题目内容
阅读下面短文,把A-D四个句子填入文中空缺处,使短文内容完整正确,然后完成第80小题。
Chinese space lover Wang Yuan has been chosen as one of the volunteers for the Mars-500 test project. 【小题1】 Another five volunteers are all space. They are three Russians, an
Italy-Colombian and a Frenchman. They will feel what it's like to travel to Mars without leaving the earth. During the whole process (过程), they are locked up for one and a half years under the condition which is similar to the red planet. So the experiment is called Mare-500.
【小题2】 Although the volunteers won't leave the building, they will feel as if(好像) they are on a real trip to Mars. The most difficult thing is that they will be separated from the people outside. 【小题3】 That will be hard. When reporters asked what they would miss most during the 500-day special life, Charles from France said, "For me, it will be mainly my family, the sun and fresh air."
The main task is to study "Man and Environment". It will care about the astronauts' physical
effects and the experience of staying there. 【小题4】 So they will have to make decisions by themselves and then report to the earth, and the earth will tell them whether they do the right thing or not.
Each astronaut is preparing for the great challenge. And people are looking forward to the result of the experiment.
A. Everyone will stay and work there alone. B. For 18 months, they won't see sunsets or sunrises. C. The Mars-500 test will be in a special building in Moscow. D. He was very happy to be chosen and will accept the challenge. |
A.Five space lovers were chosen as volunteers. |
B.The Mars-500 test will take place in Paris. |
C.The volunteers will face many sorts of difficulties. |
D.The Mars-500 test is about a real trip to Mars. |
【小题1】D
【小题2】C
【小题3】B
【小题4】A
【小题5】C
解析试题分析:短文大意:这篇短文主要介绍了火星—500计划。其主要内容就是志愿者将在一座与外面隔绝的大楼里面独自工作和生活十八个月,并将这些数据返回给地球,为人类登陆火星的计划提供研究数据。
【小题1】联系前一句,中国的太空爱好者王元被选为火星——500载人航天飞行计划的志愿者之一。可知选D,他非常高兴当选,并愿意接受这个挑战。
【小题2】联系下一句,尽管这些志愿者不会离开这座大楼,他们也会感觉好像他们真正的去火星旅行了。可知选C,这个火星—500测试会在莫斯科的一个特殊的大楼里面。
【小题3】联系前文,最困难的事情是他们会与外面的人分离,及下文那会很困难。可知选B,他们会有十八个月看不到日出和日落。
【小题4】联系下文,因此他们将不得不靠自己做决定,然后报告给地球……,可知选A,每个人都将在那儿独自工作和生活。
【小题5】根据短文描述,可知这些志愿者在十八个月内独自工作和生活,可知他们会遇到很多困难,故选C。
考点:任务型阅读。
Parts of Africa are covered by a dark cloud. But this is no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions of locusts (蝗虫) and they are eating everything in their path.
And now in order to fight against this disaster, a radio station in Senegal, West Africa, is offering listeners 5 kilograms of rice if they can catch and kill 50 kilograms of locusts. “We think this idea will get more people to take part in the fight against the locusts,” said Abdoulaye Ba, from Sud-Fm, a radio station in one of Senegal’s worst affected area.
This is West Africa’s biggest locust disaster in 15 years. Now it is moving east and it leads to the loss of crops. When they move, they have babies, so their number is getting bigger. and will soon threaten (威胁) Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it may reach Asia.
Experts say many people in the areas will go hungry because of this disaster. What’s worse, governments in the areas don’t have enough things to fight the locusts.
Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan, it is not enough. ‘We are now treating 6,000 hectares (公顷) per day with pesticide (杀虫剂), but we need to treat 20,000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster,’ said Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah, leader of locust control(控制) in Mauritania.
【小题1】What does“dark cloud”mean in the first paragraph, the writer of the article ___________.
