【题目】Little John will spend half of his holiday practicing English and _______ half learning drawing.
A. another B. other
C. other’s D. the other
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【题目】With some physical training in the morning,even after a couple of days,you will feel ______,and in the long term,you will benefit greatly from your perseverance.
A. apparent B. confident
C. aggressive D. energetic
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【题目】As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations- UNESCO and National Geographic among them –have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.
Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center, Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, looking and raising a family in a village in Nepal.
Documenting the Tangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayans reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.
At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials- including photographs, films, tap recordings, and field notes- which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.
Now, through the two organizations that he has founded—the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project- Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world, available not just to scholars but to the youngers.
Generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet. Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.
【1】According to the passage, many experts like Mark Turin are devoted to ____.
A. looking for the lost languages
B. spreading the knowledge of global languages
C. saving the languages that are dying out
D. organizing new language research groups
【2】Why some languages are dying out?
A. Because some people are ashamed of their native language.
B. Because the local people are forbidden to use them.
C. Because the global languages are widely used .
D. Because the people who use them are dying out.
【3】What does Turin do in his work?
A. Listen, copy and store.
B. Copying, experiment and protect.
C. Protect , collect and report.
D. Document, protect and reconnect.
【4】Which of the following may be useful in Turin’s work?
A. Cameras and radios. B. Recorders and computers.
C. Telescopes and TVs. D. Telephones and fax.
【5】What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Some scientists are trying to rescue disappearing languages.
B. Some languages are becoming extinct.
C. There are various languages in the world.
D. Not all languages are in use.
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【题目】Jim went to answer the phone. ___________, Harry started to prepare lunch.
A. However
B. Nevertheless
C. Besides
D. Meanwhile
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【题目】 — Pity you missed the lecture on nuclear pollution.
— I ______ it, but I was busy preparing for a job interview.
A.attended B.had attended
C.would attend D.would have attended
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【题目】—You have no idea how to solve this math problem.
—You should try to think about which principle can _______ it.
A. submit to B. apply to
C. commit to D. refer to
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【题目】Please look at the notice! Smoking is not allowed here. If you _______ smoke, go to the special area, please.
A. shall B. will C. must D. can
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【题目】American researchers have discovered that human brains and sleep patterns are confused by devices(装置) that give out bright lights. Electronics, such as laptops, mislead our minds into thinking that it is still daytime, preventing sleep and increasing the risk ofinsomnia.
Sleep experts say human's natural body clock begins to rest and relax from the day between 9 and 10 pm but the use of computers confuses it.
A person's brain biologically becomes awake when the sun is out because bright light after dark causes the brain to stop producing the hormone (荷尔蒙) called melatonin that makes us sleepy.
Researchers say blue light from devices such as iPads, which is expected to become a popular reading tool when it comes out later this month, is particularly disruptive (干扰的)during the night when the brain thinks it should be dark.
Experts say a good book is a far better way of resting the brain and ensuring a good night's sleep because the bedside lamp(灯) light doesn't affect the brain as it does not look straight into a person's eyes.
“Potentially, yes, if you're using an iPad or a laptop close to bedtime... that light can be stimulating (刺激) to the brain to make it more awake and delay your ability to sleep,” Phyllis Zee, a professor at Northwestern University and director of the school's Centre for Sleep & Circadian Biology, told CNN.
“And I think more importantly, it could also be enough to affect your circadian (昼夜节律的) rhythm. This is the clock in your brain that determines when you sleep and when you wake up. ”
Alon Avidan, associate director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the University of California Los Angeles, added, “I wish people would just take a boring book — an oldfashioned book — and read by a lamp.”
【1】The underlined word “insomnia” in the first paragraph probably means “________”.
A. being unable to eat properly
B. brain injury
C. being unable to fall sleep
D. lack of energy
【2】Melatonin is the hormone that ________.
A. makes us sleepy
B. helps us relaxed
C. prevents us from waking up
D. makes us excited
【3】The bedside lamp light doesn't affect the brain because ________.
A. it doesn't give out blue light
B. it's not as bright as your laptop
C. it doesn't enter your eyes directly
D. it is adjustable
【4】We can conclude from the passage that ________.
A. one who uses his laptop often before bedtime can have his body clock disturbed
B. using a laptop before bedtime is more harmful than using an iPad
C. we'd better not do anything before going to bed
D. the best time to go to bed is before 9 pm
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【题目】We only had $ 100 and that was ___________ to buy a new computer.
A. nowhere near enough
B. near enough nowhere
C. enough near nowhere
D. near nowhere enough
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