I was very sad when he made it clear that he ______the company soon.
A.leaves
B.left
C.would leave
D.had left
A.leaves
B.left
C.would leave
D.had left
He dressed, and when he went downstairs from the top floor of the rooming house in which he lived, the only sounds he heard were the coarse sounds of sleep; the only lights burning were lights that had been forgotten. Charlie ate some breakfast in an all-night lunch wagon and took an elevated train uptown. From Third Avenue, he walked over to Sutton Place. The neighbourhood was dark. House after house put into the shine of the streetlights a wall of black windows. Millions and millions were sleeping, and this general loss of consciousness generated an impression of abandonment, as if this were the fall of the city, the end of time.
He opened the iron-and-glass doors of the apartment building where he had been working for six months as an elevator operator, and went through the elegant lobby to a locker room at the back. He put on a striped vest with brass buttons, a false ascot, a pair of pants with a light blue stripe on the seam, and a coat. The night elevator man was dozing on the little bench in the car. Charlie woke him. The night elevator man told him thickly that the day doorman had been taken sick and wouldn't be in that day. With the doorman sick, Charlie wouldn't have any relief for lunch, and a lot of people would expect him to whistle for cabs.
Charlie had been on duty a few minutes when 14 rang-Mrs. Hewing, who, he happened to know, was kind of immoral. Mrs, Hewing hadn't been to bed yet, and she got into the elevator wearing a long dress under her fur coat. She was followed by her two funny looking dogs. He took her down and watched her go out into the dark and take her dogs to the curb. She was outside for only a few minutes. Then she came in and he took her up to 14 again. When she got off the elevator, she said, "Merry Christmas, Charlie."
"Well, it isn't much a holiday for me, Mrs. Hewing," he said. "I think Christmas is a very sad season of the year. It isn't that people around here ain't generous--I mean I got plenty of tips--but, you see, I live alone in a furnished room and I don't have any family or anything, and Christmas isn't much of a holiday for me."
"I'm sorry, Charlie," Mrs. Hewing said. "I don't have any family myself, It is kind of sad when you're alone, isn't it?" she called her dogs and followed them into her apartment. He went down.
It was quiet then, and Charlie lit a cigarette. The heating plant in the basement encompassed the building at that hour in a regular and profound vibration, and the sullen noises of arriving steam heat began to resound, first in the lobby and then to reverberate up through all the sixteen stories, but this was a mechanical awakening, and it didn't lighten his loneliness or his petulance. The black air outside the glass doors had begun to turn blue, but the blue light seemed to have no source; it appeared in the middle of the air. It was a tearful light, and he wanted to cry. Then a cab drove up, and the Walsers got out, drunk and dressed in evening clothes, and he took them up to their penthouse. The Walsers got him to brood about the difference between his life in a furnished room and the lives of the people overhead. It was terrible.
All the following statements may account for the sadness felt by Charlie on Christmas EXCEPT______.
A.he had to get up early to work on Christmas morning
B.he felt lonely
C.he had a sense of inferiority
D.he was poor
Brooke Walker keeps eating junk food(垃圾食品)and already weighs more than Britain's fattest teenager did at the same age .she's been warned by the doctor that they can do no more for her .Next month ,she will begin a healthy eating and exercise plan to save her life.
Brook, who’s too large for girls’ clothes and has to wear boys’ clothes, has been laughed at all her life. She stays indoors much of the time. ”when ”I look in the mirror I feel sad,” she said.
“Doctors have told me that unless I lose weight and exercise I will be very, very sick when I grow up. I have tired really hard to do as the doctors say. But every time I play outside, people stop and look at me and call me “fatso”. I end up crying in my room. ”
Brooke’s weight increased quickly when she developed a love of takeaways and fatty junk food. She often ordered food from shops or restaurant and ate at home. Her daily meal used to be potato chips, chocolates, pizza, and sweet drinks. Brooks’ mum Stacey, a busy single mum, admits Brooke suffered from being dished up with fast food in her early year.
In the first seven days she won’t be able to phone home, but she’s determined to succeed. “I can’t wait to go,” she says. “I am not afraid of going away. My one wish is to lose weight and look like other girls. I am tired of being called fatty and want it to end.”
32、what does the underlined word “diet” most probably mean in the text?()
A.To limit(限制) food
B.To do exercise
C.To see a doctor
D.To go outdoors
33、How does Brooke feel about being fat?()
A.calm
B.sad
C.angry
D.nervous
34、What has caused Brooke’s health problem?()
A.Poor family background
B.bad eating habit
C.lack of exercise equipment
D.little food at home
Tears keep your eyes clean and healthy.They wash away dirt and germs(细菌) just like bath.Your eyes also need tears to keep them wet.And eyes must be wet so that they can move smoothly.Your eyes are busy looking here and there all day long.They move quickly from one thing to another.If you did not have tears, your eyes could not move, and soon you would be blind.
Maybe you do not like tears, but your eyes can not do without them.
(1)The story tells us ____________
A.what makes people blind
B.why people have tears
C.why people cry when they are sad
D.what tears are
(2)Tears help you by __________
A.showing how you feel
B.making your face clean
C.washing things from your eyes
D.making your eyes bright
(3)If your eyes were not wet, you could not _________________
A.look at things clearly
B.laugh and cry
C.keep clean
D.show your feelings
(4)When you are happy or sad, you may _________________
A.look at things quickly
B.wash away dirt and germs
C.have tears in your eyes
D.move your eyes quickly
(5)The sentence“your eyes can’t do without them”means _________________
A.your eyes like having baths very much
B.your eyes like tears very much
C.your eyes can not work without tears
D.your eyes can not open without them
B.False
C.Not Given
The man became very tired when he turned to swim back.A.True
B.False
C.Not Given
When the man finally finished his race, the crowd became angry with him.A.True
B.False
C.Not Given
The man came from a small country far away from Sydney.A.True
B.False
C.Not Given
The man did his best even if he was aware that he had no chance to win.A.True
B.False
C.Not Given
Two swimmers were disqualified because they had started before the official signal was given.A.True
B.False
C.Not Given
The man felt sad when he knew he made one of the slowest Olympic records..A.True
B.False
C.Not Given
It's easy for an athlete to perform well when having nobody to race against .A.True
B.False
C.Not Given
I knew that the man was not able to compete for the medals.A.True
B.False
C.Not Given
The crowd laughed at the man from beginning to end.A.True
B.False
C.Not Given
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析,谢谢!
A.so that
B.so as to
C.such that
D.that
A.Thats very kind of you. Thank you
B.That would be very nice. Thank you
C.Thank you very much. Ill try to come
D.Ill go if I am free
A.happy
B.satisfying
C.sad
D.disappointing
My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books. In books I traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might achieve, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
I travel today in the way I once dreamed of traveling as a child- on airplanes and in train. And the irony is that I don’t care for it very much. I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, books. The only thing I do like about traveling is the time on airplanes spent reading.
It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the real destinations, and the journey too. They are home.
1.What did the writer do as a curious child?()
A.She visited Victorian England and Tsarist Russia.
B.She flew to Los Angeles, Chicago and London with her parents.
C.She read all kinds of books.
D.She spent lots of time traveling on trains.
2.How does the author feel about travel today?()
A.She doesn’t like it very much.
B.She takes great pleasure in it.
C.She feels tired of it.
D.She feels as excited as when she was young.
3.What did the author learn from books as a child?()
A.About many foreign places.
B.About many historical figures.
C.About the outside world as well as her own self.
D.About the ironies of life.
4.We can infer from the passage that when traveling by air, the author
spends most of her time on the way ().
A.reading books
B.resting herself
C.imagining things
D.letting her spirit soar
5.In this passage the author mainly talks about ().
A.the wonders of travel
B.her growth from an innocent child to a learned woman
C.the benefits of reading
D.the difference between childhood dreams and life’s realities
The cohesiveness(内聚力)of a family seems to rely on members sharing certain routine practices and events. For a growing share of the American labor force, however, working shifts beyond the normal daylight hours—what we here call "shift work"—makes the lives of families difficult.
Existing research shows that both male and female shift workers express high levels of stress and a sense of conflict between the demands of work and family life. But shift work couples still maintain a traditional attitude to the meaning of marriage and the individual roles of husband and wife. They expressed a willingness to do "whatever it takes" to approximate their view of a proper marriage, including sacrificing sleep and doing conventional things at unconventional hours. For the majority of couples interviewed, even when wives worked outside their homes, a proper marriage is characterized by a very clear division of roles: husbands are "providers" whose major responsibility is to support the family; wives are "homemakers" who clean, cook, and care for husbands and children.
The women's definitions of a "good husband" are typified by the following wife's response:
I expect him to be a good provider, and be there when I need him, loyal about the same things as he would expect out of me, expect that I expect him to dominate over me. But in a manner of speaking, when it's time to be a man I expect him to stand up instead of sitting back expecting me to do everything.
To husbands, a good wife is someone who is:
Understanding of what I feel go through at work. I need that respect at work, I hope I get it at work, I want my wife to realize what I expect at work. I don't want her to give me a lot of shit when I come home from work because I don't know if this makes much sense.
These views seemed critical to maintain the families of the shift workers.
Despite______,shift work couples still hoped to maintain a stable life.
A.traditional beliefs about marriage
B.lack of control over time
C.a very clear division of roles
D.the demands of work