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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 Success Stories Mercy Cherono is one of many very successful young athletes from Kenya. She was born in 1991 in the village of Kipajit. She is the oldest of six children, and some of the other children in her family are also athletes. Her father, John Koech, runs a training camp in the village. During the school holidays, the camp 【1】attract over 50 trainees. Cherono started running in primary school and continued when she went to secondary school in the nearby town of Sotik. At the age of 16, she participated in the 2007 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships 【2】(hold) in Mombasa, Kenya. It was her first international event. 【3】the fact that she finished 23rd in the junior race, she had launched herself into international athletics. In the same year, at the World Youth Championships at Ostrava in the Czech Republic, she won a gold medal in the 3,000-meter race, 【4】she ran in the championship record time of 8:53:94. In the coming years, she continued to win gold medals at famous international championships. She is a two-time World Junior Champion in the 3,000-meter race, 【5】(win) in Poland in 2008, and again in Canada in 2010. She also came in first in the 3,000-meter race at the 2009 Africa Junior Championships. However, Cherono is not just a middle-distance runner 【6】she tried to sprint too early to the finishing line. After the race, Cherono claimed, “I 【7】( not repeat) that mistake again.” The following year, at the same cross country race, Cherono proved 【8】when she won a gold medal. Incredibly, all of the three runners-up were from Kenya, too. She and the Kenyan team came home to a hero's welcome. Her coach was excited and owed the success 【9】she won the gold medal for the Kenya team to hard training and determination.”And her father said, “our child is a disciplined girl and the best 【10】(take) instructions.” Perhaps one day Mercy Cherono will instruct future champions. |
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Directions: After reading the passage and the sentences below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.
Beyond two or three days, the world’s best weather forecasts are doubtful, and beyond six or seven they are worthless. |
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The stress of daily life has given rise to a new phenomenon ─ sleep texting. People with this condition send text messages while asleep to their friends and family ─ completely ______ that they are doing it. Sleep specialist Dr. David Cunnington, of Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia, said patients had reported ______ of sleep texting ─ and he has advised people to leave their ______ outside the bedroom. He said: “We have had patients who have reported sending text messages to their friends and family while asleep. It is one of those things that happens, but it is very ______, and certainly not a common trend.” ______, there are no studies into sleep texting — but a ______ phenomenon, sleep emailing, was studied in 2008. Researchers at the University of Toledo reported the case of a woman, 44, who would ______ emails while sound asleep. She had no recollection (记忆)of sending the emails when awake. Dr. Cunnington said cases of sleep emailing were more common, and were likely to have a more ______ effect on the lives of sufferers. He said: “Emails can be sent to work colleagues and have much more serious ______, whereas text messages are more likely to be ______ sent to a friend or family member, so people aren't as likely to complain of a problem.” Dr. Cunnington described sleep texting as the ______ of people having too much to do during waking life. He explained: People are doing so much during a normal day that it can mean that they feel like they’re “on call” even at night. “______ it’s so easy to receive emails constantly, and get notifications (通知) from smartphones, it becomes more difficult for us to ______ our waking and sleeping lives.” Dr. Cunnington said people ______ to get a quality night’s sleep must realize that the key point is that people need to ______ their sleep, and make an effort to switch off at night. 【1】A.conscious B.unaware C.secure D.grateful 【2】A.missions B.intervals C.courses D.incidents 【3】A.mobile phones B.personal computers C.unfinished work D.sleeping pills 【4】A.true B.common C.obvious D.rare 【5】A.Fortunately B.Adequately C.Unsurprisingly D.Unbelievably 【6】A.similar B.strange C.present D.unique 【7】A.recall B.overlook C.compose D.recover 【8】A.generous B.internal C.harmful D.positive 【9】A.consequences B.preparations C.significance D.symptoms 【10】A.accidentally B.purposefully C.unreasonably D.unwillingly 【11】A.temper B.result C.excuse D.loss 【12】A.Because B.Although C.Just as D.So 【13】A.combine B.satisfy C.describe D.separate 【14】A.appointing B.struggling C.carrying D.affording 【15】A.recognize B.ignore C.restore D.respect |
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A 69-year-old grandmother with no teeth of her own has eventually won a long legal battle to stop a Scottish regional council (政务委员会) adding fluoride (氟化物) chemical to the public water supply. In a case which has already cost the taxpayer £1,000,000 the judge ruled that it was beyond the powers of the local authority to add the chemical to the water in order to reduce tooth decay. At her home last night Mrs Catherine McColl said “I did what I thought was right and I would do it again too." She claimed that adding fluoride to public drinking water made it into some kind of dirty soup . “Where would it stop?” she asked. “They might come up with the idea of putting drugs into the water to keep the unemployed quiet.” It was a horrible poison she said that could have caused all kinds of diseases including cancer. The judge however concluded that there was no evidence to suggest that the inclusion of fluoride in the water supply would have had a negative effect on public health. Although the chemical might serve as an efficient and convenient means of achieving a beneficial effect on the dental health of consumers generally, he said, and its use was greatly favoured by the dental profession, he could also understand why some members of the public, Mrs. McColl in particular, might be passionately opposed to the action of the Water Authority in assuming the right to improve public well-being without consulting the public in the first case. The Authority's legal duty to provide “wholesome” water for public consumption which was both safe and pleasant to drink did not he said extend to their right to safeguard public health by chemical means. 