The weather is bound to change_________.A、soon and lateB、soon or lateC、sooner and later
The weather is bound to change_________.
A、soon and late
B、soon or late
C、sooner and later
D、sooner or later
The weather is bound to change_________.
A、soon and late
B、soon or late
C、sooner and later
D、sooner or later
A.Yes, I think you are right.
B.No, I have no idea what the rest of this winter will be like.
C.Yes, it"s bound to be better next winter.
D.How can you be so sure that the next winter will be better?
SECTION B PASSAGES
Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文: Passengers of flight 17 bound for Caracas, with stops in Atlanta and Miami. The departure gate has been change to 30B. also, there will be slight departure delay due to inclement weather outside. The ground crew is in the process of de-icing the wings in preparation for departure. It also looks like the flight is slightly overbooked, so we are offering complimentary round-trip tickets to a few passengers willing to take a later flight. We should be boarding about a quarter to the hour. Thank you for your patience. That is the end of flight information. Now, we will go over the weather forecast around the world. Now, for cities around the world, fine in Beijing, cloudy in Shanghai, Macao and Taipei., snow in Seoul, cloudy in Manila and Bangkok, storm in Ho Chi Mirth City, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore., rain in Jakarta, showers in Sydney and Brisbane, fine in Melbourne and Auckland, rain in London, cloudy in Paris. That is the end of the weather forecast. Thank you for listening.
What change has been announced?
A.The flight number.
B.The gate number.
C.The arrival time.
D.The airplane.
Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds, only served to make it more decided. I visited various parts of my own country; and had I been merely a lover of fine scenery, I should have felt litter desire to seek elsewhere its gratification, for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts (大瀑布), thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad deep rivers, roiling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine—no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.
The lack of printing regulations and the unenforceabiliy of British copyright law
in the American colonies made it possible for colonial printers occasionally to act as
publishers. Although they rarely undertook major publishing project because it was
difficult to sell books as cheaply as they could be imported from Europe, printers in
(5) Philadelphia did publish work that required only small amounts of capital, paper, and
type. Broadsides could be published with minimal financial risk. Consisting of only one
sheet of paper and requiring small amounts of type, broadsides involved lower investments
of capital than longer works. Furthermore, the broadside format lent itselt to subjects of
high, if temporary, interest, enabling them to meet with ready sale. If the broadside printer
(10) miscalculated, however, and produced a sheet that did not sell, it was not likely to be a
major loss, and the printer would know this immediately, There would be no agonizing
wait with large amounts of capital tied up, books gathering dust on the shelves, and creditors
impatient for payment
In addition to broadsides, books and pamphlets, consisting mainly of political tracts,
(15) catechisms, primers, and chapbooks were relatively inexpensive to print and to buy.
Chapbook were pamphlet-sized books, usually containing popular tales, ballads, poems,
short plays, and jokes, small, both in formal and number of pages, they were generally
bound simply, in boards (a form. of cardboard) or merely stitched in paper wrappers (a
sewn antecedent of modem-day paperbacks). Pamphlets and chapbooks did not require
(20) fine paper or a great deal of type to produce they could thus be printed in large, costeffective
editions and sold cheaply.
By far, the most appealing publishing investments were to be found in small books that
had proven to be steady sellers, providing a reasonably reliable source of income for the
publisher. They would not, by nature, be highly topical or political, as such publications
(25) would prove of fleeting interest. Almanacs, annual publications that contained information
on astronomy and weather patterns arranged according to the days, week, and months of
a given year, provided the perfect steady seller because their information pertained to the
locale in which they would be used
Which aspect of colonial printing does the passage mainly discuss?
A.Laws governing the printing industry.
B.Competition among printers
C.Types of publications produced
D.Advances in printing technology
According to the passage, why did colonial printers avoid major publishing projects?
A.Few colonial printers owned printing machinery the was large enough to handle major projects.
B.There was inadequate shipping available in the colonies.
C.Colonial printers could not sell their work for a competitive price.
D.Colonial printers did not have the skills necessary to undertake large publishing projects.
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