A tent can be one of the more costly items on your camping equipment shopping li
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A tent can be one of the more costly items on your camping equipment shopping list. It is definitely something that you need to consider carefully.
By seeing a tent for real you will be able to get a better impression of its size and construction in the traditional shop. However，the downside is that，unless you are experienced，you may miss out some of the details that the manufacturer’s promotional material makes clear. Cheap tents often look similar to the quality models they are mimicking(模仿)，but you can be sure that they use inferior(次的) materials and probably have lower design standards.
Shop staff are often campers themselves. That means they usually can give lots of advice. If a shop assistant agrees with your own conclusions，that will be great；if they try to change your decision with a clear and reasonable argument，then that will be worth considering；if they just try to bamboozle(欺骗)，or even bully，you then walk away.
The Internet is a wonderful tool，and so long as you know how to make the most of search engines and put in a little effort，you really have the perfect answer waiting to be found. That answer will be different for every camper as each of us has different needs. Don’t be surprised to see your favorite criticized somewhere，but if you see too much criticism，then you had better start thinking again. No problem. You won’t have spent anything yet，so think of it positively as a large expense saved.
Probably the best approach，if you have the time，is to research tents online and make a short list. Then try to inspect those tents at nearby shops. Then you can make a final decision on where to buy your chosen model based purely on total cost.
小题1:The underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 2 means “________”．| A．disadvantage | B．instruction | C．argument | D．principle |
小题2:It can be concluded from the third paragraph that________.| A．shop assistants usually enjoy going camping | | B．shop assistants usually have practical advice | | C．you should consider your idea repeatedly | | D．it is impolite for you to trouble shop assistants |
小题3:You can make use of the Internet to________.| A．meet your different needs | | B．find the answer for every camper | | C．help you out of trouble | | D．find your favorite tent |
小题4:Which of the following would be the main idea of this passage?| A．It is good to buy your tent in the traditional shop. | | B．You’d better buy a tent with the help of the Internet. | | C．Better buy a tent combining seeing tents for real in shops and researching them online. | | D．Going camping is really beneficial to your health. |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C |
解析
试题分析：这篇文章主要讲了在网上买帐篷和实体店买帐篷的利与弊。最后作者给出建议在网上找帐篷，在实体店购买，这是最好的选择。
小题1:猜词题：根据By seeing a tent for real you will be able to get a better impression of its size and construction in the traditional shop. However，the downside is that，unless you are experienced，you may miss out some of the details that the manufacturer’s promotional material makes clear.可猜出“downside”意思是缺点. 故选A。
小题2:推断题：根据Shop staff are often campers themselves. That means they usually can give lots of advice.可知店员通常会给出有实用性的建议，故选B。
小题3:细节题：根据The Internet is a wonderful tool，and so long as you know how to make the most of search engines and put in a little effort，you really have the perfect answer waiting to be found.可知你可以利用网络来找你喜欢的帐篷，故选D。
小题4:主旨题：根据Probably the best approach，if you have the time，is to research tents online and make a short list. Then try to inspect those tents at nearby shops. Then you can make a final decision on where to buy your chosen model based purely on total cost.可知这篇文章主要讲了在网上找帐篷，在实体店购买，这是最好的选择，故选C。 |
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A person has to be sixteen to drive, seventeen to see certain movies, and eighteen to vote. People can get terrific discounts on all sorts of stuff－provided they’re over sixty-five. Everywhere we look there are age limits that define what people can and can’t do. But creativity has no boundaries, no limitations. Anyone can invent. And they do. Inventors are popping up at the youngest ages.
Sitting in the car waiting for her mom to return from shopping, Becky decided she might as well try to finish her math homework. But it was growing dark and getting hard to see the paper.
“I didn’t have a flashlight, and I didn’t want to open the car door because then the whole car would light up.” recalled Becky. “So I thought it would be neat to have my paper light up somehow, and that’s when the idea came to me.”
