题目内容
What no one would like to believe is that such a well-behaved gentleman _______ be a cheat!
A. could B. may C. ought to D. should
D
It was a beautiful day at the beach—blue sky, gentle wind, calm sea.I knew these things because a man sitting five feet from me was shouting them into his mobile phone, like a play-by-play announcer (实况解说员).
“IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY,” he shouted.“THE SKY IS BLUE, AND THERE’S A GENTLE WIND, AND THE WATER IS CALM, AND…”
Behind me, a woman, her mobile phone pressed to her ear was walking back and forth.
“She DIDN’T,” she was saying.“No.She DIDN’T.She DID? Really? Are you SERIOUS? She did NOT.She DID? No she…”
And so on.This woman had two children, who were playing in the sea.I found myself watching them, because the woman surely was not.A huge squid could have caught and snatched the children, and this woman would not have noticed.Or, if she had noticed, she’d have said, “Listen.I have to go, because a huge squid just……No! She didn’t ! She DID? No! She……”
And next to me, the play-by-play man would have said: “…AND A HUGE SQUID JUST ATE TWO CHILDREN, AND I’M GETTING A LITTLE SUNBURNED, AND …”
It used to be that the major trouble at the beach was the fellow who brought a boom box (便携式录音机) and turned it up so loud that the bass notes caused seagulls to explode.But at least you knew where these fellows were; you never know which beachgoers have mobile phones.You’ll settle next to what appears to be a sleeping sunbather, or even (you hope) a corpse , and you’ll lie happily on your towel, and you’ll get all the way to the second sentence of your 467-page book before you fall asleep to the hypnotic surge of the surf (催人入梦的潮声), and …
BREEP! BREEP! The corpse sits up, feels urgently for its mobile phone, and shouts “Hello! I’m at the beach! Yes! It’s nice! Very peaceful! What? She did? No, she didn’t! She DID? No, she…”
Loud mobile-phoners never seem to get urgent calls.Just once, I’d like to hear one of them say, “Hello? Yes, this is Dr.Johnson.Oh, Dr.Smith.You’ve opened the abdominal cavity (腹腔)? Good! Now the appendix should be right under the … What? No, that’s the liver.Don’t take THAT out, ha ha! Oh, you did? My God! OK, now listen carefully…”
【小题1】From the passage we can know that the writer of the passage _____.
| A.had a wonderful holiday at the beach |
| B.must have suffered a lot because of the terrible weather |
| C.is only interested in talks by doctors about operation |
| D.experienced an unhappy holiday at the beach |
| A.The writer often spends his holidays at the beach. |
| B.A huge squid ate two children while their mother was not watching. |
| C.Some people used to play boom box while spending their holidays at the beach. |
| D.Some people often make loud mobile phone calls without caring for others. |
| A.a dead body | B.a loud mobile phone |
| C.a sound sleeper | D.a sleep lover |
| A.turned it up to make the seagulls happy |
| B.turned it up to cause the seagulls to explode |
| C.might cause less trouble than the beachgoers with mobile phones |
| D.might cause more trouble than the beachgoers with mobile phones |
| A.the writer is interested in mobile phone. |
| B.the writer hates people using mobile phone |
| C.the writer hates to be disturbed while enjoying holidays on the beach. |
| D.the writer seldom finishes reading a book before going to sleep. |
Teenagers are under a lot of pressure to be thin. They resort to starving, vomiting and eating only diet foods to try and be thin. Television is a big influence on them. They watch shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place and feel they need to look as thin as the actresses on these shows. Society is brainwashing young people into believing that being thin is important and necessary.
Diet commercials are constantly appearing on our television screens telling us that once we lose weight, we will be happy. While you’re standing at the grocery store you are surrounded by magazines claiming to have the newest and best diet. Each month another new diet appears claiming to be the diet to end all diets. If diets really worked, then why are there so many of them? The reason a new diet pops up each month, is that last’s month’s diets did not work. The truth of the matter is that DIETS DON’T WORK.
The diet and fashion industries are not totally to blame for society’s obsession with thinness. We are the ones keeping them in business. We buy into the idea that we can attain the “ideal” body image. We allow ourselves to believe the lies being thrown at us constantly. We are throwing away our hard earned money trying to live up to the standards that society has set for us. It’s unfortunate, but in today’s society, people have forgotten that it’s what’s inside a person that counts, not what’s on the outside. We need to start loving and accepting each other for who we are, not what we look like.
Once again, I would like to stress the fact that diets don’t work. Eating three healthy meals a day, a few snacks and doing moderate exercise, will allow your body to go to its natural set point. Next time you decide that you are going to start another diet because you feel you are too fat, stop, sign up for a self-esteem class instead. That would be money well spent.
【小题1】What are Beverly Hills 90210 and Meltrose Place ?
| A.Fashion shows. | B.Two famous place in America. |
| C.Popular TV shows. | D.Two TV channels. |
| A.Our society is flooded with diet commercials. |
| B.The latest diet is necessarily better than all the previous ones. |
| C.People in North America become crazy over Dieting. |
| D.All diets are useless in fact |
| A.Because teenagers are under a lot of pressure to be thin. |
| B.Because there are more and more fat teenagers. |
| C.Because the diets have no effect. |
| D.Because teenagers are fascinated by the newest and best diet. |
| A.if your diet doesn’t work, the only thing you can do is to accept your body image . |
| B.attending a self-esteem class will help you keep fit. |
| C.we shouldn’t pay attention to the size of our body. |
| D.what’s inside a person is much more important than his/her appearance. |
| A.persuasion | B.summarization | C.argumentation | D.description |