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Test 11
C
In 1885, a young doctor named Arthur
Conan Doyle opened offices in London. He
wanted
to
be
a
successful
doctor,
but
for
some
reasons
he
never
found
enough ___1___
the time, he
began to write stories and send them to the
newspapers.
Conan
Doyle's
stories
were
about
a
clever
detective,
Sherlock Doyle
wrote
that
Sherlock
Holmes
lived
at
221
b
Baker
Street
in
London,
and
people
with
problems
came
to
his for ___2___. Often police detectives came to
Sherlock Holmes with their
problems,
was able to solve
mysteries that
the cleverest policemen in England
were
___3___ to figure
out.
Sometimes Sherlock
Holmes could solve a mystery without leaving his
listened
carefully
to
the
information
his
client
(
委托人
)
gave
and
figured
out
the other
times
he spent days or weeks
looking for clues. Sherlock Holmes travelled to
different
cities and countries to solve
the mysteries. ___4___ he wore disguises,
pretending
to be an old man, or a
sailor. Holmes did anything to find out the answer
to the
mysteries he was working
on.
Sherlock Holmes is the
most ___5___ detective in English literature,but
many
people
don't
understand
that
he
is
a
fictional
(
虚构的
)
character,
not
a
real English
post offices
report
that
people
still
send
mail
to
Sherlock
Holmes
in
Baker
he
gets
more
than
2,000
___6___ every
year.
( ) 1.
A. keep
B.
change
C. pass
D. mention
D.
( ) 2. A. practice
help
B. thinking
C. trust
( )
3. A. willing
( ) 4.
A. Seldom
( ) 5. A. tired
famous
( ) 6. A. visitors
directions
B. suitable
B. Never
B.
relaxed
C.
likely
D.
unable
C. Sometimes
C. nervous
D.
Always
D.
B. letters
C. calls
D.
Test 13
E
Green is an
important color in nature. It is the color of
grass and the leaves
on trees. It is
the color of most growing plants, too.
Sometimes,
the
word
green
means
young,
fresh
and
growing.
Sometimes,
it
describes
something that is not yet finished or
plants that are not ripe. For example, a
greenhorn
is
someone
who
has
no
experience,
who
is
new
to
a
situation.
In
the
fifteenth
century,
a
greenhorn
was
a
young
cow
or
ox
whose
horns
had
not
yet
developed.
A
century
or so later, a
greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any
experience in war.
By the eighteenth
century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today
--a person who
is
new
in
a one
hundred
years
ago,
greenhorn
was
a
popular
expression
in
the
American
west. Old-timers used it to describe a
man who had just arrived from one of the big
cities in the east. The greenhorn
didn't have the skills that he would need to live
in the hard, rough country.
Someone who has the ability to grow
plants well is said to have a green thumb.
The expression comes from the early
nineteen hundreds. A person with a green thumb
seems to have a magic touch that makes
plants grow quickly and well. You might say
that
the
woman
next
door
has
a
green
thumb
if
her
garden
continues
to
grow
long
after
your
plants have died.
The
Green
Revolution
is
the
name
which
was
given
some
years
ago
to
the
development
of new kinds of
rice and other grains. The new plants produced
much larger crops.
The Green Revolution
was the result of hard work by agricultural
scientists who had
green
thumbs.
Green is also the
color used to describe the powerful feeling -
jealousy. The
green-eyed
monster
is
not
a
frightening
creature
from
outer
space.
It
is
an
expression
used about four hundred years ago by
British writer William Shakespeare in his play
Othello.
It
describes
the
unpleasant
feeling
a
person
has
when
someone
has
something
that he wants to
get. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed
monster if his
girlfriend begins going
out with someone else.
1. What does a
“
g
reenhorn
”
now refer
to?
________________________
__________________________________________________
__
2. Is the person with a
green thumb good at growing plants?
__________________________________________
__________________________________
3. Who works hard and helps to develop
new kinds of rice and other grains?
__________________________________________
__________________________________
4. People don
’
t
use green to describe
people
’
s feeling, do
they?
______________________
__________________________________________________
____
5. When was the
expression
“
the green-eyed
monster
”
probably firstly
used?
______________________
__________________________________________________
____
6. What kind of person
with the green-eyed monster do you think he/she
is?
