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Every year thousands of lives（）in road accidents because of careless driving.
A、 lose
B、 lost
C、 have lost
D、 are lost
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Silk（）by Chinese for thousands of years now.
A . has used
B . has been used
C . was used
D . is used
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Thousands of people died of starvation during the（）in that African country.
A . objection
B . poverty
C . consumption
D . famine
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The __________ economy at the turn of the century was due in large part to the influx of thousands of immigrants.
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We （处理） thousands of enquiries every year.
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In the mail room the people deal with thousands of _________.
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The earthquake left thousands of people in _______ need of medical care.
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What is people's attention turning to today according to the passage？
A．The causes of traffic accidents.
B．The driver.
C．The roadway.
D．The car.
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Thousands of Irish people starved during the "Potato Famine" because
A．they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else.
B．they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.
C．the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes.
D．the potato harvest was bad.
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听力原文：In the August of 2006, a sudden flush flood turned this peaceful valley into deadly rushing whitewater. 29 people were swept to their deaths.
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f you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers. 如果你坐飞机旅行穿越非洲中部或者南美洲，你就飞过了上万公里的森林。These great forests are the oceans of trees. There are thousands and thousands of different kinds of
plants and animals.
However, the world's forests are getting smaller all the time. We are cutting down the trees because we need wood, and we need more farmland. Some people say that there will not be any forests like these in 20 or 30 years. What will happen if they disappear？
If we cut down our forests, a lot of plants and animals will disappear from the world. In a lot of places the new farmland will soon look like the old deserts. Crops will not grow there. It will not rain very often, and the weather will get very hot. Perhaps the climate of the world will change. This will be dangerous for everyone in the world. That is why we must take care of our forests.
(1)、The passage mainly tells us about the importance of taking care of plants.
A：T
B：F
(2)、Forests are homes for different kinds of animals.
A：T
B：F
(3)、The need for more wood and more land help to protect our forests.
A：T
B：F
(4)、We'll have more and greater forestsn in 20 or 30 years in some people's view.
A：T
B：F
(5)、The writer thinks it necessary to protect the forests.
A：T
B：F
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When the invderrrived, millions of people ___ from their homelnd.hd turnedwyB．were turnedWhen the invderrrived, millions of people ___ from their homelnd.hd turnedwy B．were turnedwy C．hd turned out D．were turned out
A．had turned away
B．were turned away
C．had turned out
D．were turned out
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Thousands of Irish people starved during the"Potato Famine"because
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Two People，Two Paths You must be familiar with the situation：Dad’s driving，Mum’s telling him where to go.He’s sure that they need to turn left But she says it’s not for another two blocks.Who has the better sense of direction？ Men or women.
They both do, a new study says.but in different ways.Men and women.Canadian researchers have found，have different methods of finding their way.Men look quickly at landmarks(地标)and head off in what they think is the right direction.Women, however, try to picture the whole route in detail and then follow the path in their head.“women tend to be more detailed,”said Edward Cornell.who led the study,“while men tend to be a little bit faster and …a little bit more intuitive(直觉感知的).”
In fact, said Cornell,“sense of direction”isn’t one skill but two.
The first is the“survey method”.This is when you see all area from above, such as a printed map.Y0u can see，for example，where the hospital is，where the church is and that
the supermarket is on its right.
The second skill is the“route method”This is when you use a series of directions.You start from the hospital，then turn left，turn fight，go uphill——and then you see the
supermarket.
Men are more likely to use the survey method while women are more likely to use one route and follow directions.
Both work, and neither is better.
Some scientists insist that these different skills have a long history. They argue it is because of the difference in traditional roles.
In ancient times，young men often went far away with the older men to fish or hunt.The trip took hours or days and covered unfamiliar places.The only way to know where you were was to use the survey method to remember landmarks—them ountains, the lakes and so on.
The women，on the other hand，took young girls out to find fruits and plants.These activities were much closer to home but required learning well-used paths.So, women’s sense of space was based on learning certain routes.
第41题：When finding his way, Dad tends to rely on
A．his intuitive knowledge.
B．his book knowledge．
C．Mum’s assistance.
