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Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best. For example, to absorb heat from the sun to heat water, you need large, flat, back surfaces. One way to do that is to build those surfaces specially, on the roofs of buildings. But why go to all that trouble when cities are full of black surfaces already, in the form of asphalt(柏油) roads ?
Ten years ago, this thought came into the mind of Arian de Bondt, a Dutch engineer. He finally persuaded his boss to follow it up. The result is that their building is now heated in winter and cooled in summer by a system that relies on the surface of the road outside.
The heat-collector is a system of connected water pipes. Most of them run from one side of the street to the other, just under the asphalt road. Some, however, dive deep into the ground.
When the street surface gets hot in summer, water pumped through the pipes picks up this heat and takes it underground through one of the diving pipes. At a depth of 100 metres lies a natural aquifer(蓄水层) into which several heat exchangers(交换器)have been built. The hot water from the street runs through these exchangers, warming the groundwater, before returning to the surface through another pipe. The aquifer is thus used as a heat store.
In winter, the working system is changed slightly. Water is pumped through the heat exchangers to pick up the heat stored during summer. This water goes into the building and is used to warm the place up. After performing that task, it is pumped under the asphalt and its remaining heat keeps the road free of snow and ice.
小题1:Which of the following is true according to the first two paragraphs ?
Arian de Bondt got his idea from his boss.
Large, flat, black surfaces need to be built in cities.
The Dutch engineer’s system has been widely used.
Heat can also be collected from asphalt roads.
小题2:For what purpose are the diving pipes used ?
A.To absorb heat from the sun.B.To store heat for future use.
C.To turn solar energy into heat energy.D.To carry heat down below the surface.
小题3: From the last paragraph we can learn that __________.
A.some pipes have to be re-arranged in winter
B.the system can do more than warming up the building
C.the exchangers will pick up heat
D.less heat may be collected in winter than in summer
小题4:What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows ?
A.What we shall do if the system goes wrong.
B.What we shall do if there are no asphalt roads.
C.How the system cools the building in summer.
D.How the system collects heat in spring and autumn.

答案

小题1:D
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C
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One day a stranger came to the nearest village and asked where he could find wild pigs. Somebody told him, and he went off. He had no 36 with him, and the village people  37 what he was going to 38 with the pigs.
When he came back a few months later and said that he had 39 all the pigs, the villagers were still more surprised, but some of them agreed to go with him 40 he asked for help in bringing the pigs out. They wanted to see whether he was telling 41 .
They soon discovered 42 he was. All the pigs were inside the enclosure(围栏) which had a fence round it and a 43 in one of its sides.
44 did you do it?” they asked the stranger.
“ well, it was quite easy really,” he answered. “ I began by 45 some Indian corn. 46, they would not touch it, but after a few weeks, some of the younger pigs 47 to run out of the bushes, take some of the corn quickly, and then run back. Soon all the pigs were eating the corn I 48 out there. Then I began to build a fence round the corn. At first it was very 49, but little by little I built it higher and higher without 50 the pigs away. When I saw that they were 51 me to bring the corn each day 52 going and searching for their own food  53 they had done in the past, I can 54 one day while they were all eating inside the enclosure. I can catch any animal in the world in the same way if I can get it into the habit of 55 me for its food.
小题1:
A.money
B.food
C.tools
D.guns
小题2:
A.understood
B.surprised
C.wondered
D.knew
小题3:
A.say
B.do
C.treat
D.fight
小题4:
A.bought
B.found
C.seen
D.caught
小题5:
A.and
B.so
C.then
D.when
小题6:
A.a story
B.the truth
C.a joke
D.a bad word
小题7:
A.that
B.what
C.who
D.how
小题8:
A.gun
B.hole
C.gate
D.window
小题9:
A.How
B.Why
C.When
D.Where
小题10:
A.looking
B.growing
C.getting in
D.putting out
小题11:
A.After all
B.At first
C.By and by
D.Above all
小题12:
A.began
B.risked
C.tried
D.decided
小题13:
A.had taken
B.had lain
C.had laid
D.had lied
小题14:
A.low
B.slow
C.shabby
D.small
小题15:
A.driving
B.frightening
C.sending
D.shooting
小题16:
A.looking at
B.interesting in
C.searching for
D.waiting for
小题17:
A.besides
B.except
C.instead of
D.because of
小题18:
A.as
B.though
C.since
D.it
小题19:
A.shoot it
B.shoot them
C.shut them
D.shut it
小题20:
A.satisfying with
B.living on
C.depending on
D.asking for

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My husband is a born shopper(天生的购物者). He loves to look at things and to touch them. He likes to compare prices between the same items(产品) in different shops. He would never think of buying anything without looking around in several different shops. On the other hand, I’m not a shopper. I think shopping is boring and unpleasant. If I like something and I have enough money to take it, I buy it at once. I never look around for a good price or a better deal. Of course my husband and I never go shopping together. Doing shopping together would be too painful for both of us. When it comes to shopping, we go our different ways.
Sometimes I ask my son Jimmy to buy some food in the shop not far from our home. But he is always absent-minded. This was his story.
One day I said to him, “I hope you won’t forget what I have told you to buy.” “No,” said Jimmy, “I won’t forget. You want three oranges, six eggs and a pound of meat.”
He went running down the street to the shop. As he ran, he said to himself over and over again. “ Three oranges, six eggs and a pound of meat.”
In the beginning he remembered everything but he stopped several times. Once he saw two men fighting outside a clothes shop until a policeman stopped them. One of them was badly hurt. Then he stopped to give ten cents to a beggar. Then he met some of his friends and he played with them for a while. When he reached the shop, he had forgotten everything except six eggs.
As he walked home, his face became sadder and sadder. When he saw me he said, “ I’ m sorry, mum. I have forgotten to buy oranges and the meat, I only remembered to buy six eggs, but I’ve dropped three of them.”
小题1: The husband loves shopping because _______
A.he has much money
B.he likes the shops
C.he likes to compare the prices between the same items
D.he has nothing to do but shopping
小题2:The wife doesn’t like shopping because ______
A.she has no money
B.she has no time
C.she doesn’t love her husband
D.she feels it boring to go shopping
小题3:They never go shopping together because _______
A.their ways of shopping are quite different
B.they hate each other
C.they needn’t buy anything for the family
D.they don’t have time for it
小题4:Jimmy cannot do the shopping well because ______
A.he is youngB.he is absent-minded
C.he often loses his moneyD.he doesn’t like shopping

