An Arizona teen mistakenly invited to a stranger’s Thanksgiving dinner by text attended the feast after all, praising the kindly grandmother for honoring the wrong invitation. “She welcomed me into her house, so that shows me how great of a person she is,” Jamal Hinton, a 17-year-old boy, told ABC15 Arizona in Mesa. “I’m thankful for people like that.” Jamal was offered a seat at Wanda Dench’s table for Thanksgiving when she thought she was texting her grandson and his girlfriend. Jamal responded by asking for a photo to confirm if it was his own grandmother behind the text. The picture came in of a woman with blonde hair and glasses—not Jamal’s grandma. “You’re not my grandma,” Jamal replied with a laughing face. He then sent back a photo of himself to let her know he was not her grandson. But even though it was a mistake, Dench upheld the invitation and Jamal happily accepted. Jamal shared a Thanksgiving Day photo of him and Dench on his Twitter page. The photo was seen and shared 37,000 times.1.What did the 17-year-old boy receive before Thanksgiving?A) A present from his grandma.B) An invitation from a stranger.C) A text from his girlfriend.D) A photo from his grandma.2.What did the boy do when he found there was a mistake?A) He sent back a photo of himself.B) He couldn’t help laughing at it.C) He turned down the invitation.D) He shared the text on Twitter.

Three decades ago leukemia was mostly _ , while now, over half of the leukemia cases could be cured.()A. crucialB. lethalC. vagueD. ethical

[听力文本资源]An Arizona teen mistakenly invited to a stranger’s Thanksgiving dinner by text attended the feast after all, praising the kindly grandmother for honoring the wrong invitation. “She welcomed me into her house, so that shows me how great of a person she is,” Jamal Hinton, a 17-year-old boy, told ABC15 Arizona in Mesa. “I’m thankful for people like that.” Jamal was offered a seat at Wanda Dench’s table for Thanksgiving when she thought she was texting her grandson and his girlfriend. Jamal responded by asking for a photo to confirm if it was his own grandmother behind the text. The picture came in of a woman with blonde hair and glasses—not Jamal’s grandma. “You’re not my grandma,” Jamal replied with a laughing face. He then sent back a photo of himself to let her know he was not her grandson. But even though it was a mistake, Dench upheld the invitation and Jamal happily accepted. Jamal shared a Thanksgiving Day photo of him and Dench on his Twitter page. The photo was seen and shared 37,000 times.[听力文本资源]1. [听力文本资源] What did the 17-year-old boy receive before Thanksgiving? [听力文本资源]A) A present from his grandma.B) An invitation from a stranger. C) A text from his girlfriend.D) A photo from his grandma.2. [听力文本资源] What did the boy do when he found there was a mistake? [听力文本资源]A) He sent back a photo of himself. B) He couldn’t help laughing at it.C) He turned down the invitation.D) He shared the text on Twitter.

Section C PassageQuestion 16A. The card got damaged.B. The card was found invalid.C. The card reader failed to do the scanning.D. The card reader broke down unexpectedly.

Details of the murder were _____ by the local paper.A. discoveredB. revealedC. exposedD. found

