Scott and his companions were terribly disappointed. When they got to the South Pole, they found the
Norwegians (挪威人)had 1 them in the race to be the first ever to reach it. After 2 the British flag at
the Pole, they took a photograph of themselves 3 they started the 950-mile journey back.
The journey was unexpectedly 4 and the joy and excitement about the Pole had gone out of them. The
sun hardly 5 . The snow storms always made it impossible to sight the stones they had 6 to mark their
way home. To make things 7 . Evans, whom they had all thought of 8 the strongest of the five, fell badly
into a deep hole in the ice. Having 9 along for several days, he suddenly fell down and died.
The four who were 10 pushed on at the best speed they could 11 . Captain Oates had been suffering for
some time from his 12 fact; at night his feet swelled (肿胀) so large that he could 13 put his boots on the
next morning, and he walked bravely although he was in great 14 . He knew his slowness was making it less
likely that
15 could save themselves. He asked them to leave him behind in his sleeping-bag, but they refused, and helped
him 16 a few more miles, until it was time to put up the 17 for another night.
The following morning, 18 the other three were still in their sleeping-bags, he said."I am just going outside
and may be 19 some time." He was never seen again. He had walked out 20 into the snow storm, hoping that
his death would help his companions. |
( )1. A. hit
( )2. A. growing
( )3. A. after
( )4. A. safe
( )5. A. rose
( )6. A. taken up
( )7. A. easier
( )8. A. to
( )9. A.battled
( )10. A. left
( )11. A. manage
( )12. A. ached
( )13. A. hardly
( )14. A. pain
( )15. A. all others
( )16. A. away
( )17. A. bed
( )18. A. while
( )19. A. missed
( )20. A. patiently | B. fought
B. putting
B. until
B. fast
B. set
B. cut up
B. better
B. upon
B. struggled
B. lost
B. try
B. frozen
B. never
B. fear
B. some others
B. with
B. tent
B. since
B. separated
B. lonely | C. won
C. planting
C. while
C. short
C. appeared
C. set up
C. bitter
C. as
C. speeded
C. defeated
C. employ
C. harden
C. seldom
C. trouble
C. others
C. off
C. blanket
C. for
C. passed
C. alone | D. beaten
D. laying
D. before
D. slow
D. disappeared
D. picked up
D. worse
D. in
D. waited
D. saved
D. find
D. harmed
D. nearly
D. danger
D. the others
D. on
D. sleeping-bag
D. once
D. gone
D. worriedly | | 完形填空。 | You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house
behind you. What are you doing there? You aren"t a soldier. You aren"t 1 carrying a gun. You"re standing in
front of a 2 and you"re telling the TV 3 what is happening.
It"s all in a day"s work for a war reporter, and it can be very 4 . In the first two years of the 5 in former
Yugoslavia (前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were 6 .What kind of
people put themselves in danger to 7 pictures to our TV screens and 8 to our newspapers? Why do they
do it?
"I think it"s every young journalist"s 9 to be a foreign reporter," says Michael Nicholson, "that"s 10 you
find the excitement.So when the first opportunity comes,you take it 11 it is a war."
But there are moments of 12 . Jeremy Bowen says, "Yes,when you"re lying on the ground and bullets (子弹)
are flying 13 your ears,you think: "What am I doing here? I"m not going to do this again." But that feeling 14
after a while and when the next war starts, you"ll be 15 ."
