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Here are four tourist attractions in Havana in Cuba. Museum of the City The Museum of the City was built in 179L The building once served as the Presidential Palace and home to colonial governors. The museum’s exhibits include collections of weapons，history and art as well as rooms documenting wars for Cuban independence. +53-7-861-6130 . Open: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Admission: $ 3 Revolution Square Revolution Square is one of the largest open public spaces in Cuba and one of the largest public squares in the world. The site is home to the 138-foot Jose Mart Memorial, the tallest structure in Havana，which celebrates the national hero. Cuba’s important leaders, including Fidel Castro, usually use the platform in front of the memorial to address the large crowds that gather on the square. The Jose Marti Memorial also includes a museum and an elevator that takes tourists to the top of the monument. +53-7-338-6363 Open: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.，Monday through Saturday. Admission: $ 5 Cigar Factories .Cubans famous cigar-making factories are open to the public. Three cigar factories in Havana offer public tours that show how Cuba’s cigars are hand-rolled in the traditional way. The Partagas Cigar Factory，founded in 1827，is the oldest in Havana. The other two factories open for tours are La Corona and Romeo Julieta, and they include gift shops. +53-7-338-060 Open: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday. Admission: $ 10 Old Havana Old Havana is the capital’s historic district，which dates back to 1519 when Spain used the city as a colonial port. Old Havana was important Spanish naval (海军的）base. Presently，Old Havana’s stone streets are home to museums, hotels and restaurants among the grand colonial buildings that once housed Spanish power. +53-7-885-752 Open: daily. Admission: free 【1】When is the Museum of the City closed? A. Friday. B. Saturday. C. Sunday. D. Monday 【2】Where might you see Fidel Castro? A. In front of the Jose Marti Memorial. B. On the stone streets of Old Havana. C. In the Partagas cigar factory. D. In the Museum of the City. 【3】Which number should you call if you want to know about cigarette production? A. +53-7-338-060 B. +53-7-885-752 C. +53-7-338-6363 D. +53-7-861-6130 |
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Promise Sawyers, a 10-year-old girl in Nashville, Tenn., is inspiring people old and young after making a video before going to school “bigger and better” with her natural hair, just one day after she was made fun of for her afro. Promise Sawyers’ motivational video was posted online by her mom Qui Daugherty, after the 5th-grader secretly recorded it on Daugherty’s phone. In it, Sawyers explained that she was feeling “some type of way” after her classmates had mean things to say after she wore her natural hair the day before. But she was determined not to let it bring her down, and wore it the same way the following day. “Don’t allow anyone to steal your joy,” Promise said. “Don’t give them that much power.” Daugherty says that Promise has been surrounded by that type of positivity her whole life. She’s always taught her daughter to “meet a negative with a positive”, even when somebody is trying to bring her down. And although this example seems like one of the more disheartening( 令人气馁的) ones that Promise has faced after starting at a new school, her video proved that she took her mom’s advice to heart. Now, nearly 2 million views later, people everywhere are responding to the video. “We had no idea the impact that it was going to make and the amount of messages,” Daugherty said. “It’s made a huge impact behind the scenes that has blessed me personally.” Daugherty jokes that Promise doesn’t understand how influential her words are. Instead, the 10-year-old is just excited about the millions of views. “I just tell her not to focus on the numbers,” Daugherty says. “Let’s find a way we can be impactful behind this and make an influence and inspire people. That’s all we want.” 【1】What does the underlined word “afro” in Paragraph 1 refer to? A.A hairstyle. B.A disability. C.An attitude. D.A video. 【2】What did Promise decide to do after being teased by her classmates? A.Seek some advice from her mother. B.Make herself look bigger and better. C.Record her sadness on video silently. D.Keep wearing the same hair to school. 【3】What will Daugherty advise Promise to do when there’s something disheartening? A.Switch to a new start. B.Look on the bright side. C.Make necessary changes. D.Share her joy with others. 【4】How did Daugherty feel about people’s response to the video? A.Embarrassed. B.Worried. C.Confused. D.Surprised. |
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Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder. This increase in complexity, often called "feature creep," costs consumers time, but it also costs business money. Product returns in the U.S. cost a hundred billion dollars a year, and a recent study by Elke den Ouden, of Philips Electronics, found that at least half of returned products have nothing wrong with them. Consumers just couldn't figure out how to use them. Companies now know a great deal about problems of usability and consumer behavior, so why is it that feature creep proves unstoppable? In part, fieature creep is the product of the so-called internal-audience problem: the people who design and sell product are not the ones who buy and use them, and what engineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily what's best for consumers. The engineers tend not to notice when more options make a product less usable. And marketing and sales departments see each additional feature as a new selling point, and a new way to attract customers. You might think, then, that companies could avoid fieature creep by just paying attention to what customers really want. But that's where the trouble begins, because although consumers find overloaded gadgets（ 配件）unmanageable, they also find them attractive. It turns out that when we look at a new product in a store we tend to think that the more features there are, the better. It is only once we get the product home and try to use it that we realize the virtues of simplicity. It seems strange that we don't expect feature tiredness and thus avoid it. But, as numerous studies have shown, people are not, in general, good at predicting what will make them happy in the future. As a result, we will pay more for more features because we systematically overestimate how often we'll use them. We also overestimate our ability to figure out how a complicated product works. The fact that buyers want bells and whistles but users want something clear and simple creates an unusual problem for companies. A product that doesn't have enough features may fail to catch our eye in the store. But a product with too many features is likely to annoy consumers. 