Bolivia has a population three and a half million . About one tenth of the total population are white ; one-fourth are mixed Indians and white ; and more than half are full-blooded Indians . The government and the industries are under the control of the white people .
The Indians today live in much the same way as their ancestors . Most of them are farmers . Many work in the mines , for mining is the most important industry on Bolivia’s . Of all the mining products , tin is the most important , which makes up three-fourths of all Bolivia’s exports . The eastern slopes of the Andes , since there are very few roads there , are fertile but not highly developed . The two primary means of transportation are river boats and porters . East of the hill region are the great plains where tropical plants are grown . A serious problem for Bolivia is the transport of food from the warm regions , where it is grown to the mountainous regions , where most of the people live .
Bolivia gained its independence from Spain about a hundred years ago . It has been slow in developing , but its rich resources promise a better future in it .
小题1:The majority of the Bolivian population are .| A．full-blooded Indians | | B．mixed Indian and white | | C．white citizens | | D．all whites and mixed-blooded people |
小题2:The Indian’s way of life today is | A．quite different from that of their ancestors | | B．quite interesting | | C．almost the same as their ancestors’ | | D．very exciting |
小题3:The main product Bolivia exports is | A．tropical plants | B．gold and silver | C．tin | D．food |
小题4:Bolivia has been slow in developing , but it has hope for a better future because of its .| A．mining products | B．rich resources | | C．independence from Spain | D．two primary means of transportation |
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小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:B |
试题分析：
小题1:A 细节题。根据第一段1,2行About one tenth of the total population are white ; one-fourth are mixed Indians and white ; and more than half are full-blooded Indians说明A正确。
小题2:C 细节题。根据第二段第一行The Indians today live in much the same way as their ancestors说明C正确。
小题3:C 细节题。根据第二段2,3行Of all the mining products , tin is the most important说明C正确。
小题4:B 细节题。根据文章最后一句It has been slow in developing , but its rich resources promise a better future in it .说明B正确。
点评：文章介绍了玻利维亚的地理和矿产以及人口等细节情况。在解答这类问题时要求学生抓住题干文字信息，采用针对性方法进行阅读，因为这类题的答案在文章中可以直接找到。 |
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试题【Bolivia has a population three and a half million . About one tenth of the total】；主要考察你对
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John keeps a record of new words and expressions in English. He usually writes them in a note-book. Then, later in the day, he asks his teacher about them. “Mrs. Thomas, these expressions are new to me. ‘She’s blue today.’， ‘You’re yellow’, ‘A little white lie’, ‘She has green fingers’.” After looking at the note-book, Mrs. Thomas says, “In everyday English, John，‘blue’ sometimes means sad. ‘Yellow’ means afraid. A person with ‘green fingers’ grows plants successfully. And ‘a white lie’ is not a bad lie.” “I don’t understand. Please give me an example.” “ For example, I offer you some cake. The truth is that you don’t like my cake. You don’t say that. Instead, you say, ‘No, thanks, I"m not hungry.’ That’s a white lie.” John says, “I see , thanks for the explanation!”
小题1:“Blue” sometimes means in spoken English “_____”.| A．angry | B．lucky | C．glad | D．unhappy |
小题2:A person with “green fingers” is one who _____ planting.| A．is a new hand in | B．is good at | | C．works hard at | D．is interested in |
小题3:“You’re yellow to fight.” means “_____.”| A．You dare not fight | B．You dare to fight | | C．You"re afraid to see a fight | D．You’re able to fight |
小题4:If you say “It’s a white lie.”, it means that someone _____.| A．says something unreal and harmful | B．is unfriendly to talk to others | | C．refuses to tell the truth in a polite way | D．is telling a big lie |
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Lucky is the man who has no “skeleton in his closet.” When a man has done something in his life that he is ashamed of, that he wants to hide, he is said to have a “skeleton in his closet.” Some people may have more than one skeleton.
As we have noted many times, it is hard to find out how these expressions begin. Sometimes, we get some hard facts. But more often we have to depend on guesswork. And that is true of this phrase, which came from England.
Before 1832, English law did not permit a doctor to cut open a dead human body for scientific examination, unless it was the corpse(尸体) of an executed(处决) criminal.
But when it became legal, more and more doctors demanded skeletons for a more scientific study of medicine. It was helping in the advance of modern medicine. The demand had become so strong that men began to rob tombs and sell skeletons to doctors at high prices.
We are told that a doctor would usually buy just one skeleton for scientific study. It became very important in his work. But he had to keep it hidden because most people objected to keeping such a thing. As a rule, the doctor keep his skeleton in some dark corner where it could not be seen, or hide it in a closet.
After a time, people began to suspect every doctor of hiding a skeleton in the closet. From this suspicion, the phrase“a skeleton in the closet”took on a broader, more general meaning: to describe anything that a man wanted to keep others from discovering. It could be proof of a criminal act, or something much less serious. Well, that is one theory.
One writer, however, believes that the phrase might have come from something that really happened. It is his guess that a hidden closet in some old English country home may have turned up a real skeleton, clear proof of some old family shame or crime. Well, one man"s guess is as good as another. But this sounds like a story by the great French novelist, Balzac.
Balzac tells us of a man who suspected his wife of having a lover. The husband comes home by surprise. But she hears him and quickly hides her lover in the closet of her bedroom. He enters her room and asks her if she is hiding her lover. He says he will not open the door to the closet if she promises him there is no one there; He will believe her. She answers firmly that she is not hiding anyone in the closet.
The husband then begins to build a solid brick wall against the closet. His wife watches, knowing that her lover will never come out alive. But she will not change her story and admit her guilt.
