题目内容
Regulations _______ in this room.
A.are forbidden to smoke B.are forbidden smoking
C.forbid to smoke D.forbid smoking
D
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项中(A、B、C和 D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Most of us feel upset if we miss just one meal, and if we try to go without food for 12 hours we would really be uncomfortable. But there are some people who seem able to “fast” for very long periods.
Various records are claimed for long fast, but in most cases there is no medical proof and so the records are doubtful. One South African woman claimed that she lived for 102 days on nothinig but water and soda water.
There are great differences among living things in the ability to survive without food. For example , a tick(扁虱), which lives on animals, may survive a whole year. Warm-blooded animals use up their stores of food in the body more quickly.
In fact, the smaller and more active the animal, the more quickly it uses up its reserves. A small bird starves to death in about five days, a dog in about twenty. In general, we can say that a warm-blooded creature will die when it has lost about half its normal weight.
This matter of weight is important. Man and other creatures live in a state of metabolic equiplibrium(新陈代谢的平衡)which means maintaining the body weight once a certain point has been reached. This regulation of body weight is done by thirst, hunger, and appetite.
When your blood lacks nutritional materials, this registers(记录)in the hunger center of the brain and you feel “hungry”. The body is crying out for any kind of fuel(food). And it is our appetite that sees to it hat we chooose a mixed diet, which is the kind the body needs.
【小题1】According to this passage, a man will die _________.
A.when a certain point in losing weight has been reached. |
B.when his blood lacks nutritional material |
C.when his normal weight is lost |
D.when he goes without food for more than 12 hours |
A.eat no food | B.live merely on water and soda water |
C.live on nothing | D.remains alive for a long time without food |
A.a tick lives on animals | B.a tick is much smaller |
C.a bird is more active | D.both B and C |
A.if he doesn’t choose a mixed diet |
B.because his body cries out for food |
C.when soemthing is wrong with regulation of body weight |
D.if there are not enough nutritional in his blood |
A.believes the South African woman very firmly |
B.does not believe the South African woman at all |
C.is not certain whether the South African woman’s claim was true. |
D.is doubtful whether there was such a South African woman |
D
One of the main challenges facing many countries is how to maintain their identity in the face of globalization and the growing multi-language trend. “One of the main reasons for economic failure in many African countries is the fact that, with a few important exceptions, mother-tongue education is not practiced in any of the independent African states.” said Neville Alexander, Director of the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa at the University of Cape Town.
In response to the spread of English and the increased multi-language trends arising from immigration, many countries have introduced language laws in the laws in the last decade. In some, the use of languages other than the national language is banned in public spaces such as advertising posters. One of the first such legal provisions was the 1994 “Toubon law” in France, but the idea has been copied in many countries since then. Such efforts to govern language use are often dismissed as futile by language experts, who are well aware of the difficulty in controlling fashions in speech and know from research that language switching among bilinguals is a natural process.
It is especially difficult for native speakers of English to understand the desire to maintain the “purity” of a language by law. Since the time of Shakespeare, English has continually absorbed foreign words into its own language. English is one of the most mixed and rapidly changing languages in the world, but there has not been a barrier to acquiring prestige and power. Another reason for the failure of many native English speakers to understand the role of state regulation is that it has never been the Anglo-Saxon way of doing things. English has never had a state-controlled authority for the language, similar, for example, to the Academic Francaise in France.
The need to protect national languages is, for most western Europeans, a recent phenomenon—especially the need to ensure that English does not unnecessarily take over too many fields. Public communication, education and new modes of communication promoted by technology, may be key fields to defend.
【小题1】Neville Alexander believes that .
A.mother-tongue education is not practiced in all African countries |
B.lack of mother-tongue education can lead to economic failure |
C.globalization has led to the rise of multi-language trends |
D.globalization has resulted in the economic failure of Africa |
A.useless | B.practical | C.workable | D.unnecessary |
A.They think language protection laws are ineffective. |
B.They want their language to spread to other countries. |
C.They have a long history of taking words from other languages. |
D.It reduces a language’s ability to acquire international importance. |
A.English has taken over fields like public communication and education. |
B.Europeans have long realized the need to protect their national languages. |
C.Most language experts believe it is important to promote a national language. |
D.Many aspects of national culture are threatened by the spread of English. |
A.Fighting against the rule of English |
B.Globalization and multi-language trends |
C.Protecting local languages and identities |
D.To maintain the purity of language by law |