How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, invented certain sounds to express thoughts and f

第1题

Two old gentlemen lived in a quiet street in Paris. They were friends and neighbors, and t

hey often went for a walk together in the streets when the weather was fine. Last Saturday they went for a walk at the side 【61】 the river. The sun shone, the weather was warm, there 【62】 a lot of flowers everywhere, and there were boats on 【63】 water.

The two men walked happily for half an hour, 【64】 then one of them said to the other, "That's a 【65】 beautiful girl. "

"Where can you see a beautiful girl？" said the 【66】 "I can't see one anywhere. I can see two young 【67】 They're walking towards us. "

"The girl's walking behind us. " 【68】 the first man quietly.

"But how can you see her 【69】？" asked his friend.

The first man smiled and said. "I 【70】 see her. but I can see the two young men's eyes. "

(61)

A．in

B．on

C．of

D．with

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第2题

Franklin's life is full of charming （有趣的) stories which all young men should know--how

Franklin's life is full of charming (有趣的) stories which all young men should know--how he peddled(叫卖) ballads in Boston, and stood, the guest of kings, in Europe; how he worked his pas sage as a stowaway to Philadelphia, and rode in the queen's own litter in France; how he walked the streets of Philadelphia, homeless and unknown, with three penny rolls for his breakfast, and dined at the tables of princess, and received his friends in a palace; how he raised a kite from a cow shed, and was showered with all the high degrees the colleges of the world could give, how he was duped by a false friend as a boy, and became the friend of all humanity as a man; how he was made Major Gen eral Franklin, only to resign because; as he said, he was no soldier, and yet helped to organize the army that stood before the trained troops of England and Germany.

This poor Boston boy, with scarcely a day's schooling, became master of six languages and never stopped studying; this neglected apprentice tamed the lightening, made his name famous, received degrees and diplomas from colleges in both hemispheres, and became forever remembered as "Doctor Franklin" ,philosopher ,patriot ,scientist ,philanthropist(慈善家) and statesman.

Self-made, self-taught, self-reared ,the candle maker's son gave light to all the world; the street ballad seller set all men singing of liberty; the runaway apprentice became the most sought-after man of two continents, and brought his native land to praise and honour him.

He built America--for what our Republic today is largely due to the prudence, the forethought, the statesmanship, the enterprise, the wisdom, and the ability of Benjamin Franklin. He belongs to the world, but especially does he belong to America. As the nations honoured him while living, so the Re public glorifies him when dead, and has enshrined him in the choicest of its niches--the one he regarded as the loftiest--the hearts of the common people, from whom he had sprung and in their hearts Franklin will live forever.

Which of the following is not mentioned in the first paragraph？

A．Franklin lived a poor life in Boston when he was young.

B．When Franklin first got to philadelphia, he was homeless and unknown, and he had to buy cheap bread for breakfast.

C．Franklin was cheated by a false friend as a boy.

D．Franklin was a candle maker's son and mastered six languages.

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第3题

Man has always wanted to fly.Some of the greatest men in history have thought about th

e problem.One of these，for example，was the great Italian artist, Leonardo da Vinci(达·芬奇).In the sixteenth century he made designs for machines that would fly.But they were never built.Throughout history, other less famous men have wanted to fly.An example was a man in England 800 years ago.He made a pair of wings from chicken feathers.Then he fixed them to his body and jumped into the air from a tall building.He did not fly very far.Instead，he fell to the ground and broke every bone in his body.

The first real steps took place in France, in 1783.Two brothers, the Montgolfiers, made a very large “hot air balloon”.They knew that hot air rises.Why not fill a balloon with it？The balloon was made of cloth and paper.In September of that year，the King and Queen of France came to see the balloon.They watched it carry the very first air passengers into the sky.The passengers were a sheep and a chicken.We do not know how they felt about the trip.But we do know that the trip lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed safely.Two months later，two men did the same thing.They rose above Paris in a balloon of the same kind.Their trip lasted twenty-five minutes and they travelled about eight kilometers.

