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If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, “ Hey, Butterfly Man,” his face would break into a smile. The title suits him. And he loves it.
Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blue butterfly, once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is coming back — thanks to him. But years ago if you’d told him this was what he’d be doing someday, he would have laughed, “ You’re crazy.” As a boy, he used to be “ a little tough guy on the streets”. At age thirteen, he was caught by police stealing. At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man.
“ I knew it had hurt my mom,” Bonner said after he got out of prison. “So I told myself I would not put my mom through that pain again.”
One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working to rebuild the habitat for an endangered butterfly called El Segundo blue.
“I saw the sign ‘Butterfly Habitat’ and asked, ‘How can you have a habitat when the butterflies can just fly away?’” Bonner recalls. “Dr. Mattoni laughed and handed me a magnifying glass(放大镜) , ‘Look at the leaves.’ I could see all these caterpillars(蝴蝶的幼虫) on the plant. Dr Mattoni explained, ‘Without the plant, there are no butterflies.’”
Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who told him there was a butterfly needed help. That was how he met the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he’s been working for four years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragalus, the only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and brings them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the habitat.
The butterfly’s population, once almost zero, is now up to 900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni received lots of awards. But for Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his life around
For six years now Bonner has kept his promise to stay out of prison. While he’s bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the butterfly has helped bring him back, too.
11. When he was young, Arthur Bonner _______.
A. broke the law and ended up in prison
B. was fond of shooting and hurt his mom
C. often laughed at people on the streets
D. often caught butterflies and took them home
12. Bonner came to know the Palos Verdes blue after he _______.
A. found the butterfly had died out        
B. won many prizes from his professor
C. met Dr. Mattoni, a professor of biology  
D. collected butterflies and put them into a lab
13. From the last sentence of the text, we learn that raising butterflies has ________.
A. made Bonner famous        B. changed Bonner’s life
C. brought Bonner wealth       D. enriched Bonner’s knowledge
14. What does the underlined phrase “put through” mean in the 3rd paragraph?
A. hurt                         B. recall                C. remember                 D. experience
15. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. A Promise to Mom               B. A Man Saved by Butterflies
C. A Story of Butterflies               D. A Job Offered by Dr. Mattoni
答案
11-15  ACBDB
解析
本文主要讲述了一个叫阿瑟的人通过养蝴蝶既拯救了蝴蝶,又拯救了自己的故事。
11. 细节理解题。根据第二段陈述的阿瑟曾因伤人,偷窃等原因入狱。
12. 细节理解题。根据第六段的第一、二句话得知,几周后阿瑟收到了教授的电话,告诉他有一种蝴蝶需要他的帮助,那就是他怎样遇到这种蝴蝶的。
13. 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段可知阿瑟自此遵守了诺言再也没有入狱,因此说蝴蝶改变了他,故选B。
14. 词义猜测题。根据上下文语境得知
15. 主旨大意题。文章整体上讲述的是阿瑟从没有养蝴蝶时的糟糕生活到养蝴蝶后的转变。
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试题【If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, “ Hey, Butterfly Man,” his face】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从1-10各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
If you have been dreaming of becoming an astronaut after you grow up, get start now! An astronaut needs a strong body and mind. Shenzhou VI astronauts are able to live upside-down. They do this not just during sleep, but also when eating and going to the toilet. Before they  1  the space, they had lots of practice. Each upside-down training time lasted 20 days.
Chinese astronauts aren’t just spaceship  2  but also machine repairers and scientists. They have to know every part of the spaceship and how it works.  3  something goes wrong, they’ve got to know  4  repair it. Also they do scientific experiments in space.
Shenzhou VI astronauts know how to live in  5  . They took a knife, a gun and some dye with them into space. If they land in forests, the knife and gun can  6  them from wild animals. If they  7  the sea, the dye can color the seawater around them yellow. This can drive  8  sea animals away.
Astronauts must have strong  9  . They can’t get a headache and be sick. With many things to   10  , they’ve got no time for sickness. Do you still have a long, long way to go?
小题1:
A.went throughB.flew intoC.stayed atD.lived at
小题2:
A.teachersB.coachesC.inventorsD.drivers
小题3:
A.IfB.UnlessC.SoD.While
小题4:
A.what toB.why toC.how toD.when to
小题5:
A.the worldB.the wildC.troubleD.space
小题6:
A.preventB.protestC.predictD.protect
小题7:
A.fall intoB.jump intoC.fly overD.fly across
小题8:
A.harmlessB.livelyC.dangerousD.selfish
小题9:
A.bodiesB.mindsC.healthyD.encouragement
小题10:
A.bringB.take careC.tendD.look forward to

