People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the ___1___ have made up their minds to ___2___ the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest (抗议) against heavy trucks which run ___3___ through the narrow High Street.
“They not only make it ___4___ to sleep at night, but they are ___5___ damage to our houses and shops of historical ___6___,” said John Norris, one of the protesters.
“__7___ we must have these noisy trucks on the roads,” said Jean Lacey, a biology student. “Why don’t they build a new road that goes ___8___ the town? Burlington isn’t much more than a ___9___ village. Its streets were never ___10___ for heavy traffic.”
Harry Fields also studying ___11___ said they wanted to make as much ___12___ as possible to force the ___13___ to realise what every body was having to ___14___. “Most of them don’t ___15___ here anyway,” he said, “They come in for meetings and that, and the Town Hall is soundproof(隔音), ___16___ they probably don’t ___17___ the noise all that much. It’s high time they realized the ___18___.”
The fourth student, Liza Vernum, said she thought the public were ___19___ on their side, and even if they weren’t they soon would be.
___20___ asked if they were ___21___ that the police might come to ___22___ them.
“Not really,” she said, “Actually we are ___23___ bell-ringers. I mean we are assistant bell-ringers for the church. There is no ___24___ against practising.”
I ___25___ the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.
1. A. college B. village C. town D. church
2. A. change B. repair C. ring D. shake
3. A. now and then B. day and night C. up and down D. over and over
4. A. terrible B. difficult C. uncomfortable D. unreasonable
5. A. doing B. raising C. putting D. producing
6. A. scene B. period C. interest D. sense
7. A. If B. Although C. When D. Unless
8. A. to B. through C. over D. round
9. A. pretty B. quiet C. large D. modern
10. A. tested B. meant C. kept D. used
11. A. well B. hard C. biology D. education
12. A. effort B. time C. trouble D. noise
13. A. townspeople B. other students C. government officials D. truck drivers
14. A. stand B. accept C. know D. share
15. A. shop B. live C. come D. study
16. A. but B. so C. or D. for
17. A. notice B. mention C. fear D. control
18. A. event B. loss C. action D. problem
19. A. hardly B. unwillingly C. mostly D. usually
20. A. I B. We C. She D. They
21. A. surprised B. afraid C. pleased D. determined
22. A. seize B. fight C. search D. stop
23. A. proper B. experienced C. hopeful D. serious
24. A. point B. cause C. need D. law
25. A. left B. found C. reached D. passed
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本文主要讲述四名大学生为抗议大卡车穿过小镇时所产生的噪音，采取“以毒攻毒”的手段，来到钟楼连续敲钟，通过产生更大的噪音，以迫使政府改变现状。
1. D。若不通读全文，此题很难选择。此题的答题依据是第23空后的 I mean we are assistant bell ringers for the church。
2. C。ring the bells 意为“敲钟”。答题依据是第23空后的bell-ringers。
3. B。从下文的 They make it difficult to sleep at night 可推知答案选 B。短语 day and night 的意思是“日夜”。
4. B。既然四名大学生要敲钟抗议，说明这些卡车噪得市民夜晚难(difficult)以入睡。
5. A。do damage to 是固定词组，其意为“对…造成危害”。
6. C。historical interest 指“历史名胜”。
7. A。比较四个选项，A 最合适，if 在此引出假设条件。
8. D。学生建议新修道路绕(round)镇而过，而不是穿(through)该镇而过。
9. C。这里说的是该镇是一个比村庄大不了多少的小镇。也正因为如此，所以上面讲到的“要绕镇修路”是可行的。
10. B。be meant for 是习语，意为“为某一目的而安排或适合于做某事”。如：These chairs are meant for guests. 这些椅子是为客人们安排的。
11. C。根据信息词 also studying 和前面一段中的 a biology student 可推知，Harry Fields 是学“生物学”的。
12. D。根据文章第 1 段的交待(四名大学生敲钟抗议)可知答案选 D。make as much noise as possible 意为“尽可能制造噪音”。
13. C。制造噪音的目的是为了迫使政府意识到目前声音污染的现状。
14. A。stand 意为“忍受、经受”。
15. B。下文说到“他们进城来是为了开会之类…”，由此可推知，“大多数的官员不住在城里”。
16. B。so 表示因果关系。
17. A。由于大多数官员不住在城里，且市政大厅又是隔音，所以知官员们不会注意到(notice)噪音。
18. D。比较四个选项可知 D 最佳。
19. C。由于四名大学生敲钟抗议城里的噪音污染，这是件对大家有益的事，所以从情理上看，“公众大部分会站在他们一边(支持他们)”。
20. A。根据文章最后一句可知“我”(I)是采访此事的记者。
21. B。根据常识可知选项 B 最合语境。
22. D。stop 表示“制止”。
23. A。根据后面的 I mean we are assistant bell-ringers for the church 可知，此题填 proper 最合适。
24. D。四名之所以不怕警察来制止他们，是因为并没有法律(law)规定不准 assistant bell-ringers 练习敲钟。
25. A。采访结束，作者离开(left)教堂，但钟声还在耳边鸣响。
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One of the best-known American writers of children’s books is Alfred Strong, or Doctor Strong, as he is better known to readers everywhere. Now, an art show called “Doctor Strong From Then to Now” is travelling around the United States. The pictures and drawings show the history of Doctor Strong.
