题目内容
【题目】She is ( struggle) to support the family with a very low income.
【答案】见解析
【解析】struggling
【题目】Henry goes to a free class every Sunday afternoon which __________ at 4 pm.
A. starts
B. will start
C. is to start
D. have started
【题目】How many students are there in our class __________ homes are in the countryside?
【题目】 The old lady used to stand in front of the window, through __________ she could see what was happening outside.
【题目】
Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations（文明），broken up by long "dark ages" in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2，000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.
However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? That's much more difficult.
When men and women lived by hunting 50，000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50，000years from now, we may seem as primitive（原始的）in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can't think of.
So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live on because we are careless or greedy （贪婪）or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.
Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set your imagination free when you think about the future.
【1】 A particular mention made of Stapledon's book in the opening paragraph __________.
A. serves as a description of human history
B. serves as an introduction to the discussion
C. shows a disagreement of views
D. shows the popularity of the book
【2】 The text discusses men and women 50，000 years ago and 50，000 years from now in order to show that __________.
A. human history is extremely long
B. life has changed a great deal
C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years
D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future
【3】 Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to __________.
A. tools used in farming
B. ideas about modern life
C. unknown things in the future
D. hunting skills in the Stone Age
【4】 According to the writer of the text, imagining the future will __________.
A. serve the interests of the present and future generations
B. enable us to better understand human history
C. help us to improve farming
D. make life worth living
【题目】Can you imagine how much trouble I have __________ the work?
A. to do
B. did
C. do
D. doing
【题目】Thanks to the doctor, the little boy __________(脱离了危险).
【题目】Lost in the thick forest, the old man had got no person __________ he could turn for help.
【题目】Anthony Burgess was 40 when he learned that he had only one year to live. He had a brain tumor(肿瘤) that 【1】 (kill) him within a year. He knew he had a battle on his hands. He was completely broken at the time, so he had 【2】 to leave behind for his wife, Lynne.
Brugress had never been a professional novelist in the past, 【3】 he always know the potential was inside him to be a writer. So, for the purpose of 【4】 (leave) something behind for his wife, he put a piece of paper into a typewriter and began writing. He was not sure
【5】 the book would be published nor not, but he couldn’t think of anything else to do.
“ 【6】 was January of 1960,” he said, “and according to the prognosis, I had a winter and spring and summer 【7】 (live) through, and would die with the fall of the leaf.”
In that time Burgress wrote energetically, finishing a lot of novels before 【8】 year was through. Burgress did not die. His cancer had gone into remission and then disappeared 【9】
(magic). In his long and full life as a novelist, he wrote more than 70 books, 【10】 turns out to be an amazing achievement. Without the death sentence from cancer, he may not have written at all.
