题目内容
Stars are so far away that they are ________ spots of light when seen from the earth.
- A.more than
- B.less than
- C.nothing more than
- D.anything more than
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Every country had its heroes. The heroes are the people that nation and especially the young peo??ple 21_____ . If you get a list of the 22 _____of a nation, it will tell you the potential (潜力）of the nation.
If today in America ’ you ask the high school students to list their heroes their 23____ would prob??ably divide into three groups. rHie first group of heroes would be the rock stars—the people 24 _____with rock music. There is no doubt that such people do have talent (天才）but one 25_____ if one should hold up rock stars as model. The rock stars too often are mixed with drugs and their personal life isnot all that — 26 ____ . The rock stars are rich and wear the latest fashion styles (时装）.However oneshould 27 _____more in a hero than such things as 28______ and fine clothes.
A second type of heroes for the American youth are sports stars. Again you have a person who has a great talent in one area_ 29 _____. However, too often the personal life of the sports star is a bit 30_____. Too frequently drugs and drinking are a part of 31_____ of the sports stars.
A third group of heroes are TV or movie stars. These people may have lots of 32___ ，tal??ent and are quite handsome. However ’ the personal life of too many actors is quite sad and should not be held up as a 33____ for young people.
Today，the rock stars，the sportsmen and the actors 34____ have become the models of the youth in America. Really,do you hear a young person say that his 35____ is a doctor, a teacher or a scientist? These people are not 36____ and do not wear fashionable clothes. However, they are 37____ people who work hard to make the world a better place for everyone.
What is really sad is that the young try to 38____ their heroes. They like to wear the same clothes as theirs, if the heroes of today for the American youth are 39 ____only to rock stars, sportsmen and actors, the future does not look too 40_____ .
| A. | dislike | B. | admire | C. hate | D. | satisfy | |
| A. | doctors | B. | soldiers | C. teachers | D. | heroes | |
| A. | choice | B. | conclusion | C. answer | D. | questions | |
| A. | interested | P. | connected | C. excited | D. | pleased | |
| A. | wants | B. | hopes | C. wonders | D. | expects | |
| A. | bad | B. | simple | C. silent | D. | good | |
| A. | gather | B. | spend | C. put | D. | be after | |
| A. | paper | B. | money | C. food | D. | book | |
| A. | sports | B. | music | C. movie | D. | teaching | |
| A. | regular | B. | disorder | C. happy | D. | hard |
“I’ve changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my dad back.” Lucien Lawrence’s letter to Father Christmas, written after his father had been knifed to death outside his school gate, must have touched everyone’s heart. Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn’t see the stars in the sky. When those we love depart from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.
But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, you will see them again. And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father there too, either in your mind or heart. I find that my parents, who died years ago, still linger (留连) in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive. I still live to please them and I’m still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself that I couldn’t wait to cable my parents. The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all my mother said was “I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!” I haven’t forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence has been to face the aggressors（入侵者）, and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It’s a serious thought, which gives me pause.
I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet “Deliver my soul from the sword and my darling from the power of the dog.” Yet I know death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live together, but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I’m sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.
【小题1】 According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph ___________.
| A．puts forward the subject of the text |
| B．shows the author’s pity on the kid |
| C．serves as an introduction to the discussion |
| D．makes a clear statement of the author’s views |
| A．how much he misses his parents now |
| B．why his parents often appear in his dream |
| C．when Lucien will get over all his sadness |
| D．how proud he was when he succeeded in life |
| A．Proud. | B．Happy. | C．Disappointed. | D．Worried. |
| A．to leave a precious memory to the people related |
| B．to have a high sense of duty to the whole society |
| C．to care what others will remember and treasure |
| D．to share happiness and sadness with his family |
| A．Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns. |
| B．Advise parents stay with their children safely at home. |
| C．Spend every day meaningfully in memory of death. |
| D．Try to keep violence and murder far away from society. |
Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. In one second, light travels about 300,000km, but sound travels only 344m. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke come from his gun before the sound reaches your ears. This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays（光线）left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that the light which you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km per minute. In some cases the light from one of tonight’s stars started on its journey to you before you were born.
Thus, if we want to be honest, we cannot say “ The stars are shining tonight.” We have to say, “ The stars look pretty. They were shining four years ago but their light has only just reached Earth.”
1. Light speed is ________ than sound speed.
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A．millions times faster |
B．a million times slower |
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C．about millions of times faster |
D．about a million times faster |
2.If you stand 200 meters away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that _____.
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A．you can hear the gun before you see the smoke. |
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B．sound does not travel as fast as light. |
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C．the sound of the gun will reach you before the man fires his gun. |
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D．sound travels about a million times faster than light. |
3.What does “ it” refer to?
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A．moon light |
B．light rays |
C．the nearest star |
D．the moon |
4.The scientific way of saying “ The stars are shining tonight” should be________.
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A．the stars have been shining all the time. |
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B．the stars seen tonight will be shining four years later. |
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C．the stars were shining long ago but are seen tonight. |
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D．the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago. |