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We will discuss the strange idea you________ this afternoon.

A.came up to B.came up with

C.come through D.come across

 

B

【解析】答案 B [考查词义辨析。come up with an idea想出一个主意。]

 

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For more than two days in September 1974, the people of Honduras shut their windows, locked their doors and covered in their homes. Fifi was outside, and they were frightened.

By the time Fifi had left, 8,000 people were dead, Fifi wasn't a pet dog as the name suggests. It was a hurricane, one of the most destructive natural phenomena in the world.

Why do we give human names to storms and hurricanes?

We didn't always. Two hundred years ago, many hurricanes in the Caribbean were named after the saint's(基督徒的)day on which the storm occurred. Later, storms were known by the name of the city where they came ashore.

Meteorologists (气象学家) then tried naming storms after the latitude (纬度) and longitude (经度) where they occurred.

Finally, in 1953, hurricanes started getting people's names —specifically, female names. Male names were added in 1979.

There are six sets of names for what the experts call “Atlantic tropical cyclones”( 热带风暴).

Each list is used every six years and consists of 21 names, starting with every letter but Q, U, X, Y ,Z. the names alternate (交替)between male and female.

A storm won't get a name until its winds reach 39 mph or about 62.4 kph, at which point it becomes a tropical storm. At 74 mph or 118.4 kph it's declared a hurricane.

The 126 names on the list are used only for storms that form off the Atlantic coast of the US. There are separate lists for the Pacific.

So what happens if a hurricane should cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific? It's happened before. The storm just gets a new name and sometimes a new sex.

Max Mayfield is the director of the National Hurricane Centre, headquartered in Miami, Florida. He is in charge of picking new names for storms off the Atlantic coast.

He doesn't do it alone, though. His counterparts in two dozen other countries in the Caribbean, Central America and North America vote on what names will replace retired names.

1.From the first paragraph we can find that ________.

A.Honduras is a country which was destroyed by Fifi

B.Honduras is a country which has no mountains

C.Honduras is a country which faces the ocean

D.Honduras is a country which lies at high latitude

2.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.There were no hurricanes two centuries ago.

B.The Caribbean is a state of the United States.

C.The Caribbean is a place where hurricanes occur often.

D.Fifi was formed off the Pacific.

3.The names for storms and hurricanes, as this passage shows,________.

A.are set for use.

B.are all from American English

C.are difficult to spell

D.are easy to fix

4.The underlined word “counterparts” in the last paragraph means ________.

A.citizens holding the same opinion

B.people with a similar position or function

C.passengers traveling by sea

D.assistants working abroad

 

Diana Jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21?year?old twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. Then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart.

“I have two kids in college, and I want to say ‘come home',but at the same time I want to provide them with a good education,” says Jacobs.

The Jacobs family did work out a solution: They asked and received more aid from the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (贷款) program. They will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school.

With unemployment rising, financial aid administrators expect to hear more families like the Jacobs. More students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. College administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around.

At the same time, tuition(学费)continues to rise. A report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade.

“If we go on this way for another 25 years, we won't have an affordable system of higher education,” says Patrick M. Callan, president of the center. “The middle class families have been financing it through debt. They will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.”

Financial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. The good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted.

1.According to Paragraph 1,why did the plan of Jacobs family fail?

A.The twins wasted too much money.

B.The father was out of work.

C.Their saving ran out

D.The family fell apart.

2.How did the Jacobses manage to solve their problem?

A.They asked their kids to come home.

B.They borrowed $20,000 from the school.

C.They encouraged their twin sons to do part?time jobs.

D.They got help from the school and the federal government.

3.Financial aid administrators believe that ________.

A.more families will face the same problem as the Jacobses

B.the government will receive more letters of complaint

C.college tuition fees will double soon

D.America's unemployment will fall

4..What can we learn about the middle class families from the text?

A. They blamed the government for the tuition increase.

B. Their income remained steady in the last decade.

C. They will try their best to send kids to college.

D. Their debts will be paid off within 25 years

 

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