The second report was______by July 2008, but one year later it was still nowhere in sight.
A.submitted
B.to have submitted
C.to submit
D.to have been submitted
A.submitted
B.to have submitted
C.to submit
D.to have been submitted
But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But she was much brighter and smarter than we boys knew at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses she cleaned -- books. So she came home one day, snapped off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. "You boys are going to read two books every week," she said. "And you're going to write me a report on what you read."
We moaned and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn't have any books in the house other than Mom's Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: "I'll drive you to the library."
So pretty soon there were these two peevish boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly among the children's books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.
The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this verbal visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.
It didn't dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip of a page.
Soon I began to look forward to visiting this hushed sanctuary from my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn't wait to get home to my books.
Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can't believe my life's journey, froma failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform. critical surgery.
But I know when the journey began -- the day Mom snapped off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.
We can learn from the beginning of the passage that
A.the author and his brother had done poorly in school.
B.the author had been very concerned about his school work.
C.the author had spent much time watching TV after school.
D.the author had realized how important schooling was.
A.trail
B.trait
C.trace
D.track
Peter; OK. ______
Susan; Thanks. That would be nice.
Peter; First, you put your card in here. Next…
A.Remember to turn to the bank clerk?
B.Let me show you how it works.
C.Why don't you borrow some money?
D.Do you mind me taking you to the bank?
A.Because she has got an appointment.
B.Because she has go to school.
C.Because she has to work.
听力原文:W: Hi, I'd like to send this package by express mail to San Francisco and I would like to buy a sheet of stamps, please.
M: Here are your stamps, and just put the package on the scale.
Q: Where did the conversation take place?
(1)
A.In San Francisco.
B.At an airport.
C.In a post office.
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