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Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go in to their offices or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to get up early in the morning and reach home late in the evening.
One advantage of living outside London is that houses are cheaper. Even a small flat in London without a garden costs quite a lot to rent. With the same money, one can get a little house in the country with a garden of one’s own.
Then, in the country one can rest from the noise and hurry of the town. Even though one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep better at night and during weekends and on summer evenings, one can enjoy the fresh, clean air of the country. If one likes gardens, one can spend one’s free time digging, planting, watering and doing the hundred and one other jobs which are needed in a garden. Then, when the flowers and vegetables come up, one has the reward of one who has shared the secret of Nature.
Some people, however, take no interest in country things: for them, happiness lies in the town, with its cinemas and theatres, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance-halls and restaurants. Such people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live it outside London. An occasional walk in one of the parks and a fortnight’s (two weeks) visit to the sea every summer is all the country they want: the rest they are quite prepared to leave to those who are glad to get away from London every night.
1.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
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A.People who like country things prefer to live outside the city. |
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B.People who work in London prefer to live in the country. |
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C.Because of certain disadvantages of living outside London, some people who work in London prefer to live inside London. |
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D.Because of certain advantages of living outside London, many people who work in London prefer to live outside London. |
2.One can use the same money for ________ to buy a little house with a garden in the country.
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A.getting a small flat with a garden |
B.having a small flat with a garden |
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C.renting a small flat without a garden |
D.buying a small flat without a garden |
3.When the flowers and vegetables in the garden come up, those _______ have the reward of one who has shared the secret of Nature.
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A.who live in the country |
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B.who have spent time working in the garden |
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C.who have a garden of their own |
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D.who have been digging, planting and watering |
4.People who think happiness lies in the town would feel that _______ if they had to live it outside London.
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A.their life was meaningless |
B.their life was invaluable |
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C.they didn’t deserve a happy life |
D.they were not worthy of their happy life |
5.The underlined word rest in the last paragraph refers to ________.
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A.the rest time |
B.the rest people |
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C.the rest of the country |
D.the rest of the parks and of the sea |
6.C。推断题。根据其上文:这些人偶尔去公园散散步后去海边度两周假;本句接着说:其余的就留给那些每天晚上喜欢离开伦敦的人,那么,“其余的”显然指“其余的乡村”。从而可推知题
查看习题详情和答案>>根据短文内容,从下框的A---F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。
Bill,Emy,Ben,Brigitte和Susan五个人想购买杂志。阅读下面六本杂志(A、B、C、D、E和F ) 的介绍,选出符合各人需要的最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余选项。
注意: 该题要求做在答题卡上。选择E,则涂黑A+B, 选择F,则涂黑A+C
【小题1】Bill travels a lot when he was younger.Now that he has stopped his work,he enjoys reading about foreign people,places and customs even if he has already visited that part of the world.
【小题2】
Emy is a university student studying Italian and Politics.She doesn’t have much time to read anything very detailed but she is looking for something with plenty of news and information.
【小题3】Ben serves as an assistant to the general manager of an American company in Los Angeles.He is very interested in management and the use of high technology.
【小题4】
Up till now Brigitte has never traveled far so this year she has decided to go abroad for the first time.The travel agent suggests that she should read about various countries first before choosing her holiday.
【小题5】Susan likes shopping.She is interested in buying clothes and she needs to be offered advice on clothes.
| A.Discover News magazine of science devoted to the wonders and stories of modem science,written for the educated general reader.Published by Disney Magazine Publishing CO.,Discover tells many of the same stories profession |
| B.World Travel This weekly magazine can bring the world to your home.Have you ever wondered what the Chinese eat for breakfast? Did you know that the Sahara Desert is getting bigger every year? This fascinating magazine,full of color photographs,is your window to the world. |
| C.Self Published by Conde Nast Publications Inc.,Self is a handbook devoted to women’s overall physical and mental health.Every issue contains usable articles such as “Style Lab”.in which wearable clothes are mixed and matched on non—models and the “Eat—Right Road Map”.with tips on how to eat properly. |
| D.Foreign Parts |
E.Wired
This magazine is designed for leaders in the field of information engineering including top managers and professionals in the computer,business,design and education industries.Published by Conde Nast Publications Inc,Wired often carries articles on how technology changes people’s lives.
F.Europe News
The weekly magazine keeps you in touch with what’s happening.Filled with facts and figures about almost everything you can think of, plus articles by our regular writers on the week’s most interesting news stories.Special back page sums up the news for the busy readers. 查看习题详情和答案>>
No satisfactory way exists to explain how to form a good idea. You think about a problem until you're tired, forget it, maybe sleep on it, and then flash! When you aren't thinking about it, suddenly the answer arrives as a gift from the gods.
