On the day the tornado hit, there was no sign severe weather was on its way—the sky was blue and the sun had been out. My husband Jimmy and I were watching TV upstairs.
No sooner had we got the coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. We had three flights of steps to get through to get to the relative safety of the first floor.
As we struggled to reach the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Pieces of glass that looked like crushed ice flew everywhere. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been one step up, it would have impaled us.
By the time I reached the closet, Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I grasped Jimmy’s arm and tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees and head were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house and into the bay.
“Hold on! Hold on!” he yelled. But there was nothing in this closet to hold on to.
All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over. Jimmy said he’d go outside to check. “No,” I said. “Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me.”
Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured.
1.Which of the following sentences is NOT the evidence to show the tornado is violent?
A. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard.
B. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out.
C. Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes.
D. Pieces of glass that looked like crushed ice flew everywhere.
2.From the passage, we can infer that______.
A. The couple had predicted the arrival of the tornado in advance.
B. Jimmy flew right out the back of the house and into the bay during the tornado.
C. The three-foot-tree flew over the couple’s head and injured them badly.
D. The author still felt scared when the tornado was suddenly over.
3.Why did the author feel “no pain” in paragraph4?
A. She didn’t hurt badly enough to sense the pain.
B. She was severely injured and failed to sense the pain.
C. Her attention was fully focused on her husband.
D. She had let her husband go away from her hand.
4.Which of the following phrases best describes the couple’s experience in this tornado?
A. A thrilling adventure B. A narrow escape
C. A risky attempt D. A serious accident
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On the day the tornado hit, there was no sign severe weather was on its way—the sky was blue and the sun had been out. My husband Jimmy and I were watching TV upstairs.
No sooner had we got the coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. We had three flights of steps to get through to get to the relative safety of the first floor.
As we struggled to reach the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Pieces of glass that looked like crushed ice flew everywhere. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been one step up, it would have impaled us.
By the time I reached the closet, Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I grasped Jimmy’s arm and tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees and head were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house and into the bay.
“Hold on! Hold on!” he yelled. But there was nothing in this closet to hold on to.
All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over. Jimmy said he’d go outside to check. “No,” I said. “Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me.”
Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured.
1.Which of the following sentences is NOT the evidence to show the tornado is violent?
A. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard.
B. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out.
C. Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes.
D. Pieces of glass that looked like crushed ice flew everywhere.
2.From the passage, we can infer that______.
A. The couple had predicted the arrival of the tornado in advance.
B. Jimmy flew right out the back of the house and into the bay during the tornado.
C. The three-foot-tree flew over the couple’s head and injured them badly.
D. The author still felt scared when the tornado was suddenly over.
3.Why did the author feel “no pain” in paragraph4?
A. She didn’t hurt badly enough to sense the pain.
B. She was severely injured and failed to sense the pain.
C. Her attention was fully focused on her husband.
D. She had let her husband go away from her hand.
4.Which of the following phrases best describes the couple’s experience in this tornado?
A. A thrilling adventure B. A narrow escape
C. A risky attempt D. A serious accident
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One day, Wilson was walking quietly along the road when someone hit him hard on the back of his neck. He looked behind him, and saw a young man whom he had never seen before.
“How dare you hit me like that?” shouted Wilson.
The young man said he had mistaken Wilson for a friend of his and that he thought Wilson was making a lot of noise about nothing.
This insult(侮辱) made Wilson even angrier, of course, and he at once decided to bring the young man before a judge.
Now , the judge who heard the case was a friend of the young man’s father’s, and, although he pretended to be quite fair, he was thinking about what he could do to protect the young man from being punished while at the same time not to be appearing unfair.
Finally he said to Wilson, “I understand your feelings in this matter very well. Would you be satisfied if I let you hit the young man as he hit you?”
Wilson said he would not be. The young man had insulted him and should be properly punished.
“Well, then,” said the judge to the young man, “I order you to pay ten coins to Wilson.”
Ten coins was very little for such a crime, but the young man did not have it with him, so the judge allowed him to go and get it.
Wilson waited for him to return with the money. He waited an hour, and then two hours, while the judge took care of other business.
