Many people don’t think that the number 13 is a lucky number. Many hotels do not have a 13th floor. The floors go from 12 to 14, and there is no number13. Some people will never sit at a table with 12 other people. They will tell someone to go or ask another person to sit with them.
No one really knows why people do not like the number 13. Perhaps one reason is that when people began to count, they used ten fingers and two hands. This made 12. They could not count more.
Some Christians (基督徒) say that 13 is not lucky because there were 13 people at a meal the day before Jesus (耶稣) was killed (被杀). In a story about the old Greek (希腊的) gods, 12 gods were asked to a meal but one more came. This made 13. It is why the god Balder, who was at the meal, was killed.
小题1:Some people will never sit at a table with twelve other people, or _________________.| A． they will never come for dinner together | | B．they will ask one of them to leave | | C．all of them will leave | | D．they will wait for two other people to come |
小题2:The story is about _____________________.| A．the death of Jesus | | B．the person who killed Balder | | C．why 13 is not a lucky number | | D．the way people count with their fingers |
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小题1:B
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小题1:细节理解题，根据文中语句“Some people will never sit at a table with 12 other people.”理解可知。
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试题【Many people don’t think that the number 13 is a lucky number. Many hotels do not】；主要考察你对
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Wang Bing’s father began smoking when he was a freshman ( 大学一年级学生)in college. His friend passed him his first cigarette. He has now been smoking for more than 30 years.
It’s a classic example of how young people are introduced to cigarettes, except that nowadays smokers develop their habit at an even younger age.
It has become a major concern(担忧) in China that many teenagers begin to smoke. A survey showed that 22.5% of the middle school students questioned had tried smoking and 15.8% of them smoked regularly.
For many teenagers, smoking is a symbol of being an adult, independence, maturity(成熟) and attractiveness because the images who they love best often smoke on screen.
The social environment also plays an important role in attracting teenagers to smoking. They are used to seeing their elders, especially male family members, smoking at home. Many of them imitate adult behavior and become new smokers.
To increase the price of cigarettes is an effective way to reduce the number of young smokers, as teenagers have limited money to spend on them.
Another way is to educate the teenagers to voluntarily refuse cigarettes. A survey shows that 92.5% of the students know smoking will be bad for their health. If we persuade them in a proper way, most of them may give up smoking.
All in all, the society, the government, the school and the family should join together to take the responsibility for an anti-smoking (禁烟) campaign aimed at teenagers, not just to put empty slogans and warnings on cigarette packs.
小题1:The writer uses the first paragraph to ______.
A. tell the readers a story of a smoker
B. introduce the topic of the passage
C. introduce the college life of Wang Bing’s father.
小题2:What’s the main idea of this passage?| A．The teenagers think smoking is a symbol of being an adult and independence. | | B．The social environment encourages the teenagers to smoke. | | C．The teenagers should be educated to refuse to smoke. | | D．The teenage smoking has become a serious problem in China. |
小题3:What does the word ”imitate”in Paragraph 5 mean in Chinese?小题4:From the underlined part of the last sentence of this passage, we can infer(推断) that the writer thinks putting slogans and warnings on cigarette packs is ______to solve the problem.| A．not enough | B．of no use | | C．of great help | D．of great importance. |
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Every child has his own dream．Every child hopes to be an adult． 16 , is it really like what they imagine? As a boy 17 lives in modern times and in a modern city，I feel great pressure (压力)on me 18 the city"s development．Although we 19 worry about money, we still have some 20 problems, such as competition among classmates and expectation(期望)from parents．These experiences are thought to be very 21 to our future．But 22 ，they really give me a lot of pressure．I still clearly 23 the happiness of my childhood． 24，we had to face the fact with time passing by．We began to 25 this invisible(无形的)pressure come upon us．We get up before sunrise and 26 after sunset．We work and study 27 an adult, even harder．
28 we do is in order to get an excellent 29 ．Growing up is very boring，but we should try to find happiness while growing up．I think 30 among our friends，the support from our parents and the encouragement from our teachers can help us．Why not enjoy the pleasure of growing up and its delicious taste?
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| 小题3: | | A．for | B．through | C．with | D．under |
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| 小题4: | | A．always | B．often | C．seldom | D．usually |
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| 小题5: | | A．other | B．another | C．others | D．the other |
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| 小题6: | | A．helpful | B．happy | C．bad | D．pleased |
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| 小题7: | | A．at first | B．for example | C．in fact | D．at1ast |
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| 小题8: | | A．think | B．remember | C．forget | D．1eave |
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| 小题9: | | A．Luckily | B．Unluckily | C．Impossibly | D．Hopefully |
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| 小题10: | | A．see | B．touch | C．feel | D．sound |
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| 小题11: | | A．come out | B．come down | C．come back | D．come from |
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| 小题12: | | A．for | B．1ike | C．alike | D．unlike |
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| 小题14: | | A．progress | B．mark | C．work | D．surprise |
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| 小题15: | | A．friendship | B．fights | C．gifts | D．Secrets |
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(15) people from around the world came to the eastern Spanish town of Bunol. They threw tons of tomatoes (16) each other in a yearly food fight. That made the street in red juice. A rocket (17) from the town hall was the start of the event for which local government offered 120 tons of tomatoes.
