题目内容
Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa, He from a very early age has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy ever had any education?
Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we are born, not on the first day" we go to school. Every day we have new experiences, like finding a bird's nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn't like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.
Encouragement from the people around us enables us to explore things as much as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn't tell you if you are good at it.
We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can' t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.
【小题1】 The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.
A.African children are very poor |
B.some children are unlucky |
C.education takes many ways |
D.schools are of great importance |
A.we have to learn from the people around us |
B.school is not important at all |
C.only the people caring for us can teach us |
D.education takes place everywhere |
A.the encouragement of people around | B.the teachings of those he or she meets |
C.thinking of it when growing up | D.trying practicing it |
A.school is not so important as our living places |
B.school enables us to understand the world in other ways |
C.school teaches us something useless at home |
D.school cannot prepare us for our daily lives |
A.everyone gets education from the day he or she is born |
B.different education trains different classes of people |
C.school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world |
D.everyone will find out what he or she is good at |
【小题1】C
【小题1】D
【小题1】D
【小题1】B
【小题1】A
解析
Imagine yourself on a boat looking out at the horizon and all you can see is the water meeting the sky with no land in sight and you are sailing straight ahead to meet the world. Jesse Martin does not have to imagine: he is living in it.
On Dec. 7, 1998, at 17 years old, Jesse set sail from Melbourne, Australia on his boat, attempting to become the youngest person to sail alone and nonstop around the world. He sailed south of New Zealand, through the South Pacific, around South America, north on the Atlantic, back south past Africa, through the Indian Ocean and back to Melbourne.
Even as a young child, Jesse had been an adventurer who traveled all over Europe and Asia with his parents. Born in Munich, Germany in 1981, he moved to Australia with his family when he was only two years old. They moved close to a rainforest in Cow Bay, about 3500kms north of Melbourne, where they built a small house with no electricity or running water. Jesse grew up at the beach enjoying the outdoors to its fullest.
At 14, he sailed for the first time with his father and brother, Beau. It was after this trip that he began to dream about sailing around the world.
Jesse’s family played an important role. “I was made to believe I could do anything.” he says. Although, he says, there were others that were not so encouraging or supportive, “People that I looked up to, respected and trusted told me I couldn’t. Thankfully, I trusted myself. There were people that said that the boat couldn’t be ready by the time I had to leave.” However, through perseverance and belief in himself he was able to do what many told him was impossible.
On Oct.31, 1999, more than 10 months after he set sail, Jesse Martin went down in history as the youngest person to sail around the world alone, nonstop and unassisted.
【小题1】 What’s the author’s purpose in encouraging the reader to imagine a sailing experience?
A.To show how difficult it is to be a sailor. |
B.To show how wonderful Jesse’s sailing is. |
C.To describe what Jesse’s sailing is like. |
D.To describe what a sailor’s life is like. |
A.sailed on the South Pacific. |
B.sailed on the Indian Ocean. |
C.sailed past Africa |
D.sailed past South America. |
A.His childhood adventure experiences. |
B.His journeys to Europe. |
C.His first sailing trip with his family. |
D.His love for outdoor activities. |
A.Interest leads to success. |
B.A strong belief will make a person stronger. |
C.Life is an unusual adventure we should enjoy. |
D.Failure is the mother of success. |
Imagine yourself on a boat looking out at the horizon and all you can see is the water meeting the sky with no land in sight and you are sailing straight ahead to meet the world. Jesse Martin does not have to imagine: he is living in it.
On Dec. 7, 1998, at 17 years old, Jesse set sail from Melbourne, Australia on his boat, attempting to become the youngest person to sail alone and nonstop around the world. He sailed south of New Zealand, through the South Pacific, around South America, north on the Atlantic, back south past Africa, through the Indian Ocean and back to Melbourne.
Even as a young child, Jesse had been an adventurer who traveled all over Europe and Asia with his parents. Born in Munich, Germany in 1981, he moved to Australia with his family when he was only two years old. They moved close to a rainforest in Cow Bay, about 3500kms north of Melbourne, where they built a small house with no electricity or running water. Jesse grew up at the beach enjoying the outdoors to its fullest.
At 14, he sailed for the first time with his father and brother, Beau. It was after this trip that he began to dream about sailing around the world.
Jesse’s family played an important role. “I was made to believe I could do anything.” he says. Although, he says, there were others that were not so encouraging or supportive, “People that I looked up to, respected and trusted told me I couldn’t. Thankfully, I trusted myself. There were people that said that the boat couldn’t be ready by the time I had to leave.” However, through perseverance and belief in himself he was able to do what many told him was impossible.
On Oct.31, 1999, more than 10 months after he set sail, Jesse Martin went down in history as the youngest person to sail around the world alone, nonstop and unassisted.
1. What’s the author’s purpose in encouraging the reader to imagine a sailing experience?
A.To show how difficult it is to be a sailor. |
B.To show how wonderful Jesse’s sailing is. |
C.To describe what Jesse’s sailing is like. |
D.To describe what a sailor’s life is like. |
2. Jesse Martin was at the end of his voyage when he _______.
A.sailed on the South Pacific. |
B.sailed on the Indian Ocean. |
C.sailed past Africa |
D.sailed past South America. |
3. Which of the following made Jesse decide to sail alone around the world?
A.His childhood adventure experiences. |
B.His journeys to Europe. |
C.His first sailing trip with his family. |
D.His love for outdoor activities. |
4. What can we learn from Jesse Martin’s story?
A.Interest leads to success. |
B.A strong belief will make a person stronger. |
C.Life is an unusual adventure we should enjoy. |
D.Failure is the mother of success. |