"None of us believes that we"re going to 16 ," adds Michael.But he always 17 a lucky charm (护身符)
with him. It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It"s a card which says "Take care of yourself." Does
he ever think about dying? "Oh, 18 ,and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, "If you get
me out of this, I 19 I"ll never do it again." You can almost hear God 20 ,because you know he doesn"t believe
you." | ( )1. A. simply
( )2. A. crowd
( )3. A. producers
( )4. A. dangerous
( )5. A. stay
( )6. A. injured
( )7. A. bring
( )8. A. scenes
( )9. A. belief
( )10. A. why
( )11. A. even so
( )12. A. fear
( )13. A. into
( )14. A. returns
( )15. A. there
( )16. A. leave
( )17. A. hangs
( )18. A. never
( )19. A. consider
( )20. A. whispering | B. really
B. house
B. viewers
B. exciting
B. fight
B. buried
B. show
B. passages
B. dream
B. what
B. ever since
B. surprise
B. around
B. goes
B. away
B. escape
B. wears
B. many times
B. accept
B. laughing | C. merely
C. battlefield
C. directors
C. normal
C. war
C. defeated
C. take
C. stories
C. duty
C. how
C. as if
C. shame
C. past
C. continues
C. out
C. die
C. holds
C. some time
C. promise
C. screaming | D. even
D. camera
D. actors
D. disappointing
D. life
D. saved
D. make
D. contents
D. faith
D. where
D. even if
D. sadness
D. through
D. occurs
D. home
D. remain
D. carries
D. seldom
D. guess
D. crying | | 阅读理解。 | At one time no one could travel on an English road faster than four miles an hour. That was the law until
1896. A man had to walk in front of a car which could not go faster than the man. At night the man had to
carry a red lamp.
Once Charles Rolls brought a car from France to England, but he wanted to drive faster than four miles
an hour.In order to have no trouble with the police, he had a talk with some of the police officers, who ordered
their policemen to look the other way when the car came along the road. This was a good plan in the country,
but not so easy to follow in the busy streets of London.
One night Rolls and some friends started from London on their journey to Cambridge. One of the men
walked in front with the red lamp, but he walked as fast as he could.The police became very interested in walls
and shop-fronts when they heard the car,and not one of them saw it.
They reached a hill ;but what a waste of time it was to drive down the hill at four miles an hour! Rolls was
getting ready to jump into the car; but then he noticed a policeman who was not looking the other way. The
slow car reached him.
"Good evening," said the policeman,looking at the car.
"Good evening," said Rolls,holding the lamp.
"One of these horseless things," said the policeman, looking at it with interest.
"Yes," said Rolls, and waited.
"I"ve often wanted a ride in one ; but of course policemen can"t buy things like that." He turned and looked
hopefully in Rolls"s face.
"Jump in," said Rolls.
"Thanks," said the policeman,and did so."Now,"he said, sitting down,"you can let it go just as you like
down this hill. There isn"t another policeman on this road for a mile and a half." | |
|
| 1.The policemen were told "to look the other way" (the underlined part in Paragraph 2) so that _____. | A. they could watch the car coming from the other direction
B. the car could go faster than four miles an hour
C. they could make sure no one was in the way
D. the car would not hit them on the road | | 2. In what way did the policemen carry out the order from their officers? | A. They greeted Rolls when the car came along.
B. They walked in front of the car with a red lamp.
C. They pretended to be attracted by something else.
D. They stood on duty every 1.5 miles along the road. | | 3. The policeman who said "Good evening" to Rolls wanted to _____. | A. teach Rolls a lesson
B. take a free ride home
C. have a talk with Rolls
D. have a car ride experience | | 4. After the policeman jumped into the car, Rolls _____. | A. dared not drive the car faster than he was allowed to
B. could drive as fast as he wished within a certain distance
C. could drive on any road he liked for the rest of the journey
D. drove his car as fast as he could down the hill to Cambridge | | 阅读理解。 | Thirteen vehicles lined up last March to race across the Mojave Desert, seeking a million in prize money.
To win, they had to finish the 142-mile race in less than 10 hours. Teams and watchers knew there might be
no winner at all, because these vehicles were missing a key part drivers.
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, organized the race as part of a push to develop
robotic vehicles for future battlefields. But the Grand Challenge, as it was called, just proved how difficult it is
to get a car to speed across an unfamiliar desert without human guidance. One had its brake lock up in the
starting area. Another began by throwing itself onto a wall. Another got tied up by bushes near the road after
1.9 miles.
One turned upside down. One took off in entirely the wrong direction and had to be disabled by remote
(远距离的) control. One went a little more than a mile and rushed into a fence ; another managed to go for six
miles but stuck on a rock. The "winner," if there was any, reached 7.8 miles before it ran into a long, narrow
hole, and the front wheels caught on fire.
"You get a lot of respect for natural abilities of the living things," says Reinhold Behringer, who helped
design two of the car-size vehicles for a company called Sci-Autonics. "Even ants (蚂蚁) can do all these tasks
effortlessly. It"s very hard for us to put these abilities into our machines."
