阅读理解 For most families, a long car journey is the bane of any trip. But for
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For most families, a long car journey is the bane of any trip. But for the Zapps, their 83-year-old vehicle has been a home for the past 11 years, as the couple travel around the world on a never ending trip of a lifetime, covering 142,000 miles over four continents. Herman and Candelaria Zapp, who got married to each other in 1996 and to their journey in 2000, Set off from Patagonia, Argentina, heading for Alaska. They came back to Argentina in2004,but settled there only for a couple of weeks, before deciding the open road is the only way to live. They have been traveling ever since, with a trip around South America between 2005 and 2007, then central America, the U.S. and Canada until 2009.The car was shipped to Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea as they traveled those countries and they are currently in the Philippines on a tour of South East Asia. As a proof that life is possible in such a mobile style, the family of the two slowly grew to a number of six.They became, over the years and while on the road, parents to four children, Pampa (eight), Tehue (five), Paloma (three) and Wallaby (one). Remarkably, each of their kids has a different nationality. "My grandfather knew that we wanted to travel and to never stop so he gave me the old Grdham-Paige car he used on his farm," Herman said. Each night the six Zapps either sleep in or around a tent set up next to their car, but more often than not they find a friendly local who will put them up for the night.The only hard rule the couple have to stick by, is the 40mph speed limit the 83-year old car is restricted to. Their trip is supported with the money coming from selling books they write about the places they visit. |
1. Which word has a similar meaning to the underlined word "bane" in the first paragraph? |
A.Beginning. B. Highlight. C. Pleasure. D. Discouragement. |
2.______years after their marriage, the couple decided to travel forever. |
A. Four B. Eight C. Nine D. Eleven |
3. The birthplace of the couple"s second child Tehue must be in____. |
A. South America B. Central America C. Australia D. South East Asia |
4. What can we learn about the Zapps" car? |
A. The family sleep in it during the night. B. It can travel on water like a ship. C. It can never run faster than 4Omph. D. Herman"s grandfather bought it for them. |
5. Where do the Zapps keep their kids? |
A. They let the" kids travel with them. B. They let the kids stay where they were born. C. They sent the kids to their motherland. D. They keep the kids in a foreign country. |
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Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a booklover or merely go there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust_jacket is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon become interested in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment-without buying a book, of course. This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart"s content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the inevitable greeting: "Can I help you, sir?" You needn"t buy anything you don"t want.In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course, you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire discreetly (谨慎地) and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book. You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on, say ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest bestselling novel and perhaps a book about brassrubbing-something which had only slightly interested you up till then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it.This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section. |
1. The underlined phrase "dust jacket" means ________. |
A. a kind of clothes B. a paper cover of a book C. a dusty book D. a title of a book |
2. You may spend too much time in a bookshop because________. |
A. the dust jackets are very attractive B. you start reading one of the books C. it is raining outside D. you have to make sure you won"t buy a dull book as a present |
3. In a good bookshop________. |
A. all the books there are interesting B. the assistant greets you in a warm way C. your heart is satisfied D. you feel that you are in a music shop |
4. The best title for this passage may be________. |
A. The Attraction of Bookshops B. How to Spend Your Time C. Bookshops and Their Assistants D. How to Select Books |
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完形填空 | As a child, I was truly afraid of the dark and of getting lost; these fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments. Maybe it was the strange 1 things looked and sounded in my familiar room at night that 2 me so much. There was never total 3 , but a streetlight or passing car lights 4 clothes hung over a chair takeon(呈现) the 5 of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my 6 , I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no 7 . A tiny sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the daylight. My 8 would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would 9 very still so that the " enemy" would not discover me. Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, 10 on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home .That was no 11 . After school, 12 , when all the buses were 13 up along the street, I was afraid that I"d get on the wrong one and be taken to some 14 neighborhood. On school or family trips to a park or a museum, I wouldn"t let the leaders out of my 15 . Perhaps one of the worst fears 16 all I had as a child was that of not being liked or 17 by others. Being popular was so important to me 18 , and the fear of not being liked was a 19 one. One of the processes(过程) of growing up is being able to 20 and overcome(克服) our fears. Understanding the things that frightened us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.
( )1.A. way ( )2.A. wounded ( )3.A. quietness ( )4.A. got ( )5.A. spirit ( )6.A. eye ( )7.A. breath ( )8.A. belief ( )9.A. lay ( )10.A. especially ( )11.A. discussion ( )12.A. however ( )13.A. called ( )14.A. old ( )15.A. sight ( )16.A. above ( )17.A. protected ( )18.A. then ( )19.A. strict ( )20.A. form | B. time B. destroyed B. darkness B. forced B. height B. window B. wind B. feeling B. hide B. simply B. problem B. yet B. backed B. crowded B. mind B. in B. guided B. there B. powerful B. remember | C. place C. surprised C. emptiness C. made C. body C. mouth C. air C.i magination C. rest C. probably C. joke C. although C. lined C. poor C. order C. of C. believed C. once C. heavy C. recognize | D. reason D. frightened D. loneliness D. caused D. shape D. door D. sound D. doubt D. lie D. directly D. matter D. still D. packed D. unfamiliar D. task D. at D. accepted D. anyway D. right D. recover |
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