题目内容
--- Who dares to go ? How about you ?
--- Sorry , I ______.
- A.dare not to go
- B.don''t dare to
- C.don''t dare
- D.dare not to
dare 可作情态动词或行为动词。要注意问和答的一致性。且否定回答时如果上句用了动词不定式,回答时要带to。
Man has always wanted to fly. Some of the greatest men in history have thought about the problem. One of these, for example, was the great Italian artist, Leonardo da Vinci. In the sixteenth century he made designs for machines that could fly. But they were never built.,
Throughout history, other less famous men have wanted to fly. An example was a man in England 800years ago. He made a pair of wings from chicken feathers. Then he fixed them to his body and jumped into the air from a tall building. He did not fly very far. He fell to the ground and broke every bone in his body.
The first real step took place in France in 1783. Two brothers, the Mongolfiers, made a very large “hot air balloon”. They knew that hot air rises. Why not fill a balloon with it? The balloon was made of cloth and paper. In September of that year, the King and Queen of France came to see the balloon. They watched it carry the very first air passengers into the sky. The passengers were a sheep and a chicken. We do not know how they felt about the trip. But we do know that the trip lasted 8 minutes and that the animals landed safely. Two months later, two men did the same thing. They rose above Paris in a balloon of the same kind. Their trip lasted twenty-five minutes and they traveled about 8 kilometers.
【小题1】 Leonardo da Vinci .
| A.said that man would fly in the sky one day |
| B.built a kind of machine which never flew |
| C.drew many beautiful pictures of the birds |
| D.made designs of flying machines |
| A.made a kind of flying machine |
| B.tried to fly with wings made of chicken feathers |
| C.wanted to build a kind of balloon |
| D.tried to fly on a large bird |
| A.lost his life | B.flew only 8 minutes |
| C.was not wounded | D.succeeded in flying |
| A.the King and Queen | B.two Frenchmen |
| C.two animals | D.the Mongolfiers |
She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last forever. But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa.
The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre museum(卢浮宫博物馆)where it is housed.
“The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has changed shape since experts checked it two years ago,” the museum said. Visitors have noticed the changes but repairing the world’s most famous painting is not easy. Experts are not sure about the materials the Italian artist used and their current chemical state.
Nearly 6 million people go to see the Mona Lisa every year, many attracted by the mystery of her smile. “It is very interesting that when you’re not looking at her, she seems to be smiling, and then you look at her and she stops,” said Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University. “It’s because direct vision(视觉)is excellent at picking up detail, but less suited to looking at shadows. Da Vinci painted the smile in shadows.”
However, the actual history of the Mona Lisa is just as mysterious as the smile. Da Vinci himself loved it so much that he always carried it with him, until it was eventually sold to France’s King Francis I in 1519.
In 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre by a former employee, who took it out of the museum hidden under his coat. He said he planned to return it to Italy. The painting was sent back to France two years later.
During World War II, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces.
Like many old ladies, the Mona Lisa has some interesting stories to tell.
1. The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means the Mona Lisa ________.
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A.is losing its value |
B.is being damaged after so many years |
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C.is getting more valuable with years passing |
D.will rot away |
2. Experts haven’t any repairs on the Mona Lisa because______.
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A.it is now in a poor chemical state 2. |
B.they don’t know how to replace the wooden panel 3. |
C.they don’t have the materials Da Vinci used 4. |
D.they are afraid it will be done further damage. |
3.The smile of the Mona Lisa can only be seen_______.
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A.by indirect vision |
B.at a distance |
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C.by direct vision |
D.in shadows |
4. From the last paragraph, we can infer that______.
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A.many interesting stories have been written about the Mona Lisa |
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B.people are interested in the stories about the Mona Lisa. |
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C.some mysteries still remain to be solved about the Mona Lisa. |
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D.Many more stories will be told about the Mona Lisa. |