题目内容
Our brave soldiers would prefer to die rather than ___ to the enemy.
A. give up B. give in C. gave up D. to give in
B
give up和give in是两个比较容易混淆的词组。give in在这里的意思是“屈服；投降”。
天天练口算系列答案把下列单词填入每个句子的空白处（注意所填单词的形式变化）：
| journal fare transport cycle persuade stubborn insist properly determine altitude attitude shorts camp record topic familiar brave plain |
1 I live near our school. Sometimes I _________ to school.
2 I ________ that the rude shop assistant should apologize to me.
3 My daughter is so ________ that she cannot easily change her mind.
4 You only have to pay 20 yuan; children travel at half _________.
5 I signed up for the 2007 English Summer _________.
6 The notice is written in German. Is anyone _________ with the German language?
7 The boy was ________ enough to keep chasing after the thief with a knife.
8 Liu Xiang broke the world _________ for the men’s 110-meter hurdle.
9 If you get to Beijing, there are two kinds of ________ for you to choose—by air or train.
10 When you write it is important to use words _________.
11 Fighting against terrorism(恐怖主义) has become an important ______ throughout the world these years.
12 Can you think of ways to _________ him to give up the plan?
13 When people are travelling they often write about their travels, which is called travel _______.
14 The Everest has an ________ of 8844.34 meters, according to the latest survey.
15 After putting on a T-shirt and ________, he went out to play tennis.
16 If you want to pass the exams, you’d better change your ________ towards them.
17 The soil of the Northeast _______ is fertile(肥沃的) and fine corn, sorghum, and rice grow there.
18 Upbringing(培养) plays an important part in _________ a person’s character.
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入1个最恰当的单词。
注意：每个空格只填1个单词。
How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion.
Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment. Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut a boy’s hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.
What causes fashions to change? Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats for example. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats, and more American men followed his example.
There is also a cyclical(周期性的) pattern in fashion. In the 1920s in Europe and America, short skirts became fashionable. After World War II, they dropped to ankle length. Then they got shorter and shorter until the miniskirt was in fashion. After a few more years, skirts became longer again.
Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be. It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion. The popularity of jeans and the “untidy” look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashion of the top fashion houses.
At the same time, appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we must choose our clothes carefully. It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in a law firm wearing jeans and a sweater, and it would be discourteous(失礼的) to visit some distinguished scholar looking as if we were going to the beach or a night club. However, you need never feel depressed if you don’t look like the latest fashion photo. Look around you and you’ll see that no one else does either!
Fashion Change
| People’s (1)▲ towards fashion | Ordinary people just (2)▲ the trends of fashion passively. |
| Influences of fashion | People are able to feel more confident or less (3)▲ if they dress themselves fashionably. |
| Fashion or dressing (4)▲ may have to rush constantly to keep up with the fashion. | |
| (5)▲ of fashion changing | Sometimes a fashion comes into existence (6)▲ to convenience or practical necessity, or just because people (7)▲ an influential person. |
| Cyclical pattern in fashion | Some old fashion may come back to (8)▲ after a certain period of time. |
| Fashion today | People tend to dress freely to show their personal (9)▲ instead of going after popularity. |
| Writer’s attitude | We do need to dress ourselves properly on some (10)▲ but we don’t have to be in fashion all the way. |
完形填空（共20小题，满分30分）
阅读下面段文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A man and his wife arrived in Boston by train. After getting off the train, they walked without an __36__ into the outer office of Harvard’s president. So they were stopped by his secretary and kept __37__. For hours, the secretary took no notice of them, __38__ that the couple would finally become disappointed and __39__. But they didn’t. The secretary finally decided to disturb the president, though __40__.
A few minutes later, the president walked towards the couple with a __41__ face. The lady told him, “We had a son that __42__ at Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was __43__ here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to __44__ a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.”
The president wasn’t moved. Instead, he was __45__. “Madam,” he said, “ we can’t put up a statue for every person who studied at Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a __46__.” “Oh, no,” the lady __47__ quickly. We don’t want to put up a statue. We would like to give a __48__ to Harvard.” The president rolled his eyes and __49__ at the couple and then exclaimed, “ A building! Do you have any __50__ how much a building costs? We have spent
over $ 7,500,000 on the campus building at Harvard.” For a moment the lady was silent. The president was __51__ , because he could get rid of them now. Then the lady turned to her husband and said quietly, “Is that all it costs to start a __52__? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband nodded. __53__ their offer was turned down, Mr. and Mrs. Stanford traveled to California where they founded Stanford University __54__ after them, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer __55__ about.
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