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There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guide-book 26 hand. Of course, we may 27 with our guide-books the history and 28 developments of a town and get to know them.
29 then, if we take our time and 30 in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we 31 it as a whole, we begin to have some 32 , which even the best guide-books do not
answer. Why is the town just 33 this —— this shape, this plan, this size? Why do its streets 34 in this particular way, and not in any 35 way?
Here even the best guide-book 36 us. One can’t find the information in it about how a town has developed to the 37 appearance. It may not describe the original 38 of a town. However, one may get some idea of what it 39 look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine 40 the town was first planned and built. Then one can learn more about in what direction the town 41 to develop.
What is the 42 of studying towns in this way？For me, it is 43 a matter that one gets a greater depth of pleasure by visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes. A 44 visit to a town may help one better understand why it is attractive 45 just reading about it in a guide-book.
| 小题2: | | A．write | B．study | C．tell | D．remember |
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| 小题3: | | A．strange | B．similar | C．separate | D．special |
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| 小题4: | | A．But | B．Before | C．Since | D．Until |
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| 小题5: | | A．march | B．work | C．stay | D．wait |
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| 小题6: | | A．look at | B．1ook after | C．1ook for | D．1ook up |
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| 小题7: | | A．ideas | B．opinions | C．feelings | D．questions |
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| 小题11: | | A．helps | B．tricks | C．fails | D．satisfies |
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| 小题12: | | A．old | B．normal | C．first | D．present |
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| 小题13: | | A．capital | B．meaning | C．design | D．change |
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| 小题14: | | A．used to | B．seemed to | C．had to | D．happened to |
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| 小题16: | | A．stops | B．appears | C．starts | D．continues |
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| 小题17: | | A．point | B．view | C．problem | D．difficulty |
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| 小题18: | | A．nearly | B．simply | C．generally | D．hardly |
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| 小题19: | | A．costly | B．formal | C．group | D．personal |
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| 小题20: | | A．from | B．than | C．through | D．with |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:C
小题6:A
小题7:D
小题8:C
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:C
小题12:D
小题13:C
小题14:A
小题15:B
小题16:D
小题17:A
小题18:B
小题19:D
小题20:B |
解析
小题1:本题考查介词。guide-book in hand是独立主格结构，作状语，表示方式。
小题2:本题考查动词。了解一座城市的方式很多，其中之一就是环城徒步旅行，当然，我们还可以借助guide-book来研究（study）其历史和特有的（special）的发展并了解他们。我们不能借助导游手册来写（write）其历史，也不需要讲述（tell）和记忆（remember）其历史。
小题3:本题考查形容词。special是指这个城市所特有的。
小题4:本题考查连词。上文讲我们可以借助导游手册研究其历史和发展，下文讲如果我们从容一点，在一个城市小住几天，则对其了解更多。此间有转折的意思。
小题5:本题考查动词。
小题6:本题考查动词短语。look at 在本题中有“考虑，判断”的意思，look at …as a whole意思是“从整体上看”。
小题7:本题考查名词。下文有动词answer，此处是先行词，在定语从句中用answer的宾语，只有questions才能构成动宾关系。
小题8:本题考查介词。介词like意思是“像”。
小题9:本题考查动词。run在这里意思是“延伸；延续；继续”（stretch）。例如：The road runs along the river bank. 这条路沿着河边一直延伸。
小题10:本题考查形容词。in any other way以其它方式
小题11:本题考查动词。fail在这里的意思是“使……失望”。从上下文看出，导游手册也不能回答以上这些问题。
小题12:本题考查形容词。present adj 现在的，当前的。
小题13:本题考查名词。the original design of a town一座城市最初的设计。
小题14:本题考查动词。what it used to look like 城市过去的样子，与上文the original design of a town相响应。
小题15:本题考查连词。选项A是疑问代词，用在此处语法结构错误；选项C和D分别指这座城市首次建造的时间和地点，与上文the original design of a town和what it used to look like没有联系；选项B表示这座城市设计建造的方式。
小题16:本题考查动词。与上句一致，意思是人们还能更多地了解这座城市未来继续发展方向。
小题17:本题考查名词。point在本句的意思是“用途，目的”。Begin your work now. There’s no point in wasting time. 现在就开始你的工作吧，耗时间没用。
小题18:本题考查副词。nearly几乎；generally一般地；hardly几乎不，都不符合题意。simply仅仅，只是。作者以这种方式去了解一座城市的原因很简单，仅仅是通过亲眼去看，去感受一个人就能更获得更大的快乐。
小题19:本题考查形容词。personal亲自的，亲身的，与上一句里的visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes意思相一致。
小题20:本题考查介词。前面有比较级better，这里当然用介词than。 |
举一反三
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 (手腕); sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007.
