Experts do not really know when people began keeping fish as pets. But they say

题型：不详难度：来源：

Experts do not really know when people began keeping fish as pets. But they say that people have been interested in fish for thousands of years. Some say the ancient Sumerians were the first civilization to keep fish in ponds more than four thousand years ago. The Chinese kept and studied carp and goldfish more than one thousand years ago. The ancient Romans kept eels as pets. And the Greek philosopher Aristotle made what is believed to be the first known study of sea life, including sharks and dolphins.
Keeping fish at home in small water tanks called aquariums is extremely popular today. And everyone seems to enjoy visiting huge public aquariums that have opened around the world.
By the middle of the eighteen hundreds, science had shown that plants, fish and other sea creatures could survive together under water. So it was no longer necessary to change the water in a tank for the fish to live there. This led to the building of the first public aquariums.
The first aquariums opened in London, England in 1853. in the next fifteen years, other aquariums opened in Europe and the United States. By 1928, there were about forty-five public aquariums.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has been recognized as the first aquarium in the United States and it shows visitors the underwater life in the bay. The Georgia Aquarium opening in 2005 says it is the largest in the world. It has more than one hundred thousand sea animals in thirty million liters of water including two whale sharks---the world’s largest fish.
Another aquarium re-opened in 2005 in Camden, New Jersey. The Adventure Aquarium first opened in 1992. It spent about fifty million dollars expanding its building and improving its exhibits.
Aquariums provide the public with many chances to experience life under the sea. They can be found in most areas of the world. People might even want to start an aquarium at home and join the millions of people around the world who keep fish as pets.
小题1:Which aquarium opened again after its rebuilding ?

A．The Monterey Bay Aquarium.	B．The Adventure Aquarium.
C．The Georgia Aquarium.	D．The first aquarium in London.

小题2:Which of the following is NOT mentioned to have kept fish as pets?

A．The ancient Sumerians.

B．The ancient Romans.

C．The Chinese.

D．The ancient Indians.

小题3:Which of the following is correct?

A．People were not interested in fish until the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

B．The Moneterey Bay Aquarium is regarded as the best aquarium in America.

C．Plants, fish and other sea creatures could not survive together under sea.

D．People have to change the water in a tank frequently for the fish to live there.

小题4: The passage is written mainly .

A．to tell people the importance of keeping fish as pets

B．to explain why people want to visit aquariums

C．to let people know the development of the aquariums

D．to describe different aquariums

小题5:What does the underlined word “aquariums” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Exhibition centres where people can watch and enjoy different species of fish.

B．Small boxes made of glass, where people keep fish in, usually at home.

C．Places which shows visitors the underwater life in the bay.

D．Places which provides the public with many chances to experience life under the sea.

答案

小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:B

解析

略

举一反三

Let’s say you have a piece of wood, a nail, and hammer. Pretend the wood is a person, the nail is a mean rumor (谣言) about that person. If you hammer in the nail, you’re obviously hurting him or her. If you then pull out the nail, there’s still a hole in the wood, and the damage has been done.
There are many reasons why that nail of a rumor can be so harmful. Rumors are, quite simply, a form of bullying (欺悔). When a person or a group makes up a rumor about someone or decides to spread gossip, it’s usually to hurt someone, break up a friendship, or make someone less popular. It’s the same thing as teasing, only it’s done behind someone’s back instead of to his or her face.
When you spread a rumor about someone, you’re sending a signal that the person is outside of the group, and somehow less worthy of friendship than others. You’re making fun of that person or pointing out negative things about him or her. This can let others think that it’s okay to make the person feel bad, and make him or her an outsider.
We need to be able to trust our friends, and gossip and rumors can break this trust. If you tell a personal secret to a friend, and he turns around and tells it to someone else, you might feel like you will get burned if you ever get close to him again.
Letting a rumor influence your behavior is like letting someone else make a big decision for you. Let’s say you hear that the teacher plans to call a Snow Day tomorrow because a blizzard (暴风雪) is coming. Expecting a day off, you don’t do your homework. The next morning, the blizzard turns out to be nothing more than a drizzle（毛毛雨）, and school isn’t off after all. You get zeroes on your work.
小题1:The purpose of the first paragraph is to .

A．help readers know what a rumor is	B．attract readers to read the following paragraphs
C．emphasize the damaging effects of rumors	D．explain how a rumor spreads

小题2:To tell a rumor and a tease apart, you depend on .

A．whether it is done behind someone	B．whether it is painful or not
C．whether it is a kind if bullying	D．whether it is spread fast

小题3: If a rumor is spread about someone, others may .

