题目内容
A while ago,I didn’t think I had a passion. 1 would sit in front of the TV all day and not think about anything except the next 36 . At that time,I didn’t know how 37 it was to have a passion in our life.
The first 38 I thought about this was in the seventh grade when 1 went to school with my mom. As we stopped at a red light,someone 39 my eyes. It was a man dressed in old 40 standing on the other side of the 41 . This homeless man was not sitting down with a sad and hopeless 42 . He was standing,waving his hands and dancing. He looked happy and held a radio as if it was the most 43 thing he had.
Seeing all this 44 me. “Morn,why does that man have a radio even though he’s homeless?”I asked.
“He bought it,”she replied. 1 was still 45 .
“But if he’s homeless,why doesn’t he use his money to buy clothes?He 46 his money on something he doesn’t need. He should buy food. ”
“Well,Sarah,sometimes food isn’t the most important thing. 47 can be food for the
48 . Food and clothes aren’t the only things we need. People need happiness to stay 49 ,too. ”
I wasn’t sure whether I 50 my mother’s words. Maybe my mom was right. If one lives in sadness,there’s 51 to keep him moving from day to day.
Now I 52 that I’ve had passions all along,but never recognized their importance in my life. They were invisible(无形的)hopes that I 53 without knowing them. What’s often forgotten is that we all need a 54 ,a light on a 55 day. We all need a passion.
36. A. display | B. show | C. exhibition | D. show off |
37. A. efficient | B. effective | C. important | D. valuable |
38. A. moment | B. period | C. date | D. time |
39. A. caught | B. seized | C. held | D. held on to |
40. A. cloths | B. clothes | C. clothing | D. coat |
41. A. way | B. passage | C. road | D. express way |
42. A. expression | B. looks | C. face | D. eyes |
43. A. invaluable | B. expensive | C. precious | D. worthless |
44. A. shocked | B. astounded | C. astonishing | D. surprised |
45. A. puzzled | B. wondered | C. confused | D. amazed |
46. A. spent | B. wasted | C. took | D. cost |
| B. Music | C. Love | D. Happiness |
48. A. soul | B. mind | C. heart | D. brain |
| B. living | C. alive | D. 1ively |
| B. agreed | C. see | D. have gotten |
| B. nothing | C. no one | D. anything |
| B. know about | C. come true | D. realize |
| B. relied on | C. relied | D. 1ay in |
| B. fun | C. joy | D. enjoy |
| B. dusk | C. dim | D. dark |
36. B 37. C 38. D 3 9. A 40. B
41. C 42. A 43. C 44. D 45. A
46. B 47. A 48. A 49. C 50. B
51. A 52. D 53. B 54. C 55. D
One day, Mr. Arnold was teaching a lesson, and things were going as normally as ever. He was explaining the story of mankind to his pupils. He told them that, in the beginning, men were nomads; they never stayed in the same place for very long. Instead, they would travel about, here and there, in search of food, wherever it was to be found. And when the food ran out, they would move off somewhere else.
He taught them about the invention of farming and keeping animals. This was an important discovery, because by learning to cultivate(耕作)the land, and care for animals, mankind would always have food steadily available. It also meant that people could remain living in one place, and this made it easier to set about tasks that would take a long while to complete, like building towns, cities, and all that were in them. All the children were listening attracted by this story, until Lucy jumped up:
“And if that was so important and improved everything so much, why are we nomads all over again, Mr. Arnold?”
Mr. Arnold didn’t know what to say. Lucy was a very intelligent girl. He knew that she lived with her parents in a house, so she must know that her family were not nomads; so what did she mean?
“We have all become nomads again,” continued Lucy, “The other day, outside the city, they were cutting the forest down. A while ago a fisherman told me how they fish. It’s the same with everyone: when there’s no more forest left the foresters go elsewhere, and when the fish run out the fishermen move on. That’s what the nomads did, isn’t it ?
The teacher nodded, thoughtfully. Really, Lucy was right Mankind had turned into nomads. Instead of looking after the land in a way that we could be sure it would keep supplying our needs, we kept developing it until the land was bare. And then off we would go to the next place! The class spent the rest of the afternoon talking about what they could do to show how to be more civilized.
The next day everyone attended class wearing a green T-shirt, with a message that said “I am not a nomad!”
And , from then on, they set about showing that indeed they were not. Every time they knew they needed something, they made sure that they would get it using care and control. If they needed wood or paper, they would make sure that they got the recycled kind. They ordered their fish from fish farms, making sure that the fish they received were not too young and too small. They only used animals that were well cared for, and brought up on farms.
And so, from their little town, those children managed to give up being nomads again, just as prehistoric men had done, so many thousands of years ago.
【小题1】From Paragraph 2, we can know that______ .
A.people got tired of living in the same place |
B.people gradually got used to living in cities |
C.people tended to settle down after learning farming |
D.people spent a long time in learning to keep animals |
A.shocking | B.ridiculous | C.puzzling | D.reasonable |
A.People eat young fish for its delicious taste. |
B.Foresters leave the place where wood is not available. |
C.Fishermen move elsewhere when there is no fish left. |
D.People use recycled materials as much as possible. |
A.mankind has been progressing mainly through traveling about |
B.it’s unwise for mankind to use the land in an uncontrolled way |
C.it’s quite good for students to learn more about the history of mankind |
D.in the beginning men were nomads. |