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Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? 1 an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets 2 the details.Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to 3 the news.
Newspapers have one basic 4 , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to 5 it.Radio, telegraph, television, and 6 inventions brought competition for newspapers.So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. 7 , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on.They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the 8 and thus the efficiency of their own operations.Today more newspapers are 9 and read than ever before.Competition also led newspapers to branch outsintosmany other fields.Besides keeping readers 10 of the latest news, today"s newspapers 11 and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters.Newspapers influence readers" economic choices 12 advertising.Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very 13 .Newspapers are sold at a price that 14 even a small fraction of the cost ofproduction.The main 15 of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising.The 16 in selling advertising depends on a newspaper"s value to advertisers.This 17 in terms of circulation.How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends 18 on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment 19 in a newspaper"s pages.But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper"s value to readers as a source of information 20 the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer space. 1.A.Just when B.While C.Soon after D.Before
2.A.to give B.giving C.given D.being given
3.A.gather B.spread C.carry D.bring
4.A.reason B.cause C.problem D.purpose
5.A.make B.publish C.know D.write
6.A.another B.other C.one another D.the other
7.A.However B.And C.Therefore D.So
8.A.value B.ratio C.rate D.speed
9.A.spread B.passed C.printed D.completed
10.A.inform B.be informed C.to be informed D.informed
11.A.entertain B.encourage C.educate D.edit
12.A.on B.through C.with D.of
13.A.forms B.existence C.contents D.purpose
14.A.tries to cover B.manages to coverC.fails to cover D.succeeds in
15.A.source B.origin C.course D.finance
16.A.way B.means C.chance D.success
17.A.measures B.measured C.Is measured D.was measured
18.A.somewhat B.little C.much D.something
19.A.offering B.offered C.which offered D.to be offered
20.A.by B.with C.at D.about |
答案
1. A
2. A
3. A
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. D
9. C
10. D
11. C
12. B
13. B
14. C
15. A
16. D
17. C
18. C
19. B
20. D |
解析
1.just在此为副词，意为“刚刚”，做状语。此句意为“一个事件刚刚发生，街上就有报纸报道详情了。说明报纸对新闻的反应之快。
2.to give和giving都合乎语法，但giving强调的是正在发生的动作，而此处重点表达的是“反应快”，不是正在做什么。
3.消息，信息要靠收集。
4.后面的不定式短语表示目的。
5.提供信息的目的是为了让他人知道，所以选C。
6.other意为“其他的”。此句意为：无线电，电报，电视，及其它发明，成为报纸的竞争对手。
7.根据句中的merely及其后所述内容，应选however，表转折。
8.使用更新，更快的通讯工具，目的是提高速度。
9.报纸是印出来的，先印后看(读)。
10.keep sb. 过去分词是一种复合结构，sb.与过去分词为被动关系，意为保持这种关系的继续。此句的意思是：报纸不断地为读者提供新闻信息。
11.关于politics之类的严肃话题,只能选educate。
12.此句意为：报纸通过广告影响读者在经济生活中的选择。
13.大多数报纸依靠广告收入来维持生存，此现象人人皆知。
14.报纸的售价之低，不足以抵付成本的一小部分。符合上下文关于广告收入的说法。
15.收入来源应该用source。因为source指河流，泉水的发源地；常指抽象事物的根源或来源以及资料，信息的出处或来源。origin起源，起因。指事物后来发生,发展变化的最初起点,或指人的出身和血统。
16.succeed in为固定短语。此句意为：广告业务的成功，取决于报纸在客户(要打广告的人)心中的价值。
17.根据上下文，此处应该用一般现在时的被动语态，此句意为：报纸在客户心中的价值，是靠发行量衡量的。
18.该句意为：发行量的大小，很大程度上取决于发行部门的工作及报纸所提供的服务功能和娱乐功能。
19.offered作services和entertainment的定语。
20.information后面接介词about，表示“关于”。 |
举一反三
Demands for stronger protection for wildlife in Britain sometimes hide the fact that similar needs are felt in the rest of Europe. Studies by the Council of Europe, of which 21 countries are members, have shown that 45 per cent of reptile (爬行动物) species and 24 per cent of butterflies are in danger or dying out.
European concern for wildlife was outlined by Dr Peter Baum, an expert in the environment and natural resources division of the council, when he spoke at a conference arranged by the administrators of a British national park. The park is one of the few areas in Europe to hold the council’s diploma for nature reserves of the highest quality, and Dr Baum had come to present it to the park once again. He was afraid that public opinion was turning against national parks, and that those set up in the 1960s and 1970s could not be set up today. But Dr Baum clearly remained a strong supporter of the view that natural environments needed to be allowed to survive in peace in their own right.
