Between you and me, that boy of Mary's was______.A.as fat as strongB.fatter than strongerC
Between you and me, that boy of Mary's was______.
A.as fat as strong
B.fatter than stronger
C.more fat than strong
D.not so fat as strong
Between you and me, that boy of Mary's was______.
A.as fat as strong
B.fatter than stronger
C.more fat than strong
D.not so fat as strong
第1题
A.在莎士比亚的戏剧中,他有意让一些角色使用他认为不合语法的短语。
B.“between you and I”这样的短语很少出现在莎士比亚的作品中。
C.越是现代的英语词组或短语,现代的语言学家越认为它们不适合在正式场合使用。
D.现代说英语的人有时说“between you and I”,有时说“between you and me”。
E.许多把英语作为母语的人选择说“between you and I”是因为他们知道莎士比亚也用这个短语。
第2题
Section A Dialogue Completion
Directions:In this section,you will read five short incomplete dialogues between two speakers,each followed by four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHRET.
1. A:How about having lunch with me today,Paul?
B:
A. I’ll see you then.
B. Thanks a lot.
C. Sounds great.
D. I can come anytime.
第3题
Very often, introductions are made using both first and last names: "Mary Smith, this is John Jones." In this situation you are free to decide whether to call the lady "Mary" or "Miss Smith". Sometimes both of you will begin a conversation using last names, and after a while one or both of you may begin using first names instead. You have a choice: if you don't want to use first names so quickly, no one will think it impolite if you continue according to your own custom.
In the first paragraph the author tells us that ______.
A.Americans do not talk about rank, especially socially
B.Americans feel uncomfortable when talking about rank
C.Americans take interests in social customs
D.Americans don't care much about social rank
第4题
Started just five years ago by brothers Lee and Alan Jones, the organisation has grown from a small company employing five people to a multi-divisional organisation employing 120 people.
The organisation’s production facility is divided into three separate departments. Each department has a single manager with supervisors assisting on the production lines. The managers and supervisors, all of whom are aware of their roles, work well together. However, although the organisation has grown, the owners continue to involve themselves in day to day activities and this has led to friction between the owners, managers and supervisors.
As a result a problem arose last week. Alan Jones instructed a supervisor to repair a machine on the shop floor, which he refused to do without confirmation and instruction from his departmental manager. The supervisor’s manager,Dean Watkins, became involved and was annoyed at what he saw as interference in his department’s activities. Dean told Alan Jones that he “should have come to me first” because although the responsibility for the overall organisation was a matter for the brothers, action taken in the factory was his through powers that had been delegated to him and through his authority, as manager. In the argument that followed, Alan Jones was accused of failing to understand the way that the hierarchy in such a large organisation operates and that interference with operational decisions by senior management was not helpful.
As a consequence of this, Alan Jones has asked you to explain to him and his brother the issues behind the dispute to clarify the roles of managers and supervisors and to indicate how and why successful delegation might be achieved.
Required:
(a) Explain to Alan Jones the main differences between the work of a manager and that of a supervisor.
(13 marks)
第5题
Allow me to share why you have to take art class.
First and most important,it stimulates creativity(激发创造力) Art schools encourage you to think outside the box and be creative enough to create something artistic.It can be used not only in art but in life,too.
Besides,it helps you make the right choice. In art class, you are usually free to do what you want. In every art class, you are required to make decisions that can determine what your painting will turn out to be.
In addition, students can learn the art of critical(批判性的) thinking as a skill of observation(观察). For example, art students find ways to imagine, That is a skill they need to beome better readers and problem settlers.
What is more,it is noted that the company&39;s bosses are actively looking for employees who can think creatively. Creative thinking is one of the most important skills that students can learn in art courses.
Finally, students who are trained in art class have interesting mental habits. They low to work on a task for a long time and how to continue to work even if they are discouraged. They are better for creating a link between the classroom and the outside world. In addition,children who do art work are able to look back on their work and make iudgments about themselves.
Why are art programs removed from many schools?
A.To make students have their own hobbies
B.To improve students’test scores and save money.
C.To help students master some job skills
D.To give students more free time
What is the most important quality students develop in art class?A.Determination
B.Carefulness
C.Creativity
D.Honesty
What can we learn from the text?A.Art students are easily employed.
B.Art programs may bring a lot of money.
C.Art class can help students in many ways.
D.Art teachers should pay more attention to tests.
第6题
There is usually a price for pleasure so mindless. In the case of TV golf, it is listening to the commentators analyze the players’ swings. What looks to you like a single, continuous, and not difficult act is revealed, via slow motion and a sort of virtual-chalkboard graphics, to be a sequence of intricately measured adjustments of shoulder to hip, head to arm, elbow to wrist, and so on. Where you see fluidity, the experts see geometry; what to you is nature is machinery to them—parallel lines, extended planes, points of impact. They murder to examine. Yet, apparently, these minutes and individualized measurements make all the difference between being able reliably to land a golf ball in an area, three hundred yards away, the size of a bathmat and, say, randomly hitting a car, which, let’s face it, only a fool would drive right next to a golf course. There is a major disproportion, in other words, between the straightforwardness of the game and the fantastic precision required to play it, a disproportion mastered by a difficult but, to the ordinary observer, almost invisible technique.
