题目内容
Like many people, I have no clear idea about heroes. At some point, we all wonder if we need a hero and what a hero really is.
Although there are a lot of differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics (特点) which give us courage and make us want to learn from them.
A hero does something worth talking about. A hero has a special story to tell and people think highly of it. But a hero is not just the person with great fame (声誉) .
A hero has powers (力量) larger than himself. Some people want to live like a hero, and they have to experience life with new and further meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom they serve. What do they want to live and die for? If the answer suggests they serve only their own fame, they may be famous persons but not heroes.
A hero has a vision from the mountaintop. He has the power to move people. He creates new possibilities. Without Gandhi, India might still be part of Britain. Without Martin Luther King, Jr., Americans might take different buses, eat in different restaurants, go for walks in different parks, and shop in different stores because of the different colors of their skin.
There might be changes in society without a hero, but the speed of change would be rather slow. Thanks to heroes in history, they make the society develop so rapidly.
【小题1】According to this passage, a hero is a person who always __________.
A.gives us courage | B.thinks highly of others |
C.shares great fame | D.stands on the mountaintop |
A.experience a new and meaningful life |
B.listen to something worth talking about |
C.serve your own fame and try to be famous |
D.know where and how you want to live and die |
A.风景 | B.想象 |
C.远见 | D.形象 |
A.shop at the white’s stores |
B.drive buses with the white |
C.take walks in the white’s parks |
D.eat in restaurants without the white |
A.We don’t need heroes anymore at some point now. |
B.Heroes are all the same though different in cultures. |
C.People get power from heroes to move to a new place. |
D.Our society has developed faster because of heroes in history. |
【小题1 】A
【小题 2】A
【小题3 】C
【小题 4】D
【小题5 】D
解析【小题1 】根据文章内容Although there are a lot of differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics (特点) which give us courage and make us want to learn from them. 可知答案为A
【小题2 】根据文章内容Some people want to live like a hero, and they have to experience life with new and further meaning.可知答案为A
【小题3 】根据单词的意思可知答案为C
【小题 4】根据文章内容Without Martin Luther King, Jr., Americans might take different buses, eat in different restaurants, go for walks in different parks, and shop in different stores because of the different colors of their skin. 可知答案为D
【小题 5】根据文章内容可知答案为D
Mary is an American girl. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Smith find work in China. So they live in Wuhan now. Mr. Smith works in a big shop. Mrs. Smith teaches English in a middle school. Mary goes to that school on weekdays. On Sundays she goes shopping with her mother. She likes dumplings very much. Every time they’d like many dumplings. It’s 6:30 in the evening now. Mrs.Smith is cooking. Mr. Smith is helping her with the housework. What’s Mary doing? She is doing her homework carefully.
【小题1】Mary is in ______ now.
A.America | B.England | C.Chinese | D.Wuhan |
A.Mr. and Mrs. Smith | B.Mr. Smith and Mary |
C.Mrs. Smith and Mary | D.The Smith family |
As prices and building costs keep rising, the do-it-yourself(DIY) trend(趋势) in the U.S. continues to grow.
“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Ross, “And we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decide to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2-week course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at time job at home as well as in a shoe-making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourselfer”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.
【小题1】We can learn from the text that many newly married people .
A.find it hard to pay for what they need |
B.have to learn to make their own furniture |
C.take DIY courses run by the government |
D.seldom go to a department store to buy things |
A.makes shoes in his home |
B.does extra work at night |
C.does his own car and home repairs |
D.keeps house and looks after his children |
A.his car repairs cost too much |
B.the car repair class was not helpful |
C.he could not possibly do two jobs |
D.he had to raise the children all by himself |
A.The Joy of DIY |
B.You can DO It too! |
C.Welcome to our DIY Course |
D.Ross and Hat field; Believe in DIY |