题目内容
He finds it hard to keep _____ with the change of society if he stops learning．
| A．company | B．time | C．faith | D．pace |
D
解析
A new law has recently been announced which forbids people to disturb, annoy, harm, kill or interfere with any bats which choose to live in their houses. Anyone who disturbs a bat on its nest ,or handles one without a license will be fined ￡1,000.
There are some people who like bats. The late Mrs. Ian Fleming was one. She would crawl for miles to see them in caves or hanging from trees. Similarly, there are many people who do not like bats much but are not particularly troubled by them. The chance of a bat resting in their attics（阁楼） or spare bedroom curtains may seem far away from them. But there are others who do not fall into either of these categories and Mr. Auberon Waugh is one. Underneath his house are eight large cellars(地下室) which for some reason bats have chosen to claim for themselves. He finds it extremely disagreeable to have to fight his way through a colony of them every time he wants a bottle of wine. And as a wine-lover he gets a particular pleasure from the ownership of wine. He has certain bottles in his cellar which he thinks are too good to serve to anyone he knows, but he likes to go down and enjoy looking at them occasionally. The bats entirely destroy this pleasure.
Until the recent law, he could keep the bat problem within manageable proportions by sending his children down on a bat hunt every three months armed with tennis rackets. They usually managed to kill one or two and discouraged the rest from settling. But now, Mr. Waugh fears that the bats will take over the house. To solve the problem he inquired what course of action he could take and was told by Dr Robert Stebbings of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, “I am sure that no one will mind if you pick up a bat and take it outside and hang it on a tree or the outside of the house.” The trouble with this, as Mr. Waugh explains, is that he would be fined a ￡1,000 if he had not already applied to the Nature Conservancy Council for a license to handle bats. And there is no certainty that he would automatically be granted（agreed to give）one.
【小题1】 Mr. Waugh thinks that bats .
| A．should all be destroyed | B．interfere with his wine |
| C．should be kept under control | D．prevent him owning wine |
| A．stores only good wines | B．k eeps certain good wine |
C．refuses t o drink good wines | D．only wants to own the best wines |
| A．applying for a license from the Nature Conservancy Council |
| B．seeking help from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology |
| C．taking the course of action recommended by Dr Stebbings |
| D．the granting of a Nature Conservancy Council license |
| A．think they are unlikely to be bothered by them |
| B．run the risk of finding them in their attics |
| C．think it strange they should roost（栖息） in the curtains |
| D．do not mind them hanging in trees |
Three high students become heroes after their act of saving a baby’s life.
Andrew Willis, 15, his brother Chris, 13, and friend Reece Galea, 14, were walking along Swallow Drive on their way to school on May 23, when Nicholle Price ran out of her house, shouting for help. Her six-month-old son Corey had swallowed (吞下) an earring （耳环） and the young mother couldn’t ring for help because something was wrong with her phone. The three teenagers rushed to the aid of Ms Price, called an ambulance (救护车), calmed her down and waited with her until the ambulance arrived before heading to school.
Ms Price, Corey and his grandmother Joyce Finnie visited the school last Thursday to thank the boys for their kind action. “It’s good to know that there are still some good people who will stop and help,” Ms Price said. “While I was shouting for help, a woman walking her dog went straight past, without stopping. I don’t know what would have happened if these boys had not stopped.”
The teenagers were shocked at the attention they received at school for their heroic act but admitted that the incident was nerve-racking(刺激神经的). “We heard her shouting so we knew something wasn’t right,” Andrew said. “We thought someone had died. It was scary （惊慌的） but we just did what we had to do.”
Just as proud as the boys’ parents is their principal, Tim McCallum.
After two days in hospital, Corey has now fully recovered. “He’s got two new teeth to show,” Ms Price said. “I have to keep a closer eye on him. He’s into everything now and grabs whatever he finds to put it straight into his mouth.”
【小题1】The three high students were _____ when a woman ran out of her house shouting for help.
| A．playing near the house |
| B．on their way to school |
| C．walking their dogs nearby |
| D．on their way back from school |
| A．how dangerous the case was |
| B．how brave the three boys were |
| C．why the three teenagers’ action was heroic |
| D．how clever the three boys were |
| A．they didn’t expect they would be given so much praise |
| B．they felt excited to have become so famous after the incident |
| C．they were supposed to receive so many prizes for their good deed |
| D．they were proud of the attention they received at school for their heroic deed |
| A．How a baby was saved after swallowing an earring |
| B．Why the mother shouted for help |
| C．Baby life saved: teenage heroes earn high praise |
| D．A mother came to school to thank 3 teenagers |
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