Doctor Strong first became famous almost fifty years ago when his first children’s book was published. Since then, he has written forty-five books that have sold more than one hundred million copies around the world.
Doctor Strong’s books are known for their easy use of words and colorful, hand-drawn pictures. These drawings bring life to his imaginary creatures. The Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and hundreds of others.
The San Diego Museum, in California, organized the art show. It included about three hundred Doctor Strong’s original(最早的) drawings and some of his writings.
Most of Doctor Strong’s books, although written in a funny way, have serious messages. For example, in Mc Elligot’s Pool, he describes the danger of pollution. He discusses the arms race in The Butter Battle Book, written in 1984.
Doctor Strong is almost eighty-four years old now. He says he never planned to write stories just for children. He says he writes stories that interest people of all ages. He says he uses easy words so that everyone, even a child, can understand.
1.Alfred Strong is a famous _______ in the United States.
A．doctor B．artist C．writer D．reader
2.Doctor Strong first became famous in __________.
A．his eighties when an art show was travelling around the United States
B．his fifties when his drawings and writings were published
C．1984 when his book Mc Elligot’s Pool was published
D．his thirties when his first book was published
3.Doctor Strong’s books are very popular in America because __________.
A．they are stories about animals such as cats, elephants and so on
B．they are written in easy words with colorful pictures
C．he organized the art show in California
D．they are written in a funny way
4.His purpose in writing many such books is __________.
A．to show his original pictures and drawings
B．to organize a special art show of his own
C．to make his readers laugh or smile when they read his books
D．not only to interest people but also to uncover some serious social problems
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虎妈，美国耶鲁大学的华裔教授蔡美儿Amy Lynn Chua，出版了一本名叫《虎妈战歌》Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother的书，在美国引起轰动。在接受采访时，回答了记者的5个问题（第61—65题）。请从下列提问（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出与她的回答相匹配的问题，并在答题卡上将相应选项涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
Questions
A．What do you think of the competition between China and the US?
B．What do you think of the image of “tiger mom?”
C．How do your daughters take the criticism about you after your book was published?
D．You said you would not get her Christmas gifts or anything when your daughter refused to repeatedly practice the music. How did your husband respond?
E．What do you think makes a good mother?
F．What does your husband think of your method of bringing up kids?
1.
Chua’s answer: Well, actually I think there are many ways of being a good mother. In my book my focus is just a memory about my own family story, me trying to raise my own children in a kind of traditional Chinese way. I make mistakes and I make fun of myself. It’s amazing the way the book has been received internationally, because. I didn’t intend my book to be telling other people of view and I am a proud strict “tiger mom”. But I’m not trying to tell other people what are the best ways to teach or raise their children.
2.
Chua’s answer: Well, the title may sound a little frightening. Let me tell you why I chose the title. I was born in the year of the tiger. And “battle Hymn” in the United States comes from “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. The book is really about finding some sort of balance: how can we find the balance between the eastern way of parenting and the western way of parenting. In ways the book as been misunderstood maybe because of the title.
3.
Chua’s answer: I didn’t write this book to have any foreign policy implications. But it’s been taken into the foreign policy realm. It is of course true that there is a connection between child-raising and the future of nations. We are raising, as parents, the next generation. So I think Henry is right. We tapped into this thing of insecurity, American’s fear about the rising power of china. A friend of mine told me that if the book had been called The Battle Hymn of an Italian Mother or The Battle Hymn of a Mexican Mother, nobody would have cared. It’s really “China”. you know.
4.
Chua’s answer: I don’t think he opposes my idea of raising children. I’d like to think we have a combination, which is the right solution. You need a balance. From my perspective, what I give my kids is something that I thought was lacking in the US educational system. You know, they hate memorization, while in China you have too much of it. In the US, learning should be fun, a lot of games,. So I brought hard work and disciplines. My husband and I think this is a great thing always teaching them to question the authority and to ask why. Don’t accept everything just because somebody tells you. Figure it out yourself. I really think you need to combine both these qualities if you want creativity and dynamism.
5.
Chua’s answer: They both are stronger than I am. I am really proud of them. Their friends and communities supported them. At a time, I couldn’t even look at the Internet because there are so many negative comments. And they would find the good ones and text them to me, saying “here’s a good one mommy, hang in there.” This experience has actually brought my family together. Believe it or not, not just my kids, also my parents and my three younger sisters have supported me.
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At the conference, people of different _______ were given a chance to exchange theirs with each other.
A．points B．manners C．views D．ways
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Deep in the Amazon forest, thousands of people still live in isolation from the rest of the world.
