题目内容
______ she were admitted into Beijing University.
A. As if B. Only if C. If only D. Even if
C
Outside her shabby cottage, old Mrs. Tailor was hanging out laundry on a wire line, unaware that some children lay hidden in the leaves of a nearby tree watching her every move. They were determined to find out if she really was a witch.
They watched as she took a broomstick to clean the dirt from her stone steps. But, much to their disappointment, she did not mount the broomstick and take flight. Suddenly, the old lady’s work was interrupted by the cackling of her hen—a signal that an egg had been laid in the warm nest on top of the haystack.
The old broomstick was put aside as she hobbled off towards the haystack followed by Sooty, a black cat she had rescued from a fox trap some time back. With only three legs, it was hard for Sooty to keep up with the old lady. The cat provided proof—the children were sure that only a witch could own a black cat with three legs.
There, standing on a wooden box, was Mrs. Tailor, stretching out to gather her precious egg. Taking the egg in one of her hands, she began to climb down when, without warning, the box broke and the old lady fell.
“We have to got and help her,” whispered Amy.
“What if it is a trick?” replied Ben.
“Don’t be silly, Ben. If she were a witch, she would have turned us into frogs already,” reasoned Meg. “Come on Amy, let’s go.” The girls climbed down the tree and ran all the way to the haystack.
Approaching carefully, they could see a wound on the old lady’s face. She had knocked her head on a stone and her ankle was definitely broken. “Go and get Dad,” Amy yelled to her brother. “Tell him about the accident.”
The boys did not need another excuse to leave. They ran as fast as they could for help, hoping that Mrs. Tailor would not wake and turn the girls into frogs.
【小题1】. Why were the children hiding in the tree?
| A.They wanted to watch Mrs. Tailor do her housework closely. |
| B.They were playing a hide-and-seek game |
| C.They wanted to find out if the rumors about Mrs. Tailor were true |
| D.They were pretending to be spies |
| A.her front steps were clean | B.she noticed the children in the tree |
| C.she was ready to take a flight | D.she heard the hen cackling |
| A.he thought that she could be tricking them |
| B.he knew that they could not have been in the tree |
| C.he did not see the old lady fall down |
| D.he was afraid of the three-legged cat |
| A.Make hay while the sun shines. |
| B.Never judge a book by its cover. |
| C.People in glasshouses should not throw stones. |
| D.A bird in the hands worth two in the bush. |
A large number of women in Western European countries wish that they were born men. The number is said as high as 60% in West Germany.
“Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe it is still men’s world,” said Dr James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study.
Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company. She also believes in “Women’ s Liberation(解放)”.
“I don’t wish that I were a man,” she says, “and I don’t think many women do. But I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but get paid less. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones and open only to men. If you’re a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. How many women pilots are there ... or engineers or scientists?”
【小题1】What can we learn from the first paragraph?
| A.60% Western European women wish that they were born men. |
| B.Most women in Western European countries wish that their babies were all boys. |
| C.60% women in West Germany wish that they were born men. |
| D.60% Western European women who wish that they were born men are from West Germany. |
| A.There’re more men than women in the world |
| B.There’re more men scientists or engineers than women scientists or engineers in the world |
| C.Women cannot live without men |
| D.Women have not been given the same chance as men |
| A.be really liberated | B.live a better life than men |
| C.be well paid | D.get better jobs than men |
| A.has got a very good job |
| B.believes in “Women’s Liberation” |
| C.does the work that a man can’t do |
| D.isn’t looked down upon by anyone |