题目内容
We need trees because they ________ CO2 and let out O2.
- A.take off
- B.take in
- C.take out
- D.take away
take in 吸收, take off会议取消, take out取出, take away拿走。
When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never invited us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and wanted to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow(浅的)roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important.
So he never watered his trees. He’d planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They’re very big and strong now. I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them for whole summer.
After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray(祈祷)that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There’s always cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won’t be beaten down.
【小题1】We know from the passage the doctor .
| A.didn’t know how to plant trees at all |
| B.wasn’t good at his own medical job |
| C.had his own ways of planting trees |
| D.had nothing to do but plant trees |
| A.some weak trees would be easily found out at the beginning |
| B.he would choose the weak trees to water earlier |
| C.the weak trees would be sent to his patients later |
| D.he would not plant weak trees so early anymore |
| A.should beat his trees with a rolled-up newspaper |
| B.didn’t often water his trees |
| C.didn’t have a large field |
| D.took too much care of his trees |
| A.Watering trees |
| B.Growing roots |
| C.Doctor and his neighbor |
| D.Father and his children |
Lana: I read a report. It said that Dr. Ian Wilmut successfully cloned a lamb* named Dolly from a grown-up sheep. So people call him the “father” of Dolly.
Tony: In fact, the word “clone” means to produce the “same” animal by taking cells* from a
grown-up one. I think, if we know how to do cloning, we need only to keep a small number
of sheep, cows or horses.
Lana: What’s more, these days some people even want to clone humans. They have asked: Can we
clone ourselves?
Tony: It seems interesting. But do you think it possible to do that?
Lana: No, impossible! First, I think we cannot clone a dead person, because the cells in his body are dead already.
Tony: Then can we clone a living person?
Lana: Again no! You might clone yourself one after another, but it is only a copy, not a real you. It is only something, not a “human”.
Tony: Well, you mean that it is not a real human.
Lana: True enough! I think Dr. Wilmut would most like to make better animals, and it has nothing to do with human cloning.
【小题1】The word “clone” means_________________.
A. 复制 B 克隆 C 抄袭 D 制造
【小题2】Dolly was the name of _______.
A. the father of a sheep B. a famous scientist
C. . a grown-up sheep D a sheep that was cloned
【小题3】Lana says Dr. Ian Wilmut is the “father” of Dolly. Here, she means __________.
| A.Dr. Ian Wilmut was the first man to clone a sheep in his lab |
| B.Dr. Ian Wilmut gave Dolly a new life |
| C.Dr. Ian Wilmut took care of Dolly like a father |
| D.Dr. Ian Wilmut has a daughter whose name is Dolly |
A a tree B a person C an elephant D an orange
【小题5】According to the conversation, we know about .
| A.Scientists have successfully cloned humans. |
| B.Dr. Wilmut likes to do human cloning. |
| C.Cloned animals are better than humans. |
| D.Lana doesn’t think humans shouldn’t be cloned. |
Look at the paper in the picture carefully. Is there anything different from your notebook paper? This kind of paper feels as soft as your notebook paper. It’s also easy to write on. But do you know, this kind of paper is made from stone?
As we know, stone is easy to get on the earth, so it’s cheap. And the stone paper is about 20% to 30% cheaper than ordinary paper. The stone paper causes little pollution and helps protect the environment, because it makes tree and water free. The following table shows what is needed to make one ton of stone paper and one ton of ordinary paper.
| Ingredients (成份) One ton of | Trees | Water | Bleach (漂白剂) | Stone | Additives (添加剂) |
| Stone paper | No | No | No | 0.8 ton | 0.2 ton |
| Ordinary paper | 5 tons | 72 M3 | Yes | 0.2-0.3 ton | 0 |
Now in Beijing, some students begin to use stone paper to do their homework. And during the two sessions (两会) in 2011, stone paper was also used.
【小题1】Stone paper is ______________.
| A.cheap | B.difficult to write on | C.not soft | D.bad |
| A.0.8 | B.0.3 | C. 0.2 | D.0.25 |
| A.All the students | B.Some students | C.Many students | D.Nobody |
Bob was cutting a branch(树枝) off a tree in his garden. While he was sawing(锯), another man passed in the street. He stopped and said, “ Excuse me, but if you continue (继续)to saw(锯) that branch like that, you will fall down with it.” He said this because Bob was sitting on the branch and cutting it at a place between himself and the trunk(树干) of the tree.
Bob said nothing. He thought, “ This is some foolish(愚笨的) person who has no work to do and goes about telling other people what to do and what not to do.”
The man continued on his way. Of course, after a few minutes. The branch fell and Bob fell with it.
“My God!” he cried. “That man knows the future!” and he ran after him to ask how long he was going to live. But the man had gone.
1.One day Bob was cutting a branch_______a tree in his garden.
|
A.on |
B.in |
C.at |
D.off |
2.While Bob was sawing, another man_______.
|
A.told him to stop working |
B.told him he would fall down |
|
C.would borrow something from him |
D.would help him saw that branch |
3.After hearing the man’s words, Bob thought that________.
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A.that was a foolish person. |
B.that was a wise person |
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C.that was a proud person |
D.that fellow cheated him |
4.What happened to Bob after a few minutes?
A. The branch fell. B. Bob fell down to the ground.
C. Bob was hurt himself. D. Both A and B.
5.This story is about ________.
|
A.a foolish man |
B.a wise man |
C.cutting a tree |
D.that we need to take good advice |