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trip down to the coast to visit the penguins again. Last time I went down there was a couple of months ago
and it was a dull cold day. Sunday couldn"t have been more different-clear skies and sunshine made it feel
like summer, although it was still -25°C.
Six of us drove to the coast. It was the first time we"d been off the base on our own without our field
assistant, so it had a slightly different feeling-more like a few friends going to the seaside than an Antarctic
field trip! When we reached Windy Creek, we luckily caught sight of quite a few small flying seabirds, which
are seldom seen there.
Once on the sea ice we found that some of the more curious penguins had wandered over from the main
group to come and check us out. We"d been told that then they were nursing their chicks (刚孵出的幼雏)
and they would be more careful and nervous than last time, but that didn"t seem to be the case. We walked
across to the main group which were stretched for a couple of miles along the coast. We sat down for some
sandwiches and soon found ourselves surrounded by many curious observers. Without any attackers on land,
they were very brave and came within a meter of us to pose (摆姿势) for photos.
Before heading back, we spent a few hours on the sea ice watching the penguins and their chicks, which
had grown dramatically (明显地) since our last visit. It was such a nice day.
B. On a warm Sunday.
C. On a summer Sunday.
D. On a winter Sunday.
B. felt a little excited
C. were left all by themselves on their Antarctic base
D. got bored with staying with their field assistant
B. A wrong decision was made.
C. The truth was the opposite.
D. They didn"t believe what they were told.
B. take pictures of the penguins
C. enjoy watching flying seabirds
D. watch the young penguins
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terror into my heart.
I 1 it was a cold moon - lit night when I was walking home. It was the first night of my whole life that
I had been outside 2 at such a late time. There were 3 few people on the road at night. Even during the
day, the road was used by only some. On that night, it seemed even 4 . While I was walking, I could hear
some 5 made by creatures that love the night world. I moved really fast towards home. It was 6 because
I was hungry. More importantly, I was eager to get back home for warmth. All of a sudden, I 7 an old lady
in a short distance away. Her 8 was covered with a white cloth. She was 9 to me, I think.
I was a bit 10 . I wanted to know 11 she was there at that time of the late night. I stopped walking for
a while. As I 12 there, stories about ghosts (鬼) began to come to my mind one after 13 . I was soon 14
fear and started to run as fast as I could. When I reached home I could 15 speak.
The next day, however, I 16 that place again to make sure that the woman was not a ghost but indeed a
real person. But I could find no footprints there 17 a banana plant. I realized then that it was the banana plant
with its leaves moving in the gentle wind that 18 like a woman waving her hand. I had indeed made a fool of
myself; but after the 19 night"s experience, this 20 was small relief to me.
| ( )1. A. realized ( )2. A. alone ( )3. A. never ( )4. A. busier ( )5. A. noises ( )6. A. completely ( )7. A. made sense of ( )8. A. waist ( )9. A. smiling ( )10. A. mysterious ( )11. A. why ( )12. A. lay ( )13. A. another ( )14. A. addicted to ( )15. A. clearly ( )16. A. traveled ( )17. A. over ( )18. A. felt ( )19. A. previous ( )20. A. invention | B. recognized B. asleep B. often B. noisier B. quarrels B. mainly B. caught sight of B. leg B. waiting B. cautious B. when B. sat B. other B. filled with B. easily B. visited B. without B. looked B. next B. achievement | C. remembered C. awake C. seldom C. quieter C. songs C. obviously C. got ahead of C. head C. whispering C. conscious C. what C. stood C. others C. far from C. hardly C. appreciated C. than C. smelt C. last C. contribution | D. reminded D. lonely D. rarely D. wider D. voices D. partly D. took hold of D. hand D. waving D. curious D. how D. walked D. the other D. short of D. loudly D. went D. except D. sounded D. following D. discovery | |
| 阅读理解。 | ||||
