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Thanks to new technology, a virtual tour of the Forbidden City will be available online by 2008. The project － jointly driven by the Palace Museum and computer company IBM － aims to help teenagers around the world become more interested in Chinese culture. The project will offer an interactive, three-dimensional view of the palace. The virtual tour will provide images from all over the 780,000-square-metre palace.
"The Palace Museum is a big book; there are always places you haven"t read about," said Hu Chui from the museum. There are many rooms closed for protection. But the virtual platform breaks the boundaries of time and space, meaning visitors can see whatever they want. "The interaction and games content in the virtual tour will attract more young people to understand and love our cultural heritage," added Hu.
In the virtual tour, historical figures will actually talk to visitors and answer their questions. The stories behind the buildings and treasures will also be told. "The online environment, presented in both Chinese and English, enables visitors to experience the culture and stories of the museum," said James Yeh, an IBM official.
小题1: If you visit the Forbidden City now, which of the following won’t be the case you’ll have?
| A．It is crowed with a lot of visitors. | B．Visitors are pushing you for a better view. |
| C．You are the only person in it. | D．You can see some ancient treasures in it. |
| A．Visitors can see whatever they want. |
| B．Visitor can ask and talk to historical figures. |
| C．Visitors can get to know the cultural heritage by playing games. |
| D．Visitors can walk around the Forbidden City with your family. |
| A．a virtual tour of the Forbidden City |
| B．a new “Forbidden City” to be built by the Palace Museum and IBM computer company |
| C．an Internet cafe to be built in the Palace Museum |
| D．a big book to be published to introduce Chinese culture |
| A．the visible pictures in the place |
| B．the interaction and game playing |
| C．the online environment presented in English |
| D．the platform without the boundaries of time and space |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:B
解析
小题1:根据短文第一段意义：想象一下紫禁城里只有你一个人的情景吧。你可以一整天都待在里面，身边再也不会挤满蜂拥的游人。你也可以尽情欣赏古迹珍宝，不用担心别人为了抢占观赏的有利位置，把你推来搡去。这种“虚拟网络之旅”将于2008年开通。因此，“你一个人在紫禁城里的情景”不是现在你能做到的。
小题2:根据短文第三、四段的意义：这个虚拟平台就可以打破时间和空间的限制，游客想看什么都能看到。这种虚拟之旅中的互动和游戏部分还会吸引更多的年轻人，使他们理解、喜爱我们的民族文化遗产。在虚拟之旅中，历史人物还会和游客对话，回答他们的问题。由此归纳“与家人一起观看”不在其列。
小题3:短文第一段提到：两年内你就能实现“独自游览紫禁城”的愿望了，就像古代的帝王那样。不过，其中唯一的区别就是你的紫禁城之旅是在网络之中。再根据第二段第一句“紫禁城虚拟网络之旅在新科技的帮助下即将于2008年开通。此项目由故宫和IBM电脑公司联合发起”。由此可知：project指的是“紫禁城虚拟网络之旅”。
小题4:四个选项都是“紫禁城虚拟网络之旅”所要遇到的情况，然而根据短文第三段最后一句胡锤补充所说的内容：这种虚拟之旅中的互动和游戏部分还会吸引更多的年轻人，使他们理解、喜爱我们的民族文化遗产。
核心考点
试题【Imagine being the only person in the Forbidden City. You could stay there all da】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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She had hardly walked 40 yards when she saw the car moving. It headed straight towards the river. Unable to swim, Joy shouted, “My babies are in that car!”
Daniel Whitehead, a 17-year-old student, was walking by the river when the Buick crashed into the water just yards ahead .Without thinking, Daniel jumped in. Though a competitive swimmer, he was shocked by the icy chill.
Two minutes earlier, Skip Womack had pulled to a halt as the Buick ran in front of him. Now seeing it hit the water and hearing Joy’s cries, Skip got out of his truck and jumped into the water. He had only one thought: If I don’t get them out, they’ll drown.
