题目内容
“________ I stop here, sir?”“No. Go on to the next paragraph, please.”
- A.Will
- B.May
- C.Would
- D.Ought
May I…？我可以……吗？表示征求意见．
I love science and science fiction. Like many science fiction fans, I am fascinated by the possibility of time travel. However, one must combine romance with reasoning and look into the chances of time travel critically.
First of all, we must remember the whole universe is in motion. If we want to go back to yesterday, our "time machine" has to move back in time and space. If someone claimed he was at home when he suddenly travelled 200 years back in time, he either had an illusion or made the story up. Two hundred years ago, Earth was in a different place in space, so how can you travel back 200 years without moving in space? Don't get me wrong. I am not knocking the genius of science fiction writers. H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine" is a great work of fiction, but that’s all. I have read many other time travelling science fiction stories since reading H.G. Wells, but none address this problem of displacement.
My own argument for the im
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ossibility of time travel is that physical states of the past no longer exist and those of the future are not here yet. To be able to move back and forth in time requires everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen everywhere in the whole universe at every single moment in time－past, present, and future－to be stored as a "reality" somewhere－like the save game file of a computer game that contains every single byte of information of the game at the point it was saved, but you would need an almost extremely large file and almost extremely many of them－so it can be re-entered and communicated with, and not just light signals for viewing. To me, I don’t buy it.
【小题1】Which of the following can be the best title?
| A．How to make time travel possible? |
| B．Why am I fascinated by time travel? |
| C．Why do I think time travel is not possible? |
| D．How to explain the possibility of time travel? |
| A．success | B．dream | C．switch | D．support |
| A．We can go back to the past by time travel. |
| B．People can travel to the future by moving in space. |
| C．“The Time Machine” is nothing more than a science fiction. |
| D．Everything that happened, is happening and will happen can be stored somewhere. |
| A．people could combine romance with reasoning |
| B．people could stop the movement of the whole universe |
| C．people could use time machine under the instruction of H.G. Wells |
| D．people could “save” everything in the past, present and future in a certain space |
阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
第一节：（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When she flew into Athens on an unseasonably cold day in September, she quickly realized that she hadn’t brought enough warm clothes. Walking through the streets of the Greek capital, she happened to see a nice coat in a shop window and went in to ask about the price. The coat was too expensive, but as Christine was about to leave the shop, the woman asked her where she was from. When Christine answered Australia, the woman agreed to reduce the price because she knew a nice girl from Australia called Elena. Christine then noticed a photo of a young man standing next to a motorbike. Her eyes opened wide with astonishment. It was Nicos! Indeed the young man was Nicos, and the woman in the shop was Maria. She had come to Athens from Santorini to look after the shop for a friend.
Sadly, the story has a tragic ending. Nicos had been killed in a motorcycle accident.
“I wanted to tell Elena,” said Maria. “But I didn’t know how. Now that I have met you, I know that it’s time to tell her.”
【小题1】Elena went to Greece in order to visit .
| A．her parents | B．Christine | C．Nicos. | D．her grandparents |
| A．He had moved away. |
| B．His mother forbade him to do so. |
| C．He h ad died in an accident. |
| D．They had lost touch with each other. |
| A．They two had planned the talk before. | B．They met each other accidentally. |
| C．They were business partners. | D．They recognized each other. |
When she flew into Athens on an unseasonably cold day in
September, she quickly realized that she hadn’t brought enough warm clothes.
Walking through the streets of the Greek capital, she happened to see a nice
coat in a shop window and went in to ask about the price. The coat was too
expensive, but as Christine was about to leave the shop, the woman asked her
where she was from. When Christine answered Australia, the woman agreed to
reduce the price because she knew a nice girl from Australia called Elena.
Christine then noticed a photo of a young man standing next to a motorbike. Her
eyes opened wide with astonishment. It was Nicos! Indeed the young man was
Nicos, and the woman in the shop was Maria. She had come to Athens from
Santorini to look after the shop for a friend.