【题目】

China launched its second space laboratory, the Tiangong II, on Sept 15, which space officials say will become the country’s largest scientific platform in space to date.

The space lab was lifted off atop a Long March 2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province at 10:04 pm. Around 20 minutes later, the mission was declared a success.

The Tiangong II did preparations in space for about one month and then the Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft rocketed two astronauts to the lab on October 17th. The pair will make it their home for 30 days before being returned to Earth.

The lab’s predecessor, Tiangong I, was launched in September 2011 and was used mainly to test technology involved in space docking.

By comparison, the Tiangong II will be used to conduct more than 40 scientific and technological experiments together with the Shenzhou XI. That’s many times more than those carried out by the Tiangong I and the three previous Shenzhou spacecraft, according to Wu Ping, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency. China’s manned space program has entered a “new phase of application and development,” he said.

【1】The underlined expression“atop” can be probably replaced with ________.

A. according toB. by means of

C. on top ofD. in front of

【2】What is the author’s attitude towards the Tiangong II’s prospect?

A. optimistic.B. negative.C. objective.D. subjective.

【3】Which of the following statement about the passage is NOT true?

A. At present, the Tiangong II is our country’s largest scientific platform in space.

B. Two astronauts will live and work in the Tiangong II till mid November.

C. The Tiangong II will carry out far more scientific and technological experiments than its latter space lab.

D. Before two astronauts arrived, the Tiangong II had done preparations in space for about one month.

【题目】

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【1】One of the benefits mentioned in the advertisement is ________.

A. a free flight to any destination in the world

B. 30% off any book purchased at Ruby Bookstore

C. a discount on any course at Tanya Language School.

D. a free bowl of dessert at any restaurant at the airport

【2】Which of the following bookings may receive the most benefits?

A.

Booking date

Departure date

September 13

September 18

B.

Booking date

Departure date

August 16

September 8

C.

Booking date

Departure date

August 15

September 4

D.

Booking date

Departure date

September 2

September 12

【3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the advertisement?

A. Any child must be accompanied by at least one paying adult.

B. Club members enjoy free travel insurance for any flight.

C. The advertisement is intended for students of all ages.

D. You need to pay $50 to sign up a child for the club.

【4】What’s the purpose of this passage?

A. Introduce some information about "FLY TO THE MOON CLUB".

B. Attract children to become members of "FLY TO THE MOON CLUB".

C. Attract children to take a free flight to any destination in Asia.

D. Get a free travel insurance for the entire family.

【题目】阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

India has many festivals, with some celebrations that last for weeks. However, none of them come even close to Holi, India's most colorful and fun festival. Celebrated on the day following the full moon, this year's festival happens to be on March 19th.

As with most Indian festivals, this one also has many different folk stories. Most of them center around the success of good over evil. The most popular one is about a king, who hates his son Prahlada for loving the creator of the Universe-Lord Vishnu. When every attempt to stop him fails, his sister, Holika believed to be immune (免疫的) to fire, joins in the effort by inviting the young boy to sit with her inside a huge fire. Helped by the power of Lord Vishnu, Prahlada escapes safely, while the evil Holika is burned to death. To remember this event, huge outdoor fires are lit in the night before Holi in order to clean the air of evil spirits and to celebrate the death of the evil.

So what's so great about this day? While there are some fun parades (游行) and folk songs and dance performances, the most fun of all is walking to the streets and splashing (泼洒) people with water guns and dry colors and even covering them with entire buckets of colored water. On this day, everybody is fair game, no matter how old or how young.

At about midday, the splashing comes to an end and people living close to oceans or rivers usually take a bath in the water to clean themselves before going home to a delicious homemade big dinner and a welldeserved short sleep, following this full day of fun and activities.

【1】Why does the king dislike his son Prahlada?

A.Because Prahlada doesn't love him.

B.Because Prahlada is rude to Holika.

C.Because Prahlada loves Lord Vishnu.

D.Because Prahlada concentrates on his own success.

【2】Prahlada gets out of danger ________.

A.with the help of Lord Vishnu

B.because of his good luck

C.by beating his aunt Holika

D.using his amazing talent

【3】The underlined phrasefair gamein Paragraph 3 refers to a person who ________.

A.fights against others fairly

B.enjoys splashing people

C.plays a trick on others

D.is the aim of splashing water

【4】After the fun activities, people living close to oceans or rivers often take a bath because ________.

