The International Space Station allows astronauts to live in space for extended
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The International Space Station allows astronauts to live in space for extended amounts of time, enabling them to explore the outside universe and conduct many experiments. However, nothing like that exists for our oceans, and thanks to the high water pressure, ocean researchers are able to explore what lies undersea for very short periods of time.
They are therefore never able to fully explore the deep inside areas of our oceans. However, if French architect Jacques Rougerie has his way, that will change soon.
Jacqucs has designed a ship that will allow researchers to spend a long period of time observing the sea life and conducting experiments. The huge 167ft ship, named "Sea Orbiter", consists of two areas—one above the water where the scientists and crew will live, and a lower pressurized deck (甲板), where scientists will be able to spend as much time as they wish. Since it is powered by sea currents and wind, he expects it to drift (漂流) along the oceans slowly, taking about two years to circumvent the globe.
Jacques will make their life as comfortable as possible in the ship. Besides being equipped with the latest sailing tools and communication equipment, the ship will also have a gym, a television and a DVD player. And these guys will not be eating freeze-dried food like astronauts. Instead, Jacques, an accomplished chef, plans on cooking them delicious meals every day.
The biggest problem to this giant ship is the cost, which is expected to be over $500 million—per ship! However, Jacques, who strongly believes that the secrets of our oceans may be the key to solving global warming and a vital supply for food and medicine in the future, is confident he will be able to convince governments all over the world to help out, and expects to start construction on not one, but four or five of these amazing ships soon!
小题1:Why can’t ocean researchers explore the deep oceans for a long time?| A．Because they can’t stand the high water pressure. | | B．Because it’s too cold in deep ocean. | | C．Because time for experiments is too limited. | | D．Because it’s dangerous to observe the sea life. |
小题2:The underlined word "circumvent" probably means .| A．fly away | B．get around | C．travel through | D．move into |
小题3:From the fourth paragraph we can learn that .| A．Jacques intends to design the ship mainly for sightseeing and traveling | | B．living a comfortable life helps to do the ocean research quickly | | C．it’s much more expensive to eat freeze-dried food | | D．researchers on Jacque’s ship will live more comfortably than astronauts |
小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for the text?| A．Sea Orbiter—the ship of the future | | B．A new way to explore the deep oceans | | C．A great architect—Jacques Rougerie | | D．Travel around the globe in Sea Orbiter |
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小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A |
解析
文章讲述的正是一艘未来探索海洋世界的Sea Orbiter的相关内容介绍。
小题1:A 细节题。根据第1段thanks to the high water pressure,可知水下的压力太大了，让人们没有办法长时间待在水下。
小题2:Ｂ词义辨析。根据文章可知这艘船让人们环游世界变得可能，故Ｂ正确。
小题3:Ｄ 细节题。根据第四段具体的内容可知在船上的生活要比宇航员在天上的生活更舒适。
小题4:A 主旨大意题。文章讲述的正是一艘未来探索海洋世界的Sea Orbiter的相关内容介绍。 |
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About ten years ago, I was on a plane going west, and a young woman boarded and sat across the aisle (过道) from me. I ___41____ her for two reasons. She was very attractive, and she was holding a teddy bear about half her ____42____. I teased her by asking if she had a ___43___ for the bear. She laughed and said no.
About halfway through the flight she ___44____ over and told me she was going to Tucson to enter rehab (进行康复治疗). She ___45___ to share her life story with me. She had been working as a dancer in a nightclub. That ___46____ had led her down a dark ____47____ to drugs and alcohol. As I listened to her story. I was ____48____ at all she had gone through. I listened to all she shared and told her I was sure she was going to ____49___ it. At the end of the flight, she ___50____ me for listening to her.
A few years later, I got a ___51____ in the mail saying, “Wow, it’s been years since we met on that plane. It is ___52____ how you touched my life.” She went on to tell me that she had ____53____ to stay away from drugs, and had been working for a radio station. She felt she had achieved things she could not have ____54___ that day on the plane. We agreed to set up a time to get ___55___.
When I saw her, she was ____56____ the attractive young woman I remembered. She told me that that little ___57___ we had had turned her life around. She had boarded the plane ___58___ anything would work in her life, and my affirmation (肯定) of her as a person and of her ___59___ had given her the last bit of ___60___ she needed to work through her problems.
