Last night，there were millions of people ____...

Last night，there were millions of people ________ the opening ceremony live on TV.

A. watch　　 B. to watch

C. watched　　 D. watching

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The apartment caught fire last night. Fortunately, most of the people there _______ escape.

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Millions of pounds' worth of damage　　　　　 by a storm which swept across the north of England last night.

A.will be caused B.had been caused

C.has been caused D.will have been caused

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There was good news last week for people who struggle to get eight hours of sleep a night: they may not need so much shut-eye after all.

Researchers from UCLA and elsewhere looked at sleep habits of remote hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Namibia and Bolivia — groups with pre-industrial lifestyles whose sleep patterns are believed to reflect those of ancient humans. The researchers found that, on average, members of each group sleep a bit less than six and a half hours a night.

The study, published in the academic journal Current Biology, indicates that “natural” sleep is less than eight hours a night and that modern society’s numerous electronic distractions (分心) aren’t necessarily to blame for people getting just six or seven hours of sleep.

“The story that often gets out is that if you sleep for less than seven hours, you’re going to die early,” he told me. “That’s not true.”

Yet Americans are addicted to getting more sleep — and on turning to medical shortcuts to help them.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, as many as 70 million U.S. adults suffer from sleep disorders or sleeplessness. Only a third of Americans get the government’s recommended seven to nine hours of sleep a night.

About 9 million American adults use sleeping pills to help get a good night’s rest, the CDC found. Siegel said the number of people relying on medicines “has gone up rather rapidly since then.”

Industry consulting firm GlobalData estimates that worldwide sales for sleeplessness medicines will run about $1.4 billion next year and reach $1.8 billion by 2023, recovering from lower sales in recent years because of cheaper generics(仿制药) hitting the market.

Dr. Roy Artal, a sleep specialist in West Los Angeles, said it’s understandable that busy people in today’s go-go world would turn to medicines to speed up the sleep process. But all they’re doing is building a reliance on powerful drugs for relatively little improvement.

“There’s no magic pill that makes us sleep when we want and wake up when we want,” Artal said. “The effects of sleeping pills tend to be modest.”

He and other experts say the answer to sleeplessness isn’t to be found in a pill bottle. It’s in what’s called “sleep hygiene (保健).”

1.The research on sleep habits of remote hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Namibia and Bolivia shows that ________.

A. they have a lack of sleep because of their bad lifestyle

B. “natural” sleep may be less than eight hours a night

C. modern electronic products cause the sleeplessness

D. pre-industrial lifestyles will be helpful to a better sleep

2.Jerome Siegel believes that ________.

A. we need to take sleeping pills to improve sleep

B. modern electronic products do harm to a good sleep

C. those who sleep for less than 7 hours will die early

D. there is nothing wrong with a 6 or 7 hours’ sleep

3.The underlined word “modest” probably means ________.

A. obvious            B. awful            C. small            D. large

4.The main idea of this passage is that ________.

A. people may not need eight hours of sleep a night

B. people need sleeping pills to have a good sleep

C. sleeping pills have a long way to go for sleep improvement

D. sleeping pill industry will suffer great losses from the new discovery

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—Have you heard that 10 people were killed in the accident last night?

—Yes, ________ news came as ________ shock to me.

A. the, the　　 B. a, the

C. a, a　　 D. the, a

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At the beginning of the 20th century there were more than a million lions worldwide.Today there are less than 30,000 in the wild.The remaining lions are increasingly threatened by habitat loss，hunting activities to protect farms and cattle.

For generations，Masai tribesmen on the large African plains in southeastern Kenya have hunted lions—to protect their farms and cattle.Today they celebrate the lions’ life.

Noah is an elder in the Masai community.“We have decided as a community of the Masai to lay down our spears，and there will be no more killing of lions in our community.” He is part of a group of Masai visiting the United States promoting (推广) the Predator (捕食性动物) Compensation Program.

