阅读下列短文.从每题所给的四个选项中.选出最佳选项Nola is a 41-year-old northern white rhino that lives at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, California. She is one of only four remaining northern white rhinos 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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Nola is a 41-year-old northern white rhino(犀牛) that lives at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, California. She is one of only four remaining northern white rhinos in the world, and the only one in the western part of the earth. The other three live in Kenya(肯尼亚).

Rhinos have lived on earth for more than 40 million years, but they are now at the risk of dying out. Hunters illegally hunt rhinos for their horns(角), which are used for art, jewelry, and decorations. They sell the horns for thousands of dollars per pound, though it is not allowed by law. Rhino horns are also prized as a key part in traditional medicine, even though scientific tests have proven that the horns cannot cure illnesses. Experts say that every eight hours, one rhino will be hunted.

Scientists are trying to find ways to prevent rhinos from dying out. In 1975, the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research started the Frozen Zoo, a program through which researchers have collected cell samples(细胞样品) from more than 8,000 different animal species until now, including the northern white rhino. Scientists hope that by studying the rhino cells, they will gain greater understanding of the species, and will find ways to increase its number.

Jeanne Loring works with the Frozen Zoo. Loring’s research focuses on pluripotent stem cells, which are cells that can renew and become any cell type. Loring’s lab at TSRI is working together with scientist Oliver Ryder of the San Diego Zoo to use pluripotent stem cells to try to increase the number of the northern white rhino. Loring said the goal is to start producing new rhinos through this method over the next couple of years.

1.We know from Paragraph 1 that northern white rhinos __________.

A. can live a very long life

B. will die out within a few years

C. have become seriously endangered

D. mainly live in the western part of the earth

2.What can we learn about rhinos from Paragraph 2?

A. Their meat is of great value.

B. They haven’t attracted much attention.

C. Their horns have been used to save lives.

D. Human activity greatly reduced their number.

3.What was the Frozen Zoo started for?

A. Studying the rhino cells.

B. Collecting cell samples from plants.

C. Preventing rhinos from being hunted.

D. Studying animals to help them survive.

4.We learn that pluripotent stem cells __________.

A. can be easily stored

B. don’t exist in all animals

C. can reproduce in a new form

D. are dangerous to normal cells

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How to Find Yourself

Do you often feel lost? Do you think you are living somebody else’s life? If yes, discover ways to find yourself by going through the following article.

If you are thinking, “how to find yourself when you are lost?”, then the first thing to do is to have a rest from everything—work, personal life and all worldly things. Give time to yourself to think why you seem lost. Is it because of overwork? Is it because you are not leading a life that you want to? Or is it because you are not satisfied with the people or things around you? Try to find answers to these questions to determine the cause behind your restless.

For once, instead of being the way others want you to be, be yourself. Look within and find yourself in you. Think about the things that you would want to do if you didn’t have any family responsibility or any money issue. If you really want to know how to find inner peace, then think, what you would want others to describe you as—an honest person? Or loving, or realistic? 3.

Think about yourself

Thinking deeply about the past, the time or situations when you were the happiest, is another way to find yourself. 4. This will help you to identify things that you want to do in life and that make you happy and also certain people whose company you enjoy.

Maintain a diary

Knowing yourself and determining what you want to do with your life, will not come to you in a day or two. Discovering oneself is an ongoing process and it can take months or sometimes even years to truly find yourself. So it’s important that you keep a written record of all your feelings and thoughts. 5. And then you may find yourself.

A. Accept yourself

B. Focus on yourself

C. Give yourself a break

D. Pour all your emotions and feelings about life in it.

E. Think what you were doing or when you were the happiest

F. It is very important for you to truly find yourself before it is too late.

G. Once you look within, you will know the answer and then try to be exactly that.

The team has worked hard and its efforts have been ____with success.

A. awarded B. rewarded

C. pleased D. filled

阅读理解Here is an astonishing and significant fact: Mental work alone can’t make us tired. It sounds absurd. But a years ago, scientists tried to find out how long the human brain could labor without reaching a stage of fatigue(疲劳). To the amazement of these scientists, they discovered that blood passing through the brain, when it is active, shows no fatigue at all! If we took a drop of blood from a day laborer, we would find it full of fatigue toxins(毒素) and fatigue products. But if we took blood from the brain of an Albert Einstein, it would show no fatigue toxins at the end of the day.

So far as the brain is concerned, it can work as well and swiftly at the end of eight or even twelve hours of effort as at the beginning. The brain is totally tireless. So what makes us tired?

Some scientists declare that most of our fatigue comes from our mental and emotional attitudes. One of England’s most outstanding scientists, J.A. Hadfield, says, “The greater part of the fatigue from which we suffer is of mental origin. In fact, fatigue of purely physical origin is rare.” Dr. Brill, a famous American scientist, goes even further. He declares, “One hundred percent of the fatigue of sitting worker in good health is due to emotional problems.”

What kinds of emotions make sitting workers tired? Joy? Satisfaction? No! A feeling of being bored, anger, anxiety, tenseness, worry, a feeling of not being appreciated---those are the emotions that tire sitting workers. Hard work by itself seldom causes fatigue. We get tired because our emotions produce nervousness in the body.

1.What surprised the scientists a few years ago?

