As things turned out, the night watchman's dream was correct. That day the plane exploded (爆炸) just after leaving the ground. The owner gave the night watchman 5,000 dollars and a letter. He said, "I'm very sorry to do so. But I have to do so. Read the letter when you get home."
The puzzled man hurried home and tore the letter in a hurry. After taking a look, he turned pale. There was only one sentence in it. And he knew that he had been fired.
The owner was going to trip ______.
A.by air
B.by water
C.by train
D.with his family
In the fall of 1971, I was () a story involving a young white woman living on the fringe (边缘) of Boston’s black ghetto.Her car had () out of gas.She had gone to a filling station () a can and was returning to her car when she was () in an alley by a gang of black youths.The gang () gasoline over her and set fire to her.She died () her burns.It was later established () some of the youths involved had, on the night before the killing, () on television a rerun of an old movie in which a drifter (流浪汉) is () on fire by an adolescent gang.There is some kind of strange reductive process (还原过程) at work here.To see something on television robs it () its reality, and then when the same thing is () out it is like the reenactment (重演) of something unreal.
() other words when the gang set fire to the girl, they were imitating () they had seen on a screen, as if they themselves were on a screen, and in a ().I don’t think we have () begun to realize how powerful a(n) () television is.It has already () very clear that the candidate with the most television () wins the election.
1.A.trueB.sincereC.dependantD.exact
2.A.methodsB.waysC.directionsD.respects
3.A.arrangedB.allottedC.appointedD.assigned
4.A.leftB.runC.stayedD.stopped
5.A.forB.byC.withD.in
6.A.tracedB.followedC.trappedD.hit
7.A.putB.pouredC.droppedD.sprayed
8.A.ofB.withC.inD.over
9.A.whenB.thatC.becauseD.as
10.A.lookedB.watchedC.experienceD.gone
11.A.setB.seenC.watchedD.burned
12.A.ofB.fromC.byD.for
13.A.actedB.playedC.putD.taken
14.A.OnB.InC.ByD.At
15.A.thatB.whichC.whatD.those
16.A.sceneB.fictionC.televisionD.story
17.A.evenB.alreadyC.muchD.little
18.A.equipmentB.applianceC.sourceD.medium
19.A.becomeB.turnedC.seemedD.looked
20.A.appearanceB.appealC.practiceD.experience
(56)
A.hot
B.warm
C.cool
D.heated
Whether at home or in a restaurant, meals in Brazil are sacred(神圣的) ; a time to eat, but also to share precious moments with family and friends. Now, here's a Brazilian custom I miss enormously: a decent, sit-down, leisurely-paced lunch and/or dinner. To this day, I have to keep reminding myself, "what's the big hurry? " and I confess that one of the things I look forward to, when I go to Brazil, is the "family" meal. We have a joke that, if you see people sitting around a table in the US, having lunch for longer than 1/2 hour, it must be a business lunch. And also, sitting at your desk and eating lunch while you work is incomprehensible to most Brazilians, who leave their offices to eat with their colleagues and friends in restaurants and cafes. You guess, lunch is usually a more substantial meal than in the U.S.
(68) For lunch and, depending on the location, also dinner, Brazilians have wonderful, inexpensive restaurants where home-style. meals are sold by kilo. You just pile the food on your plate and someone will weigh it for you. The same goes for desserts. You order drinks from your waiter and pay him at the end of your meal.
Dinner is served much later than in the U. S. In the big cities, children are a common sight in restaurants at night, since Brazilians will take their kids out to dinner at all hours. As a result of this and the traditional Sunday lunches, Brazilian kids learn table manners at an early age. For many of my Brazilian friends, dinner is a lighter meal of bread, cheese and cold cuts. So expect either type of meal.
In Brazil, people usually have meals______.
A.in a hurry at restaurants
B.in a leisurely manner
C.at their desk in the office
D.for less than 1/2 hour
Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational-repair shops—adult-literacy programs, such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing. There, high-school graduates and high-school dropouts pursuing graduate-equivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school. They will also discover they have been cheated by our educational system.