The young woman taught me it’s never too late to make a new start in life.
| 小题1: | | A．found | B．helped | C．recognized | D．noticed |
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| 小题2: | | A．shape | B．size | C．weight | D．leg |
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| 小题3: | | A．name | B．friend | C．ticket | D．cloth |
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| 小题4: | | A．moved | B．leaned | C．looked | D．pulled |
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| 小题5: | | A．agreed | B．learned | C．continued | D．refused |
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| 小题6: | | A．manner | B．feeling | C．event | D．lifestyle |
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| 小题8: | | A．disappointed | B．worried | C．surprised | D．blamed |
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| 小题9: | | A．own | B．reach | C．leave | D．make |
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| 小题10: | | A．criticized | B．avoided | C．thanked | D．remembered |
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| 小题12: | | A．effective | B．amazing | C．easy | D．clear |
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| 小题13: | | A．managed | B．tried | C．decided | D．worked |
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| 小题14: | | A．realized | B．produced | C．required | D．imagined |
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| 小题15: | | A．through | B．along | C．together | D．off |
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| 小题16: | | A．never | B．still | C．once | D．even |
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| 小题17: | | A．expectation | B．explanation | C．information | D．conversation |
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| 小题18: | | A．doubting | B．promising | C．believing | D．admitting |
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| 小题19: | | A．condition | B．discoveries | C．criticism | D．possibilities |
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| 小题20: | | A．delight | B．interest | C．strength | D．character |
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Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftop. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it is that most city people --- myself included --- usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We have television, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought, “Before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touched the moon.”
小题1:The best title for the passage would be _________.| A．Touched by the Moon | | B．The Pleasures of Modern Life | | C．A Bottomless well of Silence | | D．Break away from Modern life |
小题2:The writer felt sorry for himself because __________.| A．there was too much pollution. | | B．he failed to see the fullest moon. | | C．he didn’t adapt to modern inventions | | D．there were too many accidents on the road. |
小题3:What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?| A．No modern equipment. | B．Complete silence. | | C．The nice moon. | D．The high mountain. |
小题4:Modern things are mentioned mainly to ___________.| A．show that the writer likes city life very much. | | B．tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life. | | C．explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature. | | D．show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them. |
小题5:The author wrote the passage to __________.| A．express the feeling of returning to nature. | | B．show the love for the moonlight. | | C．advise modern people to learn to live. | | D．want to communicate longing for modern life. |
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When I was a young student, a Chinese teacher told us, “If you make one close friend in school, you will be most fortunate. A true friend is someone who stays with you for life.” 36 tells us that he was right. Good friendship is just not easily 37 . It is possible that we simply do not stay in one place long enough for 38 friendship to 39 .
However, there can be 40 disagreement on the need for each of us to think carefully about the kind of friendship we want. To most of us, friendships are considered very important, but we need to have clear in our 41 the kinds of friendship we want. Are they to be close or 42 at arm’s length? Do we want to 43 ourselves or do we want to walk on the surface? For some people, many friendships on the surface are 44 enough—and that’s all right. But at some point we need to 45 that our expectations are the same as our friends’ expectations. The sharing of 46 experience 47 our tears as well as our dark dreams is the surest way to deepen friendships. But it 48 be undertaken（进行）slowly and carried on only if there are 49 of interest and action in return.
What are some of the 50 of friendship? The greatest is the attraction to expect too much too soon. Deep relationships 51 time. Another “major difficulty” is the selfishness to think one “possesses” the other, including his time and attention. Similarly, friendships 52 actions in return. In 53 words, you must give as much as you take.
Finally there is a question of taking care of. Unless you spend 54 time together, talking on the phone, writing letters, doing things together, friendships will die 55 .
| 小题1: | | A．Knowledge | B．Experience | C．Parents | D．Teachers |
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| 小题2: | | A．understood | B． produced | C．realized | D．formed |
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| 小题3: | | A．true | B．common | C．deeply | D．actual |
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| 小题4: | | A．design | B．develop | C．intend | D．appear |
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| 小题6: | | A．hearts | B．actions | C．minds | D．thoughts |
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| 小题7: | | A．remained | B．kept | C．left | D．stayed |
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| 小题8: | | A．share | B．owe | C．spare | D．own |
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| 小题9: | | A．that | B．very | C．quite | D．not |
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| 小题10: | | A．make sure | B．remember | C．expect | D．check out |
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| 小题11: | | A．social | B．personal | C．good | D．ordinary |
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| 小题12: | | A．includes | B．included | C．including | D．to include |
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| 小题14: | | A．marks | B．sights | C．signs | D．scenes |
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| 小题15: | | A．difficulties | B．differences | C．advantages | D．things |
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| 小题17: | | A．require | B．request | C．depend | D．suggest |
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| 小题18: | | A．other | B．many | C．some | D．different |
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| 小题19: | | A．comfortable | B．reasonable | C．less | D．a lot |
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Famous as “the king of chefs and the chef of kings,” Auguste Escoffier helped raise the position of cooking from a laborer’s task to an artist’s job. Escoffier was born on October 28, 1846, in the small village of Villeneuve-Loubet, near Nice, France. Among the key figures in the boy’s life was his father, who worked primarily as a blacksmith（铁匠）. His grandmother, an enthusiastic cook, was perhaps more responsible than anyone for introducing the boy to an appreciation of the delights of cooking.
