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In the famous fairy tale, Snow White eats the Queen’s apple and falls victim to a curse; in Shakespeare’s novel, Romeo drinks the poison and dies; some ancient Chinese kings took pills that contained mercury, believing that it would make them immortal, but they died afterwards.
Poison has long been an important part in literature and history, and it seems to always be about evil, danger and death. But how much do you really know about poison?
An exhibition, The Power of Poison, opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, intended to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison. The exhibition will continue until Feb. 2016, reported The New York Times.
The museum tour starts in a rainforest setting, where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars, frogs and spiders. Golden poison frogs, for instance, aren’t much bigger than a coin, but their skin is covered in a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves, and a single frog has enough venom to kill 10 grown humans.
The exhibition also features interactive activities. In an iPad-based game, visitors are presented with three puzzling illnesses and asked to identify the poisons based on symptoms. In one case, for example, a pet dog is found sick in a backyard and visitors have to figure out whether it was the toad (蟾蜍), the leaky batteries in the trash or the dirty pond water that did it.
“Poisons can be bad for some things,” Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the museum, told NBC News. “Yet they can also be good for others.”
This is what visitors learn from the last part of the exhibition, which displays how poisons can be used favorably by humans, including for medical treatment.
The blood toxins of vampire bats, for example, can prevent blood from clotting (凝结), which may protect against strokes. A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against cancer, which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol. One chemical in the venom of Gila monsters can lower the blood sugar of its victims, so it has been used to treat diabetes.
1.By mentioning Snow White and Romeo at the beginning of the story, the author intends to ______.
A. show that poison has long been involved in literature
B. show that poison is always linked with evil and death
C. draw readers’ attention to the topic of the article
D. get readers to think of more examples of the use of poison in stories
2.The underlined word immortal probably means?
A. Live forever. B. Happy. C. Confused D. Famous
3.What is the main purpose of the exhibition The Power of Poison?
A. To give people more knowledge about poison.
B. To teach people how to handle poisonous animals.
C. To inform people about which animals are the most poisonous.
D. To show how poison has been used for medical treatment.
4.Which of the following statements about the exhibition is TRUE according to the article?
A. The exhibition will lead visitors to a real rainforest.
B. Golden poison frogs are the most poisonous animals on display.
C. Those who visit the exhibition can join in some iPad-based interactive games.
D. Visitors can listen to lectures on recent studies of poisonous animals.
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IN the famous fairy tale, Snow White eats the Queen’s apple and falls victim to a curse; in Shakespeare’s novel, Romeo drinks the poison and dies; some ancient Chinese emperors took pills that contained mercury, believing that it would make them immortal, but they died afterward.
Poison has long been an important ingredient in literature and history, and it seems to always be associated with evil, danger and death. But how much do you really know about poison?
An exhibition, the Power of Poison, opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, intended to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison. The exhibition will continue until Aug 2014, reported The New York Times.
The museum tour starts in a rainforest setting, where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars, frogs and spiders. Golden poison frogs, for instance, aren’t much bigger than a coin, but their skin is covered in a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves, and a single frog has enough venom to kill 10 grown humans.
The exhibition also features interactive activities. In an iPad-based game, visitors are presented with three puzzling illnesses and asked to identify the poisons based on symptoms. In one case, for example, a pet dog is found sick in a backyard and visitors have to figure out whether it was the toad (蟾蜍), the leaky batteries in the trash or the dirty pond water that did it.
“Poisons can be bad for some things,” Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the museum, told NBC News. “Yet they can also be good for others.”
This is what visitors learn from the last part of the exhibition, which displays how poisons can be used favorably by humans, including for medical treatment.
The blood toxins of vampire bats, for example, can prevent blood from clotting (凝结), which may protect against strokes. A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against cancer, which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol. One chemical in the venom of Gila monsters can lower the blood sugar of its victims, so it has been used to treat diabetes.
The benefits from natural poisons are not limited to just medicine. Believe it or not, many substances that we regularly take in – chili, coffee and chocolate, etc. – owe their special flavors or stimulating effects to chemicals that plants make to poison insects.
1.By mentioning Snow White and Romeo at the beginning of the story, the author intends to____________.
A. show that poison has long been involved in literature
B. show that poison is always linked with evil and death
C. draw readers’ attention to the topic of the article
D. get readers to think of more examples of the use of poison in stories
2.What is the main purpose of the exhibition The Power of Poison?
A. To give people more in-depth knowledge about poison.
B. To teach people how to handle poisonous animals.
C. To inform people about which animals are the most poisonous.
D. To show how poison has been used for medical treatment.
3.Which of the following statements about the exhibition is TRUE according to the article?
A. The exhibition will lead visitors to a real rainforest.
B. Golden poison frogs are the most poisonous animals on display.
C. Those who visit the exhibition can join in some iPad-based interactive games.
D. Visitors can listen to lectures on recent studies of poisonous animals.
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Have you heard of John Snow in the times of Queen Victoria? John Snow___1._____ was a famous doctor attended Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people___2.____ (expose) to cholera. This was the ___3._____(dead) disease of its day. Neither its cause _4._____ its cure was understood, ____5.____ many thousands of terrified people died. John Snow realized that cholera would never____6.____(control) until its cause was found. He began to gather the information, for which he made __7._____ map. He marked the exact place where the dead had lived on it . As a _8._____, he found out the cause of cholera and suggested the source of all water supplies be examined ___9._____(immediate). Thanks _10.______him, “King Cholera” was defeated .
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John Snow was a famous doctor in London - so1., indeed, that he attended Queen Victoria as her personal 2.. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people 3.to cholera.
First there was England. Wales was4. to it in the thirteenth century.Now when people refer to England you find Wales5.as well.Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to "Great Britain".Happily this was accomplished without6. when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.
