A few years later, Franklin got married, started his own printing shop, and was()a successful young businessman.
A.looked down upon as
B.looked upon as
C.thrust upon as
D.become interested in
A.looked down upon as
B.looked upon as
C.thrust upon as
D.become interested in
第2题
The Erie Canal is mentioned in the passage because()
A.it ended just a few years later in a tremendous failure
B.it suffered from competition from railroads and trucks
C.it proved to be less profitable than its investors expected
D.its success led to the great American canal boom in the 1830s
第3题
The Erie Canal is mentioned in the passage because___________
A.it ended just a few years later in a tremendous failure
B.it suffered from competition from railroads and trucks
C.it proved to be less profitable than its investors expected
D.its success led to the great American canal boom in the 1830s
第4题
听力原文:M: You've been here three years. Have you had much of a chance to travel?
W: Not much. I planned to go to Florida last December, but I had to postpone the trip. Then a few months later I finally made it there.
Q: When did the woman go to Florida?
(18)
A.Three years ago.
B.This year.
C.Last year.
D.During December.
第5题
Icy Microbes
1 In ice that has sealed a salty Antarctic lake for more than 2,800 years, scientists have found frozen bacteria and algae that returned to life after thawing. The research may help in the search for life on Mars, which is thought to have subsurface lakes of ice.
2 A research team led by Peter Doran of the University Of Illinois at Chicago drilled through more than 39 feet of ice to collect samples of bacteria and algae. When Doran's team brought them back and warmed them up a bit, they sprang back to life.
3 Doran said the microbes have been age-dated at 2,800 years old, but even older microbes may live deeper in the ice sheet sealing the lake, and in the briny water below the ice. That deeper ice and the water itself will be cautiously sampled in a later expedition that will test techniques that may one day be used on Mars.
4 Called Lake Vida, the 4.5-square-kilometer body is one of a series of lakes located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, some 2,200 kilometers due south of New Zealand. This lake has been known since the 1950s, but people ignored it because they thought it was just a big block of ice. While at the site for other research in the 1990s, Doran and his colleagues sent radar signals into the clear ice covering the lake and were surprised to find that 62 feet below there was a pool of liquid water that was about seven times more salty than seawater.
5 That prompted the researchers to return in 1996 with equipment to drill a hole down to within a few feet of the water layer. At the bottom of this hole, researchers harvested specimens of . algae and bacteria.
6 The researchers will return in 2004 equipped with instruments that are sterilized. They will then drill through the full 62 feet of ice and sample some of the briny water from the lake for analysis. The water specimen will be cultured to see if it contains life. Specimens from the water are expected to be even older than the life forms extracted from the ice covering.
A Significance of Testing Techniques for Sampling Microbes in the Deep lee Sheet
B Special Features of Lake Vida
C Later Expedition on Mars
D 2004 Revisit Planned for Collecting Lake Water Specimens
E Antarctic Frozen Life Sampled and Revived
F Accidental Discovery of lee-sealed Lake Water in Antarctica
Paragraph 2 ______
第6题
听力原文: The word "sports" first meant something that people did in their free time. Later it often meant hunting wild animals and birds. About 100 years ago the word was first used for organized games. This is the usual meaning of the word today.
People spend a lot of their spare time playing football, basketball, tennis and many other sports. Such people play because they want. A few people are paid for the sport they play and they are called "professional athletes", or "pros". They may only be pros for only a few years, but during that time the best ones can earn a lot of money. For example, a professional football player in America earns more than $1,000,000 a year. The stars earn a lot more. Some international golf and tennis pros can make more than a million dollars a year. Of course, only a few pros can earn much money. But perhaps the most surprising thing about pros and money is this: the stars can earn more money from advertising than from sports. An advertisement for sports equipment does not simply say "Buy our things". It says "Buy the same shirt and shoes as the pros have". Famous pros can even advertise things like watches and food. They allow companies to use their names or photographers and they are paid for this usage. Sports are no longer just something for people's spare time.
