Who is acting the part of Harry Potter?
[ A] David Yates.
[ B ] Rupert Grint.
[ C ] Emma Watson.
[ D] Daniel Radcliffe.
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I hate ________ when there ' s no computer in the office.
[A]that
[B]this
[C]them
[D]it
三、阅读下列短文 ,从每题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和 D)中 ,选出最佳答案)
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"But, monsieur, I cannot give you these tickets," the clerk behind the thick glass window said. "I work for Swiss Railways, and this reservation(订票) is for SNCF(the French national rail line) . " " So where is the SNCF office?" I asked, looking at the clock, which showed we had only10 minutes before the train left. "There isn ' t one in Geneva," he replied. "The only thing I can do is to sell you two new tickets, and I only have smoking compartment(车厢) seats left. " This was getting worse by the minute.
My wife and I had booked and paid for our tickets over the Internet and were now trying to collect them. Nowhere had it warned us that there wasn' t an SNCF ticket office in Geneva. Rather than miss our train, we paid for two more tickets and spent three hours sitting with several people who smoked one cigarette after another between Geneva and Paris. Fortunately, we were able to get our money back for the unused tickets without any difficulty through the customer service office at the Gare de Lyon.
I have to admit at this point that not only do I love France and the French, I also think that their trains are second to none, anywhere in the world. Having said that, the SNCF Internet ticket- buying process(过程) is very French in nature and requires considerable patience. This is where we fell into the " no SNCF office in Geneva" trap(困境) . Once you ' ve figured it out, however, it can work very smoothly and is usually more convenient than buying tickets in the US. This is how you go about it.
56. Where did the writer run into a problem with their ticket reservation?
[ A] ln Paris.
[ B ]In Geneva.
[ C ] In the Gare de Lyon.
[ D] In a city in the United States.
When Charles Darwin explained evolution (进化) , the process he saw was natural selection
(选择) . It turns out human selection can also cause plants to evolve.
Take the case of the snow lotus, a rare(稀少的) plant that grows only high up in the Himala-yas. Researchers have discovered that one type of the plant has been becoming smaller over time
——the one people like to pick.
A type of snow lotus called Saussurea laniceps is used in Tibetan and Chinese medicine and is increasingly demanded by tourists. The largest plants are picked, and that occurs during their only
flowering period.
The result is that only smaller, unpicked plants go to seed. Selection caused by humans is a powerful force, according to some scientists. They studied the plants picked over time and also compared the snow lotuses growing in heavily harvested areas with those found in places where peo-ple rarely picked them.
They reported in an article that the heavily harvested snow lotuses have been getting shorter o-ver the last century, while those in areas not picked have remained the same. They found that in the heavily harvested areas, where only the smaller plants got to reproduce, the average height was 5.3 inches. The same plants in rarely harvested areas averaged 9 inches in height. And they noted that another type of snow lotuses which is not often picked, has not been changing.
69. What does the word " that" (line 3, para. 3) refer to?
[ A] Research done by Darwin.
[ B ] Seeds of Saussurea laniceps by natural selection.
[ C] The picking of Saussurea laniceps by tourists.
[ D ] The Saussurea laniceps used in traditional Chinese medicine.
[A]made
[B]heard
[C]arrived
[D]followed