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Driving home from work one evening in the heavy rain, I found a very wet, injured cat on the side of the road. He looked up at me, meowing pitifully. A car must have hit it so it wasn’t able to move. I stopped my car and carried the cat in and went on driving.
At the nearest vet clinic, the vet gently examined it. "He"s about eight months old and has two broken legs, but I would need X-rays to know how serious the damage is," he told me. "As he"s not your cat, I don"t know if you want to go ahead with this. It could be rather expensive."
I knew it would cost me hundreds of dollars, but I agreed with his advice. The following morning the vet rang to say the X-rays confirmed two bad breaks in his legs. "I"ll operate on his legs and put metal pins in them to keep them fixed." he told me.
That afternoon I went to pick up my little friend. There I could hardly recognize him. His previously dirty fur was now a beautiful silver grey. His front legs were in two casts and he lay there looking at me, purring(发咕噜声) happily.
I thanked the doctor and went out to pay the bill. "I think you"ve given me the wrong account," I said to the clerk. "This is only $85. He"s had X-rays and an operation on his legs." "No, that"s right," she replied. "The vet has only charged you for the medication. There"s a message on the bottom."
Written under the total were the words "SPECIAL RATE FOR ADOPTIONS." I was speechless at his kind and generous gesture. I paid the account and under his message I wrote "WITH GRATEFUL THANKS, CAT AND MUM."
小题1:Why didn’t the vet give the cat X-rays immediately?
A.The damage was not serious at all. |
B.The cat was too young to be X-rayed. |
C.The doctor wasn’t sure whether the author would like to cover the expenses. |
D.The examination was too expensive for the author to afford. |
A.The author was a caring and generous lady. |
B.The author often adopted animals. |
C.The author’s workplace was far from home. |
D.The author only worked at night. |
A.He was deserted by his owner and nearly starved to death. |
B.He was saved on a dark and stormy night. |
C.He was a lively creature with beautiful brown fur. |
D.His back legs were broken and had to have an operation. |
A.The adventure of a cat |
B.An impressive vet |
C.An unforgettable night |
D.Love in relays |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:D
解析
小题1:事实细节题。根据第二段"As he"s not your cat, I don"t know if you want to go ahead with this. It could be rather expensive.可知,兽医告诉作者这将会很昂贵,是否要继续
小题2:推理判断题。因为作者明知治疗费用昂贵还继续为这个流浪猫治疗,可知作者很有爱心,很慷慨。
小题3:事实细节题。根据第一段Driving home from work one evening in the heavy rain, I found a very wet, injured cat on the side of the road. He looked up at me, meowing pitifully. A car must have hit it so it wasn’t able to move. 可知,这是一个夜晚,下着大雨。
小题4:主旨大意题。文章讲的是作者的善举感动了兽医,最终兽医也愿意为了这只猫儿献出子的爱心,即少收费用,这是一场爱心大接力。
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试题【Driving home from work one evening in the heavy rain, I found a very wet, injure】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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In James Cameron’s fantasy films, such as Avatar and The Abyss, the unexplored is decorated in color and filled with alien danger. But on his dive to the deepest place on Earth, which took place on a Sunday last month, reality proved far different: white, deserted, and dull.
“I felt like I literally had gone to another planet and come back,” Cameron said after returning from the cold, dark place in the western Pacific Ocean, nearly 7 miles (11km) below the surface. “It was a very fantastic day.” Cameron is the first person to explore the deepest valley in the ocean since two men made a 20-minute trip there in 1960.
He spent about three hours gliding through the icy darkness, brightened only by lights on the one-man sub(潜水艇). This deepest section of the Mariana Trench is so untouched that at first it appeared dull. But there’s something strangely interesting about the first pieces of video that Cameron shot — a sense of aloneness.
“It’s really the sense of isolation, realizing how tiny you are down in this big, black and unexplored place,” the Titanic director said. The wordless minute-long video, released by sponsor National Geographic, shows Cameron’s sub gliding across what he calls “the very soft, almost gelatinous(胶状的) flat plain.”
