题目
题型：不详难度：来源：
ever, dogs without owners to care for lead a different kind of life. The expression “to lead a dog’s life” describes a person who has an unhappy existence.Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. That means many people are competing for the same things, like good jobs. They say that to be successful, a person has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very, very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog.
Still, people say every dog has its day. This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people often have to learn new skills. Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks. They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.
People who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog. Junkyard dogs live in places where people throw away things they do not want. Mean dogs are often used to guard this property. They bark or attack people who try to enter the property. However, sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad. We say his bark is worse than his bite.
Doghouse provide shelter but they can be cold and lonely in the winter. Husbands and wives use this doghouse term when they are angry at each other. For example, a woman might get angry at her husband for coming home late or forgetting their wedding anniversary. She might tell him that he is in the doghouse. However, the husband may decide that it is best to leave things alone and not create more problems. He might decide to let sleeping dogs lie.
Dog expressions also are used to describe the weather. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. A rainstorm may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard. We do not want it to rain cats and dogs.
小题1:The passage tells us something about________.
| A．dogs and their life | B．the expressions that describe dogs |
| C．the meaning of expressions with the word “dog” | D．the structures of dog expressions |
| A．“meaner than a junkyard dog” | B．“to work like a dog” |
| C．“teach an old dog new tricks” | D．“as sick as a dog” |
| A．“he lives in a dog-eat-dog world” | B．“he leads a dog’s life” |
| C．“he is in the doghouse” | D．“every dog has its day” |
| A．“become sick as a dog” | B．“rain cats and dogs” |
| C．“let sleeping dogs lie” | D．“stay in the doghouse” |
| A．it rains cats and dogs | B．we are having the dog days of summer |
| C．we’re leading a dog’s life | D．we’re in the dog’s house |
答案
小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:D
小题1:C
小题1:B
解析
核心考点
试题【Americans use many expressions with the word “dog”. People in the United States 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
How did Coca-Cola become so popular? One answer is that Asa Candler was a very clever businessman. He was one of the first people to use mass marketing. How did he do this? First, he made his product unique. When he bought the rights to Coca-Cola, it came in ordinary bottles. It looked like every other drink on the market. To make Coca-Cola look different, Candler modernized the bottles. He also made an eye-catching logo for his products. When other companies tried to imitate Coca-Cola’s name, Candler took them to court.
In addition to the unique bottle and logo, Candler spent a lot of time and money advertising his product. He used advertising to make a powerful image of Coca-Cola in the minds of his customers. He gave away free bottles of Coke. He put the name of his drink on pencils, trays, Japanese fans, matches, and many other things. Then he gave the things to people for free. He advertised Coca-Cola in the newspaper and painted the words “Drink Coca-Cola” on the sides of buildings and barns. By 1902, Coca-Cola was the best known product in the United States.
Candler was also able to make memorable advertisements. They often had catchy slogans such as “The Pause That Refreshes.” He also used famous athletes to advertise his product. They helped people to think of Coca-Cola as a delicious drink for everyone.
Today, businesses all over the world use mass marketing, but the makers of Coke were the first.
小题1:Candler bought the rights to Coca-Cola from _______.
| A．the inventor of a medicinal drink | B．a well-known businessman |
| C．a doctor | D．a carpenter |
| A．he invited people from other companies to attend a court ball |
| B．he shared Coca-Cola’s name with other companies after they went back from the court |
| C．he played basketball with people from other companies on the basketball court |
| D．he took legal action to those who wanted to copy Coca-Cola’s name |
| A．popular music | B．free products | C．memorable phrases | D．simple things |
| A．making Coca-Cola look different |
| B．paying $ 2,300 for the rights to Coca-Cola |
| C．advertising Coca-Cola a powerful image in the minds of the customers |
| D．using famous athletes to advertise his product |
| A．explain that it is easy to use mass marketing |
| B．advice people to spend a lot of money and time on mass marketing |
| C．tell how Asa changes Coca-Cola into a worldwide business by using mass marketing |
| D．describe different ways of using mass marketing |
A big, heavy man was walking up and down in the hotel lobby. Something about the way he moved made me think of a hungry dog looking for a bone. He had a big, fat, red face and a sleepy expression in his eyes. He introduced himself as Wentworth Caswell – Major Wentworth Caswell – from “a fine southern family”. Caswell pulled me into the hotel’s barroom and yelled for a wai
ter. We ordered drinks. While we drank, he talked continually about himself, his family, his wife and her family. He said his wife was rich. He showed me a handful of silver coins that he pulled from his coat pocket.By this time, I had decided that I wanted no more of him. I said good night.
