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_____ carefully, Michael! There’s a school ahead.
A．DriveB．To drive
C．DroveD．Driving
Lyn gave up the chance of going abroad, but he feels he _________ a right decision.
A. makes B. has made C. had made D. is making
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Roger Sperry and Robert Ornstein of the California Institute of Technology, Nobel prize winners, discovered that the human brain has two sides, and each side has different work to do.
The left side of the brain controls language and number and it analyses and reasons. ___1._ It controls our appreciation of music and our sense of rhythm. It is also the right side of our brain which daydreams.
Leonardo da Vinci was the great painter and sculptor. He was also an architect, a scientist and an inventor! ____2.___ When he invented machines he used both his imaginative ability and his analytical ability.
___3._ Albert Einstein enjoyed art, playing the violin and sailing. Indeed, Einstein said his scientific discoveries grew from his imagination rather than from analysis, reason and language. He said that written and spoken words were not important in his thinking. The story goes that Einstein was daydreaming one summer's day while sitting on a hill. He imagined that he was riding on sunbeams to the far distance of the universe. Then he found that he had returned to the sun. So he realized that the universe must curve(弯曲).___ 4._ He then used the left side of his brain to apply analysis, number and reason. And finally he used language to explain it.
Traditional education in schools encourages us to use the left side of our brains. Language, number, analysis and reason are given more importance in our schools than imagination and daydreaming. Why don' t we give more value to visual thinking? Why jump on one foot if we have two perfectly good legs !
___5._ We need to use our imagination to think of solutions to problems and to enjoy emotional and artistic experiences. And we need to be logical able to analyze and organize in order to survive day by day.
A. We benefit by thinking creatively.
B. We all need both sides of our brain.
C. He got this idea by using his imagination.
D. Great scientists and great artists are similar.
E. He was considered crazy for his strange ideas.
F. He used both sides of his brain within each activity.
G. The right side controls our imagination and our understanding of space.
She _________the sign language before she served as a volunteer to help the deaf.
A. learns B. has learned
C. was learning D. had learned
Chopsticks Brothers, China’s Internet singing stars, will sing their hit Little Apple at the 2014 American Music Awards. Chopsticks Brothers are known as director Xiao Yang and musician Wang Taili. They played a middle-aged singing group in the film Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon. In the film, they sang Little Apple when they took part in an American music talent show and they succeeded.
Now, life is following art. Chopsticks Brothers will really go to America to sing their song. They will join well-known singers including Taylor Swift. “I did not expect the plot in our film to come true in real life,” Xiao Yang said during an interview. “It doesn’t seem real. This is another story of dreams coming true for ‘old boys’,” said Wang Taili.
This is the first time a Chinese Internet song will be on the international stage. Little Apple has been more and more popular on China’s Internet. Its MP3 received 579 million hits. And people have watched the music videos 823 million times on China’s Internet. The song has had at least 500 million listeners around the world.
China’s famous singer and songwriter Liu Huan said he liked Little Apple during an interview. “Everybody’s singing and dancing with Little Apple and I think that’s a good phenomenon (现象). And I’m glad I can see Taylor Swift and Chinese singers sing on the same stage.”
1.What will Chopsticks Brothers do?
A．They will sing the song Little Apple on the Internet
B．They will take part in an American music talent show
C．They will sing the song Little Apple at the 2014 American Music Awards
D．They will play a singing group in the film Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon
2.What does the underlined word “plot” mean?
A．A song in the film.
B．A person who directed the film.
C．The story that was told in the film.
D．A person who performed in the film.
3.How many people have ever listened to the song Little Apple?
A．579 million
B．823 million.
C．Less than 500 million
D．Over 500 million.
4.What can be learned from the text?
A．Liu Huan will sing Little Apple.
B．Taylor will appear on the same stage.
C．Liu Huan asks people to dance with Little Apple.
D．Taylor will sing Little Apple with Chopsticks Brothers.
The computer course, ______ last year, is very popular among the students in this school.
A．to openB．opening
C．openD．opened
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I was at the Indian grocery store with my cart totally full to check out. There was an African American man in his 1. (sixty) behind me. I told him he could go before me 2. he had just two items in his hand, and he was all smiles and added, as if 3. (tease)me, “Thanks! Why don’t you pay for my stuff too,” and laughed. I felt a little 4. (embarrass) and thought that the man had a wonderful sense of humor.
I told the lady at the check out not 5. (change)him. I said I would pay for him. He said, “No, no, no, I was just kidding.” And I 6. (reply) with a smile, “Yes, yes your wish is heard. Please let me do it!”
As we talked outside, he told me that the Indian herbs(草药) 7. he had bought 8. (be)for his friend so I should take the money. I said to him, “It is good that it is not for you. Now you can pay it forward to somebody else.” He thanked me and promised he would.
9. (eventual), I went home 10. my car full of groceries and my heart full of warmth and kindness.
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I borrowed __1._ story book from the library the other day and took it home．One evening, having finished supper, I went back to my room and started to read the book that I ____2.__ (borrow)．I was so __3.___ (absorb) that I knocked the coffee cup over _4.__ accident, pouring the coffee onto the book．Wet through and colored brown, the book turned out to be a __5.__ (terribly) mess at once．Of course, I couldn’t return the dirty book and the loss should be covered．The next day, I went to the __6._ (big) bookstore in my city, __7.__ there were various kinds of books．I finally found several __8._ (copy) of the same book and bought _9.___．When I returned the new story book and explained the reason, the librarian accepted the book and praised me for my honesty and __10.__ (responsible)．
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Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers.1.According to a recent research, the most common argument between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks.2.On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for dropping the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room.
The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different approaches to these problems.3.For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but later clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s behavior. On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the thrills of their actions can do better.4. Parents should talk to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say.5.It is only by listening to and understanding each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.
A. On the one hand, parents go mad over messy rooms.
B. There are many reasons for this.
C. Then again, teenagers have similar feelings about their parents.
D. Communication is a two-way process.
E. However, some approaches are more successful than others.
F. Psychologists say that communication is the most important thing in parent-child relationships.
G. It is better for children and parents to understand each other.
