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It has been rightly said that when a man is sitting behind a steering wheel (方向盘), his car becomes the extension of his personality. There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man’s very worst qualities. People who are normally quiet and pleasant may become unrecognizable when they are behind a steering-wheel. They are ill-mannered and aggressive, willful as two-year-olds and absolutely selfish. All their hidden disappointments and regrets seem to be brought by the act of driving.
The surprising thing is that society smiles so kindly on the motorist and seems to forgive his behavior. Everything is done for his convenience. Cities are allowed to become almost impossible to live in because of heavy tragic; towns are made ugly by huge car parks; the countryside is ruined by road networks; and the mass annual slaughter becomes nothing more than a statistic, to be conveniently forgotten.
It is high time a world system of laws were created to reduce this senseless waste of human life. As for driving, the laws of some countries are not strict and even the strictest are not strict enough. Here are a few examples of some the things that might be done. The driving test should be standardized and made far more difficult than it is; all the drivers should be made to take a test every three years or so; the age at which young people are allowed to drive any vehicle should be raised to at least 21; all vehicles should be put through strict annual tests for safety. Even the smallest amount of alcohol in the blood can affect a person’s driving ability. Present drinking and driving laws (where they exist) should be made much stricter. Maximum and minimum speed limits should be introduced on all roads. Governments should lay down safety specifications (规范) for manufacturers, as has been done in the USA. All advertising stressing power and performance should be banned. These measures may sound inordinately severe. But surely nothing should be considered as too severe if it results in reducing the annual toll of human life. After all, the world is for human beings, not motor-cars.
小题1:The main idea of this passage is _________.
A.Traffic accidents are mainly caused by motorists. |
B.Thousands of people the world over are killed each year. |
C.The laws of some countries about driving are not too strict. |
D.Only stricter traffic laws can prevent accidents. |
A.Society laughs at the motorists. |
B.Huge car parks are built in the cities and towns. |
C.Victims of accidents are nothing. |
D.Society forgives their rude driving. |
A.Driving can show his real self. |
B.Driving can show the other part of his personality. |
C.Driving can bring out his character. |
D.His car can express his temper. |
A.Build more highways. | B.Make stricter driving tests |
C.Test drivers every three years. | D.Raise age limit and lay down safety specifications. |
A.ironical | B.critical | C.appealing | D.favorable |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:A
小题5:B
解析
试题分析:这篇文章主要是批判了现行的一些行为及法规纵容了一些肇事汽车驾驶员,并针对这一问题提出了一些建议。
小题1:根据全文内容以及But surely nothing should be considered as too severe if it results in reducing the annual toll of human life,故选D。
小题2:根据The surprising thing is that society smiles so kindly on the motorist and seems to forgive his behavior.故选D。
小题3:根据There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man’s very worst qualities以及All their hidden disappointments and regrets seem to be brought by the act of driving,A项为正确答案。
小题4:根据Here are a few examples of some the things that might be done. The driving test should be standardized and made far more difficult than it is; all the drivers should be made to take a test every three years or so; the age at which young people are allowed to drive any vehicle should be raised to at least 21; all vehicles should be put through strict annual tests for safety.故选A。
小题5:这篇文章主要是批判了现行的一些行为及法规纵容了一些肇事汽车驾驶员,故选B。
点评:要想答好题目,重在理解全文意思。这篇文章非常简单,先看问题,再带着问题读短文,找出各段落的主旨句,理解全文内容,总结全文中心,然后再回到问题上来,很容易选出正确答案。
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试题【From the health point of view we are living in a marvelous age. We are immunized】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am,” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times.”
But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate (命运).
For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature(文学) with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school—one that often attracts the literary-minded (有文学头脑的) children of Manhattan’s upper classes—into a less competitive school. The daughter of immigrants (移民), with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph.D.’s.
Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “it"s about being a man, it’s about manliness (男子气概).” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies (独白) read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck’s writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white.” His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.
Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.
小题1:The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to________.
A.realize our dreams |
B.give support to our life |
C.smooth away difficulties |
D.awake our emotions |
A.Because they spent much time reading it. |
B.Because they had read the novel before. |
C.Because they came from a public school. |
D.Because they had similar life experiences. |
A.she was a literary-minded girl |
B.her parents were immigrants |
C.she couldn’t fit in with her class |
D.her father was then in prison |
A.creatively | B.passively | C.repeatedly | D.carelessly |
A.introduce classic works of literature |
B.advocate teaching literature to touch the heart |
C.argue for equality among high school students |
D.defend the current testing system |
Friends of the Earth (FOE) campaigns on a range of problems including rainforests, the countryside, water and air pollution and energy. Friends of the Earth International Secretariat P. O. Box 19199 1000 G. D. Amsterdam The Netherlands | Greenpeace uses peaceful but direct action to defend the environment. It campaigns to protect rainforests and sea animals, stop global warming and end pollution of air, land and seas. It also opposes nuclear (核) power. Greenpeace International 1016 DW Amsterdam The Netherlands |
BirdLife international is an organization which works to save endangered birds all over the world BirdLife International Wellbrook Court Girton Road Cambridge CB3 ONA England | WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature is the world’s largest private international organization for the protection of nature and endangered species. Information Officer WWF International Avenue du Mont-Blanc 1196 Gland Switzerland |
A.call them | B.write them a letter |
C.visit them | D.send them an e-mail |
A.Overhunting ocean animals. |
B.Killing endangered birds. |
C.Heavy air pollution. |
D.Global warming. |
A.Friends of the Earth |
B.World Wide Fund For Nature |
C.BirdLife International |
D.Greenpeace |
A.It helps to protect nature and save endangered animals. |
B.It is the world’s largest international organization. |
C.It works for private companies and rich people. |
D.It is a private organization in the United States. |
A.Endangered animals |
B.Global traffic problems |
C.Environmental protection organizations |
D.Natural beauty |
The extent of the disaster in an earthquake depends on many factors. If you carefully build a toy house with an erect set (坚立架), it will still stand no matter how much you shake the table. But if you build a toy house with a pack of cards, a slight shake of the table will make it fall. An earthquake in Agadir was not strong, but it completely destroyed the city. Many stronger earthquakes have done comparatively little damage. If a building is well constructed and built on solid ground, it will resist an earthquake. Most deaths in earthquakes have been due to faulty building construction or poor building sites. A third and very serious factor is panic. When people rush out into narrow streets, more deaths will result.
