题目内容
The mouse was so lucky that it escaped ________.
- A.catching
- B.to be caught
- C.caught
- D.being caught
A mouse looked through a hole in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
Running to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house; there is a mouse trap in the house.” The chicken with her head high, said, “Shut up, Little Ugly. This is a great concern to you, but it has nothing to do with me; I cannot be bothered by it.”
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse,” said the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; you are always in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow, who said, “A mouse trap; am I in great danger, huh?”
So the mouse had to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard through the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was a poisonous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital.
She returned home with a fever. It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever, so the farmer took his sharp knife to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow killed to provide meat for all of them to eat.
So next time someone is facing a problem, don’t say that has nothing to do with you.
【小题1】We could see from the passage that the mouse was______.
A.good at cheating others | B.dishonest |
C.kind and warm-hearted | D.foolish |
A.The others helped the farmer kill the cow. |
B.The mouse trap was very practical. |
C.The pig is more friendly than the other animals . |
D.The farmer’s family had no friends at all |
A.Traps can always cause chain reactions |
B.Sometimes when the least of us are threatened, we all might be at risk. |
C.It is better to be safe than to be sorry. |
D.To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all. |
Mouse potatoes joined couch potatoes (who spend much time watching TV on the couch), google officially became a verb and drama queens (extremely emotional persons) finally found the attention when they crossed over from popular culture to mainstream English language.
The mouse potato, the himbo (attractive, empty-headed man) and drama queen were among 100 new words added to the 2006 update of America’s best-selling dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary《韦氏大词典》. The Internet search engine Google also found its way into the dictionary for the first time as a verb, meaning to find information quickly on the worldwide web.
New words and phrases from the fields of science, technology, pop culture and industry are chosen each year by Merriam-Webster’s team of editors after months of looking through books, magazines and even food labels. “They are not tracking spoken language. They are looking for evidence that words have been used in the written English language,” said Arthur Bicknell, senior editor of Merriam-Webster.
Other words first coming into the dictionary this year were soul patch (a small growth of beard under a man’s lower lip), unibrow (two eyebrows joining together) and supersize - the fast food industry phrase for extra large meals.
The technology world contributed ringtones (changeable incoming cellphone call signals) and spyware (software installed in a computer to track a user’s activities) while biodiesel (生物柴油) and avian influenza(禽流感) came from the world of science.
America’s first dictionary - Noah Webster’s A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language - was published 200 years ago and also introduced some fresh words that have now become familiar. Those “new” words in 1806 included slang, surf, psychology, naturally and Americanize.
【小题1】The mouse potato refers to ____________.
A.a mouse that lives by potatoes |
B.a person who spends much time on the computer |
C.a mouse that is shown on the screen of the computer |
D.a person who likes to eat mice and potatoes |
A.mouse potatoes, google, supersize, drama queen. |
B.himbo, soul patch, unibrow, supersize. |
C.ringtones, spyware, biodiesel, avian influenza. |
D.couch potatoes, surf, psychology, Americanize. |
A.New words and phrases were introduced into the dictionary have close relationship with the time. |
B.New words and phrases chosen by the editors of the dictionary have been used in written English somewhere. |
C.Some words that are now familiar to us used to be fresh words collected in the dictionary. |
D.The Merriam-webster Collegiate Dictionary becomes the best-seller because 100 new words are added to it. |