Why has the man hardly seen the woman lately?

How many languages has Dr. Green's new book been translated into?

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we've become used to suddenly disappears.【C1】______ , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I【C2】______ to see—or look at—on my way to work each morning. For three years, no matter【C3】______the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a. m. On【C4】______ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime【C5】______ out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.【C6】______ , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I【C7】______ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how【C8】______ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I【C9】______ her. "Did she have an accident? Something【C10】______ ?" I thought to myself about her【C11】______ . Now that she was gone, I felt I had【C12】______her. I began to realize that part of our【C13】______ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar【C14】______ : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who【C15】______ walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are【C16】______ markers in our lives. They add weight to our【C17】______ of places and belongings. Think about it.【C18】______ , while walking to work, we mark where we are by【C19】______ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though【C20】______ , person?

Where does the conversation probably take place?

阅读下面的对话，根据其内容写一篇有关Emma周末经历的记叙文。要求：1．所写短文应与对话相关内容意义相符，涵盖其要点。2．用你自己的语言来表达，可以改写对话中的句子，但不可以照抄原句。Emma: Good morning, George! How was your weekend?George: Quite uneventful, I am afraid. I just stayed at home and took a good rest. What about you? Emma: Oh, I hope I could say that. I feel I've been running around for the past two days and now I'm so tired. George: What did you do? Emma: A friend came to see me on Friday and I went to the airport to meet him after work. We had dinner at a French restaurant. George: Wow, that's lovely! I never eat out these days.Emma: It's quite good. I could take you there sometime. And then we went to see a musical, the Q Avenue, at the International Meeting Center. So I came home quite late, but I still have an exam on Saturday! George: Oh. What exam? Emma: The Japanese Language Proficiency Test; you know I've been learning Japanese for some time. George: Did it go well? Emma: I'm not sure. I did the best I could. Then on Sunday, I had an appointment with my doctor. George: Is everything all right?Emma: Everything is fine. It's just a regular physical check. George: Seems like you had quite a busy weekend.

请你写一封邀请信，代表大连大新化学药品公司董事会(Board of Dalian Daxin Chemicals Corporation)邀请Mr．Chapman来本公司参加10周年纪念活动，时间从8月1号到3号。同时告诉他将安排一次他与总经理的见面会谈，商讨双方来年的合作事宜。 注意：词数80词左右。

I don't need any help, Polly, but it was nice of you to________.

I phoned him twice and_______messages, but he never returned my call.

Where does the speaker come from?

阅读下面的对话，根据其内容写一篇有关该调查的说明文。要求：1．所写短文应与对话相关内容意义相符，涵盖其要点。2．用你自己的语言来表达，可以改写对话中的句子，但不可以照抄原句。注意：词数80词左右。 Tina: What are you reading, Chris?Chris: A report about a recent Harris poll. They asked people in different countries how they spend their spare time. Tina: Sounds interesting. But I spend so much time working that I don't have much time left for leisure activities. Chris: Exactly. The report says the average working hours for Americans is 50 hours a week. Tina: And we also have to sleep, eat, and take care of our families. Chris: Still, having time to relax and pursue your hobbies is important. Tina: Yeah, I agree. So what do people do in their free time? Chris: Americans read the most in their spare time. Tina: Yeah, you can often see people with books on the subway or while waiting for the bus. Chris: The NO. 2 popular activity is watching TV. Tina: I totally understand that. Don' t you just want to sit there and let go of all complicated thoughts? Chris: Right. People in the U. K. also ranked watching TV and videos as their favorite spare time activity. The next thing they love is listening to the radio. Tina: Oh, the British. They love their radios. Chris: And they love their pubs, too. Their favorite outdoor activity is going to the pub.

Jumanji is a story for children about a very strange game—a game that becomes far too real and frightening for the players. It was a story by Chris Van Allsburg, which was later filmed in 1996, starring the famous American actor Robin Williams. The story begins in 1869 in New Hampshire, America. Two young brothers bury a box under some trees. A hundred years later, in 1969, a boy, Alan Parrish, finds the box and takes it home. He' s unhappy that his father may want to send him to a boarding school (寄宿学校). Alan's friend Sarah arrives, and they open the box. Inside is a board game. At the start of the game, some words appear: " Do you want to leave the world behind and go back to the past? Then this is the game for you. " Suddenly Alan finds that he is disappearing into the game. The story has a deep meaning. Through his adventures Alan learns something important—if you confront(面对) your fears, your problems will go away. Alan turns to face Van Pelt, the hunter who is trying to kill him. In doing so, he completes the game and returns to reality. Then he finds that his father is not going to send him to boarding school after all. In Jumanji, time is "elastic" . The film director Stephen Spielberg's "Back to the Future" films play with time in the same way. Top scientists even tell us now that time travel is theoretically (理论上) possible!

It is late at night and you are still awake. Should you take a sleeping pill(药片) ? People who take medicine often come to depend on it. So you lie awake knowing that the new work day will soon arrive. If this happens to you for at least one month, you may have insomnia, or sleeping problems, at an early stage. There are millions of you...us...around the world. A new study led by Eric Nofzinger and Daniel Buysse of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School has found that you might fall asleep quicker and stay asleep longer if you try "cerebral hypothermia" , which just means cooling down your brain. They examined twelve people who had insomnia and twelve others who had no sleep problems. Each of them wore a soft plastic cap on their heads at bed time. The caps had tubes (软管) inside filled with water. The researchers moved the water through the tubes and then changed the temperature of the water. As other studies showed that people who had trouble sleeping often had more chemical reactions (反应) in the front of their brains, the researchers thought lowering the temperature of the brain might help. For the first two nights of testing, the patients wore no water caps. During the next two nights, the caps were worn, but the water was not cooled. Then the researchers cooled the water a little for two nights. On the final two nights of the study, the temperature of the water was made much cooler. The researchers found that the water caps did not help the insomnia patients until the temperature was about 14℃. Most of the patients fell asleep faster and slept better when the coolest water was moving around their heads.

What happened to the shop in one month?

—Would you mind helping me with my suitcase?—________.

阅读理解If you are with a six-year-old child, which place are you advised to go to?

阅读理解Why did the flames spread quickly?

阅读理解Text 3 Why can you look at an object in the real world and see it as a three-dimensional (三维的) object, but if you see that same object on a television, it looks flat? Whats going on, and how does 3-D technology get around the problem? It all has to do with the way we see objects

阅读理解From this passage, we can conclude that_______.

阅读理解The sentence “When in Rome, do as the Romans do” means that _______.

阅读理解The way of communication made use of visible signs.