Many people, including many from Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Asia, wore hard hats, glasses or protective plastic sheets. (18) protect their things from the sea of red mush (糊状物), shopkeepers (19) huge plastic covers on the front of their stores. About 40,000 people took part in the tomato fight this year, (20) four times the people of the town. (21) amazing!
After the fight lasting about one hour, municipal(市政的) workers and local people used big water pipes to clean the streets which were covered with tomato mush. The joiners went to a nearby river to wash (22) .
The tomato fight is held each year on the last Wednesday in August. The start of the event is still not clear although it is (23) to have its roots in a food fight between childhood friends (24) in Bunol.
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| 小题3: | | A．is fired | B．fired | C．fires | D．was firing |
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| 小题4: | | A．In order to | B．So that | C．Because of | D．If |
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| 小题5: | | A．put away | B．put off | C．put up | D．put out |
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| 小题6: | | A．more than | B．much more | C．many more | D．less than |
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| 小题7: | | A．That | B．How | C．What an | D．Is it |
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| 小题8: | | A．tomatoes | B．them | C．themselves | D．dishes |
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| 小题9: | | A．thought | B．sure | C．all right | D．saying |
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小题10:.| A．on the 1940 | B．in the 1940 | C．in 1940’s | D．in the 1940S |
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Nowadays(如今) everyone has a practical goal for life. Do you have one? What’s it? Do you want to become a writer, singer or just become a rich person?
A recent survey shows that in modern society, most people pick up practical goals, such as “earning money to buy a house and a car” , “to improve one’s life quality, “finding a good job”.
Wang You worked in a small firm (商行) in Nanjing. The job was good and he didn’t have to work for extra hours. However he felt the work was not exciting at all and the life was boring. ① So he ______ _______his job and went to Beijing in February, 2007. When he arrived in Beijing, he set his new goal as finding a good job.
Nowadays more and more people want to live a better life. This fact shows that the society is making progress and people’s life goals have become more practical. One researcher says, “Everybody has his/her own life goal, which will be surely different from people to people. If one is poor, one’s life goal will be to earn more money; if one doesn’t have a diploma(文凭), studying hard to get a diploma will become his life goal; and if one doesn’t have love, his life goal will be to look for it. ②But if one has no life goal, he will idle away(虚度) his lifetime.”
小题1:回答下列问题：Why did Wang You go to Beijing though he had a good job in Nanjing?
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小题2:在①的空白处填入适当的单词使句意完整、上下文通顺：__________
小题3:将②处翻译成汉语_________________________________________________________
小题4:找出文中与下列句子意思相近的句子：
He needn’t work in his spare time because of his good job.
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小题5:找出或写出文中最能表达短文主题的句子
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150 Years of Cool
Look in the bedrooms of young people around the world. You will probably find a pair of blue jeans in each room. Jeans are very popular all over the world.
Jeans give you the feeling of comfort, youth and energy. They have long been liked by every person.
Levi Strauss is an American company. It first made blue jeans. The company was founded in 1853 by 24-year-old Levi Strauss. Twenty years later, he made the first blue jeans in the world. The jeans were used as working trousers for the cowboys of the American West. During the Second World War, American soldiers brought blue jeans to Europe and Asia. People there began to wear jeans. Little by little, they become cool.
People from different countries like different styles of jeans. Americans like to wear simple and single-colored jeans, but many Chinese like to wear jeans with lots of different colors.
Jeans now can be seen everywhere: However, in many places, it’s not always good to wear jeans. No matter how good they may look, or what color they are, it’s often not right to wear jeans in formal places. But, when you are out, relaxing and having fun, jeans are the best choice.
小题1:The story is talking about_____________.| A．Levi Strauss | B．young people | C．cool | D．jeans |
小题2:Levi Strauss made the first blue jeans_____________.| A．when he was 44 | B．when he was 24 | C．in 1853 | D．in 1924 |
小题3:___________ wore jeans after they were first made.| A．American soldiers | B．American cowboys | | C．Levi Strauss | D．The people in Europe |
小题4:Jeans can be cool for nearly 150 years because _____________.| A．they have different styles | | B．they have different colors | | C．they make us feel youth, comfort and energy | | D．they are working trousers. |
小题5:When you _____________, you’d better not wear a pair of jeans.| A．go to an important meeting | B．go on a trip | | C．have a party | D．are having fun |
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