Short stories are the same. A short story is not as restrictive as a sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. Its aim, as it was identified by the modern genre’s first theorist, Edgar Allan Poe, is to create “an effect”—by which Poe meant something almost physical, like a sensation or an extreme excitement.
第31题:The author quotes his own experience with golf to show that _____.
[A] things are often not so simple and easy as they seem
[B] his experience with golf has been a frustrating failure
[C] that experience of his offered much for his later life
[D] apparent truths are more often than not unreliable
第7题
However, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Croydon for a meeting with the headmaster. It was clearly the headmaster himself __2__ open the door. He was short and round.
"The school," he said, "is made up of one class of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen." I should have to teach all the subjects except art, which he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into three groups and teach them in turn at three different __3__. And I was disappointed at the thought of teaching maths, a subject at which I wasn't very good at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of __4__ to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be enjoying themselves at that time.
Before I had time to ask about my salary, he got up to his __5__. "Now," he said, "you'd better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school."
1)、A.that
B.experience
C.having
D.feet
E.levels
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B.experience
C.having
D.feet
E.levels
3)、A.that
B.experience
C.having
D.feet
E.levels
4)、A.that
B.experience
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E.levels
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D.feet
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第8题
In country after country, talk of nonsmokers' rights is in the air. This fresh voice is heard from Australia to Sweden. Its force is freeing clean air for nonsmokers -- and tightening the situation for smokers.
While a majority of countries have taken little or no action yet, some 30 nations have introduced legislative steps to control smoking abuse. Many laws have been introduced in other countries to help clear the air for nonsmokers, or to cut cigarette consumption.
In many developing nations, however, cigarette smoking is seen as a sign of economic progress -- and is even encouraged. While it appears that in developed countries the consumption of cigarettes has become stabilized, there are some indications that it is still rising at a steady pace in Latin America.
Despite progress in segregating (分开) nonsmokers and smokers, most countries see little change in the number of smokers. In fact, there is a jump in the number of girls and young women starting to smoke.
So far, any cooperation between tobacco interests and governments' campaigns against smoking has been in the area of tobacco advertising.
Restrictions on cigarette ads, plus health warnings on packages and bans on public smoking in certain places, are the most popular tools used by nations in support of nonsmokers or in curbing (抑制) smoking.
But world attention also is focusing on other steps which will:
-- Prevent pro-smoking scenes on TV and films.
-- Remove cigarette vending machines.
-- Make it illegal to sell or hand over tobacco products to minors.
-- Boost cigarette prices with higher tobacco taxes.
When you are traveling around the world, you will find that ______.
A.the topic of nonsmokers' rights is a hot issue for discussion
B.the expression "Don't puff on me" is posted everywhere
C.few countries pay attention to nonsmokers' rights
D.smokers are forced to give up smoking to keep the air clean
第9题
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The Perfect Essay
A.Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.Shecared about me, and my intellectual life, even when I didn"t.Her expectations were high——impossibly so.She was an English teacher.She was also my mother.
B.When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page : "Flawless." This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade.Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I hurried off to spread thegood news.I didn"t get very far.The first person I told was my mother.
C.My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rareoccasion when she got angry, she was terrifying.I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris(得意忘形) or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand.In any event,my mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be.At the time,I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions (过渡), structure, style. and voice.But what I learned, and what stuck with me through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism.
D.First off, it hurts.Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint (印记) on you as a person.I have heard people say that a writer should never take criticism personally.I say that we should never listen to these people.
E.Criticism, at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do.Theintimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely,someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.Conveniently, they are also the people who care enough to see you through this painful realization.For me it took the form. of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer"sblock——I was not able to produce anything for three years.
F.Franz Kafka once said: "Writing is utter solitude (独处), the descent into the cold abyss (深渊) of oneself." My mother"s criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective (内省的) descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find.But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude.I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me."It is a thing of no great difficulty," according to Plutarch, "to raise objections against another man"s speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome." I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother"s guidance, but I can"t recall them.What I remember, however, is how she took up the "extremely troublesome" work of ongoing criticism.
G.There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce "a better in its place." In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques (评论).My mother was well covered on this count.But perhaps
Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero"s claim that one should "criticize by creation, not by finding fault." Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better on his own terms——a process that is often extremely painful,but also almost always meaningful.
H.My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself.For each assignment, I was to write the best essay I could.Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any——the type I could have found on my own——I had to start from scratch.From scratch.Once the essay was "flawless," she would take an evening to walk me through myerrors.That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.
I.She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon (行话).She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech."Writers can"t bluff (虚张声势) their way through ignorance." That was news to me——I would need to freed another way to structure my daily existence.
J.She trimmed back my flowery language, drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expression."John," she almost whispered.I leaned in to hear her:"I can"thear you when you shout at me." So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writingimproved.
K.Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay.But perhaps I missed something important in my mother"s lessons about creativity and perfection.Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.Whitman repeatedly reworked "Song of Myself" between 1855 and 1891.Repeatedly.We do our absolute best with apiece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.And, for the time being, we settle.Incritique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.This is the lesson I took from my mother: If perfection were possible, it would not be motivating.
The author was advised against the improper use of figures of speech.
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