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More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Romans celebrated a holiday for lovers. As part of the celebration, girls wrote their names on pieces of paper and put them in a large container. Boys reached into the container and pulled one out. The girl whose name was written on the paper became his lover or sweet heart for a year.
Now, lovers still put their names on pieces of paper and they sent each other Valentine’s Day cards that tell of their love. Sometimes they also send gifts, like flowers or chocolate candies. Americans usually send these gifts and cards through the mail system. But some use another way to send this message. They have it printed in a newspaper. The cost is usually a few dollars. Some of the messages are simple and short, “Jane, I love you very much”. Others say more. This one, for example, “Dan, Roses are red. Violets are blue. I hope you love me as much as I love you. Forever, May.”
Most of the newspapers that print such messages are local, but USA Today is sold throughout the United States and 90 other countries. This means someone can send a Valentine message to the lover in a far-away place almost anywhere in the world. These messages cost 80 dollars and more. An employee of USA Today says readers can have a small heart or rose printed along with their messages this year. Will this kind of Valentine’s Day message reach the one you love? Well, just make sure he or she reads the newspaper.
小题1:When was the day named after Valentine?
A.More than 1700 years ago before Valentine’s death. | B.More than 2, 000 years ago. |
C.On February 14. | D.It is not mentioned in the passage. |
A.Girls put paper with their names into a container. |
B.Boys and girls became sweet hearts by chance. |
C.Girls and boys chose life lovers in the holiday. |
D.It was celebrated as a holiday for lovers. |
A.like what the ancient Romans did | B.by sending gifts to each other |
C.by printing newspapers | D.by spending lots of money |
A.The ancient Roman girls were more easy-going. |
B.Valentine was killed for not helping the government. |
C.USA Today helps readers to send roses with printed messages. |
D.Valentine was honored for his Christian belief and warm heart. |
A.tell us something about Valentine’s Day | B.advertise for USA Today |
C.tell us that Americans are open to express love | D.sell roses on Valentine’s Day |
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小题1:D小题1:C小题1:B小题1:D小题1:A
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Officials in the city of Syktyvkar drew up the guidelines to guide the local people, after several bears were caught sight of in the city, going hungry after a heat wave shriveled their usual diet of nuts and berries.
The guide warns that city people there should stay calm and stand still if they meet with a bear. “Speak to the bear in a firm voice” and “Don’t turn your back on it,” it adds. In the worst case, if the bear attacks, the person should also be ready to attack, the guide says. “Shout angrily at it and look it straight in the eye,” the guide advises. “Bears have started coming into the areas where people live more and more often,” the city officials said in a statement. “Any encounter with a bear is unsafe for humans, so our task is to do all we can to prevent such accidents.”
In September, a bear attacked a 25-year-old man in a central street of the city, wounding him in the neck before he managed to run away, police said. “Three or four people who met with brown bears have been recorded recently,” the head of the hunting department in the regional agriculture organization, Alexander said.
Officials have asked police to patrol (巡逻) streets close to wooded areas in the evenings.
Syktyvkar is the regional capital of the remote Komi region in northwest Russia. Its population is just over 230,000.
小题1: The city issued the guidelines to help the local people to _____.
A.avoid bear encounters | B.survive bear encounters |
C.get along well with bears | D.drive hungry bears away |
A.piled up | B.saved up | C.kept up | D.dried up |
A.Bears have been seen frequently recently. |
B.Bears like to wander around schools. |
C.Brown bears are usually very fierce. |
D.Too many bears have disappeared. |
A.Bears are short of food worldwide |
B.Ways to got along well with bears |
C.Tips are issued on bear encounters |
D.Bears have started coming into cities |
The museum was founded in 1764 when Catherine the Great bought a collection of 255 paintings from the German city of Berlin. Today, the Hermitage boasts over 2.7 million exhibits and displays, a diverse range of art and artifacts (手工艺品) from all over the world and throughout history (from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century Europe). The Hermitage’s collections include works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, a collection of Rembrandts and Rubens, many French Impressionist works by Renoir, Cezanne, Monet and Pissarro, and several works by Rodin. The collection is really worth a stop for all those interested in art and history. The experts say that if you were to spend a minute looking at each exhibit on show in the Hermitage, you would need 11 years before you’d seen them all. However, we suggest you choose a guided tour instead!
