()—____. — It’s red
A.What colour is it
B.What time is it
C.Where is it
A、What colour is it
A.What colour is it
B.What time is it
C.Where is it
A、What colour is it
Finally the author found ______.
A.that he was a very foolish person
B.that he had got used to the cry for help
C.a large green and red bird flying into his living room from his neighbor's house
D.the secret
The Red Cross exists in almost every country 【B6】______ the world. The World Red Cross Organizations are sometimes called the Red Crescent (新月), the Red Mogen David, the Sun, and the Red Lion. All of these agencies 【B7】______ a common goal of trying 【B8】______ people in need.
The idea of forming an organization to help the sick and 【B9】______ during a war started 【B10】______ Jean Henry Dunant. In 1859, he observed 【B11】______ suffering 【B12】______ a battlefield in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people 【B13】______ of which side they were 【B14】______ . The most important result of his work was an international treaty 【B15】______ the Geneva Convention(日内瓦公约). It 【B16】______ prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, and 【B17】______ citizens during a war.
The American Red Cross 【B18】______ by Clara Barton in 1881. Today the Red Cross in the United States provides a number of 【B19】______ for the public. Such as helping people in need, teaching first aid, 【B20】______ water safety and artificial respiration, and providing blood.
A.internationally
B.an international
C.a worldly
D.a world's
Where do these ideas come from? Max Luscher from the University of Geneva believes that in the beginning life was dictated by two factors beyond our control: night and day. Night brought passivity, and a general slowing down of metabolism; day brought with it the possibility of action, and increase in the metabolic rate, thus providing us with energy and initiative. Dark blue, therefore, is the color of quiet and passivity, bright yellow, the color of hope and activity.
In prehistoric times, activity as a rule took one of two forms: either we were hunting and attacking, or we were being hunted and defending ourselves against attack. Attack is universally represented by the color red; self-preservation by its complement green.
In Luscher's view, the association of colors with feeling and attitudes can be traced back to ______.
A.the association of day and night with passivity and action in ancient time
B.the association of black with funerals in western Europe
C.the association of white with purity in some countries
D.the association of red with joy in China
This World, a round island resting on the surface of waters, was suspended from the sky by four cords attached to the island at the four cardinal points of the compass. Lines drawn to connect the opposite points of the compass, from north to south and from east to west, intersected This World to divide it into four wedge-shaped segments. Thus a symbolic representation of the human world was a cross within a circle, the cross representing the intersecting lines and the circle the shape of This World.
Each segment of This World was identified by its own color. According to Cherokee doctrine, east was associated with the color red because it was the direction of the Sun, the greatest deity of all. Red was also the color of fire, believed to be directly connected with the Sun, with blood, and therefore with life. Finally, red was the color of success. The west was the Moon segment: it provided no warmth and was not life-giving as the Sun was. So its color was black, North was the direction of cold, and so its color was blue (sometimes purple), and it represented trouble and defeat. South was the direction of warmth, its color, white, was associated with peace and happiness.
The southeastern Native Americans' universe was one in which opposites were constantly at war with each other, red against black, blue against white. This World hovered somewhere between the perfect order and predictability of the Upper World and the total disorder and instability of the Lower World. The goal was to find some kind of halfway path or balance, between those other worlds.
Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.One Civilization's View of the Universe.
B.The Changing of the Seasons in the Southeast.
C.The Painting of Territorial Maps by Southeastern Native Americans.
D.The War Between Two Native American Civilizations.
At about 9:30 we went to the White House. It's 【66】 the public from 10 【67】 12, and there was a long line of people 【68】 to get in. We didn't have to wait very long, because the line moved 【69】 quickly.
The White House is really white. It is painted every year. And it seems very white, because it's got beautiful lawns 【70】 around it, with many trees and shrubs. The grounds 【71】 about four square blocks. I mean, they're about two blocks long 【72】 each side.
Of course, we didn't see the whole building. The part 【73】 the President lives and works is not open to the public. But the part we saw was beautiful. We went 【74】 five of the main rooms. One of them was the library on the ground floor. On the next floor, there are three rooms named 【75】 the colors that are used in them: the Red Room, the Blue Room, and the Green Room. The walls are covered with silk 【76】 There are 【77】 of old furniture from the time 【78】 the White House was 【79】 built. And everywhere there are paintings and statues of former presidents and 【80】 famous people from history.