【1】What does the first paragraph mainly discuss? A. The benefits brought by the advanced technology. B. The recent study conducted by Elke den Ouden. C. The loss caused by the feature creep of technology. D. Many problems of usability known by the consumers. 【2】Which of the following is true according to the second paragraph? A. It is the audience problem that leads to feature creep. B. What matters to designers and marketers is not good for consumers. C. Feature creep brings blessings to the people in marketing and sales. D. The engineers will not pay attention to the quality of the product 【3】What do we know about the buyers in paragraph 4? A. They are deeply convinced that all the products work in simple way. B. They are fed up with the more and more features of the products. C. They are too confident of their ability to use the complicated products. D. They are quite clear about the products which will make them happy. 【4】What can be a suitable title for the text? A. Saying No to Feature Creep is No Easy Thing B. Feature-heavy Products in Demand C. The More Features, the Better D. Simplicity Outweighs Complexity |
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What To Do When You Break Your Smartphone? As you pick the smartphone you just dropped from the pavement, your mind races. You can't afford a new one. How will you check your Wechat (微信)messages? Here are some of the things you can try if you break your phone. 【1】 Smartphones are held together with screws(螺丝) and pins, which means in many cases, if you're handy enough, you can easily fix them. 【2】 One site in particular, ifixit.com, offers guides for replacing and fixing nearly every part of a wide variety of smartphones, ranging from the very first iPhone all the way to the iPhone 7Plus. Bring it to a repair shop Smartphone repair shops are all over the place these days. 【3】Depending on the damage to your phone, the price for repairs can range anywhere from﹩29 to more than﹩250. Try selling your damaged phone So your phone is damaged, and you don't want to spend the money to get it fixed. Why not try selling it? 【4】.Gazelle, for example, will pay you﹩40 for a 16GB iPhone 5s with a broken display, while Glyde will pay you﹩142 for an iPhone 6 with a cracked screen. Buy a refurbished(翻新的) phone So you've sold your broken smartphone and now you've got some extra spending cash, but it's still nowhere near enough to cover the full cost of a new smartphone, which can run more than $600. 【5】. Well, if preowned(二手的)phones don't bother you, you can buy a refurbished handset from any number of carriers or stores at a modest discount. A.What can you do? B.Get insurance next time. C.Try repairing it yourself. D.So why not see if one of these stores can fix your busted(损坏的) handset? E.In fact，there are entire websites designed to help you repair your own phone. F.How much you get for your damaged phone depends on the model and what kind of issues it has. G.And if they don't want your phone and you want to make sure that it's at least recycled，they'll do that too. |
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My mother was a giver. The occasion never _______ – Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries or no occasion at all. She was always thinking about who might _______ what. Creativity and _______ went into the gifts she gave, and she _______ a thank you note. Once she sent out a note to her own children and grandchildren who had not acknowledged gifts, _______ that they were now on her “Fecal Roster(黑名单)” and would not be removed _______ she had received a proper thank you. Even if you didn’t _______ a thank you, she’d give you another gift the next _______ she had. She figured _______ manners were your problem, not hers. Every time Mom and Dad ________ to visit, all of us would gather in the driveway as they unloaded luggage. There was always something for the kids, ________ a couple of little toys or a big ________ of homemade cookies. They weren’t gifts for particular occasion. They were ________ “Isn’t life great?” gifts. One spring when they came to visit, she handed me a ________ bag. Inside was a painting that ________ : “A Special Daughter. You’ve ________ laughter and joy to our lives and so much love to our hearts. The most precious things we can ________ for you are the things you have given us… ________ and Love.” Mom was a ________ gift giver, but the best gifts we will always remember her for were her lover for________and her love for us. 【1】A.mattered B.occurred C.varied D.arose 【2】A.wonder B.praise C.enjoy D.approve 【3】A.thoughtfulness B.sympathy C.justice D.authority 【4】A.ignored B.appreciated C.promised D.resisted 【5】A.assuming B.abusing C.stating D.correcting 【6】A.once B.after C.when D.until 【7】A.send B.purchase C.conduct D.obtain 【8】A.time B.chance C.festival D.holiday 【9】A.mistaken B.bad C.silly D.ridiculous 【10】A.walked by B.wandered around C.drove over D.rode away 【11】A.often B.always C.never D.seldom 【12】A.tank B.cage C.container D.holder 【13】A.fairly B.apparently C.especially D.simply 【14】A.cookie B.toy C.hand D.gift 【15】A.read B.told C.wrote D.appeared 【16】A.showed B.awarded C.devoted D.brought 【17】A.apply B.wish C.recommend D.ask 【18】A.Assistance B.Privilege C.Happiness D.Satisfaction 【19】A.extreme B.serious C.grand D.great 【20】A.life B.kids C.families D.gifts |
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每次错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。 修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。 The first person I met in my high school was my deskmate, with that I fell in love at first sight. She was warm-hearted and always wore a honest smile on her face. I was homesick in the first few days, unable to adjust the new school. It was with her help which I got familiar with the school. However, what impressed me most was her diligence and determine. When faced with a challenge in study, she would try out her best to solve it. Whenever I was in trouble, she would encourage myself and help me out. But for her encouragement, I wouldn’t have progressed so fast and steady. Have so nice a girl as my friend is great luck for me. May our friendship lasts forever. |
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假定你是李华，九月末将去伦敦交流学习，得知当地博物馆要举办中国传统服装展，正在招募志愿者。请写一封申请信，要点如下： 1. 写作目的； 2. 个人优势； 3. 你的承诺。 注意：1.词数 100 左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； Dear Sir/Madam, ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua |
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