- 单选题Hurricane 1 A hurricane (腿风）is a tropiontorm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour. Hurricane winds biow in a large spiral (螺旋）around a relative calm center known as the “eye”is cenerally 20 to 30 miles wide, and the storm may extend outward 400 miles. As a hurricane nears land, it can bring heavy rains, high winds, and storm surges (风暴潮）. The storm surges and heavy rains can lead to flooding. 2 Hurricanes are given a different Igbel，depending on where they occur. If they begin over the North Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea,the Gulf of Mexico, or the Northeast Pacific Ocean, they are called hurricanes. Simflar storms that occur in the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line are called typhoons.Near Australia and in the Indian Ocean, they are referred to as tropicall cyclones (龙卷风）。 3 When a hurricane hits land, it can do great damage through its fierce winds, heavy rains, inland (内陆的)flooding, and huge waves on to the shore. During a hurricane, homes, businesses, and public buildings may be damaged or destroyed； roads and bridges can be washed away. A powerful hurricane can kill more people and destroy more property than any other natural disaster. Fishermen are at special risk from hurricanes as they may be at sea when a hurricane arrives and able to get to a safe harbour if they do not receive adequate warning. 、 4 If a hurricane is coming in your area, the most important thing is to stay calm and find shelter immediately. Go to your safe room, If you do not have one, stay indoors during the hurricane and go to a safer place near the your home. Cover yourself with a blanket and be sure to keep away from windows glass doors, because if the glass breaks it，s really dangerous. Do not be fooled is there is a lull (暂停）；it could be the eye of the storm 一 winds will pick up again. Paragraph 4_
- 单选题Some of the larger birds can remain stationary in the air for several minutes.
- 单选题Do You Have a Sense of Humor? Humor and laughter are good for us. There is increasing evidence that they can heal us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, In fact, every system of the body responds to laughter in some positive, herting way. So how can we get more laughter into our lives?____________ (46) Psychologic and author, Steve Wilson, has some answers. Many people believe that we are bom with a sense of humor. They think, “either you’ve got it, or you don’t. ” Dr. Wilson points out that this is false.__________ (47) The parts of the brain and central nervous system that control laughing and smiling aremature at birth. ____________ (48) (After all，when a baby laughs,We don’t rush over andsay，“That kid has a great sense of humor!’，)A sense of humor is something that you can develop over a lifetime. Sometimes people think that they don’t have a good sense of humor because they are not good joke tellers. Dr. Wilson reminds us that telling jokes is only one of many ways to express humor. ____________ (49) Then we will make others laugh, too. A person who has a true sense of humor is willing and able to ate the funny side of everyday life. One of the best definitions of a sense of humor is wthe ability to see the nonserious element in a situation.w Consider this sign from a store window： “Any faulty merchandise will be cheerfully replaced with merchandise of equal quality.The store manager probably placed the sign in the window to impress customers with the store’s excellent service. ____________(50) As Dr. Wilson says, ua good sen^fe df humor means that you don’t have to be funny; you just have to see what’s funny. ”
- 单选题A large crowd assembled outside the American Embassy
- 单选题Voice Your Opinion: Change Is Needed in Youth Sports Everywhere you look, you see kids bouncing a basketball or waving a tennis racquet (网球拍)And these kids are getting younger and younger.In some countries,children can compete on basketball, baseball, and volleybal teams starting at age nine. _______(46) And swimming and gymnastics classes begin at age four, to prepare children for competition. It’s true that a few of these kids will develop intd highly skilled athletes and may even become members of the national Olympic teams. _____ (47 ) This emphasis on competition in sports is having serious negative effects. Children who get involved in competitive sports at a young age oOen grow tired of sport. Many parents pressure their kids to choose one sport and devota all their time to it.___________ (48) But 66 percent of the young athletes wanted to play more than onesport —for fun. Another problem is the pressure imposed by over-competitive parents and coaches. Children are not naturally competitive, In fact, a recent study by Paulo David found that most children don’t even understand the idea of competition until they are seven years old. ___________(49) The third, and biggest, problem for young athletes is the lack of time to do their homework, have fun, be with Mends — in short, time to be kids. When they are forced to spend every afternoon at sports practice, they often start to hate their chosen sport Researchers found that 70 percent of kids who take part in competitive sports before the age of twelve quit before they turn eighteen. _____ (50) Excessive competition takes away all the enjoyment. (47) A
- 单选题She felt that she had done her good deed for the day.
- 单选题His stomach felt hollow with fear.
- 单选题The majority of people around here are decent.
- 单选题A person’s wealth is often in inverse proportion to their happiness.
- 单选题l have little information as regards her fitness for the post .
