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Hundreds of specially trained dogs from Italy’s corps of canine(犬类的) lifeguards set out each summer to help swimmers in need of rescue.
These "life dogs" wear a harness that victims can grab to be dragged back to shore, and unlike human lifeguards, they can easily jump from helicopters and speeding boats to reach swimmers in trouble.
With millions flocking to Italy’s crowded beaches each summer, the Italian Coast Guard says it rescues about 3,000 people every year —and their canine helpers have saved several lives.
It takes three years for the canines to reach expert rescue status, and currently 300 dogs are fully trained for duty, said Roberto Gasbarri, who directs the Italian School of Canine Lifeguards program.
"Dogs are of good physical strength. They can increase the speed at which victims are rescued," Gasbarri said.
"The dog becomes a sort of intelligent lifebuoy(救生圈). It is a buoy that goes by itself to a person in need of help, and comes back to the shore also by himself, choosing the best landing point and swimming through the safest currents," he said.
The school will train any breed, as long as they weigh at least 30 kilograms, but New found lands and golden retrievers are most commonly used because they are good at swimming. Each dog works together with a human lifeguard, who also acts as the animal’s trainer.
"Being retrievers, they set out to pick up anything we tell them, be it a human being, an object, or a fish, and they bring it back to the shore," said lifeguard Monia Luciani. "They do not associate it with a physical activity, but it is rather a game for them."
小题1:The dogs wear a harness so that __________.
小题2:The dogs are helpful to _________.
小题3:Why does the school usually choose to train the New found lands and golden retrievers?
___________________________________.
小题4:How do the dogs regard the pickup training?
____________________________________.
答案
小题1:victims can grab to be dragged back to shore
小题2:increase the speed at which victims are rescued
小题3:They are good at swimming.
小题4:They regard it as a kind of game.
解析
试题分析:本文主要讲了它们从直升飞机或快艇上一跃而下,拯救落水的游客——这就是意大利最近在其著名的海滩度假地增设的救生犬。
小题1:根据These "life dogs" wear a harness that victims can grab to be dragged back to shore.
小题2:根据"Dogs are of good physical strength. They can increase the speed at which victims are rescued," Gasbarri said.
小题3:根据but New found lands and golden retrievers are most commonly used because they are good at swimming.
小题4:根据"They do not associate it with a physical activity, but it is rather a game for them."
点评:解答此类题目,首先要读懂全文意思,然后依据问题找到相应的段落或句子,得出问题答案。并且一定要主语所填句子的时态、语法、词汇要正确。
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试题【They leap from helicopters or speeding boats, bringing aid to swimmers who get i】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Once upon a time – July 20, 1969, to be specific – two men got out of their little spaceship and wandered around on the moon for a while. Ten more men walked on the moon over the next three and a half years. The end.
Unfortunately, not quite. A fair number of Americans think that this whole business of moon landings really is a fairy tale. They believe that the landings were a big hoax (骗局) staged in the Mojave Desert, to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the “bestest” in the whole wide world.
Which is the harder thing to do: Send men to the moon or make believe we did? The fact is the physics behind sending people to the moon is simple. You can do it with computers whose entire memory capacities can now fit on chips the size of postage stamps and that cost about as much as, well, a postage stamp. I know you can because we did.
However, last fall NASA considered spending $15,000 on a public-relations campaign to convince the unimpressed that Americans had in fact gone to the moon. That idea was mostly a reaction to a Fox television program, first aired in February 2001, that claimed to expose the hoax. The show’s creator is a publicity hound (猎狗) who has lived up to the name in more ways than one by hounding Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. Mr. X (as I will call him, thereby denying him the joyous sight of his name in print) recently followed Buzz Aldrin around and called him “a thief, liar and coward” until the 72-year-old astronaut finally lost it and hit the 37-year-old Mr. X in the face.
