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The warm sunshine ____the coming of spring.

A. declares  B. announces C. predicts D. publishes

 

B

declare多指正式场合宣布官方的立场或态度,主语多为人或机构;predict意为“预测”,publish指以口头或印刷品的方式让群众知道,多指后者;announce除表示“宣布,宣告”之外,还可用于抽象意义,意思为“显示,预示”,主语为事物

 

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One winter evening, a storekeeper was going to close up his shop. Suddenly he saw Seth, a lazy, good-for-nothing fellow grab a pound of fresh butter and concealed it in his hat. No sooner had the storekeeper seen the act than he hit upon exactly the right revenge. He would punish the thief, and satisfy his own appetite for fun.

Seth had his hat on his head, and the butter in his hat. He was anxious to leave. However, the rightful owner of the butter offered him a cup of hot drink, took him by the shoulders and planted him in a seat close to the stove. The grocer stuffed in the stove as many sticks of wood as he could possibly fit inside.

Seth already could feel the butter settling down closer to his hair, so he jumped up, declaring that he must go. “Sit down; don’ t be in such a hurry,” replied the grocer, pushing him back into the chair again.

Streak after streak of the butter came pouring from under the poor man’s hat. The fun-loving grocer kept on stuffing wood into the stove. Then, as if surprised, he remarked, “You seem to be perspiring (排汗) as if you were warm! Let me put your hat away for you.”

“No!” exclaimed poor Seth at last, unable to stand it a moment longer. “No, I must go; let me out.”

A greasy (油腻的) waterfall of butter was now pouring down the poor man’s face and neck, soaking (浸泡) into his clothes, and trickling down his body into his boots. He was bathed in oil from head to toe.

Just as his victim darted out the door, the grocer said, “I reckon (估计) the fun I’ve had out of you is worth the money, so I shan’t charge you for that pound of butter in your hat.”

1.Why did Seth put the butter in his hat?

A. Because he just wanted to play a trick on the grocer.

B. Because he had nowhere to put the butter but in the hat.

C. Because he wanted to revenge himself on the grocer.

D. Because he didn’t want to pay for it.

2.What is not the action that the grocer took as a revenge?

A. The grocer offered Seth a cup of hot drink.

B. The grocer forced Seth to take a seat near the stove.

C. The grocer overcharged Seth for the butter.

D. The grocer offered to take off Seth’s hat.

3.What was the purpose of the grocer’s hospitality?

A. He wanted to make friends with Seth.

B. He wanted to be kind to him.

C. He wanted to take his revenge on Seth by making the butter in his hat melt.

D. He wanted to sell more of his goods.

4.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Great fun B. The right revenge C. A fun-loving grocer D. A foolish customer

It was early spring.The sun was strong and warm.I went over the hillside fields behind my village,__1__buntings and linnets,the birds I loved most.

I turned along a bush between two fields where I had seen the birds before,but on this fine day almost the first birds that I saw were winter visitors.I was__2__not to see a bunting straightaway,but I went on,stopping occasionally to look at the black-thorn (黑刺李) flowers in the bush,and ___3___I did hear a bunting singing.Or was it? Was I not perhaps turning a note of skylark (云雀) song into that of the song I was hoping to hear?

But the bunting's song was pretty clear,and within a few minutes I was proved___4__.The song was coming from the bush,and as I approached ___5__I saw the brown bird resting in a small tree.It opened its mouth,and__6__once more.Then it flew off.It was the only one I saw that day,but at least I had found one of the birds I had__7__.

It was not until I was on my way back home that I caught sight of some ___8__.I saw five of them gathering on the ground when I was just coming back beside the ___9__where I had found the bunting.As I came nearer,they flew up,spreading their tails so that their white edges ___10___ to look like a white fan in the sky.Then,to my___11__,some big pigeons suddenly came flying and joined the linnets.

A moment later they had all__12__ — but I had fulfilled my hopes for the day.

                  

1.A.looking at B.looking for C.looking up D.looking after

2.A.disappointed B.dismissed C.dissatisfied    D.disturbed

3.A.directly B.gradually  C.suddenly  D.immediately

4.A.proper  B.right C.useful     D.true

5.A.sadly   B.hurriedly  C.proudly    D.quietly

6.A.danced  B.ate C.sang D.shouted

7.A.observed B.noticed  C.expected D.described

8.A.linnets B.skylarks  C.pigeons  D.buntings

9.A.bush B.road  C.grass D.black-thorn

10.A.widened   B.enlarged C.lengthened D.expanded

11.A.knowledge B.pleasure C.amusement  D.honor

12. A.gathered   B.lost C.missed D.gone

Whales live in the ocean, but they are not fish. They are warm-blooded mammals and must have air to breathe. The babies are born alive and drink milk from the mother's body. It took millions of years for the whale to develop as it is today.

Every spring groups of whales swim hundreds of kilometers to warm places to bear their young. Each group goes to the same place every year. The mothers take very good care of their babies. The fully grown whales are very gentle and playful with each other, and with humans. They “talk” to each other with a high noise that  sounds beautiful. This“talking” can be heard for more than 300 kilometers in open waters.

Yet humans kill over a hundred whales a day. They kill them to make whale oils and a lot of other things. Killing them is a modern business with modern machines and even harpoons( 鱼叉炮) that explode( 爆炸) inside the whales. A whale dies very slowly and in great pain. Some ships kill every whale they can find, even the mothers and babies. Then there are no young whales to grow up or to bear more young.

1.A commonly mistaken belief is that ____.

A.whales are mammals

B.whales must have air to breathe

C.whales' babies drink milk

D.whales are fish

2.In the passage “mammals” refer to ____.

A.the animals which live in water

B.the animals which have wings and feathers

C.the animals which are fed on their mothers' milk

D.the things which live in earth and have no backbones

3.Every spring each group of whales ____.

A.swim only a few kilometers

B.return to the same place as they did before

C.go to different places

D.go to cold places to bear their young

4.When whales talk, it sounds like ____.

A.talking

B.whispering

C.quarreling

D.singing

5.Every year humans kill ____ all over the world.

A.nearly forty thousand whales

B.less than four million

C.about four thousand whales

D.about fourteen thousand whales

 

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