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The first breath-taking pictures of the Earth taken from space showed it as a solid ball covered by brown land masses and blue-green oceans. We had never seen the Earth from that distance before. To us, it appeared as though the Earth had always looked that way and always would. Scientists now know, however, that the surface of the Earth is not as permanent as we had thought.
Scientists explain that the surface of our planet is always moving. Continents moves about the Earth like huge ships at sea. They float on pieces of the Earth’s outer skin. New outer skin is created as melted rock pushed up from below the ocean floor. Old outer skin is destroyed as it rolls down into the hot area and melts again.
Only since the 1960s have scientists really began to understand that the planet Earth is a great living machine. Some experts have said this new understanding is one of the most important revolutions in scientific thought. The revolution is based on the work of scientists who study the movement of the continents—a science called plate tectonics.
The modern story of plate tectonics begins with the German scientist Alfred Wegener. Before World War One, Wegener argued that the continents had moved and were still moving. He said the idea first occurred to him when he observed that the coastlines of South America and Africa could fit together like two pieces of a puzzle. He proposed that the two continents might have been one and then split apart.
Wegener was not the first person to wonder about the shape of the continents. About 500 years ago, explorers thought about it when they made the first maps of Americas. The explorers noted the east coast of North America and South America would fit almost exactly into the west coast of Europe and South Africa. What the explorers did not do, but Wegener did, was to investigate the idea that the continents move.
1. What does the writer mainly tell us in the passage?
A. The first breath-taking pictures of the Earth taken from space.
B. Human’s recognition of the earth’s surface.
C. The German scientist Alfred Wegener.
D. The early explorers’ discovery.
2. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. We didn’t see the Earth from far away until we saw the picture taken in the space.
B. Our ancient thought that the surface of the earth is still.
C. Alfred Wegener was not the first person to investigate the idea that the continents move.
D. The coastline of India and Africa fit together.
3. The last word of the third paragraph “tectonics” mean “________”.
A. study of construction
B. study of architecture
C. earth surface
D. structural geology
4. What did the explorers find?
A. The coastlines of South America and Africa could fit together.
B. The coastlines of North America and Africa could fit together.
C. The east coastlines of North America and the west coast of Europe could fit together.
D.The coastlines of North America and India could fit together.
答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:C
解析
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试题【(十)The first breath-taking pictures of the Earth taken from space showed it as a】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Graduates from China"s " blue-collar " vocational schools have an employment rate of 95. 6 percent, but many lose their jobs because of unrealistic expectations, according to a senior official with the Ministry of Education(MOE).
MOE figures show a total of 3. 64 million students graduated from vocational schools last year, of whom 3. 48 million found jobs. The employment rate for these students was 95. 6 percent.
"The employment rate for blue-collar workers has stayed high since 1999 and above 90 percent since 2002," Wang Jiping, the MOE"s deputy head of vocational education section, said on Wednesday. "However, the figure is not the cause for optimism because it only indicates that people get employed. "
He said many students find jobs, but are unable to stay in the posts for reasons such as overly high expectations for salaries or poor performance.
Wang said vocational school graduates needed more guidance to find jobs that could use their skills and meet "rational" demands for wages (工资), so that they can stay in the posts.
"The government is to set up a national information platform to better show market demand for blue collar talents", he said.
MOE figures show 73. 23 percent of the 3. 64 million graduates from vocational middle schools found jobs in companies and factories, 10 percent started their own businesses, and 16. 37 percent went on to further study.
Wang said the demand for highly skilled workers boosted the development of vocational education. _____________ , the MOE called for vocational schools to set up more market-oriented training courses with which students could easily find jobs.
