Concorde’s Birthday
CONCORDE, the world’s fastest passenger plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first __1__ on 2 March 1969 in France. Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a _2__ of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to __3__ together on the project. The plane __4_ over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of _5__. This means that it _6_ only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7—8 hours in other passenger jets. Because of the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is _7__ to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30a.m. _8__ from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour _9_! Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built at a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built so far. Air France and British Airway _10_ the most. They each have seven planes.
| 小题1: | | A．invented | B．produced | C．flew | D．took off |
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| 小题2: | | A．talk | B．dream | C．meeting | D．fight |
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| 小题3: | | A．work | B．do | C．carry | D．finish |
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| 小题4: | | A．paid | B．wanted | C．needed | D．cost |
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| 小题5: | | A．voice | B．sound | C．noise | D．shout |
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| 小题6: | | A．spends | B．takes | C．covers | D．travels |
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| 小题7: | | A．possible | B．impossible | C．real | D．unreal |
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| 小题8: | | A．plane | B．passenger | C．flight | D．airline |
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| 小题9: | | A．later | B．late | C．earlier | D．early |
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小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:B
小题6:A
小题7:C
小题8:C
小题9:A
小题10:D |
试题分析：本文讲解的是关于世界上最快的客机——协和式飞机（CONDORDE）的发展史。３３年的历史、英法联手打造、耗资十多个亿、两倍于声速……
小题1:结合上文可知it指的是前文提到的协和飞机，本句如选invented或 produced，得用被动语态，took off是“起飞”的意思，这里意指“它第一次飞行是在……”因此，用flew最为恰当。句意为：他在1969年3月2日首飞。故选C。
小题2:联系上下文可知句意为：从1956年开始这两个国家就有一个关于超音速客机的梦想，故选B。
小题3:work on 从事，致力于。句意：在1962年他们开始一起从事这个项目。故选A。
小题4:cost“耗资”。paid，wanted的主语应是人，needed指根据计划需要耗资等的数量，cost本身就表示花费成本的数量。联系下文15亿英镑，主语为物，故选D，研制这个飞机花费了15亿英镑。
小题5:词义辨析。Voice嗓音； sound指一般声音；noise噪音；shout喊声。联系上文可知句意为协和客机以两倍音速飞行。此处泛指普通声音，speed of sound意为“声速”故选 B。
小题6:考查take表示花费的用法。主语是it可知选A。句式：it takes some time/money to do sth。
小题7:根据上下文之间的联系，意为“你坐协和式飞机从London到New York，有可能已经到了New York，而还没离开London。（这是由于时差）。
故选A。
小题8:catch the flight 意为“赶上某次航班”。故选C。
小题9:根据上文可知句意为：一小时后在纽约开始工作，故选B，an hour later，一小时后。
小题10:通过上下文可知，这两个机场所拥有的协和式飞机最多。故选D。
点评：本题短文内容不难理解，但是部分小题与上下文联系不大，部分题型甚至可以独立成题。因此在解答中有必要认真分析，把他们当成一个独立的选择题来对待。完成后多读几遍，看看上下文是否语句通顺，符合逻辑关系。 |
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Young people are often unhappy when they are with their parents，They 1 that their parents don’t understand them，They often think their parents are too strict with them.
Parents often find it difficult to win their children’s trust(信任)and they seem to forget how they themselves 2 when they were young.
For example，young people like to do things without much thinking. It’s one of their ways to 3 that they grow up and they can deal with any difficult things. Older people worry more easily. Most of them plan things 4 and don’t like their plans to be changed.
Young people often make their parents 5 by clothes they want，the music they enjoy and something else. But they don’t mean to cause(引起)any trouble. They just want to be 6 and they want to make a new culture(文化) of their own.
Sometimes you even don’t want your parents to say“ 7 ”to what you do. You want to stay at home and do what you like.
If you plan to control（控制） your 8 ，you’d better win your parents over and try to get them to 9 you. If your parents see that you have high sense of responsibility(责任),they will 10 give you the right(权利) to do what you want to do.
| 小题1: | | A．remember | B．hope | C．say | D．know |
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| 小题2: | | A．thought | B．wanted | C．needed | D．felt |
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| 小题4: | | A．first | B．ahead | C．late | D．carelessly |
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| 小题5: | | A．happy | B．sad | C．angry | D．helpful |
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| 小题6: | | A．polite | B．helpful | C．thoughtful | D．different |
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| 小题7: | | A．Yes | B．No | C．Sorry | D．Congratulations |
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| 小题8: | | A．work | B．life | C．study | D．health |
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| 小题9: | | A．help | B．love | C．understand | D．know |
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| 小题10: | | A．certainly | B．just | C．still | D．already |
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A recent report from Dazhou Daily says about 18% of Dazhou teenagers can have problems with their minds（内心，精神）. Some students become worried because they have to study very hard. Others have trouble getting on well with people like their parents and classmates.
