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The son of Mr. Smith, a rich neighbor, used to come to see the blacksmith every day and for hours and hours he would enjoy himself watching how the tradesman worked.
“Young man, why don’t you try your hand to learn to make shoe tacks (钉), even if it is only to pass the time?” said the blacksmith. “Who knows, one day, it may be of use to you.”
The lazy boy began to see what he could do. But after a little practice he found that he was becoming very skilled and soon he was making some of the finest tacks.
Old Mr. Smith died and the son on account of the war lost all his goods. He had to leave home and was forced to live in another country. It so happened that in this village there were many shoemakers who were spending a lot of money buying tacks for their shoes and even at times when they paid high prices they were not always able to get what they wanted, because in that part of the country there was a high demand for soldiers’ shoes.
Our young Mr. Smith, who was finding it difficult to earn his daily bread, remembered that once upon a time he had learned the art of making tacks and had the sudden idea of making a bargain with the shoemakers. He told them that he would make the tacks if they would help to get him settled in the workshop. The shoemakers were only too glad of the offer. And after a while, Mr. Smith found that he was soon making the finest tacks in the village.
“How funny it seems,” he used to say, “even making tacks can make money. My trade is more useful to me than all my former riches.”
小题1: The young man learnt to make shoe tacks because ________.
A.his father told him to | B.he wanted to learn a skill |
C.Jones encouraged him to | D.he just wanted to pass his time |
A.Old Mr. Smith enjoyed making the shoe tacks. |
B.The blacksmith had predicted the young man would be in need of the skill. |
C.The higher prices they paid, the more tacks the shoemakers would get. |
D.The young man earned his living by his skills learnt when he was young. |
A.Practice makes perfect. | B.Skill makes life easy. |
C.A good beginning makes a good ending. | D.Every man has his gift. |
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试题【The hardworking blacksmith Jones used to work all day in his shop and so hard-wo】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The students qualified for the national competition by winning a regional competition on Jan. 17 in Columbus. By winning the national event, the students earned an all-expenses paid trip to Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., according to a Bexley school district news report.
Future City aims to stir (激发) interest in science, technology, engineering and math among young people. Bexley team members were Tom Krajnak, Abby Sharp, Wyatt Peery, Elizabeth Maher, Aaron Hutchinson and Truman Haycock. They work in teams under the guidance of a teacher, Margaret Englehardt, and a volunteer engineer, Mark Sherman, design and build a city of tomorrow. Mayor John Brennan presented the students during a recent Bexley City Council meeting. Each team in the Future City competition plans its city using Sim City software and creates a model to show a physical representation of one section of the city. Team members must write both an essay about the yearly theme and an abstract about their city. They also must make a presentation to judges.
Focusing on eco-responsibility, the Bexley team built “Novo-Mondum,” an Icelandic city in the year 2171. Krajnak said the team’s project included a new water system for each resident unit and a 500-word essay on using bacteria to purify water. “We used our essay and abstract (摘要) to build a model,” he said. “It was hard to organize which building would go where, what each building does and how to make it look good.”
Englehardt said her students did a good job answering impromptu (即席) questions during the regional competition. “They can think on their feet,” she said. Principal Harley Williams said the school is very proud of the students’ performance.
小题1:.. From the passage we can learn that the grand prize winners will _________.
A.receive scholarship for further studies |
B.get a free trip to Space Camp in Huntsville |
C.earn a large sum of money for their designs |
D.be admitted to universities without exams |
A.make the Sim City software popular |
B.test the students’ knowledge of city planning |
C.select future engineers from young students |
D.make students become interested in engineering |
A.write brief abstracts describing their city |
B.present and defend their designs before judges |
C.build a future city in Iceland by themselves |
D.create model cities using the Sim City software |
A.always stand still in the competition |
B.react very quickly to the questions |
C.prepare for the questions in advance |
D.take pride in the advisers’ performance |
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-----Improve your writing skills;
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小题1:The underlined word “comprising” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A.including | B.forming | C.combining | D.explaining |
A.Reading. | B.Writing. |
C.Speaking. | D.Structure and Written Expression. |
A.improve their academic skills |
B.indicate their proficiency of English language |
C.provide scholarship programs in many countries |
D.decide your graduation from foreign universities |
A.Advantages of TOEFL test | B.Introduction to TOEFL test |
C.Preparations for TOEFL test | D.Assessment of TOEFL test |
The report – from the Education for All Fast Track Initiative – highlights the importance of girls’ education for economic(经济的) and social development. It follows progress in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Mauritania, Mozambique and Niger.
Prema Clarke, author of Fast-tracking Girls’ Education, says, “Progress for girls’ education is that they can leave their homes, leave their families and come to a place to study and to learn. And that’s a big achievement because otherwise these girls have to stay at home, looking after their brothers and sisters, doing the cooking or doing the cleaning.”
She says progress toward the Millennium Development Goals and those of Education for All “is allowing and enabling girls and forcing countries to look at this issue(问题) and to ensure that interventions (干预) help girls attend school.”
Benefits
Improving education for girls brings many benefits, says Clarke. “It means that girls can then enter the workforce. They can look after their own families much more effectively. They can prevent child death rate. They can educate their own girl children when they begin to expand their own families.” Studies show that having an educated female population helps to improve a country’s health and economic well-being.