At first my new surroundings were difficult to7.. The air seemed thin, as though its combination of gases had little oxygen 8.. Hit by a9. of fresh air, my head ached. Just as I tried to make the necessary10.to this new situation, Wang Ping appeared.
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（根据课文内容填写恰当的单词。）
1.John Snow was a famous doctor in London and he attended Queen Victoria as her personal p .
2.So many t___ of terrified people died every time there was a break.
3.The cholera outbreak was so s____ that more than 500 people died in ten days.
4.John Snow suggested that the source of all the water supplies be e____.
5.With this extra evidence John Snow was able to a____with certainty that polluted water carried the virus.
6.Now when people refer to England you find Wales i____ as well.
7.However, the s______ part of Ireland was unwilling and break away to form its own government.
8.England is the largest of the four countries, and for c____ it is divided roughly into three zones.
9.The first i_____, the Romans, left their towns and roads.
10.You must keep your eyes open if you are going to make your trip to the United Kingdom enjoyable and w_____.
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John Snow was a famous doctor in London-so1.,indeed,that he2.Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became3.when he thought about helping ordinary people4.to cholera.This was the deadly disease of its day.Neither its cause nor its5.was understood.So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak.John Snow wanted to face the challenge and solve this problem.
First there was England.Wales was6.to it in the thirteenth century.Now when people7.to England you find Wales8.as well.Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to "Great Britain".Happily this was accomplished without9.when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.Finally the English government tried in the early twentieth century to form the United Kingdom by getting Ireland10.in the same peaceful way.
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John Snow was ____famous doctor in London—so expert that he attended ____Queen Victoria as her personal physician.
A. a; / B. the; the C. the; a D. a; the
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课文和新概念填空（共10题；每小题1分，共10分）
John Snow was a famous doctor in London - so1 , indeed, that he2 Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people 3 to cholera. This was the4 disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure was understood. So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to face the 5 and solve this problem. He knew that cholera would never be controlled until its cause was found.
At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California. Since then, they have been trying to find out how the fire began. Forest fires are often caused by broken glass or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away. Yesterday the firemen 6 the ground carefully, but were not able to find any broken glass. They were also quite sure that a cigarette end did not start the fire. This morning, however, a fireman 7 discovered the cause. He noticed the 8 of a snake which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line. In this way, he was able to solve the mystery. The 9 was simple but very unusual. A bird had 10 the snake from the ground and then dropped it on to the wires. The snake then wound itself round the wires. When it did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire.
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.Where can you probably see this story?
A. In the fairy tale book.
B. In the science book.
C. In the newspaper.
2.Who was the first to go to the lion’s den?
A. The other lion.
B. A rabbit.
C. A dog.
3.Why did the rabbit lead the lion to the well?
A. The other lion lived there.
B. The lion could be reflected in the well.
C. The rabbit could escape.
4.What do you think of the story’s ending?
A. Terrible. B. Happy. C. Miserable. (不幸的)
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Hans Christian Andersen is a Danish writer famous for his fairy tales, many of which depict (描述) characters who gain happiness in life after suffering and conflict.
Andersen’s father was a poor shoemaker and his mother worked as a washerwoman. As a child he was highly emotional, suffering all kinds of fears and shame because of his unmanly interests. Encouraged by his parents, he composed his own fairy tales and arranged puppet (木偶) theater shows. At the age of 14, Andersen moved to Copenhagen to start a career as a singer—he had a beautiful voice. He succeeded in becoming associated with Royal Theater, but he had to leave it when his voice began to change. When casually referred to as a poet, he changed his plans and began to write plays, all of which were refused.
In 1822, Jonas Collin, the director of the Royal Theater, gave Andersen a grant to enter the grammar school at Slagelse. In 1827, Andersen gained admission to Copenhagen University, where he completed his education. In 1828 he wrote a shot story on travel, a fantastic tale in the style of the German Romantic writer, E. T. A. Hofmann. He traveled widely in Europe and remained a passionate traveler all his life.
As a novelist, Andersen made his breakthrough with The Improvisatore. The story described a poor boy’s integration (融合) into society, an Ugly Duckling theme of self-discovery. The book gained international success and remains the most widely read of all his works.
In his early collections, Andersen returned to the stories that he had heard as a child, but gradually he started to create his own tales. Most of Andersen’s works were original. Only 12 of his 156 known fairy stories drew on folktales.
The ugliness of the hero or heroine in his stories often conceals (隐藏) great beauty，which is revealed (揭示) after misfortune. Some of Andersen’s tales reveal a positive belief in the victory of the good, among them, The
Snow Queen and The Ugly Duckling, and some end unhappily, like the Little Match Girl. In The Little Mermaid the author expressed a longing for the ordinary life that he had never had. Andersen never married, and he died in his home in Rolighed in 1875.1.Why did Andersen leave the Royal Theater?
A. He no longer had a beautiful voice.
B. He would rather become a poet than a singer.
C. He wanted to travel abroad instead.
D. He had to go to school to study.
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE about Andersen?
A. Most of his works came from folktales he had heard.
B. The early plays he wrote achieved great success.
C. He had an unhappy life in childhood.
D. His parents were against his effort to compose fairy tales.
3.What did Andersen try to express in The Little Mermaid?
A. Happiness gained after suffering and conflict.
B. The desire for an ordinary life.
C. The failure to fit into society.
D. Great beauty concealed by ugliness.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. How Andersen led his childhood.
B. How Andersen’s works finally became well-known.
C. The excellent works of Andersen.
D. An introduction to Andersen’s life and works.
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Snow Queen and The Ugly Duckling, and some end unhappily, like the Little Match Girl. In The Little Mermaid the author expressed a longing for the ordinary life that he had never had. Andersen never married, and he died in his home in Rolighed in 1875.