题目内容
There have been a number of robberies in the world. Some of them come off(成功) by a fluke(侥幸) ;many more, inevitably(必然地) , are ___1____ failures. The following two robberies can be said to be among the most __2__ ones.
Two men drove up to a bank , jumped out of their car, ran into the bank, __ 3___ the cashier, took a suitcase full of money from him, and ran out of the bank ___4___ to find that someone had stolen their __5__ car.
In 1975, three men tried to___ 6___ the Royal Bank of Scotland in Rothesay. Their first problem was that they got ___7___ in the revolving( 旋转的) door of the bank. They ___8___ to ask the bank staff to free them. When they were free, they thanked the staff for their help and ___9 __. A few minutes later they returned. This time they got ___10 __the revolving doors and told the bank staff to ____11___ on the floor. The bank staff just laughed at them and __12__ their work.
The leader of the three ___13__ $ 5, 000. When no one paid any attention to him he asked for $ 500 and __14__ $5.
The chief cashier of the bank thought that was so ___15___, and burst out laughing. __16 ___ now , the leader of the three leapt over the counter at the cashier. He __17__ his foot on the top of the counter and fell to the ground, __18 __his ankle.
The other two members __19__ to get away ___20__something else went wrong , but they got stuck again in he revolving doors.
1. A. possible B. obvious C. important D. total
2. A. unhappy B. dangerous C. stupid D. terrible
3. A. held up B. took away C. broke up D. put up
4. A. surely B. only C. even D accidentally
5. A. expensive B. fast C. getaway D. stolen
6. A. steal B. break into C. enter D. rob
7. A. hurt B. away C. arrested D stuck
8. A. wanted B. refused C. had D. pretended
9. A. went out B. got in C. disappeared D. gave up
10. A. across B. off’ C. through D. into
11. A. lie B. stand C. sit D. stay
12. A. stopped B. continued with C. left D. started
13. A. Look away B. found out C. wanted D. demanded
14. A. then B. finally C. even D. later
15. A. strange B. troubled C. funny D. exciting
16. A. Angry B. Excited C. Interested D. Disappointed
17. A. landed B. slipped C. injured D. caught
18. A. breaking B. losing C. hitting D. dropping
19. A. managed B. refused C. had D. decided
20. A. when B. while C. because D. before
1. D根据下文可知“失败“已经发生，且为“完全的，彻底的”失败，故答案选D。
2. C由下文可知劫匪的“笨拙”。
3. A hold up在此意为“抢劫，劫持”。
4. B。吻与后面的不定式一起表示“结果（出乎意料地）发现……”，其他选项均不合逻辑。
5. C getaway为形容词，意为“（劫匪等作案后）逃跑用的”。
6. D steal意为“偷”，指秘密窃取；rob意为“抢”，即使用暴力、威胁、恐吓等手段窃取；break into意为“破门而人”。根据语境可知rob最佳。
7. D get stuck意为“被卡住；陷在……中；陷人困境”。由文章最后一句可知答案。
8. C根据下文可知，他们“不得不”请求职员们帮忙。
9. A went out与下文的returned相对应。
10. C这里指从旋转门中间“穿过”。
11. A只有让银行职员们“躺”在地上才最不易反抗。
12. B根据下文语境可知，职员们不理睬他们，“继续”工作。
13. D这里指“提出要求”，并没拿走，故A项不合语义。’
14. B此处指抢劫犯的要求“最后”降到5美元。
15. C funny与下文的laughing呼应。
16. A这里指“恼羞成怒”。
17. D catch在此意为“钩住，缠住，夹住”等意思。
18. A这里指“扭伤了”脚躁。
19. D“另外两名劫犯决定逃跑”符合句意。
20. D根据语境可知同伙见势不妙，企图在没出别的事“之前”溜掉。第三部分
Electric ears are dirty.In fact, not only are they dirty, they might even be more dirty than their gasoline-powered cousins.
People in California love to talk about "zero-emissions vehicles", but people in California seem to be clueless about where electricity comes from. Power plants mostly use fire to make it. Aside from the new folks who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators. Generators are fueled by something---usually coal, oil,but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind farms and geothermal plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning something.
In other words, those "zero-emissions" cars are likely coal-burning cars. It's just because the coal is burned somewhere else that it looks clean. It is not. It's as if the California Greens are. covering their eyes---"If I can't see it, it's not happening." Gasoline is an incredibly efficient way to power a vehicle; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it.But when you take that gas (or another fuel) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heat---at the generator, through the transmission lines, etc.
A gallon of gas may propel your car 25 miles. But the electricity you get from that gallon of gas won't get you nearly as far---so electric cars bum more fuel than gas-powered ones. If our electricity came mostly from nukes; or geothermal,or hydro, or solar, or wind,then an electric car truly would be clean. But for political, technical,and economic reasons,we don't use much of those energy sources.
In addition,electric cars' batteries which are poisonous for a long time will eventually end up in a landfill.And finally, When cars are the polluters, the pollution is spread across all the roads. When it's a power plant, though, all the junk is in one place. Nature is very good at cleaning up when things are too concentrated, but it takes a lot longer when all the garbage is in one spot.
【小题1】 What does "clueless" mean in paragraph 2?
| A．People are seeing the California Greens everywhere. |
| B．People in California love to talk about zero-emissions vehicles. |
| C．People in California love to have their roofs covered with solar cells. |
| D．People there have no idea that so far electricity mainly comes from burning |
【小题2】 What is the main idea of the passage?
| A．Electric cars are not clean at all |
| B．Electric cars are better than gasoline-powered ones. |
| C．People cast doubts on electric cars' batteries. |
| D．Gasoline is an efficient way to powera vehicle. |
| A．not less than 25 miles | B．more than 25 miles |
| C．no more than 25 miles | D．not more than 25 miles |
| A．do not burn fuel and more environmentally-friendly |
| B．are toxic because it is difficult for nature to clean it up when their batteries are buried in one spot. |
| C．are very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated |
| D．are poisonous for a long time and will eventually end up in a landfill |
| A．being green is good and should be encouraged in communication |
| B．electric cars are not clean in that we get electricity mainly by burning something |
| C．zero-emissions vehicles should be chosen to protect our environment |
| D．electric cars are now the dominant vehicle compared with gasoline-powered |