A 37-year-old man in Australia’s Northern city Darwin ,Norm Pethrick, was praise

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A 37-year-old man in Australia’s Northern city Darwin ,Norm Pethrick, was praise

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A 37-year-old man in Australia’s Northern city Darwin ,Norm Pethrick, was praised for jumping onto a crocodile’s back to save his wife Wendy at Litchfield National Park, a popular tourist spot southwest of Darwin, a local newspaper reported.
Ms Pethrick was standing on a river bank Wednesday afternoon when the saltwater crocodile lunged (扑), locking its jaws on both her legs as it tried to drag her underwater. Norm Pethrick, who with his wife had been collecting water, immediately went to help her. He jumped onto the back, poked (戳) the eyes of the crocodile and finally got his wife free. Ms Pethrick was later taken to Hospital for a medical treatment. The doctors said she was suffering eight puncture wounds (伤口) in her right leg, a puncture wound in her left leg and a serious cut to one of her fingers.
“This could have been a fatal and tragic situation,” said Dr Len Notaras, according to a local report. He said Ms Pethrick was saved by her husband’s “quick and diligent actions”. Dr Notaras also said she would remain in hospital for three more days and have an operation to clean the wounds, which are easy to get infected because of bacteria (细菌) on the teeth of the crocodile.
小题1: This passage is most likely to be found in _____.
A．a newspaper B．a travel guideC．a textbook D．a novel
小题2:The crocodile attacked Ms Pethrick when she was ______.
A．swimming in the river B．watching the crocodile
C．standing on the river bankD．fishing in the water
小题3:According to the passage, Norm Pethrick can be described as following EXCEPT ______.
A．braveB．diligent（勤勉的）C．quickD．humorous
小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
A．The husband should save the wife
B．A man saves wife’s life from crocodile’s jaws
C．A crocodile is not so dangerous as people imagine
D．Human beings can beat crocodiles sometimes

答案

小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:B
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试题分析：
小题1:A 推理题。根据最后一段1,2行“This could have been a fatal and tragic situation,” said Dr Len Notaras, according to a local report.说明这是一个新闻报道，最有可能出现在报纸上。故A正确。
小题2:C 细节题。根据第二段1,2行Ms Pethrick was standing on a river bank Wednesday afternoon when the saltwater crocodile lunged (扑),说明她站在河岸上，C正确。
小题3:D 细节题。根据2,3段He said Ms Pethrick was saved by her husband’s “quick and diligent actions”和He jumped onto the back, poked (戳) the eyes of the crocodile and finally got his wife free.说明他很勇敢，也很聪明和迅速，但是没有提及幽默。故D正确。
小题4:B 主旨大意题。文章简述了一个丈夫从鳄鱼的嘴里把妻子救了下来的故事。故B正确。
点评：文章简述了一个丈夫从鳄鱼的嘴里把妻子救了下来的故事。本文集中考查了细节题以及主旨大意题，要求考生在审题的时候，准确定位考点，合理的推测理解。
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As prices and building costs keep rising, the “do-it-yourself” (DIY) trend (趋势) in the U.S. continues to grow.
“We needed furniture(家具) for our living room.” Says John Ross, “and we just didn’t have enough money to afford it. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2-week course for $ 280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $ 420. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourself”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.
小题1:We can learn from the text that many newly married people _______.
A．find it hard to pay for what they need
B．have to learn to make their own furniture.
C．take DIY courses run by the government.
D．seldom go to a department store to buy things
小题2:John and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to _____
A．run a DIY shopB．make or repair things
C．save time and moneyD．improve the quality of life.
小题3: When the writer says Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim ____
A．makes shoes in his homeB．does extra work at night
C．does his own car and home repairsD．keeps house and looks after his children

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Thanksgiving is an important festival in North America. We interviewed several students from the US and Canada. Here is what they have told us about their Thanksgiving experiences.
Josie from New York, USA
“In America, Thanksgiving is celebrated every year at the end of November. It is to remember the first group of people from Europe to live in America. When they first arrived, they found the environment strange. But they learned to survive after some native American friends showed them how to grow and find food. Thanksgiving is meant to be a traditional celebration.”
Todd from California, USA
“Thanksgiving is the first day of Christmas shopping. That means we have four weeks to buy Christmas presents for our families and friends. For me and my friends, the most important part of the festival is the big football game on TV. The match is watched by millions of people all over America. Thanksgiving is seen as an exciting day for football!”
Ian from Saskatoon, Canada
In Canada, Thanksgiving is held on the 2nd Monday in October. On the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day, many people go to church. Thanks is given for all the good things that happened to them during the year. I always give thanks for the nice big turkey I’m going to have at the family dinner! Like all festivals, Thanksgiving is about food!
Katie from Maritimes, Canada
On Thanksgiving Day, we have dinner with all our cousins, aunts and uncles. It is always very busy. Sometimes we have two Thanksgiving dinners because we go to both our grandparents’ houses. The dinner is usually attended by more than twenty people at each house! My mother and my aunts do all the cooking but the washing-up is done by me and my cousins. And that’s not an easy job! But I don’t mind because Thanksgiving is meant to be a time to give thanks.
小题1:People in the USA and Canada ____________.
A．all have the same opinion of Thanksgiving
B．have different opinions of Thanksgiving
C．feel that Thanksgiving is about food
D．have no interest in Thanksgiving
小题2:Which of the people interviewed feels that Thanksgiving is all about football?
A．IanB．JosieC．ToddD．Katie
小题3:Where does the person who thinks that Thanksgiving is a traditional celebration come from?
A．New YorkB．CaliforniaC．SaskatoonD．Maritimes
小题4:For what reasons do people give thanks at Thanksgiving?
A．All the good things that have happened
B．Presents, a big turkey
C．Grandparents, food
D．Football, traditions

