阅读理解。 The Italian island of Sardinia recently lost its oldest person. Family
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The Italian island of Sardinia recently lost its oldest person. Family members say Antonio Todde died in
his sleep early this month. Mr Todde was 112 years old. He was less than three weeks away from his 113th
birthday. Record-keeping experts say he was the world"s oldest man.
His long life and that of other very old Sardinians are the subjects of a scientific project (项目) called
Akea. Luca Deiana of Sassari University is directing (指导) the study. He says the name Akea comes from
a traditional greeting (问候) on Sardinia. It means "health and life for 100 years." Professor Deiana and his
team started to collect information for the study in 1997. They identified (确定)) more than 220 Sardinians
who were centenarians-100 years old or older. His team needed three documents to make sure a person"s
age. They were a government (政府) birth record, a church record and a statement (声明) by a close family
member.
The Akea study has produced two major findings. The first is Sardinia"s extremely high number of
centenarians. The island has about 135 centenarians for every one million people. In other Western countries,
the average (平均数) is about seventy-five centenarians for every one million people. The second major
finding is an unusual rate (率) of female (女性) to male (男性) centenarians. Sardinia has two women
centenarians for every male centenarian. In central Sardinia there are the same numbers of female and male
centenarians.
Studies in other parts of the world have shown a much higher percentage (百分比) of female centenarians.
The Akea study collected information about the health and food of about 140 of the centenarians. About
ninety percent of those in the study also agreed to provide blood (血) for scientific testing. The study team
hopes to identify genetic (基因) material in the blood that can be linked to successful aging. Study leaders
say there is no single reason why people on Sardinia live so long. They believe the answer is a combination
(组合) of genetic and environmental conditions (条件). |
| 1. Centenarians are people who are ______ years old. |
| [ ] |
A．200
B．100
C．300
D．400 |
| 2. Akea is a scientific project about ______. |
| [ ] |
A．Mr Todde"s death
B．the long life of Sardinians
C．Sassari university
D．Professor Deiana |
| 3. What is the general idea of the third paragraph? |
| [ ] |
A．Sardinia has a large number of centenarians.
B．An unusual rate of female to male centenarians.
C．Two major findings of the Akea study.
D．Sardinia has equal numbers of female and male centenarians. |
| 4. Why do Sardinians live so long according to the study? |
| [ ] |
A．Because the environment on Sardinia is very good.
B．Because they have special genetic material in their blood.
C．Because they have a glass of wine every day.
D．Because they enjoy special genetic and environmental conditions. |
答案
| 1-4: B B C D |
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Animals, including insects, do not have a language like ours. They do not talk to each other in words and
sentences. But if we watch them, we can see that they do have ways of communicating with each other.
Can you see the rabbit"s tail which is moving up and down? When rabbits see this white tail moving up
and down, they run too. They know that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making
a sound. It has done this by using its body language.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a cobra is angry, it raises its head and makes itself
look fierce. This warns other animals. When a bee has found some food, it goes back to its home. It cannot
tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. This tells the
bees where the food is.
Some animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for example, when a stranger comes near. A
cat purrs when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning. Sometimes
we human beings speak in the same way. We make sounds like "Oh" or "Ah!" when we are frightened or
pleased or when we drop something on our toes.
But we have something that no animals have-a large number of words that have the meanings of things,
actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other all kinds of different information in words and
sentences, which no other animals can do. No other animals have so wonderful a language as we have. |
| 1. It can be learned from the text that ______. |
| [ ] |
A. animals do have a language like that of human beings
B. all animals have their own ways of communicating with each other
C. some animals say things by words as human beings do
D. animals know how to protect themselves |
| 2. A rabbit uses its tail to ______. |
| [ ] |
A. warn other rabbits of danger
B. tell other rabbits where food is
C. make itself look fierce
D. help itself to run fast |
| 3. What does the underlined phrase "this kind of language" refer to? |
| [ ] |
A. Moving up and down.
B. Making no sound.
C. Body language.
D. Doing a little dance. |
| 4. Which of the following is not true according to the passage? |
| [ ] |
A. Animals don"t have a language like ours.
B. A cobra shows his anger by body language.
C. Some animals can make sounds.
D. Man is unlucky because of their language. |
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使
用括号中词语的正确形式填空。 |
Radio, telephone and television are 1. (wide) used in the world. When you turn 2.
the radio, you can listen. But when you use telephone, not only you can listen to others but you can also
talk with them. 3. , you can"t see anything at all. Now television is 4. better than both of
them. People can watch TV and listen to it, but they can"t take part in what they see.
