题目内容
The whole name of ________ is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- A.China
- B.American
- C.Russian
- D.England
We are all busy taking about and using the Internet. But how many of us know the history of the Internet?
Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, information could be sent through another part. In this way, computer network system would keep on working all the time.
At first the Internet was only used by the government (政府). But in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it, too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing” the Internet more convenient.
Today it is easy to get on-line and it is said millions of people use the Internet every day. Sending e-mails is more and more popular among students.
The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people’s life.
【小题1】The Internet has a history of more than _________ years.
A.fifty | B.ten | C.forty | D.twenty |
A.make computers cheaper |
B.make itself keep on working all the time |
C.break down the whole networks |
D.make computers large and expensive |
A.the government | B.universities | C.hospital and banks | D.schools |
A.Computers | B.Scientists | C.Software | D.Information |
A.In the 1960s, computer networks worked well |
B.In the early 1970s, the Internet was easy to use. |
C.Sending e-mails is more popular among students than before. |
D.Today it is still not easy to get on-line. |
Oil is so important that it is sometimes called “black gold”. Almost half of our energy comes from oil. We use it to run our cars and factories and to heat our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday things are made from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the material. The soap you wash your hands with might also be made from oil. Your favorite plastic toy is made from oil.
Oil is hard to find, because it is trapped deep under the earth. Once the only way people knew there was oil someplace if it leaked(渗漏)out of the ground. Today, however, we have many ways of finding oil. One tool measures(测量)the pull of gravity. Places where gravity is weaker are more likely to have oil. Another tool is sound waves(声波). Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. We can use them to find the rocks that have oil in them.
We need a lot of oil, and we are using up the oil wells we know about. Soon we must find new ways of looking for this “black gold”.
1.Which of the following isn’t the way to help find oil?
A. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds.
B. People measure the pull of gravity to know if there is oil.
C. Sound waves tell us where the oil has leaked out of the ground.
D. People know there is oil if it leaks out of the ground.
2.Which of the following does the passage lead you to believe?
A. Oil was firstly found by measuring gravity.
B. Many things are made from oil.
C. We will never run out of oil.
D. Our lives would not be different if we didn’t have oil.
3.The main idea of the whole story is that ________________.
A. many things are made from oil
B. we must find new ways of looking for oil
C. people spend a lot of time looking for oil
D. oil is important for us but hard to find