To Cameron, the main thing was to appreciate being there. “There had to be a moment where I just stopped, and took it in, and said, ‘This is where I am; I’m at the bottom of the ocean, the deepest place on Earth. What does that mean?’” Cameron told reporters during a conference call. The trip was only about half as long as planned because Cameron’s battery ran low. He said he would return and film it in 3D for later viewing.
“I see this as the beginning,” Cameron said. “It’s not a one-time deal and then moving on. This is the beginning of opening up this new frontier.”
小题1:Why did Cameron dive to the deepest place on Earth?
A.To study ocean creatures in the deepest valley. |
B.To prove his strong will and perseverance. |
C.To get support from National Geographic. |
D.To open up a new frontier. |
A.Cameron’s fantasy film, Avatar was inspired by his dive to the deepest place on Earth. |
B.Cameron glided through the icy darkness alone by lights of the one-man sub. |
C.Cameron didn’t stay at the bottom of the ocean as planned because he was worn out. |
D.Cameron felt bored when he went to the deepest valley in the ocean. |
A.he appreciated and took pride in being at the bottom of the ocean |
B.he was disappointed because the trip was only about half as long as planned |
C.Cameron wanted to show the public he had been to the deepest place on Earth |
D.he wouldn’t stop exploring the deepest place in the future |
A.Generous. | B.Diligent. |
C.Self-centered. | D.Adventurous. |
A.James Cameron’s Fantasy Films. |
B.The First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth. |
C.A Dive to the Deepest Place on Earth. |
D.Crazy Cameron. |
Some students get so nervous before a test, they do poorly even if they know the material. Sian Beilock, a psychology professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois, has studied these highly anxious test-takers.
Sian Beilock says: “They start worrying about the consequences. They might even start worrying about whether this exam is going to prevent them from getting into the college they want. And when they worry, it actually uses up attention and memory resources. I talk about them as their cognitive(认知的)horsepower that they could otherwise be using to focus on the exam.”
Professor Beilock and another researcher, Gerardo Ramirez, have developed a possible solution. Just before an exam, highly anxious test-takers spend ten minutes writing about their worries about the test. The researchers tested the idea on a group of 20 anxious college students. They gave them two short math tests. After the first one, they asked the students to either sit quietly or write about their feelings about the upcoming second test. The researchers added to the pressure. They told the students that those who did well on the second test would get money. They also told them that their performance would affect other students as part of a team effort.
Professor Beilock says those who sat quietly scored an average of 12 percent worse on the second test. But the students who had written about their fears improved their performance by an average of five percent.
Next, the researchers used younger students in a biology class. They told them before final exams either to write about their feelings or to think about things unrelated to the test.
Professor Beilock says highly anxious students who did the writing got an average grade of B+, compared to a B-for those who did not.
The research shows that for students who are highly test-anxious, who’d done the writing intervention(介入), all of a sudden there was no relationship between test anxiety and performance. Those students most likely to worry were performing just as well as their classmates who don’t normally get nervous in these testing situations.
But what if students do not have a chance to write about their fears immediately before an exam or presentation? Professor Beilock says students can try it themselves at home or in the library and still improve their performance.
小题1:The purpose of the passage is .
A.to build the confidence of the highly anxious test-takers |
B.to introduce a research about the anxious test-takers |
C.to improve the performance of the test-takers |
D.to tell something about the highly anxious test-takers |
A.attention and memory resources |
B.worries about the consequences |
C.concerns about the exam |
D.cognitive horsepower |
A.sit quietly before the exam |
B.prepare well before the test |
C.set their mind on happy memories |
D.write about their feelings before the test |
A.proper amount of burden may turn out to be a good thing |
B.avoiding facing the problem may contribute to relaxation |
C.facing the fears bravely may help one to achieve more |
D.taking no action before difficulty may result in success |
If I were writing a history of my family, some of the darkest moments recorded would be those surrounding Christmas trees. One would certainly think otherwise; selecting and putting up our trees have always been filled with risk.
For example, one afternoon dangerously close to Christmas Eve my mother bought what she thought to be a bargain, a glorious tree that was so full and tall that we could hardly get it into the house. Once we did, my father immediately realized that we would have to hire a carpenter to build a stand for it.
