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Mountain High and Annie"s Song have become very popular. But less than thirty years ago, John Denver was a young man with little more than a fine voice, a guitar, and a dream. Growing up in conservative (保守的) family, he was not believed to drop out of college and head to Los Angeles, where the music scene was flowering. Nor was he believed to succeed.
In Take Me Home, John Denver talked about the story that shaped his life, with the story of the rich inner journey of a shy Midwestern boy. With honesty and cleverness, he wrote about his childhood, the feeling of moving to Los Angeles as the 60s came, his first lucky breaks, his first songwriting success with leaving on a Jet Plane and finally got a world fame.
He also wrote about his relationship with his first and second wife, as well as his parents, his children, his partners through his life and his friends.
Honest and rich in the book that only a natural-born storyteller could write so well, Take Me Home is very good from the beginning to the end. It"s like spending a few days with a good friend.
小题1:This passage is probably about .
A.a book written by John Denver | B.the life and cause of John Denver |
C.how to write pop songs | D.what Los Angeles was like |
A.a famous book | B.a folk song in Los Angeles |
C.a wonderful movie | D.a pop song by John Denver |
A.John Denver"s family didn"t want him to leave college |
B.he often had trips when he was a shy boy |
C.he moved to Los Angeles with his parents |
D.his family believed he would succeed |
A.his first success in songwriting |
B.his family members including his parents, his wives and his children |
C.the problems of environment |
D.his life in los Angeles |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:C
解析
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试题【John Denver has got international fame as a pop star, songwriter, actor and envi】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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小题1: The passage implies that the SQ3R method .
A.needs to be prove | B.leaves much to be desired |
C.turns out to be practicable | D.cannot be used by every reader |
A.three | B.four | C.five | D.seven |
A.read the first several paragraphs | B.scan the whole chapter |
C.study the graphs | D.get the theme of chapter |
A.In the last step, you should remember all the information. |
B.When you finish the last step, you will get both the main idea and the details. |
C.The mental conversation involves answering the questions asked by the author. |
D.While you are holding a mental conversation you select the important information. |
B
China is going green.In order to reduce air pollution and oil shortages, carmakers have announced their plans to develop hybrid vehicles (混合燃料汽车) for the Chinese market.Toyota’s hybrid car Prius will be ready to drive in China this week.Let’s have a look at the new car.
Any vehicle is a hybrid run on a rechargeable battery and gas.Hybrid cars have special engines, which are smaller than traditional gas engines.The gasoline engine provides 99 percent of the power when the car is going at a steady speed. A specially designed battery motor provides extra power for running up hills or when it needs to speed up.
Step into a Prius, and turn on the engine.The first thing you notice is that it is quieter than a traditional car.At this point, the car’s gas engine is at rest.The electric motor will provide power until the car reaches about 24km/h.If you stay at a low speed, you are effectively driving an electric car, with no gas being used, and no waste gas given off.
The computer decides when to use the gas engine, when to go electric, and when to use a combination of the two.If you go over 24km/h, when you step on the gas pedal (油门), you are telling the computer how fast you want to go.
The electric motor recharges automatically using a set of batteries.And when driving at a high speed, the gas engine not only powers the car but also recharges the batteries.When you use the brake, the electric motor in the wheels will work like a generator (发电机) to produce electricity to recharge the batteries.As a result, the car’s batteries will last for around 200,000 miles.
66.The underlined sentence probably means ________.
A.there will be more and more green land in China
B.China’s new cars are combinations of different green models
C.China is still young and lacking in experience
D.the environment is getting better in China
67. What is the most important feature of hybrid cars?
A. They are powered by both a rechargeable battery and gas.
B. They have smaller engines than traditional gas ones.
C. They only use 99 percent of their power to run up hill.
D. They are much quieter than traditional cars.
68. We can know from the story that ________.
A. the gas engine recharges the batteries as well as powering the car
B. using the brake suggests that the gas engine should work
C. the car’s batteries will last for around 200,000 miles without being recharged
D. the batteries can be recharged at any time you want
69. The author writes the passage mainly to________.
A. announce plans to develop hybrid vehicles for the Chinese market
B. let people know how to save their gas when driving a car
C. teach people how to drive a hybrid car
D. introduce a new kind of “green” car
70.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?
A.The hybrid car is environmentally friendly.
B.The hybrid car is unable to get itself recharged.
C.The hybrid car has been made in mass.
D.The hybrid car can decide what power to use
Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of “rubbish talk”. The contents on his show are as surprising as they can be. For example, the show takes the ever-mon talk show titles of love, sex, cheating, and hate, to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is about the dark side of society, yet people are willing to eat up the troubles of other people’s lives.
Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its top. But Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show is mainly about the improvement of society and different quality of life. Contents are from teaching your children lessons, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.
pared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being poured into society. Jerry ends every show with a “final word”. He makes a small speech about the entire idea of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.
Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show’s main viewers are middleclass Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and ability to deal with life’s tough problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of a connection with the young adults of society. These are 18-to-21-year-olds whose main troubles in life include love, relationship, sex, money and drug. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned through the show’s exploitation.
小题1:pared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey are ____.
A.more interesting | B.more formal |
C.more detailed | D.unusually popular |
A.Family ine planning. | B.Nation hatred. |
C.A new type of robot. | D.Street accident. |
A.have bee the only ones of its kind |
B.attract different people |
C.appear at different times of the day |
D.exploit the weaknesses in human nature |
One father, for example, says, “When I was young, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games.We certainly never complained in an angry way to our parents, ‘I have nothing to do”.He compares this with his own children today: “They are simply lazy.If someone doesn’t play with them, they’ll happily sit there watching TV all day.”
There is one word for this father’s disappointment: unfair.It is as if he were disappointed in them for not reading Greek though they have never studied the language.He feels his children’s lack of inventiveness a great pity, as if the ability to play were something born that his children are missing.In fact, the tendency(倾向) to play is built into the human species, but the actual ability to play—to imagine, to invent in a playful way, and the ability to gain satisfaction after successful effort from it—these are skills that have to be learned and developed.
Such disappointment, however, is not only unjust, it is also destructive(毁灭性的).Sensing their parents’ disappointment, children come to believe that they are, indeed, lacking something, and that this makes them less worthy of admiration and respect.Giving children the chance to develop new things to enjoy themselves, to enrich their knowledge and experience and discover the pleasure of doing things on their own is, on the other hand, a way to help children develop a confident(自信)feeling about themselves as able and interesting people.
小题1:Many people think that, instead of watching a lot of TV, their children should_______.
A.think up things to enjoy themselves | B.find chances to talk with parents |
C.enjoy themselves outdoors | D.sit silently studying Greek |
A.they do not lack the ability to play |
B.they have not been given the opportunities to learn and develop their ability |
C.the children are too young to do that |
D.the children are not really lazy, but there’s nothing for them to do |
A.be more disappointed |
B.refuse to learn new things |
C.discover the pleasures of doing things on their own |
D.lose their confidence and respectability |
A.Parents should give children more help on how to be inventive. |
B.Turning off the TV will help us solve a lot of family problems. |
C.It’s not right for parents and children to blame(抱怨) each other. |
D.Today’s children are becoming less able and independent than before. |
A new study that looks at a different set of sensory cues adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests such combination is natural. In a paper, Bryan Gick and Donald Derrick report that people can hear with their skin.
The researchers had volunteers listen to spoken syllables. Meanwhile, they connected the volunteers to a device that would blow a tiny puff (气流) of air onto the skin of their hands or necks. The syllables included “ba” and “pa”, which produce brief puffs from the mouth when spoken, and “da” and “ta,” which do not produce puffs. They found that when listeners heard “da” or “ta” while a puff of air was blown onto their skin, they considered the sounds as “ba” or “pa”.
Dr. Gick said the findings were similar to those from the 1976 study, in which visual cues defeated auditory ones — volunteers listened to one syllable but thought it another because they were watching a video of mouth movements corresponding to the second syllable. In his study,he said,cues from sensory receivers on the skin defeated the ears as well. “Our skin is doing the hearing for us,” he said.
Dr. Gick noted that it would normally be rare that someone actually sensed a puff of air produced by another, although people might occasionally sense their own puffs. “What’s so persuasive about this particular effect,” he added. “is that people are picking up on this information that they don’t know they are using.” That supports the idea that combining different sensory cues is natural.
Dr. Gick said the finding also suggested that other sensory cues might be at work in speech perception(知觉) — that, as he put it, “we are these fantastic perception machines that take in all the information available to us and combine it faultlessly.”
小题1:“Da” or “ta” were considered as “ba” or “pa” when __________.
A.they were spoken quickly |
B.puffs of air were blown onto the listener’s skin |
C.they were pronounced using a special device |
D.they were made with face movements |
A.Humans combine different sensory cues through experience. |
B.Dr. Gick’s new study is more important than the one in 1976. |
C.People sometimes can sense their own puffs when speaking |
D.Only auditory and visual cues are at work in speech perception. |
A.We Can Hear with Our Skin |
B.Our Visual Cues Is Doing the Hearing for Us |
C.Facial Expressions Are Important |
D.We Are Fantastic Machines |
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