The robotic vehicles, though with necessary modern equipment such as advanced computers and GPS
guidance, had trouble figuring out fast enough the blocks ahead that a two-year-old human recognizes
immediately, Sure, that very young child, who has just only learned to walk, may not think to wipe apple juice
off her face, but she already knows that when there"s a cookie in the kitchen she has to climb up the table, and
that when she gets to the cookie it will taste good. She is more advanced, even months old, than any machine
humans have designed. | | 1. Watchers doubted if any of the vehicles could finish the race because _____. | A. they did not have any human guidance
B. the road was not familiar to the drivers
C. the distance was too long for the vehicles
D. the prize money was unattractive to the drivers | | 2. DARPA organized the race in order to _____. | A. raise money for producing more robotic vehicles
B. push the development of vehicle industry
C. train more people to drive in the desert
D. improve the vehicles for future wars | | 3. From the passage we know "robotic vehicles" are a kind of machines that _____. | A. can do effortlessly whatever tasks living thing can
B. can take part in a race across 142 miles with a time limit
C. can show off their ability to turn themselves upside down
D. can move from place to place without being driven by human beings | | 4. In the race, the greatest distance one robotic vehicle covered was _____. | A. about eight miles
B. six miles
C. almost two miles
D. about one mile | | 5. In the last paragraph, the writer implies that there is a long way to go _____. | A. for a robotic vehicle to finish a 142-mile race without any difficulties
B. for a little child who has just learned to walk to reach the cookie on the table
C. for a robotic vehicle to deal with a simple problem that a little child can solve
D. for a little child to understand the importance of wiping apple juice off its face | | 完形填空。 | It was raining. I went into a cafe and asked for a coffee. 1 I was waiting for my drink, I realized there
were other people in the place, but I sensed 2 . I saw their bodies, but I couldn"t feel their souls 3 their
souls belonged to the 4 .
I stood up and walked between the tables. When I came to the biggest computer, I saw a thin, small man
5 in front of it. "I"m Steve," he finally answered after I asked him a couple of times what his name was. "I
can"t talk with you. I"m 6 ,"he said. He was chatting online and, 7 , he was playing a computer game-a
war game. I was 8 .
Why didn"t Steve want to talk with me? I tried 9 to speak to that computer geek (怪人), 10 not a word
came out of his mouth. I touched his shoulder, but no reaction (反应). I was 11 . I put my hand in front of the
monitor, and he started to shout, " 12 !"
I took a few steps back, wondering if all those people in the cafe were looking at me. I 13 , and saw nobody
showed any interest.
14 , I realized that the people there were having a nice conversation with their machines, not with people.
They were more 15 having a relationship with the 16 , particularly Steve. I wouldn"t want to 17 the future
of human beings if they preferred sharing their lives with machines 18 with people.
I was worried and sank in my thoughts. I didn"t even 19 that the coffee was bad, 20 Steve didn"t notice
there was a person next to him. | ( )1. A. Before
( )2. A. pain
( )3. A. because
( )4. A. home
( )5. A. sleeping
( )6. A. busy
( )7. A. first of all
( )8. A. surprised
( )9. A. once
( )10. A. but
( )11. A. excited
( )12. A. Shut up
( )13. A. walked about
( )14. A. From then on
( )15. A. interested in
( )16. A. computer
( )17. A. tell
( )18. A. other than
( )19. A. pretend
( )20. A. as if | B. Since
B. loneliness
B. when
B. world
B. laughing
B. thirsty
B. just then
B. delighted
B. again
B. so
B. respected
B. Enjoy yourself
B. walked out
B. At that moment
B. tired of
B. soul
B. plan
B. instead of
B. understand
B. just as | C. Although
C. sadness
C. until
C. Net
C. sitting
C. tired
C. at the same time
C. moved
C. first
C. if
C. afraid
C. Leave me alone
C. raised my hand
C. In all
C. careful about
C. shop
C. imagine
C. except for
C. insist
C. just after | D. While
D. fear
D. unless
D. Cafe
D. learning
D. sick
D. by that time
D. frightened
D. even
D. or
D. unhappy
D. Help me out
D. raised my head
D. Above all
D. troubled by
D. geek
D. design
D. as well as
D. realize
D. even though |
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