Most kinds of rose plants come from Asia. But roses are also native to other areas including northwest Africa, Europe and the United States. In 1986, Congress chose the rose as America’s national flower. Technically, Congress and President Ronald Reagan declared it the “national floral emblem.” Whatever the name, the decision did not smell sweet to supporters of others popular flowers. Some people say roses are difficult to grow. But you have a good chance of success if you start with a few suggestions from experts. You should plant your roses where they can get sunshine for about six hours on bright days. You can buy roses form a garden center or by mail order. You can buy potted roses, also known as container roses, or bare-root plants. Each kind has its fans. Some gardeners say potted roses are easier to plant. They say the roots develop better. But Jeffrey Dinslage, an expert, pint out that bare-root roses come without soil. So they weigh less to transport. Another expert advises getting bare-foot roses as close to planting time as you can. If they arrive before you are ready to plant them, make sure the packing material is moist. Keep the plants in a cool, dark place. The resting plants have no leaves but still need water. When growing roses, the soil should feel moist deep down. Watering should be done in the morning. But do not water too much. People often ask Jeffrey Dinslage about unhealthy discoloration on rose leaves. He says the spots are usually caused by too much water. After heavy rains or too much watering, he advises pulling away mulch, the substance used to protect the roots, temporarily from around the roots. This will help dry the soil. 小题1:From the first paragraph, we know that in the United States _______. A.all the people like roses | B.there are a lot of national flowers | C.some roses don’t smell sweet | D.there are some other popular flowers | 小题2:Why does Jeffrey Dinslage suggest planting bare-root roses?A.They are easier to plant. | B.Their roots develop better. | C.They are cheap to transport | D.Their leaves need no water | 小题3:Which of following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “moist”?A.Slightly wet. | B.Pretty dry. | C.Too hard. | D.Lightly soft. | 小题4:According to Jeffrey Dinslage, people should ______ to avoid the spots on the rose leaves. A.not water roses in the morning | B.protect the roots of roses | C.improve the quality of the soil | D.not water roses very much |
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试题分析:文章大意:1986年,美国国会选择了玫瑰作为国花。如何在花园种植玫瑰,本文给出了一些建议。 小题1:D细节理解题。根据文章第一段第三句In 1986, Congress chose the rose as America"s national flower. 可知B不正确;C项文中未提到;根据第一段最后一句Whatever the name, the decision did not smell sweet to supporters of other popular flowers.可知A项错误。故D正确。 小题2:C细节理解题。根据文章第三段最后一句So they weigh less to transport.。故C正确。 小题3:A词义推测。根据文章第四段中的…make sure the packing material is moist. Keep the plants in a cool, dark place. The resting plants have no leaves but still need water.可以知道moist为“潮湿的”之意。 故A正确。 小题4:D 推理题。根据文章最后一段Jeffrey Dinslage建议可知人们不应当给玫瑰浇太多的水。故D正确。 |
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Cold weather has a great effect, on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the word “cold”. For centuries, the body’s blood has been linked closely with the emotions. People who show no human emotions or feelings, for example, are said to be cold-blooded. Cold-blood people act in a merciless way. They may do brutal things to others, and not by accident. For example, a newspaper says the police are searching for a cold-blooded killer. The killer murdered someone, not in self-defense. He seemed to kill with no emotion. Cold can affect other parts of the body, the feet, for example. Heavy socks can warm your feet, if your feet are really cold. But there is an expression ---- to get cold feet--- that has nothing to do with cold or your feet. The expression means being afraid to do something you decided to do. For example, you agree to be president of an organization. But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned. All the work of the organization will be your responsibility. You are likely to get cold feet about being president when you understand the situation. Cold can also affect your shoulder. You “give someone the cold shoulder” when you refuse to speak to them. You treat them in a distant, cold way. The expression probably come from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to- face. You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you or to someone who has lied about you to others. “A cold fish” is not a fish. It is a person. But it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and show no love or warmth. A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone. “Out in the cold” is and expression often heard. It means not getting something that everybody else got. A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise. He was left our in the cold. And it is not a pleasant place to be. 小题1: The text is intended to tell us that ______. A.cold weather has a great effect on human bodies | B.“cold” is a word closely linked with human emotions | C.many English expressions contain the word “cold” | D.the word “cold” has many different meanings in English | 小题2:The underline word “brutal” in paragraph 1 most probably means ______. A.merciless | B.illegal | C.impolite | D.extreme | 小题3:Which phrase can best describe a person who is unwilling to offer anything to others?A.Cold-blooded. | B.To get cold shoulder. | C.A cold fish. | D.A cold shoulder. | 小题4:If the teacher gives all the boys except Tom a pen as a prize, you can say he ______. A.is given the cold shoulder | B.is punished by a cold fish | C.has got cold feet | D.is left out in the cold |