Daniel reached the car and grabbed a door handle. But the water was only four inches beneath the window, and the door wouldn’t open. With one powerful punch, Daniel and Skip broke a window. Daniel reached inside and lifted Stephen out. He placed him on his back and set out for shore. At the same time, Skip squeezed himself through the window .He managed to free Esther from beneath her seat belt. After he got out of the car with the baby, he held her over the water and swam toward the shore. All this took place just seconds before the Buick disappeared beneath the water.
Later, driving home, Skip thought of his wife and children—how close he’d come to leaving them behind. He thought of the miracle he’d lived through, and how two children were still alive because he and Daniel happened to be in the right place at the right time.
小题1:Why did Joy leave her children in the car?
| A．He did not like shopping with a child in hand. |
| B．She didn’t like waking up her baby. |
| C．Stephen was big enough to take care of his sister. |
| D．It was icy cold outside. |
| A．had been good friends |
| B．were two close friends of Joy Warren’s |
| C．were Joy Warren’s neighbors |
| D．were strangers before the accident |
| A．He squeezed into the car and carried him out. |
| B．He pulled him out through the broken window. |
| C．He freed him from his seatbelt before he got him out. |
| D．He held him over the water and swam back to shore. |
| A．It had four inches of water in it. |
| B．One of its windows could not be opened. |
| C．It was pulled out of water and set on the shore. |
| D．It sank to the bottom of the river. |
| A．He felt lucky to be still alive after having saved the lives of two kids. |
| B．He missed his wife and children, whom he left behind in the morning. |
| C．He felt very thankful to Daniel, without whom he would not have made it. |
| D．He wondered how he and Daniel could be in the right place at the right time. |
I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend"s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.
I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.
Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I"d left the lights on all day, and the battery(电池)was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership - a shop selling cars - was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.
"Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.
"Thank you" - two powerful words. They"re easy to say and mean so much.
小题1:The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City_________.
| A．to visit a friend |
| B．to see his parents |
| C．to pay at the cash register |
| D．to have more gas for his car |
| A．turned off | B．moved off | C．put up | D．set up |
| A．He had it pulled back to the gas station. |
| B．The couple sent him a business card. |
| C．The couple offered to help him. |
| D．He called his friend for help. |
| A．something went wrong with the lights |
| B．the meeting lasted a whole day |
| C．he forgot to turn off the lights |
| D．he drove too long a distance |
| A．how to write a thank-you letter |
| B．how to deal with car problems |
| C．the kind-heartedness of older people |
| D．the importance of expressing thanks |
“J. C.” , he replied.
She thought he had said “Jesse”, and he had a new name.
Owens ran his first race at age 13. After high school, he went to Ohio State University. He had to work part time so as to pay for his education. As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935, he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.
A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week, and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet. He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event. He did try, and the results are in the record book.
The stage was set for Owens’ victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic (体育的) but also political. Hitler did not congratulate any of the African-American winners.
“It was all right with me,” he said years later. “I didn’t go to Berlin to shake hands with him, anyway.”
Having returned from Berlin, he received no telephone call from the president of his own country, either. In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976, four years before his death.
Owens’ Olympic victories made little difference to him. He earned his living by looking after a school playground, and accepted money to race against cars, trucks, motorcycles, and dogs.
“Sure, it bothered (烦扰) me,” he said later. “But at least it was an honest living had to eat.”
In time, however, his gold medals (奖牌) changed his life. “They have kept me alive over the years,” he once said. “Time has stood still for me. That golden moment dies hard.”
小题1:Owens got his other name “Jesse” when _______.
A. he went to Ohio State University
B. his teacher made fun of him
C. his teacher took “J. C.” for “Jesse”
D. he won gold medals in the Big Ten meet
小题2: In the Big Ten meet, Owens _______.
| A．hurt himself in the back | B．succeeded in setting many records |
| C．tried every sports event but failed | D．had to give up some events |
| A．he was not of the right race | B．he was the son of a poor farmer |
| C．he didn’t shake hands with Hitler | D．he didn’t talk to the US president on the phone |
| A．have been changed for money to help him live on |
| B．have made him famous in the U.S. |
| C．have encouraged him to overcome difficulties in life |
| D．have kept him busy with all kinds of jobs |
| A．Jesse Owens, a Great American Athlete |
| B．Golden Moment—a Life-time Struggle |
| C．Making a Living as a Sportsman |
| D．How to Be a Successful Athlete |
Norman Borlaug is often called "the man who saved a billion lives" and "the father of the Green Revolution."