| Sam, an unemployed piano tuner, said it was only the second thing he had ever won in his life. The first thing was an Afghan blanket at a church raffle (抽奖) when he was 25 years old. But this was much bigger: it was $120,000! He had won the Big Cube, a state lottery (彩票) game. To win, a contestant must first guess which number a spinning cube will stop on. The cube has six numbers on it: 1X, 10X, 50X, 100X, 500X, and 1000X.If he is correct, the contestant must then guess which of two selected variables (变量) is going to be greater. So, just guessing which number appears on the cube does not guarantee that you will win any money. Sam correctly guessed 1000X, but he still had to choose between two variables. One variable was the number of cars that would run the stop sign at Hill Street and Lake Avenue in six hours. The other variable was the number of times that a teenage boy would change TV channels in a three-hour period. This was a tough decision. Finally, Sam flipped a coin. It came up heads, so Sam picked the teenager. He picked right. The stop sign was run only 76 times, but the teen clicked 120 times. Sixty-year-old Sam jumped for joy, for he had just won 1000 times 120, or $120,000.Sam dreamily left the lottery studio. Talking excitedly on his cell phone while crossing the street, he got hit by a little sports car. Sam is slowly getting better. He was in the hospital for a month.His hospital bill was $110,000.And the insurance company for the little sports car"s owner sued (起诉) Sam for $9,000 worth of repairs. Also, Sam still has to pay federal taxes on his winnings. Sam doesn"t play the state lottery any more. He says it"s better to be unlucky. | ||||
| 1.What can be inferred about Sam from the passage? | ||||
| A. He always has bad luck. B. He seldom goes to a raffle. C. He is a very careful person in life. D. He used to be crazy about lottery tickets. | ||||
| 2.Which of the following played a vital role in Sam"s winning the big prize? | ||||
| A. The cube. B. The coin. C. The blanket. D. The stop sign. | ||||
| 3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? | ||||
| A. The lottery game was a complete lie. B. Sam was quite familiar with the boy. C. The owner of the car is now in hospital. D. Sam will have none of the prize money left. | ||||
| 4.What could be the best title for the passage? | ||||
| A. Curiosity killed the cat B. Joy puts heart into a man C. Extreme joy ends in sorrow D. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush | ||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||
| Jean - Gilles was a millionaire. But Tuesday night, he was sleeping in his car. Jean - Gilles was the owner of the Peace of Mind Hotel in Jacmel, Haiti, a three - story, 30-room building in a quiet tropical valley on Haiti"s southern coast, 25 miles from the noises of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Jean-Gilles and his wife, Marie, lived in an apartment on the property, close enough to watch carefully over the guest rooms, conference rooms and restaurant, close enough that they know the first name of every guest. After the 7.0-earthquake hit at 4:57 pm on Jan. 12,2010, they slept in their aging Isuzu, parked in the hotel driveway. Jean-Gilles figured a second was the difference between life and death when the earthquake struck. He was working in a ground - floor conference room and first heard, then felt the quake. He asked his electrician, Roberne St. Louis, who was working nearby, what was happening. "Get out. Now. Get out. Now," St. Louis said. Jean-Gilles cleared the falling structure by a mere second, he estimated. His wife, who was working in the couple"s apartment on the second floor, wasn"t able to get clear. People nearby heard her screams after the shaking stopped and removed the building blocks around her by hand. She was shaken and scratched, but walked away from the ruins. "I am alive. God is good," she repeated over and over on Saturday. The Peace of Mind Hotel was a dream which had come true for Jean-Gilles, 57, and Marie, 59. Born in Port- au-Prince, they moved to the United States shortly after meeting 34 years ago. Together, they owned a beauty supply store in jersey City, New Jersey, and invested in real estate. In 2003, they cashed out their US investments, returned to Haiti and began building the Peace of Mind Hotel, looking to make a future for themselves and the people of their homeland. | ||||
| 1. Which of the following statements about Jean-Gilles is TURE? | ||||
| A. He lived far from the Peace of Mind Hotel. B. He helped St. Louis to manage a hotel. C. He was born in Haiti in 1976. D. He once owned a store in the US. | ||||
| 2. According to the passage, the Peace of Mind Hotel ____. | ||||
| A. offered guests different services B. was located in the capital city of Haiti C. was a building with 30 guest rooms D. was owned by Marie and St. Louis | ||||
| 3. When the earthquake hit, Marie was ____. | ||||
| A. sleeping in the car B. working in the conference room C. working on the second floor D. cooking in the restaurant | ||||
| 4. It can be inferred from the passage that ____. | ||||
| A. Haiti is the 51 st state of the US B. the earthquake happened quickly and unexpectedly C. nobody in the hotel died in the earthquake D. Marie was not sad about losing her property in the earthquake | ||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||
