题目内容
There were 12 bronze(青铜)animal heads at the European style(风格)in Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan)-Rat,Ox,Tiger, Rabbit,Dragon,Snake,Horse,Sheep,Monkey, Rooster, Dog,and Pig.They were made into fountain(喷泉)and would take turns spouting water every two hours to tell time.
But the heads were looted(抢) by French and British soldiers in 1860 during the Second Opium War(鸦片战争).
Until now,Pig,Ox,Monkey,Tiger and Horse have returned to China.But Rat and Rabbit beads were auctioned(拍卖)for $17.92 million each.Luckily,Cat Mingchao,a Chinese collector won the auction,but he said he would not pay the money.Why? He said they were looted from China and he is a Chinese.”We will use international and Chinese laws to get the two beads to return to China in all necessary ways,”said Ouyang.However,there are still five bronze heads(Dragon,Snake,Sheep,Rooster,Dog)are unknown now.
An online survey,by Le Figaro newspaper,showed that more than 80 percent people said the bronze heads should be returned to China,the Europe Daily reported on Wednesday.We should understand why they want the two bronzes back…Just think about how they came to France.
1.__________people think that the bronze heads should be returned to China in the online survey.
A.Most B.Few C.Half of people D.All
2.What does the word spouting mean in Chinese?
A.喷 B.鸣唱 C.制造 D.凝固
3.How did the Rat and Rabbit heads go to France?
A.They were looted by Americans.
B.They were sold to France by an auction in 1860.
C.The Qing Dynasty gave them as presents.
D.They were looted by French and British soldiers in the Second Opium War.
4.Cai Mingchao is a Chinese who __________.
A.won the auction that the Rat and Rabbit heads were auctioned
B.made the 12 bronze animal heads
C.bought the heads to China
D.made the online survey
AADA
In 1901, the citizens of Colorado Springs in the USA decided to collect everyday items and to seal (封住)them in a special box. The box was marked “To be opened after midnight, December 31st, AD 2000”,and was kept in the Colorado College Library.
One hundred years later, on the appointed (约定)day, 300 people gathered to watch the opening of the box. Many in the crowd were the descendants (后代)of people who had placed things inside the box.
When the box was opened after midnight, the things inside the box were in very good condition. There were newspapers, photos, diaries, name cards, family trees, books and lots of letters, including one written by Theodore Roosevelt, who became the President of the USA later that year. One of Roosevelt’s friends lived in Colorado Springs at that time.
Many of the letters were written to their descendants. They describe the hopes that the people of 1901 had for the people of the next century. At that time, Colorado Springs had just a few thousand people. Now nearly half a million people live there.
Colorado College Library has scanned the materials and put them on a website. Cecil Muller, whose grandfather had placed a collection of postcards in the box, said that the time capsule was a great treasure. “This is a wonderful educational resource(资源). We can learn so much about our history,”he said. “I never knew my grandfather, but now I feel very close to him. ”
1.According to the passage, “time capsule” means ______.
A.a collection of clocks and watches |
B.a machine for travelling through time |
C.a collection of items for people to look at in the future |
D.a collection of unwanted items |
2.Many of the letters in the time capsule talked about .
A.the history of the town |
B.the people who lived in the town |
C.the politics of the USA |
D.people’s hopes for the future |
3.Cecil Muller says that the time capsule ______.
A.helps him to get to know his grandfather |
B.is worth a lot of money |
C.brings back his memories of his grandfather |
D.helps him to remember his younger day |
A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches (英尺) longer.
He went downstairs to the kitchen. His mother and two sisters were washing up the tea-things there. “The new trousers are too long,” he said. “They need shortening(缩短)by about two inches.
Could one of you do it for me, please?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything. But when his mother finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son’s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.
Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’ s trousers. She was a kind girl,so she went quietly upstairs withoutsaying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches. The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came home she,too, remembered her brothers trousers. So she ran upstairs and did as her mother and sister had done. You can imagine(想象)the look on the young man’s face when he put the trousers on the next morning. .
1.What were the young man’s new trousers like at first?
A.They were a bit too long. |
B.They were just suitable. |
C.They were too short for him. |
D.There were about two inches shorter. |
2.Why didn’t the young man’s mother and sisters answer him in the kitchen?
A.Because they were very busy. |
B.Because they didn’t hear him. |
C.Because they didn’t like him. |
D.Because they couldn’t do that. |
3.When did his elder sister shortened the trousers?
A.In the evening. |
B.Before she finished the washing. |
C.After lunch. |
D.After she came back from the cinema. |
4.What did the young man find about the trousers the next morning?
He found that the trousers were ______ inches too short for him.
A.two |
B.four |
C.six |
D.eight |
5.How did the young man feel when he put the trousers on the next morning?
A.Pleasant. |
B.Thankful. |
C.Surprised. |
D.Bored. |