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Some myths are stories told since ancient times to explain the causes for natural happenings. The Greek myth that explains why there are changes of ___1___ is about Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. She had a daughter, Persephone, whom she loved very much. Hades, god of the underworld, fell in love with Persephone, and he asked Zeus, the ___2___ of the gods, to give Persephone to him as his ___3___. Zeus did not want either to disappoint Hades or to upset Demeter, so he said he would not agree to the marriage, but neither would he ___4___ it. Hades, therefore, decided to take the girl without ___5___. When Persephone was picking flowers in the garden, he seized her and took her to the underworld. When Demeter ___6___ what happened to Persephone, she became so ___7___ that she caused all plants to ___8___ People were in ___9___ of starving. But Demeter was determined not to let crops grow ___10___ her daughter, Persephone, was returned to her. ___11___, still not wanting to disappoint Hades, decided upon a condition for Persephone’s ___12___. She could go back to her mother if she had not ___13___ anything while she was in the underworld. Demeter ___14___ it because she did not know that Persephone had eaten several pomegranate(石榴) seeds in the underworld. When Zeus ___15___ this, he agreed that Persephone could spend part of the year with her ___16___, but he added that since she had eaten the seeds, she must spend part of the year in the underworld. and so it ___17___ that when Persephone is in the underworld, Demeter is sad and therefore ___18___ not let the crops grow. That is ___19___ we have winter when plants do not grow. When Persephone returns, Demeter is ___20___, it is spring, and plants begin to grow again.
1. A. periods   B. seasons       C. time    D. age
2. A. winner   B. ruler   C. advisor       D. fighter
3. A. wife       B. lover   C. partner       D. daughter
4. A. forbid    B. forgive       C. admit D. accept
5. A. arrangement   B. warning     C. reason D. permission
6. A. let out    B. worked out C. thought out D. found out
7. A. excited   B. tired   C. angry D. serious
8. A. grow fast       B. start growing     C. stop growing     D. grow slowly
9. A. danger    B. hope   C. turn    D. case
10. A. since    B. until   C. after   D. when
11. A. Persephone   B. Zeus   C. Demeter     D. Hades
12. A. return   B. change       C. marriage    D. journey
13. A. stolen   B. found C. eaten   D. heard
14. A. understood   B. refused       C. doubted      D. accepted
15. A. discovered   B. studied       C. forgot D. prepared
16. A. daughter      B. mother       C. god     D. ruler
17. A. works   B. remains      C. happens      D. starts
18. A. should B. can     C. dare    D. will
19. A. where   B. because      C. why    D. how
20. A. nice      B. friendly      C. fresh   D. happy

答案

1-5BBAAD 6-10DCCAB 11-15BACDA 16-20BCDCD

解析

本文通常一个希腊神话说明了四季变化的由来
1. B。根据文章最后几句话可知，文章讲的是季节(season)的更换。
2. B。Zeus是宇宙之神，是众神的统治者。从下文可以看出，不仅Demeter和Hades之间的矛盾的需要Zeus的调解，而且他们的想法也要取得Zeus的同意。
3. A。根据上文的Hades…fell in love with Persephone 以及后文的…agree to the marriage 可知，Hades想娶Persephone为妻。
4. A。此处指的是Zeus既不会同意这桩婚事，也不会禁止。
5. D。根据下文可知，Hades是抢走Persephone，即没有得到允许。
6. D。比较：find out查明真相；let out放开，放出；work out 算出；think out 想出。只有选项D最符合语境。
7. C。后文说Demeter 决定要让所有植物停止生长，可见她很生气(angry)。
8. C。根据第54空处的内容可知，此处指她使所有植物停止生长。
9. A。比较：in danger of 处于……的危险中；in the hope of 怀有……的希望；in turn 依次；in case of 以防万一。根据后文的starving 可知，此题填空in danger of 最佳。
10. B。not...until 意为“直到……才”，此处指的是她要直到她女儿回来才让植物生长。
11. B。根据其后的still not wanting to disappoint Hades可知答案。
12. A。此处指Persephone回到她母亲身边。
13. C。根据下文的Persephone had eaten several pomegranate seeds可知答案。
14. D。根据上下文的语境看，Demeter 接受了Zeus的条件。
15. A。此处指“发现”事情真相。
16. B。根据下文的she must spend part of the year in the underworld可知出此处应选with her mother。
17. C。句中的it 为形式主语，真正的主语是that 引导的主语从句。此处的意思是“……就这样发生了”。
18. D。比较四个选项，只有will 最合语境。
19. C。That’s why… 的意思是“这就是为什么……”“这就是……的原因”。
20. D。当 Persephone 回来时，Demeter很高兴，所以就是春天，植物开始生长。

