【题目】Time is pressing; it’s impossible for me to get there in an hour, ________ the possible delays.
A. accounting for B. answering for
C. allowing for D. heading for
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【题目】Professor Wu keeps __________ his students that the future __________ to the well-educated.
A. to tell; is belonged
B. telling; belongs
C. told; is belonging
D. being told; will be belonged
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【题目】Attempt a guess at the following question: In the English-speaking world, which country has the least affordable homes? You are wrong if you guessed the US, even with the housing bubble （气泡） and main sadness. Nor is it the UK, where prices have risen because demand is far from supply. According to a recent survey of 227 cities around the globe, you must go south of the equator （赤道） to Australia to find the priciest homes．
The report measured a city’s housing market along the following guidelines. An “affordable” home required three times or less of the average family’s income to purchase. At four times earnings, a home fell into the “unaffordable” category. And a “seriously unaffordable” home needed five times a family’s income. In Australia, homes in the least affordable city cost just about 9.5 times the average income. Sydney, Perth, and Melbourne were only a little under this figure．
Australian officials offered little comment, apart from a general statement on the dismal findings. These prices make the possibility that many Australians will one day own a home largely unbelievable. Land rationing （配给制） and excessive development charges have raised prices, and the problem will only be solved through urgent action by the Rudd government．
Some American cities were also included on the least affordable list, four of which were in California. America is still involved in a mortgage（抵押）crisis, though, affecting the affordability of homes. Yet a number of US cities garnered “affordable” status, namely Dallas and Kansas. Australia had no cities listed in the top fifty places with affordable homes．
The survey suggests that you can find affordable homes in most places, just not if you’re Australian and choose to live down under．
【1】To buy an affordable house, you should pay _____．
A. 3 times or less of the average family’s income
B. 4 times or less of the average family’s income
C. 5 times or less of the average family’s income
D. 9.5 times or less of the average family’s income
【2】What caused the prices of houses to increase in Australia?
A．The rising family’s income．
B．The demand over supply.
C．The excessive development charges．
D．The decrease of land．
【3】The underlined word “dismal” in Paragraph 3 may mean _____．
A． cheerful B． satisfactory
C． difficult D．sad
【4】What might be the most suitable title for the passage?
A． Affordable Houses B． A House is a Dream First
C． Housing Bubble D． Homes Too Expensive
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【题目】Pop stars today enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty(皇室）. Wherever they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, colorfully dressed idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven Rolls-Royces, private helicopters or executive aero planes. They are surrounded by a permanent entourage (随从）of managers, press agents and bodyguards. Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and all their comings and goings are reported, for, like royalty, pop stars are news. If they enjoy many of the privileges of royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well. It is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public. They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds who idolize them. They are no longer private individuals, but public property. The financial rewards they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay are great.
And why not? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly. The great days of Hollywood have become legendary ： famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation (奉承）on an all-time scale. By today's standards, the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular. A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did. The competition for the title "Top of the Pops” is fierce, but the rewards are truly huge.
It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way. Don't the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the service they perform to their companies and their countries? Pop stars earn vast sums in foreign currency—often more than large industrial companies- and the taxman can only be grateful for their massive annual contributions to the exchequer (国库） So who would begrudge them their rewards?
It's all very well for people in boring jobs to complain about the successes and rewards of others. People who make envious remarks should remember that the most famous stars represent only the tip of the iceberg. For every famous star, there are hundreds of others struggling to earn a living. A man working in a steady job and looking forward to a pension at the end of it has no right to expect very high rewards. He has chosen security and peace of mind, so there will always be a limit to what he can earn. But a man who at-tempts to become a star is taking enormous risks. He knows at the outset that only a handful of competitors ever get to the very top. He knows that years of concentrated effort may be rewarded with complete failure. But he knows, too, that the rewards for success are very high indeed ： they are the payback for the huge risks involved and once he makes it, he will certainly earn them. That's the essence of private enterprise.
