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Now satellites are helping to forecast(预报)the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere, because this is where the weather forms. They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists(气象学家)can see the weather of any part of the world. From the pictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change.
Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries receive satellite pictures. When they receive new pictures, the meteorologists compare them with earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, the meteorologists can say this.
So the weather satellites are a great help to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented, the scientists could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead.
小题1:Satellites travel _____________.
A.in spaceB.in the atmosphere
C.above the groundD.above space
小题2:Why do we use the weather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere? Because __________.
A.the weather satellites can do it easily
B.clouds form there
C.the weather forms there
D.the pictures can forecast the weather
小题3:Meteorologists forecast the weather __________.
A.when they have received satellite pictures
B.after they have compared new satellite pictures with earlier ones
C.before they received satellite pictures
D.during they study satellite pictures
小题4:Maybe we’ll soon be able to forecast the weather for ________.
A.one dayB.two days
C.five daysD.seven days or even longer
小题5:The main idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in _________.
A.taking pictures of the atmosphere
B.receiving pictures of the atmosphere
C.doing other work in many ways
D.weather forecasting

答案

小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:D
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试题解析:本文大意:现在卫星帮助预报天气 ,它们在太空里,能接触到世界的任一角落。卫星拍大气的照片,因为天气是在那儿形成的。卫星把照片发送到气象站。从照片上,科学家们能判断天气会如何变化。如今,在六十个国家里有近五百个气象站接收照片。接收到新照片,气象学家们与之前的照片对比。现在气象卫星对预报3-5天的,也许不久的将来,他们可以能够预测一周或更长时间的天气。
小题1:细节理解题。根据They are in space它们在太空里,可知答案选D。
小题2:细节理解题。根据The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere, because this is where the weather forms. 卫星拍大气的照片,因为天气是在那儿形成的,可知答案选C。
小题3:细节理解题。根据From the pictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change.从照片上,科学家们能判断天气会如何变化,可知答案选B。
小题4:细节理解题。根据 Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead.也许不久,他们可以能够预测一周或更长时间的天气,可知答案选D。
小题5:主旨大意题。根据Now satellites are helping to forecast(预报)the weather.现在卫星帮助预报天气 ,可知答案选D.
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At the beginning of this century, medical scientists made an interesting discovery(发现): we are built not just of flesh (肌肉) and blood but also of time. They were able to show that we all have a ‘body clock’       us, which controls the       and fall of our body energies. It can       us different from one day to the next.
The idea of a ‘body clock’ should not be too       because the lives of most living things are controlled by the 24-hour night-and-day cycle (循环). We feel       and fall asleep at night. We become       and energetic during the day. Most people will have a bad feeling if the 24-hour cycle is      . For example, people who are not used to working at night can find that lack (缺少) of sleep causes them to     badly at work.
      the daily cycle of sleeping and waking, we also have other cycle which lasts longer than one day. Most of us would       that we feel good on some days and not so good on others; sometimes our ideas seem to be so active and at other times, they are not.
小题1:
A.besideB.inside C.outside D.under
小题2:
A.lifeB.offer C.use D.rise
小题3:
A.show B.treatC.make D.change
小题4:
A.difficult B.naturalC.surprising D.frightening
小题5:
A.quiet B.tired C.comfortable D.cheerful
小题6:
A.regular B.serious C.lively D.clear
小题7:
A.disturbed B.pushed C.restarted D.troubled
小题8:
A.perform B.suffer C.count D.control
小题9:
A.With B.As well asC.Except D.Rather than
小题10:
A.afford B.admire C.advise D.agree

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Every school has notice boards. Let"s see what is on the notice board of an American school.

小题1:From         , parents can get information on the parents’ meeting.
A.School PolicyB.Report Card
C.Class AnnouncementD.After-school Program
小题2:Report Card shows parents        .
A.certain school rulesB.after-school activities
C.plans for classes and testsD.children"s school life and work.
小题3:If Tony doesn"t do well at school but makes progress, he will get        on the Report Card.
A.1B.2C.3D.4
小题4:Students do their homework and read books          .
A.from 3:30 to 4:30B.from 3:30 to 6:00 .
C.from 4:30 to 6:00D.from 6:00 to 7:00
小题5:According to School Policy, visitors have to __________ when entering the school.
A.hand in a noteB.call at 524-9752
C.check in at the officeD.telephone the school

