The word"hooked”in the 8th paragraph meansA. captivated.B. bent.C. bowed.D. curved.
The word"hooked”in the 8th paragraph means
A. captivated.
B. bent.
C. bowed.
D. curved.
The word"hooked”in the 8th paragraph means
A. captivated.
B. bent.
C. bowed.
D. curved.
A.have a hood over the TV
B.be connected to
C.relate oneself to
D.keep contact with
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
M: I know. It's really complicated. In America, we have somewhere between five and ten thousand long-distance telephone companies. Competition is nice, but sometimes I think we have too much choice! It was easier before deregulation in the early eighties. The telecommunications industry has become far too confusing, but at least prices have really gone down in the last twenty years.
W: Why do I need to choose more than one company?
M: We divide telephone service into three categories: local, local long-distance, and long-distance. Your long-distance company allows you to call foreign countries, other American states, and other cities in your state. Your local long-distance company allows you to call suburbs or regions just outside your city. And, of course, your local company allows you to place calls within your own city.
W: But they only asked me to choose a local long-distance company and a long-distance company. Don't I get to choose my local service?
M: In Southern California, we really don't have much choice yet when it comes to local service. It's still basically a monopoly.
W: Is it really expensive to make local telephone calls then? How much does it cost per minute?
M: Actually, for most people, local calls do not have a per minute charge. You pay your local telephone company a monthly service fee of around ten to fifteen dollars for your local service, but then we don't have to pay per minute.
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A.Lower prices.
B.More choices.
C.More competition.
D.More companies.
The word "blind" means______.
A.without eyes
B.can't see
C.don't see
Many young Americans who have traveled abroad ______.
A.dislike traditional food more and more, so they only try exotic food
B.love the food imported very much
C.have changed their tastes
D.get hooked on new tastes and flavors
M: I come from the Rez, an Indian reservation. I grew up there, lived there until 18.
I lived on and off the reservation for the next 6 or 7 years during college. I lived there after I graduated, worked at a high school exchange program. I thought I do that kind of job to support my writing. Day jobs that require no emotional investment beyond 8 hours a day where I wouldn't need to bring work home. I didn't want to be part of management or anybody important at the job. I wanted to be completely replaceable, that is what I thought I would be doing for most of my life and writing. Then I got a ground and my first book got a frontpage review in the New York Times Book Review.
W: When did writing enter your life?
M: Books are always being in my life. My dad love books and most of what he read were westerns-spy novels, mysteries. I grew up loving books, copying my father's love for books. But nobody has showed me a book written by an Indian, not even one piece of poem. Nothing. At that time I was going to be a physician. I loved math and science. I got to college, couldn't handle physiology, and was looking around for options and took a poetry writing class for fun.
W: Poetry was your way in?
M: Yes, that's where I started. I took the class and honestly, I just thought it would be an easy grade. But I completely underestimated poetry and what it would do to me and the realm of possibility for it. I took the class and was hooked about ten minutes after reading my first contemporary poem.
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A.He might do some evening teaching.
B.He could bring unfinished work home.
C.He might have time to pursue his interests.
D.He could invest more emotion in his family.
He didn't have time to read the report word for word, he just ______ it.
A.skimmed
B.observed
C.overlooked
D.glanced