题目内容
After three years on horseback, Tim Cope has followed the route of Genghis Khan(成吉思汗) and other Asian nomads(游牧民族) who crossed into Europe over the centuries.
The 28-year-old Australian arrived in Hungary on Saturday, Sept. 22, ending a 6200-mile travel through Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Southern Russia and Ukraine. Surrounded by his traveling companions — his dog and three horses, Cope said,“I’m very happy to be here. Sometimes I didn’t think I would ever arrive.”
Cope was inspired to make the horseback journey during a bicycle trip from Moscow to Beijing. Trying to push his bike through the sands of the Gobi Desert, Cope watched in frustration as nomad horsemen appeared out of nowhere and disappeared over the horizon.
That got him interested in nomad life and the journey by ancient Asian groups. He set off from Mongolia in 2004 for a trip he thought would take 18 months. It ended up taking three years, and in late 2006, he had to return to Australia for several months when his father died in a car crash.
Cope quickly learned to trust the wisdom of locals. “In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things and I didn’t believe them at first.” he said. Then one night he found himself surrounded by wolves. “When you hear that cry alone at night in the forest, it’s one of the most frightening sounds you’ll ever hear,” Cope said. “After that I took their advice and threw firecrackers out my tent door every night to keep the wolves away.”
Cope says he probably spent about half of his nights in his tent and the rest in farm houses and huts of strangers along the way. “In Kazakhstan, they believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.”
Cope wants to write a book and shoot a film about his voyage, and is already imagining future adventures in northwest China and the Middle East.
“It’s my way of life. It was not just a trip,” Cope said. “I’ll be back in the saddle(马鞍) as soon as I can.”
31. Tim Cope decided to make the horseback journey because .
A. it was impossible to make the journey by bike
B. Genghis Khan was the person he admired most
C. he wanted to visit Hungary where he had never been
D. he was fascinated by the life of nomad horsemen
32. What is the correct time order of the following events?
a. Tim Cope went through the Gobi desert.
b. Tim Cope arrived in Hungary.
c. Tim Cope left Mongolia.
d. Tim Cope returned to Australia.
A. a-c-d-b
B. c-d-b-a
C. b-a-c-d
D. c-a-d-b
33. Tim Cope arrived in Hungary in .
A. March, 2004
B. March, 2006
C. September, 2006
D. September, 2007
34. Cope’s words underlined in the last paragraph mean that he will .
A. come back to Australia
B. devote his life to adventures
C. travel on horseback soon
D. take this journey again
35. The passage is mainly about .
A. an Australian’s ambition to take adventures
B. a rider who completes a horseback journey
C. a modern young man who lives nomad life
D. following Genghis Khan to cross into Europe
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Roslyn Hing School on long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms.
A growing number of schools across the U.S.are multimedia,history through gamse and math with step-by -step animation(动画）of complex problems.
As part of a pilot program,Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec.20,2010 to the students and teachers in two humanities(人文学科）classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students.
The iPads are to be used in class and at hom during the school year to replace texbooks,allow students to correspond with teachers and tum in papers and homework tasks,and preserve a rocord of student work in digital files.
“It allows us to extend the classes beyond these four walls.”said larry Reiff,an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course mateials online.
But educators are still divided over whether practices to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.
“Thre is very little evidence that kids learn more,faster of better by using these machines,”said Larry Cuban,a retried professor of eduction at Staford University.“IPads are excellent tools to attract kids,but then the fieshness wears off and you eget int hard-core problems of teaching and learning.”
But school leaders say the iPad is not just a cool new toy but rather a powerful and multifunctional tool with a number of applications,including thousands with educational uses.
“If there isn't an application that does something I need ,there will be sooner or later,”said Mr.Reiff,who said he now used an application that includes all of Shakespare's plays.
【小题1】The program of using iPads in class is .
| A．widely accepted by most schools in the United States |
| B．only an experimental one carried out in some schools |
| C．a compulsory one carried out by the U.S government |
| D．encouraged and organized by the iPad company |
| A．school dormitory | B．school campus |
| C．teacher's office | D．school classroom |
| A．replace the school textbooks | B．keep digital record of homework |
| C．judge the teachers'teaching | D．communicate with teachers |
| A．cool and interesting | B．powerful and helpful |
| C．multifunctional and expensive | D．attractive and vivid |
| A．most old teachers are against the pilot program |
| B．students have achieved a lot after using iPads |
| C．teaching will become less important with the help of ipads |
| D．iPads will be used is more and more schools in the US |
Roslyn Hing School on long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms.
A growing number of schools across the U.S.are multimedia,history through gamse and math with step-by -step animation(动画）of complex problems.
As part of a pilot program,Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec.20,2010 to the students and teachers in two humanities(人文学科）classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students.
The iPads are to be used in class and at hom during the school year to replace texbooks,allow students to correspond with teachers and tum in papers and homework tasks,and preserve a rocord of student work in digital files.
“It allows us to extend the classes beyond these four walls.”said larry Reiff,an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course mateials online.
But educators are still divided over whether practices to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.
“Thre is very little evidence that kids learn more,faster of better by using these machines,”said Larry Cuban,a retried professor of eduction at Staford University.“IPads are excellent tools to attract kids,but then the fieshness wears off and you eget int hard-core problems of teaching and learning.”
But school leaders say the iPad is not just a cool new toy but rather a powerful and multifunctional tool with a number of applications,including thousands with educational uses.
“If there isn't an application that does something I need ,there will be sooner or later,”said Mr.Reiff,who said he now used an application that includes all of Shakespare's plays.
1.The program of using iPads in class is .
|
A．widely accepted by most schools in the United States |
|
B．only an experimental one carried out in some schools |
|
C．a compulsory one carried out by the U.S government |
|
D．encouraged and organized by the iPad company |
2.The underlined part “these four walls”in paragraph 5 refers to .
|
A．school dormitory |
B．school campus |
|
C．teacher's office |
D．school classroom |
3.We can use iPads to do the following at school except .
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A．replace the school textbooks |
B．keep digital record of homework |
|
C．judge the teachers'teaching |
D．communicate with teachers |
4.The school leaders tink highly of the iPad mainly because it is .
|
A．cool and interesting |
B．powerful and helpful |
|
C．multifunctional and expensive |
D．attractive and vivid |
5.We can infer from the passage that .
|
A．most old teachers are against the pilot program |
|
B．students have achieved a lot after using iPads |
|
C．teaching will become less important with the help of ipads |
|
D．iPads will be used is more and more schools in the US |