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Where the theater had been dominated by entertainment, Shaw used it to teach people the importance of paying attention to the issues of their day. The plight (苦难) of the poor and the working class, the situation of women and the institutions of society, such as the education system ---- Shaw was among the most well-known figures making these topics central to public debate. His first play, Widowers’ Houses (1892), deals with the question of slum (贫民窟) housing. His Mrs Warren’s Profession (1893) brought a controversial topic to the stage.
Shaw was an important mover and shaker in new political movements too. He was an early member of the Fabian Society, which argued for the socialist cause in the UK. Shaw was also the founder (in 1895) of one of the now most famous colleges in the world, the London School of Economics.
If few of his works have really stood the test of time, many of his quotations have become part of the furniture of the English language. “Youth is wasted on the young,” he wrote. He also knew how to sum up a political philosophy(哲学) in a few memorable words. For instance: “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
小题1: Shaw’s influence on the modern world comes mainly from ______.
| A．the changes he brought to the British culture |
| B．his philosophies on the role of government |
| C．his awareness of social problems of his day |
| D．the support for the London School of Economics |
| A．the failure of the UK education system |
| B．the housing problems of poor people |
| C．robbery incidents in slum areas |
| D．socialist movements in the UK |
| A．have become the best part of English |
| B．have greatly developed the English language |
| C．have made the English language philosophical |
| D．have become an inseparable part of the English language |
| A．They should be adapted for modern readers. |
| B．They are mostly about the lives of working class. |
| C．They deal with important social issues of their day. |
| D．Most of them are still performed on the stage of the world today. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
解析
小题1:A
【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第一段最后一句In a way Shaw was someone who created the modern culture of Britain.可知他最大的影响是对英国现代文化的影响。故A正确。
小题2:B
【试题解析】细节题。根据文章第二段倒数第二句His first play, Widowers’ Houses (1892), deals with the question of slum (贫民窟) housing.可知这边书是为了反映贫民窟里的住房问题的。故B正确。
小题3:D
【试题解析】推理题。根据本句If few of his works have really stood the test of time, many of his quotations have become part of the furniture of the English language. “Youth is wasted on the young,” he wrote.可知如果他的作品没有能够经历时间的挑战，但是他时候的一些话已经成为英语当中的一部分了。仍然在说明他对英国文化的影响。故D正确。
小题4:C
【试题解析】推理题。根据第二段1,2行Where the theater had been dominated by entertainment, Shaw used it to teach people the importance of paying attention to the issues of their day.可知他的作品通常教育人们要注意所在年代的一些重大事件。也就是是关于他那个年代的重要的社会问题。故C正确。
【长难句解析】
He was an early member of the Fabian Society, which argued for the socialist cause in the UK.
【翻译】他是早期费边社的成员，这个组织是支持英国的社会事业。
【分析】本句中有一个which引导的非限制性定语从句which argued for the socialist cause in the UK，which指代先行词the Fabian Society在定语从句中做主语，不能省略。也不能用that来代替。
核心考点
试题【IT is safe to say that George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the Irish-born writer, i】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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It is hoped that the move, which will be tested in the coming months, might lessen traffic in inner cities and reduce CO2 emissions(排放). This should help DHL, a division of the German postal service, reach its target of improving the company’s carbon efficiency by 30 percent before 2020.
“As the world’s biggest logistics(物流) provider, we recognize a special responsibility to reduce the impact on the environment as much as possible,” said Frank Appel, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post DHL, in a statement referring to a variety of measures being considered.
The “fetch friends” find out online about parcels that need delivering to people who live or work along the way that they are planning to travel through the city. They then select the ones that they want to take.
Codes(编码) sent to their mobile phones tell the volunteers where to pick the packages up. Parcels can be taken part of the way or passed on to another volunteer but all volunteers need to have the right code on their mobile phone so the track and trace system can be updated.
Logistics companies will be responsible for looking after the operation to make sure that the privacy of post is respected.
It’s hoped that this could be done using mobile phones but DHL says it recognizes that some security issues remain to be worked out.
