题目内容

【题目】

(2014重庆)

Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May 27,1907.Her mother,Maria Carson,had been a schoolteacher.She loved books.She also loved nature.She showed Rachel the beauty of nature.She also taught Rachel a deep love for books.As a quiet child,Rachel liked to read and write stories.At a very early age,she decided she wanted to be a writer some day.Her story first appeared in a children’s magazine when she was ten years old.

Her first book.Under the Sea Wind came out in 1941.In 1948,Miss Carson began working on another book,The Sea Around Us.She always researched carefully when she wrote.She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us.When the book came out in 1951,it won the National Book Award.It was No.1 on the best-seller list for more than a year.The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous.

Rachel Carson’s most famous book,Silent Spring came out in 1962.In this book,she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides(杀虫剂)like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline because it would kill them as well.Finally,in November 1969,the United States government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years.

Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist(环保主义者)and writerShe will be remembered by the world.

1Rachel Carson had a deep love for nature and books because of________.

A.her father

B.her mother

C.her sChool teacher

D.her brother

2Rachel decided that she wanted to be a writer when________.

A.she was very young

B.she was in college

C.she became aspan> teacher

D.she became famous

3The Chinese meaning of the word“decline”in this passage is probably“________”.

A.增加

B.减少

C.维持

D.翻番

4Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Rachel Carson was a careful and serious writer

B.The Sea Around Us won the National Book Award.

C.In Silent Spring Rachel said some pesticides were bad for the environment.

D.The use of DDT was stopped as soon as the book Silent Spring came out.

B

【答案】

1B

2A

3B

4D

【解析】

【1】细节理解题。由第一段第二至第六句可知。

【2】细节理解题。由第一段中的At a very early age…可知。

【3】词义猜测题。由第三段中的because it would kill them as well可知答案为B。

4推理判断题。由第三段第一句和最后一句可知,在书出版几年之后政府才决定禁止使用DDT。

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【1】Tom passed the shop______.

A.on foot B.by bus C.by bike D.in a car

【2】Why did Tom stop in front of the shop? Because he wanted______.

A.to buy the shoes

B.to look at the shoes he liked

C.to look at the shoes in the shop window

D.to look at the shoes on the front row

【3】The pair of shoes he liked was ______.

A.too expensive B.quite cheap

C.not there D.not sold yet

【4】Tom went into the park because he______.

A.was thinking how to tell his mother about it

B.wanted to see the boy

C.didn't want to make his mother worried

D.he felt sad

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A.liked new shoes very much

B.loved his mother best

C.didn't want to go to school

D.didn't want to stay at home

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