(30)
A.Someone paid for the sport they play.
B.Hunting wild animals and birds.
C.Organized games.
D.Something people did in their spare time.
第7题
Born in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant student at school and almost talented lawyer later, was much interested in politics.
Jefferson was elected Governor of Virginia in 1779, and he was sent to France as the representative of the American government in 1784. Sixteen years later, at the age of 57, he was elect- ed president after Washington and Adams.
Far from a handsome man, he was tall with long arms and big hands. Jefferson, who was an amusing talker in conversation but a poor speaker, was generally good-natured.
Jefferson was regarded as a defender of freedom on America. As a president, he protected the right of free speech. Interestingly enough, in his eight years as President, Jefferson never vetoed a bill which Congress had passed. He did a lot in organizing the new University of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson died on July the fourth, 1826, the 50th anniversary of American Independence.
Fron the passage we can infer that America won its independence in ______.
A.1786
B.1776
C.1842
D.1800
第8题
根据材料请回答 41~45 题
Memory
One day more than fifty years ago, a young man had an accident on his motor-bike in which he suffered a few apparently minor injuries.There was a bruise (淤青) on the left side of his forehead and some slight bleeding from his left ear.He was taken to hospital for examination but X-rays did not reveal any other injuries. Nevertheless, the doctor who was treating him decided to keep him in hospital for further observations because the young man was having difficulty in speaking and seemed very confused.
At the time of the accident, the young man was 22 years old, and the date was Au-gust, 1933.A week later, he was able to carry on what seemed a perfectly normal conver-sation.However, he told the doctor that he was only 11 years old and that the date was February, 1922.What is more, he could not remember anything that had happened since 1922.For example, he could not recall having spent five years in Australia, or coming back to England and working for two years on a golf course.
As time went by, part of his memory of the eleven missing years come back.A few weeks later, he even remembered his years in Australia.But the two years of his life just before the accident were still a completely a blank.Three weeks after his injury, he went back to the village where he had been living for those two years.Everything seemed unfa-miliar and he did not recall ever having been there before.Despite this, he was able to take up his old job again in the village and to do it satisfactorily.But he often got lost when walking around the village and found it difficult to remember what he had done during the day.
Slowly, however, his memory continued to return so that, about ten weeks after the accident, he could even remember most of the previous two years.There remained only one complete gap in his memory: he could remember absolutely nothing about what.he had done a few minutes immediately before the accident or the accident itself. This part of his memory never came back.
第 41 题 When did the accident happen?
A.In February 1922.
B.A few years ago.
C. when the young man was in Australia.
D.Over half a century ago.
第9题
Ten years passed, and I found that he had ______.
A.some white hair
B.a few white hairs
C.a few white hair
D.much white hair
第10题
听力原文: Thomas Edison is a well known American inventor. He was taught by his mother when he was a child. Later he learned things by himself by reading and experimenting. He built a lab for himself to work in, and he worked very hard in his sixty years of scientific activities. He made over a thousand inventions. Few inventors in the world have had such great success.
Edison's first invention was made in 1868. He was then a telegraph operator. He wished to work out a new method to improve the old telegraph system because it was impossible at that time for the system to send more than one message along the same line at the same time. He read all the works of Faraday, another great scientist, before starting his invention. Sometimes he didn't go to bed and didn't even stop to eat. He thought he had very much to do and there was no time to lose. Days and nights he was reading and reading. After he read through Faraday's writings, he began his experiments. A few months later he succeeded in building a double transmitter and improved the old telegraph System.
(30)
A.He went to a famous school.
B.He was taught by his mother.
C.His parents employed a good teacher to teach him.
D.He was taught by his father.
第11题
A fewer children are dying
B a few years ago
C what is coming to be called Death Control
D which face us at the present time
E making it possible for people to live longer
F to keep people alive longer