Test 11 C
In 1885, a young doctor named Arthur Conan Doyle opened offices in London.He wanted to be a successful doctor, but for some reasons he never found enough patients.To ___1___ the time, he began to write stories and send them to the newspapers.
Conan Doyle's stories were about a clever detective, Sherlock Holmes.Conan Doyle wrotethat Sherlock Holmes lived at 221 b Baker Street in London, and people with problems came to his for ___2___. Often police detectives came to Sherlock Holmes with their problems, too.He was able to solve mysteries that thecleverest policemen in England were ___3___ to figure out.
Sometimes Sherlock Holmes could solve a mystery without leaving his chair.He listened carefully to the information his client (委托人) gave and figured out the answer.At other timeshe spent days or weeks looking for clues. Sherlock Holmes travelled to different cities and countries to solve the mysteries. ___4___ he woredisguises,pretending to be an old man, or a sailor.Holmes did anything to find out the answer to the mysteries he was working on.
Sherlock Holmes is the most ___5___ detective in English literature,but many people don'tunderstand that he is a fictional (虚构的) character, not a real person.The English post offices report
that people still send mail to Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street.Even he gets more than 2,000 ___6___ every year.
( ) 1. A. keep B. change C. pass D. mention ( ) 2. A. practice B. thinking C. trust D. help ( ) 3. A. willing B. suitable C. likely D. unable ( ) 4. A. Seldom B. Never C. Sometimes D. Always ( ) 5. A. tired B. relaxed C. nervous D. famous ( ) 6. A. visitors B. letters C. calls D. directions
Test 13 E
Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is the color of most growing plants, too.
Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet finished or plants that are not ripe.For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young
cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in war. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today--a person who is new in a job.About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities in the east. The greenhorn didn't have the skills that he would need to live in the hard, rough country.
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds.A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long afteryour plants have died.
The Green Revolution is the name which was given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.
Green is also the color used to describe the powerful feeling - jealousy. The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play Othello. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something that he wants to get. A young man may suffer from the green-eyedmonster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else.
1. What does a “greenhorn” now refer to?
____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Is the person with a green thumb good at growing plants?
____________________________________________________________________________ 3. Who works hard and helps to develop new kinds of rice and other grains?
____________________________________________________________________________ 4. People don?t use green to describe people?s feeling, do they?
____________________________________________________________________________ 5. When was the expression “the green-eyed monster” probably firstly used?
____________________________________________________________________________ 6. What kind of person with the green-eyed monster do you think he/she is?
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Test 14 D
With so many things going on in your life and the pressure of work and society, you may start thinking it is not wise at all to start a hobby. But the reason that stops you from getting into a hobby is the s___1___ reason why you should surely take up a hobby.
Hobby can r___2___ pressure. There is nothing wrong with focusing on your job. After all, it is your way of making money. H___3___, when you focus on work too much, you may forget about other aspects (方面) of your life. That is when things start to go wrong. What you have to think about is: even the richest people are not pleased with money or material things a___4___. We all need a space where we can become ourselves, without any pressure.
Hobbies can help recover (恢复) not only your p___5___ energy but also your emotional energy. And that will be shown in all aspects of your life. Although you can relax by sleeping or doing nothing, a hobby has a different relaxing effect. Doing nothing can relax your tired body, but it is no solution to a tired m___6___ . That is the big difference between the two.
A hobby is a great way to spend time on your enjoyment. But if you are thinking that a hobby is all about being quiet, then you are wrong. In fact, hobbies can also be h___7___ to your social skills. Hobbies can even help to expand (拓展) your network, and that can become an advantage to your job.
1. ___________ 2. ___________ 3. ___________ 4. ___________ 5. ___________ 6. ___________ 7. ___________
E
When Matty Sallin, 34, was studying art and technology at New York University, he got an interesting task for the final exam: Create something for the ordinary family. He decided to create an alarm clock.
\the clock is extremely noisy and unpleasant,\he asked different people what they'd like to wake up to in the morning. A lot of them said, \smell of bacon (培根肉).\
So Sallin and his two classmates invented a new kind of alarm clock: a wooden box with a pig face and a digital clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon to wake people up. He explains, \灯泡) instead of a fire for cooking and rums off automatically after ten minutes.\Just a few easy steps are required to set the \
\the alarm,\minutes under the bulbs. Then the bulbs rum off and a fan blows the smell out through the nose of the pig.
\Sallin. \
When Sallin was a kid, he spent a lot of time making drawings of inventions. \wanted to make a lift in my back yard and a special tree house,\he says. \I never really thought I'd