题目内容

On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Clarke locked the door and went to the women’s    36    as usual. It was a pleasant way of passing time for an old woman who lived    37  .
When she came home she sensed    38   unusual. Had someone got in? The back door and the    39   were all locked and there was no sign of forced entry ( 进入). Had anything been     40  ? She went from room to room, checking, and found her camera and watch     41    .
The following Thursday she went out at her    42    time, but she didn’t go to the club.     43   , she took a short walk in a park nearby and came home,     44   herself in through the back door. She settled down to wait and see what would    45  .
It was 4 o’clock when the front doorbell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making tea at the time. The bell rang again, and    46   she heard her letter-box being pushed open.    47   the kettle（壶）of boiling water, she moved quietly towards the door. A piece of wire appeared through the letter-box, and then a    48   . The wire turned and caught around the knob (圆型旋包钮) on the door-lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and    49 _ the water over the hand.    50 __ was heard outside as the    51    fell to the floor and the hand was pulled back, which was    52   by the sound of running feet.
It wasn’t long    53  the police caught the thief. And Mrs. Clarke was greatly    54   at the club for her successful     55  .

【小题1】
A．organizationB．partyC．movementD．club
【小题2】
A．lonelyB．aloneC．awayD．busily
【小题3】
A．everythingB．nothingC．somethingD．anything
【小题4】
A．windowsB．roomsC．doorsD．gates
【小题5】
A．foundB．openedC．takenD．broken
【小题6】
A．losingB．missingC．leavingD．disappearing
【小题7】
A．sameB．spareC．specialD．usual
【小题8】
A．ThereforeB．HoweverC．InsteadD．Again
【小题9】
A．pushingB．lettingC．pullingD．leading
【小题10】
A．appearB．followC．happenD．continue
【小题11】
A．the next momentB．for a whileC．in timeD．at once
【小题12】
A．Putting downB．Laying asideC．Picking upD．Taking away
【小题13】
A．knifeB．handC．letterD．key
【小题14】
A．spreadB．droppedC．pouredD．covered
【小题15】
A．A sad voiceB．A sharp cryC．A warning shoutD．A strange noise
【小题16】
A．keyB．kettleC．door-lockD．wire
【小题17】
A．followedB．causedC．producedD．ended
【小题18】
A．beforeB．sinceC．untilD．when
【小题19】
A．surprisedB．admiredC．inspiredD．supported
【小题20】
A．self-satisfactionB．self-protectionC．self-respectD．self-service


【小题1】D
【小题2】B
【小题3】C
【小题4】A
【小题5】C
【小题6】B
【小题7】D
【小题8】C
【小题9】D
【小题10】C
【小题11】A
【小题12】C
【小题13】B
【小题14】C
【小题15】B
【小题16】D
【小题17】A
【小题18】A
【小题19】B
【小题20】B