But while these wise people have realized that they don’t need them, others — including some distinguished ones 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. Yes, you may say expensive watches will come with some extra functions — but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea to test its function of waterproof, or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole by using its compass? 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 re-invented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds’ worth of advertising, as a message about the man —— usually a famous star, 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 classified as “investment items” (投资项目) now. A 1994 Philippe recently sold for nearly £ 350, 000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from 15, 000 to 30, 000 plus in a year. But, to some wealthy people, a watch is more than an investment. It’s a valuable toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up — they’ve been rising for fifteen years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that £ 350, 000 treasured object will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Times.
小题1:The sales of watches to young people have fallen because ______. | A．they have other devices to tell the time | | B．they think watches are too expensive | | C．they have little sense of time now | | D．they prefer to wear an iPod on their wrists |
小题2:It seems ridiculous to the writer that ______. | A．some people often dive 300 metres deep into the sea | | B．expensive clothes sell much better than cheap ones | | C．cheap cars usually 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 seems hard for the industry to beat its competitors. | | C．It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising. | | D．It is easy for the industry to re-invent cheap watches. |
小题4:Which would be the best title for the passage? | A．Timex Being better than Rolex | | B．My Expensive Childhood Timex | | C．Super-level Watches? Not for Me! | | D．Watches — a Valuable Collection |
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We convince ourselves that life will be better once we are married, have a baby, then another. Then we get frustrated because our children are not old enough, and that __1__ will be well when they are older. Then we are frustrated __2__ they reach adolescence and we must deal with them. Surely we’ll be __3__ when they grow out of the teen years.
We tell ourselves our __4__ will be better when our spouse(配偶)gets his/her act together, when we have a nicer car, when we can take a __5__， when we finally retire. The truth is that there is no better time to be happy than __6__.If not, then when? Your life will always be full of challenges. It is better to admit as much and to decide to be happy __7__it all. For the longest time, it seemed that life was about to start—real life.
But there were always some obstacles along the way, an ordeal(苦难) to __8__， some work to be finished, some time to be given, a bill to be __9__.Then life would start. It finally dawned on me that those __10__ were part of life. Little by little, that point of __11__ also helped me see that there isn’t any road to happiness.
Happiness is the road. So, enjoy every moment. And bear in mind that __12__ waits for no one. So stop __13__ school to end, for a return to school, to lose ten pounds, to __14__ ten pounds, for work to begin, to get married，...before deciding to be happy.
Happiness is a voyage, not a destination. There is no __15__ time to be happy than...NOW! Live and enjoy the moment.
| 小题1: | | A．we | B．they | C．all | D．nothing |
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| 小题3: | | A．luckier | B．happier | C．older | D．healthier |
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| 小题4: | | A．life | B．study | C．children | D．condition |
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| 小题5: | | A．rest | B．bath | C．breath | D．vacation |
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| 小题6: | | A．before | B．ever | C．just then | D．right now |
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| 小题7: | | A．instead of | B．in addition to | C．in spite of | D．up to |
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| 小题8: | | A．meet with | B．go ahead | C．turn to | D．get through |
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| 小题9: | | A．paid | B．got | C．asked | D．printed |
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| 小题10: | | A．achievements | B．obstacles | C．duties | D．opinions |
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| 小题11: | | A．view | B．life | C．position | D．condition |
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| 小题12: | | A．happiness | B．time | C．age | D．road |
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| 小题13: | | A．asking for | B．supposing | C．waiting for | D．hoping for |
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| 小题14: | | A．gain | B．reduce | C．weigh | D．enjoy |
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| 小题15: | | A．worse | B．better | C．more | D．less |
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Whether we’re 2 years old or 62, our reasons for lying are mostly the same: to get out of trouble, for personal gain and to make ourselves look better in the eyes of others. But a growing body of research is raising questions about how a child’s lie is different from an adult’s lie, and how the way we deceive changes as we grow.
“Parents and teachers who catch their children lying should not be alarmed. Their children are not going to turn out to be abnormal liars,” says Dr. Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto and director of the Institute of Child Study. He has spent the last 15 years studying how lying changes as kids get older, why some people lie more than others as well as which factors can reduce lying. The fact that children tell lies is a sign that they have reached a new developmental stage. Dr. Lee conducted a series of studies in which they bring children into a lab with hidden cameras. Children and young adults aged 2 to 17 are likely to lie while being told not to look at a toy, which is put behind the child’s back. Whether or not the child takes a secret look is caught on tape.
For young kids, the desire to cheat is big and 90% take a secret look in these experiments. When the test-giver returns to the room, the child is asked if he or she looked secretly. At age 2, about a quarter of children will lie and say they didn’t. By 3, half of kids will lie, and by 4, that figure is 90%, studies show.
