题目内容
____ we move the picture over there? Do you think it’ll look better?
A. What about B. How far C. What if D. How come
Michael Scofield has won fans all over the world. The star of the hit show Prison Break is kind, clever and good-looking. But what about the man the character?
Wentworth Miller, the 35-year-old actor who plays Scofield, is a hard guy to figure out. He does not come from a traditional background and doesn’t a traditional path.
Miller didn’t take a road to fame. He graduated from Princeton University in 1995 with a degree in English, not a degree in or film. He didn’t even act when he was in college. His only experience was in his university’s well-known singing group. Yet, at graduation, Miller still decided to make the to Hollywood.
Miller has always been . Although he is American, he was born in Britain when his father was studying there. His family background is a of cultures. “My father is black and my mother is white. That means I have always been caught in the middle. I could be one, which can make you feel out of place,” Miller says.
Following his unusual path, Miller did not start trying out for films when he got to Hollywood. , he worked as a production assistant. Working on production side, he learned a lot about what makes a good .
In 2002, Miller played a role in the drama Dinotopia. He starred as a shy man. The producers his performance when they were making Prison Break two years later.
1.A. beside B. behind C. outside D. after
2.A. share B. know C. follow D. find
3.A. direct B. special C. wide D. correct
4.A. engineering B. communication C. literature D. theatre
5.A. graduation B. performance C. production D. education
6.A. move B. role C. decision D. movie
7.A. strange B. outstanding C. different D. successful
8.A. mixture B. result C. mystery D. representative
9.A. each B. either C. another D. every
10.A. Moreover B. Therefore C. Instead D. Finally
11.A. film B. actor C. drama D. director
12.A. denied B. made C. recorded D. remembered
August was one of the nastiest months I can remember: torrential rain; a hailstorm or two; cold, bitter winds; and mists. But we are accustomed to such weather in England. Lord Byron used to say that an English summer begins on July 31 and ends on Aug. 1. He called 1816 "the year without a summer." He spent it gazing across Lake Geneva, watching the storms, with 18-year-old Mary Shelley. The lightening flickering across the lake inspired her Frankenstein, the tale of the man-made monster galvanized into life by electricity.
This summer's atrocious weather tempted me to tease a Green whom I know. "Well, what about your weather theory now?" (One of the characteristics of Greens is that they know no history.) He replied: "Yes, this weather is unprecedented. England has never had such an August before. It's global warming, of course." That's the Greens' stock response to anything weather-related. Too much sun? "Global warming." Too little sun? "Global warming." Drought? "Global warming." Floods? "Global warming." Freezing cold? "Global warming."
I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming. He was a student when Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was first published and then successfully tested. Einstein said that for his theory to be valid it would have to pass three tests. "If," Einstein wrote to British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, "it were proved that this effect does not exist in nature, then the whole theory would have to be abandoned."
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels--the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming--has not much basis in science. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.
Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor. If the theory's conclusions are accepted and agreed upon, the destructive results will be felt most severely in those states that adhere to the rule of law and will observe restrictions most faithfully. The global warming activists' target is the U.S. If America is driven to accept crippling restraints on its economy it will rapidly become unable to shoulder its burdens as the world's sole superpower and ultimate defender of human freedoms. We shall all suffer, however, as progress falters and then ceases and living standards decline.
1. The writer of the passage is probably _______.
A．one of the “Greens”
B．an American
C．not quite a believer in Global Warming
D．an environmentalist
2.Which person(s), in the writer’s eyes, is the one he agrees with?
A．Karl Marx B．Sir Karl Popper C．The Greens D．Mary Shelley
3.Sir Arthur Eddington could be inferred as a ______.
A．politician B．poet C．Greenpeacer D．physicist
4.“denounce” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.
A．announce B．pronounce
C．speak out for D．speak out against
5. Which of the following is probably a good title for this article?
A．Why Einstein’s Theory Stands the Tests.
B．Which Country the “Greens” Are Attacking?
C．Global Warming? I See Little Point.
D．The Climate in England and beyond.
阅读下面的短文，根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求)。
[1]Do you like chocolate? Most people do．Some like it in bars．Others just like big squares of it．
[2]Say you just got a box of chocolate．Which piece do you pick first? A study carried out by a professor in the University of Virginia showed that people's choices of chocolates show their personality．If you choose a round piece, you are a person who likes to party．If you select an oval shape, you are a person who strives．You like to make things and push yourself to be successful．Picking a square shape shows that this is an honest and truthful person you can depend on．
[3]What kind of chocolate do you pick? Maybe you like milk chocolate．This shows you have warm feelings about the past, while dark chocolate means something else—the person who chooses it looks forward to the future．What about white chocolate? Would you like to choose it? , you may find it hard to make up your mind．Those who like chocolate with nuts are people who like to help others．
[4]Do you believe these ideas? Can chocolate tell all these things? It doesn't matter．There is one sure thing about eaters of chocolates - they eat it because they like it．
1.What is the main idea of the text? （no more than 6 words．）
2.Fill in the blank (Paragraph 3 Line 3) to complete the sentence（no more than 5 words）
3.What does the underlined word “this”(Paragraph 2 Line 4) refer to? （no more than 8 words）
4.What’s the writer’s attitude towards the information about chocolate in the text?(no more than 15 words)
5.According to the passage, what of chocolate can show your characteristics and qualities?（no more than 2 words）