________________________
__________________________________________________
__
Test
14
D
With so many things going on in your
life and the pressure of work and society,
you may start thinking it is not wise
at all to start a hobby. But the reason that
stops
you
from
getting
into
a
hobby
is
the
s___1___
reason
why
you
should
surely
take
up a
hobby.
Hobby can r___2___
pressure. There is nothing wrong with focusing on
your job.
After
all,
it
is
your
way
of
making
money.
H___3___,
when
you
focus
on
work
too
much,
you may forget about
other aspects (
方面
) of your
life. That is when things start
to
go
wrong.
What
you
have
to
think
about
is:
even
the
richest
people
are
not
pleased
with money or
material things a___4___. We all need a space
where we can become
ourselves, without
any pressure.
Hobbies can
help recover (
恢复
) not only
your p___5___ energy but also your
emotional energy. And that will be
shown in all aspects of your life. Although you
can
relax
by
sleeping
or
doing
nothing,
a
hobby
has
a
different
relaxing
effect.
Doing
nothing can relax your
tired body, but it is no solution to a tired
m___6___ . That
is the big difference
between the two.
A hobby is
a great way to spend time on your enjoyment. But
if you are thinking
that a hobby
is all about
being quiet,
then you are
wrong. In fact,
hobbies can
also
be
h___7___
to
your
social
skills.
Hobbies
can
even
help
to
expand
(
拓展
)
your
network,
and
that can become an advantage to your
job.
1.
___________
___________
5.
___________
E
2. ___________
3. ___________
4.
6. ___________
7. ___________
When Matty Sallin, 34, was
studying art and technology at New York
University,
he
got
an
interesting
task
for
the
final
exam:
Create
something
for
the
ordinary
family.
He decided to create
an alarm clock.
the sound of the clock is
extremely noisy and unpleasant,
started
to design the new clock, he asked different people
what they'd like to wake
up to in the
morning. A lot of them said,
培根肉
).
So Sallin and his two classmates
invented a new kind of alarm clock: a wooden
box with a pig face and a digital clock
that uses the smell of cooking bacon to wake
people
up.
He
explains,
no
danger
of
burning,
because
I
built
it
carefully.
It uses special
light bulbs (
灯泡
) instead of
a fire for cooking and rums off
automatically after ten
minutes.
you
do
is
to
put
a
few
pieces
of
bacon
meat
inside
the
box
the
night
before,
then you set the alarm,
on at
7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under the
bulbs. Then the bulbs rum off and
a fan
blows the smell out through the nose of the
pig.
alarms,
you can open the
door
on the side and
pull the
bacon
out
and eat
it.
When Sallin was a kid,
he spent a lot of time making drawings of
inventions.
wanted
to
make
a
lift
in
my
back
yard
and
a
special
tree
house,
he
says.
I
never
really thought I'd become an
inventor!
Sallin
got
an
A
for
his
alarm
clock
and
went
on
to
invent
other
things
—
but
people
continue
to
email
him
every
day
asking
where
they
can
buy
his
alarm
clock.
If
he
decides
to
produce
and
sell
his
special
alarm
clock,
maybe
he
can
build
a
successful
business
out of it.
1. What was Matty Sallin?
_________________________________________
___________________________________
2. How many people worked together on
the new alarm clock?
______
__________________________________________________
____________________
3. How
long did it take to cook the bacon?
__________________________________________
__________________________________
4. Why are light bulbs used for cooking
bacon instead of a fire?
___
__________________________________________________
_______________________
5.
What's special about Sallin's alarm
clock?
________________________ wakes people
up instead of the loud alarm.
6. What do you think of the new alarm
clock?
_____________________
__________________________________________________
_____
Test 26
B
When I
arrived,it was early morning and it was got out
of the car,went through
a
gate
and
walked
along
a the
east,the
sky
was
becoming
light,but
beside
the
path,it
was still very knew
it was there,but there was nothing to
see.
After about a
kilometre, a stranger appeared in front of me.
“
Am I going the
right way?
”
I
knew where I was going.
“
Yes,
”
he replied,
“
you will get
there
in
five
minutes.
”
Finally,
I
came
to
some
rocks,
and looked
carefully
over
them,but
it
was still too dark to see anything.
Suddenly, the clouds cleared and the
rain stopped. The sun rose behind me and
beyond the rocks. I saw that the ground
fell away and down to a river, far below me.
I was on the edge of the Grand Canyon,
one of the wonders of the natural
world.
