—_____She wouldn’t accept his help even if it were offered.
A.What for? | B.So what? |
C.No doubt. | D.No wonder. |
A.has been launched | B.having been launched |
C.being launched | D.to be launched |
3 . One morning, Ann’s neighbor Tracy found a lost dog wandering around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on the dog. Ann said that she could watch it only for the day.
Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers (传单), and put them in mailboxes. Meanwhile, Ann went to the dollar store and bought some pet supplies, warning her two sons not to fall in love with the dog. At the time, Ann’s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was recovering from a heart operation, was 21 years old.
Four days later Ann was still looking after the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog threw itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley dashed into the boys’ room where Ann found Jack suffering from a heart attack. Riley ran over to Jack, but as soon as Ann bent over to help him the dog went silent.
“If it hadn’t come to get me, the doctor said Jack would have died,” Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to keep it.
The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter recognized his lost dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started crying, and told him, “That dog saved my friend’s son.” Peter drove to Ann’s house to pick up his dog, and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, “Maybe Odie was supposed to find you, maybe you should keep it.”
1. What did Tracy do after finding the dog?A.She looked for its owner | B.She gave it to Ann as a gift. |
C.She sold it to the dollar store. | D.She bought some food for it. |
A.By breaking the door for Ann. | B.By leading Ann to Jack’s room. |
C.By dragging Jack out of the room. | D.By attending Jack when Ann was out. |
A.Sympathetic | B.Doubtful |
C.Tolerant | D.Grateful |
A.To help her friend’s son. | B.To interview Tracy |
C.To take back his dog. | D.To return the flier to her. |
A.It would be given to Odie. | B.It would be kept by Ann’sfamily. |
C.It would be returned to Peter. | D.It would be taken away by Tracy. |
—_____. I’ve been studying a lot and I need a break.
A.No way | B.Not really |
C.I don’t agree | D.I couldn’t agree more |
The shoes- named Square Eyes- contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter passes the information to a receiver connected to a television, and this decides how much evening viewing time the wearer deserves, based on the day’s efforts.
The design was inspired by a desire to fight against the rapidly ballooning waistlines among British teenagers, says Gillian Swan, who developed Square Eyes as a final year design project at Brunel University in London, UK. “We looked at current issues and childhood overweight really stood out,” she says. “And I wanted to tackle that with my design.”
Once a child has used up their daily allowance gained through exercise, the television automatically switches off. And further time in front of the TV can only be earned through more steps.
Swan calculated how exercise should translate to television time using the recommended daily amounts of both. Health experts suggest that a child take 12,000 steps each day and watch no more than two hours of television. So, every 100 steps recorded by the Square Eyes shoes equals precisely one minute of TV time.
Existing pedometers (计步器) normally clip onto a belt or slip into a pocket and keep count of steps by measuring sudden movement. Swan says these can be easily tricked into recording steps through shaking. But her shoe has been built to be harder for lazy teenagers to cheat. “It is possible, but it would be a lot of effort,” she says. “That was one of my main design considerations.”
1. According to Swan, the purpose of her design project is to _____.
A.keep a record of the steps of the wearer. |
B.deal with overweight among teenagers. |
C.enable children to resist the temptation of TV. |
D.prevent children from being tricked by TV programs. |
A.They regulate a child’s evening TV viewing time. |
B.They determine a child’s daily pocket money. |
C.They have raised the hot issue of overweight. |
D.They contain information of the receiver. |
A.The exact number of steps to be taken. |
B.The precise number of hours spent on TV. |
C.The proper amount of daily exercise and TV time. |
D.The way of changing steps into TV watching time. |
A.make it difficult for lazy teenagers to cheat. |
B.counts the wearer’s steps through shaking. |
C.records the sudden movement of the wearer. |
D.sends teenagers’ health data to the receiver. |
A.Smart Shoes Decide on Television Time |
B.Smart Shoes Guarantee More Exercise |
C.Smart Shoes Measure Time of Exercise |
D.Smart Shoes Stop Childhood Overweight |
-- It was on the farm ___ we worked.
A.that | B.there | C.which | D.where |
A.to seat | B.to be seated | C.seating | D.seated |
假设你是新华中学的学生李华,你和在上海上学的英国朋友Tom约好下周末去北京旅游,但你因故不能赴约。请根据以下要点用英语给他写一封电子邮件:
1. 表示歉意;
2. 解释原因;
3. 另约时间。
注意:1. 词数120~150;
2. 可适当增加细节。
— That’s Ok. We’ll catch the next train to London.
A.was leaving | B.had left | C.has left | D.has been leaving |
A.affair | B.event | C.matter | D.variety |