小题1:Which of the following situations is now suitable for using the phrase “skeleton in the closet”?| A．You have stolen something precious and hide them in the closet. | | B．You are a doctor and have to keep a skeleton for research. | C．If you have cut open a dead human body for scientific examination you should keep the
skeleton secret. | | D．You have done a crime or done something foolish, but you want to keep others from |
discovering it.
小题2:Which of the following is right according to the text?A．In the 19th century, doctors realized the importance of anatomy (解剖) in the development of
medicine. | | B．The doctors of the ancient times liked to collect as many skeletons as possible | | C．The thieves stole skeletons from tombs in order to help the doctors. | | D．It is legal that corpses of anybody are cut open for scientific examination in history. |
小题3:From the story Balzac told we know that the wife"s lover must have become ______.| A．a corpse | B．a phrase | C．a skeleton | D．a story |
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If you will be cycling, you will need to know what these traffic signs and signals mean.
A sign like this one means that there is a bike lane. If there is a bike lane, you are required to use it. If there is not a bike lane, you should ride with traffic as far to the right side of the road as possible.
When the signal light turns green, cars go. When you cross the street at a signal light, you should wait for the walk signal. Be sure to look carefully to the left, right and left again, before crossing the street.
 When the signal light turns yellow, car drivers should slow down and prepare to stop. You should not cross if the light is yellow. The light is about to turn red, and cars will enter the intersection.
This signal is the WALK sign. It has a picture of a person walking instead of using the word WALK.
This signal is the DON"T WALK sign. It is part of the signal with the picture of a person walking.This is a picture of a red hand, meaning you should stop. You should wait to cross the street until the green picture of the person walking is showing.
Car drivers and bikers must come to a complete stop at STOP signs.
A yield sign means to slow down and be ready to stop.
If there are pedestrians(行人)or vehicles in or nearing the intersection，you must stop.
If there is no traffic in or nearing the intersection and it is safe，you may go through.
This sign means you are coming to a crosswalk. Car drivers, antibikers must stop to allow people in the crosswalk to cross the street.
When people are working on the roads, parts of the road are often dug up or rough. Be careful when cycling. Rough roads could make you fall off your bike. If you must move into the road to go around a work area, you should stop and look carefully to be sure there is no traffic coming before going into the road.
A detour is a way of getting around a roadway that is closed. Roads are usually closed because of road work or dangerous conditions. If you must take a detour, be careful of roads you aren"t used to.
小题1:The passage is intended for ________.| A．car drivers | B．skaters | C．bikers | D．Pedestrians |
小题2:If you see the sign while riding a bike，you are required to ________.| A．take the bike lane | B．stop your bike | | C．ride close to the right side of the road | D．ride in the middle of the road |
小题3:Cyclists may see the sign when ________. | A．they come near a crosswalk | | B．the bad weather is on the corner | | C．they are about to pass a school | | D．the road ahead is blocked because of the landslide (山崩) |
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Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with 21 problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog(博客). In many ways, a diary and a blog are very 22 . But what makes bolgging different from writing in a(n) 23 diary?
The biggest difference is that a blog is much more 24 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of 25 that he does not want to 26 with others.
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog 27 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her 28 . She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. 29 I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but 30 in my dairy. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 31 that my sister might read it.
The biggest 32 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something 33 about him in my diary, he would never know. 34 , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might 35 her blog and get angry.
There are also 36 to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “ Nobody cares about me”, because no one would 37 about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would quickly 38 and tell her how much they 39 her. Blogs help people 40 in contact with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.
| 小题1: | | A．the same | B．interesting | C．difficult | D．daily |
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| 小题2: | | A．simple | B．special | C．similar | D．different |
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| 小题3: | | A．personal | B．ordinary | C．meaningful | D．traditional |
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| 小题4: | | A．attractive | B．public | C．exciting | D．quick |
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| 小题5: | | A．thoughts | B．puzzles | C．ideas | D．secrets |
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| 小题6: | | A．tell | B．share | C．publish | D．solve |
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| 小题7: | | A．instead of | B．as well as | C．except for | D．besides |
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| 小题8: | | A．blog | B．diary | C．report | D．web |
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| 小题9: | | A．Although | B．Since | C．When | D．Because |
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| 小题10: | | A．only | B．already | C．still | D．never |
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| 小题11: | | A．angry | B．sad | C．glad | D．worried |
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| 小题12: | | A．problem | B．doubt | C．question | D．mistake |
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| 小题13: | | A．boring | B．wrong | C．mean | D．funny |
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| 小题14: | | A．So | B．However | C．Therefore | D．Then |
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| 小题15: | | A．steal | B．break | C．write | D．read |
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| 小题16: | | A．reasons | B．wishes | C．shortcomings | D．advantages |
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| 小题18: | | A．prepare | B．begin | C．respond | D．feel |
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| 小题19: | | A．like | B．miss | C．need | D．stand |
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| 小题20: | | A．lose | B．stay | C．leave | D．find |
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As we all know, language is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the language does not change either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all the new plants and animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too.
There are several major(主要) language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divide them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language. About 3 percent of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families.
小题1:The early language had ________.| A．a lot of problems | | B．words and easy grammar | | C．words but no grammar | | D．grammar but not many words |
小题2:In the next few hundred years we can expect language to _____.| A．stay exactly the same | | B．change a great deal | | C．change only a little | | D．ask more words and drop some grammar |
小题3:What this article shows is that _____.| A．languages change fast | | B．languages really don"t want to change | | C．language really with changes in society | | D．Spanish and English change |
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