SYDNEY 2005-01-01 08:33—Mother of two, Jillian Searle, had to choose between her
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SYDNEY 2005-01-01 08:33—Mother of two, Jillian Searle, had to choose between her children when she made a life-or-death decision.
Swept up by mountainous tsunami (海啸) waves at a Thai resort ( 旅游胜地), she could not hold on to both her young sons and survive . Fighting to stay above the waters , she had to choose which one would have to take his chances in the swirling torrent (漩流).
“I knew I had to let go of one of them and I just thought I’d better let go of the one that’s the older,” she told Sky News television in a report broadcast on Thursday. She said she was accompanied by the two boys, Lachie, 5, and two-year-old Blake, and their father, Brad, who had watched the drama helplessly from their first-floor hotel room, when the waves struck. “And I was screaming, trying to find him, and we thought he was dead,” she told reporters on arrival back in Australia. Lachie was found alive about 2 hours later clinging to a door and, looked uninjured as his mother spoke to reporters.
British surfer (冲浪运动员) Martin Markwell is also a lucky man. He had always dreamed of catching that perfect wave –but when it finally came along, it was a nightmare. He was on his surfboard when he was swept up by a tsunami wave.
“It was really terrible because I was surfing, I was really surfing on a wave I wasn’t supposed to be on,” he said. “As an experienced surfer, when I saw the wave come I realized something was wrong, but I couldn’t escape because my surfboard was tied to my ankle.”
His wife Vicki and son Jake looked on in horror from a hotel balcony as he crashed towards the shore. Luckily , he stayed on top of his board until he reached the hotel , jumped off and got to safety as the ocean rolled back to feed a much larger tsunami wave on its way . The family regrouped and ran to safety just minutes before a giant tsunami wave 10 meters high.
小题1:When the waves struck, the father Brad .| A．reported the disaster to Sky News television | | B．was watching a drama play on TV in the hotel | | C．tried to find his son lost in the waters | | D．watched things going on , unable to do anything |
小题2:The underlined word “him” refers to .| A．an old man | B．Lachie | C．Brad | D．Blake |
小题3:Which of the following is wrong ? | A．Lachie and Martin were both with their family members when the disaster happened. | | B．Lachie and Martin both survived from the high waves when tsunami struck. | | C．Lachie and Martin were both travelers from Europe on holiday in Thailand. | | D．Lachie and Martin were both alive owing to their good luck. |
小题4:The best title of this news story would be .| A．Narrow Escape | B．Disaster Caused by Tsunami | | C．Exciting Surfing Experience | D．Struggle Against Tsunami |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A |
解析
试题分析：文章报道两家人在海啸中死里逃生的惊险场景。具体介绍当时危急的形势和他们是怎么幸存的。
小题1:细节题：从第三段的句子：their father, Brad, who had watched the drama helplessly from their first-floor hotel room, when the waves struck.可知灾难发生的时候，爸爸在旅店的房间看着但是无能为力，选 D
小题2:猜词题：从后面的句子：Lachie was found alive about 2 hours later clinging to a door and, looked uninjured as his mother spoke to reporters.前面说我尖叫着，想找到他，以为他死了，后面说两个小时后，他被发现还活着，可知him指的是lachie，选B
小题3:细节题：从第三段的句子：she told reporters on arrival back in Australia.可知 lachie是来自澳大利亚的，不是来自于欧洲的，选C
小题4:主旨题：从全篇文章的描写可知这篇文章介绍两家人在海啸中死里逃生的惊险场景。选A
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Marry me! During the "Idol" finale, season 5 singer Ace Young proposed live to season 3 runner up Diana DeGarrno. She was genuinely surprised in one sense but the two have bonded closely since they met on Broadway during a production of“Hair." The first true“ldol" couple (though others have dated) have already set a wedding date on June l of 2013,
Ten years and still relevant. Season one winner Kelly Clarkson has survived a decade in the brutal music business with her dignity intact and enough chart-topping songs to generate a greatest hits album at the tender age of 30. Her career is as strong as ever. She sang the “Star Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl. Her song “Stronger” was a No. I hit. She was a mentor on an ABC summer series“Duets.” She became engaged to Reba McEntire"s stepson in November. All in all, life is good for Clarkson and we as“Idol" fans couldn"t be more proud.
