题目内容
The sudden snow in Beijing on November 4, 2012 caught people by surprise. Many drivers got stuck on the road, ________.
A.coldly and helplessly | B.cold and helpless |
C.being cold and helpless | D.in cold and helplessness |
B
解析试题分析:句意:2012年11月在北京的大雪让人们很是吃惊,许多司机被困在路上,又冷又无助。这里是形容词做状语。英语形容词或形容词短语在句中最常见的用法是作定语、表语、宾语补足语和主语补足语。但除此之外,英语形容词以及形容词短语在句中还有一个特殊用法,即作状语,在句中往往可以起到并列分句或状语从句的功能。形容词作状语用时,在结构上可以是单个形容词,也可以是形容词短语,通常要用逗号将其和句子的其他部分分开;若单个形容词直接位于动词后面作方式状语,则不需用逗号。
作状语的形容词或短语在句中位置比较灵活,通常位于句子主语前或句子主语后,有时位于句末,单个形容词作方式状语时还可直接位于动词后面。当形容词或短语位于主语之前或句末时,通常具有较强的强调意义。
作状语的形容词或短语在句中主要用来补充说明句子中的主语、宾语、谓语或整个句子的内容,表示时间、原因、让步、结果、伴随状态或方式状语等。
考点:考查形容词做状语的用法。
点评:本题较难。形容词做状语是高中阶段的难点,考生容易和副词做状语分不清,需要考生多做练习,来加以区分。
即学即练:They started the experiment, _______ success.
A. hoping against B. hope to C. hopeful for D. hopeful in
解析:C。此句相当于:They started the experiment and they were hopeful for success.
I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves.One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community.Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say.Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence (吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.
At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today.It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today.That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take.It’s my fault that she’s dead.”
You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty.Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course — keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation — would have turned out better.After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty.The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens.That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.
The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen.It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault.The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.
A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it.He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks.He cries, and someone comes to attend to him.When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him.Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.
【小题1】The author had to hold the two women’s funerals probably because __________________.
A.he wanted to comfort the two families |
B.he was an official from the community |
C.he had great pity for the deceased |
D.he was priest of the local church |
A.they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrow |
B.they believe that they were responsible |
C.they had neglected the natural course of events |
D.they didn’t know things often turn out in the opposite direction |
A.everything in the world is predetermined |
B.the world can be interpreted in different ways |
C.there’s an explanation for everything in the world |
D.we have to be sensible in order to understand the world |
A.Life and death is an unsolved mystery. |
B.Every story should have a happy ending. |
C.Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault. |
D.In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away . |
After a 15-year ban on the sale of fireworks in Beijing, Kang Guoliang, 51, was able to start his old trade again yesterday.
As a salesman in Xinhui store in Dongcheng District, he is happy about the increasing number of buying fireworks wrapped in red paper — a color standing for happiness and good luck.
“Fireworks are available for the first time in town for more than a decade,” Kang said happily.“People will buy them.”
The store has 300 boxes of fireworks piled up and is open 24 hours at the moment.Residents are buying the fireworks and firecrackers for the upcoming Spring Festival, which falls on February 18.
Citywide, 2,116 registered stores and retailers, 585 in the centre and 1,600 on the outskirts are trading fireworks in the Chinese capital.Sales of fireworks within the Fifth Ring Road started yesterday and will last until March 4, Xinhua reported.Among the stores, 117 stores are permitted to operate 24 hours.About 600,000 boxes of firecrackers worth more than 100 million yuan have been carried to registered stores.
The Chinese capital began a ban in 1993 to reduce fireworks-related deaths and fires during the holiday season.Last September the ban was removed in response to residents’ fondness for fireworks when celebrating Spring Festival.
According to new rules, Beijing residents are allowed to set off fireworks within the Fifth Ring Road all day on Lunar New Year’s Eve and Lunar New Year’s day, from 7 a.m.to midnight every day from February 19 to March 4.
“Spring Festival without fireworks is not Spring Festival,” said Sheng Hefei, who was buying fireworks in the store.“It was fun to light the firecrackers when I was little,” he said.“The sound and view of fireworks make a real holiday.” However, not all residents welcome the return of firecrackers because of injuries, pollution and noise.“My child is scared of the sudden sound of firecrackers, and it is annoying to hear it all night long,” complained Lu Jun, a local resident.
(China Daily02/11/2008)
1.The passage is likely to belong to a(n)__________?
A.description |
B.argument |
C.advertisement |
D.news report |
2.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.Beijing fireworks sales start after a 15-year ban. |
B.People go to buy fireworks and firecrackers every where in Beijing. |
C.Beijing residents all welcome the return of firecrackers. |
D.Many stores began to sell fireworks and firecrackers. |
3.We can learn from the passage that ____________.
A.every Spring Festival falls on February 18 |
B.Beijing residents can set off fireworks everywhere . |
C.fireworks are allowed to be sold because people like them. |
D.from February 19 to March 4, Beijing residents can set off fireworks twenty four hours every day. |
4.What is the writer’s attitude towards the sales of fireworks in Beijing?
A.Negative |
B.Not mentioned |
C.Positive |
D.Satisfactory |