It Is great comfort that many drivers have realized drunk driving is invitation to accidents．( )A．a,/B．a, anC．/,theD．the, an 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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3．It Is ________ great comfort that many drivers have realized drunk driving is ________ invitation to accidents．（　　）

A．

a；/

B．

a； an

C．

/；the

D．

the； an

分析许多司机意识到酒驾是事故发生的原因，这是个极大的安慰．

解答答案：B．第一空a great comfort极大地安慰，此处comfort指"使人安慰的事情"，故作可数名词，而第二空an invitation to accidents事故的一个原因，invitation为可数名词，元音开头故用an，非特指，故选B．

点评本题考查冠词的用法．需要学生对a/an/the的用法多加区分．

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I kept smiling at him，now thinking of him as a person and not just a guard．"Do you have kids？"he asked．"Yes，here，here．"I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled for the pictures of my family．He，too，took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them．My eyes were filled with tears．I said that I feared that I'd never see my family again，never have the chance to see them grow up．Tears came to his eyes，too．Suddenly，without another word，he unlocked my cell and silently led me out．Out of the prison，quietly and by back routes，out of the town．There，at the edge of town，he released me．And without another word，he turned back toward the town．

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B．He had been forbidden to smoke．
C．He had been searched．
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D．Because he was a regular heavy smoker．
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A．The guard freed him in the prison．
B．The man smiled to please the guard．
C．The guard set the man free with permission．
D．The man was surprised to be set free．
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A．advantage
B．attraction
C．adaption
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B．provide the latest information
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A．consider too much technlogy wonderful
B．have realized the harm of high-tech devices
C．can regain freedom without high-tech devices
D．may enjoy life better without overused technology
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A．Neutral．
B．Skeptical．
C．Disapproving．
D．Sympathetic．

Dictionaries are not closed books. There is still plenty of room for more words in these great vocabulary authorities.

Dictionaries are not closed books. There is still plenty of room for more words in these great vocabulary authorities. New words are continually being created and added to our language. And many of today's word experts can credit a famous mathematician with the creation of the method by which they develop many new words. The mathematician was an Englishman named Charles L. Dodgson. In addition to working with figures, Dodgson wrote books. His imaginative stories and poems have made Dodgson beloved to generations of readers. We know him, however, not by the name of Dodgson but by his pen name, Lewis Carroll.

Lewis Carroll has delighted countless readers, young and old, with Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and numerous poems. In these works, Carroll developed dozens of nonsensical words such as "chortle" and "galumph". Many of these words are combined naturally with more common words in the English language. Carroll referred to his made-up words as "portmanteau" words, named after a kind of leather suitcase that opens into two compartments. The name was well suited, because most of Carroll's words had two compartments. Rather than being entirely fabricated（虚构）, they were usually made from the combined parts of two different words. A "snark", for example, clearly came from a snake and a shark.

Although Carroll died long ago, his technique continues to be used today. We clearly see his influence in such words as smog, brunch, and guesstimate.

1.What does the underlined sentence probably mean according to the passage?

A. Dictionaries are open to the public.

B. Dictionaries are helpful to the public.

C. Dictionaries are ready to welcome new words.

D. The vocabularies in dictionaries are limited.

2.Dodgson's made-up words ________.

A. are based on different words

B. are borrowed from other languages

C. all come from his poems

D. are still widely used

3.This passage is mainly about ________.

A. how Dodgson wrote his works

B. how English words are created

C. how a dictionary is written

D. how Dodgson created new words

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