Barcelona December 22,2007.Spain’s “El Gordo,...

Barcelona December 22,2007.

Spain’s “El Gordo,” the word’s biggest lottery (彩票), gave out 2.2 billion euros (欧元) (1.6 billion pounds) in Christmas prizes on Saturday.

El Gordo, Spanish for "The Fat One", is designed so that as many people as possible across Spain get a festive windfall. The top prize this year was 3 million euros -- going to the series of tickets with the magic number 06381.

Because the tickets are sold in a series of 10, only those who paid 200 euros for the whole strip get the full prize.

The biggest share of winning tickets was bought by people in the town of Nava, in the north-western Asturias region.

The draw lasts three-and-a-half hours and is carried live on national television with children from the San Ildefonso school, a former orphanage in Madrid, in turn chanting the winning numbers and the amount won.

Lotteries have two centuries of history in Spain. The country spent 2.87 billion euros on the lottery -- 5.7 percent more than last year. Seventy percent is paid out in prizes. Most of the rest goes in costs. Eight out of ten Spaniards bought tickets for the lottery, spending on average 64 euros. Spaniards often choose lottery numbers matching significant dates although there was no particular favourite in 2007. In 2006, one of the most sought-after series was 22105, the date on which Fernando Alonso became Formula 1 world champion for the second year running.

1.The underlined word “windfall” in paragraph two probably means ________.

A．fat gift                                               B．unexpected fortune

C．big feast                                             D．wind and snow

2.Who is likely to win the full prize in El Gordo?

A．People who paid 200 euros for the wole group of series.

B．People who bough tickets with the magic number 06381.

C．People who lived in a town in the northwestern Asturias.

D．People who chose lottery numbers matching Alonso’s date.

3.According to the text, children from the San Ildefonso School in Madrid will ________.

A．host the draw of lottery live on TV

B．offer a show of three – and – a – half hours

C．perform with the lottery draw as Christmas celebration

D．help make some declarations for the draw as invited guests

4.What can we learn about the history of lotteries in Spain?

A．Most of the money people spent on lotteries goes in the cost.

B．The majority of Spaniards have the experience of buying lotteries.

C．Lottery numbers matching significant dates help people win every year.

D．As the biggest in the world, Spanish lotteries have a history of two centuries.

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Barcelona December 22,2007.

Spain’s “El Gordo,” the word’s biggest lottery (彩票), gave out 2.2 billion euros (欧元) (1.6 billion pounds) in Christmas prizes on Saturday.

El Gordo, Spanish for "The Fat One", is designed so that as many people as possible across Spain get a festive windfall. The top prize this year was 3 million euros -- going to the series of tickets with the magic number 06381.

Because the tickets are sold in a series of 10, only those who paid 200 euros for the whole strip get the full prize.

The biggest share of winning tickets was bought by people in the town of Nava, in the north-western Asturias region.

The draw lasts three-and-a-half hours and is carried live on national television with children from the San Ildefonso school, a former orphanage in Madrid, in turn chanting the winning numbers and the amount won.

Lotteries have two centuries of history in Spain. The country spent 2.87 billion euros on the lottery -- 5.7 percent more than last year. Seventy percent is paid out in prizes. Most of the rest goes in costs. Eight out of ten Spaniards bought tickets for the lottery, spending on average 64 euros. Spaniards often choose lottery numbers matching significant dates although there was no particular favourite in 2007. In 2006, one of the most sought-after series was 22105, the date on which Fernando Alonso became Formula 1 world champion for the second year running.

1.The underlined word “windfall” in paragraph two probably means ________.

A．fat gift                                                B．unexpected fortune

C．big feast                                             D．wind and snow

2.Who is likely to win the full prize in El Gordo?

A．People who paid 200 euros for the wole group of series.

B．People who bough tickets with the magic number 06381.

C．People who lived in a town in the northwestern Asturias.

D．People who chose lottery numbers matching Alonso’s date.

3.According to the text, children from the San Ildefonso School in Madrid will ________.

A．host the draw of lottery live on TV

B．offer a show of three – and – a – half hours

C．perform with the lottery draw as Christmas celebration

D．help make some declarations for the draw as invited guests

4.What can we learn about the history of lotteries in Spain?