It isn’t every day that a ten-year-old invents a product eagerly sought by several businesses, but that’s exactly what Becky Schroeder did when she created a tool that enabled people to write in the dark. Her invention? The Glo-sheet.
That night Becky went home, trying to imagine different ways of making her paper glow in the dark. She remembered all sorts of glow-in-the-dark toys－like balls and Frisbees－and wondered how they were made. She was determined to find a solution. So they very next day, Beck’s dad took her on an outing to the hardware store. They returned with a pail (桶) of phosphorescent paint. She took the paint and stacks of paper into the darkest room in the house－the bathroom. There, she experimented.
“I’d turn on the light, turn it off, turn it on,” said Becky. “My parents remember me running out the room saying ‘It works, it works! I’m writing in the dark!’ ”
She used an acrylic board and coated it with a specific amount of phosphorescent paint. She took a complicated idea and made it work rather simply. When the coated clipboard is exposed to light, it glows. The glowing board then illuminates or lights up the paper that has been placed on top. Two years after her initial inspiration, in 1974, Becky became the youngest female ever to receive a U.S. patent.
She didn’t actively market her Glo-sheet. She didn’t need to. The New York Times wrote an article about an incredible invention－patented by a twelve-year-old, and the inquiries and orders streamed in.
小题1:From Paragraph 1 , we can draw a conclusion that _________.| A．it is illegal for one to drive under sixteen | | B．people enjoy privileges when over sixty-five | | C．one is never too old or too young to invent | | D．people hate the limitations that define our behavior |
小题2:What caused Becky to invent Glo-sheet?| A．She was trying to do homework when it got dark. | | B．She was having trouble with math problems. | | C．She was trying to earn some money. | | D．She was working on a school project. |
小题3:What is the meaning of the underlined words “phosphorescent paint” in paragraph 5?| A．paint that acts as a glue | | B．paint that covers a mark | | C．paint that becomes hard | | D．paint that glows in the dark |
小题4:What does it mean that Beck “didn’t actively market her Glo-sheet” according to paragraph 8?| A．She kept the original one for her own use. | | B．Other people came to her for the Glo-sheet. | | C．Becky’s father tried to sell the Glo-sheet. | | D．She gave away patent to the government. |
小题5:With which statement would Becky most likely agree?| A．Experience is needed to be a good inventor. | | B．Only by inventing things can you know what people need. | | C．Always try to sell patent rights to large companies. | | D．You never know what you can do unless you try. |
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Many people believe the glare from snow causes snow-blindness. Yet, dark glasses or not , they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snow-blindness, when exposed to several hours of “snow light”. The United States Army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snow-blindness in troops in a snow-covered country. Rather, a man"s eyes frequently find nothing to focus on in a broad expanse of barren (少植被的) snow-covered terrain (地形). So his gaze continually shifts and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding nothing, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become sore and the eye muscles ache. Nature eases this irritation by producing more fluid which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until vision blurs (模糊), then is obscured (遮蔽), and the result is total, even though temporary, snow-blindness.
Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts ahead of a main body of troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow-covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark colored objects ahead on which they too can focus. The men following can then see something. Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop scouring the snow-blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time, the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snow-blind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a solid white terrain is overcome.
小题1:To prevent headaches, watering eyes and blindness caused by the glare from snow, dark
glasses are _________.| A．indispensable and essential | B．useful | C．ineffective | D．available |
小题2:When the eyes are sore tears are produced to _________.| A．balance the pain | B．treat snow-blindness | | C．clear the vision | D．loosen the muscles |
小题3:Snow-blindness may be avoided by _________.| A．concentrating on the solid white terrain | | B．searching for something to look at in snow-covered terrain | | C．providing the eyes with something to focus on | | D．covering the eyeballs with more fluid |
小题4:The scouts shake snow from evergreen bushes in order to _________.| A．prevent the men behind losing their way | | B．beautify the landscape of the terrain | | C．warm themselves in the severe cold | | D．give the men behind something to see |
小题5:A suitable title for this passage would be _________.| A．nature"s cure for snow-blindness | | B．snow-blindness and how to overcome it | | C．soldiers marching in the snow | | D．snow vision and its effect on eyesight |
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For my daughter"s 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didn"t really have the ____ but we knew how much this band meant to her.
