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New Orleans is famous for its wild Mardi Gras celebrations.New Orleans is also a major port for foreign oil and other shipping trade.Yet the city of nearly five hundred thousand people was built below sea level.New Orleans has depended on levees to control floods from the Mississippi River.Katrina struck on Monday.New Orleans avoided a direct hit.But two of the levees failed the next day.Most of the city was flooded.Helicopters dropped huge sandbags to fill the breaks.But the water had no place to go.Pumping stations had no power.
America faces one of the worst natural events in its history.President Bush says the recovery will take years.People were told to leave the path of the storm.But some would not or could not.Many of those worst affected by Katrina are poor and black.African-American leaders and others were angry that government aid did not arrive faster.President Bush visited some of the damaged areas on Friday.He said the way officials reacted to the crisis was unacceptable.
小题1:Which is true of the following details about New Orleans?
A.New Orleans is a newly-built city of America |
B.There were no black people in New Orleans. |
C.This is the first time that hurricane has stricken it. |
D.New Orleans is a major port for foreign oil and other shipping trade. |
A.trees | B.dams | C.ports | D.ships |
A.It also caused the destruction in parts of Mississippi. |
B.A lot of people died in this disaster. |
C.It cut off the electricity supply of the city. |
D.All of the above is right. |
A.President Bush was not concerned about this disaster. |
B.The recovery of the city will take a few days. |
C.In this disaster the government aid didn’t arrive in time. |
D.In this city there were no pump stations. |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
解析
小题1:第一段中“historic cities”可以排除A项;第三段中“Many of those worst affected by Katrina are poor and black”可以排除B项;第三段第一句话可以排除C项。
小题2:通过本段下文“to control floods from the Mississippi River”和“But two of the levees failed the next day.Most of the city was flooded”可推断出levees表示“(挡水的)堤坝”,因此选dams。
小题3:通过第一段可知A,B正确;通过第二段Pumping stations had no power推出C正确;因此答案选D。
小题4:通过第三段“African-American leaders and others were angry that government aid did not arrive faster”可推断出C项是正确的。
核心考点
试题【Building after building under water.Refugees in shelters.Thousands of others uns】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
The ridge structure on a person’s fingers does not change with growth and is not affected by surface injuries. Burns, cuts and other damage to the outer part of the skin will be replaced in time by new one, which bears a reproduction of the original② pattern. It is only when the inner skin is injured that the arrangement will be destroyed. Some criminals make use of this fact to remove their own finger-prints but this is a dangerous and rare step to take.
Finger-prints can be made very easily with printer’s ink. They can by recorded easily. With special methods, identification③ can be achieved successfully within a short time. Because of the simplicity and economy of this system, finger-prints have often been used as a method of solving criminal case. A suspected man may deny a charge but this may be in vain. His finger-prints can prove who he is even if his appearance has been changed by age or accident.
When a suspect leaves finger-prints behind at the scene of a crime, they are difficult to detect with the naked eye. Special techniques are used to “develop” them. Some of the marks found are incomplete but identification is possible if a print of a quarter of an inch square can be obtained.
Notes:
① unique adj. 唯一的,独特的
② original adj. 最初的,原始的
③ identification n. 辩认,鉴定
小题1: Scientists and experts have proved that the pattern of a human being’s finger skin ________.
A.is similar to his mother’s |
B.is valuable to himself only |
C.is like that of others with the same type of blood |
D.is different from that of all others |
A.be changed partly | B.be replaced by a different one |
C.be the same when the wound is recovered | D.become ugly |
A.using printer’s ink | B.injuring the inner skin |
C.damaging the outer skin | D.damaging the colour |
A.is complicated but reliable | B.is simple and not expensive |
C.is expensive but easy to do | D.can bring a lot of money |
That’s difficult. And so they come from around the world to attend the Charles W. Howard School in Midland, Mich. The school offers a three-day, 40-hour course for Santas hoping to be excellent. There’s a real range to what Santas earn, from big bucks for large events to no pay for charities①. One thing for them all is a pure love for children.
A former Macy’s Santa named Charles Howard founded the Michigan school in 1937. “Many people will think if you have a suit and you’re a Santa,” said Tom Valent, the school’s current dean. “It’s more than that.” So with a pet reindeer②, his properly named wife Holly and a workshop full of wonder.
The school teaches everything from breathing techniques for carol singing to the beard maintenance. There are lessons in child psychology, sign language and even media training for talk-show appearances and call-in shows. Santas also need to make sure they know all the names of the reindeer. What’s harder to deal with, however, is children who ask for Christmas gifts like bringing daddy home or making mommy happy again.
