I was recendy in London for the first,time in three years and was shocked by how much and how little had changed:Soho appeared tiny,the city's tree coverage seemed huge,and there were still building works on Charing Cross Road.Transport for London workers,on balance,seemed friendlier and more cheerful than their equivalents on the Metropolitan Transportacion Authority in New York,and I couldn't believe how aimless the average shopper in Sainsbury's was.Actually,that's not quite true.What I couldn't believe was how tivitchy and American I'd becomf when stuck behind people buying groceries,as it seemed to me,with insufficient speed or direction.Behavioural stereotypes of Americans versus British people tend to fall apart on closer inspection,except in this one area of how we behave as consumers;and as I slammed a trolley around the store（which,by the way,was vastly superior to any New York supermarket）I looked around and chought:honest to God,why aren't these people screaming?Towards che end of my stay,someching happened.I met an acquaintance who told a long story about a cousin on disabilily benefit who had just been helped by the state to buy a specially adapted car.I almost laughed out loud.In New York,you might,at a pinch,qualify for something called Access-A-Ride,which caters to people with disabilicies and runs on a schedule you can eilher make or,bad luck,let's hope the appointment wasn't important.In the US,it's no exaggeration to say that Oprah Winfrey is more likely to buy you a car than the government.The news that the supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy is reLiring-Kennedy is one of the crucial（semi-）progressives,who voted for abortion rights and same-sex marriage,among the nine-is an e-ven greater reminder of how painfully thin the protections of US civil liberties are.If,as one expects,Kennedy is replaced by an arch-conservative,e US is likely to swing even more disastrously rightwards.Ruth Bader Ginsberg,a liberal who at 85 is four years older than Kennedy,says she isnt retir-ing:how can she?I thought back on my trip and was shocked afresh.For all its faults and in spite of terrible under-investment,the very fact of the welfare state when seen from the US is nothing short of a miracle.I used to take it for granted,but that has gone We are not supposed to think of the world in terms of us and them,yet it is impossible,moving between the two countries,not to see the welfare state,the NHS and the philosophy that underpins them,as the greatest bulwarks between society in the UK and life as it is lived in the US.I know which side I'm onAccording to Paragraph 4,which of the following statements is trueA.Anthony Kennedy has contributed a lot to improving national welfareB.Anthony Kennedys practice has met with strong oppositC.The arch-conservative leaders may make things worse in AmericaD.Ruth Bader ginsberg is expected to improve people's welfare
I was recendy in London for the first,time in three years and was shocked by how much and how little had changed:Soho appeared tiny,the city's tree coverage seemed huge,and there were still building works on Charing Cross Road.Transport for London workers,on balance,seemed friendlier and more cheerful than their equivalents on the Metropolitan Transportacion Authority in New York,and I couldn't believe how aimless the average shopper in Sainsbury's was.Actually,that's not quite true.What I couldn't believe was how tivitchy and American I'd becomf when stuck behind people buying groceries,as it seemed to me,with insufficient speed or direction.Behavioural stereotypes of Americans versus British people tend to fall apart on closer inspection,except in this one area of how we behave as consumers;and as I slammed a trolley around the store（which,by the way,was vastly superior to any New York supermarket）I looked around and chought:honest to God,why aren't these people screaming?Towards che end of my stay,someching happened.I met an acquaintance who told a long story about a cousin on disabilily benefit who had just been helped by the state to buy a specially adapted car.I almost laughed out loud.In New York,you might,at a pinch,qualify for something called Access-A-Ride,which caters to people with disabilicies and runs on a schedule you can eilher make or,bad luck,let's hope the appointment wasn't important.In the US,it's no exaggeration to say that Oprah Winfrey is more likely to buy you a car than the government.The news that the supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy is reLiring-Kennedy is one of the crucial（semi-）progressives,who voted for abortion rights and same-sex marriage,among the nine-is an e-ven greater reminder of how painfully thin the protections of US civil liberties are.If,as one expects,Kennedy is replaced by an arch-conservative,e US is likely to swing even more disastrously rightwards.Ruth Bader Ginsberg,a liberal who at 85 is four years older than Kennedy,says she isnt retir-ing:how can she?I thought back on my trip and was shocked afresh.For all its faults and in spite of terrible under-investment,the very fact of the welfare state when seen from the US is nothing short of a miracle.I used to take it for granted,but that has gone We are not supposed to think of the world in terms of us and them,yet it is impossible,moving between the two countries,not to see the welfare state,the NHS and the philosophy that underpins them,as the greatest bulwarks between society in the UK and life as it is lived in the US.I know which side I'm on
According to Paragraph 4,which of the following statements is true
