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Vintage. This is the first thing we look for ourselves. You don"t need to care whether 2001 or 2002 was a better year in the Sierra Foothills. The vast majority of wines at the store are meant to be drunk right away, so you make sure the wine isn"t too old, particularly if you"re buying it expecting lively, fresh fruitiness. We often see five-year-old Pinot Grigio and two-year-old Beaujolais Nouveau at stores, for example, so as soon as we see that kind of age on wines like those, we know we can skip them and move on(and possibly not shop there again).
Alcohol content. Too many wines have too much alcohol, which leaves them unbalanced. Sure, there are some classic wines with high alcohol levels, but many of today"s regular table wines--Merlot, Chardonnay--have levels at 15% or above. Some of those might be terrific, but if we had nothing else to go on, we"d look for alcohol content at about 14% and below.
The more specific the better. A wine that says it"s from Napa is probably a better bet than a wine that simply says it"s from California. Unfortunately, this will also probably be reflected in the price, so this might not tell you much about value, If you care enough to know a few of famous vineyards for producing high-quality grapes, they might help you make an educated guess about quality.
Old vines. Theoretically, older vines produce fewer, but more flavorful grapes, but the problem is that no one has defined what an "old vine" is, so anyone can put this on the label. Just ignore it.
A phone number. You"d be surprised many small-production wines these days include a phone number on the back and an invitation to call the winerY, which is a sign of a highly personal winerY. We have called those numbers many times over the years and it"s amazing how often the winemaker or winerY owner answers the phone.
小题1: The underlined word "Vintage" in the second paragraph probably means "________ " .
A.the place where the wine was made | B.the year when the wine was made |
C.the freshness of the wine | D.the label of the wine |
A.five-year-old Pinot Grigio | B.the wine labeled from older vines |
C.the wine from famous vineyards | D.two-year-old Beaujolais Nouveau |
A.the wine with high alcohol levels is definitely terrific |
B.most wines at the store are intended to be drunk right away |
C.older vines have lower production |
D.some winemakers keep the promise all the time |
A.Geography. | B.Price | C.Quality. | D.Grapes. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
解析
小题1:B
【试题解析】推理题。根据本段第一句This is the first thing we look for ourselves. You don"t need to care whether 2001 or 2002 was a better year in the Sierra Foothills.你不要在意这个酒是2001年还是2002年生产的。可知本段是在谈论酒的年度的,也就是酒生产的年份。故B正确。
小题2:C
【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第4段最后2行If you care enough to know a few of famous vineyards for producing high-quality grapes, they might help you make an educated guess about quality.可知一些著名的葡萄园经常可以生产出质量更好的酒,所以作者建议我们到这些地方买酒。故C正确。
小题3:D
【试题解析】推理题。根据文章最后2行We have called those numbers many times over the years and it"s amazing how often the winemaker or winerY owner answers the phone.可知这些酒厂都附上了电话号码,而好多年来这些电话一直都可以接通,说明这些生产商信守诺言。故D正确。
小题4:A
【试题解析】推理题。根据本段第一行A wine that says it"s from Napa is probably a better bet than a wine that simply says it"s from California.可知主要谈论的是葡萄酒的出产地的话题,不同的产地所生产出来的酒的质量是不一样的,价格也不一样。故A正确。
【长难句解析】
Say you"re in the wine store and you want to buy something new.
【翻译】如果你在一家卖酒的店里,你想买一些新的酒。
【分析】本句中的say引导的是一个条件状语从句,say相当于if;这是一个特殊的从属连词,和on condition that..等是一样的用法。
Too many wines have too much alcohol, which leaves them unbalanced.
【翻译】太多的酒里含有太多的酒精,这让他们不够平衡。
【分析】本句中有一个非限制性定语从句which leaves them unbalanced,which指代前面一句话的内容,在后面定语从句中做主语,不能省略。That不能引导非限制性定语从句,同时as引导非限制性定语从句有正如的意思。
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试题【 Say you"re in the wine store and you want to buy something new. You have no】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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After just a few days on the job, I began noticing that the other fellows were overcharging passengers. I"d like to join them, thinking, "Everyone else is doing it."
When I got home that night, I told my dad what I wanted to do. "You give an honest day"s work," he said, looking at me straight in his eye. "They are paying you. If they want to do that, you let them do that."
I followed my dad"s advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever since.
Of all the jobs I"ve had, it was my experience at Pennsylvania Railway Station that has stuck with me. Now I teach my players to have respect for other people and their possession. Being a member of a team is a totally shared experience. If one person steals, it destroys trust and hurts everyone. I can put up with many things, but not with people who steal. If one of my players were caught stealing, he"d be gone.
Whether you"re on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family. if you can"t trust one another, there is going to be trouble.
小题1: What can be inferred about the baggage boys?
A.They could earn much, but they had to work hard. |
B.Many of them earned money in a dishonest way. |
C.They were all from poor families. |
D.They were thin, young boys. |
A.It is wrong to give more to the passengers. |
B.Don"t believe them if they are paying you more. |
C.Don"t follow others to overcharge the passengers. |
D.It is difficult to work hard and live as an honest boy. |
A.overcharging passengers |
B.pulling heavy suitcases all day |
C.paying passengers money |
D.working in an honest way |
A.it is a total shared experience |
B.it is considered as the most dangerous |
C.it does great harm to human relationship |
D.it may led to the loss of his sports team. |
A.his father"s advice helped him to decide which job to take up |
B.working in the sports team was his most important experience |
C.he learned much from his shared experience with his team members |
D.his experience as a baggage boy had a great influence on his late life |
A career related to your passion, bobby, or special interest, is the path to follow in finding your dream job. Try thinking about what things you like to do in your spare time. Many are attracted toward turning what they love to do in their off work hours into a full time job. For example, if you like to put together model cars, maybe you would like opening your own hobby shop, or work for someone who owns one.
