III. Reading comprehension: (40%) A For every five men in the Civil War who die
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III. Reading comprehension: (40%)
A
For every five men in the Civil War who died in battle , two or three died of disease. Doctors of that time knew very little about causes of sickness or ways of preventing it. Thousands of men in poor health became soldiers. Many of them could not resist epidemic （瘟疫）diseases that went through the places where they lived .
Army life was hard. Soldiers got little fruit or vegetables. There was no milk unless they happened to find a cow. Neither their clothes nor their living places protected the troops from rain, snow, and cold . Sickness and disease were spread by insects , rats , and unclean drinking water . Often the men drank straight from muddy streams .
Gunshot wounds were serious, as in any war, but they did not cause as many deaths as disease did.
1. Disease caused ___.
A．only a few deaths B．fewer deaths than wounds did
C．more deaths than wounds did D．both A and B
2．Men who were accepted as Civil War soldiers were ______.
A．known to have already had some epidemic diseases
B．required to be in perfect health
C．able to resist epidemic disease easily D．sometimes in poor health
3．Army life was hard for troops because ______
A．the place where they lived didn"t keep them safe from bad weather
B．they had no warm clothing
C．they seldom had good, healthful food D．all of the above
4．Insects and rats were dangerous because they ______
A．destroyed food B．carried diseases
C．made the water unclean D．tore the soldiers" clothes into pieces
5．The best title for this selection is ______.
A．The Cause of Disease B．The Greatest Danger in the Civil War
C．Insects, Rats, and Gunshot Wounds D．The History of Epidemic Disease |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:B |
解析
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举一反三
B
Babies love chocolate, and sometimes they also eat the paper around it. My cat enjoys a meal of good, thick paper, old letters, for example . She doesn"t like newspapers very much .
Of course, the best paper comes from wood. Wood comes from trees , and trees are plants: Vegetables and fruit are plants too, and we eat a lot of them . So can we also eat wood and paper?
Scientists say: “ All food comes in some way from plants. ” Well, is that true? Animals eat grass and grow fat. Then we eat their meat. Little fish eat sea-plants; then bigger fish swim along and eat them . Chickens eat bits of grass and give us eggs . What food does not come from plants in some way?
Scientists can do wonderful things with plants . They can make food just like meat. And they can make it without the help of animals . It is very good food, too . Now they have begun to say : “ We make our paper from wood . We can also make food from wood . The next thing is not very difficult . ”
What is the next thing? Perhaps it is food from paper. Scientists say;“We can turn paper into food . It will be good , cheap food too : cheaper than meat or fish or eggs . ”
So please keep your old books and letters . One day , soon , they will be on your plate. There is nothing like a good story for breakfast .
6．People live mainly on ______.
A．paper B．plants C．fish D．meat
7．Scientists have ______.
A．made a lot of paper B．fed eggs to chickens
C．made food just like meat D．made meat cheaper than food from paper
8．Chickens eat bits of grass . In the sentence “bits of” means _________________________.
A．a little of B .lots of C．big pieces of D .small pieces of
9．Which of the following is NOT true?
A．Scientists say, “All food comes in some way from plants . ”
B．Scientists can make wood into food some day.
C．Scientists can make food from paper some day.
D．Scientists advise us to eat old books and letters at meals .
10．Choose one of the following as the topic for the passage .
A．Paper----Our Future Food B．No More Meat in Future
C．Save Old Books for Breakfast D．Paper----The Best Cat Food |
C
People have sailed （航行）the world in quite small boats . It is not an easy thing to do. Sometimes the weather gets bad. That can be the end of everyone in it. Accidents can happen easily and quickly .
One family once had an accident with some big fish. The fish swam under their boat and bit（咬）holes in it. Sea water came in, of course , and the boat soon sank （下沉）. However, these people had another smaller boat----a life-boat, and they all got into that. They lived and hoped for many days. They ate and slept, and they always hoped…At last a ship found them .
How do people live in a very small life-boat? Perhaps for weeks or months? They must be strong in every way . They must have hope----they must want to live: But you cannot eat and drink hope.
