阅读理解。 The Taj Mahal (泰姬陵) is considered to be one of the most beautiful build
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The Taj Mahal (泰姬陵) is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the
world and the finest example of the late style of Indian architecture (建筑). It is at Agra
in northern India. It lies beside the River Jumna in the middle of gardens with quiet pools.
The Taj Mahal was built by the Mogul emperor (皇帝) Shah Jehan, who ruled India in
the seventeenth century. It is in memory of his favorite wife, Arjumand Banu Bagam, known
as Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631. The building, which was completed between 1632 and
1638, was designed by a local Muslim architect (建筑师), Ustad Ahmad Lahori. The whole
building, with gardens and gateway structures, was completed in 1643. The Taj Mahal stands
at one end of the garden tomb with marble (大理石) path. The room is softly lighted by the
light that passes through double screens of carved marble set high in the walls. The
building now is kept in good condition.
The Taj Mahal took 22 years to build. Shah Jehan planned a similar building, but in
black instead of white, to lie on the other side of the river. But before it could be
built, Shah Jehan was imprisoned (监禁) by his son and buried next to his wife in the
Taj Mahal. |
| 1. The Taj Mahal was built for _____. |
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A. Mumtaz
B. Shah
C. Either Mumtaz or Shah
D. Both Mumtaz and Shah |
| 2. Why do you think Shah Jehan was buried next to his wife? |
| [ ] |
A. His own tomb hadn"t been built.
B. He hoped to be buried there.
C. King and Queen should be buried together.
D. He liked Mumtaz all his life. |
| 3. The passage mainly tells us _____. |
| [ ] |
A. why the Taj Mahal was built
B. the love story between Shah and Mumtaz
C. some information about the Taj Mahal
D. the Taj Mahal-the pride of Indians |
| 4. Form the passage we can learn that _____. |
| [ ] |
A. the Taj Mahal looks more beautiful than before.
B. the Taj Mahal doesn"t exist now.
C. the Taj Mahal has completely changed.
D. the Taj Mahal has become a place of interest. |
答案
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With its budget of $80 million, John Woo as director, and an all-star cast (明星云集
的演员阵容), Red Cliff is the most expensive and ambitious Asian-financed film ever. Last
week I saw the release of the second part, and boy oh boy does it shows.
But watching the film as a foreigner I felt I was missing out on something. Not knowing
my Cao Cao"s from my Zhou Yu"s, I was not even sure whom I wanted to win. Certainly after
the opening scene, in which Cao Cao is seen watching a game of Cuju, an ancient Chinese
variation of football, I knew who had my support. After all, any man who enjoys his
football is someone after my own heart. But after Cao Cao resorted to some evil strategies
against his enemies in the south, I wasn"t so sure he was the man I should be rooting for.
And there is a lot more to Red Cliff 2 than just extravagant battle scenes. The film
does not take itself too seriously. Conversations between leaders are littered with one-
liners, many of which had the audience in laughter. There is even enough to keep fans of
more romantic entertainment happy too. This includes a charming relationship between a
southern spy (侦探) and an innocent northern soldier. The characters" interaction provides
some genuinely heart-warming moments in the middle of the battle.
Clocking in at(结束于) around two hours, the film certainly does justice to the
history story. When I walked out the cinema, I felt as drained (精疲力竭) as Cao Cao"s
soldiers must have 1,800 years ago. |
| 1. By expressing "boy oh boy" in the first paragraph, the author seems to show that _____. |
| [ ] |
A. the film characters are like boys who are childish.
B. the film provides amazing and surprising scenes for audience.
C. the film is suitable for younger boys to watch.
D. the film scene is so bloody that boys shouldn"t watch it. |
| 2. When did the author change his attitude toward Cao Cao? |
| [ ] |
A. When he read the history story about Cao Cao.
B. When he saw Cao Cao was watching a game of Cuju,
C. When he realized that Cao Cao took some bad measures to beat his enemies.
D. When he saw the romantic love story of Cao Cao and a southern spy. |
| 3. The following factors of the film are all mentioned in the passage except _____. |
| [ ] |
A. high budget
B. leading roles
C. actors and actress
D. conversations |
| 4. From the passage we can infer that _____. |
| [ ] |
A. the author is a football fan in a foreign country
B. Cuju is the name of an ancient Chinese variation of football
C. the film Red Cliff 2 lasts about two hours
D. the author was very tired after about two hours" battle |
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When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car.
Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation (住所). I
suggested that they should stay at "bed and breakfast" houses, because this kind of
accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family.
My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.
"We didn"t stay at bed and breakfast houses," they said, "because we found that most
families were away on holiday."
I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke
little English, and they thought "VACANCIES" meant "holidays", because the Spanish word
for "holidays" is "vacaciones". So they did not go to house where the sign outside said
"VACANCLES", which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to
house where the sign said "NO VACANCLES", because they thought this meant the people
who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were
all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!
We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In
Spanish, the word "DIVERSION" means fun.In English, it means that workmen are
repairing the road, and that you must take a different road.When my friends saw the word
"DIVERSION" on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun.Instead, the road
ended in a large hold.
