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A. as soon as
B. as long as
C. as well as
We have spent all of our spare time()our spare money on the project.
A. as soon as
B. as long as
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完成下列各题 A
Karen Maclnnes had spent nine months in the hospital.As she grew weaker,the 16-year-old girl asked her parents.“Am I going to die?” Her mother told Karen the truth.After learning the bad news,all Karen wanted was to go home.Her parents decided to satisfy her wish-no matter that medical fund(基金),which had helped pay for Karens hospitalization,would not cover any of the full time medical care she would need at home.When she was carried through her front door,Karen smiled for the first time in months. A friend of the MacInnes family,Sheila Petersen,knew of this and offered to help.She volunteered(自愿)not only to find nurses,but also to raise money for Karens care.Money was received from SO many people that Sheila created(建立)a fund,“Friends of Karen”. After leaving the hospital,Karen lived for 11 months.“And those months wore happy ones for her,”says her mother.“thanks to Sheila.” Even after Karen died,people kept sending money.Sheila put it into the fund,tried to find someone else who needed help.By last month,Friends of Karen was helpin9 70 families. “I still have a relationship with each family.”says Sheila.“We have four children who are near death now,and I want to be there for them.”Sheila admits(承认)the work is sometimes difficult,but says,“the-smile’on a child’S face makes it all worthwhile(值得的).” The mother told Karen that she_______.
A.was going to die
B.was going home
C.was growing weak
D.was becoming better
(56)
A.how
B.where
C.when
D.whether
Before World War I we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the dim memory of the house we lived in, of my room and my toys. Nor do I recall clearly the large family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who gathered next door. But I do have a crystalclear memory of the dogs, the farm animals, the local birds, and above all, the insects.
I am a naturalist, not a scientist. I have a strong love of the natural world and my enthusiasm had led me into varied investigations. I love discussing my favorite topics and enjoy burning the midnight oil while reading about other people's observations and discoveries. Then something happens that brings these observations together in my conscious mind. Suddenly you fancy you see the answer to the riddle, because it all seems to fit together. This has resulted in my publishing 300 papers, and books, which some might honour with the title of scientific research.
But curiosity, a keen eye, a good memory and enjoyment of the animal and plant world do not make a scientist: one the outstanding and essential qualities required is se]f-discipline, a quality I lack. A scientist requires not only self-discipline but hard training, determination and a goal. A scientist, up to a point, can be made. A naturalist is born. If you can combine the two, you get the best of both worlds.
The first paragraph tells us the author ______. ()
A.was interested in flowers and insects in his childhood
B.lost his hearing when he was a child
C.didn't like his brothers and sisters
D.was born to a naturalist's family
Question 37 to 46 are based on the following passage.
It's our guilty pleasure: Watching TV is the most common everyday activity, after work and sleep, in many parts of the world. Americans view five hours of TV each day, and while we know that spending so much time sitting(37)_____ can lead to obesity(肥胖症)and other disease, researchers have now quantified just how(38)_____ being a couch potato can be.
In an analysis of data from eight large(39)_____ published studies, a Harvard-led group reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that for every two hours per day spent channel(40)_____, the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes(糖尿病)rose 20% over 8.5 years, the risk of heart disease increased 15% over a(41)_____, and the odds of dying prematurely(42)_____ 13% during a seven-year follow-up. All of these(43)_____ are linked to a lack of physical exercise. But compared with other sedentary(久坐的)activities, like knitting, viewing TV may be especially(44)_____ at promoting unhealthy habits. For one, the sheer number of hours we pass watching TV dwarfs the time we spend on anything else. And other studies have found that watching ads for beer and popcorn may make you more likely to(45)_____ them.
Even so, the authors admit that they didn't compare different sedentary activities to(46)_____ whether TV watching was linked to a greater risk of diabetes, heart disease or early death compared with, say, reading.
A.climbed
B.consume
C.decade
D.determine
E.effective
F.harmful
G.outcomes
H.passively
I.previously
J.resume
K.suffered
L.surfing
M.term
N.terminals
O.twisting
??????A??
??Karen Maclnnes had spent nine months in the hospital.As she grew weaker,the 16-year-old girl asked her parents.“Am I going to die?”??
??Her mother told Karen the truth.After learning the bad news,all Karen wanted was to go home.Her parents decided to satisfy her wish-no matter that medical fund(基金),which had helped pay for Karen&39;s hospitalization,would not cover any of the full time medical care she would need at home.When she was carried through her front door,Karen smiled for the first time in months.??