55. Many vocational school graduates lose their jobs for the following reasons EXCEPT _________according to the text.
A. their high expectations for salaries B. their poor performance
C. their lack of working experience D. their unrealistic expectations
56. The underlined word boosted in the last paragraph can be replaced by _______.
A. improved B. prevented C. ended D. started
57. Among the vocational school graduates last year about ________took up their own business.
A.540,000 B360,000 C.150,000 D.70,000
58. Which of the following is the best sentence to be put into the blank of the last paragraph?
A. To develop vocational education B. To build up graduates" own business
C. To offer graduates more jobs D. To meet the demand
第四节 完形填空(共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was on my lunch break in the city,enjoying a salad at an outdoor café, when a shabby homeless lady came walking towards me.She was yelling and 26 everyone who walked past her for spare 27 and she looked like a mess.My 28 reaction was fear...to close off and hope she didn’t come near me,but she did.1 was on the phone and when she 29 yelling,I said,“I’m on the phone,”in the nicest way I could,assuring myself what she needed was a lesson in 30 . She walked away ,mumbling (自言自语),”I’m 31 you . I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’ll leave”. And she turned the corner.
32 , I would feel relieved or satisfied, but something in me couldn’t 33 . Without another thought, I looked in my 34 for the spare change I had, Even I started searching through my entire purse, the pockets, everything for all of the change I could 35 find to give.
I got up and walked towards this lady and gave her all I 36 .She held my hand and said,“Thank you!” Her hand was 37 and dirty,but I didn’t mind 38 her hand.1 wanted to be there for her for some reason,when normally I would 39 the other way.She looked at me and said,“Will you touch my face?’’And for some reason,I did.I put my hand on her cheek and she started to 40 . I could 41 it was as if she had not been touched by a loving, soft hand in ages, 42 . And so I held it there, trying to 43 her with my heart open. It was powerful.
She thanked me and walked away quietly. And I walked away with an open heart, trying to 44 sense of what had just happened. It changed something in me and has made me want to be a 45 person to the people I meet during my day.
26. A. greeting B. praising C. applying D. begging
27. A. change B. room C. clothes D. food
28. A. usual B. instant C. 1ast D. general
29. A. came across B. came out C. came over D. came through
30. A. attitude B. trouble C. practice D. manners
31. A. calling B. hurting C. annoying D. abusing
32. A. Fortunately B. Normally C. Luckily D. Unfortunately
33. A. rest B. appear C. enjoy D. exist
34. A. car B. table C. wallet D. seat
35. A. necessarily B. possibly C. deliberately D. certainly
36. A. earned B. searched C. found D. mad
37. A. soft B. rough C. 1arge D. neat
38. A. washing B. waving C. wiping D. holding
39. A. lead B. set C. turn D. show
40. A. cry B. 1augh C. yell D. shout
41. A. expect B. sense C. know D. 1earn
42. A . if necessary B. if any C. if so D. if ever
43. A. persuade B. comfort C. entertain D. amuse
44. A. take B. get C. catch D. make
45. A. kinder B. richer C. wiser D. happier
五. 语法填空 (20分)
Many people believe that they __1___ (suppose) to drink eight glasses of water _2___ day, or about two liters. Why? Because that is___3__they have been told all their lives. __4__ a new report offers some different advice. The experts say people should obey their bodies; they should drink as__5___water as they feel like drinking.
The report contains some general___6__(suggest). The experts say that women should get about 2.7 liters of water __7___(day). Men should get about 3.7 liters. But wait in each case, that is more than eight glasses. There is an important difference. The report does not tell people how many glasses of water to drink. __8___fact, the experts say that __9___may be impossible to know how many glasses are needed to meet these guidelines. This is because the daily requirement can include the water__10___ (contain) in foods.
1. _________ 2. ____________ 3. ______________ 4. ____________ 5. __________
6. _________ 7. ____________ 8. ______________ 9. ____________ 10.__________
When 40 per cent of Hawaii"s US$14 million-a-year papaya (木瓜)industry was destroyed by a virus five years ago, work began on creating genetically engineered(转基因的)trees.
