What did the author's mother plan to do for the next 10 days?
A.Pack up her belongings in Baflo.
B.Drive to her home in Florida.
C.Help the author move home.
D.Visit her relatives and friends.
A.Pack up her belongings in Baflo.
B.Drive to her home in Florida.
C.Help the author move home.
D.Visit her relatives and friends.
(1)What message does the author mainly convey?
A. Girls should wear like girls in a bar or a party.
B. Jeans and sweaters will be the new fashion for girls.
C. Girls in any type of clothes with confidence are the best.
D. Wearing pink and frilly clothes is odd and out of fashion.
(2)How did the author feel when she walked into a bar dressed down?
A. She felt herself quite different from other girls in the bar.
B. She felt at ease when other girls commented on her dress style.
C. She felt proud for not wearing high-heels like other girls.
D. She felt there was always discrimination around in the bar.
(3)What did the author use to do for a date?
A. She used to put on what she liked quickly.
B. She used to buy some girls’ dress to put on.
C. She used to try on multiple outfits.
D. She used to dress what others suggest her dressing.
(4)The followings are what the author qualifies for her casual dressing style. EXCEPT .
A. I didn’t bring anything nicer with me.
B. I came straight from work.
C. Sorry, I’m not really dressed.
D. I prefer jeans and sneakers.
(5)Which of the following adjectives can best describe the author’s attitude towards clothes options marketed for girls?
A. Ironic.
B. Uninterested.
C. Approving.
D. Objective.
In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, 1 was fed well and healthy.The milkman came every day, the grocer, the butcher (肉商), the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times each week.The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus(剩余的) bread and milk became all kinds of cakes.Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food.Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.
The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation.Many well-tried techniques already existed -- natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling...
What refrigeration did promote was marketing --- marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the world in search of a good price.
Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary.Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated house -- while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.
The fridge's effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been not important.
1.The statement "In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily." suggests that the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties.()
2.The author says that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges because people had effective ways to preserve food.()
3.Consumers benefited the most from fridges according to the author?()
4.What refrigeration did promote was food-preserving.()
5.The author is critical to fridges.()
Last summer I found, in the rock garden, a tiny little plant that I could not immediatelyrecognize. I knew I didn&39; t plant it and Denise said she didn&39; t either. We decided to let it continuegrowing until we could find out what it was.
Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the strange plant, it appeared to&39;be a sunflower. Itlooked thin and tall with only one head on it. I decided to baby it along and weed(除草) around it.As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something unusual. The sunflower hadnot started where I saw it begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the sun.
If a tiny little sunflower didn&39; t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have theability to do the same thing. If we believe in ourselves like that little sunflower, we can reach wherewe aim to go and get what we need for growth.
We need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the ability to achieve our goals. Like thesunflower, it knew it had the ability to get over the rocks because it had faith in itself that it wouldsucceed. Stand tall like the sunflower and be proud of who and what we are,then other things will beginto support us. We will find a way to go under or around any "rocks" in order to realize our goals.
Why did the family plant flowers in the "rock garden"?
A.To attract visitors.
B.To remove the rocks.
C.To please their neighbors.
D.To make the area colorful.
The author let the tiny plant continue growingA.to see how long it could live
B.to see how big it could grow
C.to find out what it actually was
D.to know if his wife had planted it
Why did the author think the sunflower was unusual?A.It was very thin and tall.
B.It had only one head on it.
C.It grew on top of a big rock.
D.It began to grow under a rock.
What does the author want to say through the story?A.Rocks cannot prevent us from success.
B.Sunflowers are able to grow everywhere.
C.We should take good care of the rock gardens.
D.We can get over difficulties if we trust ourselves.
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析,谢谢!
When I was approached with the idea of trying to create a landmine(地雷) campaign, we were just three people in a small office in Washington, DC in late I had more than a few ideas about how to begin a campaign, but what if nobody cared? What if nobody responded? But I knew the only way to answer those questions was to accept the challenge.
But if I have any power as an individual, it&39;s because I work with other individuals around the world. We are ordinary people--Jemma from Armenia, Paul from Canada, Christian from Norway and thousands more-who have worked together to bring about extraordinary change. The landmine campaign is not just about landmines--it&39;s about the power of individuals to work with governments in a different way.
I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn&39;t think highly of violence and war, but where we seek different solutions to our common problems. I know that holding such beliefs is not always easy or comfortable--particularly in the post-9/ 11 world. But I believe that life is about trying to do the right thing.
Most people tend to get caught up in going to college, then getting a job, buying a house and paying the loan. Somehow, I’ve had the desire--and the drive--to do things a bit differently. If enough ordinary people back up our desire for a better world, I believe we can accomplish extraordinary things.
21.When the author was a child, she __________.
