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he managers went back to the meeting room to _____their discussion.A put aaway B take down C carry on D look over (2014屆東北三省三校第二次聯(lián)考,23)—Have you figured out how much the tuition is in American universities?—$19 000 or ________ like that.A.a(chǎn)nything B.everythingC.nothing D.somethingCharles did what he could _____ the servant, although he himself was in danger. A. rescue B. rescued C. to rescue D. rescuing ( 2014屆s exhausting climb we arrived at ________ we had been told was Garden in the Air.A.what B.whichC.that D.where二 、完形填空(本大題共1小題,共30分)“This Friday we’ll have the yearly Egg Drop Challenge,”said our science teacher, Mr. Baker.“You can work alone or with a partner.”My friend, Cassie, and I smiled at each other. We always worked on projects 36 .The 37 of the Challenge was simple—to build a protective container to keep an egg from breaking when 38 the stadium wall.I made my sandwich that afternoon while waiting for Cassie. 39 the butter cream gave me an idea.“I have a brilliant design for our 40 container!”I said when Cassie arrived.“We can 41 the egg with some butter cream.”“Why not put the egg in a basket with a parachute(降落傘) 42 ?”Cassie rolled her eyes.“The parachute is better than that stupid idea.”I couldn’t believe it. Of course we’d had our little 43 in the past, but she’d never called any of my ideas “ 44 ”before.“Then I’ll build mine and you build yours!” 45 words had been out, our friendship was challenged.When Friday finally arrived, I had to 46 Cassie’s Egg Force One looked pretty good. 47 ,my Eggcellent Egg Cream didn’t look quite scientific. We kids carried our containers up three stadium steps and dropped them over the side wall. Those whose eggs broke were out。s time is spent in a classroom environment learning the theoretical skills the career requires. Being an apprentice is a fulltime undertaking. One of the advantages of apprenticeship is that it does not cost apprentices anything. The panies that hire them pay for school. What39。 others go onto different panies or bee selfemployed contractors. 71. Apprenticeship 72. classroom learning73. the majority 74. theoretical75. at the beginning 76. a jouneyman’s wages77. many welltrained workers. 78. being laid off79. Results 80. another pay increaseB The practice of students endlessly copying letters and sentences from a blackboard is a thing of the past. With the ing of new technologies like puters and smartphones, writing by hand has bee something of a nostalgic(懷舊的) skill. However, while today39。s important to continue teaching handwriting and help children acquire the skill of writing by hand. Berninger and her colleagues conducted a study that looked at the ability of students to plete various writing tasks-both on a puter and by hand. The study, published in 2009, found that when writing with a pen and paper, participants wrote longer essays and more plete sentences and had a faster word production rate. In a more recent study, Berninger looked at what role spelling plays in a student39。s_eye” helps children not only to turn their ideas into words, says Berninger, but also to spot (發(fā)現(xiàn)) spelling mistakes when they write the words down and to correct them over time. “In our puter age, some people believe that we don39。t have the knowledge