There were so few the woman's possessions that she could carry them in a single suitcase.()
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第2题
() the woman's possessions that she could carry them in a single suitcase.
A.Were so few
B.So few were
C.Few were so
D.There were so few
第6题
听力原文: When cars first started appearing on the streets of the world, few people took them seriously. They were toys--playthings for grown men who didn't have much to do. No one thought that the automobile would become the world's most popular means of transportation.
When Henry Ford started selling his Model T in 1908, he changed all that. Ford believed that a car should be low-cost transportation that everyone could afford. So he decided to make such a car. First, he wanted a dependable automobile that wouldn't break down easily. Then he wanted a simple engine that almost anyone could fix.
Ford wanted to sell the car at a low price, so he had to make it at a low cost. Thus he made only one model and designed one color--black.
In 1932, the Duesenberg brothers produced a car that many people think it was the most luxurious automobile ever made--the Duesenberg SJ. Every Duesenberg car was custom-made, so each one was different. But it usually weighed about 7,000 pounds and had a very wide wheelbase--150 inches. It also had a 400 horsepower engine that could drive the huge car from zero to 100 miles per hour in 17 seconds.
The inside was very luxurious, too. It had the best silk, leather, silver and wood. A Dusenberg car was definitely expensive but rich people often felt that they had to own one. Unfortunately, the car cost so much to produce that the company lost money. In 1937, after making only 500 of them, the Duesenbergs stopped producing this kind of cars forever.
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A.The two models of cars.
B.The history of car industry.
C.The development of cars in America.
D.The structure of Duesenberg cars.
第7题
A.as litte
B.so litte
C.too few
D.very few
第8题
is city was named after Alexander the Great’King of Greece.After Alexander’s death, a great general named Ptolemy became ruler of Egypt.
The Greeks loved learning.Ptolemy believed that people needed to have written records of their thoughts and ideas.They needed to have a place to collect their books.For the first time in history, Ptolemy tried to collect together all the Greek books that had been written.To do this, he built the largest and the best library in ancient world.
Before this time, great writings were often hard to find, and many had been lost.Books were then written by hand on a kind of paper called papyrus.Sheets of papyrus were rolled around wooden sticks.The papyrus(纸莎草制的纸)rolls were stored in deep shelves on the library walls.
All books brought in Egypt were taken to the library.There,scholars studied them and corrected any mistakes.The books were copied over so they would be easier to read and store.They were listed in catalog(目录).
The library at Alexandria grew to have over a half million books.It was a center of learning for over 700 years before it was destroyed by fire in A.D.391.
1.Alexandria is the name of a() while Alexander was the name of a ().
A.place in Egypt; king in Greece
B.place in Greece; king in Egypt
C.king in Greece; place in Egypt
D.place in Greece; king in Egypt
2.In this passage the word“scholars”means ().
A.people who fought as soldiers
B.people with much learning
C.people who taught in schools
D.people who wrote the Greek books
3.The passage does not say so, but it makes you think that ().
A.it was hard to make papyrus
B.copying books took a long time
C.no one ever read the books at Alexandria
D.Books from all over the world were brought to the library
4.Why did Ptolemy build a large library at Alexandria?()
A.Because he thought it would make him as famous as Alexander the Great.
B.Because he wanted a safe place to collect all Greek books.
C.Because he wanted a new way to print books.
D.Because he wanted to correct all the mistakes in the books.
5.Which of the following does the passage lead you to believe?()
A.The library at Alexandria only had a few hundred books.
B.There were many libraries in Egypt at that time.
C.The great library helped to make Alexandria famous.
D.The scholars corrected all the mistakes in the books.
第9题
The Deer's Death
He ran close, and again stood still, stopped by a new fear. Around him the grass was whispering and alive. He looked wildly about, then down. The ground was black with ants, great energetic ants that took no notice of him, but hurried towards the fighting shape. And as he drew in his breath and pity and terror seized him, the beast fell and the screaming stopped. Now he could hear nothing but a bird singing, and the sound of the rustling (沙沙声) whispering ants.
