What’s the difference between the British Isles, Britain, the United Kingdom and
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The British Isles is made up of two large islands: One is called Ireland and the other Britain. Britain, or Great Britain, is the larger of these two islands and it is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England.
The United Kingdom (UK) is short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is made up of Scotland, Wales, and England (i.e. the whole of Britain), and also about one-sixth of Ireland, the Northern part. The rest of Ireland is self-governing(自治的).
England is the largest, most populous (人口众多的), and generally speaking, the richest section. English people often use the words “England” and “English” when they mean “Britain” and “British”. This sometimes makes the Scots and the Welsh angry. The Scots are very proud of their separate nationality. The Welsh too do not consider themselves as England, and have a culture and even a language of their own. Ireland became part of the United Kingdom in 1801, but is soon grew discontented (不满的), and for forty years the “Irish Question” was the greatest headache of British Parliament(国会). At last, Ireland divided itself into two: Northern Ireland remained loyal(忠诚于) to the Crown(英国王室), and in 1922 the rest of the country broke away to form Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland.
小题1:Which is the largest in area?| A．The British Iles | B．Great Britain | | C．England | D．The United Kingdom |
小题2: Which is the largest island of the British Isles?.| A．Ireland | B．Britain | | C．England | D．Northern Ireland |
小题3:The United Kingdom is mainly made up of .| A．3 parts: Scotland, Wales, and England | | B．4 parts: Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland | | C．2 parts: the whole of Britain and Ireland | | D．2 parts: the whole of Britain and Northern Ireland |
小题4: Strictly speaking(严格地说), which is wrong?| A．“English” refers(指) to people of England. | | B．“The Scots” refers to people of Scotland. | | C．“England” refers to all the people to the UK. | | D．Only one-sixth of Ireland belongs to the UK. |
小题5:Who will be happy if we use “England” when we mean Britain?| A．The British | B．People of England | | C．People of the Republic of Ireland | D．The welsh |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:B |
解析
试题分析：本文叙述了英国的组成。英国的全称是大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国。它是由苏格兰、威尔士、英格兰(即整个英国),大约六分之一的爱尔兰,北部。其余的爱尔兰自治。不列颠群岛由两个大岛:一个叫做爱尔兰岛，另一个叫不列颠岛。不列颠或大不列颠,是这两个群岛中较大的岛,它分为三个部分:英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士。
小题1:推理判断题。根据第二段的The British Isles is made up of two large islands: One is called Ireland and the other Britain. Britain, or Great Britain, is the larger of these two islands and it is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England. 可知The British Isles > Britain > Ireland>故选A。
小题2:细节理解题。根据第二段Britain, or Great Britain, is the larger of these two islands不列颠或大不列颠,是这两个群岛中较大的岛。故选B。
小题3:细节理解题。根据第三段的The United Kingdom (UK) is short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.联合王国(英国)是英国大不列颠和北爱尔兰组成。故选D。
小题4:推理判断题。根据最后一段的English people often use the words “England” and “English” when they mean “Britain” and “British”.英国人经常使用单词“英格兰”和“英语”,意味着“英国”和“英国”。故选C。
小题5:推理判断题。This sometimes makes the Scots and the Welsh angry.这有时使苏格兰人和威尔士人生气。故排除CD.The British指的是所有英国人，也包括苏格兰人和威尔士人，因此A项排除。故选B。 |
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Well, it 41 being a cowboy or some super hero. Later it was a fireman, policeman, lawyer ... As I grew older my dreams of the future 42 . When, at last, I was in college, I made up my 43 to become a preacher(牧师) as my father. 44 I studied and prepared for that life. I reached 45 in the end and I was preaching nearly fulltime for much of my adult life.
However, for many, there is a “thief” which goes around stealing our 46 . Sometimes, the thief will come as a parent, a relative, or a friend, but the 47 thief is, so many times, just 48 .
We find ourselves just about reaching the top, and this “small” 49 inside says, “You will never make 50 .” “You can’t possibly do this.” And on and on the “small” voice 51 some kind of failure. Failure, though, is exactly how dreams are 52 . It is one of the most important tools we have, because it teaches us invaluable 53 . And, when we learn these lessons well, we are ready 54 success.
The message I always gave my children was that you 55 do anything your heart desires. Remember the saying, “Nothing is 56 to a willing heart.” There are 57 “overnight” successes, but with determination, it will come. Imagine yourself in the life you dream of 58 . Then in your heart, believe it 59 happen for you. Then work, work, work. You get the picture.
