题目内容
A prisoner escaped from the prison last night. It was a long time _______ the guards discovered what had happened.
A. until B. since C. when D. before
D
Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5, 1821, on the island of St. Helena off the coast of Africa. He was 51 years old at the time. When doctors examined Napoleon’s body, they said that the former emperor of France had died from cancer of the stomach. That was the cause of death recorded in the official report. However, other doctors disagreed. One doctor who was present during the examination of the body said that Napoleon died of hepatitis. Other historians and medical experts have suggested that Napoleon died of syphilis, tuberculosis, or perhaps malaria. Now, after careful research, a British chemist thinks that Napoleon might have been poisoned -- not by a person, but by his wallpaper.
Napoleon was sent to the island of St. Helena in 1815 after he lost the battle of Waterloo. He was a prisoner on the island. Although he had servants to attend to him, he had to live in one small building. St. Helena is a very wet island, so the walls of the building were always covered with mold. Napoleon became ill from spending too much time inside his house. Almost constantly he had a fever, chills, and felt sick to his stomach. He often felt pain in his shoulders and in his side. His skin turned yellow. He got frequent headaches, and he would become dizzy and vomit(吐). None of the medicine that the doctors gave Napoleon seemed to help. They were not sure what was the matter. Finally, Napoleon was too weak to leave the house. One night, while he was sleeping, he went into a coma and died.
Many doctors who later reviewed the reports of Napoleon’s illness found that the symptoms(症状) did not show a man who suffered from stomach cancer. It seemed obvious that Napoleon had died from some other cause. In 1961, a Swedish doctor examined some of Napoleon’s hair and found a high level of arsenic, a chemical poison. Was Napoleon murdered? It is doubtful. Arsenic was used in many types of medicine during Napoleon’s time, so he might have taken the arsenic as a cure for his illness. Then, in 1982, Dr. David Jones from England began to look into the mystery and suggested that Napoleon might have breathed in arsenic which was in the air of his house. In the 1700s and 1800s, arsenic was used to make a kind of green paint used on cloth and wallpaper. If the paint was used on a wet wall, the arsenic would go into the air. A person in the room might breathe that air. After studying the wallpaper in the room where Napoleon died, Dr. Jones found high levels of arsenic in the green paint on the walls.
【小题1】Why did Napoleon live on St. Helena?
| A．He owned the island. | B．He was a prisoner there. |
| C．His family lived there. | D．He liked the island. |
| A．cancer | B．a coma | C． mold | D．poison |
A. chills B. fever C dizziness D. bleeding
【小题4】According to Dr. Jones, how did the arsenic probably get into Napoleon’s body?
| A．He drank it.. | B．He touched it. | C．He breathed it in. | D．He ate it |
| A．a British doctor thinks he has found the cause of Napoleon’s death |
| B．many doctors have tried to guess the cause of Napoleon's death |
| C．Napoleon could have died from poison |
| D．all of the above |
We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed — no examination is perfect — but to have no tests or examination would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in schools or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency the values and the purpose of each teacher.
Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them — a form of favouritism will replace equality at the moment. The bright child from an ill-respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well-respected school. This defense of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school’s reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.
The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.
1. The word “favouritism” in paragraph 3 is used to describe the phenomenon that .
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A．bright children also need certificates to get satisfying jobs. |
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B．poor children with certificates are favoured in job markets. |
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C．children from well-respected schools tend to have good jobs. |
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D．children attending ordinary schools achieve great success. |
2.. What would happen if examinations were taken away according to the author?
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A．Schools for bright children would lose their reputation. |
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B．There would be more opportunities and excellence. |
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C．Children from poor families would be able to change their schools. |
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D．Children’s job opportunity would be affected by their school reputation. |
3.. The opponents of the examination system will agree that .
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A．jobs should not be assigned by systematic selection |
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B．computers should be selected to take over many jobs. |
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C．special classes are necessary to keep the school standards |
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D．schools with academic subjects should be done away with |
4.. The passage mainly focuses on .
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A．schools and certificates |
B．examination and equality |
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C．opportunity and employment |
D．standards and reputation |