When I saw her this morning, she wore a ________ look on her face.
A.tire
B.tiring
C.tired
D.being tired
A.tire
B.tiring
C.tired
D.being tired
第1题
We hadn’t met for 20 years, but I recognized her ________ I saw her.
A) for the moment
B) the moment when
C) at the moment when
D) the moment
第2题
听力原文: There are so many things going on in our modern lives, and change happens so quickly. It is hard to imagine a time when things were slower and you could really see a new thing come into your life and to remember the day or the year when those things happened. I know that today, for example, there, are many instances of second and third generations of things, such as televisions or radios, when some of us were not even aware that there was a first generation.
A friend of mine was born at the end of the last century, and talking to her, I really got a sense of her being a living history book, of being able to talk about the changes in her own life and to know that these changes were really the changes that society was going through.
She gets really excited, for example, when she talks about the first time she ever saw a camera, and even more excited when she saw herself in the picture that the photographer took. She lived in a small town, and at the time that she was very young, there were no cars or trains in her town at all. As she grew up, cars and trains came in, and she remembers her first ride with a real sense of amazement that any one count move so fast.
(30)
A.It's amazing that anyone could move so fast.
B.Televisions mark the beginning of modem life.
C.Modern life is changing very fast.
D.It's hard to remember the past.
第3题
听力原文:M: Hi, mom!
W: Ah, there you are, I was getting worried about you. It's late.
M: Yes. I bumped into Lyn and went to the pub for a drink. She was telling me about a funny thing that had happened to her yesterday.
W: Oh. What was that?
M: Well. She was driving home from work when suddenly she saw an old lady on her hands and knees in the middle of the road.
W: Oh, her hands and knees in the middle of the road?
M: Yes, in front of her car. She was so shocked that she stopped without warning, and the car behind crashed into hers.
W: Oh! Was she hurt?
M: No, she wasn't, fortunately.
W: And what was the old lady doing on her hands and knees?
M: I'm just coming to that--so Lyn got out of her car. Then the old lady picked up something, and walked away without saying a word.
W: Well. I never! She was lucky Lyn didn't run her over.
M: Well, yes. Then a policeman came but he didn't believe the story.
W: Oh?
M: Luckily there was a witness, a man waiting for a bus. He saw it all. Guess what the old la dy was doing?
W: I haven't the faintest idea.
M: She was looking for a false tooth.
W: A false tooth?
M: Yes, it fell out as she was crossing the road. The witness heard her mumbling, "Oh, my gold tooth."
W: I don't believe it.
M: It's true. Ask Lyn.
Why was the old lady on her hands and knees in the middle of the road?
A.She was run over by a car.
B.She was shocked to see a car crashing into a another.
C.She fell when crossing the road.
D.She was looking for her false tooth.
第4题
听力原文:M: Hi, mum!
W: Ah, there you are, I was getting worried about you. It's late.
M: Yes. I bumped into Lyn and went to the pub for a drink. She was telling me about a funny thing that had happened to her yesterday.
W: Oh, what was that?
M: Well, she was driving home from work when suddenly she saw an old lady on her hands and knees in the middle of the road.
W: Oh, her hands and knees in the middle of the road?
M: Yes, in front of her car. She was so shocked that she stopped without warning, and the car behind crashed into hers.
W: Oh! Was she hurt?
M: No, she wasn't, fortunately.
W: And what was the old lady doing on her hands and knees?
M: I'm just coming to that -- so Lyn got out of her car. Then the old lady picked up something, and walked away without saying a word.
W: Well. I never! She was lucky, Lyn didn't run her over.
M: Well, yes. Then a policeman came but he didn't believe the story.
W: Oh?
M: Luckily there was a witness, a man waiting for the bus. He saw it all. Guess what the old lady was doing?
W: I haven't the faintest idea.
M: She was looking for a false tooth.
W: A false tooth?
M: Yes, it fell out as she was crossing the road. The witness heard her mumbling, "Oh, my gold tooth."
W: I don't believe it.
M: It's true. Ask Lyn.
Why was the old lady on her hands and knees in the middle of the road?
A.She was run over by a car.
B.She was shocked to see a car crashing into another.
C.She fell when crossing the road.
D.She was looking for her false tooth.
第5题
听力原文: Mrs. Brown was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast and boasted of the fact that she had never, in her thirty-five years of' driving, been punished for a driving offence.
Then one day she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policeman in it saw her pass a red light without stopping.
