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 writer.She will be remembered by the world.
【1】Rachel Carson had a deep love for nature and books because of________.
A.her father
B.her mother
C.her sChool teacher
D.her brother
【2】Rachel 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
【3】The Chinese meaning of the word“decline”in this passage is probably“________”.
A.增加
B.减少
C.维持
D.翻番
【4】Which 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】
【1】B
【2】A
【3】B
【4】D
【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。
【题目】词语填空。用方框内所给单词的适当形式填空, 使短文通顺、正确、连贯(每个单词限用一次)。(10分)
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It is a fine day. My friend Liu Fang and 【1】 two boys ask me to go to the river behind our school. Soon we get there. They are now swimming in it, but I 【2】 _ swim. There are many __【3】 there.
Some are flying kites. Some are playing games. Others are 【4】 photos. They are __【5】 happily(高兴地). I’m sitting 【6】a tree with a little girl. She is playing 【7】 a ball. 【8】_ mother is reading not far away.
There are some nice flowers by the river. The girl goes to the 【9】 and wants to pick(摘)some, but she falls into(跌入)the water.
I call for help, but my friends can’t hear me. 【10】 I jump into the river. I don’t know how to swim, but I take the girl out of the water. When my friends know this, they say, “You can swim now.”