题目内容
阅读下面的短文。从所给的A―E五个选项中为标有小题号的段落找出适当的小标题。选项中有一个是多余的选项。
57.More than three hundred fifty national parks can be found in the United States.These parks include huge colored rock formations,rivers,waterfalls,beautiful trees,other plants and many different kinds of wild animals.58.Millions of people from all over the world visit the state of Utah every year.One reason is the many national parks.These are areas of great natural beauty that are protected by the United States government.One of the parks is Arches National Park,near the town of Moab in eastern Utah.Experts say this park has the greatest number of arches(拱门)of any similar geographic area in the world.The National Park Service has counted more than two thousand arches in Arches National Park.The smallest of these is an opening of less than one meter;the longest measures more than ninety-three meters.
59.Arches look like half a circle above an opening or hole in a rock.Arches can also appear as curved bridges between two large rocks.Scientists say they began forming almost two thousand million years ago.Most arches seen today developed within the past million years.As time passed,the area was filled with material left by rivers.Other rocks buried the area.Then great pressure deep in the Earth created huge mountains.
60.The rocks in Arches National Park are mostly a deep red color.Rocks get their color from minerals.The red color is the result of iron oxide or rust.Scientists say the presence of iron in the rock shows that the weather was hot and dry when the rock was first formed.
A.The forming of arches B.Arches National Park C.Color of the rock
D.Famous places E.Natural parks in the
完形填空(共15小题, 每小题1分, 满分15分)
阅读下面的短文,从短文所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
For years we have been told that encouraging a child’s self-respect is important to his or her success in life.__41__ child experts are now learning that __42__ praise can lead to the opposite effect. Praise-aholic(受表扬上瘾的) kids who __43__ it at every turn may become teens who try to get the same kind of __44__ from friends when asked if they want to go in the backseat of the car. ks5*u
The meaning of saying “You are the __45__ girl in class,” or talking about the goals she scored but not her general __46__, is that you love her __47__ when she looks the best, scores the highest, achieves the most. And this __48__ over to the classroom.
Social psychologist Carrol Dweck, PhD, tested the effects of overpraise on 400 fifth graders __49__ she was at Columbia University. She found that the kids who were __50__ for “trying hard” did better on tests and were more likely to take on difficult tasks than __51__ praised for being “smart”.
“Praising qualities or abilities leads to a false __52__ that success will come to you because you __53__ that quality, and it devalues(贬值) effort. __54__, children are afraid to take on challenges, ” says Dweck, now at Stanford University, “They think they’d better __55__while they’re ahead.”
【小题1】
A.And | B.But | C.Then | D.So |
A.enough | B.a little | C.too much | D.some |
A.expect | B.rescue | C.notice | D.design |
A.education | B.praise | C.competition | D.direction |
A.prettiest | B.youngest | C.tallest | D.fattest |
A.ability | B.value | C.kindness | D.effort |
A.still | B.only | C.already | D.yet |
A.carries | B.looks | C.turns | D.takes |
A.while | B.because | C.until | D.unless |
A.set down | B.looked through | C.picked up | D.thought highly of |
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【小题12】 |
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A.have | B.like | C.advise | D.make |
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A.move | B.stop | C.fight | D.work |