题目内容
David wants to be ________ engineer while Cathy wants to be ________ doctor.
| A.an; the | B.the; the | C.the; a | D.an; a |
D
解析试题分析:考查冠词。本题考查了一类人或者一类事物的考查犯。可以使用a/an+单数名词;the+单数名词;或者复数形式;如 a horse, the horse, horses都可以用来表示马这种动物。句意:David想成为一个工程师,而Cathy想做一名医生。故D正确。
考点:考查冠词用法
点评:冠词的考查集中在the 表示特指,a/an表示泛指,以及冠词的一些固定用法和不使用冠词的情况。本题的一类事物的表达法就是构成的常考用法。
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Gossip moves so quickly that few people have time to cover their ears, even if they want to.
“I hate it when others gossip about me,” said Mandy Miraglia, 16, a high school student from California, “but to be honest, gossip about my friends makes me feel I am trusted and belong to the group.” Miraglia is not the only person feeling like that.
Gossip has long been looked down on as little more than nonsense and bad manners. But recent research has shown that gossip has many positive effects on your social life.
“There has been a trend among people to dislike gossip,” said David Sloan Wilson, Professor from the State University of New York in Binghamton, US, “but gossip appears to be a very important form of behavior in a group of friends, defining their group membership.”
For 18 months, Kevin Kniffin, from the University of Wisconsin, US, researched the behavior of 50 people. He found that gossip levels peaked when a sports team included a slacker, someone who regularly missed practices or showed up late. Other members of the team would soon start to joke about the slacker’s shortcomings behind his back, because they thought they were bad for the whole team.
Gossip about the mistakes of senior members helps newcomers rebuild their confidence after a failure.
It also helps relieve social and professional anxiety. Long-term studies show that people around the world devote from a fifth to two-thirds or more of their daily conversation to gossip, and men appear to be just as eager for gossip as women.
It is hard to judge gossip, but it is more powerful than you think.
1. The author would probably agree that______________.
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A.gossip is bad manners |
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B.gossip has many good effects |
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C.gossip is somewhat like nonsense |
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D.gossip is more powerful than advice |
2. What does the underlined word “slacker” mean according to the context?
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A.Someone who values the team benefit much. |
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B.Someone who does not do what they should well. |
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C.Someone who is active in sports. |
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D.Someone who shows no much interest in sports. |
3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
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A.Gossip is a useful way of building group membership. |
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B.Gossip can possibly make someone confident. |
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C.Generally, women are fonder of gossip than men. |
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D.Actually, everyone gossips to some degree in their daily conversation. |