Edison often said, “1 will discover what the world needs, then I will try to invent it.” It is true that he did more than any other man of his time in inventing things. He made more than one thousand inventions in his life and all these have changed our way of living. Edison was one of the greatest inventors in the world. When Edison died in 1931, someone said people should turn off all the lights in their homes, streets and factories for several minutes in honour of this great man. Of course it was impossible to do so. And this shows what Edison"s inventions mean to people"s life.
小题1:All the things Edision invented were _________ people needed at that time.| A．what | B．that | C．then | D．which |
小题2:Edison _________in inventing new things.| A．took all his time | B．paid all his money | | C．spent his most time | D．spent his most money |
小题3:Edison had _________ inventions in all his life.| A．thousands of | B．over one thousand | | C．only one thousand | D．less than a thousand |
小题4:Edison was dead for nearly _______ years.| A．fifty | B．severity-six | C．s ixty | D．eighty |
小题5:It was __________ to turn off all the lights in honour of the g reatest inventor.| A．possible | B．not true | C．nice | D．important |
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文章大意：本文主要介绍了发明家爱迪生的一生及其对人类的贡献。
小题1:考查表语从句用法。that是连词，不充当句子成分，what除了充当引导词还在从句中成分，做need的宾语。
小题1: 细节理解题。从文章中It is true that he did more than any other man of his time in inventing things.直接找到答案。
小题1:细节理解题。从文章中He made more than one thousand inventions in his life直接找到答案。
小题1:数字推断题。从When Edison died in 1931知道，爱迪生活了80岁，2011—1931=80.
小题1:细节理解题。从Of course it was impossible to do so. 找到答案。 |
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Ole Bull was a very famous violinist from Norway. He really liked to play the violin. But his father thought that playing the violin was not useful. So his father sent him to university to study. However, playing the violin was his dream. He didn’t want to give up his dream. So he left university before he finished his studies and spent all his time and energy practicing the violin. Unfortunately, his violin teacher was not very good. So when it was time for him to start his concert tour, he still couldn’t play the violin very well.
Therefore, a Milan newspaper critic1 criticized him and said that he was an untrained violinist. The critic said, “If he is gold, he is not ready to shine2 yet.”
When facing this kind of problem, some people may become very angry and some people try to learn from it. Fortunately, Ole Bull belonged to the second group. He went to the newspaper office and found the critic. Instead of being angry, he talked about his mistakes with the man and listened to the man’s advice.
After he met the critic, he gave up the rest of his concerts. Then he went back to practice the violin with the help of good teachers. In the end, he got great success when he was only 26. He also became one of the most famous violinists in the world.
小题1:Why didn’t Ole Bull’s father like him to play the piano?| A．Because he thought playing the violin was useless. | | B．Because his father thought playing the violin would cost lots of money. | | C．Because his father thought he couldn’t play the violin well. | | D．Because his father thought he couldn’t make his dream come true. |
小题2:What does the underlined part "If he is gold, he is not ready to shine yet." mean?| A．Gold always shines no matter where it is. | | B．He is an excellent violinist. | | C．He doesn’t play the violin very well. | | D．If he sells gold, he will make a lot of money. |
小题3:What was Ole Bull’s attitude towards the critic’s article?| A．Angry. | B．Excited. | C．Modest. | D．Worried. |
小题4:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?| A．Without a good teacher, one can’t succeed. | | B．The critic’s advice helped Ole Bull a lot. | | C．Ole Bull got success after many years’ hard practice at last. | | D．The critic helped Ole Bull find a famous teacher. |
小题5:What can we learn from the passage?| A．Becoming a violinist can make a lot of money. | | B．When we meet problems, we should learn to face them. | | C．Old Bull was a famous American pianist. | | D．You can be famous easily if you play the violin. |
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Mr Knight was the manager of a hotel. One weekend all of the hotels in the city were 36_____ because there was an important meeting. On Friday night, three men came into the hotel and asked for rooms. Mr Knight said that there were 37_____ rooms ready for use because of the meeting. The three men were very 38____ because they had no place to stay.
Mr Knight wanted to help them. He remembered that Room 418, a very small room, was empty. He asked the men 39____ they would share a room. The three men said they would.
Mr Knight told that the room would be thirty dollars: ten dollars 40_____ each one. Each man gave him ten dollars, and then they went up to the room.
Mr Knight soon began to feel 41_____. “Thirty dollars is a lot to ask as a price for that small room.” He thought. He said to his assistant, “Here’s five dollars. Give it to the men in Room 418. I asked them too 42______money for their room.”
The assistant tool the money. 43____ he was on the way to Room 418, he started to think: “How can three men divide five dollars? I’ll keep two dollars. The men will be happy to get anything back. I’ll take a little money and Mr Knight will 44_____ know.” So the assistant returned one dollar to each man.
