奥鹏作业网19秋《阅读》（II）作业1
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)
1.Everyone who eats in Carman’s Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Luntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant’s discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn’t meeting women,she put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:”Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break.”Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn’t have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman’s.Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn’t just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel’s pocket as she left.Just three weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again.”It was incredible,”she says.”There’s a sense about Carman that is just can-do,”says regular Kevin Vaughan.”It’s infectious.” 问题：Carman Luntzel was all of the following except ( )
A.an insurance agent
B.a matchmaker
C.a discussion leader
D.a cook
2.Astronomers（天文学家） can tell just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon toward the sun gets two degrees hotter than boiling water（沸水）.The night side reaches 243 degrees below zero（零度）.In an eclipse（月蚀）,the earth’s shadow falls on the moon.Then the moon’s temperature may drop 300 degrees in a very short time.A temperature change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on the moon?Astronomers think that the surface of the moon is dust.On the earth,rocks store heat from the sun.When the sun goes down,the rocks stay warm.But the dust of the moon cannot store heat.So when the moon gets dark,the heat escapes quickly.The moon gets very cold. 问题：Temperature on the earth change ( )
A.more slowly than those on the moon
B.more quickly than those on the moon
C.less than those on the moon
D.both a and b
3.His mind had grown suddenly (numb) seconds seemed hours.
A.painful
B.insensitive
C.indifferent
D.acute
4.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me.”I’m baffled,”he said.”A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’”His teacher can’t understand it.Neither can I.”I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test.”What is Mars?”I asked.Most children his age say,”A chocolate bar.”He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:”Can’t you come up with something more difficult?”I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was “off the map”as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark’s principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark’s parents what they thought of him.”He can be a pain in the neck,”his mother said.”He asks such impossible questions,”she smiled.”But we love him dearly.”This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 问题：”Off the map”here means that ( )
A.the boy was not satisfired with such an easy test
B.the boy surpassed the other children in intelligence and emotion
C.the boy’s intelligence was too high to register
D.it was hard to assess how intelligent the boy was
5.And there were (suites) available,if she could stand living in an apartment without a yard or garden.
A.sets of rooms
B.sets of huts
C.places suitable
D.places needed
6.George Ashmore Fitch was born in Soochow,China in 1883,the son of Presbyterian missionaries George F.and Mary McLllan Fitch.After receiving his B.A.from Wooster College in 1906,Fitch attended Union Theological Seminary in New York.He was made a priest in 1909 and returned to work in Shanghai.When the Nanking Massacre occurred,Fitch was one of the witnesses of the crime.He quickly became active in assisting the Internatinal Committen for the Nanking Safety Zone.Fitch’s diary of events of Nanking was carried to Shanghai by the first person able to leave the Nanking after its occupation by the Japanese on December 13,1937.As Fitch has written,”My story created a sensation in Shanghai,for it was the first news of what had happened in the capital since its evacuation,and it was copied and mimeographed and widely distributed there.”Fitch’s Nanking diary has been published previously but the version of his diary available in the Yale collection differs slightly from the well-publicized version,so excerpts from it have been included in this volume.In 1938 Fitch traveled throughout the United States giving talks about the Nanking Massacre and showing films to document it.He returned to work first in China and then in Korea and China’s Taiwan until his retirement in 1961. 问题：Which of the following is true?
A.the version of his diary is the Yale collection is not different from other versions
B.the version of Fitch’s diary in the Yale edition is slightly different from the other version#
C.Fitch’s Nanking diary had never been published before the Yale collection
7.They were reports (compiled)by allied secret service agents.
A.sent
B.gathered
C.created
D.copied
8.Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：Charles I of England wanted to ( )
A.make ice cream popular
B.keep the secret of ice cream for himself
C.develop new kinds of ice cream
D.bring ice cream recipes from China
9.She knew she sounded old and (crabby).
A.irritable
B.dull
C.coarse
D.angry
10.In the (haze) I saw two of my trek mates.
A.thin mist
B.light
C.heavy smog
D.darkness
11.Curiosity (gripped) me.
A.took hold of
B.surprised
C.got rid of
D.disappointed
12.Dorothy worked alongside him,in the beginning,until he proved himself;then gradually she (relinquished) more of the work to him and concentrated on her garden and flowers,and the housework
A.took
B.reconsidered
C.offered
D.gave up
13.Nature has a perfect system for recycling(循环) water. Water is used again and again. It falls as rain. Then it goes one of the three places. It might seep slowly through the soil as it soaks through into the natural reservoirs underground. It might disappear into the air by evaporating（蒸发） quickly. It might run off into streams（溪） to rivers and to the oceans. 问题：Nature has （ ）
A.a system of recycling water
B.a rule to follow
C.a fate for human
D.a balance system
14.The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue(the month to worship all the deities).The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel(laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,dates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the original laba gruel. 问题：At the Laba Fesival,people ( )
A.worship all the deities
B.eat a special gruel together
C.cook a variety of food to mark the occasion
D.begin preparations for the Lunar New Year
15.The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue(the month to worship all the deities).The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel(laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,dates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the original laba gruel. 问题：Sakyamuni left his home and searched for ( )
A.wisdom of life
B.weath for life
C.remedies for life
D.comforts of life
16.Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：The selection says that most Americans ( )
A.think that ice cream was an American idea
B.think that ice cream is very new
C.know that ice cream is very old
D.do not know what ice cream is
17.Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park,Illinois,a prosperous suburb of Chicago.His father,a physician,was an enthusiastic hunter and fisheman who taught his son to handle a rod and a gun.Hemingway’s respect for these skills and his love of the open air run through his writing.He has tired to capture the point of view,actions,feelings,and speech of men who excel in the activities he admires.In school Hemingway was a good student,with a wide range of interests beyond the classroom.He was known as a boxer,a football player,a member of the swimming team,and manager of the track team.For 3 years he played in the school orchestra.But much of his activity was connected with words,which were to be his lifelong preoccupation.First as reporter,then as editor,he gained experience on the school paper,to which he contributed articles and stories.When Hemingway graduated from high school in 1917,World War I was still being fought.After a few months as a reporter on the Kansas City Star,he sailed for Europe in May,1918,as a volunteer ambulance driver and later transferred to the Italian infantry.Two weeks before his 19th birthday a leg wound brought him close to death.War and death have been recurrent themes in Hemingway’s writing.Of war he has said,” I thought about Tolstoi and about what a great advantage an experience of war was to a writer.It was one of the major subjects and certainly one of the hardest to write truly of … ” 问题：Hemingway thought that his experience of war was to him ( )
A.the hardest subject to write about
B.something very useful for writing
C.something as terrible as death
D.like that of Tolstoi’s
18.”I’m (redundant),”Dorothy thought,then realized she was speaking out loud.
