题目内容
—I’m ______the suggestion. How about you?
—Hard to say. I'll have to think it over.
- A.in memory of
- B.in demand of
- C.in favor of
- D.in terms of
试题分析:考查介词短语。A纪念;B需要…;C支持…;D就…而言;句意:—我支持这个建议,你呢?—很难说。我要仔细考虑考虑。根据句意说明C正确。
考点:考查介词短语辨析
点评:介词短语一直是命题者常设置的考点和重点,平时要加强记忆。本题的四个选项都很重要,尤其要注意四个短语在具体语言环境中的使用,考生应注意对短语的正确归类和对词义的准确理解。
King Midas used to love gold. One day he met a fairy who allowed him to make a wish for something. The king replied at once, ‘‘I love gold. I want everything I touch to change into gold”. ‘‘Very well, tomorrow morning, everything you touch will turn into gold.” Saying this, the fairy disappeared.
The king waited excitedly till the next morning. To his joy, everything he touched changed immediately into gold. ‘‘I’m the richest man in the world now.” He shouted.
Soon Midas became hungry. He sat down at his table. All the foods and drinks turned into gold in his hand. ‘‘I’m dying of hunger.” He cried.
Just then his daughter came running in. ‘‘Why are you so sad, dad?” she asked, putting her arms around him. There and then she became a golden statue. The king loved his daughter very much. Seeing this, he began to cry. He looked up and suddenly saw the fairy before him. ‘‘Don’t you like the golden touch?” asked the fairy. ‘‘Please take it away.” begged the king, ‘‘Give me back my daughter.” ‘‘Well, you have learned your lesson. Go and wash in the river. Then the golden touch will be gone.”
The king ran quickly to the nearby river.
【小题1】The fairy allowed the king to make a wish because _____.
A.she hoped to make the king the richest in the world. |
B.she loved gold too. |
C.she wanted to teach the king a lesson. |
D.she wanted to turn the king’s daughter into gold. |
A.she saw her father | B.the king went to meet her |
C.she put her arms around her father | D.the king loved her very much |
A.The king’s daughter changed back from gold to a lovely girl. |
B.The king died in the river. |
C.All the things the king had touched changed back into real ones. |
D.Both A and C |
A.Gold makes people unhappy. |
B.More gold, more happiness. |
C.Gold is not the thing that makes life happy. |
D.People feel happy if they have not gold. |
When you think about math, you probably don’t think about breaking the law, solving mysteries or finding criminals. But a mathematician in Maryland does, and he has come up with mathematical tools to help police find criminals.
People who solve crimes look for patterns that might reveal(揭示) the identity of the criminal. It’s long been believed, for example, that criminals will break the law closer to where they live, simply because it’s easier to get around in their own neighborhood. If police see a pattern of robberies in a certain area, they may look for a suspect(嫌疑犯) who lives near the crime scenes. So, the farther away from the area a crime takes place, the less likely it is that the same criminal did it.
But Mike O’Leary, a mathematician at Towson University in Maryland, says that this kind of approach may be too simple. He says that police may get better clues to the location of a criminal’s home base by combining these patterns with a city’s layout(布局) and historical crime records.
The records of past crimes contain geographical information and can reveal easy targets — that is, the kind of stores that might be less difficult to rob. Because these stores are along roads, the locations of past crimes contain information about where major streets and intersections are. O’Leary is writing a new computer program that will quickly provide this kind of information for a given city. His program also includes information about the people who live in the city, and information about how a criminal’s patterns change with age. It’s been shown, for example, that the younger the criminal, the closer to home the crime.
Other computer programmers have worked on similar software, but O’Leary’s uses more math. The mathematician plans to make his computer program available, free of charge, to police departments around the country.
The program is just one way to use math to fight crime. O’Leary says that criminology — the study of crime and criminals — contains a lot of good math problems. “I feel like I’m in a gold mine and I’m the only one who knows what gold looks like,” he says. “It’s a lot of fun.”
【小题1】
To find criminals, police usually ______.
A.focus on where crimes take place | B.seek help from local people |
C.depend on new mathematical tools | D.check who are on the crime scene |
O’Leary is writing a computer program that ______.
A.uses math to increase the speed of calculation |
B.tells the identity of a criminal in a certain area |
C.shows changes in criminals’ patterns |
D.provides the crime records of a given city |
By “I’m the only one who knows what gold looks like”, O’Leary means that he ______.
A.is better at finding gold than others |
B.is the only one who uses math to make money |
C.knows more criminals than other mathematicians |
D.knows best how to use math to help solve crimes |
What is the main idea of the text?
A.Criminals live near where crimes occur. |
B.Math could help police find criminals. |
C.Crime records could be used to fight crime. |
D.Computer software works in preventing crimes. |