题目内容
The long journey is ________ for the old man.
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解析: too many (太多) 和so many (这么多) 都用来修饰可数名词复数,题干中空格后并没有名词复数,故排除C、D两项。much too用来修饰形容词或副词,而空格后为介词短语,故再排除A项。B项too much有“过分”之意,常用“be too much for sb”这一结构,表示某事是某人在精神上、体力上或经济上所无法承受的。句意为:这老人无法承受这样的长途旅行。故选B。 |
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Basketball is still a young game. It is not yet a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having trouble with its boy students. The weather was so terrible that the students had to stay indoors
(室内). Since they could not enjoy their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into fights from time to time.Finally, one of the teachers at the college, J. E. Naismith, was asked to invent a new game for the students. It was not an easy job because such a game had to be played indoors, and the court
(场地)was not very large.Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make a score
(得分), the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet high above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Naismith had planned(计划)to have the ball thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name.(1) Basketball is __________ some of the other ball games.
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A .as old as |
B .not as old as |
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C .older than |
D .the oldest in |
(2) In fact, it has just a history of a little _____________.
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A .less than two hundred years |
B .more than a hundred years |
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C .less than a century |
D .not any more than a century |
(3) ____________ today, basketball was invented as an indoor game at first.
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A
.Though it's often played outsideB
.Because it's often played outsideC
.Since it's always played outsideD
.Although it's never played inside(4) Naismith had thought of using a box in the game, yet he gave up the idea before long and fixed something different---- ____________ ----on the wall.
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A .the wall |
B .a kind of ball game |
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C .a fruit basket |
D .the basketball team |
(5) Indeed the name of the new game ____________ what the ball should be thrown into in a match.
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A
.had nothing to do withB
.had something not much to do withC
.had a few things to doD
.had something to do with
J.K. Rowling is the writer of Harry Potter, which is now one of the bestsellers in the world.
J.K. Rowling was born in Bristol on July 31st, 1965. She has one sister who is two years younger than her. Both girls loved listening to their father reading bedtime stories to them. They especially loved stories about magical worlds. Rowling wrote her first story, called Rabbit, at the age of six.
After she graduated from the university, Rowling worked as a translator (翻译者) in London. During this time, on a long train trip in the summer of 1990, the idea came to her of a boy who has magic but doesn’t know it. In 1992 Rowling began to teach English. She lived with her baby daughter, Jessica, and spent much time finishing the first Harry Potter book for young readers. It appeared in June 1997. To her surprise, the book was greatly successful. The film came out in November 2001. Now Harry Potter series (系列) is popular with people of all ages and about 60 million books were sold in 200 countries.
Why has the series been so successful? There are a few things. Many other magical stories take place in faraway lands or in past or future times. But Harry lives in modern (现代的) England. He’s also a very normal (平常的) boy: polite, friendly, brave and clever. So when other children read about Harry, they can imagine being like him.
J.K. Rowling is very happy with the success, and she is now busy finishing the whole series of seven books. She’s writing full time and she’s really enjoying life. She says she will go on living a normal life with her daughter and writing children’s books.
【小题1】From the passage, we know ___________.
| A.J.K. Rowling met a boy named Harry on a long train trip |
| B.J.K. Rowling loved listening to stories when she was very young |
| C.J.K. Rowling is two years younger than her sister |
| D.Harry Potter is J.K. Rowling’s first story |
| A.written for young people |
| B.only enjoyed by children |
| C.only sold in England |
| D.about a young inspector |
| A.likes to travel all over the world with her daughter |
| B.is too busy to enjoy her life |
| C.is excited about her success every day |
| D.is still writing stories for children |
| A.There are magical things. |
| B.The stories happened in the modern world. |
| C.It has seven books. |
| D.It took much time to finish. |