题目内容
1_____ people in the world are sending are receiving e-mails every day.
A.Million of B.Many millions of
C.Several millions’ D.Several millions
B
【解析】一般情况而言,hundred,thousand,million,billion等表示数量的词,由两种用法:1)无论他们前面有多少的数词,这几动词后都不加s,2)hundreds of等形式前面不能加确切数字,可以加表示不确定的数,故答案选B
All the wisdom of the times, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us in books, but we must know how to make use of this treasure. The unluckiest people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
I’m very interested in people and finding out about them. Some of the most amazing people I’ve met could only be found in a writer’s imagination, then in his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends and new worlds.
Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the writer’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate(分开的), in some way they are connected with each other. The same ideas, or related(相关的) ones, appear in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in books, but with different solutions(解决方法) according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other. They connect the past, the present and the future and have their own generations (age groups), like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the end, you not only find out about the world and the people in it, you find out about yourself, too.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on(专注于) books somebody tells you “ought” to read, you probably won’ t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time — and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t suffer during the process.
【小题1】Which of the following ideas may the writer of this article agree with?
A.You will never meet amazing people in your life unless you read. |
B.You think actively instead of getting facts passively(被动地)when reading. |
C.You will get much delight from any book that you are told to read. |
D.You can relax yourself by reading because it involves little thinking. |
A.We can often find something connected with ourselves in books. |
B.Different writings at different times share the same characteristics. |
C.The same problems will appear in different books with similar solutions. |
D.Reading books which are written for your generation is more helpful to you. |
A.To advise us to enjoy ourselves by reading. |
B.To encourage us to make full use of libraries. |
C.To encourage us to find out solutions in books. |
D.To advise us to discuss books with other people. |
Jeff Keith has only one leg. When he was 12 years old, Jeff had cancer(癌症). Doctors had to cut off most of his right leg.
Every day Jeff puts on an artificial leg(假腿). With the plastic artificial leg Jeff can ride a bicycle, swim, and play soccer. He can also run.
Jeff made a plan with his friends who had plastic legs, too. They decided to run across America.
When he was 22 years old, Jeff Keith ran across the United States from the east to the west. He started running in Boston. Seven months later, he stopped running in Los Angeles. He ran 3,200 miles. Jeff stopped in cities on the way to Los Angeles. In every city people gave Jeff money. The money was not for Jeff, but for the American Cancer Society.
Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things. He is studying to be a lawyer(律师). Jeff says, “People can do anything they want to do. I want people to know that. I ran not only for disabled people. I ran for everybody.”
1. Jeff’s right leg was cut off because he had_______.
A.TB(肺结核) |
B.an accident |
C.cancer |
D.a serious injury |
2. From the passage we know that Boston is _______.
A.in the west |
B.half between the east and west |
C.near Los Angeles |
D.in the east |
3. It took Jeff _______ to run from Boston to Los Angeles.
A.about four and a half months |
B.over two hundred days |
C.almost twenty-five weeks |
D.less than half a year |
4. The underlined word “disabled” means _______.
A.优秀的 |
B.劳累的 |
C.残疾的 |
D.无能为力的 |
5. The fifth passage tells us that _______.
A.people should give him more money |
B.people can do anything they want to do |
C.some disabled men will become lawyers |
D.disabled people also can run |
根据短文内容,用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。每词限用一次。
wish help around million love |
“If I had one __1___yuan, I would buy you a palace! Do I have one million Yuan? No, I don’t! So I only can spend ten fen on this short message, sending you my best __2____”
Today, SMS—Short Message Service is popular, and China Mobile says that every second, there are 410 messages being sent.
Look ___3____you! People are watching their mobiles, smiling or laughing. Thumbs(拇指) that the short strong fingers are moving quickly on mobiles, bringing happiness to their friends. Through SMS, we know the weather report, share jokes and news, show __4_____and friendship.
SMS is becoming more and more popular. It is reported that 67% of young people like to send short messages to greet each other. Internet SMS will be more __5_____to people. I am thankful for SMS because it saves me much money. Just on the top end of a thumb, so much joy can be found!