单选题The city was literally destroyed.A. obviouslyB. eventuallyC. actuallyD. likely

单选题A long journey in cold weather is {{U}}dreadfully{{/U}} tiring.

单选题The Klondike was the {{U}}scene{{/U}} of one of the biggest gold rushes the world has ever known.

单选题She is slender , with delicate wrists and ankles.

单选题which of the following is NOT true?

单选题This kind of animals are on the verge of extinction , because so many are being killed for their fur.

单选题Mary has Umade up her mind/U not to go to the meeting.

单选题Until the late nineteenth century,there was no uniform system of time-keeping in the United States. A．personal B．efficient C．consistent D．practical

单选题{{B}}第二篇{{/B}} Teaching Poetry No poem should ever be discussed or "analyzed", until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it. All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling "interpretation" of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the word in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting (背诵) it. I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than "analyzing" it, if there isn't time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is "a criticism of life", and "a heightening (提升) of life". It is "an approach to the truth of feeling", and it "can save your life". It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies. I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don't like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.

单选题Language Language is and should be a living thing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression. But there is a vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language, enabling us to say things we could not say before, and bad developments, which subtract from the language by rendering it less precise. A vivacious, colorful use of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind of slovenliness in which some professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin to the cult of the unfinished work, which has eroded most of the arts in our time. And the true answer to it is the same that art is enhanced, not hindered, by discipline. You cannot carve satisfactorily in butter. The corruption of written English has been accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less well than was common among educated Englishmen generation or two ago. The modern theatre has played a baneful part in dimming our appreciation of language. Instead of the immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw (who was also very insistent off good pronunciation), audiences are now subjected to streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, to exhibit "lack of communication", and larded with the obscenities and grammatical errors of the intellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers. "The theatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciated speech." Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons in how to speak badly, so that she should fit in better. But the BBC is the worst traitor. After years of very successfully helping to raise the general standard of spoken English, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the pronunciation unit coyly put it. "In the 1960s the BBC opened the field to a much wider range of speakers." To hear a BBC disc jockey talking to the latest ape-like pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbal squalor. And the prospect seems to be of even worse to come. School teachers are actively encouraged to ignore little Johnnys incoherent grammar, atrocious spelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such things might inhibit his creative genius.

单选题They have a far better yield than any other year.A. expectationB. soilC. climateD. harvest

单选题It is the movement, not the color, of objects that excites the bull.

单选题He inspired many young people to take up the sport.

单选题They got in quite a brawl .

单选题The weather here has been exceptionally mild.A. extremelyB. identicallyC. fashionablyD. faithfully

单选题A Father's Day Card It's a typical Snoopy card: cheerful message, bright colors, though a little yellow and faded now. Though I've received fancier, more expensive card over the years, this is the only one I've saved. One summer, it spoke volumes to me. I received it during the first June I faced as a widow to raise two teenage daughters alone. In all the emotional confusion of this sudden single parenthood, I was overwhelmed with, of all things, the simplest housework: leaky taps, oil changes, even barbeques (烧烤) . Those had always been my husband's jobs. I was embarrassed every time I hit my thumb with a hammer or couldn't get the lawnmower (割草机) started. My uncertain attempts only fueled the fear inside me: How could I be both a father and mother to my girls? Clearly, I lacked the tools and skills. On this particular morning, my girls pushed me into the living room to see something. (I prayed it wasn't another repair job.) The "something" turned out to be an envelope and several wrapped bundles on the carpet. My puzzlement must have been plain as I gazed from the colorful packages to my daughters' bright faces. "Go ahead! Open them!" They urged. As I unwrapped the packages, I discovered a small barbecue grill (烧烤架) and all the necessary objects including a green kitchen glove with a frog pattern on it. "But why?" I asked. "Happy Father's Day!" they shouted together. "Morns don't get presents on Father's Day." I protested. "You forgot to open the card." Jane reminded. I pulled it from the envelope. There sat Snoopy, on top of his dog house, merrily wishing me a Happy Father's Day. "Because," the girls said, "you've been a father and mother to us. Why shouldn't you be remembered on Father's Day?" As I fought back tears, I realized they were right, I wanted to be a "professional" dad, who had the latest tools and knew all the tricks of the trade. The girls only wanted a parent they could count on to be there, day after day, performing repeatedly the maintenance tasks of basic care and love. The girls are grown now, and they still send me Father's Day cards, but none of those cards means as much to me as that first one. Its simple message told me being a great parent didn't require any special tools at all--just a willing worker.

