Travel is at its best a solitary enterprise: to see, to examine, to assess, you have to be alone and unencumbered. Other people can mislead you; they crowd your meandering impressions with their own; if they are companionable they obstruct your view, and if they are boring they corrupt the silence with nonsequiturs, shattering your concentration with "Oh, look, it’s raining," and "You see a lot of trees here". Travelling on your own can be terribly lonely (and it is not understood by Japanese who, coming across you smiling wistfully at an acre of Mexican butter cups tend to say things like "Where is the rest of your team"). I think of evening in the hotel room in the strange city. My diary has been brought up to date; I hanker for company; what do I do I don’ t know anyone here, so I go out and walk and discover the three streets of the town and rather envy the strolling couples and the people with children. The museums and churches are c
A. belongs to a group of botanists
B. is excessively odd to travel alone
C. needs to be directed to his hotel
D. has wandered away from his party
Learning disabilities are very common. They (21) perhaps 10 percent of all children. Scientists now know there are many different kinds of learning disabilities and that they are (22) by many different things. There is no longer any (23) that all learning disabilities (24) differences in the way the brain is organized.
Since there is no (25) sign of the disorder, some researchers began looking at the brain itself to learn what might be wrong.
In one study, researchers (26) the brain of a learning-disabled person. They found two unusual things. One (27) cells in the left side of the brain, which control language. These cells (28) are white, in the learning disabled person, (29) , these cells were gray. The researchers also found that many of the nerve cells were not in a line the (30) they should have been. The nerve cells were mixed together.
The study was carded out (31) the guidance of Norman Geschwind, an expert on learning disabilitie
A. as
B. when
C. if
D. how
The Red Cross is an international organization which cares for people who are in need of help. A man in a Paris (36) who needs blood, a woman in Mexico who was (37) in an accident, and (38) in India that lost their (39) in a storm may all be (40) by the Red Cross. The Red Cross (41) in almost every country around the (42) . The World Red Cross Organizations are sometimes (43) the Sun or the Red Lion. All of these organizations (44) a common aim of (45) to help people in need.
The idea of (46) an organization to help [he sick and wounded during a war was (47) by Henry Dunant. In 1859, he (48) how people were (49) on a battlefield in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people (50) which side they were fighting for. The most important (51) of his work was an international treaty (条约). It (52) prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, and other (53) A. wound
B. injured
C. dangerous
D. destroyed
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture once only. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET after the mini-lecture. Use the blank paper for note-taking.
The Rise of RP
Historical reasons
Received pronunciation was originally associated with a (1) spoken in the region between central England and London, including Oxford and Cambridge.
Its survival was due to its use by the (2) in the 14th century and by university students in the (3) Ages.
Its rise in importance resulted from its application in government and official documents.
The prestige of its (4) pattern of pronunciation came about with its use in (5) schools in the 19th century.
As a result, its (6) is accepted by television and the radio, the professions and teaching English
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