If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Grea
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If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Great Pyramid. It is about 137 meters high and made of 2,300,000 big stones. Each stone weighs about two and a half tons（吨）.The biggest ones even weigh fifteen tons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build it. Nobody can tell just how the men cut, carried and lifted（举）the huge stones without our modern machines（机器）.
The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves. They thought they had tombs （坟墓）strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life. But they never thought that about 5,000 years later their bodies would be on show in museums.
小题1:The Great Pyramid is in ________. | A．China | B．Japan | C．Egypt | D．France |
小题2: A pyramid is ______. | A．a house | B．a huge stone | C．a king’s tomb | D．the name of a museum |
小题3:The Great Pyramid is about _______ and made of _______ huge stones.| A．137 metres high; 100,000 | B．137 high metres; 2,300,000 | | C．137 metres; 2,300,000 | D．137 meters high; 2,300,000 |
小题4:Pyramids are built for _______. | A．the kings | B．the queens（皇后） | C．the kings" teachers | D．People |
小题5:The kings thought they had the pyramids built to keep their bodies until _________.| A．they came home | B．they became alive | | C．they die | D．they were on show in museums |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:B |
解析
试题分析：这篇短文讲解了埃及的金字塔中的大金字塔的情况。包括塔高、石块原料以及建造的代价等；最后介绍了埃及国王当初建造金字塔的目的以及今天的发展状况。
小题1:细节理解题。根据第一段If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Great Pyramid.可知大金字塔在埃及；故选C。
小题2:推理判断题。根据第二段中The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves. They thought they had tombs （坟墓）strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life.可知埃及国王让人们为他们自己建造金字塔一存放尸体；故选C。
小题3:细节判断题。根据第一段It is about 137 meters high and made of 2,300,000 big stones.可知大金字塔高达137米，由230万块石头制成；故选D。
小题4:细节理解题。由第二段第一句The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves.可知金字塔是国王为自己制造的；故选A。
小题5:细节理解题。由第二段They thought they had tombs （坟墓）strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life.他们建金字塔是为他们复活之前存放尸体准备的；故选B。 |
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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。
Paper was first about2,000 years ago, it has been made silk, cotton, bamboo, and wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. And because there weren’t many books, people learned to read. Then printing was invented in China. The first printed books were made by ink on a wooden block and holding the paper against it. When printing was developed greatly the beginning of the11th century, books could be produced more quickly and .
___ , more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ideas spread quickly, a way that can be compared the of the Internet in the20th century.
| 小题1: | | A． create | B． created | C． creating | D． creates |
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| 小题3: | | A． little | B． a little | C． few | D． a few |
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| 小题4: | | A． put | B． putting | C． puts | D． puting |
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| 小题6: | | A． cheap | B． cheaply | C． cheaper | D． cheapest |
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| 小题7: | | A． Because | B． so that | C． As a result | D． because of |
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| 小题9: | | A． at | B． with | C． by | D． about |
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| 小题10: | | A． introduction | B． introduce | C． introduced | D． introducing |
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阅读短文，从下列各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Life will be because many changes will take place in 30 years, but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be people in the world and most of them will live longer than before. Computers will be smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. Computer science will be one of the most important in school. People will work fewer hours than they are doing now, so they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and traveling. Traveling will be much cheaper and . Many more people will go to other countries holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for new towns and houses. Then there will be less for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe people won’t eat it every day; they will eat more vegetables and fruit instead. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work will by robots. Because of this, many people will not have to do. This will be a problem.
| 小题1: | | A．same | B．difference | C．different | D．difficulty |
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| 小题2: | | A．little and little | B．less and less | C．many and many | D．more and more |
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| 小题4: | | A．subject | B．subjects | C．way | D．games |
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| 小题5: | | A．easily | B．more easily | C．easy | D．easier |
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| 小题7: | | A．build | B．building | C．to build | D．builds |
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| 小题8: | | A．rooms | B．room | C．spaces | D．sea |
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| 小题10: | | A．many work | B．enough works | C．much works | D．enough work |
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Do you have an umbrella? Someone invented the umbrella about 4,000 years ago. People used umbrellas in Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and China in ancient times. We use our umbrella for protection from the rain. However, people first used umbrellas for protection from the sun. People in China were the first ones to use their umbrellas for rain. They put wax(蜡纸) on paper umbrellas.