According to Paragraph 4,which of the following statements is true
A.Anthony Kennedy has contributed a lot to improving national welfare
B.Anthony Kennedys practice has met with strong opposit
C.The arch-conservative leaders may make things worse in America
D.Ruth Bader ginsberg is expected to improve people's welfare
B.Anthony Kennedys practice has met with strong opposit
C.The arch-conservative leaders may make things worse in America
D.Ruth Bader ginsberg is expected to improve people's welfare
参考解析
解析：细节题。根据题干信息可定位到第四段。
相关考题：
根据下列材料请回答 26～30 题：BToday there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700, London had no policemen at all. A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid.About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as much as possible.In 1750, Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen and were called "Bow Street Runners" because they worked near Bow Street.Fifty years later, there were 120 "Bow Street Runners", but London had become very big and needed more policemen. So in 1829, the first Metropolitan (or London)Police Force was started with 3,000 officers. Most of the men worked on foot, but a few rode horses. Until 1920 all the police in London were men.Today. the London police are quite well paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses, the pay is even better than for the others.第 26 题 In 1700, the men who protected the streets were paid __________.A． a fewB． nothingC． a littleD． a lot
Optimism and pessimism are both powerful __(1)__, and each of us must choose which we want to shape our outlook and our expectations. There is enough good and bad in everyone's life —ample sorrow and happiness, sufficient joy and pain—to find a rational basis for __(2)__ optimism or pessimism. It's ourdecision: __(3)__ which perspective do we want to view life? Will we look up in hope or down in __(4)__?Years ago, I drove into a __(5)__ station to get some gas. As I walked into the station to pay for the gas, the attendant said to me, ―How do you feel?That seemed like an odd question, but I felt fine and told him __(6)__ You don’t look well, he replied. This took me completely __(7)__surprise. A little less confidently, I told him that I had never felt better. Without hesitation, he__(8)__ to tell me how bad I looked and that my skin appeared yellow.__(9)__ the time I left the service station, I was feeling a little uneasy. About a block away, I pulled over to the side of the road to look at my face inthe mirror. Did I have a bad liver? By the time I got home, I was beginning to feel a little __(10)__. Had I picked up some rare disease?(1)A、friendsB、forcesC、featuresD、expectations(2)A、neitherB、notC、eitherD、both(3)A、InB、According toC、FromD、To(4)A、joyB、frustrationC、painD、despair(5)A、railwayB、busC、broadcastingD、service(6)A、thisB、soC、tooD、that(7)A、byB、inC、toD、for(8)A、managedB、triedC、continuedD、wenton(9)A、OnB、ByC、FromD、In(10)A、sickB、joyfulC、sadD、great
When it was announced that I was the winner of the award, for the first time in three months I felt that I had achieved(). A、anythingB、something
I failed again in the examination and only then I had realized how much time I had wasted.() 此题为判断题(对，错)。
39．— _________ have you been learning English? ．—I have been learning English for six years．A． How longB． How oftenC． How farD． What time
D.My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year they city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing (用推土机推平) the trees and grass to make way for a new apartment complex. When I saw the fence and bulldozers, I asked myself, “Why don’t they just leave it alone?”Looking back, I think what sentenced the part to oblivion (别遗忘) was the drought (旱灾) we had about four years ago. Up until then, Southway Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool. My friends and I rollerskated on the sidewalks, climbed the tress, and swam in the pool all the years I was growing up. The park was almost like my own yard. Then the summer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed.There had been almost no rain at all that year. The city stopped watering the park grass. Within a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert. Leaves fell off the part tress, and pretty soon the trees started dying, too. Next, the part swimming pool was closed. The city cut down on the work force that kept the park, and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore.As the drought lasted into the fall, the part got worse every month. The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass. Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck. People said drugs were being sold or traded there now. The part had gotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore.The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal, that is, everything but the park. It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way. Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to “redevelop” certain worn-out areas of the city. It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park, sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it.The chain-link fencing and bulldozers did their work. Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment building. Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction. The neighborhood has changed without the park. The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the same again. Sometimes I wonder, though, what changes another drought would make in the way things are today.53. How did the writer feel when he saw the fence and bulldozers?A. Scared.B. Confused.C. Upset.D. Curious.
