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Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband’s funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.
Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskaya’s apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians—and almost no other reporters—cared to think about

  1. 1.

    Politkovskaya’s father died of ______

    1. A.
      tiredness
    2. B.
      a disease
    3. C.
      an attack
    4. D.
      an accident
  2. 2.

    From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa ______

    1. A.
      didn’t love her husband
    2. B.
      didn’t attend her husband’s funeral
    3. C.
      was having an operation the day her husband was buried
    4. D.
      was too sad to attend her husband’s funeral
  3. 3.

    The underlined word “emerged” most likely means ______

    1. A.
      came out
    2. B.
      went into
    3. C.
      looked into
    4. D.
      left for
  4. 4.

    How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage?

    1. A.
      Three
    2. B.
      Four
    3. C.
      Five
    4. D.
      Six
  5. 5.

    Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskaya’s character?

    1. A.
      curious
    2. B.
      easy-going
    3. C.
      careless
    4. D.
      responsible
BBACD
1.答案B。从第2句中的“…had died of a heart attack…”可知B选项是正确答案。C选项attack是“攻击”的意思,而文中出现的是heart attack,“心脏病”,因此C选项偷换了概念;其他选项与文中相关的表述不相干。
2.答案B。从3、4、5三句可知B选项是正确选项,其他三个选项与文中的表述不一致。
3.答案A。介词“from”表示动作的出处、来源,而后面的介词宾语是“the Moscow Metro”,可知“Moscow Metro”是“emerged”这一动作的起源地,因此,A选项符合原文的意思。
4.答案C。文中提到Politkovskaya姐妹俩,以及她的父母、女儿。
5.答案D。从“Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta,…”一直到文章的结尾,作者简述了Politkovskaya敢于直面社会的不良现象的正值性格,而这是其他记者所不屑的,因此D选项是正确答案。
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Beijing, June 10 (Xinhua) --- Torrential (倾泻的) rains that troubled southern China for days have killed 66 people and resulted in 12 missing by 6:00 p.m. (Beijing time) on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. “Floods caused by heavy rains have affected about 294,800 hectares of crops, completely destroying 53,000 hectares of them,” said an official with the ministry. The floods have torn down 48,000 and damaged 94,000 houses in southern China, and forced about 591,000 people to move from their homes, the official said.
From Wednesday to Saturday, continuous torrential rains, mudslides and floods hit Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi and Fujian, affecting more than 8.97 million people. The disasters have caused an overall economic loss of more than 2.9 billion yuan, according to the ministry. The ministry has sent rescue teams to the disaster areas to assist relief work. In Guangdong, heavy rains have killed 18 people and left four missing by 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, according to local authorities. A total of 1.72 million people were affected in the province.
Floods have damaged 49 roads in the seriously affected Meizhou City, of which 29 remained closed to traffic by 7:00 p.m. The number of people who died in floods in Guangxi has reached 13 and one remained missing by Sunday, according to local civil affairs authority. More than 1.97 million people have been affected after the floods caused by continuous heavy rains hit some 40 counties since Wednesday.
According to the local civil affairs bureau, 9,200 houses were knocked down and 75,181 hectares of crops were affected, resulting in 529 million yuan in direct economic losses. There are fewer rainstorms and the rain belt is moving out of Guangxi, but the water levels in major rivers will keep rising in next few days, according to the latest forecast of the region’s meteorological bureau on Sunday afternoon.
【小题1】 The underlined phrase “torn down” (para. 1) is closest in meaning to _______.

A.knocked downB.placed downC.set downD.torn open
【小题2】 In Meizhou city, 49 roads were damaged and by 7:00 p.m. only _______ roads can be used again after the repair work.
A.66 B.29C.20D.19
【小题3】 Which of the following statements is true according to the news?
A.Hubei is one of the provinces struck by the torrential rains.
B.The floods have caused a total loss of nearly 3 billion yuan.
C.13 people died in Guangdong province as a result of the floods.
D.The rain belt will remain in Guangxi in the next few days.
【小题4】 What’s the best title for this news story?
A.A Disaster.B.Heavy rains.C.A Flood.D.Heavy rains in Southern China.
【小题5】 What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A.The rainstorms are becoming stronger.
B.The water levels in major rivers are to go down soon.
C.The rainstorms are becoming less powerful.
D.In the next few days, rainstorms will stay in Guangxi.

Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated (人口密集的)cities in the world, but with night skies around 1,000 times brighter than globally accepted levels, it gains a bad reputation for its light pollution.

A study by Hong Kong University found that brightness levels in the southern Chinese city's popular shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui were 1,200 times greater than the international dark sky standard.

The crowded city of 7 million residents(居民), full or residential high-rises, towering office blocks and neon(霓虹灯) advertisements, has no laws to control outdoor lightning.

The result is that light pollution is thought to be much worse than in other large cities, including London, Sydney, Tokyo and Shanghai.

“In Hong Kong , you can’t go anywhere outdoor in the evening without your eyes being blinded by this really disturbing outdoor lightning,” the light pollution survey’s head Jason Pum told AFP.

“The fact that we have all this light in the sky means energy is wasted,” he said, adding that too much artificial lightning also affects nightly wildlife.

Research has suggested that light pollution can cause a number of harmful health effects in humans, including sleeplessness and headaches and can also interrupt body clocks and hormones(荷尔蒙).

The university survey, the result of five million measurements taken from points across the city, was released just days before the start of the annual Earth Hour event, organized by the World Wildlife Fund.

People around the world will be encouraged to turn off the lights for an hour on Saturday night to raise awareness of climate change. Last year, a number of Hong Kong’s major buildings along Victoria Harbour went dark to mark Earth Hour.

“Anyway, we should do our best to reduce the amount of lightning and adjust it for the benefit of the environment.”

1.If you walk out at night in Hong Kong, you can see all those things except ______.

A. neon advertisements              B. residential buildings

C. a dark sky with twinkling stars      D. high office blocks

2..which of the following statements about too much lightning is NOT true?

A. Too much lightning means a waste of energy.

B. It can make the sky and the city more beautiful.

C. It may have a bad effect on nightly wildlife.

D. It can lead to some health problems.

3..We can know from the passage that__________

A. light pollution in Hong Kong is among world’s worst.

B. light pollution is the biggest problem in Hong Kong.

C. Earth Hour is simply organized to reduce pollution.

D. light pollution is the primary causes of sleeplessness.

4..what will the author probably discuss after the last paragraph?

A. Bad effects of light pollution

B. Causes of light pollution

C. Worries about light pollution

D. Ways to reduce light pollution

 

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