英语作业
Passage One
Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end with commercials thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. \Super Clean Toothpaste.\Good Wet Root Beer.%up with Pacific Gas.\if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of \Need It! Buy It Now!\
The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if you’ve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changed new houses, new buildings, sometimes even a new road. The bus driver has a style of driving and it‘s fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so. If the driver is particularly reckless (鲁莽的) or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense story. Will the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the right? or the left? hand lane? After a while, of course, the excitement dies down. Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting. But you’ve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops.
The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning. You know it will soon be over and there‘s a kind of expectation and excitement in that. The seat of course, has become harder as the hours have passed. By now you’ve sat with your legs crossed, with your hands in your lap, with your hands on the arm rest seven with your hands crossed behind your head. The end comes just at no more ways to sit.
1.According to the passage, what do the passengers usually see when they are on a long bus trip? C A. Buses on the road. B. Films on television. C. Advertisements on the billboards. D. Gas stations. 2.What is the purpose of this passage? A
A. To give the writer’s opinion about long bus trips. B. To persuade you to take a long bus trip.
C. To explain how bus trips and television shows differ. D. To describe the billboards along the road.
3.The writer of this passage would probably favor . D
A. bus drivers who aren’t reckless B. driving alone C. a television set on the bus D. no billboards along the road
4.The writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because B .
A. the commercials both on TV shows and on billboards along the road are fun
B. they both have a beginning, a middle, and an end, with commercials in between
C. the drivers are always reckless on TV shows just as they are on buses
D. both traveling and watching TV are not exciting.
5.The writer thinks that the end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning because both are A .
A. exciting B. comfortable C. tiring D. boring In the world ,soccer of football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup. The World Cup is held every four years. To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup,
children from different countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and spent three weekends drawing a big picture called “Dream World Cups ”in Japan. The children drew animals, flowers and people playing soccer under a blue bright sky. They wished each football team good luck by drawing the flags of all the countries that will take part in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The picture was put up in a park near a playground in Yokohama. Some football teams will have games there. Are you a football fan？The World Cup makes more and more people interested in football. Teenagers like playing and watching football. Many of them love some football stars so much that they get the pictures of their favorite players on the walls of their rooms. That is the way to show their love for the World Cup as children in Japan.
1. If a country wants to take part in the World Cup ,she must have__B____.
A. Many football fans B. a very good team C. many football player D. a big playground 2. The next World Cup will be held in__A_____.
A. 2006 B. 2007 C. 2005 D. 2004 3. From the passage, in the picture children drew many things except____B_____.
A. people playing football B. pictures of some football stars C. a sunny sky D. flowers
4. Many teenagers own the pictures of some football stars because__D____.
A. they are interested in football B. they are football fans C. they think their favorite players are great D. all of A,B and C
5. In \__C____.
A. to show their love for their owe country B. to tell the people their stories
C. to show their good wishes for the football teams D. to show their new ideas about football
Most people usually traveled by ship and train which are driven by steam engine. It played an important part in many kinds of vehicles several scores of years ago. Who invented steam engine and what units could be used to measure the power of engine?
The word “horse-power” was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt from a worker?s family made the world first widely used steam engine. At first, he couldn’t tell people how powerful it was, because there were no units at that time. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He named that unit one horse-power. In this way he could measure the work of his steam engine.
He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horse-power engine. 1. The main idea of the passage is _B__.
A. James Watt invented the steam engine
B. James Watt first used horse-power as a unit of measure C. how much power does a horse have
D. why Watt?s engine is called a ten horse-power engine 2. The story says that Watt made the first __D__.
A. engine B. horse-power engine C. useful engine D. widely used steam engine 3. James Watt was born in _A___.
A. a worker?s family B. a farmer?s family C. a teacher?s family D. a doctor?s steam engine 4. Watt wanted to find a way to _D___.
A. measure the work his engine could do B. tell people how powerful his engine was C. lift a 3300-pound weight D. both A and B 5. One horse-power means the __A__.
A. work a horse could do in a minute B. weight a horse could do in ten minutes
C. work a horse could do in ten minutes D. weight of one horse Most of us know about the Nobel Prize, especially the Nobel Peace Prize, but few of us know anything about the man who set them up. His name was Alfred Nobel. He was a great scientist and inventor himself. Besides, he had a big business. His business may surprise you. He made and sold explosives. His companies even made and sold weapons. Isn’t this something that surprises you? The man who made money from weapons should set up the Peace Prize?
Though Alfred Nobel had a lot of money from weapons, he hated war. He hoped that there would be no war in the world. He was one of the richest in Europe. When he died in 1896, he left behind him a lot of money and his famous will. According to his will, most of his money was placed in a fund. He wanted the interest from the fund to be used as prizes every year. We know them as the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prizes are international. Alfred Nobel wanted the winners to be chosen for their
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