Warnings
The report says, “In developing countries, too many girls are not in school, and many girls face continuing health risks and danger just walking to class.”
“Especially in the fragile and post-conflict countries and in many of the African countries, this is a real issue,” she says. Till now, the interventions have been so focused on providing schooling and providing teachers, etc. And now I think there is much more expanded focus on looking at specific(特定的)communities of girls within at-risk groups that now need much more specific attention and much more creative solutions(解决方法) to help them attend school.”
小题1:The underlined word “highlights” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A.shows | B.stresses | C.remarks | D.improves |
A.to educate their own girl children | B.to prevent child death rate |
C.to enter the workforce | D.to study abroad |
A.promote the progress in girls’ education |
B.talk about the benefits of improving girls’ education |
C.give some information about the education girls are facing |
D.sing high praise for the girls’ education |
A.the girls’ educational situation in developing countries is still serious |
B.girls were free to go wherever they wanted to in the past |
C.there are enough teachers in most of the African countries |
D.International Women’s Day was first celebrated on March 8 in 1900 |
As the Telegraph is reporting, an official from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in December 2008 that safety rules were out of date, and strong earthquakes would cause a “serious problem” for the power stations.
A U.S. embassy document, by quoting(引用)an unnamed expert, states: “He (the IAEA official) explained that safety guides for earthquakes have only been updated three times in the last 35 years and that the IAEA is now re-examining them. Also, the presenter noted recent earthquakes in some cases have gone beyond the design basis for some nuclear plants, and that this is a serious problem that is now driving earthquake safety work.”
The Telegraph also reports that the government responded to the warnings by building an emergency response center at the Fukushima Daiichi plant designed to resist magnitude-7.0 earthquakes. Friday"s earthquake, originally named a magnitude-8.9 shock, has since been upgraded to magnitude-9.0.
Other nuclear experts state IAEA officials had willingly ignored lessons from the Chernobyl disaster to protect the nuclear industry"s expansion, reports Bloomberg. “After Chernobyl, all the force of the nuclear industry was directed to hide this event, for not creating damage to their reputation,”Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreyev tells Reuters, before noting that radiation from spent fuel rods(棒)stored close to reactors at Fukushima looked like an example of putting profit before safety. “The Japanese were very greedy, and they used every square inch of the space. But when you have a dense(密集的) placing of spent fuel in the basin, you have a high possibility of fire if the water is removed from the basin.”
小题1: From the passage, we know that ____________.
A.people fear that the nuclear meltdown will possibly become more and more serious in Japan |
B.people are becoming more and more afraid of a possible nuclear meltdown in Japan |
C.Japan made no response to the warnings over the safety of its power plants |
D.Iouli Andreyev warned Japan not to store spent fuel rods close to reactors |
A.Japan was warned of the stability of its power plants when they were built over 2 years ago. |
B.Safety guides for earthquakes should be updated three times in 35 years. |
C.The emergency response centre at the Fukushima Daiichi plant can not resist Friday’s earthquake. |
D.IAEA officials advised Japan to ignore lessons from the Chernobyl disaster. |
A.to put profit before safety. | B.the nuclear industry to develop |
C.to protect the reputation of Japan | D.every inch of land to be made good use of |
A.making comments | B.providing facts |
C.quoting what experts say | D.analysing what happened |
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Recent studies have shown that children with learning disabilities (LD) often have problems. For many, strong 21 of anger, shame, sadness, or disappointment can 22 psychological difficulties such as anxiety, depression or low self-esteem. These problems can be far more than the 23 challenges themselves.
Several heading experts in the field of LD have offered suggestions on ways to help 24 children from these problems.
To be most effective in supporting 25 , it can help to understand some primary 26 for the psychological and emotional challenges they may face.
First, it is not difficult to see 27 children with LD are at greater risk for developing psychological difficulties if one considers the repeated failure they 28 . Although they make efforts to “try harder,” children with LD may receive little 29 feedback(反馈). Their academic struggles and failures are often met with 30 by teachers, peers and parents. Such disapproval can take the form of unpleasant labeling(标签)of a child 31“slow,” “lazy” or “dumb.” 32 developing a sense of pride in their accomplishments, children with LD may 33 in disappointment and shame. Low self-esteem and a lack of confidence only 34 prevent learning and academic success.
The second reason is the 35 difficulties they often experience. Research indicates that as many as 75% of kids with LD have such 36 as making and keeping friends. Children with LD are less 37 and often rejected by their peers. Teachers and other adults also may 38 to have negative views of them. Such social rejection(排斥)can result in 39 of self-esteem and feelings of loneliness, which, 40 may lead to psychological difficulties such as anxiety and depression.
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A.cause | B.get | C.solve | D.overcome |
A.mental | B.physical | C.potential | D.academic |
A.protect | B.prevent | C.remove | D.separate |
A.experts | B.children | C.teachers | D.parents |
A.ways | B.rules | C.reasons | D.directions |
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A.practise | B.experience | C.possess | D.find |
A.hopeful | B.timely | C.subjective | D.positive |
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A.hardly | B.further | C.even | D. slightly |
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