"Another gray day,gray and gloomy,"she muttered,though really the rain was
A.lack of rain
B.heavy storm
C.strong wind
D.heavy snow
A.lack of rain
B.heavy storm
C.strong wind
D.heavy snow
A.another day
B.other days
C.one day
D.the other day
In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important event of the year except graduation day. Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks in advance.
Several days before Homecoming Day,students start to decorate the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team,and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Homecoming Day twenty or thirty years after their graduation.
The members of school clubs build booths and sell lemonade,apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.
During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.
Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over,the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is great honor to be chosen.
Homecoming Day is a happy day,but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses,the students still enjoy Homecoming Day. Some stay at the school to dance,and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering. (240 words)
11. What do many high schools and colleges with a football team have?
A. A Homecoming game.
B. A Homecoming party.
C. A Homecoming dance
D. A Homecoming concert
12. When do students begin to plan the Homecoming Day?
A. Two weeks in advance.
B. One week in advance
C. Many weeks in advance
D. Two or three days in advance
13. What do students start to do several days before the Homecoming Day?
A. Stop classes for parties
B. Decorate the school
C. Set up welcoming groups
D. Hold all kinds of parties
14. Which is NOT mentioned about the things they do before the football game?
A. Look for teachers
B. See old friends
C. Talk together.
D. Order tickets
15. When does the band play school songs?
A. While the game is going on
B. After the game
C. When the game is half over
D. Before the game
Meanwhile the practically real world for each one of us, the effective world of the individual, is the compound world, the physical facts and emotional values in indistinguishable combination. Withdraw or pervert (使错乱) either factor of this complex resultant, and the kind of experience we call pathological ensues.
This passage mainly discusses ______.
A.the dual nature of the world in which we humans live
B.the effect of strong emotions
C.emotion and reality'
D.emotions and passions—gifts of the spectator's mind
Another time, the ___4___ in a science class asked, “When it thunders (打雷), why do we always see the light before we ___5___ the sound?”
“But, Miss,”said John quickly,“don't you know our eyes are in front of our ears?”
1)、A.teacher
B.his
C.asked
D.class
E.hear
2)、A.teacher
B.his
C.asked
D.class
E.hear
3)、A.teacher
B.his
C.asked
D.class
E.hear
4)、A.teacher
B.his
C.asked
D.class
E.hear
5)、A.teacher
B.his
C.asked
D.class
E.hear
1. The thief was trying to get his neighbor's doobell. ()
2.The thiet put some cotton in his ears so as not to hear anything()
3. The neighbor ran out probably because he knew his doorbell was being stolen. ()
4.The neighbor hit the thief to punish him for stealing. ()
5. The thief thought the neighbor couldn't hear the noise of the bell. ()
solstice.
In many of the Christian 【C14】______ , March25thisstillthe Feast of the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel 【C15】______ to Mazy that she【C16】______ the mother of Jesus.
【C17】______ impulse for the feast of Christmas may have came too 【C18】______ the establishment of the pagan feast of the "Unconquered Sun-God" by the Emperor Aurelian in 274 A.D. to be celebrated on December 25, the day of the winter solstice in Rome and throughout the empire. 【C19】______ , Christians could celebrate the feast of the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4,2), Jesus Christ, who called himself" 【C20】______ of the world."
【C1】
A.religion
B.origin
C.region
D.oration
Population tends to grow at an exponential(指数的)rate. This means that they progressively double. As an example of this type of growth rate, take one penny and double every day for one month. After the first week, you would have only 64 cents, but after the fourth week you would have over a million dollars.
This helps explain why the population has come on "all of a sudden". It took from the beginning of human life to the year 1830 for the population of the earth to reach one billion. That repents(缓慢进行)a time span of at least two million years. Then it took from 1830 to 1930 for world population to reach 2 billion. The next billion was added by 1960, only thirty years, and in 1975 world population reached 4 billion, which is another billion people in only fifteen years.
World population is increasing at a rate of 9000 per hour, 220000 per day, and 80 million per year. This is not only due to higher birth rate, but to lower death rate as well. The number of births has not declined at the same rate as the number of deaths.
Some countries, such as Columbia, Thailand, Morocco, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, are doubling their population about every twenty-one years, with a growth rate of 3.3% a year or more. The United States is doubling its population about very eighty-seven years, with a rate of 0.8% per year. Every time a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything, including hospitals, schools, resources, food and medicines to care for its people. It is easy to see that this is very difficult to achieve for the more rapidly growing countries.
This passage chiefly discusses______.
A.the growth of world population
B.one type of the exponential rate
C.the population problem of more rapidly growing countries
D.the possible ways of dealing with the rapid population growth
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Biological Clock
When the sun rises on a warm and sunny day, you can see some flowers open up. When they close late in the afternoon, other flowers open.
Biological rhythms(生物节律), like the opening and closing of flowers, happen all over nature. But not all of them are daily rhythms. Some, like the beating of our heart, happen every second. (1)Scientists use the term biological clock to describe the timing that controls biological rhythms. (2) In some animals it is probably controlled by the brain. In plants and other living things that have no brain, it must be something else.
The migration of animals happens when a signal is sent out. For example, when days become shorter, birds leave the northern parts of the world and fly south where it is warm. (3)Humans also have biological clocks that control their daily rhythms. When people travel by plane from one continent to another, they often cross many time zones. Their internal clocks don’t seem to work correctly. We call this jet lag(时差). (4)People who work night shifts also have problems with their biological clocks. They may not be as active as people who work during the daytime.
Biological clocks control many rhythms of life. (5) Doctors are looking for new ways to make travelling more comfortable and medical treatment more effective.
A. But where can you find it?
B. This makes them feel tired.
C. In the summer they fly back to have babies.
D. We are learning more and more about them.
E. Biological clocks can be adjusted.
F. Other rhythms are based on months, seasons or years.
A.Dubliners
B.Portrait of a Lady
C.Picture of Dorian Gray
D.To the Lighthouse