内容正文:
阅读、七选五、完型、语法填空 组合练
第 六 练
一、阅读理解
A
体裁
主题
难度
议论文
人与社会——社会服务与人际沟通
346
★★★
Slowing down was the last thing on Elaine Schaefer's mind when she turned 70 last year.She'd enjoyed an ambitious travel schedule for the previous decade.She didn't feel too old to travel.
Yet many people are asking that slightly embarrassing question: Can you be too old to travel? The travel industry has already responded. Try renting a car in Europe, for example. In Croatia, Schaefer wouldn't be able to this year, because the maximum age is 70. Insurance companies require higher rates; tour operators limit certain activities. That feels like a “no” for many travelers.
Definitely some folks should think twice before traveling, but not only based on their age. It's their level of fitness, says Kirsten Veldman, a former tour guide who now edits a retirement blog. She recalls a 93-year-old who was disabled and traveling alone on a Caribbean tour. “You can't expect to ask a tour leader to be there for you 24/7 for medical care,” she says. “Tour guides don't have the time, skills, and knowledge for it. So, in this case, my advice is: he shouldn't have traveled with us in this situation.”
But some tour operators serve older travelers. For example, Grand Circle Travel started in 1958 to serve senior members. “We have travelers into their 80s and even 90s. Some travel as a couple and some alone,” says company spokeswoman Ann Shannon. “We have no age limit.”
If you ask travel experts, they'll tell you that age is just a number. It's a question of physical, and to a certain extent, mental ability, “Many of our travelers are retired, focused on keeping their good health, and are experienced travelers who have a good idea of what to expect,” says Sara Baer-Sinnot, president of Oldways, a food and nutrition nonprofit that operates tours.“Someone in their 40s may struggle more than someone in their 80s.”
1.What is expected if Schaefer travels in Croatia this year?
A.She can rent a car to go around.
B.She has to pay more insurance fees.
C.She can join in all kinds of activities.
D.She will receive 24/7 medical care.
2.What caused Veldman to disapprove of the 93-year-old's traveling?
A.His old age.
B.His lack of money.
C.His poor health.
D.His insociable personality.
3.What do we know about Grand Circle Travel?
A.It is a nonprofit traveling organization.
B.It offers service to a wide range of travelers.
C.It has a history of more than seven decades.
D.Its main customers are senior travelers.
4.What is the author's attitude towards traveling old?
A.Opposed. B.Supportive. C.Tolerant. D.Objective.
【语篇导读】本文是一篇议论文。文章主要就老年人是否适合 旅行这一话题进行讨论,作者通过一些事例和旅行专家的观 点说明想要旅行,年龄不是问题,主要看健康状况。
1.B 解析:细节理解题。根据第二段中的“In Croatia, Schaefer wouldn't be able to this year, because the maximum age is 70. Insurance companies require higher rates; tour operators limit certain activities.”可知,Schaefer今年去克罗地亚旅行需要缴纳更多的保险费。故选B。
2.C 解析:推理判断题。由第三段前两句可知,Veldman 认 为对于旅行者来说,年龄不是问题,重要的是身体健康,因 此可以推断,Veldman不同意一名93岁的老人去旅行的最 主要原因可能是他糟糕的健康状况。故选C。
3.B 解 析 :细节理解题。根据第四段中的“We have travelers into their 80s and even 90s ...We have no age limit.”可知 Grand Circle Travel为各种各样的旅行者提供服务。故 选B。
4.D 解析:观点态度题。根据“..but not only based on their age.”和“If you ask travel experts, they'll tell you that age is just a number.”以及全文内容来看,作者通过引用事例和旅行专家的观点来表明年龄不是阻碍老年人旅行的主要原 因,重点是考虑其健康状况。文章从客观的角度分析老年 人是否适合去旅行,所以,作者对于老年人是否可以旅行的态度是客观的。故选D。
【知识补充】
1.maxinum adj.最大限度的 2.nutrition n.营养
3.nonprolit adj.非盈利性的 【长难句分析】
Many of our travelers are retired, focused on keeping their good health, and are experienced travelers who have a good idea of what to expect,”says Sara Baer-Sinnott, president of Oldways, a food and nutrition nonprofit that operates tours. (最后一段倒数第二句)
句意:“我们的许多旅行者都退休了,他们注重保持健康,而且 都是经验丰富的旅行者,对要面对的状况有很好的想法。”食 品和营养非营利组织(Oldways的主席Sara Baer-Sinnott说。 分析:本句为复合句。focused on keeping their good health是形容词短语作伴随状语,解释说明退休旅行者的生活状态;本句中who引导定语从句,修饰 travelers; president of Oldways 是Sara Baer-Sinnott的同位语;a food and nutrition nonprofit是Oldways 的同位语,that operates tours为定语从句,其先行词是nonprofit。
B
体裁
主题语境
词数
难度
说明文
人与自然——灾害防范
324
★★★
Some of the most attractive pictures to come out of the Alaska earthquake are the photos that show slope(斜坡) failures, in which parts of formerly solid hills caved in, tore or let loose. And if there happened to be a road or building on top of the slopes that failed, the result was horrible.
