第三篇 Some Things We Know about Language Many things about language are a mystery, and ma - 试题答案网问答

第1题

Some of the things we do we scarcely give a thought to; we just do them ______（出于习惯性)

Some of the things we do we scarcely give a thought to; we just do them ______(出于习惯性).

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第2题

The "mad moments" in the first paragraph refers to when we ______.A．have some mental probl

The "mad moments" in the first paragraph refers to when we ______.

A．have some mental problems

B．have lost our important things

C．don't listen to what our friends tell us to do

D．fail to remember what should be remembered

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第3题

听力原文：M: I still have some things to pack before we leave.W: We're supposed to be at th

听力原文：M: I still have some things to pack before we leave.

W: We're supposed to be at the airport in half an hour, so you'd better get a move on.

Q: What does the woman mean？

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A．She finished packing a half hour ago.

B．The man should get ready quickly.

C．She'll meet the man at the airport.

D．The man doesn't like to travel.

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第4题

When someone commits a criminal act, we always hope the punishment will match the offense.

But when it comes to one of the crudest crimes—animal fighting—things __26__ work out that way. Dog-fighting victims are __27__ and killed for profit and “sport,” yet their criminal abusers often receive a __28__ sentence for causing a lifetime of pain. Roughly half of all federally-convicted animal fighters only get probation (缓刑).

Some progress has been made in the prosecution(起诉)of animal fighters. But federal judges often rely heavily on the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines when they __29__ penalties, and in the case of animal fighting, those guidelines are outdated and extremely __30__ .

Along with this effort, we’re working with animal advocates and state and federal lawmakers to __33__ anti-cruelty laws across the country, as well as supporting laws and policies that assist overburdened animal __34__ that care for animal fighting victims. This help is__35__ important because the high cost of caring for animal victims is a major factor that prevents people from getting involved in cruelty cases in the first place.

A) convenient

B) creates

C) critically

D) determine

E) direction

F) hesitate

G) inadequate

H) inspired

I) method

J) minimal

K) rarely

L) shelters

M) strengthen

N) sufferings

O) tortured

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第5题

What can we learn from the text？A．Do not throw good things away; they may be helpful at so

What can we learn from the text？

A．Do not throw good things away; they may be helpful at some other time.

B．Apples are delicious.

C．Apples are good for health.

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第6题

听力原文：Stress is a very normal part of life. Most people feel stress at some time in the

听力原文： Stress is a very normal part of life. Most people feel stress at some time in their lives. It doesn't come from an event itself, that is, from the things that are happening in our lives. It comes from the meaning we give to what has happened. We can experience stress any time we feel we don't have control. It can come from a feeling that we can do anything about a situation.

Stress is not just caused by our mental or emotional condition. It is also influenced by how tired we are, whether we have a balanced diet with enough vitamins and minerals, whether we get enough physical exercise and whether we can relax. If we feel stressed, there are several things that we can do. First, we need to learn how to relax and breathe slowly and smoothly.

We can also take some time out of our worried, busy schedule to notice the small things in life. Smell the air, look at the flowers, notice the small designs in the leaves on a tree -- these activities can do much to quiet us and to give ourselves a small break in a busy schedule.

We need to take care of our bodies. Being tired makes it easier for us to get sick and to develop physical problems related to stress. We need to get enough rest, eat well, and do some regular exercise.

Finally, we need to find what is causing the stress in our lives. Once we have found it, we need to begin to change that part of our lives. If we believe that we can control stress, we can begin to control our lives.

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A．An unexpected event.

B．The understanding to an event.

C．The things that happen in our lives.

D．The influence of others.

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第7题

Man: Our budget is a little tight this year. As we plan our vacation, let's keep that in m

ind. Woman: There are a lot of very interesting things to see that are close to home. Maybe we could consider some things like backpacking in the mountains. Question: Why does the woman suggest a backpacking in the mountains？

A．They have a short vacation.

B．They are short of money this year.

C．She likes backpacking very much.

