题目内容

　　阅读理解

This is your chance to win a Breakaway weekend for two people at any of the 83 Breakaway hotels throughout Britain.

　　To win the Breakaway weekend for two, answer these four questions and send your entry, to arrive not later than 31 July, 1999, to Team House, 24 Church Street, Ashford, Kent, TN 25 5BJ.

　　1. The St Cincent Rocks Hotel, Bristol is on the Avou Gorge which is crossed by the Clifton Bridge. Who designed the bridge?

　　2. The Aerodrome Hotel, Croydon is next to the airfield from which England's solo (单独的) pilot made her record nights the 1930s. Who was she?

　　3.The Talbot Hotel, Oundle, Northants is not far from the village of Fotheringgay and the castle where one of history's most famous queens was imprisoned. Who was she?

　　4. The Larkfield Hotel, Maidstone is a few miles away from one of England's top motor racing tracks. What is the name of the track?

　　The person whose correct entry is picked out first by a computer will win the prize. This decision is final. The winner will be sent an excellent value Breakaway booklet giving details of the 83 hotels from which he/she can choose where to spend the prize weekend

　　Every Breakaway hotel gives you the chance to see something different, while providing you with comfortable surroundings and good food.

　　A Breakaway weekend includes a three-course dinner, accommodation (房间) and a full English breakfast, for two nights. You also get Sunday lunch, either a traditional meal at your hotel, or, if you are planning to go sightseeing, the hotel will provide a packed lunch for you.

　　Breakaway hotels are great places for families. Children can choose from their own special menu, and for those up to12 years old accommodation is free of charge when sharing a room with their parents.

　　A splendid value Breakaway booklet will be sent to you if you dial this number: 025257527.

(1)Entries for the competition which arrive on 31 July, 1999 will ________.

[　　]

A. be too late for the competition

B. be entered with the others

C. have a better chance of winning

D. go to a different address

(2)Question 4 in the competition is different from the others because ________.

[　　]

A. the hotel described is a modern one

B. it asks about a place not a person

C. the hotel can be reached easily by ear

D. the answer is the name of a man

(3)The announcement suggests that the best way to get a Breakaway booklet is to ________.

[　　]

A. enter the competition

B. write to one of the hotels

C. write to Team House.

D. telephone 025257527

(4)The competition will be won by the person ________.

[　　]

A. who sends in the first correct answers

B. whose correct entry is chosen by a computer

C. whose entry arrives first on 31 July

D. whose entry is the final one chosen by the computer

答案：B;B;D;B
练习册系列答案
相关题目

阅读理解

　　We have met the enemy and he i s our s．We bought him at a pet shop．When monkey-pox, a di sea se u sually found in the African rain fore st suddenly turn s up in children in the American Midwe st, it' s hard not to wonder of the di sea se that come s from foreign animal s i s homing in on human being s．“Mo st of the infection s we think of a s human infection s started in other animal s, ” say s Stephen Mor se, director of the Center for Public Health Preparedne s s at Columbia Univer sity．

　　It' s not ju st that we're going to where the animal s are; we're al so bringing them clo ser to u s．Popular foreign pet s have brought a whole new di sea se to thi s country．A strange illne s s killed I sak sen' s pet s and she now think s that keeping foreign pet s i s a bad idea, “I don't think it' s fair to have them a s pet s when we have such alimited knowledge of them．” say s I sak sen．

　　“Law s allowing the se animal s to be brought in from deep fore st area s without stricter control need changing．” say s Peter Schantz．Monkey-pox may be the wake-up call．Re searcher s believe infected animal s may infect their owner s．We know very little about the se new di sea se s．A new bug(病毒)may be kind at fir st．But it may develop into something harmful．Monkey-pox doe sn't look a major infectiou s di sea se．But it i s not impo s sible to pa s s the di sea se from per son to per son．

(1)

We learn from Paragraph 1 that the pet sold at the shop may ________．

[　　]

A．

come from Columbia

B．

prevent u s from being infected

C．

enjoy being with children

D．

suffer from monkey-pox

(2)

Why did I sak sen advi se people not to have foreign pet s?

[　　]

A．

Becau se they attack human being s．

B．

Becau se we need to study native animal s．

C．

Becau se they can't live out of the rain fore st．

D．

Becau se we do not know much about them yet．

(3)

What doe s the phra se “the wake－up call” in Paragraph 3 mo st probably mean?

[　　]

A．

A new di sea se．

B．

A clear warning．

C．

A dangerou s animal．

D．

A morning call．

阅读理解

　　My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．

　　In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．

　　By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．

　　My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．

(1)

Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of ＄1, 300?

[　　]

A．

Weekly allowance．

B．

Her earning s by picking crop s．

C．

Share s left by grandma．

D．

Money earned from selling share s．

(2)

The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________．

[　　]

A．

she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s

B．

enough money had been earned for her car

C．

the work wa s too hard for children like her

D．

she had no time to do that again for some rea son

(3)

We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________．

[　　]

A．

16

B．

17

C．

18

D．

19

(4)

The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．

[　　]

A．

give the author freedom

B．

be unwilling to buy the author a car

C．

teach the author to learn self－reliance

D．

give the author a big surpri se

阅读理解

　　Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47，experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s．When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent．“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French．”

　　Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country．The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain．

　　The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military．The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that．

　　Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice．Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent．

　　Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent．Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common．

　　When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent．However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot．

(1)

According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome．

[　　]

A．

who se parent ha s experienced a head injury

B．

who have lived in a foreign country for a long time

C．

who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke

D．

who have learned foreign language from their coworker s

(2)

If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________．

[　　]

A．

hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him

B．

he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again

C．

he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s

D．

hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent

(3)

Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________．

[　　]

A．

introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information

B．

warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke

C．

make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured

D．

tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War

阅读理解

(1)

All of the following book s have children a s their main character s except ________．

[　　]

A．

PETER PAN

B．

GONE WITH THE WIND

C．

A LITTLE PRINCESS

D．

THE SECRET GARDEN

(2)

We can know from the pa s sage that ________．

[　　]

A．

there are only three book s with tape s

B．

we can buy 5 kind s of the above book s in book store s

C．

two of the book s are written by France s Hodg son Burnett

D．

THE SECRET GARDEN i s ￥5 cheaper in book store s than online

(3)

Mary bring s the hou se and a long-lo st garden back to life with the help of ________

a．the power of hope

b．friend ship

c．her uncle

d．Nature' s magic

[　　]

A．

a, b, c

B．

a, c, d

C．

b, c, d

D．

a, b, d

(4)

Which of the following about the book s i s mentioned in thi s text?

[　　]

A．

What Sara did to help her fellow s

B．

Why Peter Pan wouldn't grow up．

C．

What kind of woman Scarlett i s．

D．

How Marry Lennox came into her uncle' s hou se．

(5)

Thi s text i s mo st probably taken from a ________．

[　　]

A．

new spaper

B．

science magazine

C．

storybook

D．

book guide

违法和不良信息举报电话：027-86699610 举报邮箱：58377363@163.com

精英家教网