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试题【Some myths are stories told since ancient times to explain the causes for natura】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]

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When I woke next morning, I was dying of _1__. I seemed to have a hole instead of a _2__. I dressed quickly and hurried down to the dinning-room. It was a big room with six tall windows and the ugliest wallpaper I had ever seen! _3_, I had been told the hotel was not beautiful but that you were better __4_ there than in any other hotel; and that was _5__ I wanted just then.
The waiter came hurrying up. Before I came downstairs I had prepared __6__ carefully for what I must __7__. I had looked three times in my dictionary to make sure __8__ “breakfast” really meant “breakfast”. I had tried to get the right __9_ and I had stood in the front of a mirror and twisted my mouth until it ached.
The waiter asked me _10__ I could not understand, but I spoke only my one prepared word “breakfast”. He looked at me in a   11 way. So I repeated it. Still he did not understand. It was 12 that English people didn’t understand their language. The waiter   13  his head and went away, but he came back in a minute and brought a tray with tea, bread and butter — enough to feed a small army — and went away. But I was hungry, and I left   14 . When the waiter came back I thought his face showed a little   15 , but you can never __16_. What a waiter’s face really shows! In another minute he brought _17__ tray with some bacon(熏肉) and some eggs. He   18  have misunderstood me, but I thought it was no use explaining to people who don’t understand their own language, so I just set to work on the bacon and eggs, wondering whether I could possibly clear that plate.
Well, I finished the bacon and eggs. I got up and made my way slowly to my room — at least five pound   19 . I never believed until then that any meal could   20  me, but on that day I met my Waterloo(滑铁卢).
1. A. hunger            B. cold                  C. anger                D. illness
2. A. stone      B. head                 C. breast                D. stomach
3. A. Therefore         B. Otherwise             C. So                   D. However
4. A. received           B. fed                  C. cared                D. eating
5. A. just              B. what                C. that                  D. why
6. A. English           B. meal                C. questions             D. myself
7. A. speak            B. answer               C. say                  D. explain
8. A. that              B. about                      C. of                   D. to
9. A. pronunciation     B. meaning             C. form                 D. spelling
10. A. whether         B. something           C. when                 D. what
11. A. surprised        B. friendly             C. puzzled               D. touched
12. A. unbelievable     B. true                C. thought               D. a pity
13. A waved           B. shook               C. bowed               D. patted
14. A. much           B.a little              C. nothing               D. empty
15. A. pleasure        B. surprise              C. pride                 D. satisfaction
16. A. tell            B. guess               C. design                D. express
17. A. other          B. another             C. more                 D. me
18. A. should          B. might              C. would                 D. must
19. A. lighter          B. heavier             C. weightier              D. more
20. A. hurt            B. fat                C. defeat                D. please

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Do you suppose Darwin, one of the greatest scientists of all time, really did foolsexperiments? Or did he do experiments that were so simple and basic that other people just thought they were foolish?
　　Sometimes, people think they already know the answer to a question or the solution (解决办法) to a problem. Sometimes, they really do know an answer or a solution, but without thinking they are important.
　　Charles Darwin didn’t settle for (满足于) just thinking he knew something. And, he believed all things could be important however simple they seemed to be.
　　Suppose you drop sheets of paper that are of exactly the same size and shape. If you drop them at the same time in the same place, they will fall in the same way. Now make one of the sheets of paper into a tight (紧的) little ball and let it drop along with the other sheets. What happens? You have done an experiment that is so simple that you might think it couldn’t be worth anything.
　　But this simple experiment is important. It explains part of our present-day understandings of physics, ideas that were worked out long ago by Galileo and Newton. And these understandings set aside some of ancient Greek physics.
Scientist sometimes stops to look at very simple things and to think very hard about them. Even the simplest idea, which we might think is foolish, can shake the foundations of science.
1. 小题1:The passage tells us that Charles Darwin ____.

