Are you looking for some new and exciting places to take your kids (孩子) to? Try
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Are you looking for some new and exciting places to take your kids (孩子) to? Try some of these places
★Visit art museums. They offer a variety of activities to excite your kids" interest. Many offer workshops for making hand-made pieces, traveling exhibits, book signings by children"s favorite writer, and even musical performances and other arts.
★Head to a natural history museum. This is where kids can discover the past from dinosaur(恐龙) models to rock collections and pictures of stars in the sky. Also, ask what kind of workshops and educational programs are prepared for kids and any special events that are coming up.
★Go to a Youtheater. Look for one in your area offering plays for child and family visitors. Pre-show play shops are conducted by area artists and educators where kids can discover the secret about performing arts. Puppet(木偶)making and stage make-up are just a couple of the special offerings you might find.
★Try hands-on﹙动手﹚ science. Visit one of the many hands-on science museums around the country. These science play-lands are great fun for kids and grown-ups alike. They"ll keep your child mentally and physically active the whole day through while pushing buttons, experimenting, and building. When everyone is tired, enjoy a fun family science show, commonly found in these museums.
小题1: If a child is interested in the universe, he probably will visit | A．a Youtheater | B．an art museum | | C．a natural history museum | D．a hands-on science museum |
小题2:What can kids do at a Youtheater?| A．Look at rock collections. | B．See dinosaur models. | | C．Watch puppet(木偶) making. | D．Give performances. |
小题3: Where does this text probably come from?| A．A science textbook. | B．A tourist map. | | C．A museum guide. | D．A news report. |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:C |
解析
试题分析：
小题1:细节题，由第二段Head to a natural history museum. This is where kids can discover the past from dinosaur(恐龙) models to rock collections and pictures of stars in the sky.可知，对宇宙感兴趣的孩子将去参观自然历史博物馆。
小题2:细节题。由第四段Puppet(木偶)making and stage make-up are just a couple of the special offerings you might find.可知，木偶制作过程和舞台化妆是你可能会发现的特殊的事情。故选C
小题3:推断题。排除法，A.科学书B.旅游地图C.博物馆指南D.新闻报导。整个文章都讨论的museum,博物馆，故文章很可能来自博物馆指南，故选C。
点评：文章主要给那些想带着孩子去一些新的刺激的地方的家长们。介绍了一些博物馆，说明文层次分明，段与段之间相关性不大，只需将题目带到文章找答案即可。 |
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Nowadays everybody seems to think that they know English. Many people speak it but few speak it really well. Practice is necessary in speaking English well.
Reading is also one of the things that will help you to speak English better. Read whenever you can and whatever you like! Read papers and Internet sites that you like in English every day. Then, you will see that the number of known words is increasing and you are able to speak with more skills. Then you will have made the foundations（基础）and a good basis of English. It is not good to stop and get stuck there.
Going to England or an English speaking country is a good choice, but many people cannot afford it. If you cannot go, reading and speaking with your friends will also help you to practice your English. However, I think that it is very good to visit some English speaking country to see and test your knowledge in everyday life. You will feel the everyday usage of the language in its natural environment. There your level of English is going to improve even faster. Your ability to speak English is better. Nothing can match the excitement and happiness when a native speaker tells you that your English is very good!
Finally, in order to speak English well, you must be persistent（坚持的）and do it every day. It is like playing the piano. Pianists play it every day and so should you. Include English in your life and you will see where it is going. Practice, practice! Read, write and improve your language skills and you are on your way when you will be able to speak it with more and more confidence!
小题1:Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?| A．How to Improve Your Language Skills | B．How to Speak English Well | | C．Speaking English | D．Practice, Practice |
小题2:What does the writer suggest doing about reading?| A．Trying to improve your vocabulary. | | B．Keeping on reading when you have time. | | C．Stopping when you have a good basis of English. | | D．Looking up every unknown word when reading. |
小题3:In the writer’s eyes, the essential way to improve your speaking skills is .| A．practicing | B．going abroad | | C．reading | D．writing |
小题4:According to the passage, what may make the author excited?| A．Reading papers and Internet sites. | B．Having a good basis of English. | | C．Going to an English speaking country. | D．A native speaker’s praise. |
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Not long ago the movie 2012 came into screen. The people were threatened by those scenes of destroying flood, severe earthquake, terrifying hurricane and constructions representing human civilization being destroyed and even swallowed by disaster. Luckily, they are just the director" s imagination, but the present situation is not heading a positive direction, either.
