题目内容
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Leonard Bernstein gave a concert in Berlin, including Beethoven's Ode to Joy, with the word "Joy" changed to "Freedom" in the lyrics sung.The orchestra(管弦乐队)were drawn from both East and West Germany, as well as the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
Freedom was in the air and it was not just for people. The wall between East and West Germany had also kept a large population of wild pigs within the eastern forests of Brandenburg.The wall's falling down made it easier for the big pigs—a very big one can weigh over 300 pounds—to leave the woodlands and walk into the town. Warm winters and easy access to food have helped the population increase. Now about 10,000 wild pigs walk around Berlin.
The nature of the beast has added to the boom(兴旺)."The pigs are intelligent," says Marc Franusch, a spokesman for the Berlin forestry department. "They learn to use the neighborhoods.They get used to people, dogs, and traffic."
The wild pigs tend to travel in small groups and have been found searching rubbish and gardens, feeding their piglets(小猪)in the shadow of parked cars, and crossing busy roads.On average, the animals are involved in one traffic accident every day. And despite the fact that it's illegal, some Berliners have been known to give the pigs food.
Though wild pigs are protected under German law, the city's forestry department is permitted to kill 2,000 of the creatures every year, targeting mostly young adult animals in forests surrounding Berlin. Pigs within city limits are only shot if they make an immediate threat.No humans have yet been seriously wounded by them, but local dogs have been the victims of their tusks. "The forestry department is not aiming to get rid of the pigs," explains Franusch, "but we do have to reduce dangerous situations."
【小题1】The concert in the first paragraph is given to .
A.celebrate Bernstein's success | B.remind people of fighting for rights |
C.show the artists' delight of life | D.express people's joy for freedom |
A.the Berlin Wall | B.adequate food |
C.their own nature | D.warm winter |
A.in Berlin people can never kill any wild pig |
B.it is against law to offer food to wild pigs |
C.wild pigs each weigh more than three hundred pounds |
D.traffic accidents are mainly caused by wild pigs in Berlin |
A.why wild pigs in Berlin enjoy so much freedom |
B.when wild pigs were united in Berlin |
C.how wild pigs are living in Berlin |
D.what damage wild pigs have done to Berliners |
【小题1】D
【小题2】A
【小题3】B
【小题4】C
解析试题分析:本文叙述了野猪在柏林的生活状况,由于没有了柏林围墙,使野猪很容易出入城市,带来了一些交通队事故的发生,但是它们是受法律保护的动物,在法律不允许的情况下是不能捕杀它们的。
【小题1】推理判断题。根据with the word "Joy" changed to "Freedom" in the lyrics sung.Freedom was in the air and it was not just for people.故选D。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据Warm winters and easy access to food have helped the population increase.选项D符合原文;The nature of the beast has added to the boom选项C符合原文;和Berliners have been known to give the pigs food选项B符合原文;故选A。
【小题3】细节理解题。根据And despite the fact that it's illegal, some Berliners have been known to give the pigs food.跟野猪提供食物是非法的,故选B。
【小题4】主旨大意题。根据综观全文主要叙述的野猪是怎样生活在柏林的,故选C。
考点:故事类短文阅读。
点评:主旨大意题的难度较大,此类题目一般不易直接找到答案,最简单的方法是仔细研究文章开头的一二句,因为他们常是文章的主题句,然后,快速浏览文章首句和结尾句。如果第一句的主题不明,可注意结尾是否有概括总结,对选项要注意全面性和概括性。
你将阅读的是一篇关于鲨鱼袭击的文章。有五处段落从文章中被取出了。请从A-F这六个选项中选出正确的选项填入空格中。选项中有一项是多余选项。
When I was eight, my parents, my younger brother, Stewart, and a girl called Margo Edwards, who was at school with us, went on holiday to Mozambique. One day, we took out a small rowing boat with an outboard motor on it, and went fishing on a lagoon at a place called San Martina.
Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, there was this disturbance in the water. I remember at first everyone thought it was a dolphin, but it wasn't leaping in and out of the water, and before long we could see this grey fin moving purposefully towards us.
It then circled around our rowing boat, and I remember my father saying: 'Well, I think that's a shark . . .'
My mother was screaming, and father was shouting obscenities at this thing, which he was to bash (痛击) back with one of the oars. I had never seen my parents in obvious terror before, and that's something which never leaves you.
My mother clutched the three of us around her. I remember she had a navy blue robe, with huge starfishes and sunflowers on it, and us three kids gratefully huddled together inside it.
As soon as we were in the fishing boat there was this almost hysterical laughter, and I remember feeling very cold, and being unable to stop trembling.
We all talked about it continually, too, and probably made out we were far braver than we were. And there was lots of re-enactment(表演). I remember that we made mud pools. One of us would be crawling along, playing the shark, and the others screaming and shouting: 'Kill the shark'.
A. For the longest time this thing kept circling around us, and hitting our rowing boat, while Dad continued fighting it off, stabbing at it with his oar, which was probably the worst thing to have done because it must have made the beast even angrier than it already was. |
B. Our story went back to the town. It spread like wildfire. Everybody knew about it, and people talked about it endlessly. My father was regarded as a bit of a hero: Dad the sharkbasher. If he'd caught the thing, then I suppose he would have been completely heroic. |
C. The shark became a legend in the town and there were many local fishermen who claimed to have seen it moving around the bay. But despite all the stories of sightings, nobody ever managed to catch the thing. |
D. It was early evening when the motor stopped, and we were stranded (搁浅). We started to shout in the hope that somebody would hear us; we knew the sound could travel because of the water being very flat and calm. |
E. Eventually, people in a fishing boat heard us screaming, and came alongside, and a fisherman tied our boat up to his. He was very careful, or he seemed to be, and he and my father handed first us kids, and then mother, through to his boat, and our rowing boat was towed behind. |
F. This monster started bashing our boat, which began rocking from side to side. We were just terrified because the boat was by now rocking so much we thought we were going to be tipped into the water and bitten up by this thing. I remember assuming that we were going to die. |