解析试题分析：本文讲述的是Mrs. Clarke在发现家中被盗后采取措施，靠智慧保护了自家财产，同时用开水惩治小偷，并帮助警察捉到了小偷的故事
【小题1】考查名词：A. organization组织B. party 聚会C. movement运动D. club俱乐部，Mrs Clarke去妇女俱乐部，下文的but she didn’t go to the club有暗示，选D
【小题2】考查副词：A. lonely孤单的B. alone 单独，一个人C. away离开D. busily忙，Mrs Clarke如果事务繁忙(busily)就无法去妇女俱乐部，她也不可能在很远(away)的地方，这样不方便。后文她的日常活动反映出距离不远。lonely"孤独的"为形容词，不能修饰动词lived。从后文可以得出，她是独自(alone)一个人住着。选B
【小题3】考查不定代词：A. everything一切B. nothing没有什么C. something 某些东西D. anything任何东西，她回家后觉得有什么情况反常，选C
【小题4】考查名词：A. windows窗户B. rooms房间C. doors 门D. gates门，后门和窗户还都完好地锁着。选A。
【小题5】考查动词：A. found发现B. opened打开C. taken拿D. broken打破，有什么东西被拿了吗？选C
【小题6】考查动词：A. losing丢失B. missing不见C. leaving离开D. disappearing消失，发现照相机和手表不见了，应该是missing或者lost，选B
【小题7】考查形容词：A. same 同样的B. spare备用的C. special特殊的D. usual通常的，与文章首句呼应一致，Mrs Clarke不可能在同一(same)时间，也不是在空闲的(spare)或特定的(special)时间出门，而是在通例、惯例的(usual)时间去俱乐部。选D
【小题8】考查副词：A. Therefore因此B. However然而C. Instead相反D. Again再一次，没做前面的事，而做了后面的事，中间用instead。therefore表示因果关系；however表示转折关系；instead表示对立相反和替代意义；again表示再次。Mrs Clarke这次出门没有去俱乐部，相反(instead)她在附近走走却又回到了家。选C。
【小题9】考查动词：A. pushing推B. letting 让C. pulling 拉D. leading带领，push、pull 和lead的意义中都含着外力"推、拉、拖"和"引导、带领"的意思。Mrs Clarke进自己的家轻车熟路，径直让(let)自己进去就是了，而无需推、拉、拖、领着。选D
【小题10】考查动词：A. appear 出现B. follow跟随C. happen发生D. continue继续，appear通常指具体物件的显现；follow表示跟随、继起，它强调事件出现的先后次序；continue继续、连续，强调事件发生的连续性；happen通常指偶然性的预期不到的事情的发生。Mrs Clarke静下心来等候着看会发生什么事情。选C
【小题11】考查词组：A. the next moment 接下来B. for a while 有一会C. in time及时D. at once立刻，the next moment紧接着、随即；next表示"隔壁，下一个，靠得最近的，紧挨着发生的"，它强调时间之短，动作之快和连贯性。门外的小偷按了第二次铃后随即打开了信箱。选A
【小题12】考查动词：与后文联系起来看。Mrs Clarke没有把壶放下(put down)，放到旁边(lay aside)，而是提开(pick up)了壶，并一直没放下(take away)壶。选C
【小题13】考查名词：A. knife刀B. hand手C. letter信D. key钥匙，从下文的the water over the hand.可知选B
【小题14】词义比较：Mrs Clarke不是让热开水掉(drop)、也不是扩散(spread)、覆盖(cover)，而是倾倒，灌注(pour)在小偷的手上，表现出她动作的干净利落，表现出她对小偷的极端仇恨的心情。选C
【小题15】考查词组：小偷的手被开水浇烫，自然感到奇怪(strange)、痛苦(sad)，但发出的不会是乐音(voice)或噪音(noise)，而是高声的尖叫声(a sharp cry)，哪有闲暇来警告(warning)别人。选B
【小题16】考查名词：A. key钥匙B. kettle 水壶C. door-lock门锁D. wire电线。常识运用 小偷被烫缩手，电线(wire)脱手。选D
【小题17】考查动词： follow紧接着，表示动作的连续性；cause，produce产生，导致；end结束。紧接着(follow)，听到的是门外小偷逃跑的脚步声。选A
【小题18】考查连词： It wasn't long before…的意思是"过不久就……"。不久小偷就被抓到了。选A
【小题19】考查动词：人们自然会感到惊奇(surprised)，会支持(support)她，会受到鼓舞(inspired)，但她的有勇有谋，大智大勇，当然会受到赞扬、称道(admire)。选B
【小题20】词义比较 纵观全文，我们可以看出Mrs Clarke的行为是一种自我保护(self-protection)行为，而不是自满(self-satisfaction)，自尊、自重(self-respect)或自助、自理(self-service)的行为。选B
考点：考查故事类短文
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This weekly four-day physical activity schedule will get your kids excited about being active.
Tuesday
When the kids get home from school, don’t let them go straight to the TV and get settled in. Encourage them to get moving and get off the couch(长椅) by giving them a pedometer(计步器). Pedometers are the most fun when parents also use one because that turns stepping, walking and running into a game to see who can get the most steps.
Thursday
The kids have done a great job so far this week, but now they are aching for （渴望） a little more TV time. Instead of turning on cartoons, let them watch fitness movies made just for kids. These movies encourage watchers to get up and dance along to kid-friendly music.
Saturday
Get the whole family out of the house together and over to a park. Bring lots of sports equipment, pack a healthy picnic and have a family competitive sports day. Kids and adults get into groups and play against each other in tennis, basketball or soccer. After everyone has played hard for a couple of hours, stop for a picnic and then if your family isn’t too tired, go back and play some more.
Sunday
Every child loves to play video games and there is no better time to allow kids to play them than on Sunday when no homework is due（应交的）.But don’t let them play a game that forces them to sit down for hours. Dance games with a floor mat(垫子) to help kids follow the dance moves are popular to kids.
56.What can be the best title for this text?
A.How to make children like activities.
B.A weekly four-day physical activity plan for kids.
C.Physical activities are important to kids.        
D.A plan that will do much good to kids.
57.Parents are advised to use a pedometer together with their kids because _______.
A.they can give their kids some advice about walking
B.it can prevent them from watching TV too much
C.this will allow them and their kids to have a fun competition
D.their kids will not use it if they don’t
58.On Thursday when a kid wants to watch TV, his parents should ______.
A.let him watch it for a short time
B.watch cartoons with him
C.take him out for a walk instead
D.show fitness movies to him
59.The author advises a family to have a meal on Saturday ______.
A. in a park  B. in a mountain C. in a restaurant  D. at home