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Jody was ten years old when he decided he needed a job. He thought it might be   36  to raise worms. He could sell them to farmers and people who fished. So in   37 , he bought many worms. But that winter the cold weather killed all the worms because he had not   38  them in a warm place.
The next spring Jody   39  again. He bought more worms, which he took good care of. When winter came, he took them inside   40  they would stay warm. Many people bought his worms.
One day when Jody was twelve, he got a letter. It was from state of New York. The letter said, “Everyone who   41  things has to pay taxes!” Jody made only one dollar selling worms. But he still   42  to pay part of that money to the state. He told many people in his town what had ___43  . Soon some people from a television station   44  with Jody. Many people saw it and they began to write letters to the state. The letters now said that the law was   45 . Finally the law was changed. Children like Jody can now sell things without paying money to the state.
小题1:
A.boring
B.lucky
C.fun
D.impossible
小题2:
A.autumn
B.spring
C.winter
D.summer
小题3:
A.caught
B.found
C.hidden
D.put
小题4:
A.tried
B.waited
C.failed
D.practised
小题5:
A.before
B.until
C.though
D.so
小题6:
A.buys
B.sells
C.keeps
D.presents
小题7:
A.hoped
B.wanted
C.had
D.remembered
小题8:
A.followed
B.appeared
C.happened
D.continued
小题9:
A.talked
B.visited
C.quarreled
D.worked
小题10:
A.common
B.unfair
C.different
D.useless

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Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy—five, he gave £ 12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment (设备) for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默). He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.”he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy—five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
小题1:Johnson became a rich man through
A.doing business.B.making whisky.C.cheating.D.buying and selling land.
小题2:The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson
A.had no children.B.was a strange man.
C.was very fond of children.D.wanted people to know how rich he was.
小题3:Many people wrote to Johnson to find out
A.why he gave so much money to the school.B.how to live longer.
C.how to become wealthy.D.in which part of the neck to have an injection.
小题4: The newspaperman
A.should have reported what Johnson had told him.
B.shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had.
C.was eager to live a long life.
D.should have found out what Johnson really meant.

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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意。然后从36-55各题所给的选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Mark was seven when he joined his father and two other elder brothers at sunrise in the fields. __36__ the time he was eight he was helping Dad fix up old furniture. He was given a cent for every nail he __37__ out of old boards.
He got his first __38__ job at BT’s Restaurant in town, when he reached twelve. His main tasks were__39__tables and washing dishes, __40__sometimes he helped cook.
Every day after school he would __41__ to BT’s and work till ten. Even on Saturdays he __42__ from two till eleven. At that age it was difficult going to work and __43__ his friends run off to swim or play. He didn’t necessarily like work, but he loved what working __44__ him to have. Because of his __45__ he was always the one buying when his friends and he went to the local shop. That made him __46__.
Word that he was trustworthy and hard-working __47__ around the town. A local clothing shop offered him credit(赊帐)__48__ he was only in Grade 7. He immediately __49__ a $ 68 sports coats and a $ 22 pair of shoes. He was__50__ only 65 cents an hour, and he already owed the shopkeeper $ 90! So he learned __51__ the danger of easy credit. He paid it __52__ as soon as he could.
The first job taught him self-control, responsibility and brought him a __53__of personal satisfaction few of his friends had experienced. As his father, __54__worked three jobs, once told him, “If you__55__sacrifice and responsibility, there are not many things in life you cannot have.” How right he was!
小题1:
A.BeforeB.WithinC.FromD.By
小题2:
A.pulledB.putC.pickedD.pressed
小题3:
A.usualB.realC.mainD.participate
小题4:
A.sweepingB.packingC.clearingD.empting
小题5:
A.orB.soC.butD.even
小题6:
A.headB.turnC.changeD.move
小题7:
A.studiedB.workedC.playedD.slept
小题8:
A.helpingB.havingC.watchingD.letting
小题9:
A.askedB.told C.promisedD.allowed
小题10:
A.studyB.powerC.ageD.job
小题11:
A.proudB.friendlyC.luckyD.hopeful
小题12:
A.ranB.gotC.flewD.carried
小题13:
A.althoughB.whileC.ifD.since
小题14:
A.soldB.borrowedC.chargedD.wore
小题15:
A.keepingB.makingC.payingD.taking
小题16:
A.graduallyB.greatlyC.hardlyD.early
小题17:
A.outB.overC.awayD.off
小题18:
A.pointB.levelC.partD.sign
小题19:
A.heB.thatC.whoD.whoever
小题20:
A.understandB.demandC.offerD.fear

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