A．Most of the money people spent on lotteries goes in the cost.

B．The majority of Spaniards have the experience of buying lotteries.

C．Lottery numbers matching significant dates help people win every year.

D．As the biggest in the world, Spanish lotteries have a history of two centuries.

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On December 22, 2016 I landed in the land of the “American Dream.” 1. Here is one of the things I’ve struggled with during my almost one year in the States.

2. My uncle and aunt joked that I brought rain from Saigon to America. Saigon, where I come from, is the old name of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Vietnam is a tropical country where it rains most of the year. Before going to the U.S., actually, I had no idea what to expect about its weather, but the big rain on my arrival gave me the first expectation of what the weather here might be like.

California is known for having a great climate — more sunshine, cooler in summer and warmer in winter. 3. However, having been here for a pretty long while now, I have experienced various forms of climate in California.

4. Most of the time I was living in Silicon Valley, where the weather is a bit colder than where I study in Orange County. But I was really surprised to find chill-to-the-bone weather in San Francisco — a big shift from Silicon Valley in only about an hour’s drive. How strange!

5. The worst is that I get n runny nose whenever I wake up in the morning. Because I am allergic to the cold and windy weathers, I keep sneezing badly, and even more badly if I get caught in the cold. I think that my body needs more time to get used to this climate, but as many people said, I am luckier to be in California where I don’t have to fight with extreme weathers as in other stales.

A. I am sensitive to weather change.

B. Such strange weather has affected my health.

C. So the amount of rain this year is considered unusual.

D. LAX airport in California welcomed me with a big rain.

E. So I quickly get used lo the unchangeable climate in California.

F. The weather varies widely depending on where you are in the state.

G. Since then, I have discovered tons of dilemmas about life in America.

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Winter begins in the north on December 22nd. People and animals have been doing what they always do to prepare for the cold months. Squirrels, for example, have been busy gathering nuts from trees. Well, scientists have been busy gathering information about what the squirrels do with the food they collect.

They examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the American state of Indiana. The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut trees. The black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels. The black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests.

Rob Swihart of Purdue University did the study with Jake Goheen, a former Purdue student now at the University of New Mexico. The two researchers estimate that several times as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels. Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way. Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places. But they seldom remember where they buried every nut. So some nuts remain in the ground. Conditions are right for them to develop and grow in the following spring. Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground. Professor Swihart calls “death traps for seeds”.

Gray squirrels are native to Indiana. But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture. Red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century.

The researchers say red squirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees. They say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade Indiana. Jake Goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause.

1.The study done by Rob Swihart and Jake Goheen is to ________.

A. find out the living conditions for squirrels

B. do something to get rid of squirrels

C. save the forests in the American state of Indiana

D. learn squirrels’ influence on black walnut trees

2. The difference between gray squirrels and red squirrels mainly lies in ________.

A. the way they store the walnuts

B. the way they gather the walnut

C. the number of the nuts they can collect

D. the fact that the gray squirrels have a bad memory

3. When Professor Swihart says “death traps for seeds”, he actually means that ________.

A. red squirrels eat more nuts than gray squirrels

B. nuts above the ground will not develop into plants

C. gray squirrels and red squirrels will have severe fights

D. seeds can be traps for other animals in the forest

4.According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. Gray squirrels do more harm to the forest than red squirrels.

B. Red squirrels and gray squirrels have helped the spread of walnut trees.

C. Human beings should bear some responsibility for the decreasing number of gray squirrels.

D. The cleaning of forest land benefits gray squirrels directly.

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Winter begins in the north on December 22nd. People and animals have been doing what they always do to prepare for the colder months. Squirrels (松鼠), for example, have been busy gathering nuts from trees. Well, scientists have been busy gathering information about what the squirrels do with the food they collect.

They examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the American state of Indiana. The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut (黑胡桃) trees. The black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels. The black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests.

Rob Swihart of Purdue University did the study with Jake Goheen, a former Purdue student now at the University of New Mexico. The two researchers estimate that several times as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels. Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way. Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places. But they seldom remember where they buried every nut. So some nuts remain in the ground. Conditions are right for them to develop and grow the following spring. Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground. Professor Swihart calls “death traps for seeds”.