Zhang Qiang, a Junior 2 student from Dazhou, could not understand his teachers in class and was doing badly in his lessons. He was afraid of exams. When he looked at the exam paper, he couldn’t think of anything to write.
Another student, a 15-year-old girl called Wu Yan from Guang’an often argued with her classmates even her parents because of some different ideas. She became so annoyed about them that she started to cut her finger with a knife.
However, many students who have problems won’t go for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid（愚蠢的） if they go to see a doctor. Others don’t want to talk about their secrets. In order to solve the teenagers’ problems, here is some advice :
●Talk to your parents or teachers often.
●Take part in group activities and play sports.
●Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell.
小题1:It is reported that students in Dazhou can have problems with their minds.| A．most | B．many | C．some | D．all the |
小题2:From the passage we know teenagers have problems with their minds because of .
A. their study B. getting on with other people C. their hobbies D. A and B.
小题3:Wu Yan started to cut her finger with a knife because .| A．she couldn’t get on well with her classmates and even her parents | | B．she could not understand her teachers in class | | C．she was afraid of exams | | D．she had no money for a new shirt |
小题4:Why don’t the students who have problems want to go for help ?| A．Because they think no one will help them. | | B．Because they don’t want to talk about their secrets and they think it’s stupid to see a doctor. | | C．Because they think they can solve the problems by themselves. | | D．Because they think the doctors could do nothing with their problems. |
小题5:How many pieces of advice are given to the teenagers who have problems in this passage?| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five. |
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These days it is found that school students hardly have any sports. Is it because they have no interests in sports? It may not be true. They often say they have 1 more important things to do.
What are these important things? Exams! They have to 2 themselves ready for all kinds of exams and tests in school. So many of them almost become bookworms ( 书虫 ). In the past, they could do 3 they liked in summer holidays, but now they have to 4 all their time preparing for the exams. So 5 have kept them away from going in for sports.
Because of the pressure from 6 their parents and teachers, they 7 to work harder and spend most of their time on books. As for the students themselves, they don"t want to 8 the exams. So it is necessary to give up their school sports and give all their spare time to their studies.
It"s true that a good education cannot go 9 physical training and that if a quick mind hardly goes along with a strong body, you can 10 do anything well, and then how can you make great success in life?
| 小题1: | | A．another | B．other | C．much | D．any |
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| 小题3: | | A．some thing | B．something | C．everything | D．nothing |
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| 小题4: | | A．give | B．spend | C．take | D．cost |
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| 小题5: | | A．teachers | B．parents | C．studies | D．holidays |
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| 小题6: | | A．either | B．both | C．neither | D．none of |
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| 小题8: | | A．miss | B．lose | C．leave | D．fail |
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| 小题10: | | A．always | B．ever | C．never | D．still |
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Grygori Pilikian spent his 114th birthday the other day and some reporters visited him to find out the secret of a long life.
“The secret of a long life is happiness,” Grygori said. “If you are happy, you will live a long time.”
“Are you married?” a reporter asked. “Yes,” Grygori answered. “I married my third wife when I was 102. If you are happily married, you will live better. But for(要是没有) my third wife, I would have died years ago.”
“What about smoking and drinking?” another reporter asked. “Yes, they are important,” Grygori said. “Don’t smoke at all and you will feel well. Drink two glasses of wine a day and you will be healthy and happy.”
小题1:Some reporters visited Grygori because .| A．he was a happy man | | B．he was a friend of them | | C．he had lived to be much longer than most people | | D．he had married three times |
小题2:The word “wine” in the last paragraph means in Chinese.小题3:The writer wants to tell us .| A．drinking much is good for our health | | B．drinking a little is helpful | | C．smoking and drinking are the most important to our health | | D．both smoking and drinking are bad for our health |
小题4:The best title for this passage is .| A．Grygori’s Birthday | B．The Secret of a Long Life | | C．Happiness and Life | D．Reporters Visited Grygori |
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Put an ice cube from your fridge into a glass of water. You have a piece of string(线) 10 centimeters long. The problem is to take out that piece of ice with the help of the string. But you must not touch the ice with your fingers.
You may ask your friends to try to do that when you are having dinner together. There is a saltcellar on the table. You must use salt when you carry out this experiment.
First you put the string across the piece of ice. Then put some salt on the ice. Salt makes ice melt(融化). The ice round the string will begin to melt. But when it melts, it will lose heat. The cold ice cube will make the salt water freeze(结冰) again.
After a minute or two you may raise the piece of string and with it you will raise your piece of ice!
This experiment can be very useful to you. If, for example, there is ice near the door of your house, you must use very much salt to melt all the ice. If you don’t put enough salt, the water will freeze again.
小题1:We must use when we carry out this experiment.| A．a fridge | B．some food | C．a table | D．some salt |
小题2:How long will it take to carry out this experiment?| A．More than three minutes. | B．Five minutes or two. | | C．Only one minute or two. | D．About ten minutes. |
小题3:We can learn something about from the passage.| A．physics | B．biology | C．chemistry | D．maths |
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