The night before she was like a ____ at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to ____ with us, because she couldn"t ___. On the night of the ____ it was good to see her so ____ and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off.
Needless to say when they ____ after midnight, with Tshirts and lots of pictures of the band, ____ her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well ____. This will be a memory she would ____ forget, and nor would we.
____ full of excitement from the night before, the following day they ___ to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I ____， loving the fact that she had not ____ that quality as she grew up.
Later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a ____ each. On each present were the words “Because you are the ____ mum/dad in the world”. When we said our thankyous and told her she didn"t have to, we asked her ____ she had bought us gifts. Her ____ was simply “Just because I love you”．
This wasn"t something ____ from our daughter; she had always given us a gift when she wanted to express her ____， and each gift was always a welcome surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldn"t have mattered, and it was the act itself and the feelings behind it.
| 小题1: | | A．money | B．time | C．interest | D．news |
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| 小题2: | | A．worker | B．baby | C．kid | D．parent |
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| 小题3: | | A．dance | B．learn | C．walk | D．sit |
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| 小题4: | | A．speak | B．sleep | C．stand | D．leave |
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| 小题5: | | A．concert | B．holiday | C．party | D．travel |
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| 小题6: | | A．healthy | B．happy | C．pretty | D．surprised |
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| 小题7: | | A．stayed | B．left | C．returned | D．turned |
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| 小题8: | | A．worrying about | B．caring for | C．looking at | D．listening to |
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| 小题9: | | A．lent | B．earned | C．saved | D．spent |
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| 小题10: | | A．ever | B．never | C．often | D．neither |
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| 小题11: | | A．Still | B．Only | C．Just | D．Also |
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| 小题12: | | A．continued | B．tried | C．decided | D．struggled |
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| 小题13: | | A．refused | B．cried | C．shouted | D．laughed |
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| 小题14: | | A．kept | B．lost | C．realized | D．discovered |
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| 小题15: | | A．gift | B．prize | C．ticket | D．picture |
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| 小题16: | | A．richest | B．oldest | C．best | D．cleverest |
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| 小题18: | | A．way | B．answer | C．suggestion | D．idea |
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| 小题19: | | A．important | B．ordinary | C．new | D．valuable |
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| 小题20: | | A．feelings | B．concerns | C．understandings | D．opinions |
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Most city parks are places where you can escape from big, ugly structures of metal and stone. The Manhattan High Line is different. Raised 25 feet above the ground, this massive metal structure once supported a rail line. The line opened in 1934 to bring trains directly into factories and warehouses. It was hardly used after the 1960s, and much of it was torn down. However, one section remained in an area of Manhattan called Chelsea. Chelsea was becoming more and more valuable as restaurants, art galleries and apartments were built, but the ugly railway structure remained as a dead weight. Everyone knew that at some time, it would have to be removed.
But the High Line was not destroyed. In fact, now the old rail line serves as one of the most peaceful places in the city. It holds an elevated park, with beautiful gardens, a sidewalk and great views of the city. The idea to change the rail line into a park came from Joshua David and Robert Hammond. In 1999, they attended a community meeting to decide the fate(命运) of the High Line. David and Hammond were the only people at the meeting interested in saving the structure for its historical significance. Later on, when they asked railway officials to take them up to look at the High Line, they saw a mile and a half of wild flowers growing in the middle of the city, and they realized that the High Line had potential to become a park. There was growing interest in improving urban centers, and so the project quickly won support and funds for construction were easily obtained.