I looked down to the
Colorado River about 2 kilometres below me. If you
put the
three tallest buildings in the
world at the bottom of the canyon, they still will
not reach the top. Then I looked across
to the other side of the canyon. How far is
it?It is 20 kilometres,maybe
,I
looked to my left
and to my
right, and on both
sides
the canyon disappeared into the
distance
……
over 400
kilometres long. The Grand
Canyon is
not just big. It is big
！
That
morning
on
the
edge
of
the
canyon,
I
asked
myself
a
question.
It
is
not
“
How
deep
is
it?
”
or
“
How
wide
is
it?
”
or
“
How
long
is
it?
”
but
“
Is
the
Grang
Canyon
the greatest wonder anywhere in the
natural world?
”
I know the
answer. But what do
you
think?
( ) 1.
The passage may come from ______.
A. a guidebook
B. a grammar
book
D. a diary
C. a dictionary
( ) 2. There was nothing to see
because _______.
A. there
was nothing
C. it was raining
B. it was too
dark
D. it was in the
morning
( ) 3. The writer
was facing to the _______ on the edge of the Grand
Canyon.
A. south
B. north
C. east
D.
west
( ) 4. The writer
asked himself a question about the Grand
Canyon.
A. How deep is it?
C. How long is it?
B. How wide is
it?
D. Is it the greatest
wonder?
( ) 5. According
to the passage, which sentence is not
right
A. The Grand Canyon is
taller than three tallest buildings in the
world.
B. The Grand Canyon
is much longer than 400 kilometres.
C. The Colorado River was about 2
kilometres below the winter.
D.
The
writer
thinks
the
Colorado
River
is
the
greatest
wonder
of
the
natural
world.
( ) 6. The
writer
’
s purpose in writing
this passage is _______.
A.
to give facts about the Grand Canyon
B. to tell how he feels about the Grand
Canyon
C. to describe the
Grand Canyon
D. to tell
people to visit the Grand Canyon
Test 27
B
A steel bridge
collapsed (
倒塌
) during
evening rush hour. Dozens of cars fell down
60
feet
into
the
Mississippi
River.
Ten
people
died,
and
more
than
50
were
seriously
injured. The
bridge was being repaired because it was found to
be structurally
deficient
(
结构缺陷
);
it
needed
to
be
repaired.
Like
many
bridges
throughout
America,
the
bridge
was
built
more
than
40
years
ago.
Traffic
was
much
lighter
then.
Nowadays,
cars, buses, and
big trucks cross the bridge every day, even late
at night.
“
I
heard a terrific sound.
”
said Miss Turner to the disaster. She ran out of
her
car to see what was happening. She
saw cars falling into the river and heard people
screaming.
She
heard
the
loud
sounds
of
the
bridge
collapsing
and
sounds
as
the
parts
of the
bridge and cars hit the water.
“
It was
horrible,
”
she
said.
Engineers
had
no
explanation
for
the
collapse.
They
said
the
bridge
had
been
inspected
recently. The
report said that, although it was structurally
deficient, the bridge
was
not
unsafe.
Since
the
report
did
not
say
that
the
bridge
was
unsafe,
the
decision
was to simply
repaired it at some locations.
Americans
were
shocked
(
震惊
)
that
an
American
bridge
could
simply
collapse.
The
news
was
all
over
TV,
radio,
and
most
newspapers.
One
newspaper
survey
showed
that
almost
10 percent (about
59,000) of America
’
s bridges
were structurally deficient.
At first, some people thought that
terrorists (
恐怖分子
) might have
put a bomb (
炸
弹
)
into the bridge. One driver said that, before he
drove over another bridge in
America,
he would make sure that a life jacket was in the
front seat next to him.
( ) 1. Where did the disaster
happen?
A. In Canada.
China.
B. In America.
C. In England.
D.
In
( ) 2.
How many people died in the disaster?
A. 50.
B. 10.
C. 60.
D. 40.
( ) 3.
When was the bridge built?
A. Less than 40 years ago.
C. More than 40 years ago
B. Less than 50
years ago.
D. More than 50
years ago
( ) 4. Miss
Turner was ______ when the bridge
collapsed.
A. in her car
in a boat
B. in the office
C. on the bridge
D.
(
) 5. The underlined word
A.
built
examined
B.
found
C.
printed
D.
(
) 6. How did Americans feel after the
disaster?
A. They were
excited about the news.
B.
None of them dared to cross any bridge.
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