﹣You know what? I've got a New Year concert ticket.
﹣Oh, _______ You're kidding.( )
A. |
so what? |
B. |
go ahead. |
C. |
come on. |
D. |
what for? |
There is a good social life in the village, and I wish I _______ a second chance to become more involved.( )
A. |
had |
B. |
will have |
C. |
would have had |
D. |
have had |
Around 13,500 new jobs were created during the period, _______ the expected number of 12,000 held by market analysts.( )
A. |
having exceeded |
B. |
to exceed |
C. |
exceeded |
D. |
exceeding |
Developing the Yangtze River Economic Belt is a systematic project which _______ a clear road map and
timetable.( )
A. |
calls for |
B. |
calls on |
C. |
calls off |
D. |
calls up |
It's strange that he _______ have taken the books without the owner's permission.( )
A. |
would |
B. |
should |
C. |
could |
D. |
might |
Self﹣driving is an area _______ China and the rest of the world are on the same starting line.( )
A. |
that |
B. |
where |
C. |
which |
D. |
when |
Kids shouldn't have access to violent films because they might _______ the things they see.( )
A. |
indicate |
B. |
investigate |
C. |
imitate |
D. |
innovate |
By boat is the only way to get here, which is _______ we arrived.( )
A. |
where |
B. |
when |
C. |
why |
D. |
how |
write an English composition in 120﹣150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假如你是李敏,在一本英文旅游杂志上,你发现了这样一条信息:某古城景区对当地人收费5美元,对外国人收费15美元.针对这一情况,请你以李敏的口吻给该杂志编辑写一封信,具体要求如下:
1. 介绍一下你在杂志上看到的内容;
2. 针对此事自己的态度以及理由.
Translate the following sentences into English , using the words given in the brackets.
1.爷爷有点耳背,对他耐心一点.(patient)
2.和学生时代的他相比,那名士兵简直判若两人.(How)
3.随着体力逐渐恢复正常,那名业余自行车手的夺冠之梦不再遥不可及.(normal)
4.值得一提的是,在王老师的影响下,她的同事们更关注孩子们的努力,而不是他们的成绩.(as…as…)
Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
It's undeniable: Being among the first to try out a new piece of technology is cool. There's the excitement of doing what has never been done before the feeling that you're living in the future. And when you're the sole member of your social circle with the latest hot gadget, people stare in fascination. They ask you questions. They see you as the holder of powerful, secret knowledge for a little while, until the next big thing comes along. People tend to underestimate the costs of this temporary coolness, which they pay in more ways than one. Don't fall into the early adopter trap. Don't join the first wave of consumers who invest in the latest media﹣hyped hardware: instead, wait and see.
To put it frankly, early adoption is a bad investment. First, the earliest versions of devices are not only expensive, they are also the most expensive that those devices will ever be. Companies are presumably attempting to recover the cost of production as fast as they can, and they know that there are serious tech﹣lovers who will pay a great deal to be first. Once the revenues from early adopters' purchases are safely in their hands, they can cut the price and shift to the next marketing phase: selling the product to everyone else. This is why the cost of the original iPhone dropped about U. S. 200 only eight months after its release. Plus, electronics hardly ever become more expensive because intense competition in the industry puts downward pressure on prices over time. Prices of gadgets will fall shortly after release, and they will likely keep falling. Many new TV models drop significantly in price as little as ten days after hitting the market. Further, electronics rapidly depreciate because they become obsolete (废弃的) so quickly. This means that early adopters pay the maximum price for an item that does not hold onto its value. The resale price of a cell phone or laptop can drop by fifty percent within just a few months.
Speaking of becoming obsolete, those who are first to leap into a new technology risk wasting money and time on something that will never catch on. Another good reason to resist the early﹣adoption temptation is that the first version of a product typically has defects that cost a lot in time and frustration. Such problems are so common with new technology that early adopters are basically unpaid beta testers and troubleshooters. Unless this sounds to you like a fun way to spend your time, don't be among the first users. If you wait to learn what the problems are with a new electronic gadget, you can look forward to a smoother experience or choose a less troublesome product.
Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
A. It means that different team is accessible to you. B. Belonging to your favorite team stimulates your confidence. C. That identity is first and foremost. D. The more we follow a team, the deeper the bond becomes. E. In that sense, your favorite team can serve the same purpose as church and family: Fostering a sense of belonging. F. This refers to the inclination by fans to distance themselves from their team after a defeat. |
"Our research has shown that the No. 1 reason people become fans is that it's your connection to your first community," said Adam Earnhardt, chairman of the communications department at Youngstown State University and co﹣author of "Sports Fans, Identity and Socialization: Exploring the Fandemonium." "I don't care if a Seattle fan moves to China, he or she carries with them their love for the sports teams," he said. "(1) "
(2) . And when a team begins to catch fire, as with, say, the Mariners in '95 or the Seahawks of recent vintage, well, it's easy to get swept up in the wave.
"It's phenomenal," said Simons. "We have this ability to understand other people so remarkably that their victories literally become ours. Our testosterone(睾酮) literally responds to their victory. (3) They're us, and competing on a literal level as us a little extension of us."
Professor Robert Cialdini at Arizona State University came up with the term BIRG Basking In Reflected Glory to describe the intense pride fans feel when their teams succeed. It can be used as a verb, as in, "Seahawks fans are currently BIRGING up a storm." The counterpoint, as coined by researchers C.R. Snyder, Mary Anne Lassergard and Carol E, Ford, is the concept of CORFing Cutting Off Reflected Failure. (4) . We've all heard it in action: We won, but they lost.
This leads into another concept, that of cognitive bias, also known as confirmation bias, which causes fans to help explain away defeats by blaming outside factors, such as referees. I'm sure it would also help explain why Seahawks fans rallied around Richard Sherman after his postgame interview, rationalizing behavior that was widely criticized by many fans with no vested interest. It could also explain the notion of "eustress", invented by endocrinologist Hans Selye to refer to a combination of euphoria (极度愉快的心情) and stress, such as that resulting from watching tense sporting events. Indeed, it's much of the appeal.
Composite image of Europe and North Africa at night, 2016. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Roman, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Artificial light is often seen as a sign of progress: the march of civilization shines a light in the dark; it takes back the night; it illuminates. But a chorus of scientists and advocates argues that unnaturally bright nights are bad not just for astronomers but also for nocturnal (夜间活动的) animals and even for human health.
Now research shows the night is getting even brighter. From 2012 to 2016 the earth's artificially lit area expanded by an estimated 2.2 percent a year (map), according to a study published last November in Science Advances. Even that increase may understate the problem, however. The measurement excludes light from most of the energy﹣efficient LED lamps that have been replacing sodium﹣vapor technology in cities all over the world, says lead study author Christopher Kyb, a postdoctoral researcher at the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam.
The new data came from a NASA satellite instrument called the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). It can measure long﹣wavelengths of light, such as those produced by traditional yellow﹣and﹣orange sodium﹣vapor street lamps. But VIRS cannot see the short﹣wavelength blue light produced by white LEDs. This light has been shown to disrupt human sleep cycles and nocturnal animals' behavior.
Credit: Mapping Specialists: Source: "Artificially Lit Surface of Earth at Night Increasing in Radiance and Extent." by Christopher C. M. Kyba et al. in Science Advances, Vol. 3. No 11, Article No, E1701528; November 22, 2017.
The team believes the ongoing switch to LEDs caused already bright countries such as Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the U. S. to register as having stable levels of illumination in the VIIRS data. In contrast, most nations in South America, Africa and Asia brightened, suggesting increases in the use of traditional lighting. Australia actually appeared to lose lit area but the researchers say that is because wildfires skewed the data.
"The fact that VIIRS finds an increase (in many countries), despite its blindness in the part of the spectrum that increased more, is very sad," says Fabiofalchi, a researcher at Italy's Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute, who did not participate in the study. In 2016 Falchi, along with Kyba and several other members of his research team, published a global atlas of artificial lighting that showed one third of the world's population currently lives under skies too bright to see the Milky Way at night.