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阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从1—10各题所给的A、B、C和D项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of one of the country’s greatest machines was actually born in a log cabin,  1 to high school on horse back and without   2 of university degree(indeed, at age 14), thought of the idea of electronic television. In 1906 Farnsworth was born in a community near Beaver City, Utah,  3 by his grandfather.  4 he was 12, his family moved to a ranch (大牧场)in Rigby, Idaho, which was four miles from, the nearest high school,  5 necessitating(使成为必要)his daily horseback rides. Because he was interested in the electron and electricity, he persuaded his chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman, to give him   6 instruction and to allow him to listen to a senior course.
The death of his father forced him to leave at the end of his second year, but, as it   7 , at no great intellectual cost. There were, at the time, no more than a handful of men   8 the planet who could have understood Farnsworth’s idea for building an electronic television system, and it’s   9 that any of them were at this local community. One such man was Vladimir Zworykin who had moved to the US from Russia with a Ph. D in electrical engineering. He went to work for Westinghouse with a dream of building an all-electronic television system. But he wasn’t   10 to do so.
小题1:
A.rodeB.ranC.droveD.jumped
小题2:

2,4,6


 
A.sakeB.applicationC.benefitD.significance
小题3:
A.livedB.settledC.inheritedD.occupied
小题4:
A.BecauseB.WhenC.HoweverD.Until
小题5:
A.thusB.thenC.finallyD.yet
小题6:
A.importantB.interestingC.specialD.vivid
小题7:
A.turned outB.showed upC.bore outD.reflected on
小题8:
A.inB.withinC.aroundD.on
小题9:
A.necessarilyB.essentialC.falseD.unlikely
小题10:
A.possibleB.capableC.thoughtfulD.able

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Bill Javis took over our village’s news-agency at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax. He just thought he would like something but not too much to do, and the news-a­gency was ready-made. The business produced little enough for him, but Bill was a man who only wanted the simplicity and order and regularity of the job. He had been a long-serving sailor, and all his life had done everything by the clock.
Every day he opened his shop at 6:00 a. m. to catch the early trade; the papers arrived on his doorstep before that. Many of Bill’s customers were city workers, and the shop was convenient for the station. Business was tailing off by 10 o’clock, so at eleven sharp Bill closed for lunch. It was hard luck on anybody who wanted a paper or magazine in the after­noon, for most likely Bill would be down on the river bank, fishing, and his neatest competitor was five kilometers away. Sometimes in the afternoon-, the evening paper landed on the doorway, and at 4 o’ clock Bill reopened his shop. The evening rush lasted till seven, and it was worthwhile.
He lived in a flat above the ship, alone. Except in the very bad weather, you always knew where to find him in the af­ternoon, as I have said. Once, on a sunny afternoon, I walked home along the river bank from a shopping trip to the village. By my watch it was three minutes past four, so I was aston­ished to see Bill sitting there on his little chair with a line in the, water. He had no luck, I could, see, but he was making no effort to move. “What’s wrong, Bill?” I called out from the path.
For answer, he put a hand in his jacket and took out a big, golden object. For a moment I had no idea what it could be, and then it suddenly went off with a noise like a fire en­gine. Stopping the bell, Bill held the thing up and called back, "Ten to four, you see, and this is dead right. "
I had never known anyone carrying a brass alarm clock round with him before.
5. Bill Javis became a news-agent when ________.
A. he need the money.                        B. he decided to take things easy
C. he was quite an old man                 D. he gave up clock-repairing
6. Bill opened the shop so early in the day because ________.
A. he liked to do as much as possible before he went to work
B. the shop had to be open when the morning papers came
C. he was never sure of time
D. it was then that he did a lot of business
7. On that sunny afternoon, the writer was surprised when he saw Bill because ________.
A. he thought it was late for Bill to be still fishing
B. he thought Bill was ill, since he was not moving at all
C. Bill had not caught anything, and that seemed strange
D. Bill stayed in his flat
8. From the information given in the passage, who or what do you think was wrong?
A. The bell was; it must have gone off at the wrong time.
B. Bill was; he had dropped off to sleep.
C. The writer’s watch was fast.
D. Bill’s clock was wrong; it was old.
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A qualified doctor who rarely practiced but instead devoted his life to writing. He once said: “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my lover.” Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, was a great playwright and one of the masters of the modern short story.
When Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School in 1879, he started to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support his family. After he graduated, he wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper.
As a writer he was extremely fast, often producing a short story in an hour or less. Chekhov’s medical and science experience can be seen through the indifference(冷漠) many of his characters show to tragic events. In 1892, he became a full time writer and published some of his most memorable stories.
Chekhov often wrote about the sufferings of life in small town Russia. Tragic events control his characters who are filled with feelings of hopelessness and despair.
It is often said that nothing happens in Chekhov’s stories and plays. He made up for this with his exciting technique for developing drama within his characters. Chekhov’s work combined the calm attitude of a scientist and doctor with the sensitivity(敏感) of an artist.
Some of Chekhov"s works were translated into Chinese as early as the 1940s. One of his famous stories, The Man in a Shell, about a school teacher’s extraordinarily orderly life, was selected as a text for Chinese senior students.
小题1:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ________.
A.had a lawful loverB.was an illegal writer
C.used to be a lawyerD.was a competent doctor
小题2:In 1880, Chekhov ________.
A.became a full-time writer
B.studied medicine in Moscow University
C.practiced medicine in his hometown
D.published his most memorable stories
小题3:Which of the following adjectives can’t be used to describe Chekhov?
A.Sensitive.B.Cool.
C.Quick-minded.D.Warm-hearted.
小题4:Which of the following is the right order of the events?
a. became a doctor
b. became a full time writer
c. started to publish comic short stories
d. wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper.
e. entered the Moscow University Medical School
A.e→c→a→d→bB.d→a→b→c→eC.e→c→b→a→dD.a→e→c→b→d