??A friend of the MacInnes family,Sheila Petersen,knew of this and offered to help.She volunteered(自愿) not only to find nurses,but also to raise money for Karen&39;s care.Money was received from so many people that Sheila created(建立)a fund,“Friends of Karen”.??
??After leaving the hospital,Karen lived for 11 months.“And those months wore happy ones for her,”says her mother.“thanks to Sheila.”??
??Even after Karen died,people kept sending money.Sheila put it into the fund,tried to find someone else who needed help.By last month,Friends of Karen was help in 970 families.??
??“I still have a relationship with each family.”says Sheila.“We have four children who are near death now,and I want to be there for them.”Sheila admits(承认)the work is sometimes difficult,but says,“the-smile on a child’s face makes it all worthwhile(值得的).”
??The mother told Karen that she_______.??
????A.was going to die
B.was going home
C.was growing weak
D.was becoming better
Her parents agreed to take Karen home because________.
A.thus they would save money
B.medical funds wouldn’t cover any of the full time.medical care
C.they couldn’t pay for her hospitalization
D.they hoped to make her satisfied
Karen lived for _______ since she had got out of the hospital.A.eleven months
B.nine months
C.twenty months
D.twelve months
Sheila helped Karen's parents by_______.A.giving them money
B.raising money from others
C.finding nurses for them
D.paying for Karen's hospitalization
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析,谢谢!
Clint was playing a game with a girl. I sat in the corner watching him. I didn’t feel that I had whatever it took to get up and mix with others because of my self-esteem problem. Finally I got up the courage to order a drink for him. When he got it, he gave me the most dazzling smile. We spent the rest of the evening talking until I realized that it was almost morning. I figured that he was simply being nice to me because I had brought him a drink, but the next day he called and told me that he could not stopping thinking about me and that he wanted to meet my kids too.
About 3 months later, my divorce was final and Clint sat my boys down and asked them if it was all right with them if he asked me to marry him because he could not imagine life without the three of us anymore. I was so touched that he went to my boys and asked for their approval because they were the “men of the house” at the ripe old ages of 2 and They said yes and we have all been together even since. Clint gave me and my boys a second chance at a wonderful life. Not a day goes by that he doesn’t tell we are the best thing that ever has happened to him and that he loves us.
The writer’s first marriage was unsuccessful because ______.
A.her husband often woke her up at midnight
B.her husband kept criticizing her
C.she was unattractive
D.she had a self-esteem problem
When the writer asked for a divorce, her husband ______.A.told her that she would never find one who loved her as he did
B.delayed two years before giving her a reply
C.accused her of having an affair
D.said that she was unattractive and not worth loving
When the writer first met Clint, she felt that ______.A.she should have listened to her friend and met Clint earlier
B.Clint was a nice, dazzling young man
C.Clint could not be really interested in her
D.she would find true love in Clint
The writer was particularly touched by Clint because ______.A.he believed that at 2 and 4, the two kids were the “men of the house”
B.he said that he could not imagine a life without her and the kids
C.he loved the kids and asked for their approval of the marriage
D.he kept her company and talked with her until the next morning
The writer’s marriage to Clint is important to her mainly because ______.A.it made her kids happy, which is all she cared about
B.every day Clint would tell the writer that he loved her
C.it helped her to regain herself respect
D.it gave her and her sons a second chance to live a happy life
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析,谢谢!
Bosses Say 'Yes' to Home Work
Rising costs of office space, time lost to stressful commuting, and a slow recognition that workers have lives beyond the office—all are strong arguments for letting staff work from home.
For the small business, there are additional benefits too—staff are more productive, and happier, enabling firms to keep their headcounts (员工数) and their recruitment costs to a minimum. It can also provide a competitive advantage, especially when small businesses want to attract new staff but don't have the budget to offer huge salaries.
While company managers have known about the benefits for a long time, many have done little about it, sceptical of whether they could trust their employees to work to full capacity without supervision, or concerned about the additional expenses teleworking policies might incur as staff start charging their home phone bills to the business.
Yet this is now changing. When communications provider Inter-Tel researched the use of remote working solutions among small-and medium-sized UK businesses in April this year, it found that 28% more companies claimed to have introduced flexible working practices than a year ago.
The UK network of Business Links confirms that it too has seen a growing interest in remote working solutions from small businesses seeking its advice, and claims that as many as 60-70% of the businesses that come through its doors now offer some form of remote working support to their workforces.
Technology advances, including the widespread availability of broadband, are making the introduction of remote working a piece of cake.