A．was a great English scientist

B．always liked doing the experiments that others thought difficult

C．thought even the simplest thing was important

D．didn’t get well with others

2.小题2:The phrase “set aside” most probably means____ .

A．throw away	B．store up
C．put to use	D．realize

3. 小题3:The author of the passage tries to ________.

A．convince us that Charles Darwin, Galileo and Newton are the greatest scientists in the world

B．draw the conclusion that basic sciences are simple things

C．prove that two sheets of paper, with the same size and shape, will fall at the same speed

D．draw our attention to everyday happenings around us

4小题4:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Darwin really did fools experiments.

B．According to some people Darwin did foolish experiments.

C．It is believed by all the people that things could be important though they seemed to be simple.

D．Galileo and Newton worked out ancient Greek physics.

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　Francis Bacon, one of the most important philosophers(哲人) of England, was born in London and educated at Cambridge University. When he was only 15, he went to France to work for the English ambassador (大使) . Two years later he went back to England to study law. At the age of twenty-three he was chosen to parliament (议会). His ideas about how scientists should study things in nature help to bring the modern way of thinking, called the scientific method.
　　One of the Bacon’s best-known books was his Essays. Each essay was a short piece of writing in which he tried to give a lesson by discussing sides of a subject such as studying, conversation, friends and healthy living. In many of his books, Bacon explained how scientists should study things as they really existed in nature and then tried to figure out what caused a particular thing to be as it was. Later, by doing experiments, the scientist could see that any one cause would always have the same result. This method, which is called inductive reasoning, is used by all the scientists today, but it was new in Bacon’s time.
5. 小题1:According to the passage we know that ____.

A．Francis Bacon was the most important philosopher of England

B．Francis Bacon had good education

C．Francis Bacon worked for a French ambassador at the age of 15

D．Francis Bacon stayed in France until he was 23

6. 小题2:The underlined phrase “inductive reasoning” in the last paragraph means____.

A．to discover general laws from particular facts or examples

B．to reach a conclusion by reasoning from general laws to a particular case

C．to study things as they used to be

D．to study things in a particular way

7. 小题3:Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Bacon was a learned man.

B．Bacon did a lot of philosophy.

C．The inductive reasoning was widely used both today and in Bacon’s time.

D．Bacon gave scientists much useful advice.