Another December, perhaps the very next one, we bought a tree earlier than we ever had before. We were happy with its shape and delighted that its size was manageable. We easily placed it in a stand, decorated it from top to bottom, and then self-satisfiedly sat back by the fire in its soft light.
Two or three days passed and the truth could not be hidden; we had bought a tree cut so long ago that its needles were coming off. There was nothing to do but undecorated it, take it down, and begin tree shopping again.
Our most recent Christmas tree offered still another difficult task. When we brought it home, once again it seemed larger than it was in the great outdoors. To complicate matters, we had bought a new stand, one whose nuts(螺帽)and bolts(闩子)worked more mysteriously than those of our old stands. I persuaded two young neighbors to stop playing basketball and to help us get the tree into the house and set it correctly in the stand. Unfortunately, no one noticed the mud on our helpers’ shoes, so only after removing several reddish brown sports from the carpet were we able to discuss the question of where the lights and ornaments(装饰)were stored. Perhaps those who cut their own trees have tales more painful than these. I don’t care to hear them, as my family’s experiences are enough to cause me to make the following suggestion: “Let’s forget the tree next Christmas. Let’s simply hang some flowers on the front door and over the mirror in the hall.”
小题1:The darkest moments in the writer’s family were with the fact that .
A.the family bought big Christmas trees |
B.they had problems decorating their Christmas trees |
C.they had problems picking suitable Christmas trees |
D.they had problems finding carpenters for putting up Christmas trees |
A.forget about Christmas stories |
B.get the neighbors to put up their trees |
C.buy a better tree to celebrate Christmas |
D.make other decorations rather than Christmas trees |
A.she bought the tree at a cheap price | B.she didn’t really want to buy it |
C.she had to bargain hard with the salesman | D.she couldn’t afford a more expensive one |
A.How to Select a Christmas Tree | B.No More Christmas Tree for Us |
C.Dark Moments of Life | D.Christmas Without Trees |
Plants are very important living things. Life could not go if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. So animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us.
If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering plants.
Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed, some have two, three or four, and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit.
Most non-flowering plants don’t grow from seeds. They grow from spores. Spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as he seeds. When these spores fall on wet and shady places, they usually grow into new plants.
小题1:The main idea of the passage is that .
A.plants are important for life | B.plants cannot grow without air |
C.there are many plants around us | D.we cannot live without water |
A.Plants can be divided into main types: flowering plants and non-flowering plants. |
B.All fruits have seeds in them. |
C.Seeds are protected by the fruits. |
D.Some plants grow from spores. |
A.开花的 | B.有花的 | C.多花的 | D.不开花的 |
A.a lot of sunshine | B.a lot of water | C.no water | D.little sunshine |
There are several ways you can find out about the countries and places you wish to visit. You can talk to friends who have travelled to the places. Or you can go and see a color film. Or you can read travel books.
It would seem that there are three kinds of travel books. The first are those that give a personal, subjective(主观的)account of travels which the author has actually made himself. If they are informative and have a good index(索引), then they can be useful to you when you are planning your travels. The second kind are those books whose purpose is to give a purely objective(客观的)description of things to be done and seen. If a well-read, cultured person has written such a book, then it is even more useful. It can be sorted as a selected guide book. The third kind are those books which are called “a guide” to some place or other. If they are good, they will, in addition to their factual information, give an analysis or an explanation. Like the first kind they can be inspiring and interesting. But their basic purpose is to help the reader who wishes to plan in the most practical way.
Whatever kind of travel book you choose you must make sure that it does not describe everything as “wonderful”, “excellent” or “magical”. You must also note its date of publication because travel is a very practical affair and many things change quickly in the twenty-first century. Finally, you should make sure that the contents are well presented and easy to find.
小题1:This passage is about .
A.how to travel | B.how to buy travel books |
C.how to read a travel book | D.travel books |
A.the book written by some people who have had the same travel experience themselves |
B.the book which tells you what is worth doing and seeing based on the facts |
C.the book in which a lot of big adjectives are used to draw your attention |
D.the book which offers you a lot of useful information like a tour guide |
A.the world is changing and so are the places you are going to visit |
B.the price of the book is always changing |
C.the author of the book may be different |
D.the contents of the book are always the same |
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