(2013●淮安市)It's getting dark. Please ________ the light.

A. turn on B. turn off C. turn down D. turn around

A 【解析】 句意:天要黑了。请打开灯。turn on打开;turn off关上;turn down关小点; turn around转过来。根据It’s getting dark.可知天黑了,因此应打开灯,故选A。

Years ago, many zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cages. Small cages made it easy for people to see the animals, but a small cage is not a good place for an animal to live in.

Today zoos keep animals in different kinds ofcagas. The cages are very big and open. They usually have plants and a little lake. The cages look like the animals' living places.

Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals. They protect animals in the zoo and animals in the wild (野外). How do they do this? Zoos tell people how animals llve in the wild. Zoos want people to help protect the animals' wild living places.

Why should we protect animals' wild living places?

Many plants and animals are going extinct.

'Extinct' means that every one ora kind of plant or animal has died. The dodo is an extinct bird. There are no dodos anymore in the world. Scientists say that seventy-four different kinds of living things go extinct every day!

Zoos are working together to stop animals from going extinct.

1.What are the cages in zoos like now?

A. Big and open. B. Big and closed.

C. Small and open. D. Small and closed.

2.What does the underlined word "extinct" mean?

A. 驯服 B. 绝迹 C. 野生 D. 濒危

3.Which sentence does the passage make us believe?

A. People should not have zoos now.

B. Small cages are good for animals to live in.

C. There are only about 74 dodos in the world now.

D. Today's zoos are different from many zoos years ago.

1.A 2.B 3.D 【解析】 短文大意:这是一篇说明文,对比了现在的动物园和往日的不同,指出了动物园在保护野生动物方面的好处,说明了保护野生动物的栖息地的原因。 1.题意:现在动物园里的笼子怎么样?考查细节理解题。根据Today zoos keep animals in different kinds of cages. The cages are very bi...

Mary does well Geography, but sometimes she is careless.

A. at B. in C. for D. about

B 【解析】 句意:玛丽地理学得很好,但有时她粗心大意。考查介词辨析题。for为了;about关于;at在,表位置或时刻;in在……方面。do well in在……做得好;根据句意语境,可知选B。

What should the woman do after she goes out of the station?

A. Turn right. B. Turn left. C. Go straight on

A 【解析】 W: How can I get to your house from the station? M: Oh, it's very easy. Turn right outside the station, and walk on for ten minutes. Then you will see a bank. My house is opposite t...

Life is full of surprises and you never know how things will turn out.

Sir John Gurdon is a good example of this. As a boy, he was told he was hopeless at science and was at bottom of his class. Now, aged 79,the very same Gurdon shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Japanese stem cell (干细胞) researcher Shinya Yamanaka.

Like so many scientists, Gurdon shows us where the power of curiosity and perseverance(坚持) can lead.

When he was 15 in 1948,Gurdon ranked last out of the 250 boys at his high school in biology and every other science subject. Gurdon’s high school science teacher even said that his dream of becoming a scientist was “quite ridiculous”.

In spite of his teacher’s criticisms(批评), Gurdon followed his curiosity and kept working hard. He went to the lab early and left later than anyone else. He experienced thousands of failures.

“My own belief is that we will, in the end,understand everything about how cells actually work,”Gurdon said.

In 1962, Gurdon took a cell from an adult frog and moved its genetic (基因的) information into an egg cell. The egg cell then grew into a clone of the adult frog. This technique later helped to create the sheep Dolly in 1996,the first cloned mammal(哺乳动物) in the world.

In 2006,Gurdon’s work was developed by Yamanaka to show that a sample(样本) of a person’s skin can be used to create stem cells. Using this technique, doctors can repair a patient’s heart after a heart attack.

“Luck favors the prepared mind,” Gurdon told the Nobel Prize Organization. “Ninety percent of the time things don’t work, but when they do, you have to seize(抓住) the chance.”

1.Who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine?

A. Sir John Gurdon

B. Shinya Yamanaka

C. Sir John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka

D. Gurdon’s science teacher

2.What does the underlined word “ridiculous” mean?

A. 荒谬的 B. 无畏的 C. 荒废的 D. 无知的

3.In what order are the following events mentioned in the passage.

a. create the sheep Dolly

b. take a cell from an adult frog

c. use a person’s skin to create stem cells

d. move a frog’s genetic information into an egg cell

e. grow into a clone of the adult frog

A. b-a-c-d-e B. b-d-e-a-c C. b-d-a-e-c D. b-c-d-a-e

4.According to the passage, which statement is TRUE?

A. Sheep Dolly was the first cloned animal in the world.

B. Gurdon ranked first at his high school in biology.

C. It’s impossible for the doctors to repair a patient’s heart after a heart attack.

D. According to the science teacher, Gurdon was not a gifted student.

5.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Ninety percent of the time things don’t work.

B. Luck favors the prepared mind.

C. Life is full of pleasure.

D. How to know cells actually work.

1.C 2.A 3.B 4.D 5.B 【解析】这篇文章主要介绍一位诺贝尔医学奖获得者John Gurdon,当是一个男孩时,他被告诉在科学这一科毫无希望,他在班里倒数第一名。他在小时候受尽质疑,但是凭借着不放弃、勇往直前的精神最终获得成功。79岁,John Gurdon与日本干细胞(干细胞)研究员Shinya Yamanaka共享2012诺贝尔医学奖.最后告诉我们:...

We are already familiar with computers. They work for us at homes, in offices and in factories. We benefit(受益) a lot from the computers ,but at the same time, with the development of this high technology, it also caused a lot of trouble. One of them is the jobs’ problem.

Many people want to work, but it has become more difficult for people to find work in today’s work. Ma Yun’s unmanned supermarket appeared in 2017. It shows that more and more people will lose jobs even the simple job as a shop worker . The economy (经济) of the world needs to grow by 4% each year just to keep the old number of jobs for people. Often this is not possible, and so more people are out of work. Some people have no jobs now because new machines can do the work instead of many people in short time. Also, machines do not ask for more money and longer holiday. In all of the countries of the world, machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but also on the farms. One machine can often do the work as much as forty people. About 75,000 people are moving to the cities a day to look for jobs, but only 70% of them can find jobs.

1.It was _______ for people to find jobs today than before.

A. more difficult B. not possible C. easier

2.If the economy of the world grows by 4% each year, _______.

A. people will have no jobs B. people can still have jobs as before

C. only 4% of the people will have jobs

3.One machine can do as much work as _______.

A. 75,000 people B. 14 people in the world C. 40 people

4.If 75,000 people move to the cities a day to look for jobs, how many of them can find jobs?

A. 52,500 people. B. 3,500 people. C. About 75,000 people.

5.Where may this article come from?

A. A story book. B. A newspaper C. A novel.

1.A 2.B 3.C 4.A 5.B 【解析】 电脑的出现为我们的生活带来了很大的好处,我们获益很多,但同时它也导致了一个问题,那就是由于电脑和机器可以代替人做很多的工作,所以很多人都失业了。 1.细节理解题。根据短文第二段中Many people want to work, but it has become more difficult for pe...

Tibet receives foreign visitors from January to April each year.

A. thousand of B. thousands of C. several thousands

B 【解析】 句意:每年一月至四月,西藏接待数以千计的外国游客。考查数字表达题。thousand、hundred等与具体数字连用时,不带复数词尾-s。但若表示泛指数,则要带复数词尾-s,且通常要有of短语,表示“成千上百”的意思。当它们前面有a few, several, many等数目不很具体的词修饰时,若用单数形式,其后的介词of可以省略;若用复数形式,其后的介词of则不能省略,即...

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