D．the police’s assistance．
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Inspired by martin Luther King’s famous speech, “I Have a Dream”, thousands of people went out onto the streets to support the civil rights movement in __________ of the curfew.
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The industrial societies have been extremely productive during the last two centuries. The economic advance has been remarkable. During this relatively short period of time, greater changes in people's living conditions have occurred than in the thousands of years which preceded.
During the past 200 years the world population has increased 6 times, the annual world output has increased 80 times, and the distance a person can travel has gone up 1,000 times. There has also been much recent progress in art, culture, learning, and science. Such changes have led to a high rate of production and growth of the economy.
Economists fear that within the next 100 to 150 years, the earth's resources will become very scarce. Their fears are partly justified, but we should not be afraid. Industrial civilization adapts to new knowledge. By advancing knowledge, we not only create new forms of resources, but we also find ways to economize their use. Advanced modern knowledge can feed the hungry people of the world and improve their standard of living.
The figures in the second paragraph are used for the following purposes EXCEPT______.
A．prediction.
B．contrast.
C．definition.
D．explanation.
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After an intense three-month heat wave, Indians in the north and east of the subcontinent were praying hard for rain. Their prayers were heard and answered in the form. of a curse. Violent downpours flooded much of the country, drowning more than 500 people and leaving thousands more homeless. Walls of water hit 26 cities and 2,500 villages, washing away bridges, submerging reads and railways in waist- deep torrents, cutting power lines and wiping out animals, crops and factories. In all, the storm destroyed more than $ 1 billion worth of property. The death toll in neighboring Bangladesh rose to nearly 300 since mid-June. More than 400 people died in Nepal and another 700 were missing.
The rains hit India hardest in Punjab (旁遮普邦), which was transformed into a wasteland of collapsed houses and dead cattle. In the village of Doomchheri, 40 km southwest of Chandigarh, Punjab's capital, floods rising to a height of 4m washed away 400 of the 700 homes and destroyed all the crops. Jaswant Kaur and her family of five clung to trees when their mud hut collapsed. One cousin drowned; the other four swam to safety, reaching the second story of a neighbor's home. Wailed Jaswant:" What have we done to be cursed like this ？"
In the country the armed forces were mobilized to help. In Punjab 5,000 uniformed men used helicopters and assault boats to rescue victims isolated by flood, distribute food and medicine and, finally, remove the dead. Near the town of Patiala, 85 km south of Chandigarh, all 16 members of a rescue team drowned when their boat tipped over in 4m waves. One soldier named Sohan Singh could have survived, witnesses reported, but he ordered panic-stricken villagers to cling to him while he struggled toward safety. His body was found four days later, along with two dead villagers whose arms were wrapped around one of his legs.
Which of the following is the best title for the passage？
A．Curse of Heaven
B．Floods Hit India
C．Floods Claim Hundreds of Lives
D．A Terrible Disaster
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回答下列各题： Would you know how to help？ Every year. thousands of drivers andpassengers die in the few minutes after an auto collision. Many of thesevictims would survive if only the first people on the scene knew how to reactin emergencies. How can you help an accident victim, even before treatinginjuries？ Turn off the ignitions (点火装置)of any wrecked (遇难 的)cars to reduce therisk of fire. This simple step could keep a bad collision from becoming muchworse. Re- member: check for fire, downed wires or spilled gasoline beforegetting too close to a wreck. And never move an injured driver to get to hiskeys. Learn more emergency warning in the Crash Course Book. free from Shellstation. Pick one up at your nearest Shell station or call 376 -200. Manyof these victims died because the first people on the scene did not know how to 46_________________
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The Mayan Indians lived in Mexico for thousands of years before the Spanish arrived in the 1500s. The Maya were an intelligent, culturally rich people whose achievements were many. The Mayan people knew a lot about nature and the world around them. This knowledge helped them to live a better life than most people of that time, because they could use it to make their lives more comfortable and rewarding. Knowledge about tools and farming, for instance, made their work easier and more productive.