“No area could be expected to survive both as a true nature reserve and as a tourist attraction,” he went on. The shortsighted view that reserves had to serve immediate human demands for outdoor recreation should be replaced by full acceptance of their importance as places to preserve nature for the future.
“We forget that they are the guarantee (保证) of life systems, on which any built-up area depends,” Dr Baum went on. “We could manage without most industrial products, but we could not manage without nature. However, our natural environment areas, which are the original parts of our countryside, have become mere islands in a spoiled and highly polluted land.”
59. Recent studies by the Council of Europe have declared that ____ .
A. wildlife needs more protection only in Britain
B. all species of wildlife in Europe are in danger of dying out
C. there are fewer species of reptiles and butterflies inEurope than elsewhere
D. many species of reptiles and butterflies in Europe need protecting
60. Why did Dr Baum come to a British national park?
A. Because he needed to present it with a council"s diploma.
B. Because he was concerned about its management.
C. Because it was the only national park of its kind in Europe.
D. Because it was the only park that had ever received a diploma from the council.
61. The last sentence in the second paragraph implies that ____ .
A. people should make every effort to create more environment areas
B. people would go on protecting national parks
C. certain areas of the countryside should be left intact (完整的)
D. people would defend the right to develop the areas around national parks
62.Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. We have developed industry at the expense of countryside.
B. We have forgotten what our original countryside looked like.
C. People living on islands should protect natural resources for their survival.
D. We should destroy all the built-up areas. |
Three years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona, thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers. No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their kind for 50 years. To the researchers’ surprise, they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from Mexico and set free at the same time. Within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure, and the poor birds were back in cages, on their way to the safety of the Arizona reintroduction programme.
Ever since then, the programme has enjoyed great success, mainly because the birds now being set free are Mexican birds illegally caught in the wild, confiscated （没收） on arrival north of the border, and raised by their parents in the safety of the programme. The experience shows how little we know about the behaviour and psychology （心理） of parrots, as Peter Bennett, a bird researcher, points out: “Reintroducing species of high intelligence like parrots is a lot more difficult. People like parrots, always treating them as nothing more than pets or valuable ‘collectables’.”
Now that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out, biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds. Last year was an important turning point: conservationists founded the World Parrot Trust, based at Hayle in Cornwall, to support research into both wild and caged birds.
Research on parrots is vital for two reasons. First, as the Arizona programme showed, when reintroducing parrots to the wild, we need to be aware of what the birds must know if they are to survive in their natural home. We also need to learn more about the needs of parrots kept as pets, particularly as the Trust’s campaign does not attempt to discourage the practice, but rather urges people who buy parrots as pets to choose birds raised by humans.
小题1:What do we know about the area where the five parrots were reintroduced? | A．Its landscape is new to parrots of their kind. | | B．It used to be home to parrots of their kind. | | C．It is close to where they had been kept. | | D．Pine trees were planted to attract birds. |
小题2:The reintroducing experience three years ago shows that man-raised parrots | A．can find their way back home in Jersey | | B．are unable to recognize their parents | | C．are unable to adapt to the wild | | D．can produce a new species |
小题3:Why are researches on parrots important according to the passage? | A．The Trust shows great concern for the programme. | | B．We need to know more about how to preserve parrots. | | C．Many people are interested in collecting parrots. | | D．Parrots’ intelligence may some day benefit people. |
小题4:According to the passage, people are advised ______. | A．to treat wild and caged parrots equally | | B．to set up comfortable homes for parrots | | C．not to keep wild parrots as pets | | D．not to let more parrots go to the wild |
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When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven’t had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don’t need one. I have a mobile phone and I’m always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices（装置）tell the time — which is why, if you look around, you’ll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007.
But while the wise have realized that they don’t need them, others—apparently including some distinguished men of our time—are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling command shocking prices, up to ￡250,000 for a piece.
This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra functions — but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years’ school fees for watches that allow you to do these things?
If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds’ worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world.
Watches are now classified as “investments”（投资）. A 1994 Patek Philippe recently sold for nearly ￡350,000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from ￡15,000 to ￡30,000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It’s a toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up—they’ve been rising for 15 years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that ￡350,000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Timex.
