Paul could not dance, and he could not sing well either(用nor连接句子)
A.Because the rituals could be performed anywhere.
B.Because music, dance, masks and costumes were frequently used.
C.Because the entire community participated.
D.Because the performers were actors.
阅读理解:(1)Paul was dissaisfied with himself and with everything. The deepest of his love belonged to his mother. W hen he felt he had hurt her, or wounded his love for her, he could not bear it.
Paul is___.
____.
The underlined word “differentiate ” could best be replaced by _______
A、share
B、distinguish
C、merge
D、unite
It can be inferred from the passage that______.
A.John and Paul were more talented and made greater contribution to the success of the band
B.John and Paul sang their own songs because they didn't like each other's style
C.George and Ringo never composed or sang their own songs
D.The Beatles maintained so much popularity with their works that no other recording or writing group could compare
It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.John and Paul were more talented and made greater contribution to the success of the band
B.John and Paul sang their own songs because they didn't like each other's style
C.George and Ringo never composed or sang their own songs
D.The Beatles maintained so much popularity with their works that no other recording or writing group could compare
Chaplin is regarded as king of comedy mainly because ______.
A.he acted out the common human situations best in his comedy
B.he could sing and dance well
C.he knew how to make people laugh
D.lots of people have seen his films
Leslie: How are you this afternoon?
Paul: Just fine.I(1)the catalog you gave me this morning, and I'd like to(2)prices on your computer speakers.
Leslie: Very good(3).
Paul: Let me see….I see that your listed price for the K-two-one model is ten US dollars.Do you offer quantity discounts?
Leslie:(4)We give a five percent discount for orders of a hundred or more.
Paul: What kind of discount could you give me(5)I were to place an order for six hundred units?
Leslie: On an order of six hundred, we can give you(6).
Paul : What about delivery time?
Leslie: We could ship your order(7)ten days of receiving your payment.
Paul: So, you require payment in advance of shipment?
Leslie: Yes.You could wire transfer the payment into our bank account or
(8)in our favor.
Paul: I'd like to(9)and place an order for six hundred units.
Leslie: Great! I'll just(10)the purchase order and have you sign it.
A.discuss
B.We sure do.
C.a discount of ten percent
D.open a letter of credit
E.fill out
F.looked over
G.Here is our price list.
H.if
I.within
J.go ahead
The suggestion that bees were not pulling their weight met with skepticism from British beekeepers.Glyn Davies,the President of the British Beekeepers Association,said that bees were not lazy but efficient,“At any particular stage in its energy by doing nothing.Each bee has a unit of life energy and the faster it works,the faster it dies.They are being very wise and perhaps humans should try to follow their example instead of running about like headless chickens.”
The idea of the busy bee is several thousand years old.One current author who has nothing but admiration for the bee is Paul Theroux,the novelist and part-time beekeeper.“I have never seen a bee sleeping.My bees never stop working,”he said.Mr.
Theroux added that Prof.Menzel’s research could have been affected by his national origins.“Perhaps in comparison to the German rate of work,the bee does look lazy,”he said.
Few people think that the busy bee idea will go away,despite the efforts of Prof.Menzel.It seems absurd to apply the word“lazy”to a colony of creatures capable of producing something so extraordinary as honeycomb.The truth is that bees give us an inferiority complex that is not entirely unjustified.In fact,the worship of bees seems to be undergoing a renaissance.IBM recently ran a series of ads drawing on the“waggle dance”of bees,telling businessmen to“make your business waggle.”
36.Prof.Randolf Menzel’s latest research .
A.challenges our knowledge of the relations among bees
B.confirms our knowledge of the relations among bees
C.challenges our perception of the nature of bees
D.confirms our perception of the nature of bees
37.Prof.Randolf Menzel would disagree that .
A.bees are hard working
B.bees are quick learners
C.bees have intelligence
D.bees have good memory
38.According to Glyn Davies,what should we learn from bees?
A.How to work faster.
B.How to live longer.
C.How to cooperate with each other.
D.How to improve work efficiency.
39.It could be inferred from Paragraph 3 that the Germans .
A.are easily affected by their national characters
B.are extremely busy and hard working
C.have many things in common with bees
D.tend to look down upon lazy people
40.The IBM ads in the passage are used to .
A.show the popularity of the idea of busy bees
B.emphasize the negative image of busy bees
C.initiate public discussions on the busy bee image
D.question the comparison of busy bees to humans
Her search for natural movement form. sent her to nature. She believed movement should be as natural as the swaying of the trees and the rolling waves of the sea, and should be in harmony with the movements of the Earth. Her great contributions are in three areas.
First, she began the expansion of the kinds of movements that could be used in dance. Before Duncan danced, ballet was the only type of dance performed in concert. In the ballet the feet and legs were emphasized, with virtuosity shown by complicated movements. Duncan performed dance by using all her body in the freest possible way. Her dance stemmed from her soul and spirit. She was one of the pioneers who broke tradition so others might be able to develop the art.
Her second contribution lies in dance costume. She discarded ballet shoes and stiff costumes. These were replaced with bare feet, and unbound hair. She believed in the natural body being allowed to move freely, and her dress displayed this ideal.
Her third contribution was in the use of music. In her performances she used the symphonies of great masters, including Beethoven and Wagner, which was not the usual custom.
She was as exciting and eccentric in her personal life as in her dance.
According to the passage, what did nature represent to Isadora Duncan?
A.Something to conquer.
B.A model for movement.
C.A place to find peace.
D.A symbol of disorder.
M: I first became interested in do-it-yourself several years ago. You see, my son Paul is disabled. He's in a wheelchair and I just had to make alterations to the house.
W: Have you had any experience of this kind of work?
M: No. I got a few books from the library but they didn't help very much. Then I decided to go to evening classes so that I could learn basic carpentry and electrics.
W: What sort of changes did you make to the house?
M: First of all, practical things to help Paul. Just imagine the problems a disabled person would have in your house. We need a large house with wide corridors so that Paul could get from one room to another. We didn't have much money and we had to buy this one. It's over ninety years old and it was in a very bad state of repair.
W: Where did you begin?
M: The electrics. I completely rewired the house so that Paul could reach all the switches.
W: What else did you do?
M: By the time I'd altered everything for Paul, do-it-yourself had become a hobby. I really enjoyed doing things with my hands.
W: What are you working on now?
M: I've just finished the kitchen. Now I'm building an extension so that Paul will have a large room on the ground floor where he can work.
W: There's a $10,000 prize for the Do-it-yourself competition. How are you going to spend it?
M: I'm hoping to start my own business so that I can convert ordinary houses for disabled people. I think I've become an expert on the subject.
(27)
A.He likes to do things with his own hands.
B.He wants to make things easier for Paul.
C.His house was in a very bad shape when he bought it.
D.He wants to save money.