Location: Dvortsovaia Naberezhnaia, 32-38.
Open: 10:30 am to 5:30 pm, Sunday till 5 pm.
Closed: Mondays. Ticket-office closes 1 hour before closing time.
小题1: According to the passage, the Winter Palace was built for ______.
A.Catherine the Great. | B.Empress Elizabeth |
C.Peter the Great. | D.Empress Elizabeth’s successors |
A.Catherine the Great and her successors didn’t like the design. |
B.Empress Elizabeth wanted to remodel the palace. |
C.A huge fire destroyed most of the building in 1837. |
D.The building became old itself. |
A.The Winter Palace was built between 1753 and 1761. |
B.The Hermitage’s collections don’t include works by Monet. |
C.The Hermitage Museum is the largest art gallery in Russia. |
D.The Hermitage Museum was founded in 1764 when Empress Elizabeth bought a collection of 255 paintings from Berlin. |
A.At 10:30 am on Monday. | B.At 10:00 am on Tuesday. |
C.At 11:00 am on Sunday. | D.None of the above. |
The cost of shoeing a horse is between twenty dollars and thirty--five dollars, and it takes a good blacksmith two to three hours to do the job.
A blacksmith’s job is not an easy one. He must be able to shape a shoe from a piece of metal and then fit it to the horse’s foot. The blacksmith must bend over all the time when he is fitting the shoe and must hold the weight of the horse’s leg while he works. But even more important, he must be able to deal with horses ------ for before the blacksmith can begin his work, he has to get the horse to lift its leg.
One of the blacksmiths in New York is James Corbin. He came to the country form Ireland in 1948.He not only makes horseshoes for the police but also works for a group of horse owners near the city. Corbin became interested in blacksmithing because his father did it, and, as he puts it, “It’s a good way to make a living.”
小题1:According to the reading passage, a blacksmith must be likely a man.
A.clever | B.rich | C.strong | D.tall |
A.was interested in horses. | B.was needed by the policemen |
C.drew a picture of the horses | D.had to make a living |
A.fit it on the horse’s foot | B.use it for two or three hours |
C.make the form of a horseshoe from a piece of metal | D.draw a picture of the shoe |
A.Policemen on Horseback | B.Blacksmiths and Horseshoeing |
C.James Corbin, a Blacksmith | D.Horseshoeing Is a Good Way to Make a Living |
A.Only a few large American cities have some policemen on horseback. |
B.New York is the only city in America to have some policemen on horseback. |
C.Policemen on horseback enjoy traveling around the United States. |
D.Policemen on horseback are less expensive than those in cars. |
strong yen(曰元)continue to grow. The recovery in the economy was “pausing",the CabinetOffice said in a monthly statement.
It is the most negative that the government has been about the economy in nearly two years.The rising yen and a slowdown in global demand for Japanese exports were blamed for the setback.
In recent months, the government has insisted that the economy is “picking up". But it saidit now expected the economy to Femain weak for some time, with “weakening" exports a chiefconcern. It said shipments to Asia in particular were becoming weaker, further hitting exportersthat are already suffering from the strong yen.
The yen remains near a 15 - year high against the US dollar, despite the financial interfer-ence (干预)in the currency markets last month for the first time in six years.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan(菅直人)has also passed a $ 63 billion stimulus(剌激)package in an effort to protect exporters who have seen the poor exchange rate eat into their prof-its. At the close of markets in Tokyo,the yen was trading at 81.44 yen to the dollar, just off thehigh of 81.27 yen.