So, be true to your dream, and don’t let anyone 60 it from you—especially yourself.
| 小题1: | | A．insisted on | B．felt like | C．kept on | D．started out |
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| 小题2: | | A．changed | B．meant | C．planned | D．left |
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| 小题3: | | A．goal | B．mind | C．interest | D．experience |
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| 小题5: | | A．agreement | B．conclusion | C．success | D．position |
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| 小题6: | | A．money | B．children | C．friends | D．dreams |
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| 小题7: | | A．greatest | B．tallest | C．poorest | D．oldest |
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| 小题8: | | A．themselves | B．yourselves | C．ourselves | D．itself |
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| 小题9: | | A．sound | B．voice | C．noise | D．speech |
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| 小题11: | | A．expects | B．predicts | C．answers | D．suffers |
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| 小题12: | | A．met | B．defended | C．understood | D．realized |
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| 小题13: | | A．stages | B．suggestions | C．lessons | D．choices |
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| 小题15: | | A．are able to | B．used to | C．have to | D．ought to |
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| 小题16: | | A．interesting | B．important | C．necessary | D．impossible |
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| 小题18: | | A．spending | B．living | C．planning | D．changing |
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| 小题19: | | A．will | B．might | C．could | D．does |
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| 小题20: | | A．buy | B．fool | C．steal | D．borrow |
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Tre’S mom，Christina Thompson, cannot believe how much her son already learned this year in his full-day, free pre-school class in Oklahoma City. “Since he’s been in school his vocabulary has increased surprisingly,” Thompson says. “The other day he came home and said, ‘You know what ，mom? You are being ridiculous，” Thompson laughs quietly. “And then he asked, ‘Do you know what ‘ridiculous’ means, mom?’” Tre knows the entire alphabet, his numbers to 100，and he’s starting to read. And letters and numbers aside, Thompson is most struck by how fast Tre is absorbing vocabulary and language.
Of course, not all pre-school is created equal. High quality pre-schools have well-trained, well-educated teachers in the classroom (much like Tre Thompson’s teacher Mrs. Wallace, who uses play-based learning to teach both academics and social skills and can rattle off (飞快说出） a battery of data on how well her students are progressing towards their year-end goals). Texas can also offer a model for educator development: its Texas School Ready! Campaign has proven to increase the quality of participating pre-schools by providing early childhood teachers with coaching, professional development, research-based curriculum (课程)，and progress monitoring. States and districts should also combine pre-school with the K-12 system, as Oklahoma does ，so that children enter kindergarten smoothly.
Oklahoma is one of the leading states in providing students like Tre with free ，full-day pre-school. And the results are already paying off: According to a 2012 study, Oklahoma kids that went through pre-school showed vocabulary gains 28% higher than those of children without pre-school, and math gains 44% higher than non-pre-school kids. And we know that high-quality pre-school doesn’t just mean higher scores in elementary school. They were more likely to have graduated from high school and less likely to have committed a violent crime. They also earned more money and were more likely to be employed.
We know pre-school works, so let’s stop talking and start building a system where all children have access to excellent early childhood education. As any well-educated four year old could tell us, not doing so would be ridiculous.
小题1:The case of Tre in the first paragraph serves as the evidence of______.| A．children’s disrespect towards parents | | B．the bad performance of students at school | | C．the positive effect of pre-school on children | | D．Thompson’s doubt about her son’s education |
小题2:At high quality pre-schools, children may learn by______| A．playing | B．modelling | C．researching | D．monitoring |
小题3:It can be inferred that______.| A．children can not enter kindergarten without pre-school | | B．Oklahoma is the best state offering full-day pre-school | | C．all pre-schools have well-trained, well-educated teachers | | D．kids with pre-school may be better equipped for their future |
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Not all pre-school works | | B．All pre-school is created equal | | C．We owe our kids universal pre-school | | D．Pre-school goes well with K-12 system |
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Every time you go to the supermarket, you come away with your purchases in plastic bags. But wouldn’t it be kinder to the environment if you asked for paper bags instead?
The answer is not the easy as it might seem. Environmentalists say there are drawbacks to using both plastic bags and paper bags.
According to the American Plastics Council 80 percent of groceries in the US are packed in plastic bags.
“The numbers are becoming huge,” said Vincent Cobb, a businessman from Chicago who set up “reusable bags. com” on the Internet. He notes that consumers use between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags per year worldwide.
Some experts believe that all these bags harm the environment. Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down and, as it does so, poisonous materials are released into the water and soil.
Further damage is caused if plastic bags enter the sea. For example, endangered sea turtles cannot tell the bags from jellyfish(水母), their main source of food, and often choke on them.
Floating plastic bags have been spotted as far north as the Arctic Ocean and as far south as the southern end of South America. One expert predicts that, within ten years, plastic bags will wash up in Antarctica!
However, this kind of bag does have its advantages.
“Plastic grocery bags are some of the most reused things around the house,” explained Laurie Kusek of the American Plastics Council.
According to the Film and Bag Federation, a trade group in the US plastics industry, paper bags use more energy and create more waste than plastic bags. Plastic bags require 40 per cent less energy to produce and cause 70 per cent less air pollution, the group explained. They also release as much as 94 percent less waste into the water than paper ones.
But paper bags do break down more quickly than plastic bags. They don’t endanger wildlife, either.
So what should we do? One possible solution would be to use biodegradable(能被生物分解的)plastic bags. But until biodegradable technology improves, it might be easier to pack things you buy in reusable cloth bags.
