I had a letter ____my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter, she said that she would come __
___ England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We _
___now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun___
_ my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a __
____garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.
—Do you mean that we have lost our way?
—_____, my dear. We’d better ask someone for help.
| A．Exactly | B．Entirely | C．No problem | D．All right |
请根据下面的材料，写一篇有关英国诗人拜伦(Byron)的简介，题目自拟，词数100左右。
1. 英国著名诗人，1788年出生于伦敦。
2. 10岁时开始接受良好教育，1807年，他的第一本诗集《闲暇的时刻》(Hours of Idleness)出版，但没有得到好评。
3. 1809年他开始了自己的欧洲之旅，到过希腊、西班牙等许多国家。
4. 1812年他因诗集《恰尔德·哈罗尔德游记》(Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage)而闻名。后来，拜伦又写了许多著名的诗歌，如《唐璜》(Don Juan)和《审判的幻景》(The Vision of Judgment)等。
5. 36岁时去世。作为一名伟大的诗人，他对欧洲文学的影响是巨大的。
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Last week, I shopped online and buy some clothes from Nordstrom 56. _____
and Fashionbug, two very different department store. Nordstrom is 57. _____
expensive while Fashionbug is more cheaper. I used to shop online a 58. _____
lot because there isn’t any mall nearby. One disadvantage is I can’t try 59. _____
them on. Sometimes I have to send some back if they neither don’t fit 60. _____
or look very old. Send them back can cost another five or six dollars. 61. _____
Nordstrom and Fashionbug are two of my favourite stores because 62. _____
their clothes turn out to be very satisfactory when I got the package. 63. _____
Seldom I have to send anything back. The reason why I shop online 64. _____
is to reward myself. There are things worth celebrating in a life. If 65. _____
you just let it go, you are probably not treating yourself well enough.
WASHINGTON—More than one in 10 of the nation’s airline pilots are cleared to carry a handgun while flying, and the number will continue to grow, according to a Transportation Security Administration projection.
The Federal Air Marshal Service, a TSA agency that runs the armed-pilots program, reports that 85,000 to 90,000 pilots and crewmembers flying domestic passengers and cargo planes are eligible(符合条件的) to carry a gun. That puts the number of armed pilots at about 9,500.
The TSA projects the program to grow to 16.5% of eligible pilots by the year 2011. Aviation experts were surprised and alarmed that so many pilots are toting guns in the sky.
“That’s a big number compared to what I thought it would be,” said aviation-security consultant Rich Roth, who said he had predicted there would be fewer than 1,000 armed pilots. The 5-year-old program trains pilots for one week and arms them with 40-caliber semiautomatic pistols.
“That’s a scary number,” said Joseph Gutheinz, a former Transportation Department special agent and aviation attorney in Houston. “By allowing so many pilots the opportunity to fly armed, we’re giving terrorists opportunity to identify somebody who has a gun and overpower him.”
Capt. Bob Hesselbein, head of security for the Air Line Pilots Association, said the number of armed pilots is “a tremendous deterrent(威慑)” to hijackings. “The challenge of an organized terrorist team is to take control of the cabin, then the flight deck.”
Armed pilots have come under scrutiny(审查) since March 22 when the gun of a US Airways pilot fired in the cockpit(驾驶座) of Flight 1536 as it approached Charlotte from Denver. No one was hurt, and the plane landed safely after the bullet pierced(穿透) the fuselage. The best title for this passage is “_____”.
| A．More than 10% of pilots allowed to fly armed |
| B．Less than 10% of pilots allowed to fly armed |
| C．More than 16.5% of pilots allowed to fly armed |
| D．No chances for terrorists to hurt pilots |
From this passage we can infer that about 9,500 pilots in the USA are allowed to carry _____ while flying.
| A．shotguns | B．40-caliber automatic pistols |
| C．handguns | D．all the above |
Joseph Gutheinz’s attitude towards pilots’ carrying guns while flying is _____.
| A．positive | B．negative | C．angry | D．surprised |
Why did the US Airways pilot fire his gun in the cockpit of Flight 1536 as it approached Charlotte from Denver?
| A．To kill the terrorists who tried to hijack the plane. |
| B．To escape from the hijackings. |
| C．To tell the hijackers that he had a gun. |
| D．The passage doesn’t give the reason. |
As a tour guide, Ali is trying his best to introduce this unique land to us, with his rich knowledge and solid historical background. Whether in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, or at the well-known underground city, a strong sense of pride in Turkey can be found everywhere in his descriptions and explanations.
Turkey’s location in the Middle East brings many concerns, especially relating to security, for foreign tourists. And every time foreign tourists change their fixed and somewhat negative views about Turkey on his tour, Ali feels that all his efforts have paid off.
Ali Dede Coskuner, Tour Guide, said, “Guide makes bridge of peace, tourism brings peace to the world.”
Aside from work, the biggest comfort for Ali is his happy family, with three sons and a loving wife. But as a tour guide, his time with his family is destined to be very limited.
Ali Dede Coskuner said, “Tour guide is no timing; you don’t have fixed time to work. Sometimes, you have to work for 14—15 hours; sometimes, even more than 18 hours, and you can’t say ‘I am tired.’”
Despite these challenges, Ali always sees the beauty of the job that he does. And his smiling face always makes him an affable host for his guests.
According to Ali, there are about 10 thousand tour guides throughout Turkey, with only five thousand who are active. Because of certain legal loopholes(漏洞), not all the tour guides are licensed professionals, which results in some unfair competition. At the same time, tour guiding in Turkey is still not recognized as a profession, so guides are not included in the country’s insurance system. Ali is always taking pride in _____.
| A．his rich knowledge and solid historical background |
| B．changing foreign tourists’fixed and negative views about his country on his tour |
| C．spending little time with his family |
| D．his loving wife bringing his three sons up |
Which of the following words can be used in place of the underlined word “affable” in the sixth paragraph?
| A．open-minded. | B．honest. | C．approachable. | D．easy. |
Ali is not satisfied with _____.
| A．his descriptions and explanations about the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations |
| B．his job as a guide |
| C．the policy that guides are not included in the country’s insurance system |
| D．his working for 14—15 hours sometimes |
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