26.Leonardo da Vinci ______ .

A.said that man would fly in the sky one day

B.built a kind of machine which never flew

C.drew many beautiful pictures of birds

D.made designs for flying machine

27.Eight hundred years ago an Englishman ______ .

A.made a kind of flying machine

B.tried to fly with wings made of chicken feather

C.wanted to build a kind of balloon

D.tried to fly on a large bird

28.In fact，the Englishman who tried to fly ______ .

A.lost his life

B.flew only 8minutes

C.got badly wounded

D.succeeded in flying

29.The very first air passengers in the balloon were ______.

A.two animals

B.two Frenchmen

C.the King and the Queen

D.the Montgolfiers

30.When did two Frenchmen rise above Paris？______

A.In December 1783.

B.In September 1783.

C.In November 1783.

D.In the seventeenth century.

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第4题

As our van pulled up to the ranch （牧场) to start a three-month program for troubled boys,

As our van pulled up to the ranch (牧场) to start a three-month program for troubled boys, we passed a cowboy on his horse. Bill was the owner of the ranch. We made eye contact through the dusty window and he winked (挤眼睛) at me and touched the brim of his cowboy hat in welcome.

All summer long Bill and his ranch-hands taught us to ride horses, chop wood, and round up cattle. We started to understand the value of working with our hands. Knowing how important it was for boys like me to know that someone believed in them, he trusted us to do the job and do it right. We never let him down.

The last day at the ranch, Bill pulled me aside and praised me for the work I had done-not only on the ranch, but also on myself. He told me if I ever needed anything I could count on him.

Four years later, I took him up on that offer. I called him up and asked for a job. I told him how his confidence in me had given me the courage to change my life. He offered me a job on the spot. I’m proud to say that each summer I’m the one in the ranch to open the gate for a van full of young men who need someone to believe in them, so they can learn to believe in themselves.

The author’s first impression of Bill was probably his _________.

A．seriousness

B．friendliness

C．authority

D．generosity

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第5题

At the end of the U.S. Civil War, about four million slaves were freed. Now, people around

the world can hear some of the former slaves' stories for the first time ever, as told in their own voices.

"That was inslavery time", says Charlie Smith in one interview. "They sold the colored people. And they were bringing them from Africa. They brought me from Africa. I was a child". The Library of Congress released the collection of recordings, Voices from the Days of Slavey, in January. The recorrdings were made between 1932 and 1975. Speaking at least 60 years after their emancipation(解放), the story teller discuss their experiences as slaves.

They also tell about their lives as free men and women.

Isom Moseley was just a boy at the time of emancipation, but he recalls that things were slow to change. "It was a year before the folks knowed they was free", he says.

Michael Taft, the head of the library's archive of folk culture, says the recordings reveal something that written stores cannot. "The power of hearing someone speak is so much greater than reading something from the page", Taft says. "It's how something is said—the dialect, the low pitches, the pauses—that helps tell the story".

What is new about the slaves stories？

A．They are told in the slaves own voices.

B．People travel around the world to hear them.

C．Colored people were sold.

D．They happened in the slavery time.

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第6题

Three friends decided to sail around the world in a small yacht（游艇). They loaded it with

Three friends decided to sail around the world in a small yacht(游艇). They loaded it with food and water and set off. They traveled to many beautiful places, and were having a wonderful time.

Until one day, when they had been at sea for about a month, a fierce storm blew up.

Great waves crashed(坠毁)down on their little yacht. The mast(船桅) broke and the yacht was soon thrown against some rocks near a deserted island.

The three men were able to struggle to the island, taking with them as much food as they could carry. Not a tree, not a bush, not a flower grew on the island. There was not an animal of any kind, not even a bird or an insect. For a few weeks the three men were able to live on the food they had saved, but at last it was gone--except for one piece of bread. They decided that whoever had the best dream the next night could have the bread. The next morning they took turns describing their dreams.