There is one type of earthquake disaster that little can be done about. This is the disaster caused by seismic (地震的) sea waves, or tsunamis (海啸). These are often called tidal waves, but the name is incorrect. They had nothing to do with tides. In certain areas, earthquakes take place beneath the sea. These submarine earthquakes sometimes give rise to seismic sea waves. The waves are not noticeable out at sea because of their long wave length. But when they roll into harbors, they pile up into walls of water 6 to 60 feet high. The Japanese call them “tsunamis” meaning “harbor waves”, because they reach a sizable (相当大的) height only in harbors.
Tsunamis travel fairly slowly, at speeds up to 500 miles an hour. An earthquake warning system is in use to warn all shores likely to be reached by the waves. But this only enables people to leave the threatened shores for higher ground: There is no way to stop the oncoming wave.
小题1:Which of the following can NOT be concluded from the passage?
A.The number of earthquakes is closely related to the depth. |
B.Roughly the same number of earthquakes occur each year. |
C.Earthquakes are impossible at depths over 460 miles. |
D.Earthquakes are most likely to occur near the surface. |
A.faulty building construction |
B.an earthquake’s strength |
C.widespread panic in earthquakes |
D.ineffective instruments |
A.their high speed |
B.the wide shores |
C.their silent movements |
D.their long wave length |
A.help reduce fear |
B.find ways to stop them |
C.be warned early enough |
D.develop warning systems |
A.two | B.five | C.four | D.three |
First of all, it seems that TV channels will have disappeared by 2050. A computer will send the program directly to the television. On TV screen appear holograms(全息图), which are pictures with certain height, width and depth. We will be able to see, smell and touch the things that we see on television.
Water has become one of our most serious problems. Agriculture is changing and people are growing more fruit and vegetables to export. Demand for water will increase ten times in 2050. Some futurologists predict that water will be the cause of war if we don’t act now.
In transport, cars will run on new fuels and go very fast. A car will have computers to control its speed and there won’t be any accidents. On the other hand, space planes will take people around the earth in about three hours. People will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo by space plane in just half an hour.
In the field of technology, robots will have replaced people in factories. By 2050, we will see robots everywhere. They do not ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day.
Medicine technology will have conquered many diseases by 2050; we will be able to help blind and deaf people see again and hear again. Scientists have discovered how to control genes. They have already produced clones of animals and will be able to produce clones of people and decide how they look, how they behave and how much intelligence they have. If you want all this to come true, you should study science and technology hard.
小题1:What is the main difference between today’s and 2050’s TV?
A.We can use a computer to turn off the TV set. |
B.We can talk with the characters appearing on TV. |
C.We can choose whatever we like to see on TV. |
D.We can touch the things we see on TV. |
A.Technology. | B.Medicine. | C.Movies. | D.Agriculture. |
A.The lack of water. | B.The less farmland. |
C.The shortage of robots. | D.The more space planes. |
A.people will spend less time in studying |
B.more and more people needn’t go to school |
C.people will have more time to relax or rest |
D.no patients will be found in the world |
Artistic roller skates are made up of a leather boot, very strong sole plate, and a jump bar that adds extra force. The boot sits a few inches above the ankle, providing more support for the foot.
Jam Skates
Jam skates are the most different roller skates because of their special low-cut design and lack of toe stop. That’s right: there is no brake. But the original jam skate design was different, resembling an artistic skate. Jam skating is more about personal expression rather than speed skating. The free-flowing movements of jam skating have been given many names. But regardless of its name, jam skating has always been about expression and passion.
Speed Skates
A speed skate resembles a shoe. The cut of the boot is lower. Speed skates typically offer lightweight plates to reduce exhaustion for skating long distances. Jam skates have preferred speed skates because they offer a similar design and freedom of movement. The most obvious difference is that a speed skate features a toe stop, unlike a jam skate that uses a toe plug.
Rhythm Skates
Rhythm skates are similar to jam skates. The difference between them lies in the boot design. In fact, the boot design looks very similar to an artistic skate, essentially providing you with the ankle support benefits of an artistic skate, but the freedom of movement of a jam skate. If you want a skate that allows you to move to the beat, which added ankle support, the rhythm skate is the ideal choice.
小题1:Which of the following is NOT a feature of jam skates?
A.They have no brake |
B.They lack a toe stop |
C.They have no toe plug. |
D.They have a unique, low-cut design. |
A.Rhythm skates | B.Jam skates | C.Speed skates | D.Artistic skates |
A.they have a high boot cut |
B.they allow free-flowing movement. |
C.they are able to stabilize the foot |
D.they can help jam skates reduce tiredness. |
A.They both offer some support for the ankles. |
B.They both have a similar boot design. |
C.They are both suitable for free-flowing movement. |
D.They are both about personal expression and passion. |
A.The original jam skate design has hardly changed. |
B.The original jam skate design was similar to an artistic skate. |
C.Jam skates have gradually become a type of speed skate. |
D.Jam skating has many names because it’s about expression and passion. |
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