题目内容
World War Ⅱ___ when Anthony started school in 1942.
A. had been fought B. was fighting
C. was being fought D. was fought
Churchill's full name was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. He was born in 1874. He was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
In 1900 Churchill was elected a member of parliament .As First Lord of the Admiralty , in 1911, he was responsible for strengthening the British navy.
During World War I, he still remained a member of parliament, but he resigned from his post in the British navy, and became a soldier again, fighting in France. In 1917, however, he became Minister of Munitions . In this job, he encouraged the development and use of the tank, which was then a new weapon. After the war, Churchill held several government posts.
From 1931 to 1939, he was only a member of parliament. He had fallen into dislike because of his militant (war-loving) attitude. Even his closest friends discouraged him from seeking higher office. But when World War II started in 1939. Churchill returned to his former job as First Lord of the Admiralty.
In May 1940, he became Prime Minister. Throughout the war, Churchill showed great strength and energy. He worked for long periods with little sleep and traveled many thousands of miles. By the courage and determination expressed in his speeches, he inspired the people of Britain to keep on fighting. His speeches also gave hope to people in parts of Europe occupied by enemy forces.
In the general election at the end of the war, the Conservative Party, of which he was leader, was defeated. But he became Prime Minister again in 1951. He resigned as Prime Minister in 1955. However, he remained a member of parliament until 1964. Some time later, in 1965, he died.
1.Before World War I, Churchill worked for his country as ____.
A.headmaster of Harrow School |
B.a leader of the Britain Navy |
C.a leader of the Conservative Party |
D.Prime Minister of Britain |
2.How many times was Churchill elected Prime Minister?
A.One. |
B.Two. |
C.Three. |
D.Four. |
3.What can we learn from Para. 4?
A.In 1938 Churchill left the parliament. |
B.Churchill's closest friends were against his attitude toward war. |
C.Churchill's closest friends always inspired him to seek higher office. |
D.Churchill and his closet friends served in the army before World War II. |
4.We can know all the following from the text EXCEPT that ____.
A.Churchill gave up as Prime Minister in 1955 |
B.Churchill once became a soldier, fighting in France |
C.Churchill's speeches encouraged the British people to keep on fighting |
D.Churchill led his army to fight bravely and defeated the enemy in World War I |
The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues (瘟疫) that flesh receives. The most widespread fallacy (谬误) of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one.
If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches (战壕) cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds. In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp (奥斯维辛集中营), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be dipped with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.
No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain-killer pills such as aspirin, but all they do is relieve the symptoms.
1.How many examples are offered by the writer to support his argument?
A.4 |
B.5 |
C.6 |
D.3 |
2.Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage?
A.The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time. |
B.Colds are not caused by cold. |
C.People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors. |
D.A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one. |
3.Arctic explorers may catch colds when _______.
A.they are working in the isolated arctic regions |
B.they are writing reports in terribly cold weather |
C.they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions |
D.they are coming into touch again with the outside world |
4.Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit _______.
A.suffered a lot |
B.never caught colds |
C.often caught colds |
D.became very strong |
5.The passage mainly discusses _______.
A.the experiments on the common colds |
B.the fallacy about the common cold |
C.the reason and the way people catch colds |
D.the continued spread of common colds |