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British children's writer Roald Dahl ate chocolates and sweets "pretty much every mealtime", remembers daughter Ophelia Dahl. After dinner, whether dining alone or entertaining guests, Dahl would pass around a little red plastic box full of Mars Bars, Milky Ways, Maltesers, Kit Kats and much more. He knew the history of all the sweets and could tell you exactly when they were invented. 1937 was a big year when Kit Kats (his favorite), Rolos, and Smarties (his dog, chopper's favorite) were invented. He wrote a history of chocolate, lecturing schoolchildren to commit such dates to memory, such as 1928 when "Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Bar popped up on the scene", saying don't bother with the Kings and Queens of England. All of you should learn these dates instead. Perhaps the Headmistress will see from now on that it becomes part of the major teaching in this school. According to Dahl, the Golden Years of Chocolate were 1930-1937. In 1930, Roald Dahl was 14 years old. He was a student at Repton, a famous boys' boarding school in England. It was a tough environment: Those in authority were more interested in controlling than educating the students. Ironically, it was at this difficult period that chocolate became Dahl's passion. Near Repton was a Cadbury chocolate factory. Every so often, Cadbury would send each schoolboy a sampler box of new chocolates to taste and grade. They were using the students — "the greatest chocolate bar experts in the world" to test out their new inventions. This was when Dahl's imagination took flight. He pictured factories with inventing rooms with pots of chocolate and fudge （软糖）and “all sorts of other delicious fillings bubbling away on the stoves”. “It was lovely dreaming those dreams... when I was looking for a plot for my second book for children, I remembered those little cardboard boxes and the newly-invented chocolates inside them, and I began to write a book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." For the record, Roald Dahl did not like chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream. He said, “I prefer my chocolate straight.” 【1】What can we learn about Roald Dahl? A. He treated himself with various chocolates after dinner secretly. B. He has a good knowledge of chocolate, especially its history. C. He used to lecture schoolchildren of a boys, boarding school. D. He only wrote some books related to the history of chocolate. 【2】What happened during the Golden Years of Chocolate? A. It was a great time for children to get educated. B. Those years stopped Dahl's interest in chocolate. C. Students could become chocolate experts then. D. Roald Dahl's passion for chocolate was lit up then. 【3】Which of the following can best replace the underlined phrase? A. paid off B. went on C. picked up D. took off 【4】What gave Roald Dahl inspiration to write Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? A. The dreams about chocolates. B. Factories with chocolate and fudge. C. Those boxes with chocolates. D. Chocolate cakes and ice cream. |
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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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Anecdotal evidence has long held that creativity in artists and writers can be associated with living in foreign parts. Rudyard Kipling, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Gauguin, Samuel Beckett and others spent years living abroad. Now a pair of psychologist has proven that there is indeed a link. As they report in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, William Maddux of INSEAD, a business school in Fontainebleau, France, and Adam Galinsky, of the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, presented 155 American business students and 55 foreign ones studying in America with a test used by psychologists as a measure of creativity Given a candle, some matches and a box of drawing pins, the students were asked to attach the candle to a cardboard wall so that no wax would drip on the floor when the candle was lit. (The solution is to use the box as a candleholder and fix it to the wall with the pin.) They found 60% of the students who were either living abroad or had spent some time doing so, solved the problem, whereas only 42% of those who had not lived abroad did so. A follow-up study with 72 Americans and 36 foreigners explored their creative negotiating skills. Pairs of students were asked to play the role of seller of a petrol station who then needed to get a job and a buyer who would need to hire staff to run the business. The two were likely to reach a deadlock because the buyer had been told he could not afford what the seller was told was his minimum price. Nevertheless, when both negotiators had lived abroad 70 % struck a deal in which the seller was offered a management job at the petrol station in return for a lower asking price. When neither of the negotiators had lived abroad, none was able to reach a deal. Merely travelling abroad, however, was not enough. You do have to live there. Packing your beach towel and suntan lotion will not, by itself make you Hemingway. 【1】What is the purpose of mentioning the famous names in the opening paragraph? A. To show the relationship between creativity and living abroad. B. To indicate the link between artistic creation and life experience. C. To emphasize how great these artists are. D. To impress the importance of creativity. 【2】What can be inferred from the text? A. William Maddux and Adam Galinsky have carefully designed the test. B. Negotiators who had lived abroad are more flexible in negotiating. C. American business students are less creative than those oversea students. D. One's creativity is associated with the length one has spent abroad. 【3】What does the author mean in the last sentence of paragraph 4? A. There exist sharp differences between travelling and living abroad. B. You shouldn't lie on the beach when travelling. C. Only real experience of living abroad can help drive creativity. D. Living abroad is more meaningful than just travelling abroad. 【4】Where is the text most likely from? A. A diary. B. A magazine. C. A novel. D. A guidebook. |
