第1题:
A.is
B.are
C.were
D.was
第2题:
A CAR STOPPED JUST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET Joan has been charged with a misdemeanor by asking her 13-year-old son to drive, putting her child in a dangerous situation. It was Joan's 32ndbirthday, so she decided to go out for dinner with her 35-year-old boyfriend, Donald, as well as her 13-year-old son, Mike. Joan was so happy that she drank two bottles of wine with her boyfriend.When it was time to go home, both Joan and Donald were too drunk to drive.They knew it clearly that both of them couldn't drive home safely after that much wine, so they sat in the back seat and asked Mike, Joan's 13-year-old son, to drive the 2008 Land Rover. Being a driver for the first time in his life, Mike could receive no help from his mom or Donald.They were too drunk to tell him clearly what to do. He started the car nervously, but when he realized he couldn't control the car at all, he was scared and depressed. He decided to stop the car and refuse to drive any further. He called the police for help. When the police arrived, they found the car was stopped right in the middle of the street.
1. Joan has been charged with driving after drinking.()
2. Mike was 35 years old.()
3. Joan and Donald were both too drunk to drive.()
4. It was the first time for Mike to drive.()
5. The police stopped Mike in the middle of the street.()
第3题:
B)阅读下面的短文,并做后面的题目,从A、B、C 3个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成句子的最佳答案。(10分)
Every year there is a Spring Festival in China. Usually it is in January or February. It is the most important festival in China. So before it comes, everyone has to prepare things. They buy pork, beef, chicken, fruits and many other things. And they often make a special kind of food—“dumplings”. It means “come together”. On the day before the festival, parents buy new clothes for their children. Children also buy presents for their parents. On the Spring Festival Eve(除夕), all the family members come back to their hometown. This is a happy moment. Some sing and dance, some play cards and others get the dinner ready. When they enjoy the meal, they give each other the best wishes for the coming year. They all have a good time.
26. Which is the most important festival in China?
A. The MidAutumn Festival. B.The Spring Festival.
C. Children’s Day.
第4题:
A It was a village in India . The people were poor. However , they were not unhappy .After all, their forefathers had lived in the same way for centuries.
Then one day. Some visitors from the city arrived. The told the villagers there were some people elsewhere who liked to eat frog’s legs . However , they did not have enough frogs of their own ,and so they wanted to buy frogs from other place.
This seemed like money for nothing .There were millions of frogs in the fields around, and they were no use to the villagers. All they had to do was catch them .Agreement was reached ,and the children were sent into the fields to catch frogs. Every week a truck arrived to collect the catch and hand over the money. For the first time , the people were able to dream of a batter future ,But the dream didn’t last long.
The change was hardly noticed at first, but it seemed as if the crops were not doing so well. More worrying was that the children fell ill more ofen, and, there seeemed to be more insects aroud lately.
The vilagers decided that they couldn’t just wait to see the crops failing and the children getting weak. They would have to use the money earned to buy pesticides(杀虫剂) and medicines.Soon there was no money left.
Then the peaple realized what was happening. It was the frog. They hadn’t been useless.They had been doing an important job---eating insects. Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were
Increasing more rapidly. They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases.
Now, the peaple are still poor.But in the evenings they sit in the village square and listen to sounds of insects and frogs.These sounds of the night now have a much deeper meaning .
from paragraoh I we learn that the villagers __________.
A.worked very hard for centuries
B.dreamed of having a better life
C.were poor but somewhat content
D.lived a different life from their forefathers
第5题:
Reading Comprehension
Directions:There are two passages in this part. Each passage js followed by some questions
or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Youshould decide on the best choice.
Questions 56 - 60 are based on Passage One:
Passage One
How should one invest a sum of money in these days of inflation (通货膨胀) ? Left in a bank it will hardly keep its value, however high the interest rate is.Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market.Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings, and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past.Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques.
I sometimes woncler wl:cat a being from another planet might report back about our wayof life. “The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound. It has a face with twelve black marks and two hands. Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round people's wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control.This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves. ”
Whether or not we are slaves of time today depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time. Certain men were very clever at measuring the time of day according to the beating of their own hearts. They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would shout the time. So it seems that the first clocks were human beings.
