题目内容
( )103. —Do you know the differences ________ the three words? --Sorry, I don’t know.
A. among B. between C. with D. about
B
One morning, Charley, a little green frog, was sitting in a pond(池塘) by the side of the road.
Wanda, the neighborhood witch(女巫), was walking along the road. She was a good witch and dreamt to become a fairy godmother who can save people from trouble with magic powers. Wanda had been learning fairy godmother magic for 103 years. That morning, she decided to try the magic she had learned and bring happiness to others.
Seeing Wanda, Charley cried, “Hi, Wanda.”
“Hi, Charley,” replied Wanda, “I have a surprise for you.”
Then, Wanda waved her wand(魔杖), said a magic word, and Charley turned into a prince!
When Charley-turned-prince looked at himself in the water, he cried, “Hey! You turned me into a prince! It’s a surprise all right, but I don’t want to be a prince! Change me back right now!”
“Oh, dear,” Wanda said. “you shouted so loud that I forgot the way to change you back. But who wouldn’t rather be a prince?”
“I wouldn’t!” cried Charley. “I want to be a frog!” He stuck out his tongue, missing a bug (虫子) flying by the end of his nose. “Look at that, Wanda! I was a good fly catcher. But now, this tongue is too short! Please change me back!”
“I can’t, Charley. But you’ll learn to be happy as a prince.” She waved her wand, and suddenly a castle appeared. Out of the castle dozens of musicians were playing various instruments. “Charley! You’ll have servants, eat delicious foods, and you can sing and dance and snap fingers(弹响指).”
“No!” Charley interrupted.(打断) “I don’t want all these! I want bugs!” Charley cried. “I don’t want to sing and dance! And why would I do something as silly as snapping my fingers?”
“Snapping fingers!” cried out Wanda. “That’s what I forgot!” She snapped her fingers, cried “Upsi-doodle!” and the castle and musicians disappeared and the prince became a little green frog.”
Charley looked at himself in the water. “ You did it, Wanda. Oh, happy day! I’m a frog.”
“I must apologize, Charley,” Wanda said, “you are a happy frog. I should know this a moment ago.”
1.Wanda turned Charley from a frog into a prince
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A.of her own will |
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B.to play a joke on him |
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C.at the request of charley |
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D.to teach Charley a lesson |
2. After the little green frog became a prince, he .
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A.was grateful to Wanda |
B.Wanted a great palace |
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C.couldn’t recognize Wanda |
D.became angry with Wanda |
3. The underlined part “You did it” in the passage means “ “.
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A.You gave me a surprise |
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B.You turned me back into a frog |
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C.You turned me into a prince |
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D.You understood what I meant |
4. At the end of the story, Wanda probably felt .
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A.satisfied |
B.ashamed |
C.worried |
D.excited |
5.According to the passage, which of the following conclusions can we get?
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A.Just be yourself |
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B.Do nothing by halves |
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C.Helping others is a virtue |
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D.Where there is a will, there is a way |
Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher ( 哲学家 ) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?
No one had a ready answer, so Thales went on studying the earth around him, the sky and the stars. He saw so much water on earth and so much water falling from the sky as rain that he decided water must be the basic substance ( 物质 ) of the universe.
Other Greek thinkers became interested in this question. They suggested other answers. One said that because air lies around the earth, it must be air that makes up all things. Another said that fire, appearing in different forms, was the building block of the universe.
The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances. But the list is much more complicated than the Greeks realized. We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements ( 元素 )”.
1.Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, died when he was about _______________.
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A.94 years old |
B.106years old |
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C.40 years old |
D.46 years old |
2.The meaning of the underlined word “complicated” in the last paragraph is “ ____________”.
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A.not difficult |
B.not simple |
C.not famous |
D.not different |
3.After reading the passage, we can be sure that________________.
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A.nothing ever changes in the universe |
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B.Thales decided that the basic substance of the universe was air |
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C.the universe is made up of four different substances |
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D.the early Greek thinkers did much valuable work for the progress of science |