Keep calm and Carrie on! Season four victor Carrie Underwood has now sold more albums than any other "Idol" with about 14 million to date. Her current album “Blown Away” has generated two top two hits in 2012: “Good Girl” and the title track. That makes 15 consecutive top 2 hits on the Billboard country chart over seven years dating back to "Jesus, Take the Wheel." She hosted the CMAs for a fifth year with Brad Paisley. Last month, she landed a role as lead in a remake of“The Sound of Music.” She toured to sold-out crowds again, hitting Gwinnett Arena earlier this month, where she thankecl "Idol" for getting her to where she"s at, something, she certainly no longer needs to do but still does. Class act, that lady.
小题1:What may the ldol probably be?| A．A popular Ainerican singer | B．A American year figure of | | C．A popular American programme | D．A famous American avenue |
小题2:Who hit Gwinnett Arena of the following?| A．Carrie Underwood | B．Kelly Clarkson | | C．Ace Yong | D．Diana DeGarmo |
小题3: Who was the Idol winner of ten years ago?| A．Reba McEntire | B．Kelly Clarkson | | C．Carrie Underwood | D．Not mentioned |
小题4:In which year was the Idol first held according, to the text?| A．In 2012 | B．In 2007 | C．ln 2008 | D．In 2002 |
小题5:Where can we probably read the news?| A．In business section | B．In advertisement section | | C．In sports section | D．In entertainment section |
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MELBOURNE, Australia – A kangaroo frightened by a man walking his dog attacked the pair, throwing the pet underwater and hitting the owner in the stomach with its back legs. The Australian, Chris Rickard, was in stable condition Monday after the attack, which ended when the 49-year-old struck the kangaroo in the throat.
Rickard said he was walking his blue dog, Rocky, on Sunday morning when they surprised a sleeping kangaroo in Arthur"s Creek northeast of Melbourne. The dog chased the animal into a pond, when the kangaroo turned and knocked the pet underwater.
When Rickard tried to pull his dog free, the kangaroo turned on him, attacking with its back legs and tearing a deep cut into his stomach and across his face.
"I thought I might take action to drag the dog out from under his grasp, but I didn"t expect him to actually attack me," Rickard, 49, told The Herald Sun newspaper. "It was a shock at the start because it was a kangaroo, about 5 feet high, they don"t go around killing people."
"I was stuck having to hold on to the dog with both hands because it was half drowned and I couldn"t really see anything because the kangaroo just attacked me.”
He added, "All I could do was just keep pushing for the bank and he was trying to push me under the water, so at that point I struck him in the throat and that made him back off a little bit.
"I don"t think I"ll ever be able to watch kangaroo programs quite the same as I used to — it might bring back a couple of bad memories.”
Kangaroos rarely attack people but will fight if they feel threatened.
Dogs often chase kangaroos, which have been known to lead the pets into water and defend themselves there.
Rickard said he ended the attack by hitting the kangaroo in the throat adding Rocky was "half-drowned" when he pulled him from the water.
小题1:Rickard and his pet dog were attacked when _________. | A．he was teasing a kangaroo | B．he was walking his dog | | C．swimming in the pond | D．dragging his dog out from water |
小题2:In Australia, kangaroos ________. | A．are only seen in zoos | | B．frequently attack people and pets | | C．get along rather peacefully with people | | D．can be found swimming in ponds |
小题3:The kangaroo attacked the man and his dog probably because ________. | A．the man struck it in the throat | B．the dog chased it | | C．the man wanted to drown it | D．it wanted to drown the dog |
小题4:As a result of the attack, ________. | A．the dog was drowned dead | | B．the kangaroo was killed | | C．kangaroos should be under stricter protection | | D．Rickard was left a deep impression |
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Cheating is nothing new. But today, education and administrations are finding that examples of academic dishonesty on the part of students have become more frequent--- and are less likely to be punished---than in the
past. Cheating appears to have gained acceptance among good and poor students alike.
