题目内容
A. “Better road design and training hold the key to cycle safety”, the new Transport Secretary said today as he pledged to restore Britain’s safety record. Patrick McLoughlin told Conservative Party Conference that while cycling was enjoying a post-Olympics boom, the number of casualties among cyclists was also rising. “But the number of accidents has gone up too. That means it needs better design and better education too.” Mr McLoughlin said in his first speech as Transport Secretary.
B. Cycling in the UK will become safer through “sheer weight of numbers,” the founder of one of the world’s leading cycle brands has said as he backed The Times’s Cyclesafe campaign. Simon Mottram, founder and chief executive of Rapha, has added his support to 40 cross-party MPs who have signed a letter urging David Cameron to use his speech at the Conservative Party Conference to promote measures to make the streets safer for cyclists.
C. Commuters who cycle to work face an increased danger as the casualty toll during peak hours rose by 10 percent last year. The rate at which cyclists were killed or seriously injured rose sharply last year, official figures showed yesterday.
D. In future decades, Londoners will look back on the way cyclists jostled with buses and lorries on major roads as an absurd anachronism. Some risks are unavoidable. But other risks survive only because we are too slow to embrace bold solutions. That is the message from designers who are proposing an ambitious plan to create cycle lanes suspended above London’s busiest streets. London is one of the most dangerous places in the world for cycling. “SkyCycle” would remedy that problem by attaching dedicated cycle paths to existing railway viaducts.
E. Money should be apportioned from the funding for major transport projects, such as the new Forth Crossing, to create a pot of cash for cycling, campaigners have told MSPs. Cycle groups have given warning that not enough money is being put into routes and promotion. They want the Scottish government to take a percentage of the funding allocated to key national projects and create an “active transport” fund to be distributed gradually.
F. We’d like you to tell us why you love cycling by sending a photo of yourself, a family member or friend with their bike and a note about why it is so brilliant. To take part, instagram your photo with the hashtag #ilovemybike or email it to us at ilovemybike@thetimes.co.uk. We’ll post the best pictures here ilovemybike.tumblr.com.
请阅读以下信息,并为他们匹配合适的新闻内容。
1.“Cycle lanes in the sky” answer to traffic danger
2.More cyclists are seriously injured on Britain’s roads
3.Share a picture of you and your bike and help us promote the fun and freedom of cycling
4.“Weight of numbers” will bring safe cycling
5.Transport Secretary calls for better road design and training to help cyclists
1.D
2.C
3.F
4.B
5.A
【解析】
试题分析:本文主要讲述的是在英国,去年汽车受伤的人越来越多,交通大臣呼吁要有更好的交通标示和培训以保证骑自行车人的安全。
1.D 根据D部分的That is the message from designers who are proposing an ambitious plan to create cycle lanes suspended above London’s busiest streets. London is one of the most dangerous places in the world for cycling. “SkyCycle” would remedy that problem by attaching dedicated cycle paths to existing railway viaducts.说明使用Cycle lanes可以解决伦敦的交通问题。故D项与1相符。
2.C 根据C部分第一句Commuters who cycle to work face an increased danger as the casualty toll during peak hours rose by 10 percent last year说明在去年更多骑车的人在路上受伤了,几率上升了百分数10.
3.F 根据F段1,2行We’d like you to tell us why you love cycling by sending a photo of yourself, a family member or friend with their bike and a note about why it is so brilliant.说明F项与#相符。
4.B 根据B部分第一行Cycling in the UK will become safer through “sheer weight of numbers说明
“Weight of numbers” will bring safe cycling与该段的中心思想相符。
5.A 根据本段第一行“Better road design and training hold the key to cycle safety”, the new Transport Secretary said today as he pledged to restore Britain’s safety record说明英国的交通大臣呼吁要有更好的交通标示和培训以保证骑自行车人的安全。故A与小题5相符。
考点:考查新闻类短文阅读
点评:本文主要讲述的是在英国,去年汽车受伤的人越来越多,交通大臣呼吁要有更好的交通标示和培训以保证骑自行车人的安全。考查了考生的总结归纳能力,要求考生能根据每一段的关键词提炼住该段的中心思想再与小题进行匹配。
A large number of women in Western European countries wish that they were born men. The number is said as high as 60% in Germany.
“Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe it is still men’s world.” Said Dr James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study. Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company. She also believes in“Women’s Liberation(解放)”.
“I don’t wish that I were a man,” she says, “and I don’t think many women do .But I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but we get less paid. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones that open only to men. If you’re a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. How many women pilots are there or engineers or scientists?”
【小题1】What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A.There are more Western European women wishing to be born men. |
B.Women in Western European countries wish to deliver boy-babies. |
C.60%women in Germany wish that they were born men. |
D.60% Western European women wish that they were born men. |
A.There’re more men than women in the world |
B.There’re more men scientists or engineers in the world |
C.Women cannot live on themselves without men |
D.Women have not been given the same chance as men |
A.feels sure of the value of | B.is sure of the existence of |
C.has some trust in | D.learns something from |
A.be really liberated | B.live a better life than men |
C.be well paid | D.get better jobs than men |
A.Usually the best jobs are open to men not to women. |
B.Women are less paid than men for doing the same job. |
C.Men pilots, engineers and scientists are more than women ones. |
D.Women are looked down upon as the second-class citizens. |
Yesterday was my stepmother’s birthday. I haven’t been home for a long time, so I wanted to stop by the house to 36 her on this special day. I have been 37
on a low income so I was afraid that I couldn’t afford the long 38 . Gas is so expensive nowadays! 39 , I filled my tank with gas and set off.
I 40 at a shopping mall and found a present. It was the 41 gift and I knew she would love it. 42 when I got to the cashier, my card was 43 !
I didn’t have enough money to 44 the gift!
So I thought about the 45 for a few minutes. I could put it back and get something 46 , but I knew there was 47 else in the store she would have liked as much. So, I transferred some money from my saving account and was able to buy the gift. It took a 48 part of my savings but I wanted her to have something special.
It turned out that she loved the gift and I 49 that even though I had spent almost all my money, my stepmother 50 the best. I was glad I gave her the best I could.
Before I 51 my parents’ house, my dad took me to one side and, with our secret handshake, he gave me some money. I hadn’t 52 anything to him about my financial 53 , but I guessed my dad just knew. When I got to the car, I saw the 54 he gave me was three times what I had spent on the gas and the gift! It shows that doing the right thing always comes with great 55 .
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A mouse looked through a crack(缝隙) in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
Running to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, warning everyone, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.”
The chicken, with her head high, glared at the mouse and said, “Shut up. Little Ugly. This is a great concern to you, but it has nothing to do with me; I can’t be troubled by it.
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr. Mouse,” said the pig sympathetically, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; you are always in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow, who relied, “ A mouse trap, am I in great danger, huh?”
Now the mouse had to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.
The very night a sound was heard through the house, like that of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a big poisonous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever, so the farmer took his sharp knife to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow killed to provide for all of them to eat.
So next time when someone is facing a problem, don’t say that it has nothing to do with you. Remember: when the least of us is threatened, we all might be at risk.
1.We could see from the passage that the mouse was _____.
A.good at cheating others |
B.honest |
C.kind and warm-hearted |
D.foolish |
2.Which of the following is False according to the passage?
A.The others help the farmer kill the cow. |
B.The mouse trap was very practical |
C.The pig is more friendly than the other animals. |
D.The farmer’s family was very poor and they had no friends |
3.What can we learn from the story?
A.Better safe than sorry |
B.Traps can always cause chain reactions |
C.To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all |
D.What you think impossible to happen to you might come at you unexpectedly |
It was thanks to luck _____ judgment _____ the driver succeeded in avoiding an accident.
A.better than, that |
B.rather than, that |
C.other than, who |
D.more than, which |