Once you find what you arc interested in doing, you can then match this to a career which will be similar to what you are passionate about. What you consider a dream career has to centre around what kind of person you actually are. This is called your Career Personality. What type of person do you consider yourself to be? People are naturally attracted to those things which reflect who they are as unique individuals. For example, if you are slightly on the shy side, maybe you would like a job where you work on your own. relatively unsupervised ,behind a computer. If you are outgoing, maybe you would like to work with others, and be the supervisor.
All it may take to find our dream career is to know ourselves a little better, trust in our own judgment, and be realistic about what we can attain occupationally: This is how I found what I am doing now.
小题1:What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To explain what a dream career really is. |
B.To offer tips on finding a dream career. |
C.To tell us what Career Personality means. |
D.To give examples of different personalities. |
A.One should choose a dream career by his/her personality. |
B.Choosing a dream career depends on a person"s ability. |
C.One should choose a dream career according to the reality. |
D.One should try different types of careers by his/her ability. |
a. Realizing our ability.
b. Believing in ourselves.
c. Having a better understanding of ourselves.
d. Considering the background of our family.
A.a, c, d | B.a, b, c | C.b, c, d | D.a, c, d |
following EXCEPT ______.
A.your hobby | B.your special interest |
C.your part-time job | D.your passion |
A.a dream job is one that most people are fond of |
B.people all want to turn their part-time jobs into full-time ones |
C.finding our dream career should follow different suggestions |
D.the author"s present dream job is chosen by his personality |
In 2002, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops. But before she asked farmer to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees would scare elephants away.
Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down. Next,Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a close to each family.
From a distance, Lucy switched on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds. Out of a total of 17 groups, only one group ignored the sound of the angry bees. Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them. When Lucy Played the sound of a waterfall (瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals were undisturbed. Even after four minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place.
Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. She hasn"t tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial (最初的) results were promising enough to begin trials with farmers. She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.
小题1:We know from the passage that elephants may be frightened of .
A.loud noises | B.some crops |
C.video cameras | D.angry bees |
A.works by herself in Africa |
B.needs to test more elephant groups |
C.has stopped elephants eating crops |
D.has got farmers to set up beehives on their farms |
A.To record the sound of bees. |
B.To make a video of elephants. |
C.To see if elephants would run away. |
D.To find out more about the behavior of bees. |
A.Young elephants ignore African honeybees. |
B.Waterfalls can make elephants stay in one place. |
C.Elephants do not go near trees with bees living in them. |
D.Farmers do not allow Lucy to conduct tests in their fields. |
Millions of Americans began 2014 with the same resolution they started 2013 with, a goal of losing weight. However, setting weight loss as a goal is a mistake.
To reach our goal of losing weight --- the output, we need to control what we eat --- the input ( 输入). That is, we tend to care about the output but not to control the input. This is a bad way to construce goals. The alternative is to focus your resolution on the input. Instead of resolving to lose weight, try an actionable resolution: “I’ll stop having desert for lunch,” or “I’ll walk every day for 20 minutes.” Creating a goal that focuses on a well-specified input will likely be more effective than concentrating on the outcome.
Recently a new science behind incentives (激励) , including in education, has been discussed. For example, researcher Roland Fryer wanted to see what works best in motivating children to do better in school. In some cases, he gave students incentives based on input, like reading certain books, while in others, the incentives were based on output, like results on exams. His main finding was that incentives increased achievement when based on input but had no effect on output. Fryer’s conclusion was that the intensives for inputs might be more effective because do not knoe how to do better on exam, aside from general rules like “study harder.” Reading certain books, on the other hand, is a well-set task over which they have much more control.
As long as you have direct control over your goal, you have a much higher chance of success. And it’s easier to start again if you fail, because you know exactly what you need to do.
If you want to cut down on your spending, a good goal would be making morning coffee at home instead of going to a cafe, for example. This is a well-specified action-based goal for which you can measure your success easily. Spending less money isn’t a goal because it’s too general. Similarly, if you want to spend more time with your family, don’t stop with this general wish. Think bout an actionable habit that you could adopt and stick to, like a family movie night every Wednesday.
In the long run, these new goals could become a habit.
小题1:The writer thinks that setting weight loss as a goal is a mistake because _______ .
A.it is hard to achieve for most Americans |
B.it is focused too much on the result |
C.it is dependent on too many things |
D.it is based on actionable decisions |
A.they obeyed all the general rules |
B.they paid more attention to exams |
C.they were motivated by their classmates |
D.they were rewarded for reading some books |
A.“I’ll give up desert.” |
B.“I’ll study harder.” |
C.“I’ll cut down my expense” |
D.“I’ll spend more time with my family” |
A.develop good habits and focus on the outcome |
B.be optimistic about final goals and stick to them |
C.pick specific actions that can be turned into good habits |
D.set ambitious goals that can balance the input ang output |
The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different to these problems. However, some approaches are more than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s . On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to their actions.
Psychologists say that is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say. Parents may their children when they are untidy but they should also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.
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