Liverpool city council (市政厅) want to clear the city of fat pigeons (鸽子). They sa

Liverpool city council (市政厅) want to clear the city of fat pigeons (鸽子). They sa

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Liverpool city council (市政厅) want to clear the city of fat pigeons (鸽子). They say that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat. The pigeons get bigger because they normally eat seeds (种子) and insects (昆虫) for their main food, not high-fat junk food they are eating in the city centre.
The council want people to know that everyone who feeds the pigeons makes the streets crowded (拥挤)with these birds. They hope to encourage the birds to move away from the city centre and into parks and open spaces.
Ten robotic birds have been brought into the city centre to scare the pigeons away and visitors are asked not to give the pigeons any food. The mechanical birds—known as ‘robops’—will sit on the roofs of buildings. They can be moved around to different places. They look like a peregrine falcon, which is a bird that kills pigeons. They even make noises and flap their wings to scare the pigeons. They hope that the pigeons will go away before the city becomes the European Capital of Culture in two years.
小题1:Liverpool city council want to clear the city of fat pigeons because ______.
A.the pigeons are eating junk food
B.the pigeons might get killed
C.the pigeons make the city center crowded
D.the pigeons sit on the roofs of buildings
小题2:What do we know about a peregrine falcon?
A.It scares the robotic birds.B.It is an enemy of the pigeons.
C.It looks like a pigeon.D.It likes the food people give it.
小题3:Which of the following is probably true according to passage?
A.The robots will fly around the city center like real birds.
B.Pigeons get fat because they eat seeds and insects.
C.Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture.
D.The pigeons like the food that people give them.

答案

小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
解析

试题分析:本文叙述了利物浦市政厅要市民清楚,他们喂养的鸽子目前严重影响了市民的居住环境,建议把他们放到公园或者空旷的地方,并且目前政府已经采取了一些措施。他们希望在两年后这个城市成为欧洲文化之都。
小题1:细节理解题。根据The council want people to know that everyone who feeds the pigeons makes the streets crowded (拥挤)with these birds.鸽子使城市变得拥挤,故选C。
小题2:细节理解题。根据they look like a peregrine falcon, which is a bird that kills pigeons故选B。
小题3:细节理解题。根据They say that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat.鸽子吃了人们喂它们的食物而变得很肥,故选D。
点评:细节理解题可以分为集中型细节理解题和分散型细节理解题。集中型:就文章的单个细节提问,答案在原文中出现的位置一般也位于单句话或几句话中。因为具体细节不同,出题形式千变万化,因题而异。分散型:题目涉及到文章某一段或几段,甚至贯穿全文的各个位置,需要考生寻找文章中的多个细节。请注意,分散型细节理解题并不意味着题目的正确答案出现在文章的不同位置,正确答案往往也是关于文章的某一个句子或细节。只是说文章的干扰选项是关于不同的细节,需要我们在定位的时候阅读某一个区域。
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See a cell phone cover that you like on Taobao? Forget about placing an order, paying the bill online and waiting for days for it to be delivered to you. In the near future, you"ll be able to get it in minutes just by hitting "print" on your computer.
You might find it hard to believe that you could actually "print" an object like you would a picture. But it is not that hard to understand how it would work. Just as a traditional printer sprays (喷) ink onto paper line by line, modern 3-D printers spread material onto a surface layer by layer, from the bottom to the top, gradually building up a shape.
Instead of ink, the materials the 3-D printer uses are mainly plastic, resin (树脂)and certain metals. The thinner each layer is --- from a millimeter to less than the width of a hair ---  the smoother and finer the object will be.
This may sound like a completely new technology, but the truth is that 3-D printing has been around since the late 1980s. Back then, it was hardly affordable for most people, so few knew about it.
Last year, though, saw a big change in the 3-D printing industry--- printers became much cheaper. For example, 10 years ago a desktop 3-D printer might have cost £20,000 (200,000 yuan), while now they cost only about £ 1,000, according to the BBC.
Taken out of the factory and introduced to more diverse and common uses, 3-D printing can create just about anything you can think of ---flutes (笛子), bikinis, jewelry, aircraft parts and even human organs. In fact, scientists from Cornell University in New York have just made an artificial ear using a 3-D printer, according to Science Daily. The fake ear looks and acts exactly like a natural one.
However, as 3-D printing becomes more common, it may bring about certain problems --- such as piracy(盗版). "Once you can download a coffee maker, or print out a new set of kitchen utensils (餐具) on your personal 3-D printer, who will visit a retail (零售的) store again?" an expert in 3-D printing told Forbes News. Even more frightening, what if anyone in the world could use a 3-D printer to print out a fully functioning gun?
小题1:According to the article, in the future, the 3-D printing technology will ___.
A.enable people to make better purchases online
B.be applied as widely in our daily lives as computers
C.change the way we make many products
D.shorten the time it takes for people to get what they buy online
小题2:What was the big event happening in the 3-D printing industry last year?
A.The 3-D printing technology was taken out ofthe factory.
B.The 3-D printer became more affordable forconsumers.
C.The 3-D printer was used for medical treatmentfor the first time.
D.3-D printing technology began to be used invarious fields.
小题3:How is the last paragraph developed?
A.By analyzing a cause and an effect.B.By making comparisons.
C.By giving examples.D.By presenting research findings.
小题4:What is the best title of the passage?
A.Printing out everythingB.Technology in the future
C.Online shopping disappearingD.Great demand for 3-D printers

