Anyone who has ridden on a railroad train knows how rapidly another train【36】by when it is
(66)
A.passes
B.goes
C.flashes
D.moves
(66)
A.passes
B.goes
C.flashes
D.moves
A. sampled
B. survived
C. vanished
D. scraped
Anyone who has visited Japan knows it is an incredibly expensive place;although Japanese workers earn about the same as their U.S. counterparts,the purchasing power of their incomes is about one-third less.Extend your discussion from question 7 to explain this observation.(Hint:Think about wages and the implied prices of non-traded goods.)
One day he bought a strong dog in the town. He loves it very much and often gives some meat or bread to it. And when a strange man walks close to his house, it barks loudly. So he can soon know about it and goes out to find out who it is. But last week something was wrong with Mr. Clarke. He didn’t feel well and couldn’t fall asleep in the evening. He had to go to a hospital in the town. The doctor looked him over and then asked, “Have you got a dog, sir?” “Yes, I have got one.” “You have got skin disease,” said the doctor. “I am sure your dog infected(感染) it to you. You can’t come in touch with it any longer.” When he came out of the hospital, Mr. Clarke said to himself, “I will see another doctor. It’s much easier to find a doctor than to buy a good dog!
(1)Mr. Clarke’s job is to ().
A. hear some sound and see if anyone cuts the trees
B. stop people from cutting trees in the forest
C. live at the foot of the mountain
D. stop the people going into the forest(2)The owner of the forest is ().
A. Mr. Clarke
B. a friend of Mr. Clarke’s
C. a rich farmer
D. the doctor(3)The strong dog can help Mr. Clarke to ().
A. do some housework
B. see if anyone will kill him
C. cut tree
D. find if anyone is cutting trees(4)The doctor ().
A. loves a dog, too.
B. is really a good one
C. has got skin disease, too
D. has infected the disease to Mr. Clarke(5)Mr. Clarke ().
A. doesn’t think the doctor is the best
B. doesn’t think he is infected
C. will be cured in a short time
D. will kill the dog as soon as he comes back
??(1)Each child has his individual pattern of social, as well as physical, development. Some of it depends on his home life and his home life and his relationships with the people who love him.(2)Children in large families learn how to get along with others through normal brother-sister play and tussles(争斗). An only child, on the other hand, may have to learn his lessons in social living through hard experiences on the playground or in the classroom.(3)Twins who always have one another to lean on may be slow in responding to others because they do not need anyone else.
(4)A child who is constantly scolded(责骂)and made to fell he does everything wrong may have a difficult time developing socially. He may be so afraid of displeasing the adults around him that he keeps to himself(where he can&39;t get into trouble),(5)or he may take the oppositeroute(道路)and go out of his way to create trouble. Like the is olated child, he too may return to infantile pleasures, developing habits that will satisfy him, but create barriers toward social contact.
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When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a check in favor of another person. Primarily, the bank-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor who is which depending on whether the customer's account is in credit or overdrawn. But, in addition to that basically simple concept, the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another. Many of these obligations can give rise to problems and complications but a bank customer, unlike, say, a buyer of goods, cannot complain that the law is loaded against him.
The bank must obey its customer's instructions, and not those of anyone else. When, for example, a customer first opens an account, he instructs the bank to debit (把……记入借方) his account only in respect of checks drawn by himself. He gives the bank specimens of his signature, and there is a very firm rule that the bank has no right or authority to pay out a customer's money on a check on which its customer's signature has been forged. It makes no difference that the forgery may have been a very skillful one: the bank must recognize its customer's signature. For this reason there is no risk to the customer in the practice, adopted day banks, of printing the customer's name on his checks, ff this facilitates forgery, it is the bank which will lose, not the customer.
When you have a bank account, you ______. ()
A.must always be in credit
B.can't draw any money if you're overdrawn
C.can draw money without notice
D.can't pay money to anyone else
The Chinese have used a method called acupuncture(针炙) to perform. operations for about 4,000 years without putting the patient to sleep. This involves placing flexible needles into certain parts of the body. The needles are available in a number of stores in China and anyone may buy them.
To learn how to use the needles takes about one month of training. But to be skillful requires greater time. (79) The person who performs the acupuncture knows how to put in the needles so the needles themselves are not painful. This person also knows where to place the needles so the patient feels no pain in the area where the operation is to be performed. A particular operation might require 25 or more needles placed in various parts of the body. But now this operation requires only 3 or 4 needles.
Today, the Chinese doctors are trying to learn more about acupuncture. (80) They are trying to develop a convincing theory to explain how the needles work in preventing pain, or why a needle in the wrist, for example, Would prevent the pain in the area of the mouth.
A patient who needs an operation is given a choice between having acupuncture or having one of the chemicals used for putting him to sleep. It has been estimated that over half of the patients choose acupuncture because there is no sickness after the operation but the chemical may make the patient sick for a few hours or a day.
Acupuncture is ______.
A.a medical operation
B.a medical needle
C.a medical technique
D.a medical machine
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Recently I attended several meetings where we talked about ways to retain students and keep younger faculty members from going elsewhere.
