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In the US, 1 you ask kids 2 they want to be when they grow up, you may 3. Some will say they want to be the President, doctors, lawyers or movie stars. But many will say they want to be firefighters (消防员).
Bejing a firefighter is a dangerous job, 4 it doesn’t pay 5 a job in medicine, business or entertainment (娱乐). So why is the idea of 6 a firefighter so popular with kids?
One reason is that firefighters are heroes in the US society. They are strong and brave(勇敢). They risk their own lives (不顾自己的安危) 7 the lives of others.
8 the terrorist attack (恐怖袭击) in New York 9 September 11, 2001, firefighters became a symbol of national pride (骄傲) and strength (力量). Brave firefighters rushed to save people in the 10 buildings. They 11 save many lives, but many firemen 12. After the attacks, people 13 the US wore hats and T-shirts that said FDNY (Dire Department of New York) to show respect (尊敬) for the firefighters.
To be a firefighter is to be a hero. 14 no surprise that many kids want 15 heroes.

小题1:

A．unless

B．when

C．if

D．whether

小题2:

A．what

B．how

C．where

D．why

小题3:

A．be surprised

B．surprised

C．surprising

D．be surprising

小题4:

A．or

B．and

C．but

D．if

小题5:

A．as many as

B．as much as

C．as soon as

D．as possible as

小题6:

A．become

B．became

C．becoming

D．to become

小题7:

A．save

B．saves

C．saved

D．to save

小题8:

A．After

B．Before

C．When

D．While

小题9:

A．at

B．in

C．for

D．on

小题10:

A．fell

B．felt

C．falls

D．falling

小题11:

A．able to

B．were able to

C．can be able to

D．were able

小题12:

A．dead

B．death

C．died

D．die

小题13:

A．cross

B．across

C．through

D．passed

小题14:

A．This is

B．These are

C．It’s

D．That’s

小题15:

A．to become

B．become

C．to get

D．get

答案

小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:B
小题6:C
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:D
小题10:D
小题11:B
小题12:C
小题13:B
小题14:C
小题15:A

解析

试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了美国许多孩子的梦想，其中重点介绍了美国孩子为什么想要成为一名消防员的原因。
小题1:连词辨析。A.除非，如果不；B.当……时；C.是否，如果；D.是否。联系下文，可知此处指的是如果你问孩子们，故选C。
小题2:联系下文，可知此处指的是他们长大后要做什么，故选A，什么。
小题3:联系下文，可知此处指的是你会被吓一跳。结合语境可知本句主语是动作对象，故用被动语态，选A，感到吃惊。
小题4:联系上下文，可知做消防员是个危险的工作和不如其它职业报酬多是并列关系，故选B，和，并且。
小题5:联系下文可知此处指的是这不如医学，商业和娱乐方面的职业报酬多。报酬为抽象含义，不可数，many多用来修饰可数名词复数，故选B。和……一样多。
小题6:本句中of是介词，后面接名词或者动名词作宾语，故选C，成为。
小题7:句意：他们不顾自己的安慰来拯救他人的生命。不定式作目的状语表示具体的将要进行的动作，结合语境可知选D，拯救。
小题8:联系下文，可知此处指的是在911恐怖袭击事件之后，故选A，在……之后。
小题9:英语中表示在具体的某一天用介词on，联系下文September 11, 2001可知此处指的是在具体某一天，故选D。
小题10:联系前文，可知此处指的是正在倒塌的大楼里面，故选D，下降的，落下的。
小题11:联系前文，可知本句描述的是过去发生的动作，故谓语动词用过去时态，短语be able to do sth能够做某事，故选B。
小题12:结合语境可知此处指的是许多消防员死了。可知本句描述的是过去发生的动作，故谓语动词用过去时态，选项AB不能用作谓语动词，故选C，死了。
小题13:词义辨析。A.交叉的，交叉；B.横穿；C.通过；D. 经过。结合语境可知此处指的是全美国的人们，故选B。
小题14:结合语境可知此处代词指的是前文提到的成为消防员就是成为英雄。故用人称代词it，其他选项无此用法，故选C。
小题15:want后一般接带to的不定式作宾语，表示具体的将要进行的动作，结合语境可知选A。
点评：这篇短文内容比较简单，理解不难。各小题与上下文联系比较紧密，答题中一定要注意联系上下文。答完后多读几遍，看看是否符合逻辑，适当修改。个别小题可以当作单独的词义辨析题来做，先区分词义，结合语境选出最能使语句通顺的答案。

举一反三

A good way to pass an exam is to work hard every day in a year. You may fail in an exam if you are lazy for most of the year and then work hard only a few days before the exam. If you want to be good at English, you have to read stories in English, and to speak English as much as possible. A few days before the exam you should go to bed early. Do not go to bed late at night. Before you start answering in the exam, read carefully over the question papers, and try to understand the meaning of each question. When you have finished your exam, read over your answers. Correct the mistakes and be sure that you don’t miss anything out.
小题1:If people want to do well in an exam, they have to work hard ______.