I was born in the south myself. But I live in New York now. I write for a large magazine. My boss had asked me to go to Nashville. The magazine had received some stories and poems from a writer in Nashville, named Azalea Adair. The editor liked her work very much. The publisher asked me to get her to sign an agreement to write only for his magazine.
I left the hotel at nine o’clock the next morning to find Miss Adair. It was still raining. As soon as I stepped outside I met Uncle Caesar. He was a big, old black man with fuzzy gray hair. Uncle Caesar was wearing the strangest coat I had ever seen. It must have been a military officer’s coat. It was very long and when it was new it had been gray. But now rain, sun and age had made it a rainbow of colors. Only one of the buttons was left. It was yellow and as big as a fifty cent coin.
Uncle Caesar stood near a horse and carriage. He opened the carriage door and said softly,
“Step right in, sir. I’ll take you anywhere in the city.”“I want to go to 861 Jasmine Street,” I said, and I started to climb into the carriage. But the old man stopped me. “Why do you want to go there, sir?”
“What business is it of yours?” I said angrily. Uncle Caesar relaxed and smiled. “Nothing, sir. But it’s a lonely part of town. Just step in and I’ll take you there right away.”
861 Jasmine Street had been a fine house once, but now it was old and dying. I got out of the carriage.
“That will be two dollars, sir,” Uncle Caesar said. I gave him two one-dollar bills. As I handed them to him, I noticed that one had been torn in half and fixed with a piece of blue paper. Also, the upper right hand corner was missing.
小题1:The narrator （故事的叙述者）got to Nashville probably _______.
| A．in the morning | B．at noon | C．in the afternoon | D．in the evening |
| A．his appearance | B．his family | C．the way he talked and behaved | D．his wife |
| A．to get a writer to sign an agreement for his magazine |
| B．to collect some stories and poems from a writer |
| C．to look for good writers for his magazine |
| D．to visit his old friend Azalea Adair |
| A．was worn by a military officer | B．was a new gray coat |
| C．was an old yellow raincoat | D．had only one button left |
| A．wanted to know why the narrator wanted to go there |
| B．knew the place and was concerned about the narrator |
| C．would charge two dollars for taking the narrator there |
| D．must have lived in the neighbourhood before |
During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in November 1936. The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the rings had appeared on the stamps of the White Olympics.
In the 1950’s, the stamps of this kind became more colorful. When the White Olympics came, the host countries as well as the non-host countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sports men began to take part in the White Olympics.
Japan is the only Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise money for this sports meet.
Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.
小题1: We can infer from the passage that ______.
| A．No stamps were printed in the first two White Olympics |
| B．The first stamps marking the opening came out for the 3rd White Olympics |
| C．The 3rd White Olympics was in the USA |
| D．The 3rd White Olympics were held in 1932 |
| A．after the year 1936 | B．after the 3rd White Olympics |
| C．before the 3rd White Olympics | D．before the year 1932 |
| A．every two years | B．every three years |
| C．every four years | D．every five years |
| A．Only the host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games. |
| B．Only the non-host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games. |
| C．All the countries can publish stamps to mark those Games. |
| D．Japan can’t publish stamps to mark those Games |
| A．Basketball. | B．Table tennis. | C．Football. | D．Skating. |
“My family has been watching the ‘Super Girl’ singing competition TV programme. My little daughter asked me what ‘PK’ meant, but I had no idea,” explained the puzzled father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.
In the case of the “Super Girl” singing competition, “PK” was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking (排名).
Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students’ compositions using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand. A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn’t understand.
“My ‘GG’ came back this summer from college. He told me I’ve grown up to be a ‘PLMM’. I loved to ‘FB’ with him together; he always took me to the ‘KPM’,” went one composition.
“GG” means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for brother). “PLMM” refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). “FB” means Fu Bai (corruption). “KPM” is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s.
Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language.
If you do not even know what a Kong Long (dinosaur, referring to an ugly looking female) or a Qing Wa (frog, referring to an ugly looking male) is, you will possibly be regarded as a Cai Niao!