Slopes can fail without earthquakes, as the result of pouring rain or weathering. But the shaking caused by a quake— particularly a large one like what occurred near Anchorage on Friday — can either speed up the process or create entirely new failures that wouldn't have otherwise happened.
Several slope failures were documented in the Anchorage area in the hours after the earthquake Friday,the most interesting of which was on Vine Road southwest of Wasilla. It's as if someone came along with a large destroying ball and dropped it on Vine Road, which wrinkled like a broken egg.
Scientists seemed surprised at how many slope failures occurred as a result of the 7.0-magnitude(震级)quake. The center of the quake was deep, at 27 miles below the surface -- a key reason why the damage in Anchorage was relatively light. Such an earthquake would be expected to produce shaking over a large area, but probably with reasonably modest top ground accelerations, Friday's earthquake would certainly be felt, but the surface of Earth wouldn't be moving badly enough to produce widespread landslides.
Photos from Alaska show a lot of lateral(横向的)spread, in which the ground tears open. Whatever is on top of the ground at the place it tears in half is also torn in half afterwards, like highways or buildings. The buildings surrounding the spread are also at risk of damage because of the force of the ground spreading out away from the tear. There's also documentation of block spread, in which part of the ground breaks off a hill and slides away mostly perfect.
5.What do we know about slope failures?
A.They may cause earthquakes.
B.They usually happen with a road on top.
C.They always happen with earthquakes.
D.They may pull parts of the hills apart.
6.What can we infer from paragraph 2?
A.Earthquakes have great effect on slope failures.
B.Most slope failures occur after the pouring rain.
C.Earthquakes result in slope failures immediately.
D.Slope failures occur mainly with large earthquakes.
7.What did the scientists think of the Alaska earthquake Friday?
A.It produced shaking over a large area.
B.It caused fewer slope failures than expected.
C.It wasn't felt for its deep center.
D.It didn't produce landslides.
8.In which circumstance can we find the ground slides down a hill almost unbroken?
A.Land slides. B.Slope failures.
C.Lateral spread. D.Block spread.
