A. Why to turn to alternative energy? B. How to use renewable energy? C. The sources of renewable energy D. What is renewable energy? E. Where is the solar energy from? F. The advantages of renewable energy. | 完形填空。 | It amazed me-every time I saw Joe he was smiling. It didn"t matter whether he had to 1 at a stop light, or if he were the seventh person in 2 at the bank , and the teller closed her window just 3 he got there. Joe always smiled. It made me wonder why he always seemed so 4 . Having observed Joe with other people, I also noticed something else. Joe 5 people how they were doing, and really seemed to listen to their answers. He was 6 if someone was hurt , and had kind words, and 7 to help in any way he could. It made me think… what if I tried to smile more? An 8 of sorts began when I went to a grocery store. I 9 as I went up and down the aisles (过道)... and people I didn"t even 10 smiled back at me. Some even 11 ! The little kid in the cart who was giving his mother a 12 time saw me smile and stopped talking…and, you guessed it-he made a little 13 attempt at a smile. The man in the handicapped cart 14 a person to reach something… I could get that for him. The smile even 15 to him, and he thanked me and smiled at me. As I 16 home, I was smiling. I thought about what I had just 17 , and when someone passed my car and gave me a gesture, I smiled at him. He looked 18 . Now I know a smile is a 19 thing, but what if we were all to try to smile a few more times each day? I couldn"t believe how great I felt. 20 in my life had changed-but maybe it had. For what I learned was that such a small thing could lift not only my spirits, but those around me as well. | ( )1. A. wait ( )2. A. advance ( )3. A. though ( )4. A. patient ( )5. A. asked ( )6. A. angry ( )7. A. agreed ( )8. A. example ( )9. A. sang ( )10. A. welcome ( )11. A. spoke ( )12. A. pleasant ( )13. A. weak ( )14. A. required ( )15. A. spread ( )16. A. learned ( )17. A. faced ( )18. A. scared ( )19. A. funny ( )20. A. Nothing | B. suffer B. addition B. before B. active B. observed B. nervous B. offered B. experiment B. nodded B. greet B. laughed B. hard B. polite B. demanded B. approached B. drove B. paid B. disappointed B. worthy B. Everything | C. look C. total C. while C. happy C. recorded C. fearful C. refused C. instance C. smiled C. recognize C. whispered C. smooth C. shy C. ordered C. advanced C. ran C. wasted C. puzzled C. valuable C. Something | D. slide D. line D. because D. wise D. allowed D. sympathetic D. used D. arrangement D. talked D. know D. shouted D. good D. sincere D. nee ded D. reached D. moved D. sacrificed D. annoyed D. small D. Anything | 阅读理解。 | Look closely at the palms of your hands and fingertips. See all the tiny lines? Each of us is born with a unique set of prints, but it may surprise you to learn why we have them. Palm lines are not for fortune-tellers to figure out how long we will live, nor are fingerprints there to make a policeman"s job easier. In fact, the lines and circles that decorate our hands and feet are an evolutionary gift from nature, and they serve two important functions. Our prints are made of raised and lowered skin. The raised areas function somewhat like the tread (纹) of car tires or the rubber soles (胶底) of our running shoes. When we touch something that is wet, water moves from these "hills" into the "valleys", which means some surfaces on our skin remain relatively dry. This is useful, for it allows us to better grip the things we want to hold. Our prints help us hold on, but they also have a secondary function: protection. The raised areas serve as buffers (缓冲物) between our skin and an object, keeping us from getting hurt every time we grip the hard surface of a bottle or a baseball bat. This is the same reason why, when we walk too far or wear uncomfortable shoes, we get blisters on the soft skin of our ankles, but never on our heels, like our palms and fingers, which have prints to protect them. It is the random (任意的) flow of fluids inside our mothers" wombs that causes these useful patterns to form on the surface of our hands and feet. Because they are formed randomly, each person"s prints are unique, which makes prints accidentally useful as a means of distinguishing between people. Even identical twins have different prints, which means that no mistakes can be made in determining who did a crime, provided fingerprints or toe prints were left at the scene. | 1. Where can"t you find the tiny lines ____? | A. Palms B. Fingerprints C. Heels D. Ankles. | 2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage? | A. The tiny lines are the results of evolution. B. From one"s fingerprints, we can guess his character. C. Different people have different prints in their fingertips. D. The prints play an important role in our life. | 3. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? | A. Fingertips can help us hold on to things better. B. There are no prints on our heels. C. The prints can make our palm dry. D. Prints can protect us from getting hurt. | 完形填空。 | Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. -Marquis de Condorcet If you took the strengths of others, and compared them to your weaknesses, do you think this would make you feel good? The funny thing is, this is 1 most of us do at one time or another-and some of us do pretty 2 . It"s surely a practice for a 3 in self-confidence and for unhappiness. Let"s say I take a look at someone who creates 4 artwork on their website and I look at my art, and realize I don"t come 5 to being matched with him. In fact, I look pretty pitiful. But it"s not a fair 6 . If I looked at my strengths-writing useful and honest posts-I can see that I have a lot to offer, a lot to be happy about. That"s so important-being able to look at your own strengths, and see your true 7 . It"s actually one of the 8 to success and happiness. I want to talk about this issue 9 an email from a reader recently: I have some teammates from very rich families. I can"t stop myself comparing my lifestyle with 10 . I must say that my 11 planning is sound enough to take care of my existing family; and I can take care of new family member also, at least for 12 even if I lose my current job. But 13 I see or hear them spending so much money after possessions, I start comparing 14 . How can I stop this habit, without changing jobs? This is an excellent but tough 15 . I think it"s 16 to compare ourselves to others, but it often makes us unhappy even if we have enough and 17 be happy with what we have. My quick advice: try to be aware of when you start comparing yourself to others ...once you"ve developed this 18 , stop yourself and tell yourself, "Stop that!” And then 19 thinking about all the things you do have, the things you love, the people you have and the blessings that 20 has given you. Make this a regular practice, and you"ll start to be happier with your life. | ( )1. A. why ( )2. A. often ( )3. A. rise ( )4. A. astonished ( )5. A. up ( )6. A. comparison ( )7. A. strengths ( )8. A. reasons ( )9. A. because of ( )10. A. them ( )11. A. financial ( )12. A. sometime ( )13. A. however ( )14. A. then ( )15. A. question ( )16. A. strange ( )17. A. must ( )18. A. awareness ( )19. A. stop ( )20. A. happiness | B. what B. seldom B. increase B. disappointing B. close B. communication B. shortcomings B. keys B. regardless of B. their B. annual B. some time B. Whatever B. later B. person B. natural B. can B. hobby B. help B. life | C. that C. usually C. drop C. shocked C. down C. competition C. values C. causes C. in spite of C. themselves C. special C. some times C. wherever C. again C. phenomenon C. difficult C. may C. tradition C. come C. success | D. how D. always D. f ailure D. amazing D. closely D. connection D. weaknesses D. means D. in case of D. theirs D. beneficial D. sometimes D. whenever D. thus D. reader D. important D. should D. custom D. start D. confidence | 阅读理解。 | Stephen Hawking"s book A Brief History of Time was a huge commercial success. Its achievements in bringing difficult scientific ideas to a wide audience are not so clear. Now the distinguished physicist has teamed up with his daughter Lucy to produce a children"s book designed to communicate contemporary physics. Will it capture the attention of young minds and teach them some real science?Will it be boring and over the heads of the prospective readers? George"s Secret Key to the Universe is an adventure story complete with villains (反面人物) and hero and is illustrated with enjoyable line-drawings. It involves a lost pig,a humorously portrayed (描写) intelligent computer,school bulies and a trip through the Solar System. Didactic discussions on aspects of modern physics,such as supernova explosions and black-hole physics are hung on this set-up.There are also fact boxes on physics and astronomy,and some photographs of astronomical phenomena:planets,comets,galaxies (星系) and so on. Overall, the book is a serious effort to convey facts and ideas in present day astronomy and astrophysics,within a science-fiction adventure story. The mixture is great. Children love facts and adventure stories. The combination will catch their interest and keep them occupied for hours. After ten minutes of leafing through the book,my granddaughter Ruby was deeply absorbed and I had to promise to bring it back for her to read after I had completed my review. Like any educational tool,it will succeed for some and not for others. I suppose there should be more of the former. | 1. Where do you think this passage is taken? | A. From a news story. B. From a textbook. C. From a book review. D. From an advertisement. | 2. Which of the following books is mainly reviewed in this passage? | A. George"s Secret Key to the Universe. B. A Brief History of Time. C. The Nature of Space and Time. D. Hawking"s fact and fiction. | 3. What is the author"s attitude towards the book being reviewed? | A. It will be less successful. B. It will be more successful. C. It will be a complete failure. D. It all depends on Ruby. | |
4. The underlined word "leafing" (in the last paragraph) probably means _______. | A. adding leaves to a book B. throwing away a book C. tearing up a book D. turning pages of a book |
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