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As a senior high school student, my future is always on my mind. To be exact,thoughts of the future have kept me up countless nights and made me worry enough to do poorly on more than one test. Because of this, words of wisdom are a source of comfort.Steve Jobs gave a speech to Stanford"s graduating class in 2005 and his words resound repeatedly in my mind whenever I think about my future.
It started when l became a junior, when college came into view.  It"s the first big step to making your life your own. So when Jobs discussed his life as a student, some fears were eased. He, too, felt the need to attend college to make something of himself. He faced what many are extremely afraid of: uncertainty. His lack of understanding caused him to stop attending college and focus on what he felt was important. His story had a happy ending, of course, since he certainly turned out well.
This doesn"t mean that students shouldn"t attend college, but rather that they shouldn"t worry so much.  You"ll get where you need to go, even if your path is a bit morewinding(蜿蜒的)than you"d like.
Jobs talked about the hardships in his work.  His love of his work helped him carry on and he got where he was meant to be, which restates the point: don"t panic.One particular part of his speech stayed with me.  Steve Jobs quoted(引用)thc saying"Stay hungry, stay foolisll" and it has become my motto. Staying foolish is realizing thatyou are still a fool, no matter how much you"ve learned or experienced.  There is always more to explore. Staying hungry is wanting to find those things about which you are still uneducated.
Steve Jobs" level of success is possible to achieve, and I aim to prove that. With the will power to go into the world living every day like it"s my last and allowing the future to take care of itself, I will do great things.  In the last moments of my life, I"ll be proud of what I have done and hope to have all the wisdom a person could wish for.
小题1:The author felt worried when_____.
A.he had to take tests at school
B.he had lots of sleepless nights
C.he thought about his future
D.he searched for words of wisdom
小题2:It is suggested in Paragraphs l and 2 that_____
A.the author is a college student
B.the author cares much about his future
C.Steve Jobs failed because of his decision
D.Steve Jobs" words had no effect on the author
小题3:What did the author gain from Jobs" speech?
A.Courage to drop out of school.B.Confidence in defeating Jobs.
C.Interest in computer industry.D.Bravery to face uncertainties.
小题4:What did NOT Steve Jobs encourage students to do in his speech?
A.Be content with what they know.
B.Have the desire to learn more.
C.Stay calm in the face of hardships
D.Be modest so as to learn more.
小题5:The passage is mainly about_____.
A.an experience of a speech
B.a memorable meeting with Jobs
C.the most impressive quotation in life
D.the wisdom drawn from a speech

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Look closely at ,your hands-are they clean? It doesn"t matter how many times you was  your hands. They"re still crowded with microbes, which are also called "germs" or "bacteria". Microbes are everywhere. But don"t worry-most microbes don"t harm you. and many actually help you stay alive.
Now,  scientists say the microbes that live on our hands could be used in a surprising way: fighting crime.
When police visit the scene of a crime, they often look for fingerprints to try to identifythe criminal.  But according to a recent study, investigators could even use microbes to help break a criminal case.
Every person has his or her own set of microbes that live on their hands, according to scientists at,the University of:Colorado. That means the mix of different kinds of microbes on everybody"s hand is unique-much like one"s fingerprint.
The scientists wanted to know whether this microbe mix could be used as a new kind of fingerprint-especially in a crime scene where fingerprints might be hard to find.  And policemen use forensics such as studying fingerprints to identify the criminal.
"Microbe fingerprints are harder to hide," said Noah Fierer, one of the scientists.
"You can"t sterilize(为……***菌) a surface just by wiping it off. "
His team compared the bacteria on the hands of 273 people with the bacteria found on each person"s computer keyboard. For the study, the keyboards had been used only by the people who were being tested. The study showed that the mix of microbes from each per- son"s hands matched the mix of microbes on that person"s keyboard. The scientists were easily able to tell the 273 people apart-just by looking at their keyboards.
But there are a lot more than 273 criminals. Other scientists wonder whetherthe microbe fingerprint can really be that useful. 
Fierer agrees that scientists have a lot more work to do before the microbe fingerprint will be a useful tool.
小题1:According to the passage,  microbes on people"s hands_____
A.do more harm than goodB.are easy to get rid of
C.are almost the sameD.might help find crimes
小题2:The underlined word "forensics" in Paragraph 5 probably refers to________.
A.the scientific test used by police
B.a new kind of fingerprint
C.a kind of bacteria"in people"s hands
D.a kind of newly invented keyboard
小题3:What did Fierer"s team find through the study?
A.They found the criminal among the 237 people.
B.They could tell who had used which computer.
C.Computer keyboards couldn"t keep people"s microbe fingerprints.
D.People"s characters could be identified by the keyboards they used.
小题4:We can learn from the passage that ______.
A.your microbes may give you away
B.scientists will come to a clear conclusion soon
C.many scientists think microbe fingerprints useless
D.the microbe fingerprint has been used in many cases
小题5:The main idea of the passage is about_____.
A.the importance of fingerprintsB.how to clean our hands
C.the usefulness of microbesD.different germs on our hands

