题目
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For thousands of years, the most important two buildings in any British village have been the church and the pub.Traditionally, the church and the pub are at the heart of any village or town, where the people gather together to socialize and exchange news.
As a result, British pubs are often old and well preserved.Many of them have become historic sites.The most famous example is the pub in the city of Nottingham called " Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem" , which dates back to the year 1189 AD and is probably the oldest pub in England.
However, British pubs are not just for kings and queens; they welcome people from all classes and parts of society.On a cold night, the pub"s landlord or landlady can always find a warm place for you by the fire.There is always honest and hearty food and plenty of drinks available at an affordable price.
That"s how things used to be.Things are beginning to change.It is said that the credit crunch (信贷紧缩) is causing 39 British pubs in a week to go out of business.People do not have enough spare money to spend on beer.Recently, the UK government banned smoking in all pubs, and that may also have affected the number of customers going to pubs.
This decline is happening despite the fact that in 2005 the UK government started to allow pubs to stay open after 11 p.m..Previously, with 11 p.m.as closing time, customers would have to drink quite quickly, meaning they sometimes got more drunk than they would if allowed to drink slowly.The British habit of drinking a lot very quickly is known as "binge drinking" , and it causes long-term health problems for people and problems with violent crime for communities.
In order to save their businesses, pubs are trying to change with the market.British pubs now offer something for everyone.A lot of pubs used to be "Working Men"s Clubs" , meaning that women could not usually enter.Today, however, women can freely enter 99% of pubs without experiencing any problems.Perhaps things are changing for the better after all.
小题1:British people have the habit of gathering in the pubs to _____.
A.have the hearty food |
B.enjoy the historic sites |
C.make themselves known |
D.communicate with each other |
A.urge customers to drink quickly |
B.affect the number of customers |
C.help reduce social problems |
D.give pub owners better income |
A.is against the admission of too many women to the pubs |
B.holds an optimistic attitude towards the future of the British pubs |
C.thinks that women in the pubs will cause less social problems |
D.holds the view that British pubs should offer everything you need |
A.the long history of British pubs |
B.the present situation of British pubs |
C.the reason why British people go to pubs |
D.the disadvantages of running pubs in Britain |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:B
解析
小题1:推理判断题,根据第一段where the people gather together to socialize and exchange news可知,英国人在酒吧是从事社交活动,谈论新闻。
小题2:推理判断题,根据第五段可知,在11点之前关门会导致很多问题,比如long-term health problems for people and problems with violent crime for communities
小题3:推理判断题,根据文章最后一句Perhaps things are changing for the better after all可知,
小题4:文章讲述的英国酒吧的现在的状况。
核心考点
试题【For thousands of years, the most important two buildings in any British village 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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San Francisco has its cable cars. Seattle has its Space Needle. And, Longview has its squirrel bridge. The bridge, which has attracted international attention, is now a local landmark.
The Nutty Narrows Bridge was built in 1963 by a local builder, Amos Peters, to give squirrels a way to cross the busy road without getting flattened by passing cars.
The original bridge was built over Olympia Way on the west edge of the library grounds. Before the bridge was built, squirrels had to avoid traffic to and from the Park Plaza office building where office staff put out a nutty feast for the squirrels. Many times, Peters and others who worked in and near Park Plaza witnessed squirrels being run over.
One day Peters found a dead squirrel with a nut still in its mouth, and that day’s coffee break discussion turned into squirrel safety. The group of businessmen cooked up the squirrel bridge idea and formed a committee to ask the blessing of the City Council(市政会).The Council approved, and Councilwoman Bess LaRiviere named the bridge “Nutty Narrows.”
After architects designed the bridge, Amos Peters and Bill Hutch started Construction, They built the 60-foot bridge from aluminum and lengths of fire hose(消防水带). It cost 1,000.
It didn’t take long before reports of squirrels using the bridge started. Squirrels were even seen guiding their young and teaching them the ropes. The story was picked up by the media, and Nutty Narrows became know in newspapers all over the world.
In 1983, after 20 years of use, Peters took down the worn-out bridge. Repairs were made and crosspieces were replaced. The faded sign was repainted and in July 1983, hundreds of animal lovers attended the completion ceremony of the new bridge.
Peters died in 1984, and a ten-foot wooden squirrel sculpture was placed near the bridge in memory of its builder and his devotion to the project.
小题1:The Nutty Narrows Bridge was built in order to ________.
A.offer squirrels a place to eat nuts |
B.set up a local landmark |
C.help improve traffic |
D.protect squirrels |
A.The committee got the Council’s blessing. |
B.The squirrel bridge idea was born |
C.A councilwoman named the bridge |
D.A squirrel was found dead. |
A.passing them a rope |
B.Directing them to store food for winter |
C.Teaching them a lesson |
D.Showing them how to use the bridge. |
A.It was replaced by a longer one. |
B.It was built from wood and metal. |
C.it was rebuilt after years of use. |
D.It was designed by Bill Hutch. |
A.He is remembered for his love of animals. |
B.He donated $1,000 to build the bridge. |
C.He was a member of the City Council. |
D.He was awarded a medal for building the bridge. |
We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year; but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors.
