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The trouble with the chemical industry is that when things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby．It is this that makes chemical accidents so newsworthy．Fortunately, they are extremely rare．The most famous ones happened at Texas City （1947）, Flixborough （1974）, Seveso （1976）, Pemex （1984） and Bhopal （1984）．
Some of these are always in the minds of the people even though the loss of life was small．No one died at Seveso, and only 28 workers at Flixborough．The worst accident of all was Bhopal, where up to 3,000 were killed．The Texas City explosion of fertilizer killed 552．The Pemex fire at a storage plant for natural gas in the suburbs of Mexico City took 542 lives, just a month before the unfortunate event at Bhopal．
Some experts have discussed these accidents and used each accident to illustrate a particular danger．Thus the Texas City was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate, which is safe unless stored in a great quantity．The Flixborough fireball was the fault of management, which took risks to keep production going during essential repairs．The Seveso accident shows what happens if the local authorities lack knowledge of the danger on their doorstep．When the poisonous gas drifted over the town , local leaders were incapable of taking effective action．The Pemex fire was made worse by an overloaded site in an overcrowded suburb．The fire set off a chain reaction of exploding storage tanks．Yet, by a miracle, the two largest tanks did not explode．Had these caught fire, then 3,000 strong rescue team and fire fighters would all have died．
小题1:Which of the following statements is TRUE?
| A．Working at the office is safer than staying at home． |
| B．Travelling to work on public transport is safer than working at the office． |
| C．Staying at home is safer than working in the chemical industry． |
| D．Working in the chemical industry is safer than traveling by air． |
| A．they are very rare |
| B．they often cause loss of life |
| C．they always occur in big cities |
| D．they arouse the interest of all the readers |
| A．Texas city | B．Flixborough |
| C．Seveso | D．Mexico City |
| A．natural gas, which can easily catch fire |
| B．fertilizer, which can"t be stored in a great quantity |
| C．poisonous substance, which can"t be used in overcrowded areas |
| D．fuel, which is stored in large tanks |
| A．to avoid any accident we should not repair the facilities in chemical industry |
| B．the local authorities should not be concerned with the production of the chemical industry |
| C．all these accidents could have been avoided or controlled if effective measures had been taken |
| D．natural gas stored in very large tanks is always safe |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:C
解析
试题分析：文章大意为：先对比一些人类活动的安全性，接着列举发生在一些城市的化工事故，用数字说明那些事故造成的后果；最后文章解释发生事故的原因。
小题1:D 细节理解题：从文章第一段可知staying at home ="traveling" to work on public transport="working" at the office” all is very low. 根据这句子“However, what about flying compared to working in the chemical industry? Unfortunately, the former is 65 times riskier than the latter!”可知D项正确。
小题2:B 细节理解题：从第二段的第一、第二句The trouble with the chemical industry is that when things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby．It is this that makes chemical accidents so newsworthy．可知，化学工厂由于出现问题而引起死亡。
小题3:B细节理解题：根据第四段第三句“The Flixborough fireball was the fault of management, which took risks to keep production going during essential repairs．”可知B正确。
小题4:B细节理解题：根据第四段第二句“Thus the Texas City was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate, which is safe unless stored in a great quantity．”可知硝酸铵是一种不能大量存放在一起的化学物质。故B正确。
小题5:C 推理判断题：A 根据常理，若不对设备进行维护，会增加发生事故的可能。所以不能避免，故排除；B 官方是应该关系化工厂的生产活动的。D 文章分明已列出气体爆炸引起的事故，说明那不是总是安全的。所以C 正确。
考点: 考查叙事记叙文的理解。
核心考点
试题【Which is safer --- staying at home, traveling to work on public transport, or wo】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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My editorial team leader died recently after a short illness. He was 31. The news was so unexpected that it left us all shocked and upset. A female colleague burst into tears and cried piteously at her desk. Somehow we got through the day"s work. The next day was the funeral.
Our big boss stepped forward to deliver a eulogy and was soon in tears. She carried on, in Chinese of course, but at the end said in English: "There will be no more deadlines for you in heaven." Next came a long-term colleague who also dissolved in tears but carried on with her speech despite being almost overcome by emotion. Then a close friend of the dead man paid tribute(哀悼), weeping openly as he spoke. Sorrow is spreading. Me and women were now sobbing uncontrollably. Finally, the man"s mother, supported between two women, addressed her son in his coffin. At one point, the mother almost collapsed and had to be held up. We were invited to step forward to each lay a white rose on the casket. Our dead colleague looked as if he was taking a nap. At the end of the service I walked away from the funeral parlor stunned at the outpouring of emotion.