When it was nearly time for the court to close, Wilson chose a moment when the judge was especially busy, came up quietly and hit him hard on the back of the neck. Then he said to him, “I am sorry, but I can’t wait any longer. When the young man comes back, tell him that I have passed my right to the ten coins on to you.”
1.Why did the young man hit Wilson from behind?
A．Wilson had hit him before.
B．He had mistaken Wilson for a friend of his.
C．Wilson was a stranger there.
D．Wilson made a lot of noise when he was walking.
2.The judge thought about how to protect the young man because ________.
A．he thought it a small matter
B．as a judge, he should be fair
C．he thought the man too young to be punished
D．the young man was his friend’s son
3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A．The young man was ordered to hit himself as hard as he had done on Wilson.
B．Wilson was allowed to do more insulting on the young man.
C．Wilson was allowed to hit the young man as hard as he had done.
D．The young man was ordered to hand a lot of money to Wilson.
4.The judge allowed the young man to go home, hoping ________ .
A．he would not return any more B．he could escape from there
C．he would return in two hours D．he would get the money
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Several days ago, a letter attracted a lot of attention on the Internet. It was written to NASA by 9-year-old Jack Davis 1. (ask) to be considered for a job working with astronauts. He wrote to apply 2. a planetary protection officer position at NASA. Despite his young age, he thought he would be fit for the job 3. (perfect).
With a pencil, he wrote: “I may be nine, but I think I would be 4. good fit. My sister says I am an alien. Also, I.5. (see) all the space and alien movies in the past years.” Jack ended the letter stating the other 6. (factor) that would make him perfect for the position, such as his great video game skills and his youth,7. would make it easy to learn to think like an alien. He then signed the letter, “Jack, Guardian of the Galaxy.”
The position of planetary protection officer is well-paid every year. The job, however, is more about science and biology and 8. (little) about fighting aliens. The officer must make sure that no new species or plants 9. (bring) to other planets, and doesn’t return from trips to space with anything that might harm Earth. The recent announcement of the position created in the 1960s has caused a lot of 10. (excite) in the public, according to a NASA’s statement.
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----All the building materials have been washed away.
----So I have heard. But there was no sign ____ a heavy rain was on the way last night.
A. when B. that C. which D. if
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Linda didn’t get there on time because of the bad weather. What’s more, her car was in poor ________.
A. position B. condition C. situation D. direction
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Lina didn’t get there on time because of the bad weather, what’s more, her car was in poor ________.
| A．situation | B．condition | C．position | D．Direction |
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
On a 1. （freeze）cold day, Mrs Smith’s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat 2.(leave) in the house.
3. (consider) there was no better way, Mrs Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the 4. (follow) words:“Give my dog half a pound of meat.” Then she asked her dog to take it to the butcher’s. When the butcher recognized that it was really the lady’s handwriting, he did as he 5. (ask) to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up immediately.
The next day, the dog came again exactly at midday. And as 6. (usually), it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time the butcher did not take a look at the paper, and just gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog7. one of his customers.
One day later, to the butcher’s more surprise, it came at six o’clock and brought 8. third piece of paper. Though 9. (surprise), the butcher gave him 10. he wanted. But what he didn’t know was that there were not any words on the paper!
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1.Tom: The weather report said that a hurricane would hit the city. Tom wants to find information on how to protect his family from being destroyed during the hurricane.
2.James: Before learning about a butterfly, James was asked by his biology teacher to learn more about a butterfly in the process of doing research and then write a letter to humankind.
3. Brown: Thousands of animals around the world face extinction. Many more are threatened each year. Brown focuses on the situation of endangered animals and tries to understand how all living things are connected.
4. Li Mei: Modern technology makes fishing easier. Yet overfishing has caused a lot of problems. China has taken some measures to solve the problem. Li Mei wants to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of overfishing on some threatened species and tries to find out effective solutions.
A. http: //www.net.org/marine/csb/
This site is devoted to saving the Chilean sea bass, or Patagonian toothfish, from extinction. It suggests actions people can take to protect the fish, and it offers the flash movie “Please Don’t Eat Me!”
B. http: //www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/entyouth/
This site, created by the University of Kentucky Entomology (昆虫学) Department, provides
photographs and facts about various insects we live with. You will find what you want to know about insects here.