Why is student cheating on the rise? No one really knows. Some blame the trend on a general loosening of moral values among today’s youth. Others have attributed(归因于) increased cheating to the fact that today’s youth are far more practical than their idealistic ancestors. Whereas in the late sixties and early seventies, students were filled with visions about changing the word, today’s students feel great pressure to survive and succeed. In interviews with students at high schools and colleges around the country, both young men and women said that cheating had become easy. Some suggested they did it out of hate for teachers they didn’t respect. Others looked at it as a game. Only if they were caught, some said, would they feel guilty. “People are competitive,” said a second-year college student named Anna, from Chicago. “There is an potential fear. If you don’t do well, your life is going to be ruined. The pressure is not only from parents and friends but from yourself. To achieve. To succeed. It’s almost as though we have to surpass people to achieve our own goals.
Edward Wynne, editor of a magazine blames the rise in academic dishonesty in the schools. He claims that administrators and teachers have been too hesitant to take action. Dwight Huber, chairman of the English Department at Amarillo sees the matter differently, blaming the rise in cheating on the way students evaluated. “I would cheat if I felt I was being cheated,” Mr. Huber said. He feels that as long as teachers give short-answer tests rather than essay questions and rate students by the number of facts they can memorize rather than by how well they can combine and process information, students will try to beat the system. “ The concept of cheating is based on the false belief that the system is legal and there is something wrong with the individual who’re doing it,” he said, “That’s too easy an answer. We’ve got to start looking at the system.”
小题1:Educators are finding that students who cheat________.| A．have poor academic records | | B．use the information in late years | | C．can be academically weak or strong | | D．are more likely to be punished than before |
小题2:Which of the following statements reflects the information in the passage? | A．The pressure students faced with is partly the reason causing the student cheating. | | B．Only the educational system and administrators are to blame for the rise in the cheating. | | C．The 1960s vision of changing the world helped students never make mistakes. | | D．Punishment for cheaters has always been severe in this country. |
小题3:The phrase “the individuals” in Line 8, Para 3 refers to _________. | A．students who practice cheating | | B．parents who put pressure on their children. | | C．school administrators who approve of short-answer tests. | | D．teachers who are too hesitant to take actions against cheating. |
小题4:The author probably would agree with the point of view that _________.| A．students who cheat should be driven out of school | | B．parents alone must take responsibility for the rise in student cheating | | C．the educational system is sound, and students must follow every rule | | D．the educational system in this country would benefit from a thorough evaluation |
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Women consistently lie on social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter to make their lives appear more exciting, a survey has found. The survey was asked to carried out by Pencourage, a new anonymous（匿名的）"diary-style" social media website.
Researchers found that at least one in four women exaggerated or twisted what they are doing on social media once a month. The survey of 2000 women found they mostly pretended to be out on the town, when in fact they are home alone, and beautify about an exotic holiday or their job.
The most common reasons for women to write " fibs" included worrying their lives would seem “ boring", jealousy at seeing other people"s more exciting posts and wanting to impress their friends and acquaintances.
Psychologists suggested that as people attempt to stay connected on social media, they can in fact be left more isolated. They also said that the more we try to make our lives seem perfect, the less perfect we feel. According to the OnePoll survey, one third of women surveyed admitted to dishonesty on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter at some stage. Almost one in four admitted to lying or exaggerating about key aspects of their life online between one and three times a month while almost one in 10 said they lied more than once a week. Nearly 30 percent of women lied about "doing something when I am home alone", almost a quarter overstated their alcohol consumption while one in five were not truthful about their holiday activities or their jobs. Almost one in five women even lied about their "relationship status".