He peered over at the blackness that twitched with the jerking(抽搐) nerves. It grew quieter. There were small twitches from the mass that still looked vaguely like the shape of a small animal.
It came into his mind that he could shoot it and end its pain; and he raised the gun. Then he lowered it again. The deer could no longer feel; its fighting was a mechanical protest of the nerves. But it was not that which made him put down the gun. It was a swelling feeling of rage and misery and protest that expressed itself in the thought: if I had not come it would have died like this, so why should I interfere? All over the bush things like this happen; they happen all the time; this is how life goes on, by living things dying painfully. I cannot stop it. He was glad that the deer was unconscious and had gone past suffering so that he did not have to make a decision to kill it. At his feet, now, were ants tricking back with pink fragments in their mouths and there was a fresh acid smell in his nose. He sternly controlled the uselessly convulsing(痉挛的) muscles of his empty stomach, and reminded himself: the ants must eat, too.
The shape had grown small. Now it looked like nothing to be recognized. He saw the blackness thin, and bits of white showed through, shining in the sun—yes, there was the sun just up. Then the boy looked at those insects. A few were standing and gazing up at him with small glittering eyes. "Go away!" he said to the ants coldly. "I am not for you—not just yet, at any rate."
He bent over the bones and touched the sockets(孔) in the skull: that was where the eyes were, he thought suspiciously, remembering the liquid eyes of a deer.
That morning, perhaps an hour ago, this small creature had been stepping proud and free through the bush even as he himself had done. Proudly stepping the earth, it had smelt the cold morning air. Walking like kings, it had moved freely through this bush, where each blade of grass grew for it alone, and where the river ran pure sparkling water for it to drink.
And then—what had happened? Such a sure swift footed thing could surely not be trapped by a swarm of ants?
How was the deer when the boy first saw it? ______.
A.It was already dead in the bush.
B.It was still on its feet.
C.It was lying on the ground dying.
D.It was fighting the ants to a finish.
第10题
完成下列各题 C
Some villagers were going to celebrate an important wine festival(酒宴)in a few days’time,So they borrowed a huge barrel from the nearest town,put it in the village square, and decided that each of them should empty a bottle of the best wine he had into it,so that there should be plenty at the feast(宴会). One of the villagers thought he would be very clever.“If I pour a bottle of water in.instead of wine.No one will notice it,”he said to himself.“because there will be so much excellent wine in the barrel that the water will be lost in it.” The night of the feast arrived.Everybody gathered in the village square with their bowls and their glasses for the wine.The tap(塞子)on the barrel was opened,but what came out was pure water.Everyone in the village had had the same idea. The villagers borrowed a huge barrel in order to__________.
A.hold water
B.take the place of wine bottle
C.hold wine
D.empty bottles
第11题
Among these were a number of great lords who had been degraded from their former rifles and estates, from which degradation King Richard had lifted them. They planned to fail upon King Henry and his followers and to massacre (屠杀) them during a great tournament (中世纪马上比武大会) which was being held at Oxford. And they might have succeeded had not one of their own members betrayed them.
But Henry did not appear at the lists; whereupon, knowing that he had been lodging at Windsor with only a few attendants, the conspirators marched there against him. In the meantime, the king had been warned of the plot, so that instead of finding him in the royal castle, they discovered through their scouts that he had hurried to London, and that he was marching against them at the head of a considerable army. So nothing was left but flight. One and another, they were all caught and some killed. Those few who found friends faithful and bold enough to afford them shelter dragged those friends down in their own min.
Why did the nobles wish to kill Henry?
A.Henry had taken away power given to them by Richard.
B.Henry was weak, wicked, and treacherous.
C.Henry had needlessly killed members of their families.
D.Henry had killed King Richard.