A.not worried
B.not needed
C.not happy
D.not careful
19.Studies have shown that cognitive skills and physical performance are (impaired) by sleep debt,but mood is affected more.
A.weakened
B.strengthened
C.improved
D.enhanced
20.At first,she was almost alarmingly (apathetic) and seemed to be totally uninterested in my visit.
A.indifferent
B.enthusiastic
C.emotional
D.active
19秋《阅读》（II）作业2
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)
1.I held onto the rail with a feeble grip and began to descend the (treacherous) steps.
A.wicked
B.tricky
C.insecure
D.complicated
2.In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 17-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,when she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers’ overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the “working” day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thoughts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has inherited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 问题：The white landlord angered the narrator’s mother by ( )
A.telling her not to let her children go to school
B.fighting with her
C.driving her children out of school
D.being rich
3.New measurements taken from sleeping people explain,at least in part,why dreams tend to have such bizarre but vivid storylines.The findings deal a blow to the Freudian interpretation of dreams but leave open the possibility that some useful personal meaning can be extracted from them.The main purpose of dreams,however,the authors of the new study believe,is to test whether the brain has had enough sleep and,if so,to wake it up.The new results show that in sleep,the frontal lobes of the brain are shut down.In the absence of activity in these lobes,which integrate other information and make sense of the outside world,the sleeping brain’s images are driven by its emotional centers.The content of these dreams may be vivid and gripping but lacks coherence.The new results are consistent with the theory that memories are consolidated during sleep.From the pattern of activity that was recorded,”it seems that memories already in the system are being read out and filed in terms of their emotional salience,with is an extremely interesting idea,”said Dr.J.Allan Hobson of Harvard Medical School.The new measurements were made by applying the technique known as PET scanning to sleeping subjects.The biologists focused on the two forms of sleep,known as slow-wave sleep and REM sleep.REM sleep,so named because of the rapid eyeball movements that occur then,takes palce about four times during the night and is the phase from which the most vivid dreams are recalled. 问题：According to the passage,all of the following are ture except that ( )
A.the technique,PET scanning,leads researchers to focus on two forms of sleep
B.the content of the dreams is not very consistent and seems very boring
C.in REM sleep,rapid eyeball movements occur
D.a man’s sleep can have 2 forms:slow-wave sleep and REM sleep
4.For a few minutes he (tapped) the switch after each flash.
A.touched
B.snapped
C.pressed
D.painted
5.Into the humble home of Armand Bernaud,in the Grande Rue,Dieppe,(suspense)and the shadow of death were invited.
A.uncertainty
B.suspicion
C.hardships
D.expectation
6.Everyone who eats in Carman’s Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Luntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant’s discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn’t meeting women,she put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:”Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break.”Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn’t have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman’s.Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn’t just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel’s pocket as she left.Just three weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again.”It was incredible,”she says.”There’s a sense about Carman that is just can-do,”says regular Kevin Vaughan.”It’s infectious.” 问题：What was infectious about the restaurant?
A.the spirit of helping others
B.the food served
C.the efficiency of work
D.the desire of regular diners
7.Surprisingly,she’d slept,though her mind was (churning) when she went to bed.
A.sharp
B.confused
C.a total blank
D.agitated
8.From there, 3 days of magnificent (trekking) through great scenery had brought us to the village of Kumjung.
A.travelling
B.sightseeing
C.palying
D.driving
9.The National Sleep Foundation site also contains useful information on helping you to knit up “the ravell’d sleeve of care,”as Shakespeare once (aptly) described a good night’s sleep.
A.rightly
B.keenly
C.humorously
D.clearly
10.Astronomers（天文学家） can tell just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon toward the sun gets two degrees hotter than boiling water（沸水）.The night side reaches 243 degrees below zero（零度）.In an eclipse（月蚀）,the earth’s shadow falls on the moon.Then the moon’s temperature may drop 300 degrees in a very short time.A temperature change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on the moon?Astronomers think that the surface of the moon is dust.On the earth,rocks store heat from the sun.When the sun goes down,the rocks stay warm.But the dust of the moon cannot store heat.So when the moon gets dark,the heat escapes quickly.The moon gets very cold. 问题：The surface of the moon is probably ( )
A.rock that stores heat
B.rock that does not store heat
C.dust that stores heat
D.dust that cannot store heat
11.Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：Marco Polo is known as ( )
A.the inventor of ice cream
B.a traveler to China
C.a royal cook
D.a Roman emperor
12.Although American civilization took over and replaced the frontier almost a century ago,the heritage of the frontier is still very much alive in the U.S.today.The idea of the frontier still stirs the emotions and imaginations of the American people.Americans continue to be fascinated by the frontier because it has been a particularly important force in shaping their national values.The frontier experience began when the first colonists settled on the east coast of the continent in the 1600s.It ended about 1890 when the last western lands were settled.The American frontier consisted of the relatively unsettled regions of the country.Here,both land and life were more rugged and primitive than in the more settled eastern part.As one frontier area was settled,people began moving farther west into the next unsettled area.By settling one frontier area after another,Americans moved across an entire continent,2,700 miles wide. 问题：Compared with the eastern part of the country,the unsettled frontier land and life were ( )
A.rugged and unbearable
B.rough and primitive
C.more civilized and interesting
D.dull and primitive
13.Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：The selection says that most Americans ( )
A.think that ice cream was an American idea
B.think that ice cream is very new
C.know that ice cream is very old
D.do not know what ice cream is
14.Our party of 4 old-timers, of whom I, at 71,was the oldest,had (convened) a week earlier in Kathmandu,the capital,and had met our journey leader Nancy Jo there.
