题目内容
I work as the reception (接待) manager at my hotel. A booking came in a few weeks ago with a note attached that the guest would be travelling with her ___father. They wanted to make the trip to Ireland as soon as possible. When ___ this note, I knew I would be the one to check them in. I decided to learn some basic____language.
I greeted the guest in my usual way, asking for the surname on the booking. Once I heard the name I____immediately who was standing in front of me. I had been learning for over two weeks how to say “Welcome to Ireland. My sign language is ____, but if you need anything during your stay just let me know and we will help you.”
I smiled at the father and daughter in front of me，turning to the father who I greeted in sign language and began the bit I had learned for him. The father smiled and was so____. Seeing his reaction was enough for me. It was so worth the last few weeks of learning basic sign language.
On check-out I ____wasn’t working, but they had left a gift for me with a note saying “Thank you very much for what you did on check-in. My father has been in amazing form since you checked us in and insisted we get you a _____ before we left. You have no idea how much this_____ to my father and me and we can’t thank you enough. You’ve made his trip very special with one simple gesture.”
They wrote a letter to the general manager, asking to give me a raise, which I really ____. I cried for 5 minutes when I came to work today to find this gift in my locker.
1.A.deaf B.blind C.forgetful D.silly
2.A.looking B.watching C.seeing D.hearing
3.A.body B.sign C.official D.foreign
4.A.greeted B.decided C.forgot D.realized
5.A.wonderful B.terrible C.serious D.helpful
6.A.kind B.tired C.polite D.happy
7.A.sadly B.easily C.finally D.successfully
8.A.job B.gift C.surprise D.chance
9.A.meant B.devoted C.gave D.owed
10.A.hated B.expected C.thanked D.suggested
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Mystery of mirages
Earlier this month on a Sunday afternoon, a giant “ancient city” appeared on the surface of Hongze Lake in Jiangsu province. But after about half an hour, the “city” was gone.
You might think that some unknown forces were at work, but it’s believed that the “city on the lake” was actually a mirage.
A mirage is a trick that light and air play with bur vision（视觉）. Normally, light travels in a straight line, but it can bend（弯曲）and change direction depending on what it passes through. This bending is called "refraction （折射）”.
If different layers（层）of air are at different temperatures, light will bend at different angles（角度）when passing through them. This can create a false image（影像）of a nearby object.
Take the “city on the lake” as an example. The layer of air near the lake is colder than the higher layers, as the lake absorbs（吸收）most of the heat. The buildings in the mirage were actually on a nearby mountain. But their image showed up above the lake after light refracted in different layers of air.
Mirages happen not only over large bodies of water, but anywhere where the ground can absorb a lot of heat. They are often seen on hot roads and in deserts. The next time you think you see a pool of water on the road on a hot summer day, you will know it's just a mirage—an image of the sky caused by bending light.
Mystery of mirages | |
A piece of news | A giant1.city appeared on Hongze Lake but disappeared about half an hour later. It’s believed that the city on the lake was in fact a mirage. |
What mirage is. | A mirage is a2.image of a nearby object that you can see on lakes, roads and in3.. |
4.it is created. | Light usually travels in a5.line. But when it6.through different layers of air that are at different7., it can bend at different angles and change8.. Then a mirage is9.. |
10.it can be seen. | Mirages can happen in any place where the ground can absorb a lot of heat. |