There was once a man who met with a shipwreck(船只失事) and landed on a deserted island.Every day he prayed,____ someone could pass and rescue him,but to his ____,no one ever came.
Months went by and this man learned to ___ food and firewood from the island and stored them in a hut(棚屋) that he constructed,which helped him ____ on the deserted island.One day when he ____ his hut after hunting for food,____,he saw his hut was on fire,along with everything else he had!
All of his ____ were going up in smoke!The only thing ____ was the clothes on his back.At first he was ___,frozen there and then he was filled with ____!He threw a fist into the air and began yelling, “How unfair!How could this ____ to me?I’ve been praying every day for months but now everything that I have is on fire!”
Later the man grew so ____ that he fell on his hands and knees weeping heavily when he happened to look up and ____ a ship coming in his direction.The man was ____.As they were heading back to civilization,the man asked the captain, “How were you able to ____ me?” The captain ____,“We were voyaging across the ocean when a cloud of ____ going up caught our attention.We ____ to go check it out and that’s when we found you!”
In life we will always be ___ with challenges,problems,and disasters.Always keep in mind that a disaster can sometimes be good ____ in disguise(掩盖).
A.realizing B.imagining C.hoping D.doubting
A.excitement B.disappointment C.amazement D.embarrassment
A.collect B.receive C.order D.share
A.survive B.suffer C.adapt D.develop
A.visited B.put up C.returned to D.passed
A.naturally B.unexpectedly C.instead D.anyway
A.preparations B.preferences C.feelings D.possessions
A.left B.valued C.lost D.moved
A.touched B.shocked C.bored D.confused
A.anger B.pain C.fear D.shame
A.open B.object C.happen D.appeal
A.unreasonable B.tired C.weak D.desperate
A.spotted B.sought C.caught D.searched
A.rescued B.protected C.rewarded D.welcomed
A.trust B.keep C.seize D.find
A.declared B.explained C.analysed D.added
A.light B.smoke C.water D.sound
A.forgot B.continued C.pretended D.decided
A.supplied B.satisfied C.faced D.equipped
A.experience B.luck C.information D.progress
The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish from each other a lot.This is because the culture systems are two separate systems ____.
The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries:China and India.Both of the two cultures are gestated(孕育) by ___.In China,the mother river is the Yellow River ___ the Indian one is the Hindu River.These two cultures were ____ for several thousand years and formed their own styles.Then in the Tang Dynasty of China,the Chinese culture ____ went overseas to Japan,____ into the Japanese society and ___ the Japanese culture nowadays.Though a bit different from the Chinese one,it ____ to the same system.
When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture,another famous culture was ____ on the Mesopotamian Plain(美索不达米亚平原)—the Mesopotamian Civilization.This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.And these two are wellknown as the ____ of the European culture.____ the Chinese culture,the European one also ____ waters.When the colonists of England ____ in America,their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean.So the American culture doesn’t ___ from the European one a lot.
At the same time,the ____ of the language systems adds to the cultural differences.In the East,most languages belong to the pictographic(象形文字的) languages while the Western languages are ____ based on the Latin system,for example,the one I’m using to write this paper.
Other factors like human race difference ____ as well.However,___ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West,the two cultures seldom ___ until recent centuries.____ they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference(干扰) from the other.
A.above all B.on the whole C.in all D.in no case
A.mountains B.plains C.lakes D.rivers
A.or B.for C.while D.when
A.developed B.improved C.created D.protected
A.suddenly B.quietly C.gradually D.naturally
A.mixed B.changed C.decided D.forced
A.expanded B.interrupted C.influenced D.shaped
A.comes B.belongs C.amounts D.adds
A.brought up B.carried out C.given out D.picked up
A.result B.sign C.base D.content
A.Via B.Except C.With D.Like
A.affected B.spread C.crossed D.formed
A.joined up B.went up C.broke down D.settled down
A.come B.suffer C.result D.differ
A.difference B.development C.appearance D.feature
A.properly B.partly C.simply D.mostly
A.last B.count C.reduce D.change
A.in terms of B.due to C.as to D.in case of
A.transform B.display C.communicate D.distinguish
A.Furthermore B.Meanwhile C.Therefore D.However
________ she was invited to the ball made her very happy.
A.Whether B.That C.Because D.What
His first book next month is based on a true story.
A.published B.to publish C.to be published D.being published
______ from heart disease for years, Andy has to take some medicine with her wherever she goes.
A.To suffer B.Suffered C.Having suffered D.Being suffered
Keep on trying even when you are in trouble, ________?
A.will you B.do you C.shall you D.can’t you
With the second ring road overpass _______ at present in Chengdu, the local citizens have to choose another way to avoid traffic jam.
A.being constructed B.to construct C.to be constructed D.to be constructed