A．point out his or her advantages	B．keep away from him or her
C．not feel he or she is an outsider	D．be hurt if getting close to him or her again

小题4:From the last paragraph, we can infer that .

A．it is hard to keep rumors a secret	B．rumors can destroy your interest in learning
C．believing rumors can lead to bad choices	D．rumors can control your whole life

小题5:The purpose of this passage is to .

A．advise on how to deal with rumors	B．teach us how to judge a rumor
C．find out why rumors spread fast	D．explain why rumors hurt

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案

EVENTS(赛事)
Bicycle tour and race
　 A bike tour and race will be held on August 26 and 27(Sat. & Sun. ). At

5:30am, the riders will leave Tian"anmen Square and ride the first 35 kilometers as a training leg. Then the next 55 kilometers leg, from Yanjiao to Jixian, will be the first competitive part of the tour. The riders and their bikes will then be taken from Jixian to Changli.
　　The second racing leg of the tour will be from Changli to the seaside of Nandaibe, covering a distance of 20 kilometers. Saturday night includes the stay at Nandaihe and supper. Sunday morning is free for play at the seaside. At noon all the people and their bikes will be taken back to Beijing.
　　Cost: 20

0 Yuan Telephone: 4675027
Brazilian footballers
　　The Brazilian Football Club will play Beijing Guo"an Team at the Workers Stadium on August 26. The club has four national team players. Also coming is 1994 US World Cup star　Romario ho has promised to play for at least 45 minutes.
　　Ticket prices: 60,100,150 Yuan
　　Time/Date: 4:30 pm,

August 26(Sat.) Telephone: 5012372
Rock climbing
The Third National Rock Climbing Competition will be held on August 26-27 at the Huairou Mountain-climbing Training Base. More than 10 teams from Beijing, Wuhan, Dalian, Jilin and other places will take part in it. A Japanese team will give an exhibition climbing. Free for spectators(观众).
　　Take a long-distance bus from Dongzhimen to Huairou.
　　Time/Dates: 9-12

am, August 26 and 27
　　Telephone: 7143177, 7144850, Wang Zhenghua
小题1: If you take part in the bike tour, you will ride for _________.

A．35 kilometers

B．55 kilometers

C．75 kilometers

D．110 kilometers

小题2: The underlined word "leg" in "Bicycle tour and race" probably means ________.

A．race 　

B．practice

C．part of the training 　

D．part of the tour

小题3: What is special about the Rock climbing competition?

A．A foreign team takes part in it. 　　

B．You can watch it without paying.

C．You don"t have to be a sportsman to take part.

D．The bus trip to the place of the competition is free.

小题4: If you want to find something to do for Saturday afternoon, which telephone number will you call?

A．4675027

B．7143177

C．5012372

D．7144850

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案

It was a cold winter"s night when I stopped for gas on my way home from work．I was tired and had a slight   21 ．
I worked in a   22  doctor"s office and this was one of those days when the unexpected happened, making the schedule run   23  than usual．It seemed I was going to be late   24  home and my husband, being the   25  person, would be ready to pronounce me late once again． Maybe 26  I hurried, I could still make it home．
I was heading inside to   27  for my gas when I noticed an older couple at the counter, I heard them asking for   28  to the local hospital．It was the same hospital that I had just   29  a few minutes ago．
The young man at the counter was trying to be   30  in explaining how to get there, with two other people making   31 ．One of them was   32  trying to give them a whole different route back．It was then that I walked over to the couple and said, "Would you like to follow me to the 33  ?"
A look of 34  crossed the woman"s face．
"I"m going right by there," I said, which wasn"t a（ an）   35  since I had just made up my mind to do 36  that．
I got in my car and began the journey back．I was trying to watch to be sure they were right 37  me．I took only fifteen minutes to get there as rush hour traffic was beginning to   38 ．I felt better than I had all day and my headache was   39  gone．
Later, as I arrived home, my husband teased, "So you aren"t ever late any more．"
"Sometimes it"s 40   to be late," I said, happy inside my heart．

小题1:

A．cold

B．fever

C．stomachache

D．headache

小题2:

A．foreign

B．regular

C．busy

D．noisy

小题3:

A．earlier

B．later

C．easier

D．simpler

小题4:

A．getting

B．cooking

C．calling

D．working

小题5:

A．lazy

B．punctual

C．generous

D．careful

小题6:

A．as

B．since

C．while

D．it

小题7:

A．pay

B．change

C．wait

D．search

小题8:

A．opinions

B．trouble

C．directions

D．money

小题9:

A．reached

B．visited

C．called

D．left

小题10:

A．skilled

B．helpful

C．experienced

D．active

小题11:

A．comments

B．promises

C．surveys

D．offers

小题12:

