题目内容
The snow storm which hit this area last night was ______ in recent years.
- A.heavy
- B.heavier
- C.heaviest
- D.the heaviest
考查形容词的级。句意是“昨晚袭击这个地区的暴风雪是近几年最大的一场雪”。可见用形容词的最高级,形容词最高级前要加定冠词the,故选D。本题难度适中。
Paper was first made in China about 2,000 years ago. In Egypt and the West, paper was not very commonly used before the year 1400. Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100. After that, the foresty countries of Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States because the most important in paper-making. Today Finland makes the best paper in the world. And it has the biggest paper industry in the world.
When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes, and writing paper. So paper plays an important role in our lives.
Paper is very good for keeping you warm. Houses are often insulated(隔热)with paper. You perhaps seen homeless men sleep on a large number of newspapers. They are insulating themselves from the cold. In Finland, in winter it is sometimes 40 degrees below zero. The farmers wear paper boots in the snow. Nothing could be warmer.
根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。(共5小题,每小题2分,满分10分)
【小题1】 What did the invention of paper mean? It meant _________.
A.more people could be educated | B.more books could be printed |
C.paper is one of the most important products | D.Paper was invented by man. |
A.Before 1100. | B.After 1400. |
C.After 1100. | D.Before 1400 |
A.Norway. | B.Canada |
C.The United States. | D.Finland. |
A.Books are warmer. | B.Newspapers are warmer. |
C.Paper is the warmest. | D.Houses are the warmest. |
A.The invention of paper. | B.The best paper |
C.The paper-making | D.The uses of paper. |
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A Trip to the Forest
One day Bob took two of his friends into the mountains. They put up their tents and then rode off to a forest to see how the trees were growing.
In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometres from their camp(营地), it started to snow. More and more snow fell. Soon Bob could hardly see his hands before his face. He could not find the road. Bob knew there were two roads. One road went to the camp, and the other went to his house. But all was white snow. Everything was the same. How could he take his friends back to the camp?
Bob had an idea. The horses! Let the horses take them back! But what would happen if the horses took the road to his house? That would be a trip of thirty-five kilometres in such cold weather!
It was getting late. They rode on and on. At last the horses stopped. Where were they?
None of them could tell. John looked around. What was that under the tree? It was one of their tents!
1.John and his two friends went to the forest to ________.
A.build their camp |
B.find their way home |
C.enjoy the mountains in the snow |
D.watch the trees in the forest |
2. They could not find their way back because ________.
A.there was only one road to their camp |
B.they couldn’t decide which of the two roads led to their tents |
C.there were no roads in the mountains at all |
D.everything was covered by the white snow |
3. It is clear that they wanted the horses to take them to _______.
A.John’s house |
B.the camp |
C.the forest |
D.the mountains |
4. The horses stopped because _______.
A.it was getting late |
B.they were tired after running for a long way |
C.they knew that they had got to the camp |
D.they had seen John’s house |
5. The story happened _______.
A.on a cold winter day |
B.on a dark snowy evening |
C.in a cold camp far from villages |
D.at night when nothing could be seen |