A.walked
B.stayed
C.rested
D.gathered
15.New measurements taken from sleeping people explain,at least in part,why dreams tend to have such bizarre but vivid storylines.The findings deal a blow to the Freudian interpretation of dreams but leave open the possibility that some useful personal meaning can be extracted from them.The main purpose of dreams,however,the authors of the new study believe,is to test whether the brain has had enough sleep and,if so,to wake it up.The new results show that in sleep,the frontal lobes of the brain are shut down.In the absence of activity in these lobes,which integrate other information and make sense of the outside world,the sleeping brain’s images are driven by its emotional centers.The content of these dreams may be vivid and gripping but lacks coherence.The new results are consistent with the theory that memories are consolidated during sleep.From the pattern of activity that was recorded,”it seems that memories already in the system are being read out and filed in terms of their emotional salience,with is an extremely interesting idea,”said Dr.J.Allan Hobson of Harvard Medical School.The new measurements were made by applying the technique known as PET scanning to sleeping subjects.The biologists focused on the two forms of sleep,known as slow-wave sleep and REM sleep.REM sleep,so named because of the rapid eyeball movements that occur then,takes palce about four times during the night and is the phase from which the most vivid dreams are recalled. 问题：Accoding to this study,the purpose of the dreams is to ( )
A.test if the brain has had enough sleep
B.show the dreams bizarre but vivid storylines
C.prove the correctness of the Freudian interpretation of dreams
D.extract some useful personal meanings from the dreams
16.In the (haze) I saw two of my trek mates.
A.thin mist
B.light
C.heavy smog
D.darkness
17.No one thought of anything even a little bit like the zipper until Whitecomb L.Judson came along. There were buttons and button-holes, hooks and eyes, laces and buckles. They all took an irritatingly long time to do up, especially when men wore high-laced boots and fashionable ladies squeezed themselves into long corsets. Whitecomb L.Judson＇s slide-fastener was an out-of-the-blue invention, and no one knows what gave him the idea. No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engineer living in Chicago and that he patented other inventions, to do with a street railway system and motor-cars. Judson invented the first zipper(called, at the time, a Clasp Locker or Unlocker)in 1891. This ingenious little device looks so simple, and the principle behind it is simple: one row of hooks and eyes slotting neatly into another row by means of a tab. Yet it took 22 years, many improvements and another inventor to make the zipper really practical.问题：Before Judson invented the zipper, people found buttoning clothes to be ( )
A.interesting
B.easy
C.comfortable
D.burdensome
18.I (groped) my way to a door,opened it,and instantly began to cough.
A.walked
B.tramped
C.jumped
D.felt
19.I quickly washed up, then joined the boiled potato (feast).
A.party
B.meeting
C.meal
D.achievement
20.Two basic models of parental influence emerge from all this competition and variety,however.One, loosely based on Freudian ideas,has presented an image of the vulnerable child:children are sensitive beings,easily damaged not only by traumatic events and emotional stress,but also by overdoses of affection.The 2nd model is that of the behaviorists,whose intellectual ancestors,the empiricist philosophers,described the child’s mind as a tabula rasa,or blank slate.The behaviorist model of child-rearing is based on the view that the child is malleable,and parents are therefore cast in the role of Pygmalions who can shape their children however they wish.”Give me a dozen healthy infants,well-formed,and my own specified world to bring them up in,”wrote J.B.Watson,the father of modern behaviorism,”and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to be any type of specialist I might-doctor,lawyer,artist,merchant,chief, and yes,even beggar man and thief!”The image of the vulnerable child calls for gentle parents who are sensitive to their child’s inner-most thoughts and feelings in order to protect him from trauma.The image of the malleable child requires stem parents who coolly follow the dictates of their own explicit training procedures:only the early eradication of bad habits in eating,sleeping,crying,can fend off permanent maladjustments. 问题：According to the Freudian model of parental influence,a child is ( )
A.well-behaved
B.tough
C.healthy
D.easily hurt
19秋《阅读》（II）作业3
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)
1.In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 17-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,when she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers’ overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the “working” day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thoughts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has inherited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 问题：It seems to the narrator that it would be really good if ( )
A.the mother worked side by side with her husband
B.the mother worked from sunup till night
C.the mother made all things that the family needed
D.the mother could have some time to think undisturbed
2.You don＇t have to set up a foundation or spend hours raising money to help the environment.Joey Gordon-Levitt,16,does his part by simply collecting his newspapers,plastic,and cans-and have them recycled.”Everyone should recycle,”the teen star says.Singer and actor Better Midler goes a step further-She picks up other people＇s garbage.For example,Midler has helped remove truckloads of trash from Fort Tryon Park in New York City.Such simple efforts at trash collection and reduction are catching on.Last year,the Environmental Protection Agency counted 7,500 recycling programs in the US. That＇s up from just 1,000 programs in 1988.Almost half of the country＇s population now lives in towns and cities with curbside recycling.So we＇re on the right track to reducing trash.But we still have a long way to go.In 1994, about 40% of paper products and plastic soda bottles produced in this country were recycled. But only 2% of food packaging was recovered!We also have to work on creating more demand for recycled material.You can help by checking labels-and buying products made from recovered paper, plastic,and metal.Recycling saves resources like water and trees,and cuts down on air pollution.So what are you waiting for?Get to work taking care of our “rock.””If we don＇t,we＇ll all have to move to Mars,”says Gordon-Levitt.”The only problem is that we don＇t know how to do that yet!” 问题： What does Joey Gordon-Levitt do to help the environment?