Take my own experience in Alaska as an example. Once I took a trip to the glacier. Along the way there stood signposts marking the snow lines of different years. They started from the foot of the mountain, but it was at the top when I finally saw melting glaciers(融化的冰川). My heart ached seeing the beautiful blue ice melting at every second.
Sad but true, they are the effects of global warming and the result of our human impact. Furthermore, each year the rising sea level will kill 56 million people, and that’s about the population of the entire Italy. According to studies, if the temperature keeps on rising like this, by the year 2050, some islands and coastal cities including New York, Shanghai, Tokyo and Sydney will be drowned in water.
Our fortune is in our own hands. It depends on us to shape our future, to reduce future human impact and find ways to form a peaceful relationship with our environment. Therefore, it"s time for actions to be taken right now. Contribute a little to energy saving by using more efficient light bulbs and less hot water. Let recycle become our habit by thinking twice before throwing something away. Let us take public transportation as our first choice when going to a certain place. It might cost more time for now, but it" s to the benefit of a permanent future. Take care of every tree and grass around us by watering them or simply just avoid destroying them.
In a word, small drops of water make a big ocean. The earth does not belong to us. On the contrary, we belong to the earth. Please bear in mind that the earth is our home. It is our responsibility to build a brighter and better future of our planet and prevent what happened in the movie 2012 from becoming reality.
小题1: Why does the author talk about the movie 2012 in the passage ?| A．To give example. | B．To lead into the topic. | | C．To make prediction. | D．To provide the evidence. |
小题2:How did the author feel when he took a trip to the glacier?| A．Worried. | B．Puzzled. | C．Scared. | D．Bored. |
小题3:It can be inferred from the third paragraph that________ .| A．56 million people in Italy have been killed owing to the rising sea level | | B．Some islands and coastal cities will be drowned in water by the year of 2050 | | C．Human being will be in danger if we don"t take actions to prevent the global warming | | D．It is certain that what happened in the movie 2012 will come into reality |
小题4:According to the passage, you are advised to ________.| A．drive our own private cars instead of taking buses to some place | | B．recycle everything that is used | | C．go to see the movie 2012 at once | | D．work together to take good care of our planet |
小题5: What does the author mean by saying "small drops of water make a big ocean"?| A．Think twice before taking action. | | B．It"s our duty to protect the ocean. | | C．Everyone together can make a difference. | | D．It"s important to save every drop of water. |
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When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you"re at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it.
Cigarette? Cup of coffee? No, it"s the third most addictive thing in modem life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their longing to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.
The costs are becoming more and more evident, and I don"t mean just the monthly bill. Dr. Chris Knippers, a counselor at the Betty ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality. Sounds extreme, but we" ve all witnessed the evidence: The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, notes that cell - phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separation. He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e - mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don"t have as many friends as our parents. " Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends," he says.
If the cell phone has truly had these effects, it"s because it has become very widespread. Consider that in 1987, there were only l million cell phones in use. Today, something like 300 million Americans carry them. They far outnumber wired phones in the United States.
小题1: From the first two paragraphs, we can know________. | A．cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes | | B．cell phone addiction is good for building personal relationships | | C．people are longing to have their own cell phones | | D．cell phones are the same as cigarettes |
小题2:Cell phone addiction has caused the following effects EXCEPT________ .| A．a barrier to personal contact | B．fewer friends | | C．an escape from reality | D．a serious illness |
小题3: The underlined word "curb" in Paragraph 2 means “________. ”| A．ignore | B．control | C．develop | D．rescue |
小题4:The example of a woman talking on the phone in the car supports the idea that________ .| A．women Use cell phones more often than men | | B．talking on the phone while driving is dangerous | | C．cell phones do not necessarily bring people together | | D．cell phones make one - on - one personal contact easy |
小题5:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?| A．Cell phones Are the New Cigarettes | | B．Cell phones Are Harmful to the Society | | C．The New Report about the Cell phone | | D．The Disadvantages of the Cell phone |
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Death Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes. Death Valley can be dangerously cold during the winter months. Storms in the mountains can produce sudden flooding on the floor of the Valley.
The air temperature during the summer has been as high as fifty- seven degrees Celsius. The sun can heat the ground so that the temperature of the rocks and soil can be as high as seventy -four degrees Celsius.
