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They examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the American state of Indiana. The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut (黑胡桃) trees. The black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels. The black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests.
Rob Swihart of Purdue University did the study with Jake Goheen, a former Purdue student now at the University of New Mexico. The two researchers estimate that several times as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels. Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way. Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places. But they seldom remember where they buried every nut. So some nuts remain in the ground. Conditions are right for them to develop and grow the following spring. Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground. Professor Swihart calls “death traps for seeds”.
Gray squirrels are native to Indiana. But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture. Red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century.
The researchers say red squirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees. They say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade Indiana. Jake Goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause.
小题1:The study done by Rob Swihart and Jake Goheen is to ________.
A.find out the living conditions for squirrels |
B.learn squirrels’ influence on black walnut trees |
C.do something to get rid of squirrels |
D.save the forests in the American state of Indiana |
A.the way they gather the walnut |
B.the time they have winter sleep |
C.the place they have winter sleep |
D.the place they store the walnuts |
A.red squirrels eat more nuts than gray squirrels |
B.gray squirrels and red squirrels will have severe fights |
C.nuts above the ground will not develop into plants |
D.seeds can be traps for other animals in the forest |
A.The black walnut is equally attractive to both gray and red squirrels. |
B.Gray squirrels do more harm to the forest than red squirrels. |
C.Red squirrels and gray squirrels have helped the spread of walnut trees. |
D.The cleaning of forest land benefits red squirrels directly. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:A
解析
试题分析:文章讲述了红松鼠和灰松鼠的生活习性以及它们的不同生活方式给环境带来的影响。
小题1:根据第二段第二句“The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut (黑胡桃) trees.”可知,科学家研究红松鼠和灰松鼠以查明它们的生活习惯会对黑胡桃的生长产生什么样的影响。故选B。
小题2:根据第三段的“Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way.”可知,它们储藏坚果和种子的方法不一样。故选D。
小题3:根据第三段最后一行“store large groups of nuts above ground”可知,坚果埋在一个坑里的话,不容易成活。故选C。
小题4:根据第二段第二行的“as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels”可知,红松鼠和灰松鼠都喜欢黑胡桃,A正确;根据第四段“their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture”可知,灰松鼠依赖森林,B错;C、D未提及。故选A。
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试题【Winter begins in the north on December 22nd. People and animals have been doing 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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In the early days of Internet marketing, online advertisers used banner (框式广告) and pop-up ads (弹出式广告) to attract customers. These techniques reached large audiences, led to many sales leads, and came at a low cost. However, a small number of Internet users began to consider these advertising techniques annoying. Yet because marketing strategies relying heavily on banners and pop-ups produced results, companies invested growing amounts of money into purchasing these ad types. As consumers became more complicated, frustration with these online advertising techniques grew. Independent programmers began to develop tools that blocked banner and pop-up ads.
A major development in online marketing came with the introduction of pay-per-click ads. Unlike banner or pop-up ads, which originally required companies to pay every time a website visitor saw an ad, pay-per-click ads allowed companies to pay only when an interested potential customer clicked on an ad. More importantly, however, these ads are not affected by the pop-up and banner blockers. As a result of these advantages and the incredible growth in the use of search engines, which provide excellent places for pay-per-click advertising, a great number of companies began turning to pay-per-click marketing. However, as with the banner and pop-up ads, pay-per-click ads came with their shortcomings. When companies began pouring billions of dollars into this emerging medium, online advertising specialists started to notice the presence of what would later be called click fraud (欺诈): representatives of a company with no interest in the product advertised by a competitor click on the competitor’s ads simply to increase the marketing cost of the competitor. Click fraud grew so rapidly that marketers sought to diversify (摆脱) their online positions away from pay-per-click marketing through new mediums.
Although pay-per-click advertising remains a common and effective advertising tool, marketers adapted yet again to the changing elements of the Internet by adopting new techniques such as pay-per-performance advertising. As the pace of the Internet’s evolution increases, it seems all the more likely that advertising successfully on the Internet will require a strategy that avoids constancy (持续性) and welcomes change.
小题1:What is the main idea of the passage?
