题目内容
―Twenty dollars, please!
― How terrible!―I ________ to bring my wallet with me.
A. was forgetting B. forgot
C. had forgotten D. am forgetting
B
解析:
用过去时态表示动作forget发生在过去。
完型填空。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项.
Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to ___31___ a passager at 2:30 a.m. When I arrived to ___32___ the passager, I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.
I walked to the___33___ and knocked,“Just a minute,”answered a weak ,elderly voice. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman ___34___ her eighties stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase.
I took the suitcase to the car,and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the car.
She kept thanking me for my kindness.“It’s __35____,”I told her,“I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother __36____.”
“Oh, you’re such a good man,”she said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me a/an ___37___,and then asked,“could you drive ___38___ downtown?”
“It’s not the shortest way,”I answered quickly.
“Oh, I’m in no hurry,”she said,“I’m on my way to a hospice(临终医院).I don’t have any family left. The doctot says I don’t have very long.”
I ___39____ reached over and__40____ the meter(计价器)
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the buildings, __41____ the manufactory where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived , and the furniture shop __42____had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to solw down in front of a __43____ building and would sit staring into the darkness, say nothing.
__44____, she suddenly said,“I’m tired, Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.
“___45___ do I owe you?”she asked.
“Nothing,”I said.
“You ___46___ make a living,”she answered. “Oh, there are other ___47_____.”I answered.
Almost without thinking. I __48____ and gave her a hug. She __49____ me. Our hug ended with her remark,“You gave an old woman a little moment of __50____.”
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Dec. 24, 1848
Dear Johnston,
Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to satisfy now. At the various times when I have helped you a little, you have said to me, “We can get along very well again,” but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can only happen by some fault in your behavior. What that fault is, I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler(游手好闲). I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any other day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it.
This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it, easier than they can get out after they are in.
You are now in need of some ready money; and what I suggest is, that you shall go to work hard, for somebody who will give you money for it.
Let father and your boys take charge of your things at home-prepare for a crop, and make the crop, and you go to work for the best money wages, or to pay back any debt you owe. And to secure you a fair reward for your labor, I now promise you that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of May, get for your own labor, I will then give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work.
Now if you will do this, you will soon be out of debt, and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you out, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your place in Heaven for $ 70 or $80. Then you value your place in Heaven cheaply, for I am sure you can with the offer I make you get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months’ work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed(抵押) me the land, and if you don’t pay the money back, you will deliver possession-Nonsense! If you can’t now live with the land, how will you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eight time eighty dollars to you.
Affectionately
Your brother
A. Lincoln
1.Abraham Lincoln wrote the letter to Johnston mainly to ________.
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A．show his concern for him |
B．recommend him to save money |
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C．decline his request and motivate him |
D．introduce him a new job |
2.What’s the problem with Johnston, according to Lincoln?
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A．He was very lazy. |
B．He wasted time a lot. |
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C．He couldn’t get much from work. |
D．He disliked working. |
3.In the letter Lincoln suggested that Johnston should ________.
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A．keep himself from getting into trouble |
B．go to work hard for somebody |
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C．manage well the things at home |
D．keep the children out of the idle habit |
4.If Johnston got one dollar for his work, Lincoln promised to _________.
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A．reward him with labor |
B．pay off his debt |
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C．hire him at 10 dollars a month |
D．give him another dollar |
5.In order to get 80 dollars from Lincoln, Johnston promised to ________.
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A．take away his place in Heaven |
B．deed Lincoln the land |
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C．live without the land |
D．do good work every day |
Some scientists say that animals in the oceans are increasingly threatened by noise pollution caused by human beings.
The noise that affects sea creatures comes from a number of human activities. It is caused mainly by industrial underwater explosions, ocean drilling, and ship engines. Such noises are added to natural sounds. These sounds include the breaking of ice fields, underwater earthquakes, and sounds made by animals themselves.
Decibels (分贝) measured in water are different from those measured on land. A noise of one hundred and twenty decibels on land causes pain to human ears. In water, a decibel level of one hundred and ninety-five would have the same effect.
Some scientists have proposed setting a noise limit of one hundred and twenty decibels in oceans. They have observed that noises at that level can frighten and confuse whales.
A team of American and Canadian scientists discovered that louder noises can seriously injure some animals. The research team found that powerful underwater explosions were causing whales in the area to lose their hearing. This seriously affected the whales' ability to exchange information and find their way. Some of the whales even died. The explosions had caused their ears to bleed and become infected.
Many researchers whose work depends on ocean sounds object to a limit of one hundred and twenty decibels. They say such a limit would mean an end to important industrial and scientific research.
Scientists do not know how much and what kinds of noises are harmful to ocean animals. However, many scientists suspect that noise is a greater danger than they believed. They want to prevent noises from harming creatures in the ocean.
1. According to the passage, which of the following is increasingly dangerous to sea creatures?
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A．The man-made noises. |
B．The noises made by themselves. |
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C．The sound of earthquakes. |
D．The sound of the ice-breaking. |
2. Which of the following is discussed in the third paragraph?
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A．Different places with different types of noises. |
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B．The very human ears sensitive to all types of noises. |
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C．The same noise measured differently on land and in the ocean. |
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D．The ocean animals' reaction to noises. |
3.As to the influence of noises on whales, which of the following statements is true?
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A．They are deaf to noises. |
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B．Noises at a certain level may hurt them. |
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C．They are easily confused by noises. |
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D．Noises will limit their ability to reproduce. |
4.According to the passage, what will scientists most probably do in the future?
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A．They will try their best to decrease noise. |
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B．They will work hard to cut down noise pollution. |
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C．They will study the effect of different noises. |
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D．They will protect animals from harmful noises. |