阅读理解。 There are three different kinds of friends in our life. I classify (分类
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| 阅读理解。 |
There are three different kinds of friends in our life. I classify (分类) them according to how well I
know them and how well they know me.
The first type of friend is just an acquaintance (熟人). This means that you only know their names.
You might not even remember what they look like if you go away for a short vacation. You don"t miss
them when they are elsewhere. It is also this type of friend who gives you the most amount of aggravation(恼怒). Since most of the time you are placed in a position where you have to act friendly. You would
not normally tell an acquaintance when he or she is doing something that makes you feel angry, such as
tapping the fingers on a table or shouting loudly. I call them "pest friends".
The second kind of friend is a "guest friend". They are just social partners. You meet them at a certain
location and at the end of the meeting you go your separate way and they go theirs. You don"t talk too
often with this sort of friend, and you don"t share each other"s secrets.
Lastly, we have "best friends". This sort of friend is there when you need them. They know you as a
person and they are there through thick and thin. Best friends are the ones that you can lean and depend
on no matter what happens. If you need a listening ear, they will be the one to lend support.
Friends come in all different shapes and sizes. Every friend has an impact on our life.… |
| 1. What is this passage mainly about? |
A. What a true friend is like.
B. Three kinds of friends in our life.
C. The role that friends play in our life.
D. Why there are different kinds of friends. |
| 2. According to the writer, when a friend of the first type acts in an annoying way, you ______. |
A. can tell him/her about it directly
B. should stay away from him/her
C. should advise him/her to correct his/her behavior
D. may find it hard to tell him/her not to do so |
| 3. Which of the following statements is WRONG about the second type of friend? |
A. They are only social partners.
B. You don"t talk very often with them.
C. You don"t share your secrets with them.
D. They are called "pest friends" by the writer. |
| 4. If someone is with you through thick and thin, it means ______. |
A. he/she is your pest friend for sure
B. he/she agrees with whatever you say
C. you spend most of your time together
D. he/she is with you even when there are difficulties |
答案
| 1-4: BDDD |
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| 阅读理解。 |
Believe it or not, optical illusion (错觉) can cut highway crashes.
Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using
a simple optical illusion. But stripes, called chevrons (人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think
that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.
Now the American Automobile Association Foundation (基金会) for Traffic Safety in Washington
D.C. is planning to repeat Japan"s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and
other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce
highway crashes.
Excessive (too great) speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all fatal traffic accidents,
according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas
where speed-related hazards are the greatest curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges.
Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average
speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used
to seeing the painted bars.
Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed
and the number of traffic accidents. |
| 1. The passage mainly discusses ________. |
A. a new way of highway speed control
B. a new pattern for painting highways
C. a new way of training drivers
D. a new type of optical illusion |
| 2. The underlined word "hazards" probably means ________. |
A. accidents
B. traffic jams
C. dangers
D. cases |
| 3. The advantage of chevrons over straight, horizontal bars is that the former ________. |
A. can keep drivers awake
B. can cut road accidents in half
C. will look more attractive
D. will have a longer effect on drivers |
| 阅读理解。 |
One of my favorite things I like to watch is the bloopers (洋相) and outtakes (花絮) that are shown
of mistakes made during the making of a movie. Most DVDs have a section of outtakes, and often they
will set me off laughing, especially when you know what was supposed to happen.
We all make mistakes, and have many bloopers and outtakes in a lifetime. Some of them may be
funny like movie bloopers, a stupid mistake and we are able to laugh at ourselves. Other outtakes in life,
however, are not funny. I am referring to the tragic turns of events that happen in life that can turn our life
in a moment. Accidents, disaster, the death of a loved one happen unexpectedly, and can greatly affect
our lives. These are outtakes we would prefer not to happen or even replayed in our life.
Times of crisis and tragedy can not be prevented, but how you handle these outtakes will affect the
rest of your life. There is always a choice in any crisis. We can choose to feel upset, but keep hopes and
move forward, or choose to become stuck in the past. We cannot choose our circumstances, but we do
have a choice how we respond to them. We can give in or overcome, and our choice will determine our
future. When we drive a car our focus is the road ahead; if we spend all our time looking in the rearview
mirror(后视镜) failure is more or less inevitable(不可避免)! The same is true in life. We will fail, or at
best remain at a standstill if we keep looking back and focusing on the events behind us, reliving the past. |
| 1.The author mentions the outtakes of a movie in the first paragraph because . |
