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I began to watch the car in front of me. The driver was a middleaged man with thinning hair, and beside him sat a woman with long, wavy blond hair. I could see the man’s face because he kept turning and talking and talking to the woman, but I couldn’t see her face because she never turned to look at him and answer. As we drove along, the man turned again and again, talking to the woman. He leaned(靠) toward her and he smiled. But she sat without movement or response, staring straight ahead. She never once looked in his direction, and I wondered why. I supposed of course that they were fighting. The long blond hair suggested someone beautiful. I thought she might be too coldhearted, the way a beautiful woman can usually be. I thought that the man might be her husband, or her lover, and that he was pleading with her. I thought she was turning cold to him: perhaps she was ending things pletely, and he was trying to win her back.We both slowed down to cross a little stone bridge, and once past it, on the straight, he turned again to her. I wondered then if I’d gotten it wrong. The man was definitely middleaged, and the woman’s long, thick blond hair suggested youth. Perhaps the man was not her husband but her father. Maybe she was sitting silently still, not heartlessly. Or maybe she was weeping and unable to look at her father. I watched them closely, trying to be sure. The man turned to her, smiling. She still did not look at him. We reached the stop sign at the end of Mount Holly Road, and the man turned once more to the blond woman. This time, at last, she turned toward him. She leaned over and licked his nose with her tongue. She was a golden retriever, a large dog used in hunting.25. The real relationship of the two sitting in the front seats of the small red car is _______.A. a husband and an angry wifeB. a loving father and a weeping daughterC. a master and a big dogD. lovers in quarrel26. We can infer from the text that______.A. the author followed the man out of curiosity at the very beginningB. the man couldn’t match the woman beside himC. the man loved the one sitting beside him very muchD. the man was a good husband or a good father27. The underlined sentence in the text means_____.A. he was begging herB. he was playing with herC. he was quarrelling with herD. he was joking with her28. Which is the most suitable title for the text?A. A Poor Middleaged ManB. An Unexpected CompanionC. A Beautiful Proud WomanD. An Unforgettable ExperienceC China has more than 30 intangible cultural heritage(非物質文化遺產(chǎn)) recognized by the UNESCO, including papercutting, the Dragon Boat Festival, Peking Opera, acupuncture(針灸) and so on. The organization adopted a decision that China’s “The TwentyFour Solar Terms”(二十四節(jié)氣) should be put on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016 in Ethiopia. The TwentyFour Solar Terms, knowledge of time and practices in agriculture, starts from the Beginning of Spring and ends with the Greater Cold, moving in cycles. It developed through thee observation of the sun’s annual movement in China. In ancient time, the method of tugui, earth sundial(日暑), was used to measure the shadow of the sun for determining the solar terms. The TwentyFour Solar Terms came into being and developed in close relationship with Chinese agricultural production. At the initial stage of agricultural development, people began to explore the seasonal rules in the agricultural production to meet the needs in seeding, harvesting and other activities. Gradually, they formed the concept of “seed in spring, grow in summer, harvest in autumn and store in winter”. During the spring and autumn periods, the agricultural production was highly influenced by the seasonal changes, thus forming the concept of Solar Terms. As a traditional Chinese knowledge system of time with a history of thousands of years, the TwentyFour Solar Terms clearly expresses the concepts of respect for nature, and harmony between man and nature. Created by Chinese ancestors, it has functioned as a plete set of weather calendar(日歷) to guide the agricultural production in China. It has also been introduced into North Korea, Japan and other neighboring countries and still used in Japan. The Chinese heritage has provably influenced the people’s way of thinking and behaving and will continue to be an important carrier of Chinese cultural identity.29. According to the first two paragraphs, the TwentyFour Solar Terms______. A. was used to measure the shadow of the sun B. has not been listed as one intangible cultural heritage of humanity C. repeats from the Beginning of Spring to the Greater Cold every year D. is the best intangible cultural heritage recognized by the UNESCO30. We can learn from the text that _______ in China in the past. A. the TwentyFour Solar Terms only influenced spring and autumn B. the TwentyFour Solar Terms had something to do with agriculture C. people cared about the changes of weather just for fun D. agricultural production highly influenced the seasonal changes31. We can infer from the text that the TwentyFour Solar Terms _______. A. is an agricultural calendar merely used in China B. is strongly influenced by North Korea and Japan C. is scarcely connected with natural reles D. is part of traditional Chinese cultureDThe chances are that you’ve walked past a QR Code(二維碼) or e into contact with one recently, possibly without noticing. Even if you haven’t seen one before, here are some examples for you. But what exactly are QR Codes? Very simply, they are barcodes, not too dissimilar to the barcodes you saw on the package of almost every product you bought. QR Codes are bined with multiple rows and columns(列), which allows QR Code to stone its data. QR Codes started out in the East but their popularity exploded worldwide within a few years. Th