A.The pace of the Internet’s evolution is increasing and will only increase in the future. |
B.Internet advertising fails to reach Internet users, causing ads to be blocked. |
C.The Internet has experienced dramatic changes in short periods of time. |
D.Rapid development of the Internet calls for new advertising strategies and mediums. |
A.the type of individual each medium reaches |
B.whether the medium is interactive |
C.the pace at which the medium develops |
D.the cost of advertising with each medium |
A.Using software to block competitors’ advertisements. |
B.Clicking on the pay-per-click ads of competitors. |
C.Clicking on the banner advertisements of opponent companies. |
D.Using search engine to attack the pages of competitors. |
A.It will eventually become less popular just like other forms of Internet advertising. |
B.It will not face shortcomings due to its differing approach to online marketing. |
C.Internet users will develop free software to block its effectiveness. |
D.Although it improves on pay-per-click advertising, it still suffers from click fraud. |
Charles Wiesenthal, who was born in Germany, designed and received a patent on a double-pointed needle that eliminated the need to turn the needle around with each stitch(缝合) in England in 1755. Other inventors of that time tried to develop a functional sewing machine, but each design had at least one serious imperfection.
Frenchman Barthelemy Thimonnier finally engineered a machine that really worked. However, he was nearly killed by a group of angry tailors when they burned down his garment factory. They feared that they would lose their jobs to the machine.
American inventor Elias Howe, born on July 9, 1819, was awarded a patent for a method of sewing that used thread from two different sources. Howe’s machine had a needle with an eye at the point, and it used the two threads to make a special stitch called a lockstitch. However, Howe faced difficulty in finding buyers for his machines in America. In frustration, he traveled to England to try to sell his invention there. When he finally returned home, he found that dozens of manufacturers were adapting his discovery for use in their own sewing machines.
Isaac Singer, another American inventor, was also a manufacturer who made improvements to the design of sewing machines. He invented an up-and-down-motion mechanism that replaced the side-to-side machines. He also developed a foot treadle(脚踏板) to power his machine. This improvement left the sewer’s hands free. Undoubtedly, it was a huge improvement of the hand-cranked machine of the past. Soon the Singer sewing machine achieved more fame than the others for it was more practical, it could be adapted to home use and it could be bought on hire-purchase. The Singer sewing machine became the first home appliance, and the Singer company became one of the first American multinationals.
However, Singer used the same method to create a lockstitch that Howe had already patented. As a result, Howe accused him of patent infringement(侵犯). Of course, Elias Howe won the court case, and Singer was ordered to pay Howe royalties(版税). In the end, Howe became a millionaire, not by manufacturing the sewing machine, but by receiving royalty payments for his invention.
小题1:Barthelemy Thimonnier’s garment factory was burned down because _____________.
A.people did not know how to put out the fire |
B.Elias Howe thought Thimonnier had stolen his invention |
C.the sewing machines was couldn’t work finally |
D.workers who feared the loss of their jobs to a machine set fire |
A.Singer is an American inventor and manufacturer. |
B.The Singer sewing company became more practical. |
C.The foot treadle helped to make the sewer’s hands free. |
D.Singer made improvements to the design of sewing machines. |
A.Because the judge was against Singer for his surly attitude. |
B.Because Howe had already patented the lockstitch used by Singer. |
C.Because Singer had borrowed money from Howe and never repaid it. |
D.Because Singer and Howe had both invented the same machine. |
A.Stitch in Time Saves Nine |
B.The Case between Howe and Singer |
C.Patent Laws on the Sewing Machine |
D.The Early History of the Sewing Machine |
Researchers examined the results of 97 studies. Most of the studies were less than 10 years old. They included almost three million adults from around the world, including the United States, Canada, China, Taiwan, Brazil, India and Mexico.
The researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics found that people who are considered overweight or slightly obese were five to six percent less likely to die from all causes than people of normal weight. People with higher obesity ratings, however, had almost a 30 percent greater risk of death compared to normal-weight individuals.
Katherine Flegal was the lead author of the study. She says she was not surprised that overweight people would not have a higher risk of death.
“Because we’d actually already read a lot of this literature and realized it was likely that mortality rates (死亡率) for overweight would be at least not higher than normal weight. I guess I was a little bit surprised that it was definitely lower. And I was also surprised that the lower rates of obesity also didn’t seem to differ from normal weight.”
But she says the difference in death rates appears to be small between normal-weight people and those who are overweight or mildly obese.
The study has raised new questions about “body mass index,”(体重指数) or BMI. This is a measurement of body fat as a ratio(比率) of height to weight. In recent years, many public health experts have promoted body mass index as a way to predict the risk of health problems. Bu t a person"s BMI can be misleading in some cases.
Steven Heymsfield ,the executive director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, says people can be physically fit and in good health, but might weigh more because they are more muscular.
Still, Dr. Heymsfield says people should not think gaining extra weight is OK just because of the new findings. He says being at a healthy weight lowers the risk for heart disease and diabetes(糖尿病).