A.He sells newspapers
B.He raises money in the street
C.He drives a truck carrying trash away
D.He collects used things that can be recycled
3.At the 1908 Olympics in London the Marathon race was held on a very hot day.The race started at Windsor Castle,one of the homes of the Royal Family,so that the Royal children could see the runners leave.The race was planned to continue for 26 miles 385 yards (42,195 metres),now the accepted distance for this race,into Central London.Because of the great heat,however,many runners had to give up before they could finish the race.Towards the end,the large crowd waited with great excitement for the South African,Charles Hefferon,to come into the stadium first.They were surprised,however,when the 1st man to appear was the small Italian,Pietri Dorando.Dorando was by now extremely tired and weak and,as he was running round the stadium towards the finishing line,he fell to the groud,unable to continue.Doctors rushed to help him and he soon got to his feet and continued,with loud cheers from the crowd.As he came close to the line he had to be helped again, this time by a journalist,but finally he finished the race.He was not,of course,allowed to receive the gold because he had had help during the race.Afterwards, Dorando argued unsuccessfully that he had not asked for this help.But the medal was given to an American,Hayes,who had finished second.However, Dorando later received a special gold cup from Queen Alexandra for his courage. 问题：the one who 1st finished the Marathon race turned out to be ( )
A.Hefferon
B.Hayes
C.Dorando
D.Alexandra
4.Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie.But ice cream was known long before American was discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. 问题：The Roman emperor Nero hired men to ( )
A.make ice cream for him
B.guard the secret of ice cream
C.bring ice to cool his drinks
D.bring ice cream from China
5.Yet when their daytime alertness was tested later on, more than 80% were not (optimally) alert.
A.really
B.enough
C.best possibly
D.actually
6.In 1989,Melissa started Kids F.A.C.E.as an after-school club at her elementary school.The six-member group met each Monday to write letters and plan cleanup activities.”We never thought it was anything more than a group of kids coming together so they could talk about the environment,”says Trish Poe,her mother.But then a letter from Milissa to the “Today” show got her club on television in 1990.When other kids heard about the club,they wrote asking how they could get involed.So Melissa,with the help of her mother,who today manages the Kids F.A.C.E.office as executive director,developed a membership book that instructed kids on environmental projects and how to start a club of their own.”I felt like I had to write them all back at once because I didn’t like what the president did to me.Because I didn’t like being ignored…I didn’t want the kids to have the same feeling,”says Melissa.Requests for information came from all over the nation.At first,Melissa’s parents paid the postage and supply bills for the club,but soon expenses became too high.So the club found a sponsor,War-Mart Inc.,which began underwriting the bimonthly newsletter,Kids F.A.C.E.illustrated,which currently provides environmental updates,suggestions,and ideas to more than 2 million people world wide. 问题：Melissa mentioned the president because ( )
A.the latter wrote to her to support her work
B.she wrote to the latter but got no reply from him
C.she wanted the kids to write to him
D.she wanted the kids to know her experience
7.The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue(the month to worship all the deities).The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel(laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,dates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the original laba gruel. 问题：The Laba Festival is believed by many to be related to ( )
A.Taoism
B.Confucianism
C.Christianity
D.Buddhism
8.Last December 22 a pickup truck slid on an icy bridge over the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth,and slammed into the guardrail,where workers were removing scaffolding from a paving project.The impact threw Cornell Taylor,43,more than 70 feet into the frigid water below.Nearby,Joseph G.Brisson,36,was in the wheelhouse of his tugboat.He and his crew were talking about the upcoming holidays when suddenly their chatter was interrupted by an urgent voice:”Man down!”Brisson saw Taylor hit the water.”He went down a few times and all I saw was a hand.”Realizing there was no time to wait for rescue crews,Brisson took off his shoes and handed his wallet to a co-worker,then jumped feet-first into the 40-degree water.Swimming to Taylor,Brisson helped the disoriented man get his face above water.”I told him I was not going to let him go,that if he went,I was going with him.”The river current was freezing.”I couldn’t feel my legs,arms or hands,”Brisson said.He locked his legs around Taylor’s waist and kept the injured man float and talking.”I told him we were going to be all right,that we were both going to enjoy Christmas.”Finally, after about 30 minutes in the water,the men were pulled to safety.Calling himself “a normal Joe,”Brisson says,”I have a family.I thought about that.But I thought about how life is very important,I couldn’t let anything happen to him.” 问题：The word “frigid” in paragraph one means ( )
A.warm
B.running
C.icy
D.deep
9.Studies have shown that cognitive skills and physical performance are (impaired) by sleep debt,but mood is affected more.
