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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从以下各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

  If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; and when you start using them again, they will slowly become strong again. 1 knows this, and nobody would think of 2 the fact.

  Yet there are many people who 3 to know that the memory works in the same way. When someone says that 4 has a good memory, he 5 means that he keeps his memory 6 practice by exercising it very 7 , either consciously or unconsciously. When someone else says that his memory is 8 , he means that he does not give it enough 9 to become strong. The position is exactly the same as that of 10 people, one of 11 exercises his arms and legs by playing balls, while the other 12 in a chair or a car all day. If a friend of yours says that his arms are weak, we know that it is his own 13 . But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, 14 of us think that his parents are to blame, or that he is just 15 , and few of us realize that it is just as it was his arms or legs that were weak. Not all of us can become very strong in body or very clever in mind, 16 all of us can improve our strength and our memory by the same means 17 .

  Have you ever 18 that people who cannot read or write usually have 19 memories than those who can? Why is this? Of course, because they cannot write down something in a little notebook or something else. They have to remember names, places, songs and stories; so their memory is always being exercised.

  In a word, if you want to have a good memory, 20 practise remembering.

1.

[  ]

A.Somebody
B.Everybody
C.Nobody
D.Each one

2.

[  ]

A.proving
B.describing
C.questioning
D.indicating

3.

[  ]

A.want
B.need
C.have
D.seem

4.

[  ]

A.he
B.she
C.it
D.one

5.

[  ]

A.always
B.really
C.nearly
D.almost

6.

[  ]

A.with
B.in
C.to
D.by

7.

[  ]

A.soon
B.fast
C.quickly
D.often

8.

[  ]

A.bad
B.useless
C.poor
D.helpless

9.

[  ]

A.chance
B.time
C.space
D.places

10.

[  ]

A.three
B.four
C.two
D.five

11.

[  ]

A.them
B.whom
C.that
D.which

12.

[  ]

A.lies
B.stands
C.hides
D.sits

13.

[  ]

A.business
B.fault
C.story
D.interest

14.

[  ]

A.few
B.some
C.several
D.many

15.

[  ]

A.unhappy
B.unfortunate
C.unthinkable
D.miserable

16.

[  ]

A.because
B.since
C.for
D.but

17.

[  ]

A.study
B.work
C.play
D.rest

18.

[  ]

A.found
B.thought
C.noticed
D.realized

19.

[  ]

A.better
B.poorer
C.worse
D.stranger

20.

[  ]

A.remember
B.try
C.do
D.need

  Today, when a man steps on to the moon, or something new and important happens, the world learns about it immediately. What did the newspapers say about that first flight in 1903? Strangely enough, they said hardly anything about it at all. There were only a few reports about it in the papers. These reports said very little. Some of the things they said were not even correct.

  In 1904 the Wrights built a second machine. They called it "Flyer No. Two". They invited some reporters to a field near Dayton to watch them fly. Unfortunately there was some mechanical (机械的)trouble with the plane and it did not fly at all that day. The newspapermen went away. They were disappointed and did not come back. The Wrights went on with their work. In 1905, they built an even better machine, "Flyer No. Three". They were able to stay upon the air for half an hour and more in the machine and they were able to turn and climb in the air. Farmers and travelers on the road around Dayton often saw them flying. But when these people told newspapermen about it, they refused to believe them.

  The Wrights offered "Flyer No. Three" to the United States govern ment. The government was not interested. They seemed to think the Wrights wanted money in order to build a plane. They did not understand the Wrights had already done this, and flown it as well. Experts were still saying that mechanical flight was impossible. At the end of 1905, the two brothers took their plane to pieces. The parts were put into a huge wooden box. It seemed nobody was interested.

  1.The reports about the first flight________

    A. were not carried in any newspaper

    B. said nothing

    C. were quite different from the fact

    D. were not quite correct

  

  2.Newspapermen didn't believe what farmers and travelers said because_______

    A. they didn't see "Flyer No. Three" flying

    B. they saw the Wrights failed to fly "Flyer No. Two"

    C. they had never seen a machine that can fly

    D. all the above

  

  3.The U. S. government could not understand that __________

    A. the Wrights had already built a machine that could fly

    B. experts still thought flight was impossible

    C. the Wrights wanted more money to build an airplane

    D. "Flyer No. Three" was then in a woken case

  

  4.The Wrights took their plane to pieces because ________.

    A. they planned to leave for Europe

    B. nobody was interested

    C. the government didn't give them any money

    D. the newspapermen didn't report their flights

 

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