题目内容
These days, many Chinese people are happy about a piece of news. What is it? China may become the second largest economy (经济体) in the world. It's only behind the US.
But is China the second richest country, too?
No. The economy is like a cake. The US, Japan and China each makes one. China makes the second biggest cake. But lots of people have to eat it. Why? There are 1.3 billion people in China. And there are only 300 million people in the US and 127 million in Japan. So, in China, each person only gets a very, very small piece of cake. But people in the US and Japan have bigger pieces.
China is not as rich as the US and Japan. For example, in the US, in every 100 people, 75 can surf the Internet; in Japan it is 74 in 100. But in China, only 26 people in 100 use the Internet.
China's large economy brings good things. People in China have more jobs and money. We also have more influence (影响) in the world.
- 1.
China is the second largest economy in the world, isn't it?
- 2.
Why isn't China as rich as the US and Japan?
- 3.
How many people in 100 can use the Internet in China?
- 4.
Who can get bigger pieces of cake, Chinese or Americans?
- 5.
China's large economy brings good things. What are they?
2. Because there are more people in China
3. 26
4. Americans
5. People in China have more jobs and money. China also has more influence in the world
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The American expression “shoo-in” means someone or something that seems sure to win a race or competition.
Before a big football game, supporters of each are certain to argue about which side will win.
Sometimes, however, one team appears so much stronger than the others that everyone agrees it will win.. The stronger team is a shoo-in. There is no way that it can lose.
The expression “shoo-in” comes from horse racing. It comes from the world “shoo”. That is not the shoe we wear on our feet. It’s another word, S-H-O-O. To shoo is an expression hundreds of years old that means to force an animal to move in a desired direction.
Many years ago dishonest riders sometimes agreed secretly to control their horses so that one chosen horse would win the race. but one of the riders would hold back their horses. The chosen rider would shoo his horse ahead of the others, and win the race.
The other riders would secretly bet large amounts of money that the chosen horse would win. The public soon learned about such about such race. They began to call the winners of such a race a “shoo-in”
These days, people use shoo into describe any athlete or competition that seems certain to win, even without cheating.
American runner Edewin Moses won more than hundred races before he ran the hurdle race in the 1984 Olympic Games. Everyone said Moses was a shoo-in, and that he could not lost. And they were right. He won the gold medal.
阅读上面的短文,从每题所给的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案
【小题1】One of the dishonest riders was sure to win the race because_______.
| A.be used to be the best in riding |
| B.the pubic had belief in him |
| C.he could not control his horse easily |
| D.the other riders had agreed to fail in the race |
“Shoo-in” is _________.
| A.due to his honest in the races he ran in |
| B.duo to his great effort(努力) shown in more than one hundred races |
| C.that he won over 100 competitions before the 1984 Olympic Games |
| D.that the old meaning of “shoo-in’ had changed |
| A.“Shoo-in” came from the word “shoo”. |
| B.The US runner Moses was worthy of (配得上 ) a shoo-in. |
| C.The public did not know they were being cheated |
| D.Some riders bet a lot of money on the chosen horse. |
| A.used for anyone or anything that is certain to win a game |
| B.used to admire( 钦佩 ) a person who seems to be sure to win a race |
| C.A word used to describe a dishonest person |
| D.used for any athlete or competitor that too clever to be cheated |
| A.who Edewin Moses was |
| B.Moses won a lot of races |
| C.Moses was the best runners in America |
| D.We can use “shoo-in” to describe an excellent runner. |