"If systems are set up properly, staff can have access to all the resources they have in the office wherever they have an internet connection," says Andy Poulton, e-business advisor at Business Link for Berkshire and Wiltshire. "There are some very exciting developments which have enabled this."
One is the availability of broadband everywhere, which now covers almost all of the country . (BT claims that, by July, 99.8% of its exchanges will be broadband enabled, with alternative plans in place for even the most remote exchanges). "This is the enabler," Poulton says.
Yet while hroadband has come down in price too, those service providers targeting the business market warn against consumer servicesmasquerading(伪装) as business-friendly broadband.
"Broadband is available for as little as £15 a month, but many businesses fail to appreciate the hidden costs of such a service," says Neil Stephenson, sales and marketing director at Onyx Internet, an internet service provider based in the northeast of England. "Providers offering broadband for rock-bottom prices are notorious for poor service, with regular breakdowns and heavilycongested(拥堵的) networks. It is always advisable for businesses to look beyond the price tag and look for a business-only provider that can offer more reliability, with good support." Such services don't cost too much--quality services can be found for upwards of £30 a month.
The benefits of broadband to the occasional home worker are that they can access email in real time, and take full advantage of services such as internetbased backup or even internet-based phone services.
Internet-based telecoms, or VolP (Voice over IP), to give it its technical title, is an interesting tool to any business supporting remote working, not necessarily because of the promise of free or reduced price phone calls (which experts point out is misleading for the average business), but because of the sophisticated voice services that can be exploited by the remote worker—facilities such as voicemail and call forwarding, which provide a continuity of the company image for customers and business partners.
By law, companies must "consider seriously" requests to work flexibly made by a parent with a child under the age of six, or a disabled child under 18. It was the need to accommodate employees with young children that motivated accountancy firm Wright Vigar to begin promoting teleworking recently. The company, which needed to upgrade its ITinfrastructure(基础设施) to provide connectivity with a new, second office, decided to introduce support for remote working at the same time.
Marketing director Jack O'Hern explains that the company has a relatively young workforce, many of whom are parents: "One of the triggers was when one of our tax managers returned from maternity leave. She was intending to work part time, but could only manage one day a week in the office due to childcare. By offering her the ability to work from home, we have doubled her capacity—now she works a day a week from home, and a day in the office. This is great for her, and for us as we retain someone highly qualified."
For Wright Vigar, which has now equipped all of its fee-earners to be able to work at maximum productivity when away from the offices (whether that's from home, or while on the road), this strategy is not just about saving on commute time or cutting them loose from the office, but enabling them to work more flexible hours that fit around their home life.
O'Hern says: "Although most of our work is client-based and must fit around this, we can't see any reason why a parent can't be on hand to deal with something important at home, if they have the ability to complete a project later in the day."
Supporting this new way of working came with a price, though. Although the firm was updating its systems anyway, the company spent 10-15% more per user to equip them with a laptop rather than a PC, and about the same to upgrade to a server that would enable remote staff to connect to the company networks and access all their usual resources.
Although Wright Vigar hasn't yet quantified the business benefits, it claims that, in addition to being able to retain key staff with young families, it is able to save fee-earners a substantial amount of "dead" time in their working days.
That staff can do this without needing a fixed telephone line provides even more efficiency savings. "With Wi-Fi (fast, wireless internet connections) popping up all over the place, even on trains, our fee-earners can be productive as they travel, and between meetings, instead of having to kill time at the shops," he adds.
The company will also be able to avoid the expense of having to relocate staff to temporary offices for several weeks when it begins disruptive officerenovations(翻新) soon.
Financial recruitment specialist Lynne Hargreaves knows exactly how much her firm has saved by adopting a teleworking strategy, which has involved handing her company's data management over to a remote hosting company, Datanet, so it can be accessible by all the company's consultants over broadband internet connections.
It has enabled the company to dispense with its business premises altogether, following the realisation that it just didn't need them any more. "The main motivation behind adopting home working was to increase my own productivity, as a single mum to an 11-year-old," says Hargreaves. "But I soon realised that, as most of our business is done on the phone, email and at off-site meetings, we didn't need our offices at all. We're now saving £16,000 a year on rent, plus the cost of utilities, not to mention what would have been spent on commuting."
______we have finished all the final exams, we'll have a good time enjoying ourselves.
A.After that
B.Now that
C.Unless that
D.Until
(In) our school library, we (have) (all kinds of) English papers, English Weekly (including).
A.In
B.have
C.all kinds of
D.including