Conservation International’s Frank Hawkins explains，“The Masai have been living with wildlife for many generations and it has been a conflicting relationship in many ways.They compete with the animals for food as lions eat their cattle.We’re trying to find ways in which the wildlife will become something useful to them.” They had the Predator Compensation Fund founded in 2003.After much discussion，a group of Masai farmers agreed to protect lions.In turn，if lions or other predators kill their cattle，the Masai owner will be paid market value for the dead animals from the fund.

One man said that in the past，when a lion killed cattle，they killed it on the spot.And now，after the start of the program，the Masai see the lion population growing.Since 2003，only four lions have been killed here.

1.What is this passage mainly about?

A. The wildlife in the world.

B. Lions and the Masai.

C. The reason why lions are killed.

D. The living ways of the Masai.

2.What is the aim of the Predator Compensation Program?

A. To protect people in the wild.

B. To help the Masai protect their farms and cattle.

C. To protect lions only.

D. To protect the wildlife.

3.Masai tribesmen killed lions before 2003 ______.

A. because lions were dangerous for people there

B. because dead lions were worth a lot of money

C. because they wanted lions’ meat

D. because they wanted to protect their farms and cattle

4.According to the passage，why haven’t Masai tribesmen killed many lions since 2003?

A. Because lions don’t eat their cattle any more.

B. Because they will be fined if they kill lions there.

C. Because if a lion kills their cattle，they will be paid for the dead animals from the fund.

D. Because there are less than 30,000 lions in the wild now.

5.What do you think of the Masai?

A. Reasonable.　　 B. Cruel.

C. Poor.　　 D. Stupid.

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—How did you go home after the party last night？

—Well，there were no buses　　　 we had to walk.

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Five people were rescued last night after the boat ________ fuel.

A.ran out B.ran out of

C.was run out D.was run out of

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--- You didn’t go to the party last night, did you?

--- I do wish I ___ there.

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When the Apollo astronauts (宇航员) landed on the Moon in 1969, millions of people were rather sad. The person to blame for this was an artist named Chesley Bonestell. For many years, Bonestell had been creating beautifully detailed paintings of the Moon and planets. Viewers of his artwork were unhappy because the real Moon did not look like Bonestell’s pictures of it.

As a space artist, Bonestell tried to make his drawings look exciting and as true as the Moon is. He worked closely with astronomers and scientists to get the most up-to-date scientific information available. But in the 1940s and 1950s, no one had ever seen another planet up close. Yet Bonestell’s paintings looked so real that some people thought they were photographs.

Even though Bonestell was interested in astronomy, he did not start out as a space artist. As a young man he studied architecture — the art and science of designing and making buildings. In 1938 Bonestell became a special effects artist in Hollywood. It was here that he learned he could improve his paintings by following the methods used in the movies.

In 1944, a popular magazine published a series of Bonestell’s paintings of the planet Saturn. He drew Saturn as if it were seen by someone standing on each of the planet’s moons. The results were dazzling. Within a few years, Bonestell’s artwork was appearing regularly in magazines and books on astronomy and space flight.

Many of Bonestell’s artworks had been right all along. But the biggest surprise was the Moon. Someone asked Bonestell what he was thinking when he saw the first pictures from the Moon. “I thought how wrong I was!” he said. “My mountains were sharp (陡峭的), and they aren’t on the Moon.”

But he shouldn’t have felt bad. No space artist had ever before taken so many people to so many faraway worlds. In the years just before the first manned space flights, Bonestell’s artwork prepared people for the amazing space adventure to come.

1.Bonestell made his space drawings ________.

A. from a very early age

B. by copying photographs

C. with the help of scientists

D. in order to make a living

2.The underlined word “dazzling” in Paragraph 4 can best be replaced by “________”.

A. doubtful            B. wonderful            C. terrible            D. worrying

3.Bonestell’s success lay in the fact that ________.

A. he created a new drawing skill

B. he helped finish the first space flight

C. he made space travel more popular

D. He helped bring space closer to people

4.What would be the best title for the text?

A. The space art of Chesley Bonestell

B. The first men on the Moon

C. The journeys of the Apollo astronauts

D. Spacewalking: through an astronaut’s eyes

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