If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak;
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If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; when you start using them again, they will slowly become stronger again．Everybody knows that ．yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way．When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it．
When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong．If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault．But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, and few of us know that it is just his own fault．Have you ever noticed that some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write so they have to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook．They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memories are being exercised the whole time．So if you want to have a good memory, learn from these people:Practise remembering．
小题1:One has a poor memory mainly because ．| A．his father or mother may have a poor memory | | B．he does not use his arms or legs for some time | | C．his memory is not often used | | D．he can’t read or write |
小题2:If you do not use your arms or legs for some time, .| A．you can’t use them any more | | B．they will become stronger | | C．they become weak and won’t become stronger until you use them again | | D．they will become neither stronger nor weaker |
小题3:Which of the following is NOT true?| A．Your memory works in the same way as your arms or legs. | | B．Your memory, like your arms or legs,becomes weak if you don’t give it enough chance for practice. | | C．Don’t learn how to read and write if you want to have a better memory. | | D．A good memory comes from more practice. |
小题4:Some people can’t read or write, but they usually have better memories, because .| A．they have saved much trouble | | B．they have saveed much time to remember things | | C．they have to use their memories all the time | | D．they can’t write everything in a little notebook |
小题5:Which is the best title for this passage?| A．Don’t Stop Using Your Arams or Legs | | B．How to Have a Good Memory | | C．Strong Arms and God Memories | | D．Learn from the People |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:C
小题5:B |
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试题分析：
小题1:C 推理题。根据第一段when you start using them again, they will slowly become stronger again．Everybody knows that ．yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way．说明记忆力和其它的事物一样，如果经常使用，就会变好，故C正确。
小题2:C 细节题。根据第一段1,2行If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; when you start using them again, they will slowly become stronger again．说明C正确。
小题3:C 推理题。根据文章最后一段Have you ever noticed that some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write so they have to remember things;但是并没有说如果你想要记忆好就不要学读写。故C的说法是错误的。
小题4:C 细节题。根据最后一段4,5行some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write so they have to remember things说明C正确。
小题5:B 主旨大意题。本文是关于如何有一个好的记忆力的话题。故B正确。
点评：本文是关于如何有一个好的记忆力的话题。属于科普类短文，以细节题考查为主，在阅读时要抓住每一段的主题句和段中关键点，在完成题目时要认真审题，审清选项要求。如74题的考查。 |
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On the first day of the new term, I met my new headmaster at the school gate. “Follow me, please!” he said. He had a quiet, kind voice. He took me into my new classroom and left. In front of me, thirty pairs of eyes looked at me. I knew he had told the students that I was blind. I could almost feel the question behind their eyes: Blind? I felt the answer too: If she’s blind, this should be good! I heard quiet voices in a corner of the classroom. For a moment, I felt afraid. I knew at once that I had to be strong.
“Class,” I said as loudly as I could. “I may be blind. But I am not foolish. Take those naughty smiles off your faces, and stop talking, please!” Of course, I could not see their faces; I just guessed that some of them were smiling. The class were quiet. They were very surprised. I knew that I had done the right thing.
As the days went by, the students had more surprises. I could smell when the children were eating sweets. I could easily hear combs going through hair, students passing messages, and so on. Once I found a girl passing a message to a friend. I took the message to the teachers’ room. A teacher read it to me. On one side it said, “Do you think she can see?” on the other it said, “I think so. She always knows what we’re doing.”
Soon the students stopped being naughty, and started to work hard. Before long, they brought in photos of their families for me to look at; I knew then they were my friends. I also knew they had forgotten that I could not see.
小题1:In Paragraph(段) 1 the writer said she must be strong because .| A．she was too weak | | B．the students laughed at her | | C．the headmaster left her alone | | D．she felt the students were not friendly to her |
小题2:The students were surprised for the first time because .| A．the teacher seemed to know everything | | B．the teacher caught them smiling | | C．the teacher caught them talking | | D．the teacher was not foolish |
小题3:In the new teacher’s class the students often .| A．exchanged sweets | B．combed their hair | | C．wrote letters | D．read letters |
小题4:The students brought their photos for the writer to look at .| A．to interest her | B．to cure her illness | | C．to make friends with her | D．to show their friendliness |
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If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice. There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills, you should first master the skills of reading and listening.
Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example, in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.
As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening. For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.
If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve quickly, and you can be a fluent English speaker one day.
小题1:According to the writer, which should you improve first among the four skills?| A．Reading and listening. | B．Reading and writing. | | C．Writing and speaking. | D．Speaking and listening. |
小题2: To improve your reading, when you read you should ______.| A．look up all the new words in the dictionary | | B．think about what you are reading actively | | C．spend more time studying grammars | | D．copy as many words and sentences as possible |
小题3:The underlined phrase “come across” in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by “______”.| A．meet | B．discover | C．hear | D．look for |
小题4:The passage is mainly about how to ______.| A．choose suitable listening materials | | B．deal with new words in reading | | C．improve your reading ability as quickly as possible | | D．become fluent in speaking and writing English |
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There are three separate sources of danger in supplying energy by nuclear power.
First, the radioactive material must travel from its form of production to the power station. Although the power stations themselves are strongly built, the containers used for the transport of the materials are not. Normally, only two methods of transport are in use, namely road or rail. Unfortunately, both of these may have an effect on the general public, since they are sure to pass near, or even though, heavily populated areas.
Secondly, there is the problem of waste. All nuclear power stations produce waste that in most cases will remain radioactive for thousands of years. It is impossible to make these waste radioactive, and so they must be stored in one of the inconvenient ways that scientists have invented. For example, they may be buried under the ground, or dropped into deserted mines, or sunk in the sea. However, these methods do not solve the problem, since an earthquake could easily break the containers.