单选题He talks tough but has a tender heart. A. heavy B. strong C. kind D. wild

单选题Eleven states, including the adjoining states of North and South Carolina, seceded from the United States in the 1860's and formed a southern confederacy.

单选题Stress Level Tied to Education Level People with less education suffer fewer stressful days, according to a report in the current issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. However, the study also found that when less-educated people did suffer stress it was more severe and had a larger impact on their health. From this researchers have concluded that the day-to-day factors that cause stress are not random. Where you are in society determines the kinds of problems that you have each day, and how well you will cope with them. The research team interviewed a national sample of 1,031 adults daily for eight days about their stress level and health. People without a high school diploma reported stress on 30 per cent of the study days, people with a high school degree reported stress 38 per cent of the time, and people with college degrees reported stress 44 per cent of the time. "Less advantaged people are less healthy on a daily basis and are more likely to have downward turns in their health." lead researcher Dr. Joseph Grzywacz, of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said in a prepared statement. "The downward turns in health were connected with daily stressors. And the effect of daily stressors on their health is much more devastating for the less advantaged." Grzywacz suggested follow-up research to determine why less-educated people report fewer days of stress when it is known their stress is more acute and chronic. "If something happens every day, maybe it's not seen as a stressor," Grzywacz says. "Maybe it is just life." stressful adj. 紧张的;压力重的 diploma n. 毕业文凭,毕业证书 stressor n. 紧张刺激物 devastating adj. 毁灭性的 follow-up n. (对病人的)随访

单选题阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 Hitchhiking(搭车旅游) When I was in my teens(十几岁) and 20s, hitchhiking was a main form of long-distance transport. The kindness or curiosity of strangers {{U}}(51) {{/U}} me all over Europe, North America, Asia and southern Africa. Some of the lift-givers became friends, many provided hospitality {{U}}(52) {{/U}} the road. Not only did you find out much more about a country than {{U}}(53) {{/U}} traveling by train or plane, but also there was that element of excitement about where you would finish up that night. Hitchhiking featured importantly in Western culture. It has books and songs about it. So what has happened to {{U}}(54) {{/U}}? A few years ago, I asked the same question about hitchhiking in a column on a newspaper. {{U}}(55) {{/U}} of people from all over the world responded with their view on the state of hitchhiking. "If there is a hitchhiker's {{U}}(56) {{/U}} it must be Iran. " came one reply. Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitchhiking, {{U}}(57) {{/U}} was Quebec, Canada: "If you don't mind being berated (严厉指责) for not speaking French. " But while hitchhiking was clearly still alive and well in many parts of the world, the {{U}}(58) {{/U}} feeling was that throughout much of the west it was doomed (消亡). With so much news about crime in the media, people assumed that anyone on the open road without the money for even a bus ticket must present a danger. But do we {{U}}(59) {{/U}} to be so wary both to hitchhike and to give a lift? In Poland in the 1960s, {{U}}(60) {{/U}} a Polish woman who e-mailed me, "The authorities introduced the Hitchhiker's Booklet. The booklet contained coupons for drivers, so each time a driver {{U}}(61) {{/U}} somebody, he or she received a coupon. At the end of the season, {{U}}(62) {{/U}} who had picked up the most hikers were rewarded with various prizes. Everybody was hitchhiking then. " Surely this is a good idea for society. Hitchhiking would increase respect by breaking down {{U}}(63) {{/U}} between strangers. It would help fight {{U}}(64) {{/U}} warming by cutting down on fuel consumption as hitchhikers would be using existing fuels. It would also improve educational standards by delivering instant {{U}}(65) {{/U}} in geography, history, politics and sociology.