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"Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, "some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home." But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen hade been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like. Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, "to install (安装) an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others" conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant "to cheat", and since the 1940s it has been annoying. We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as "little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison "had been up the two previous nights discovering "a bug" in his invented record player." 小题1:We learn from Paragraph 1 that __________________.A.Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug | B.George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug | C.the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century | D.both Englishman and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century | 小题2:What does the word "flaw" in the last paragraph probably mean?A.Fault. | B.Finding. | C.Origin. | D.Explanation. | 小题3:The passage is mainly concerned with__________________.A.the misunderstanding of the word bug | B.the development of the word bug | C.the public views of the word bug | D.the special characteristics of the word bug |
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Laziness is a state of inaction. It is something that you do, not something that you are. Being lazy means you have no to do anything. This is obvious but the mistake that many people make is themselves as someone who is lazy. Lazy people are often seen as useless. , are they really being lazy or are they acting lazy? There is a huge difference between saying you are lazy sometimes and you are a lazy person. One is suggesting that your laziness is while the other suggests that it’s permanent. This is the myth of laziness. People who are lazy aren’t lazy; they are people who are temporarily acting that way. So what causes a person to be inactive? The answer is a lack of goals. If you give someone a good enough to do something, he will do it. People who don’t seem to do anything just haven’t found a good enough reason to do something. Lazy students don’t study because they don’t see the in studying. For example, if you are too lazy to clean out the garage, would someone a gun to your head help you take action? The reason can be positive or negative it’s strong enough to induce(引起) action. To motivate someone who is lazy, what you need to do is to help him find enough to work towards a certain goal.
小题1: | A.motivation | B.question | C.promotion | D.courage |
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小题2: | A.agreeing | B.denying | C.identifying | D.refusing |
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小题3: | A.Otherwise | B.Besides | C.However | D.Therefore |
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小题4: | A.correct | B.false | C.temporary | D.inspirational |
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小题5: | A.simply | B.occasionally | C.often | D.hardly |
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小题6: | A.excuse | B.gift | C.chance | D.purpose |
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小题7: | A.point | B.success | C.situation | D.difficulty |
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小题8: | A.dropping | B.pointing | C.shooting | D.hiding |
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小题9: | A.as long as | B.as soon as | C.so that | D.in case |
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小题10: | A.reasons | B.money | C.energy | D.Confidence |
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The world’s native languages are dying out at an unprecedented(空前的) rate, taking with them irreplaceable(不能替代的) knowledge about the natural world, according to a new study. The study identified five global “hot spots” where languages are vanishing faster than anywhere else ---- eastern Siberia, northern Australia, central South America, the US state of Oklahoma and the US Pacific Northwest. “Languages are suffering a global extinction crisis that greatly goes beyond the pace of species extinction,” linguistics(语言学的) professor David Harrison noted, who said half of the world’s 7,000 languages were expected to disappear before the end of the century. Native people had an intimate(详尽的) knowledge of their environment that was lost when their language disappeared, along with other certain things often unfamiliar to us, Harrison stressed. “Most of what we know about species and ecosystems is not written down anywhere, it’s only in people’s heads,” he said. “We are seeing in front of our eyes the loss of the human knowledge base.” Harrison was one of a team of linguists who carried out the study. The researchers traveled to Australia this year to study native languages, some of the most endangered. According to Harrison, in Australia, they were heartened to see a woman in her 80s who was one of the only three remaining speakers of the Yawuru language passing on her knowledge to schoolchildren. He said such inter-generational exchanges were the only way native languages could survive. “The children had elected to take this course, no one forced them,” he said. “When we asked them why they were learning it, they said,‘This is a dying language, we need to learn it’.” Also, while there they found a man with knowledge of the Amurdag language, which had previously been thought extinct. The researchers said all five of the hot spots identified were areas that had been successfully colonized and where a dominant language such as Spanish or English was threatening native tongues. 