There are many differences between America and China. The biggest difference is traffic rules. In America there are too much more cars than in China. But there are much fewer traffic jams and accidents in America than in China. We hardly see traffic police in the street, but all cars obey strictly traffic rules, and people hardly find that a car does not obey traffic rules in the street.
About American traffic rules, there are many better terms, such as:
1. Stop line: There are stop lines in all crossing without traffic light (some have two stop lines and others have four stop lines). All cars must stop while meeting the stop line.
2. Traffic light: There is traffic light in the crossing of the road. Cars may almost turn every direction. The traffic light can give signal step by step including u-turn. There is a kind of middle lane of turning left. When a car wants to turn left in the road, he may enter into the middle lane of turning left and give a signal of turning left. When he thinks being safe, he may turn left. In many conditions the order of passing is also given very specifically. If people want to change lane or turn, they must look behind and think being safe. Only so, they may do it.
3. Specific item: Such as parking, there are three kinds of lines (their colors are white, blue or red) in the roadside. Every line may park different kinds of cars. There are many streets in some residential areas (住宅区), and there is a kind of rule that any car cannot park at any time or any period time. In every parking, there are some special positions for invalid (伤残的) people.
4. About the priority of passenger and car: At any case, passengers have the priority to cars. And only after passengers have passed the road and got the top of sidestep, cars may go ahead.
In general, traffic rules of America are very specific, convenient, safe and humanizing.
小题1:Which of the following is NOT the reason why we can hardly see traffic police in the street in America?| A．Traffic police are not very necessary because few cars break traffic rules. | | B．The traffic is very clear and there are few traffic jams and accidents in the street. | | C．There are so many cars in the street that the traffic police can’t be seen. | | D．The effective traffic rules play an important part in the road safety. |
小题2:Why is there a middle lane of turning left on the road?| A．It is designed for the cars that want to turn left. | | B．It is very safe to drive there. | | C．It is very convenient for the traffic police to find the cars that break the rules. | | D．The cars that want to turn left can easily give a signal of turning left. |
小题3:Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?| A．In America, all cars in the crossing must stop when they meet the stop line. | | B．In America, any car cannot park in the streets in some residential areas. | | C．If people want to turn, they can obey the guide of the traffic police. | | D．There are more traffic jams in China. |
小题4:What’s the best title for the passage?| A．American Traffic Rules | | B．Differences in Traffic Rules between China and America | | C．Traffic Jams in America | | D．American People Who Obey Traffic Rules |
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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:A |
试题分析：美国的车辆中国多，但是交通事故比中国少，这是因为美国的人都严格的遵守交通法规，文章介绍了一些美国的交通规则。
小题1:细节理解题。由第一段可以看出，在美国很少发生交通阻塞和交通事故，所有司机都遵守交通规则，良好有序的交通规则对保障交通畅通起了重要作用。因此没有必要设置那么多交通警察。C 项只是陈述事实，而非原因。选C
小题2:细节理解题。由第三段即第二条内容可以看出，左拐的汽车要先进入这条通道并且向其他车辆发出拐弯信号。因此这条线路是供左拐的汽车使用的。 选A
小题3:推理判断题。由第一段中的“But there are very fewer traffic jams and accidents in America than in China.”可以判断 D项正确；由第二段可以判断A 项不对；由第四段可以判断 B 项不对；由第四段中的“If people want to change lane or turn they must look behind and think being safe.”可以判断C 项不对，司机想拐弯要向后看，而不是遵守交通警察的指挥。选D
小题4:主旨题：纵观全文和第二段的内容：About American traffic rules, there are many better terms, such as:
可知这篇文章讲的是美国的交通规则，选A。 |
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试题【There are many differences between America and China. The biggest difference is 】；主要考察你对
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An English saying goes: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” That means we should relax after a day’s hard work or we’ll be unhealthy.
Many students know that if they want to get ideal jobs with good salaries, they must do well in high school so they can enter good universities. Therefore, they spend all day studying without time to relax.
However, not all students can go to top universities even if they work very hard. Students are pressurized by parents and teachers who are just concerned about their studies and exam scores while ignoring their hobbies and individual differences. As a result, students are forces to work harder and harder. Furthermore, there is pressure coming from students themselves. They realize they have a slim chance of getting into a top university as competition is fierce. So, they put a lot of stress on themselves and stay in a nervous state day after day. If they keep it up, they’ll suffer illnesses; both psychological and physical.
What students need is relaxation. This doesn’t mean that they should give up their ambitions and stop studying hard. It means “work while you work, play while you play”. If you can do this, you will improve your health greatly. You’ll feel yourself suddenly fresh, just like recovering from a terrible illness. You’ll find that your studies are not a burden(负担) anymore.