The Maldives faces the threat of extinction from rising sea levels, but the government said on Thursday it was looking to the future with plans to build homes and a golf course that float.
An increase in sea levels of just 18 to 59 centimeters would make the Maldives -- a nation of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean -- virtually uninhabitable by 2100, the UN’s climate change panel has warned.
President Mohamed Nasheed has vowed a fight for survival, and last month he signed a deal with a Dutch company to study proposals for a floating structure that could support a convention centre, homes and an 18-hole golf course. “It is still early stages and we are awaiting a report on the possibility,” a government official said.
The company, Dutch Docklands, is currently building floating developments in the Netherlands and Dubai. There was no immediate comment from the firm but its website said it undertook projects that make “land from water by providing large-scale floating constructions to create similar conditions as on land”.
The Maldives began work on an artificial island known as the Hulhumale near the crowded capital island of Male in 1997 and more than 30,000 people have been settled there to ease congestion. The city, which has a population of 100,000, is already protected from rising sea levels by a 30-million-dollar sea wall, and the government is considering increasingly imaginative ways to combat climate change.
Nasheed, who staged the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting in October to highlight his people’s dilemma , has even spoken of buying land elsewhere in the world to enable Maldivians to relocate if their homes are flooded. He has also pledged the Hulhumale to turn his nation into a model for the rest of the world by becoming “carbon neutral” by 2020. His plan involves ending fossil fuel use and powering all vehicles and buildings from “green” sources.
1. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. The Maldives plans to build floating homes for the rising sea level.
B. The Maldives’s president signed a deal with a Dutch company.
C. The Maldives staged the first underwater cabinet meeting.
D. The Maldives is considering ways to fight against the global warming.
2. Which statement is true about the Hulhumale?
A. The Hulhumale is a natural island near the capital of Male.
B. The Hulhumale is an artificial island to be built near the capital.
C. The Hulhumale was built in 1997 and has settled over 30,000 people.
D. The Hulhumale is protected by a 30-million-dollar sea wall.
3. According to the passage, the underlined word congestion means _______.
A. being endangered                     B. being crowded   
C. being flooded                        D. being disappearing
4. Which of the following is NOT Nasheed’s idea?_______
A. To purchase land elsewhere in the world to help Maldivians to relocate if their homes are flooded.
B. To make his nation a model for the rest of the world by becoming “carbon neutral” by 2020
C. To stop using fossil fuel and power all vehicles and buildings from “green” sources.
D. To build more artificial islands for people to settle there.
5. We can infer from the passage that ________.
A. By 2100, all the the Maldives will live on artificial islands.
B. The plans to build homes and a golf course that float have been carried out
C. Maldive has been greatly affected by the global warming.
D. . Dutch Docklands is the president of Maldive.

LONDON (Reuters) — Children are dying for lack of drugs tailored to their needs, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which launched a global campaign on Thursday to promote more research into child medicine.
More than half of the drugs currently used to treat children in the industrialized world have not been specifically tested on youngsters.
The problem is even worse in developing countries where price remains a major barrier and 6 million children die each year from treatable conditions.
In the case of HIV/AIDS, the few existing pediatric therapies（儿科的疗法）developed for children generally cost three times more than adult ones.
As a result, clinicians lack clear guidelines on the best drug to use and often have to guess at the correct dose.
Fortunately, the WHO has drawn up the first international List of Essential Medicines for Children, containing 206 products considered safe for children.
“But a lot remains to be done. There are priority medicines that have not been adapted for children’s use or are not available when needed,” said Dr Hans, the U.N. agency’s director of medicines policy and standards.
Medicines that need to be adapted to children’s needs include many antibiotics, pain drugs as well as combination pills for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
The agency is building an Internet entrance linking to clinical trials carried out in children and will launch a Web site with the information early next year.
Testing medicines on children has always been a controversial issue, since good ethical（伦理的）practice requires informed agreement from people participating in clinical trials, which is difficult to obtain in the case of children.
As a result, research-based drug companies have been wary of developing child-friendly medicines and general companies have been slow to produce them at lower cost.
In an attempt to deal with the issue, both Europe and the United States now have special rules offering extended patent protection for drugs that have been tested on children.
【小题1】Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．A Global Campaign to Promote Research into AIDS Medicine
B．WHO Says Children are Dying for Lack of Child-sized Drugs
C．Many People are Concerned about Children’s Drugs
D．Measures Taken to Develop Child-friendly Medicine Quickly
【小题2】Which of the following medicine is not needed to be adapted to children’s need according to the passage?
A．Pain killers.B．Tuberculosis.
C．AID pills.D．Flu pills.
【小题3】Why has testing medicines on children always been a controversial issue?
A．It is against good ethical practice
B．Children shouldn’t take part in clinical trials.
C．It is hard to get informed agreement from children tested.
D．Parents don’t allow their children to be tested on medicine.
【小题4】The underlined word “wary” in the last but one paragraph means _________.
A．fastB．fondC．cautiousD．uninterested
【小题5】What can be inferred from the passage?
A．There is still a long way to go on children’s medicine.
B．An Internet entrance is being built to link to clinical trials carried out in children.
C．Both Europe and the United States now have special rules offering extended patent protection for children’s drugs.
D．Less than half of the drugs currently used to treat children in the industrialized world have not been specifically tested on youngsters