Researchers have found that it’s kids with better understanding abilities who lie more. That’s because to lie you also have to keep the truth in mind, which includes many brain processes, such as combining several sources of information and faking that information. The ability to lie — and lie successfully — is thought to be related to development of brain regions that allow so called “executive functioning”, or higher order thinking and reasoning abilities. Kids who perform better on tests that involve executive functioning also lie more.
小题1:What’s the purpose of children telling lies?| A．To help their friends out. | | B．To get rid of trouble. | | C．To get attention from others. | | D．To create a popular image. |
小题2:The underlined word “deceive” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “ ”.| A．tell lies | B．handle troubles | | C．raise questions | D．do research |
小题3:From the second paragraph we can know that .| A．which factors can reduce lying | | B．why some lie more than others | | C．it is normal for kids to tell lies | | D．how lying changes as kids grow |
小题4:It can be inferred from the passage that .| A．children’s lies are the same as adults’ | | B．the better kids are, the more they lie | | C．the older kids are, the more they lie | | D．kids always keep the truth in their mind |
小题5:What is NOT included in the passage?| A．The reasons why kids tell lies. | | B．Which kind of kids tells more lies. | | C．Experiments about lying of young kids. | | D．What to do with lying children. |
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Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand (商标) of product on the shelf.
Colouring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packaged (包装) in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colours. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.
When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.
The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote(推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius (天才) to sell it.”
小题1:Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text? | A．The cost of its package. | B．The price of the product. | | C．The colour of its package. | D．The brand name of the product. |
小题2:The underlined part “the colours turned the customers off”(in Para. 3 ) means that the colours _____.| A．attracted the customers strongly | | B．had weak effects on the customers | | C．tricked the customers into shopping | | D．caused the customers to lose interest |
小题3:Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?| A．The way to promote goods. | | B．The discovery of a genius. | | C．The team to produce a good product. | | D．The brand name used by successful producers. |
小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for this text? | A．Choice of Good Products | B．Disadvantages of Products | | C．Effect of Packaging on Shopping | D．Brand Names and Shopping Tricks |
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Have you ever seen a movie in which a building was burnt down or a bridge was destroyed? Have you seen films in which a train crashed or a ship __21_ into the ocean? If so, you may have wondered how these things could happen without __22_the people in the film.
The man who knows the __23__ is the “special-effects” man. He has one of the most important jobs in the film __24__. He may be __25__ to create a flood or to make a battlefield explode. But he may also be told to create a __26_ effect which is much less exciting, though just as important to the success of the film. In a __27__ for one movie there was a big glass bowl __28__with water in which small fish __29__ swimming. The director of the movie__30__ the fish to stop swimming suddenly __31_ they seemed to stare at(盯着) an actor. Then the director wanted the fish to stop staring and swim away. But fish suddenly __32__ be ordered to do anything. It was quite a __33_.
The special-effects man __34_ about this problem for a long time. The result was an idea for __35_ the fish with a harmless use of electricity. __36__he applied electricity to the fish bowl causing the fish to be totally still(静止的). Then he rapidly reduced the __37__ of electricity allowing the fish to be free. __38_ he got the humorous effect the director wanted.
__39_in other parts of movie making there are those who have developed __40__ skill in creating certain kinds of effects. Jim White, who has been a special-effects man for thirty-two years, is best known for work with ships and airplanes.
| 小题1: | | A．burned | B．sank | C．fell | D．dropped |
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| 小题2: | | A．telling | B．harming | C．protecting | D．organizing |
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| 小题3: | | A．reply | B．question | C．message | D．secret |
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| 小题4: | | A．factory | B．making | C．field | D．company |
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| 小题5: | | A．forced | B．ordered | C．allowed | D．chosen |
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| 小题6: | | A．terrible | B．ill | C．good | D．special |
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| 小题7: | | A．scene | B．step | C．stage | D．room |
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| 小题8: | | A．covered | B．asked | C．filled | D．fitted |
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| 小题9: | | A．liked | B．enjoyed | C．was | D．were |
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| 小题10: | | A．hoped | B．wanted | C．decided | D．designed |
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| 小题11: | | A．while | B．since | C．so that | D．as long as |
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| 小题12: | | A．mustn’t | B．may not | C．shouldn’t | D．can’t |
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| 小题13: | | A．question | B．failure | C．problem | D．disappointment |
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| 小题14: | | A．talked | B．set | C．quarreled | D．thought |
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| 小题15: | | A．controlling | B．operating | C．driving | D．lighting |
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| 小题16: | | A．As a result | B．Immediately | C．First | D．Above all |
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| 小题17: | | A．price | B．number | C．amount | D．speed |
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| 小题18: | | A．Even | B．Thus | C．Finally | D．Actually |
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| 小题20: | | A．certain | B．particular | C．advanced | D．careful |
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