小题1:What does this text mainly talk about?A.A study on native languages endangered. | B.The knowledge of native languages. | C.People’s efforts in saving native languages. | D.Harrison and his study on languages. | 小题2:The underlined word“vanishing”in the second paragraph can be best replaced by .A.developing | B.changing | C.increasing | D.Disappearing | 小题3:According to Harrison, language extinction .A.causes the researchers lots of worries | B.speeds up the pace of species extinction | C.threatens the existing of Spanish and English | D.brings about a loss of knowledge about the environment | 小题4:Which of the following can be described as good news?A.Native languages became less endangered in Australia. | B.A man was found with knowledge of the Amurdag language. | C.Researchers were well received by native people in Australia. | D.Many schoolchildren showed interest in the Yawuru language. |
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The western world has always been divided into two types of people—the cool and the uncool. It is a division that in school. The cool kids are good at .They are with the opposite sex .They are good-looking and people want to their style. They can do their homework but they don’t make a big effort. That would be cool. The uncool kids are in the other corner of the playground. They are very bright ,but they don’t have great skills and they are at sports .When they are not programming computers or doing calculus(微积分)in their heads ,they are reading comic books and watching shows like the “X Files” .They are as the geeks. Here’s the news. The geeks are .Make friends with them now or they will put virus in your computer and your maths homework to ruin. Geeks might not be popular at school, yet they do pass their examinations ,and they might not be too popular at university, but good degrees. The most important of the 21st century ,computers and IT, has been at least partly created by geeks .Geek heroes like Bill Gates others to follow their example .Being a geek is a way of earning good money .And the creation of the Internet gave them a of their own to work and play in ,making them a global .Besides ,the effect of the geeks popular culture has started a new trend(趋势).It is now cool to be .Geek culture is becoming an important part of general popular culture ,in which what you know is more important than you look like. But there are also . Geeks were often bullied or laughed at in school. Now a geek may be your boss .Perhaps it is time for .
小题1: | A.continues | B.makes | C.remains | D.starts |
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小题2: | A.computers | B.studies | C.sports | D.maths |
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小题3: | A.pleasant | B.popular | C.crazy | D.average |
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小题4: | A.copy | B.advance | C.take | D.act |
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小题5: | A.not | B.indeed | C.perhaps | D.actually |
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小题6: | A.speaking | B.operating | C.social | D.experimental |
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小题7: | A.speechless | B.sharp | C.active | D.hopeless |
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小题8: | A.known | B.referred | C.thought | D.admired |
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小题9: | A.taking on | B.taking up | C.taking over | D.taking in |
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小题10: | A.put | B.cause | C.bring | D.serve |
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小题11: | A.win | B.take | C.wish | D.finish |
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小题12: | A.industry | B.discovery | C.progress | D.development |
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小题13: | A.promise | B.discourage | C.demand | D.excite |
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小题14: | A.chance | B.space | C.world | D.career |
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小题15: | A.force | B.company | C.organization | D.department |
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小题17: | A.rich | B.attractive | C.handsome | D.uncool |
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小题18: | A.how | B.that | C.what | D.how much |
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小题19: | A.opportunities | B.dangers | C.possibility | D.question |
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小题20: | A.punishment | B.argument | C.competition | D.employment |
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