题目内容
During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island (岛屿), I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”
So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole (洞) in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe (独木舟). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.
That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.
My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.
I kept food and tools (工具) at both my houses, and also wild goats (山羊). There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn (玉米) fields. And so many years went by.
1. The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.
A. escape in it B. get to the other side of the island[来源:ZXXK]
C. use it for food D. go around the island
2. To survive, the writer did the following EXCEPT _____________.
A. keeping goats for milk B. making clothes from animal skins
C. working in the cornfields D. going fishing in the sea
3.Why didn’t the writer use his first canoe?
A. Because it was too small for a long journey.
B. Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea.
C. Because there was something wrong with it.
D. Because the writer was busy building a second house.
4.From the story, we can learn that _____________.
A. the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island
B. the writer had nothing to do on the wild island
C. the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed
D. the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom
1.A
2.D
3.B
4.A
【解析】略
Japan is made up of a chain of islands that lie off the coast of Asia. People came to live in Japan from the nearby countries of China and Korea. From these older countries, the Japanese borrowed ideas, inventions and habits.
For many years, the Japanese built houses like those in China. They dressed themselves like a Chinese. From China came their way of writing and their habit of drinking tea.
In more recent times, the Japanese have borrowed things from our country, the United States. They have a government like ours. They do much work in science, as we do. Baseball is a favorite sport in Japan, just as it is here.
Things change when they come to Japan. The Japanese improve on almost everything they borrow. The art of garden making came from Korea and China, but the Japanese gardens are special. Each garden has a waterfall, a pond, and small bridges. There are few flowers in Japanese gardens. But the gardens are green during all the year round because they have many evergreens. Japanese gardens have a different kind of beauty.
【小题1】 The first paragraph of the passage tells us that ________ centuries ago.
| A．the Japanese borrowed ideas only from China and Korea |
| B．people came to live in Japan from neighbouring Asian countries |
| C．Japan is much older than Korea |
| D．many Japanese came from the United States |
| A．just as it is in the United States |
| B．just as it is in China |
| C．just as it is in Japan |
| D．just as it is in Asia |
| A．They wanted very much to be different from others. |
| B．They didn’t like them the way they were. |
| C．They wanted visitors to like the change. |
| D．They tried to make them better. |
| A．Japanese gardens are different from those in other countries but not very beautiful |
| B．Japanese gardens are full of life during all the seasons |
| C．Japanese gardens are not very big |
| D．There are many flowers in Japanese gardens |
| A．The government of Japan is like that of the United States. |
| B．People in the United States like playing baseball. |
| C．The Japanese invented the habit of drinking tea. |
| D．Japan is made up of many islands. |
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