A.they have got dirty with dry colors and colored water

B.going home with colored water means bad luck

C.they believe clean water will bring good luck

D.taking a bath shows their true love for Lord Vishnu

【题目】阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

He wishes the holiday season would end already. His back aches, his red suit feels like a spacesuit, his cheeks have gone tight from smiling for 12 hours—and still the kids keep coming and coming, like ants at a picnic. As Christmas becomes more commercialized (商业化) across the U. S. and Canada, so must Santa Claus. As the holiday begins earlier each year, so must its spokesmen.

The questions from children these days are harder than ever. Now, with thousands of children expecting a father or mother serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, the questions are as heartbreaking as they are unanswerable. For example, “Can you please bring Daddy home from the war in time for Christmas morning?”

Santa Claus; also have a pretty good chance of getting sued (指控). A professional Santa Claus in Canada told a story: A Santa had a girl on his knee, and he commented, “You have nice eyes and nice hair.” The girl later said it was sexual harassment (骚扰). When a Santa feels anxious, he often shows it in the same ways ordinary people do. The Santa Claus were always seen to hang around at the dinner table when the show ended. Many of them just sleep in bed for several days and don't see other children again.

【1】In the first paragraph,“spokesmen” refers to ______.

A.businessmen

B.political leaders

C.organizers of the activities

D.Santa Clauses

【2】The passage implies that the job of Santa Claus is ________.

A.well-paid Bvery hard

C.worth doing D.dangerous

【3】According to the third paragraph, Santa Claus may sometimes be blamed for ________.

A.doing something against the law

B.hanging around the dinner table

C.being lazy and sleeping in bed for days

D.not playing their roles as expected

【4】What would be the best title for the passage?

A.Christmas: Not a Good Festival for Santa Claus

B.What Does Santa Claus Do for Children?

C.Is Santa Claus Really Alive?

D.A Christmas Story

【题目】How Super Are Supermarkets?

Buying e week’s groceries is tiring. You want to get it over and done with quickly, so you head for the nearest supermarket, you find everything you need under one roof, and you feel glad that those days of going in and out of different shops in the high street are over. Supermarkets seem to be a big plus. There is a downside, though.

In the UK 90% of all the food people consume is bought at 5 different supermarket chains. This makes these companies extremely powerful, which lets them use their huge buying power to squeeze small suppliers to get the best deal. Milk is a good example. Supermarkets like to use things like milk, which is the top of almost everyone’s shopping list to attract customers. To offer the lowest price possible to the consumer, the supermarkets force dairy farmers to sell milk at less than the cost of production. Supermarkets guarantee their good profits while farmers are left struggling to make ends meet, and the taxpayer pays to support the system without even knowing it.

It would be nice if local grocers supported local agriculture. But for the big supermarkets this just doesn’t make sense. Supermarkets don’t want little farmers thinking they can decide prices. So supermarkets have started a global search for the cheapest possible agricultural produce. In many supermarkets it is difficult to find anything which is produced locally.

UK farmers used to grow a lot of apples. Not anymore. In 1999 36% of apples were imported. By 2015 the figure had risen to 80% and the domestic production of apples had fallen by two thirds. The consumer might just be happy to get a reasonably priced meal made up of foods from Thailand, Spain, Italy and Zambia, but we should also bear in mind the Influence on local producers.

Then theres packaging. Supermarkets like everything to be packed and wrapped so it can be piled neatly on shelves. Supermarkets produce nearly 10 million tons of waste packaging in the UK every year, of which less 5%is recycled. Some supermarkets make sure that large recycling bins are obvious in their car parks, showing that they are environment-friendly. But that is just an image.

When a new supermarket is planned there are claims about the number of new jobs that will be created. Unfortunately, the number of jobs lost in the area is larger than the number of new positions in the supermarket. On average each new supermarket leads to the loss of 276 jobs.

However, the modern world is all about shopping, and the freedom to buy whatever you what, so it would be impossible to stop people shopping at some particular kind of shop. But some measures do need to be taken when small suppliers lose profits, local producers suffer, sea levels rise and jobs are lost, anyway, we cant just care about a free car park and special offers.

1The author mentions “milk” in paragraph 2 to explain how supermarkets ____________.

A. cheat the taxpayers

B. support local dairy farmer

C. harm small suppliers ‘benefits

D .provide customers with the cheapest product

2According to the passage, supermarkets keep price advantage by_______________.

A. competing against each other

B. importing foreign products

C. purchasing local products

D. reducing product tax

3Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

CP: Central Point P:Point SP: Sub-point C:Conclusion

4What is the authors attitude towards supermarkets?

A. Critical B. Sympathetic C. Doubtful D. Cautious

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