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WASHINGTON---At least four more U.S. air-traffic controllers are caught nodding off on the job at three separate airports across the nation, the government said Wednesday.
The controller working alone in the tower fell asleep and was out of communication for 16 minutes while a medical flight carrying a patient was trying to land at about 2 A.M. Wednesday at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.
The FAA announced that it is also investigating a controller who fell asleep Monday at Boeing King County International Airport in Seattle and two controllers who were unresponsive at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tennessee on Feb.19.
“I am sick of this,” Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Chairman Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said in a statement. “We can’t have a system where some of the people responsible for safety are asleep at the switch.”
As the incidents pile up, sleep experts say it demonstrates that the agency faces a systemic issue with the thousands of people expected to work through the night in safety-critical jobs. Scientific research shows that workers on midnight shifts make more errors because it is so difficult for the body to adapt to sleeping during the day, they say.
The agency will add an extra controller at the 27 towers staffed with one worker on the midnight shift, the FAA statement said.
Representative John Mica, the Florida Republican who chairs the House transportation committee, criticized the decision to add controllers. “Only in the federal government would you double up on workers, averaging $161,000 per year in salary and benefits, that aren’t doing their job,” Mica said in a statement. Mica has pushed legislation that would allow as many as 90 smaller airports to switch from federal to private controllers.
“People have known these problems with fatigue（疲劳）have existed for years,” said John Goglia, a Boston-based aviation safety consultant. “They’re now showing up. The FAA is admitting they exist. Now the FAA needs to work on it.”
The four controllers in Nevada, Seattle and Texas have been suspended(暂时停职) during the investigations, the FAA said.
小题1:The underlined part “double up on workers” means “______”.
A．add two more workersB．staff two workers at a post
C．settle two workers in a double roomD．give the workers double pay
小题2:According to John Goglia, fatigue problem ______.
A．is a known potential dangerB．has never appeared before
C．is common for day-time shift workersD．seldom shows up at night
小题3:Which statement is true?
A．A controller fell asleep without communication for 16 minutes in Knoxville, Tennessee.
B．A medical flight carrying a patient failed to land with the controller asleep.
C．Jay Rockefeller pays little attention to sleeping at the switch.
D．Mica refused to support the decision to staff more controllers on the midnight shift.
小题4:We can infer from the passage that ______.
A．All the controllers in the US were working alone while they were on duty
B．The incidents are rooted in fatigue problems and those on midnight shifts need an extra nap
C．In the U.S. , thousands of people expect to work through the night in safety-critical jobs
D．The agency has added an extra controller at the 27 towers

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 Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth, but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.
　　Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
　　Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧) and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
　　“Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards life, women working,” says Martine. “They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people aware of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package.”
小题1:According to the passage, Brazil has cut back its population growth _____.
A．by educating its citizens
B．by careful family planning
C．by developing TV programmes
D．by chance
小题2:What can you infer from the passage about many Third World countries ?
A．They haven’t attached much importance to birth control.
B．They would soon join Brazil in controlling their birth rate.
C．They haven’t yet found an effective measure to control their population.
D．They neglected the role of TV plays in family planning
小题3:Soap operas have helped in lowering Brazil’s birth rate because ______.
A．they keep people sitting long hours watching TV
B．they have gradually changed people’s way of life
C．people are drawn to their attractive package
D．they popularize birth control measures

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A report has recently been published about what the earth might be like 20 years or so from now on. The report is a result of a three-year  46 .
According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2020 is not a  47 one. The world will be more  48 because the population will continue to grow. The population could be  49 9,000 million, almost 3,000 million more than that in 2009. More people would move into cities, especially cities in  50 countries. Cities in India and Thailand probably would  51 have a population of 20 million by then.
Food production will  52 , but not enough to feed all the people. Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 2009,  53 most of the increase would be in countries that  54 produce enough food for their people. Little increase is  55 in South Asia, Africa or the Middle East. Poor farming ways are  56 large areas of cropland, changing farms into deserts. More farmland is  57 as cities become larger and more houses are built.  58 will get worse as developed countries burn more coal and oil. Many of the world’s  59 could disappear as more and more trees are cut down. Energy will continue to be a serious problem. The experts say their  60  of the earth for the year 2020 may be wrong. They only   61  the situation as it is today. By changing the situation, by  62 the problems, the picture can be changed. There is  63 time for the nations of the world to  64 a plan of action. But they considered that  65 too long to make a decision would greatly reduce the chances of success
小题1:
A．learningB．instructionC．noticeD．study
小题2:A.pleased    B.pleasant                  C.safe                         C.blue
小题3:
A．dangerousB．beautifulC．crowdedD．terrible
小题4:
A．no more thanB．as many asC．so much asD．as large as
小题5:
A．developingB．developedC．bigD．mountainous
小题6:
A．noneB．eachC．noD．neither
小题7:
A．lastB．reduceC．increaseD．continue
小题8:
A．soB．butC．orD．however
小题9:
A．alreadyB．hardlyC．partlyD．never
小题10:
A．wantedB．lackedC．foundD．expected
小题11:.
A．destroyingB．protectingC．botheringD．interrupting
小题12:
A．savedB．lostC．discoveredD．used
小题13:
A．Air pollutionB．Water pollutionC．Some diseasesD．All farmland
小题14:
A．animalsB．plantsC．forestsD．people
小题15:
A．photoB．pictureC．aimD．environment
小题16:
A．stoppedB．continuedC．exchangedD．prevented
小题17:.
A．solvingB．working C．answeringD．dealing
小题18:.
A．noB．stillC．lessD．lots of
小题19:
A．give upB．carryC．makeD．get off
小题20:
A．visitingB．suggestingC．spendingD．waiting

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