A programmer and an engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight fro

试题库

A programmer and an engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight fro

题型：不详难度：来源：
A programmer and an engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight from Los Angeles to New York．The programmer leans over to the engineer and asks if he would like to play a fun game．The engineer just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks．
The programmer persists and explains that the game is really easy and has a lot of fun．He explains, "I ask you a question, and if you don"t know the answer, you pay me $5．Then you ask me a question, and if I don"t know the answer, I"ll pay you $5．" Again, the engineer politely refuses and tries to get to sleep．
The programmer, now somewhat anxious, says, "OK, if you don"t know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don"t know the answer, I"ll pay you $50!" This catches the engineer"s attention, and he sees no end to this torment（折磨） unless he plays, so he agrees to the game．
The programmer asks the first question．"What"s the distance from the earth to the moon?"" The engineer doesn"t say a word, but reaches into his wallet, pulls out a five dollar bill and hands it to the programmer．Now, it"s the engineer"s turn．He asks the programmer, "What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down on four?" The programmer looks up at him with a puzzled look．He takes out his laptop computer and searches all of his references．After about an hour, he wakes the engineer and hands him $50．The engineer politely takes the $50 and turns away to try to get back to sleep．The programmer, more than a little angry, shakes the engineer and asks, "Well, so what"s the answer?" Without a word, the engineer reaches into his wallet, hands the programmer $5, and turns away and goes back to sleep．
小题1:What"s the best title for the passage?
A．A Boring ConversationB．A Fun Game
C．A Trick During The FlightD．A Question Without Answer
小题2:What kind of person is the programmer according to what he said?
A．Confident．B．Selfish．C．Greedy．D．Generous．
小题3:What can we infer according to the last sentence?
A．The engineer has little money with him．
B．Actually the engineer doesn"t know the answer, either．
C．The engineer is bored with programmer．
D．The engineer beats the programmer at last．
小题4:Which is NOT true according to the passage?
A．In the beginning the engineer is not interested in the game．
B．The engineer is too sleepy to want to play the game．
C．At last the engineer gains $45 from the programmer．
D．Nobody knows the answer to the engineer"s question．

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:C
解析

试题分析：一个程序员和一位工程师在从洛杉矶到纽约的长途飞行，坐到一起。程序员靠着工程师，问他是否愿意玩一个有趣的游戏。工程师只是想小睡片刻，他礼貌的拒绝了。程序员很执著 。说，“好吧，如果你不知道答案你付我5美元，如果我不知道答案，我会付你50美元！”这引起了工程师的注意，他认为除非他玩，否则就会没完没了，所以他就同意玩这个游戏了。
程序员问第一个问题。“从地球到月球的距离是多少？”工程师拿出五美元交给程序员。现在，轮到工程师提问。他问“什么上山时是三条腿，下山时四？”程序员抬头看着他，一脸困惑。他拿出笔记本电脑搜索他所有的参考文献。大约一个小时后，他给了工程师50美元。程序员，非常生气，问，“那答案是什么？”工程师一言不发地就把手伸进钱包，又递给程序员5美元，然后扭过头睡着了。
小题1:主题归纳题。根据开头可知，一个程序员和一位工程师在从洛杉矶到纽约的长途飞行中，玩了一个好玩的游戏，和B项意思一致。
小题2:推理判断题。 根据文章的内容可知，程序员认为没有自己回答不出的问题，才说了那样的话。Confident自信；Selfish自私；Greedy贪婪；Generous慷慨。如果慷慨，就不会有查电脑和再问一遍的情况发生了。所以选A。
小题3:推理判断题。根据 文章中说的，如果工程师不知道答案，他只需付5美元，当他在被问了第二次时，又拿出5美元，说明事实上他自己也不知道答案。所以选B。
小题4:推理判断题。根据最后一段的意思可知：程序员问了2个工程师不知道的问题，工程师应该付10美元，工程师问了一个程序员不知道的问题，得到50美元。，应该得到40美元。所以C错。选C。
举一反三
I lost my sight when I was four by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a disaster can do strange things to people. I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks constant adjustments to reality. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a potential to live, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself, I mean: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a new kind of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was out of reach. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
小题1:We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______
A．the author lost his sight because of a car crash.
B．the author wouldn’t love life if the disaster didn’t happen.
C．the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.
D．the disaster strengthened the author’s desire to see.
小题2:What’s the most difficult thing for the author?
A．How to adjust himself to reality.
B．Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.
C．Learning to manage his life alone.
D．How to invent a new kind of baseball.
小题3:According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author _________.
A．would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.
B．would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair.
C．would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.
D．would sit in a chair and stay at home.
小题4:What is the best title for the passage?
A．A Miserable LifeB．Struggle Against Difficulties
C．A Disaster Makes a Strong PersonD．An Unforgettable Experience

