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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is one of life’s __1__ questions and people have been debating about it for thousands of years. Now scientists believe they have solved this _2__. Researchers from Sheffield and Warwick Universities in England discovered the answer __3__. They used a super computer to observe the shell-making process while a new shell was __4__. Then they found one protein called OC17 that is __5__ for forming eggshell. This is only found inside a chicken’s body, which is proof that the _6__ came first. The team was __7__ looking at how animals and birds make eggshells but suddenly made their surprising __8__. The big question now is where chickens came from. The _9__ is from dinosaurs.
The research team said eggshells are one of nature’s most __10__ creations. Professor John Harding from the team told reporters: “Understanding how chickens make eggshells is fascinating in itself, but it can also be __11__ in designing new materials.” Eggshells are very lightweight but incredibly strong. Even the most up-to-date materials __12__ by the world’s top engineers can not produce anything as __13__ as an eggshell. Professor Harding added that __14__ eggshells could help to cure bone diseases and design materials for the construction industry.“Nature has found wonderful ways that __15__ for all kinds of problems in materials science and technology — we can learn a lot from them.” he said.
小题1:
A.strangestB.bestC.oldestD.longest
小题2:
A.puzzleB.storyC.historyD.idea
小题3:
A.on purposeB.by chanceC.without hesitationD.at work
小题4:
A.breakingB.changingC.disappearingD.forming
小题5:
A.necessaryB.easyC.kindD.impossible
小题6:
A.eggB.eggshellC.chickenD.dinosaur
小题7:
A.obviouslyB.originallyC.thoughtfullyD.surprisingly
小题8:
A.inventionB.mistakeC.statementD.discovery
小题9:
A.answerB.researchC.keyD.egg
小题10:
A.strangeB.ridiculousC.funnyD.amazing
小题11:
A.hopefulB.helpfulC.respectfulD.colorful
小题12:
A.boughtB.cutC.designedD.carried
小题13:
A.brilliantB.ordinaryC.1ightD.strong
小题14:
A.findingB.watchingC.studyingD.making
小题15:
A.happenB.workC.waitD.look

答案

小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:B
解析

小题1:C oldest“古老的”。
小题1:A puzzle“难题,谜团”。
小题1:B by chance“偶然”。符合题意。
小题1:D shell-making process“蛋壳形成的过程”,故选D。
小题1:A necessary,是蛋壳形成必须的。
小题1:C chicken“(小)鸡”,蛋白质OC17只存在鸡的体内,故先有鸡。
小题1:B originally“最初,起初”,起初在观察蛋壳如何形成时,
小题1:D discovery“发现”。“突然发现了这个现象”。
小题1:A“答案是鸡来自恐龙”。answer与question对应。
小题1:D根据文意知,选D,蛋壳是自然界最令人惊异的发明之一。
小题1:B helpful“有帮助的”。蛋壳能帮助组织新物质。
小题1:C designed“被......设计”。
小题1:A brilliant“灿烂的,光辉的”。形容蛋壳的优点。
小题1:C研究团队是在“研究”蛋壳。
小题1:B work for…“为......效力”。自然界蕴含解决各种问题的奇妙的的方法。
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LEEDS, England ─ A Leeds University psychology (心理学) professor is teaching a course to help dozens of Britons forgive their enemies.
"The hatred we hold within us is a cancer," Professor Ken Hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
More than 70 people have become members in Hart’s first 20-week workshop in London ─ a course he says is the first of its kind in the world.
These are people who are sick and tired of living with a memory. They realize their bitterness is a poison they think they can pour out, but they end up drinking it themselves, said Canadian-born Hart.
The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.
The course, ending in July, is expected to get rid of the cancer of hate in these people. "People have lots of negative attitudes towards forgiveness," he said. "People confuse forgiveness with forgetting. Forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one."
Hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.
"The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes towards the person you are angry with," said Norman Claringbull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project.
Hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people "want to get free of the past".
小题1:From this passage we know that ______.
A.high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hatred
B.high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professors
C.without hatred, people will have less trouble connected with blood and heart
D.people who suffer from blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemies
小题2:If you are angry with somebody, you should ______.
A.try your best to defeat him or her
B.never meet him or her again
C.persuade him or her to have a talk with you
D.try to build up a positive attitude towards the person
小题3: In Hart’s first 20-week workshop, people there can ___.
A.meet their enemies
B.change their minds
C.enjoy the professor’s speech
D.learn how to quarrel with others
小题4: If you are a member in Hart’ s workshop, you’ll ______.
A.pay much money to Hart
B.go to the workshop every night
C.attend a gathering twice a month
D.pour out everything stored in your mind
小题5: The author wrote this passage in order to ________.
A.persuade us to go to Hart’s workshop
B.tell us the news about Hart’s workshop
C.tell us how to run a workshop like Hart’s
D.help us to look at various kinds of angers

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Mr. Grey was the manager of a small office in London. He lived in the country, and came up to work by train. He liked walking from the station to his office unless it was raining, because it gave him some exercise.
One morning he was walking along the street when a stranger stopped him and said to him, “You may not remember me, sir, but seven years ago I came to London without a penny in my pockets, I stopped you in this street and asked you to lend me some money, and you lent me £ 5, because you said you were willing to take a chance so as to give a man a start on the way to success.”
Mr. Grey thought for a few minutes and then said, “Yes, I remember you. Go on with your story!” “Well,” answered the stranger, “are you still willing to take a chance?”
小题1:How did Mr. Grey get to his office?
A.He went up to work by train.
B.He walked to his office.
C.He went to his office on foot unless it rained.
D.He usually took a train to the station and then walked to his office if the weather was fine.
小题2: Mr. Grey liked walking from the station to his office because ________.
A.he couldn’t afford the busesB.he wanted to save money
C.he wanted to keep in good healthD.he could do some exercises on the way
小题3:Mr. Grey had been willing to lend money to a stranger in order to______.
A.give him a start in lifeB.help him on the way to success
C.make him richD.gain more money
小题4:One morning the stranger recognized Mr. Grey, and_______.
A.wanted to return Mr. Grey the money
B.again asked Mr. Grey for money
C.would like to make friends with him
D.told Mr. Grey that he had been successful since then

