作者：刘国超
A Life with Birds
For nearly 17 years David Cope has worked as one of the Tower of London's yeoman warders, __1__ known to tourists as beefeaters(伦敦塔守卫人). David, 64, lives in a three-bedroomed flat right at the __2__ of the Byward Tower, one of the gatehouses. "__3__ our bedroom we have a marvellous view of Tower Bridge and the Thames, " says David.
The Tower of London is famous __4__ its ravens(渡鸦), the large black birds which have lived there for over three centuries. David was immediately fascinated by the birds and when he was __5__ the post of Raven Master eight years ago he had no __6__ in accepting it. "The birds have now become my life and I'm always __7__ of the fact that I am __8__ a tradition. The legend says that if the ravens leave the Tower, England will fall to enemies, and it's my job to __9__ sure this doesn't happen!"
David __10__ about four hours a day to the care of the ravens. He has grown to love them and the __11__ that he lives right next to them is ideal. "I can __12__ a close eye on them all the time, and not just when I'm working." __13__, David's wife Mo was not __14__ on the idea of life in the Tower, but she too will be sad to leave when he retires next year. "When we look out of our windows, we see history __15__ around us, and we are taking it in and storing it up for our future memories."
1. A. more B. better C. sooner D. very
2. A. height B. summit C. peak D. top
3. A. Since B. Out C. From D. To
4. A. for B. because C. of D. by
5. A. made B. left C. got D. offered
6. A. regret B. delay C. hesitation D. choice
7. A. aware B. knowing C. pleased D. delighted
8. A. holding B. maintaining C. surviving D. lasting
9. A. take B. make C. have D. keep
10. A. devotes B. spends C. passes D. provides
11. A. reason B. chance C. opportunity D. fact
12. A. hold B. have C. keep D. put
13. A. Firstly B. First of all C. At first D. First
14. A. interested B. keen C. fond D. happy
15. A. every B. all C. much D. so
[答案与解析]
1. B。此处是well known的比较级。 2. D。at the top of... 意为"在......顶部"。 3. C。从房间可看到塔桥和泰晤士河的风景。 4. A。be famous for... 意为"以......闻名"。 5. D。此处指"提供一个职位"。 6. C。have no hesitation in doing sth. 意为"毫不犹豫地做某事"。 7. A。be aware of意为"意识到"。 8. B。maintain意为"保持", 其它选项用在此处语义不符。 9. B。make sure意为"确保"。 10. A。devote... to...在此处指"在......上花费时间"。11. D。他紧挨着渡鸦居住这一事实是很理想的。12. C。keep a close eye on意为"紧密注视"。 13. C。at first在此意为"起初;开始时"。 14. B。be keen on意为"热心于"。15. B。all around... 意为"在......周围"。
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作者：毛颖坤
Miss Lovely began to work in our office last year. She thought she was__1__and hardly talked with us. Her house was a little far from our company and she had to go to work __2__ every day.
Of course, she had to spend a lot of __3__on this. She decided to have her own car, and began to __4__how to drive two months ago. Now she was able to drive, but had to__5__a licence before she could buy a car. It took her a week to__6__the traffic regulations. She was sure she would__7__the examinations.
It was finally time for her to take the examinations yesterday. Miss Lovely didn't come to work. We__8__she would drive her new car to our company this morning. But to our__9__she came here by taxi and didn't tell anybody about it. None of us asked her the__10__but her face clearly showed she had__11__in the exams.
This afternoon one of our workmates told us __12__had happened to the girl when she was__13__. Yesterday the chief examiner had asked her some questions, but she could answer only a __14__. For example, "Would you run over a man or a dog if you see them both in the middle of the__15__?"
"Of course I'd run over the dog, sir", Miss Lovely answered without __16__.
"I'm sorry to tell you, Miss Lovely," the examiner shook his__17__and said, "you have to take the examination again!"
"I don't think my answers were__18__, sir," the girl said in a hurry. "I__19__ run over a man, you know!"
"I agree with your__20__, Miss Lovely," the chief examiner said with a smile. "but why not brake (刹车)?"