After spending time in the classroom, Weir went to the mall to test his training. However, at one point, his hat fell off, and he was unsure how to react. “You’re the real Santa,” Valent said. “Pick that hat up, slip it back on, keep smiling and do your job. You’ve got to stay on top of your game. Even the last one at night, when you’re tired, you’ve got to remember: This one’s forever, so do a good job.”
Notes:
① charity n. 慈善,慈善团体
② reindeer n. 驯鹿
小题1:According to the passage, good Santas should be the ones that ________.
A.can offer the children some gifts | B.help adults look after their children |
C.have ability to make children happy | D.should be perfect in the mind of children |
A.lots of money | B.many gifts | C.loves for children | D.gifts from children |
A.train the pet reindeer for the Santas | B.earned money from its students |
C.train perfect Santas for the world | D.show the world’s concern to the poor |
A.Weir was short of experience | B.Weir was not fit for the job as a Santa |
C.Weir did very badly in the game | D.Weir was not a good student in school |
If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.
My daughter Carla’s fifth - grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a prefect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed.
You can use the same technique when you evaluate (评价)your child’s work at home. Don’t always scold and give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn’t done. If your child completes a difficult task, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.
Learning is a process(过程)of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.
小题1:The whole passage deals with ________.
A.social education | B.school education |
C.family education | D.pre - school education |
A.there is no way to get children to help at home |
B.the more encouragement and praise you give, the more responsible and helpful children will become |
C.it is very difficult to make children responsible for housework |
D.children can be forced to help with housework |
A.praise his success | B.promise him a trip |
C.give him a punishment | D.promise him a ball game |
A.learn from himself, for he has a good way of teaching |
B.take pride in Carla’s fifth - grade teacher |
C.do as what Carla’s teacher did in educating children |
D.follow Carla’s example because she never fails in the test |
A.pride goes before a fall |
B.practice makes perfect |
C.no pains, no gains |
D.failure is the mother of success |
The Pine Street Foundation conducted its research on the belief that cancer cells give off a different type of metabolic(新陈代谢) waste product than normal cells. According to the study, the difference is so great that it can be detected by a dog’s sense of smell, including both early and late stages of the disease.
In the conclusion of the study the Pine Street Foundation said that even ordinary dogs may be trained to identify the presence of cancer with only a breath sample. The organization also said that dogs can recognize the disease with astonishing amount accuracy and, finally, that the dog’s detection was not hindered(妨碍) by the presence of age, smoking or stage of cancer.
The Pine Street Foundation plans to continue their research and is currently seeking funding to launch new studies.
小题1:If we want to add several different detecting examples to the passage, we should write them
__________.
A.between paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 | B.between paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 |
C.between paragraph 3 and paragraph 4 | D.before paragraph 1 or after paragraph 4 |
A.Dogs may smell cancer | B.Why dogs can smell cancer |
C.A Study on dogs’ special ability | D.A study on breast cancer |
A.they can detect faster than man | B.their sense of smell is very sensitive |
C.dogs metabolize the food slowly | D.patients give off bad smell |
A.all dogs can be used to smell cancer |
B.it’s not easy to find out cancer in the early stage |
C.most of the research experiments are successful |
D.dogs detect cancer by breathing and feeling |
The town was there first. Two Roman roads crossed there, and there are signs of building before Roman times (earlier than A.D. 43). Cambridge became a center of learning, and the authority of the head of the university was recognized by the king in 1226.
With about 8,250 undergraduates and over2,000 postgraduates, the city is a busy place in “full term” .Undergraduates are not allowed to keep cars in Cambridge, so nearly all of them use bicycles. Don’t try to drive through Cambridge during the five minutes between lectures. Your bicycle must go through a boiling sea of other bicycles hurrying in all directions, if you are in Cambridge at five minutes to the hour any morning of full term, you know that you are in a university town.
小题1:What is called a university town?
A. A town with a university in it
B. B. A university with a town in it.
C. One where there is no clear separation between a university and a town.
D. One where there are both a university and a town.
小题2:How many students does Cambridge have?
A.Eight thousand, two hundred and fifty. | B.Two thousand. |
C.Ten thousand. | D.More than ten thousand. |
A.the university is all over the town |
B.the town came earlier than the university |
C.during the five minutes between lectures, your bicycle must go through other bicycles hurrying in all directions. |
D.the teachers have many strange ways of making their lectures lively and interesting. |
A.Cambridge—A University Town. | B.Cambridge – A Centre of Learning |
C.Cambridge with Many Students. | D.Cambridge with a Long History |
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