【题目】 The manager put up a notice to keep the staff ________of what to do this week．
A. inform B. informing
C. informed D. to inform
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【题目】Parents are now more likely to give their children unique names, rather than ______ ones.
A. popular B. normal
C. usual D. Standard
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【题目】When Charles Stratton was five, he stopped growing. His mother took him to see the famous showman, P. T. Barnum. Mr. Barnum thought a small person would be the perfect addition to his show. He hired Charles' parents along with him, and they traveled the world together.
He gave the two-foot-tall Charles a name, General Tom Thumb. He taught Tom how to sing, dance, act and tell jokes. When he felt Tom was ready to perform on stage, he made up ads. To stir up great interest, he said that Tom was eleven years old and had come from England.
During the show, Tom fought battles pretendedly with tall people. He also danced upon a wooden plate held by a person who was eight feet tall. Tom's act was very popular and brought in a lot of money. By the time Tom was an adult, he had grown very rich. He had become a billionaire at the age of twenty five.
Fortunately for Tom, Mr. Barnum added more little people to his show, and Tom became lucky in love as well. One of the little people was Lavinia Warren, a schoolteacher. Tom was able to win her love, and they married.
The ceremony and reception were the________They were attended by many rich and famous people and by about 2000 guests. Crowds filled the streets of New York to have a look at their tiny wedding marriage. The couple even met with President Abraham Lincoln on their honeymoon just before going to live in Tom's house in Connecticut.
Their wedding, which took place during the Civil War, provided a welcome escape from the sad problems of war. Not willing to let this bit of sunshine fade, communities throughout the country sponsored "Tom Thumb" weddings. In these weddings, small boys and girls, all dressed up, went through marriage ceremony for fun.
【1】The underlined words "talk of the town" means________.
A. it was in the newspaper
B. it was the most popular topic
C. people spread bad rumors about it
D. it was discussed in a city meeting
【2】What does the author think about Tom's wedding?
A. Tom and Lavinia were stupid.
B. People gave it too much of their attention.
C. It was funny and ridiculous.
D. It helped people cheer up in a dark time.
【3】What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Weddings always make people feel full of sunshine.
B. People are always disappointed during war time.
C. Entertainment can serve an important purpose.
D. People should be married when they are small children.
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【题目】Attention, please. The plane to London __________ off at 9:00 pm.
A. take B. takes
C. took D. has taken
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【题目】The twins are so much alike that their own mother can hardly ______ them ______ .
A. say; apart B. tell; from
C. tell; apart D. know; apart
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【题目】 It is your attitude, rather than your aptitude(天资), ________ determines your altitude.
A. which B. that C. what D. who
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【题目】Alice ______ her father that both she and her husband would be happy if he would live with them.
A. convinced B. reinforced
C. pledged D. required
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【题目】根据提示完成下列短文
A friend of mine 【1】 (call) Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul 【2】 (come) out of his office, a street naughty boy 【3】 (call) himself Jim, was walking around the shining car. "Is this your car, Paul?" he asked. Paul answered, "Yes, my brother 【4】 (give) it to me for Christmas. " "You mean your brother gave it to you and it 【5】 (not cost) you anything? I wish... " said the 【6】 (surprise) boy. He hesitated (犹豫).
Of course Paul 【7】 (know) what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he 【8】 (have) a brother like that. But what the boy 【9】 (say) surprised Paul greatly. "I wish, " the boy 【10】 (go) on, "that I could be a brother like that. "
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【题目】Robert Frost was one of America's best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came 【1】 in his life. He was forty 【2】 Americans began to read his poems and praise them. Once his 【3】 was set up，it grew stronger and stronger during the rest of his long life. His success came from 【4】 traditional forms of poetry with American words， 【5】 in a clearly American way.
Frost 【6】 the same speaker for many poems，so the 【7】 poems formed a larger unity. He created this speaker carefully. He felt that his readers would believe his poems if he put the words into the mouth of a 【8】 person who lived in the country, not the 【9】 .
Many people thought the speaker was Frost himself. In fact，the speaker was 【10】 person. Frost, the 【11】 ，tried to become the imaginary person he 【12】 for his poetry.
Robert Frost is always linked to the land of cold winters in the northeastern United States, the area called New England. 【13】 he came from the other side of the country，San Francisco, California. He was born there in 1874. He lived in California during his early 【14】 .
This man who was born in the 【15】 and became linked with New England was named for the chief southern general in America's Civil War. The general's name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet wa named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to 【16】 the general.
Someone once asked another American 【17】 , Ernest Hemingway， how to become a writer. The 【18】 thing，he said，was to have an 【19】 childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost's childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very 【20】 writer.
A. soon B. late C. quickly D. early
A. since B. until C. before D. after
A. fame B. name C. poem D. family
A. working B. using C. putting D. uniting
A. spoken B. made C. built D. formed
A. thought of B. practice C. use D. met
A. old B. separate C. famous D. excellent
A. common B. young C. wise D. grown-up
A. city B. village C. state D. continent
A. a famous B. a real C. an imaginary D. a historic
A. artist B. man C. lady D. officer
A. loved B. respected C. admired D. created
A. In this way B. Yet C. Though D. Therefore
A. childhood B. writings C. work D. paintings
A. East B. North C. West D. South
A. learn from B. know C. study D. honor
A. teacher B. writer C. painter D. leader
A. quickest B. worst C. best D. hardest
A. exciting B. interesting C. unlucky D. unhappy
A. good B. poor C. young D. gifted
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