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In order to know a foreign language thoroughly(完全地), four things are necessary. First, we must understand the language when we hear it spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves, correctly with confidence(自信) and without hesitation(犹豫). Thirdly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are correct in grammar.
There is no short way to succeed in language learning. A good memory(记忆) is a great help, but it is not enough only to memorize the rules from a grammar book. It is no much use learning by heart long lists(一览表) of words and their meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language. If we are pleased with a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. We must “Learn through use”. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and writing the language whenever(无论何时) we can.
小题1: The most important things to learn a foreign language are_______.
A.understanding and speaking
B.hearing, speaking, reading and writing
C.writing and understanding
D.memorizing and listening
小题2:Someone hears and writes English very well, but he speaks it very badly. This is because____.
A.he doesn’t understand the language when he hears it spoken
B.he doesn’t have a good memory
C.he always remember lists of words and their meanings
D.he often hesitates to practise speaking it
小题3: One can never learn a foreign language well only by_______.
A.much practice B.studying the dictionary
C.learning through useD.using the language
小题4:Which of the following is the most important in learning a foreign language?
A.A good memory.B.Speaking and writing.
C.Practice.D.Writing.
小题5:“Learn through use” means_______.
A.we use a language in order to learn it
B.we learn a foreign language in order to use it
C.we can learn a language well while we are using it
D.both B and C

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What is EQ? In the early 1990s, Dr. John Mayer, Ph.D., and Dr. Peter Salovey, Ph.D., introduced the term “emotional intelligence” in the Journal of Personality Assessment. They used this term to describe a person’s ability to understand his or her own emotions and the emotions of others and to act properly based on this understanding. Then in 1995, psychologist Daniel Goleman popularized this term with his book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.
EQ gives you a competitive advantage. Even at Bell Labs, where everyone is smart, studies find that the most respected and productive engineers are those with the special qualities of emotional intelligence quotient — it’s not necessary for them to have the highest IQ. Having a high IQ may make you an excellent expert or a legal scholar, but a highly developed emotional intelligence quotient will make you a candidate (候选人)for a leader or a brilliant lawyer. EQ can make it more likely that your marriage will be successful. Lack of EQ shows why people with high IQ can be such bad pilots of their personal lives.
The study shows that these men with high IQ also lack these emotional abilities: suffering from being criticized and misunderstood, shy and uncomfortable, emotionally stimulated(激励). Compared with those men with high IQ, these men (with high EQ) are calm and friendly, who are loyal to people and careers, have lots of sympathy with and care for others, with a rich but suitable emotional life  — they’re comfortable with themselves, others, and the human society they live in.
Is your intelligence the greatest predictor of what you’ll achieve in life? We have believed that IQ is the best measure of human potential for so many years. In the past 10 years, however, researchers have found that isn’t necessarily the case---that in fact, your EQ might be a greater predictor of success.
High IQ may help you the father of science fiction, but it won’t make you a respected person. High EQ can help you more.
小题1:What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A In daily life and work, EQ is more important than IQ.
B High IQ will have a bad effect on people’s lives.
C It’s not necessary for people to have a high IQ.
D You’d better develop your intelligence well in order to be a leader.
小题2:The underlined sentence “this isn’t necessarily the case” in Paragraph 4 means here that ____.
A your IQ is a greater predictor of success
B success is dependent on your IQ
C your EQ can predict your success better
D human potential is up to your IQ
小题3:From the text, it can be inferred that ____
A high IQ can help you work better and succeed more easily
B high EQ must make you succeed
C all the bosses have a higher EQ than their employees
D those with high IQ are hot valued
小题4:The text is written mainly to advise ____.
A people should only pay attention to their EQ
B people should develop their EQ as well as their IQ
C those who want to act as leaders should develop their EQ
D people should not develop their IQ too much
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Honeybees
Honeybees can do three kinds of jobs.
It is one of the most unusual insects in the world. Bees are special because they divide up their honeybee work. Each bee has a certain job to do.
The busiest bee is the worker. Workers build the nest, called a hive. Inside the hive, workers make a honeycomb from wax(蜂蜡). They store honey there for food. Workers are always cleaning and fixing the hive. They even stand at the opening and fan their wings to cool the hive. Worker bees will attack anything—even people—to keep their hive safe.
Another kind of bee is the drone(雄蜂). Drones are male bees, and their job is to fly with the queen bee and mate with her. After the queen mates, the worker bees drive the drones away. The drones then starve to death.
The third kind of bee is the queen. Each hive needs only one queen, and her job is laying eggs. She can lay as many as 2, 000 eggs a day.
小题1:The bee’s nest is called a _______.    
A.hive B.honeycomb C.drone D.wax
小题2:Which jobs do workers do?
A.They lay 2, 000 eggs each day and build a nest.
B.They mate with the queen bee and then starve.
C.They clean the hive and keep it cool.
D.They attack the queen bee.
小题3:According to the story, bees _______.  
A.are very dangerous insects
B.will attack anything or anyone to protect the hive, if necessary
C.are like any other insect that flies
D.eat each other as food
小题4:The drone is driven away when its job is finished, because _______.  
A.it attacked the workersB.it is no longer needed in the hive
C.the queen bee has diedD.it ate the queen bee

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