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英语试题
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第一节 (共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
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If you are looking for modern fairy tale, check out some of the stories written to appeal to today's teen girls.
Entwined Bad on the fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princess, readers will be swept away into this fantasy world of dance, love, mystery and curs（魔咒）created by author Heather Dixon. Readers will enjoy the detailed dance scenes and be pleasantly surprid to learn the double meaning of the word entwine. Recommended for ages 12-16. | Beauty This classic retelling of Beauty and the Beast by award winning author Robin McKinley is a more detailed version of the original story about a girl who is known more for her intelligence than her beauty. Following the traditional tale, Beauty and her sisters must move to the country when their father encounters financial ruin. Her relationship with the Beast is a slow unfolding of friendship that turns to love. Recommended for ages 12-15. |
Tiger's Cur For 300 years he's been curd to live as n Tiger, but when she wishes for his freedom, the cur begins to break. Full of romance and adventure, this sweet retelling of Beauty and the Beast is the first book in the Tiger's Cur ries by Colleen Houck. Recommended for ages 12-18. | Although her mother died when she was a baby, Lady Jessica enjoyed a peaceful and fun childhood until her father decides to remarry a woman who is jealous of Jessica’s beauty. To escape her evil stepmother, Jessica runs away to London where she meets a band of outcasts阿根廷 英文(被驱逐者) and changes her name to Snow. Tracy Lynn’s retelling of Snow Whitemf什么意思 and the Seven Dwarfs is one of veral books in the popular Once Upon a Time fairy tale ries. Recommended for ages 12-14 |
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紫色配什么色好看1. Which is the best choice for a 16-year-old girl who loves dancing?
A. Entwined. B. Tiger's Cur. C. Beauty. D. Snow.
2. Which author has won an award before?
A. Heather Dixon. B. Robin McKinley. C. Colleen hock. D. trace Lynn.
3. What do tiger's Cur and Snow have in common?
A. They are full of romance and adventure. B. They are recommended for same ages.
C. They are one in a ries of books. D. Their main characters are curd.
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John Do minis was one of the staff photographers of LIFE Magazine. He joined LIFE in 1950 and shot one of the most classic pictures of the 20th century; Tommie Smith and John Carlos giving the black power salute at the Olympics in Mexico.
Here, life looks back at one of his lesr known shoots—the African antelope, which was a cover story that earned him Magazine Photographer of the year in 1966 and later became a book. In the Editor's Note that accompanies the story. Do minis described how he was able to get the dramatic photo without a telephoto lens (长焦镜头)
“I wanted to get low-angle slots that gave n d ran at i c nt of the it speed. I built boxes And mounted cameras inside of them.” Do minis eother thanxmba考试时间plained. “John and I worked for three weeks with theme we'd go a mile a hand own herd and put down the boxes and hid then. Then we'd hide a quarter of no mile away and wait maybe for veral hours. Meanwhile the light might change and there was no any I could change the exposure on the cameras. La the animal reached the boxes. I pushed the but ion that t off the cameras ban radio signal and ran off a whole oil of film. I must have expod 40 rolls. But ended up with only one really good photo. ”
The Briscoe Center recently acquired John Dominis's works. “The pictures and collections have something to say about how Americans perceive the outside world.” “sai
d Ben Wright of the Briscoe Center.” They are not only beautiful and interesting they're historical evidence that help historians to understand the past with accuracy and integrity.”
4. What contributed to Do min is' winning Magazine Photographer of the year in 1966?
A. His clo cooperation with John. B. His qualified skills in photography.
C. His photo of the African Antelope. D. His famous shots about the Olympics.
5. What does the underlined word “mounted” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Fixed. B. Added. C. Adjusted. D. Focud.
6. What would Do minis do if the antelope reached the boxes?
A. Signal to the radio. B. Operate the camera remotely.
C. Press the button on the camera. D. Hide a quarter of a mile away,
7. Which best described Do minis at work?
A. Strict and positive. B. Flexile and modest.
伊藤隆大C. Curious and independent. D. Creative and determined.
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While psychologists have studied topics like happiness, optimism, and other human strengths for decades, positive psychology wasn't officially identified as a branch of psychology until 1998 when Martin Seligman was elected president of the American Psychological Association (APA). Seligman suggested that psychology had become too focud on mental illness. While this had brought about valuable treatments that enabled psychologists to treat a number of dias and disorders that made people less unhappy. It meant that psychology was neglecting what was good about life—and what the average person could improve.
Seligman called for rearch into what makes normal people's lives positive and fulfilling. 英语口语短期强化培训
and suggested that the field should develop inter vent ions that could make people happier. He stated that psychology should be just as concerned with nurturing (滋荷兰语养) the good things in life as it was with healing the bad.