A.wanted to show the size and speed(速度) of the coming locusts |
B.wanted to show the great damage that locusts may cause |
C.wanted that locusts could cover the continent like rain clouds |
D.both A and B |
A.may be even more serious in Asia |
B.is (was) such a big problem that people can’t do anything to solve it. |
C.affected only the warning areas |
D.can not be stopped if people can’t get more pesticide. |
A.15 | B.25 | C.30 | D.45 |
A.Sud-Fm offered a reward(奖励) to those people would join in catching and killing locusts. |
B.Senegal is to the northwest of Sudan. |
C.People in West Africa often go hungry. |
D.12 countries worked together but they didn’t have enough pesticide. |
A.Countries in West Africa worked together to fight a natural disaster |
B.the difficulty in controlling locusts |
C.how locusts caused great damage (破坏) to West Africa |
D.a fight against a disaster brought by locusts in West Africa |
Name | Personal Information |
Norman Bethune | ·Born in 1890 in Canada ·A doctor ·Came to China in 1938 ·Died in 1939 in China |
Celine Dion | ·Born in Montreal, Canada ·A singing star ·In 1997, sang My Heart Will Go On for the film Titanic |
Thomas Edison | ·Born in 1847, Kentucky, the USA ·Made over 1,000 inventions ·Died in 1931 |
Bill Gates | ·Born in 1955 in the USA ·Wrote Business at the Speed of Thought ·Owned Microsoft Company |
Mark Twain | ·Born in 1835 in the USA ·A writer ·Died in 1910 ·Wrote Tom Sawyer |
【小题1】根据表格第三行描述,可知席琳迪翁出生在加拿大的蒙特利尔,故选D.
【小题2】根据表格最后一行描述,可知马克吐温是个作家,他出生在1835年.故选B.
【小题3】根据表格第三行描述,可知我心永恒是首歌曲的名字,故选C.
【小题4】根据表格第二行描述,可知白求恩在1938年来到中国,在1939年去世,故他在中国生活了两年.选A.
【小题5】根据表格第四行描述,可知爱迪生的发明超过一千多项.故选C.
【小题6】_______ is from Canada.
A.Bill Gates | B.Mark Twain | C.Thomas Edison | D.Celine Dion |
A.inventor | B.writer | C.doctor | D.singer |
A.book | B.film | C.song | D.story |
A.2 | B.4 | C.6 | D.8 |
A.Mark Twain wrote Business at the Speed of Thought. |
B.Bill Gates started working for Microsoft Company in 1995. |
C.Thomas Edison made over 1,000 inventions. |
D.Celine Dion stopped singing 1997. |
In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers(乘客). Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food or drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.
Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.
Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延误),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.
The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.
At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was a hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned $1 an hour.
In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.
【小题1】The underlined word “adventurous” means _____________.
A.奇怪的 | B.平淡的 | C.有趣的 | D.冒险的 |
A.her flying experience | B.her university education |
C.her nursing experience | D.her life attitudes |
A.be a nurse | B.be married | C.be a mother | D.be young |
A.the background of early flying pilots |
B.the experience of flying passengers |
C.the history of early flight attendants |
D.the development of airplanes |
A crow(乌鸦) is about twenty inches(英寸) long and black all over. Crows are dirty birds because they live on bad food. Crows eat a lot of waste food. In this way they are more useful to us than any birds. They clean up the dirty things in our streets. Crows are always hungry. They look for food all day, and in the evening you can see them in large numbers flying back to their nests(巢) in the trees. They sleep there at night.
Crows are much noisier than other birds. Very often a large number of crows will get together on one house and talk. Sometimes they talk together, and sometimes they do it by turns(轮流) like human beings(人类). It is easy to tell(判断) from crow’s sound if they are pleased or angry. Perhaps crows talk a lot because they are friendly birds. A pair of crows will live together all their lives, and if one of them dies, the other one becomes very sad and quiet for the rest of its life and some time later it dies too.
【小题1】Crows “live on bad food” means “ _________ ”.