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A practical English Grammar is intended for intermediate(中级的) and post-intermediate students. We hope that more advanced learners and teachers will also find it useful.
The book is a comprehensive survey of structures and forms, written in clear modern English and illustrated with numerous examples. Areas of particular difficulty have been given special attention. Differences between conversational usage and strict grammatical forms are shown but the emphasis is on controversial forms.
In the fourth edition the main changes are as follows.
1. Explanation and examples have been brought up to date.
2. There is now more information on countable and uncountable nouns, attributive and predicative adjectives, adverbs of place, sentence adverbs, cleft sentences, prepositions, conjunctives, modal verbs, perfect tenses, infinitive constructions, the passive, purpose clauses and nouns.
3. Some material has been rearranged to make comparisons easier. For example, parts of chapters on can, may, must etc. are now grouped by functions; verbs of liking and preference have a chapter to themselves; suggestions and invitations have joined the chapter on commands, requests and advice.
4. The contents list now summaries every edition heading, and there is a new index containing many more entries references.
In this edition the sign “~” is frequently used to show a change of speaker in examples of dialogue. Note also that although the sign “="”" sometimes connects two words or expressions with the same meaning, it is often used more freely, e.g. to indicate a transformation from active to passive or direct to indirect speech.
We wish to thank all at Oxford University Press who have assisted in the preparation of the fourth edition. We would also like to thank Professor Egawa of Nihon University, Japan, Professor Rene Dirven of Duisburg University, West Germany and other colleagues for their friendly and helpful suggestions.
London, November 1985   A.J.T., A.VM
小题1:The grammar book mentioned in this passage is not suitable for              .
A.a middle school teacherB.a primary school student
C.a senior high studentD.a college student
小题2:According to the passage, we know that his grammar book              .
A.compares modern English with old English
B.gives a large number of examples to reduce difficulty
C.attaches more importance to conversational forms
D.pays little attention to strict grammatical forms
小题3:Which of the following statements about the changes is TRUE?
A.This book keeps up with the latest usages of the America English language.
B.This edition offers more information about pronouns.
C.It’s not easy for us to find the information we need in this book.
D.One particular chapter discusses verbs like “care, like, love, hate, prefer, wish”.
小题4:When you see this line in the book, “Did you get a ticket? ~Yes, I managed to get one”, we can understand that             .
A.the two parts before and after the sign “~” mean the same
B.the two parts before and after “~” are said by two different people
C.the second speaker repeats what the first speaker says
D.the topic is changed in the part after the sign “~”
小题5:In the last paragraph, the authors thank several people because              .
A.they have helped the authors with this edition
B.they have agreed to buy a lot of books from the authors
C.the authors want to make use of the fames of those people
D.those people will make advertisements for this book

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The human body has hundreds of muscles. The three types are skeletal(骨骼的) muscles, smooth muscles and cardiac, or heart muscles. Each kind of muscle has a special job to do. 
The skeletal muscles are attached to the bones; they actually hold the skeleton together. Strong cords, called tendons(肌腱), help connect these muscles to the bones. Skeletal muscles give us strength and allow us to move in many ways. If you look at skeletal muscles through a microscope, you will see that it has bands of fibers that look like stripes(条纹). These stripes are called striations. Skeletal muscles usually move because the brain has sent a conscious message to them telling them what to do. This is called voluntary movement.
Another type of muscle is smooth muscle. Unlike skeletal muscle, smooth muscle does not have striations. This is found in organs such as the stomach, the bladder(膀胱), the lungs and the eyes. Smooth muscles are smaller than the skeletal muscles and they move involuntarily. The brain tells these muscles what to do, but we aren’t even aware of it. For example, we don’t have to think about breathing or digesting food. The smooth muscles just do their jobs automatically. For this reason smooth muscles are sometimes called involuntary muscles.
Like smooth muscle, cardiac muscle also works involuntarily. It is a very thick muscle that is found only in the walls of the heart. Its job is to pump blood out of the heart and into blood vessels called arteries(动脉). The arteries help carry the blood to all parts of the body. When the cardiac muscles relax, they let blood back into the heart. Cardiac muscles have striations, just like skeletal muscles do.
小题1:When we _______, the job is done by smooth muscles.
A.close our eyesB.kick a ballC.hug our friendsD.lift a suitcase
小题2:Skeletal muscles and heart muscles are alike because_______.
A.both can move voluntarily
B.both are thick muscles
C.both are bigger than smooth muscles
D.both have stripes called striations
小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Heart muscles are very important because they give us strength and allow us to move.
B.The heart of human beings completely consists of heart muscle.
C.The skeletal muscles are connected to the bones by tendons.
D.Smooth muscle does its work without receiving message from the brain.

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