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Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135,000 demonstrators confronted police on the construction site of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide power to most of southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge demonstration said, the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrator had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area, would create thermal pollution in the bay, and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wasters. The demonstrations would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system would collapse.
Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconsideration of the power project and no delay in its construction set for completion in three years. “This project will begin on time and the people of this state will begin to receive its benefits on schedule. Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law,” he said. And police called in reinforcements from all over the state to handle the disturbances.
The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand demonstrators broke through police lines around the cordoned-off construction site. They carried placards that read “No Nukes is Good Nukes,” “Sun-power, Not Nuclear Power,” and “Stop Private Profits from Public Peril.” They defied police order to move from the area. Tear gas canisters fired by police failed to dislodge the protestors who had come prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths. Finally gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one. The protestors did not resist police, but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be charged with unlawful assembly, trespassing, and disturbing the peace.
小题1:What were the demonstrators protesting about?
A Private profits. B Nuclear Power Station.
C The project of nuclear power construction. D Public peril.
小题2:Who had gas-masks?
A Everybody. B A part of the protestors.
C Policemen. D Both B and C.
小题3:Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a reason for the demonstration?
A Public transportation. B Public peril.
C Pollution. D Disposal of wastes.
小题4:With whom were the jails and courts overloaded?
A With prisoners. B With arrested demonstrators.
C With criminals. D With protestors.
小题5:What is the attitude of Governor Stanforth Thumper toward the power project and the demonstration?
A stubborn. B insistent. C insolvable. D remissible.
答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:A
解析
这是一则有关反对核电站的群众示威抗议的新闻导报,采用对比手法。警方镇压;群众坚决抗议。第一段就写出了尽管警方释放催泪瓦斯,逮捕了5000多人,示威组织者申明抗议要继续下去,越来越多的抗议者参与对当局加压,想迫使其废除在当地建立核电站的计划。其理由是在人口密集地区建站不安全,在海湾产生热污染,核废料处理无有效方法。
第二段叙述了州长大人坚决维护核电站的立场,不再考虑计划修改问题,三年内要完成核电站建设。届时,本州人民得益。对企图破坏计划实施而违法的人将以法处置。已集结全州警察加强对付这次捣乱。
第三段讲了双方现场交战:星期五破晓,数千示威者(高举示威牌,上写:没有核电站就是好的核电站;不要核能,要太阳能等)冲过建设基地警察警戒线,警察用催泪瓦斯无效后,开始一个一个地抓逮示威者,被捕者将被控以非法集会、侵入和扰乱治安等罪名。
小题1:抗议建设核电站计划。不是抗议核电站。至于B. 核电站还未建,所以不对。A. 私人利益和 D. 公共危险,这些都是示威牌上之口号不是抗议的主攻方向。
小题2:最后一段第四行最后和第五行“抗议者准备了他们自己的防毒面具或面罩。最后,头戴防毒面具和头盔的警察冲进人群一个一个地抓逮示威者。”所以说两方面都有防毒面具。
小题3:A 公共交通运输。
B. 公共危险。 C. 污染。 D. 废料处理,是三个抗议的理由。
小题4:被逮捕的示威者。第一段最后一行“示威要继续下去直到州监牢和州法庭人满为患,从而使州司法体系垮台。”说明示威者准备去坐牢,决不服输的决心。而人多到监牢装不下证明州司法的问题。所以这里只能是被抓的示威者。
A. 犯人。 C. 罪犯。D.抗议者。警察不可能抓所有的抗议者。关在牢里的只能是被抓的示威者。
小题5:A 固执己见,冥顽不化。见第二段他坚持说核电站计划不用再考虑,三年内一定要建成,计划准时开始,本州人民到时候就能获益。对这些违法企图破坏计划的人依法惩处。并且从州内各处调集警察来处理这次“***乱”。从语言到行动都说明,这位州长固执己见,顽固得很。B. 坚持的。 C. 不能解决的。 D. 可宽恕的。
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试题【Antinuclear Demonstration Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 pas】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The game is played in the evening ___10___ every night of the week and ___11___ weekends as well. The season begins in April and ___12___ in the October. Football ___13___ most popular professional sport in the US. It is played on Sundays ___14___ the fall from August to January. American football is different ___15___ international football, ___16___ Americans called soccer. Both games require ___17___ and specialized skills. Professional players are very ___18___.The most famous players ___19___ millions of dollars for their playing skill. American best players have higher ___20___ than the country’s president.
1. A. Every B. Both C. Each D. All
2. A. million B. millions C. million of D. millions of
3. A. when B. where C. who D. whose
4. A. follow B. walk C. run D. jump
5. A. well-known B. well C. known D. fame
6. A. played B. is played C. plays D. are played
7. A. somebody B. one C. anyone D. everybody
8. A. America B. England C. American D. English
9. A. was called B. has been called C. is called D. be called
10. A. nearly B. close C. closely D. near
11. A. at B. in C. on D. during
12. A. finish B. finishing C. finished D. finishes
13. A. became B. is become C. is becoming D. has become
14. A. during B. while C. on D. at
15. A. of B. from C. with D. about
16. A. when B. that C. where D. which
17. A. strong B. strength C. strengthen D. stronger
18. A. well pay B. good pay C. well paid D. good paid
19. A. make B. had C. got D. received
20. A. money B. salaries C. pay D. wage
Yes, but what did we use to do before there was television? How often we hear statements like this! Television hasn’t been with us all that long, but we are already beginning to forget what the world was like without it. Before we admitted the one-eyed monster into our homes, we never fond it difficult to occupy our spare time. We used to enjoy civilized pleasures. For instance, we used to have hobbies, we used to entertain our friends and be entertained by them, we used to go outside for our amusements to theatres, cinemas, restaurants and sporting events. We even used to read books and listen to music and broadcast talks occasionally. All that belongs to the past. Now all our free time is regulated by the goggle box. We rush home or gulp down our meals to be in time for this or that programme. We have even given up sitting at table and having a leisurely evening meal, exchanging the news of the day. A sandwich and a glass of beer will do – anything, providing it doesn’t interfere with the programme. The monster demands and obtains absolute silence and attention. If any member of the family dares to open his mouth during a programme, he is quickly silenced.
