Tom Hiddleston once read a letter written by Sol LeWitt to his friend Eva. （)

W: I'm really .sorry about that. Tom, I didn't think you'd mind.

Q: What does the .man imply？

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A．He is satisfied with what Mary did.

B．He doesn't mind what Mary did.

C．He has forgotten that Mary borrowed his dictionary once before.

D．He is dissatisfied with what Mary did.

M: Well, umm, it'd be great to get away, but I've never done that before.

F: None of the others have, either, except for me. I went once last fall, but there'll be an instructor the fast day.

M: I don't know.

F: Oh, come on. This is our last chance to take a break before the exam. The scenery is beautiful, and if it gets too hot we can dive in whenever we feel like it. The river's really calm this time of the year, with lots of fish.

M: Sounds good. What would I have to bring？

F: Let's see. Tom's bringing food for the Friday night cookout for everyone. And the people who run the trip have tents set up and they supply food and drinks for all day Saturday. On the way back Sunday morning we'll stop somewhere for breakfast. So, you have to bring a bathing suit and a sleeping bag.

M: I do love camping and sleeping out. Where is this place？

F: It's about an hour and a half to the place where we meet the trip leaders. We leave our car there and they drive us upriver to the place where we stay.

M: And who's driving us to the meeting place？

F: Well, I was hoping we could take Tom's car. Mine's in the shop again. But unfortunately he had a small accident yesterday. He's fine, but his car...

M: Oh, I see. You can take my car.

F: Great. I'll give you a call when I find out when everyone wants to leave on Friday.

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A．To borrow his book.

B．To talk about the term paper.

C．To invite him to go canoeing.

D．To ask him out for dinner.

M: Well, uhm, it'd be great to get away, but I've never done it before.

W: None of the others have either except for me. I went once last fall. But there'll be an instructor in each canoe the first day.

M: I don't know.

W: Oh, come on. This is our last chance to take a break before finals. The scenery is beautiful, and if it gets too hot we can dive in whenever we feel like it. The river's really calm this time of the year, no rapids to deal with.

M: That's a relief. What would I have to bring？

W: Let's see. Tom's bringing food for the Friday night cookout for everyone. And the people who run the trip have tents set up and they supply food and drinks for all day Saturday. On the way back Sunday morning we'll stop somewhere for breakfast. So, you have to bring a bathing suit and a sleeping bag.

M: Well, I do love camping and sleeping out. Where is this place？

W: Well, it's about an hour and a half to the place where we meet the trip leaders. We leave our car there and they drive us and then canoes upriver to the place where we start canoeing.

M: And who's driving us to the meeting place？

W: Well, I was hoping we could take your car. Mine's in the shop again.

M: Oh, I see. It's not me you want, it's my car.

W: Don't be silly. So what would you say？

M: Oh, why not!

W: Great! I'll give you a call when I find out when everyone wants to leave on Friday.

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A．To convince him to go on a canoe trip.

B．To invite him to a cookout.

C．To ask if she can borrow his car.

D．To tell him about a trip she took.

A.so has Tom

B.Tom has too

C.Tom hasn't

D.also has Tom

A.so does Tom

B.so Tom does

C.nor does Tom

D.neither Tom does

A．Michael and Tom have ordered all the food.

B．Michael and Tom have made ail the preparations.

C．Other friends will bring all the stuff they need.

D．Michael's mother has prepared all the food.

A.a

B.some

C.the

D.very

The World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History

Tom Standage urges drinkers to savor the history of their favorite beverages along with the taste.

The author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Walker & Company, June 2005), Standage lauds the libations that have helped shape our world from the Stone Age to the present day.

"The important drinks are still drinks that we enjoy today," said Standage, a technology editor at the London-based magazine the Economist. "They are relics(纪念物) of different historical periods still found in our kitchens."

Take the six-pack, whose contents first fizzed at the dawn of civilization.

Beer

The ancient Sumerians, who built advanced city-states in the area of present-day Iraq, began fermenting(发酵) beer from barley at least 6,000 years ago.

"When people started agriculture the first crops they produced were barley or wheat. You consume those crops as bread and as beer," Standage noted. "It's the drink associated with the dawn of civilization. It's as simple as that."

Beer was popular with the masses from the beginning.

"Beer would have been something that a common person could have had in the house and made whenever they wanted," said Linda Bisson, a microbiologist at the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis.

"The guys who built the pyramids were paid in beer and bread," Standage added. "It was the defining drink Egypt and Mesopotamia. Everybody drank it. Today it's the drink of the working man, and it was then as well."

Wine

Wine may be as old or older than beet--though no one can be certain.

Paleolithic humans probably sampled the first "wine" as the juice of naturally fermented wild grapes. But producing and storing wine proved difficult for early cultures.

"To make wine you have to have fresh grapes," said Bisson, the UC Davis microbiologist. "For beer you can just store grain and add water to process it at any time."

Making wine also demanded pottery that could preserve the precious liquid.

"Wine may be easier to make than beer , but it's harder to store," Bisson added. "For most ancient cultures it would have been hard to catch fermenting grape juice as wine on its way to B)ecoming vinegar."

Such caveats and the expense of producing wine helped the beverage quickly gain more cachet (威望) than beer. Wine was originally associated with social elites and religious activities.

Wine snobbery may be nearly as old as wine itself. Greeks and Romans produced many grades of wine for various social classes.

The quest for quality became an economic engine and later drove cultural expansion.

"Once you had regions like Greece and Rome that could distinguish themselves as making good stuff, it gave them an economic boost," Bisson said. "Beer just wasn't as special."

Spirits

Hard liquor, particularly brandy and rum, placated (安抚) sailors during the long sea voyages of the Age of Exploration, when European powers plied the seas during the 15th, 16th, and early 17th centuries.

Rum played a crucial part of the triangular trade between Britain, Africa, and the North American colonies that once dominated the Atlantic economy,

Standage also suggests that rum may have been more responsible than tea for the independence movement in Britain's American colonies.

"Distilling molasses for rum was very important to the New England economy," he explained. "When the British tried to tax molasses it struck at the heart of the economy. The idea of 'no taxation without representation' originated with molasses and sugar. Only at the end did it refer to tea."

Great Britain's longtime superiority at sea may also owe a debt to it

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

Tom had to stop climbing the mountain__________________________.(能让她姐姐跟上)

Because Tom cheated in the exam, he was ______ the chance of going to university.

A．declined

B．denied

C．deprived

D．deserted

W: Don't be sure. I don't know how many times he's told me that he wishes to go to university.

Q: What does the woman mean？

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A．She is not sure Tom is joking.

B．She thinks Tom wants to go into business.

C．She thinks Tom may sell his shop.

D．She thinks Tom has already studied in university.