湖北省农村义务教师招聘考试小学英语试卷及答案解析

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wrote C

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made D

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folded

21. A. cry

B. pray

C. dig

D. play

22. A. back

B. bottom

C. top

D. edge

23. A. drop

B. raise

C. fall

D. lift

24. A. keep

B. thank

C. forgive

D. honor

25. A. remembered B. punished

C. removed

D. replaced

26. A. silence

B. heart

C. peace

D. memory

27. A. down

B. up

C. off

D. around

28. A. birth

B. passing

C. loss

D. starting

29. A. awoke

B. reminded

C. forgot

D. apologized

30. A. simply

B. hardly

C. seriously

D. angrily

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A

Psychology tells us that many people hate to take risks. But it is good for us to take risks, es-

pecially when the risk is to achieve a desired result. In that way, we become stronger and braver.

Our human nature should be to take risks, but some people just sit and wish they didn't have

the fear to move on. This is because they failed a few times in their lives. Please step out and don't

let the past hold you back from living life to the fullest. Move forward and move on!

In studying

the psychology of taking risks, we find that human provides us with the desire to experiment and

take chances.

Risk taking is a great advantage that allowed our ancestors to become stronger and stronger

day by day. By taking risks they fought off enemies and discovered new territories. This attitude

has become a part of our modem culture. Riding a roller caster is a common risk taking activity.

Even each person seems to enjoy the risk although they have the understanding that it is dangerous.

This psychological and biological connection creates an interesting connection between what is

unsafe and what humans enjoy.

Getting in a car each day is a risk. Getting out of bed is a risk, too. We need to take risks so

that we can complete many things. Astronauts take risks when they get inside a rocket; however,

the things they achieve are great. Businessmen take a risk when they buy parts of a company,

however, without doing that, they could not make more money.

We need to take risks so that we can gain something. It is impossible to move forward in

life, earn money, enjoy a relationship, play a sport, or doing anything else without taking a risk. It

is all part of the game. It' s one of the most important parts of life.

31. Some people don't want to take risks, mainly because__

A. they are too lazy to move on

B. they feel pleased with the present life

C. they have failed several times before

D. they show little interest in the strange world outside

32. What does the underlined part

A. Taking risks.

B. Fighting off enemies.

C. Discovering new territories.

D. Becoming stronger and stronger.

33. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Daily life is full of risks.

B. The safest place has the greatest risk.

C. People should take risks when they are young.

D. We can always achieve our goals by taking risks.

34. What would be the title for the passage?

A. Taking Risks Is Easier Said than Done

B. Risks Taken by Ancestors

C. Live Our Life to the Fullest

D. No Risk, No Gain

B

In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington,

52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw--having ex-

tracted them from the mouths of his slaves.

That's a far different image from the cherry-tree-chopping George most people remember

from their history books. But recently, many historians have begun to focus on the roles slavery

played in the lives of the founding generation. They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence

made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one

child with his slave Sally Hemings. And only over the past 30 years have scholars examined history

from

the

bottom

up.

Works

of

several

historians

reveal

the

moral

compromises

made

by

the

nation's ear-ly leaders and the fragile nature of the country's infancy. More significantly, they argue

that many of the Founding Fathers knew slavery was wrong--and yet most did little to fight it.

More than anything, the historians say, the founders were hampered by the culture of their

time.

While

Washington

and

Jefferson

privately

expressed

distaste

for

slavery,

they

also

understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to

create.

For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves. Owning slaves was

ing a large bank account,

Slaves, and The Creation of America. The southern states would not have signed the Constitution

without protections for the

fifths of a man for purposes of congressional representation.

And the statesmen's political lives depended on slavery. The three- fifths formula handed Jef-

ferson his narrow victory in the presidential election of 1800 by inflating the votes of the southern

states in the Electoral College. Once in office, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Pur-

chase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states, including three slave states.

Still, Jefferson freed Hemings's children--though not Hemings herself or his approximately

150 other slaves. Washington, who had begun to believe that all men were created equal after

observing the bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War, overcame the strong

opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will. Only a decade earlier, such

an act would have required legislative approval in Virginia.

35. George Washington's dental surgery is mentioned to__

A. show the primitive medical practice in the past

B. demonstrate the cruelty of slavery in his days

C. stress the role of slaves in the U.S. history

D. reveal some unknown aspect of his life

36. We may infer from the second paragraph that__

A. DNA technology has been widely applied to history research

B. in its early days the U.S. was confronted with delicate situations

C. historians deliberately made up some stories of Jefferson's life

D. political compromises are easily found throughout the U.S. history

37. What do we learn about Thomas Jefferson?

A. His political view changed his attitude towards slavery.

B. His status as a father made him free the child slaves.

C. His attitude towards slavery was complex.

D. His affair with a slave stained his prestige.

38. Washington's decision to free slaves originated from his__

A. moral considerations

B. military experience

C. financial conditions

D. political stand

C

It's one of our common beliefs that mice are afraid of cats. Scientists have long known that

even if a mouse has never seen a cat before, it is still able to detect chemical signals released from

it and run away in fear. This has always been thought to be something that is hard- wired into a

mouse ' s brain.

But now Wendy Ingram, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, has

challenged this common sense. She has found a way to

by infecting them with a parasite, reported the science journal Nature.

The parasite, called Toxoplasma gondii, might sound unfamiliar to you, but the shocking fact

is that up to one-third of people around the world are infected by it. This parasite can cause differ-

ent diseases among humans, especially pregnant women--it is linked to blindness and the death of

unborn babies.

However, the parasite's effects on mice are unique. Ingram and her team measured how

mice reacted to a cat's urine(

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)before and after it was infected by the parasite. They noted that

normal mice stayed far away from the urine while mice that were infected with the parasite walked

freely around the test area.

But that's not all. The parasite was found to be more powerful than originally thought—even

after researchers cured the mice of the infection. They no longer reacted with fear to a cat' s smell,

which could indicate that the infection has caused a permanent change in mice's brains.

Why does a parasite change a mouse's brain instead of making it sick like it does to humans?

The answer lies in evolution.