A. most people have the hobby of watching them
B. they are part of a movie
C. he wants to direct us to his topic in a natural way
D. he just wants to tell us a story |
| 2. The outtakes in our life are different from those of a movie because . |
A. not all of them are funny
B. they can be avoided
C. they are more funny
D. they happen more often |
| 3. The purpose of the author is to tell us . |
A. the different kinds of outtakes in real life
B. his funny experience in watching a movie
C. to choose the right attitude towards outtakes in life
D. what we should learn from the outtakes in real life |
| 4. What would be the best title for the passage? |
A. Outtakes! Give in or overcome?
B. Outtakes will destroy you.
C. There is always a choice in any crisis.
D. Keep hopes whatever happens. |
| 阅读理解。 |
Around the world more and more people are taking part in dangerous sports and activities. Of course,
there have always been people who have looked for adventure-those who have climbed the highest
mountains, explored unknown parts of the world or sailed in small boats across the greatest oceans.
Now, however, there are people who seek an immediate thrill from a risky activity which may only last a
few minutes or even seconds.
I would consider bungee-jumping to be a good example of such an activity. You jump from a high
place (perhaps a bridge or a hot-air balloon)200 meters above the ground with an elastic(有弹性的)
rope tied to your ankles. You fall at up to 150 kilometers. It is estimated that 2 million people around the
world have now tried bungee-jumping. Other activities which most people would say are as risky as
bungee-jumping involve jumping from tall buildings and diving into the sea from the top of high cliffs.
Why do people take part in such activities as these? Some psychologists suggest that it is because life
in modern societies has become safe and boring. Not very long ago people"s lives were constantly under
threat. They had to go out and hunt for food, diseases could not easily be cured, and life was a
continuous battle for survival.
Nowadays, according to many people, life offers little excitement. They live and work in comparatively safe environments；they buy food in shops；and there are doctors and hospitals to look after them if they become ill. The answer for some of these people is to seek danger in activities such as bungee-jumping. |
| 1. A suitable title for the text is " ". |
A. Dangerous Sports:What and Why?
B. The Boredom of Modern Life
C. Bungee-jumping:Is It Really Dangerous?
D. The Need for Excitement |
| 2. More and more people today are . |
A. trying activities such as bungee-jumping
B. climbing the highest mountains
C. coming close to death in sports
D. looking for adventures such as exploring unknown places |
| 3. People take part in dangerous sports nowadays probably because . |
A. they have a lot of free time
B. they can go to hospital when they are injured
C. their lives are short of excitement
D. they no longer need to hunt for food |
| 4. What does the word "thrill" in the first paragraph mean? |
A. a strong feeling of excitement
B. a feeling of unhappiness
C. a feeling of feeling upset
D. a feeling of being frightened |
| 完形填空。 |
What I Want for You and Every Child in America
Dear Malia and Sasha,
I know that you"ve both had a lot of 1 these last two years on the campaign trail, going to picnics
and parades and state fairs, eating all sorts of junk food your mother and I probably shouldn"t have let
you have.But I also know that it hasn"t always been easy for you and Mom, and that as excited as you
both are about that new puppy, it doesn"t 2 for all the time we"ve been apart.I know 3 I"ve missed
these past two years, and today I want to tell you a little more about why I decided to take our family
on this journey.
When I was a young man, I thought life was all about me-about how I"d 4 my way in the world,
become successful, and get the things I want.But then the two of you came into my 5 with all your
curiosity and mischief (捣乱) and those smiles that never 6 to fill my heart and light up my day.
I want all our children to go to schools 7 of their potential-schools that challenge them, inspire them,
and instill (灌输) in them a sense of 8 about the world around them.I want them to have the chance to
go to college 9 their parents aren"t rich.And I want them to get good jobs: jobs that pay well and give
them benefits like health care, jobs that let them spend time with their own 10 and retire with dignity.
I want us to 11 the boundaries of discovery so that you"ll live to see new technologies and
inventions that improve our lives and make our planet cleaner and safer.And I want us to push our own
human boundaries to reach 12 the divides of race and region, gender and religion that 13 us from
seeing the best in each other.
That was the 14 your grandmother tried to teach me when I was your age, reading me the opening
lines of the Declaration of Independence and telling me about the men and women who marched for 15
because they believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should mean 16 .
She helped me understand that America is great not because it is perfect but because it can always be
made better and that the 17 work of perfecting our union falls to each of us.It"s a charge we pass on to
our children, coming closer with each new generation to 18 we know America should be.
These are the things I want for you, to 19 in a world with no limits on your dreams and no
achievements beyond your reach.And I want every child to have the same chances to learn and dream
and grow and thrive that you girls have.That"s why I"ve taken our family on this great adventure.
I am so proud of both of you.I love you 20 you can ever know.And I am grateful every day for your
patience, poise (自信), grace, and humor as we prepare to start our new life together in the White House.
