题目内容
Soon there is enough force to lift the plane ___ the ground.
A. off B. of C. up D. out
A
阅读理解
The easy way out isn't always easiest . I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug , my husband of one month , to a special meal . I glanced through my cookbook and chose a menu(菜谱) which included homemade bread . Knowing the bread would take time , I started on it as soon as Doug left for work . As I was not experienced in cooking , I thought if a dozen was good , two dozens would be better , so I doubled(加倍)everything . As Doug loved oranges , I also opened a can of orange and poured it all into the bowl . Soon there was a sticky dough (面团) covered with ugly yellowish marks . Realizing I had been defeated , I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so I wouldn't have to face Doug laughing at my work , I went on preparing the rest of the meal , and , when Doug got home , we sat down to eat Cornish chicken with rice . He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed disturbed . Twice he got up and went outside , saying he thought he heard a noise . The third time he left , I went to the windows to see what he was doing . Looking out , I saw Doug standing about three feet from the rubbish bin , holding the lid up with a stick and looking into the container . When I came out of the house , he dropped the stick and explained that there was something alive in our rubbish bin . Picking up the stick again , he held the lid up enough for me to see . I felt cold . But I stepped closer and l
ooked harder . Without doubt it was my work . The hot sun had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast (酵母)made the surface shake and sigh as though it were breathing .It looked like some unknown being from outer space. I could see why Doug was so shaken. I had to admit what the 'living thing” was and why it was there . I don't know who was more embarrassed(尴尬)by the whole thing - Doug or me.
【小题1】The writer's purpose in writing this story is ___________
| A.to tell an interesting experience |
| B.to show the easiest way out of a difficulty |
| C.to describe the trouble facing a newly married woman |
| D.to explain the difficulty of learning to cook from books |
| A.The canned orange had gone bad. |
| B.She didn't use the right kind of flour. |
| C.The cookbook was hard to understand. |
| D.She did not fo |
| A.She didn't see the use of keeping it |
| B.She meant to joke with her husband. |
| C.She didn't want her husband to see it . |
| D.She hoped it would soon dry in the sun. |
| A.The rising and falling movement. |
| B.The strange-looking marks. |
| C.Its shape. |
| D.Its size. |
| A.surprised at his being interested in the bin |
| B.afraid that he would discover her secret |
| C.unhappy that he didn't enjoy the meal |
| D.curious to know what disturbed him |
As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend’s house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods, ” with a tone(语气) of airy acceptance. It’s similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk.” For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.
We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring(探索). Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Italian burial mound.
Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly----tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence(青春期). In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that were really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.
【小题1】The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to _______.
| A.spend their free time | B.play gold and other sports |
| C.avoid doing their schoolwork | D.keep away from their parents |
| A.The activities in the woods were well planned. |
| B.Human history is not the result of exploration. |
| C.Exploration should be a systematic activity. |
| D.The author explored in the woods aimlessly. |
| A.calm | B.doubtful | C.serious | D.optimistic |
| A.Happy but short. | B.Lonely but memorable. |
| C.Boring and meaningless. | D.Long and unforgettable. |