It seems higher education has become an industry of meeting-holders whose task it is to “solve” problems— real or imagined. And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly. Every new problem creates a new job for an administrative fixer. Take our Center for Teaching Excellence. Contrary to its title, the center is a clearing house(信息交流中心)for using technology in classrooms and in online courses. It’s an administrative sham(欺诈)of the kind that has multiplied over the last 30 years.
I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic(官僚的)mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers. If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher. This would be an environment in which teachers and students actually knew each other.
The teachers must be free to teach in their own way—the curriculum should be flexible enough so that they can use their individual talents to achieve the goals of the course. Additionally, they should be allowed to teach, and be rewarded for doing it well. Teachers are not people who are great at and consumed by research and happen to appear in a classroom. Good teaching and research are not exclusive, but they are also not automatic companions. Teaching is an art and a craft, talent and practice; it is not something that just anyone can be good at. It is utterly confusing to me that people do not recognize this, despite the fact that pretty much anyone who has been a student can tell the difference between their best and worst teachers.
46.What does the author say about present-day universities?
A.They are effectively tackling real or imagined problems.
B.They often fail to combine teaching with research.
C.They are over-burdened with administrative staff.
D.They lack talent to fix their deepening problems.
47.According to the author, what kind of people do universities lack most?A.Good classroom teachers.
B.Efficient administrators.
C.Talented researchers.
D.Motivated students.
48.What does the author imply about the classes at present?A.They facilitate students’ independent learning.
B.They help students form closer relationships.
C.They have more older students than before.
D.They are much bigger than is desirable.
50.What is the author’s suggestion for improving university teaching?A.Creating an environment for teachers to share their teaching experiences.
B.Hiring more classroom teachers and allowing them to teach in their own way.
C.Using high technology in classrooms and promoting exchange of information.
D.Cutting down meetings and encouraging administrative staff to go to classrooms. @@
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Yet, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tries to look as rich and as successful as his neighbors.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American by the name of Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself: he began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. Young Momand was very proud of his riches. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood outside New York City. But just moving there was not enough. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horse riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. Momand and his wife could not do that.
The race ended for them when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They left their wealthy neighborhood and moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “keeping up with the Joneses”, because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
Every city has an area where people want to live because others will think better of them if they do. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses, because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
6. The writer of the selection believes().
A. many people in the United States think anyone can become rich if he works hard and has some good luck
B. anyone in the United Sates can become rich if he works hard and has some good luck
C. he can become rich in the future
D. anyone in the United States can become rich
7. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because().
A. they want to be as rich as their neighbors
B. they want others to know or to think that they are rich
C. they don’t want others to know they are rich
D. they want to be happy
8. It can be inferred from the story that rich people().
A. like to live in apartments
B. like to live in New York City
C. like to live outside New York City
D. like to have many neighbors
9. Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because Jones is().
A,. an important name
B. a popular name in the United States
C. his neighbor’s name
D. not a good name
10. According to the writer, it is().
A. correct to keep up with the Joneses
B. impossible to keep up with the Joneses
C. interesting to keep up with the Joneses
D. good to keep up with the Joneses
For anyone who hates doing yard work, your new best friend may have arrived. A robot can autonomously shovel snow, collect leaves and cut grass.
“We’re trying t o help people not spend time on yard work,”said Steven Waelbers, the designer of t he robot. “We want people to enjoy t heir free time with their family.”The electric robot can run by itself in right directions with the help of two beacons(信号塔) that must be placed in the yard. the robot includes a camera and ultrasound sensor (超声传感器) that Waelbers said would stop quickly when it finds pets and people.
Owners of the robot will need t o regulate t he values stored in the robot. then it will confirm the task it’s going to take. Before the robot operate by itself, an owner must manually wheel it around the yard 一 taking it around any obstacles like trees, bushes or mailboxes. By doing this, the robot is taught how long and wide the lawn is, and won’t accidentally(不小心) destroy your rose hush or run to the neighborhood.
Once this setup is complete, and the $3,999 robot has been trained on where to cut grass, rake leaves and shovel snow, it operates without any supervision.
Waelbers has always loved to build robots and play with electronics. He started work on a high-tech company after his father asked him to make a robot that would shovel snow for him. Waelbers plans to start sales in early 2017.
26. This article mainly talks about()
A. a newly-designed robot
B. The founder of a company
C. problems with a new product
27. According to Steven Waelbers, the robot is designed to()
A. encourage people to do exercise
B. help people keep healthy and fit
C. make people enjoy family time
28.the robot would stop in front of pets and people thanks to()
A. the remote controller
B. the ultrasound sensor
C. the big and square yard
29. Which of the following steps should be done in the first place?()
A. An owner must wheel the robot around the yard by himself.
B. The robot learns and stores the length and width of the lawn.
C. The robot operates the task it’s going to take without supervision.
30. Which of the following about Waelbers is TRUE?()
A. He didn’t love building robots when he was a young boy.
B. His father asked him to make a robot that could play balls.
C. He is starting to sell this snow-shoveling robot in early 2017.
A.offer
B.supply
C.accept
D.afford