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We can ask friends or family members to listen to our rehearsal, because_______.A.they
A.they can give constructive feedback
B.they are willing to listen to our speech
C.they can provide no suggestions
D.none of the above
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A.they can give constructive feedback
B.they are willing to listen to our speech
C.they can provide no suggestions
D.none of the above
Paras. 11-13
If you live with other people, their temporary absence can be refreshing. Solitude will end on Thursday. If today I use a singular personal pronoun to refer to myself, next week I will use the plural form. While the others are absent you can stretch out your soul until it fills up the whole room, and use your freedom, coming and going as you please without apology, staying up late to read, soaking in the bath, eating a whole pint of ice cream at one sitting, moving at your own pace. Those absent will be back. Their waterproof winter coats are in the closet and the dog keeps watching for them at the window. But when you live alone, the temporary absence of your friends and acquaintances leaves a vacuum; they may never come back.
The condition of loneliness rises and falls, but the need to talk goes on forever. It's more basic than needing to listen. Oh, we all have friends we can tell important things to, people we can call to say we lost our job or fell on a slippery floor and broke our arm. It's the daily succession of small complaints and observations and opinions that backs up and chokes us. We can't really call a friend to say we got a parcel from our sister, or it's getting dark earlier now, or we don't trust that new Supreme Court justice.
Scientific surveys show that we who live alone talk at length to ourselves and our pets and the television. We ask the cat whether we should wear the blue suit or the yellow dress. We ask the parrot if we should prepare steak, or noodles, for dinner. We argue with ourselves over who is the greater sportsman: that figure skater or this skier. There's nothing wrong with this. It's good for us, and a lot less embarrassing than the woman in front of us in line at the market who's telling the cashier that her niece Melissa may be coming to visit on Saturday, and Melissa is very fond of hot chocolate, which is why she bought the powdered hot chocolate mix, though she never drinks it herself.
If you live with other people, ________________________. (Para. 11)
When you live alone: ________________________. (Para. 11)
Supporting details: We need to talk to others. ________________________. (Para. 12)
Supporting details: People who live alone will behave ridiculously: ________________________. (Para. 13)
B.being sent
C.to sent
D.to have been sent
If teachers want to find out if their students wrote their own papers, ______.
A.they ask other teachers to read their students' papers
B.they ask their students to list their sources of information
C.they can sign up for the Internet service
D.they search the Internet and compare papers
We can assume from the passage that ______.
A.red beards were more fashionable than black ones
B.everyone in fourteenth-century Spain shaved
C.false beards were considered foolish by those who had real beards
D.the popularity of false beards largely died out after the fourteenth century
What can we infer from the passage?
A.Studying is easier in America.
B.American university only pays attention to foreign students' TOEFL scores.
C.Every country should reform. their university systems.
D.We should know something about other countries.
For many of us summer is a special time for forming new friendships. Today millions of Americans vacation abroad, and they go not only to see new sights but also with the hope of meeting new people. No one really expects a vacation trip to produce a close friend, but the beginning of a friendship is possible.
The word "friend" can be applied to a wide range of relationships—to someone one has known for a few weeks in a new place, to a fellow worker, to a childhood playmate, to a man or woman, to a trusted confidant (知己) .
The reasons why many Americans move from place to place are as follows except______.
A.saving money
B.getting a better job
C.going to college
D.finding a place to spend the rest of the life
The author decided to live a car-free life______.
A.after his car was damaged beyond repair
B.after he was hurt in a terrible car accident
C.because maintaining a car was too costly
D.because the traffic jam was too much for him
A.A. Right
B.B. Wrong