小题1: By writing the article, the writer tries to ________.
| A．explain some Internet language | B．suggest common Internet language |
| C．laugh at the Beijing father | D．draw our attention to Internet language |
| A．Fathers can’t possibly know it. | B．The daughter should understand it. |
| C．Online game players may know it. | D．“Super Girl” shouldn’t have used it. |
| A．are used not only online | B．can be understood very well |
| C．are welcomed by all the people | D．cause trouble to our mother tongue |
| A．expressions | B．phrases | C．letters | D．spellings |
| A．A puzzled father | B．Do you speak Internet jargons? |
| C．Keep away from Internet jargons | D．Kong Long or Qing Wa? |
I read your story (of the 4th February) about the cost of living in the country rather than in the town, and I agree with most of the points that you made. My husband and I lived in the middle of Horlton until two years ago — a seaside town of nearly five hundred thousand people. When my husband stopped working, we moved to our present house in a small village at the foot of Roland Hill, and there is no doubt that our costs are higher now.
I have to do my shopping in small shops, where the food is more expensive than in city supermarkets; it costs more to travel by bus; and because the men who come to mend the television or the washing
machine, have to come farther, we have to pay them more. But it does not cost us much to enjoy what is beautiful in the country; and peace and quiet are cheap. Many people spend a great deal of time and money driving into the country to enjoy the simple things of life; yet we can enjoy them just by going out of the front door. It costs more to live here than it did in Horlton but now life really is worth living.
Yours faithfully.
Edith Randall
小题1:What do you know about Horlton?
| A．A quiet town not far from the sea. |
| B．A middle-sized town until two years ago. |
| C．A town with a population of nearly half a million. |
| D．A small village at the foot of Roland Hill |
| A．it cost less to live in the country |
| B．it costs more to live in the country |
| C．living in the country is no better than in the town |
| D．she is quite satisfied with the life in the country |
| A．a guidebook | B．a newspaper | C．a speech | D．a story book |
| A．The letter is written by an unknown person. |
| B．This letter is a reply to the questions of 4th February. |
| C．Living in the country is better than living in the city. |
| D．The cost of living in the city is lower than that of the country. |
最新试题
- 1质量相等、初温相同的水和酒精，分别用两个相同的加热器加热（不计热量损失），加热过程中温度随时间的变化图线如图所示，则a的
- 2哈勃望远镜的物镜直径达4.3 m（其光学主镜口径为2.4 m），制造如此大的物镜是因为[ ]A．物镜越大我们看到
- 3受席卷全国的寒潮影响，中国各地用电负荷屡创新高，京津唐地区、湖北、江西、河南、安徽、重庆等省市区电力供应面临严峻考验，华
- 4（本小题满分12分）某汽车配件厂生产A、B两种型号的产品，A型产品的一等品率为，二等品率为；B型产品的一等品率为，二等品
- 5有一只小虫从某点出发，在一条直线上爬行，若规定向右爬行的路程记为正，向左爬行的路程记为负，小虫爬行各段路程依次记为（单位
- 6某城市为省会，历史悠久，有“泉城”之美称。该城市所在的省是[ ]A．山西省B．山东省C．河北省D．河南省
- 7— I feel really hungry. Have you got anything to eat? — ____
- 8第五届中欧工商峰会于2009年11月30日在________举行。国务院总理温家宝与来华出席第十二次中欧***会晤的欧盟
- 9 - _ may have a chance to be successful if he tries his
- 10Our city has changed a great deal,It doesn’t even resemble _
热门考点
- 1在中国共产党领导下，打响了武装反抗国民党反动统治第一枪的事件是A．南昌起义B．秋收起义C．井冈山会师D．北伐战争
- 2My friend Tony is an American 41 . He is ten years old. H
- 3不等式2≤x2-2x＜8的整数解集是（ ）。
- 4下列各句中，划线的词语使用恰当的一句是（ ）A．冬天老年人要增加营养，也要适当运动，在户外锻炼时一定要量入为出，以
- 5There is __________ snow. We can’t go out to play soccer.[
- 6 The holidays are a time to give. These charities---and many
- 7如图所示电路中，电源电压恒定，R1为定值电阻，R2为滑动变阻器．闭合开关S后，滑动变阻器滑片P自b向a移动的过程中（
- 818. It is ______ that he has passed the examination, and I a
- 9今年5月，我市发现了首例H 7 N9禽流感病例。下列对病毒的叙述不正确的是A．H 7N9病毒是一种动物病毒B．病毒都是传
- 10Mr. Black is an experienced engineer , and he will be employ