题目
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Just before Thanksgiving says Clapp, “We were within a whisker of total failure.”
But then Clapp’s team looked at the high-tech maps again and saw something surprising. Many of the caravan routes(沙漠商队路线)on the high-tech maps came together on the same spot marked “Omani Marketplace” on Ptolomy’s map. Two maps, made almost 2000 years apart, pointed the team toward the same area!
In December 1991, Clapp arrived at the spot where, according to the maps, the caravans met. Clapp had a handheld instrument that could detect(探测) objects below the ground. It showed ruins under the sand! He and his team started digging. And then they found it! A tower buried in the sand. They slowly unearthed a giant, eight-sided fortress(堡垒). It had nine towers and many rooms. People had lived in this fortress 2000 years ago. Outside its walls, they had found buried remains of nearly 40 campsites. They seemed to be camping areas for traders(商人).
More digging found shards, or pieces of pottery(陶瓷) from ancient Rome, Greece, China, Egypt, and Syria. Diggers and scientists agree that people were here for about 5000 years. Clapp and his team were excited as they continued to discover more pieces of the past that seemed to prove that it was the lost city of Ubar.
“We started with this hopeless myth(神秘),” says Clapp, “and then finally found the truth behind the myth.” But is this unearthed site really the once-great Ubar? Experts aren’t totally persuaded.
Donald Whitcomb is an archeologist(考古学家) at the University of Chicago. He doubts that Clapp really discovered Ubar. “There’s probably some truth to this myth,” he says. “But Ubar is described as a place with walls all made of gold, and the rubies and emeralds(宝石).” No gold or precious stones have been found by Clapp.
“I’m not sure whether they discovered Ubar because I’m not sure if Ubar really existed,” Whitcomb says.
小题1:The following statements are true according to the reading EXCEPT_____.
A.Clapp made this discovery with the help of caravan routes on the maps |
B.Clapp made this discovery with the help of some high technology |
C.Clapp was not sure that he had found Ubar |
D.Donald Whitcomb was not sure if Clapp had found Ubar |
A.We were ready for any failure |
B.We were on the point of giving up hopes |
C.We would never stop digging though there was difficulty. |
D.We decided that we had failed to find Ubar. |
A.a person of courage |
B.a person of determination |
C.a very young person |
D.a person who is good for nothing |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:B
解析
小题1:细节理解题。 由第三段可知A、B两项的陈述是对的。由倒数第二段可知Donald Whitcomb怀疑Clapp发现了Ubar古城,故D项的陈述也对。
小题2:词义理解题。上文讲述他们的工作艰难,没有进展,可判断他们差一点儿就放弃了。
小题3:推理判断题。从全文不难看出Clapp坚忍不拔的毅力。1991年夏季挖掘了35个不同的地点,同年12月又来到另一地方,终于如愿发掘出一处遗址。
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试题【Before Nicholas Clapp got there, he had half hoped that he might run into some o】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The next morning, the tower was leaning(倾斜) slightly ,but nobody noticed. The same happened for the following few days, until a little girl who was passing by pointed up at the tower and said: “ I think the tower is going to fall down.” And everyone around looked closely, and could see that she was right .Nervousness spread through the city. And they tried many methods to try to straighten the tower, but nothing seemed to work. That was, until one day when the same little girl was walking up again, and she put her arm on the side of the tower to rest. She felt the tower shaking slightly. When she took her hand off it, the movement stopped. And when she put it back on again, the same thing happened. The girl spent a while doing this, until she was completely certain of what she had discovered: “ The tower is ticklish ( 怕痒的) !” She ran to get some plants, and she planted them right next to the tower. Now if the tower leant over any further it would be tickled by the leaves of those plants. Being a ticklish tower, it would then return to where it had been. In this way, the girl managed to make sure that the tower didn’t fall down, but still kept it leaning a little.
The fact that it was leaning made it even more famous, and this taught a fine lesson to the envious people of the neighboring city.
小题1:Why did the people of the second city plan to destroy the neighboring tower?
A.Because the tower blocked the way of their tourists. |
B.Because the tower had the same building style as theirs. |
C.Because they hoped that the tower could lean slightly. |
D.Because they hoped that visitors just liked their own tower. |
A.test | B.raise | C.damage | D.strengthen |
A.very anxious |
B.very happy |
C.very ashamed of themselves |
D.angry at the people in the neighboring city |
A.All that ends well is well. |
B.Every dog has his day. |
C.A bad beginning makes a bad ending. |
D.A friend is never known till a man has need. |
In fact, Rolls-Royce is made up of two men’s names, Charles S. Rolls and Henry Royce. They came from very different backgrounds, received very different educations and when they met; their careers were going in very different directions.
In 1903, Royce bought a second-hand France Decauville car. He found the car unreliable, difficult to start and overheated. Royce decided he could do better himself and set about building two-cylinder (双杠发动机) car of his own design. The first of these, built almost completely by Royce himself, was a success in almost every way: it started easily, ran smoothly and was very reliable. It never failed to impress everyone who saw it rode in the car, including Rolls.
While he was a university student at Cambridge, Rolls acquired a French Peugeot. It was the first automobile seen at Cambridge and by the time Rolls finished his studies, he was probably the most skilled driver in Britain. In 1902, Rolls went into the business of selling cars and became a leading automobile distributor. He was looking for a British car to market when he was told that Henry Royce had designed and built a two-cylinder automobile.
