题目
题型：不详难度：来源：
The first person to attempt to parachute was a Frenchman named Jacques Garnerin. He jumped from his hot-air balloon at the end of the 18th century and did tricks on the way down and stupefied the crowds by landing safely on the ground. At the end of the 19th century, Kathie Paulus, a brave German woman, became famous for her skydiving skills.
Once the airplane was invented, skydiving took on a whole new form. The airplane made it possible to dive from greater heights at greater speeds, allowing for more range in the movements in the air. A woman named Tiny Broadwick became the first woman to jump from a plane in 1913 and dive free fall in 1914.
Skydiving was not called skydiving until the middle of the 1950s, when Ronald Young invented the word. It had been called parachuting before this and was mainly used by the military (军事) to land troops in inland locations, or for pilots to jump out of their planes when necessary. Once World War I was over, parachuting became a sport, which we now call skydiving.
After World War II, this activity became more a hobby than a military action. Soldiers were trained in parachuting and enjoyed the thrill so much that they continued on for fun. From this, teams and competitions were formed. Skydiving schools appeared in the late 1950s and now it is a recognized extreme sport enjoyed by many.
小题1:The underlined word “stupefied” in paragraph 2 probably means “_______”.
| A．disappointed | B．encouraged | C．surprised | D．attacked |
| A．Jacques Garnerin. | B．Kathie Paulus. | C．Tiny Broadwick. | D．Ronald Young. |
| A．The Chinese attempted different skydiving skills in the 10th century. |
| B．Skydiving became popular after the airplane was invented. |
| C．The word skydiving was first used in a military action. |
| D．There were no skydiving schools until the late 1950s. |
| A．Skydiving is not a military action any more. |
| B．Kathie Paulus is famous for her skydiving skills. |
| C．The first person who parachuted was from Germany. |
| D．The history of skydiving is longer than that of parachuting. |
| A．The history of skydiving | B．The popularity of skydiving |
| C．What is skydiving? | D．Why is skydiving an extreme sport? |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:A
解析
小题1:猜测词义题。根据上文可知他在从高空下跳的时候还做出了很多的花样，最终安全降落，这让地上的人群非常惊讶。
小题2:细节题。根据第三段第3行A woman named Tiny Broadwick became the first woman to jump from a plane。
小题3:细节题。根据文章第4段第一行Skydiving was not called skydiving until the middle of the 1950s。
小题4:细节题。根据文章第2段最后一行Kathie Paulus, a brave German woman, became famous for her skydiving skills.
小题5:主旨大意题。文章介绍了高空跳伞的发展过程。
核心考点
试题【Most people consider skydiving (高空跳伞) a product of the 20th century, but its his】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
The first London Olympics in 1908
These games were going to be held in Rome but, because of a volcano, Rome wasn"t ready．London agreed to stage the games and the White City Olympic Stadium was built in just 10 months．What was new at these Olympics was the opening ceremony where athletes paraded（列队行进） with their teams behind their national flags．Only 22 countries took part and the profits were just over ￡21,000!
The second London Olympics
Because of the Second World War, the 1944 Olympics were cancelled．Four years later the war was over and London was able to hold the Games in 1948．Things were very different in London during these Olympic Games and many years of war had left the UK poor and hungry．People called them the "Austerity Games"．But there were still some great sports and some exciting events!
59 countries took part, more than at any other Olympics before and the USA won the most medals with 84．For the first time, cameras filmed the games and broadcast them on television so that people could watch them in their own homes．
The third London Olympics in 2012
The Games this year are going to be bigger, better and more exciting than ever before． There will be more than 10,000 athletes from 204 countries taking part!