Gray squirrels are native to Indiana. But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture. Red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century.

The researchers say red squirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees. They say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade Indiana. Jake Goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause.

1.The study done by Rob Swihart and Jake Goheen is to ________.

A．find out the living conditions for squirrels

B．learn squirrels’influence on black walnut trees

C．do something to get rid of squirrels

D．save the forests in the American state of Indiana

2.The difference between gray squirrels and red squirrels mainly lies in ________.

A．the way they gather the walnut

B．the time they have winter sleep

C．the place they have winter sleep

D．the place they store the walnuts

3.Professor Swihart’s study shows that________.

A．red squirrels eat more nuts than gray squirrels

B．gray squirrels and red squirrels will have severe fights

C．red squirrel’s way to store nuts stops nuts growing.

D．black walnuts are harmful to other animals

4.According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A．The black walnut is equally attractive to both gray and red squirrels.

B．Gray squirrels do more harm to the forest than red squirrels.

C．Red squirrels and gray squirrels have helped the spread of walnut trees.

D．The cleaning of forest land benefits red squirrels directly.

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Winter begins in the north on December 22nd. People and animals have been doing what they always do to prepare for the cold months. Squirrels, for example, have been busy gathering nuts from trees. Well, scientists have been busy gathering information about what the squirrels do with the food they collect.

They examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the American state of Indiana. The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut trees. The black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels. The black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests.

Rob Swihart of Purdue University did the study with Jake Goheen, a former Purdue student now at the University of New Mexico. The two researchers estimate that several times as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels. Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way. Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places. But they seldom remember where they buried every nut. So some nuts remain in the ground. Conditions are right for them to develop and grow in the following spring. Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground. Professor Swihart calls “death traps for seeds”.

Gray squirrels are native to Indiana. But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture. Red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century.

The researchers say red squirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees. They say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade Indiana. Jake Goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause.

1.The study done by Rob Swihart and Jake Goheen is to ________.

A. find out the living conditions for squirrels

B. do something to get rid of squirrels

C. learn squirrels’ influence on black walnut trees

D. save the forests in the American state of Indiana

2.The difference between gray squirrels and red squirrels mainly lies in ________.

A. the way they gather the walnut

B. the place they store the walnuts

C. the number of the nuts they can collect

D. the fact that the gray squirrels have a bad memory

3.When Professor Swihart says “death traps for seeds”, he actually means that ________.

A. nuts above the ground will not develop into plants

B. red squirrels eat more nuts than gray squirrels

C. gray squirrels and red squirrels will have severe fights

D. seeds can be traps for other animals in the forest

4.According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. Gray squirrels do more harm to the forest than red squirrels.

B. Red squirrels and gray squirrels have helped the spread of walnut trees.

C. The cleaning of forest land benefits gray squirrels directly.

D. Human beings should bear some responsibility for the decreasing number of gray squirrels.

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Simon has lived in Spain for more than 10 years, but _______ enough, he can’t speak a word of Spanish.

A. personally                       B. curiously                          C. unfortunately                  D. initially

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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为

多余选项。

Winter begins in the north on December 22nd.People and animals have been doing what they always do to prepare for the colder months, Sqzeirrels, for example, have been busy gathering nuts from trees. 1.They examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the American state of Indiana.　 The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut(黑胡桃）trees2. The black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests.

Rob Swihart of Purdue University did the study with Jake Goheen, a former Purdue student nowat the University of New Mexico.　 The two researchers estimate that several times as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels.Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way. Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places.3. So some nuts remain in the ground.　 Conditions are right for them to develop and grow the following spring.Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground.

4.But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture.　 Red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century. The researchers say red squirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees.　 They say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade（涌入）Indiana.5.

A. Gray squirrels are native to Indiana.

B. But they seldom remember where they buried every nut.

C. Red squirrels bury nuts in a different way.

D. The black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels.

E. Jake Goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause.

F. Scientists are　 worried　 that they will drive away the gray squirrels.

G. Well, scientists have been　 busy gathering information about what the squirrels

do with the food they collect.

高三英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Winter begins in the north on December 22nd.People and animals have been doing what they always do to prepare for the colder months, squirrels,　 for example,　 have been busy gathering nuts from trees. 　　 1.

