题目内容
2. The police are looking for a man who thought to be dangerous.
3. The 1948 Olympic Games held in London.
4. Rice grown all over Asia.
5. Most people paid at the end of the month.
6. Thousands of gadgets invented every year.
7. The Live Aid concerts in England and America watched by millions of fans.
8. Camera often used when people travel.
9. Milk had as main food for babies.
I had the meanest mother in the whole world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have porridge, eggs or toast. When others had Cokes and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. But at least I wasn’t alone when I was sad. My sister and two brothers had the same mean(刻薄的) mother as I did.?
My mother preferred to know where we were all the time. She had to know who our friends were and where we were going. We had to clean clothes and take a bath every day. The other kids got to wear the same clothes for days. We could not lie in bed “sick” in order to miss school.?
The worst is yet to come. We had to be in bed by nine each night and get up at eight the next morning. We couldn’t sleep till noon like our friends. So while they slept, my mother was brave to break the Child Labour Law. She made us work. We had to wash dishes, make beds, and learn to cook and all sorts of things at home. I believe she lay awake thinking up all things for us to do. ?
My mother was a complete failure as a mother. Two of her children received higher education. None of us have ever been arrested(taken away by the police) or divorced. She forced us to grow up into educated and honest adults. I am trying to raise my three children this way. I am filled with pride when my children call me “mean”. Why? Because now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the world.?
【小题1】 How many children does the writer’s mother have??
A.Four. | B.Two. | C.Three. | D.Six. ? |
A.My family was rich, so I ate a sandwich for lunch.? |
B.My mother was a great success. We love her.? |
C.If we didn’t want to go to school, the best way was to pretend to be sick.? |
D.We needn’t share the housework at home. ? |
A.My childhood | B.The meanest mother? |
C.I do as my mother did | D.Unforgettable memories |
Millions of stars are travelling about in space. A few form groups which travel together, but most of them travel alone.
And they travel through a universe which is so large that one star seldom comes near to another. For the most important part each star makes its journey in complete loneliness, like a ship on an empty ocean. The ship will be well over a million miles from its nearest neighbour. From this it is easy to understand why a star seldom finds another anywhere near it.
We believe, however, that some two thousand million years ago, another star wandering(漫游) through space, happened to come near our sun just as the sun and the moon raised its tides(潮汐) on the earth, so this star must have raised tides on the surface of the sun. But they were very different from the small tides that are raised in our oceans; A large tidal(潮汐的) wave must have travelled over the surface of the sun, at last forming a mountain so high that we cannot imagine it. As the cause of the disturbance came nearer, so the mountain rose higher and higher. And before the star began to move away again, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and thrown off small parts of itself into space.
These small pieces have been going round the sun ever since. They are the planets.
【小题1】Most stars are _________________________.
A.following a regular path in space |
B.moving about without a fixed course |
C.seldom wandering about in the universe |
D.always travelling together |
A.the star moved away from the sun |
B.another star happened to come near the sun |
C.the sun and the moon raised the tides on the earth |
D.a large tidal of wave travelled over the surface of the sun |
A.how space formed |
B.our earth exists before the sun |
C.no one knows where the earth comes from |
D.our earth used to be a high mountain in the sun |
A.the large tidal wave | B.the powerful tidal pull |
C.the star coming near the sun | D.one of sun’s planets |
A.where the planets in the universe came from |
B.how the high mountains were formed on the sun |
C.that the universe is so large that we cannot imagine it |
D.why the tides over the surface of the sun were so powerful |