When Mrs. Brown came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason why she had not stopped at the red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak with old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished what he was saying, Mrs. Brown opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she chose a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.
When she had successfully done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, "Now it is your turn. I suppose you drive a car, trod that you have no doubt about your own eyesight."
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it.. After half a dozen attempts, he had still not succeeded. The case against Mrs. Brown was dismissed and her record remained unbroken.
(33)
A.She broke her record.
B.She didn't stop at a red light.
C.She saw an accident.
D.She stopped at a red light.
第6题
It had been snowing heavily that day and I didn't know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for me. It seemed Milly had died. "She meant more to me than anyone… even my own wife!" he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, a possible scandal. I was even more shocked when he told me he had put her in the barn. "I would not leave her out in the cold !" he said.
Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground. "She was such a good cow! I wouldn't let anyone but a doctor touch her!" he said, and burst into tears again.
The underlined phrase "make out" in the first paragraph means ______.
A.expect
B.understand
C.see clearly
D.hear clearly
第7题
A.She disliked the speaker"s dad.
B.She felt scary for her mistake.
C.She loved playing hide-and-seek.
D.She would eat anything when hungry.
第8题
You overhear a woman talking about her new neighbours. How does she feel?
A.Offended.
B.Shocked.
C.Suspicious.
第9题
WA Yes, I've gone in there a few times. It's good... they have much better lumber than Carson Supply. Their two-by-fours are actually straight!
MB I know, they're also about fifty percent more expensive. I went in there to buy some two-by-fours, and walked out when I saw the price. The same wood at Carson is, like a dollar cheaper per piece.
WA True, but you get what you pay for. I mean, if you want to spend all day trying to find wood that isn't warped, Carson's is probably fine, but you don't have that problem at Paul's. The wood's all good there.
Why has the man contacted the woman?
A.To tell her about a store sale
B.To get her opinion about a store
C.To request advice about a home project
D.To get contact information about a supplier
第10题
Immediately the woman in the marketplace comes into my mind. I was on my way to dinner last night when I saw her. She was selling skirts. She moved with the same ease and loveliness I often saw in the women of Laos. Her long black hair was as shiny as the black silk of the skirts she was selling. In her hair, she wore three silk ribbons, blue, green, and white. They reminded me of my childhood and how my girlfriends and I used to spend hours braiding ribbons into our hair.
I don't know the word for "ribbons", so I put my hand to my own hair and, with three fingers against my head, I looked at her ribbons and said "Beautiful". She lowered her eyes and said nothing. I wasn't sure if she understood me (I don't speak Laotian very well).
I looked back down at the skirts. They had designs in them: squares and triangles and circles of pink and green silk. They were very pretty. I decided to buy one of those skirts, and I began to bargain with her over the price. It is the custom to bargain in Asia. In Laos bargaining is done in soft voices and easy moves with the sort of quiet peacefulness.
She smiled, more with her eyes than with her lips. She was pleased by the few words I was able to say in her language, although they were mostly numbers, and she saw that I understood something about the soft playfulness of bargaining. We shook our heads in disagreement over the price; then, immediately, we made another offer and then another shake of the head. She was so pleased that unexpectedly, she accepted the last offer I made. But it was too soon. The price was too low. She was being too generous and wouldn't make enough money. I moved quickly and picked up two more skirts and paid for all three at the price set; that way I was able to pay her three times as much before she had a chance to lower the price for the larger purchase. She smiled openly then, and, for the first time in months, my spirit lifted. I almost felt happy.
The feeling stayed with me while she wrapped the skirts in a newspaper and handed them to me. When I left, though, the feeling left, too. It was as though it stayed behind in marketplace. I left tears in my throat. I wanted to cry. I didn't, of course. I have learned to defend myself against what is hard; without knowing it, I have also learned to defend myself against what is soft and what should be easy.
I get up, light a candle and want to look at the skirts. They are still in the newspaper that the woman wrapped them in. I remove the paper, and raise the skirts up to look at them again before I pack them. Something falls to floor. I reach down and feel something cool in my hand. I move close to the candlelight to see what I have. There are five long silk ribbons in my hand, all different colors. The woman in the marketplace! She has given these ribbons to me!
There is no defense against a generous spirit, and this time I cry, and very hard, as ff I could make up for all the months that I didn't cry.
Which of the following is NOT correct?
A.The writer was not used to bargaining.
B.People in Asia always bargain when buying things.
C.Bargaining in Laos was quiet and peaceful.
D.The writer was ready to bargain with the woman.