S[br][/br]Q: What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A. How to appreciate Italian art.B. When to start their tour in Italy.C. Where to find good Italian food.D. What to do on their tour of Rome.

People's living standard in this city is far above ________.A. imaginationB. realityC. averageD. expectation

Researchers, writing in the journal Heart, pooled data from 23 studies and found that social isolation or feelings of loneliness were tied to an increased risk for coronary heart disease (冠心病 ) and strokes.The studies included data from 181,006 men and women ages 18 and over. There were 4,628 coronary events and 3,002 strokes in follow-up periods __26___from three to 21 years. Three of the papers__27__loneliness, 18 looked at social isolation and two included both. Social isolation and loneliness were determined with questionnaires; the researchers depended on medical records and death__28__for determining coronary events and strokes.The scientists found that loneliness and social isolation increased the __29__risk of having a heart attack or a death from heart disease by 29 percent, and the risk of stroke by 32 percent. There were no__30__between men and women."People have tended to focus from a policy point of view on__31__ lonely people to make them more__32__," said the lead author, Nicole K. Valtorta, a research fellow at the University of York in England. "Our study__33__that if this is a risk factor, then we should be trying to prevent the risk factor in the first place."The authors__34__that this was a review of observational studies and did not__35__cause and effect.A. acknowledgeB. certificatesC. connectedD. demonstratesE. differencesF. establishG. formatsH、measuredI、narrowJ、permanentK、producesL、rangingM、relativeN、submittingO、targeting

I enjoyed the movie very much. I wish I ______ the book from which it was made.A. have readB. had readC. should have readD. am reading

22. A) Use a map to identify your location. C) Sit down and try to calm yourself.B) Call your family or friends for help. D) Try to follow your footprints back.

Wead and choose (读一读,选一选。)-|||-() 1.-Do you know Wu Yifan?-|||-__-|||-A.Yes,I know. B.Yes,I do. C.Yes,I can.-|||-() 2. -Is MrJones young?-|||--1erasure , __ is.-|||-A. he B. she C. it-|||-() 3. -Is ChenJie kind?-|||-__-|||-A.No,he isn`t. B.Yes,he is. C.Yes,she is.-|||-() 4.----uur English teacher is Mr Wang.Is Mr Wang strict?-|||-__-|||-A.Yes,she is. B.Yes,he is. C.No,she isn`t`-|||-I. Look and flll (看一看,填一填。)

As much as murder is a staple in mystery stories, so is love. Love may be a four-letter word, or the greatest of the trio of faith, hope, and love. It may appear in a mystery as the driving force behind the plot and the characters. Or it may appear as an aside in a sub-plot, a light spot in a heavy story. But it’s there. Even Valentine knew love was worth dying for. An emotion this strong gets a lot of attention. Love has its own special day, St. Valentine’s Day. According to legend, the Roman emperor Claudius Ⅱ needed soldiers to fight for him in the far reaches of the Roman Empire. He thought married men would rather stay home than go to war for a couple of years, so he outlawed marriage and engagements. This did not stop people from falling in love. Valentine, a priest, secretly married many young couples. For this crime, he was arrested and executed on February 14. St. Valentine’s Day was off to a rocky start. Love, secrecy, crime and death, love prevailed, and the day lost its seamy side. Valentine’s Day became a day to exchange expressions of love. Small children give each other paper hearts. Adults exchange flowers and chocolates. Everyone has an attack of the warm fuzzies. Valentine’s Day was popular in Europe in the early 1800s as a day men brought gifts to the women they loved. Gradually the expectations grew higher, the gifts got bigger, and eventually the holiday collapsed under the weight of the bills. It was revived when the custom of exchanging love letters and love cards replaced the mandatory gifts. A young man’s love was measured in how much time he spent making a card with paper, lace, feathers, beads, and fabric. If the young man wasn’t good with scissors and glue, the job could be hired out to an artist who made house calls. Valentine’s Day grew more popular when machine-made cards became available, and people didn’t have to make their own. In England in 1840, the nation-wide Penny Post made it cheap for everyone to send Valentine cards. In the United States, national cheap postal rates were set in 1845, and valentines filled the mail. "Roses are red, violets are blue" was a popular verse on Valentine cards. Other holidays are associated with particular flowers―the Christmas poinsettia, the Easter lily―but Valentine’s Day has no specific flower. Instead, it has colors―red, pink, and white. Red symbolizes warmth and feeling. White stands for purity. According to one romantic rower’code, messages can be spelled out with flowers. Gardenias say "I love you secretly". Violets say "I return your love". Roses say "I love you passionately". Not surprisingly, the rose is now the top-seeded flower of love. But love mostly goes wrong in mystery stories. Very badly wrong. Somebody do something wrong. Husbands, wives, and lovers kill each other. Or kill for each other. Stack the characters up in any kind of love triangle, and watch how the angles are knocked off. Love is unrequited, thwarted and scorned. Murders are motivated by real or imaginary love, or the lack of it. That famous novelist Ernest Hemingway said, "If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it". So it goes in the mystery. Justice may win, but love is often the loser. In addition to plots driven by love, or the lack of it, there are sleuths who encounter love in the solving of the crime. The handsome or beautiful detective meets the suspect or the client. Their affair grows around, and in spite of, the murder. Think of the movies Casablanca and Chinatown. Barbara D’Amato offers a different twist on this theme in "Hard Feelings". The amateur sleuth meets a suspect or investigating officer and love smolders around the crime. Rose DeShaw’s "Love with the Proper Killer" is such a story. In a series of novels, if the continuing character is living a full life, love enters the storyline somewhere. Dorothy L. Sayers’ sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey fell in love with Harriet Vane while he sleuthed his way through a few books. Sherlock Holmes remained aloof, but Dr. Watson fell in love and married between impossible crimes. There were no such temptations for Hercule Poirot or Jane Marple, but Agatha Christie created Tuppence and Tommy Beresford as a detecting couple. Real crimes are sometimes motivated by love, and are written about in true crime books. E.W. Count describes one such case in "Love is a Risk." "Married to a Murderer," by Alan Russell, follows the crime one step further. Feeling an attack of the warm fuzzies Do something sweet for someone you love. Then do something sweet for yourself. Settle back with soft music and savor the online mysteries of love and romance in the Valentine and Romance Mysteries sections of this site.The word "staple" in Paragraph 1 means ______. A. necessary element B. romantic thing C. unacceptable pattern D. horrific thing

