摘要:55.A.whispering B.laughing C.screaming D.crying 2005高考英语 When I was thirteen, my family moved from Boston to Tucson, Arizona. 36 the move, my father 37 us in the living-room on a freezing January night. My sisters and I sat around the fire, not 38 that the universe would suddenly change its course. "In May, we're 39 to Arizona." The words, so small, didn't seem 40 enough to hold my new life. But the world changed and I awoke on a tram moving across the country. I watched the 41 change from green trees to flat dusty plains to high mountains as I saw strange new plants that 42 mysteries yet to come. Finally, we arrived and 43 into own new home. 44 my older sisters were sad at the loss of friends, I 45 explored our new surroundings. One afternoon, I was out exploring 46 and saw a new kind of cactus. I crouched (蹲) down for a closer look. "You'd better not 47 that." I turned around to see an old woman "Are you new lo this neighborhood?" I explained that I was, 48 , new to the entire state. "My name is Ina Thorne. Have you got used to life in the 49 ? It must be quite a 50 after living in Boston." How could I explain how I 51 the desert? I couldn't seem to find the right words. "It's vastness," she offered. “That vastness 52 you stand on the mountains overlooking the desert -- you can 53 how little you are in comparison with the world. 54 , you feel that the possibilities are limitless. That was it. That was the feeling I'd bad ever since I'd first seen the mountains of my new home. Again, my 55 would change with just a few simple words. "Would you like to come to my home tomorrow? Someone should teach you which plant you should and shouldn't touch."

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Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he feats silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox (喋喋不休的人). He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure (蜡塑人像).

    The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子). But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbours.

    Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other peoples ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationists

 

 72. According to the author, people make conversation to ______

   A. exchange ideas             B. prove their value

   C. achieve success in life   D. overcome their fear of silence

 73. By "the buzzing of a fly" (Para. 1), the author means"________”

    A. the noise of an insect              B. a low whispering sound

    C. meaningless talks                   D. the voice of a chatterbox

74. According to the passage, people usually ______talk to their neighbors ______.

    A. about whatever they have prepared

    B. about whatever they want to

    C. in the hope of learning something new

    D. in the hope of getting on well

75. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage? ________.

     A. To discuss why people like talking about weather.

     B. To encourage people to join in conversations.

     C. To persuade people to stop making noises.

     D. To explain why people keep talking.

 

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Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest-headed chatterbox. He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure(蜡塑人像).
The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito(蚊子). But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take pert in the buzzing with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people’s ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conversationists.
72. According to the author, people make conversation to _________.
A. exchange ideas                                      B. prove their value
C. achieve success in life                                   D. overcome their fear of silence
73. By “the buzzing of a fly” (Para. 1),the author means “_________”.
A. the noise of an insect                             B. a low whispering sound
C. meaningless talks                                         D. the voice of a chatterbox
74. According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors _________.
A. about whatever they have prepared         B. about whatever they want to
C. in the hope of learning something new    D. in the hope of getting on well
75. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To discuss why people like talking about weather
B. To encourage people to join in conversations
C. To persuade people to stop making noises
D. To explain why people keep talking

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     You are near the front line of a battle . Around you shells are exploding ;people are shooting from a house behind you .What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier .You aren’t  36   carrying a gun .You’re standing in front of a    37  and you’re telling the TV   38  what is happening.

      It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter ,and it can be very    39  .In the first two years of the   40   in former Yugoslavia(前南斯拉夫),28 reporters and photographers were killed .Hundreds more were    41  . What kind of people put themselves in danger to   42   pictures to our TV screens and   43   to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?

      “I think it’s every young journalist’s   44   to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s   45   you find the excitement .So when the first opportunity comes, you take it    46   it is a war.”

       But there are moments of   47   . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes ,when you’re lying on the ground and bullets (子弹)are flying  48   your ears ,you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling   49   after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be   50   .”

       “None of us believes that we’re going to   51   ,” adds Michael. But he always 52   a lucky charm(护身符)with him .It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.”Does he ever think about dying?“Oh,   53  ,and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this ,I   54   I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God   55   , because you know he doesn’t believe you .”

36.A.simply             B.really                 C.merely               D.even

37.A.crowd              B.house                C.battlefield         D.camera

38.A.producers         B.viewers             C.directors           D.actors

39.A.dangerous         B.exciting             C.normal              D.disappointing

40.A.stay                 B.fight                   C.war                    D.life

41.A.injured            B.buried               C.defeated                D.saved

42.A.bring               B.show                 C.take                    D.make

43.A.scenes              B.passages              C.stories               D.contents

44.A.belief              B.dream                   C.duty                    D.faith

45.A.why                B.what                 C.how                    D.where

46.A.even so            B.ever since            C.as if                D.even if

47.A.fear                 B.surprise            C.shame               D.sadness

48.A.into                 B.around                  C.past                 D.through

49.A.returns             B.goes                  C.continues         D.occurs

50.A.there                B.away                 C.out                  D.home

51.A.leave               B.escape                  C.die                  D.remain

52.A.hangs               B.wears                   C.holds                D.carries

53.A.never               B.many times          C.some time               D.seldom

54.A.consider           B.accept               C.promise           D.guess

55.A.whispering       B.laughing               C.screaming        D.crying

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Silence is unnatural to man.He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness.In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else.Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence.If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox(喋喋不休的人).He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure(蜡塑人像).

The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子).But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing -with his neighbors.

Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.

1.According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors_____.

A.in the hope of learning something new

B.in the hope of getting on well

C.about whatever they have prepared

D.about whatever they want to

2.According to the author, people make conversation to______.

A.achieve success in life

B.exchange ideas

C.overcome their fear of silence

D.prove their value

3.What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A.To persuade people to stop making noises.

B.To explain why people keep talking.

C.To discuss why people like talking about weather.

D.To encourage people to join in conversations.

4.By "the buzzing of a fly"(Para.1), the author means"_____".

A.the voice of a chatterbox

B.meaningless talk sound

C.a low whispering

D.the noise of an insect

 

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     Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between be does all he can to make a noise in the world, and be fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and is number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards him- self as a failure ,a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest- headed chatterbox(喋喋不休的人).He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure(蜡塑人像).

The aim of conversation is not. For the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito(蚊子).But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.

     Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people’s ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening, during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time. They just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.

1.According to the author, people make conversation to               .

A. exchange ideas

B. prove their value

C. achieve success in life

D. overcome their fear of silence

2.By “the buzzing of a fly”(Para.1),the author means “              ”.

A. the noise of an insect

B. a low whispering sound

C. meaningless talks

D. the voice of a chatterbox

3.According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors          .

A. about whatever they have prepared

B. about whatever they want do

C. in the hope of learning something new

D. in the hope of getting on well

4.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A. To discuss why people like talking about weather.

B. To encourage people to join in conversations.

C. To persuade people to stop making noises.

D. To explain why people keep talking.

 

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