In a recent press release, the Brazilian government confirmed the existence of another isolated tribe of about 200 people living in the Vale do Javari reservation. The 200 people living in the Vale do Javari reservation. The reservation, located near the Peruvian border, is about the size of Portugal. At least another 14 isolated tribes, with a total population of about 2000, call the area home.
The newly observed group lives on four large straw-roofed buildings and grows corn, peanut and other crops.
Brazil’s National Indian Foundation (BNTF) first noticed the reservation in the forest using satellite maps, but it wasn’t until April that an airplane expedition was able to confirm the tribe’s existence. “The work of finding and protecting isolated groups is part of Brazilian public policy,” said the BNIF officer for Vale do Javari, Fabricio Amorim. “To confirm something like this takes years of hard work.”
BNIF estimates there are 68 isolated tribes living in the Amazon. The organization uses airplanes to avoid disturbing the tribes through personal contact, but that doesn’t mean others are so respectful of their right to privacy.
Illegal fishing, woodcutting and hunting bring people into the protected area. Oil exploration on the Peruvian side of the border is another threat. All kinds of criminals also invade the lands of the local groups, said Amorim. The outsiders can damage the land and influence the cultures of indigenous(土著的)peoples. They can also bring diseases which can wipe out the whole population that still lack even basic antibiotics(抗生素).
Brazil’s indigenous peoples won the legal right to their traditional lands in Brazil’s 1988 Constitution, which stated that all indigenous lands shall be divided and turned over to tribes within five years. Indigenous groups now control 11 percent of Brazil’s territory, including 22 percent of the Amazon.
Allowing indigenous groups the right homelands is not just a matter of human rights. The rest of the world can benefit from their knowledge. Mark Plotkin has spent years living with the people of the Amazon and learning from their traditional healers. In his lecture, he pointed out that many useful materials and knowledge, including numerous drugs, can be gained from listening to the indigenous groups of the Amazon. Besides this, they are also more effective at protecting the land, and less expensive, than hired rangers(护林人).
1.The underlined word in the first paragraph probably means “a state of ”.
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A．separation |
B．interaction |
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C．satisfaction |
D．excitement |
2.From the passage we can learn that the tribes in the Amazon forest .
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A．only live on a reservation designated for them |
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B．prefer straw-roofed buildings to wooden ones |
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C．keep contact with the outside world through airplanes |
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D．have the legal right to the land they live on |
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to Amorim?
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A．Privacy violation is common among the Amazon tribes. |
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B．The laws dividing the lands of the tribes are far from enough. |
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C．Modern civilization endangers the tribes and their cultures. |
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D．It is hard to make public policy to protect primitive tribes. |
4.The last paragraph is mainly about .
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A．the lost human rights of the indigenous peoples |
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B．the benefits of protecting the primitive tribes |
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C．the value of traditional healing |
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D．the indigenous peoples as guardians of the Amazon forest |
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We’ve heard about radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan reaching American shores. Experts say so far there is no reason to worry, and point out that we meet radiation every day. Where and how? NPR’s Renee Montagne posed that question to Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and professor of nuclear engineering.
MONTAGNE: How many things emit radiation?
Dr CARACAPPA: Well, radiation and radioactive material is a part of nature. So everything that’s living has some amount of radiation coming from it—a very small amout. Plus there’s radiation in the ground and the air.
So the extremes are uranium in the soil to bananas?
Yes.
By the way, why do bananas have radiation?
Bananas have a lot of potassium(钾). And a small amount of potassium naturally is called potassium 40, which is radioactive
What’s the difference between radiation that’s harmful and not harmful?
Well, the term radiation can apply to a lot of different things. But the harmful radiation is ionizing(离子)radiation. It has enough energy that it can make chemical changes in material. We could get ionizing radiation from an X-ray, for example. It’s the kind of radiation that causes cancer.
The broader definition of radiation includes a lot of things that we call non-ionizing radiation. That includes everything like radio waves and visible light and your microwave.
So what then is the largest contributor of ionizing radiation?
For the natural sources of ionizing radiation, actually the biggest chunk of that tends to come from radon(氡), which is a radioactive material that is present in the air. It can become a concern when it builds up in low-lying areas of homes like basements.
Would it be fair to say that most people do not need to worry about the danger of being exposed to radiation?
I would say that the everyday exposure to radioation that we meet contributes an extremely tiny risk to our life or to our health compared to all of the other risks that we meet in our day-to-day life.
1.We can infer from the first paragraph that radiation is______.
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A．rare |
B．powerful |
C．dangerous |
D．common |
2.The passage may be _______.
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A．an interview |
B．an argument |
C．a talk show program |
D．a science report |
3.Whether radiation is harmful or not depends on______.
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A．whether it has a small amount of potassium |
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B．whether it changes chemical in materials. |
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C．whether it has energy to change materials |
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D．whether it is visible in life |
4.The purpose of writing this passage is to _______.
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A．advise on how to protect us from radiation |
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B．analyze what causes radiation in daily life |
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C．warn people of the danger of radiation |
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D．expect people not to fear everyday radiation |
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