题目内容
Mary Buendia once spent a day in an airplane, looking for a cat. She didn't find it that day. The plane flew around all over the world for three weeks with the cat on board. She finally found it in the cargo hold and sent it home first-class. Another time ,she found two suitcases full of birds from Turkey. But her strangest experience was when she pulled a snake out of a man's pants.
Mary Buendia is an animal health inspector at JFK Airport in New York. She takes care of all the animals that pass through the airport and checks that they are healthy. In the Animal Health Center, there are areas for dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, and fish. There is also an area for very big animals. The biggest they ever had was a black rhino. "It was no problem." she says.
At the center, they receive all types of animals monkeys, wild cats, poisonous spiders. It's impossible for one person to know about all of these, but there are 20 people working with Mary. Among them, they understand how to take care of the animals. She recently had to feed a group of toucans, which are rare birds. "luckily," she says, "there is a supermarket nearby which is open 24 hours. I had to go at 2 a.m to buy bananas.
Mary often works at night. "It's quiet between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m." she says, "because we don't have night flights. We try to give the animals a quiet night." Mary clearly loves her job. "You never know what the day will bring,"she says, and goes off to feed the birds.
【小题1】The best title of the passage will probably be _____.
A.JKF Airport in New York | B.Airport Health Inspector |
C.Mary Buendia | D.Animal Health Center |
A.working as an Airport Health Inspector, Mary Buendea has various experiences |
B.after the cat was found, it was sent home to New York |
C.Mary got frightened when she pulled a snake out of a man's pants |
D.Mary was tired of dealing with animals at the airport |
A.Mary often works at night during flights |
B.it took Mary a whole day to find a lost cat in an airplane |
C.only healthy animals can be permitted to go aboard the airplane |
D.Mary knows everything about the animals by working with 20 other people |
【小题1】B
【小题2】A
【小题3】C
解析试题分析:本文介绍的是一位机场的动物检验官员Mary Buendia,她负责进出机场的动物检疫。
【小题1】B 主旨大意题。本文介绍的是一位机场的队伍检验官员Mary Buendia,她负责进出机场的动物检疫,故B正确。
【小题2】A 段落大意题。根据文章第一段中描述的在飞机找猫,鸟以及蛇的经历告诉我们她的动物检疫的经历,故A正确。
【小题3】C 推断题。根据第二段第2行She takes care of all the animals that pass through the airport and checks that they are healthy.说明她负责检查队伍的健康,也就是说不健康的动物是不能进入飞机的,以防感染。故C正确。
考点:考查人物介绍类短文
点评:本文介绍了机场的动物检验官员Mary Buendia。考查较多的是推断题归纳总结类偷。测试考生在阅读基础上的逻辑推理能力,要求考生根据文章所述事件的逻辑关系,对未说明的趋势或结局作出合理的推断;或根据作者所阐述的观点理论,对文章未涉及的现象、事例给以解释。考生首先要仔细阅读短文,完整了解信息,准确把握作者观点。
Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States, yet she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself: " I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me." No one could have had a more productive old age.
She was born Anna Mary Robertson on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At twelve she left home and was in domestic service until, at twenty--seven, she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927.
Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery (刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930's and her death, she produced some 2,000 pictures: detailed and lively portrayals of the country life she had known for so long, with a wonderful sense of color and form. "I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it" she said.
【小题1】According to the passage, Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to_______.
A.make herself beautiful | B.become famous |
C.earn more money | D.keep active |
A.nursing | B.painting | C.farming | D.embroidering |
A. expressions B explanations C. descriptions . D. impressions
【小题4】From Grandma Moses' description of herself in the first paragraph, it can be inferred that she was ________.
A.pretty | B.nervous | C.rich | D.independent |
A.The Children of Grandma Moses. | B.Grandma Moses: Her Life and Pictures. |
C.Grandma Moses: Her Best Exhibition. | D.Grandma Moses and Other Older Artists. |