One day Bob took two of his frends into the mountains. They put up their tents and the

第1题

One day two scientists were quarrelling about whose watch was better, the German one or th

e Japanese one. Since they were scientists, they decided to do an experiment to test the watches. They went into their lab and filled a basin with water, put the watches in, waited for 20 minutes and took them out.

They could see there was something wrong with both watches. They observed them for several hours before speaking to each other. They both silently found that the German watch was losing 60 minutes and the Japanese are doubled that.

The scientist with the Japanese watch then slowly raised his head and said, "Both watch are out of work, but my watch is right more often than yours, so it's better." The scientist with the German watch went home without saying a word.

The two scientists were quarrelling at the beginning of the story, because ______.

A．the Japanese watch was better

B．the German watch was better

C．each of them thought his own watch was better than the other's

D．both the watches were wrong

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第2题

Manners （礼貌) are much more than just saying“Please” and “Thank you”. They are ways

Manners (礼貌) are much more than just saying“Please” and “Thank you”. They are ways of showing kindness.

My husband，Bob，is a pilot，and one day we were invited to a potluck (百味餐) at his flying squadron(飞行中队). The noisy room was filled with mouthy kids and their chatting moms and dads. Our son，Daniel, was only two years old. We let him play with the other kids because it was a safe environment.

After a while，he came back with a package of peanut butter crackers and proudly held them out to us. A pilot who asked “Do you know whose this little boy is？”followed him.

“He is mine,” I answered, wondering what Daniel might have done.

“Well,” replied the pilot, “I've been passing out crackers to the kids for almost two hours，and your son is one of the youngest guys I gave them to. He's the only one who said 'Thank you'. What he did makes me pleased.”

Daniel smiled and proudly repeated，“Thank you.”

1)、Pilots and their family were invited to the potluck.

A.T

B.F

2)、Daniel felt very excited when he showed his crackers to his parents.

A.T

B.F

3)、For nearly two hours at least, the pilot served at the party when he found Daniel.

A.T

B.F

4)、Only one kid said “Thank you” to the man when he gave the kids crackers.

A.T

B.F

5)、The pilot felt surprised when he heard the boy said “Thank you”.

A.T

B.F

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第3题

Population tends to grow at an exponential（指数的)rate. This means that they progressively

Population tends to grow at an exponential(指数的)rate. This means that they progressively double. As an example of this type of growth rate take one penny and double every day for one month. After the first week, you would have only 64 cent, but after the fourth week you would have over a million dollars.

This helps explain why the population has come on“all of a sudden” took from he beginning of human 1ife to the year 1830 for the population of the earth to reach one billion. That repents(缓慢进行) a time span of at least two million years. Then it took from 1830 to 1930 for world population to reach 2 billion. The next billion was added by 1960 only thirty years and in 1975 world population reached 4 billion which is another billion people in only fifteen years.

World population is increasing at a rate of 9, 000per hour, 220,000 per day and 80 million per year.

This is not only due to higher birth rate, but to lower death rate as well. The number of births has not declined at the same rate as the number of deaths.

Some countries such as Columbia, Thailand, Morocco, Costa Rica and the Philippines are doubling their population about every twenty-one years with a growth rate of 3.3 percent a year or more. The United States is doubling its population about very eighty-seven years, with a rate of 0.8 percent per year.Every time a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything, including hospitals, schools, resources, food and medicines to care for its people. It is easy to see that this is very difficult to achieve for the more rapidly growing countries.

This passage chiefly discusses

A.the growth of world population.

B.one type of the exponential rate

C.the population problem of more rapidly growing countries.

D.the possible ways of dealing with the rapid population growth

According to the passage what helps to explain why the population problem has come on “all of a sudden”？A.The penny that doubles itself every day for one month

B.The time span of at 1east two million years in human history.

C.An illustration of the exponent growth rate given by the author.

D.The large amount of money you would luckily make after the fourth week

Which of the following statements is NOT true？A.World population is increasing at a rate of 150 per minute

B.Lower death rate also contributes to world population growth

C.The population of Columbia has been doubling every year for 21 years.

D.The United States is usually doubling its population on about every 87 years.

It took ______ for the world to increase its population from 1 billion to 4 billion.A.100 years

B.175 years

C.1975 years

D.over two million years

When a population doubles, the country involved needs twice as much of everything including __.A.hospitals and medicines

B.schools and students

C.food and manpower resources

D.all of the above

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

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第4题

One day a bookseller(书商)let a big box of books fall on his foot. “Go to see the doctor,“ said his wife. “No, “he said. “I‘ll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I‘ll ask him about my foot. If I go to see him, I‘ll have to pay him.“

On the next day the doctor came into the shop for some books. When the bookseller was getting them ready, he told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it.“You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put something on it,“ said the doctor.

He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it. “Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed every night,“ he said.“Thank you,“ said the bookseller. “And now, sir, here are your books.““How much？“ said the doctor.“Two pounds.““Good,“ said the doctor. “I shall not have to pay you anything.““Why？“ asked the bookseller.“I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them to pay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds. And I came here, didn‘t I？“

1)、What happened to the bookseller one day？

A.He lost a box of books.

B.His foot was wounded by a box of books.

C.He lent the doctor a box of books.

D.He sold out all his books.