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There was a little boy   26  his grandparents on their farm.He was given a slingshot（弹弓）to play with,out in the woods.He   27  in the woods,but he could never hit the target.Getting a little 28 ,he headed back to dinner.Then,he saw Grandma’s pet duck,so he let fly,hit the duck square in the head,and   29  it.He was shocked and upset.In   30 ,he hid the dead duck in the woodpile, 31  to see his sister watching.Sally had seen it all, 32  she said nothing.
33 lunch that day grandma said,“Sally,let’s wash the dishes.”
But Sally said,“Grandma,Johnny told me he wanted to   34  in the kitchen today,didn’t you Johnny?”And then she   35  to him,“Remember,the duck?”So Johnny did the dishes.
Later Grandpa asked if   36  wanted to go fishing,and Grandma said,“I’m sorry but I need Sally to help make supper.”
But Sally   37  and said,“Well,that’s   38  because Johnny told me he wanted to help.”
39 the duck,Johnny had to stay and Sally went fishing.
After several days of Johnny doing both his   40  and Sally’s,he finally couldn’t   41
it any longer.He came to Grandma and told her that he killed the duck.She   42  down,gave him a hug（拥抱）,and said,“Sweetheart,I know.You see,I was standing at the window and I   43  the whole thing.But because I love you,I   44  you.But I was just   45  how long would you let Sally make a slave of you.”
26.A.helping                 B.visiting                            C.tending                            D.seeking
27.A.practised               B.played                       C.worked                            D.hunted
28.A.anxious                B.tired                         C.pleased                      D.discouraged
29.A.caught                  B.injured                      C.killed                        D.seized
30.A.surprise                B.disappointment          C.anger                        D.horror
31.A.only                     B.so as                         C.in order                     D.expecting
32.A.so                        B.and                           C.instead                      D.but
33.A.At                        B.After                        C.Before                      D.Cooking
34.A.work                    B.stay                          C.help                          D.get
35.A.called                  B.whispered                  C.nodded                      D.signed
36.A.the children          B.Sally                         C.Johnny                      D.Grandma
37.A.sighed                  B.agreed                       C.objected                    D.smiled
38.A.easy                            B.all right                     C.fine                          D.impossible
39.A.Searching             B.Hiding                      C.Remembering            D.Regretting
40.A.homework            B.housework                 C.farm work                 D.cooking
41.A.stand                    B.change                      C.like                           D.cover
42.A.sat                       B.went                         C.lay                            D.knelt
43.A.know                   B.heard                        C.saw                           D.understand
44.A.missed                  B.forgave                            C.congratulated             D.punished
45.A.wondering            B.saying                       C.imaging                    D.considering

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Robeson was born in a very poor family.At seven,he had to pick coal in a deserted mine near his home,then he sold  26  he had picked and earned a few coins to help his parents.He had
27 schooling,for being so poor,how could they   28   school fees?
When he was fifteen,he worked   29  a servant in a school.Looking at other children studying in the classroom,he felt  30 for himself.How he   31   to have the same chance!He decided to study by  32  .In the daytime,after the sweeping and cleaning was over,he   33
stand by the window outside the classroom trying to catch what the teacher said.At night,he tried his best to remember what he   34 during the day.He worked   35  hard at his lessons that he sometimes had just three or four hours to sleep.The more he learned,the greater  36  he showed in his lessons.A maths teacher discovered him and came to like this diligent boy and  37 him to sit at the back of the class.In one exam,he was the  38 one in the whole school who reached the highest grade.He would have been given the scholarship if he   39  a regular student of the school.
Robeson  40 rough six long years with his study of maths and wrote several articles which captured the  41 of some university professors.They admired his talent  42  his diligence.To give him a good chance,they hired him as a librarian and  43   him free guidance.Robeson felt 44 ,for he was sure that before him there was a broad road   45  success.
26.A.whether                B.which                       C.that                           D.what
27.A.many                   B.few                           C.little                         D.much
28.A.buy                      B.afford                       C.send                          D.read
29.A.as                        B.like                           C.for                            D.by
30.A.angry                   B.ashamed                    C.proud                        D.sorry
31.A.hated                    B.decided                     C.wished                      D.regretted
32.A.the teacher            B.himself                            C.his parents                 D.his schoolmates
33.A.could                   B.ought to                    C.should                       D.would
34.A.had learned                                              B.has been taught
C.has heard                                                      D.had been written down
35.A.very                            B.so                             C.too                           D.quite
36.A.joy                       B.interest                      C.time                          D.taste
37.A.allowed                B.agreed                      C.let                                   D.refused
38.A.worst                   B.only                          C.last                           D.laziest
39.A.had been               B.has been                    C.is                              D.was
40.A.learned                 B.listened                     C.mastered                   D.struggled
41.A.notice                   B.influence                   C.eyes                          D.attention
42.A.except for             B.according to                     C.as well as                  D.in spite of
43.A.taught                  B.offered                      C.lent                           D.sent
44.A.sad                       B.angry                        C.happy                       D.disappointed
45.A.leading to             B.coming from             C.made of                    D.covered with

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