题目内容
These two watches are so much alike that I can’t ______ them apart.
A. say B. speak C. tell D. differ
解析:选C。句意:这两块手表特别像以至于我无法区分它们。“把……区分开”应用tell. . . apart。而其他三项不符合句意。注意:tell与情态动词can,be able to连用时,表示“说出;区分;辨别”之意。故选C。
In our life, we face situations where we are either asked to choose between trust and disbelief. Many of us would say we have to choose trust over disbelief. Actually we are given intellectual(智力的) power to choose what we want, and what we choose certainly need not be the one that sounds pleasing. That is, we can choose both trust and disbelief, but we have to know when to choose between these two.
We should all realize that we are living in a world which is unfortunately mixed with people of various types. We have been given the power of judging who we are working with and who we are partnering with. We cannot give an excuse for believing a scheming(诡计多端的)person, just because he looked or sounded nice, unless we consider ourselves mentally unskillful.
This world was there before us and it does not owe us a single thing. We are asked to take care of ourselves and our belongings. Trust, too, has to be saved for the deserving(值得的) people. When we give trust universally to all, we end up troubled by the undeserving common cheat. People say trust is life. True! But only wisely exercised trust is life.
When we start a conversation with someone, the first things that we usually notice would be their dress, behavior, style and their language. What sometimes we all forget to look at is the person’s intention. Now how to look at a person’s intention is a lesson everybody has to learn for themselves in their own way -- there is no single standard for it. But it is certainly possible to discover the purpose if we seek a little bit more.
Certainly a false offer of friendship or guidance cannot stand undiscovered for long; we are therefore called to exercise disbelief over trust at least momentarily till we find out that we certainly are in agreement with a mutual(相互的)good-willed person.
The world teaches you lots of lessons and if we are willing, we can learn all that we want.
【小题1】In the first paragraph, the author ________.
A.concentrates on the reason why we make different choices |
B.focuses on how to choose between trust and disbelief |
C.suggests that trust should be wisely exercised |
D.implies that people are forced to make the choice |
A.people who we are working with are in fact those who we are partnering with |
B.the first thing we notice tends to mislead our judgment |
C.the mentally healthy people will not judge a person by his looks |
D.the standards of looking at a person’s intention are not various |
A.trust and disbelief go hand in hand with each other. |
B.disbelief is necessary if you aren’t wise |
C.trust is established if two people know each other |
D.doubt may serve as the precondition for trust |
A.Trust or Disbelief? | B.Trust Is Life. |
C.Trust over Disbelief? | D.Disbelief over Trust? |
Do you know what really troubles me? For some reason, words with silent letters have always bothered me. For example, consider these words: know, design, island, school, wrist, naughty, and salmon. All of these words have at least one letter that is not typically pronounced, and these words are just a very small part of words with silent letters in them.
Some words are even worse, consider this word: colonel. Not only are some letters not pronounced, but letters that are not even there are pronounced.
Even foreign languages, especially French, are guilty of this needless complexity and confusion. I know there must be some main historical reasons why the words are spelled and pronounced the way they are, but that does not mean bad traditions must continue to survive. Especially if they are no longer logical.[来源:Z_xx_k.Com]
Unfortunately, there is very little that anyone can do for it, because there’s no group of people who can change or have the right to change the English language for everyone. However, the only thing we can do is make changes in the way we talk and write in hopes that it catches on. For example, I pronounce the letter “l” in salmon on purpose to make people annoyed and to sound more different or complicated. I even pronounce colonel the correct or French way.
I can only hope these two minor changes to the English language make sense to you, and you will help to keep up these minor changes forever in your everyday life.
【小题1】We can learn from the passage ________.
A.colonel is pronounced |
B.salmon is pronounced |
C.all the words with silent letters come from French |
D.linguists will solve the problem of dumb letters |
A.French language. | B.Historical reasons. |
C.Some linguists | D.Bad traditions. |
A.becomes popular | B.gets across |
C.follows the fashion | D.doesn’t fall behind |
A.Troubles in everyday life | B.Traps in English words |
C.Words with silent letters | D.Necessary changes of languages |