They examined differences between red squirrels and gray squirrels in the American state of Indiana.　 The scientists wanted to know how these differences could affect the growth of black walnut(黑胡桃）trees. 2.　 The black walnut tree is also a central part of some hardwood forests.

Rob Swihart of Purdue University did the study with Jake Goheen, a former Purdue student nowat the University of New Mexico.　 The two researchers estimate that several times as many walnuts grow when gathered by gray squirrels as compared to red squirrels.Gray squirrels and red squirrels do not store nuts and seeds in the same way.　 Gray squirrels bury nuts one at a time in a number of places.　 　 3.　 So some nuts remain in the ground.　 Conditions are right for them to develop and grow the following spring.　 Red squirrels, however, store large groups of nuts above ground.

4. 　 But Professor Swihart says their numbers began to decrease as more forests were cut for agriculture.　 Red squirrels began to spread through the state during the past century. The researchers say red squirrels are native to forests that stay green all year, unlike walnut trees.　 They say the cleaning of forest land for agriculture has helped red squirrels invade（涌入）Indiana.　 5.

A. Gray squirrels are native to Indiana.

B. But they seldom remember where they buried every nut.

C. Red squirrels bury nuts in a different way.

D. The black walnut is the nut of choice for both kinds of squirrels.

E. Jake Goheen calls them a sign of an environmental problem more than a cause.

F. Scientists are　 worried　 that they will drive away the gray squirrels.

G. Well, scientists have been　 busy gathering information about what the squirrels do with the food they collect.

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请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

It was December 22．The bitter wind swept the countless snowflakes（雪花） across my front yard．My dad was there sweeping the 1．His nose was red as a cherry．With every breath he took, a white puff escaped 2the air．

Inside, my mother was _3_the last of the boxes． 4I entered the front door, the thought that after today I wouldn’t enter through that 5ever again burned a hole in my stomach．I picked up my dog and sat Indian style with him in my lap on the 6, wooden floor．I had no 7but to sit on the floor, for there was no longer any furniture in my house．I sat there in a daze （恍惚）, just 8．There was no reason for my parents to make me, a once 912-year-old kid, 10．I had two best friends right across the street; I did well in school and I always kept my room clean． 11, this was “my house”．By no means did I want a couple of 12living here．These recurring （重复） thoughts 13around in my mind and I couldn’t find an answer．

Out of the front window I could see the orange top of a truck pulling in along the cleaned driveway and I knew it was the other U-Haul．At once their men came 14in through the back door like World War Ⅲ was starting．

I watched 15as the men, my mother and my dad loaded the truck．My dog even winced （畏缩） as he stared out of the window．I wondered if he was 16, too, or if he just wished to play outside in the snow．

My mum came in, looking solemn （凝重）．She turned 17the overhead light, put the 18in my arms and took me out of the back door．A totally 19feeling filled my heart．For the first time in my life, I wondered what 20would be like to me tomorrow．

1.A．stairs B．garden       C．sidewalk              D．driveway

2.A．into   B．down         C．on                      D．over

3.A．piling B．packing      C．collecting            D．locking

4.A．Though                   B．Since                  C．As                      D．While

5.A．yard  B．door          C．box                     D．flat

6.A．cold  B．wet           C．broken                D．dirty

7.A．choice                     B．way                    C．solution               D．means

8.A．dreaming                 B．thinking               C．sleeping               D．laughing

9.A．intelligent                 B．clever                  C．happy                 D．honest

10.A．remain                   B．cry                     C．suffer                 D．move

11.A．However                B．Besides                C．Therefore            D．Yet

12.A．neighbors               B．strangers             C．visitors                D．elders

13.A．came                     B．traveled               C．danced                D．flowed

14.A．running                  B．flying                  C．driving                D．riding

15.A．curiously               B．happily                C．interestingly         D．helplessly

16.A．afraid                    B．angry                  C．sad                     D．lonely

17.A．down                    B．off                      C．on                      D．up

18.A．box B．dog           C．bag                     D．hand

19.A．excited                  B．eager                   C．empty                 D．unknown

20.A．weather                 B．school                 C．home                  D．world

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