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It goes like this: You can"t take any means of transportation more than once. We would start from home, walking two blocks to the rail station. We"d take the train into the city center, then a bus, switching to the train, then maybe a taxi. We always considered taking a horse carriage in the historic district, but we didn"t like the way the horses were treated, so we never did. At the end of the day, we took the subway to our closest station, where Mom"s friend was waiting to give us a ride home—our first car ride of the day.
The good thing about Transportation Days is not only that Mom taught us how to get around. She was born to be multimodal (多方式的). She understood that depending on cars only was a failure of imagination and, above all, a failure of confidence—the product of a childhood not spent exploring subway tunnels.
Once you learn the route map and step with certainty over the gap between the train and the platform, nothing is frightening anymore. New cities are just lightrail lines to be explored. And your personal car, if you have one, becomes just one more tool in the toolbox—and often an inadequate one, limiting both your mobility and your wallet.
On Transportation Days, we might stop for lunch on Chestrut Street or buy a new book or toy, but the transportation was the point. First, it was exciting enough to watch the world speed by from the train window. As I got older, my mom helped me unlock the mysteries that would otherwise have paralyzed my first attempts to do it myself: How do I know where to get off? How do I know how much it costs? How do I know when I need tickets, and where to get them? What track, what line, which direction, where"s the stop, and will I get wet when we go under the river?
I"m writing this right now on an airplane, a means we didn"t try on our Transportation Days and, we now know, the dirtiest and most polluting of them all. My flight routed me through Philadelphia. My multimodal mom met me for dinner in the airport. She took a train to meet me.
小题1: According to the writer, what was the greatest benefit of her Transportation Days?
A.Building confidence in herself. |
B.Reducing her use of private cars. |
C.Developing her sense of direction. |
D.Giving her knowledge about vehicles. |
A.displayed | B.justified | C.ignored | D.ruined |
A.Airplane. | B.Subway. | C.Train. | D.Car. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:A
解析
试题分析:本文介绍了作者对于人的价值观的看法,人生的价值体现在给与我们有关的、我们所爱的人留下最美好,最珍贵的回忆。
小题1: 推理题:根据文章的第三段和第四段中的句子a failure of confidence—the product of a childhood not spent exploring subway tunnels和…, nothing is frightening anymore. 从而得出结论--- Building confidence in herself。选A
小题2:词义猜测题:通过对上下文的理解,可知这里需要解释为ruined。选D。
小题3:推理题:根据最后一段的句子:the dirtiest and most polluting of them all,可知作者对于飞机是这种交通工具并不喜欢。选A。
核心考点
试题【When my brother and I were young, my mom would take us on Transportation Days.It】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Some of those people that decide that they never want to a classroom again will most likely some sort of simple jobs. Others will either find a way aside from school to better themselves, through travel or giving back to the community.
High school graduates that already have their futures 0ut are pretty rare. They are the who have been preparing for college from the first day that they high school. They most likely applied early to the schools that they were interested and have already dedicated themselves to the career they want. Most of them will become doctors, lawyers, and business people, etc.
The last group of people is the biggest. It is the students who _ know that they want to do something but have no idea what. Some of them will _ the military and proudly serve our country. Others will go on t0 , take basic courses, and then decide what they want to major in. There will be some students even to a technical school to learn a specific that they can contribute to the workforce. is a stepping stone that can lead you on to better things if you will let it.
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There are four levels of sleep, each being a little deeper than the one before. As you sleep, your muscles relax little by little. Your heart beats more slowly, and your brain slows down. After you reach the fourth level, your body shifts back and forth from one level of sleep to the other.
Although your mind slows down, from time to time you will dream. Scientists who study sleep state that when dreaming occurs, your eyeballs begin to move more quickly (Although your eyelids are closed). This stage of sleep is called REM, which stands for rapid eye movement.
If you have trouble falling asleep, some people recommend breathing very deeply. Other people believe that drinking warm milk will help make you drowsy. There is also an old suggestion the counting sheep will put you to sleep!
小题1:A good title for this passage is ____.
A.Sleep | B.Dreams | C.Good Health | D.Work and Rest |
A.sick | B.asleep | C.stand up | D.a little sleepy |
A.dream more often | B.have poor health | C.nervous | D.breathe quickly |
A.your eyes move quickly | B.you dream | C.you are restless | D.both A and B |
A.approximately six hours | B.around ten hours |
C.about eight hours | D.not described here |
After putting their ducks in a row and videotaping them, some researchers found ducks on the end of each row spent more time asleep with one eye open, apparently looking for predators.
