题目内容
9. (绝望的) with anxiety,Bob and Hans searched the whole house.
9. Desperate
I.用适当的介词完成下面短文。
Ruth Handler,an American businesswoman,watched her daughter Barbara playing 1.
paper dolls,and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles. At the time,most children's toy dolls were representations of babies. Realizing that there could be a gap 2. the market,she suggested the idea of an adult-bodied doll to her husband Elliot,a co-founder 3. the Mattel toy company. He was unenthusiastic 4. the idea,as were Mattel's directors.
But during a trip 5. Germany in 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth,Ruth Handler discovered a German doll called the Bild Lilli doll. The adult-figured Lilli doll was exactly what Handler had 6. mind,so she purchased three of them. She gave one 7. her daughter and took the others back to Mattel. The Lilli doll was based 8. a popular character appearing in a comic strip of a German newspaper. Lilli was a working girl who knew what she wanted. The Lilli doll was first sold in Germany in 1955,and although it was initially sold to adults,it became popular 9. children who enjoyed dressing her up.
On her return to the United States,Handler reworked the design of the doll and it was given a new name,Barbie,10. Handler’s daughter Barbara. The doll appeared at the American International Toy Fair in New York 11.March 9,1959. This date is also used 12. Barbie's official birthday.
altogether,otherwise,besides,however,instead,therefore,though,quite
1. You should report any incident, serious or minor it is.
2. The food was good and we loved the atmosphere and the people. it was a great evening.
3. The government claims that the economy is improving,but this survey suggests.
4. Two heart attacks in a year. It hasn’t stopped him smoking, .
5. Because of the distance,the smoke is cool when it hits the food and doesn’t cook it.
6. There was a lot of traffic today but yesterday was even busier.
7. 1 could smell the ocean,some pine trees,and something else.
8. The city has its pleasures,but she wished for the quiet of country life.
选用方框内合适的短语并用其正确形式填空(每个短语限用一次) 。
dive into,set out,be aware of,hang on,be associated with,ring off
1. a second. I’11 come with you.
9. Eric (open / order) a bank account for the new company yesterday.
4. Your face seems f. I've probably met you in the old days.
4. My dog barks (constant) when he’s in the car.
1. The professor (just left / was just leaving) , so we just talked and walked.
2. Where did you learn (speaking,to speak) Spanish? Was it in Spain or in Latin America?