In ancient Mexico there were many clearings in the forest. In each clearing was a village with fields of different crops around it. The Maya cut down trees with stone axes and planted seeds by digging holes in the ground with pointed sticks. A farmer was able to grow crops that produced food for several people. But not every Maya had to be a farmer. Some were cloth makers, builders, or priests.
The Maya believed in many gods. The people built large temples to honor their gods. Skillful workers built cities around these temples. It was difficult to construct these cities, because they had no horses to carry the heavy stone needed. Workers had to carry the building materials themselves. Today, many of these ancient Mayan cities and temples are still standing.
Measuring time was important to the Maya, so they developed a system for measuring it accurately. Farmers needed to know when to plant and harvest their crops. Mayan priests made a system to keep track of time. They wrote numbers as dots (...) and bars (- ). A dot was one and a bar was five.
The Mayan priests studied planets. They made a calendar from what they learned. The year was divided into. 18 months of 20 days each with five days left over. The Mayan calendar was far more accurate than the European calendars of the time.
Around the year 800, the Maya left their villages and beautiful cities, never to return. No one knows why. They may have died from an infectious disease. They may have left because the soil could no longer grow crops. Archaeologists are still trying to find the lost secrets of the Maya. They are still one of our greatest mysteries.
This article may be taken from ______.
A．a magazine
B．a literature book
C．an art book
D．a historical book
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The incident occurred during the Toronto Zoo’s 28th annual Christmas Treats Walk, where admission is free in return for donation of food that does not easily go bad.Thousands of people attend each Boxing Day to see the animals fed by their handlers.
We know from the passage that____.
A、the tiger escape lasted a whole day
B、the zoo workers planned to shoot the tiger dead
C、the tiger wasn’t kept securely enough from the public
D、the incident took place on the zoo’s anniversary day
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For thousands of years, people have known that the...
For thousands of years, people have known that the best way to understand a concept is to explain it to someone else. "While we teach, we learn," said Roman philosopher Seneca. Now scientists are bringing this ancient wisdom up-to-date. They&39;re documenting why teaching is such a fruitful way to learn, and designing innovative ways for young people to engage in instruction. Researchers have found that students who sign up to tutor others work harder to understand the material, recall it more accurately and apply it more effectively. Student teachers score higher on tests than pupils who&39;re learning only for their own sake. But how can children, still learning themselves, teach others？ One answer: They can tutor younger kids. Some studies have found that first-born children are more intelligent than their later-born siblings (兄弟姐妹). This suggests their higher IQs result from the time they spend teaching their siblings. Now educators are experimenting with ways to apply this model to academic subjects. They engage college undergraduates to teach computer science to high school students, who in turn instruct middle school students on the topic. But the most cutting-edge tool under development is the "teachable agent"—a computerized character who learns, tries, makes mistakes and asks questions just like a real-world pupil. Computer scientists have created an animated (动画的) figure called Betty&39;s Brain, who has been "taught" about environmental science by hundreds of middle school students. Student teachers are motivated to help Betty master certain materials. While preparing to teach, they organize their knowledge and improve their own understanding. And as they explain the information to it, they identify problems in their own thinking. Feedback from the teachable agents further enhances the tutors&39; learning. The agents&39; questions compel student tutors to think and explain the materials in different ways, and watching the agent solve problems allows them to see their knowledge put into action. Above all, it&39;s the emotions one experiences in teaching that facilitate learning. Student tutors feel upset when their teachable agents fail, but happy when these virtual pupils succeed as they derive pride and satisfaction from someone else&39;s accomplishment. 1. What are researchers rediscovering through their studies？ A.Seneca&39;s thinking is still applicable today. B.Better learners will become better teachers. C.Human intelligence tends to grow with age. D.Philosophical thinking improves instruction.
A、Seneca&39;s thinking is still applicable today.
B、Better learners will become better teachers.
C、Human intelligence tends to grow with age.
D、Philosophical thinking improves instruction.
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What do the thousands of light beams measure？
A．The focusing accuracy of the lens of the eye.
B．Eye color and vision.
C．Where the beams travel.
D．The reflection of the retina.
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Noises may be contributing to the ___number of people,who turn up worried about their headaches.
A.fluctuating
B.growing
C.steady
D.falling
