On the River Thames there are a number of boat races every year and these have b
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On the River Thames there are a number of boat races every year and these have become very popular with the public. Perhaps the best–known of these races is the University Boat Race. This takes place just before Easter every year and is a competition between teams from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. They row from Putney to Mertlake, a distance of about four and a quarter miles. This race has been taking place almost every year since 1829.
小题1: The best – known of these races is __________.| A．the Boat Race of the University of Oxford. | | B．the Boat Race of the University of Cambridge | | C．the Boat Race of the Olympic Games | | D．the University Boat Race |
小题2: Generally, the Boat Race takes place _________.| A．once a year | B．twice a year | | C．every three years | D．every other year |
小题3: The words “Putney” and “Mertlake” are _________.| A．names of places | B．names of teams | | C．names of boat races | D．names of universities |
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小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:A |
解析
试题分析：文章讲述了在泰晤士河每年都句型划船比赛，最著名的是在剑桥大学和牛津大学之间的大学生划船比赛。
小题1:细节题。根据文章 Perhaps the best–known of these races is the University Boat Race.可知， 最有名的比赛是大学之间的划船比赛。故选D
小题2:细节题。根据文章 This takes place just before Easter every year .This race has been taking place almost every year since 1829.可知，这些比赛自从1829年以来，每年都会在复活节以前举行一次。故选A
小题3:推断题。根据文章They row from Putney to Mertlake, a distance
of about four and a quarter miles. 他们划船从Putney到Mertlake，全程路程有4.25英里。可知，“Putney”和 “Mertlake”时两个地名。故选A
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Young people and older people do not always agree. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in one special program in New York State, adults and teenagers live together in a friendly way.
Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works several hours each day. They do so not just to keep busy but to find meaning and fun in work. Some teenagers work in the forests or on the farms near the village. Some learn to make things like tables and chairs and to build houses. The adults teach them these skills.
There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photo-taking or drawing. Others sit around and talk or sing. Each teenager chooses his own way to pass his free time.
When people live together, they should have rules. In this program the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They talk about it and ask, “Why did it happen? What should we do about it?”
One of the teenagers has said something about it, “You have to stop thinking only about yourself. You learn how to think about the group.”
小题1:In one special program in New York State, young and older people_______.| A．don’t work well together | | B．are friendly to each other | | C．teach each other new ways of building houses | | D．spend eight weeks together, working as farmers |
小题2:All the members work some time every day mainly to________.| A．lead a busy life | | B．learn new skills of farming | | C．get used to the life on the farms | | D．find useful things and pleasure in work |
小题3:Living together, ________.| A．the teenagers don’t have to obey the rules | | B．the members have to obey the rules the adults make | | C．the members have no free time but on weekends | | D．the members should not break the rules they make together |
小题4:The best title for the passage is________.| A．The Rules of Living Together | | B．Life in New York State | | C．Teenagers and Adults Together | | D．Free Hours in the Special Work Group |
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Is it wrong to use someone else’s wireless (Wi-Fi) connection? Just recently, a man was arrested for doing just that. At that time, he was sitting in the street with a laptop(便携式电脑) and using an unsecured(无安全保护措施) wireless connection to surf the Net. What do you think about this topic? Listen to the following different views on it.
For a start, if someone is using your Internet service or downloading, this will affect your speed of access or download limit. Also, it’s bad for Internet service providers. They will suffer in the long run because fewer people will pay for an Internet service if they know they can get it for free. And finally, just imagine this: what if the person who is stealing your Internet connection is involved in an illegal activity? I think the police are totally right to arrest these criminals.
— by Sandra Wilkins
Basically, if the person who paid for the service still has everything they paid for, what’s the problem? It’s just like using the light from streetlamps to read your book, or watching someone else’s firework display. It’s not stealing.
Also, if you leave your wireless connection unsecured, then it is your own fault(过错) if someone else uses it. Just as you wouldn’t leave your front door unlocked, or your car door open, neither should you leave your wireless connection open. By leaving your wireless connection open, you are inviting people to use it. Securing your wireless connection is as easy as clicking a few settings on your router(路由器). And finally, haven’t the police got more important crimes to solve? They’re always saying how they haven’t got the manpower to solve real issues. But this is just ridiculous(荒谬的).
— by James Hoarley
小题1: Why was the man mentioned in the first paragraph arrested?| A．For stealing someone’s laptop. | | B．For surfing the Net in the street. | | C．For destroying others’ wireless connection. | | D．For using an Internet service without permission. |
小题2: What does Sandra Wilkins think of people using others’ Internet service?| A．He thinks it is unacceptable. | | B．He thinks it is necessary sometimes. | | C．He thinks it requires good computer skills. | | D．He thinks it is good for Internet service providers. |
小题3: In James Hoarley’s opinion, ______.| A．Internet service should be improved. | | B．it is hard to secure one’s wireless connection. | | C．using others’ Internet service is not stealing at all. | | D．people should leave their wireless connection open. |
小题4: What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Wireless connection | B．Wireless worries | | C．Internet service | D．Internet users |
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There are many special hotels around the world. In Greenland, there is a hotel made out of ice. In Turkey, there is a cave hotel. And in Bolivia, there is the Salt Palace Hotel.
Thousands of years ago, the area around the Salt Palace Hotel was a large lake. But over time, all the water disappeared. Today, the area has only two small lakes and two salt deserts.
