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一、完形填空
Unfortunately man has killed wild animals, polluted rivers and cut down forests through the ages. But lately people are beginning to realize that their own lives depend on the way they treat “nature” and all living things in it.
Man has 1 ways of showing his love to nature. He says he loves it, although he often 2 its beauty. While walking through the woods, how many times have we picked flowers? Then later, as the 3 wither(枯萎), we throw them away. That’s one of the reasons 4 many kinds of plants and flowers have become rare. Or, have you 5 wondered where all the thousands of New Year trees come from and 6 happens to them, once the 7 are over?
Man destroys nature by polluting the air. That’s probably the greatest danger 8 our lives. The smoke from factories and 9 from cars and trucks do not only harm the surrounding vegetation(植被). It 10 our earth, too.
Man pollutes rivers, seas and oceans. Just think of the 11 fish that die by thousands because of polluted waters.
Biologists have 12 that all kinds of wildlife are 13 in the areas where they live. Even the wolf, which we 14 dangerous and “bad”, plays an important role in nature. Here is an interesting example: There is a large 15 in one of the Great Lake between Canada and the US. Early in this century many wild deer invaded(涌入) the island. Nobody knows how they 16 there.
The deer multiplied(繁殖) until there were as many as 4,000 on the island. They destroyed 17 of the vegetation on it. Finally, as they couldn’t find enough 18 , they began to starve and die. Then came the wolf. 19 knows how wolves got to the island, but they 20 . The wolves killed those deer that were easiest to catch—the sick, the weak and the old. So, only the strong and the healthy animals were left. The island became green once again and there was enough food for the deer that were left. 1、A、lovely B、strange C、many D、much 2、A、harms B、breaks C、injures D、destroys 3、A、stems B、branches C、roots D、flowers 4、A、what B、how C、why D、when 5、A、still B、even C、ever D、quite 6、A、which B、that C、what D、how 7、A、years B、meetings C、parties D、holidays 8、A、to B、of C、about D、for 9、A、waters B、smells C、gases D、whistles 10、A、affects B、efforts C、effects D、causes 11、A、poor B、weak C、strong D、ill 12、A、studied B、developed C、invented D、discovered 13、A、want B、need C、necessary D、helped 14、A、consider B、think it C、regard D、think as 15、A、field B、land C、mountain D、island
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16、A、left 17、A、a whole 18、A、plants 19、A、Nobody 20、A、got 二．阅读理解：
B、got B、most B、rice B、Anybody B、went C、reached to C、more C、vegetation C、Somebody C、arrive D、arrived in
D、more much D、food
D、Everybody D、did
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A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspaper. “Last week”, he said, “my umbrella was stolen from a London church. As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn’t get it back.”
“How did you write your advertisement?” asked one of the listeners, a merchant.
“Here it is”, said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip out from a newspaper. The other man took it and read, “Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella. The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No.10 Broad Street.”
“Now” said the merchant, “I often advertise, and find that it pays me well. But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance. Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it fails, I will buy you a new one.”
The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote. “ if the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn’t wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No.10 Broad Street. He is well known.”
This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door. In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors that had been thrown, and his own was among them. Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter.
21、What is an advertisement?
A、A news item B、A public announcement in the press, on TV, etc. C、One way to voice one’s view. D、Public opinions. 22、The man once thought advertising was_________.
A、of little use B、of some use C、practical D、valuable 23、Why did the merchant say “I often advertise, and find that it pays me well.”? A、He knew how to advertise. B、He had more money for advertising. C、He found it easy to advertise. D、He had a friend in the newspaper where he advertised. 24、Did the merchant know who had taken the umbrella?
A、Sure B、Not very sure C、Not at all D、probably. 25、This is a story about____________.
A、a useless advertisement B、 how to make an effective advertisement C、how the man lost and found his umbrella
D、what the merchant did for the umbrella owner.
B
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You are seeing a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead!
Of course he isn’t really dead. With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks.
They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall onto hard ground but onto empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!
But although their work depends on tricks of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is “ blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They sometimes get seriously injured, and even killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞 ) failed to open and he was killed.
In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women to perform some dangerous actions. For nowadays there are stunt girls , too. 26. What can be inferred from the author’s example of the Norwegian stuntman? A. Sometimes an accident can happen to a stuntman. B. The percentage of serious accidents is high. C. Parachutes must be of good quality. D. The cliff was too high.
27. Stuntmen are those who __________________.
A. often dress up as actors. B. like to lead dangerous lives.
C. often perform seemingly dangerous actions. D .often fight each other for their lives. 28. Stuntmen earn their living by ___________________.
A. playing their dirty tricks. B. selling their special skills.
C. jumping out of high windows. D. jumping from fast moving trains. 29. When a stuntman falls from a high building, _____________________.
A. he needs little protection. B. he will be covered with a mattress. C. his life is in danger. D. his safety is generally all right. 30. Which of the following is the main factor of a successful performance? A. Strength B. Exactness C. Speed D. Carefulness
C
Recently some American scientists have given a useful sincere piece of advice to people in industrialized nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.
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