A．every day in a year	B．for most of the month
C．for a few days	D．late at night

小题2:If people want to learn English well, they ______.

A．read stories in English	B．should go to bed early
C．Both A and D	D．must often practice English

小题3:It is important to ______ a few days before the exam

A．study harder	B．have a good sleep
C．read the question papers	D．have a good drink

小题4:When people have finished the exam, they should ______.

A．stand up and leave at once	B．answer a few more questions
C．make sure that they don’t miss anything out	D．discuss with other students

小题5:The best title for the passage is ______.

A．An Important Exam	B．An Easy Exam
C．Get Ready For Exams	D．How to Pass an Exam

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According to a new education survey, student safety has become a big problem. Nearly 50 percent of the students say they are worried about robbery on the way to and from school. Now in many big cities in China，some schools have taught an unusual lesson. self-protection；Students like this lesson as there are no exams or boring classes. And they can learn how to save lives and know how to stop danger before it really happens.
Chen Haoyu，a teacher at Beijing No. 25 Middle School and a self-protection expert，gives young students advice on how to deal with danger．
If you are robbed, keep calm. If you cannot cry for help or run away, give the robber your money, try to remember what the robber looks like and tell the police.
If you are in a traffic accident and if you are hurt by a car, take down the car number；if it is a bicycle, try to contact your parents before you let the rider go. This is because you don’t know how seriously you are hurt.
Don’t stay in high places and keep away from trees if it is raining hard and there is lightning.
Get away as fast as you can when there is a fire．Put wet things on your body and try to find an exit. Do not take the lift!
If someone is drowning and you can’t swim, don’t get into the water. Cry out for help.
Remember that danger is never as far away as you think. Take care of yourself at all times!
小题1:Why do students like the self-protection lesson?

A．Because there is advice on exams

B．Because they can learn how to protect themselves.

C．Because they like self-protection experts.

D．Because they have lots of exams during the lesson.

小题2:The underlined word “contact” means_________.

A．end up

B．wait for

C．search for

D．get in touch with

小题3:If your house is on fire, you must __________.

A．put dry things on your body

B．run quickly and take the lift

C．take everything you have and then run away

D．run away and find an exit as quickly as you can

小题4:If you see a child fall into the river and you are not able to swim, you _______.

A．should telephone the doctor	B．can jump into the river and save him
C．can do nothing	D．should shout for help

小题5:What’s the best title for this passage?

A．Protection	B．Advice on how to deal with danger
C．The popular lesson	D．An interesting lesson

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In some science fiction movies, evil robots refuse to die, no matter how hard people fight back.
Now science fiction has become science fact. For the first time, scientists have made a robot that can take a beating and keep on going. Scientists from Cornell University made the robot, which looks like a spider with four legs.
Until now, even the most advanced (先进的) robot was almost certain to break down when it was damaged (毁坏). That is because its computer inside simply doesn’t know how to make the machine work after its shape has changed.
To deal with this problem, the scientists put eight motors (发动机) and two sensors (传感器) that read how the machine is working. They all give signals to the machine’s software. Using this information, the computer can then figure out the machine’s shape at any moment.
The new technology is a big advance in robot-making, scientists say, and it’s far from scary. It may someday help scientists create better artificial (假的) arms and legs and give new freedom to people who lose them. It might also help scientists understand how people and animals figure out their own sense of place in space.
“It has been difficult to design robots that can work well when the environment changes or when it’s damaged,” says Olaf Sporns of Indiana University in US. “With this work, we are nearer to solving this problem.”
小题1:Why do robots easily break down when they are damaged?

A．They cannot repair themselves.

B．The computer has changed a lot.

C．They have no computers inside.

D．The computer cannot work if the robot changes.

小题2:The new technology(技术) allows the robot to .

A．keep working after being damaged

B．tell people where it is

C．do house work for humans

D．remember a lot of information

小题3:The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 5 refers to .

