Paris________ be a wonderful city but it’s not somewhere I’d like to live.
A. might B. would C. must D. can
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:054
Every summer, a great many students travel to other countries looking for work and adventure. Most of the 1 are in seasonal work, mainly connected with tourism and 2 .The pay is usually poor, but most people work abroad for the 3 of travel. You can pick grapes in France, entertain(逗乐)kids on American summer camps, and, of course, there are 4 jobs in hotels and restaurants.
But it is not easy to find work,“ 5 you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,”says Anthea Ellis, an adviser on 6 for students.“If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris, the owner will expect you to speak 7 .British students only have a language 8 for jobs in the USA and Australia.”
9 enjoys the experience. Sarah James was employed to help forty American children in Europe. The two teachers with the children had never been 10 .One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill and was 11 home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the 12 they made, and Sarah herself was robbed on her only 13 evening of the entire trip.“I did visit a lot of new places,” she says,“but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was 14 and it really was a 24 hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”
“The trouble is, students expect to have 15 time of it.”Anthea Ellis points out.“ 16 ,they see it as a holiday. In practice, 17 ,you have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual(临时)work. You’ll have a job when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. 18 ,you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that employs you. But you have 19 employment rights. As soon as the holiday season 20 ,they’ll get rid of you.”
1. A. work B. luck
C. chances D. services
2. A. agriculture B. industry
C. hotels D. restaurants
3. A. pains B. comfort
C. difficulty D. excitement
4. A. always B. hardly
C. never D. seldom
5. A. If B. Unless
C. Because D. Although
6. A. health care B. vacation work
C. language studies D. tourist safety
7. A. Italian B. English
C. French D. Spanish
8. A. chance B. ability
C. possibility D. advantage
9. A. No one B. None
C. Not everyone D. Everybody
10. A. abroad B. employed
C. alone D. respect
11. A. driven B. ridden
C. left D. flown
12. A. friends B. decision
C. noise D. damage
13. A. busy B. free
C. tiring D. pleasant
14. A. nice B. reasonable
C. fair D. poor
15. A. a hard B. an easy
C. a demanding D. an adventurous
16. A. After all B. Worse still
C. However D. Therefore
17. A. besides B. altogether
C. though D. until
18. A. In a word B. In other words
C. And what’s more D. More or less
19. A. few B. little
C. many D. much
20. A. starts B. lasts
C. goes D. finishes
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科目:高中英语 来源:英语教研室 题型:054
But it is not easy to find work,“ 5 you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,”says Anthea Ellis, an adviser on 6 for students.“If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris, the owner will expect you to speak 7 .British students only have a language 8 for jobs in the USA and Australia.”
9 enjoys the experience. Sarah James was employed to help forty American children in Europe. The two teachers with the children had never been 10 .One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill and was 11 home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the 12 they made, and Sarah herself was robbed on her only 13 evening of the entire trip.“I did visit a lot of new places,” she says,“but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was 14 and it really was a 24 hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”
“The trouble is, students expect to have 15 time of it.”Anthea Ellis points out.“ 16 ,they see it as a holiday. In practice, 17 ,you have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual(临时)work. You’ll have a job when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. 18 ,you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that employs you. But you have 19 employment rights. As soon as the holiday season 20 ,they’ll get rid of you.”
1. A. work B. luck
C. chances D. services
2. A. agriculture B. industry
C. hotels D. restaurants
3. A. pains B. comfort
C. difficulty D. excitement
4. A. always B. hardly
C. never D. seldom
5. A. If B. Unless
C. Because D. Although
6. A. health care B. vacation work
C. language studies D. tourist safety
7. A. Italian B. English
C. French D. Spanish
8. A. chance B. ability
C. possibility D. advantage
9. A. No one B. None
C. Not everyone D. Everybody
10. A. abroad B. employed
C. alone D. respect
11. A. driven B. ridden
C. left D. flown
12. A. friends B. decision
C. noise D. damage
13. A. busy B. free
C. tiring D. pleasant
14. A. nice B. reasonable
C. fair D. poor
15. A. a hard B. an easy
C. a demanding D. an adventurous
16. A. After all B. Worse still
C. However D. Therefore
17. A. besides B. altogether
C. though D. until
18. A. In a word B. In other words
C. And what’s more D. More or less
19. A. few B. little
C. many D. much
20. A. starts B. lasts
C. goes D. finishes
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:054
Picasso's father was also a painter, a Professor of Art at the local school of fine arts (美术). He taught his son how to draw figures and how to paint 3 oils and took him to some of the schools of art that he himself 4 .Although he was Spanish, Picasso spent much of his life in Paris and never took part in 5 the Spanish Civil War, World War I or World War II.?
Picasso's 6 life was very unconventional(非传统的). He had four children 7 three different women, two wives and many lovers. In 1961, however, he married and stayed with Jacqueline Roque 8 the end of his life in 1973.?
Picasso produced paintings of acrobats (杂技演员) at the beginning of his 9 and moved into a different style when he started painting pictures of artists. 10 he developed his works into the famous style which is known as “Cubism”. He also created 11 and wrote poetry.?
Picasso produced 12 paintings than anyone else ever has: 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and 34,000 book illustrations. He worked in many different mediums(手段): oils, watercolors, charcoal, and pencil. His paintings in the Cubist style started a new movement in art in 13 20th century. Picasso 14 this style of painting with a colleague, Georges Braque in 1909. They painted objects by 15 them into small pieces and then viewed and painted them from several angles at once. 16 used brown colors for the paintings.?