A．only

B．still

C．even

D．ever

小题13:

A．station

B．office

C．hospital

D．hotel

小题14:

A．panic

B．relief

C．sadness

D．peace

小题15:

A．duty

B．fact

C．reason

D．lie

小题16:

A．partly

B．properly

C．exactly

D．perfectly

小题17:

A．across

B．before

C．beside

D．behind

小题18:

A．go up

B．die down

C．speed up

D．turn down

小题19:

A．nearly

B．hardly

C．possibly

D．luckily

小题20:

A．possible

B．special

C．good

D．safe

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案

"I"ve changed my mind．I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my daddy back．" Lucien Lawrence"s letter to Father Christmas, written after his schoolteacher father had been knifed to death outside his school gale, must have touched every heart．Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn"t see the stars in the sky．When those whom we love depart from us, we cannot see the stare for a while．
But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, you will see them again．And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father is there too, in your mind and in your heart．I find that my parents, long dead now, still figure in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than 1 ever did when they were alive．I still live to please them and I"m still surprised by their reactions．I remember that when I became a professor,! was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself, that I couldn"t wait to call my parents．The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all Mother said was "I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!" I haven"t forgotten．The values of my parents still live on．
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care．Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors （挑衅者）, and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas"" It"s a serious thought, one to give me pause．
I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet " Deliver my soul from the sword（剑）, and my darling from the power of the dog．" Yet I know the death comes to us all,
and sometimes comes suddenly．We must therefore plan to live forever, but live as if we will die
tomorrow．We live on, I"m sure, in the lives of those we loved．and therefore we ought to have a care
for what they will remember and what they will treasure．If more parents knew this in their hearts to
be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today．
小题1:According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph ______．

A．puts forward the subject of the text

B．shows the author"s pity on the kid

C．acts as an introduction to the discussion

D．makes a clear statement of the author"s views

小题2:In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us ______．

A．how much he misses his parents now

B．why his parents often appear in his dream

C．when Lucien will get over all his sadness

D．how proud he was when he succeeded in life

小题3:What feeling did the author"s mother express in her reply?

A．Proud．

B．Happy．

C．Disappointed．

D．Worried

小题4:In the author"s opinion, the value of a person"s life is ______．

A．to leave behind a precious memory to the people related

B．to have a high sense of duty to the whole society

C．to care what others will remember and treasure

D．to share happiness and sadness with his family

小题5:What does the writer mean by the sentence taken from an old poem?

A．Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns．

B．Advise parents stay with their children safely at home．

C．Spend every day meaningfully in memory of the death．

D．Try to keep violence and murder far away from society．

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案

There is more than one reason for which you need to hire a business attorney（律师）. It is very important to hire some good attorney for your business especially because of the fact that you will need their knowledge and advice from beginning to all the time through your business. An attorney actually provides useful advice and guidance for your business and above all for your finance.
When you start some business you need to hire a business attorney for helping you in decision making for which kind of business you are going to start. So, all steps and all legal requirements will be provided to you and you can work without any trouble. Therefore, you will be introduced to all that you need to know and how to organize your business. You will be made aware about what type of organization would be the most useful and the best for you. Moreover, it is very useful when you have business consultant and especially in the law area, because he will provide you with legal knowledge and direct about what is legal for business and what is illegal.
At the same time, he will provide you with legal contract that you need to have for your corporate reports. Also, when you are a beginner in business it is very difficult to handle all kind of state taxes and fee; so a business attorney is here to help you with that. When there are some questions about auction, good and professional business-attorney will lead you through acquisitions(所获之物), sale mergers(合并) and similar matters.
These are only few reasons why you need to hire a good attorney, but there are more of them. So when you start some business, use advice of professionals and take the right decision.
If you need a good and excellent attorney, you don’t hesitate to get in touch with Arizona Business Attorney .Click here to find an Arizona Business Attorney
小题1:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．Few Reasons Why You Need a Business Attorney.

B．Business Attorney is a Key to a Business.

C．Advice from Attorney for a Business.

D．Contact with Arizona Business Attorney.

小题2: According to the author, ________.

A．you’d better consult a lawyer before starting a business

B．it is the best to hire an attorney before opening a business

C．you should contact Arizona before your business

D．it is rule to invite an attorney in America

小题3: If you are a beginner in business, ___________.

A．you will meet with some auction questions

B．you are sure to suffer problems of taxes and fee

C．you should seek for advice of professionals

D．you must hire a good attorney

小题4:Where can the reader find the passage?

A．In a newspaper.	B．On the Internet.
C．In a magazine.	D．In a guide book.

题型：不详难度：| 查看答案