In addition to seeing wonderful films, one of the joys of coming to the Quad Cinema is to hang out in the area. The Quad is located right in the heart of Greenwich Village, perhaps the most charming and interesting neighborhood in the city. Here are some attractions we recommend, all within a comfortable walk from the Quad:
Washington Square
As one of the best-known of New York City’s 1,900 public parks, it is a landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. Come on a Sunday when it’s most lively and festive.
New York University
It surrounds Washington Square. See the impressive Bobst Library and visit the amazing bookstore. NYU is now considered one of the most powerful universities in the world.
Judson Memorial Church
Located on Washington Square south between Thompson Street and Sullivan Street, opposite Washington Square Park, this beautiful church was completed in 1892. The Judson is most famous for its vocal participation in social events.
Washington Mews
It is a hidden, private street in New York City between Fifth Avenue and University Place just north of Washington Square Park. It was first developed as a mews (row of stables) that serviced horses from homes in the area. Since the 1950s the former stables have served as housing, offices and other facilities for New York University.
Jefferson Market Courthouse
Built in 1833 as a market, it was later changed to a courthouse, and in the 1950s it was emptied and close to being destroyed. It was saved and turned into a library. Many consider it to be the most beautiful building in the village.
1.What does the author want to tell in the passage?
A. To introduce some attractions in the Quad.
B. To suggest the Quad Cinema is the best place.
C. To imply the Quad attracts a lot of visitors.
D. To tell readers to enjoy their life fully.
2.The author mentions Washington Square because_______.
A. it is in the center of Greenwich Village
B. it has a history of more than 100 years
C. it is a landmark in the Manhattan
D. it has witnessed so many incidents
3.Where is Judson Memorial Church?
A. To the south of Washington Square.
B. Behind Washington Square Park.
C. Opposite Thompson Street.
D. Close to New York University.
4.When Washington Mews came into being______ .
A. it was designed for a university
B. it was intended for keeping horses
C. it was filled with free facilities
D. it was used as a park for horses
科目:高中英语 来源:2016届山东临沂市高三第二次模拟考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:语法填空
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Gregory Kloehn is an artist 1. uses his skills for a really worthy cause—building homes for the homeless.Making use of recycled materials found on the street,he creates small mobile homes,each about the size 2. a sofa.These homes come with pitched roofs to keep out the rain and3. (wheel)at the bottom for mobility.So far,he’s built about 10 shelters through the‘Homeless Homes Project’,and hopes to create 4. (much)in the future.
5. they’re not made of much,the tiny homes are more than enough for someone with no other place 6. (sleep)in.They ale painted in bright colors and have a few odd elements—like washing machine doors for windows and minivan tops for roofs.
“Before,I 7. (be)all about sculpture,but I realized it just sits there,”he said.“And you’re just selling it to rich people.I kind of think if you’re putting so much effort into something more valuable,it would be 8. (good).”He 9. (write)a book called‘Homeless Architecture at the time,10. (admire)how they were able to recycle all day and make homes out of almost nothing.
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根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How northern Europeans beat the winter blues
Ask a child from northern Europe to draw two pictures—one on a rainy day and a second in the sunshine—and this is what you will get: in the first, as raindrops fall from the top of the page, the man behind the window has an unhappy expression. When a yellow sun sends out some light from the corner, the man is smiling.
Northern Europeans associate rain with sadness and sunshine with happiness. They think this is true because they are so aware of how their environment affects them. ___1._In October 2008, a group of researchers examined the influence of different daily weather factors, including temperature, wind and sunlight, on 1,200 participants. The conclusion was that good or bad weather had little effect on people’s feelings.___ 2.___ A person who is upset on dark or cold days suffers from a negative mood(情绪), and he will be likely to experience a sad winter. This is the basis of an illness called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). ___3.___
AniKalayjian, professor of psychology at Fordham University, advises that we should take steps to strengthen the brain’s system against weather-driven mood changes. Research on SAD has been focused on the brain’s response to darkness and light. When our eyes detect darkness, the brain gives off melatonin, which starts sleep cycles. ___4.__It takes over to help us wake up and feel better when we detect light. “We can encourage people to take charge of their feelings,” says Kalayjian. “We tell them to leave the computers and the indoor games and get out there in the sun. __5.___”
A day of rain can potentially destroy your plan and affect your mood. But as the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly once said: “There is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothing.”