The Cubism Movement started with Picasso and Braque in Montmartre, Paris, and 17 rapidly among the artists. It began to develop into a second phase(阶段), in which artists added 18 objects to the painting in various materials, such as cloth or newspaper. In 19 1950's Picasso's works went through more changes when he started to look at the grand masters of art, like Velasquez.?
In his 80's and 90's he began to paint a mixture of many styles that he kept changing. Only after his death 20 fully appreciate his great achievements and in 1999 one of his paintings sold for us﹩51 million.
1. A. French B. English C. Spanish D.German
2. A. is B. means C. learns D.makes
3. A. with B. on C. from D.in
4. A. teach B. taught C. teaching D.taught at
5. A. among B. either C. between D.beyond
6.A. real B. old C. public D.private
7.A. by B. in C. on D.about
8. A. until B. at C. as D.to
9. A. life B. career C. paintings D.school
10.A. Accidentally B. Frankly C. Eventually D.Fortunately
11.A. sculptures B. telephones C. pictures D.poems
12. A. fewer B. scores of C. a great deal D.more
13.A. late B. modern C. early D.difficult
14. A. found B. invented C. searched D.protected
15.A. separating B. cutting off C. throwing D.dividing
16.A. He B. It C. They D.We
17.A. speeded B. went through C. spread D.wide
18.A. the same B. different C. special D.extra
19. A. these B. those C. the D.some
20. A. he did B. people would C. did people D.did he
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Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling’s life is like a fairy tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling 1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 2 a table in a café during her daughter’s naps – and it was Harry Potter 3 rescued her.
Rowling 4 that she always wanted to write and that the first 5 she actually wrote down, when she was five or six, was a story about a rabbit 6 Rabbit. Many of her favorite 7 center around reading – hearing The Wind in the Willows 8 aloud by her father when she had the measles(麻疹), enjoying the fantastic adventure stories of E. Nesbit, and her favorite story of all, The little White Horse.
At Exeter University Rowling took her degree in French and 9 one year studying in Paris. After college she moved to London to 10 as a researcher and bilingual secretary. The best thing about working in an office, she has said, was 11 up stories on the computer when no one was 12 . During this time, on a particularly long train ride from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990, the idea 13 her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn’t know it. He 14 a school for wizardry – she could see him very plainly in her mind. By the time the train 15 into Kings Cross station four hours later, many of the characters and the early stages of the plot were fully 16 in her head. The story took further shape as she continued working on it in 17 and cafes over her lunch hours.
After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce, Rowling returned to Britain with her infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and 18 . She settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister and 19 to finish the book before looking for a teaching job. Wheeling her daughter’s carriage around the city to escape their 20 , cold apartment, she would duck into coffee shops to write when the baby fell asleep. In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers.
1. A. read B. recited C. wrote D. copied
2. A. on B. in C. around D. at
3. A. what B. that C. which D. who
4. A. remembers B. thinks C. reminds D. supposes
5. A. book B. story C. novel D. fiction
6. A. naming B. published C. called D. replaced
7. A. songs B. sports C. things D. memories
8. A. spoken B. said C. told D. read
9. A. cost B. spared C. took D. spent
10. A. regard B. consider C. work D. treat
11. A. searching B. reading C. listening D. typing
12. A. noticing B. watching C. observing D. seeing
13. A. came to B. struck to C. stuck to D. hit on
14. A. studies B. attends C. builds D. goes
15. A. entered B. pulled C. reached D. arrived
16. A. organized B. taken C. formed D. appeared
17. A. theatres B. pubs C. cinemas D. concerts
18. A. chapters B. books C. magazines D. newspapers
19. A. set about B. set off C. set up D. set out
20. A. splendid B. large C. comfortable D. tiny
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Once a foreigner traveling in France came to Paris for a Few days. ___1 the very first day of his staying in the French capital he sent a telegram(电报) to his wife with the 2 of the hotel where he was staying. Then he decided to go out and see the places of 3_ in the capital. He took a long walk along the streets of the city, visited a few museums and by the end of the 4 he felt tired. He wanted to 5 the hotel to take a rest there, but suddenly he realized he 6___ neither the name nor the address of 7 . He felt quite lost and slowly walked along the street, ___8 what to do. Suddenly he found 9__ in, front of a post office. He quickly ran inside and said in 10 voice," Give me a telegram form, please. " " 11 " a man answered, giving him a form. It did not 12 him long to fill it in. A minute later he handed in the telegram and paid the 13 . His wife was greatly 14 when an hour later she received ___15 telegram from her husband.. "Send me my address at once!" 1. A. On B. In C. At D. From 2. A. name and address B. telephone number C. room number D. post office 3. A. wonder1 B. excitement C. interest D. pleasure 4. A. museum B. street C. city D. day 5. A. look for B. search C. remember D. return to 6. A. remembered B. knew C. forgot D. noticed 7. A. his home B. the hotel C. his wife D. the museum 8. A. didn't know B. not to know C. not knowing" D. having not known 9. A. someone B. himself C. nobody D. him 10. A. a low B. a soft C. a sad D. an excited 11. A. I'm sorry B. Thanks for coming C. Here you are D. Can I help you 12. A. get B. use C. spend D. take 13. A. bill B. man C. money D. form 14. A. surprised B. excited C. interested D. angry 15. A. the first B. the long C. a second D. a quick |
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