题目内容
Experiments of this kind _______in both the U.S. and Europe well before the Second World War started.
| A.have conducted | B.have been conducted |
| C.had conducted | D.had been conducted |
D
解析试题分析:句意:在第二次世界大战之前这种实验就在美国和欧洲做过。因为时间状语before the Second World War started.这里的谓语动词是过去式,conduct是在这个动作之前的发生的动作,故用过去完成时,又因为experiments与conduct之间是被动关系,故选D。
考点:考查动词时态的用法。
点评:本题难度适中。动词的时态及语态放在一起考查增加了试题的难度,需要考生有分析理解复杂的句子结构的能力。
即学即练:In the last few years thousands of films_______ all over the world.
A.have produced B. have been produced C. are producing D. are being produced
解析:B。句意:“在过去的几年时间里,全世界制作了成千上万部电影。”in the last few years在过去的几年时间里,其实是从过去算到现在,是现在完成时的标志。选B。
My 8-year-old daughter is making an experiment. She has been making her own colorful smile cards and often takes them with her everywhere.
Last Sunday, I took my kid to go shopping with me. She was hoping to see John, who is an elderly man and gives out samples. We see him from time to time and he is so happy and friendly. John wasn’t at the store on Sunday, so my daughter decided that it would be a good idea to distribute her smile cards to the store’s other employees.
So she did. In the produce department, she gave a card to a young man and she hoped it would make him smile. And he smiled at her and thanked her. Then she came across an older gentleman who looked rather impatient. And she snuck a card into his cart on top of his groceries, remarking to me later that he looked at her suspiciously as if she was dumping trash in his cart. But I thought he would be happy later.
When we got back from our shopping trip, she had run out of cards. She was walking by a woman with two babies in her cart. My daughter smiled at her and the young mother smiled back. My daughter came to me and said excitedly, “Mom, I just realized something. You don’t need cards to make someone smile. All you need to do is make eye contact and smile into their eyes and they will smile back.”
What a beautiful lesson my daughter reminded me of. You are never too young or too old to experiment with kindness and smiles.
【小题1】At first, the writer’s daughter made an experiment by ______.
| A.giving smile cards | B.giving samples |
| C.making eye contact | D.giving groceries |
| A.who is very young and lively | B.who may be a salesman |
| C.who is in trouble and needs smiles | D.who is never seen to smile |
| A.make up | B.tear up | C.give out | D.sell out |
| A.John got a smile card from the writer’s daughter |
| B.the older gentleman would smile later after he got the smile card |
| C.we could make others smile only by giving them what they wanted |
| D.the mother with two babies smiled because she got a smile card |
American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19, 2003. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which has become one of London’s main tourist attractions.
Looking thinner and darker, 30-year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames and immediately went to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process doctors say could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends.
Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed at getting a lot of attention. In 1999, he was buried in a coffin (棺材) for one week and, in 2000, he spent 62 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on top of a 25-meter pillar (柱子) in the center of New York for 35 hours before jumping into a pile of boxes.
“I think a lot of people are unable to accept that they’re able to do what they can do,” he said. “They don’t realize we can survive. The human being is an amazing creation.”
But he seems to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste.
【小题1】It is for David Blaine to eat food after such a long starvation.
| A.pleasant | B.delicious | C.dangerous | D.important |
| A.he had become blind | B.he had serious back pains |
| C.he lost his sense of taste | D.he was in weak health |
| A.Serious. | B.Adventurous. | C.Smart. | D.Crazy. |
| A.Blaine immediately went to hospital after he was taken out of his box. |
| B.Blaine was born and brought up in England. |
| C.In Blaine’s opinion, people can create a wonder. |
| D.Blaine didn’t have any food for 44 days. |