Death Valley contains evidence of several ancient volcanoes that caused huge explosions. Evidence of one of these explosions is called Ubehebe Crater. The explosion left a huge hole in the ground almost a kilometer and a half wide. In many areas of Death Valley it is easy to see where the ground has been pushed up violently by movement deep in the Earth. This movement has created unusual and beautiful rock formations. Some are red. Others are dark brown, gray, yellow or black.
The area was named by a woman in 1849. Thousands of people from other parts of the ountry traveled to the gold mining areas in California. They were in a hurry to get there before other people did. One group trying to reach California decided to take a path called the Old Spanish Trail. By December they had reached Death Valley. They did not have to survive the terrible heat of summer, but there was still an extreme lack of water. There were few plants for their work animals to eat.
The people could not find a pass through the tall mountains to the west of the Valley, Slowly, they began co suffer from a lack of food. To survive, they killed their work animals for food and began to walk out of the Valley. As they left, one woman looked back and said, "Good -bye, death valley. ” The name has never been changed.
Almost everyone who visits Death Valley visits a huge house called Scotty" s Castle. The building design is Spanish, with high thick walls to provide protection from the fierce heat.
The castle is named for Walter Scott , called Scotty. by his friends. He was a gold miner. He told everyone that he built the house with money he made from his gold mine. Many people believed him. But it was not really the truth.
小题1: The first two paragraphs discuss Death Valley" s ________. | A．geography | B．climate | C．location | D．size |
小题2:The volcanoes mentioned in the third paragraph proved ________. | A．a valley that is formed by explosions | B．a place where volcanoes are still active | | C．a good example of the violence of nature | D．a symbol of rock formations in history |
小题3:The woman who named Death Valley intended to ________. | A．explore the mystery of the valley | B．find an area with plants for animals | | C．experience the terrible heat of summer | D．look for gold in California |
小题4:If the passage continues, it will be about ________.| A．the truth about Scotty"s Castle | B．why Spanish built the castle | | C．when the castle was built | D．where the castle lies in |
小题5:The main idea of the passage is about ________. | A．the interesting place in Death Valley | B．the facts about Death Valley | | C．the origin of Death Valley | D．the route to visit Death Valley |
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Pollution is reducing the fragrance（芬芳） of plants and thus preventing bees from pollinating(授粉) them—endangering one of the most essential cycles of nature, a new study suggests.
The potentially hugely significant research, funded by US National Science Foundation, has found that gases mainly formed from the emissions（排放） of cars prevent flowers from attracting bees and other insects to pollinate them. And the scientists who have conducted the study fear that insects’ abilities to drive away enemies and attract mates may also be disturbed.
Professor Jose Fuentes, who led the study, said, “Scent molecules(香味分子) produced by flowers in a less polluted environment could travel for roughly 1,000 to 1,200 meters. But today they may travel only 200 to 300 meters. This makes it increasingly difficult for bees and other insects to locate the flowers.”
The researchers, who worked on the molecules of snapdragons(金鱼草),found that the molecules are volatile(易挥发的) and quickly bond with pollutants, mainly formed from vehicle(车辆)emissions. This chemically changes the molecules so that they no longer smell like flowers. A harmful cycle is therefore set up where insects struggle to get enough food and the plants do not get pollinated enough to multiply.
Already bees, which pollinate most of the world’s crops, are in such a great decline that has never been known before in Britain and across much of the globe. At least a quarter of America’s 2.5 million honey bee colonies have been mysteriously wiped out by colony collapse disorder(CCD),where hives are found suddenly deserted.
The crisis(危机) has now spread to Europe. Politicians insist that CCD has not yet been found in Britain, but considering the present number of bees, the agriculture minister Lord Rooker has sent the warning, “The honey bee population could be wiped out in 10 years.”
Although the researchers are not certain whether this is the real cause of CCD, they say that pollution is making life more difficult for bees and other insects in many ways.
小题1: In what way does pollution prevent flowers from attracting bees?| A．By shortening the distance traveled by the scent molecules of flowers. | | B．By disturbing the bees’ ability to attract mates. | | C．By weakening the bees’ ability to fight against enemies. | | D．By stopping flowers from giving off fragrance. |
小题2: From the passage we can know that .| A．Europe is affected greatly by CCD | | B．CCD has destroyed most of the honey bee colonies in Europe | | C．no honey bees will be found all over the world in the near future | | D．European officials have paid much attention to CCD |
小题3: What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Traffic Pollution Puts Bees in Danger | | B．Traffic Pollution is to Blame for CCD | | C．Pollution Makes Flowers Lose Their Scent | | D．Pollution Causes the Decrease in Flowers |
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