题目
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For the rest of March, a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school. 小题1: Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.
The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65-team US men’s college basketball tournament. 小题2: Teams compete against each other in a single-elimination (单局淘汰) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.
Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness. The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends. 小题3: Colleagues against bosses.
Big-name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little-known universities.
This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little-known George Mason University was one of the final four teams. 小题4:
College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves. 小题5: About $ 4 billion will be spent gambling (赌) on the event. According to Media Life magazine, the event will bring in $ 500 million in advertising income this year, topping the post – season income of every US professional league, including that of the NBA.
A. Husbands against wives.
B. The players will go all out for the games.
C. But that doesn’t mean money isn’t involved.
D. College students will ignore piles of homework.
E. People are willing to spend more money on watching it.
F. It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.
G. Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.
答案
小题1:D
小题2:F
小题3:A
小题4:G
小题5:C
解析
试题分析:文章主要讲的是美国一年一度的大学生篮球联赛。这项赛事的影响力非常大,人们常拿比赛来进行赌博,虽然运动员没有酬劳,但比赛带来的广告收益可达50亿之多。
小题1:根据“It will keep kids home from school... Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.”可知,这种“疾病”的影响很广,孩子不愿上学,大学生无视他们的作业,员工无心工作,故选D。
小题2:根据“The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65-team US men’s college basketball tournament.”可知,这种“疾病”实际上是全美大学生篮球赛,空白处介绍的是全美大学生篮球赛的时间,故选F。
小题3:根据“Friends compete against friends. Colleagues against bosses.”可知,人们互相猜测谁是赢家,朋友之间互相打赌,夫妻之间、同事和老板之间互相打赌,故选A。
小题4:根据“the little-known George Mason University”可知,George Mason University在比赛前一点也不出名,故选G。
小题5:根据“College basketball players are not paid, ...About $ 4 billion will be spent gambling (赌) on the event... the event will bring in $ 500 million in advertising income this year,”可知,篮球运动员没有报酬,但这并非意味着比赛与钱无关。花在赌博上的就有40亿,广告收入也达到了50亿。故选C。
核心考点
试题【根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(E=AB F=AC G="AD)" For the rest of Ma】;主要考察你对数词等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
小题1:(如释重负) , Daisy burst into laughter.
小题2:China and Japan have mid-autumn festival, when people (赏月) and in China, enjoy mooncakes.
小题3:I (确实交了) the homework.
小题4:My cell phone isn’t in my bag. Where (我可能放哪) put it?
小题5:Speeches (限定在) five minutes each.
小题1:_________________ most was that there were so many kinds of rare species. (amaze)
最让我惊叹的是有这么多种珍稀物种。
小题2:It was the first time that I ___________ the movie, and I fell in love with it at once. (watch)
那是我第一次看这部电影,我一下子就爱上了它。
小题3:Animals rights fighters demand that animals_______________ in the same way as human beings.(treat)
动物权利斗士们要求,动物要像人一样被对待。
小题4:Jack went to school on foot this morning, because his bike ______________. (repair)
杰克今天早上步行到校,因为他的自行车在被修理。
小题5:This is ___________________that nobody can move it. (so)
这是如此沉重的箱子没人能挪动它。
小题6:What’s the name of the tall man ____________?(come)
刚才进来的高个男人叫什么名字?
小题7:It was my sister ____________________ to cycle along the Mekong River. (idea)
是我的姐姐最先有沿着湄公河骑行的想法。
小题8:To be honest, a lot of people _____________________being rich and famous.(attach)
老实说,许多人认为成名变富很重要。
小题9:Only then ______________________ answer violence with violence. (decide)
仅仅那时我们才决定以暴制暴。
小题10:Later, they gave performances in pubs or clubs, for ______________ in cash.(pay)
后来,他们到酒馆或俱乐部去表演,这样他们获得了现金收入。
注意:每个空格只填一个单词。
For years, researchers have looked into a possible relationship between heat and violence. There are conflicting results over whether there is an actual connection between rising anger and rising temperature, but the murder rate constantly increases during the months of July and August, according to the FBI’s annual crime report.