“The more the ducks felt threatened, the more they slept with one eye open,” said lead author Niels C. Rattenborg, a graduate student at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. “The unique aspect is not that they do it, but that they control it. When they sleep at the edge of a group, they tend to realize greater danger, so they spend more time sleeping with one half of their brain.” Ducks with one eye open were still awake enough to detect predators, said the authors of the study, which appears today in the journal Nature.
The researchers studied four groups of four ducks held in plastic boxes, which were arranged in a row. Ducks on the end were found to sleep with one eye open 31.8 per cent of the time, compared to 12.4 percent of the time for ducks in the central position.
Also, ducks in the central position did not open one eye more than the others, while ducks on each end kept the eye facing away from the group open 86.2 per cent of the time. Brain wave readings of the ducks showed that the half of the brain receiving signals from the closed eye indicated that half of the brain was sleeping. Signals from the half of the brain receiving signals from the open eye showed a state between fully awake and asleep.
小题1:The under lined word “predator” is most likely to mean .
A.an animal that is likely to be friends with ducks |
B.a human being who looks after and feeds ducks |
C.a scientist who does research work on animals |
D.an animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals |
A.they are looking for food |
B.they are watching out for danger |
C.they want to enjoy the scenery |
D.they are unique in their sleeping habit |
A.Ducks with one eye open at the edge can still enjoy a certain degree of sleep. |
B.Ducks with less sense of duty usually choose to stay in the center of a row. |
C.Ducks on the northern end of a row would keep their eye facing the south open. |
D.A video tape recorder was the only electronic device used in the experiment. |
小题1:What led to the argument in Italian middle schools?______
A.Students" craze for fashions. | B.Clothes that are too exposing. |
C.Students" ignoring dress codes.(规则) | D.Students" underwear. |
A.Fashion should be taken seriously. |
B.Fashion should not be followed in school. |
C.Students should have their freedom in choosing what they wear. |
D.Students should be encouraged to have good taste in clothes. |
A.dress in Italian schools is too casual |
B.fashion should not be followed in school |
C.schools should pay attention to things more important than students" clothes |
D.low-rise jeans can do harm to youngster"s health |
A.show Chinese students that wearing very fashionable clothes in school is under attack in other countries, too. |
B.show that dress code is necessary even in a country like Italy |
C.let us see that Italian students react differently to schools" requests. |
D.tell us that a debate started in Italian middle schools over the way students dress in School |
Every year, damp air masses,known as monsoon,produce large amounts of rainfall in India, East Asia, Northern Australia and East Africa. All this wet air is pulled in by a high pressure area over the Indian Ocean and a low pressure area to the south.
According to Edward Cook , a weather expert at Columbia University in New York., the complex nature of the climate systems across Asia makes monsoons hard to predict. In addition, climate records for the area are too recent and not detailed enough to be of much use. Therefore, he and a team of researchers spent more than fifteen years traveling across Asia, looking for trees old enough to provide long-term records. They measured the rings, or circles, inside thousands of ancient trees in more than 300 places.
Rainfall has a direct link to the growth and width of rings on some kinds of trees. The researchers developed a document they are calling a Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas. It shows the effect of monsoons over seven centuries, beginning in the 1300s.
Professor Cook says the tree-ring records show periods of wet and dry weather. “If the monsoon basically fails or is a very weak one, the trees affected by monsoons at that location might put on a very narrow ring. But if the monsoon is very strong, the trees affected by that monsoon might put on a wide ring for that year. So, the wide and narrow ring widths of the chronology that we developed in Asia provide us with a measure of monsoon variability.” With all this information, researchers say they can begin to improve computer climate models for predicting the behavior of monsoons.
“There has been widespread famine and starvation and human dying in the past in large droughts. And on the other hand, if the monsoon is particularly heavy, it can cause extensive flooding.” said Eugene Wahl, a scientist with America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “So, to get a sense of what the regional moisture patterns have been, dryness and wetness over such a long period of time in great detail, I would call it a kind of victory for climate science.”
小题1:What’s the passage mainly about?
A.The effects of Asian monsoons. |
B.The necessity of weather forecast. |
C.The achievements of Edward cook. |
D.A breakthrough in monsoon prediction. |
A.it is hard to keep long-term climate records. |
B.they are formed under complex climate systems. |
C.they influence many nations. |
D.there is heavy rainfall in Asia. |
A.Long and detailed climate records can offer useful information for monsoon research. |
B.The Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas has a monsoon record for about 1,300 years. |
C.The trees affected by monsoon grow fast if the monsoon is weak. |
D.The rainfall might be low although the monsoon is strong in monsoon-affected areas. |
A.determine the regional climate. |
B.have a great influence on the regional climate. |
C.offer people information about the regional climate. |
D.reflect all kinds of regional climate information. |
A.Matter-of –fact | B.Pessimistic | C.Humorous | D.Friendly. |
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