小题1:The underlined part in the first paragraph might mean all the following EXCEPT______.| A．too much work may bring trouble to anyone | | B．overwork without rest is sure to make one foolish | | C．Jack becomes dull because he works too much | | D．Anyone who doesn’t work will break down |
小题2:What trouble have both the parents and teachers brought to the students?| A．They don’t know how to let the students relax. | | B．They give too much burden for them to bear. | | C．They don’t love those who work the hardest. | | D．They fail to understand what the students need most. |
小题3:What causes the student’ pressure from themselves?| A．That they don’t know how to get top universities. | | B．That they want to relax but have no chance. | | C．That they fail to relax themselves during their work. | | D．That they think too much about the result of their work. |
小题4:What is the passage mainly about?| A．What to do to relax yourself. | | B．The serous situation for the poor students. | | C．Some problems caused by the misunderstanding of learning. | | D．How to be a healthy and successful learner. |
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No one knows why we sleep, but it’s certain that we need to. People who are prevented from sleeping begin to suffer obvious effects after a few days—they think less clearly, and they fall asleep during the working hours; some may have hallucinations(幻觉).
There are no rules about sleep. Generally speaking, grown-ups sleep about 7 and a half hours each night and probably more than 60 per cent get between seven and eight hours. But perhaps eight per cent are quite happy with 5 hours or less, and four per cent or so find that they want ten hours or more. If you feel all right, you’re probably getting enough sleep. The important thing is not to worry how much other people get—their needs may be different. Exercise doesn’t seem to increase the need for sleep—office workers, for example, sleep for about as long as people doing physically active work.
Children sleep more than grown-ups—perhaps 14 to 18 hours soon after birth, going down to grown-up levels by early teenage. Sleep patterns also tend(倾向) to be different in the elderly, who may sleep less at night than they did when younger, find sleep getting more broken, and often make it a rule to sleep during the daytime.
小题1:According to the passage, some people are unable to think clearly because ___________ .| A．they have hallucinations | | B．they feel sleepy during the working hours | | C．they don’t have enough sleep | | D．they are certain to be kept from going to bed |
小题2:Which of the following is TRUE?| A．All grown-ups must have at least eight-hour sleep. | | B．Most of grown-ups sleep for seven or eight hours. | | C．Quite a few people need only 5 hours or less for them to sleep. | | D．No grown-ups sleep more than ten hours. |
小题3:Whether you have got enough sleep is judged by__________.| A．how many hours you have slept | | B．how many hours you need to sleep | | C．whether you do exercise and physical work | | D．whether you feel fresh and energetic |
小题4:According to the passage, a boy of 14 years old sleeps__________.| A．as long hours as a grown-up | | B．much longer hours than a grown-up | | C．for 14 hours each night | | D．for less than 8 hours per night |
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A woman was walking her dog along a beach in New Zealand in late June when she saw something that looked like a white ball in the sand. It turned out to be a young Emperor penguin that was lost. At his age, he should have been close to Antarctic, swimming for fish and playing on the ice floes(冰川). But this penguin started swimming north and just kept going.
The penguin attracted a lot of attention in New Zealand. It has been 40 years since an Emperor penguin was last seen there. Researchers at the Department of Conservation were called in. They decided to watch the penguin closely, but not to disturb it in any way. Many New Zealanders came to Peka Peka Beach to look at the elegant penguin. They were careful to keep their dogs away from it so it wouldn’t be frightened.
The public nicknamed the animal Happy Feet. Researchers started to notice that Happy Feet didn’t seem well. It turns out that he had been eating the sand from the beach, likely thinking it was snow.
The public raised more than 11,000 pounds for an operation to get the sand out of his stomach. The operation was a success, and Happy Feet was taken to a zoo in Wellington, NZ. A group of experts met to decide how to help Happy Feet return to the wild.
Last Sunday, they put him on a boat called the Tangaroa, in a specially built ice-filled box and took him out into the Southern Ocean, southeast of New Zealand. There, they released him into the ocean, which is his natural habitat. He took one last look at his human helpers and then dived into the ocean.
“Emperor penguins spend their first five years at sea,” said Peter Simpson of New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. “ What happens now is up to the penguin.”
Happy Feet was fitted with a satellite transmitter(发射机)so they can monitor his progress using the Internet. So far, the trackers shows that he swam northeast for a little while before getting his bearings and heading south.
小题1:Where is the young penguin supposed to appear?| A．On the sunny beach. | B．Near the Antarctic. | | C．Inside the hole in the ice. | D．In the depths of the ocean. |
小题2:The public collected some money to______.| A．build a home for the penguin | | B．get the sand out of the penguin’s belly | | C．do some research on the penguin | | D．return the penguin to his habitat |
小题3:What does Peter Simpson mean by saying “ What happens now is up to the penguin.”?| A．The penguin needs no protection from human. | | B．Human beings can do noting to help penguins. | | C．No one knows what will happen to the penguins. | | D．Whether the penguin can survive depends on himself. |
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"Efficiency is the by-product of comfort," says Dr. Erwin Tichauer of New York University. To prove this____, Dr. Tichauer uses his capability to find_____ways to do things. _____, he felt that the traditional kind of pliers(钳子）______a better design. The usual____limited hand movement and used unnecessary force because it bent the_____. So he designed a pair of pliers to allow the wrist to remain in a comfortable position.