In the early 1990s, a man named Juan Quesada built the hotel. He cut big blocks of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it. Everything in the hotel is made out of salt: the walls, the roof, the tables, the chairs and the beds.
The sun heats the walls and roof during the day. So the rooms stay warm at night, though it’s cold outside in the desert. The hotel has twelve rooms. A single room costs $40 a night, and a double room $60.
A sign on the hotel’s wall tells guests, “Please don’t lick (舔) the walls.”
小题1:Where did the salt for the hotel come from?| A．A cave. | B．The lake. | C．The salt desert. | D．A salt field. |
小题2:What keeps the rooms in the Salt Palace Hotel warm at night?| A．The water in the lake. | B．The sand in the desert. | | C．The furniture in the rooms. | D．The heat from the walls and roof. |
小题3:What is the passage mainly about?| A．A large lake. | B．A special hotel. | C．A beautiful wall. | D．A famous desert. |
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The British aren’t having as many children as they used to. One reason is that people are having children much older than before, meaning they have fewer years in which they can have them. After years at university, they need a few years of work experience before they can get the job they want. They might then get married, but it’s incredibly expensive to buy a house in the UK.
The above explains why young British people now don’t move out of their parents’ home until they are around 30 years old on average. It is not until they are 30 that they can afford their own home. Increasingly, it is not until that age that they can afford to get married and start a new life in a new home. It’s only after this age that many young people start thinking about having a child.
So a British person manages to get a job, get a home and get married. Why isn’t he or she then having at least two children on average? The main reason is that it is quite expensive to bring up a child in the UK. Why is it expensive? Well, these days, both parents need to work just to pay for their home and living expenses. Because both parents are at work, that means they then need to pay someone to look after their child during the day. Paying for this childcare is nearly always expensive.
The recent financial crisis is making things even harder for families, since unemployment is rising and even fewer people can afford to have children. With so much pressure on families, is it any surprise that the divorce rate is so high?
So what is Britain doing to try and save the British family? The government is trying to make it cheaper to have children. For example, there have been increases in money families can claim from the state each month. Also, there are increasing government subsidies for nursery schools, so that parents do not need to pay so much for child care.
The government is also trying to reduce the number of hours British parents have to work to earn enough money to pay their bills. If parents didn’t have to work so many hours, they’d have more time to spend with their children and wouldn’t need to spend so much on childcare. On average, a Briton works 49 hours a week, which is the most in Europe. The state is now considering introducing laws to encourage companies to improve their employees’ work-life balance. Let’s hope they’re not too late to save the British family. Otherwise, the British will always be too tired, and won’t have enough time and money, to have children.
小题1:Young British people live in their parents’ home until around 30 because .| A．They are allowed to get married at 30 | | B．they can’t find jobs to support themselves | | C．they can’t afford a house of their own until then | | D．they enjoy family life with their parents |
小题2:The British are now having fewer children than before for all the following reasons EXCEPT that .| A．they have fewer years to have children | | B．they live much shorter lives than before | | C．it is more expensive to bring up a child | | D．people are losing their jobs because of the recent financial crisis |
小题3:To make it cheaper to have children, the British government is .| A．bringing down prices | | B．raising the salaries of parents | | C．reducing family income tax | | D．increasing subsidies for families and nursery schools |
小题4:It can be inferred from the text that .| A．with long work hours, it is hard for British parents to balance life and work | | B．more and more families in Britain are breaking up because they are having fewer children | | C．among Europeans, British people work hardest and earn the least | | D．childcare takes up too much energy and time for the British |
小题5:The underlined word “subsidies” in Paragraph 5 means _________.| A．food paid by the government | | B．school buildings for poor students | | C．free transportation | | D．money from the government to benefit the public |
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Women make better drivers than men for many reasons. Why is that? Wouldn"t you think that competing at who has better driving abilities is pointless (无意义的)? If you ask me, I"d like to say, men know that women are better drivers but do not have the courage to admit the truth.
Unlike men, women stop for directions when they have no idea where they are going. Women don"t drive around for hours pointlessly wasting a tank ofgas only to find themselves heading in the wrong direction. Have you ever been in a car with a man who is lost? He tells you to shut up when you begin to open your mouth. And every five minutes or so he takes a turn going forty-five miles per hour only to find out he"s made another wrong turn.
Speeding is what men do best on the road. Traffic is not a race. There is a reason why men get more speeding tickets than women. Not because women trick to get out of tickets but only because they don"t speed. Women don"t risk putting their own lives and the lives of others in danger. In other words，they have more responsibility for life.
My largest issue with male drivers is how a majority of them drive with one hand on the wheel and the other hand doing only God knows what. The seat is backed as far as possible. They"re totally lost in loud music beyond a necessary level. You don"t ever see women driving like that.
I feel that the above evidence（证据） more than proves (证明) my points that women are queens of the road. Oh ，men, if you want to continue criticizing (批评) women for being bad drivers，bring it on. We know you lack confidence, or else you wouldn"t be wasting your valuable time making jokes about the ones you may choose to spend the rest of your days with.
小题1:Who does the author think are the better drivers? (no more than 1 word)
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小题2:When will women drivers stop to ask for help? (no more than 9 words)
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小题3:Why do men get more speeding tickets (no more than 3 words)
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小题4:What quality（品质） do women drivers have when it comes to safety? (no more than 3 words)
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小题5:How is the seat backed by most male drivers? (用完整的句子回答）
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