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Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
【小题1】The best title for the passage would be______.
A.The pleasures of modern life | B.Touched by the moon |
C.A bottomless well of silence | D.Break away from modern life |
A.The nice moonlight | B.Complete silence. |
C.No modern equipment | D.The high mountains |
A.show that the writer likes city life very much |
B.tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life |
C.show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them |
D.explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature |
A.advise modern people to learn to live |
B.show the love for the moonlight |
C.express the feeling of returning to nature |
D.want to communicate longing for modern life |
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A close friend of mine lives with six hundred wildlife on the Greek Island of Kyklos. Ever since he left school(where I first knew him), he has travelled all over the world collecting animals for his very own zoo. He hoped to collect at least two examples of every kind of animal on his island, like Noah before the Great Flood. But the flood that my friend was afraid of, was a flood not of water, but of people, I expect you have heard of my friend, he writes books about his travells, and about the wild and wonderful animals that he collects. The money from the books helps to pay for all the food that these animals eat.
My friend told me that when he was out looking for water last week, (there is not enough water on the island, though there is plenty all round it), he found oil. He needs money for his travells, and for his zoo, and a little oil would buy enough water for a life-time, but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it, it will be the end of his zoo and his life’s work.
So, he will not tell anybody (but you and me) about what he found, because oil and water do not mix.
1.The writer got to know his friend ________.
[ ]
A.on the island where his friend’s zoo is
B.at the school where they studied
C.at a certain place while his friend was travelling
D.at the place where his friend found oil
2.My friend has travelled all over the world ________ for his zoo.
[ ]
3.Last week my friend ________.
[ ]
A.found plenty of oil all round the island
B.was looking for water but found oil instead
C.found enough water on his island to last a life-time
D.went out looking for a job
4.In this text,“oil and water do not mix.”means ________.
[ ]
A.you can’t sell oil for water
B.oil and water can’t be mixed together
C.if you want to get the oil, you will lose all animals
D.my friend doesn’t need oil but water
查看习题详情和答案>>Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people? Myself included? Usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
1.The best title for the passage would be______.
A. Touched by the moon B. The pleasures of modern life
C. A bottomless well of silence D. Break away from modern life
2. What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A. No modern equipment B. Complete silence.
C. The nice moonlight D. The high mountains
3.Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______.
A. show that the writer likes city life very much
B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life
C. explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature
D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them
4.The author wrote the passage to_______.
A. express the feeling of returning to nature
B. show the love for the moonlight
C. advise modern people to learn to live[来源:Z&xx&k.Com]
D. want to communicate longing for modern life
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While I studied at school, I felt great difficulty in learning my Latin translations. I was always very 36 in using a dictionary, and 37 it most difficult, while to other boys it seemed no 38 .
I formed an alliance(盟友) with a boy in the Sixth Grade. He was very clever and 39 read Latin as easily as English. My friend for his part was almost as 40 troubled by the English essays he had to write for the headmaster as I was 41 these Latin words. We agreed together that he should 42 me my Latin translations and that I should do his essays. The arrangement 43 wonderfully. The headmaster seemed quite 44 with my work, and I had more time to myself in the morning. On the other hand, once a week 45 I had to compose the essays of my friend. For several months no difficulty 46 , but once we were nearly caught out.
One afternoon, the headmaster 47 my friend to discuss one essay with him in a lively spirit. “I was interested in this 48 you make here. I think you might have gone further. Tell me 49 you had in your mind.” The headmaster continued in this 50 for some time to fear of my friend. However, the headmaster, not wishing to 51 an occasion of praise into 52 of fault-finding, finally 53 him go. He came back to me like a man who had had a very narrow 54 and I made up my mind to make every effort to study my 55 .
1.A. quick B. slow C. hard D. good
2.A. made B. got C. found D. left
3.A. trouble B. difference C. labor D. worry
4.A. might B. would C. should D. could
5.A. very B. little C. much D. few
6.A. for B. by C. in D. to
7.A. change B. take C. forgive D. tell
8.A. worked B. tried C. happened D. developed
9.A. angry B. satisfied C. frightened D. sad
10.A. or so B. or else C. as usual D. as far
11.A. became B. seemed C. lay D. appeared
12.A. called B. taught C. arranged D. sent
13.A. aim B. goal C. point D. opinion
14.A. why B. how C. which D. what
15.A. excitement B. way C. meaning D. disappointment
16.A. turn B. leave C. grow D. become
17.A. none B. one C. either D. some
18.A. ordered B. asked C. took D. let
19.A. surprise B. escape C. hope D. chance
20.A. reading B. writing C. translations D. essays
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