However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time.
They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun.They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour-glasses, and invented water-clocks.Indeed, any serious student of antiques should spend as much time as possible visiting palaces, stately homes and museums to see some of the finest examples of clocks from the past.
Antique clocks could be very expensive, but one of the joys of collecting clocks is that it is still possible to find quite cheap ones for your own home. After all, if you are going to be ruled by the time, why not invest in air antique clock and perhaps make a future profit?
According to the passage, collecting antique clocks ( ).
A. can hardly keep the value of your savings
B. will cost much of your money
C. may increase your wealth
D. needs your bravery
第6题:
Passage Five
Australia is nearly as large as the United States, but most of it is too dry for people to live in. Around
this dry part are large sheep and cow farms. A few of them are as large as the smallest states: of America.
Often the nearest neighbours are several hundred kilometers away.
The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australian farms. It works much like a
telephone. A person can listen to someone else talk and then gives an answer. For example, people on
the large farms could talk to a doctor far away. They could tell the doctor about someone who was ill,
and the doctor could let them know how to look after the sick person.
As the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school. Radio schools were
started for them in some places. At a certain time each day, boys and girls turn on their radios and
listen to teachers in cities far away.
Families on the large farms wanted to give news to their neighbours. The programme Round Robin
Talks by radio was started to keep families in touch with each other. They could talk about who was
going away and who was iii. The men could talk about their sheep and cows and how much money
the markets would pay for them. In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia.
52. In the passage "the two-way radio" is______.
A. important to Americans
B. useful for children only
C. used as a telephone
D. only used by doctors
此题为细节题。文章的第二段内可以找到句子:It works much like a telephone。
第7题:
People _________ a new festival so that African Americans would be able to celebrate their history and culture.
A:invented
B:produced
C:manufactured
D:created
第8题:
B
Three soldiers were on their way home from the war.They arrived at a small village,they were very tired and (51),but they had no food or money. The only thing they did have was a cooking pot(锅).
The soldiers built a small cooking fire,(52) their pot on it,and poured in some water. When a few villagers asked what they were doing, one of the soldiers answered that he was making stone soup. A few more villagers walking by stopped to (53) what was goingon when they heard about it.
“Any soup needs salt and pepper,”the first soldier said,(54) some children ran to fetch salt and pepper.“Stones can be used to prepare good soup,but tomatoes would (55) it so much better,” the second soldier added. One woman said“, Why,I think I have a tomato or two! ”She ran to get the tomatoes.
“Some cabbage would be a proper choice for a good stone soup! ”said the third soldier. Another woman said,“I think I can probably find some cabbage,”and (56) she ran.
“If only we had a bit of beef and some potatoes,this soup would be fit for a rich man's (57).”The villagers thought it over,then ran to fetch what they had in their homes. A rich man's soup,and all from a few stones! It seemed like (58)!
The soldiers said“, If only we had a little milk,this soup would be fit for a king! ”And so other villagers (59) to get some milk.
“The soup is ready,”said the cooks,“and all will (60) it,but first we need to set the tables.”Some of the villagers said,“Such a great soup would be better (61) some bread and cakes,”so they brought the (62) two things and the meal was (63) by all. Never had there been such a (64) meal. Never had the villagers had such delicious soup,and all made from stones! They ate and drank and danced well into the night.
In the morning,the villagers gathered to say goodbye.“Many thanks to you,”they said,“for we shall (65) go hungry now that we have learned how to make soup from stones.”
51.____________
A.hungry B.bored C.sleepy D.sick
第9题:
B
Tom lived a long way from the town.One day he went into the town to buy something in a shop,and after he bought it,he went into a restaurant and sat down at a table. When he looked round,he saw some old people put glasses on before reading their books,so after lunch he went to a shop to buy glasses,too. He walked along the road,and soon found a shop.The man in the shop made him try on a lot of glasses,but each time Tom said,"No,l can't read with this pair. "The man became more and more puzzled. At last he said,"Excuse me,but can you read at all?"No,l can't!"Tom said,"lf I can read,do you think I will come here to buy glasses?"
( )26. Tom saw some old people _______'
A. far away from the town
B.in a shop
C. in a restaurant
D. in the village
第10题: