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Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using ihe words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. honoured B. t C. historic D. cretly E. citizen
F. granted G. route H. briefly I. restoration J. leading
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales. He became a 41 J voice in the year before the Civil War.
宿新市徐公店配画A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) 形容胖的成语_42_A Douglass's birth and Black History Month with the reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a _43 C爱弥儿读书心得 site in Washington. D.C. The two-story hou, which contains many of Douglass's personal posssions, had undergone a three-year _44 I_. (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don't have to live in the nation's capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)
He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he never knew. Douglass grew up to become the first black _45 E to bold a government office — as US minister and consul general (总领事) to Haiti.
As a youth, be never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so be _46 D taught himlf to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachutts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.
In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the督查通报范文 system _47 B up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the _48 G, housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.
He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass witnesd the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution (美国宪法修正案), which _49 F African-Americans the right to vote.
Section B鱼油软胶囊的作用
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. contents | 代替的英语B. taking | C. carefully | D. plastic | E. packaging |
F. declined | G. freely | H. typical | I. contracts | J. registered |
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If the package looks pretty, people will buy just about anything. So says an advertising executive in New York, and he has proved his point by lling boxes of rubbish for the price of an expensive bottle of wine.
Justin Gignac, 26, has sold almost 900 ____41_C____ prented plastic boxes of rubbish from the street of the Big Apple at between $50 and $100 each. Buyers from 19 countries have paid for the souvenirs(纪念品). The idea has been so successful that he is thinking of promoting it around the world.
It all began when Mr. Gignac was at a summer workshop. “We had a discussion about he importance of ____42_E__,” he recalls. “Someone said packaging was unimportant. I dis
agreed. The only way to prove it was by lling something nobody would ever want.”
He arches the streets of Manhattan and typical ___43_动作的四字词语_A_ include broken glass, subway tickets, Starbucks cups and ud ___44_D___ forks. “Special editions” are offered at a high price. He charged $100 for rubbish from the opening day of the New York Yankees’ stadium.
Mr. Gignac denies ____45_B__ his customers for fools: “They know what they’re getting. They appreciate the fact that they’re taking something nobody would want and finding beauty in it.”
Some _____46_H__ customers include people who ud to live in the city and want a down-to-earth souvenir. He claims he has even sold to art collectors.
Realizing that the concept appears to be a real money-maker, Mr. Gignac has ___47_J__ a company and is employing his girlfriend as vice president. He ___48_F__ to discuss his profit margins: “It’s actually quite a lot of effort putting them together—but yet, garbage is free.”
Mr. Gignac is considering more varieties of souvenirs. He maintains that he has signed ___49_I__ with people interested in similar projects from as far as Berlin and London.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. launched B. unpleasant C. applying D. technically E. impact F. coating G. fixed H. miraculously I. superior J. advances |
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How would you like to wear the same underwear (内衣裤) for weeks? Owing to the work that has gone into developing intelligent materials, this may not be as 41 B 许嵩经典歌曲 as it sounds. Self-cleaning clothes have now been created, and the new materials provide 42 I resistance to dirt as well as water. As a result, they require much less cleaning than traditional materials.