Anyway, NASA’s publicity campaign began to slow down. The nonbelievers took the campaign as NASA’s effort to hide something while the believers said that $15,000 to convince people that the world was round — I mean, that we had gone to the moon — was simply a waste of money. (Actually, the $15,000 was supposed to pay for an article by James E. Oberg, an astronomy writer who, with Aldrin, has contributed to Scientific American.)
If NASA’s not paying Oberg, perhaps it could put the money to good use by hiring two big guys to drag Neil Armstrong out of the house. Armstrong is an extremely private man, but he is also the first man on the moon, so maybe he has a duty to be a bit more outspoken about the experience. Or NASA could just buy Aldrin a commemorate plaque (纪念匾) for his recent touch on the face of Mr. X.
小题1:We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that some Americans believe _______.
A.moon landings were invented |
B.U.S. technology was the best |
C.moon landing ended successfully |
D.the Mojave Desert was the launching base |
A.NASA’s publicity campaign. | B.The Fox television program. |
C.Buzz Aldrin. | D.James E. Oberg. |
A.told a faithful story | B.was not treated properly |
C.was a talented creator | D.had a bad reputation |
A.proof to hide the truth |
B.stupid and unnecessary |
C.needed to convince the non-believers |
D.important to develop space technology |
A.angry | B.conversational | C.humorous | D.matter-of-fact |
Now 13, the young chef is being praised as a “food prodigy(神童)”. He will spend his summer apprenticing with some of the best chefs at LA’s famous restaurants, MSNBC Nightly New reports.
Mc Garry began making a name for himself in the culinary(烹饪) world when John Sedlar, owner of the trendy Playa Restaurant, let Mc Garry take over the kitchen for a special nine-course meal. The meal sold out almost instantly.
“Flynn is a very unusual young man, and he’s very, very passionate,” owner John Sedlar told MSNBC.
By usual teenage boy standards, it’s true. So strong is his passion for cooking that the young man has turned his bedroom into an experimental kitchen laboratory.
Instead of video game consoles, baseball trophies and movie posters, Mc Garry’s room is lined with mixers, pots and pans, cutting boards and a stainless steel worktable. It’s where Mc Garry cooks his monthly pop-up dinners, which are served from his family’s dining room, a monthly supper club he calls Eureka.
Mc Garry is deft(灵巧的) and confident in the kitchen, with skills he’s been practicing since he was a child. What started out as a means of self-preservation from his mom’s unsatisfactory cooking has turned into a passion that the teen hopes to develop into a career.
“My goal? Michelin three stars, a restaurant in the top 50 list,” he told MSNBC. “Hopefully the top five.” Meanwhile, Mc Garry’s 13-year-old resume is already richer and more impressive than most cooks many times his age.
Mc Garry isn’t the only talented young prodigy to surprise experts in his field in recent years. At just 17 years old, physicist Taylor Wilson is already teaching graduate-level courses in physics and has built a functioning nuclear reactor.
小题1:Mc Garry first started cooking ___________.
A.for himself | B.as an experiment |
C.in his own bedroom | D.with a teacher’s guidance |
A.has the best cooking equipment in his kitchen |
B.is inventive and has many new specialties to his name |
C.has much and impressive cooking experience for his young age |
D.wants to open his own Michelin three-star restaurant |
A.prove that Flynn’s success is not a rare case |
B.compare his talent to that of Flynn Mc Garry |
C.introduce a young talent in a different field |
D.suggest experts should be trained at a young age |
A.A recipe book | B.A restaurant introduction |
C.A career guide | D.A news report |
DHAKA - A heat wave sweeping India, Bangladesh and Nepal has killed nearly 100 people over the past two weeks, officials said on June 3, 2005.
A third of the people died in northern Bangladesh, mostly women and children from dehydration(脱水), heat stroke and diarrhoea(腹泻).
"We are getting reports of several deaths due to heat wave and related diseases almost every day," an official said, as temperatures touched 43℃.
The weather office in Dhaka said the hot weather will last for another week until the monsoon(季风) rains which are normally due by the middle of June.
Severe heat conditions in the southern Indian have killed at least 55 people, officials in the two states said.