7年6月大学英语四级考试真题(一)听力原文⏺Q12: What does the man say about Ben?C)He has stopped making terrible faces.Q13: What did aunt Marry used to do when the man was a child?D)Warn him of danger by making up a story.Q14: What does the woman believe swans could do?A)They could break people’s legs.Q15: What did the grandmother of the man’s wife say?B)One would have to shave their head to remove a bat in their hair.[Passage 1]If I could go back in history and live when I liked, I wouldn't go back very far. In fact, I'd like to relive a period I've already lived – the 1960s.I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed. People would come in out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible. Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening. The cinema, the theater, all that was every exciting with new things coming out. In fact, we seemed to be out, all the time! I don't really remember working – of course, I was a student – or sitting around at home very much. That just wasn't where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time, ordinary people started going out to eat. We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking. And dress, yes, that was the revolution. I mean, girls went around in really short skirts, and wore flowers in their hair. And men were in jeans, and could wear their hair long too. It was a wonderful period. It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back. We didn't have much money, but it didn't matter. And there was plenty of opportunity to do whatever you felt like doing.Q16. Why does the speaker say he would like to relive the 1960s?C)Everything seemed to be changing.Q17. What does the speaker say was the most popular thing to do at that time?A)Meeting people.Q18. What do we learn about the speaker?D)He was a young student in the 1960s.[Passage 2]Dogs, man's best friends, have a clear strategy for dealing with angry owners—they look away.New research shows that dogs limit their eye contact with angry humans. The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down. This behavior may have evolved as dogs gradually learned they could benefit from avoiding conflicts with humans.To conduct the tests, the University of Helsinki researchers trained 31 dogs to rest in front of a video screen. Facial photos of dogs and humans were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds. They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions. Nearby cameras tracked the dogs' eye movements.Dogs in the study looked most at the eyes of humans and other dogs to sense their emotions. When dogs looked at expressions of angry dogs, their eyes rested more on the mouth, perhaps to interpret the threatening expressions. And when looking at angry humans, they tended to turn away their gaze.Dogs may have learned to detect threat signs from humans and respond by trying to make peace, according to researcher Sanni Somppi. Avoiding conflicts may have helped dogs develop better bonds with humans.The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature. They suggest this indicates that dogs aren't sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.Q19. What do dogs do when they are faced with angry humans?B)They avoid looking at them.Q20. What does a dog do when it sees the expressions of angry dogs?C)It focuses its eyes on their mouths.Q21. How does a dog sense people's feelings?B)By taking in their facial expressions as a whole.[Passage 3]Winter in many places is very cold. There is lots of snow around, and the ground freezes, which can make life difficult for animals. People in cold places live in warm houses and have learned to adapt. What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate.Some animals, such as bears, frogs and snakes, sleep all winter. They sleep very deeply and need little or no food. While sleeping, their body temperature drops, and their heart beat slows down. To prepare for this before winter, these animals eat extra food to become fat, which gives them the energy they need while they sleep.Other animals adapt. For example, by staying active in winter. It is often hard for them to find food. So some animals, such as mice, collect extra food before winter, and hide it. When winter comes, they return to their hiding places to eat the food. Some animals grow thicker fur, or live in tree holes or underground to stay warm.Some birds migrate by flying to a warmer place for the winter, where they can find more food. Some fly very long distances, including one kind of bird that flies from the remote north of the world, all the way to the distant south. Some birds fly in groups for safety, while others fly alone.Q22. What does the speaker say about animals in winter?D)They resort to different means to survive the bitter cold.Q23. What do we learn about animals that sleep through winter?C)They consume the energy stored before the long sleep.Q24. How do animals like mice adapt to the severe winter?A)By storing enough food beforehandQ25. Why do some birds fly in groups when migrating, according to the speaker?C)To stay safe2017年6月大学英语四级考试真题(一)听力原文[News Report 1]One of Google's self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month. There were no injuries.It is not the first time one of Google's famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.On February 14th the self-driving car, travelling at 2mph (3km/h), pulled out in front of a public bus going 15mph (24km/h).The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.In a statement, Google said: "We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a crash."That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that."The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the US, and until now have only reported minor accidents.Q1: According to Google, what was the cause of the accident?B)The test driver made a wrong judgement

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题目 15个 英语单选 1.If you want to start a business,you must have some______. A.income5 5B.wealth5 C.capital5 5D.treasure 2.The beef used to cost three dollars,but now the price ______ 50 cents. A.goes up5 5B.went up5 C.has gone up 5D.had gone up 3.Your answers on these tests are too much ______.You must have cheated. A.like5 5B.liking5 C.alike5 5D.likely 4.All the other rooms are occupied.May I use this ______room? A.bare5 5B.blank5 C.vacant5 5D.hollow 5.The picnic was ______ because of the rain. A.called for5 5B.called out C.called on5 5D.called off 6.Those people once had fame and fortune; now ____is left to them is utter poverty. A.all what5 5B.all which C.that all5 5D.all that 7.We were ______ for half an hour in the traffic jam and so we missed the train. A.held out5 5B.held on5 C.held up5 5D.held down 8.If he can ______ the speed,he will win the race. A.maintain5 5B.contain5 C.make5 5D.take 9.They ______ that the library be kept open during the holidays. A.convinced5 5B.persuaded C.impressed5 5D.urged 10.With her children ______,she is now taking on more work responsibilities. A.growing up 5B.to grow up C.have grown up 5D.grown up 11.Seven years old ______,Tom likes all kinds of _____ games. A.as he is …puzzling5 55B.as is he…puzzling C.as he is …puzzled5 5D.as is he…puzzled 12.5______ enter university one day,I would work hard. A.Would I ever5 5B.Ever would I C.Ever should I5 5D.Should I ever 13.If only he ______what I tell him,but he won’t. A.had done5 5B.would do C.would have done 5D.has done 14.The doctor insisted that the patient_____ for three months. A.not to work too hard 5B.to take some vacations C.took it easy 5D.should take it easy 15.5______ what to do,the man telephoned the police. A.Not known 5B.Not knowing C.Don’t know5 5D.Knowing not

