Passage One
New York’s WCBS puts it in a way that just can’t be better expressed: "It was an accident waiting to happen."
15-year-old Alexa Longueira was wandering along the street in Staten Island, obliviously tapping text messages into her phone as she walked. Distracted by her phone, she failed to notice the open manhole (下水道窨井) in her path, and plunged into it, taking an unprepared bath of raw sewage along with receiving moderate injuries. Longueira called the dive "really gross, shocking and scary."
It’s not all Longueira’s fault. The manhole shouldn’t have been left uncovered and unattended, and no warning signs or hazard cones had been set up near the work site. A worker with New York’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), who was preparing to flush the sewage, helped her out, and the department later issued a formal apology for the incident.
Nonetheless, obser
A. was seriously hurt
B. was frightened
C. took a bath in the raw sewage
D. cried help to the DEP worker
Passage One
New York’s WCBS puts it in a way that just can’t be better expressed: "It was an accident waiting to happen."
15-year-old Alexa Longueira was wandering along the street in Staten Island, obliviously tapping text messages into her phone as she walked. Distracted by her phone, she failed to notice the open manhole (下水道窨井) in her path, and plunged into it, taking an unprepared bath of raw sewage along with receiving moderate injuries. Longueira called the dive "really gross, shocking and scary."
It’s not all Longueira’s fault. The manhole shouldn’t have been left uncovered and unattended, and no warning signs or hazard cones had been set up near the work site. A worker with New York’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), who was preparing to flush the sewage, helped her out, and the department later issued a formal apology for the incident.
Nonetheless, obser
A. the accident should have been avoidable
B. this kind of accidents happen frequently
C. somebody was glad to see what would happen
D. an open manhole is sure a trap for careless pedestrians
| Passage One I have an infatuation(迷恋)with autumn. The colors of the season, and the smells, have always thrilled me. I have always found joy in this time of year. The last few autumns of my life, however, I recollect in shades of gray rather than cheerful oranges and yellows. When I became a single mother, every aspect of life took on new meaning. Since I was used to carrying out most of the parental duties without much help during my marriage, I truly did not foresee how different parenting would become after the marriage was over. But suddenly I realized I was a statistic. The daily routine was not changed so much; it was the angle at which I had begun to look at life. I believed my ex-husband’s lawyer was tracking every grade the children made, and I was under a microscope in this new town where the children and I A. The author moved to a new place. B. The climate changed greatly in the last few years. C. In the last few years, the author’s mood changed. D. There were some natural disasters. [单项选择]Passage One
Evaluating one’s education at the close of each business day, most trained teachers, administrators, politicians, and statesmen made objective analyses of all that has transpired(泄露). They then carefully evaluate performance in the achievement of certain specified objectives. You, as a student, would be wise to adopt the same practice and reflect upon your performance in relating to the achievement of certain personal and educational objectives. First, what was your purpose, your motivational force in seeking an education Did you seek an education in active performance, or did you seek to be educated in passive reception and automatic regulation of information that was fed to you Was the profit motive your primary motivation for obtaining an education Do you want a better education for the sole purpose of getting a better job What does the educational process really mean to you We are part of the world in which men thrill to the touch of A. A．3) in this passage is nearest in meaning to______ unhappinessB. sleeplessnessC. a very bad dreamD. a hazard to your health [单项选择]The passage suggests that one major difficulty in establishing patterns of migration is
A. the infrequency of life course events, which restricts the amount of data available to demographers B. the overwhelming availability of proxies in migration patterns, which creates a degree of stasis in migration records C. the lack of parishioner birth records, which limits the hard evidence upon which demographers base their observations D. the homogeneity of single parishes, which makes it difficult to distinguish the motivations of migrants E. the repetitive nature of migration, which results in a surfeit of unusable data that overwhelms demographers [单项选择]Passage Two
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