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One day Walt Disney had a vision. It was a vision of a place where children and parents could have fun together. The more Walt dreamed of a "magical park," the more imaginative and elaborate it became.
The original plans for the park were on 8 acres next to the Burbank studios where his employees and families could go to relax. Although, World War II put those plans on hold. During the war, Disney had time to come up with new ideas, and creations for his magical park. It was soon clear that 8 acres wouldn"t be enough.
Finally in 1953, he had the Stanford Research Institute conduct a survey for a 100-acre site, outside of Los Angeles. He needed space to build rivers, waterfalls, and mountains; he would have flying elephants and giant teacups; a fairy-tale castle, moon rockets, and a scenic railway; all inside a magic kingdom he called "Disneyland."
The search for the best venue for the park ended in the rural Anaheim, California with a purchase of a 160-acre orange grove near the junction of the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) and Harbor Boulevard.
Construction for Disneyland began on July 21, 1954, 12 months before the park was scheduled to open.
Some 160-acres of citrus trees had been cleared and 15 houses moved to make room for the park. However, when the real designing came around, Disney met with inevitable questions. How do you make believable wild animals, that aren"t real? How do you make a Mississippi paddle ship? How do you go about building a huge castle in the middle of Anaheim, California? Disney asked his movie studio staff for answers. The design of Disneyland was something never done before.   There would be four uniquely different theme parts: Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland Tomorrow land. Bit by bit, Disneyland got ready for Opening Day. The staff worked around the clock to get ready.
But opening day was a terrible disaster. Beside the terrible opening day conditions, the park did eventually pick up. By 1965, ten years after opening day, 50 Million visitors had come through the gates.
1. The passage is mainly about___________.
What visitors can enjoy in Disneyland.
The difficulties Disney met in building Disneyland
How Disneyland came into being
A brief introduction to Disneyland
2. Which of the following dates would probably be the opening date of Disneyland?
A. 1953     B. 1954       C. 1955       D. 1965
3. Which of the following statements is Not True?
World War II had some influence on the building plan of the Disneyland.
Disney must have met many difficulties in building Disneyland.
About 50 million visitors have visited Disneyland so far.
Disney was a great man with great imagination and creativity.
4. You could see all the following things except_________ in Disney.
A. rivers, waterfalls, and mountains    B. flying elephants and giant teacups
C. a huge castle                    D. wild animals
5. The underlined phrase in the last paragraph probably means _________.
A. collect      B. improve     C. find       D. open
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