In the UK, families grieve privately and then try to hold it together and not break down at a funeral. Here in China it would seem that grieving is a public affair. It strikes me that it is more cathartic to cry your eyes out than try to keep it bottled up for fear of embarrassment, which is what many of us do in the West.
Afterwards, a Chinese colleague told me that the lamenting at the funeral had been restrained(克制) by Chinese standards. In some rural areas, she said, people used to be paid to mourn noisily. This struck me like something out of novel by Charles Dickens. But we have all seen on TV scenes of grief-stricken people in Gaza and the West Bank, in Afghanistan, Iraq and the relatives of victims of terrorist bombings around the world. Chinese grief is no different. I realized that it"s the reserved British way of mourning that is out of step with the rest of the world.
It was our newspaper"s production day. We were bussed back to the office to resume work. No more deadlines for our former colleague, but we had to pull together to put the newspaper to print. The boss invited the team to go out for dinner after work. We relaxed, smiled, joked. There was no mention of the funeral or our poor colleague. Enough sorrow had been shed already. We needed a break.
小题1:The underlined words “stiff upper lip style” mean “ ”.
| A．cold-blooded | B．warm-hearted |
| C．self-controlled | D．light-hearted |
| A．five individuals made speeches |
| B．the boss’s speech was best thought of |
| C．everyone was crying out loudly |
| D．the writer was astonished by the scene |
| A．are not willing to be sad for the dead |
| B．prefer to control their sadness in public |
| C．cry their eyes out at the public funeral |
| D．have better way to express sadness |
| A．the English might cry noisily for the dead in Dickens’ time |
| B．Chinese express their sadness quite unlike other peoples |
| C．victims of terrorist bombings should be greatly honored |
| D．English funeral culture is more civilized than the others |
| A．an editor’s death | B．bad funeral customs |
| C．western ways of grief | D．cultural differences |
It wasn"t.
After a long wait, I finally got one, but the traffic was heavy. I looked at my from time to time. Just as the traffic started moving, the driver a man up ahead in a wheelchair.
“Wouldn"t he be cold sitting right there!” the driver cried and began to .
I could see there would be another 20 minutes" — him into the cab, folding up his chair and putting it into the taxi"s small , then dropping him off who knows where.
“What are you doing?” I shouted to the driver.
As the came out, I wanted to take them back. The wrongness of my to the driver shocked me. Why did I let out the shout?
The driver me and we continued the journey. Eventually I got out of the taxi and
to the office. As I ran, I understood that, though it wasn"t my duty to take the time to help others, I shouldn"t have the driver"s stopping. I should have been able to see beyond my impatience to notice what was most inerrant (不会错的). Whenever I think of this incident, this is my : I am not a self-centered person, but I still feel
of being self-centered. Living a busy life in a fast-paced big city, do we still need to stop to help those who are in need of help?
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My big moment finally came in the summer of 1998 when I was able to accompany my parents to Europe, where my father was to attend a meeting. We planned to travel to Belgium, Netherlands and West Germany.
I have clear memories even today of going to Mumbai airport at night all excited about finally going abroad. I had heard several great things about Lufthansa till then but now I finally got to experience them first hand, during the flight to Frankfurt. We flew business class and even today I can remember the excellent service by the Lufthansa crew （工作人员）. The flight was really smooth and thoroughly enjoyable, even for someone like me, who is especially afraid of flying.
After spending almost two weeks in Europe, we took the Lufthansa airport express from Dusseldorf to Frankfurt airport, for our return flight. What a journey that was! All along the Rhine (莱茵河), it was simply an unforgettable experience. I had a sombre feeling on the flight back to Mumbai as it marked the end of a wonderful vacation, but the Lufthansa crew members were able to change it into a most enjoyable experience yet again, with the quality of their service.
Being the first airline to take me abroad, Lufthansa will always hold a special place in my heart. Even today，I continue to enjoy flights on Lufthansa and simply cannot dream of choosing any other airline. Flying, in general，for me，has always been a terrible and painful experience．Flying on Lufthansa，however, is something I always have and always will look forward to.
小题1:Which country does the author live in now?
| A．India. | B．Canada. | C．Belgium. | D．Germany. |
| A．Growing up in India. |
| B．Once staying in Canada. |
| C．Once traveling to Canada with his father. |
| D．His father"s stories about his traveling experiences. |
| A．The author traveled with one of his parents. |
| B．Both their going and return were by air. |
| C．They traveled in spring that year. |
| D．They stayed in Europe for nearly two months. |
| A．a city in India | B．a city in Europe |
| C．an airline company | D．a travel agency |
| A．happy | B．sad | C．angry | D．enjoyable |
Almost every day of every year, Murbach’s thoughts turn to vision of a perfectly shaped evergreen tree that will take everyone"s breath away.
