题目内容
On a clear night we can see the stars,but in the daytime they are .
A. unavoidable B. invisible C. inaccessible D. unavailable
John Fisher, a builder, and his wife Elizabeth wanted more living space, so they left their small flat for an old 40-meter-high castle tower. They have spent five years turning it into a beautiful home with six floors, winning three architectural prizes.
“I love the space, and being private,” Elizabeth says. “You feel separated from the world. If I am in the kitchen, which is 25 meters above the ground floor, and the doorbell rings, I don’t have to answer it because visitors can’t see I am in!”
There are 142 steps to the top so if I go up and down five or six times a day, it’s very good exercise! But having to carry heavy things to the top is terrible, so I never buy more than two bags of shopping from the supermarket at a time. Except for that, it’s a brilliant place to live.
“When we first saw the place, I asked my father’s advice about buying it, because we couldn’t decide. After paying for it, we were a bit worried because it looked awful. But we really loved it, and knew how we wanted it to look.”
“Living here can be difficult—yesterday I climbed a four-meter ladder to clean the windows. But when you stand on the roof you can see all the way out to the sea on a clear day, and that’s a wonderful experience. I am really glad we moved. ”
【小题1】What is the writer trying to do in the text?
A.describe how to turn an old tower into a house |
B.recommend(推荐) a particular builder |
C.describe what it is like to live in a tower |
D.explain how to win prizes for building work |
A.She wanted it as soon as she saw it. |
B.She likes most things about it. |
C.She has been worried since they paid for it. |
D.She finds it unsuitable to live in. |
A.Her visitors find it hard to see if she is at home. |
B.She feels separated from others. |
C.She cannot bring home lots of shopping at once. |
D.It is impossible to clean any of the windows. |
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B. |
C. |
D. |
We like to consider ourselves the superior race, and we are. It’s true that we are getting to know more and more, and we actually live in “the information age”. Our human vanity(虚荣心) makes us believe that we really have to know everything! Surprisingly, we do not have this ability. The question “what is happening in the Bermuda Triangle” is the very proof.
Where is the Bermuda Triangle located? The mysterious triangle is believed to be situated between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, where too many unusual events have happened.
On December the 5th 1945, five U.S. military planes took off from Florida on a clear day only to disappear over Bermuda. Furthermore, some other disappearances took place; in 1947, an American C54 plane simply disappeared at 100 miles from Bermuda; at 80 miles, a Star Tiger plane disappeared in 1948.
Even Columbus had trouble in Bermuda. Some of his journals were about the strange happenings there: “the waters are changing their colors” and “compasses are going wild”.
Maybe it’s why it is called the Devil’s triangle or the Atlantic cemetery.
Many hypotheses were stated in order to explain the strange events. In spite of these attempts, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle remains unsolved.
Some people get to say that maybe aliens are involved in it. Other imaginative scientists relate the happenings in Bermuda to Einstein’s theory, saying that the missing ships and planes are translated to another dimension of space and time and taken into another world.
Maybe we will just have to wait to go to Heaven and ask the One who made it. The answer will surely be a satisfying one!
1.The writer may probably think that______.
A.humans have to and can know everything strange |
B.the missing ships are taken into another world |
C.humans can know more in “the information age” |
D.God created the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle |
2. Columbus’ journals told us that in Bermuda _______.
A.an American C54 plane disappeared |
B.there were some strange happenings |
C.the compasses were lost |
D.a cemetery was found |
3.The underlined word “hypotheses” in the 6th paragraph probably means______.
A.guesses |
B.reports |
C.places |
D.stories |
4.The purpose of the writer is to______.
A.tell some stories about the Bermuda Triangle |
B.warn people not to travel to the Bermuda Triangle |
C.laugh at man’s vanity to know everything |
D.prove man does not have the ability to know all |