After the Second World War fashionable short skirts ______ to ankle length.A.shortenedB.dr
After the Second World War fashionable short skirts ______ to ankle length.
A.shortened
B.dropped
C.lowered
D.lengthen
After the Second World War fashionable short skirts ______ to ankle length.
A.shortened
B.dropped
C.lowered
D.lengthen
It is implied in the passage that______.
A.children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly
B.even after they have learnt to speak children still enjoy imitating
C.children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak
D.parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds
Part B
Computer has made us lazy; Do you agree or disagree? Write an essay of about 120 words to present your own view.
In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement. In the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details.
Eiffel Is an Eyeful
Some 300 meters up, near the Eiffel Tower's wind-whipped summit the world comes to scribble. Japanese, Brazilians, Americans they graffiti their names, loves and politics on the cold iron -- transforming the most French of monuments into symbol of a world on the move.
With Paris laid out in miniature below, it seems strange that visitors would rather waste time marking their presence than admire the view. But the graffiti also raises a question: Why, nearly 114 years after it was completed, and decades after it ceased to be the world's tallest structure, is la Tour Eiffel still so popular?
The reasons are as complex as the iron work that graces a structure some 90 stories high. But part of the answer is, no doubt, its agelessness. Regularly maintained, it should never rust away. Graffiti is regularly painted over, but the tower lives on. "Eiffel represents Paris and Paris is France. It Is very symbolic," says Hugues Richard, a 31-year-old Frenchman who holds the record for cycling up to the tower's second floor -- 747 steps in 19 minutes and 4 seconds, without touching the floor with his feet. "It's iron lady, it inspires us," he says.
But to what? After all, the tower doesn't have a purpose. It ceased to be the world's tallest in 1930 when the Chrysler Building went up in New York. Yes, television and radio signals are beamed from the top, and Gustave Eiffel, a frenetic builder who died on December 27, aged 91, used its height for conducting research into weather, aerodynamics and radio communication.
But in essence the tower inspires simply by being there -- a blank canvas for visitors to make of it what they will. To the technically minded, it's an engineering triumph. For lovers, it's romantic.
"The tower will outlast all of us, and by a long way," says Isabelle Esnous, whose company manages Eiffel Tower.
Why does the author think the Eiffel Tower is transformed into symbol of a world on the move?
A.Tourists from all over the world come to the Eiffel Tower by car or by plane.
B.Tourists of all nationalities come to scribble on the cold iron of the tower.
C.The Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in the world.
D.The Eiffel Tower represents all the towers in the world.
The appetizer is always served as the second dish after soup in a western dinner.()
It can be inferred from the second paragraph that Lilli was fashioned after ______
A.Build
B.a German doll.
C.a pretty girl.
D.a shapely woman.
A.True
B.False
C.Not mentioned
After talking with Dr.Walker,Joyce decided
A.to get a second opinion elsewhere.
B.not to see any other doctors.
C.to give up treatment.
D.not to trust him.
It can be inferred from the second paragraph that Lilli was fashioned after ______.
A.Build
B.a German doll
C.a pretty girl
D.a shapely woman
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
After talking with Dr. Walker, Joyce decided ______.
A.to get a second opinion elsewhere
B.not to see any other doctors
C.to give up treatment
D.not to trust him