A.Crows eat old bad food. |
B.Old bad food is crows’ nests. |
C.Crows make their nests on old bad food. |
D.Crows sleep on old bad food. |
A.are clean birds |
B.can move away waste food |
C.can make our streets clean |
D.aren’t dirty |
A.in the evening | B.all day | C.in the morning | D.at night |
A.together | B.by turns | C.noisily | D.quietly |
A.they will not live together. |
B.neither of them can live alone happily. |
C.they will die |
D.one of them will die |
Baron Pierre de Coubertin was a Frenchman. At his time sports were not taught in French schools. De Coubertin believed that sports should go hand in hand with studies. He had an idea. His idea was to begin the Olympics all over again.
Sports teachers of other countries liked De Coubertin ideas. So in 1896, the modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece. Since then the Olympics have been held once every four years, except three times, when there were wars.
The modern Olympic games have many foot races and field sports programs. The longest race in the games is called marathon.
Before the start of the Olympic Games, runners carry lighted torch(火炬) through many nations towards the stadium where the games will be held. These sportsmen are from different countries. Yet they work together to carry the Olympic torch. It is passed from runner to runner, When the last runner enters the stadium, he or she places the torch in a special basin filled with oil. It catches fire. It is then, only then, that the Olympic Games can begin.
The Olympic flame burns throughout the games. It is the flame of peace.
【小题1】Before 1896 French schools didn't teach ______.
A.match | B.history | C.sports | D.physics |
A.was the first man to start the Olympics |
B.helped start the modern Olympics |
C.believed that sports were less important than studies |
D.failed to began the modern Olympics |
A.1914 | B.1904 | C.1896 | D.1908 |
A.a foot race | B.a jumping contest | C.a field sport | D.a boxing match |
A.The Olympics do not begin until the basin of oil catches the fire. |
B.The torch is carried from runner to runner through many countries. |
C.Runners who carry the torch can be men or women. |
D.After the start of the Olympics, the Olympic flame is put out. |
Word box: publish 出版 achievement 成就
Newbery Medal 纽伯瑞文学奖 Guinness 吉尼斯
根据表格所提供的信息选择最佳答案。
【小题1】 of the books in the form were written by American writers.
A. Two B. Three C. Four
【小题2】The book that came out in 1957 was written by .
A.Gary | B.Schmidt | C.Paulo Coelho | D.Theodore Geisel |
A. The Wednesday Wars
B. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
C. The Alchemist
【小题4】The book that broke the Guinness record came out .
A. in 1947 B. in 1988 C. in 1903
【小题5】Which of the following is NOT true according to the information above?
A. The theme of the book The Cat in the Hat is a natural and easy attitude to life.
B. Only one of the four books won the Newbery Medal.
C. The book with the theme of a positive attitude to difficulty came out when the writer was 41 years old.
If someone says to you: “give me five”, do not search your pocket to get five yuan! It will make others laugh! The person's not asking for your money, but your fingers.
In the US, "give me five" or "give me the high five" is a popular gesture (动作). You can see it often in films or on TV. It means the slapping (拍) of each other's raised (举起的) right hands together.
People do it when they meet for the first time or something happy happens. For example, a student has good marks in exams or wins a lottery ticket (彩票). If a football team wins a game, the players will give high fives to everyone around to celebrate.
This gesture may come from the old Roman gesture of raising the right arm for the emperor(皇帝). This showed that the person raising his arm did not have a sword (刀) in his hand.
Why not try to give the high five to your friends?
【小题1】“Give me five” is a gesture to __________.
A.make people laugh | B.ask for money |
C.celebrate success | D.search one’s pocket |
A.toes | B.hands | C.arms | D.legs |
A.lose your money | B.go back home |
C.win a football game | D.do badly in exam |
A.they were proud of their emperor |
B.they were happy to see the emperor |
C.they wanted to show there were no swords in their hands |
D.we don’t know |