Many police chiefs say they put more policemen on the streets when the heat rises. “Calls for service always increase from May, June, July and August,” said New Bedford’s Captain Richard Spiriet. “The longer period of time you have the heat, the worse it is. It’s just the opposite in the winter time.”
Craig Anderson, a professor and specialist in social psychology at Lowa State University, argues the evidence is clear. “As the temperature goes up, people become more uncomfortable. They become easier to get angry,” he said. “That increases the possibility that a small conflict will be interpreted as more major.” Anderson conducted a couple of studies looking at crime rates over the course of several years within the same area to see when most violent crimes occurred. He found that violent crimes were more likely to occur on hot days and hot months - even hot years had higher violent rates than cold years, according to his research.
Other research shows it is not so much the physical climate, but rather the social climate, that causes increased violence. “During the summer months, people stay up later. They talk with their neighbors. They party with their friends,” said Jack Levin, director of the Brudnick Centre on Violence at Northeastern University. “There are more likely to be large numbers of people interacting, and they are more likely to argue.”
Perhaps the realization that there is a link will help people in an argument step back and say, “Let’s cool off” - both literally (字面上地) and figuratively (比喻地).
Title | Heat and Violence |
Theme | Violence possibly has a 小题1:___________ with heat. |
Facts | ☆July and August witness the小题2:____________ increase of murder rate. ☆More policemen are called in with the heat小题3:___________. ☆People get angry more小题4:___________ as the temperature goes up. |
小题5:_________ of the research | ☆Fewer violent crimes occur on 小题6:___________ days. ☆The小题7:___________ climate causes increased violence. ☆People usually go to小题8:___________ later during the summer months. ☆There are more likely to be小题9:____________ when people chat with each other. |
Conclusion | 小题10:__________the link will help people in an argument cool off. |
A.content | B.proud | C.abundant | D.familiar |
注意:每个空格只填一个单词。
“HEARTLESS”— a word you wouldn’t want to use to describe a person. But having his heart removed was what saved Craig Lewis’ life—and what made him the first living “heartless” man.
The 55-year-old,dying of heart disease,was told he only had 12 hours to live, when Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier, doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, decided to try something new. They removed Lewis heart and replaced it with an artificial (人造的) one. Less than a week after the operation, Lewis was able to sit and speak.
Lewis kept on living like a normal person, with only one difference—he didn’t have a heartbeat. The human heart usually pumps blood through our bodies by beating regularly. By contrast, this artificial heart pushes the blood forward with two moving blades(桨叶). If you were to touch Lewis or listen to his chest, you would not feel a heartbeat. If you hooked him up to an EKG(心电图) machine, the line would be flat.
Scientists have been trying to create a working artificial heart for years. Until now, all artificial hearts either broke down or caused blocks and infections.
But after five years of hard work, Dr Cohn and Dr Frazier developed this artificial heart. It is smaller and quieter than other artificial hearts and can last much longer. They tested it on 38 calves (牛犊) and all of them turned out energetic and healthy. Lewis is the first human proof that the machine is a success.
The doctors will have to work more on the device and decide on a final design before it can be widely used. The US Food and Drug Administration will also need to say that the machine is safe. But this artificial heart looks likely to bring a ray of hope to thousands of patients.
Passage outline | Supporting details |
A 小题1: in the history of medicine | ◆ 55-year-old Lewis was on the 小题2: of death. He was told that he only had 12 hours to live. ◆ Two American doctors had his heart 小题3: and replaced it with an artificial one. That made Lewis the first living heartless man. |
Differing from the human heart | ◆ Lewis’ new heart pushes the blood forward with two moving blades. ◆ His heart rate is at 小题4: with a 小题5: line on the screen of an EKG machine. |
小题6: of this artificial heart | ◆ It is smarter and quieter than other artificial hearts and can last much longer. ◆ It hasn’t yet broken down. Nor has it got 小题7: and infected. |
Reasons for being小题8: about this artificial heart. | ◆ The doctors will have to further 小题9: the device before it is massively produced. ◆ Yet this artificial heart looks likely to bring the opportunity of 小题10: to thousands of patients. |
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