"We work very hard presenting ourselves to the world online, pretending and attempting to be happy all the time which is exhausting and ultimately unfulfilling," said Dr Michael Sinclair, a leading British consultant psychologist. "Leaving out the less desirable imperfections of our lives from the conversations with our "friends online leads to less opportunity to feel empathized(有同感的)with, resulting in a greater sense of disconnection from others. "
小题1:According to the passage, women tend to lie on social networking sites because . | A．they have little fun in their daily lives | | B．they are not satisfied with their present life | | C．they want to entertain their friends and acquaintances | | D．they don"t want to go out and communicate with others |
小题2:Which of the following words can best replace the underlined word in para. 3 ?| A．lies. | B．posts. | C．diaries. | D．impressions. |
小题3:In the view of psychologists, people who attempt to stay connected on social media will
eventually . | A．feel better about their life | B．become a regular liar in the future | | C．get more isolated in life | D．drink more alcohol in their daily life |
小题4:In Dr Michael Sinclair"s opinion, . | A．we don"t have to feel empathized with our "friends" online | | B．we cannot get satisfaction by lying on social networking sites | | C．it is worthwhile to work hard presenting ourselves to the world online | | D．the imperfections of our lives result in a sense of disconnection from others |
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London will stage its biggest political funeral in almost half a century on Wednesday when Britain"s governing elite join the Queen and global leaders to bid farewell to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, better known as the “ Iron Lady".
In an event comparable to that of Winston Churchill"s funeral in 1965, Thatcher"s coffin will be carried on a horse-drawn gun carriage through streets lined with admirers from parliament to the city"s most famous cathedral.
The bells of London"s symbolic Big Ben clock tower will fall silent for the first time since Churchill"s funeral and more than 700 men and women from Britain"s armed forces will honor a woman who led them to victory in the 1982 Falklands War as foreign politicians from around 170 nations look on.
Surveys have shown that many are unhappy that the estimated l0-million($15 million)pound bill for the funeral is being picked up by the taxpayer, while some left-wing lawmakers say the luxurious funeral is too expensive.
But her admirers, of whom there are many in her party and in southern England, argue that her historical profile deserves such a funeral. She was the country"s first and only woman premier, was Britain"s longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century, and won three general elections.
More than 2,300 mourners will attend including 11 serving prime ministers from around the world, the British government"s entire cabinet, two heads of state and 17 foreign ministers.
But there will be notable absences. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is too ill to attend and Nancy Reagan, the widow of Thatcher"s great U·S. ally Ronald Reagan, is also unable to come.
Thatcher struck up a close relationship with Reagan during the Cold War, backed the first President George Bush during the 1991 Gulf War, and was among the first to discover that Gorbachev was a man she could "do business with. ”
Covered in the red, white and blue British flag, Thatcher"s coffin lay overnight in a 13th-century church in Britain"s parliament, a forum she dominated for years.
小题1:From the passage we know that Big Ben clock tower will fall silent to . | A．get repaired for the first time | | B．honour the passing away of the great woman | | C．tell the specific time to the public | | D．welcome the officials from all over the world |
小题2:Who that are still alive will be absent from the funeral?| A．Mikhail Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan. | | B．Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan. | | C．Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan. | | D．George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. |
小题3:From the passage we can learn that Margaret Thatcher was . | A．strong and smart | B．weak and disappointing | | C．aggressive and warlike | D．stubborn and luxurious |
小题4:Which of the following might serve as the best title of the passage?| A．The legend of Thatcher, the “Iron Lady". | | B．Why Big Ben falls silent for the first time? | | C．Who will pay for such a luxurious funeral? | | D．London will witness its biggest political funeral. |
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