Of course, all ideas don't occur like that but so many do, particularly the most important ones. They burst into the mind, glowing with the heat of creation. How they do it is a mystery but they must come from somewhere. Let's assume they come from the "unconscious." This is reasonable, for psychologists use this term to describe mental processes which are unknown to the individual. Creative thought depends on what was unknown becoming known.
All of us have experienced this sudden arrival of a new idea, but it is easiest to examine it in the great creative personalities, many of whom experienced it in an intensified form and have written it down in their life stories and letters. One can draw examples from genius in any field, from religion, philosophy, and literature to art and music, even in mathematics, science, and technical invention, although these are often thought to depend only on logic and experiment. All truly creative activities depend in some degree on these signals from the unconscious, and the more highly insightful the person is, the sharper and more dramatic the signals become.
A type of creative experience is illustrated by the dreams which came to Descartes at the age of twenty-three and determined his life path. Descartes had unsuccessfully searched for certainty, first in the world of books, and then in the world of men. Then in a dream on November 10, 1619, he made the significant discovery that he could only find certainty in his own thoughts, cogito ergo sum ("I think; therefore, I exist"). This dream filled him with intense religious enthusiasm.
Descartes' experience is representative of countless others in every field of culture. The unconscious is certainly the source of instinctive activity. But in creative thought the unconscious is responsible for the production of new organized forms from relatively disorganized elements.
【小题1】Good ideas come from ________according to the writer.
| A.the unconscious | B.creative activities | C.dreams | D.logic and experiments |
| A.philosophy, music, mathematics and science |
| B.religion, philosophy, literature, art and music |
| C.mathematics, science, and technical invention |
| D.both B and C |
| A.Dreams are the sources of instinctive activities. |
| B.Dreams sometimes contribute to important discoveries. |
| C.Geniuses have creative thoughts in their dreams. |
| D.Important discoveries are always made in dreams. |
| A.The Unknown Becoming Known | B.The Role of Dreams |
| C.The Unconscious and Creative Activities | D.Birth of Bright Ideas |
In China, many people are leaving the countryside to find jobs in the cities, because the countryside is much poorer than the city, and often there isn't much work there. Services such as hospital and transport are usually much better in the city than in the countryside. They hope that their lives will improve when they move to the city.
But in the big cities of Europe like London or Paris, people are moving out of the city. These rich families want to live a quieter life. They are tired of the noise and the dirt of the city, and they are tired of the crowded streets, crowded trains and buses. They don't want to live in the cities any more. They want a house with a garden in the countryside, and breathe the fresh air there.
So they move out of the cities. Some don't go very far, just a little way out of the city, to the towns near the cities, other people move to the real countryside with sheep, cows and green fields. There, they start new lives and try to make new friends.
Not all those who move from the city to the countryside are happy. After two or three years, many people who have done this feel that it was a big mistake. They don't make so much money and there isn't much work to do. People in the countryside are very different and aren't always very friendly.
As a result, quite a lot of people who have moved to the countryside move back to the city. “It’s wonderful to see crowds in the streets and cinema lights,” they say.
【小题1】Which is NOT the reason for people moving to the cities in China?
| A.The countryside is much poorer than me city. |
| B.People in the countryside have nothing to eat. |
| C.People in the countryside don't have much work to do there. |
| D.Services in cities are usually much better than those in the countryside. |
| A.Because they will find good jobs. |
| B.Because they are tired of living in the city. |
| C.Because they can make more money there. |
| D.Because they like feeding sheep and cows in the green fields. |
| A.they can’t make much money |
| B.there isn’t much work for them to do in the countryside |
| C.some people in the countryside aren’t always very friendly to them |
| D.A, B and C |
| A.they are happy to move back to the city |
| B.they will miss their friends in the countryside |
| C.they still want to move to the countryside |
| D.they are tired of the noise and the crowded streets in the city |
| A.A happy life! | B.Living in the city! |
| C.Moving out or moving back? | D.Living in the countryside! |
“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped outside the house. There was full of thick smoke.
I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see fire all around. The floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.
I saw a doorway in fire, then I put the bundle over my face and ran. My feet burned me terrible, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I was in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running madly.
She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.
【小题1】When the fire arose in the middle of the night, the author was _______.
| A.at home | B.sleeping | C.sitting in bed | D.both A and B |
| A.because he was very brave. |
| B.because he liked the baby very much. |
| C.but he just happened to save it. |
| D.because it was the Mayor’s baby. |
| A.was a stranger there | B.could see nothing |
| C.was not completely awake | D.Both A and C |
| A.save the baby | B.call for help |
| C.protect his face | D.run quickly |
| A.old and wooden house, a bundle |
| B.crashed to, fell down |
| C.terrible, half-awake |
| D.bare feet, a borrowed man’s coat |