题目内容

—Did you meet with the famous star yesterday?

—______ I had come a little earlier!

A. If only B. Only if C. But for D. For fear

 

A

【解析】

试题分析:句意:你见到那个明星了吗?要是我早点来就好了。表示遗憾,实际上没有见到。四个选项的含义分别是:If only      要是……就好了;Only if只要; But for要不是;for fear唯恐。所以选A。

考点:考查连词辨析。

 

练习册系列答案
相关题目

An English traveler found himself in Norway with only enough money to buy the ticket for him to go back home. As he knew that it would take him only two days to get to England, he decided that he could easily spend the time without food. So he bought a ticket and got on the ship. The man closed his ears to the sound of the lunch bell. When dinnertime came, he didn't go to dinning room, saying that he was not feeling very well.

The next morning he still didn't have breakfast and at lunchtime he again stayed in his room. But at dinnertime he was so hungry that he went to the dinning room and ate everything the waiter put in front of him. He got ready for the quarrel (争执).

“Bring me the bill,” he said. “The bill, sir?” said the waiter in surprise. “There isn't any bill. On our ship meals are included (包括) in the money for the ticket,” said the waiter.

1. The story happened _____.

A. in England

B. on a ship from Norway to England

C. in Norway

D. on a ship from England to Norway

2. The traveler didn’t go to the dinning room first because _____.

A. he had no money

B. he didn’t feel very well

C. he didn’t want to eat anything

D. he didn’t hear the sound of the bell

3.The traveler went to the dinning room to eat something because _____。

A. his friend had given him some money

B. the waiter had asked him to change his mind

C. he learned that there was no bill on the ship

D. he was too hungry.

4.After the traveler finished eating, _____.

A. he had a quarrel with waiter over the bill

B. he drank a lot

C. he asked the waiter to bring him the change (零钱)

D. he came to know that travelers on the ship had free meals

 

Although the U.S. is so big and its people have so many different ethnic (racial) backgrounds, it is in some ways less varied than Europe. The English language is used almost everywhere in its American form. The American way of speaking has developed independently of England and is on the whole closer to what can be heard in Ireland.

American instance of uniformity(一致性) is in habits and ways of living. From Boston to Los Angeles it is as far as from France to Central Asia, and from east to west there are five time zones; but everywhere people get up and go to bed at about the same time, eat the same kind of food, buy in the same kind of shops, work and rest at the same times of the day and have the same pattern of holidays. In most of the things that matter there is less difference between rich people and ordinary people, or between town and country, than in any single European nation.

Although the United States covers so much land and the land produces far more food than the present population needs, its people are by now almost entirely an urban society. Less than a tenth of the people are engaged in agriculture, and most of the rest live in or around towns, large and small. Here the traditional picture is changing; most Americans do not live in small towns any more. Half the population now live in some thirty metropolitan(大城市的) areas.

The fact that the United states has always been a single economic unit has contributed to uniformity. Modern industry favors large organizations, and it is no accident that the world’s biggest commercial firms are American. The people can choose between the products of competing manufacturers, but the products are all much alike.

1.In describing the uniformity in the U.S. the author does not mention that

A. the American people get up and go to work at the same time.

B. the American people spend their holidays in the same pattern.

C. the American people buy and eat the same kind of food.

D. the American people have more or less the same income.

2.What can we learn from the passage about the U.S. agriculture?

A. The American farmers need more land than before.

B. More and more Americans are interested in farming.

C. It is quite modernized.

D. It is now going backward.

3.What is the feature of the U.S. modern industry according to the last paragraph?

A. The production scale and the organizational scale are very big.

B. It is a single economic unit that manufactures the same kind of products.

C. There are more and more competing manufacturers.

D. There are always a variety of products to choose from.

4.What does “most of the things” in the second paragraph refer to?

A. food, clothing and houses.

B. Cars, computers and TV sets.

C. Their wealth and income.

D. Land, housing and bank savings.

 

Yesterday afternoon John and I were walking along the road when we heard someone shout. “ _!” He called out several more times __we could find him. He was in the lake, and there was a small boat nearby. At we knew he had fallen from the boat and couldn’t swim ___enough to reach it or to get to shore. As we ran toward the lake I saw him _ , and I was sure that he had drowned. But after a moment his head again.

Quickly John took off his shoes, into the water, and started swimming toward the man. He reached him just as the man was down again. He was enough to stretch out his hand and try to catch of the man’s clothing or his hair before he sank. But the man out his arms, caught John the neck and began to him down under the water. John fought to his head above the water, and at the same time

to swim toward the boat, pulling the man with him.

I also jumped into the water to help, the boat with one hand and swimming with the . The man looked dead, with his heart weakly. We did what we _ to save him. At last we succeeded.

1.A. Save B. DangerousC. God D. Help

2.A. before B. when C. since D. as

3.A. first B. last C. once D. well

4.A. quick B. fast C. far D. well

5.A. sink B. swim C. fall D. float

6.A. nodded B. missed C. dropped D. appeared

7.A. jumped B. rushed C. running D. setting

8.A. dangerous B. drowningC. danger D. drowned

9.A. falling B. going C. dropping D. getting

10.A. close B. brave C. strong D. clever

11.A. something B. out C. the hand D. hold

12.A. took B. set C. got D. reached

13.A. on B. with C. around D. by

14.A. drive B. push C. draw D. make

15.A. let B. remain C. keep D. have

16.A. managed B. failed C. tried D. continued

17.A. got B. swam C. going D. holding

18.A. side B. boat C. man D. other

19.A. jumping B. knockingC. beating D. setting

20.A. had B. could C. might D. would

 

There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding. ____1.____

The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else. ____2.____ Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don’t have any difficulty in gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.

The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding. _3.___ Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here “learning” means understanding more, not remembering more information.

What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding. ___4. Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, success of communication is achieved.

__5. It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.

A. The writer should have a better communicating skill.

B. Such communication between unequals must be possible.

C. We can get access to the content of those materials easily.

D. The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding.

E. Thus, we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.

F. Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.

G. Besides gaining information and understanding, there’s another goal of reading—entertainment.

 

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网