【1】 The author develops the passage mainly by __________.
A. comparing different ideas
B. giving explanations
C. inferring
D. listing typical
【2】 The underlined word “begrudge" in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to __________.
A. be jealous of
B. be satisfied with
C. be anxious about
D, be crazy about
【3】 According to the passage, which of the following can match the view of the author?
A. He who laughs last laughs best.
B. If you venture nothing, you will gain nothing.
C. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
D. Success belongs to the persevering.
【4】 The author holds a(n)__________ attitude towards the high income of pop stars.
A. critical
B. approval
C. optimistic
D. indifferent
【5】 Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. People are blind in idolizing stars.
B. There is fierce competition in becoming pop stars.
C. The government taxes pop stars very little.
D. Pop stars'life is more luxurious than that of royalty.
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【题目】 Last year alone, the temporary unemployment insurance lifted 2.5 million people out of poverty, and ________ the blow for many more.
A. corrected B. cushioned
C. compensated D. corresponded
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【题目】There is a story told about how Neil set about winning over one particular boy. The boy was always causing trouble and clearly regarded all teachers 【1】 a hostile eye. On one occasion, Neil, out taking a 【2】 had just rounded a comer when he came across the boy playing on his own. The boy, not noticing he was no longer 【3】，picked up a stone and threw it through one of the school windows. Turning, he saw Neil. Instead of finding himself 【4】 at angrily as he expected, the boy was 【5】 to see Neil bend down, pick up a stone and hurl it at another window. The boy had to 【6】 —to get the window repaired, so did Neil. 【7】 he thought this a small price to pay for 【8】 a bond between himself and the boy, whose 【9】 improved afterwards，
Neil was a remarkable character who knew just when to be 【10】 and just when to adopt a lighter touch when handling children. Not everyone is so 【11】 . Willie Russell, the 【12】，likes to talk about the time when he had freshly 【13】 from teacher training college and had just begun to work as a teacher. On his first day at the school he was left to do playground duty on his own, rather a( n) 【14】 experience for one so new to the job. Surrounded by children at morning break, he turned to see one of the children thro-wing a stone at a school window. When the boy saw that he had been 【15】 by a teacher, his face fell. 【16】 for this boy, Russell remembered the story about Neil. Stooping down he picked up a stone and propelled(投掷）it through another window. Turning to smile proudly at the boy, his satisfaction was suddenly shattered by the sound of dozens of windows being 【17】 by flying stones.
Unfortunately he had failed to take into account the difference between his 【18】 and the one which Neil had faced, namely that he and the boy were not alone. It was at this point in his career that Russell decided that perhaps he was not quite cut out to be a teacher. Deciding after this that he was not suited to teaching he left to 【19】 playwriting. Most of his plays are very imaginative and 【20】 . A bit like this story,in fact.
A. by B. in C. with D. through
A. rest B. exam C. walk D. trip
A, seen B. alone C. lonely D. heard
A. shouted B. stared C. pointed D. come
A. excited B. surprised C. satisfied D. frightened
A. punish B. pay C. agree D. propose
A. As B.While C. Even if D. But
A. breaking B. making C. establishing D. showing
A. character B. behavior C. condition D. grades
A. still B. kind C. calm D. firm
A. humorous B. strange C. successful D. clever
A. student B. headmaster C, playwright D. teacher
A. graduated B. walked C. studied D. dismissed
A. blamed B. stopped C. met D. spotted
A. Generally B. Fortunately C. Obviously D. Usually
A. hit B. knocked C. cleaned D. brushed
A. condition B. position C. situation D. occupation
A. pick up B. take up C. make up D. put up
A. funny B. serious C. realistic D. critical
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【题目】Mr. Black ________ English in a middle school ever since he came to China.
A. have been teaching
B. has been teaching
C. had taught
D. taught
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【题目】I told him it was a bad idea, but David was so ________ that he just never listened.
A. ambitious
B. stubborn
C. energetic
D. outgoing
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