Question

  After the war,the Japanese chief of intelligence, Lt. General Seizo Arisue, admitted that his forces were never able to break the code used by the US Marine Corps(海军陆战队) .Be?cause the Navajo code talkers were the secret code of the Marines, they were often heavily guarded.

  The use of the Navajo Code was so successful that some code talkers were guarded by fel?low Marines, whose role was to kill them in case of possible capture by the enemy.

  In 1942 ，when the original 29 code talkers developed their "secret weapon" ，there were a-bout 50,000 members of the Navajo nation. By the end of the war, 540 men had served as Ma?rines. At least 400 of those were trained as code talkers.

  For decades following the war,the Navajos' contribution went unrecognized due to national security issues. It wasn't until 1968 that anyone outside the military knew about the code. The code talkers were even forbidden to tell their families about it. But in July of 2001 ，the President and Congress of the United States honored the 29 code creators. Only five were still alive. The remarks of President Bush expressed the late thankfulness of a nation whose victory in the Pacific may not have been possible without the Navajos. When the President spoke, he addressed the men whose grandfathers had made the "Long Walk" to their new home 78 years before the code talkers became Marines.

In 2002 the code talkers were honored with a movie that pictured their brave behavior：Windtalkers. For the first time,people everywhere learned their story. 

(   ) 5. The purpose of the text is to        .

   A.introduce America's Navajo nation

   B.recommend the movie Windtalkers

   C.tell readers about the Navajo Code

   D.recall America's victory in the Pacific

(   ) 6. To a guard of a code talker, the most important is        .

   A.keeping the code talker alive

   B.ensuring the safety of the code

   C.preventing the code talker escaping

   D.staying with the code talker all the time

(   ) 7. We can learn from the passage that during the war        .

   A.most of the Navajos were killed

   B.many code talkers were captured by Japanese soldiers

   C.about one percent of the Navajos served as Marines

   D.the Navajos made the " Long Walk" to fight against the Japanese

(   ) 8. How long was the story of the code talkers known by people everywhere since it was created?

    A. After 26 years.   B. After 29 years.

   C. After 49 years.   D. After 60 years.

Answer 1

1-4 BDAC 

A用来自大自然的，秋天的植物或蔬菜来装饰家既有趣又实惠。作者在此给出了 5点装饰建议。

1.B词义猜测题。根据第一段"Using fall dec?orations from nature is a fun and inexpensive way to spruce up the home"中的decoration可以猜出spruce up的词义为"装饰"。

2.D细节理解题。根据第一段第一句"Using fall decorations from nature is a fun and inex?pensive way"可知用来自大自然的，秋天的植物或蔬菜来装饰家既有趣又实惠。

3.A推理判断题。根据第二段第三行"For the best results, when collecting items for decora?tions from nature, always try to pick things that are already dry. Then,use an air drying meth?od appropriate for each type of decoration to preserve them for decorative use"可知所收集秋天的装饰品一定要干燥。且在第三段中作者继续介绍了干燥装饰品的五个步骤。答案B、C、D都是使装饰品干燥的具体步骤。

4.C细节理解题。根据倒数第六段tip two中的"then use small pumpkins and gourds to sur?round the plate at the base of the candle for a fall harvest themed center piece"，可知tip two 体现了秋天丰收的主题。