| One fine day, an old couple around the age of 70, walks into a lawyer"s office. Apparently, they are there to file a divorce.Lawyer was very puzzled, after having a chat with them, he got their story. This couple had been quarreling all their 40 years of marriage nothing ever seems to go right. They hang on because of their children, afraid that it might affect their up-bringing.Now, all their children have already grown up, have their own family, there"s nothing else the old couple have to worry about, all they wanted is to lead their own life free from all these years of unhappiness from their marriage, so both agree on a divorce. While they were signing the papers, the wife told the husband. "I really love you, but I really can"t carry on anymore, I"m sorry." "It"s OK, I understand." said the husband. Little did she know that, over the years, the husband has been trying all ways to please her, little did she know that drumsticks were the husband"s favorite. Little did he know that she never thought he understands her at all, little did he know that she hates drumsticks even though all he wants is the best for her. That night, both of them couldn"t sleep, toss and turn, toss and turn.After hours, the old man couldn"t take it anymore, he knows that he still loves her, and he can"t carry on life without her, he wants her back, he wants to tell her, he is sorry, he wants to tell her,"I love you." He picked up the phone, started dialing her number. Ringing never stops.He never stops dialing. On the other side, she was sad, she couldn"t understand how come after all these years, he still doesn"t understand her at all, she loves him a lot, but she just can"t take it any more.Phone"s ringing, she refuses to answer knowing that it"s him. "I want to keep it this way, if not I will lose face." She thought.Phone is still ringing.She has decided to pull out the cord. Little did she remember, he had heart problems. The next day, she received news that he had passed away. She rushed down to his apartment, saw his body, lying on the couch still holding on to the phone.He had a heart attack when he was still trying to get thru (接通) her phone line. | ||||
| 1. The old couple wanted to file a divorce because ______. | ||||
| A. they had no child. B. their children didn"t like them. C. they didn"t understand each other actually. D. the old man didn"t love the old woman. | ||||
| 2. Why didn"t they file a divorce before they were at the age of 70? | ||||
| A. Because they were loving each other then. B. Because they had no time to lawyer"s office. C. Because they wanted to make their divorce open. D. Because they didn"t wish to affect their children"s up-bringing. | ||||
| 3. According to the passage we can know that ______. | ||||
| A. the old man still loved his wife really. B. the wife didn"t love her husband at all. C. their children still lived with old couple. D. they were in harmony over 40 years. | ||||
| 4. After the last paragraph the old woman would be _______. | ||||
| A. wild with joy B. wild with grief C. unconcern about it D. angry at that | ||||
| 完形填空。 | ||||
| Robert was 11years old when his mother ( a single mom) dropped his off for his first piano lesson. I prefer student begin at an earlier age, which I explained to Robby. 1 , Robby said that it had always been his mother"s 2 to hear him play the piano, so I took him as a student. Hard as Robby tried, he lacked the 3 of music. However, he persisted and at the end of each weekly 4 he"d always say, "My mom is going to hear me play someday." But it seemed 5 . I only knew his mother from a distance as she dropped Robby off or waited in his aged car to 6 him up. She always 7 and smiled but never visited my class. Then one day Robby 8 coming to our lesson. He telephoned me and said his mother was 9 . A few weeks after that, I was 10 my students for the upcoming recital (独奏会) when Robby came and asked me 11 he could be in the recital. "Miss Hondorf… I"ll just go to play!" he insisted. The night for the recital came. The high school gym was 12 with parents,friends and relatives. The recital 13 well. Then Robby came up on the stage. I was 14 when he announced that he had chosen Mozart"s Concerto No 21 in C Major. I was not prepared for what I had heard 15 his fingers were light on the keys. They even 16 on the keys… He played so well that everyone was on their 17 in wild applause (鼓掌). In tears I ran up on the stage. "Oh, Robby! How 18 you do it?" "Well, Miss Hondorf… I 19 on practicing at home. Remember I told you my mom was sick? Well, 20 she had cancer and passed away this morning. She was deaf so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play…" | ||||
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