题目内容
No one would have time to read or listen to an account of everything _____ going on in the world.
A. it is B. as is C. there is D. what is
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解析:
本题考查学生对定语从句在实际语境中的运用能力。分析句子结构可知everything后面所接部分是修饰everything的定语从句;there is结构作“目前有的”解时,可引导限定性定语从句,置于被修饰的名词后面,作该从句主语的关系代词that常常省略。再如:
Jack was the only person (who) there was to see the accident.
Recently, I experienced a wonderful lesson that little things still mean a lot. I live on the Big Island of Hawaii. About a month ago, when I started my car and I 1 down at the roadside, a piece of paper caught my eye. I picked it up and 2 it carefully.
The form turned out to be a 3 from the State Motor Vehicle Division, documenting the owners’ 4 of their vehicle’s registration fees. Quickly, I put myself in their 5 and figured:no one would throw this out, 6 if it was current.
Although the form had been blown here, where in the busy, 7 parking lot would I find the owner? So I checked the date and noted the name of the 8 , who must be in our town. I thought that the best and easiest step to 9 was to put the form in an envelope addressed to the couple and 10 it by post. So I did it.
On the weekend, a 11 couple called at my house and brought me a big 12 . They said they had panicked and searched for the receipt(收据) 13 everywhere before giving up. Without it they would 14 $8, 000. It felt great to know I’d helped someone 15 a major trouble by doing something which at first glance seemed minor.
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Researchers are placing robotic dogs(机器狗)in the homes of lonely old people to determine whether they can improve the quality of life for humans. Alan Beck,an expert in human animal relationship,and Nancy Edwards,a professor of nursing,are leading the animal assisted study concerning the influence of robotic dogs on old people’s depression,physical activity,and life satisfaction.“No one will argue that an older person is better off being more active,challenged,or stimulated(刺激),”Edwards points out.“The problem is how we promote(使……成为现实)that,especially for those without friends or help. A robotic dog could be a solution.”
In the study,the robot,called AIBO,is placed for six weeks in the houses of some old people who live alone. Before placing AIBO in the home,researchers will collect baseline data for six weeks. These old people will keep a diary to note their feelings and activities before and after AIBO. Then,the researchers will review the data to determine if it has inspired any changes in the life of its owner.
“I talk to him all the time,and he responds to my voice,”says a seventy year old lady.“When I’m watching TV,he’ll stay in my arms until he wants down. He has a mind of his own.”
The AIBOs respond to certain orders. The researchers say they have some advantages over live dogs,especially for old people.Often the elderly are disabled and cannot care for an animal by walking it or playing with it. A robotic dog removes exercises and feeding concerns.
“At the beginning,it was believed that no one would relate to the robotic dog,because it was metal and not furry.”Beck says.“But it’s amazing how quickly we have given up that belief.”
Hopefully,down the road,these robotic pets could become a more valuable health helper. They will record their masters’ blood pressure,oxygen levels,or heart rhythms. AIBOs may even one day have games that can help stimulate old people’s minds.
【小题1】The purpose of Beck and Edwards’ study is to________.
A.understand human animal relationship |
B.make lonely old people’s life better |
C.find the causes of old people’s loneliness |
D.promote the animal assisted research |
A.note the activities of AIBOs |
B.keep AIBOs at home for 12 weeks |
C.record their feelings and activities |
D.analyze the collected information |
A.It is easier to keep at home. |
B.It can help the disabled people. |
C.It responds to all the human orders. |
D.It can watch TV with its owner. |
A.cure certain diseases |
B.keep old people active |
C.change people’s beliefs |
D.look more like real dogs |
A.The professors are leading the animal assisted study concerning old people’s life. |
B.The AIBOs will always listen to their owners without their own minds. |
C.The researchers will know from the data whether AIBO can help its owner. |
D.AIBOs can have games with the old people to stimulate their minds. |
Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It selves directly to bring about a rapid sale of goods at reasonable prices, so setting up a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at good prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps greatly to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it causes an increased need for labor, and is therefore a nice way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television program would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or subway would cost more.
And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a promise of reasonable value in the products and services you buy. Besides the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for the public has the good sense not to buy the poor article more than once. If you see an article frequently advertised, it is the proof I know that the article does what is promised for it, and that it has good value.
Advertising does more for the good of the public than any other force I can think of.
There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on. Recently I heard a well-known television person declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was telling us the real difference. Of course advertising tries to persuade.
If its message were nothing but information, that would be difficult to get more people to buy, for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is a bit persuasive-advertising would be so boring that no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that is what the well-known television person wants.
【小题1】By the first sentence of the passage the writer means that .
A.he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising |
B.everybody knows well that advertising is a waste of money |
C.advertising costs more money than everything else |
D.money spent on advertising is worth while |
A.Getting greater fame. | B.Providing more jobs. |
C.Raising living standards. | D.Reducing newspaper cost. |
A.quite right in passing his judgment on advertising |
B.interested in nothing but the buyer’s attention |
C.correct in telling the difference between persuasion and information |
D.obviously unfair in his views on advertising |
A.advertising can seldom bring material benefit to man by providing information |
B.advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins them over |
C.there is nothing wrong with advertising in persuading the buyer |
D.the buyer is not interested in getting information from an advertisement |