It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage(野人) is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently—this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done—is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some way of setting their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that that side which has killed most has won. And not only has it won, but because it has won, it had been in the right. For that is what going to war means; it means saying that might(权利) is right.
小题1:The author thinks that the conquerors and generals and soldiers ________.
A.only appear glorious in history books |
B.are greater than any other people |
C.are not as great as described in history books |
D.do not really help civilization forward |
A.people respect them very much |
B.they fought bravely to protect their cities |
C.people think they fought too brutally(野蛮地) |
D.they conquered many cities and countries |
A.Positive. | B.Critical. | C.Ironic. | D.Respectful. |
A.should not have any quarrels to settle |
B.should not fight when there are no quarrels to settle |
C.should settle their quarrels without fighting |
D.should settle their quarrels by killing the other side |
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell(地狱).What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits. Tough the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father’s house had been the “introduction of this wonderful new fruit—or is it a vegetable?” As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an “evil fruit”.
But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. “What are you afraid of?” he shouted. “I’ll show you fools that these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato. Some people fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.
小题1:The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ______.
A.it made Christians evil. |
B.it was the apple of Eden |
C.it came from a forbidden land |
D.it was religiously unacceptable |
A.The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down |
B.There was little progress in the study of the tomato |
C.The tomato was still refused in most western countries |
D.Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato |
A.To make himself a hero |
B.To remove people’s fear of the tomato |
C.To speed up the popularity of the tomato |
D.To persuade people to buy products from his factory |
A.To challenge people’s fixed concepts of the tomato |
B.To give an explanation to people’s dislike of the tomato |
C.To present the change of people’s attitudes to the tomato |
D.To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence |
The document was discovered buried in the university archives (档案) by part-time history student Lis Smith, who is completing her PhD at St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research. She said: “We knew that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their effort to open up university medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus (校评议委员会) at St Andrews in an attempt to gain permission to attend classes there, but we didn’t know documentary evidence existed. While searching the archives for information about the university’s higher certificate for women, I was astonished to come across what must be the very letter Jex-Blake wrote.”
In the letter, Sophia and her supporters offered to hire teachers or build suitable buildings for a medical school and to arrange for lectures to be delivered in the subjects not already covered at St Andrews. Although her letter was not successful, it eventually led to the establishment of the Ladies Literate in Arts at St Andrews, a distance-learning degree for women. The qualification, which ran from 1877 until the 1930s, gave women access to university education in the days before they were admitted as students. It was so popular that it survived long after women were admitted as full students to St Andrews in 1892.
Ms Jex-Blake went on to help establish the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874. She was accepted by the University of Berne, where she was awarded a medical degree in January 1877. Eventually, she moved back to Edinburgh and opened her own practice.
小题1:Sophia wrote a letter to St Andrews University because she wanted _______.
A.to carry out a research project there |
B.to set up a medical institute there |
C.to study medicine there |
D.to deliver lectures there |
A.by pure chance |
B.in the school office |
C.with her supporters’ help |
D.while reading history books |
A.the London School of Medicine for Women |
B.a degree programme for women |
C.a system of medical education |
D.the University of Berne |
A.In 1873. |
B.In 1874. |
C.In 1877. |
D.In 1892. |
Weak waves and ocean water movements made his arrival late, which was going to be in late May.
“When waves were weak, the boat slowed down. That’s a problem that needs to be solved,” the adventure told reporters from his boat in western Japan. His 9.5-meter-long boat can move like a dolphin’s tail, and it rises or falls with the waves.
Horie reached his destination in the channel between the main Japanese islands just before midnight after covering about 7,000 kilometers from Hawaii.
Horie first made world record in 1962 when, at the age of 23, he became the first person to sail alone across the Pacific. He made the three-month voyage from his hometown in spite of breaking Japanese law, which did not allow his citizens to sail on their own out of the country, and without a passport or money.
He was arrested upon arrival in San Francisco but the city mayor freed him, gave him a 30-day visa and made him an honorary citizen. News of his achievement made him a hero back home in Japan and his book of the voyage In the Pacific was made into a film. Since then, he has completed many sailing trips across the Pacific and around the world.
After his latest adventure with an environmentally friendly theme, Horie planned to return to his hometown on Sunday. He said, “Throughout history, mankind has used wind for power, but no one has appeared to be serious about wave power.” Horie told the reporter, “I think I’m a lucky boy as this wave power system has remained untouched in fact.”
小题1:Horie’s boat was mainly powered by ________.
A.sea waves | B.sea winds | C.his strength | D.petrol |
A.Horie undertook the voyage with a partner this time |
B.it took Horie about twenty days more to cross the Pacific this time than in 1962 |
C.Horie made his first voyage across the Pacific alone fifty years ago |
D.Horie’s destination is 7,000 kilometers from San Francisco |
A.he had broken Japanese law |
B.he had kept it a secret from others |
C.his action had put people in danger |
D.he had no passport to America |
A.He was made an honorary citizen of San Francisco. |
B.In Japan he was regarded as a hero. |
C.His voyage had the theme of protecting the environment. |
D.He wrote an exciting book after the voyage. |
A.start an ocean crossing movement |
B.tell us a piece of interesting news |
C.make Horie known to the world |
D.encourage people to learn from Horie |
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