A.weakened
B.strengthened
C.improved
D.enhanced
10.Last December 22 a pickup truck slid on an icy bridge over the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth,and slammed into the guardrail,where workers were removing scaffolding from a paving project.The impact threw Cornell Taylor,43,more than 70 feet into the frigid water below.Nearby,Joseph G.Brisson,36,was in the wheelhouse of his tugboat.He and his crew were talking about the upcoming holidays when suddenly their chatter was interrupted by an urgent voice:”Man down!”Brisson saw Taylor hit the water.”He went down a few times and all I saw was a hand.”Realizing there was no time to wait for rescue crews,Brisson took off his shoes and handed his wallet to a co-worker,then jumped feet-first into the 40-degree water.Swimming to Taylor,Brisson helped the disoriented man get his face above water.”I told him I was not going to let him go,that if he went,I was going with him.”The river current was freezing.”I couldn’t feel my legs,arms or hands,”Brisson said.He locked his legs around Taylor’s waist and kept the injured man float and talking.”I told him we were going to be all right,that we were both going to enjoy Christmas.”Finally, after about 30 minutes in the water,the men were pulled to safety.Calling himself “a normal Joe,”Brisson says,”I have a family.I thought about that.But I thought about how life is very important,I couldn’t let anything happen to him.” 问题：what did Brisson say to the injured man in the water?
A.he told the latter to keep his face above water
B.he told the latter to hold on
C.he told the latter they probably were both going to die
D.he told the latter that Christmas was coming
11.You don＇t have to set up a foundation or spend hours raising money to help the environment.Joey Gordon-Levitt,16,does his part by simply collecting his newspapers,plastic,and cans-and have them recycled.”Everyone should recycle,”the teen star says.Singer and actor Better Midler goes a step further-She picks up other people＇s garbage.For example,Midler has helped remove truckloads of trash from Fort Tryon Park in New York City.Such simple efforts at trash collection and reduction are catching on.Last year,the Environmental Protection Agency counted 7,500 recycling programs in the US. That＇s up from just 1,000 programs in 1988.Almost half of the country＇s population now lives in towns and cities with curbside recycling.So we＇re on the right track to reducing trash.But we still have a long way to go.In 1994, about 40% of paper products and plastic soda bottles produced in this country were recycled. But only 2% of food packaging was recovered!We also have to work on creating more demand for recycled material.You can help by checking labels-and buying products made from recovered paper, plastic,and metal.Recycling saves resources like water and trees,and cuts down on air pollution.So what are you waiting for?Get to work taking care of our “rock.””If we don＇t,we＇ll all have to move to Mars,”says Gordon-Levitt.”The only problem is that we don＇t know how to do that yet!” 问题：The author of the passage suggests that you ( ) to help the environment.
A.set-up a fund
B.recycle trash
C.raise money
D.move to Mars
12.Everyone who eats in Carman’s Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Luntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant’s discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn’t meeting women,she put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:”Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break.”Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn’t have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman’s.Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn’t just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel’s pocket as she left.Just three weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again.”It was incredible,”she says.”There’s a sense about Carman that is just can-do,”says regular Kevin Vaughan.”It’s infectious.” 问题: How many weeks did it take to reopen the restaurant ?
A.3 weeks
B.3 months
C.2 weeks
D.2 months
13.Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park,Illinois,a prosperous suburb of Chicago.His father,a physician,was an enthusiastic hunter and fisheman who taught his son to handle a rod and a gun.Hemingway’s respect for these skills and his love of the open air run through his writing.He has tired to capture the point of view,actions,feelings,and speech of men who excel in the activities he admires.In school Hemingway was a good student,with a wide range of interests beyond the classroom.He was known as a boxer,a football player,a member of the swimming team,and manager of the track team.For 3 years he played in the school orchestra.But much of his activity was connected with words,which were to be his lifelong preoccupation.First as reporter,then as editor,he gained experience on the school paper,to which he contributed articles and stories.When Hemingway graduated from high school in 1917,World War I was still being fought.After a few months as a reporter on the Kansas City Star,he sailed for Europe in May,1918,as a volunteer ambulance driver and later transferred to the Italian infantry.Two weeks before his 19th birthday a leg wound brought him close to death.War and death have been recurrent themes in Hemingway’s writing.Of war he has said,” I thought about Tolstoi and about what a great advantage an experience of war was to a writer.It was one of the major subjects and certainly one of the hardest to write truly of … ” 问题：with a wide range of interests,Hemingway was nevertheless most interested in ( )
A.words
B.swimming
C.football
D.boxing
14.Astronomers（天文学家） can tell just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon toward the sun gets two degrees hotter than boiling water（沸水）.The night side reaches 243 degrees below zero（零度）.In an eclipse（月蚀）,the earth’s shadow falls on the moon.Then the moon’s temperature may drop 300 degrees in a very short time.A temperature change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on the moon?Astronomers think that the surface of the moon is dust.On the earth,rocks store heat from the sun.When the sun goes down,the rocks stay warm.But the dust of the moon cannot store heat.So when the moon gets dark,the heat escapes quickly.The moon gets very cold. 问题：Duting an eclipse, the moon is ( )
A.turned away from the sun
B.in the shadow of the sun
C.in the shadow of the earth
D.in direct sunlight
15.”Another gray day,gray and gloomy,”she muttered,though really the rain was more than welcome after last year’s (drought).
A.strong wind
B.lack of rain
C.heavy storm
D.heavy snow
16.The history of the Winter Games,however,has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games.Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions,held every 4 years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1992,had been in the Scandinavian countries-Sweden,Norway and Finland.The sportsmen of these countries believed that the Winter Games could only be held in the Scandinavian way.Coubertin,himself,was against a separate Winter Olympics as he felt that they would cause trouble within the Olympic movement.However,as winter holidays in the Alps became more and more popular,so did the idea of a truly international Winter Games.The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in 1924,though they were only recognized by the International Olympic Committee as “Olympic” two years later in 1926.Although there were many arguments before them,the 1st Games were a success,but the problems did not end there.In 1935,it was decided by the IOC that ski teachers could not compete in the Olympics because they were professionals.This caused a big argument between the IOC and the International Ski Federation,who agreed with the ski teachers and,as the two organizations could come to an end very soon after their beginning.However,war came and with it an end to the discussions.When the war was finally over,the Winter Games were started up again,as before,in St Moritz in 1948 and the crisis had passed. 问题: the above passage mainly discusses ( )
A.the problems of the Winter Olympics
B.the necessity for a separate Winter Olympics
C.the history of the Winter Olympics
D.the birth of the winter Olympics
17.The National Sleep Foundation site also contains useful information on helping you to knit up “the ravell’d sleeve of care,”as Shakespeare once (aptly) described a good night’s sleep.