A．sensors

B．robots

C．scientists

D．arms and legs

小题4:How do the sensors in the robot work?

A．They can replace the computer when it’s broken.

B．They help the computer learn the robot’s condition.

C．They can find out where the damage comes from.

D．They can send signals to the person who uses the robot.

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London has a new magazine. But it is not printed(印刷) on paper. Everyone who has a television can receive it because it is on TV.
In order to read this magazine you have to have a decoder (解码器). Each page of it is numbered, so you only have to dial the number to choose which subject you want to read about. There are all kinds of information ---everything is included from cooking to the latest sports news.
If you want to read the news, the first thing you have to do is to turn to the back page, which has an easy-to-remember page number, 100 for example. Then you start choosing what you want to read. The news is on page 101 to 109, so you put in the numbers and the news appears written across your screen. Perhaps you want to go out in the afternoon, so you press 181, and a brightly colored weather map appears on the screen. But the weather is terrible, so you decide to go shopping and dial 162 for a list of the week’s best bargains. But should you drive or take the train? To answer that question you only have to press 189 for the traffic report. It is very simple to use. But probably the best thing about the service is that it is being updated all the time. Journalists type new material directly onto the screen and the whole pages of the magazine can be replaced in minutes.
London already has three services. One, sent out by TV, is called ORACLE while the other two, on BBC, are called CEEFAX because they let you see facts. Although CEEFAX and ORACLE have been operating for some time, they have not been well publicized(宣传). BBC engineers do not think that their idea will ever replace books and newspapers because they can be taken with you everywhere. But many people would agree that is a breakthrough(突破) as great as the invention of printing, which could not just change our reading habits but our whole way of life.
小题1: We can know from the passage that in London .

A．the magazine is available at any local home

B．most of the postmen will lose their jobs some day

C．everyone can read this magazine if they have a television

D．the readers can get various kinds of information staying at home

小题2:In the sentence “Each page of it is numbered,” the word “it” refers to the .

A．magazine

B．program

C．decoder

D．subject

小题3:According to the passage, the “decoder” is used to help people .

A．work out the total(合计) of certain numbers

B．read the information sent by TV signals

C．go shopping and have other entertainment

D．receive some special TV program for entertainment

小题4:The passage is mainly about .

A．a new magazine printed in London

B．an up-to-date way of getting information

C．a popular TV program about magazines

D．an advanced technology helping people communicate

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Here is the content （目录）of a book.

Unit	Readings	Skills	Words
Unit 1 Music	Music & Feelings Sad movies	Understanding main ideas Predicting by title	Kinds of Music Music stars
Unit 2 Sports	National Sports The ancient Olympic Games	Understanding main ideas Guessing meaning of new words	Action verbs Names of sports Sports tools
Unit 3 Weather	Weather service Weather and nature	Understanding main ideas Guessing meaning of new words	Weather conditions Weather information
Unit 4 Culture	Travelling in India Body language in the United States	Understanding main ideas Predicting by title *Making inferences	Cultural studies Culture and art
Unit 5 Space	Living in space The planets	Understanding main ideas Understanding attitude	Space news Space terms

小题1:If you’re interested in music, you can read “__________”.

A．National sports

B．Sad movies

C．The planets

D．Weather service

小题2:You can learn something about weather in _______.

A．Unit 1

B．Unit 2

C．Unit 3

D．Unit 4

小题3:Words about ________ are in Unit 5.

A．music stars

B．weather conditions

C．sports tools

D．space news

小题4:If you like culture, you can read “__________”.

A．Living in space	B．Travelling in India
C．Music & Feelings	D．The ancient Olympic Games

小题5:In all the units, you can learn the skill of _________.

A．predicting by title	B．understanding attitude
C．understanding main ideas	D．guessing meaning of new words

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Unit	Readings	Skills	Words
Unit 1 Music	Music & Feelings Sad movies	Understanding main ideas Predicting by title	Kinds of Music Music stars
Unit 2 Sports	National Sports The ancient Olympic Games	Understanding main ideas Guessing meaning of new words	Action verbs Names of sports Sports tools
Unit 3 Weather	Weather service Weather and nature	Understanding main ideas Guessing meaning of new words	Weather conditions Weather information
Unit 4 Culture	Travelling in India Body language in the United States	Understanding main ideas Predicting by title *Making inferences	Cultural studies Culture and art
Unit 5 Space	Living in space The planets	Understanding main ideas Understanding attitude	Space news Space terms