小题1: According to the passage, the “fetch friend” program ________.
| A．has been tested for months |
| B．aims to reduce the cost of the service |
| C．employs environmentalists to help with deliveries |
| D．encourages ordinary people to help cut the carbon footprint |
| A．It belongs to the Germany’s postal service. |
| B．It has the most up-to-date tracking system in Germany. |
| C．It has succeeded in improving its carbon efficiency by 30%. |
| D．It has designed many measures to improve its service speed. |
| A．Volunteers’ not allowing to select parcels. |
| B．The wrong codes in the mobile phones. |
| C．The possibility that parcels could be opened on the way. |
| D．Parcels’ being taken to the destination by a single volunteer. |
| A．New Challenges for the Postal Service |
| B．A Greener Way to Deliver Parcels |
| C．Solutions for Global Warming |
| D．Statements from DHL |
Sickened by what he saw as the waste of human lives during the First World War, he became involved in antiwar demonstrations. His support of civil disobedience did little to endear him to his colleagues. Then, following the war, he directed his efforts toward reconciliation(调停) and improving international relations. And soon his politics were making it difficult for him to visit the United States, even to give lectures.
Einstein"s second great cause was Zionism(犹太复国主义). Although he was Jewish, Einstein rejected the idea of God. However, a growing awareness of anti-Semitism(反犹太主义), both before and during the War, led him gradually to identify with the Jewish community, and later to become an outspoken supporter of Zionism.
His theories came under attack. One man was accused of motivating others to murder Einstein and fined a mere six dollars. When a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, he retorted, "If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!" When Hitler came to power, Einstein then in America declared he would not return to Germany. While Nazi attacked his house and confiscated his bank account, a Berlin newspaper displayed the headline "Good News from Einstein--He"s Not Coming Back."
Fearing that German scientists would build a nuclear bomb, Einstein proposed that the United States should develop its own. But he was publicly warning of the dangers of nuclear war and proposing international control of nuclear weaponry. Throughout his life, Einstein"s efforts toward peace probably achieved little and won him few friends. His support of the Zionist cause, however, was recognized in 1952, when he was offered the presidency of Israel. He declined, saying he was too naive in politics. But perhaps his real reason was different:" Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
小题1:The reason why Einstein was against the war was that __
| A．he tried to get involved in politics |
| B．the nuclear bomb could be built by German scientists |
| C．many people died during the war in vain |
| D．President Franklin persuaded him to do so |
| A．believed in God |
| B．was proud of being Jewish |
| C．suggested that nuclear weaponry should be banned |
| D．made great achievements in peace |
| A．many people in support of Zionism hated Einstein |
| B．the reason why Einstein would not return to Israel |
| C．Einstein was in danger of being killed |
| D．Einstein didn"t enjoy his popularity in the field Of politics |
My first experience was a road trip from Toronto to Las Vegas, paid for by a car delivery service. Other trips followed and then I started a travel blog (博客). It was intended to be my calling card for assignment travel photography. Yet even with my blog and past experience, email after email I sent to publications, trying to get work, went unanswered. When they did get in touch, editors told me that I had no chance of making a career with travel photography. While I struggled to get on the path that I wanted, and as I expanded my blog to help get me there, I found myself wearing the hat of a full-time blogger.
Luckily, I got in at the right time. It was 2010，and the travel industry was just starting to turn its attention to bloggers. As I never could have predicted, my blogging-not my photography-did take me around the world successfully. At first，I thought it was for personal reasons, but I realized later that it was for free marketing for my blogging.
Within two years, I was being asked to speak at travel blogging conferences, which helped me to raise a network of friends around the world. Even more meaningful, however, was when I saw that my travels were also helping other people. My blog and social media followers saw that I chased my dreams and told me over and over again how they needed that kind of example, which was absent in their lives elsewhere.
小题1:After the author quit her job, she decided to ______.
| A．divorce her husband | B．be a wedding photographer |
| C．pay off all her debt | D．go travelling abroad |
| A．She paid money to a car delivery agency for a road trip. |
| B．She realised his dream of becoming a travel photographer. |
| C．She got a job as an editor in a publishing house. |
| D．She finally became a professional blogger unintentionally. |
| A．her personal reasons | B．her photographing skills |
| C．free marketing for blogging | D．booming of travel industry |
| A．Inspiring. | B．Appealing. | C．Interesting. | D．Challenging. |
If you say to your children “I’m sorry I got angry with you, but …” what follows that “but” can make the apology ineffective: “I had a bad day” or “your noise was giving me a headache ” leaves the person feeling that he should be apologizing for his bad behavior in expecting an apology.
Another method by which people appear to apologize without actually doing so is to say “I’m sorry you’re upset”; this suggests that you are somehow at fault for allowing yourself to get upset by what the other person has done.
Then there is the general, all covering apology, which avoids the necessity of identifying a specific act that was particularly hurtful or insulting, and which the person who is apologizing should promise never to do again. Saying “I’m useless as a parent” does not make any sense.
These false apologies are used by people who believe saying sorry shows weakness. Parents who wish to teach their children to apologize should see it as a sign of strength, and therefore not voice these false apologies.
But even when presented with examples of really being sorry, children still need help to become aware of the complexities of saying sorry. A three-year-old might need help in understanding that other children feel pain just as he does, and that hitting a playmate over the head with a heavy toy requires an apology. A six-year-old might need reminding that spoiling other children’s expectations can require an apology. A 12-year-old might need to be shown that taking the biscuit without asking permission is acceptable, but that borrowing a parent’s clothes without permission is not.
小题1: If a mother adds “but” to an apology,________.
| A．the child may feel that he owes her an apology |
| B．she knows that the child has been hurt |
| C．the child may find the apology easier to accept |
| D．she feels that she should have apologized |
| A．You have good reason to get upset |
| B．I apologize for hurting your feelings |
| C．I’m aware you’re upset , but I’m not to blame |
| D．I’m at fault for making you upset |
A. the complexities involved should be ignored
B. parents need to set them a good example
C. their ages should be taken into account
D parents should be patient and tolerant
小题4:It can be inferred from the passage that apologizing properly is
| A． to say sorry in a general way |
| B． a way to improve your relationships |
| C． a sign of social progress and social harmony |
| D．not as simple as it seems |
Joel Haler woke up in his dorm room at Hope College last October totally paralyzed from the waist down. Four hospitals later, the only way he could walk was through Robotic Walking Treatment.
"This past Tuesday ,I was doing the Robotic walk and lasted ten minutes, " Joel said. After that, he gave up. Joel w-anted to accept the inevitable (不可避免的事) and cancelled his next Robotic Walking Treatment appointment.
Then , the night before his cancelled appointment, he woke up to a terrible pain. An hour and a half later ,the serious pain left him with an unusual feeling in his legs.
" As it continued to move up my legs ,it became more and more painful and it took an hour and a half to reach my hips(臀部) , " Joel recalled.
"I stood up and walked into my parents" room. " Mom and dad, look! " ," he said proudly.
" He said something and I was like, " Joell Joel ! You " re walking ! You " re walking ! " We jumped out of bed , cried and hugged, " Joel " s mom Karen remembered.
"I burst into tears. It " s hard seeing your son not be able to walk .but he was standing there , walking , " Joel " s father Eric said , tearfully.
It was Thursday , January 23 , when he could finally walk. That date made perfect sense to Joel. He had dreamt of a calendar that only said "J 23 " . He didn"t know what to make of it until "a little boy at church ,four years old, came up to me and said, " you will walk on a Thurs-day " , " Joel recalled.
So the 20-year-old college student, who could only walk with the aid of a robot on Tuesday ,was walking on his own.
小题1: According to the passage , " The Miracle" is that ________
| A．Joel Haler became the most famous basketball player |
| B．Robotic Walking Treatment could cure paralysis |
| C．Joel Haler could walk again after three months " paralysis |
| D．a paralyzed boy could play basketball well |
| A．His whole body. | B．His legs and feet. |
| C．His arms and hands. | D．His arms and legs. |
| A．positive | B．indifferent | C．optimistic | D．hopeless |
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