A.rightly
B.keenly
C.humorously
D.clearly
18.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me.”I’m baffled,”he said.”A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’”His teacher can’t understand it.Neither can I.”I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test.”What is Mars?”I asked.Most children his age say,”A chocolate bar.”He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:”Can’t you come up with something more difficult?”I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was “off the map”as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark’s principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark’s parents what they thought of him.”He can be a pain in the neck,”his mother said.”He asks such impossible questions,”she smiled.”But we love him dearly.”This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 问题：The boy’s parents looked upon their son as ( )
A.a real genius
B.a normal boy
C.a mischievous boy
D.a boy that needs love
19.Copper(铜)was the first metal that man learned to make.In some mountainous lands there were rocks streaked with green minerals.One day some rocks were accidentally heated by a roaring fire.When the fire burned low,little beads of copper were seen on the rock wall.After that,men heated the rock deliberately to see whether more copper would appear.They soon found a good way to make copper.They would build a trench on a hillside and fill it with charcoal and copper-bearing rock.They covered this furnace with flat stones.They started a wood fire to heat the charcoal and the hot charcoal released copper from the rock.A hot red pool of melted metal formed at the mouth of the trench.When it was cool,the solid metal could be lifted out and cut and pounded into shapes. 问题：Copper is found in rocks in（ ）
A.streaks
B.small beads
C.lumps
D.large pieces
20.In 1989,Melissa started Kids F.A.C.E.as an after-school club at her elementary school.The six-member group met each Monday to write letters and plan cleanup activities.”We never thought it was anything more than a group of kids coming together so they could talk about the environment,”says Trish Poe,her mother.But then a letter from Milissa to the “Today” show got her club on television in 1990.When other kids heard about the club,they wrote asking how they could get involed.So Melissa,with the help of her mother,who today manages the Kids F.A.C.E.office as executive director,developed a membership book that instructed kids on environmental projects and how to start a club of their own.”I felt like I had to write them all back at once because I didn’t like what the president did to me.Because I didn’t like being ignored…I didn’t want the kids to have the same feeling,”says Melissa.Requests for information came from all over the nation.At first,Melissa’s parents paid the postage and supply bills for the club,but soon expenses became too high.So the club found a sponsor,War-Mart Inc.,which began underwriting the bimonthly newsletter,Kids F.A.C.E.illustrated,which currently provides environmental updates,suggestions,and ideas to more than 2 million people world wide. 问题：When Melissa was starting the club,she was ( )
A.the parent of a kid at school
B.a social worker taking care of children after school
C.a school teacher working for the kids
D.a kid attending an elementary school
19秋《阅读》（II）作业4
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)
1.I quickly washed up, then joined the boiled potato (feast).
A.party
B.meeting
C.meal
D.achievement
2.The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue(the month to worship all the deities).The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel(laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,dates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the original laba gruel. 问题：At the Laba Fesival,people ( )
A.worship all the deities
B.eat a special gruel together
C.cook a variety of food to mark the occasion
D.begin preparations for the Lunar New Year
3.Everyone who eats in Carman’s Country Kitchen in South Philadelphia knows that if you need a job,a place to stay or a friendly ear on a blue day,you come to Carman Luntzel.The six-foot,46 year-old powerhouse not only cooks,she also acts as her restaurant’s discussion leader and matchmaker.When breakfast regular Stephen Sacavitch wasn’t meeting women,she put his picture on a bulletin board,with the words:”Girls.Nice guy.Give him a break.”Last September a coffeepot left on a red-hot burner nearly destroyed the restaurant.Luntzel didn’t have insurance.But bad news has a way of turning good at Carman’s.Bereft at the thought of no more buttermilk pancakes or homemade pear pie-and no more Carman dishing out advice and help-her customers pitched in.They boarded up her windows,removed debris and primed and painted her scorched walls.It wasn’t just the regulars.A guy on a motorcycle dropped off some cash.A woman from a nearby restaurant scoured charred dishes and stuck two $50 bills in Luntzel’s pocket as she left.Just three weeks after the blaze,Luntzel was serving breakfast again.”It was incredible,”she says.”There’s a sense about Carman that is just can-do,”says regular Kevin Vaughan.”It’s infectious.” 问题：What happened last September?
