网址：http://m.1010jiajiao.com/timu3_id_2615016[举报]
Mrs. Clark moved to the small village when she was twenty-four. And she has lived there for thirty-nine years. She has a poor farm. She works hard on it, but she is often hungry. Her son Henry joined the army(参军) eight years ago and then found a job at a post office in London after he left the army.
One day, he wrote to his poor mother and asked her to go to the capital. The old woman was very happy when she received the letter. The next morning she started. Because it was the first time, her daughter took her to a small station and bought a ticket for her. A train came and she hurried to get on. Before long, a conductor came up to her and said, ‘Ticket, please.’ The old woman showed her ticket to the conductor. The man looked at it and said, ‘You must take a train to London. But it is a train to Manchester. I am afraid you’ve taken a wrong train.’ ‘Is it possible?’ Mrs. Clark said angrily, ‘I am sure it’s your driver’s fault (过错).
1.Mrs. Clark is __________ years old now.
A．twenty-four
B．thirty-nine
C．sixty-three
D．eighty
2.The old woman took a wrong train because _______________
|
A．she had never taken a train before. |
|
B．her daughter took her to a wrong train. |
|
C．she never visited Manchester and she wanted to go there. |
|
D．the driver is silly (愚蠢) and it was his fault. |
3.A ‘conductor’ means _________
|
A．司机 |
|
B．售票员 |
|
C．检票员 |
|
D．乘警 |
4.Which of the following is NOT true?
|
A．Mrs. Clark took a wrong train. |
|
B．The driver drove to a wrong place. |
|
C．Mrs. Clark’s daughter bought a right ticket for her mother. |
|
D．The conductor wanted to see Mrs. Clark’s ticket. |
查看习题详情和答案>>
Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three people wrote 63.To write six hundred and three, people wrote 63.The space between six and three was there to mean." not any "tens. Sometimes people did not remember the space. It was hard to see and read.
Later people used a dot to hold the space. Six hundred and three looked like this 6.3.But the dot was hard to see. So people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3.Then people could see the dot. They remembered the space. at last ,only the circle around the dot was used. It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero came to be used.
Now zero has many important uses .Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways of using zero?
1.Long,long ago people didn`t know how to ____.
A. write B write zero C. write numbers D. sixty-three
2.Long,longago if they wrote two hundred-eight ,people wrote_____.
A.28 B.2 8 C.228 D.208
3.Later ______ was used to mean space.
A. "not any" B.letter"0" C. zero D. a dot
4.People used circles _____________.
A. to remember ways B. to remember numbers
C. not to forget the space D. to mean nothing
5.The story tells us _____.
A. how zero came to be used
B. how to write zero
C. what`s the use of zero
D. that zero means a dot, a circle or space
查看习题详情和答案>>and three, people wrote 6 3. The space was there to mean "not any" tens. Sometimes people did not
remember the space. It was hard to see and to read.
Later people used a dot (点) to hold the space. Six hundred and three looked like this 6·3. But the dot
was hard to see.So people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3. Then people could see the dot. They
remembered the space.
At last,only the circle around the dot was used.It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero
came to be used.
Now zero has many important uses. Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways zero is
used?
根据以上短文内容，判断下列各句是否符合短文内容。符合短文内容的写“对”, 不符合的写“错”。
1. At first, zero was not used by people. ( )
The space between 6 and 3 was easy to see and to read. ( )
2. When people wrote eight hundred and nine, they would
put a cirle with a dot in it between 8 and 9. ( )
3. Zero came from the circle around the dot. ( )
4. Zero isn't useful in our life. ( )
Reading comprehension
If one looked down at the earth from a position above Europe, he would see land mainly--the continents of Europe and Asia and part of Africa.
But nearly seven-tenths of the earth's surface is covered by water. One ocean, the Pacific, has an area of 63 million square miles.
Many years ago, people thought that the land under all this water was flat. Now they know this is not so. There are as many mountains under the sea as there are on the land.
Scientists believe that in the early days of the earth's history the earth was a ball of burning gas. When this ball began to cool, clouds of water vapour hung in the sky. This vapour turned into rain, and for thousands of years this rain poured down onto the earth. The rain filled the hollows on the earth's surface and formed the oceans.
At first there was very little salt in the sea. The salt was brought to measure the age of the earth by measuring the amount of salt in the sea. Scientists can calculate how many years it took for this amount of salt to be carried from the land into the sea.
Choose the best answer:
(1) The world's oceans and seas occupy roughly ________.
[ ]
A
．thirty-seven million square milesB
．seven percent of the world's surfaceC
．sixty-three million square milesD
．thirty percent of the world's surface(2) Under the sea the land ________.
[ ]
A
．is flat over almost all its surfaceB
．is full of mountainsC
．is almost flat everywhereD
．is made up of as many mountains as above the sea(3) Scientists believe that at first the earth was ________.
[ ]
|
A ．flat |
B ．clouds of water vapour |
|
C ．a ball of burning gas |
D ．full of mountains |
(4) Scientists believe that the oceans were formed by ________.
[ ]
A
．Thousands of years of rainB
．the earth's riversC
．The cooling of the burning gas ________.D
．a mixture of water vapour and burning gas(5) Scientists can tell the age of the earth by ________.
[ ]
A
．calculating the amount of salt on the landB
．calculating the quantity of salt in the seaC
．calculating the amount of salt in the sea from the salt on the landD
．measuring the length of the rivers 查看习题详情和答案>>阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案
Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three, people wrote 63. To write six hundred and three, people wrote 6 3. The space between six and three was there to mean“not any”tens. Sometimes people did not remember the space. It was hard to see and read.
Later people used a dot to hold the space. Six hundred and three looked like this 6.3. But the dot was hard to see. So people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3. Then people could see the dot. They remembered the space at last, only the circle around the dot was used. It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero came to be used.
Now zero has many important uses. Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways of using zero?
1．Long, long ago people didn’t know how to ________.
[ ]
2．Long, long ago if they wrote two hundred and eight, people wrote________.
[ ]
3．Later ________ was used to mean space.
[ ]
4．People used circles ________.
[ ]
5．The story tells us ________.
[ ]
A．how Zero came to be used
B．how to write zero
C．what’s the use of zero
D．that zero means a dot, a circle or space
查看习题详情和答案>>