The first section of the High Line opened in 2009 and immediately became popular with tourists and locals alike. Each part of the park has a different atmosphere. Some areas are like balconies (阳台)with wonderful city views. Where the rail line goes between buildings, trees are thickly planted. Other sections have wide walkways planted with wild flowers. Only the final section remains the way it has been for the last fifty years – a railway line overgrown with weeds.
小题1:The underlined phrase “a dead weight” in Paragraph 1 means_____.| A．something with potential to be better. | | B．something with historical interest. | | C．something which is a danger to people. | | D．something useless which slows progress. |
小题2:According to Paragraph 2, David and Hammond wanted to save the High Line because they_____.| A．thought it had historical value | | B．wanted to reopen the train line | | C．thought it would bring them money | | D．were interested in improving the city |
小题3:From the last paragraph, we can learn that the park ______.| A．is different in its design | | B．is covered with trees | | C．didn’t change at all | | D．became a natural countryside |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true about the High Line?| A．It is situated above ground level. | | B．Only part of the line remains. | | C．It is now a popular park. | | D．Trains still use the line. |
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We all know that the normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 7-8 hours" sleep alternating(交替) with some 16-17 hours" wakefulness and that the sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness. Our present concern is with how easily and to what extent this cycle can be modified.
The question is no mere academic one. The ease, for example, with which people can change from working in the day to working at night is a question of growing importance in industry where automation calls for round-the-clock working of machines. It normally takes from five days to one week for a person to adapt to a reversed（颠倒的） routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night. Unfortunately, it is often the case in industry that shifts(轮班) are changed every week; a person may work from 12 midnight to 8 a.m. one week, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the next, and 4 p.m. to 12 midnight the third and so on. This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine than he has to change to another, so that much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very efficiently.
The only real solution appears to be to hand over the night shift to a number of permanent night workers. An interesting study of the domestic life and health of night-shift workers was carried out by Brown in 1957. She found a high incidence (发生率) of disturbed sleep and other disorders among those on alternating day and night shifts, but no abnormal occurrence of these phenomena among those on permanent night work.
This latter system then appears to be the best long-term policy, but meanwhile something may be done to relieve the pressure of alternate day and night work by selecting those people who can adapt most quickly to the changes of routine. One way of knowing when a person has adapted is by measuring his body temperature. People occupied in normal daytime work will have a high temperature during the hours of wakefulness and a low one at night; when they change to night work the pattern will only gradually go back to match the new routine and the speed with which it does so parallels, broadly speaking, the adaptation of the body as a whole, particularly in terms of performance. Therefore, by taking body temperature at two-hour intervals(间隔时间) throughout the period of wakefulness, it can be seen how quickly a person can adapt to a reversed routine, and this could be used as a basis for selection. So far, however, such a form of selection does not seem to have been applied in practice.
小题1:The main problem of the round-the-clock working system lies in .| A．the inconveniences brought about to the workers by the introduction of automation | | B．the disturbance of the daily life cycle of workers who have to change shifts too frequently | | C．the fact that people working at night are often less effective | | D．the fact that it is difficult to find a number of good night workers |
小题2:The best solution for implementing the 24-hour working system seems to be .| A．to change shifts at longer intervals. | | B．to have longer shifts | | C．to arrange for some people to work on night shifts only | | D．to create better living conditions for night workers |
小题3:It is possible to find out if a person has adapted to the changes of routine by measuring his body temperature because .| A．body temperature is higher when the cycle of sleep and wakefulness alternates | | B．body temperature changes when he changes to night shift or back | | C．the temperature reverses when the routine is changed | | D．people have higher temperatures when they are working efficiently |
小题4:Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?| A．Body temperature may serve as an indication of a worker"s performance. | | B．The selection of a number of permanent night shift workers has proved to be the best solution to problems of the round-the- clock working system. | | C．Taking body temperature at regular intervals can show how a person adapts to the changes of routine. | | D．Disturbed sleep occurs less frequently among those on permanent night or day shifts. |
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