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Oil is so important that it is sometimes called “black gold”. Almost half of our energy comes from oil. We use it to run our cars and factories and to heat our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday things are made from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the material. The soap you wash your hands with might also be made from oil. Your favorite plastic toy is made from oil.     
Oil is hard to find, because it is trapped deep under the earth. Once the only way people knew there was oil someplace if it leaked(渗漏)out of the ground. Today, however, we have many ways of finding oil. One tool measures(测量)the pull of gravity. Places where gravity is weaker are more likely to have oil. Another tool is sound waves(声波). Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. We can use them to find the rocks that have oil in them.     
We need a lot of oil, and we are using up the oil wells we know about. Soon we must find new ways of looking for this “black gold”.
小题1:Which of the following isn’t the way to help find oil?
A.Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds.
B.People measure the pull of gravity to know if there is oil.
C.Sound waves tell us where the oil has leaked out of the ground.
D.People know there is oil if it leaks out of the ground.
小题2:Which of the following does the passage lead you to believe?
A.Oil was firstly found by measuring gravity.
B.Many things are made from oil.
C.We will never run out of oil.
D.Our lives would not be different if we didn’t have oil.
小题3:The main idea of the whole story is that ________________.
A.many things are made from oil
B.we must find new ways of looking for oil
C.people spend a lot of time looking for oil
D.oil is important for us but hard to find

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"Here"s the advance payment(预期款) of 10,000 dollars. You will get the other half when we get those papers," the agent told Mike. "But sir, Mr. Smith has been very suspicious (怀疑) since last week," Mike replied.
"In that case, be careful and don"t worry. You are very clever," the agent said." Take 5,000 dollars more," Mike looked around uneasily but took the money.
Mike was a clerk in a large company. A few years ago he started to get very worried because it was very hard for him to support his family. He wanted to give his child an excellent education and a bright future, but the future looked rather hopeless.
One day some agents called him. They were his company"s competitors. At first he refused their offers. But when he thought his dream could come true, he agreed to their offers and began giving them information.
However, his spy work started to get more and more difficult because his owner had become suspicious, since a lot of important information was leaking out.
One night when Mike was on one of his spying tasks, he met Alim, the night watchman." What are you doing here, Mike?" shouted Alim.
"Oh, I had just forgotten some documents here, Alim, "Mike replied, trying to look comfortable." I just came to get them."
"Is that true?" Alim said." We’ll see what Mr. Smith says."
Alim called Mr. Smith and told him to come right away. Mr. Smith looked at Mike and said. "So you are the thief! I believed in you, Mike."
"Call the police, Alim. We have finally caught the spy," Mr. Smith said. "And by the way, Mike ,no man can serve two masters. You should have left if you did not work with us any longer."  
小题1:Why did Mike take the job as a spy? Because ______________.
A.he didn"t want to work for his company any longer.
B.some agents forced him to do so.
C.he wanted to give his child an excellent education and bright future.
D.Mr. Smith did not give treat him very well.
小题2:What did the agents ask Mike to do?  
A.To give them some important information of his company.
B.To follow his boss secretly.
C.To serve his master very honestly.
D.To leave his company and join them.
小题3:Mr. Smith thought Mike was______ before he knew that Mike was a spy.
A.kindB.cleverC.honestD.dishonest
小题4:What"s the meaning of the phrase "leak out" in the passage?___________.
A.land onB.cross outC.become knownD.come out
小题5:What can you learn from the passage?______________.
A.We should be careful at work.B.We should be honest at work.
C.We should work hard.D.We should serve the masters.

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Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment(入学注册). Then the school’s hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million.
Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.
Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.
In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal(入口), which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits(盈利)will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.
Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized(非法的)websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”
小题1:The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.
A.show the problems schools are faced with today
B.prove that a school without high enrollment can do well
C.express the importance of computers in modern education
D.tell that laptops can help improve students’ school performance
小题2:According to the writer, students in New York City’s public schools will ______.
A.enjoy e-mail service in the near future
B.make money by selling ads on websites
C.all have their own laptops within nine years
D.become more interested in their studies with laptops
小题3:The underlined word “kinks” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.
A.plansB.projectsC.problemsD.products
小题4:From the passage we learn that ______.
A.a school Internet portal is the key to a laptop program
B.the laptop program also has a good influence on parents
C.students slowly accept the fact their online activities controlled
D.the laptop program in public school is mainly for the eighth-graders

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