I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The announcement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theater box office in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9 o’clock to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theater was during my 45-minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theater is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip—so I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday, my luck changed. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly twenty minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi. It was expensive, but I felt it would be worth hearing the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets.

1.The writer is probably ______.

    A. a worker                             B. a college teacher   

    C. a boss of a company                  D. a secretary

2.He learned ______ that there would be a concert last Friday.

    A. from his friends                         B. from one of his colleagues

    C. over the radio                              D. from the newspaper

3.He could go and buy the ticket ______.

    A. any day before work hours                B. both before and after work hours

    C. only during lunch time                   D. on Saturday and Sunday

4.The word “relieved” in the last two sentences may best be replaced by “______”.

    A. surprised            B. pleased          C. puzzled          D. sorry

5.  The story is about ______.

    A. a good concert      

    B. someone enjoying a good concert

    C. someone trying to buy concert tickets for his friends

    D. someone failing to buy the concert ticket

 

Summer Holiday Fun 2010 !

    The summer holidays are upon us again Here is our guide to summer holiday fun in Peterborough!

Peterborough Museum

    The Age of the Dinosaurs’is the museum’s main attraction this summer．Get up close to prehistoric creatures via some great hands—on exhibits! Watch out for monsters lurking around every ember! The museum is open from 10：00am to 5：00pm Monday to Saturday，and from 12：00pm to 4：00 pm on Sundays in August．

Call 01733 864663 for details

 

  Saxon Youth Club

    School holiday fun：Young people aged 13—19 will be able to produce their own music, compete in spots activities，or try their hand at cooking at Saxon Youth Club，Saxon Community Centre, Norman Road．Peterborough every Monday and Wednesday from 3：00pm．PLUS an aero ball tournament will take place on Thursday 12th August between 3：30pm and 6：30pm．

Call 01 353 720274 for details

 

Houghton Mill   

Alice through the Looking Class—a new production of the family favorite on Monday 30th．August．Bring rugs or chairs to sit on and a picnic if you wish to eat during the play．Gates open 5：30pm. performance 6：30pm—8：30pm．Tea room will be open until end of the interval．

Adult ￡10．Child￡7．Family ￡20．

Booking advisable on 0845 4505157．

 

Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey

    Farmland Gaines：From Wellie Wanging to Pretend Ploughing matches，come and join the Farmland Team．Collect your sporting stickers and create a colorful rosette that is fit for a winner！No need to book，just turn up between 12：00pm and 4：00pm on Thursday 19th August Suitable for children aged four and above，each child should be accompanied by an adult and all activities are included in the normal admission price Tickets Cost￡7 per child．

For further information，call 01223 810080．

1.If you are interested in cooking, you can go to__________.

    A．Peterborough Museum              B．Houghton Mill

    C．Saxon Youth Club                       D．Farmland Museum[来源:Z.xx.k.Com]

2.You want to watch the new play with your parents，so it will cost you_________  

    A．￡7                     B．￡17                    C．￡27                      D．￡20

3.Which of the following activities needs parents’ company?

    A．Playing farmland games                         B．Watching a new play．

    C．Competing in spots activities．           D．Visiting the dinosaur exhibition．

4.If Tom comes to Peterborough for amusement on August 19，he will have_______ activities to

    choose from for himself．

A. one activity                                  B. two activities   

C. three activities                              D. four activities

 

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