小题1:According to the new findings, the researchers found that __________ .
A.People with high obesity have a lower risk of early death than people with low obesity |
B.People with overweight have a greater risk of early death than people of normal weight. |
C.People with mild obesity are less likely to die than people of normal weight. |
D.People with obesity live much longer than people of normal weight. |
A.works like novels and poems |
B.books and articles on a particular subject |
C.printed material |
D.magazines and newspapers |
A.BMI is commonly used to measure body fat as a ratio of height to weight. |
B.Not all people with a little higher BMI are fat . |
C.Many public health experts encourage more people to use BMI as a way to predict the risk of health problem |
D.Because of the ne w findings, people should think about gaining extra weight. |
Plastic, however, is far from perfect. It may even be bad for us. Studies now suggest that poisonous chemicals can get out of some types of plastic, get into our bodies, and cause a variety of health problems, including cancer, birth defects and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (注意缺陷障碍).
Two types of chemicals in particular have raised special concern lately. They are called phthalates (邻苯二甲酸盐) and Bisphenol-A (二酚基丙烷), BPA for short. Not all plastic products contain them. But the ones that do are surrounded by controversy (争议). That’s because experts disagree on how dangerous these chemicals are.
Plastic is a single word, but plastic isn’t just one thing. What all plastics share in common are plasticizers -- special chemicals that allow the material to be changed into nearly any shape or texture. Plasticizers (塑化剂) are added to plastic during the manufacturing process.
Phthalates and BPA are two types of plasticizers that work in different ways. Phthalates add softness to things like shampoo bottles, raincoats and rubber. They are also used in perfumes and makeup. BPA, on the other hand, gives a hard, clear, almost glasslike feel to products such as infant bottles. BPA also appears in food and soda cans, DVDs and other unexpected places.
How do these chemicals get into us? When plastic is heated in the microwave or dishwasher, chewed on or scratched, the chemicals can seep (渗透) out of the plastic. Even though we can’t see them, we eat them, drink them and breathe them in.
Scientists and parents are especially worried about young children, who tend to chew on everything, including plastic. Dozens of countries, including the European Union, Japan, Canada and Mexico have already banned phthalates from products made for children younger than three. California and Washington have done the same. And a number of other states are considering similar rules. As for BPA, Canada became the first country to ban the chemical from baby bottles. A dozen states are considering it.
小题1:What can we know about the plastic from the first paragraph?
A.Its characters and effects. | B.Its wide use and bad points. |
C.Its importance and chemicals. | D.Its popularity and advantages. |
A.A soft plastic cup. | B.A pencil eraser. |
C.A baby milk bottle. | D.A new perfume. |
A.through mouth or nose | B.through blood transfusion |
C.by feeling plastic products | D.by heating in the microwave |
A.A new ban on plastic products. | B.Problems caused by the plastic. |
C.Good points of the plastic. | D.The use of plasticizers. |
A teacher from a community college addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, “High school English teachers are not doing their jobs.” He described how weak his students were—all high school graduates who can use language only at a Grade 9 level.
My topic is not standards nor its decline(降低). What the speaker was really saying is that he is no longer young; he has been teaching for sixteen years, and is able to think and speak like a mature adult.
My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following is natural. It is also human nature to look for the reasons for our dissatisfaction. Before English became a school subject in the late nineteenth century, it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language deficiencies(缺陷). But since then, English teachers have been under constant attack.
The complainers think they have hit upon an original idea. As their own command of the language improves, they notice that young people do not have this same ability. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect. To the eyes and ears of sensitive adults, the language of the young always seems inadequate.
Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not seen as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar(特有的) to today’s young people, it naturally follows that today’s English teachers cannot be doing their jobs.
小题1:The speaker believed that ________.
A.he was an excellent language teacher because he had been teaching English for sixteen years |
B.the younger generation was as likely as not worse at language than the older generation |
C.high school English teachers should be responsible for their students’ poor command of English |
D.The fact that the students didn’t work hard enough contributed to their poor command of English |
A.had exaggerated (夸大) the language problems of the students |
B.was right in saying English teachers were not doing their jobs |
C.gave a correct judgment of the English level of the students |
D.thought and spoke in a wise and responsible way |
A.Language learning and improving needs time and effort. |
B.The author disagrees with the speaker over the standard of English at Grade 9 level. |
C.It is reasonable to include English as one of the high school subjects. |
D.The English language teaching is by no means an easy job for college teachers. |
A.neutral(中立的) | B.critical |
C.positive | D.compromising(妥协的) |
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