题目内容

The death of the great inventor means a great ________ to science.


  1. A.
    damage
  2. B.
    harm
  3. C.
    loss
  4. D.
    failure
C
本句句意为:“这位伟大发明家的死对科学是一个重大的损失。”loss意为“损失”。其它三个词意义不符合题意。
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    Alfred Nobel became a millionaire and changed the ways of mining,construction,and warfare as the inventor of dynamite(炸药).On April 12,1888,Alfred's brother Ludwig died of heart attack.A major French newspaper _21_ his brother for him and carried an article  _22_ the death of Alfred Nobel.“The merchant of death is dead.”the article read.“Dr.Alfred Nobel,who became  _23_  by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before,died yesterday.”Nobel was _24_ to find out not that he had died,but that,when his time was up,he would be thought of only as one who profited from _25_ and destruction.

    To make sure that he was _26_ with love and respect.Nobel arranged in his _27_ to give the largest part of his money to _28_ the Nobel prizes,which would be awarded to people who made great _29_ to the causes of peace,literature,and the sciences.So _30_ ,Nobel had to die before he realized what his life was really about.

 

21.A.found

 B.misunderstood

C.mistook

 D.judged

22.A.introducing

B.announcing

 C.implying

 D.advertising

23.A.famous

 B.sick

 C.rich

 D.popular

24.A.upset

B.anxious

 C.excited

 D.pleased

25.A.death

B.disease

 C.trouble

 D.attack

26.A.repaid

 B.described

 C.supported

 D.remembered

27.A.book

B.article

C.will

 D.contract

28.A.establish

 B.form

C.develop

 D.promote

29.A.additions

 B.sacrifices

 C.changes

 D.contributions

30.A.generally

 B.basically

 C.usually

 D.certainly

 

This is the SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, I’m Barbara Klein.

Animal experts say one of the world’s most beautiful and rare kinds of big cat is close to disappearing from the wild. A study earlier this year found that about thirty Amur leopards(豹) still live free. The cats are also called Far Eastern leopards.

Recently, their numbers have been reduced by one. Some person shot a female Amur, then beat her to death. The animal’s body was discovered last month in the Barsovy National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Russia.

An official of the World Wildlife Fund, Darron, said this was the third such killing in the area in the past fives years. Mr. Collins said the death of even one adult female is a huge loss for the endangered cat. He noted that the killing reduces the possibility for cubs(幼兽) or young.

It is not clear how many Amur leopards still live free. One population count was performed in February and March. Wildlife expert Dmitry Pikuuov led this study. It found evidence of seven to nine males. The study identified(确定) three to seven females without cubs. Four leopards were identified as females with cubs. In all, five or six cubs were recorded. Six to eight animals could not be identified.

Most of the land where the Amur leopard once lived was in China. New roads and climate change there threatened(威胁) the animals. So did hunters who kill big cats for their body parts.

Mr. Pikuuov says adult Amurs need about five hundred square kilometers with good forests to survive. He said they also need a large and continuing supply of animals like deer for food. He believes the answer to saving the Amur leopard is for governments to provide protected spaces for wildlife.

1.This passage is probably from____________.

A.a magazine        B.a newspaper report  C.a TV report        D.a film

2.Why is the killing of an adult female a huge loss?

A.It could lead to the death of an adult male.

B.It means it can not give birth to the young any more.

C.It is worth more money than a male.

D.There is only one adult female in the world.

3.The number of the Amur leopards in China is becoming smaller because of all the following EXCEPT

A.new roads         B.climate change     C.human hunting     D.rare diseases

4.According to the experts the Amur leopards ____________.

A.are living on plants                      B.are living in the zoo

C.are well protected by people              D.are endangered

 

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项。

The Winner’s Guide to Success

How do successful people think? What helps them to make success? To find out the answers, an American scholar recently visited some of the most successful people in America.    1  

Be responsible for yourself

Sometimes you may want to blame others for your failure to get ahead.    2    You’re saying, “You have more control over my life than I do.”

