语法填空 Everyone knows that earthquakes can damage their property.But actually,
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Everyone knows that earthquakes can damage their property.But actually, in some situations, more
damage is done after an earthquake than when it _1_(happen). However, you can do a great many things 2 an earthquake that may help to protect your home.
Firstly, make sure there is no gas leak.The professional 3 (suggest) is to turn off the gas line if you
can.If there is a gas leak and you can"t turn it off, 4 is recommended that you get everyone out of the
house 5 go to a neighbor"s to call the fire department.
Secondly, make sure none of the water pipes are broken.Even if you don"t see any water leaking, you
should call the water company to see 6 the water is safe to drink.You don"t want any one of your family members to get sick because he or she has drunk 7 (safe) water, right?
The last thing you should do is 8 (make) sure the foundation of the house is not cracked or sinking.
A cracked or sinking foundation can be a sign 9 the house may collapse.In that case, leave the house
and do not enter it until 10 expert looks at the problem. |
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1. is happening
2. after
3. suggestion
4. it
5. and
6. if
7. unsafe
8. to make
9. that
10. an |
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Few of us make money by losing sleep.But three graduate students at Brown University in
Providence built a company around sleep deprivation.
Jason Donahue, Ben Rubin and Eric Shashoua were working late nights in Brown"s business
and engineering schools-and began thinking about ways to sleep better.
They discovered they weren"t alone in burning the midnight oil.Around 20% of Americans get
less than six hours of rest a night.
The friends imagined a smart alarm clock that could track how much time we spend in the most
restorative(促使康复的) stages of the sleep cycle:REM(快速眼动) and deep sleep.What would it
cost to design such a thing?Five years of research,20 employees, $ 14 million in funding and a whole
lot of doubting from investors and scientists.
The company, Zeo, based in Newton, Mass., launched its product in June.The Zeo device uses
a headband with tiny sensors(传感器) that scan your brain for signs of four sleep states:REM, light,
deep and waking sleep.The smart alarm clock displays a graph of your sleep pattern and wakes you
as you"re transitioning out of REM sleep (which is when you"re least sleepy). In the morning you can
upload the data to the company"s website, and so track your sleep over time.The cost, $ 399, includes
six months" access to one of Zeo"s online sleep coaches.Most of the feedback comes in the form of
Zeo"s ZQ score showing how well you"ve slept.
"Zeo allows people to unlock this black box of sleep, "says Dave Dickinson, a healthcare CEO.
Whether any of this actually improves sleep is up to the consumer, who will also need to make lifestyle
changes like cutting out alcohol before bedtime or caffeine after 3 p. m..
For now the company is selling Zeo online only.Dickinson also plans to expand to countries such as
Australia, where sleep deprivation approaches US levels.
1. Why did the three students imagine a smart alarm clock?
A. To earn enough money for a scholarship.
B. To wake them up on time in the morning.
C. To record the length of their sleep time.
D. To improve the quality of their sleep.
2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. It took 14 employees five years to develop the product.
B. Their research received a lot of support from investors.
C. About one in five Americans suffers from poor sleep.
D. Alcohol or caffeine before bedtime affects sleep.
3. Which is the correct order of how the Zeo device works?
a. wake you when you"re least sleepy
b. scan your brain for sleep signs
c. get the Zeo"s ZQ score
d. show a graph of your sleep pattern
e. upload the data to the company"s website
A. d, b, a, e, c
B. b, a, d, c, e
C. d, b, a, c, e
D. b, d, a, e, c
4. The Zeo"s ZQ score is connected with________.
A. the quality of sleep
B. the length of sleep
C. the time of waking up
D. the time of going to bed
5. From the passage we can learn that________.
A. Zeo will have a direct effect on users" lifestyles
B. Zeo will have better results if users make proper changes
C. Zeo is reported to be well received in Australia
D. Zeo can now be bought either in stores or online |
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A company planning to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics (评论家) questioning the investment and the length of time for the multibilliondollar project.