BJuly 21st , 2007 was a typical English summer’s day — it rained for 24 hours! As usual, I rushed home from work at midday to check on the house. Nothing was amiss. By the time I lift work at 5 pm, however, the road into our village was flooded. Our house bad never been flooded but, as I opened the front door, a wave of water greeted me. Thank God the kids weren’t with me, because the house was 5 feet deep in water . We lost everything downstairs. And the plaster had to be torn off the walls, ceilings pulled down.At first we tried to push on through. We didn’t want to move the children out of home, so we camped upstairs. We put a sheet of plastic across the floor to protect us from the damp. But after three months, we felt very sick, so we moved to a wooden house in a park. The house was small, but at first we were all just delighted to be in a new place. Unfortunately, things took longer than expected and we were there for 10 months. The life there was inconvenient. What surprised me most was how much I missed being part of a community（社区）.We had lived in a friendly village with good neighbors, and I’d never thought how much I’d miss that.Although-our situation was very bad, it’s difficult to feel too sorry for yourself when you look at what’s happening elsewhere. I watched a news report about floods in Northern India and thought , “We didn’t have a straw hut（茅草房）that was swept away , and our house is still sanding . We’re lucky .”We moved back home in August. With December coming, there’s reconstruction work to be done, so it’s difficult to prepare for Christmas. But I can’t wait — I’m going to throw a party for our friends in the village to say thanks for their support . This year, I won’t need any gifts — living away from home for months has made me realize how little we actually need or miss all our possessions . Although we are replacing things , there’s really no rush — we have our home back , and that’s the main thing .45. What does the underlined word “amiss” in the first paragraph mean?A. Wrong.B. Missing.C. Right. D. Found.
The 1900 houseThe bowler family was one of more than 400 families who applied to 1900 house, a reality TV shout which took a typical family back a hundred years to se how people lived in the days before the internet, computer games and even electricity.The bowler family spent three months in a London home without a telephone, computers, TV, or fast food. The bowlers wore clothes from 1900, are only food available in English at that time, and cooked their meals on a single stove. Paul bowler still went to work every day in a then uniform. The children changed their clothes on the way to and from school and their classmates didn’t know about then unusural home life. Joyce stayed at home, cooking and cleaning like a typical housewife of the time, though everything took three times as long.So does Joyce think that people’s lives were better in the old days?“I think people in the old days had just ad many troubles and worries,” Joyce said.And I don’t think their life was better or worse, there were lots of things back then thatI’m happy I don’t have to deal with nowadays, but on the other hand life was simpler.” “We had a lot more time with our family, and it was hard being nice to each other all the time,” eleven-year-old Hilary said.So what did the Bowler family miss most about modern life while living in the 1900 house?Paul,39:” telephone and a hot shower”Joyce,44:” a quick cup of tea from a kettle you could just turn on”Hilary,11:” rock CD”Joseph,9:” hamburger and computer games”54.While the Bowler family was living in 1900 house,_____.A the mother spent more time on houseworkB the two children wore the then clothes for schoolC they prepared their meals together on a stoveD they ate simple foods they had never seen