Third, there may occur the danger of a leak or an explosion at the power station. As with the other two dangers, this is not very likely, so it does not provide a serious objection to the nuclear program. However, it can happen.
Separately, these three types of dangers are not a great cause for worry. Taken together, though, the probability of disaster is extremely high.
小题1:Which of the following is FALSE ?| A．It is possible that a leak or an explosion occurs at a power station. | | B．It is unusual for radioactive materials to be transported across land. | | C．The containers are likely to be broken by an earthquake. | | D．Nuclear wastes remain dangerous in most cases for many years. |
小题2:The author thinks that the ways to store nuclear wastes are ____________. | A．easy | B．impossible | C．reasonable | D．ineffective |
小题3:What do we learn from the last paragraph ? | A．The power station is a safe place. | | B．The dangers of nuclear energy can be prepared. | | C．The general public are strongly against the nuclear program. | | D．Itself, none of the three dangers is very likely to cause much worry. |
小题4: What is this passage mainly about ? | A．uses of nuclear power | | B．Dangers from nuclear power | | C．Public anger at nuclear power | | D．Accidents caused by nuclear power. |
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How to improve our life? Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They"ll say，“my destiny(命运). I cannot change it. ”
Of course not! You don"t have to suffer needlessly. Your life depends on you, not on any other external(外部的) factor.
I know a woman who says she just accepts what life gives her because she has done everything she can to improve it. Guess what her lifestyle is. She wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes back home, relaxes, chats with people, watches TV, and then goes to sleep. Next day, the same routine cycle follows.
Huh! Is this what she calls “doing her best”？ She believes she has tried her best and just accepts for her heart that this is the life that has been intended for her, and that her luck can only change if God wills it. She hasn"t realized that we have to do our share of making the effort to live the life of our dreams.
Remember that you harvest what you sow. You have to get off the sofa, get your eyes off the TV screen, get your hands off the phone(unless it contributes to your success), and get your mind and body to work! Don"t expect your luck to change, unless you do something about it. If something goes wrong, don"t just regard it as a temporary setback; instead, learn your lesson, make the most of the situation, and do something to solve the problem. It"s not enough to think positively; you also have to act positively.
If someone"s life is in trouble, do you just hope and pray that things will turn out fine? Of course not! You get to do anything you can to save the person. So it is with your own life. It is not enough to hope for the best, but you have to do your best. In other words, don"t just stand(or sit) there, do something to improve your life.
小题1:According to the woman mentioned in Para. 3, her life ________.| A．doesn"t need improving | | B．couldn"t be improved | | C．will be better some day | | D．will be worse in the future |
小题2:What does the author think of the woman"s life?| A．Passive. | B．Positive. | | C．Colorful. | D．Boring. |
小题3:Which of the following statements is the author"s opinion?| A．Your temporary problem is not discouraging. | | B．Your luck can be changed by your efforts. | | C．You can only achieve success when God wills it. | | D．You should treat yourself in the way you treat friends. |
小题4:In Para. 5, the author emphasized the importance of ________.| A．hope for the best | | B．intention to succeed | | C．positive thinking | | D．positive action |
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Which animal has the fastest snapping jaw (颚)? If you"re guessing a shark or perhaps a larger animal, you"ll have to think smaller. The trapjaw ant, which lives in Central and South America, moves its mouth parts at 35 to 63 meters per second. Another way to think about this is that the ant"s jaws close at 125 to 233 kilometers per hour. That"s 2, 300 times faster than the blink of an eye.
Scientists were able to measure the amazing jaw speed using highspeed video techniques. Sheila Patek, a biologist, says the key is that the jaws have a springy (有弹性的) system, which is critical in getting explosive (爆发性的) speeds.
Consider a bow and arrow. If you try to throw an arrow with your arm, it won"t go very far. If you use a bow, elastic energy stored in the bow is released almost instantly when you release the arrow with your finger or a latch. The combination of the springy bow and latch mechanism is what makes the arrow zoom through the air.
Maybe even more amazing than how fast these ants grab food or even enemies is how they use this same energy to move. As the ant closes its jaws, it uses them to push off the ground—all faster than the eye can see without slow motion video. A snap of the jaw can send an ant up to 8.3 centimeters into the air. That"s like someone who is 1.7 meters jumping 13 meters high! Not only can they quickly escape from enemies, but often a group of ants will start jumping all at once. It would be hard for their enemies to grab just one.
People have suspected the ants used their jaws to jump for over a century, but could only prove it with today"s modern video equipment.
小题1:The fast speed of the trapjaw ant"s jaw lies in ________.| A．its light body | | B．its springy system | | C．its living environment | | D．the length of its jaw |
小题2:The passage uses “a bow and arrow” as an example to show ________.| A．how an arrow gets so much energy to fly | | B．why the trapjaw ants have springy system | | C．why the trapjaw ants jaws move so fast | | D．how a bow and arrow works |
小题3:Which of the following may amaze the scientists most?| A．How high the ants can leap by using their jaws. | | B．How quickly the trapjaw ants can move on the ground. | | C．How wonderfully the springy system in the trapjaw ants" jaws works. | | D．How quickly the trapjaw ants can grab food or enemies. |
小题4:According to the passage, the trapjaw ants" jaws keep them safe because ________.| A．they can catch their enemies easily with their jaws | | B．their jaws make them difficult to recognize | | C．their jaws help them find food easily | | D．their jaws help them escape from their enemies |
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