His work helped fight starvation in India and Pakistan in the nineteen sixties. He won the nineteen seventy Nobel Peace Prize.
He, ninety-three years old ,still works as an adviser at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico.
In accepting the medal, he urged Congress and the administration to increase development assistance for agriculture. He said the world needs better and more technology to deal with hunger. In his words: "Hunger and poverty and misery are very fertile soils into which to plant all kinds of "isms," including terrorism."
In the 1940s, Norman Borlaug and a team developed highly productive and disease-resistant wheat for farmers in Mexico. About twenty years later, millions of people in India and Pakistan were in danger from grain shortages.
The improved wheat from Mexico also grew well in South Asia, combined with changes in growing methods. Norman Borlaug persuaded farmers to use more fertilizers and pesticide chemicals and to water their crops with irrigation systems. Also many a crop can be planted in the same field. The results were big production gains that many believe saved as many as a billion lives.
President Bush noted that hunger still affects much of the developing world. He said the most fitting honor for Norman Borlaug is to lead a second Green Revolution that feeds the world. Yet his support for new agricultural technologies has been criticized at times over the years.
Some researchers worry about the effects of industrial methods of modern farming.
Population researcher Paul Ehrlich, for example, wrote a nineteen sixty-eight book called
"The Population Bomb." He predicted that population growth would cause widespread harm to the planet.
But now, some people are saying there should be greater attention and respect for Norman Borlaug. A major theme of his work is that people can deal with difficulties and that technology can improve their lives.
小题1:Norman Borlaug is called “the Father of the Green Revolution” mainly lies in that_______.
| A．he developed highly productive wheat to help fight against hunger |
| B．he made a great contribution to fighting against terrorism and hunger |
| C．he developed a kind of wheat that is environmentally friendly |
| D．he sticks to the belief that technology can improve our lives. |
| A．Norman Borlaug, the Father of the Green Revolution |
| B．Golden Moments----a Long-life Struggle |
| C．Hunger------a Serious Problem That Affects the Developing World. |
| D．Norman Borlaug, the Savior of the Developing Country. |
| A．Despite his age, Norman Borlaug still works for the improvement in agriculture |
| B．Norman Borlaug thinks that hunger and poverty tend to breed crimes and evil |
| C．Without Norman Borlaug’s work, hunger problem wouldn’t completely be settled now |
| D．Paul Ehrlich thinks that population growth would cause widespread harm to the planet. |
| A．Congress and the administration are to blame for hunger and poverty |
| B．not all people are in favor of his new agricultural technologies |
| C．people can defeat terrorists by improving modern farming |
| D．the Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian honor given by Congress. |
Doyle gave Holmes a masterly skill of deduction---the ability to come up with interesting conclusion from the simplest clues found at the scene of a crime. Doyle said that the description of Holmes was modeled on one of his lecturers at Edinburgh University where he studied medicine. That man was Dr Joseph Bell. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet published in 1887. Holmes was so loved by all that when his author killed him off in one of his stories, readers wrote in anger to complain. They refused to allow Holmes to die! Holmes was brought back to “life” and appeared in further stories.
The stories of Sherlock Holmes have been reprinted many times ever since then. Today we can watch Holmes at work on cinema and television screens as well as on stage.
小题1:Sherlock Holmes was________.
| A．the greatest detective who ever lived |
| B．Dr Joseph Bell |
| C．Arthur Conan Doyle |
| D．only a character made up by Arthur Conan Dolye |
| A．tall and learn |
| B．lovable but always clumsy |
| C．lovable but sometimes clumsy |
| D．lovable and never clumsy |
| A．with Dr Watson | B．with Dr Joseph Bell |
| C．with the greatest detective | D．with Doyle |
| A．from his own imagination |
| B．based on a famous London doctor |
| C．based on Dr Joseph Bell at Edinburgh University |
| D．based on a model of Holmes |
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