Part ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years now.Given a multi-year decline in illegal immigration, and a similarly sustained pickup in the U.S.job market, the complaints are unlikely to stop without an overhaul of immigration rules for farm workers.   Efforts to create a more straightforward agricultural-workers visa that would enable foreign workers to stay longer in the U.S.and change jobs within the industry have so far failed in Congress.If this doesn’t change, American businesses, communities and consumers will be the losers.   Perhaps half of U.S.farm laborers are undocumented immigrants.As fewer such workers enter the U.S., the characteristics of the agricultural workforce are changing.Today’s farm laborers, while still predominantly born in Mexico, are more likely to be settled, rather than migrating, and more likely to be married than single.They are also aging.At the start of this century, about one-third of crop workers were over the age of 35.Now, more than half are.And crop picking is hard on older bodies.   One oft-debated cure for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it has been all along: Native U.S.workers won’t be returning to the farm.   In a study published in 2013, economist Michael Clemens analyzed 15 years of data on North Carolina’s farm-labor market and concluded, “There is virtually no supply of native manual farm laborers” in the state.This was true even in the depths of a severe recession.   Mechanization is not the answer either—not yet at least.Production of corn, cotton, rice, soybeans and wheat have been largely mechanized, but many high-value, labor-intensive crops, such as strawberries, need labor.Even dairy farms, where robots currently do only a small share of milking, have a long way to go before they are automated.   As a result, farms have grown increasingly reliant on temporary guest workers using the H-2A visa to fill the gaps in the agricultural workforce.Starting around 2012, requests for the visas rose sharply; from 2011 to 2016 the number of visas issued more than doubled.   In the popular imagination, of course, guilt still gets a bad rap.It evokes Freud’s ideas and religious hang-ups.More important, guilt is deeply uncomfortable—it’s the emotional equivalent of wearing a jacket weighted with stones.Who would inflict it upon a child? Yet this understanding is outdated.“There has been a kind of revival or a rethinking about what guilt is and what role guilt can serve,” Vaish says, adding that this revival is part of a larger recognition that emotions aren’t binary—feelings that may be advantageous in one context may be harmful in another.Jealousy and anger, for example, may have evolved to alert us to important inequalities.Too much happiness (think mania) can be destructive.   And guilt, by prompting us to think more deeply about our goodness, can encourage humans to atone for errors and fix relationships.Guilt, in other words, can help hold a cooperative species together.It is a kind of social glue.   The H-2A visa has no numerical cap, unlike the H-2B visa for nonagricultural work, which is limited to 66,000 annually.Even so, employers frequently complain that they aren’t allotted all the workers they need.The process is cumbersome, expensive and unreliable.One survey found that bureaucratic delays led H-2A workers to arrive on the job an average of 22 days late.And the shortage is compounded by federal immigration raids, which remove some workers and drive others underground.   Petitioning each year for laborers—and hoping the government provides enough, and that they arrive on time—is no way to run a business.In a 2012 survey by the California Farm Bureau, 71 percent of tree-fruit growers and nearly 80 percent of raisin and berry growers said they were short of labor.Some western growers have responded by movingoperations to Mexico.Without reliable access to a reliable workforce, more growers will be tempted to move south.   According to a report by the Partnership for a New American Economy, Americans are consuming more fresh produce, which is good.But a rising share of it is grown elsewhere.In 1998-2000, 14.5 percent of the fruit Americans consumed was imported.Little more than a decade later, the share of imported fruit had increased to 25.8 percent.Rural munities that might have benefited didn’t.   In effect, the U.S.can import food or it can import the workers who pick it.The U.S.needs a simpler, streamlined, multi-year visa for agricultural workers, accompanied by measures to guard against exploitation and a viable path to U.S.residency for workers who meet the requirements.Otherwise growers will continue to struggle with shortages and uncertainty, and the country as a whole will lose out.第31题What problem should be addressed according to the first two paragraphs?A. discrimination against foreign workers in the U.S. B. biased laws in favor of some American businesses. C. flaws in US immigration rules for farm workers. D. decline of job opportunities in US agriculture. E. 参考答案: C 您的答案: 未作答

For a long time, people have debated about whether golf is a sport. On one side of the argument, it is argued that golf meets the dictionary definition of a sport, because it is a physical, athletic activity. They add that golf is recognized as a sport by sporting goods companies, athletic groups, fans, and the media. Also, golf's inclusion in the Olympics in 2016 is more proof that it is a sport.All the following evidence is used to prove that golf is a sport EXCEPT ____.- professional training- Olympic Games- dictionary definition- media recognition

I could see John _ on the bus because I was near the bus stop.()A. getsB. to getC. gettingD. gotten