1. A. old B. foolish C. clever D. kind
2. A. by taxi B. by train C. on foot D. by plane
3. A. time B. money C. energy D. room
4. A. teach B. plan C. operate D. learn
5. A. find B. apply for C. look for D. make
6. A. learn B. forget C. teach D. break
7. A. take B. prepare C. explain D. pass
8. A. suggested B. described C. thought D. replied
9. A. surprise B. joy C. anger D. pleasure
10. A. name B. reason C. rule D. notice
11. A. believed B. heard C. found D. failed
12. A. why B. how C. what D. when
13. A. ill B. alone C. in D. out
14. A. few B. several C. all D. lot
15. A. room B. playground C. hospital D. road
16. A. asking B. thinking C. discussing D. advising
17. A. foot B. nose C. ears D. head
18. A. wrong B. correct C. right D. true
19. A. can B. need C. can't D. needn't
20. A. car B. opinion C. fact D. purpose
[答案与解析]
1. C。由下文可知,此空应该填clever。Lovely认为自己很聪明,所以她很少跟别人说话。 2. A。她的住处离公司有点儿远,她每天都得坐出租车上班。3. B。每天坐出租车她当然要花很多钱。4. D。她决定买车,所以她两个月前开始学开车。 5. B。她会开车了,她在买车前得申请领取驾照。 6. A。她用了一周的时间记住了交通规则。 7. D。她很有把握自己能通过考试。 8. C。我们以为Lovely今天早晨会开着自己的新车来公司上班。 9. A。但令我们惊奇的是,她坐出租车来上班。 10. B 11. D。我们谁也没问她这其中的原因,但她的脸色清楚地表明她没有通过考试。12. C 13. D。今天下午当Lovely不在场的时候,我们的一位同事跟我们讲了她所发生的事情。14. A。主考官问Lovely几个问题,但她只能回答其中几个问题。15. D。如果你发现路中间有一个人和一条狗,你是压人还是压狗? 16. B。without thinking意为"不假思索地"。 17. D。主考官摇摇头,表示对Lovely的回答不满意。 18. A 19. C。Lovely对自己过于自信,认为自己的答案没错,急切地说:"我不能去压人吧!" 20. B。主考官同意Lovely的意见,但主考官微笑着说:"为什么不刹车呢?"
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作者：董瑾玉
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your students, you must be __1__-speaking, with a good, strong,__2__voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to __3__what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
__4__a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class; he __5__the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his__6__, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express his__7__. Listen to him, and you will__8__the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always __9__according to what he is talking about. The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't __10__that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important__11__between the teacher's work and the actor's. The__12__has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the__13__words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually__14__beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem __15__on the stage.
A good teacher__16__in quite a different way. His students take an active part in his __17__: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don't __18__something, they will say no. The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his students, which is in his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must __19__it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine__20__in class but unable to take part in a stage play because their brains wouldn't keep discipline: they could not keep strictly to what another had written.
1. A. clear B. slow C. small D. low
2. A. frightening B. fearing C. exciting D. pleasing
3. A. act out B. talk C. say D. repeat
4. A. Listen B. Look C. Watch D. Learn
5. A. stands B. sits C. lies D. talks
6. A. tongue B. words C. legs D. arms
7. A. attention B. thanks C. feelings D. sentences
8. A. hear B. see C. think D. guess
9. A. making B. changing C. expressing D. giving
10. A. tell B. express C. show D. mean
11. A. things B. differences C. points D. jobs
12. A. actor B. teacher C. boy D. student
13. A. different B. same C. above D. following
14. A. read B. known C. fixed D. written
15. A. natural B. bad C. false D. clear
16. A. is B. works C. has D. teaches
17. A. group B. party C. class D. play
18. A. give B. place C. obey D. hear
19. A. invent B. discover C. teach D. continue
20. A. learners B. watchers C. actors D. listeners
[答案与解析]
1. A 2. D。clear, good, strong和pleasing都是用来说明一位优秀的教师必备的条件。3. A。为了使意义表达得更清楚,教师必须能够把所教的东西表演出来。4. C 5. A 6. D 7. C。观察一位优秀的教师上课,你就会发现他不是一动不动地坐在全班学生面前,在整个教学过程中,他一直站着,他四处走动,借助双臂、双手和手指来解释,面部表情表达着自己的思想感情。8. A 9. B。听他讲课,你会听到他那抑扬顿挫、悦耳动听的声音总是随着他所讲的内容变化着。10. D
11. B。一位优秀的教师具有好演员的天赋这一事实并不意味着他在舞台上确实能演好戏,因为教师的工作和演员的工作有着重要的区别。12. A 13. B 14. C 15. A。演员必须背台词,每次他扮演某个角色时,他都得准确地重复同样的台词,甚至是他的舞台动作和说话方式都是事先固定下来的,他需要做的就是使这些认真背下来的台词在舞台上表演得自然些。16. B。一位优秀教师的工作则完全不同。17. C。学生们以积极的态度听老师的课,他们提问、回答问题。18. C。前面已有提示词obey。19. A。老师不可能把自己所教的内容都背下来,他必须创造性地教学。20. C。许多在课堂上是一位出色的演员的教师却不能参加舞台上的演出。
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作者：谷宁
Some time ago, two navy officers made a journey to the deepest point on the earth. The two men went down seven miles to the__1__of the Pacific Ocean inside a small steel ball to find out if there are any__2__of life.
