题目内容
I fell asleep while working on this paper ______ the computer on．
A．asB．forC．overD．with
—Hi，Tom．The new iPad6 only cost me 150 dollars．
—Really？It was a real ______．
A．changeB．bargain
C．tradeD．business
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Today I’m here to tell you about the survival course I and all other scientists have to go through when we arrive in the Antarctic , and this is 1. they call field training .
The first day’s training was the construction of snow shelters . We 2. ( divide ) into three teams 3. four persons in each team . Each team went for a different type of shelter . The Canadian 4. ( choose ) the snow shelter type ; the New Zealanders dug through a pile of snow and we decided to dig a hole in the ground . We 5. ( foolish ) thought it would be the easiest . So we set to work and after 6. ( dig ) for a couple of hours , it was beautiful , deep and long 7. unfortunately far too wide . 8. else succeeded with their efforts but we had to announce 9. ( fail ) , for we couldn’t get enough snow 10. ( build ) a roof . So in the end all we had was a deep hole and that’s how we came to sleep outside at night in one of the coldest places in the world .
Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. However, scientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting is not important. New evidence suggests that the link between handwriting and educational development is deep.
Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand, but they are also better able to create ideas and remember information. In other words, it’s not only what we write that matters—but how.
A study led by Karin James, a psychologist （心理学家）at Indiana University, gave support to that view. A group of children, who had not learned to read and write, were offered a letter or a shape on a card and asked to copy it in one of three ways: draw the image on a page but with a dotted outline (虚线) , draw it on a piece of blank white paper, or type it on a computer. Then the researchers put the children in a brain scanner and showed them the image again.
It was found that when children had drawn a letter freehand without a dotted outline or a computer, the activity in three areas of the brain was increased. These three areas work actively in adults when they read and write. On the contrary, children who chose the other two ways showed no such effect. Dr. James attributes the differences to the process of free handwriting: Not only must we first plan and take action in a way but we are also likely to produce a result that is variable. Those are not necessary when we have an outline.
It’s time for educators to change their minds and pay more attention to children’s handwriting.
1.What do scientists mean by saying “it is far too soon to declare handwriting is not important”?
A. Handwriting is not very important to children.
B. Handwriting has nothing to do with education.
C. Handwriting can not be learned in a short time.
D. Handwriting should not be ignored at present.
2.What does “that view” in Para. 3 refer to?
A. Children read quickly when they write by hand.
B. Children create ideas and remember information.
C. How we write is as important as what we write.
D. A group of students should know what to write.
3.Which is NOT the children’s task in the experiment?
A. Put a brain scanner and show the image again.
B. Draw the image on a piece of blank white paper.
C. Type the image directly on a computer.
D. Copy the image on a page but with a dotted outline.
4.According to the passage, the author obviously giving up handwriting.
A. is for B. is against
C. is responsible for D. doesn’t care about
D
Trapped on the 37th Floor
Melinda Skaar wasn’t expecting any phone calls．Skaar was working late in her office at the First Interstate bank of California．By 10:45 that night she was almost ready to go home when the phone rang．
Picking it up，she heard a guard shouting．“There is a fire！ Get out of there！”
Skaar didn’t panic．She figured that it was just a small fire．Her office building was huge．There were 62 floors and her desk was on the 37th floor．
Skaar called out to office mate Stephen Oksas，who also stayed late to work．But when they got to the hallway，they were met by a cloud of black smoke．Rushing back，Skaar shut the door and filled the space at the bottom of the door with her jacket to keep the smoke out．
Then they called 911．Before they could call their families，however，the line went dead．That meant that they were completely cut off from the outside world．All they could do was wait and hope someone would come to rescue them．
Minutes ticked by．Smoke began to float into the office．Soon it became hard for them to breathe．
Looking around，Skaar noticed a small workroom．It seemed to have cleaner air．So they crowded there．That helped for a while，but in time even the workroom was filled with deadly smoke．
Hopeless，they tried to break the windows，but the glass was not breakable．Everything they threw at just bounced back．
Defeated，they struggled back to the workroom．They felt weak and dizzy ．Soon Skaar found Oksas had passed out．
As Skaar and Oksas lay near death，rescuers were rushing to find them．At last，at about 4 a．m．，firefighters found them．
Skaar and Oksas knew they were lucky to be alive．“Sunday is my birthday，” Skaar told a reporter．She would be turning 29．But she knew she had already got the best present possible——the gift of life．
1.What did Skaar and Oksas do when they were stopped by the fire？
A．They called their families．
B．They waited where they were．
C．They tried to run down the stairs．
D．They rushed back and shut the door．
2.The first sentence of the passage is to ____________．
A．introduce Skaar
B．get the reader’s attention
C．explain the cause of the event
D．tell the background information
3.The following helped Skaar and Oksas survive the fire except _____________．
A．calling 911 for help
B．breaking the windows to get some fresh air
C．crowding in a small workroom for clean air
D．shutting the door and keeping the smoke out with a jacket
4.What can we conclude from Skaar’s action in the fire？
A．She is cleverer than Oksas．
B．She was trained as a firefighter．
C．She remained calm in the face of danger．
D．She had had the experience of being caught in fire．
完成句子（共1小题）
1.Do you often ____________（忽略）work and study to check your phone for messages?
