Jack was the winner of national tennis competition for a second_______ year.
The clause in the sentence "It is still unknown whether she will come or not" is
The place did not appear to be popular, for it was completely deserted, and in any case ______ to traffic.
I never regretted ______ the offer, for it was not where my interest lay.[1993]
Henry spares no effort to get two tickets for the concert held at the Sports Centre. _______.
An army spokesman claims the militants are ______ the run.
Will culture be ruined if it is used to earn tourism revenue? This has been intensely discussed for years. The following are the supporters' and opponents' opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both sides and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the opinions from both sides and give your view on the issue. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. YES Food, festivals, costumes and other noticeable elements of a culture are highlighted to entertain tourists, who show no respect to the locals and may cause damage to the unique nature of a culture. Cultural commercialization has made the sacred elements of a culture commonplace and tourists are encouraged to attach little importance to a unique tradition, which cannot be found elsewhere. Too much tourism may harm the quality of the tradition and heritage of a place. Due to the unplanned and mismanaged growth of cultural tourism, an ever-booming place might gradually become the victim of its own success. By and by, the unique culture of that place may lose its attractiveness, which can eventually lead to the decline and fall of its cultural identity. NO Providing economic incentives for cultural preservation is unarguably one of the main contributions of tourism. To many tourists, culture and history are their first consideration when choosing a destination. Their mindset has been adopted by many tourism sites and their money has been subsequently used on cultural protection, including the maintenance of key historical sites. Tourism can make an indigenous culture known to the world and rally support worldwide to protect it. Needless to say, tourism adds value to a scenic resort by serving as a driving force in boosting that place's economy.
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Finding Your Excellence: Becoming Who You Are1. Be【T1】【T1】______ Give effort and【T2】to what you are doing【T2】______Seek deeper and more【T3】levels of engagement【T3】______ 2. To increase【T4】【T4】______ Make time for【T5】distractions【T5】______Build spaces of quiet in life3. Be full of aweFind awe in small and【T6】【T6】______4. Be【T7】【T7】______ Forget yourself and go to workKeep grounded,【T8】and open to thinking【T8】______5. Be compassionateTwo essential parts:【T9】【T9】______An indispensable part of【T10】【T10】______
(1)From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works, in separate little volumes. I afterwards sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's Historical Collection: they were small chapmen's books and cheap, 40 or 50 in all. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman. Plutarch's Lives there was, in which I read abundantly, and I still think that time spent to great advantage. There was also a book of Defoe's, called An Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's called Essays to Do Good which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. (2)This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son(James)of that profession. In 1717 my brother James returned from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still have a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended effect of such an inclination, my father was impatient to have me bound to my brother. I stood out some time but at last was persuaded, and signed the indentures, when I was yet but 12 years old... I was to serve as an apprentice till I was 21 years of age, only I was to be allowed journeyman's wages during the last year. In a little time I made great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentice of booksellers, enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. And after some time an ingenious tradesman Mr. Matthew Adams who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing house took notice of me, invited me to his library, and very kindly lent me such books as I choose to read.
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A. physical B. adapt C. regulation D. taught E. accuracy F. suit G. roused H. required I. popular J. held K. spread L. outdoors M. idea N. indoors O. verbal Unlike most sports, which evolved over time from street games, basketball was designed by one man to【C1】______ a particular purpose. The man was Dr. James Naismith, and his purpose was to invent a vigorous game that could be played【C2】______ in the winter. In 1891, Naismith was an instructor at a training school, which trained physical education instructors for the YMCAs. That year the school was trying to come up with a physical activity that the men could enjoy between the football and baseball seasons. None of the standard indoor activities【C3】______their interest for long. Naismith was asked to solve the problem by the school. He first tried to【C4】______ some of the popular outdoor sports, but they were all too rough. The men were getting bruised from tackling each other and being hit with equipment. So, Naismith decided to invent a game that would incorporate the most common elements of outdoor team sports without having the real【C5】______ contact. Most popular sports used a ball. So he chose a soccer ball because it was soft and large enough that it【C6】______no equipment, such as a bat or a racket to hit it. Next he decided on an elevated goal, so that scoring would depend on skill and【C7】______ rather than on strength only. His goals were two peach baskets, fixed to ten-foot-high balconies at each end of the gym. The basic 【C8】______ of the game was to throw the ball into the basket. Naismith wrote rules for the game, many of which, though with some small changes, are still in effect Basketball was an immediate success. The students【C9】______ it to their friends, and the new sport quickly caught on Today, basketball is one of the most【C10】______games throughout the world.
{{B}}SECTION B CONVERSATIONSIn this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation , five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of [A], [B], [C] and [D], and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.{{/B}}
SomepeoplesaythatrichparentsaremorepowerfulthandiplomainChina.Isitreallythecase?Lookatthefollowingpicturecarefullyandwriteyourresponseinabout200words,inwhichyoushouldstartwithabriefdescriptionofthepictureandgiveyourviewontheissue.Markswillbeawardedforcontentrelevance,contentsufficiency,organization,languagequality.Failuretofollowtheaboveinstructionsmayresultinalossofmarks.
(l)The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photograph's fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defence of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting. (2)Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselves—anything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art. (3)Photographers' disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photography's prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960's. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting—that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse—presupposes highly developed skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art. (4)Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity—in short, an art.
Which of the following italicized parts modifies an adjective?
PASSAGE FOUR
If we ______ in this practice, gradually we'll learn how to express ourselves in English.
The Monkey King _____ one of the most popular books for those who study in high schools.