Passage ThreePeople enjoy talking about "firsts." They like to remember their first love or their first car. But not all firstsare happy ones. Few people enjoy recalling the firsts that are bad.One of history's bad but important firsts was the first car accident. Autos were still young when it happened. The crash took place in New York City. The year was 1896. The month was May. A man from Massachusetts was visiting the city in his new car. At the time, bicycle riders were still trying to get used to the new set of wheels on the road. No one is sure who was at fault. In any case, the bike and the car collided. The man on the bike was injured. The driver of the car had to stay in jail and wait for the hospital report on the bicycle rider. Luckily, the rider was not killed.Three years later, another automobile first took place. The scene was again New York City, a real estate broker named Henry Bliss stepped off a streetcar. He was hit by a passing car. Once again, no one is sure just how it happened or whose fault it was. The driver of the car was put in jail. Poor Mr. Bliss became the first person to die in a car accident.44. In each accident the driver was ______.A. found guiltyB. set freeC. laughed atD. put in jail for a while
Taxi driver: Here you are, sir. Queens Hotel.Passenger: How much is it?Taxi driver: Three dollars and seventy-five cents.Passenger: Here is four dollars. _____________.A: It ’s not necessary to give me the coinsB: Don’t giv e me the restC: Keep the changeD: I give up the pocket money
– How about the film last night? – () A.What a waste of time!B.It‘s a pity it‘s too late to mend..C.Not as good as I had expected.D.Yes, the more, the better.
By the time I left the school, she _______ English for three years. A.has teachedB.has taughtC.had teachedD.had taught
I first met Lisa three years ago when we ________ at a radio station together.A.have worked B.had been working C.were working D.had worked
—— ________ I had！ —— You really suffered a lot. A. What a time B. What time C. How a time D. how time
My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year they city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing (用推土机推平) the trees and grass to make way for a new apartment complex. When I saw the fence and bulldozers, I asked myself, “Why don’t they just leave it alone?”Looking back, I think what sentenced the part to oblivion (别遗忘) was the drought (旱灾) we had about four years ago. Up until then, Southway Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool. My friends and I rollerskated on the sidewalks, climbed the tress, and swam in the pool all the years I was growing up. The park was almost like my own yard. Then the summer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed.There had been almost no rain at all that year. The city stopped watering the park grass. Within a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert. Leaves fell off the park tress, and pretty soon the trees started dying, too. Next, the park swimming pool was closed. The city cut down on the work force that kept the park, and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore.As the drought lasted into the fall, the park got worse every month. The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass. Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck. People said drugs were being sold or traded there now. The park had gotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore.The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal, that is, everything but the park. It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way. Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to “redevelop” certain worn-out areas of the city. It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park, sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it.The chain-link fencing and the bulldozers did their work. Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment buildings. Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction. The neighborhood has changed without the park. The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the same again. Sometimes I wonder, though, what changes another drought would make in the way things are today.53. How did the writer feel when he saw the fence and bulldozers?A. Scared. B. Confused. C. Upset. D. Curious.