D．The woman is fond of hiking in the mountains.

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第8题

听力原文：W: It looks as if we are in for some cold weather again this winter.M: By the loo

听力原文：W: It looks as if we are in for some cold weather again this winter.

M: By the looks of things you can say that again.

Q: What does the man mean？

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A．He agrees with the woman about the weather.

B．He disagrees with the woman about the weather.

C．He didn't hear clearly what the woman said and had to judge by her looks.

D．He asked the woman to repeat.

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第9题

第三篇 Small But WiseOn December 14, NASA1 blasted a smallbut mighty telescope into space.

第三篇 Small But Wise

On December 14, NASA1 blasted a smallbut mighty telescope into space. The telescope is called WISE and is about aswide around as a trashcan. Don't let its small size fool you: WISE has apowerful digital camera, and it will be taking pictures of some the wildestobjects2 in the known universe,including asteroids, faint stars, blazing galaxies3 and giant clouds of dustwhere planets and stars are born.“I'mvery excited because we're going to be seeing parts of the universe that wehaven't seen before, ” said Ned Wright, a scientist who directs the WISEproject.

Since arriving in space, the WISEtelescope has been circling the Earth, held by gravity in a polar orbit4(thismeans it crosses close to the north and south poles with each lap5). Its camerais pointed outward, away from the Earth, and WISE will snap a picture of adifferent part of the sky every 11 minutes. After six months it will have takenpictures across the entire sky.

The pictures taken by WISE won't be likeeveryday digital photographs, however. WISE stands for “Wide-field InfraredSurvey Explorer. ” As its name suggests, the WISE camera takes pictures offeatures that give off infrared radiation6.

Radiation is energy that travels as awave. Visible light, including the familiar spectrum of light7 that becomesvisible in a rainbow, is an example of radiation. When an ordinary digitalcamera takes a picture of a tree, for example, it receives the waves of visiblelight that are reflected off the tree. When these waves enter the camerathrough the lens, they're processed by the camera, which then puts the imagetogether.

Waves of infrared radiation are longerthan waves of visible light, so ordinary digital cameras don't see them, andneither do the eyes of human beings. Although invisible to the eye, longerinfrared radiation can be detected as warmth by the skin.

That's a key idea to why WISE will beable to see things other telescopes can't.

Not everything in the universe showsup in visible light. Asteroids, for example, are giant rocks that float throughspace — but they absorb most of the light that reaches them. They don't reflectlight, so they're difficult to see. But they do give off infrared radiation, soan infrared telescope like WISE will be able to produce images of them. Duringits mission WISE will take pictures of hundreds of thousands of asteroids.

Brown dwarfs8 are another kind ofdeep-space object that will show up in WISE's pictures. These objects are“failed”stars — which means they are not massive enough to jump start9 thesame kind of reactions that power stars such as the sun. Instead, brown dwarfssimply shrink and cool down. They're so dim that they're almost impossible tosee with visible light, but in the infrared spectrum they glow.

What is sospecial about WISE？

A It is as small as a trashcan.

B It is small in size but carries a large camera.

C Its digital camera can helpastronomers to see the unknown space.

D Never before has a telescope carried a digital camera in space.

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第10题

Some Things We Know about LanguageMany things about language are a mystery, and many will

Some Things We Know about Language

Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.

First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language, no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one another. Furthermore, in historical times, there has never been a race of men without a language.

Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing.

This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises. Study has proved this to be nonsense. There are, or were, hundreds of American Indian languages, and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.

A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate, That is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.

Finally, we know that language changes. It is natural and normal for language to change; the only languages which do not change are the dead ones. This is easy to understand if we look backward in time. Change goes on in all aspects of language. Grammatical features change as do speech sounds, and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rapidly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.

In the second paragraph the author thinks that

A．some backward race doesn't have a language of its own.

B．some race in history didn't possess a language of its own.

C．any human race, whether backward or not, has a language.

D．some races on earth can communicate without language.

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