小题1:The best title of the passage is _____.| A．Paper Causes Less Pollution | | B．Plastic Causes Less Pollution | | C．Paper and Plastics Cause Pollution | | D．Paper Bags Break Down More Quickly |
小题2:The underlined word “drawbacks” might mean “_____”.| A．Advantages | B．disadvantages | C．air pollution | D．waste |
小题3:According to the passage, which of the following in NOT true? | A．Plastic takes longer to break down than paper. | | B．Sea turtles usually mistake the plastic bags for jellyfish. | | C．Paper bags require less energy than plastic bags. | | D．You’d better pack things in reusable cloth bags. |
小题4:Which of the following shows that paper bags are better than plastic ones?| A．Paper bags take less time to rot. | | B．Paper bags cause less air pollution. | | C．Paper bags are more reusable. | | D．Paper bags cause less water pollution. |
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A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full 36 of the facts he observes. He doesn’t accept ideas which are not 37 on obvious facts, and therefore refuses to accept authority as the only 38 for truth. He always 39 ideas carefully and makes experiments to prove them.
The rise of 40 science may perhaps be considered to 41 as far back as the 42 of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who live 43 the years 1214 and 1292. He was probably the first in the Middle 44 to suggest that we must learn science 45 observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself 46 many important discoveries.
Galileo, however, who lived more than 300 years later (1564-1642), was the greatest of several great men, 47 in Italy, France, Germany, or England, began by 48 to show how many important 49 could be discovered by observation. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more 50 towards the earth than small ones, 51 Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the 52 of the leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two 53 stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It was Galileo’s 54 of going direct to Nature, and proving our 55 and theories by experiment, that has led to all the discoveries of modern science.
| 小题1: | | A．use | B．time | C．speed | D．trust |
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| 小题2: | | A．worked | B．based | C．lived | D．written |
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| 小题3: | | A．reason | B．cause | C．advice | D．result |
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| 小题4: | | A．thinks | B．checks | C．has | D．learn |
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| 小题5: | | A．natural | B．physical | C．ancient | D．modern |
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| 小题7: | | A．study | B．time | C．year | D．birth |
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| 小题8: | | A．both | B．each | C．between | D．among |
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| 小题9: | | A．Schools | B．Ages | C．Days | D．Count |
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| 小题13: | | A．ways | B．degrees | C．levels | D．chance |
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| 小题14: | | A．truths | B．problems | C．people | D．subjects |
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| 小题15: | | A．slowly | B．rapidly | C．lightly | D．heavily |
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| 小题16: | | A．although | B．because | C．when | D．If |
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| 小题17: | | A．place | B．foot | C．top | D．ceiling |
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| 小题18: | | A．big | B．small | C．equal | D．unequal |
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| 小题19: | | A．spirit | B．skill | C．theory | D．discovery |
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| 小题20: | | A．plans | B．opinions | C．world | D．ability |
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However, research has proved this method inefficient and ineffective. The truth is, the human brain simply cannot consciously remember process and use hundreds of or thousands of grammar rules. Real speech is too fast.
Native speakers do not learn grammar in this way, but rather intuitively (凭直觉地) and unconsciously. They learn in a complete way, not by attempting to memorize individual grammar rules. As a result, native speakers use correct grammar fluently and easily.
Fortunately, it is possible for English learners to learn grammar this way. Language teacher Blaine Ray has developed a unique "intuitive" approach to teach English grammar. Her system uses "point of view" stories to teach the patterns of English grammar, allowing students unconsciously to acquire correct grammar without ever studying grammar rules.
In this system, the teacher first tells a simple story from one point of view. It may be told about the past, then repeated, but beginning with "since he was a child"; then repeated again, but this time about the future.
Listening to these stories allows students intuitively and effortlessly to learn English grammar and makes them be able to use it correctly when they speak.
Point of View Stories is a creative new way to study English grammar, and offers hope to millions of frustrated English learners.
小题1:Which of the following ways is approved by the author?| A．Remembering grammar rules | | B．Taking grammar tests. | | C．Analyzing grammatical structure | | D．Applying language to situations. |
小题2:What does the underlined part "this way" in the fourth paragraph refer to?| A．Talking to native speakers when learning. | | B．Learning English grammar in a complete way. | | C．Using correct English grammar. | | D．Learning English grammar 4from a teacher. |
小题3:From this passage we learn that ______.| A．native speakers learn English grammar by listening to stories | | B．Blaine Ray’s method gets students to grasp correct grammar unconsciously | | C．Blaine Ray teaches grammar rules by asking students to tell stories | | D．it’s hard for students to speak correct English in the new system |
小题4: This passage wants to ______. | A．criticize the traditional way of learning grammar | | B．introduce a new way to study English grammar | | C．ask students to learn English grammar by listening to stories | | D．tell us how the native speakers learn English grammar |
小题5:why shouldn’t the English learners use an analytical approach?| A．because the analytical approach can let them learn English grammar effortlessly | | B．because the analytical approach makes them be able to use English correctly when they speak. | | C．because the analytical approach can’t let them memorize and then apply a great number of rules. | | D．because Real speech is too fast. |
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