You cannot drink sea water: Drink a lot of sea water and you will quickly die . Sailors （水手）can drink rain water. They must catch rain water in their boat. They must also catch fish and birds for food . Life-boats do not often carry a cooker, so the sailors cannot cook their food. Raw （生的）fish and bird-meat is not very nice . But in a life-boat the sailors must eat raw food, or they will die.
What do people think about in a life-boat? They think about land , a warm bed, dry clothes , fresh water and food , food , food .
11．When sailors" boat sinks, their life-boat gives them ______.
A．food B．beds C．rain water D．hope
12．One family once had an accident at sea, because ______
A．their boat was caught in bad weather
B．the boat knocked against a rock and sea water came in
C．some fish bit through the bottom（底部）of their boat
D．none of them knew how to sail the sea
13．Sailors can catch ______ for food and drink at sea in a life-boat .
A．rain water B．fish and birds
C．both sea water and rain water D．both A and B
14．Life-boats do not often carry a cooker, which is ______.
A．something used for cooking B．food for cooking
C．a large basin D．a person who cooks food
15．Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A．Sailing around the world in quite small boats is not easy.
B．All the food sailors have in a life-boat is cooked fish and bird-meat.
C．Anyone who drinks a lot of sea water will die .
D．No one can live for weeks in a life-boat unless he is strong and wants to live . |
Of course, if you want to know the story only, you need not 5 (bother) about the language. But a student of English is different 6 a student of stories or 7 is called the general reader. As you may also have learnedfrom the above, you ought to read not only very carefully but also aloud 8 you learn the passage by heart and can reciteit as if it 9 (be) your own. On 10 hand, this will teach you many usefulwords and phrases; on the other hand, it will help you to avoid many errors and faults in expression. |
E
Some people have it easy. When their kids ask them what they do at work, they can give a simple, direct answer: “I put out fires” or “I teach primary school”. As a theoretical physicist, I never had this luck. Society has come to expect many things from the physicists. It used to be that we only had to discover the basic laws of the world and supply the techniques that would power the next Silicon Valley. With these expectations we were fairly comfortable: they are the sorts of things we think we know how to do. What makes us uncomfortable and what makes it hard for us to tell our kids what we’re up to is that in this century we have become, though unwillingly, gurus on questions such as “What is the nature of Reality?”
We now deal with a whole new class of problems. We ask how the world began and what the nature of matter is. The answers we are coming up with are just not easy to comprehend for the average person.
So, when physicists get out of their cars in the morning, have a cup of coffee and sit down in front of their computers, they leave a familiar world and enter a place where things act in strange ways that are impossible for ordinary people to understand.
72. According to the passage, in a way physicists are .
A. honest B. comfortable C. strange D. unlucky
73. By what the writer says about physicists, we know that physicists .
A. don’t like their careers
B. live in two different worlds
C. are coming up with new answers to old questions
D. don’t have to tell people what they are doing
74. From the passage we can conclude that theoretical physicists .
A. contributed to the new industry in Silicon Valley
B. only have to answer the basic questions about the world
C. have disappointed the expectations of many people
D. have found it hard to make themselves popular
75. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Society seems to know a bit about physicists’ work.
B. Most people are expecting to know what physicists are doing.
C. Physicists are doing more and more difficult jobs.
D. It’s impossible for average people to know physicists’ work. |
第二卷（共35分）
第四部分：写（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
A: Have you ever read some reports about UFOs?
B: Of course. I have a firm b 76 in UFOs. I’m 76.
always interested in the stories and aliens.
A: What are they like?
B: According to some w 77 , it is colorless 77.
and moves at an a 78 speed with little noise. 78.
Aliens are said to be white-skinned, strange-looking
visitors from o 79 space. 79.
A: I don’t quite agree with you d 80 to space 80.
exploration, most important planets have been examined,
p 81 have been taken and samples have 81.
collected there, but no e 82 of life has 82.
been discovered.
B: So you mean UFOs don’t e 83 ? There are no 83.
aliens? How would you explain some people’s sudden
d 84 ? Many people have reported seeing 84.
aliens.
A: It’s hard to say. We will still continue with
scientific r 85 . 85. |
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