Live life “on purpose”

Almost all successful people live life “on purpose”— they are doing what they believe they should and want to do. When you live your life on purpose, you’ll try your best to do your job or study as well as you can. You love what you do and you can find pleasure in what you do.

Write a plan

It is very difficult trying to get what you want without a good plan.     3    A good plan is like a map to you. Without this “map”, you may waste your time, money and also your energy; while with the “map” you’ll enjoy the “trip” and get what you want in the shortest possible time.

Be willing to pay the price

Nothing great is easy to get. So you must be ready to work hard — even harder than you have ever done. If you are not willing to pay the price, you won’t get anything valuable.

Never give up

   4   When you are doing something, you must tell yourself again and again: Giving up is worse than failure because failure can be the mother of success, but giving up means the death of hope.

   5   

Once an American writer was writing a novel. He could not have a good ending for his book until one night when he had a very good idea. He was so excited that he made a phone call to one of his best friends. “I’ve got a perfect idea,” he said, “I’ll put it down later and show it to you.” But he never did, because he died that night. His book was left without a perfect ending. So remember, do what you can right away. Never delay at all. 

A.It is just like trying to drive through strange roads to a city far away.

B.It seems to us that everyone knows this. But it is easier said than done.

C.Some people achieve success much later in life because they fail to realize earlier the importance of hard work.

D.In fact, when you say someone or something outside of yourself is stopping you from making success, you’re giving away your own power.

E. Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to become your reality.

F. Don’t delay

G. Here are some keys to success that they give.

 

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项。

The Winner’s Guide to Success

How do successful people think? What helps them to make success? To find out the answers, an American scholar recently visited some of the most successful people in America.    1  

Be responsible for yourself

Sometimes you may want to blame others for your failure to get ahead.    2    You’re saying, “You have more control over my life than I do.”

Live life “on purpose”

Almost all successful people live life “on purpose”— they are doing what they believe they should and want to do. When you live your life on purpose, you’ll try your best to do your job or study as well as you can. You love what you do and you can find pleasure in what you do.

Write a plan

It is very difficult trying to get what you want without a good plan.     3    A good plan is like a map to you. Without this “map”, you may waste your time, money and also your energy; while with the “map” you’ll enjoy the “trip” and get what you want in the shortest possible time.

Be willing to pay the price

Nothing great is easy to get. So you must be ready to work hard — even harder than you have ever done. If you are not willing to pay the price, you won’t get anything valuable.

Never give up

   4   When you are doing something, you must tell yourself again and again: Giving up is worse than failure because failure can be the mother of success, but giving up means the death of hope.

   5   

Once an American writer was writing a novel. He could not have a good ending for his book until one night when he had a very good idea. He was so excited that he made a phone call to one of his best friends. “I’ve got a perfect idea,” he said, “I’ll put it down later and show it to you.” But he never did, because he died that night. His book was left without a perfect ending. So remember, do what you can right away. Never delay at all. 

A.In fact, when you say someone or something outside of yourself is stopping you from making success, you’re giving away your own power.

B.It is just like trying to drive through strange roads to a city far away.

C.Some people achieve success much later in life because they fail to realize earlier the importance of hard work.

D.Here are some keys to success that they give.

E. Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to become your reality.

F. It seems to us that everyone knows this. But it is easier said than done.

G. Don’t delay

 

I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.

At the first home, the son of the deceased(亡故的)woman said to me, “If only I sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died. ”At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”

You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.

The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.

A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to his tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.

1.The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because____.

A.he was minister of the local church

B.he wanted to comfort the two families

C.he was an official from the community

D.he had great pity for the deceased

2.People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because ____.

A.they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrow.

B.they had neglected the natural course of events

C.they believed that they were responsible

D.they didn’t know things often turn in the opposite direction

3.According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that _____

A.everything in the world is predetermined

B.there’s an explanation for everything in the world

C.the world can be interpreted in different ways

D.we have to be sensible in order to understand the world

4. What’s the idea of the message?

A.Life and death is an unsolved mystery

B.Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault

C.Every story should have a happy ending

D.In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away

 

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