I was recendy in London for the first,time in three years and was shocked by how much and how little had changed:Soho appeared tiny,the city's tree coverage seemed huge,and there were still building works on Charing Cross Road.Transport for London workers,on balance,seemed friendlier and more cheerful than their equivalents on the Metropolitan Transportacion Authority in New York,and I couldn't believe how aimless the average shopper in Sainsbury's was.Actually,that's not quite true.What I couldn't believe was how tivitchy and American I'd becomf when stuck behind people buying groceries,as it seemed to me,with insufficient speed or direction.Behavioural stereotypes of Americans versus British people tend to fall apart on closer inspection,except in this one area of how we behave as consumers;and as I slammed a trolley around the store（which,by the way,was vastly superior to any New York supermarket）I looked around and chought:honest to God,why aren't these people screaming?Towards che end of my stay,someching happened.I met an acquaintance who told a long story about a cousin on disabilily benefit who had just been helped by the state to buy a specially adapted car.I almost laughed out loud.In New York,you might,at a pinch,qualify for something called Access-A-Ride,which caters to people with disabilicies and runs on a schedule you can eilher make or,bad luck,let's hope the appointment wasn't important.In the US,it's no exaggeration to say that Oprah Winfrey is more likely to buy you a car than the government.The news that the supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy is reLiring-Kennedy is one of the crucial（semi-）progressives,who voted for abortion rights and same-sex marriage,among the nine-is an e-ven greater reminder of how painfully thin the protections of US civil liberties are.If,as one expects,Kennedy is replaced by an arch-conservative,e US is likely to swing even more disastrously rightwards.Ruth Bader Ginsberg,a liberal who at 85 is four years older than Kennedy,says she isnt retir-ing:how can she?I thought back on my trip and was shocked afresh.For all its faults and in spite of terrible under-investment,the very fact of the welfare state when seen from the US is nothing short of a miracle.I used to take it for granted,but that has gone We are not supposed to think of the world in terms of us and them,yet it is impossible,moving between the two countries,not to see the welfare state,the NHS and the philosophy that underpins them,as the greatest bulwarks between society in the UK and life as it is lived in the US.I know which side I'm onThe author quotes her acquaintance's story to mdicate thatA.the disabled in America can receive government's supportB.Britain's welfare system is much better than that of AmericaC.British people often take government's support for grantedD.Oprah Winfrey is a celebrity who loves charitable work
I was recendy in London for the first,time in three years and was shocked by how much and how little had changed:Soho appeared tiny,the city's tree coverage seemed huge,and there were still building works on Charing Cross Road.Transport for London workers,on balance,seemed friendlier and more cheerful than their equivalents on the Metropolitan Transportacion Authority in New York,and I couldn't believe how aimless the average shopper in Sainsbury's was.Actually,that's not quite true.What I couldn't believe was how tivitchy and American I'd becomf when stuck behind people buying groceries,as it seemed to me,with insufficient speed or direction.Behavioural stereotypes of Americans versus British people tend to fall apart on closer inspection,except in this one area of how we behave as consumers;and as I slammed a trolley around the store（which,by the way,was vastly superior to any New York supermarket）I looked around and chought:honest to God,why aren't these people screaming?Towards che end of my stay,someching happened.I met an acquaintance who told a long story about a cousin on disabilily benefit who had just been helped by the state to buy a specially adapted car.I almost laughed out loud.In New York,you might,at a pinch,qualify for something called Access-A-Ride,which caters to people with disabilicies and runs on a schedule you can eilher make or,bad luck,let's hope the appointment wasn't important.In the US,it's no exaggeration to say that Oprah Winfrey is more likely to buy you a car than the government.The news that the supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy is reLiring-Kennedy is one of the crucial（semi-）progressives,who voted for abortion rights and same-sex marriage,among the nine-is an e-ven greater reminder of how painfully thin the protections of US civil liberties are.If,as one expects,Kennedy is replaced by an arch-conservative,e US is likely to swing even more disastrously rightwards.Ruth Bader Ginsberg,a liberal who at 85 is four years older than Kennedy,says she isnt retir-ing:how can she?I thought back on my trip and was shocked afresh.For