I can’t find words to () my thanks.
A.press
B.depress
C.oppress
D.express
A.press
B.depress
C.oppress
D.express
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A.Jane's writing is only average.
B.Jane misspells too many words in her essay.
C.Jane shouldn't improve her spelling.
D.Jane can't stand to write in her essay.
A.When the Computer Is Down
B.The Most Frightening Words
C.The Computer of the Airport
D.Asking the Computer
M: And they also use clicks as a sort of sonar.
W: I really couldn't understand that part of the lecture. You could?
M: Yes, the dolphins use clicks to identify objects in the water; they can even identify tiny objects more than 100 meters away using these clicks. Scientists believe that a dolphin may even have a sonar-like image in its brain of a distant object so that it can identify the object long before the dolphin can actually see the object.
W: So the dolphins use these clicks mostly to identify objects in the water?
M: I think so, and they have considerably more ability to do this than humans do.
W: It is hard to believe that, in addition to these sonar clicks, dolphins are actually learning some human language.
M: Yes, I believe that the lecture said that some dolphins had already learned around fifty human commands, and that those dolphins were able to understand not only individual words but words clustered together in sentences!
W: Dolphins must certainly be amazing animals to do all of that.
M: I'm sure they are, and we're only just beginning to find out how intelligent they are.
Where did the woman learn about dolphins?
A.In a book..
B.From a television program.
C.During a trip that she took..
D.From a lecture.
"If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket."
"I can't write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so."
I looked down the counter and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all the people do?"
"We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not."
"So when it goes down, you go down with it."
"That’s what happens, sir."
"How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know.
"I have no idea. Sometimes it's down for ten minutes, sometimes for two hours. There is no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us."
After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said, "Let's forget the computer. What about your planes? They're still flying, aren't they?"
"I couldn't tell without asking the computer."
"Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington." I suggested.
"I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to ' Washington', he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket."
"Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours.'?"
"I wouldn't know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only 'IT' knows. 'it' can't tell me."
By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage(行李).
The best headline for the article is ______.
A.When the Computer Is Down
B.The Most Frightening Words
C.The Computer of the Airport
D.Asking the Computer
The author uses the word "euphemism" as an example to maintain that______.
A.you can't understand the exact meaning of an unfamiliar word according to its surrounding words
B.you can always guess the meanings of difficult words because of the context
C.you express yourself in an indirect and less harsh way sometimes
D.you can sometimes find clues to the meanings of unfamiliar words in their context
—I can’t find John— Look! He ____________ a blue jacket today.
A.is having on
B.puts on
C.is wearing
D.dresses
听力原文: I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mother's words as if it were yesterday: "Carol, I don't want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him."
AIDS wasn't something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father's other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.
We couldn't afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn't even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher's words were drowned as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.
I did not share my burden with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too weak to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless. I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.
I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn't want to call attention to AIDS. I do.
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A.He told no one about his disease.
B.He worked hard to pay for his medication.
C.He depended on the nurses in his final days.
D.He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill.
-- I can't find John. -- Look! He ______ a blue jacket today.
A.is having on
B.puts on
C.is wearing
D.dresses