A. Yet that link has no scientific basis.
B. It is seriously doubted among the people who suffer from SAD.
C. It affects about10% of the population of northern Europe each year.
D. Another chemical called serotonin, however, can make people happy.
E. That’s when people can recharge their serotonin and get a better mood.
F. Most studies prove that a negative feeling is associated with bad weather.
G. They determined that people actually differ in their sensitivity to weather changes.
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I wonder whether his hearing is okay ______ he has turned the television up very loud.
A. unless B. although C. until D. because
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根据汉语提示,用单词或短语的适当形式填空。
1.Her unhappy childhood was the __________(起源)of her problems later in life.
2.John_______________(屏住呼吸),and wondered what would happen next.
3.You could see from his face that he was__________ (撒谎).
4.When life was difficult in the past, she_______________(谋生)by singing in a nightclub.
5.I thought it was going to clear up. _______________(相反), it began to rain.
6.A heavy curtain was put up to ______________(挡住)the light.
7.You should exercise more so as to keep ____________ (精力充沛).
8.It is generally accepted that smoking is__________(对---有害) our health.
9.She__________ (设法做成) persuade her father to give up smoking.
10.The small village ____________(被---围绕) by mountains and has beautiful scenery.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Mexican President Vicente Fox was once invited to a university to give a lecture. A student asked him, “In your experience in politics have you _________ ?”
Fox said, “No, never.”
The students were chuckling (轻声地笑) _________ every politician always said so.
Fox wasn’t_________ . He said, “In this society, perhaps it is very _________ to prove that I’m an honest man, _________ you should believe that in this world there’s_________, which is always around us. I want to tell you a _________ which means a lot to me.
“There was a father who was ready to dismantle (拆除) the pavilion (亭子) in the garden. His son said to him, ‘Daddy, i want to _________ how you dismantle the pavilion, so can you not dismantle it_________ I come back from school?’ His father _________. However, after the boy _________, he asked some workers to dismantle the pavilion. After the boy returned from school, he found the old pavilion had _________ Therefore, he said _________ to his father, ‘Dad, you told me a lie.’ His father was embarrassed and said, ‘My boy, I was _________ .’ The father called in the workers again and had them rebuild a pavilion in the _________ of the old one. After the pavilion was rebuilt, he called in his son and said to the workers, ‘Please dismantle it.’
“I know the father. He was not rich, but he kept his _________.”
Hearing this, the students said, “What’s the father’s name? We hope to _________ him.”
Fox said, “He has died, but his son is still _________ .”
“Then, where’s the son? He must be an honest man.”
Fox said, “His son is _________ here. It’s me. I’d like to treat this country and everyone in it like my father _________ me.”
A storm of applause thundered in the audience.
Dismantling and rebuilding a pavilion restored the boy’s faith in honesty.
1.A. failedB. liedC. fearedD. dreamed
2.A. ifB. onceC. becauseD. although
3.A. angryB. carefulC. excitedD. shy
4.A. simpleB. hardC. usefulD. possible
5.A. andB. orC. soD. but
6.A. selflessnessB. knowledgeC. powerD. honesty
7.A. methodB. bookC. storyD. view
8.A. showB. proveC. seeD. discuss
9.A. untilB. unlessC. afterD. for
10.A. apologizedB. agreedC. changedD. succeeded
11.A. forgotB. refusedC. leftD. arrived
12.A. finishedB. disappearedC. shinedD. improved
13.A. proudlyB. impolitelyC. patientlyD. unhappily
14.A. wrongB. tiredC. satisfiedD. clear
15.A. middleB. shapeC. faceD. interest
16.A. recordB. secretC. promiseD. appointment
17.A. helpB. attractC. criticizeD. know
18.A. braveB. aliveC. brightD. alone
19.A. standingB. travellingC. runningD. regretting
20.A. trainedB. neededC. treatedD. praised
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短文改错
英语课上,老师要求同桌同学相互修改作文。假设以下小作文为你同桌所写,请你对其进行修改。文中共有10处错误,每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加,删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(^),并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
3.必须按答题要求做题,否则不给分。
Dear Peter,
I'm very glad to receive your e-mail asking for information about the host family we have arranged you to stay with.