C. http: //www.fema.gov/kids/
This visually appealing government site teaches kids how to be prepared for disasters and
prevent disaster damage. The site also tells teachers and parents what to do to help children
after a disaster. It is appropriate for all ages.
D. http: //www.nwf.org/
Find information on wildlife protection programs and wild animals through the articles, photos, quizzes, and games at this site. Learn how you can help protect wildlife which has close relation-ship to human beings.
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No one can change the weather. Nobody can control the weather. But if we read correctly the signs around us, we can tell what the more important changes in the weather will be. This way of telling what the weather will be like on the following day or two is called weather forecasting.
For many centuries and in all countries, people have studied the weather and tried to make weather forecasting. Rings around the sun are a sign of coming rain. That many people feel their joints(关节) hurt is a sign of wet weather. Some birds fly high if the weather is fine, but they fly near the ground if rainy or stormy weather is on the way. If you see a rainbow during rainy weather, this is a sign that the weather will become clear and fine. Such rainbows come in the evening. If the stars twinkle clearly at night, then fine weather will continue. If a fog appears in the morning just above a river, then the day will be warm. If the sunset is mostly red in colour, then the following day will be fine. If a rainbow appears in the morning, rainy weather will probably come.
Most of the above sayings have been made by the people who have used their eyes and brains to make weather forecasting.
1.Which is true about weather forecasting?
A．Weather forecasting is a way of telling what the weather will be like.
B．Weather forecasting is a report about the weather.
C．Weather forecasting is a sign of coming rain.
D．People can change the weather forecasting.
2.Which of the following can be used here to replace the underlined phrase “on the way”?
A．continuing B．reducing. C．coming. D．disappearing.
3.Which of the following signs can tell the weather will probably be rainy?
A．Some birds fly high.
B．A rainbow appears in the morning.
C．The sunset is mostly red in colour.
D．Fogs appear in the morning just above a river.
4.The best title of the passage is _______.
A．Weather forecasting plays an important role in our life
B．Weather forecasting can bring people some signs of weather
C．Weather is forecasted only by eyes and brains.
D．People can predict weather by experience in daily life
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完形填空
There is one word that is on the lips of Americans, day and night, “Sorry”.
Once as I was walking on the street, a young man ran by ________, brushing against my handbag. ________ he continued on his way, he ________ back and said “sorry” to me. Even in a rush, he didn’t forget to apologize.
One day, after I bought some apples, the salesman was giving me the change, ________ I wasn’t ready for it, and ________ dropped on the ground, “I’m sorry,” he said while bending down to pick it up. I was ________—why would he apologize when it was my ________?
Another time, I ________ on a man’s foot in an escalator (电梯）. At the same time , we both said “sorry”. I thought it ________ at first: was it really ________ for him apologize?
Later on, an American friend ________ to me that according to the American ________, the escalator is a(n) ________ place which everyone should be able to stand in. After someone occupies(占据）a position in the escalator, making it ________ for someone else to find a place to stand in, isn’t it necessary to ________ an apology?
During my stay in America, I gradually ________ that when friction (摩擦) occurs in daily life, Americans don’t care much about who is ________. If someone is ________, a “sorry” is always necessary. Even if the other person is hurt, the “sorry” would ________ tempers（脾气）. Perhaps this is ________ I never saw anyone quarreling on the buses, subways or streets in America.
1.A. excitedly B. hurriedly C. happily D. fast
2.A. Though B. After C. Even as D. Even if
3.A. stopped B. held C. watched D. turned
4.A. or B. and C. but D. so
5.A. a coin B. the apples C. The wallet D. a bill
6.A. impressed B. moved C. annoyed D. puzzled
7.A. problem B. matter C. fault D. business
8.A. moved B. stepped C. walked D. knocked
9.A. interesting B. acceptable C. exciting D. reasonable
10.A. polite B. important C. surprising D. necessary
11.A. announced B. explained C. suggested D. admitted
12.A. ideas B. rules C. opinions D. senses
13.A. open B. common C. public D. free
14.A. unfit B. impossible C. narrow D. difficult
15.A. express B. speak C. say D. tell
16.A. realized B. remembered C. recognized D. meant
17.A. mistaken B. responsible C. careless D. correct
18.A. nervous B. sick C. worried D. troubled
19.A. reduce B. cool C. lose D. change
20.A. that B. when C. why D. how
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