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Lead has proved to be a useful metal. 【1】 It goes into car batteries and also helps make bright pigments, used to paint walls, metal work and toys. 【2】 In the worst cases it causes comas（昏迷）and death. More often its effects are slow but harmful. Research shows that lead is a threat to little babies, who are most likely to take in dust and paint chips that contain lead. Their brains can be easily harmed. 【3】 The dangers of lead have long been known. American banned it from paint 40 years ago, and by the late 1990s leaded petrol had been stopped gradually in almost all rich countries. But the effects continue to exist. 【4】 The situation is more alarming in the poor world, where the use of lead-based paints is spreading. As people in Asia and Africa become richer, they start to decorate their homes, but the paint they use, even from pots labeled "lead-free" often contains it. It is neither difficult nor expensive to stop using lead. 【5】 And industrial use is no exception, because the contamination （污染物）spreads and industrial paint inevitably finds its way into the consumer market. Yet only four sub-Saharan African countries have formally placed bans and local factories are often unaware of the harm that lead causes. A. Yet lead is also a poison. B. It turns up everywhere. C. All countries should ban lead in paint. D. Half a million American children are diagnosed with lead poisoning. E. There is no excuse for poor countries to repeat the mistake of rich ones. F. Taking some simple precautions can help protect you and your family from lead exposure. G. But only years after exposure are the results apparent in lower IQ and learning disabilities. |
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I was cycling and noticed a person, about a quarter of a kilometer in front of me. I could tell he was cycling a little slower than me and decided to try to _______ him. I had about a kilometer to go on the road _______ turning off. So I _______ cycling faster and faster and every _______ I was gaining on him just a little bit. After just a few minutes I was only about 100 yards _______ him, so I really picked up the pace and _______ myself You would have _______ I was cycling in the last section of London Olympic triathlon. _______,I caught up with him and passed him by. On the inside I felt so _______.I beat him, of course, but he didn't even know we were __________ . After I passed him, I __________ that I had been so focused on competing against him that I had __________ my turn. I had gone nearly six blocks past it and had to turn around and go all the way back. Isn't that what happens in life when we __________ competing with co-workers, neighbors, and friends, trying to __________ that we are more successful or more important? We spend our time and ____________ chasing after them and we miss out on our own __________ to our future. The __________ of unhealthy competition is that it's a never-ending ____________, because there will__________ be somebody ahead of you, someone with a better job, more money and more education, etc. Therefore, just take what life has given you, your height, weight and personality. Stay focused and live a healthy life. There's no __________in life. Run your own race and wish others well! 【1】A. follow B. catch C. remind D. grasp 【2】A. before B. after C. unless D. when 【3】A. stopped B. enjoyed C. started D. regretted 【4】A. way B. block C. step D. time 【5】A. apart from B. above C. ahead of D. behind 【6】A. protected B. pushed C. supported D. comforted 【7】A. thought B. remembered C. dreamt D. hoped 【8】A. Fortunately B. Finally C. Surprisingly D. Apparently 【9】A. calm B. lucky C. astonished D. good 【10】A. racing B. exercising C. celebrating D. cycling 【11】A. believed B. expected C. realized D. understood 【12】A. escaped B. missed C. made D. lost 【13】A. worry about B. care for C. depend on D. focus on 【14】A. prove B. declare C. explain D. inform 【15】A. tears B. money C. energy D. pain 【16】A. paths B. entrances C. plans D. barriers 【17】A. task B. difficulty C. problem D. goal 【18】A. movement B. cycle C. event D. routine 【19】A. never B. often C. sometimes D. always 【20】A. mistake B. competition C. pressure D. challenge |
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式 Fuchsia Dunlop decided to visit China after reading articles about the country for several months. The one-month backpacking trip exposed the English woman 【1】 a wide range of Chinese food. "The dishes and soups I had even in the cheapest and plain eateries were better than 【2】 I had in the U.K.,” Dunlop recalled. The last stop of her trip was Chengdu, 【3】 capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. Dunlop learned from friends that Sichuan food represents one of China's 【4】 (good) cuisines, and when the spicy flavor of Sichuan pepper exploded in her mouth, something inside her changed forever. After she returned to London, Dunlop made the decision to study in China at Sichuan University. When she wrote down "studying Chinese 【5】 (policy) on ethnic groups" on the 【6】 (apply) form as the reason for a scholarship, what she really had in mind were Sichuan dishes. Her journey eventually led her to become the most knowledgeable English person on Chinese food. She 【7】 (write) many books on Chinese cuisine since, including Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, which was translated into Chinese in 2018. According to Chen Xiaoqing, 【8】 (know) for directing the documentary of A Bite of China, Dunlop is the most insightful foreign writer who 【9】 (vivid) describes Chinese cuisine in an exciting and accurate way. What she presents to the readers is not just food, but also the profound traditions and tremendous changes 【10】 (occur) in the country behind the flavors. |
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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 每处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(Λ)，并在其下面写岀该加的词 删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)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 To be honesty, it was my older brother that inspired my passion for the violin. When I was five years old, he came home from school one day with the violin and played it. I was green with envy and wanted to start immediate. My first violin is given by my violin teacher and I named it with the little dog called ToTo in The Wizard of Oz. Now, I am the youngest members of the Australian Youth Orchestra. Surrounded by much more older and more advanced players, I have no choice but try and keep up with both the level of playing and the musicianship around me. I often invite some of my friends which are not so into classical music to a concert and he love it. You just don't have to be a musical genius to attend a concert. |
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假设你是李华，你和外国朋友Tom约好这个周五晚上去体育馆看足球赛，但你因故不能 赴约 请根据以下要点用英语给他写一封电子邮件： 1.表示歉意；2.解释原因；3.另约时间 注意：1. 词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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