The Barcelonabased architects of the Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will cost $4.4 million for a threenight stay at the hotel.This price also includes an eightweek training course on an island.During their stay, guests would see the sunrise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes.
Galactic Suite Ltd"s CEO Xavier Claramunt says the project will put his company in a leading position of a new industry with a huge future ahead of it, and forecasts space travel will become common in the future."It"s very normal to think that your children, possibly within 15 years, could spend a weekend in space, "he told Reuters Television.
A promising space tourism industry is beginning to take shape with construction in progress in New Mexico of Spaceport America, the world"s first facility (设施) built specifically for passengers.British industrialist Richard Branson"s space tours firm, Virgin Galactic, will use the facility to send tourists to space at a cost of $200,000 a ride.
Galactic Suite Ltd, set up in 2007, hopes to start its project with a single pod (分离舱) in orbit 280 miles above the earth."It will take a day and a half to reach the pod, and the passengers will join it for three days, "Claramunt said.More than 200 people have expressed an interest in traveling to the space hotel and at least 43 people have already reserved it.
The numbers are similar for Virgin Galactic with 300 people already paid or signed up for the trip, but unlike Branson, Galactic Suite says they will use Russian rockets to transport their guests into space from a spaceport to be built on an island in the Caribbean.But critics have questioned the project, saying the length of time that will be used is unreasonable and also where the money is coming from to support the project.
1. What"s Xavier Claramunt"s attitude towards the space tourism industry?
A. Quite critical.
B. Slightly worried.
C. Highly optimistic.
D. Fully satisfied.
2. Virgin Galactic"s guests will be transported into space by using rockets produced in________.
A. Spain
B. America
C. Britain
D. Russia
3. Which of the following is one of the critics" concerns about this project?
A. It is hard to ensure the safety of tourists.
B. There are many technical difficulties.
C. It will be a waste of resources.
D. It may lack support in money.
4. According to the passage, traveling to the space hotel ________.
A. will soon be possible for common people
B. has attracted the attention of some people
C. will make a large profit for the tourist industry
D. is considered an industry with a huge future by many people
5. What"s the best title for the passage?
A. The world"s first space hotel is to open in 2012
B. The world"s first commercial spaceport is being built
C. Space tourism:a surprising new industry
D. Space travel will become common in 15 years |
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Kasey Kaczmarek:When I read "Would My Dad Love Me?"by Martha, I related to how Martha felt
about her father.I always wondered if my dad cared about me, or if he even loved me.All the kids would
be with their dads and they would ask me where my dad was, and I would tell them that he was out of
town.For all you kids who have a dad, tell him how much you love him because there are plenty of kids
who would love to have a dad.
Armen Abidian:This article describes everything about me and my life.When I was about 3 years old,
my mother and father had a big argument and got divorced.Now I"m 13 years old and I haven"t seen my
father for 10 years.Just like Martha, I don"t know what he looks like now, whether or not he"s got married to a different woman, or if he has another child.
Emma Ramirez:When Martha talked about how "most girls have dads who take them to their practices, buy them things and play with them", I thought I was one of those girls.I never stopped to think about how there are girls who have always dreamed of having those things but don"t have a father.After reading what Martha wrote, I told myself I would always appreciate the days I spend with my dad because I am very
lucky to have a dad who does so much for me.
Stephanie Felix:This article reminded me of how much I missed my dad when I was younger.I really
relate to this article because I used to always wonder about my dad, but not any more.Life without my
father has made me more independent and responsible.By reading this article I remember all of this and I
was able to understand what the writer was talking about.
