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________ and a woman made life even ________ difficult in America at that time.

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A.To be black; more
B.Being black; much
C.Being black; more
D.Be black; quite
答案:C
解析:

【巧解导析】分析句子可知:前面的空应填与a woman并列的成分作主语,后面的空应填一个恰当的adj. 与difficult构成比较级.据此分析,A,B,D均不合要求.


提示:

【巧解点悟】此句中being black与a woman并列作主语,因而being black是动名词短语.如句子改为Being black, the woman's life became even more difficult. 则being black不再充当句子的主语,而是说明那个女人生活更加艰难的原因,是状语,being black是现在分词短语.


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You have heard of Webster Toys.Websters have made good,safe and interesting toys for more than a hundred years.Now we sell them,and children play with them,in countries from New Zealand to Norway,and from Japan to Brazil.We are looking for someone to sell our toys in the Far East.He (or she) will be between the age of thirty and forty.He will already have some years of selling in world markets behind him.He will speak good English,and at least one other language of the Far East.

The person we are looking for will live in Singapore,and work in our office there,but he will travel for up to six months in other countries in one year.He will know the Far East quite well already.He will know how to sell in old markets and where to find new ones.He will understand money and more than ever before,for himself,and for Webster Toys.

Websters want someone who can stand on his own feet.If you think you are the person we are looking for,write to Mr J Sloman at our head office.

Webster Toys Company

Church Mill,Watford

Hert,WD 36 HE

36.What are Webster Toys?

A.A kind of old toys.

B.Factories where good,safe and interesting toys are made.

C.People who are famous for making toys for children.

D.A company that has been making and selling toys.

37.The passage is written because________.

A.they need a right person to work for them

B.they are trying to find the man they have lost

C.they want to have a choice between a man and a woman

D.they are looking for a man living in Singapore

38.The person must be good at speaking________.

A.English and any other language

B.English or any other language

C.English and any other Far Eastern language

D.English or any other Far Eastern language

39.“Someone who can stand on his own feet” means________.

A.someone who can deal with all the business all by himself

B.someone who doesn’t stand on other people’s feet

C.someone who has nothing wrong with his feet

D.someone who can understand and can earn a lot of money

40.Where can you probably read above passage?

A.In a book.                                          B.In a dictionary.

C.In a magazine.                                    D.In a newspaper.


C
Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant and its owner did not know what to do . The food in its restaurant was cheap and good , but nobody seem to want to eat there .Then he did something that changed all that , and in a few weeks his restaurant was always full of men with their lady friends .Whenever a gentleman came in with a lady , a smiling waiter gave each of them a beautiful menu . The menu looked exactly the same on the outside , but there was an important difference inside . The menu that the waiter gave to the men gave the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine , while the menu that he gave to the lady gave a much higher price . So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine , the lady thought he was much more generous than he really was .
54. How was the food in the White Rose Restaurant?___________ .
A. Its quality had always been good and its price low
B. It was poor and expensive at first and became much better and less expensive later
C. It was cheap and good at the beginning but became more expensive later
D. It looked beautiful on the outside but it was became more different inside
55. How did the restaurant attract so many people?______________ .
A. By lowering the price of its food
B. By improving the quality of its food
C. With waiters smiling at the guests when they came into the restaurant and giving them better service while they are
D. By showing men and women menus with different price on them
56. According to this passage , when a man and a woman ate at the restaurant the food was paid by whom ?_____________ .
A. Usually by the man and sometimes by the woman
B. Always by the man only
C. Sometimes by the man only and sometimes by both of the man and the woman
D. Normally by the woman
57. The White Rose succeeded because__________ .
A. women liked their men friends to be generous
B. men liked their women friends to be generous
C. men were more generous than women
D. women were more generous than men

England has been the birthplace of most of the great English-language theater written throughout history. Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have something in common. They usually come from a playwright(剧作家) with several famous plays.
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William Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright. Shakespeare has a large catalog(目录) of tragedies, comedies and history plays, and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written. Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Julius Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theaters around the world every year. Famous comedies include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. In the history category, Richard Ⅲ and Henry Ⅴ are very famous.
Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
Several hundred years after Shakespeare, English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Wilde’s plays are still popular now, and The Importance of Being Earnest is both performed and studied extremely frequently. A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works. Shaw and Wilde were born within a few years of each other, but Shaw was a much more productive writer. His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida. Shaw’s plays are loved so much that an entire theater company is devoted to performing his work in Niagara-on-the-Lake in southern Ontario.
Harold Pinter
The plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an international presence. His writing was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005. Pinter is especially known for his style of writing. Many of his plays such as Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter and his first play, The Room, are extremely well known.
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A.advise us to spend more time enjoying plays
B.explain why England has so many wonderful plays
C.tell us about some famous British playwrights and their works
D.tell us the differences among some British playwrights
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A.They are all Shakespeare’s early works.
B.They are all tragedies written by Shakespeare.
C.They are all Shakespeare’s famous comedies.
D.They all belong to the history category of Shakespeare’s plays.
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Two more cases of H7N9 bird flu virus have been detected in Zhejiang province, including a man who died last week, authorities said on Wednesday.

The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a 38-year-old patient surnamed Hong from Hangzhou, the provincial capital, who died in hospital on March 27, had the virus.

Hong was infected on March 7 while working in neighboring Jiangsu province. He returned home on March 18, according to the Zhejiang health department.

The other patient, surnamed Yang, is a 67-year-old man. He developed a cough and fever on March 25 and was admitted to hospital on Tuesday.

None of the people who came into close contact with the patients have developed symptoms of the flu, the health department said.

On Sunday, two men in Shanghai died from H7N9. A woman in Anhui province and four men in Jiangsu province remain in criticalcondition, which makes a large number of people scared to death.

All patients had fevers and coughs in the early stages before developing pneumonia(肺炎) and breathing difficulties, China's health authorities said.

Experts say genetic analysis shows that the H7N9 virus can be treated with Tamiflu, an antiviral drug that may slow the spread of influenza(流感,家畜流行性感冒) in the body.

Wang Xianjun, head of the Shandong provincial center of disease control, said H7N9 is sensitive to neuraminidase-inhibiting medicine such as Tamiflu, Qilu Evening News reported on Wednesday.

There are no effective vaccines(疫苗) for H7N9 as yet, Wang said, but using Tamiflu may be effective in the early stages.

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C.Shanghai                              D.Jiangsu province

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D.only one patient has died from H7N9 in Anhui.

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C. It was cheap and good at the beginning but became more expensive later

D. It looked beautiful on the outside but it was became more different inside

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A. By lowering the price of its food

B. By improving the quality of its food

C. With waiters smiling at the guests when they came into the restaurant and giving them better service while they are

D. By showing men and women menus with different price on them

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A. Usually by the man and sometimes by the woman

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C. Sometimes by the man only and sometimes by both of the man and the woman

D. Normally by the woman

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A. women liked their men friends to be generous

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C. men were more generous than women

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A. men and their old friends              B. husbands and wives

C. women and their best friends           D. men and their women friends

 

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