题目内容
. The year 2003 ____ a wild spread of SARS, a disease people knew little about at that time.
A. accompanied B. followed C. saw D. caused
C
A long time ago, before there was any money (coins or paper money), people got the things that they needed by trading or exchanging. Salt was one of the first items used to exchange for other items. Later, some of the common things that were used for exchanging were tea leaves, shells, feathers, animal teeth, tobacco, and blankets. Around 3000 BC, barley, a type of grain, was used for exchanging.
The world’s first metal money was developed by the Sumerians who melted silver into small bars all weighing the same. This was around 1000 BC. About three hundred years later, people started using coins as official money.
Around 640 BC, people in the ancient kingdom of Lydia ( which was in Turkey) created special coins of exact with and purity (纯度). They were made of gold and silver and were stamped with a lion’s head.
Later, other empires such as Greece, Persia, and Rome adopted the concept of coins and started developing their own in many different shapes and different metals.
Around the year 1000, the Chinese started using paper money. The Chinese were the first to use paper money. The Europeans discovered this thanks to Marco Polo who went to China in 1295. the Chinese had different values for the paper notes which were made by the Chinese government.
Around 1661, Sweden became the first European country to make paper money. Until 1850, the Spanish dollar was the coin most widely used throughout the world.
【小题1】What is the best title for this passage?
A. The history of money |
B. How people traded in the past |
C. The invention of paper money |
D. The use of coins around the world |
A. barley had always been used for exchanging |
B. only a few people knew how to trade with others |
C. salt was the most widely used item for exchanging |
D. many kinds of things were used for exchanging |
A. Around 1300 BC. B. Around 1000 BC.
C. Around 700 BC. D. Around 640 BC.
【小题4】The underlined word “adopted” in Paragraph 4 probably means “____”.
A. replaced | B. changed |
C. accepted | D. invented |
A.Spain | B.China | C.Sweden | D.Lydia |
Louis Pasteur, one of the world's great scientists, was born in 1822, and died in 1895.While still a young boy, Louis Pasteur made his decision to become a scientist. He spent much of his life time studying the diseases of cattle, chickens and other tame animals. His wife learned to help him with his work. Almost everyone knows that Pasteur is the man responsible for finding a way of preventing milk from spoiling (变质). Not many people know he was the first to imagine and to prove that air we breathe is full of germs (细菌). One of his greatest successes was finding a treatment for people and animals to prevent a disease called rabies (狂犬病). Louis Pasteur won many honors and could have got large amount of money. But Pasteur preferred to live simply. The real happiness of this unusual man came from his work. Louis Pasteur did so well in his life that the French government took up his work and created the Institute Pasteur in the year 1888.
【小题1】According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A.Pasteur was a scientist and doctor as well. |
B.Pasteur lived for less than seventy years. |
C.Everybody knows that Pasteur succeeded in finding a way of preventing milk from spoiling. |
D.Pasteur's wife was of some help to him in his work.. |
A.he earned little money. |
B.he cared much about money. |
C.what he really enjoyed was a simple life. |
D.of all mentioned above. |
A.Because he was the greatest scientist in the world. |
B.Because he spent much of his life time studying the diseases of people . |
C.Because he lived simply. |
D.Because he was a great success as a scientist. |
A.cared much about it. |
B.made more discoveries. |
C.lived a better life. |
D.achieved more successes. |
A.study | B.work |
C.get large amount of money | D.raise tame animals |
An experiment was carried out at British school into the performance of new pupils. At the start of the year, the pupils were each given a rating, ranging from “excellent prospect” to “unlikely to do well”. These were totally untrue ratings and did not reflect how well the pupils had previously performed. However, these ratings were given to the teachers. At the end of the year, the experimenters compared the pupils’ performance with the ratings. Despite their real abilities, there was an astonishingly high connection between performance and ratings. It seems that people perform as well as we expect them to.
The Self-fulfilling Effect is also known as the Pygmalion Effect. This comes from an old Greek story. The story was also the basis of George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”, later turned into the musical “My Fair Lady”. In Shaw’s play, Professor Henry Higgins claims he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle into a duchess. But, as Eliza herself points out to Higgins’ friend Pickering, it isn’t what she learns or does that determines whether she will become a duchess, but how she’s treated.
The implication (含义) of the Pygmalion Effect for leaders and managers is massive. It means that the performance of your team depends less on them than it does on you. The performance you get from people is no more or less than what you expect, which means you must always expect the best. As Goethe said, “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
【小题1】The underlined word in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “_________”.
A.program | B.regulation | C.correction | D.classification |
A.A new scientific experiment. |
B.The Self-fulfilling Effect. |
C.Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”. |
D.An improved teaching method. |
A.try out a new teaching method |
B.pick out the most excellent pupils |
C.learn if expectations affect performance |
D.give each pupil a proper rating |
A.Strict training from Higgins. |
B.Her own strong will and hard work. |
C.The proper way she was regarded. |
D.Warm encouragement from Pickering. |
A.I’m sure you can make it | B.I will help you any time |
C.It is as easy as pie | D.It doesn’t matter if you fail |