2.________ _________（遭受）such a heavy loss, the boss didn’t have the courage to go on with his business．
3.The old man ________ _________（经历）a lot of suffering during the war．
4.__________（事实上）eating habits can vary a good deal over the centuries．
5.After 25 years she has changed ________ ________（认不出来）．
6.The fact that he didn’t speak a foreign language put him at a __________（劣势）．
7.I haven’t been ___________（决定）where to go during the summer vacations．
8.After the big fire, his house was completely d____________（毁坏）, so he had to build a new one．
9.Dad has given me a lot of __________（指导）on choosing a career．
10.We should set aside some time to take __________（有规律的）exercise every day, which is good to our health．
11._________（无论如何）, you must tell me the truth．
12.I would ___________（感激）it if you would teach me how to use the computer．
13.He _________ an _________（道歉）to the guests for his rudeness．
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Tu Yoyo，84，was 1. (honor)with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct 5．She was the first Chinese citizen 2. win a Nobel Prize in science．Tu 3. (share)the prize with the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan．
Tu 4.(be)a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine now．She was given the prize for developing artemisinin(青蒿素)，a new drug therapy against malaria(疟疾)， 5. has saved millions of lives worldwide，especially in developing countries．
Tu and her colleagues joined a government project to find a new malaria drug 6. the late 1960s．They made 380 herbal extracts from two thousand recipes from traditional Chinese medical books．In 1971，after nearly two hundred 7.(failure)，Tu’s team 8. (find)found an extract that was 100％effective against the malaria parasites—artemisinin．In 2001．the World Health Organization made artemisinin 9. (it)first choice in the treatment of malaria．
“The discovery of artemisinin is a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine．It’s the collective achievement of the research team. 10. (win)the prize is an honor for Chinese science and traditional Chinese medicine，”Tu said．
The government in China plans to end its one-child per family policy and instead let families have two children.
The plan was announced Thursday after high-level political meetings in Beijing. The official Xinhua news agency says the country’s top legislature must approve the proposal before it becomes law.
A Chinese Communist Party statement gave a number of reasons for the change in policy. The statement said the change is meant to balance population development. It said the move also attempts to stop a declining birth rate and strengthen the country’s work force.
China, the world's most populous country, launched the one-child policy in 1980. But the government permitted only a small number of couples to have two children. For example, some rural families were given approval to have two children. A total of 19 rural provinces have a partial two-child policy. That policy states if the first-born is a girl, a second child is permitted.
In 2013, the Chinese government gave other couples a chance to have two children. Families could have two if one parent was an only child.
A teacher and population expert, Jiang Quanbao, explained how Chinese families will react to the policy. “Too many young people in the cities are probably no longer interested in having a second child,”he said. “People in rural farming villages may be more interested. But again, some of them are already allowed to have two children.”
At the end of 2014, China had a population of 1.37 billion people. A total of 800 million of them are employed. But that job market population is expected to drop by 2050. With the two-child policy, an increase in births will ease the labor shortage, starting in 20 years.
1.Which of the following is NOT the reason for the two-child policy?
A. To ease the present labor shortage.
B. To balance population development.
C. To strengthen the country’s work force.
D. To stop a declining birth rate.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. In the 1980s rural families could have two children if the first-born was a girl.
B. Due to the boom in population, by 2050 more young people will become unemployed.
C. Chinese government changes its population policy to greet the new situation in social development.
D. Few young people in the cities show much interest in the new policy because of financial pressure.
3.The writer writes this passage ________.
A. To educate. B. To inform.
C. To advertise. D. To analyze.
— Do you think I really _____ the bad handwriting in your composition at yesterday’s meeting?
—Sure, Why _____ you always pick holes in everything I write?
A. wouldn’t have mentioned; can
B. mustn’t mention; should
C. shouldn’t have mentioned; must
D. couldn’t mention; would
