完成下列各选项 通读下面的短文,掌握其大意。然后,从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处
A.way
B.answer
C.help
D.means
A.way
B.answer
C.help
D.means
第3题
A.Certain
B.A
C.some
D.One
第4题
A.efore midnight
B.fter noon
C.fter midnight
D.in the afternoon
第5题
A.loved the little girl more than anybody else
B.loved the little girl while her parents didn’t
C.was loved by the little girl only
D.was loved by all the children in her class
第6题
阅读下列短文,然后根据短文的内容从 55~57 小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。
B
Scientists have searched for many years for a method to tell whether a volcano(火山)explosion will be small or large. Now,four scientists say they have discovered something in lava(熔岩)that will help do this. They did the research on Mount Unzen on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.
Mount Unzen exploded in November,1990. Since then,more explosions have killed 43 people and destroyed the homes of more than 2,000 others. The volcano is still active today.
The scientists say the lava of the volcano contains high level of an element(成份),which is a sign of the presence of the lava from deep in the earth,not from the surface. They say it shows that the lava coming directly from inside the earth is connected with huge explosions instead of smaller ones.
The scientists examined the lava from 18 explosions of Mount Unzen that took place during many thousands of years. They also studied the lava from other volcanoes in the area that are older than Mount Unzen. The lava studied came from both large and small explosions. The scientists found that large explosions contained more of the element than small ones. The scientists say if they had known this two years earlier,they could have warned the people living in the area near Mount Unzen and saved many lives.
第 55 题 From the passage we learn that Mount Unzen is the name of ______.
A.a huge volcano explosion
B.a Japanese island
C.an active volcano
D.a kind of lava
第7题
完形填空阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In its home country of Germany, the hot dog was called the frankfurter. It was named __16__ Frankfurt, a German city.
Frankfurters were first __17__ in the United States in __18__. Americans called frankfurters “dachshund sausages” (达克思香肠).A dachshund is a dog from Germany __19__ a very long body and short legs. Dachshund sausages first 20 popular in New York, __21__ at baseball games. At games they were sold by men __22__ kept them __23__ in hot-water tanks.
As the men walked __24__ the rows of people, they yelled, “Get your dachshund sausages! Get your hot dachshund sausages!
“People got the sausages on 25, a special bread. 26 in 1906 a newspaper cartoonist __27__ Tad Dorgan went to a baseball game. __28__ he saw the men with the dachshund sausages, he got an idea __29__ a cartoon. The next day at the newspaper office he __30__ a bun with a dachshund inside--31 a dachshund sausage, 32 a dachshund. Dorgan __33__ how to spell dachshund. Under the cartoon, he wrote “Get your hot dogs!”
The cartoon was a sensation (轰动), and __34__. If you go to a baseball game today, you can still see sellers walking __35__ with hot-water tanks. As they walk up and down the rows they yell.
“Get your hot dogs here! Get your hot dogs!”
第16题:
[A] with
[B] after
[C] by
[D] of
第8题
阅读下列短文,然后根据短文的内容从 58~61 小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。
C
Have you ever argued with your loved ones over simple misunderstandings(误解)?Little wonder. We often believe we're more skillful in getting our point across than we actually are,according to Boza Keysar,a professor at the University of Chicago. In his recent study,speakers tried to express their meanings using unclear sentences. Speakers who thought listeners understood were wrong nearly half the time. Here‘s some good advice to reduce misunderstanding:
(1)Don't trust what you see from the listener. Listeners often nod,look at you or say“uhhuh”to be polite or move the conversation along. But it‘s easy to consider these as signs of understanding.
(2)Train the editor(编辑)in your head. If you say,“Beth discusses her problems with her husband,”it's not clear whether she‘s talking to her husband or about him. Try instead,“Beth talks to her husband about her problems.”or“Beth talks to others about the problems with her husband.”
(3)Ask listeners to repeat your message. Introduce your request by saying“I want to be sure I said that right.”Questions like“How does that sound?”or“Does that make sense?”may also work.
(4)Listen well. When on the receiving end,ask questions to be sure you're on the same page. After all,it isn‘t just the speaker's job to make his speech understood.
第 58 题 Why does the writer give us the advice?
A.We're not skillful enough to make clear sentences.
B.Misunderstanding is damaging our normal lives.
C.Misunderstanding occurs now and then.
D.It's impolite to say NO to others.
第9题
第二节 完型填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
During the 9th century scientists found that when certain parts of the brain of a man were 【B1】 ,he would lose the 【B2】 to do certain things. And so, people thought that each part of the brain does a different 【B3】 . But modern research has 【B4】 out that this is not so, for it is not 【B5】 to say 【B6】 what each part of the brain does.
In the past fifty years there 【B7】 a great increase in the amount of research 【B8】 on the brain. Chemists and biologists have 【B9】 that the 【B10】 the brain works it is not so 【B11】 as people in general may think. Chemists tell us that 100,000 chemical changes 【B12】 in the brain every second. Some recent researches also 【B13】 that we can remember every thing 【B14】 happens 【B15】 us. We 【B16】 not be able to recall(回忆)the things we've heard and seen, but it is all kept there in the storehouse of the human mind.
Earlier scientists thought the power of one's brain got weaker as one grow 【B17】 . But it is now thought that is not 【B18】 . As long as the brain is 【B19】 【B20】 exercise it keeps its ability. It has been proved that an old person who has always been active in the mind has a quicker mind than a young person who has only done physical work without using much of his brain. It is now thought that the more work we give our brains, the more work they are able to do.
【B1】
A.destroyed
B.injured
C.broken
D.wounded
第10题
阅读下列短文,然后根据短文的内容从 62~65 小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。
D
While acting may run in the family,it wasn't Angelina Jolie's only choice when thinking about her future. Although Jolie has studied her craft(技艺)since childhood,at one point the 26-year-old,who stars this month in Tomb Raider with her father,actor John Voight,wanted to be a funeral(殡葬)director.“I thought that the crossing over could be a beautiful thing and a time of comfort when people could reach out to each other.”
Tradition(传统)is always attractive and interesting to Jolie,who moved with her mother,Marcheline Bertand,and brother after her parents separated when she was two.“I never had one home. I never had an attic(阁楼)that had old things in it. We always moved,so I was never rooted anywhere. And I always dreamed of having that attic of things that I could go back and have a look. I'm very drawn to some things that are tradition,that are roots,and I think that may be why I paid such special attention to funerals.”
Finally,she chose acting.“Following in my father's footsteps,”she says,“is an interesting thing,because I think we speak to each other through our work. You don't really know your parents in a certain way,and they don't really know you. So he can watch a film and see how I am as a woman,the way I’m dealing with a husband who's been hurt,or the way I'm crying alone.”
“And it's the same for me:I can watch films of his and just see who he is. I've learned to understand him as a person.”
第 62 题 The passage is about a woman who _______.
A.was once a funeral director
B.is the leading actress in Tomb Raider
C.wants an attic to live in
D.was hurt by her husband