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【题目】完形填空(每小题1分,满分20分)

阅读下面短文从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Earthquakes are common; thousands of them happen each day. But most are too__1__to feel. During a __2__earthquake, there is often a great noise first. Then the earth__3__terribly; many houses__4__down. Railway tracks break and trains go__5__lines; a great many factories are__6__; thousands of deaths are caused, and many more lose homes. __7__the great damage and deaths caused by the earthquake__8__, other disasters such as fires often__9__. More buildings are destroyed and more__10__are caused.

It is well known of the__11__of a possible earthquake, and for centuries man has been making researches on earthquakes. More than 2, 000 years ago, __12__, a Chinese scientist named Zhang Heng__13__a machine which could find out from which__14__the seismic(地震的)waves had come, and this machine is still__15__by scientists today. Now we know much more about earthquakes and__16__they happen, but we still cannot__17__exactly when and where an earthquake will happen, and cannot__18__it from happening. So earthquakes are among the__19__disasters in the world.

No one can stop natural earthquakes.__20__, scientists can help stop earthquakes from destroying whole cities and causing too many deaths.

【1】 A. thin B. weak C. light D. slow

【2】 A. real B. weak C. big D. small

【3】 A. moves B. shakes C. jumps D. breaks

【4】 A. get B. put C. set D. fall

【5】 A. off B. on C. into D. behind

【6】 A. burst B. hurt C. destroyed D. buried

【7】 A. Except B. Besides C. Instead of D. Because of

【8】A. lonely B. later C. themselves D. itself

【9】 A. follow B. copy C. come D. enter

【10】 A. quakes B. deaths C. difficulties D. results

【11】A. information B. questions C. dangers D. shock

【12】A. as a result B. in fact C. for example D. as well

【13】A. invented B. discovered C. found D. operated

【14】 A. country B. direction C. way D. city

【15】A. improved B. repaired C. protected D. used

【16】 A. where B. when C. what D. why

【17】A. speak B. tell C. talk D. point

【18】 A. make B. prepare C. stop D. let

【19】A. worst B. best C. most D. fast

【20】A. However B. But C. And D. So

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】B

【4】D

【5】A

【6】C

【7】B

【8】D

【9】A

10】B

【11】C

【12】C

【13】A

【14】B

【15】D

【16】D

【17】B

【18】C

【19】A

【20】A

【解析】

【语篇解读】本文为说明文,讲述了地震的危害以及人们为此所做的努力。

【1】地震震感轻微而感知不到。weak指;thin指;light指;slow指。根据句意选B。

【2】根据后面的描述可知应该是一次大地震。

【3】首先排除C。shake指震动,晃动,摇动;move指移动;break指破碎

【4】fall down在此指房屋倒塌。

【5】铁路轨道破裂,所以火车偏离铁路线。off指离开,不相连,其他三个词均不符合题意。

【6】指工厂被毁。burst指爆炸,炸开,突然爆发;hurt指伤害,使受伤;bury指埋葬,这三个词均不符合题意。

【7】句意:除了地震本身所造成的巨大破坏和死亡以外,其他灾害也随之而来,例如火灾。besides既包括地震本身所造成的破坏和死亡,也包括其他灾害。如果用except,则不包括地震本身所造成的破坏和死亡,所以不符合题意。

【8】这里指地震本身引起的破坏和死亡,故选D。

【9】A B、D两项不符合题意,先排除;follow有随之而来之意,而come只表来到

【10】大火造成的两大结果:房屋被毁,人员伤亡。

【11】根据上下文可知地震的危险性是众所周知的,所以人们一直在做有关地震的研究。

【12】举例说明人们在这方面的研究。

【13】invent发明;discover发现;find找到;operate操作,运行。根据句意可知A正确。

【14】A、D两项不符合题意,先排除;direction表方位,方向,而way则指路,道或路线,way也可以指方向,但一般用在this,that,which等之后构成短语。

【15】科学家们现在仍在使用这种机器。

【16】C项不符合语法,先排除;when,where在下句中出现。

【17】但是我们仍然不知道到底什么时候、在哪儿会发生地震。tell有说出,知道,断定之意。

【18】首先,根据题意应选择表示制止,停止的词;其次,根据固定搭配stop sb./sth. (from) doing...可知C项正确。

【19】根据上下文可知地震是最严重的灾害之一。

【20】此处表示转折,且后面用逗号隔开,所以选副词however;but为连词,通常用逗号隔开。

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根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

China is making great effort to protect its cultural relics. In early May, State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) added 1,943 unmovable cultural relics sites to the list. So the number of these sites on this list will increase to 4,295. 1

The newly added sites were reviewed(评审) by more than 130 experts. They spread around Shanxi, Henan, Hunan, Hebei and Jiangsu provinces, including 795 pieces of ancient architecture and 516 ancient ruins. 2

In an interview, the head of the SACH said that new types of cultural relics sites have been newly listed to get protection at first, including industrial relics, rural architecture and cultural landscapes. 3 For example, some are in the north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Despite great achievements during the years of effort, problems still exist. 4 Historic relics get stolen and antiques are taken abroad secretly.

The head of the SACH said that people has faced a challenge to the protection of cultural relics for a long time. So, balancing the relationship between economic development and protection of history is important. ____5____ He also used good examples of protection, describing how some cultural relics sites have become education bases for young people and popular tourist places, where a lot of people spend their holiday.

A. All of them need protecting as quickly as possible.

B. They also include outstanding modern architecture.

C. The SACH has found a total of 4,295 cultural relics.

D. Many relics have been destroyed in the process of urban construction.

E. Cultural relics sites should become positive factors to improve economic development.

F. When talking about protecting the cultural relics, the head of SACH ordered some to be saved.

G. Moreover, many of the new sites also include valuable cultural relics from ethnic minority regions(少数民族地区).

【题目】B

The Winter Olympics is also called the White Olympics. At this time, many colorful stamps are published to mark the great Games. The first stamps marking the opening came out on January 25, 1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympics. From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule.

During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in November 1936. The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the rings appeared on the stamps of the White Olympics.

In the 1950s, the stamps of this kind became more colorful. When the White Olympics came, the host countries as well as the nonhost countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sportsmen began to take part in the White Olympics.

Japan is an Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise money for this sports meet.

Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.

【1】The world made it a rule to publish stamps to mark the great world Games_____________.

A. after the year 1936

B. after the 3rd White Olympics

C. before the 3rd White Olympics

D. before the year 1932

【2】The Winter Olympics is held once_____________.

A. every two years

B. every three years

C. every four years

p>D. every five years

【3】 Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Only the host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games.

B. Only the nonhost countries can publish stamps to mark those Games.

C. All the countries can publish stamps to mark those Games.

D. Japan can’t publish stamps to mark those Games.

【4】What may appear on the stamps of the Winter Olympics?

A. Basketball. B. Table tennis.

C. Football. D. Skating.

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