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A.made
B.took
C.went
D.set
In response to Mrs. Dodd's idea that same year—1909, the state governor of Washington proclaimed (宣布) the third Sunday in June is Father's Day. The idea was officially approved by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge recommended national observance of the occasion " to establish more intimate (亲密的) relations between fathers and their children, and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations. " The red or white rose is recognized as the official Father's Day flower.
Father's day took longer to establish on a national scale than Mother's Day, but as the idea gained popularity, tradesmen and manufacturers began to see the commercial possibilities. They encouraged sons and daughters to honor their fathers with small thank-you presents, such as a tie or a pair of socks, as well as by sending greeting cards.
During the Second World War, American servicemen stationed in Britain began to request Father's Day greeting cards to send home. This generated a response with British card publishers. Though at first the British public was slow to accept this rather artificial day, it's now well celebrated in Britain on the third Sunday in June in much the same way as in America.
Father's Day seems to be much less important an occasion than the Mother's Day. Not many of the children offer their fathers some presents. But the American fathers still think they are much better fated than the fathers of many other countries, who have not even a day for their sake in name only.
When did Father's Day officially begin to have national popularity?
A.1907.
B.1909.
C.1916
D.1924
Life on Mars
Perhaps more than anything else, scientists are eager to find out if Martian life existed in the past—or still exists.【61】telescopes first zoomed in【62】Mars in the 17th century, people have conjured up a wild【63】of images or what Martians might look like. But space probes like the 1997 Sojourner land rover have yielded no evidence of such alien beings.
Most experts agree that if life did at one time evolve on Mars, finding evidence of that life—which would likely take the form. of tiny organisms—won't be easy.【64】, many scientists are optimistic. "We've got organisms on Earth that adapted to life deep【65】the surface in underground water wells, " says Stephen Clifford. "【66】life like that evolved on Mars four billion years ago, there's no reason why it【67】today. "
【68】last year's disappointing losses, the future of Martian exploration looks【69】This year, two major
films about fictitious Mars missions—Red Planet and Missions to Mars—are certain to heighten interest in our planetary neighbour. More important, plans for new sets of NASA orbiters and landers—one to launch in 2001 , the other in 2003—are already in the works. Without a doubt, each new mission will inch scientists closer to【70】the mysteries of planet Mars.
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A.When
B.Before
C.Ever since
D.Ever
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Not long ago a California policeman stopped a driver for failing to stop at a red light.Asked his name,the driver said,“Safety First.”0f course,the policeman did not believe the man.He thought the driver had been drinking.But the man was telling the truth.Safety First was his real name.Thousands of babies are given strange names each year,and many women acquire(获得)strange names through marriage.When Miss Nova Warrick married,she became Nova Cain.There’s a Katz Meow in Washington D.C.and a Mr.Ache Payne in Illinois.Mr.Darling Dear resides(居住)in Wisconsin.A New York music teacher is named Love Sweet‘ heart.Fish Hook lives in Illinois.Orange Vanilla Lemon resides in Idaho.But,perhaps the strangest name of all is that of a Georgia man—W·5/8ths Smith. The policeman stopped the driver to________.
A.ask him some questions about his family name
B.check whether the driver kept the traffic rules in mind
C.find out the cause that made the driver broke the traffic rules
D.I hake sure if the driver would cheat him
The Princess concluded with a simple message: "We must stop landmines". And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message.
But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press. They described her as "very ill-informed" and a "loose cannon (乱放炮的人). "
The Princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms:" This is a distraction (干扰) we do not need. All I' m trying to do is help.
Opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess 's trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in Angola and the British government 's policy regarding landmines. The result was a severe embarrassment for the government.
To try and limit the damage, the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkidnd, claimed that the Princess's views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was "working towards" a worldwide ban. The Defence Secretary, Michael Portillo, claimed the matter was "a misinterpretation or misunderstanding.
For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. She said that the experience had also given her the chance to get closer to people and their problems.
Princess Diana paid a visit to Angola in 1997 ______.
A.to voice her support for a total ban of landmines
B.to clarify the British government's stand on landmines
C.to investigate the sufferings of landmine victims there
D.to establish her image as a friend of landmine victims