The data also cast doubt on the idea that the LED lighting revolution will lead to energy cost savings. Between 2012 and 2016 the median nation pumped out 15 percent more long﹣wavelength light as its GDP increased by 13 percent. And overall, countries' total light production correlated with their GDP. In other words, Kyba says, "we buy as much light as we are willing to spend money on."
(1)Which is not true about the spread of lit areas?
A. |
Lit area expanded by an estimated 2.2 percent a year. |
B. |
Artificial light is often seen as a sign of progress. |
C. |
The increase in GDP is due to the increase in light. |
D. |
It is bad for nocturnal animals and even for human health. |
(2)Which of the following about VIIRS is NOT true according to the passage?
A. |
It is a kind of NASA satellite device. |
B. |
It can record and analyze long﹣wavelength light. |
C. |
The blue light generated by white LEDs can disrupt human sleep cycles. |
D. |
VIIRS has found an increase of traditional lighting in lots of nations. |
(3)According to the article, what we can know about the LEDs?
A. |
Artificial LED lights at nights are harmful to people's health. |
B. |
It is a sign of civilization in modern society. |
C. |
The blue light disrupts human and animals' life cycles. |
D. |
Artificially lit surface of Earth increasing because of LEDs. |
(4)The author writes this article to .
A. |
show the VIIRS data from NASA |
B. |
demonstrate the significance of VIIRS for its measurement of wavelengths |
C. |
reveal the relationship between wavelength light and GDP |
D. |
arouse people's awareness of light pollution |
Geographers are interested in the spatial patterns observed on earth. Bridging the natural and social sciences, Geography is the interdisciplinary study of environments and how people interact with the environment. It is important to study geography because many of the world's problems require understanding the interdependence between human activities and the environment. Geography is therefore a beneficial major for students because its theories and methods provide them with analytical skills relevant to occupations focused on solving social and environmental problems. The Department of Geography offers eight majors that help students tailor their focus of study.
The Geography﹣globalization and Development major will provide students with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary global issues and a geographical framework for analyzing key issues involved in national and international development. Reflecting the discipline of geography as a whole, this major emphasizes an integrated approach to studying the relationship of global change to individual and community well﹣being by combining the benefits of area studies with theoretical and topical investigations in the curriculum.
Our department is committed to excellence in both teaching and advising. Several of our faculty members have received teaching awards, and we are known across campus for the quality of our advising. As a geography major, you will meet one﹣on﹣one with your faculty advisor every semester during advising week, and you are always welcome to talk with your advisor at any time throughout the semester whenever questions may arise. In addition to advising our students about their academic programs, we provide timely information about internships, nationally competitive awards, and other opportunities as they arise. Many of our students complete internships and several of our students over the last few years have received nationally competitive awards.
For more information about our program, please visit our website, or contact our Undergraduate Chair, whose information is listed above.
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No requirements beyond University admission requirements.
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With a liberal arts degree in Geography globalization and Development, students are prepared for employment in a variety of fields, including non﹣profit and government work, particularly in the areas of community and international development. This degree will also prepare students well to work in the private sector in an international context. Graduates from this program will also be well situated to continue on to graduate school or law school, with research and professional interest in academic fields, including, but not limited to, geography, public affairs and policy, development studies, and community and regional planning.
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(1)Who can be selected as the target of the geography course in the passage?
A. |
A freshman who has studied in a university. |
B. |
A college student majoring in geography. |
C. |
A senior high school graduate interested in geography. |
D. |
A high school graduate who wants to find a job |
(2)What are the advantages of choosing the geography major in this university in terms of employment?
A. |
Acquiring skills to solve social and environmental problems. |
B. |
Understanding contemporary global issues. |
C. |
Getting one﹣on﹣one information on geography teaching. |
D. |
Achieving more international opportunities. |
(3)Where is the most likely place to read this passage?