London wants to make sure that the benefits of the Olympics don"t just last for a few weeks in summer but go on much longer．The buildings have been designed and constructed so that they can be used for different things when the Games are over．
小题1:The text is mainly about _____．
| A．London will host the Olympics again |
| B．London"s Olympic history |
| C．London"s Olympics will last much longer |
| D．London is ready for the Olympics |
| A．London could build a stadium in 10 months |
| B．only 22 countries took part |
| C．there was a volcano eruption in Rome |
| D．London could make more profits than Rome |
| A．the UK were poor and hungry then |
| B．there were some great sports |
| C．the previous Olympic Games was jcancelled |
| D．about 59 countries took part |
| A．the 59 countries | B．the 84 gold medals |
| C．all the athletes | D．the games |
| A．the benefits of the Olympics used to last for months afterwards |
| B．the 2nd London Olympics attracted more countries than any other Olympics |
| C．the buildings for the 3rd London Olympics have more functions for future use |
| D．the 2nd London Olympics were cancelled because of the Second World War |
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 |
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? |
最新试题
- 1阅读《爱莲说》，完成下面问题。 水陆草木之花，可爱者甚蕃。晋陶渊明独爱菊。自李唐来，世人甚爱牡丹。予独爱莲之出淤泥而不
- 2Ⅰ.为制取较纯净的溴苯和验证反应机理，某化学课外小组设计了实验装置（如右图）。先向分液漏斗中加入苯和液溴，再将混合液慢慢
- 3图1为已建设封项的16层楼房和其塔吊图，图2为其示意图，吊臂AB与地面EH平行，测得A点到楼顶D点的距离为5m，每层楼高
- 4如图所示，一个以过O点垂直于盘面的轴匀速转动的圆盘，上有a、b、c三点，已知Oc=oa2，则下面说法中正确的是（ ）A
- 5下列说法正确的是（ ）A．pH=2与pH=1的硝酸中c（H+）之比为1：10B．Na2CO3溶液中c（Na+）与c（C
- 6汉译英。1. 发出嘈杂声 __________________2. 特地做某事
- 7A dam began ______ the book in 1960.[ ]A. work on B.
- 8中国古代，“吏”是贵族或大官随员或职员的通称，秦汉以后，多指没有官位的官府工作人员，但“吏”常常利用办事程序繁琐、官员不
- 9***在给中共中央的一份报告中曾列举以下内容：（1）有很好的群众；（2）有很好的党（3）有相当数量的红军；（4）有便于作
- 10一个几何体的三视图如图所示，则该几何体的表面积为( )A．B．C．D．
热门考点
- 1如右图所示，在绕中心轴OO′转动的圆筒内壁上，有一物体随圆筒一起转动．在圆筒的角速度逐渐增大的过程中，物体相对圆筒始终未
- 2某种芳香族化合物A，其蒸气密度是相同条件下H2密度的82倍。A由碳、氢、氧三种元素组成，经测定碳、氢的质量分数分别为73
- 3下列矿产地与矿产及所在省区组合正确的是（ ）A．鸡西-石油-黑龙江B．胜利-铁矿-河北C．白云鄂博-稀土-内蒙古D．锡
- 4用课文原句填空。（10分）小题1:迷津欲有问，_______________________（《早寒江上有怀》）小题2:
- 5如图所示，一平直的传送带以速率v＝2m/s匀速运行，把一工件从A处运送到B处，A、B相距L＝10m，工件与传送带间的动摩
- 6写作。 题目：我不再_________ 要求：1．将题目补充完整。如填孤独、自卑、天真、害羞、等待、贪玩、空想、贫穷
- 7在“五一”期间，小明、小亮等同学随家长一同到某公园游玩，下面是购买门票时，小明与他爸爸的对话（如图），试根据图中的信息，
- 8The research also raises the question ________ children from
- 9已知等腰梯形的高为5cm，两底之差为10cm，则它的锐角为（ ）A．300°B．45°C．60°D．75°
- 10有一固定的光滑直杆，设直杆与水平面的夹角为53°，杆上套有一个质量m=2kg的滑块。（1）如图所示，滑块从O点由静止释放