题目内容
Drinking small amount of hard Japanese rice wine apparently never hurt 114-year-old Kamato Hongo.She is now the world’s oldest living person, according to Guinness World Records.
“Hongo inherited(继承)the title Monday after the death of the previous record holder, Maud Farris-Luse ,of Coldwater , Mich.,”the record-keeping company said on its website.Farris-Luse was 115 years and 56 days old then.
“Hongo, born on Sept .16,1887, was raised on a farm and counts drinking Japanese rice wine among her favorite things ─ along with black salt, pork ,sashimi(生鱼片)and green tea,”according to Guinness. “She also likes traditional Japanese dancing.”
“The key is not storing up stress,”said her 45-year-old grandson Tsuyoshi Kurauchi. “If you do that, you can eat or drink anything.”
“Hongo mothered seven children, more than 20 grandchildren, and even outlived her eldest daughter, who died two years ago while in her 90s,”according to Kurauchi, who described Hongo as a “warm, caring grandmother”.
She lived in a nursing home in Kagoshima, a city about 615 miles southwest of Tokyo on the island of Kyushu, which has reputation for record-breaking longevity among its residents.
Hongo was born in the nearby town of Isen, home to the late Shigechiyo Izumi, who also held the Guinness record as the world’s oldest person. He died in 1986 at the age of 120.
Recently , another Kyushu resident was regarded as the world’s oldest man. Retired silkworm farmer Yukichi Chuganji graduated into the spot on Jan . 4 with the death of his predecessor, Antonio Todde of Italy. Chuganji turns 113 on Saturday.
There are an estimated 15,000 Japanese over the age of 100, and women make up about 80 percent of the total.
- 1.
The sentence “The key is not storing up stress.”in Paragraph 4 means “ ___________”.
- A.The most important is to mind everything that has been done.
- B.The most important is to forget the unpleasant things.
- C.The most important is to reduce the heavy load of learning and work.
- D.The most important is to remember what brings you unhappiness.
- A.
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Who is considered to be the world’s oldest man alive in the passage?
- A.Maud Farris-Luse.
- B.Shigechiyo Izumi.
- C.Yukichi Chuganji.
- D.Kamato Hongo.
- A.
- 3.
Which of the following is not true about Kamato Hongo?
- A.She is the world’s oldest person alive.
- B.She loves drinking Japanese rice wine.
- C.She is fond of traditional Japanese dancing.
- D.She cares about everything that happens around her.
- A.
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The passage mainly talks about ___________________ .
- A.the fact that women are living longer than men
- B.something about the Japanese oldest living lady
- C.the fact that Kagoshima is famous for longevity
- D.the secret of living longer
- A.
1.句意猜测题。短文的前三段讲述了这位老人的生活习惯,从而得出第四段门真本乡老人45岁的孙子津吉仓内的一段话:长寿的关键是不要把不高兴的事情堆积在心里,只要做到这一点,你就会有好胃口。
2.推断题。根据短文倒数第二段可知:最近,一位名叫友吉中元寺的九州岛老人被列为世界上最长寿的男人。前记录保持者意大利的安东尼奥·托德今年1月4日去世后,这位名叫友吉中元寺的养蚕人便获得了这一头衔。
3.事实归纳题。短文中提到:门真本乡老人平时喜欢喝一点烈性的日本米酒;目前是在世的世界上最长寿的老人;她还喜欢传统的日本舞蹈。
4.主旨题。从全文的结构上分析,短文开头介绍了门真本乡老人是目前仍在世的“世界上最长寿的人”,然后介绍了她的生活习惯、她的家庭情况和她生活的小镇素以居民的长寿而闻名。由此综合可知答案为B
Drunken driving—sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder—has become a national epidemic(流行病). Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past ten years. A drunken driver is usually referred to as one with 0.10-blood alcohol content or roughly three beer glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American manly image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken killing has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially concerning young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant(忍受).
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend(逆转潮流)in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18—20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21.
Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink.
Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests in many areas already, to a marked drop in accidents, some states are also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A bar in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously drunk” and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
As the accidents continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years national prohibition(禁令)of alcohol that began in 1919, which President Hoover called the “noble experiment”. They forgot that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption(腐败)and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.
1.What can be inferred from the fact of the traffic accidents in New Jersey?
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A.Young drivers were usually bad. |
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B.The legal drinking age should be raised. |
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C.Some drivers didn’t surprise the legal drinking age. |
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D.Drivers should not be allowed to drink. |
2.The underlined word “lenient” in the first paragraph means .
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A.merciful |
B.cruel |
C.serious |
D.determined |
3.As regards drunken driving, public opinion has changed because .
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A.judges are no longer lenient |
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B.new laws are introduced in some states |
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C.drivers do not appreciate their manly image |
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D.the problem has attracted public attention |
4.Which of the following statements best shows the writer’s opinion of drunken driving?
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A.It is difficult to solve this problem. |
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B.It may lead to organized crime. |
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C.The new laws can stop heavy drinking |
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D.There should be no bars to serve drinks. |
Try this little test. A man dressed completely in black is sitting at a bar in a country pub. He is drinking one whisky after another. After three hours, the man in black leaves the pub and walks drunkenly down a small country road. There are no lights, and there is no moon. A car without headlights approaches. The driver notices the man, however, and is able to brake in time to avoid an accident. How could the driver see the man in black? Think about this.
The reason we can get stuck with this – and other problems in life—is that we make assumptions. If we assume that the man in black is out for an evening drink, then the problem is a hard one to solve.
The dictionary describes an assumption as something we take for granted or suppose to be true. Assumptions are essential to logical thinking and decision-making, but what happens if they are false?
Sometimes false assumptions can lead to disaster. On 8 January 1989, a British Midland Airways Boeing took off from Heathrow for Belfast. The number-two (right) engine, which had caused trouble on the previous flight, had been cleared. Twenty minutes after take-off, the plane began to shake violently. The flight recorder later showed what had happened. The captain asked the co-pilot what the problem was. “It’s the f-ing right engine again!” he replied. The captain ordered no.2 engine to be shut down, and the lefthand (no.1) engine to be turned on for an emergency landing. The 737 crashed on the edge of the M1 motorway. The cause of the crash? The captain and copilot made a false assumption and shut down the wrong engine. Of the 118 passengers, 39 died and 74 suffered serious injury.
The more risky or the more expensive the decision, the more important it is to check assumptions. There is a nice way to remember the importance of assumption checking. Look at the letters in the word ASSUME, and note that taking things for granted can make an ASS(傻瓜) of U and ME.
1. What purpose does Paragraph 1 serve in the passage?
A. To provide background information of the topic.
B. To attract readers attention to the topic.
C. To use an example to support the topic.
D. To offer basic knowledge of the topic.
2. The main purpose of the passage is to remind the readers _________.
A. of the importance of making assumptions
B. of the danger of making assumptions
C. to make assumptions before dealing with problems
D. to check assumptions before dealing with problems
3. The best title for this passage may probably be __________.
A. Assumptions Lead To Disaster
B. Ways of Avoiding False Assumption
C. When Things Are Not as They First Seem
D. Assumptions and Decision-making
4. The most probable reason that the driver can see the man in black is that .
A. there were bright stars in the sky when the accident happened.
B. the driver had very good eyesight.
C. the accident happened where the lights were bright.
D. the accident happened during the afternoon, in daylight.