In 1904, Royce and Rolls joined together to build and sell motor car. They combined their talents—Royce the engineer and Rolls the salesman and businessman.
And, just two years later, the partnership produced the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, a milestone car acclaimed (盛赞) by many by the time as the “ best in the world”. Over the years the automaker built a legendary reputation.
小题1:The Rolls-Royce is expensive for its ______ .
A.procedure | B.engine |
C.function | D.impression |
A.boss | B.producer |
C.buyer | D.seller |
A.The Rolls-Royce car is the most expensive car in the world. |
B.The two cylinder car built by Royce failed to impress people. |
C.When Rolls graduated from Cambridge University, he didn’t do well in driving. |
D.In 1906 the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was popular with many people. |
The U.S. has not always been a nation of right-hand rivers; earlier in its history, carriage and horse traffic traveled on the left, as it did in England. But by the late 1700s, people driving large wagons pulled by several pairs of horses began promoting a shift to the right. A driver would sit on the rear (后面的) left horse in order to wave his whip with his right hand; to see opposite traffic clearly, they traveled on the right.
One of the final moves to firmly standardize traffic directions in the U.S. occurred in the 20th century, when Henry Ford decided to mass-produce his cars with controls on the left (one reason, stated in 1908; the convenience for passengers exiting directly onto the edge, especially… if there is a lady to be considered). Once these rules were set, many countries eventually adjusted to the right-hand standard, including Canada in the 1920s, Sweden in 1967 and Burma in 1970. The U.K. and former colonies such as Australia and India are among the western world’s few remaining holdouts. Several Asian countries, including Japan, use the left as well — thought many places use both right-hand-drive and left-hand-drive cars.
小题1:Why did people in Switzerland travel on the right?
A.They had used the right-hand since the 18th century. |
B.Rich people enjoyed driving their carriages on the right. |
C.Napoleon introduced the right-hand traffic to this country. |
D.Hitler ordered them to go to against their left-hand tradition. |
A.Austria | B.England | C.Japan | D.Australia |
A.in order to change traffic directions in the U.S. |
B.so that passengers could get off conveniently |
C.because rules at that time weren’t perfect |
D.though many countries were strongly against that |
A.Before the French Revolution, all the French people used the right. |
B.People in Britain and the U.S. travel on the same side nowadays. |
C.The Burmese began to travel on the right in 1970. |
D.All the Asian nations use the left at present. |
A.Who made the great contributions to the shift of traffic directions? |
B.How cars have become a popular means of transportation? |
C.How Henry Ford produced his cars with controls on the left? |
D.Why don’t people all drive on the same side of the road? |
They then continued, hoping to reach Asia. But they did not see any land until they reached the islands off the coast of Asia. Before they arrived at these islands, later known as the Philippines, men were dying of starvation. While they were staying in the Philippines, Magellan was killed in a battle. The remaining officers then had to get back to Spain. They decided to sail round Africa. After many difficulties, one ship with eighteen men sailed into Seville three years after leaving. They were all that remained of Magellan’s expedition. However, their achievement was great. They were the first men to sail round the world.
小题1:The purpose of Magellan’s expedition was to ________.
A.sail round the world |
B.find a seaway from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
C.make a voyage to Asia |
D.carry men to Philippines |
A.two | B.three | C.four | D.five |
A.Lack of equipment. |
B.Cold winter in Patagonia. |
C.The death of Magellan. |
D.Dangers from rocks and storms. |
A.The Discovery of Magellan’s Strait |
B.The Discovery of the Philippines |
C.The Most Dangerous Expedition |
D.The First Expedition to Asia |
For more than 15 years, the Big Wind Kite Factory has been giving kite-making and kite flying classes for the children on an island in Hawaii. In its kite-making lessons, students can make kites in as little as 20 minutes! Children as young as four years old can learn how to fly a kite. Jonathan Socher and his wife Daphne started the kite factory in 1980. Their kites are made of nylon(尼龙).Their designs are Hawaiian themes created by Daphne. The designs are cut out of the nylon with a hot knife that seals the edges and then fastened directly onto the kite.
The kite that is used to give lessons is regular diamond kite with a rainbow pattern. The difference between this kite and the ones they make during the lessons is that it is a two-string controllable kite. Big Wind employees fly the kite and for a few minutes show students how pulling on one line and then on the other controls the direction the kite goes in. Then the controls are given to the students.
Jonathan insists that it is not necessary to make a huge impressive kite to have fun making and flying kites. Even the simplest structure can work, and can give hours of fun. Go on, give it a try!
小题1:Which of the following is true according to the text?
A.A hot knife is used to iron the nylon. |
B.Children never fly kites on their own in flying lessons. |
C.Kite strings must not be cut in kite-fighting competitions. |
D.Daphne designs kites for the Big Wind Kite Factory. |
A.It has two strings. |
B.It is simple in design |
C.It has a rainbow pattern. |
D.It is shaped like a diamond. |
A.A large kite. |
B.Any type of kite. |
C.A complex structure. |
D.A kite that impresses others. |
A.A kite factory |
B.Kite-flying lessons. |
C.Special competitions. |
D.The kite-making Process. |
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