【1】Mrs. McColl felt so strongly about the fluoride issue that she eventually ________. A.took the local council to court B.had a physical fight with the judge C.urged the authority to apologize D.spent much money removing the chemical 【2】According to what the judge said in the passage adding fluoride to the water________. A.was not proved to be harmful B.was the duty of the local authority C.was strongly opposed by dentists D.was surely beneficial to the public 【3】The word "wholesome" in the last paragraph can be best replaced by the word"________". A.clear B.non-poisonous C.healthy D.recycled 【4】From the passage we learn that people like Mrs McColl are more concerned about________. A.the improvement of their personal health B.the problem of unemployment in their community C.the chemicals to be used for the improvement of water quality D.their right to be informed of the authorities' decisions |
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Home Laundry Automatic Dryer Product Full Two Year Warranty（保修） Limited Five Year Warranty on Cabinet（机箱） Warranty Provides for： FIRST TWO YEARS Amana will repair or replace any faulty part free of charge. THIRD THRU FIFTH YEARS Amana will provide a free replacement part for any cabinet which proves faulty due to rust（生锈）. Warranty Limitations： • Warranty begins at date of original purchase. • Applies only to product used within the United States or in Canada if product is approved by Canadian Standards Association when shipped from factory. • Products used on a commercial or rental basis not covered by this warranty. • Service must be performed by an Amana servicer. • Adjustments covered during first year only. Warranty Does Not Cover It If： • Product has damage due to product change，connection to an improper electrical supply> shipping and handling, accident, fire, floods, lightning or other conditions beyond the control of Amana. • Product is improperly installed（安装）or applied. Owner’s Responsibilities： • Provide sales receipt. • Normal care and repair. • Having the product reasonably accessible for service. • Pay for service calls related to product installation or usage instructions. • Pay for extra service costs, over normal service charges, if servicer is requested to perform service outside servicer^ normal business hours. * In no event shall Amana be responsible for consequential damages（间接损坏）. * This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may have others which vary from state to state For example, some states do not allow the exclusion（排除）or limitation of consequential damages, so this exclusion may not apply to you. 【1】According to Warranty Limitations, a product can be under warranty if . A.used in the U.S. A. B.rented for home use C.repaired by the user himself D.shipped from a Canadian factory 【2】According to Owner’s Responsibilities, an owner has to pay for . A.the product installation B.a servicer’s overtime work C.the loss of the sales receipt D.a mechanic’s transportation 【3】Which of the following is true according to the warranty? A.Consequential damages are excluded across America. B.A product damaged in a natural disaster is covered by the warranty. C.A faulty cabinet due to rust can be replaced free in the second year. D.Free repair is available for a product used improperly in the first year. |
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Is growth good for biodiversity（生物多样性）? To answer the question, it is critical to define what we mean by growth. Is growth gross domestic product (GDP), the “monetary value of all the finished goods within a country’s borders”? Or does it mean improving the human standard of living? Today, when people say growth, they mean GDP, a measure that is over 70 years old. Actually GDP demonstrates negative implications for biodiversity, as this “growth” measures only money inflows while far more important is the balance sheet, which shows properties and debts. As biodiversity delivers no cash, it has no place in GDP system, but biodiversity provides the asset side of the balance sheet, such as forests, rivers, wetlands and animals--the list goes on. It is argued that growth is good for biodiversity in the long run as there is an environmental Kuznets curve where environmental conditions get worse in the early stages of modern economic growth, but improve once a growth level has been reached. According to some people, once GDP has been right, more resources are to invest in conservation, and new technologies are used to protect the nature. They said people would have more interest in protection the environment, and some of the forests started to return and many pollutants were almost eliminated. Standing in America today it might appear that the environmental Kuznets curve works. At first sight there appears to be a logic. Today the US GDP is increasing while many precious species populations are also recovering? Such conditions, according to some people, can be explained by greater efficiency in cars or more efficient agricultural production. But in fact, the majority of the negative impacts have simply been explored. The high-polluting industries have been outsourced to developing nations. Therefore the bitterest punishments are largely felt beyond the borders while we Americans are enjoying high GDP and selfish biodiversity at the same time. This can be seen in the WWF annual Report, where species population trends are increasing by 7% in high-income countries and declining in middle- and low-income countries by 31% and 60% respectively. It is self-evident that growth, as currently defined, has a major negative impact upon biodiversity. What needs to change is the definition of growth from a GDP-essential concept to a balance-sheet approach. Organizations and world community should work on creating new vision or reform that will help ensure a real balance between an improving standard of human life and a thriving biodiverse landscape. 