Bad luck!I lost my watch.It's expensive.().Let's go to the police station.
A.Forget it
B.It's not that expensive
C.Take it easy
D.No problem
A.Forget it
B.It's not that expensive
C.Take it easy
D.No problem
第1题
When I lost my notebooks, I was devastated; all the ideas I'd had over the past two years were contained within their pages. I could remember only a few of them, but had the impression that those I couldn't recall were truly brilliant. Those little books were crammed with the plots of award-winning novels and scripts for radio comedy shows that were only two-thirds as bad as the ones on at the moment.
That's not all, though. In my reminiscence, my lost notebooks contained sketches for many innovative and incredible machines. In one book there was a design for a device that could turn sea water into apple cider; in another, plan for an automatic dog; in a third, sketches for a pair of waterproof shoes with television screens built into the toes. Now all of these plans are lost to humanity.
I found my notebooks again. It turns out they weren't in the bike pannier at all, but in a carrier bag in my spare room, where I found six months after supposedly losing them. And when I flipped through their pages, ready to run to the patent office in the morning, I discovered they were completely full of rubbish.
Discovering the notebooks really shook me up. I had firmly come to believe they were brimming with brilliant, inventive stuff--and yet clearly they weren't. I had deluded myself.
After surveying my nonsense, I found that this halo effect always attaches itself to things that seem irretrievably lost. Don't we all have a sneaking feeling that the weather was sunnier, TV shows funnier and cake-shop buns bunnier in the not-very-distant past?
All this would not matter much except that it is a powerful element in reactionary thought, this belief in a better yesterday. After all, racism often stems from a delusion that things have deteriorated since "they" came. What a boon to society it would be if people could visit the past and see that it wasn't the paradise they imagine but simply the present with different hats.
Sadly, time travel is impossible.
Until now, that is. Because I've suddenly remembered I left a leather jacket in an Indonesian restaurant a couples of years ago, and I'm absolutely certain that in the inside pocket there was a sketch I'd made...
By "only two-thirds as bad as the ones on at the moment", the author means"______".
A.better than
B.as bad as
C.worse than
D.as good as
第2题
Where is my pen? I ______ it.
A. might lose
B. would have lost
C. should have lost
D. must have lost
第4题
A.ignored
B.refused
C.neglected
D.denied
第5题
It is one of the strangest ______ in my life that I got lost in my hometown.
A.accidents
B.incidents
C.presidents
D.dependents
第6题
refore couldnt go.
A.refused
B.saved
C.intended
D.managed
第7题
A.That’s too bad
B.Oh, he is careless
C.I’m sorry to hear that
D.He must be careful
第9题
Ms. Cobb: Thank you. __________
A. He would be happy to meet you.
B. He had a very bad cold.
C. I'll talk to him.
D. I appreciate your concern.
第10题
A.hired
B.have hired
C.hire
D.had hired
第11题
During the Tang Dynasty(618—907) , people began to fix on kites some bamboo(竹子) strips which, when high in the air, would ring in the wind like a zheng(a traditional Chinese musical instrument). Since then, the popular Chinese name for the kite has become fengzheng. The kites made today in some places are fixed with silk strings or rubber bands to give out pleasant ringing in the wind.
It was also believed, for instance, during the Qing Dynasty(1644—1911) , that flying a kite and then letting it go, apart from the pleasure in itself, might send off one's bad luck and illness. Consequently it would bring him bad luck if one should pick up a kite lost by other people. This may be regarded as superstition (迷信) but may not be altogether without reason: think of the good it will do to a person, ill and depressed all the time, if he or she could go out into the fields and fresh air to fly a kite.
Chinese kites fall into two major types: those with wings that can be taken apart and those with wings that are fixed. The former can be taken apart and packed in boxes. Easy to carry about, they make good presents. The second type refers to those with fixed structure, they fly better and higher, given a steady wind, classified by designs and other standards, there are no less than 300 varieties, including human figures, fish, insects, birds, animals and written Chinese characters. In size, they range from 304 meters to only 30 centimeters across.
What is the use of silk strings or rubber bands fixed to the kites?
A.To make the kites look more pleasant.
B.To make the kites have strong structures.
C.To make the kites produce pleasant sounds.
D.To make the kites fly faster in the wind.