A. |
In a magazine. |
B. |
On the university website. |
C. |
In a geographic journal. |
D. |
On the enrollment information network. |
All I had to do for the two dollars was clean her house for a few hours after school. It was a beautiful house, too, with a plastic﹣covered sofa and chairs, wall﹣to﹣wall blue﹣and﹣white carpeting, a white enamel stove, a washing machine and a dryer things that were common in her neighborhood, absent in mine. In the middle of the war, she had butter, sugar, steaks, and seam﹣up﹣the﹣back stockings.
I knew how to scrub floors on my knees and how to wash clothes in our zinc tub, but I had never seen a Hoover vacuum cleaner or an iron that wasn't heated by fire.
Part of my pride in working for her was earning money I could squander (浪费): on movies, candy, paddleball, jacks, ice﹣cream cones. But a larger part of my pride was based on the fact that I gave half my wages to my mother, which meant that some of my earnings were used for real things an insurance﹣policy payment or what was owed to the milkman or the iceman. The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed, nuisances to be corrected, problems so severe that they were abandoned to the forest. I had a status that doing routine chores in my house did not provide and it earned me a slow smile, an approving nod from an adult. Confirmations that I was adultlike, not childlike.
In those days, the forties, children were not just loved or liked; they were needed. They could earn money; they could care for children younger than themselves; they could work the farm, take care of the herd, run errands (差事), and much more. I suspect that children aren't needed in that way now. They are loved, doted on, protected, and helped. Fine, and yet…
Little by little, I got better at cleaning her house good enough to be given more to do, much more. I was ordered to carry bookcases upstairs and, once, to move a piano from one side of a room to the other. I fell carrying the bookcases. And after pushing the piano my arms and legs hurt so badly. I wanted to refuse, or at least to complain, but I was afraid she would fire me, and I would lose the freedom the dollar gave me, as well as the standing I had at home although both were slowly being eroded. She began to offer me her clothes, for a price. Impressed by these worn things, which looked simply gorgeous to a little girl who had only two dresses to wear to school, I bought a few. Until my mother asked me if I really wanted to work for castoffs. So I learned to say "No, thank you" to a faded sweater offered for a quarter of a week's pay.
Still, I had trouble summoning (鼓起) the courage to discuss or object to the increasing demands she made. And I knew that if I told my mother how unhappy I was she would tell me to quit. Then one day, alone in the kitchen with my father, I let drop a few whines about the job. I gave him details, examples of what troubled me, yet although he listened intently, I saw no sympathy in his eyes. No "Oh, you poor little thing." Perhaps he understood that what I wanted was a solution to the job, not an escape from it. In any case, he put down his cup of coffee and said, "Listen. You don't live there. You live here. With your people. Go to work. Get your money. And come on home."
That was what he said. This was what I heard:
Whatever the work is, do it well not for the boss but for yourself.
You make the job: it doesn't make you.
Your real life is with us, your family.
You are not the work you do: you are the person you are.
I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick﹣witted and dull, big﹣hearted and narrow. I've had many kinds of jobs, but since that conversation with my father I have never considered the level of labor to be the measure of myself, and I have never placed the security of a job above the value of home.
(1)What is the "pleasure" of the author from the sentence "The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound.(paragraph 3)"?
A. |
She was proud as she could earn money for her mother. |
B. |
Her own value of being needed. |
C. |
She is distinctive from those children in folktales. |
D. |
She enjoyed a status of being an adult in her family. |
(2)According to the article, which of the following is true about children in the 1940s and now?
A. |
Children become needed, loved and liked when they are at forty. |
B. |
Children in modern times are less likely to be spoiled by parents. |
C. |
Children in 1940s are capable as they can handle various daily routine. |
D. |
Children in modern times aren't needed to do daily works any more. |
(3)What did the author's father make her understand?
A. |
Don't escape from difficulties at work. |
B. |
Whatever decision she made, her father would support her. |
C. |
Convey her dissatisfaction with her work. |
D. |
Make a distinction between work and life. |
(4)Which of the following corresponds to the author's views in the passage?
A. |
Don't regard work achievement as a criterion for evaluating oneself. |
B. |
Hard work is a struggle for a better future in your limited life. |
C. |
Parents are the best teachers of children. |
D. |
Job security is less valuable when compared with family. |