小题1:The sales of watches to young people have fallen because they______. | A．have other devices to tell the time | B．think watches too expensive | | C．prefer to wear an iPod | D．have no sense of time |
小题2: It seems ridiculous to the writer that ______. | A．people dive 300 metres into the sea | | B．expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones | | C．cheap cars don’t run as fast as expensive ones | | D．expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell |
小题3:What can be learnt about Swiss watch industry from the passage? | A．It targets rich people as its potential customers. | | B．It’s hard for the industry to beat its competitors. | | C．It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising. | | D．It’s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches. |
小题4:Which would be the best title for the passage? | A．Timex or Rolex? | B．My Childhood Timex | | C．Watches? Not for Me! | D．Watches — a Valuable Collection |
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A few years ago, Paul Gerner began to gather a group of architects in Las Vegas to ask them what it would take to design a public school that used 50 percent less energy, cost much less to build and obviously improved student learning. “I think half of them fell off their chairs,” Gerner says.
Gerner manages school facilities （设施） for Clark County, Nevada, a district roughly the size of Massachusetts. By 2018, 143,000 additional students will enter the already crowded public-education system. Gerner needs 73 new schools to house them. Four architecture teams have nearly finished designing primary school prototypes （样品）; they plan to construct their schools starting in 2009. The district will then assess how well the schools perform, and three winners will copy those designs in 50 to 70 new buildings.
Green schools are appearing all over, but in Clark County, which stands out for its vastness, such aggressive targets are difficult because design requirements like more natural light for students go against the realities of a desert climate. “One of the biggest challenges is getting the right site orientation （朝向）,”Mark McGinty, a director at SH Architecture, says. His firm recently completed a high school in Las Vegas. “You have the same building, same set of windows, but if its orientation is incorrect and it faces the sun, it will be really expensive to cool.”
Surprisingly, the man responsible for one of the most progressive green-design competitions has doubts about ideas of eco-friendly buildings. “I don’t believe in the new green religion,” Gerner says. “Some of the building technologies that you get are impractical. I’m interested in those that work.” But he wouldn’t mind if some green features inspire students. He says he hopes to set up green energy systems that allow them to learn about the process of harvesting wind and solar power. “You never know what’s going to start the interest of a child to study math and science,” he says.
小题1:How did the architects react to Gerner’s design requirements? | A．They lost balance in excitement. | B．They showed strong disbelief. | | C．They expressed little interest. | D．They burst into cheers. |
小题2:Which order of steps is followed in carrying out the project? | A．Assessment — Prototype — Design — Construction. | | B．Assessment — Design — Prototype — Construction. | | C．Design — Assessment — Prototype — Construction. | | D．Design — Prototype — Assessment — Construction. |
小题3:What makes it difficult to build green schools in Clark County? | A．The large size. | B．Limited facilities. | | C．The desert climate. | D．Poor natural resources. |
小题4:What does Gerner think of the ideas of green schools? | A．They are questionable. | B．They are out of date. | | C．They are advanced. | D．They are practical. |
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Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be. Places of business that used to keep daytime “business hours” are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant （不相关的）. A half century ago in the United States, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the boundaries still exist, but they seem not clear.
The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does. It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer; in most, it still does. And whether the work week should strengthen its legal limits, or whether it should become more “flexible,” is often debated. How should we, as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the boundaries of time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?
These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we rarely recognize the “law of time” even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to attend school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years—but unless we meet the truant officer （学监）, we may well think that we should go to school due to social custom and parents’ demand rather than to the law. As adults we are familiar with “extra pay for overtime working,” but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes （构成）“overtime” is a matter of legal definition. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight-saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves: “Here is the law in action”? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how we organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving law — as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess.
小题1:By saying “Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be”, the writer means that_____ . | A．work time is equal to rest time | | B．many people have a day off on Monday | | C．it is hard for people to decide when to rest | | D．the line between work time and rest time is unclear |
小题2:The author raises the questions in Paragraph 2 to introduce the fact that people | A．fail to make full use of their time | B．enjoy working overtime for extra pay | | C．are unaware of the law of time | D．welcome flexible working hours |
小题3:According to the passage, most children tend to believe that they go to school because they ______. | A．need to acquire knowledge | B．have to obey their parents | | C．need to find companions | D．have to observe the law |
小题4:What is the main idea of the passage? | A．Our life is governed by the law of time. | | B．How to organize time is not worth debating. | | C．New ways of using time change our society. | | D．Our time schedule is decided by social customs. |
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