all its faults and in spite of terrible under-investment,the very fact of the welfare state when seen from the US is nothing short of a miracle.I used to take it for granted,but that has gone We are not supposed to think of the world in terms of us and them,yet it is impossible,moving between the two countries,not to see the welfare state,the NHS and the philosophy that underpins them,as the greatest bulwarks between society in the UK and life as it is lived in the US.I know which side I'm onThe author's return to London made her especially ICAREA.admire the economic growth and the great expansion of LondonB.appreciate the pace and the lifestyle of the LondonersC.curious about the cheerful and aimless shoppers in BritainD.ponder about the differences between Britain and America
I was recendy in London for the first,time in three years and was shocked by how much and how little had changed:Soho appeared tiny,the city's tree coverage seemed huge,and there were still building works on Charing Cross Road.Transport for London workers,on balance,seemed friendlier and more cheerful than their equivalents on the Metropolitan Transportacion Authority in New York,and I couldn't believe how aimless the average shopper in Sainsbury's was.Actually,that's not quite true.What I couldn't believe was how tivitchy and American I'd becomf when stuck behind people buying groceries,as it seemed to me,with insufficient speed or direction.Behavioural stereotypes of Americans versus British people tend to fall apart on closer inspection,except in this one area of how we behave as consumers;and as I slammed a trolley around the store（which,by the way,was vastly superior to any New York supermarket）I looked around and chought:honest to God,why aren't these people screaming?Towards che end of my stay,someching happened.I met an acquaintance who told a long story about a cousin on disabilily benefit who had just been helped by the state to buy a specially adapted car.I almost laughed out loud.In New York,you might,at a pinch,qualify for something called Access-A-Ride,which caters to people with disabilicies and runs on a schedule you can eilher make or,bad luck,let's hope the appointment wasn't important.In the US,it's no exaggeration to say that Oprah Winfrey is more likely to buy you a car than the government.The news that the supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy is reLiring-Kennedy is one of the crucial（semi-）progressives,who voted for abortion rights and same-sex marriage,among the nine-is an e-ven greater reminder of how painfully thin the protections of US civil liberties are.If,as one expects,Kennedy is replaced by an arch-conservative,e US is likely to swing even more disastrously rightwards.Ruth Bader Ginsberg,a liberal who at 85 is four years older than Kennedy,says she isnt retir-ing:how can she?I thought back on my trip and was shocked afresh.For all its faults and in spite of terrible under-investment,the very fact of the welfare state when seen from the US is nothing short of a miracle.I used to take it for granted,but that has gone We are not supposed to think of the world in terms of us and them,yet it is impossible,moving between the two countries,not to see the welfare state,the NHS and the philosophy that underpins them,as the greatest bulwarks between society in the UK and life as it is lived in the US.I know which side I'm onAccording to Paragraph 2,what is the most shocking thing for the authorA.The London consumers are walking at a slow speed to buy groceriesB.Three years of American life has changed her into an American.C.Londoners behave so differently from New Yorkers during shopping.D.Compared with New Yorkers,Londoners are more reserved and polite.
I was recendy in London for the first,time in three years and was shocked by how much and how little had changed:Soho appeared tiny,the city's tree coverage seemed huge,and there were still building works on Charing Cross Road.Transport for London workers,on balance,seemed friendlier and more cheerful than their equivalents on the Metropolitan Transportacion Authority in New York,and I couldn't believe how aimless the average shopper in Sainsbury's was.Actually,that's not quite true.What I couldn't believe was how tivitchy and American I'd becomf when stuck behind people buying groceries,as it seemed to me,with insufficient speed or direction.Behavioural stereotypes of Americans versus British people tend to fall apart on closer inspection,except in this one area of how we behave as consumers;and as I slammed a trolley around the store（which,by the way,was vastly superior to any New York supermarket）I looked around and chought:honest to God,why aren't these people screaming?Towards che end of my stay,someching happened.I met an acquaintance who told a long story about a cousin on disabilily benefit who had just been helped by the state to buy a specially adapted car.I almost laughed out loud.In New York,you might,at a pinch,qualify for something called