A. Fatigue toxins could hardly be found in a laborer’s blood.

B. The brain could work for many hours without fatigue.

C. Albert Einstein didn’t feel worn after a day’s work.

D. A mental worker’s blood was filled with fatigue toxins.

2.According to the author, which of the following can make sitting workers tired?

A. Challenging mental work. B. Endless tasks.

C. Unpleasant emotions. D. Physical labor.

3.What’s the author’s attitude towards the scientists’ idea?

A. He argues against them. B. He doubts them.

C. He agrees with them. D. He hesitates to accept them.

4.We can infer from the passage that in order to stay energetic, sitting workers need to ________.

A. have some good food. B. enjoy their work

C. exercise regularly D. discover fatigue toxins

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1.节日是用来庆祝一年中最重要的时候。

Festivals are ____________ to celebrate important times of year.

2.不客气/不用谢。

Don’t _____________ it.

3.删去与众不同的那个

____________ out the _____________ one

4.他的以童年世界为背景的小说

his novels ____________ in his boyhood world

5. 把我们花掉的钱记账

____________ an ____________ of the money we have spent

6.不拿报酬的人

an ____________ hand

7.前缀和后缀

prefix and _____________

8. 月亮绕着地球转。

The moon _____________ the earth.

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Arthur Miller(1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “ Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression (大萧条时期) of the early 1930s.

Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators (标志) of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his system, Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment (情绪): if he can’t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.

When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It was the first play to win all the three of these major awards.

Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.

1.Why did Arthur Miller’s father move to the USA?

A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.

B. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”.

C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.

D. His family business failed.

2.The play Death of a Salesman _____.

A. exposes the cruelty of the American business world

B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a country

C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller

D. focuses on the skills in doing business

3.What can we learn about Willy Loman?

A. He treats his employer badly.

B. He runs the Wagner Company.

C. He is a victim of the American system.

D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.

4.After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman _____.

A. achieved huge success

B. won the first Tony Award

C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen

D. was severely attacked by dramatists

5. What is the text mainly about?

A. Arthur Miller and his family.

B. The awards Arthur Miller won.

C. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.

D. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.

It’s hard to predict the weather in the near future. It’s even more difficult to know what the climate of the coming season is like. Now you know the winter of 2011/12 was not warm but a freezing one/ many people in the Northern Hemisphere died of cold. but a Native American tribe was fortunate enough to survive the terrible winter because of what was foretold by a weatherman.

One day in early September o 2011 the chief of the Native American tribe was asked by his tribal elders if the winter was going to be cold or mild. The chief asked his medicine man, but the man also had lost touch with the reading signs from the natural world around the Great Lakes.

In truth, neither of them had idea about how to predict the coming winter. However, the chief decided to take a modern approach, and rang the National Weather Service in Gaylord Michigan.

“Yes, it is going to be a cold winter,” the weatherman told the chief. Consequently, the chief went back to his tribe and told his tribe people to collect plenty of firewood.

A fortnight later the chief called the National Weather Service and asked for an update. “Are you still forecasting a cold winter?” he asked.

“Yes, very cold,” the weatherman told him.

As a result of this brief conversation the chief went back to the tribe people to collect every bit of wood they could find.

A month later the chief called the National Weather Service once more and asked about the coming winter. “Yes,” he was told, “it s going to be one of the coldest winters ever.”

The weatherman was right! And the Native American tribe went comfortably through the terrifying winter. The chief was thankful and curious. He rang the weatherman again and asked, “How can you be so sure about it tat it was freezing winter?”

The weatherman replied, “Because the Native American tribe of the Great Lakes are collecting wood like crazy.”

1.The underlined words in Paragraph2 must be a person who .

A. only has the ability to cure illness

B. can foretell what will happen in the future

C. governs he whole American tribes

D. is a weatherman for the Great Lakes

2.The chief decided to take a modern approach, so he turned to .

A. his medicine man

B. his tribe people

C. a telephone

D. a weatherman

3.The native tribe survived the terrible winter mainly because of .

A. lucky coincidence

B. good leadership

C. scientific prediction

D. modern technology

4.The chief rang the weatherman several times out of .

A. anger B. excitement

C. curiosity D. doubt

Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants.

Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe(成熟的) or finished.

For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the 15th century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns(角) had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the 18th century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today --- a person who is new in a job.

About 100 years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east. The greenhorn lacked the skills he would need to live in the west.

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early 1900s. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion, jealousy(嫉妒). The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."

It describes the unpleasant feeling that a person has when someone has something that he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.

In most places in the world, a green light is a signal to move ahead. A green light on a traffic signal means your car can continue on. In everyday speech, a green light means approval to continue with a project.

1.If a person was a greenhorn, he might ___________.

A. be good at growing plants

B. get along well with others

C. be a soldier in the 16th century

D. have no experience in doing something

2.When you have trouble in growing flowers, you can ask for help from ___________.

A. a green thumb B. a green light

C. a greenhorn D. a green-eyed monster

3.If a girl refuses your invitation to a dance party but accepting another gentleman’s, you may___________.

A. need to buy a green light

B. have to get a green thumb

C. show them your greenhorn

D. be affected by the green-eyed monster

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A. The origin of the word “green ”.

B. Some expressions concerning green.

C. The story of a green-eyed monster.

D. Some ways of how to use words properly.

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