The first man said that he had dreamed he was in the world's most beautiful restaurant and he had eaten the finest meal of his life and drunk some of the finest wines. He said it was one of the best dreams he had ever had.

The second man described how he had dreamed about a magic carpet. Sitting on this car- pet, he had traveled to all the wonderful places in the world and been the guest of great kings and queens. It had been a truly exciting dream.

The men who had described their dreams then turned to the third man. "Tell us your dream," they said. "My dream was very simple," he said. "I dreamed that the bread was go- ing bad and would soon be moldy(发霉). 1 didn't want to waste the bread, so as soon as I woke up I ate it.

The three men took______.

A．many souvenirs(纪念品) with them

B．no medical supplies with them

C．a large crew with them

D．many provisions(食物贮备) with them

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第7题

As heart disease continues to be the number-one killer in the United States, researchers h

ave become increasingly interested in identifying the potential risk factors that trigger heart attacks. High-fat diets and "life in the fast track" have long been known to contribute to the high incidence of heart failure. But according to new studies, the list of risk factors may be significantly longer and quite surprising.

Heart failure, for example, appears to have seasonal and temporal patterns. A higher percentage of heart attacks occur in cold weather, and more people experience heart failure on Monday than on any other day of the week. In addition, people are more susceptible to heart attacks in the first few hours after waking. Cardiologists first observed this morning phenomenon in the mid-1980, and have since discovered a number of possible causes. An early-morning rise in blood pressure, heart rate, and concentration of heart stimulating hormones, plus a reduction of blood flow to the heart, may all contribute to the higher incidence of heart attacks between the hours of 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM.

In other studies, both birthdays and bachelorhood have been implicated as risk factors. Statistics reveal that heart attack rates increase significantly for both females and males in the few days immediately preceding and following their birthdays. And unmarried men are more at risk for heart attacks than their married counterparts. Though stress is thought to be linked in some way to all of the aforementioned risk factors, intense research continues in the hope of further comprehending why and how heart failure is triggered.

What does the passage mainly discuss？

A．Risk factors in heart attacks.

B．Seasonal and temporal patterns of heart attacks.

C．Cardiology in the 1980s.

D．Diet and stress as factors in heart attacks.

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第8题

How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of languag

e is a mystery.All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with

each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called

letters, which could be combined lo represent those sounds, and which could be written down.Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.

The power of words, then lies in their associations―― the things they bring up before our minds.Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain; words recall to, us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the, number of words that mean something to us increases.

Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions.This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary style.Above all, the real poet is a master of words.He can convey his

meaning in words which sing like music, and which by their position and association can move men to tears.We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar (庸俗的 )

(1).The origin of language is ______

选项格式A.a legend handed down from the past

B.a matter that is kept secret

C.a question difficult to answer

D.a problem not yet solved

(2).One of the reasons why men invented certain sounds to express thoughts and actions was that______

选项格式A.they could agree upon certain signs

B.they could write them down

C.they could communicate with each other

D.they could combine them

(3).By "association ", the author means ______.

选项格式A.a special quality

B.a joining of ideas in the mind

C.an appearance which is puzzling

D.a strange feature

(4).In expressing their thoughts, great writers are able ______.

选项格式A.to confuse the readers

B.to move our actions

C.to move men

D.to tears to puzzle our feelings

(5).Which of the following statements about the real poet is NOT true？

选项格式A.He is no more than a master of words

B.He can convey his ideas in words which sing like music

C.He can move men to tears

D.His style. is always charming

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第9题

The author states that the first advocates of nursing training in the United States were _

_____.

A．medical men

B．upper-class women

C．professional nurses

D．military commanders

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第10题

The wheel was probably invented by ______ .A．a group of early huntersB．the first men on ea

The wheel was probably invented by ______ .

A．a group of early hunters

B．the first men on earth

C．a great prehistoric thinker

D．the man who made the first cart

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