A.There was a fire which nearly destroyed the restaurant
B.Luntzel lost a coffeepot
C.Carman could always turn bad news into good news
D.An insurance company offered to help
4.My father was 17 when he left the farm in Cameron,N.C., and set off for Baltimore to apply for a job at the Martin Aircraft Company. When asked what he wanted to do, he said,”Everything.” He explained that his goal was to learn every job in the factory. He＇d like to go to a department and find out what was done there. When the supervisor determined his work was as good as anyone else＇s, he＇d want to go to a different department and start over. The personnel people agreed to this unusual request, and by the time H.T.Morris was 20, he＇d made his way through the huge factory and was working in experimental design for a fantastic salary. Whenever he went to a new department, he looked for the guys who had been around forever. These were the people novices usually avoided, afraid that next to them they＇d look like the beginners they were. My father asked them every question he could think of. They liked this inquisitive young man and showed him shortcuts they had developed that no one else had ever asked about. These sages became his mentors. Whatever your goals, plan to network with those who know more than you. Model your efforts on theirs, adjusting and improving as you go. 问题：The veteran workers in the factory liked the author＇s father because the young man was ( )
A.willing to look like a beginner
B.trying to avoid being around forever
C.interested in his mentors
D.always asking questions
5.You don＇t have to set up a foundation or spend hours raising money to help the environment.Joey Gordon-Levitt,16,does his part by simply collecting his newspapers,plastic,and cans-and have them recycled.”Everyone should recycle,”the teen star says.Singer and actor Better Midler goes a step further-She picks up other people＇s garbage.For example,Midler has helped remove truckloads of trash from Fort Tryon Park in New York City.Such simple efforts at trash collection and reduction are catching on.Last year,the Environmental Protection Agency counted 7,500 recycling programs in the US. That＇s up from just 1,000 programs in 1988.Almost half of the country＇s population now lives in towns and cities with curbside recycling.So we＇re on the right track to reducing trash.But we still have a long way to go.In 1994, about 40% of paper products and plastic soda bottles produced in this country were recycled. But only 2% of food packaging was recovered!We also have to work on creating more demand for recycled material.You can help by checking labels-and buying products made from recovered paper, plastic,and metal.Recycling saves resources like water and trees,and cuts down on air pollution.So what are you waiting for?Get to work taking care of our “rock.””If we don＇t,we＇ll all have to move to Mars,”says Gordon-Levitt.”The only problem is that we don＇t know how to do that yet!” 问题： What is unusual about Better Midler?
A.she urges other people to take their garbage out of the city
B.she collects newspapers, plastic and cans like Gordon-Levitt
C.She picks up other peoples trash
D.She helps the environment
6.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me.”I’m baffled,”he said.”A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’”His teacher can’t understand it.Neither can I.”I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test.”What is Mars?”I asked.Most children his age say,”A chocolate bar.”He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:”Can’t you come up with something more difficult?”I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was “off the map”as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark’s principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark’s parents what they thought of him.”He can be a pain in the neck,”his mother said.”He asks such impossible questions,”she smiled.”But we love him dearly.”This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 问题：”Off the map”here means that ( )
A.the boy was not satisfired with such an easy test
B.the boy surpassed the other children in intelligence and emotion
C.the boy’s intelligence was too high to register
D.it was hard to assess how intelligent the boy was
7.In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 17-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,when she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers’ overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the “working” day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thoughts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has inherited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 问题：The mother appeared to the narrator to be all of the following except ( )
A.violent
B.soft
C.patient
D.loving
8.But,watching through the window as Tim hurried through the (downpour) from pig barn to cattle shed,she knew the answer.
A.stream of water
B.narrow path
C.heavy fall of rain
D.big expanse
9.Less commonly,they make mistakes with tragic (consequences).
A.sequence
B.results
C.influences
D.concern
10.In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 17-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,when she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers’ overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the “working” day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thoughts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has inherited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 问题：The white landlord angered the narrator’s mother by ( )
A.telling her not to let her children go to school
B.fighting with her
C.driving her children out of school
D.being rich
11.Curiosity (gripped) me.
A.took hold of
B.surprised
C.got rid of
D.disappointed
12.In the late 1920s my mother ran away from home to marry my father.Marriage,if not running away,was expected of 17-year-old girls.By the time she was 20,she had 2 children and was pregnant with a third.5 children later,I was born.And this is how I came to know my mother:she seemed a large,soft,loving-eyed woman who was rarely impatient in our home.Her quick,violent temper was on view only a few times a year,when she battled with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school.She made all the clothes we wore,even my brothers’ overalls.She made all the towels and sheets we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits.She spent the winter evenings making quilts enough to cover all our beds.During the “working” day,she labored beside-not behind-my father in the fields.Her day began before sunup,and did not end until late at night.There was never a moment for her to sit down,undisturbed,to unravel her own private thoughts;never a time free from interruption-by work or the noisy inquiries of her many children.And yet,it is to my mother-and all our mothers who were not famous-that I went in search of the secret of what has fed that muzzled and often mutilated,but vibrant,creative spirit that the black woman has inherited,and that pops out in wild and unlikly places to this day. 问题：The goal of the narrator’s research was to ( )
A.show how black women’s talent has been stifled
B.recall her own mother’s good qualities
C.praise all the working black mothers
D.find reasons for the black woman’s creativeness
13.The inventor of spectacles probably lived in the town of Paris, Italy, around 1286, and was almost certainly a craftsman working in glass. But nobody knows his name. We only know this much about him because Friar Giordane preached a sermon one Wednesday morning in February 1306 at a church in Florence. “It＇s not yet 20 years since there was found the art of making eye-glasses which make for good vision,” said the Friar.”One of the best arts and most necessary that the world has. So short a time is it since there was invented a new art that never existed. I have seen the man who first invented and created it, and I have talked to him.” We know what Friar Giordane said because admirers copied his sermons down as he gave them. The inventor of spectacles apparently kept the method of making them to himself. Perhaps he thought this was the best way of getting money from his invention. But the idea soon got around. As early as 1300, craftsmen in Venice,the centre of Europe＇s glass industry, were making the new “disks for the eyes”.Spectacles at first were only shaped for far-sighted people. Concave lenses, for short-sighted people, were not developed until the late 15th century. Spectacles allowed people to go on reading and studying long after bad eyesight would normally have forced them to give up.They were like a new pair of eyes. The inventor of such a valuable thing should be honored, everyone thought. But for centuries no one had any idea who the inventor really was. So all kinds of candidates were put forward: Dutch, English, German, Italians from rival cities. A fake memorial was erected last century in a church in Florence to honor a man as the true inventor of spectacles-but he never even existed. 问题：The invention of spectacles appeared in the ( ) century in Europe.
