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—I usually go there by train. —Why not______by boat for a change?A.to try goingB.trying to
—I usually go there by train. —Why not______by boat for a change?
A.to try going
B.trying to go
C.to try and go
D.try going
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—I usually go there by train. —Why not______by boat for a change?
A.to try going
B.trying to go
C.to try and go
D.try going
I usually take sandwiches for my lunch, but ______and then I go to a cafe
A.once
B.now
C.ever
D.before
A.Just the small restaurant downstairs
B.I go to a park
C.At 12 o’clock
D.I go with my friend
Whether at home or in a restaurant, meals in Brazil are sacred(神圣的) ; a time to eat, but also to share precious moments with family and friends. Now, here's a Brazilian custom I miss enormously: a decent, sit-down, leisurely-paced lunch and/or dinner. To this day, I have to keep reminding myself, "what's the big hurry? " and I confess that one of the things I look forward to, when I go to Brazil, is the "family" meal. We have a joke that, if you see people sitting around a table in the US, having lunch for longer than 1/2 hour, it must be a business lunch. And also, sitting at your desk and eating lunch while you work is incomprehensible to most Brazilians, who leave their offices to eat with their colleagues and friends in restaurants and cafes. You guess, lunch is usually a more substantial meal than in the U.S.
(68) For lunch and, depending on the location, also dinner, Brazilians have wonderful, inexpensive restaurants where home-style. meals are sold by kilo. You just pile the food on your plate and someone will weigh it for you. The same goes for desserts. You order drinks from your waiter and pay him at the end of your meal.
Dinner is served much later than in the U. S. In the big cities, children are a common sight in restaurants at night, since Brazilians will take their kids out to dinner at all hours. As a result of this and the traditional Sunday lunches, Brazilian kids learn table manners at an early age. For many of my Brazilian friends, dinner is a lighter meal of bread, cheese and cold cuts. So expect either type of meal.
In Brazil, people usually have meals______.
A.in a hurry at restaurants
B.in a leisurely manner
C.at their desk in the office
D.for less than 1/2 hour
This student was experiencing something called test anxiety. Because a student worries and is uneasy about a test, his or her mind does not work as well as it usually does. The student cannot write or think clearly because of the extreme tension and nervousness. Although poor grades are often a result of poor study habits, sometimes test anxiety causes the low grades. Recently, test anxiety has been recognized as a real problem, not just an excuse or a false explanation of lazy students.
Special university counseling course try to help students. In these courses, counselors try to help students by teaching them how to manage test anxiety. At some universities, students take tests to measure their anxiety. If the tests show their anxiety is high, the students can take short courses to help them deal with their tension. These courses teach students how to relax their minds. Students are trained to become calm in very tense situations. By controlling their nervousness, they can let their minds work at ease. Learned information then comes out without difficulty on a test.
An expert at the University of California explains, "With almost all students, relaxation and less stress are felt after talking our program. Most of them experience better control during their tests. Almost all have some improvement. With some, the improvement is very great.
To "blank out" is probably ______.
A.to be like a blanket
B.to be sure of an answer
C.to be unable to think clearly
D.to show knowledge to the teacher
Many Americans still _____1 whether honesty was an important part of the American Character.______2 that reason,there are ______3 watch-dog committees at all levels of society.Although signs of dishonesty in school,business,and government seem much more numerous in recent years than in the past,could it be that we are getting better at revealing such dishonesty? Some evidence is ______4 that dishonesty may ebb and flow.When times are hard,incidents of theft and cheating usually go ______ 5.And when times get better such incidents tend to go down.
According to the author, the reason why we go wrong about our friends is that ______.
A)we fall to listen carefully when they talk
B)people tend to be annoyed when we cheek what they say
C) people usually state one thing hut means another
D)we tend to doubt what our friends say
According to the author, the reason why we go wrong about our friends is that ______.
A.we fail to listen carefully when they talk
B.people tend to be annoyed when we check what they say
C.people usually state one thing but mean another
D.we tend to doubt what our friends say
One of the most enjoyable jobs I've ever done was when I was a student. When you () what it was you may be a bit shocked, but () I know it sounds () I can assure you that it was in fact delightful. () it or not, I was grave-digger for a () summer. It was one of those hot, dry () which made the () as hard as rock and () needed a great deal of effort to dig the graves. Now, a grave-digger doesn't have anything to () with dead bodies. () he has to do is dig two-meter deep () and fill them in again when the coffin has been put (). As I said, it was a marvelous summer and I'm glad to say that I didn't have to work on my (). I had a workmate who had been digging graves since 1930. In spite of his depressing trade he was a () character, always laughing and () jokes. He () to tell me all about his experiences and I listened to him for hours () end. Mind you, () had to work quite hard and usually there were two or three graves to dig every day. () the time I had to go back to () I was fitter, browner and in some ways a wiser person.
1、A) hear B) know C) tell D) say
2、A) what B) because C) although D) however
3、A) strange B) good C) pleasant D) unpleasant
4、A) Take B) Hear C) Believe D) Like
5、A) long B) short C) pleasant D) whole
6、A) season B) summers C) days D) holidays
7、A) ground B) field C) grave D) work
8、A) which B) what C) it D) that
9、A) do B) deal C) fear D) carry
10、A) That B) All C) which D) where
11、A) graves B) holes C) caves D) places
12、A) down B) away C) on D) in
13、A) hand B) energy C) own D) problem
14、A) kind B) helpful C) bad D) cheerful
15、A) telling B) speaking C) hearing D) doing
16、A) was B) used C) wanted D) went
17、A) to B) with C) without D) on
18、A) he B) I C) we D) they
19、A) By B) To C) At D) From
20、A) dig B) work C) college D) employment
For the past decade, Bill Keaggy, 33, the features photo editor at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has been collecting grocery lists and since 1999 has been posting them online at www.grocerylists.org. The collection, which now numbers more than 500 lists, is strangely addictive. The lists elicit twofold curiosity — about the kind of meal the person was planning and the kind of person who would make such a meal. What was the shopper with vodka, lighters, milk and ice cream on his list planning to do with them? In what order would they be consumed? Was it a he or a she? Who had written "Tootie food, kitten chow, bird food stick, toaster scrambles, coffee drinks"? Some shoppers organize their lists by aisle; others start with dairy, go to cleaning supplies and then back to dairy before veering off to Home Depot. A few meticulous ones note the price of every item. One shopper had written in large letters on an envelope, simply, "Milk".
The thin lines of ink and pencil jutting and looping across crinkled and torn pieces of paper have a purely graphic beauty. One of life's most banal duties, viewed through the curatorial lens, can somehow seem pregnant with possibility. It can even appear poetic, as in the list that reads "meat, cigs, buns, treats".
One thing Keaggy discovered is that Dan Quayte is not alone — few people can spell bananas and bagels, let alone potato. One list calls for "suchi" and "strimp" . "Some people pass judgment on the things they buy. " Keaggy says. At the end of one list, the shopper wrote "Bud Light" and then "good beer". Another scribbled "good loaf of white bread". Some pass judgment on themselves, like the shopper who wrote "read, stay home or go somewhere, I act like my morn, go to Kentucky, underwear, lemon. "People send messages to one another, too. Buried in one list is this statement: "If you buy more rice, I'll punch you. "And plenty of shoppers, like the one with both ice cream and diet pills on the list, reveal their vices.
What would people usually do with their grocery list after shopping?
A.Buying what it is scrawled on the paper.
B.Recording the shorthand of where we shop.
C.Throwing it into the dustbin.
D.Posting it on the Internet.