Access-A-Ride,which caters to people with disabilicies and runs on a schedule you can eilher make or,bad luck,let's hope the appointment wasn't important.In the US,it's no exaggeration to say that Oprah Winfrey is more likely to buy you a car than the government.The news that the supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy is reLiring-Kennedy is one of the crucial（semi-）progressives,who voted for abortion rights and same-sex marriage,among the nine-is an e-ven greater reminder of how painfully thin the protections of US civil liberties are.If,as one expects,Kennedy is replaced by an arch-conservative,e US is likely to swing even more disastrously rightwards.Ruth Bader Ginsberg,a liberal who at 85 is four years older than Kennedy,says she isnt retir-ing:how can she?I thought back on my trip and was shocked afresh.For all its faults and in spite of terrible under-investment,the very fact of the welfare state when seen from the US is nothing short of a miracle.I used to take it for granted,but that has gone We are not supposed to think of the world in terms of us and them,yet it is impossible,moving between the two countries,not to see the welfare state,the NHS and the philosophy that underpins them,as the greatest bulwarks between society in the UK and life as it is lived in the US.I know which side I'm onAccording to the author,what is the biggest difference between American life and British life?A.Their life stylesB.The happiness indexC.Their outlooks on lifeD.The welfare system
--How much did this set of furniturecost?--I forgot__A.how much it costsB.how much did it costC.how much it costD.how much does it cost
Not until I began to work__how much time I had wasted．A.didn't I realizeB.did I realizeC.I didn't realizeD.I realized
The concept of a "smart city"___________ in the Government Work Report for the first time this year, whichshows the future direction of China′s urban construction.A.appeared B.was appearingC.had appeared D.would appear
Nobody knew_______there.（ ）A.how long time I had beenB.how long had I beenC.how long time had I beenD.how long I had been
单选题It is possible to predict how much energy and water a building will consume, how much （） will be neededAmatterBthingsCmaterialDsubstance
问答题By degrees the shutters were opened; the window-blinds were drawn up, and people began passing to and (1)____. Some few stopped to gaze at Oliver for a moment or two, or turned round to (2) st____ at him as they hurried by; but none relieved him, or troubled themselves to inquire how he came there. He had no heart to beg. And there he sat. He had been crouching on the step for some time, (3)____(wonder) at the great number of public-houses (every other house in Barnet was a tavern, large or small); gazing listlessly (4)____ the coaches as they passed through, and thinking how strange it seemed that they could do, with (5) e____, in a few hours, what it had taken him a whole week of courage and (6)____(determine) beyond his years to accomplish; when he was roused by observing that a boy, who had passed him carelessly some minutes before, had returned, and was now surveying him most (7)____(earnest) from the (8) o____ side of the way. He took little heed of this at first; but the boy remained in the same attitude of close observation so long, that Oliver (9)____(raise) his head, and returned his steady look. Upon this, the boy crossed over, and, (10) w____ close up to Oliver, said, “Hello! My covey, what’s the row?”
单选题Once there was a little girl who came to live in an orphanage (孤儿院). As Christmas time was drawing near, all of the other children 11 telling the little girl about the beautiful Christmas tree that would appear in the hall downstairs on Christmas morning. After their usual 12 , each child would be given their only Christmas gift, a small orange. The headmaster of the orphanage was very 13 with the kids. So on Christmas Eve, when he 14 the little girl slipping down the stairs to peek（偷看）at the much-heard-of Christmas tree, he 15 that the little girl would not receive her Christmas orange because she had been so curious as to disobey the rules. The little girl ran back to her room 16 , crying at her terrible fate. The next morning as the other children were going down for breakfast, the little girl stayed in her bed. She couldn’t 17 the thought of seeing the others receive their gift while there would be 18 for her. Later, as the children came back upstairs, the little girl was surprised to be handed a napkin (餐巾). As she carefully opened it, there, to her 19 , was an orange all peeled and sectioned (分瓣). “ How could this be? ” she asked. Then, she realized how each child had taken one section from their orange for her so that she, too , would have a Christmas orange. What an example of the true meaning of Christmas those orphan children showed that morning! How I 20 the world would show the same kind of concern for others, not only at Christmas, but throughout the year!请在17处填上正确答案（）AstandBunderstandCrememberDfind