A.15th
B.14th
C.13th
D.12th
14.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me.”I’m baffled,”he said.”A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’”His teacher can’t understand it.Neither can I.”I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test.”What is Mars?”I asked.Most children his age say,”A chocolate bar.”He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:”Can’t you come up with something more difficult?”I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was “off the map”as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark’s principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark’s parents what they thought of him.”He can be a pain in the neck,”his mother said.”He asks such impossible questions,”she smiled.”But we love him dearly.”This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 问题：The principal was puzzled because ( )
A.he was shocked to see an eight-year-old boy interested in the nucleus
B.he didn’t believe an eight-year-old boy could write a scientific essay on the nucleus
C.he could not understand the strange ideas of a gifted boy
D.he could not understand the essay
15.Surely a (telltale hole )in the melted wax would expose the end of the metal capsule concealed in the base of the candle.
A.a hole that was able to be used in a tale
B.a hole that revealed the secret
C.a hoel that was able to tell a story
D.a hoel that appeared in a tale
16.Two basic models of parental influence emerge from all this competition and variety,however.One, loosely based on Freudian ideas,has presented an image of the vulnerable child:children are sensitive beings,easily damaged not only by traumatic events and emotional stress,but also by overdoses of affection.The 2nd model is that of the behaviorists,whose intellectual ancestors,the empiricist philosophers,described the child’s mind as a tabula rasa,or blank slate.The behaviorist model of child-rearing is based on the view that the child is malleable,and parents are therefore cast in the role of Pygmalions who can shape their children however they wish.”Give me a dozen healthy infants,well-formed,and my own specified world to bring them up in,”wrote J.B.Watson,the father of modern behaviorism,”and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to be any type of specialist I might-doctor,lawyer,artist,merchant,chief, and yes,even beggar man and thief!”The image of the vulnerable child calls for gentle parents who are sensitive to their child’s inner-most thoughts and feelings in order to protect him from trauma.The image of the malleable child requires stem parents who coolly follow the dictates of their own explicit training procedures:only the early eradication of bad habits in eating,sleeping,crying,can fend off permanent maladjustments. 问题： According to the behaviorist model of child-rearing,parents ( )
A.shouldn’t give overdoses of affection
B.should know that children are sensitive
C.should be gentle to their children
D.can train their children to be any type of people they like
17.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me.”I’m baffled,”he said.”A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’”His teacher can’t understand it.Neither can I.”I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test.”What is Mars?”I asked.Most children his age say,”A chocolate bar.”He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:”Can’t you come up with something more difficult?”I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was “off the map”as far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Mark’s principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Mark’s parents what they thought of him.”He can be a pain in the neck,”his mother said.”He asks such impossible questions,”she smiled.”But we love him dearly.”This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 问题：Which of the following is not ture? ( )
A.the gifted children needed love like the rest of us
B.the boy might not be stupid
C.the author and the principal seperated the boy from the other children to be tutored by a science teacher
D.the author and the principal encouraged the boy to join the Club Scouts
18.The history of the Winter Games,however,has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games.Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions,held every 4 years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1992,had been in the Scandinavian countries-Sweden,Norway and Finland.The sportsmen of these countries believed that the Winter Games could only be held in the Scandinavian way.Coubertin,himself,was against a separate Winter Olympics as he felt that they would cause trouble within the Olympic movement.However,as winter holidays in the Alps became more and more popular,so did the idea of a truly international Winter Games.The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in 1924,though they were only recognized by the International Olympic Committee as “Olympic” two years later in 1926.Although there were many arguments before them,the 1st Games were a success,but the problems did not end there.In 1935,it was decided by the IOC that ski teachers could not compete in the Olympics because they were professionals.This caused a big argument between the IOC and the International Ski Federation,who agreed with the ski teachers and,as the two organizations could come to an end very soon after their beginning.However,war came and with it an end to the discussions.When the war was finally over,the Winter Games were started up again,as before,in St Moritz in 1948 and the crisis had passed. 问题：Before 1924,all the winter sports competitions were held in ( )
A.Latin America
B.Europe
C.Asia
D.Africa
19.At the 1908 Olympics in London the Marathon race was held on a very hot day.The race started at Windsor Castle,one of the homes of the Royal Family,so that the Royal children could see the runners leave.The race was planned to continue for 26 miles 385 yards (42,195 metres),now the accepted distance for this race,into Central London.Because of the great heat,however,many runners had to give up before they could finish the race.Towards the end,the large crowd waited with great excitement for the South African,Charles Hefferon,to come into the stadium first.They were surprised,however,when the 1st man to appear was the small Italian,Pietri Dorando.Dorando was by now extremely tired and weak and,as he was running round the stadium towards the finishing line,he fell to the groud,unable to continue.Doctors rushed to help him and he soon got to his feet and continued,with loud cheers from the crowd.As he came close to the line he had to be helped again, this time by a journalist,but finally he finished the race.He was not,of course,allowed to receive the gold because he had had help during the race.Afterwards, Dorando argued unsuccessfully that he had not asked for this help.But the medal was given to an American,Hayes,who had finished second.However, Dorando later received a special gold cup from Queen Alexandra for his courage. 问题：The problem with the Marathon race at the 1908 Olympics in London was ( )
A.the route of the race
B.the hot weather
C.the distance to be covered
D.the destination of the race
20.Astronomers（天文学家） can tell just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon toward the sun gets two degrees hotter than boiling water（沸水）.The night side reaches 243 degrees below zero（零度）.In an eclipse（月蚀）,the earth’s shadow falls on the moon.Then the moon’s temperature may drop 300 degrees in a very short time.A temperature change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on the moon?Astronomers think that the surface of the moon is dust.On the earth,rocks store heat from the sun.When the sun goes down,the rocks stay warm.But the dust of the moon cannot store heat.So when the moon gets dark,the heat escapes quickly.The moon gets very cold. 问题：Duting an eclipse, the moon is ( )
A.turned away from the sun
B.in the shadow of the sun
C.in the shadow of the earth
D.in direct sunlight