They set out early so that the ball would come to the surface in the__3__and so be easily found by the mother ship. The divers began__4__at dawn and soon afterwards the ball__5__under the surface of the water.
__6__, the temperature dropped to freezing point and the men trembled inside the ball. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone__7__how they felt. At a depth of 3,000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut__8__from the outside world. At 30,000 feet, the men were shocked by a sudden loud__9__- even the smallest hole in the ball would have__10__instant death. Luckily, it was only one of the outer windows__11__had broken.
Soon afterwards, the ball__12__the soft ocean floor, raising a big cloud of "dust" made__13__different kinds of small, dead sea animals. Here, powerful lights lit up the __14__water. The men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them, quite__15__ by the very large water pressure. But they did not__16__to leave lights on for long, as the great__17__from them made the water boil. Quite__18__, the telephone began working again and the weak__19__ clear voices of the officers were heard on the mother ship. After a__20__of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later.
1. A. foot B. base C. bottom D. tip
2. A. marks B. signs C. signals D. messages
3. A. evening B. night C. secret D. daytime
4. A. diving B. rising C. traveling D. preparations
5. A. disappeared B. floated C. threw D. flew
6. A. In time B. On time C. At times D. At one time
7. A. guiding B. realizing C. describing D. imagining
8. A. down B. over C. off D. out
9. A. voice B. noise C. explosion D. shout
10. resulted B. suggested C. meant D. saved
11. A. where B. that C. which D. whose
12. A. touched B. visited C. attacked D. landed
13. A. of B. from C. up of D. into
14. A. green B. blue C. dark D. hot
15. A. unbelieved B. unchanged C. uncovered D. untroubled
16. A. use B. need C. dare D. think
17. A. light B. heat C. pressure D. sound
18. A. unexpected B. uncovered C. unknown D. uncontrolled
19. A. or B. and C. but D. either
20. A. living B. stay C. rest D. break
[答案与解析]
1. C 2. B。两名海军军官乘坐一个小钢球船潜入水下七海里至太平洋底部,想发现那里是否有生命存在的迹象。
3. D。根据下文可知,此处应该填名词daytime, in the daytime意为"在白天"。
4. D 5. A。天一亮潜水员们就开始准备,之后不久钢球船就潜入水下。
6. A。in time在此句中意为"过一段时间",而不是"及时"的意思。
7. C。describing是现在分词作状语,意为"描述"。
8. C。cut off是固定词组,意"隔绝"。
9. B。由下文可知,此处是指"噪音",而不是"爆炸"。
10. C。钢球船上甚至是微小的一个洞都将意味着(潜水员的)立刻死亡。
11. B。本句中的it was...that...是强调句型。
12. A。touched相当于landed on或reached。
13. C。钢球船到达太平洋洋底时,由各种各样的很小的死亡的海洋动物构成的一大团"尘雾"升腾而起。
14. C。由于洋底很深,阳光照射不到,故称为dark water。
15. D。完全不受强大的水压的干扰。
16. C。dare在此处是实义动词。
17. B。本句中的them是指the lights, 强光发出的热量会使海水沸腾。
18. A。unexpected是过去分词作状语,意为"完全出乎意料之外"。
19. C。潜水员听到了从指挥船上传来指挥官很小但很清晰的声音。
20. B。在太平洋洋底逗留了三十分钟后,潜水员开始返程,三小时后浮出水面。
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作者：赵明非
London's River Thames has twenty-seven bridges. Tower Bridge, the first bridge over the Thames as you travel towards London from the sea, is the__1__of them all. The thing that is surprising about __2__is that it opens in the middle. It does this to let the big ships__3__to the Pool of London. If you are__4__enough to see the bridge with its two opening arms high in the air, you will never forget it.
