题目内容
On July 4,1986, Americans celebrated the Staue of Liberty’s 100th birthday. Parades, speeches, fireworks, and other activities contributed to the great joy of the event. The celebration caused reporters and the local people to look back a century to the similar great joy that marked the official opening of the statue. The Statue of Liberty was completed in 1886, but the story began earlier. The idea for a statue was first suggested at a dinner party by Edouard de Laboulaye, a French historian. A guest at the party was Frederic Bartholdi, a young sculptor.
Most people who attended the dinner party soon forgot the idea, but Laboulaye and Bartholdi remembered it. In 1871, Bartholdi came to the United States to interest Americans in a statue that would link France and the United States in friendship. Many people in France had already been persuaded and contributed money to the project. Americans were also persuaded to build a fund (基金) for the statue. Much of the money came from schoolchildren.
After the idea had been accepted, Bartholdi set to work. He worked hard for many years. His friend Laboulaye died before the statue was completed. At last, in 1885, the statue was sent to the United States. It had to be shipped in sections and then put together for its weight and size.
Ever since then, 1886, the Statue of Liberty has stood as a symbol of freedom to millions of immigrants entering New York harbor.
1．Bartholdi made his first trip to the United States to talk about the Statue of Liberty in .
A．1986 B．1871 C．1885 D．1886
2．The Statue of Liberty was shipped in sections because .
A．it was too large and heavy to move to USA as a whole
B．USA had better means of putting it together than France
C．the completed statue was a symbol of friendship for Americans
D．putting it together cost less money and labour in USA
3．From the content, we may feel that the writer is when he is writing the passage.
A．calm B．curious C．worried D．modest
4．Which of the following titles best summarizes the content of the passage?
A．Laboulaye and Bartholdi: Makers of the Statue of Liberty
B．How People Made the Statue of Liberty Possible
C．The 100 th Birthday of the Statue of Liberty
D．The True Story of the Statue of Liberty
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51. It crossed New York from Buffalo on Lake Erie Troy to Albany on the Hudson River. 52 . The canal served as a route over which industrial goods could flow into the west, and materials could pour into the east. The Erie Canal helped New York develop into the nation's largest city.
The building of the canal was paid for entirely by the state of New York. 53 Between 1825,when the canal was opened ,and 1882,when toll charges(过运河费) were stopped ,the state collected $121,461,891.
For a hundred years before the Erie was built, people had been talking about a canal which could join the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. The man who planned the Erie Canal and carried the plan through was De Clinton. Those who were against the canal laughingly called it"Clinton' Ditch(沟). 54 . He and Governor Morris went to Washington in 1812 to ask for help for the canal, but they were unsuccessful.
Clinton became governor of New York in 1817,and shortly afterwards, on July 4,1817,broke ground for the canal in Rome, N.Y. The first part of the canal was completed in 1820. 55 . The length of the canal is 363 miles.
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A．As the canal grew, towns along its course developed fast. |
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B．It cost $7,143,789 , but it soon gained its price many times over. |
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C．The Erie Canal was the first important national waterway built in the US. |
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D．More workers were needed to build the canal. |
E. Clinton talked and wrote about the canal and drew up plans for it.
F. To dig the canal benefited Americans.
G. It joined the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
Dr. Marie Curie is known to the world as the scientist who discovered radioactive metals i.e. Radium and Polonium.
Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered two new elements and studied the x-rays they emitted. She found that the harmful properties of x-rays were able to kill tumors. By the end of World War I, Marie Curie was probably the most famous woman in the world. She had made a conscious decision, however, not to patent methods of processing radium or its medical applications.
Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Poland and died on July 4, 1934. Her co-discovery with her husband Pierre Curie of the radioactive elements radium and polonium represents one of the best known stories in modern science for which they were recognized in 1901 with the Nobel Prize for Physics. In 1911, Marie Curie was honored with a second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry, to honor her for successfully isolating pure radium and determining radium's atomic weight.
As a child, Marie Curie amazed people with her great memory. She learned to read when she was only four years old. Her father was a professor of science and the instruments that he kept in a glass case fascinated Marie. She dreamed of becoming a scientist, but that would not be easy. Her family became very poor, and at the age of 18, Marie became a governess. She helped pay for her sister to study in Paris. Later, her sister helped Marie with her education. In 1891, Marie attended the Sorbonne University in Paris where she met and married Pierre Curie, a well-known physicist.
Marie Curie contributed greatly to our understanding of radioactivity and the effects of x-rays. She received two Nobel prizes for her brilliant work, but died of leukemia, caused by her repeated exposure to radioactive material.
1.The underlined word “emitted” in the 2nd paragraph means_______.
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A．gave off |
B．gave away |
C．set out |
D．set off |
2.According to the passage, which order of the following is right?
① Marie Curie worked as a governess. ② Marie Curie met and marry Pierre Curie.
③ Marie Curie learned to read. ④ Marie Curie was honored with a second Nobel Prize.
⑤ Marie Curie discovered radium.
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A．①②③④⑤ |
B．③①②⑤④ |
C．①②③⑤④ |
D．③①②④⑤ |
3. When did Marie Curie win a Nobel Prize for a chemistry?
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A．In her twenties |
B．In her thirties |
C．In her forties |
D．In her fifties |
4.What does the passage mainly talked about?
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A．Marie Curie discovered radium |
B．Marie Curie, a famous chemist |
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C．Marie Curie won two Noble Prizes |
D．The brief biography of Marie Curie |