Hands-on experience is still attractive to many buyers, although online ordering is popular in the UK today.

Oxford Street

London is shoppers’ paradise, and most visitors head for Oxford Street. Halfway along is Sel-fridges, one of the world’s first department stores where the architecture and window dressing impress even before you go in. There are at least four other major stores on this street, plus Europe’s largest music shop. In December the atmosphere is especially festive because of the Christmas lights which are always lighted by a politician, a great sportsman, or a super star.

Kensington High Street

A fashionable area for shopping is Kensington High Street. One of its department stores even has a roof garden—good for relaxing between purchases. There’s also an organic food superstore.

Borough Market

You can’t visit London and not go to a supermarket. One of the oldest and best for food is probably Borough Market on the south bank of the Thames. Get off the underground at London Bridge and wander among fresh fish stalls, bakeries, and fruit and vegetable sellers. You can also buy specialist food to take away, like cheeses, pork pies, mustard and chutney.

More places for bargains

Portobello Road on a Saturday is your best choice for jewelry or collector’s items. It’s a short walk from the subway station at Notting Hill Gate and you never know what you will find. For clothes, Camden Market is the place. It gets a little crowded at the weekends, though. Convent Garden offers great experience for the simple pleasure of looking at jewelry and gifts.

1.Oxford Street becomes special in December for ________.

A. the wonderful window dressing

B. the Europe’s largest music shop

C. the lights lit by a famous person

D. many bargains to choose from

2.To enjoy food, you can go to ________.

A. Borough Market B. Camden Market

C. Kensington High Street D. Portobello Road

3.Where is this passage probably taken from?

A. A science book. B. A traveler’s journal.

C. A trip guide. D. A news report.

完形填空,阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In 1930, a young African American, Vivien T. Thomas, a professional carpenter, was hired as a lab assistant by a famous white doctor named Dr. Alfred Blalock. Although he _________went to college, he had an enormous _________to learn and explore the power of knowledge. Whenever Dr. Blalock left his office, young Thomas used to _________ study the medical books on the shelves of the office.

Thomas _________ a great interest in learning more and more about _________ when he started to assist Blalock during his practice of surgeries on dogs. _________ Dr. Blalock understood Thomas’s ability to help him perform a complicated surgery; he still did not _________ Thomas as a smart person because of the social _________ of prejudice towards African Americans.

Dr. Blalock wanted to _________ to believe that Thomas was just a (n) _________ by profession and a lab assistant. Employees, white or black, at the hospital could not _________ that an African American, Thomas, could run the lab. He was the _________ and thus a history maker.

In those days, the society expected that black people were _________to be janitors (管理员). Despite this reality, Thomas’ cleverness, perseverance, and passion had _________ a need in Dr. Blalock’s mind. Thomas ran John Hopkins Hospital’s surgical (外科的) lab _________ Dr. Blalock. At the time, all other _________ employees in the hospital were janitors. Dr. Blalock and Thomas became a _________ and conducted a joint research that _________ the first heart surgery performed at John Hopkins University Hospital in 1941.

Many years later, Thomas’s contribution was _________ and he was eventually awarded an honorary doctorate, for his creative work in the _________ procedures of modern cardiac(心脏病的) surgery. As he became Dr. Thomas, he also inspired and lifted the confidence of the future generation. He used his knowledge for the betterment of humankind.

1.A. alwaysB. oftenC. occasionallyD. never

2.A. chanceB. desireC. incomeD. success

3.A. secretlyB. publiclyC. nervouslyD. proudly

4.A. discoveredB. avoidedC. developedD. protected

5.A. literatureB. medicineC. politicsD. history

6.A. WhileB. WhenC. AsD. Because

7.A. praiseB. rewardC. criticizeD. accept

8.A. benefitB. positionC. pressureD. revolution

9.A. agreeB. continueC. regretD. remember

10.A. carpenterB. professorC. engineerD. scientist

11.A. promiseB. argueC. explainD. understand

12.A. nextB. lastC. firstD. same

13.A. hardlyB. merelyC. luckilyD. mostly

14.A. createdB. searchedC. builtD. missed

15.A. overB. aboveC. withoutD. under

16.A. commonB. nobleC. blackD. poor

17.A. unitB. teamC. familyD. system

18.A. led toB. resulted from

C. accounted forD. gave up

19.A. changedB. followedC. exhibitedD. recognized

20.A. pioneeringB. surprisingC. interestingD. worrying

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. It's universally known that he was the ______ of the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is best known for his ______ 0f relativity, which holds that measurements of space and time ______ according to conditions such as the state of motion of the observer.

When he was a(n) ______, Einstein was fat and his head was so big that his mother ______ it was damaged. And he was ______ in learning how to speak. So his parents led him to ______ a doctor.

He had contempt(轻视) toward authority, which led one ______ to say that he would never amount to much. But when asked about this later, the headmaster denied that he had ever said so. But this qualities helped to make him a(n) ______. His contempt for authority led him to ______ conventional wisdom. His slow ______ development made him curious about ordinary things, such as ______ and time which most adults took for granted. And he ______ to think in pictures rather than words which gave him great help to his achievements.

In 1905, Einstein ______ and got his college certificate, but didn't get an academic job. Therefore, he was ______ very hard six days a week as a third-class examiner in the Swiss patent (专利) office. During his free time, he produced four papers that upended ______. The first showed that light could be ______ as waves, just as what our textbooks tell us today called optical wave. The second proved the ______ 0f atoms and molecules. As we all know now, all the substance is made up of them. The third, the special theory of relativity, said that there was no such things as time or space. And the fourth noted equivalence (等值) between energy and mass. That is to say, there is a ______ between energy and mass.

Genius are ______, but not born. If one wants to amount to much, hardworking is the basis.

1.A. holder B. creator C. winner D. maker

2.A. idea B. improvement C. experiment D. theory

3.A. vary B. un-change C. move D. speed

4.A. adult B. child C. baby D. elder

5.A. feared B. hoped C. thought D. realized

6.A. fast B. slow C. clever D. normal

7.A. consult B. examine C. see D. watch

8.A. authority B. mother C. scientist D. headmaster

9.A. official B. headmaster C. genius D. astronomer

10.A. agree B. question C. criticize D. praise

11.A. behavioral B. verbal C. mental D. physical

12.A. speed B. space C. energy D. effect

13.A. wanted B. stopped C. began D. tended

14.A. accessed B. decided C. graduated D. progressed

15.A. working B. studying C. researching D. living

16.A. Chemistry B. Physics C. Biology D. Geography

17.A. made B. monitored C. gathered D. imagined

18.A. existence B. movement C. formation D. variety

19.A. change B. balance C. loss D. increase

20.A. produced B. created C. encouraged D. made

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网