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---Jack, this is the third time that you have been late this week.

---Sorry, sir, but I was ______ for 15 minutes on the way here in the traffic jam.


  1. A.
    held up
  2. B.
    put up
  3. C.
    taken up
  4. D.
    given up
A
短语辨析。A延误；B留宿，搭建；C占据，从事于，开始做；D放弃。结合句意可知A正确。句意：—对不起，但是在半路上因为交通堵塞我被延误了15分钟。
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Cast your mind back to the past twenty years and hardly did anyone have their own email account. The Internet had just taken off in 1991 and people were only using office and PC­based email exchanges.

In the mid 1990s external email providers appeared. The most famous of these was Hotmail, the first free email provider and web­based email service. Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launched Hotmail on July 4, 1996. And Microsoft took note of and bought Hotmail for $400 million on December 30, 1997, a nice birthday present for Bhatia who turned 29 that day. It was relaunched as MSN Hotmail and in 2007 was relaunched again as Windows Live Hotmail.

Fast forward the present day and most of us have at least a personal web­based email account. It seems impossible to live without them. One of the biggest advantages of email is the fact that communication has become so much easier, especially with those across different time zones. Email takes seconds to send a message whereas letters, as we used to communicate by, could take weeks. Of course there was the fax, that beeping invention from the 1980s, but it wasn’t as secure as email and you never knew if the person on the other end had picked up your fax or if it had got lost somewhere in the office.

In conclusion, one of the best inventions from the 1990s has to be email. But sometimes people are too closely connected to their email and have a compulsion to check it several times a day. At work, people have become lazy and instead of going to speak to the person sitting next to them, they send an email，causing an in box to pile up with more time spent reading email and responding rather than working. Clearly, an invention that saved time because of its quick and speedy connection can now also cause us to waste a lot of time.

1.The earliest web-based email came into being probably _______.

A. in 1991                            B. in 1996                   C. in 1997                   D. in 2007

2.The author mentions “fax” in the third paragraph in order to tell us that _______.

A. it is exactly as good as email

B. it is much better than email

C. it is less convenient than email

D. it is easier and faster than email

3.The underlined word “compulsion” in Paragraph 4 probably means “_______”.

A. strong desire                  B. common sense               C. special curiosity          D. general idea

4.Which is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. We should check email boxes frequently.

B. Lazy people like sending an email.

C. Email brings us great convenience.

D. Good inventions also cause problems.

 

（C）

A Different Roast Every Day

Alan worked in an office in the city. He worked very hard and really wanted to take a holiday.

He usually went to the seaside, but one day he saw an ad（广告） in a newspaper. " Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks at Willow Farm. Good food, fresh air, horse riding, walking, fishing. Good prices (价格)."

"This sounds like a good idea," he thought. "I'll spend a month at Willow Farm. I'll enjoy horse riding, walking and fishing. They'll make a change from sitting by the seaside."

Four days later he returned home.

"What's wrong with Willow Farm?" his friend Jack asked him. " Didn't you enjoy country life?"

"Country life was fine," Alan said, "but there was another problem."

"Oh, what?"

"Well, the first day I was there a sheep died, and we had roast mutton (烤羊肉) for dinner."

"Fresh meat is the best."

"I know, but on the second day a cow died, and we had roast beef for dinner."

"Lucky you!"

"You don't understand," Alan said. "On the third day a pig died and we had roast pork for dinner."

"A different roast every day," Jack said.

" Let me finish," Alan said, " on the fourth day the farmer died and I didn't dare to stay for dinner!"

1.Where did Alan work? He worked ___.

A．on a farm                             B．at a school

C．in a restaurant                          D．in an office in a city

2.Where did Alan usually go to spend his holiday?

A．by the seaside                          B．in the country

C．in the mountains                        D．on an island

3.Why did Alan decide to spend his holiday at Willow Farm? Because ___.

A．he lived near there

B．he had a good friend there

C．he thought it would make a change from sitting by the seaside

D．he wanted to enjoy the fresh air in the country

4.How many days did he stay on the farm?

A．A few days.        B．A week.           C．Three days.        D．Four days.

5. What made Alan return so soon?

A．He fell ill.

B．The air there was not fresh.

C．The prices were too high.

D．He was afraid that they would have the dead man for dinner.

 

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1.Nick wants to read some of the public diaries to get some ideas for his diary. (If he finds something interesting, he can leave a message in that diary.) If he doesn’t want to write a diary on the Internet, he can try writing in an old – fashioned paper diary. He finds it a really fun way to practice his English every day!

2.Jack wants to show his feelings. He tries to make some of his own smiley, then shows them to a friend or classmate and asks them to guess the meaning.

3.Laura wants to challenge her teacher to see if he/ she is a good speller. She makes a bet that her teacher will make AT LEAST 5 mistakes on the test. If she wins the bet, the teacher has to buy ice creams for the whole class!

4.Donald tries designing his own paper invitations for his next party. He is trying to decide what the most important information is, and what kind of graphics or pictures he wants to use.

5.Lynn will find a lot of funny pictures at this site. It’s her job to write a funny caption for the picture. She will, first, get some ideas by taking a look at past photos to see what other people have written and which ones she thinks funny. Then she looks at the new photos and tries to think of a funny caption. When she has one that she likes, she can send it in an email with her name and country.

 

We were talking about engagement when my boyfriend, Jack, had to go to war. I was so afraid of losing him; the only way I could stay sane(保持清醒) was to dance. I became very good and critics praised me, but I could feel was the ache in my heart, no knowing whether the love of my life would ever return. And then one day a letter from him came:“I have lost my leg. I am no longer a whole man and now give you back your freedom. It is best you forget me.”

I made my decision there and then I left the city. When I returned I had bought myself a cane(拐杖) and learned to limp convincingly. I told everyone I had been in a car crash and that my leg would never completely heal again. My dancing days were over. No one suspected the story. And I made sure the first person to hear of my accident was a reporter. Then I travelled to the hospital. They had pushed him outside in his wheelchair. I leaned on my cane and limped to him.

I told him he was not the only one who had lost a leg, even if mine were still attached to me. I showed him newspaper clippings of my accident. “ There is a whole life waiting for us out there! And I am not going to carry you—you are going to walk yourself.”

I limped a few steps towards him and showed him what I’d taken out of my pocket.” Now show me you are still a man,” I said. He bent to take his cane and struggled out of that wheelchair. I could see he had not done it before, because he almost fell on his face. But I was not going to help. Finally he managed it on his own and walked to me and never sat in a wheelchair again in his life.

What I showed to him was engagement rings. And I would limp with him for the rest of life.

1.The author felt ache in her heart though critics praised her dancing because_______.

A．She wasn’t sure if Jack still loved her.

B．Jack became handicapped and couldn’t walk

C．Jack asked her to forget about him

D．She was afraid that Jack might die in the war

2.What decision did the author make after she received Jack’s letter?

A．To see Jack in the battlefield.               B．To leave the city for travel.

C．To give up dancing.                      D．To see a reporter.

3.What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 2?

A．She visited a hospital.                    B．She broke her leg.

C．She helped push Jack’s wheelchair.        D．She had a car crash.

4.After they met in the hospital, Jack ______.

A．gave her the engagement rings             B．got rid of the cane

C．picked up the hope of life                 D．lived without a wheelchair

5.Which of the following words can best describe the author?

A．Strong and optimistic                     B．Clever and faithful

C．Timid but faithful                        D．Brave and helpful.

 

Jack won the first prize in yesterday’s English speech competition and he was so excited that he didn’t _______until late into the night.

A．bring down

B．set down

C．take down

D．settle down

 

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