| Before high school teacher Kimberly
Rugh got down to business at the start of a recent school week, she joked with
her students about how she’d had to clean cake out of the corners of her house
after her 2-year-old son’s birthday party. This friendly combination of chitchat
took place not in front of a blackboard but in an, E-mail message that Rugh sent
to the 145 students she’s teaching at the Florida Virtual School, one of the
nation’s leading online high schools. The school’s motto is "any time, any
place, any path, any pace." Florida’s E-school attracts many students who need flexible scheduling, from young tennis stars and young musicians to brothers Tobias and Tyler Heeb, who take turns working on the computer while helping out. with their family’s clam-farming business on Pine Island, off Florida’s southwest coast. Home A. with her friends B. with her colleagues C. in the classroom D. in an E-mail massage sent to her students [单项选择]I shall tell you what he （） at three o’clock yesterday afternoon.
A. was doing B. did C. had been doing D. has done [单项选择]This doesn’t mean that wind and solar, which currently provide less than 1 percent of the world’s primary energy, will replace fossil fuels, which provide 82 percent. In fact, while companies like BP and Shell are cutting back on commercial projects in wind and solar, Big Oil is taking a closer look at how they might be used to increase efficiency internally, or to flee up increasingly profitable fossil fuels, like natural gas, for commercial sale. For example. Valero is building windmills to power refineries, and Chevron is using solar power to make steam to extract tough-to-reach oil. When you consider that the top 15 oil and gas companies have a market capitalization of $1.9 trillion, it’s clear that these firms themselves have the potential to be major renewable customers.
Big oil is thinking of using wind and solar A. to free up fossil fuels for commercial sale. B. to replace fossil fuels for commercial sale. C. to increase efficiency of fossil fuels use. D. to reduce harm to the environment. [单项选择]—What’s the matter with your old clock
—It doesn’t ______. A. walk B. run C. work [单项选择]
One night, a little before nine o’clock, Dr. Johnson was answering a telephone call. He was asked to go and give an operation to a very sick boy at once. The boy was in a small hospital in Glens Falls, sixty miles away from Dr. Johnson’s city—Albany. The boy had hurt himself in a traffic accident. His life was in danger, but his family was so poor that they could not pay the doctor anything. After he heard all this, Dr. Johnson was driving carefully. He thought that he could get to the hospital before 12 o’clock. A few minutes later, the doctor’s car had to stop for a red light at a crossing. Suddenly a man in an old black coat opened the door of the car and got in. 我来回答: 提交
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