I will never forget a teacher who got the attention of one of my children by revealing the trump card of failure. Our youngest, a world-class charmer, did little to develop his intellectual talents but always got by. Until Mrs. Stifter.
Our son was a high-school senior when he had her for English. "He sits in the back of the room talking to his friends," she told me. "Why don't you move him to the front row?" I urged, believing the embarrassment would get him to settle down. Mrs. Stifter said, "I don't move seniors. I flunk(使…不及格) them." Our son's academic life flashed before my eyes. No teacher had ever threatened him. By the time I got home I was feeling pretty good about this. It was a radical approach for these times, but, well, why not? "She's going to flunk you," I told my son. I did not discuss it any further. Suddenly English became a priority(头等要事) in his life. He finished out the semester with an A.
I know one example doesn't make a case, but at night I see a parade of students who are angry for having been passed along until they could no longer even pretend to keep up. Of average intelligence or better, they eventually quit school, concluding they were too dumb to finish. "I should have been held back," is a comment I hear frequently. Even sadder are those students who are high-school graduates who say to me after a few weeks of class, "I don't know how I ever got a high-school diploma."
Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills. We excuse this dishonest behavior. by saying kids can't learn if they come from terrible environments. No one seems to stop to think that most kids don't put school first on their list unless they perceive something is at risk. They'd rather be sailing.
Many students I see at night have decided to make education a priority. They are motivated by the desire for a better job or the need to hang on to the one they've got. They have a healthy fear of failure.
People of all ages can rise above their problems, but they need to have a reason to do so. Young people generally don't have the maturity to value education in the same way my adult students value it. But fear of failure can motivate both.
What is the subject of this essay?
A.view point on learning
B.a qualified teacher
C.the importance of examination
D.the generation gap
Nobody’s Watching Me
I am a foot taller than Napoleon and twice the weight of Twiggy; on my only visit to a beautician, the woman said she found my face a challenge. Yet despite these social disadvantages I feel cheerful, happy, confident and secure.
I work for a daily newspaper and so get to a lot of places I would otherwise never see. This year I went to Ascot to write about the people there. I saw something there that made me realize the stupidity of trying to conform, of trying to be better than anyone else. There was a small, plump woman, all dressed up—huge hat, dress with pink butterflies, long white gloves. She also had a shooting stick. But because she was so plump, when she sat on the stick it went deep into the ground and she couldn't pull it out. She tugged and tugged, tears of rage in her eyes. When the final tug brought it out, she crashed with it to the ground."
I saw her walk away. Her day had been ruined. She had made a fool of herself in public--she had impressed nobody. In her own sad, red eyes she was a failure.
I remember well when I was like that, in the days before I learned that nobody really cared what you do . . .
I remember the pain of my first dance, something that is always meant to be a wonderful occasion for a girl... There was a fashion then for diamante (人造钻石) ear-rings, and I wore them so often practicing for the big night that I got two great sores on my ears and had to put sticking-plaster on them. Perhaps it was this that made nobody want to dance with me. Whatever it was, there I sat for four hours and 43 minutes. When I came home, I told my parents that I had a marvelous time and that my feet were sore from dancing. They were pleased at my success and they went to bed happily, but I went to my room and tore the bits of sticking-plaster off my ears and felt forlorn and disconsolate.
‘The beautician found the writer's face a challenge’, which means _________.
A.she thought it was a challenge to have such a face repaired
B.she thought it was a challenge to deal with such a face
C.the writer's face challenged the beautician's
D.it was a challenge to find the writer's face
It seems to the narrator that it would be really good if ()
A、the mother worked from sunup till night
B、the mother worked side by side with her husband
C、the mother made all things that the family needed
D、the mother could have some time to think undisturbed
A.You watched TV last night
B.I watch TV last night
C.I watched TV last night
Never before that night ______ the extent of my own power.
A.had I felt
B.I had felt
C.did I feel
D.I did felt
I stayed up all night ______ to find a new solution to the problem.
A.trying
B.have tried
C.try
D.tried