Section B-|||-Directions: In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten staiements anached to it. Each statement-|||-contains information give in one of the paragraphs. Idenslfy the paragraph from which the information is-|||-derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Annwer-|||-the questions by marking the corresponding on Answer Sheet 2.-|||-Ancient Greek Wisdom Inspires Guldelines to Good Life-|||-A) Is it possible to enjoy a peaceful life in a world that is increasingly challenged b threats and uncertainties from-|||-wurs,terrorism, cconomic crises and a widespread outbreak of infectious diseases? The answer is yes,according-|||-to a new book The 10 Golden Rules:Anclent Wisdom from the Greek Philosophers on Living a Good Life. The-|||-book is co authored by Long Island University`s philo professor Michael Souplos and economics professor-|||-Panos Mourdoukoutas.-|||-B)The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless,says Soupios. The philosophy professor says as-|||-relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago."There is no expiration (失效)date on wisdom,"-|||-he says."There is no shelf life on intelligence. I t that things have become very gloomy these days,lots of-|||-misunderstanding,misleading cues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophisrry(论辩).The nice-|||-thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole,, in a way-|||-that we tend not to see life today."-|||-Examine your life-|||-C) Soupios,along with his co-author Panos Mourdoukoutas,devel 10 golden rules by turning to the men-|||-behind that philosopy-Ari Socrates,Epictetus and Pythagoras,among others.The first rule-examine-|||-your life-is the common thread that runs through the entire book. Soupios says that it is based on Plato`s-|||-observation that the unexamined life is not worth living."The Greeks are always concemed sbout boxing-|||-themselves in,in terms of comvictions(倍念),"he says."So take a step back,switch off the automatic pilot and-|||-actually stop and reflect about things like our priorities,our values, and our relationships."-|||-Stop worrying about what you can not control-|||-D)As we begin to examine our life,Soupios says,we come to Rule No.2:Worry only about things that you can-|||-control."The individual w promoted this idea was a Stoic philosopher.His name is Epictetus," h says."And-|||-what the Stoics say in general is simply this: There is a larger plan in life.You are not really going to be able to-|||-understand all of the dimensions of this plan.You are not going to be able to control the dimensions of this plan."-|||-E)So,Soupios explains,it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectua and spiritual energy worrying about-|||-things that are beyond our control."I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu,for-|||-example,"he says."I mean,there are some cautious steps I can take,but ultimately I can not guarantee myself-|||-that.So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong and wasteful and-|||-irrational. You should you`re your life attempting to identify and control those things which you can genuinely-|||-control."-|||-Seek true pleasure-|||-F) To have a meaningful, life we need friends. But according to Aristotle-a student of Plato and teacher of-|||-Alexander the Great-most relationships don`t quali as true friendships.Just because I have a business-|||-relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship,it does not necessarily mean that this person-|||-is my friend." Soupios says."Real friendship is when two individuals share the same soul. It is a beauti and-|||-unchar acteristically poetic ima that Aristotle offers."-|||-G)In our pursuit of the good life,he says,it is important to seek out true pleasures-advice which was originally-|||-offered by Epicurus.But unlike the modem definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence (i)线) at an lu-|||-for the ancient Greeks,it meant finding a state of calm,peace and mental ease.-|||-H)"This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans." Soup-|||-says."This is something that is very much well worth considering herein the modem era. I do not think that we-|||-spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental-|||-and spiritual way,which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure."-|||-Do good to others-|||-I) Other golden rules counsel us to master ourselves,to avold excess and not to be a prosperous (发迹的)fool-|||-There are also rules dealing with interpersonal relationshi a responsible human being and do not do evil-|||-things to others.-|||-"This is Hesiod,of course,a younger contemporary poet,we believe,with Homer,"Soupios says."Hesiod-|||-offers an idea-which you very often find in some of the world`s great religions, the Judeo-Christian tradition-|||-and in Islarn and others-that in some sense, when you hurt another human being,you hurt yourself. That-|||-damaging other people in your community and in your life,trashing relationships, r in a kind of self-inflicted-|||-(自己招致的)spiritual wound."-|||-K)Instead,Soupios says,ancient wisdom urges us to do good. Golden Rule No. 10 for a good life is that kindness-|||-toward others tends to be rewarded.-|||-L)"This is Aesop,the fabulist(寓言家),the man of these charming little tales,often told in terms of animals and-|||-animal relationships,"he says."I think what Acsop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another-|||-human being,one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you,the doer of the-|||-good deed. Even if there is no concrete benefit paid in response to your good deed,at the very least,the doer of-|||-the good deed has the opportunity to enjoy a kind of spirinully cnlightened-|||-M)Soupios says following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life-|||-where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.And that,he notes, is a life-|||-worth living.-|||-36.According to an ancient Greek philosopher, it is imposs for us to understand every aspect of our life.-|||-37.Ancient philosophers saw life in a different light from people of today.-|||-38.Not all your business partners are your soul mates.-|||-39.We can live a peaceful life despite the various challenges of the modern world.-|||-40.The doer of a good deed can feel spiritually rewarded even when they gain no concrete benefits.-|||-41.How to achieve mental calmness and contentment is well worth our consideration today.-|||-42.Michael Soupios suggests that we should stop and think carefully about our priorities in life-|||-43.Ancicmt philosophers stro that we do good.-|||-44.The wise teachings of ancient Greek thinkers are timeless,and are applicable to contemporary life.-|||-45.Do harm to others and you do harm to yourself.

Fool __________ Jane is, she could not have done such a thing.A. whoB. asC. thatD. like