题目内容
Now more and more people like talking about something that they are interested in. Here is a page from an Internet Forum (论坛). Some people are discussing who is a better singer.
Internet Forum
| Writer | Time | Topic: Who’s a better singer, Andy Lau or Jacky Cheung? |
| Lucy | 1-17-2012 2:45 p.m. | Some people say Jacky Cheung is the best Chinese singer. I don’t think so! Andy Lau is the best. I went to his concert last year. It was so hard to believe, I almost cried! OK, I did cry. That’s because Andy Lau is so handsome! |
| Anita | 1-17-2012 4:38 p.m. | I don’t agree at all. Andy Lau sounds like every other singer. His voice is nothing special. However, Jacky Cheung’s is different from others’, and his songs are so romantic! |
| Tom | 1-17-2012 8:55 p.m. | I think they are about the same. But Jacky Cheung is really a better actor. I’ve seen almost all of his movies. Remember the one that he played the lead role of an airplane pilot in, and his plane hit a hill. I love that movie! |
| Peter | 1-18-2012 10:17 a.m. | I also think Jacky Cheung is a better singer, I prefer his Cantonese(粤语) songs. Maybe they sound better because Cantonese is his first language. |
| Anita | 1-18-2012 12:47 p.m. | I agree. Jacky Cheung’s Cantonese songs are better than his Mandarin(普通话) songs though I still like all his songs. |
【小题1】Who likes Andy Lau best?
| A．Lucy | B．Anita | C．Tom | D．Peter |
| A．Anita | B．Peter | C．Tom | D．Anita and Peter |
| A．Nobody likes Jacky Cheung’s movies. |
| B．Jacky Cheung is a good singer and actor. |
| C．Lucy has never seen an Andy Lau’s concert. |
| D．Anita thinks Andy Lau’s voice is more special than Jacky Cheung’s. |
【小题1】A
【小题2】D
【小题3】B
解析试题分析：这篇短文中主要考察了论坛上几个人，关于讨论谁是最好的歌手的帖子。通过讨论我们可以知道张学友不但是一名不错的歌手，还是一个很好演员。
【小题1】根据第二行露西发的帖子中Andy Lau is the best.描述，可知选A。
【小题2】根据表格后两行彼得和安妮塔的发言，可知他们认为张学友一个更好的歌手。故选D。
【小题3】根据汤姆及其他人的表示可知张学友不但是一名不错的歌手，还是一个很好演员。故选B。
考点：关于一个歌手的议论文阅读
点评：本文浅显易懂，层次分明，学生很容易把握文章中心内容。答题中注意带着问题阅读短文，一般就能顺利找出答题依据。对于不能直接找到根据的问题注意联系上下文，根据短文中心总结出正确答案。
Strategy One
●Each week, choose one day when you don’t eat meat. Meat takes up lots of energy because it takes a long time to produce. And animals must be fed on farmed plants, which could be used to feed many more people.
Strategy Two
●Only buy the amount of food you need. When you buy food, go local rather than imported (进口的), and get fresh vegetables instead of frozen.
Strategy Three
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Strategy Four
●Take showers rather than baths and reduce your shower time by two minutes. This will save water and give you an extra two minutes in bed.
Strategy Five
●Buses and trains are better than cars, but walking or cycling is better still. It’s also better for your health and cheaper. It can even be quicker than sitting in a car at rush hours in a busy city. For long distances, coaches are better than trains.
Strategy Six
●Try to buy good, long-lasting products even though they may cost a little more. A small screen TV is better than a big screen. Keep your electronic products one year longer than you would usually have.
【小题1】What does the underline phrase “low carbon” in paragraph one mean?
| A．便宜 | B．低碳 | C．高效 | D．舒适 |
| A．When we produce the meat, we need to take up lots of energy. |
| B．Taking showers in less time will help for saving the water. |
| C．When you go for a long-distance trip, you’d better drive your own car. |
| D．Buying the long-lasting products is a good idea to have a low carbon life. |
| A．It helps to know walking is one of the low carbon lives. |
| B．It helps to realize how important it is to have a low carbon life. |
| C．It advises to save water and electric to have a low carbon life. |
| D．It advises to kick some bad habits and have a low carbon life. |
Fashion isn’t very environmentally-friendly because it makes people buy things they don’t need, just because they’re new. We want to take care of the environment, we don’t want to pollute the air and we don’t want to waste energy and resources. But we also want to be fashionable. How can we buy fashionable clothes and protect the environment?
Old styles are fashionable again, so one way is to buy second-hand clothes — recycled clothes. Another way is to buy’ fair trade clothes. These clothes are either recycled or made in a ’ way that protects the environment. They also protect the people who make the clothes.
Surprisingly, white cotton is one of the least environmentally-friendly crops of all. To protect the cotton, the growers use chemicals that pollute water, make farm workers ill and kill wildlife. New materials, such as hemp and bamboo, grow quickly and are more environmentally-friendly. These materials are very soft, and look fantastic. The best materials are coloured using natural dyes, made from plants.
Environmentally-friendly clothes are practical but until now they were often dull. Now fashion-designers are working with these materials and the clothes are beautiful as well. So now we can buy fashionable clothes that are also environmentally-friendly.
【小题1】Why do people often buy things they don’t need? Because_.
| A．new things can be more comfortable |
| B．everyone wants to be fashionable |
| C．people are richer than before now |
| D．people care about the environment |
| A．Recycled fashion. | B．The problem with fashion. |
| C．Fashion doesn’t have to pollute. | D．New materials. |
| A．Materials soft and looking fantastic. |
| B．Any materials coloured using natural dyes. |
| C．Hemp and bamboo. |
| D．White cotton. |
| A．people pay more attention to our environment |
| B．environmentally-friendly clothes are practical |
| C．all old styles become fashionable again |
| D．fashion-designers are working to make them beautiful |
| A．Cotton or Hemp and Bamboo? |
| B．Environmentally-friendly Clothes |
| C．Old Style, New Fashion Again |
| D．Fashion and the Environment |
Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis Cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ’You are completely crazy,’" Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
【小题1】The turning point in Saunders’ life came when ________.
| A．he started to play ball games |
| B．he got a mountain bike at age 15 |
| C．he ran his first marathon at age 18 |
| D．he started to receive Ridgway’s training |
| A．dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy |
| B．built up his body together with Saunders |
| C．hired Saunders for his cold-water experience |
| D．won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic |
| A．He once worked at a school in Scotland. |
| B．He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole. |
| C．He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid. |
| D．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole. |
| A．Excited | B．Convinced | C．Delighted | D．Fascinated |
| A．was accompanied by his old playmates |
| B．set a record in the North Pole expedition |
| C．was supported by other Arctic explorers |
| D．made him well-known in the 1960s |