单选题"Does Fred want to go fishing tomorrow?"
"No, he doesn"t, and ______"
单选题How can you lose weight ______ you eat so much every day?
单选题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.
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, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I
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to see—or look at--on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter
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the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On
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days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime
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out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.
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, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I
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all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how
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I expected to see her each morning. You might say l
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her. "Did she have an accident? Something
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?" I thought to myself about her
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Now that she was gone, I felt I had
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her. I began to realize that part of our
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life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar
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: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who
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walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are
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markers in our ey es. They add weight to our
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of place and belonging.
Think about it.
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, while walking to work, we mark Where we are by
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a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though
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, person?
单选题Much emphasis seems to be placed on what you will do "for a living". Yet there is a danger of feeling compelled (迫使) to choose an occupation or a career before you"re really ready to do so. In our society there is pressure or encouragement from an early age to identify with some occupation. Children often hear the question: "What are you going to be when you grow up?" (Part of the implication of this question is that we"re not grown up until we"ve decided to be something.) Carney and Wells (1987) write that society expects young people to identify their values, choose a vocation and a lifestyle, and then settle down. The implication is that once young people make the "right decision", they should be set for life. Yet deciding on a career is not that simple.
One of the dangers in focusing on a particular occupation too soon is that students" interest patterns are often not sufficiently reliable or stable in high school or, sometimes, even the college years to predict job success and satisfaction. Furthermore, the typical student does not have enough self-knowledge or knowledge of educational offerings and vocational opportunities to make realistic decisions. The pressure to make premature (早熟,过早) vocational decisions often results in choosing an occupation in which one does not have the interests and abilities required for success.
单选题He's ______ to know the answer.
A. likely
B. probable
C. possible
D. probably
单选题Western-style conversations often develop quite differently from Japanese-style conversations.
A Western-style conversation between two people is like a
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of tennis. If I introduce a topic, a conversational ball, I expect you do
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it back. If you agree with me, I don"t expect you simply to agree and to say:
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more. I expect you to add something to carry the idea further.
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I don"t expect you always to agree. I am just as
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if you completely disagree with me.
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you agree or disagree, your
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will return the ball to me. And then it is my turn
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I don"t serve a new ball from my
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starting line. I hit your ball back again to you by
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your idea further. And so the ball goes back and forth,
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each of us doing our best to give it a new twist.
A Japanese-style conversation,
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, is not at all like tennis or volleyball. It"s like bowling. You
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for your turn. And you always know your
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in line. It depends on such things as whether you are older or younger, a close friend or a relative stranger
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the previous speaker, in a senior or junior position, and so on. When your turn comes, you
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up to the starting line with your bowling ball, and
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howl it. Everyone else stands back and watches politely, whispering
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. Everyone waits until the ball has reached the end of the alley, and watches to see if it
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down all the pins, or only some of them, or none of them. There is a pause, while everyone registers your
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单选题(D)
It seems to me that British newspapers aren"t really newspapers at all. They contain news, it is true, but much of this news only appears in print because it is guaranteed (保证) to shock, surprise or cause a chuckle.
What should we expect to find in a real newspaper? Interesting political articles. Accurate reports of what has been happening in distant comers of the world. The latest news from the stock exchange. Full coverage of great sporting events. In-depth interviews with leading personalities.
It is a sad fact that in Britain the real newspapers, the ones that report the facts, sell in thousands, while the popular papers that set out to shock or amuse have a circulation of several million. One"s inescapable conclusion is that the vast majority of British readers do not really want a proper newspaper at all. They just want a few pages of entertainment.
I buy the same newspaper every day. In this paper political matters, both British and foreign, are covered in full. The editorial column may support government policy on one issue and oppose it on another. There is a full page of book reviews and another devoted to the latest happenings in the theatre, the cinema and the world of art. Stock exchange prices are quoted daily. So are the exchange rates of the world"s major currencies. The sports correspondents are among the best in the country, while the standard of the readers" letters is absolutely first class. If an intelligent person were to find a copy of this paper 50 years from now, he or she would still find it entertaining, interesting and instructive.
So my favourite newspaper is obviously very different from those popular papers that have a circulation of several million. But that does not mean that it is "better" or that they are "worse. " We are not comparing like with like. A publisher printing a newspaper with a circulation of several million is running a highly successful commercial operation. The people who buy his product are obviously satisfied customers and in a free society everybody should have the right to buy whatever kind of newspaper he pleases.
单选题After my father stopped working, his physical condition ______ worse.
A. seemed
B. looked
C. appeared
D. became
单选题So forceful was his argument that everyone present was convinced.
单选题The gas ______ an unpleasant smell.
单选题"Would you like some tea?"
"Yes, please, but just ______ . "
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单选题"Has Jane finished typing those reports?"
"No, they an hour ago. "
单选题He gave a ______ of what he had seen.
单选题I hope we"ll go on our holiday ______ in August next year.
单选题Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. They are officially classified as harmful and farmers try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.
Farmers can also call on the services of their local hunt to control the fox population. Hunting consists of pursuing a fox across the countryside, with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses. When the dogs eventually catch the fox they kill it or a hunter shoots it.
People who take part in hunting think of it as a sport; they wear a special uniform of red coats and white trousers, and follow strict codes of behavior. But owning a horse and hunting regularly is expensive, so most hunters are wealthy.
It is estimated that up to 100,000 people watch or take part in fox hunting. But over the last couple of decades the number of people opposed to fox hunting, because they think it is brutal (残酷的), has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to pass off without some kind of confrontation(冲突) between hunters and hunt saboteurs(阻拦者). Sometimes these incidents lead to violence, but mostly saboteurs interfere with the hunt by misleading riders and disturbing the trail of the fox"s smell, which the dogs follow.
Noisy confrontations between hunters and saboteurs have become so common that they are almost as much a part of hunting as the pursuit of foxes itself. But this year supporters of fox hunting face a much bigger threat to their sport. A Labor Party Member of the Parliament, Mike Foster, is trying to get Parliament to approve a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs illegal. If the law is passed, wild animals like foxes will be protected under the ban in Britain.
单选题The soldier got seriously ______ in the battle.
A. broken
B. damaged
C. spoiled
D. wounded
单选题Trains stop here in order to ______ passengers only.
单选题She never gives any ______ to her personal gain and loss.
单选题The native Canadians lived in ______ with nature, for they respected nature as a provider of life.