Locating in a beautiful and quiet neighborhood, the house was big enough to enable you to have a room of your own. Apart from the convenient public transportation, our private car will make your visits easy. Because all the family members can speak fluently English and has outgoing personalities, I'm sure you will have no trouble to communicating with them. Above all, they hosted the American student last year, through that they gained lots of experience. In addition, the hostess’ cooking will guarantee you a wonderful chance of tasted delicious Chinese food.
Hope you enjoy your stay here.
Yours,
Li Hua
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短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2. 只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
The best advice I received in my childhood was from my dad. He always gives me some advice, but I seldom took them seriously. One day he was encouraged me to participate in a speech competition. So I signed up and after the competition, I did my best to be full prepared. But the moment I stood on the stage, I was such nervous that my mind completely went blank. The experience of lose a competition was really painful. Then, my dad said, “My son, life is like battle field. You have to lose many time to win the final victory.” Thanks for his advice. I never give up when I do anything.
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When my friend went to Europe last summer, instead of snapping photographs of the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower or Stonehenge, she brought back 32 rolls of ... Cathedral(大教堂的) ceilings. Ceilings. For the 10 years I’ve known her I had never suspected that she was this passionate about stained glass.
Still one of the best things about such pictures — despite their obvious narrow appeal — is that they can’t help but tell us a great deal about the people who took them.
So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I got the roll of film back from my 5-year-old son’s first camping trip. I opened the envelope, naively expecting to see pictures of the nightly campfire, the sun setting over the forest, and possibly even a deer or two.
Instead, I saw an off-center picture of tennis shoes. Not even his tennis shoes, mind you, but a pair someone had lost and left in the cabin. Mystery shoes. And that’s not all.
As I went through the stack, I found that my son had also taken a picture of his sleeping bag, a penny he found in the gravel next to the car, a leaf, an orange sock, a close-up of his father’s ear, a burned hot dog, his thumb, a piece of gum, and many other similar things.
There was barely one sign of nature in the whole stack. I couldn’t help thinking that if he’d wanted pictures of assorted junk, it would’ve been cheaper had he spent the weekend in our back-yard.
AT LEAST that is what I thought until I showed the photographs to my ceiling-snapping friend, the mother of three teenagers, who said simply, “There’s nothing wrong with these.”
But of course, this is just the type of answer you’d expect from someone who photographs ceiling.
Then she told me about the time her daughter went to Yosemite Valley and returned with rolls of photographs of the hotel, restaurant, and gift shop. She also told me about the time her son took his camera to a Major League Baseball game and returned with 24 pictures of cloud formations.
I had a feeling she was just trying to make me feel better.
Then again, to a 5-year-old boy, finding a penny is more exciting than seeing a squirrel. And why would he waste good film on something like, say, some endangered water buffaloes, when he could take a picture of cool tennis shoes? Or his shiny new green sleeping bag?
Face it: Things like beautiful sunsets and campfires can’t compare to a bag of extra-large marshmallow.
So I did what any good mother would do: I marked the date on the back of the pictures and slid them into our family vacation photo album — right after the five pages of ice sculptures I took last year on our cruise to the Bahamas.
1.Who might have taken a picture of the back seat of the family car in his or her trip mentioned in this passage?
A. The author’s friend.
B. The author’s son.
C. The author.
D. The author’s friend’s daughter.
2.The author changed her mind on her son’s picture taking because______ .
A. her friend persuaded her to do so
B. her son’s pictures finally struck her
C. she realized the truth by herself inspired by the surrounding examples
D. it suddenly occurred to her that she herself had also taken unique pictures before
3.What can we infer from this passage?
A. Different people perceive the world from different angles, which may vary according to their age, gender, life experiences and so on.
B. The author’s friend is a better mum in terms of educating children.
C. The author will educate her son to take pictures of nature instead of some boring things.
D. The author will take vacation pictures of different kind from her past ones.
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