________ lower cost, his design has many other advantages.
A.Except
B.Beside
C.Besides
D.Exceptthat
A.Except
B.Beside
C.Besides
D.Exceptthat
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Nineteen-year-old Christopher Paolini has always loved adventure books. In fact, he plotted out his first book, Eragon, when he was just fifteen!Eragon is selling more copies than most of the Harry Potter books. A reporter from Who's News talked to this young author about his books and how he ended up being one of the best-selling authors of all time! Reporter : ________ Christopher Paolini (CP): I love fantasy. I love the sense of awe (敬畏) and wonder that you always get at the end of a great book . Eragon was an attempt to expressthat. When I was about twelve, I read a book called Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher. It's about a young boy who went into a mysterious shop and bought a dragon egg that ends up hatching. It stuck in my head. Eragon was an attempt to see what I could do with the idea myself. Reporter : Where else do you get your idea? CP: I'm definitely influenced by authors who have a fairly inventive use of language, imaginative worlds and a sense of wonder-authors who write about things that other people don't. Reporter : What was the hardest thing about writing Eragon? CP: Probably the editing (编辑) because I wasn't used to it. It was a kind of shock doing it. But also I had to learn a huge amount about grammar and commas and other things I'd never paid much attention to before. I'd say that editing and writing are pretty much equal in difficulty. My raw writing is a lot more professional now than it ever was before because of everything I learned through the editing process. Reporter : How do you avoid becoming frustrated with the writing process? CP: Write about what you enjoy the most or what touches you the most; otherwise you'll never be able to survive a book-length project. Reporter : Anything else you'd like to share with our readers? CP: Before I wrote Eragon, I spent an entire month plotting out the entire story so I wasn't writing blindly. That helps. I really poured my heart and soul into it. It's not just an adventure story: it is about Eragon trying to work out who we are, why we are here and how we can live honorably. |
1. The reporter's first question is most likely to be " ________". |
A. What's the most interesting thing about Eragon? B. How long did it take you to write Eragon? C. How has your writing improved after Eragon? D. What inspired you to write Eragon? |
2. What does the underlined word "that" refer to in the third paragraph? |
A. A story. B. The sense of awe and wonder. C. An idea. D. A great book or movie. |
3. What does Paolini find as difficult as writing? |
A. Plotting out the story. B. Grammar and commas. C. The editing process. D. The creative use of language. |
4. Which of the following BEST indicates Paolini devoted himself completely to writing Eragon? |
A. "Write about what you enjoy the most or what touches you the most." B. "Eragon was an attempt to see what I could do with the idea myself." C. "I spent an entire month plotting out the entire story." D. "I really poured my heart and soul into it." |
A.lower cost B.higher performance
C.sustained productivity D.Nil of the above
People say one man's trash(垃圾) is another man's treasure. That____comes to me as I____the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed away in 1996. My father left the house____my sister and me when he died a few months ago. After Dad was____, we looked around the____house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we felt so____all the stuff(东西) left. Like so many of their generation,my parents____everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious____about what to abandon and what to keep. As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every____my parents ever saw, I also____many hidden treasures. Mom's pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it,____her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran(退伍兵) and a world traveler,____everything -- from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the____. The letters he wrote during the war____his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I____our old kitchen table, which brought back____of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together. I'm realizing all these things____my parents' life journey. Each time I go to____, I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I____knew.____, from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.
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A a common single element
B fitted to more bigger engines.
C a more precision-built unit
D Both A and C
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As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni Indians of North America were building with adobe-sunbaked brick plastered with mud. Their homes looked remarkably like modern apartment houses. Some were four stories high and contained quarters for perhaps thousand people, along with store rooms for grain and other goods. These buildings were usually put up against cliffs, both to make construction easier and for defense against enemies. They were really villages in themselves, as later Spanish explorers must have realized since they called them "pueblos", which is Spanish for town. The people of the pueblos raised what are called "the three sisters"-corn, beans, and squash. They made excellent pottery and wove marvelous baskets, some so fine that they could hold water. The Southwest has always been a dry country, where water is scarce. The Hopi and Zuni brought water from streams to their fields and gardens through irrigation ditches. Water was so important that it played a major role in their religion. They developed elaborate ceremonies and religious rituals to bring rain. The way of life of lesssettled groups was simpler and more strongly influenced by nature. Small tribes such as the Shoshone and Ute wandered the dry and mountainous lands between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. They gathered seeds and hunted small animals such as rabbits and snakes.In the Far North the ancestors of today's Inuit hunted seals, walruses, and the great whales. They lived right on the frozen seas in shelters called igloos built of blocks of packed snow. When summer came, they fished for salmon and hunted the lordly caribou. The Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Sioux tribes, known as the Plains Indians, lived on the grasslands between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. They hunted bison commonly called the buffalo. Its meat was the chief food of these tribes, and its hide was used to make their clothing and the covering of their tents and tipis. 1. What does the text mainly discuss? A. The architecture of early American Indian buildings. B. The movement of American Indians across North America. C. Ceremonies and rituals of American Indians. D. The way of life of American Indian tribes in early North America. 2. It can be inferred from the text that the buildings of the Hopi and Zuni were ________. A. very small B. highly advanced C. difficult to defend D. quickly constructed 3. Which of the following is true? A. The Spanish explorers didn't know what the buildings really was, as they called it "pueblos". B. The Hopi and Zuni had no idea of how to farm. C. The people of the pueblos were good at weaving. D. Since water was so important, the people of the pueblos wove baskets to carry water. 4. What information can you get from the text? A. The Plains Indians lived on bison. B. The majority of the American Indians lived in igloos. C. The Hopi and Zuni had a smaller population. D. The lands between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River were dry. 5. How many tribes are mentioned in the text? A. 8. B. 7. C. 6. D. 5. |
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