C

Like many people ,I have no clear idea about heroes . A t some point , we all wonder if we need a hero and what a hero really is.

Although there are a lot of differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics (特点) which give us courage  and make us want to learn from them.

A hero does something worth (值) talking about, A hero has a special story to tell and people think highly of it. But a hero is not just person with great fame (声誉).

A hero has power(力量) larger than himself . Some people want to live like a hero. And they have to experience life with new and further meaning .A sure test for would- be heroes is what or whom they serve. What do they want to live and die for? If their answer suggests they serve only own fames, they may be famous persons but not heroes.

A hero has a vision from the mountain top .He has the power to move people . He creates new possibility. Without Gandhi, India might still be part of Britain, Without Martin Luther King .Jr, Americans might take different parks , and shop in different stores of the different colors of their skins.

There might be changes in society without a hero, but the speed of the change would be rather slow . Thanks to heroes in history ,they make the society develop so rapidly.

1.` According to this passage , a hero is a person who always ____

A.gives us courage

B.thinks highly of others

C.shares great fames

D.stands on the mountain top

2. I f you want to live like a hero , you should ____|

A.experience a new and meaningful life

B.listen to something worth talking about

C.serve your own fame and try to be famous

D.know where and how you want to live and die

3. The underlined word” vision” in the passage means____

A.风景

B.想象

C.远见

D.形象

4. Black people in American used to ___ before Martin Luther King Jr.

A.shop at the white’s store

B.drive buses with the white

C.take walks in the white’s park

D.eat in restaurants without the white

5. What can we learn from the passage ?

A.we don’t need heroes anymore at some point now

B.heroes are all the same though different in culture

C.people get power from heroes to move to a new place

D.our society has developed faster because of heroes in history.

 

 

APRIL 5 marks the 100th anniversary(周年纪念日)of the sinking(下沉)of the Titanic. In 1997, the movie Titanic was a huge hit all around the world. Now, the 3-D version of the movie will come to Chinese theaters on April 10.

As anyone who has seen the movie knows, the Titanic struck an iceberg(冰山) and sank on its first voyage in 1912, killing 1,517 people. A century after the accident, scientists have found something new to blame(负责任) for the sinking: the moon. Donald Olson, a Texas State University physicist, led a team of astronomers(天文学家) to examine the moon’s role, according to Reuters.

Normally, icebergs stay in place and cannot move until they melt enough or a high tide(潮汐) frees them. A single iceberg can become stuck many times on its journey southward. The process can take several years.

According to Olson, a hundred years ago the moon made its closest approach to the Earth in more than 1,400 years. This caused the moon to have a much stronger pull on the Earth’s oceans than usual, which created a super-high tide. The tide pushed icebergs from shallow waters off the coasts of Canada’s provinces, Newfoundland and Labrador, into the Titanic’s way.

“Of course, the final cause of the accident was that the ship struck an iceberg,” Olson told Reuters. “It went full speed into a region with icebergs, but the lunar connection(月亮的联系) may explain how an unusually large number of icebergs got into the path of the Titanic.”

The research team will publish their research in the April issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.

根据短文内容,选最佳择答案,并在答题卡上按要求作答。

1. How many people lost their lives in this accident?

A . Over 2,000 people.            B. About 100 people.  

C. More than 1,500 people.        D. We don’t know.

2. The underlined word “voyage” in the second paragraph really means ______.

A. 航行         B. 飞行       C. 划船      D.游泳

3. Which of the following about icebergs is TRUE?

A. Icebergs move only when the tide frees them.

B. An iceberg can stop for some time during its travel.

C. An iceberg will move as soon as its melts.

D. It takes an iceberg several months to leave its place.

4. Which of the following played a role in the sinking of the Titanic?

      a. the moon                 b. the tides             c. too many passengers 

d. the high speed of the ship    e. going the wrong way   f. the iceberg 

      A. a,b,c,f    B. a,c,d,e    C. a,b,d,f     D.a,c,e,f

5.. What is the article mainly about?

A. The main cause of the Titanic’s sinking.

B. The 100th anniversary of the Titanic.

C. The moon’s great influence on the Earth’s tides.

D. The moon’s role in the sinking of the Titanic.

 

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