European women used umbrellas before European men used them. Jonas Hanway was the first man to carry one in England. He made umbrellas popular for men and women. Some people called the umbrella a Hanway because of him.
We make umbrellas from many different things. The first ones were wood and cloth. Now many are plastic(塑料). Today umbrellas are easy to carry. They fold up into a small package(包). The umbrella is a great invention. Don’t forget yours the next time when it rains.
根据文章内容判断正误，正确的写“A”，错误的写“Ｂ”。
小题1:The umbrella was invented about 2,000 years ago.
小题2:The first umbrellas were used for protection from sun.
小题3:People in Europe were the first ones to use their umbrellas for rain.
小题4:Some people called the umbrella a Hanway because he made umbrellas popular for people.
小题5:The first umbrellas were made from plastic. |
The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2 September 1666. In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city, where most of the houses were wooden and close together. One hundred thousand people became homeless, but only a few lost their lives.
The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King"s baker(面包师)in Pudding Lane, The baker, with his wife and family, was able to get out through a window in the roof. A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery(房)into a small hotel next door. Then it spread quickly into Thames Street. That was the beginning.
By eight o"clock three hundred houses were on fire. On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames. Tuesday was the worst day. The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul"s and the Guildhall among them.
Samuel Pepys, the famous writer, wrote about the fire. People threw their things into the river. Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat.
The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire. With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.
After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect(建筑师), wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone. In fact, the streets are still narrow; but he did build more than fifiy churches, among them new St Paul"s.
The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.
小题1:The fire began in_______.| A．a hotel. | B．the palace. | C．Pudding Lane. | D．Thames Street. |
小题2:The underlined word "family" in the second paragraph means_______.| A．home. | B．children. | | C．wife and husband. | D．wife and children. |
小题3:It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that ________.| A．some people lost their lives. | | B．the birds in the sky were killed by the fire. | | C．many famous buildings were destroyed. | | D．the King"s bakery was burned down. |
小题4:Why did writer cite(引用)Samuel Pepys?| A．Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire. | | B．Because Pepys also wrote about the fire. | | C．To show that poor people suffered most. | | D．To give the reader a clearer picture of the fire. |
小题5:How was the fire put out according to the test?| A．The king and his soldiers came to help. | | B．All the wooden houses in the city were destroyed. | | C．People managed to get enough water from the river. | | D．Houses standing in the direction of the fire were pulled down. |
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Most Americans enjoy moving from place to place. For example, they often drive their cars 120 to 160 kilometres away just to have dinner with a friend or even fly to London or Paris just to watch a football match. In some states only one person in five lives in a place for more than five years. One may be born in one city, and go to school in another. He may finish his middle school in two or three cities, and then go to college far across the country. When he begins to work, he may possibly move from job to job. Moving from one job to another, which is called “job-hopping”, can be seen in many places in the United States.
Job-hopping does good to workers because every change of a job gives them a chance to get better pay. And job-hopping also gives bosses the chance to get new ideas and skills from him or her.
小题1:From this passage, we can see Americans often travel to _______________.| A．have dinner with their friends | B．go shopping | | C．watch a football game | D．enjoy themselves |
小题2:Which of the following is true?| A．About 20% of the people stay in one place for over five years. | | B．Children have to finish middle school in one place. | | C．People go to the nearest college. | | D．When people begin to work, they don’t move any more. |
小题3:Job-hopping means “_______________”.| A．looking for a job | B．having a job | | C．changing jobs often | D．losing a job |
小题4:In the USA job-hopping _______________.| A．is very popular | | B．helps young people go to college | | C．helps workers in traveling | | D．helps students begin to work |
小题5:The writer thinks job-hopping _______________.| A．does good only to the workers | B．does good only to the boss | | C．must be stopped | D．is helpful |
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