Researchers successfully introduced seeds that were designed to resist the virus.Since then, more and more people have been testing genetically engineered trees.Some researchers put special bacteria into trees to help them grow faster and produce better wood.Others are trying to create trees that can clean polluted soil.Meanwhile fruit farmers are looking for trees that are strong enough to resist worms, and paper companies want trees that produce more wood and therefore more paper.
The Pentagon (五角大楼) even gave the researchers US$500,000 this year after they developed a pine tree that changes its colours if it senses a chemical attack.So far, the poplar, eucalyptus (杨树与桉树), apple and coffee trees are among those being engineered.All this can be done today because we have a better understanding of tree genomes (基因组).
However, some people fear that the genetically engineered trees will cause dangerous results.They are worried that the new trees will breed with natural species and change the balance of the forest environment.
“It could be destructive,” said Jim Diamond, an environmentalist. “Trees are what is left of our natural environment and home to many endangered species.”
But researchers insist that science could give nature a fighting chance against both natural and man-made dangers.They hope to answer the critics by stopping the new trees from breeding, so their effect on the environment can be controlled.
63.Which kind of tree is not the ones that scientists are planting in the US?
A.Trees that worms can"t hurt.
B.Genetically engineered trees.
C.Trees that can resist wind better.
D.Trees that can protect themselves at a chemical attack.
64.What caused the American scientists to work on special trees?
A.Tree genomes are mapped out so scientists know how to improve trees.
B.Great numbers of trees have been lost due to attacks by viruses.
C.Researchers successfully introduced seeds designed to resist the virus.
D.They think science could give nature a fighting chance against both natural and man-made dangers.
65.Which of the following was probably the first kind of trees being engineered?
A.Papaya. B.Pine. C.Apple. D.Poplar.
66.Why did critics think engineered trees dangerous? Because ________.
A.these trees can destroy the balance of nature
B.everything except trees has been genetically engineered
C.trees are home to many endangered species
D.these trees may affect normal trees
四、阅读理解(2分×15=30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项。
Talk about a real-life hero! Ten-year-old Larry Champagne from St. Louis,Missouri, hit the brake (刹车) on a runaway school bus. He saved himself and 20 other kids on board from disaster.
It all happened in one terrible accident. On the way to school, the bus driver, Ernestine Blackman, suddenly fell ill. Seeing the car was running away, the other kids started to scream, but Larry ran to the front and stopped the bus.
“At first I thought, ‘We’re going to die,’” says Larry, “but after I pressed the brake, I felt safe.”
Larry’s speedy reaction made news all over the country. He appeared on TV shows as a hero. The bus company gave Larry a big gift. His school hung a medal of honor around his neck.
“My grandmother always tells me to do what’s right,” says Larry. He thanked his brother, Jerrick, 9, who “helped me get the bus driver up” during the emergency(紧急情况). How did he know how to stop the bus? Larry is something of a mechanic(机械师). He helps his grandfather work on his old truck. “He gets his hands dirty,” says his grandfather. One thing is for certain: Larry knows where to find the brakes.
1. What did Larry do to save the runaway bus?
A. He parked it for the sleeping bus driver.
B. He helped all the kids climb out through the windows.
C. He dialed 911. D. he pressed the brake.
2. When did Larry finally feel safe?
A. When the kids finally stopped screaming. B. When the police officers arrived.
C. Once he pressed the brake, and the bus stopped. D. When the bus driver started driving again.
3. Larry got the following as praise for his hero action Except .
A. appearing on TV shows B. a scholarship from his school
C. a big gift from the bus company D. a medal of honor
4. Larry thanked his brother Jerrick for .
A. helping him get the bus driver up B. helping him work on his old truck
C. teaching him how to find the brake D. teaching him how to stop the bus
5. The underlined sentence“Larry is something of a mechanic” tells us that .
A. Larry’s job is a mechanic B. Larry knows something about machines
C. Larry is a robot D. Larry knows nothing about machines
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