Each man had paid ten dollars. After the assistant returned one dollar to each one, each man had 45_____ paid only nine dollars. There were three men ＄9×3=＄27. The assistant kept ＄2. ＄27+＄2=＄29. Where is the missing dollar?
| 小题1: | | A．quiet | B．empty | C．full | D．noisy |
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| 小题3: | | A．happy | B．unhappy | C．pleased | D．hungry |
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| 小题6: | | A．sad | B．afraid | C．boring | D．sorry |
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| 小题7: | | A．more | B．little | C．much | D．many |
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| 小题8: | | A．After | B．Before | C．As soon as | D．While |
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| 小题9: | | A．just | B．also | C．never | D．perhaps |
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| 小题10: | | A．actually | B．already | C．exactly | D．extremely |
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Every scientist has a childhood dream. A scientist in China once had a(n) 36 . He wished to grow a new type of rice which could produce a lot. This person is Yuan Longping 37 was born in 1930. He graduated from the Southwest Agricultural(农业) University in 1953. Yuan Longping came up with an idea for a hybrid rice in the 1960s. Since then, he has devoted himself to the research and development of new varieties(品种).
In 1973, together with other people, he 38 in the development of hybrid rice. This made China be a worldwide leader in rice production. For this, he was called Father of Hybrid Rice. In 1980, the technology for hybrid rice was 39 to the United States. 40 Professor Yuan’s hard work, China now produces enough rice to 41 her people every year.
In his spare time, he loves playing 42 violin and listening to music. Every night, he reads 43 half an hour before he goes to sleep. He likes swimming, too.
It is said that Professor Yuan is one of the 44 people in China. And he cares about 45 but his research.
Now Professor Yuan is working on developing super hybrid rice. He goes to the fields twice a day.
| 小题1: | | A．dream | B．idea | C．thought | D．meaning |
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| 小题2: | | A．where | B．whom | C．which | D．who |
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| 小题3: | | A．success | B．succeeded | C．successfully | D．successful |
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| 小题4: | | A．given | B．grown | C．showed | D．introduced |
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| 小题5: | | A．Because of | B．Thanks for | C．Instead of | D．According to |
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| 小题6: | | A．offer | B．feed | C．send | D．provide |
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| 小题9: | | A．poorest | B．richest | C．cleverest | D．most careful |
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| 小题10: | | A．everything | B．anything | C．nothing | D．something |
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A little girl thought she was not as beautiful as other girls, and nobody liked her. So she was always unhappy and didn’t like to talk to others. However, one day, her mother gave her a beautiful hair clip(发夹). When she wore it, she looked much more beautiful than before. She decided to wear it to school.
On her way to school she found that everyone who saw her smiled at her. Most of her schoolmates said “Hello” to her, but this never happened before. She thought that the beautiful hair clip had brought her them all. She was so happy about all of the wonderful things. Although she didn’t tell her classmates about her beautiful hair clip, they all wanted to know what had happened to her.
When she went back home after school, her mother asked her: “Did you know you dropped your hair clip? I found it by the door this morning.”
She understood that she hadn’t worn the hair clip to school at all.
小题1:Which of the following sentence is true?| A．The girl is not as beautiful as other girls. | | B．Nobody liked the girl. | | C．The girl’s classmates thought she was more beautiful than before with the hair clip. | | D．The girl wanted to be more beautiful, so she decided to wear the hair clip. |
小题2:Why was the girl so happy?| A．She found that everyone who saw her smiled at her. | | B．She heard most of her schoolmates said “Hello” to her. | | C．She thought what she experienced today never happened before. | | D．Both A, B, and C |
小题3: From this passage we know that ____________________| A．the girl was really ugly without the hair clip | B．the girl was as beautiful as her classmates. | | C．the girl was not self-confident enough at first. | D．the girl was happy all the time. |
小题4:Her classmates wanted to know what had happened to the girl because__________________| A．she didn’t tell her classmates about her beautiful hair clip. | | B．she was always unhappy but that day she was so happy. | | C．she looked more beautiful wearing the hair clip. | | D．she wanted to talk to others. |
小题5:We can learn from this passage that_______________________| A．A friend is easier lost than found. | B．Make your enemy your friend. | | C．A friend in need is a friend indeed. | D．The most important is how we think about ourselves. |
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A little old man and his wife walked slowly into McDonald’s 16 a cold-winter evening. They took a table near the back wall, and then the little old man walked to the cash register (收银处)to order. After a while he got the food back and they began to 17 it.
There was one hamburger, some French fries and one drink. The little old man carefully cut the hamburger into halves and 18 the French fries in two piles. Then he neatly put the 19 of the food in front of his wife. He took a sip of the drink and his wife took a sip. "How20 the old people are!" The people around them thought.
21 the man began to eat his hamburger and his French fries, his wife sat there 22 him and took turns to drink. 23 young man came over and offered to buy another meal for them. But they refused 24 and said that they got used to 25 everything.
Then a young lady asked the little old lady a question. "Madam, why aren’t you eating? You said that you shared everything. Then what are you waiting for?" She answered, "The teeth.”
小题2: A. eat B. taste C openD. try
| 小题3: | | A．divided | B．placed | C．changed | D．cut |
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| 小题4: | | A．half | B．bit | C．piece | D．pair |
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| 小题5: | | A．clever | B．foolish | C．old | D．poor |
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| 小题6: | | A．Because | B．As | C．So | D．Before |
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| 小题7: | | A．keeping | B．watching | C．seeing | D．holding |
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| 小题8: | | A．Another | B．The other | C．Other | D．A |
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| 小题9: | | A．delightedly | B．carefully | C．politely | D．angrily |
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| 小题10: | | A．share | B．sharing | C．enjoy | D．enjoying |
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