2)、The bookseller‘s wife asked him ______.

A.to go out for some medicine

B.to send somebody for a doctor

C.to go to see the doctor

D.to wait for the doctor to come

3)、The bookseller didn‘t take his wife‘s advice because ______.

A.he was afraid of the doctor

B.he didn‘t like to take medicine

C.he couldn‘t walk by himself

D.he didn‘t want to pay the doctor

4)、The doctor paid ______ for the books.

A.one pound

B.two pounds

C.nothing

D.something

5)、The bookseller paid ______ money for seeing the doctor in the end.

A.more

B.less

C.the same amount of

D.no

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第5题

阅读理解。 Bob Pearson is an old man. He has two big houses and a new car. He has no wife.

But he is阅读理解。 Bob Pearson is an old man. He has two big houses and a new car. He has no wife. But he is the father of four children. He has two sons and two daughters. One son is from England. His name is Bill. The other son is from America. His name is Mike. One of his daughters is from Japan. Her name is Mikou. The other one is from China. Her name is Lanlan. Bob Pearson is not the children’s real （） country. C. Bob Pearson has a wife. D. Lanlan is a Chinese girl.

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第6题

One day Mr. Parker said to himself, "I haven't seen my brother David __21__

a long time, and he's living in a new house now. I'm going to drive there and see him this afternoon."

He took his brother's address, got into his car and started out. He drove for a long time, but he didn't find the house __22__ he stopped and asked somebody to help him.

"Go straight __23__ this road for two miles(英里)," the man said, "then turn left, and then take the second road on the right."

Mr. Parker went straight along the road and turned left after two miles, but then he got lost again. He drove for __24__ mile, and at last he saw a road on his right and stopped. A woman was coming __25__ him, so he said to her, "Excuse me, is this the second road on the right？"

21)、

A.so

B.for

C.towards

D.along

E.another

22)、

A.so

B.for

C.towards

D.along

E.another

23)、

A.so

B.for

C.towards

D.along

E.another

24)、

A.so

B.for

C.towards

D.along

E.another

25)、

A.so

B.for

C.towards

D.along

E.another

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第7题

Adam Smith, a writer in the 1770s, was the first person to see the importance of the divis

ion of labor and to explain part of its advantages. He gives as an example the process by which pins were made in England.

"One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top to prepare it to receive the head. To make the head requires two or three distinct operations. To put it on is a separate operation, to polish the pins is another. And the important business of making pins is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform. two or three of them."

Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4 800 pins a piece. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labor, they certainly could not turn out any pin, each of them have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one.

There can be no doubt that division of labor is an efficient way of organizing work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this but he also took it for granted that division of labor is in itself responsible for economic growth and development and that it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. But division of labor adds nothing new; it only enables people to produce, more of what they already have.

According to the passage, Adam Smith was the first person to______.

A．take advantage of the division of labor

B．explain the causes of the division of labor

C．understand the effects of the division of labor

D．introduce the division of labor into England

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第8题

We all associate colors with feelings and attitudes. In politics, dark blue often means "t

radition", and red means "social change". But blue can also mean sadness (I'm feeling blue). White is often for purity, although in China white is worn for funerals, and red is used to express the joy of a wedding, in western Europe white is worn at weddings and black for funerals. Advertisers are aware of the importance of selecting colors according to the way people react to them. Soap powders come in white and light blue packets (clean and cold, like ice); cereals often come in brown packets (tike wheat fields), but cosmetics never come in brown jars (dirty).

Where do these ideas come from？ Max Luscher from the University of Geneva believes that in the beginning life was dictated by two factors beyond our control: night and day. Night brought passivity, and a general slowing down of metabolism; day brought with it the possibility of action, and increased in the metabolic rate, thus providing us with energy and initiative. Dark blue, therefore, is the color of quietness and passivity, bright yellow the color of hope and activity.

In prehistoric times, activity as a rule took one of two forms: either we were hunting and at- tacking, or we were being hunted and defending ourselves against attack. Attack is universally re- presented by the color red; serf-preservation by its complement green.

In Luseher's view, the association of colors with feeling and attitudes can be traced back to______.

A．the association of day and night with passivity and action in ancient time

B．the association of black with funerals in western Europe

C．the association of white with purity in some countries

D．the association of red with joy in China

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第9题

Almost every family buys as least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe

to as many as two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers？ Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings – battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown (推翻) or killed – took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in far away countries on the same day they happen. Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and of course, advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space, but it is worth the money for news of their products goes into almost every home in country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also very important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit. The phrase “subscribe to” in the first paragraph means “__________”.

A. go to the newspaper stand and buy

B. send their own news stories to

C. agree to buy for a specific period of time

D. become faithful readers of

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第10题

A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent sixty-six days in a life-raft(救生

A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent sixty-six days in a life-raft（救生

艇) in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales(鲸鱼). “They started to hit the side of the boat,” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water.” Two minutes later, the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water. For twenty days they had tins of food, biscuits, and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water — two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw(生的). Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some sharks(鲨鱼) came to feed, and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands.”About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn’t stand up. So the captain carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over. During their days at sea, _______ saved their lives

A、tins of food and bottles of water

B、a fishing-line and a machine

C、whales and sharks

D、Twenty passing ships

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