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案
The Healing
Jim and his wife, Connie, were shocked by the loss of their four-month-old son—Joshua, whose life was taken by SIDS—sudden infant death syndrome.
Thirty hours ago, Jim drove to the baby-sitter’s home to      Joshua. It was a     trip, like the one he made five days every week. He arrived, and little Joshua could not be        from his nap. The next few hours were a time of life and death: the racing ambulance, swift-moving doctors and nurse. But 12 hours later, at Children’s Hospital,      the doctors had exhausted（用尽） all     , little Joshua was gone. Yes, they wanted       of Joshua’s usable organs to be donated. That was not a      decision for Jim and Connie, a loving and       couple.
The next morning dawned and many things had to be arranged. Telephone calls and funeral plans.       one point Jim realized he needed a     .When Jim settled into the chair      the barber’s, he began to        the past hours, trying to       some sense of it all.      had Joshua, their first-born, the child they had waited so long for, been taken so soon….He had     begun his life. The question kept coming, and the pain in Jim’s heart just       him.
While talking with the barber, Jim mentioned the organ donations, looking at his watch, “They are transplanting one of his heart valves（瓣膜）right now.”
The       stopped and stood motionless. Finally she spoke, but it was only a whisper. “You’re not going to believe this. But about an hour ago the customer sitting in this chair wanted me to hurry       she could get to Children’s Hospital. She       here so full of joy. Her prayers had been answered. Today her baby granddaughter is receiving a     needed transplant—a heart valve.”
Jim’s healing began.
小题1:
A．pick outB．pick upC．set out D．set up
小题2:
A．routineB．annualC．averageD．difficult
小题3:
A．calledB．disturbedC．awakenedD．survived
小题4:
A．thoughB．sinceC．becauseD．as
小题5:
A．medicineB．strengthC．attemptsD．spirits
小题6:
A．partB．few C．someD．wise
小题7:
A．givingB．tiringC．boringD．thinking
小题8:
A．OfB．InC．OnD．At
小题9:
A．haircutB．breakC．donationD．decision
小题10:
A．withB．atC．byD．near
小题11:
A．decide onB．reflect onC．keep onD．focus on
小题12:
A．getB．takeC．hold D．make
小题13:
A．HowB．WhyC．WhetherD．If
小题14:
A．barelyB．nearly C．seldomD．almost
小题15:
A．coveredB．drewC．envelopedD．choked
小题16:
A．hairdresserB．customerC．fatherD．parent
小题17:
A．sinceB．as C．soD．and
小题18:
A．arrivedB．leftC．stayedD．sat
小题19:
A．desperatelyB．deadly C．clearlyD．obviously

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案
Something roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. ‘‘Father!” Hassan cried. We sprung to our feet and raced out of the living room.
“Father! What’s that sound?” Hassan screamed, his hands outstretched toward Ali. Ali wrapped his arms around us. A white light flashed and lit the sky in silver. It flashed again and was followed by rapid sharp sounds of gunfire.
“They’re hunting ducks, ” Ali said in a hoarse voice. “They hunt ducks at night, you know. Don"t be afraid.”
A siren(汽笛）went off in the distance. Somewhere glass broke and someone shouted. I heard people on the street, woken up from sleep. Hassan was crying. Ali pulled him close and held him with tenderness.
We stayed huddled (蜷缩）that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generations of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of the bombs and gunfire were not yet born. Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any idea that a way of life had ended. The end came when Russian tanks were rolling into the very same streets where Hassan and I played, bringing the death of the Afghanistan I knew and marking the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting.
Just before the sunrise, Baba’s car pulled into the driveway. His door slammed shut and his running footsteps pounded the stairs. Then he appeared in the doorway and I saw something on his face. Something I didn’t recognize right away because I’d never seen it before: fear. “Amir! Hassan!” He cried as he ran to us, opening his arms wide. “They blocked all the roads and the telephone didn’t work. I was so worried!”
We let him wrap us in his arms and, for a brief moment, I was glad about whatever had happened that night.
小题1:Who is the author of this passage?
A．Amir.B．Ali.C．Baba.D．Hassan.
小题2:By saying “They’re hunting ducks”, Ali _______.
A．told the children the truthB．played a joke on the children
C．tried to calm the childrenD．cheered the children up
小题3:We can infer from the passage that  _______.
A．there were thunderstorms that night
B．Afghan children were used to the war
C．people on the street shouted and broke the windows
D．that night was the end of people"s peaceful life
小题4:From the last sentence of the passage, we know _______.
A．Baba"s arms gave the author temporary comfort and joy
B．there was a chance that a world in peace was to come
C．what happened that night seemed nothing to the author
D．the author was glad to see his father come home safe

