foreigner travelling in France came to Paris for a few days.21 the very first day of his staying in the French capital he 22 a telegram to his wife 23 the name and address of the hotel 24 he was staying.Then he decided to go out and 25 the places of wonder in the capital.He took a long walk along the streets of the city,visiting a few muse ums and by the end of the 26 he felt tired. He wanted to 27 the hotel to take a rest there,but suddenly he 28 he remembered 29 the name nor the address of the hotel.He felt quite 30 and slowly walked along the street,not knowing what to do.Suddenly he found 31 in front of a post office.He quickly ran inside and said 32 an excited voice.“Give me a telegram form,plebe.”“Here you are,”a man answered,giving him a form.It did not 33 long to fill it in.A minute later he handed in the telegram and paid the mall. His wife was greatly 34 when an hour later she received 35 telegram from her husband:“Send me my address at once!”
A.At
B.In
C.On
D.For
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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 am one of the many city people who are always saying that given the choice we would prefer to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city. I have managed to convince myself that if it weren't for my job I would immediately head out for the open spaces and go back to nature in some sleepy village buried in the country. But how realistic is the dream?
Cities can be frightening places. The majority of the population lives in massive tower blocks, noisy, dirty and impersonal. The sense of belonging to a community tends to disappear when you live fifteen floors up. All you can see from your window is sky, or other blocks of flats. Children become aggressive and nervous—cooped up at home all day, with nowhere to play; their mothers feel isolated from the rest of the world. Strangely enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on tire same floor in tower blocks don't even say hello to each other.
Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally binds the inhabitants of small villages together. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. But country life has disadvantages too. While it is true that you may be among friends in a village, it is also true that you are cut off from the exciting and important events that take place in cities. There's little possibility of going to a new show or the latest movie. Shopping becomes a major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go on an expedition to the nearest large town. The city-dweller who leaves for the country is often oppressed by a sense of unbearable stillness and quietness.
What, then, is the answer? The country has the advantage of peace and quiet, but suffers from the disadvantage of being cut off; the city breeds a feeling of isolation, and constant noise batters the senses. But one of its main advantages is that you are at the centre of things; and that life doesn't come to an end at half past nine at night. Some people have found(or rather bought) a compromise between the two: they have expressed their preference for the "quiet life" by leaving the suburbs and moving to villages within commuting distance of large cities. They generally have about as much sensitivity as the plastic flowers they leave behind—they are polluted with strange ideas about change and improvement which they force on to the unwilling original inhabitants of the village.
What then of my dreams of leaning on a cottage gate and murmuring "morning" to the locals as they pass by? I'm keen on the idea, but you see there's my cat, Toby. I'm not at all sure that he would take to all that fresh air and exercise in the long grass. I mean, can you see him mixing with all those hearty males down the farm? No, he would rather have the electric imitation-coal fire any evening.
One of the disadvantages of living in high-rise buildings is that ______.
A.the parents may become violent and difficult to put up with
B.the residents may not have a good view from their windows
C.the residents may become indifferent to their neighbors
D.the children may become too frustrated to be controlled
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I have no cash in my pocket; I have to()some money from the bank.
A.take
B.Withdraw
C.bring
D.fetch
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听力原文: I am living in a small village in the country. My wife and I run a village shop. We have a very peaceful life, boring some might say. But we love it. We know all the people in the village and have plenty of time to stop and chat. I have plenty of time for my hobbies too—gardening, fishing, walking in the country side. I love the outdoor life.
It wasn’t always like this though I used to have a really stressful job, working till late in the office every evening and often bring work home at the week end. The advertising world is very competitive. And when I look hack, I can’t imagine how I stood it. I have no private life at all, no time for the really important things in life. Because of the pressure of the job, I used to smoke and drink too much. The crisis came when my wife left me. She complained that she never saw me and I had no time for, family life. This made me realize what is really important to me. I talked things through with her and decided to get back together again and to start a new and better life together. I gave up tobacco and alcohol and searched for new hobbies. Now I am afraid of looking back since the past life seemed a horrible dream.
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A.He was a gardener.
B.He worked in an advertising agency.
C.He worked on a farm.
D.He ran a village shop.
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But one of the most telling lessons Ellen and I got in the difference between Chinese and American ideas of education came not in the classroom but in the lobby of the Jinling Hotel where we stayed i
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Which is not the notice of staying in the hotel?
A、observing the suroundings
B、The men should get into the car first, not the women.
C、finding the escape way
D、inspecting the room