题目内容
. Like most of my schoolmates, I have neither brothers nor sisters---____,I’m an only child.
| A．in a word | B．in other words | C．more or less | D．far and near |
B
解析
Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband’s funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.
Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskaya’s apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians—and almost no other reporters—cared to think about.
【小题1】 Politkovskaya’s father died of ______.
| A．tiredness | B．a disease | C．an attack | D．an accident |
| A．didn’t love her husband |
| B．didn’t attend her husband’s funeral |
| C．was having an operation the day her husband was buried |
| D．was too sad to attend her husband’s funeral |
| A．came out | B．went into | C．looked into | D．left for |
| A．Three. | B．Four | C．Five | D．Six |
| A．curious | B．easy-going | C．careless | D．responsible |
There is a very special wolf that lives in Africa. They are actually called, the African wild dog, of painted dogs.
These animals live in open woodlands, or in the plains of Africa. Today, however, most of the animals can be found in eastern or southern Africa. These animals are beautiful. They have rounded ears instead of pointed like most dogs, and they have four toes (脚趾) on each of their four feet, also a unique characteristic because other dogs have five. Their fine fur is always different from each other. The fur is usually a combination of black, brown, red, and white, and sometimes even yellow. No wonder they’re called the painted wolf.
The African wild dog is a very social animal. They live in groups and have numbers from five to about twenty. The members of a group are always very close to one another. They communicate in their own language or body language. When someone is very old or sick, the others will help, and they are willing to share the food with the elders and with those who are weak, which is what we should learn from.
The family does everything together, from raising young, to sleeping together, to hunting. When they hunt, they will work together suing team work to kill animals that are larger than them.
They sometimes hunt farm animals. This is unfortunate, because both poachers (偷猎者), and people who own farms shoot the painted dogs who are just trying to survive.
Before, there used to be many large groups throughout the land, but now the African wild god is very rare. They are also losing their population because of their own loss of habitat thanks to human’s farming and forest cutting.
1.From the text we learn that the African wild dog .
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A．lives in the north of Africa |
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B．has sixteen toes altogether |
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C．has pointed ears like most dogs |
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D．lives in forests in groups |
2.Why do African wild dogs get the name “painted dogs”?
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A．They all have colorful fur. |
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B．The dogs in the same group are of different colors. |
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C．Artists love to paint them in different colors. |
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D．None of them has the same color. |
3.According to the author, what should we learn from African wild dogs?
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A．They always do everything together. |
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B．They help the sick, the elderly and the weak. |
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C．They are always very close to one another. |
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D．They communicate in their own language. |
4.Which of the following is NOT the reason why African wild dogs are becoming very rare?
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A．Poachers kill some of them. |
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B．They are short of food sometimes. |
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C．They are losing their habitat. |
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D．Farmers shoot some of them. |
5.Where could this passage probably be found?
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A．The Travelers |
B．Fashion Weekly |
C．Animal World |
D．Star Magazine |