It can be learned from the passage that oil exploitation beneath ANWR's frozen earth _____
A.remains a controversial issue
B.is expected to get under way soon
C.involves a lot of technological problems
D.will enable the U.S. to be oil independent
A.remains a controversial issue
B.is expected to get under way soon
C.involves a lot of technological problems
D.will enable the U.S. to be oil independent
It can be learned from the passage that about four billion years ago ______.
A. the earth was in molten state
B. the earth surface temperature was above 100℃
C. the earth surface temperature was below 100℃
D. rain water could remain on the earth
It can be learned from Paragraph 4 that _____.
[A] most ministers were suspicious of Hoon’s conduct
[B] Hoon will not do anything without consulting Blair
[C] Blair should not divert his responsibility to his Cabinet
[D] MPs think that it is Blair who drags the country into the war
According to the passage, both "popular" words and "learned" words ______.
A. seem to be of no use
B. can help people to get a better comprehension of the language.
C. are easy to master
D. have gone beyond our mother's reach
A.Questionnaire design skills can be learned in a short time.
B.Open-ended questions cannot provide more detailed information, so you’d better not use too many open-ended questions in one questionnaire.
C.It’s worth taking the time to develop a well-designed and participant-friendly questionnaire.
What does the author mean when he says, "we can't turn the clock back"(Line 1, Para. 3)?
A.It's impossible to slow down the pace of change.
B.The social reality children are facing cannot be changed.
C.Lessons learned from the past should not be forgotten.
D.It's impossible to forget the past.
Paragraph 1
My name is Brandon and I began Humans of New York in the summer of 2010.I thought it would be really cool to create a catalogue of New York City’s people, so I set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers and put their photos on a map.(1) I worked for several months with this goal in mind.(2) But along the way, I started collecting quotes and short stories from the people I met.Taken together, these pictures and captions became the subject of a blog.(3) Blogs are popular with all age groups.(4) With over eight million followers on social media, HONY now provides a worldwide audience with daily looks into the lives of strangers in New York City.It has also become a #1 NYT bestselling book.
Paragraph 2
Learning a second language can provide a deeper understanding of a foreign culture.Social habits that may not make sense to most outsiders might start to make more sense after a few vocabulary lessons.For example, I always wondered why my Dutch cousins rarely said “you’re welcome” after I said “thank you”.(1) My cousin can speak English but sometimes makes mistakes.(2) At first, I thought he was being rude, but when I learned more about his language, I realized that they don’t use “you’re welcome” the same way we do: in response to “thank you”.(3) They actually say something that translates to “If you please” when they offer you something.(4) This is one of the first things I learned about Dutch culture when I started to learn their language and it gave me a different perspective on the roles of host and guest since in Dutch the onus to be polite is on the host, and not the guest as it seems to be in English.
26-meter-tall Yao Ming made his NBA debut (初资登台) on October 23, 2002 and got 6 points (得分) for the Houston Rockets in the game. The next day, he got 13 points in another game.
Most people think that Yao Ming is a born basketball player. But Yao said, "When you watch it on TV, it looks very easy. But when you are playing in the NBA, it is really not so easy. ' He said that joining the Houston Rockets was a new start and a new challenge. "I hope that through very hard work, I can make everyone happy and help the Rockets win more games," he said.
Yao Ming speaks some English. Both he and his teammates can understand each other. They don't think there is a language problem. While Yao Ming faces this new challenge, the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yao Ming faces this new challenge, the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yao Ming will bring new energy (活力) to the Rockets. The team has started having lessons to learn more about China, and many people who work for the Rockets have learned to speak some Chinese.
Yao Ming got 13 points on October______, 2002.
A.22
B.23
C.24
D.26
The power of words, then, exists in their associations—the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience, and the longer we live, the more certain words remind us of the glad and sad events of our past, and the more we read and learn, the more number of words increases.
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which deeply attract our minds and emotions. This skillful use of words is called "literary style". Above all, a real poet can express his meaning in words which sing like music and can move men to tears. We should, therefore, learn to choose our words carefully and use them properly, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar.
The origin of language is______.
A.treasure handed down from the past
B.a matter that is hidden or secret
C.a problem not yet solved
D.a question difficult to answer
1.The word “fortunate” in the first paragraph means ().
A.lucky
B.successful
C.wealthy
D.good
2.People who can read .
A.can learn by reading.
B.can understand a language better.
C.are probably able to learn better.
D.all of the above
3.A child can learn things around very quickly. It may be because ().
A.his parents often speak to him.
B.He can understand things by listening.
C.He has his own storage of knowledge by and by.
D.All of the above.
4.Parents often read books for their children mainly because ().
A.stories in the books can make children calm.
B.Children can gain some knowledge form. the books.
C.It is easy to make children fall asleep.
D.Parents need to talk with their children in this way.
5.Speaking and reading are very important because ().
A.they are two fundamental ways through which children learn a language
B.children should make a living through these ways
C.because children learn the two skills since they are very young
D.children should learn to read to recognize their own names
Why should he be so afraid? There are hundreds of cities and thousands of villages where he can hide. There are large forests and deserts where he can lose himself. Besides, he's usually rich with stolen money.
Money can make it easier to hide. With money, the criminal can pay a dishonest doctor to operate on his face and make him hard to recognize. Money can pay for a hideout in some far-off place. But the criminal knows what happened to public enemies such as John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Machine Gun Kelly. They had plenty of money and good hideouts. Yet one by one they were found by the men of the FBI.
They know every trick the criminal knows and many more. If he makes just one mistake, they'll get him. That's why the man who is hunted can't sleep. That's why he becomes nervous, why he jumps at every sound. When he makes a mistake, he'll no longer be "wanted by the FBI". He'll have been caught.
The FBI began on May 10, 1924. Attorney General Harlan F. Stone chose J. Edgar Hoover, a young lawyer in the Department of Justice, to head the new agency (机构). "What we need is a wholly new kind of police force," he said. "Criminals today are smart. They use stolen cars and even planes to make their gateways. They have learned to open any lock. The criminal would have discovered science. We can't beat them with old methods. We have to train officers to work scientifically."
J. Edgar Hoover quietly went ahead with his plans. He picked his men carefully. They had to be between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. He wanted only men with good manners and good character. When working as his officers they would have to meet all kinds of people. Hoover wanted men who could handle a teacup as well as a gun. He chose men so carefully that he made the FBI the hardest service in the world to get into. The FBI cannot help in every police problem. It can look into only certain crimes against the government. Solving all other crimes is the duty of local police forces.
A man wanted by the FBI will find that money is ______.
A.not at all useful
B.very helpful for a while
C.necessary for staying free
D.important and useful