Love, Dad |
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( )3. A. how much
( )4. A. lose
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( )6. A. succeed
( )7. A. worth
( )8. A. humor
( )9. A. even if
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( )20. A. rather than | B. fun
B. pick up
B. how many
B. make
B. family
B. come
B. worthless
B. happiness
B. as if
B. kids
B. catch
B. in
B. let
B. method
B. quality
B. something
B. finished
B. who
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B. other than | C. pain
C. make up
C. how soon
C. take
C. position
C. tend
C. worthwhile
C. wonder
C. though
C. boys
C. push
C. into
C. make
C. means
C. equality
C. anything
C. unfinishing
C. what
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C. less than | D. gain
D. put up
D. how long
D. walk
D. place
D. fail
D. worthy
D. sadness
D. although
D. girls
D. pull
D. beyond
D. warn
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D. nothing
D. finishing
D. that
D. get up
D. more than | | 阅读理解。 | Jeffery Deaver looks more like a brainy villain (反派人物) in a James Bond movie than a "00" agent
in Her Majesty"s secret service.Best known for his thrillers starring criminalist (刑事专家) Lincoln Rhyme, Jeffery Deaver has a new mission: Bring Bond into the 21st century in a new 007 novel.
The yet-to-be-named book is cryptically (隐秘地) referred to as "Project X" by Ian Fleming
Publications Ltd., which owns the rights to Fleming"s work.Most of the details surrounding Project X, to
be published in May, are being kept under wraps, but under gentle coaxing (用好话劝诱) Deaver begins
to spill his guts."The novel," he says, "is set in the present day, in 2011.Bond is a young agent for the
British secret service.He"s 29 or 30 years old, and he"s an Afghan war vet." That in itself is big news.
After all, if Bond were aging in real time - he first appeared on the screen in 1953 - the now doddering
(老态龙钟的) 007 would be nearly 90.
But first up: a new stand-alone Deaver novel, Edge (Simon & Schuster, $26.99), to be published
Tuesday.It"s about a federal agent who risks his life to protect a Washington police detective from a man
hired to extract information from him using any means at his disposal (任由个人支配的).
Sipping coffee while seated on a leather chair in a sitting room decorated with portraits of his dogs
and show ribbons, the mild-mannered author who writes about murderers and serial killers talks about
his career and the solid fan base that has allowed him to pursue writing full time since 1990."I may not
sell as many books as John Grisham (although he has sold a cool 20 million), but I have a very loyal fan
base," says Deaver, 60, who wrote some of his novels while working as a Wall Street lawyer.Deaver"s
initiation into the Bond family - more than 100 million 007 novels have sold worldwide - could
significantly raise his profile (知名度).
Other novelists have written Bond novels since Ian Fleming"s death in 1964 - including Kingsley Amis,
John Gardner and, most recently, Sebastian Faulks - but they all took place in the original era.Deaver is
taking a new approach."There"s no more Cold War to fight," says Deaver, so his new Bond, of the
Fleming estate, will fight "post-9/11 evil." "I want to stay true to the original James Bond, who many
people don"t know much about," he says, referring to the secret agent Fleming portrayed in 14 novels,
and not the movie Bond."People know Daniel Craig, they know Pierce Brosnan , they know Roger
Moore and Sean Connery , all of whom brought a great deal to the stories of 007.But the original Bond
was a very dark, edgy (另类的) character." | | 1.Which of the following is NOT true about Jeffery Deaver ? | A. Jeffery Deaver is a "00" agent in Her Majesty"s secret service in a James Bond movie.
B. Jeffery Deaver was working as a lawyer while he wrote some novels about murderers and serial killers.
C. It is the loyal fan base that has allowed Jeffery Deaver to keep on writing since 1990.
D. Jeffery Deaver is best known for his thrillers rather than for 007 novels. | | 2. Which statement best explains the meaning of "spill his guts" in Paragraph 2? | A. Tell others what he knows about the yet-to-be-named 007 novel.
B. Tell others everything he knows about Ian Fleming Publications Ltd..
C. Have the courage to talk about the 007 agent James Bond.
D. Have the determination to talk about "Project X". | | 3.Who was the author of 007 novels? | A. Jeffery Deaver
B. Ian Fleming
C. John Grisham
D. Kingsley Amis | | 4.What do you know about the new 007 novel from the passage? | A.The book to be published in May is named "Project X" by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd..
B.The book is about a federal agent risking his life to protect a Washington police detective.
C.The book features a young James Bond, an Afghan war vet working for the British secret service.
D.The book features a young James Bond who fights Cold War. | 最新试题
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