【1】According to the passage, the author’s opinion toward GDP is that GDP . A.has nothing to do with biodiversity as it serves as an economic ruler B.shouldn’t have ignored biodiversity as it does good to balance sheet C.is out-dated as it leaves out productions outside a country’s borders D.is useful economic indicators as it honestly follows the Kuznets curves 【2】The environmental Kuznets curve is seemingly working because . A.when US economy is strong, people have more interest in environment protection B.high GDP helps to introduce high technology for environment protection C.great fuel efficiency in cars and agriculture helps to protect environment D.the US makes other weak nations take the harmful consequences 【3】The author’s main opinion about growth-biodiversity is that . A.There’s no clear relationship between growth and biodiversity B.Biodiversity condition agrees with a country’s economic growth C.Growth harms biodiversity with today’s GDP-centred system D.The author is not sure about the exact influence of growth on biodiversity 【4】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A.GDP focuses on balance sheet rather than monetary increase. B.Within borders, America is enjoying a better biodiversity right now. C.Many low-income nations are having a higher GDP growth than the U.S. D.Creative ways have been found to balance life standard and biodiversity |
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Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. Many people know that trash is a big problem on planet Earth. What many people don’t know is that trash has become a problem in outer space too. 【1】 Statistically, there are more than 22,000 pieces of junk in space around the earth. And these are just the items that we can see from the surface of the earth by telescopes or radars. 【2】 Objects, like bits of old space rockets or satellites, move around the planet at very high speeds, so fast that even a very small piece can break important satellites or become dangerous to people, particularly astronauts. If the tiniest piece of junk crashed into a spacecraft, it could damage the vehicle. That’s because the faster an object moves, the greater the impact if the object collides with something else. To help minimize additional space junk, countries around the world have agreed to limit the time their space tools stay in orbit to 25 years. Each tool must be built to fall safely into the earth’s atmosphere, or the mass of gases that surround the earth, after that. 【3】 Many scientists are also proposing different ways to clean up space junk. The Germans have been planning a space mission with robots that would collect pieces of space trash and bring them back to Earth so that they can be safely destroyed. "In our opinion the problem is very challenging, and it's quite urgent as well," said Marco Castronuovo, an Italian Space Agency researcher who is working to solve the problem. 【4】 Many of these objects are tools that help people use their cell phones or computers. "The time to act is now; as we go farther in time we will need to remove more and more fragments," he says. A. One reason that it’s urgent is that countries are sending more and more objects into space. B. There are also millions of smaller pieces of junk that we can’t see. C. Blowing up older satellites with a missile may create thousands of smaller pieces! D. In the upper parts of the atmosphere, it will burn up. E. When two objects in space collide, the two objects break into many smaller pieces. F. Years of space exploration have left tons of “space junk” in orbit around the planet. |
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Curiosity Is an Increasingly Rare Virtue Most of the breakthrough discoveries and remarkable inventions throughout history, from flints (打火石) for starting a fire to self-driving cars, have something in common: They are the result of curiosity. But the journalist Ian Leslie, in his newly-published book Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It, insists that curiosity is a much overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success, and we are losing it. Leslie presents considerable evidence for the claim that the society as a whole is growing less curious. In the U.S. and Europe, for example, the rise of the Internet, among other social and technological changes, has led to a declining consumption of news from outside the reader’s borders. Indeed, Google, for which Leslie expresses admiration, is also his frequent whipping boy (替罪羊): we seek only the information we want. But not everything is to be blamed on technology. The decline in interest in literary fiction is also one of the causes identified by Leslie. Why is this a problem? Because without curiosity we will lose the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship (企业家精神). Worse still, that lack of curiosity produces a relative lack of knowledge, and the lack of knowledge is difficult if not impossible to compensate for later on. Fortunately, some strategies can be employed to develop curiosity: If you just accept the world as it is without trying to dig deeper, you will certainly lose the ‘holy curiosity’. Of course, one effective way to dig deeper beneath the surface is asking questions: What is that? Why is it made that way? Who invented it? How does it work? ...And if you see learning as a burden, there’s no way you will want to dig deeper into anything. That will just make the burden heavier. But if you think of learning as something fun, you will naturally want to dig deeper. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 爷爷有点耳背，对他耐心一点。(patient）(汉译英） | |
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| 年轻人要有雄心壮志，不应安于现状。（satisfy）(汉译英） | |
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| 只有发展好、运用好、治理好互联网，才能使其更好地造福人类。（only）(汉译英） | |
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翻译句子 我们付出的每一次努力未必都能成功，但是但凡值得我们做的事情都值得做好。(worth) ________________________________ |
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Directions: Write an English composition in 100－150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 古人云：“天生我材必有用”（There must be a use for my talent.) 通过描述你生活中的一件事情，说明人各有所长，无论才能大小都能成为有用的人。 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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