题目内容
Here in the hills were buffaloes (野牛). I had even, in my very young days — when I could not live till I had killed one of each kind of African animal — shot a bull out there. Later on, when I was not so interested to shoot as to watch the wild animals, I had been out to see them again. But twice I had to go back without success.
But one afternoon as I was having tea with some friends outside the house, Denys came flying from Nairobi and went over our heads westwards; a little while after he turned and came back and landed on the farm. I drove down to the plane to bring him back, but he would not get out of his plane.
“The buffaloes are out feeding in the hills,” he said, “come out and have a look at them.”
“I cannot come,” I said. “I have got a tea-party up at the house.”
“But we will go and see them and be back in a quarter of an hour,” he said.
This sounded to me like the suggestions which people make to you in a dream. So I went up with him. It did not take us long to see the buffaloes from the air; we counted them as they peacefully mixed and separated on the open ground closed in by bushes. There was one very old big black bull, and a number of young ones; if a stranger had come near to them they would have heard or smelt him at once, but they were not prepared for something from the air. They heard the noise of our machine and stopped feeding, but they did not seem to be able to look up. In the end they realized that something very strange was about; the old bull first walked out in front of the others. Suddenly he began to go down the valley side and after a moment he broke into a run. The whole group now followed him, rushing hurriedly down into the buses. In a small wood of low trees they stopped and kept close together. Here they believed themselves to be out of sight. We flew up and away. It was like having been taken there by a secret unknown route.
When I came back to my tea-party the teapot on the stone was still so hot that I burned my fingers on it.
1.The writer drove to the plane ________.
A.to pick Denys up and take him back to the tea-party |
B.to have a talk with Denys |
C.to do some repairs for Denys |
D.because they wanted to go up in the plane |
2. Denys said it would only take a quarter of an hour to go and see the buffaloes ________.
A.but it took much longer than that |
B.and he was right |
C.if they went by a secret route |
D.but it wasn’t a serious suggestion |
3.When the buffaloes heard the noise of the plane, they ________.
A.looked up at it |
B.ran away immediately |
C.continued feeding |
D.were uncertain what to do |
1.A
2.B
3.D
【解析】略
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Talking on a mobile phone is expensive, so a lot of people send text messages. Text messages are much cheaper than talking on a mobile phone, and you can make it cheaper by making the words shorter. You can do this by taking out “unimportant” letters in the words and using numbers instead of words (2 =" to," 3 =" free," 4 =" for," 8 =" ate," so h8 =" hate," etc.). You can also keep away from using punctuation (标点). Here is an example: Do U wnt 2 g 2 th cnma tnite (Do you want to go to the cinema tonight?)
What do you think these text messages mean?
Whr hv U bn? Iv bn wtng hrs fr a cll.
Im hm nw, why nt gv me a cll.
I gt a txt mssge frm my frnd. Shes hvng a prty on Strdy.
Mobile phone users have developed a group of symbols (符号) to show how they feel. They are called emoticons, and there are some examples below. To read an emoticon, you have to look at it sideways. For example, if you say something in a text message that is a joke, you can follow it with a smiling face.
【小题1】Why are text messages popular?
A.Because they are expensive. | B.Because they are cheap. |
C.Because they are hard to write. | D.Because they are not important. |
A.one | B.two | C.three | D.four |
A.Do you want to come | B.Do you wear two caps |
C.Do you want two cakes | D.Do you go home early |
A.Because they can show how users feel. |
B.Because the symbols are beautiful. |
C.Because text messages are short. |
D.Because the users can’t make the words shorter. |