Tower Bridge is less than one hundred years old. It was built in the__5__. By 1850, everyone__6__that a bridge across the Thames near the Tower London which is almost a thousand years old was most necessary. But the__7__argued about the new bridge for about another thirty years. The argue lasted__8__long because of two problems. The new bridge must look like the Tower of London-everyone said so. It__9__not look like a modern bridge. But because of the tall ships it was__10__to have a modern design.
At last, two__11__designers had the idea of an opening bridge. And they made it look like the Tower, so everyone was__12__. It was a wonderful success. There was so much traffic on the river__13__the bridge opened at least twelve times a day. A hundred years __14__, the River Thames was London's busiest road.
Today big__15__don't come so far up the Thames. Tower Bridge opens perhaps only twice a week,__16__the same wonderful machinery is still working. It can still lift the two__17__opening arms-each 1,000 tons-leaving seventy meters for the ships to__18__.
And they can still open and close the __19__in one-and-a-half minutes. Things are changing now at Tower Bridge, but whatever__20__in its exciting future, Tower Bridge will always mean London.
1. A. widest B. highest
C. newest D. most famous
2. A. the river B. the bridges
C. London D. Tower Bridge
3. A. through B. over
C. under D. below
4. A. tall B. glad
C. afraid D. lucky
5. A. 1890 B. 1890s
C. 1890' D. 1890s'
6. A. agreed B. suggested
C. told D. hoped
7. A. travelers B. Londoners
C. builders D. designers
8. A. so B. not
C. very D. not so
9. A. dare B. need
C. used D. must
10. A. possible B. impossible
C. necessary D. important
11. A. clever B. foolish
C. careless D. troublesome
12. A. satisfied B. angry
C. surprised D. disappointed
13. A. where B. when
C. that D. which
14. A. ago B. later
C. before D. passed
15. A. cars B. ships
C. buses D. trucks
16. A. or B. but
C. and D. then
17. A. long B. heavy
C. shining D. wonderful
18. A. go over the bridge
B. go through
C. move quickly D. stop there
19. A. bridge B. river
C. tower D. ship
20. A. builds B. looks
C. happens D. opens
[答案与解析]
1. D。伦敦的泰晤士河上有二十七座桥,当你从海上向伦敦旅行时,泰晤士河上的第一座桥--塔桥,是所有桥中最著名的。
2. D。承接上文,此处指塔桥的令人惊奇之处。
3. A。介词through表示"通过"。
4. D。如果你有幸看到桥张开双臂高悬在空中,你将永远不会忘记它。
5. B。in the 1890s或in the 1890's均指"在十九世纪九十年代"。
6. A。suggest后面接宾语从句时,从句中的谓语动词应该用虚拟语气;在A、C、D三个选项中,只有选项A语意最合适。
7. D。但是,设计者们为这座新桥又争论了大约三十年。
8. A。争论这么长时间是因为两个问题。
9. D。must not在此意为"决不"。
10. C。但由于高大的轮船(在此通过),这座桥有必要进行现代化的设计。
11. A。聪明的设计者。
12. A。每个人对这一设计都感到满意。
13. C。本句中使用的是so ...that...结果状语从句。
14. A。一百年前,泰晤士河是伦敦最繁忙的交通路线。
15. B。根据上下文可知,此处指"轮船"。
16. B。此处表转折关系。
17. B。从本句中的解释"each 1,000 tons"可知,the opening arms是很"重的"。
18. B。留出七十米的距离让轮船通过。
19. A。桥的开和关只用一分半钟。
20. C。不管将来发生什么事,塔桥将永远代表伦敦。