- 单选题Forests for Cities You are standing in a beautiful forest in Japan. The air is clean and smells like plants and flowers. There are 175 different kinds of trees, and 60 kinds of birds live here._(46) You are downtown in the city of Nara, Japan, in Kasugayama Forest,the oldest urban forest in the world. It was started more than a thousand years ago, and today itfs very popular with tourists and artists. Cities around the world are working to protect their urban forests. Some urban forests are parks, and some are just streets with a lot of trees. But all urban forests have many good effects on the environment. _(47) They also stop the noise from heavy traffic. They even make the weather better because they make the air 3 一5 degrees cooler， and they stop strong winds. Urban forests also have many good effects on people. They make the city more beautiful. In a crowded area, they give people a place to relax and spend time in nature. _(48)In some countries, people are starting new urban forests. In England, there are now 1. 3 million trees in an urban forest called Thames Chase, east of London. It was started in 1990，and it has grown very fast. Walking and bicycle clubs use the forest, and there are programs for children and artists.___(49) Some older cities don，t have space for a big urban forest, but planting trees on the streets makes the city better. Scientists found that commuters (通勤人员)feel more relaxed when they can see trees. Trees are even good for business. _(50) In the future, urban forests will become even more important as our cities grow bigger. In the megacities (超大城市）of tomorrow, people will need more green space to live a comfortable life. Planting trees today will make our lives better in the future.
- 单选题On the table was a vase filled with artificial flowers.
- 单选题That performance was pretty impressive.
- 单选题Flying into History When you turn on the television or read a magazine, celebrities (名人）are everywhere. Although fame and the media play such major roles in our lives today, it has not always been that way. _ (46) Many historians agree that Charles Lindbergh was one of the first major celebrities, or superstars. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1902，but he grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. As a child, he was very interested in how things worked , so when he reached college, he pursued a degree in engineering. At the age of 20，however, the allure (诱惑）of flying captured Lindbergh’s imagination._(47) Soon after, Lindbergh bought his own plane and traveled across the nation performing aerial stunts (空中特技）_In 1924, Lindbergh became more serious about flying. He joined the United States military and graduated first in his pilot class. _(48)During the same time, a wealthy hotel owner named Raymond Orteig was offering a generous award to the first pilot who could fly nonstop from New York City to Paris，France. The Orteig Prize was worth $25，000 a large amount even by today’s standards. Lindbergh knew he had the skills to complete the flight, but not just any plane was capable of flying that far for that long. __ (49)On May 20，1927,Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in New York City and arrived the next day at an airstrip (简易机场）outside Paris. Named in honor of the sponsor, The Spirit of St. Louis carried Lindbergh across the Atlantic Ocean and into the record books. He became a national hero and a huge celebrity. When he returned to the United States, Lindbergh rode in a ticker-tape (热烈的）parade held to celebrate his accomplishment._(50) A very popular dance was even named for Charles Lindbergh the Lindy Hop. Today, The Spirit of St. Louis is kept at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C.
- 单选题Almost Human? Scientists are racing to build the worlds first thinking robot. This is not science fiction：some say they will have made it by the year 2020. Carol Packer reports. Machines that walk, speak and feel are no longer science fiction. Kismet is the name of an android (机器人)which scientists have built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kismet is different from the traditional robot because it can show human emotions. Its eyes, ears and lips move to show when it feels happy, sad or bored. Kismet is one of the first of a new generation of androids — robots that look like human beings — which can imitate human feelings. Cog，another android invented by the MIT， imitates the action of a mother. However, scientists admit that so far Cog has the mental ability of a two-year-old. The optimists (乐观主义者)say that by the year 2020 we will have created humanoids (机器人)with brains similar to those of an adult human being. These robots will be designed to look like people to make them more attractive and easier to sell to the public. What kind of jobs will they do? In the future, robots like Robonaut, a humanoid invented by NASA, will be doing dangerous jobs, like repairing space stations. They will also be doing more and more of the household work for us. In Japan, scientists are designing androids that will entertain us by dancing and playing the piano. Some people worry about what the future holds： will robots become monsters (怪物)？ Will people themselves become increasingly like robots? Experts predict that more and more people will be wearing micro-computers, connected to the Internet, in the future. People will have micro-chips in various parts of their body, which will connect them to a wide variety of gadgets (小装置).Perhaps we should not exaggerate (夸大)the importance of technology, but one wonders whether, in years to come, we will still be falling in love, and whether we will still feel pain. Who knows? What makes Cog special?
- 单选题She will be very pleased to meet you.
- 单选题Nothing would induce me to vote for him again.
- 单选题Caribbean Islands What would you see if you took a cruise to the Caribbean Islands? Palm trees and coconuts (椰子)？ White beaches and clear, blue ocean？ Colorful corals (珊瑚)and even more colorful fishes and birds? You bet. There are thmjsands of islands in the Caribbean Sea. They are famous for their warm, tropical climate and great natural beauty. The Caribbean Islands form a chain that separates the Caribbean Sea from the rest of the Atlantic Ocean. Some of the islands were formed by the eruption (喷发)of ancient volcanoes (火山).__________(46) TheCaribbean Islands are known by several names. _______ (47) The explorer Christopher Columbus called the islands the Indies in 1492 because he thought he was near the coast of India. Later, Spain and France called the islands the Antilles. There are four large islands in the Caribbean Sea. _______(48) These four islands are often called the Greater Antilles. Together, they account for about 90 percent of the land area of the Caribbean Islands. The rest of the Caribbean Islands are much smaller. Some of these islands are no more than tiny slivers (小片)of exposed coral. You can see why pirates (海盗)such as the famous Blackbeard sailed these waters. _______(49) The weather of the Caribbean Sea is almost always warm and sunny. Sandy beaches line the coasts of many islands. This is why millions of tourists visit the islands each year. _______(50)
- 单选题This reminds me of lots of things.
- 单选题The committee was asked to render a report on the housing situation.
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