Murbach is the man responsible for finding the towering tree that makes more attractive Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center each Christmas season.
“I"m always looking for a tree,” the center"s chief gardener says. “I look for it even when I go to the beach in the summer. It" s like a homework assignment hanging over your head.”
And if he gets it wrong, there"s nothing hiding it.
“Every day it"s up, 400,000 people go by, and 2.5 million people watch the lighting celebration on television,”he says.
This year’s tree, a 74-foot Nomy spruce (云杉) from Richfield, Ohio, flown to New York on the world"s largest cargo plane, was lighted on December 2.
The arrival of the tree leads in the Christmas season in New York — a tradition dating back to 1931, when the workers building Rockefeller Center put up a small tree with ornaments (装饰品).
The search for the next year"s tree starts soon after the old tree is chopped up for wood chips and horse-jumping logs.
Murbach has three standards: The tree must be at least 65 feet high, at least 35 feet across and leaves dense (密集的) enough not to see through.
That"s not as simple as it sounds. Though forests are full of evergreens, few get enough sunlight or space to fill out. And branches in snow regions often break under the weight, making trees unbalanced.
Back at the office, he sorts through hundreds of letters from people offering their trees, many addressed simply to “Mr. Christmas Tree Man.”
Though there was occasional anxiety attack and sleepless night, Murbach knows the effect the tree has on people: “It"s for bringing people together, attempting to bring together people you love. That"s what I hope it sets off.” But Murbach says he"s always too worn out to celebrate Christmas.
小题1: Which is the correct order of the events in the passage?
a. Murbach’s thoughts turn to a perfectly shaped tree.
b. 2.5 million people watch the Christmas tree.
c. The tree is flown to New York.
d. It was lighted on December 2.
e. The tree is chopped up.
f. Murbach searches for the tree.
| A．a, b, c, d, e, f | B．c, d, b, f, e, a |
| C．c, d, e, b, a, f | D．a, f, c, d, b, e |
| A．taking care of Christmas trees |
| B．deciding on the perfect evergreens |
| C．sorting the letters from people |
| D．deciding the TV programs |
| A．Because he wants everyone to be happy with his choice. |
| B．Because he hopes to make everybody unable to breathe. |
| C．Because he enjoys showing off. |
| D．Because he wishes to attract people"s attention to himself. |
| A．be evergreen |
| B．have lots of space between their branches |
| C．be tall enough not to see through |
| D．be equally balanced |
| A．A person always ignoring his family. |
| B．A person full of love. |
| C．A person devoted to his work. |
| D．A person with great anxiety. |
Hank went to school like other boys. His grades were good and he needed only eight years to finish his schooling instead of the usual twelve. After graduating from school, he worked his way through college. He swept floors, waited on table, or worked in one of the college offices. During all this busy life, he had been moving around on his stumps. But one day the doctor told him even the stumps were not going to last much longer. He would soon have to use a wheel chair.
Hank felt himself get cold all over. However, the doctor said there was a chance that he could be fitted with artificial legs(假腿). Finally a leg maker was found and the day came when Hank stood up before the mirror. For the first time he saw himself as he has always wanted to be—a full five feet eight inches tall. By this time he was already 26 years old.
Hank had to learn to use his new legs. Again and again he marched the length of the room , and marched back again. There were times when he fell down on the floor, but he pulled himself up and went back to the endless marching. He went out on the street. He climbed stairs and learned to dance. He built a boat and learned to sail it.
When World War II came , he talked the Red Cross into giving him a job. He took the regular training. He marched and drilled along with the other soldiers. Few knew that he was legless. This was the true story of Hank Viscardi, a man without legs.
小题1:Children laughed at Hank and called him ‘Ape Man’ because ______.
| A．he didn’t talk to them |
| B．he kept away from them |
| C．his arms touched the ground when he moved |
| D．he couldn’t use his arms |
| A．an average height for a fully grown person |
| B．too tall for an average person |
| C．too short for an average person |
| D．none of the above |
| A．did everything the other soldiers did |
| B．did nothing the other soldiers did |
| C．did some of the things the other soldiers did |
| D．took some special training |
| A．had no friends |
| B．never saw himself as different from others |
| C．was very shy |
| D．was too proud to accept help from others |
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