1. The above four paragraphs are most probably ________.
A. comments on a book about a girl who has no father
B. comments on Martha"s opinion about parents" love
C. four people"s thoughts after reading Martha"s article
D. letters to Martha to comfort her
2. What does the passage suggest?
A. Martha"s father didn"t love her.
B. Martha didn"t grow up with her dad.
C. Martha was brought up by her grandparents.
D. Martha"s parents got divorced when she was 13.
3. What does Kasey Kaczmarek suggest kids do?
A. Not ask other kids where their dads are.
B. Be kind to those kids who don"t have a dad.
C. Tell their fathers how much they love them.
D. Spend as much time with their fathers as possible.
4. After reading what Martha wrote, Emma Ramirez ________.
A. decided to spend more time with her father
B. told herself to appreciate all that she had
C. realized how badly she behaved in the past
D. found how lucky she was to have a dad
5. Who became more independent and responsible living a life without a father?
A. Kasey Kaczmarek.
B. Stephanie Felix.
C. Emma Ramirez.
D. Armen Abidian. |
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Crying marriage? 1 (surprise), isn"t it?Actually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time
ago in many areas of Southwest China"s Sichuan Province, and 2 (remain) in fashion 3 the end of
the Qing Dynasty.Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many
places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a 4 (necessary) to marriage procedure.
It is very much 5 same in different places of the province.According to elderly people, every bride
had to cry at the wedding. 6 , the bride"s neighbors would look down upon 7 as a poorly cultivated
girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village.In fact, there were cases 8 which the bride
was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.
In a word, crying at wedding is a 9 by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words.However, in the 10 (arrange) marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed
quite a lot of brides who cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life. |
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Eddie McKay, a onceforgotten pilot is a subject of great interest to a group of history students in
Canada.
It all started when Graham Broad, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, fofund McKay"s
name in a footnote in a book about university history.McKay was included in a list of university alumni
(校友) who had served during the First World War, but his name was unfamiliar to Broad, a specialist
in military history.Out of curiosity, Broad spent hours at the local archives(档案馆)in a fruitless search
for information on McKay.Tired and discouraged, he finally gave up.On his way out, Broad"s glance
happened to fall on an exhibiting case showing some old newspapers.His eye was drawn to an old
picture of a young man in a rugby uniform.As he read the words beside the picture, he experienced a
thrilling realization."After looking for him all day, there he was, staring up at me out of the exhibiting case,
"said Broad.Excited by the find"Broad asked his students to continue his search.They combed old
newspapers and other materials for clues.Gradually, a picture came into view.
Captain Alfred Edwin McKay joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1916.He downed ten enemy
planes, outlived his entire squadron(中队)as a WWI flyer, spent some time as a flying instructor in
England, and then returned to the front, where he was eventually shot down over Belgium and killed in
December 1917.But there"s more to his story."For a brief time in 1916 he was probably the most
famous pilot in the world, "says Broad."He was credited with downing Oswald Boelcke, the most
famous German pilot at the time."Yet, in a letter home, McKay refused to take credit, saying that
Boelcke had actually crashed into another German plane.
McKay"s war records were destroyed during a World War ? air bombing on London-an explanation
for why he was all but forgotten.
But now, thanks to the efforts of Broad and his students, a marker in McKay"s memory was placed
on the university grounds in November 2007."I found my eyes filling with tears as I read the word "
deceased" (阵亡) next to his name, "said Corey Everrett, a student who found a picture of Mckay in
his uniform."This was such a simple example of the fact that he had been a student just like us, but instead of finishing his time at Western, he chose to fight and die for his country."
1. What made Professor Broad continue his search for more information on McKay?
A. A uniform of McKay.
B. A footnote about McKay.
C. A book on McKay.
D. A picture of McKay.
2. What did the students find out about McKay?
A. He trained pilots for some time.
B. He lived longer than other pilots.
C. He died in the Second World War.
D. He was downed by the pilot Boelcke.
3. McKay"s flying documents were destroyed in________.
A. Belgium
B. Germany
C. Canada
D. England
4. We can learn from the last paragraph that McKay________.
A. preferred fight to his study
B. went to war before graduation
C. left a picture for Corey Everrett
D. set an example for his fellow students
5. What is the text mainly about?
A. The research into war history.
B. The finding of a forgotten hero.
C. The pilots of the two world wars.
D. The importance of military studies. |
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