1. What did John enjoy doing in his childhood?
A.Touring France. | B.Playing outdoors. | C.Painting pictures. |
A.He did business. | B.He studied biology. | C.He worked on a farm. |
A.For food. | B.For pleasure. | C.For money. |
A.American birds. | B.Natural scenery. | C.Family life. |
The first attempt of even the most talented artists, musicians, and writers is seldom a masterpiece, If you consider your drafts as dress rehearsals (彩排), or tryouts, revising will seem a natural part of the writing
What is the purpose of the dress rehearsals and the out-of-town previews that many Broadway shows go through? The answer is adding, deleting, replacing, reordering,
When Lloyd Webber began writing in 1984, he had in mind a funny, exciting production. However, when Phantom opened in London in 1986, the audience saw a moving psychological love story set to music. The musical had
When you revise, you change aspects of your work in
Revision is not just an afterthought that gets only as much time as you have at the end of an assignment.
Revising involves
A.technique | B. style | C.process | D.career |
A.in particular | B.as a result | C. for example | D.in other words |
A.undergone | B.skipped | C.rejected | D. replaced |
A.rewrote | B.released | C. recorded | D. reserved |
A.addition | B.response | C.opposition | D.contrast |
A.fixed | B.ambitious | C.familiar | D.fresh |
A.However | B.Moreover | C. Instead | D.Therefore |
A.discuss | B.switch | C. exhaust | D.cover |
A.drafting | B.rearranging | C.performing | D.training |
A.director | B.master | C.audience | D.visitor |
A.personal | B.valuable | C. basic | D.delicate |
A.mixing | B.weakening | C.maintaining | D.assessing |
A.amazing | B.bright | C.unique | D.clear |
A.angles | B.evidence | C. information | D.hints |
A.unnecessary | B.uninteresting | C.concrete | D.final |
1、该人物是谁;
2、该人物的主要贡献;
3、该人物对你的影响。
注意: 1. 词数不少于100;
2. 开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
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[1] Jean Paul Getty was born in 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He became a millionaire when he was only 24. His father was wealthy, but he did not help his son. Getty made his millions alone. He made his money from oil. He owned Getty Oil and over 100 other companies. The Fortune magazine once called Getty “the richest man in the world.”
[2]But money _________. He married five times and divorced five times. He had five children but spent little time with them. None of Getty’s children had very happy lives.
[3]Getty loved to make money and loved to save it. In spite of his great wealth, Getty was miser. Every evening, he wrote down every cent he spent that day. He even put pay telephone in the guest’s bedrooms in his house so he could save money on phone bills.
[4] In 1973, kidnappers took his 16-year-old grandson, and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return. Getty’s son asked his father for money to save his child. But Getty refused. The kidnappers were merciless and Getty’s son made repeated requests for help from his father. Finally, Getty agreed to lend the money, but at 4 percent interest.
[5] Getty started a museum at his home Malibu, California. He bought many important and beautiful pieces of art for the museum. When Getty died in 1976, the value of the collection in the museum was $1 billion. He left all his money to the museum. After his death, the museum grew in size. Today it is one of the most important museums in the United States. Getty made a large fortune in his life, but he gave his money to the art world because he wanted people to learn about and love art.
1. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? (no more than 8 words)
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2. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 7 words)
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3. Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3.
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4. What did the kidnappers do to Getty’s family? (no more than 10 words)
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5. What does the author want to tell us about Getty in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)
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1. 针对摘录句中的观点谈谈你的看法;
2. 举例说明理由。
注意:
短文的开头已给出(不计词数)。
In the English Reading Week, one of my classmates recommended a quote to us, which goes like this: “Your future depends on many things, hut mostly on you. ”
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This was a huge task. So Murrary had to find volunteers from Britain, the United States, and the British colonies to search every newspaper, magazine, and book ever written in English. Hundreds of volunteers responded, including William Chester Minor. Dr. Minor was an American Surgeon who had served in the Civil War and was now living in England. He gave his address as “Broadmoor, Crowthorne, Berkshire,” 50 miles from Oxford.
Minor joined the army of volunteers sending words and quotations to Murray. Over the next years, he became one of the staff’s most valued contributors.
But he was also a mystery. In spite of many invitations, he would always decline to visit Oxford. So in 1897, Murray finally decided to travel to Crowthorne himself. When he arrived, he found Minor locked in a book-lined cell at the Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally insane.
Murray and Minor became friends, sharing their love of words. Minor continued contributing to the dictionary, sending in more than 10,000 submissions in 20 years. Murray continued to visit Minor regularly, sometimes taking walks with him around the asylum grounds.
In 1910, Minor left Broadmoor for an asylum in his native America. Murray was at the port to wave goodbye to his remarkable friend.
Minor died in 1920, seven years before the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was completed. The 12 volumes defined 414,825 words, and thousands of them were contributions from a very scholarly and devoted asylum patient.
1. According to the text, the first Oxford English Dictionary _________.
A.came out before minor died |
B.was edited by an American volunteer |
C.included the English words invented by Murray |
D.was intended to be the most ambitious English dictionary |
A.He helped Murray to find hundreds of volunteers. |
B.He sent newspapers, magazines and books to Murray. |
C.He provided a great number of words and quotations |
D.he went to England to work with Murray. |
A.He was shut in an asylum |
B.He lived far from Oxford |
C.He was busy writing a book |
D.He disliked traveling |
A.they both served in the Civil War. |
B.They had a common interest in words |
C.Minor recovered with the help of Murray |
D.Murray went to America regularly to visit Minor |
A.Brave and determined | B.Cautious and friendly |
C.Considerate and optimistic | D.Unusual and scholarly |
A.The history of the English language. |
B.The friendship between Murray and Minor |
C.Minor and the first Oxford English Dictionary |
D.Broadmoor Asylum and is patients |