"If the economy turns out as expected, we may end up describing the current situation as asoft patch,” one of die government officials said ’ “ But if it comes under further downwardpressure, it could end up slipping into recession(衰退).”
小题1:The Japanese government think the current bad economy situation is partly due to .
A.the decline of the strong yen | B.the unsatisfactory exports |
C.the government" s mistaken policy | D.the decline in the quality of goods |
A.shocking | B.negative | C.optimistic | D.aggressive |
A.protect the foreign markets | B.protect profits of its hitting exporters |
C.monitor the yen exchange rate | D.stimulate domestic demands |
A.government white paper | B.a science fiction |
C.a travel journal | D.a newspaper report |
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。
D
Around the globe, the tourist trade is booming and you are promised to enjoy all the comfort and convenience of modern tourism. The first-class systems of communication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each other’s countries at a moderate cost. What was once the ‘grand tour’, reserved for only the very rich, is now within most people’s grasp. The package tour and chartered flights (包机) are quite popular to us. Modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which those on grand tours in the old days couldn’t have dreamed of. With all this coming and going, you would expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the world. Not a bit of it! So what’s the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other? So there is a great misdirection in tourist business, especially in conducted tour items.
Many tourist organizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. They purposely set out to “protect” their passengers from too much contact with the local population. Modern tourists lead a protected and separated life. They live at international hotels, where they eats their international food and sips their international drink while gazing at the natives from a distance. Designed tours to places of interest are carefully arranged. The tourists are allowed to see only what the organizers want them to see and no more. A strict schedule makes it impossible for the tourists to wander off on their own; and anyway, language is always a barrier, so they might only be too happy to be protected in this way.
At its very worst, this merely leads to a new and terrible kind of colonization. The sad thing about this situation is that it leads to the persistence of certain old ideas of other nations and countries. We don’t see the people of other nations as they really are, but as we have been brought up to believe what they are, even staying along with that from text books during our schooling.
You can test this for yourself. Take five nationalities, say, French, German, English, American and Italian. Now in your mind, match them with these five adjectives: musical, emotional, cold, pedantic (爱追究的), native. Far from providing us with any insight into the national characteristics of the peoples just mentioned, these adjectives just actually act as barriers, for we can’t do the job with certainty. So, frequently, when you set out on your travels, the only characteristics you notice are those which confirm what you have already obtained as the first conceptions in your mind. And you get home only with the highly unoriginal and inaccurate impression, such as the saying, “Anglo-Saxons are hypocrites (伪君子)” and “Latin peoples shout a lot ”. However, to gain the real understanding, you only have to make a few foreign friends and you will know how ridiculousridiculous ridiculous ridiculous and harmful some old conceptions of other nations are. But how can you make foreign friends when the tourist trade does its best to prevent you?
Being carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be positively dangerous. A very wild and limited outlook may stir up racial hatred and blind us to the basic fact — how reasonless it sounds! – that all people are human. We are all similar to each other, while at the same time all unique.
小题1:What does “grand tour” bring people now?
A.It only offers us reasonable cost. | B.It is the best way of modern tourism. |
C.It is not liked by rich people. | D.It is available for the majority to enjoy it. |
A.By travelling abroad, one can know a certain country well. |
B.Making friends is impossible for anyone staying abroad. |
C.The tourist organizations have the best way to do their duty. |
D.Traveling conditions are much more improved than before. |
A.Silent. | B.Noisy. | C.Lively. | D.Active. |
A.conducted tour should be stopped | B.the way of touring should be changed |
C.gained knowledge can’t be renewed | D.some nations stay the same as before |
A.Objective | B.Negative. | C.Critical. | D.Appreciative. |
A.tourism does little to increase understanding between nations |
B.tourism is terrible without the work of the tourist organizations |
C.conducted tour is so dull that nobody wants to accept it now |
D.tourism really does something wonderful to many countries |
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