Whole generations are growing up addicted to the telly(电视). Food is left uneaten, homework undone and sleep is lost. The telly is a universal pacifier. It is now standard practice for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living-room and turning on the set. It doesn’t matter that the children will watch rubbishy commercials or spectacles of sadism and violence – so long as they are quiet.
There is a limit to the amount of creative talent available in the world. Every day, television consumes vast quantities of creative work. That is why most of the programmes are so bad: it is impossible to keep pace with the demand and maintain high standards as well. When millions watch the same programmes, the whole world becomes a village, and society is reduced to the conditions which obtain in preliterate communities. We become utterly dependent on the two most primitive media of communication: pictures and the spoken word.
Television encourages passive enjoyment. We become content with second-hand experiences. It is so easy to sit in our armchairs watching others working. Little by little, television cuts us off from the real world. We get so lazy, we choose to spend a fine day in semi-darkness, glued to our sets, rather than go out into the world itself. Television may be s splendid medium of communication, but it prevents us from communicating with each other. We only become aware how totally irrelevant television is to real living when we spend a holiday by the sea or in the mountains, far away from civilization. In quiet, natural surroundings, we quickly discover how little we miss the hypnotic tyranny of King Telly.
小题1:What is the biggest harm of TV?
A It deprives people of communication with the real world.
B People become lazy.
C People become dependent on second-hand experience.
D TV consumes a large part of one’s life.
小题2:In what way can people forget TV?
A Far away from civilization. B To a mountain. C By the sea. D In quiet natural surroundings.
小题3:What does a mother usually do to keep her children quiet?
A Let them watch the set. B Put them in the living room.
C Let them watch the rubbish. D Let them alone.
小题4:What does the first sentence in the first paragraph mean?
A We found it difficult to occupy our spare time. B We become addicted to TV.
C What we used to do is different from now. D We used to enjoy civilized pleasures.
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Eu??rope, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish peo??ple starved when the crop failed during the "Potato Famine (饥荒)" of 1845—1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.
There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world’s largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.
according to an. Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee, bush. He tried one and experienced the " wide-awake" feeling that one third of the world’s population now starts the day with.
小题1:according to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?
A.Food. | B.Clothing. | C.Ideology. | D.Language. |
A.some cocoa trees | B.some chocolate drinks. |
C.some shops | D.some South American Indians |
A.they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else |
B.they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America |
C.the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes |
D.the potato harvest was bad |
A.One third of the world’s population drinks coffee. |
B.Coffee is native to Colombia. |
C.Coffee can keep one awake. |
D.Coffee drinks were first made by Arabs. |
In many countries, the main reason people come to live in towns and cities is work. After one or two large factories have been built in or near a town, people come to find a work, and soon an industrial area begins to grow. There is usually a residential area nearby, where the factory workers can live. The families of these workers need schools, hospitals and shops, so more people come to live in the area to provide these services—and a city grows.
In every major city in the world, there is a business district where the big companies have their main offices. In the United States, this area is usually in the city center downtown. It is here that you can see the huge skyscraper office blocks. The people who work here often travel a long way to work each day.
Many of them live in the suburbs of the city, far away from the industrial area and the city center. Some suburbs are very pleasant, with nice houses and big gardens. There are usually parks for children to play in and large department stores where you can buy all you need.
But what is the future of the big cities? Will they continue to get bigger and bigger? Perhaps not. Some major cities have actually become smaller in the last ten years, and it is quite possible that one day we will see people moving out of the major cities and back into smaller towns and villages.
小题1:We can easily know that the underlined phrase “urban areas” means._____
A.areas of the countryside |
B.areas of a town or city |
C.areas near the countryside |
D.areas near a town or a city |
A.Because they can live more comfortable there |
B.Because they prefer noisy life to peaceful life |
C.They do so mainly to find work |
D.They don’t like small villages |
A.has been going on for more than 2,000 years |
B.will continue in the future |
C.may not continue in the future |
D.is sure to stop |
Perhaps every student has this experience: once you are in your school uniforms, you will care more about your own behavior. Uniforms give you an identity that always reminds that you belong to a group. What you do will not only represent yourself, but also the group you belong to, as well as the people with you. In other words, you carry the responsibility to maintain the honor of the group. When you are in your own clothes, it doesn’t matter for you to behave badly in public, but when in your uniform, it does. For high school students, who are not adults yet, this is a good way to shape their behavior.
Moreover, uniforms create an atmosphere of equality. While permitted to wear their won clothes, students may pay much attention to what they wear, in order to show how rich their families are. While in uniforms, all students, rich or poor, look the same, and will be treated equally.
Besides, free from the desires to gain what is new in the shopping mall, wearing uniforms helps students to concentrate on their study.
For all the reasons above, I believe that it is a better choice for high school students to wear uniforms. They can wear them after school or on weekends.
小题1:According to the author, high schools that require students to wear uniforms______.
A.are more attractive to students |
B. are more strict with students |
C. carry out a better policy |
D. admit more excellent students. |
A.two | B.three | C.four | D.five |
A.focus on their study |
B.become responsible |
C.build up their confidence |
D.find the group they belong to |
A.A wise choice, to wear school uniform |
B.An honor, to wear your school uniform |
C.A difficult choice, in school uniform or not? |
D.A difficult choice, which school should we pick? |
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