A.had many great dreams
B.wanted to do something for peace
C.didn’t know she would work for landmine campaign
D.had decided what she would do when growing up
Why did the author create a landmine campaign?A.Because she was encouraged by her colleagues
B.Because she got inspiration from protecting her brother
C.Because it was her duty to remove landmines
D.Because she was interested in whatever others disliked
What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?A.The author had made many foreign friends
B.The landmine campaign had spread all over the world
C.Many individuals join the landmine campaign to create a better world
D.The author’s friends joined her in fighting against the government
What can be inferred from the text?A.The present world is full of violence and war
B.Going to a famous university is the author’s belief
C.Most people take war and violence for granted
D.Settling problems peacefully is the author’s belief
完成下列各题 D Popular British author,Charles Dickens’(1812—1870)family could hardly make ends meet.They could only afford to send one of their six children to school.Dickens was not that child.His parents chose to send a daughter,who had a talent for music,to an academy. His lather was placed in prison for debts.And,being the oldest male at home,Dickens worked at a factory.His horrible experience there became the ruel for his future writing.His father was freed three months later,and Dickens was then sent to school. From l836 to 1837,he wrote a series of stories.Thus the Pickwick Papers came into being,which brought fame to him.His works are Oliver Twist,Tale of Two Cities,David Copperlield and Hard Times. “I do not write bitterly or angrily.for I know all these things have worked together to make me what I am.”he once said. His difficult childhood did indeed shape the person he became,as well as his writing career there are shades of young Dickens in many of his most beloved characters,including David Coppeffield and Oliver Twist.“Minds,like bodies,will often fall into an ill—conditioned state from too much comfort.”he once wrote. The book that called public attention to Dickens was________.
A.David Copperfield
B.Oliver Twist
C.Tale of Two Cities
D.The Pickwick Papers
From the passage, we understand that______.
A.the author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late thirties
B.the author was like most people who were mostly receivers rather than givers
C.the author received the same education as most people during his childhood
D.the author liked most people as they looked upon life as a process of getting
Some people did not like "Uncle Tom' s Cabin" chiefly because______.
A.the author was merely an unknown little lady
B.they thought it was mere propaganda
C.the book was poorly written
D.the book might lead to a terrible war
The market, which was founded in 1979, sets up its tents every Saturday from 7:00 am to 1 p.m. rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries, the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.
Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened(蔓上成熟的) promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown’s Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.
Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty, a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where luckily for me I was planning to have dinner that very night. Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering every tomato on it.
(1)、What did the author think of her winter life in New York? ()
A、Exciting.
B、Boring.
C、Relaxing.
D、Annoying.
(2)、What made the author’s getting up early worthwhile? ()
A、Having a swim.
B、Breathing in fresh air.
C、Walking in the morning sun.
D、Visiting a local farmer’s market.
(3)、What can we learn about tomatoes sold in New York in winter? ()
A、They are soft.
B、They look nice.
C、They taste great.
D、They are juicy.
(4)、What was the author going to that evening? ()
A、Go to a farm.
B、Check into a hotel.
C、Eat in a restaurant.
D、Buy fresh vegetable
(5)、In the first paragraph, the word “adventure” means ______. ()
A、risk.
B、effort.
C、achievement.
D、access.
In his novels these various impulses were sacrificed to each other inevitably and often inevitably, because Hardy did not care in the way that novelists such as Flaubert or James learned, and therefore took paths of least resistance. Thus one impulse often surrendered to a fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting a compromise, simply disappeared. A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower.
In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one. And thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style. But on other occasions Hardy abandoned a perilous risky and highly energizing impulse in favor of what was for him the fatally relaxing impulse to classify and schematize abstractly. When a relaxing impulse was indulged, the style—that sure index of an author's literary worth—was certain to become verbose.
Hardy's weakness derived from his apparent inability to control the comings and goings of these divergent impulses and from his unwillingness to cultivate and sustain the energetic and risky ones. He submitted of first one and then another, and the spirit blew where it listed; hence the unevenness of any one of his novels. His most controlled novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, prominently exhibits two different but reconcilable impulses—a desire to be a realist-historian and a desire to be a psychologist of love but the slight interlockings of plot are not enough to bind the two completely together. Thus even this book splits into two distinct parts.
Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage, based on its content?
A.Hardy's Novelistic Style. A Literary Light.
B.Hardy's Creative Conflict: Rationalism and Realism.
C.Hardy's Achievements: An Ambiguous Triumph.
D.Hardy's Novelistic Impulses: The Problem of Conflicts.
Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career?
A.He wasn't able to produce a single book.
B.He hadn't seen a change for the better.
C.He wasn't able to have a rest for a whole year.
D.He found his dream would never come true.
How did the author react to Jennie's relationship with her boy friend?
A.She tried her best to dissuade Jennie from continuing it.
B.She threatened to break up with Jennie if her advice was ignored.
C.She was overcome with pride that Jennie told her about her boy friend.
D.She was very angry with Jennie for choosing such a friend.