Young Escoffier attended the local school until age 12, upon which time his father thought it necessary that the boy learn a trade. In school he had shown a talent for drawing, yet he was told to regard this art only as a hobby, and to find his career in a more practical profession. Thus his father took him to Nice in 1859, where he would work as an apprentice（学徒）in his uncle’s restaurant, the respectable Le Restaurant Francais.
At Le Restaurant Francais, Escoffier was not treated as the close relative of the boss. Rather, he experienced a classically demanding apprenticeship. For this strictness of training he would later, in his memoirs（回忆录）, express gratefulness. During this time Escoffier also attended night school, and had to deal with his studies as well as the demands of a promising career.
When Escoffier was 19 and had taken on yet more responsibilities in his uncle’s restaurant, a customer recognized his skills and offered him work in Paris. This was the owner of Le Petit Moulin Rouge, one of the finest restaurants in Paris, where Escoffier was to become a sous-chef, ranking below the head chef. After three years in this position, he rose to the level of head chef, wearing the respected chef’s hat.
小题1:It was his __________ who first influenced Escoffier to be interested in cooking.| A．father | B．mother | C．uncle | D．grandmother |
小题2:We can infer that as a schoolboy, Escoffier might hope to be __________.| A．a chef | B．a businessman | C．an artist | D．a blacksmith |
小题3:According to Paragraph 3, Escoffier __________.| A．was badly treated by his uncle | | B．showed great interest in writing | | C．disliked working as an apprentice | | D．was thankful for the strict training |
小题4:Which of the following can best describe Escoffier?| A．Hard-working. | B．Honest. | C．Warm-hearted. | D．Modest. |
小题5:What is the text mainly about?| A．How to become a chef in France. | | B．The influence of Auguste Escoffier. | | C．What an apprentice is required to do. | | D．The early life of a famous French chef. |
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Most people in the world like to enjoy nature. Travel is one of the most popular ways. Nowadays modern transportation can take people everywhere. But people who lived before the 1880s probably would not travel very far. They would not have time to travel far from their work. Anyone who travelled 36 would usually walk or ride a horse. But in Germany a man named Karl Benz had an idea that 37 the world in a dramatic way. In 1885, he made 38 . His car had three wheels, 39 most cars today. The car could only go 40 16 kilometres an hour.
At around the same time, the man 41 his first car in Detroit, America is called Henry Ford. Detroit is now still famous all over the world as the centre of American car-making.
Cars were very few and only 42 people could buy them. 43 , in England cars were thought to be 44 at that time, so for a few years someone 45 walk in front of every car 46 a red flag! This was to make sure that the car did not go too fast and hurt 47 .
In the 1910s, Henry Ford had 48 a better kind of car called the Model T Ford and he built a 49 where the cars could be made 50 . In this way the car could be made 51 and the cost was less and more and more people could 52 them. But there was still a problem 53 all the cars were black. That was because it was 54 to produce cars that were all the same color. Now, of course, you can buy cars in all 55 .
| 小题1: | | A．by air | B．by sea | C．on foot | D．on land |
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| 小题2: | | A．discovered | B．found | C．changed | D．invented |
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| 小题3: | | A．a first car | B．the first car | C．his first wheel | D．a first wheel |
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| 小题4: | | A．unlike | B．like | C．as if | D．as |
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| 小题5: | | A．with a speed of | B．at a speed of | C．at speed of | D．for a speed of |
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| 小题6: | | A．making | B．made | C．makes | D．having made |
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| 小题7: | | A．busy | B．rich | C．strong | D．kind |
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| 小题8: | | A．However | B．But | C．While | D．Therefore |
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| 小题9: | | A．interesting | B．unusual | C．dangerous | D．wonderful |
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| 小题10: | | A．wanted to | B．was forced to | C．must | D．would |
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| 小题11: | | A．waved | B．to wave | C．waving | D．wave |
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| 小题12: | | A．anyone | B．someone | C．everyone | D．no one |
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| 小题13: | | A．sold | B．discovered | C．found | D．produced |
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| 小题14: | | A．store | B．market | C．museum | D．factory |
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| 小题15: | | A．with machine | B．by machines | C．by hand | D．using hands |
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| 小题16: | | A．quickly | B．slowly | C．quitely | D．quietly |
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| 小题19: | | A．cheap | B．more cheap | C．cheaper | D．much cheap |
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| 小题20: | | A．kinds | B．shapes | C．colors | D．sizes |
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