While temperatures have fallen from a high of 45℃ in Andhra Pradesh to around 40℃, giving a respite(休息) to people, they are still on the rise in Orissa with Talcher town registering 48.5℃, a weather official said.
At least five people have died in Nepal from extreme heat, the government said.
小题1:We can infer that the heatwave can cause ______.
A.heat stoke | B.dehydration | C.diarrhoea | D.all above |
A.remain the same | B.go on to rise sharply |
C.begin to drop obviously | D.rise a little |
A.Dhaka | B.Talcher | C.Andhra Pradesh | D.Nepal |
The seven-member Harvard Corporation elected Faust, a noted scholar on History of the American South and dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as the university’s 28th president.
“This is a great day, and a historic day, for Harvard,” James R. Houghton, chairman of the presidential search committee, said in a statement. “Drew Faust is an inspiring and accomplished leader, a superb scholar, a dedicated teacher, and a wonderful human being.”
Her selection is noteworthy given the heated debates over Summers’ comments that genetic differences between the sexes might help explain the lack of women in top science jobs.
Faust has been dean of Radcliffe since 2001, two years after the former women’s college was combined into the university as a research center with a mission to study gender issues.
Some professors have quietly groused that the 371-year-old university is appointing a fifth president who is not a scientist. No scientist has had the top job since James Bryant Conant retired in 1953; its last four have come from the fields of classics, law, literature and economics.
Faust is the first Harvard president who did not receive a degree from the university since Charles Chauncy, a graduate of Cambridge University, who died in office in 1762. She attended the University of Pennsylvania.
“Teaching staff turned to her constantly,” said Sheldon Hackney, a former president of the University of Pennsylvania and historian who worked closely with Faust. “She’s very clear. She has a sense of humor, but she’s very strong-minded. You come to trust in her because she’s so solid.”
小题1:Which might be the best title for the passage?
A.Harvard named its first female president. |
B.History of Harvard University changed. |
C.Debates on female equality ended. |
D.Drew Gilpin Faust, a famous woman historian. |
A.She is the 28th president of Harvard University. |
B.She is a famous scholar from the American South. |
C.She isn’t a graduate from Harvard University. |
D.She was head of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. |
A.approved | B.commented | C.complained | D.indicated |
A.biography | B.personal letter | C.research paper | D.newspaper report |
Yet despite that, reading is increasingly unpopular among children.According to statistics in 1997, 23% said they didn’t like reading at all.In 2003, 35% didn’t.And around 6% of the children leave primary school each year unable to read properly.
Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability of computes games.Maybe the books boom has affected only the top of the educational pile.Either way, Chancellor Cordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class.In his pre-budget report, he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most.
Reading Recovery is aimed at six year olds, who receive four months of individual daily half-hour classes with a specially trained teacher.An evaluation this year reported that children on the school made 20 months’ progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months’ progress ,and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age.
International research tends to find that when British children leave primary school, they read well, but read text often for fun than those elsewhere.Reading for fun matters because children who are keen on reading can report lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future educational success.According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage.
小题1:Which of the following is true of Paragraph 1?
A.Many children’s books have been adapted from films. |
B.Many high-quality children’s books have been published. |
C.The sales of classics have led to the popularity of films. |
D.The sales of presents for children have increased. |
A.the number of top students increased with the use of computers |
B.a decreasing number of children showed interest in reading |
C.a minority of primary school children read properly |
D.a huge percentage of children read regularly |
A.An evaluation of it will be made sometime this year. |
B.Weak readers on the project were the most hardworking. |
C.It aims to train special teachers to help children with reading. |
D.Children on the project showed noticeable progress in reading. |
A.take greater advantage of the project |
B.show the potential to enjoy a long life |
C.are likely to succeed in their education. |
D.would make excellent future researchers |
A.to overcome primary school pupils reading difficulty. |
B.to encourage the publication of more children’s books |
C.to remind children of the importance of reading for fun |
D.to introduce a way to improve early children reading |
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