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案
My dream is to become an orthodontist, fly to new heights, and impact the world. Ever since the day I got braces(牙箍), I have thought about how    it would be for me to become an orthodontist and make other    like me have more beautiful smiles. The thought of helping other people overcome the fear of their    or self-esteem became so real to me the day that I got my    off two years later. After a long thought, I finally came to a(n)    that I wanted to do my senior exit project on orthodontics. I am in the      of doing my project now and I cannot wait to see the wonderful    that I’m going to achieve. In the long run, I know it will be a great       to me down the road, opening doors to my     path. Another goal in my life is to fly to new    and go where no one else has    to go before. I am a big leader at my school and I try to do new things that are    in order to make things successful. I try to reach to the highest in order to make every event and idea      “with a bang!” I also want to do things to      the world somewhere down the road. After seeing friends go into    , I have thought about being a      missionary(传教士) in a third world country for a couple of summers after I       from the high school. I think it would be     to impact the lives of powerless and torn people who need     that seems unimaginable to them. I think     more people reached out and conquered their dreams to help other people achieve theirs, this world would be a whole lot better of a place.
小题1:
A．tiresomeB．occasional C．coolD．fortunate
小题2:
A．teensB．adultsC．doctorsD．patients
小题3:
A．imageB．operationC．figureD．mouth
小题4:
A．capsB．toolsC．booksD．braces
小题5:
A．stopB．decisionC．conclusionD．end
小题6:
A．endB．processC．beginningD．trouble
小题7:
A．sceneB．occupationC．startD．goals
小题8:
A．advantageB．honorC．chanceD．pity
小题9:
A．graduationB．businessC．careerD．life
小题10:
A．locationsB．heightsC．interests D．events
小题11:
A．hopedB．expectedC．neededD．dared
小题12:
A．cared forB．unheard ofC．put forwardD．thought of
小题13:
A．turn outB．move offC．go outD．die out
小题14:
A．changeB．developC．impactD．destroy
小题15:
A．missionsB．difficultiesC．trapsD．films
小题16:
A．long-termB．professionalC．short-termD．part-time
小题17:
A．attendB．graduateC．dislikeD．abandon
小题18:
A．tiresomeB．harmfulC．astonishingD．remarkable
小题19:
A．assistanceB．faithC．moneyD．laws
小题20:
A．sinceB．unlessC．although D．if

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案
Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. He took the only escape route—through the boot.
Mr. Johnson’s car had ended up in a ditch at Romney Marsin, Kent after he lost proper control on ice and hit a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said. “I couldn’t force the doors open because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.”
Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape.
Later he said, “It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”
It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench (扳手) and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in. I forced the lid down into the mud and climbed up clear as the car filled up.”
His hands and arms cut and bruised, Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby. Huddled in a blanket, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours.” Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.
小题1:Which of the following objects is the most important to Mr. Johnson?
A．The hammer.B．The coin. C．The seat. D．The horn.
小题2:We know from the passage that ______.
A．Mr. Johnson’s car stood on its boot as it fell down
B．Mr. Johnson’s car accident was partly due to the slippery road
C．Mr. Johnson struggled in the pouring mud as he unscrewed the back seat
D．Mr. Johnson could not escape from the door because it was full of sweet jam
小题3:“Finally it gave” in Paragraph 5 means that ______. 
A．at last the wrench went broken
B．the chance was lost at the last minute
C．the lock came open after all his efforts
D．luckily the door was torn away in the end
小题4:What is the best title for this newspaper article?
A．Driver Escapes through Car Boot
B．The Story of Mr. Johnson, a Sweet Salesman
C．The Driver Survived a Terrible Car Accident
D．Car Boot Can Serve as the Best Escape Route

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案
最新试题
热门考点

超级试练试题库

© 2017-2019 超级试练试题库,All Rights Reserved.