English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris,
when someone offered me some more coffee, I said "Thank you" in French. I meant that I
would like some more. However, to my surprise, the coffee pot was taken away! Later I
found out that "Thank you" in French means "No, thank you." |
| 1. My Spanish friends wanted advice about _____. |
| [ ] |
A. learning English
B. finding places to stay in England
C. driving their car on English roads
D. going to England by car |
| 2. "NO VACANCIES" in English means _____. |
| [ ] |
A. no free rooms
B. free rooms
C. not away on holiday
D. holidays |
| 3. When someone offered me more coffee and I said "Thank you" in French, I _____. |
| [ ] |
A. didn"t really want any more coffee
B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away
C. really wanted some more coffee
D. wanted to express my politeness |
| 4. I was surprised when the coffee pot was taken away because I _____. |
| [ ] |
A. hadn"t finished drinking my coffee
B. was expecting another cup of coffee
C. meant that I didn"t want any more
D. was never misunderstood |
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Unusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit (因纽特人) families going
off on snowmobiles to prepare their summer hunting camps have found themselves cut
off from home by a sea of mud. There are also reports of sea ice breaking up earlier than
usual, carrying seals beyond the reach of hunters. Climate change may still be a rather
abstract (抽象的) idea to most of us, but in the Arctic it is already having great effect-
if summertime ice continues to shrink at its present rate, the Arctic Ocean could soon
become almost ice-free in summer. The knock-on effects (连锁反应) are likely to include
more warming, cloudier skies and higher sea levels. Scientists are increasingly eager to find
out what"s going on in the Arctic.
For the Inuit the problem is urgent. They live in unsteady balance with one of the toughest
environments on earth. Climate change, whatever its causes, is a direct danger to their way
of life. Nobody knows the Arctic as well as the locals, which is why they are not content
simply to stand back and let outsider experts tell them what"s happening. In Canada, where
the Inuit people are trying hard to guard their hard-won autonomy (自治权) in the country"s
newest land, Nunavut, they believe their best hope of survival in this changing environment
lies in combining their ancestral (祖先的) knowledge with the best of modern science. This
is a challenge in itself.
The Canadian Arctic is a vast, treeless polar desert that"s covered with snow for most of
the year. Adventure into this area and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone who
calls this home. Farming is out of the question and nature offers few pickings. Humans first
settled in the Arctic a mere 4,500 years ago, surviving by taking advantage of sea first. The
environment tested them to the limits: sometimes the settlers were successful; sometimes they
failed and disappeared. But around a thousand years ago, one group appeared that was uniquely
well adapted to deal with the Arctic environment. These Thule people moved in from Alaska,
bringing dogs, iron tools and the like. They are the ancestors of today"s Inuit people. |
| 1. Which of the following is likely to be the effect of climate change? |
| [ ] |
A. Shorter and shorter summertime.
B. Ice-free summer around the Arctic.
C. Lower sea levels.
D. More rainy skies. |
| 2. The Inuit people believe the solution to the climate change problem is _____. |
| [ ] |
A. to change their way of life
B. to do as their ancestors
C. to try to protect the environment from now on
D. to use their ancestral knowledge and modern science |
| 3. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that _____. |
| [ ] |
A. the first settlers in the Arctic survived there quite easily
B. it"s hard to farm in the Arctic due to climate change
C. the ancestors of Inuit people stood out among the settlers
D. the Thule people from Alaska invented iron tools |
| 4. Which of the following is the best title for this text? |
| [ ] |
A. Climate Change and the Inuit
B. Climate Change around the Arctic
C. Global Warming around the World
D. The Inuit and Their Ancestors around the World |
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Millions of people all over the world use the word OK. In fact, some people say the word
is used more often than any other word in the world. OK means all right or acceptable. It
expresses agreement or approval.
1______ Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the
Choctaw (乔克托语). The Choctaw word "okeh" means the same as the American word okay.
Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth
century.
But many people doubt this. Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word "OK"
in reports published in the 1960s. He said the word began being used in the 1830s. 2______ Some
foreign-born people wrote "all correct" as "o-l-l-k-o-r-r-e-c-t", and used the letters OK. Other
people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago. They said he put
the first letters of his name-O and K-on each object people gave him to send on the train.
3______ The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840.They called their
group the OK club. The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin was born-Old
Kinderhook, New York.
Then there is the expression A-OK. It is a space-age expression. It was used in 1961 during the
flight of astronaut Alan Shepard. He was the first American to be launched into space. His flight
ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned. Shepard reported, "Everything is A-OK."
4______ One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator
that a message had been received.
There are also funny ways to say okay. 5______ These expressions were first used in the 1930s.
Today, a character on the American television series "The Simpsons" says it another way. He says
okely-doke. |
A. Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke.
B. Still others say a political organization invented the word.
C. Therefore, it has become popular in that area from then on.
D. But many experts don"t agree on what the expression means.
E. Still, language experts do not agree about where the word came from.
F. It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the word "all correct".
G. However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age. |
| 阅读理解。 |
Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to
praise or criticize others, as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately,
our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted (扭
曲的) one.
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages.
It is only by traveling in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language
that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the
knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information
gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to
be such different people from ourselves are not very different at all!
Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and,one hopes,will always continue
to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities
behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state
of affairs. With the much greater rapidity (快速) and ease of travel,there might seem to
be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be,at least
the greater ease of travel today has revealed (展示) to more people than ever before that
the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not: some different kind of animal from
themselves. |
| 1. Every country criticizes ways of life in other countries because they are _____. |
| [ ] |
A. distorted
B. normal
C. similar to each other
D. different from its own |
| 2. One who travels in a foreign country and learns its language will _____. |
| [ ] |
A. find out why its people are different
B. argue in favor of this country and the language
C. know the country and its people better
D. like its inhabitants and their language |
| 3. The knowledge one gains by traveling in a foreign country is often _____. |
| [ ] |
A. from second-hand information
B. gathered from other sources rather than its inhabitants
C. gained from the arguments about the country
D. different from what one had before the travel |
| 4. In this passage,the author wants to say _____. |
| [ ] |
A. differences between peoples will gradually disappear because of the ease of travel
B. differences between peoples do exist even though different nationalities behave exactly
alike
C. differences between peoples will continue to exist and the world will be a dull place
D. differences between peoples will not exist as one hopes |
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