To improve the design of______and then make work easier, Dr. Tichauer____the old tools. He asks such questions as: why ____a stepladder have four legs____three are more stable? Why dose a screwdriver (螺丝刀) have to be made with straight handles? After testing his____, he has invented a new tool that causes less muscle injury and is more efficient.
Tichauer is not interested in getting ____ from his inventions. In fact, he says, "We _____ people to steal from us. At New York University, we do not patent(注册专利）knowledge or invention."__ __companies have adopted some of his inventions.
As a biochemist, as well as inventor, Dr Techauer____the effect of stress on areas of the body. Even easy______work may put heavy stress on small areas of body and____causes a serious disease. Thus his studies of workers in factories who use the____tool all day long are extremely____in learning about the damage on human body? Dr. Techauer knows that he can not redesign the ____ so he redesigns the tool!
| 小题1: | | A．argument | B．impression | C．statement | D．expectation |
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| 小题2: | | A．unusual | B．easier | C．new | D．correct |
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| 小题3: | | A．Especially | B．What"s more | C．Meanwhile | D．For example |
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| 小题4: | | A．followed | B．showed | C．needed | D．proved |
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| 小题5: | | A．design | B．habits | C．materials | D．work |
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| 小题6: | | A．body | B．finger | C．hand | D．wrist |
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| 小题7: | | A．pliers | B．a tool | C．a stepladder | D．screwdrivers |
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| 小题8: | | A．tests | B．uses | C．fixes | D．destroys |
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| 小题9: | | A．could | B．will | C．would | D．must |
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| 小题10: | | A．if | B．because | C．when | D．once |
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| 小题11: | | A．inventions | B．theories | C．tools | D．questions |
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| 小题12: | | A．recognized | B．famous | C．excited | D．rich |
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| 小题13: | | A．encourage | B．prevent | C．warn | D．forgive |
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| 小题14: | | A．Modern | B．Research | C．Commercial | D．Industrial |
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| 小题15: | | A．teaches | B．studies | C．produces | D．discovers |
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| 小题16: | | A．physical | B．daily | C．office | D．research |
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| 小题17: | | A．in time | B．in addition | C．immediately | D．commonly |
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| 小题18: | | A．wrong | B．old | C．same | D．heavy |
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| 小题19: | | A．suitable | B．valuable | C．logical | D．practical |
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| 小题20: | | A．work | B．study | C．labor | D．body |
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Brenda Linson never goes anywhere without an empty spectacles case. It is as vital to her as her purse. Yet, she doesn’t wear glasses. The reason she cannot do without it is that she cannot read and she cannot write. If ever she gets into any situation where she might be expected to do either of these things, she fishes around in her bag for the spectacles case, finds it’s empty, and asks the person concerned to do the reading for her. Until a few months ago hardly anybody knew about her problem. Her husband didn’t know and her children didn’t know. The children still don’t.
She had many tactics for hiding her difficult—for example, never lingering near a phone at work, in case she had to answer it and might be required to write something down.
It has never occurred to the children that their mother cannot read. She doesn’t read them stories, but then their father doesn’t either, so they find nothing surprising in the fact. Similarly they just accept that Dad is the one who writes the sick notes and reads the school reports. Now that the elder boy Tom is quite a proficient reader, Brenda can skillfully get him to read any notes brought home from school simply by asking,“What’s that all about, then?”
Brenda’s husband never guessed the truth in ten years of marriage. For one thing, he insists on handling all domestic correspondence and bills himself. A salesman for a large company, he travels a great deal and so is not around so much to spot the truth. While he’s away Brenda cores with any situations by explaining that she cannot do anything until she’s discussed it with her husband.
Brenda was very successful in her job until recently. For the last five years she had worked as waitress at an expensive restaurant, and had eventually been promoted to head waitress. She kept the thing a secret there too, and got over the practical difficulties somehow.
小题1: Brenda’s children have never found out about her problem as__________.| A．she isn’t often at home. | | B．they are too young to guess the truth. | | C．they find it normal to ask their father for everything. | | D．they think it natural that short-sighted people like their mother don’t do much reading or writing. |
小题2:What most probably made Brenda try hard to hide her difficulty?
A. Her desire to be successful in her job.
B. Her fear of losing face.
C. Her deceitful nature.
D. Both A and B.
小题3:Of the following suggested titles, which is the most appropriate?| A．Brenda and Her Family | | B．A Woman Who Doesn’t Wear Glasses | | C．A Woman with an Empty Spectacles Case | | D．The Miserable Life of a Waitress |
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