Today, some people are using a new type of telephone 5. (call) vision-phone (可视电话). With
the vision-phone, two people who are talking can 6. each other.
Vision-phone can be very 7. (use) when you have something to show the person whom you are
calling. It may also have other uses in the future. Some day you may be able to call up a library and ask to
read 8. book over your vision-phone, You may be able to do the shopping through it, too.
Suppose you read about something in the newspaper that you want to buy, you"ll go to your vision-phone
and call the shop. The shop assistant will show you the thing that you are 9. (interest) in. You"ll be
10. to shop all over the town and never leave your home.
Perhaps in the future, vision-phones will come into wide use in our everyday life. |
| 完形填空。 |
Reading for pleasure is the 1 way to become a better reader in English. It"s also the most important
2 .
Some students say they don"t want to read for pleasure. They say they want to use their 3 to learn
the rules of the language and new words. They say that pleasure reading is too easy.
Many experts say pleasure reading is very important for 4 English. Dr, Stephen Krashen, a famous
expert 5 learning languages, says that pleasure reading helps you learn many important things about
English. Students learn more grammar and more words when they read for pleasure. They also learn 6
about writing.
Dr Krashen tells us that pleasure reading helps each student in a 7 way. Each student needs to learn
something different. Pleasure reading makes 8 possible for each student to learn 9 he or she needs.
Reading for pleasure is not the same as studying. When you read for pleasure, you choose your own books,
and you don"t have to remember everything. There are no tests on your pleasure reading books. Pleasure
reading will help you 10 follows.
·learn how English speakers use English.
·read faster in English
·find examples of good writing in English
·learn new words
·learn about the cultures of English speakers
( )1. A. easy
( )2. A. way
( )3. A. school
( )4. A. learn
( )5. A. in
( )6. A. less
( )7. A. some
( )8. A. them
( )9. A. that
( )10. A. like | B. difficult
B. road
B. class
B. teaching
B. at
B. much
B. different
B. it
B. which
B. in | C. easiest
C. subject
C. time
C. learning
C. with
C. more
C. easy
C. 不填
C. why
C. with | D. fast
D. teacher
D. computer
D. knowing
D. on
D. most
D. good
D. as
D. what
D. as | | 短文填空：在下面短文的每个空白处填入适当的词，每空只填一词，首字母已给出。 | Students learn their lessons in class. They sit in the classroom and l to the teacher.This is a
way of learning. Is this the o way for students to learn? Of course not. There is another way to
learn. That is students can teach themselves. For e , if you can"t remember something when you
are doing your homework, what will you do? You can look at your books to f the answers.
How to teach yourself? The first thing you must do is reading. Read something you are i in,
or you have to read. The second is that you must ask yourself questions. A clever student is usually
g at asking questions. The third is to answer the questions yourself by w hard, by reading
books, and sometimes by asking o people. There are the ways of teaching yourself. If you keep
doing l these for a long time, you are sure to make great p in your study. | | 阅读理解。 | Applying (申请) to colleges in America
One of a high school student"s most important tasks is to get into college. Applying to colleges usually
begins in a student"s last year at high school, but preparations bgein much earlier.
Each high school has at least one special college counselor (顾问) to help students apply to colleges.
In public schools, there are about five hundred to a thousand students who have a counselor, but in private
schools, there are usually no more than forty students to every counselor.
Starting in ninth grade, students have to work hard to get good grades. Colleges lookat all the student"s
high school grades, so they are very important. Sometimes, a student can be rejected (拒绝) by a college
just because of poor grades a few years ago.
In eleventh grade, students begin to take many national tests. Most tests happen a few times a year, and
students can take them as many times as thay want. Colleges only ask for scores from the SAT test
(学业水平测试), which have three subjects-math, reading and writing. However, many students choose
to take other tests as well. These other tests help to show colleges how good a student is.
In class, students try to behave well for the teachers. Most colleges ask students to have two
recommendation letters (推荐信) from two teachers. Because of this, it is important for students to have
teachers who like them.
Besides work in the classroom, colleges also think about what the student does outside of school. Students
can join the school and, or write for the school newspaper. Others play on school sports teams. There are
many things for everyone to do, and colleges think it is important to accept students who do things other than
school work.
After working for so many years, students sendapplication to colleges in the middle of their last year of
high school. A few months later, colleges mail their decisions out. | 根据文章内容,判断下列句子正(A)误(B)。
( )1. In public schools, about forty students have a counselor.
( )2. Students can join the school band, or write for the school newspaper. | 最新试题
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