【语篇导读】本文是一篇说明文。文章通过服片描述了阿拉斯加地震后的景象,介绍了地震对山体滑坡所造成的影响。
5.D 解析:细节理解题。根据第一段第一句“Some of the most attractive pictures to come out of the Alaska earthquake are the photos that show slope failures, in which parts of formerly solid hills caved in,tore or let loose.”可知,山体滑坡时会造成山体分开。故选D。
6.A 解 析 :推理判断题。根据第二段“But the shaking caused by ... wouldn't have otherwise happened.”可知,地 震会加速山体滑坡的发生,推断出地震对山体滑坡有巨大的影响。故选A。
7.B 解析:推理 判 断 题 。 根 据 第 四 段 第 三 句“Such an earthquake would be expected to ... enough to produce widespread landslides.”可知,这次地震的震动次数比预期少,这个结果出乎科学家的意料。故选B。
8.D 解析:细节理解题。根据第五段最后一句“There's also documentation of block spread, in which part of the ground breaks off a hill and slides away mostly perfect.”可知,在块体扩散的情况下,部分地面脱离山丘,非常完整地滑落。故选 D。
【知识补充】
1.documented adj.有记录的 2.wrinkle v.皱 起
3.acceleration n.加速
4.documentation n.必备资料,证明文件 5.speed up加 速
【长难句分析】
But the shaking caused by a quake — particularly a large one like what occurred near Anchorage on Friday — can either speed up the process or create entirely new failures that wouldn't have otherwise happened.(第二段第二句)
句意:但是,由地震引起的震动——特别是像周五安克雷奇附 近发生的大地震——可能会加速这一过程,也可能会造成原 本不会发生的全新故障。
分析:caused 为过去分词作后置定语来修饰shaking,what occurred near Anchorage on Friday是介词后面的宾语从句,can speed up和create 均为主语the shaking的谓语动词,that wouldn't have otherwise happened为定语从句,修饰failures。
二、七选五
体裁
题语境
词数
难度
说明文
人与社会——科学与技术
260
★★★
The Meaning and Power of Smell
Research into smell has never ended and in fact,there are so many interesting findings with regard to this sensation.Everyone knows that smell can cause strong emotional responses.In a survey,people were asked to report how they feel about a particular smell.Commonly,a smell connected with a good experience can please us,while an odour(气味)bonded with a bad memory may disgust us. 1 Such associations can be so powerful that odours generally labeled unpleasant become agreeable, and those generally considered sweet become disagreeable for particular individuals.
2 One respondent believes there is no true emotional bonding without smelling a loved one. Infants recognize their mothers' odours soon after birth. Individuals were able to distinguish by the smell of clothing worn by their partners from similar clothing worn by other people,
Despite its importance to our emotional and sensory lives, smell is probably the most undervalued sense.While our olfactory (嗅觉的)powers are not as fine as those of certain animals,they are remarkably sensitive. 3
Odours, unlike colours, can't be named in many languages because the specific vocabulary simply doesn't exist. “It smells like...”We have to say when describing an odour,struggling to express our olfactory experience. 4
5 Smells considered offensive in some cultures may be acceptable in others. Therefore, our sense of smell is a means of interacting with the world. The study of the cultural history of smell is indeed an investigation into the essence of human culture.
A.Odours are also essential signals in social bonding.
B.Besides, odours are granted different cultural values.
C.Human's perception of smell facilitates the spread of human culture.
D.Our noses can perceive odours present in extremely small quantities.
E.Nor can odours be recorded:there is no effective way to capture or store them over time.
F.Some people's preference for a particular odour was influenced by their emotional well-being.
G.Yet,many people noted that their olfactory(嗅觉的)preferences were based on emotional associations.
【语篇导读】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了一项调查显示,气味可以引起强烈的情绪反应,并介绍了嗅觉的意义和力量。
1.G 解析:上文说明通常气味的好坏会与情绪好坏有正向
关联,下文说明这种联系的强大影响,气味可能与不同的情 绪产生联系,G项“然而,许多人注意到他们的嗅觉偏好是基于情感联想的”与上文形成转折关系,引出下文。故 选G。
2.A 解析:下文说明气味可以帮助人分辨社会关系,A 项 中 social bonding是关键词,A 项“气味也是社会关系的重要信号”说明气味对于社会关系的作用,引出下文。故选 A。
3.D 解析:上文说明嗅觉非常敏感,D 项“我们的鼻子可以感知极少量的气味”具体介绍人类鼻子可以感知极少量的气味,是嗅觉敏感的体现,承接上文。故选D。
4.E 解析:上文说明因为没有特定的词汇,所以气味无法命名,E 项“气味也无法被记录;没有有效的方法来捕捉或储 存它们”进一步说明气味无法被命名的原因,承接上文,符合题意。故选 E。
5.B 解析:下文说明气味在某些文化中的价值体现,B项中 cultural values是关键词,B 项“此外,气味被赋予不同的文化价值。”引出下文。故选B。
三、完形填空
体栽
语境
词数
难度
记叙文
人与自我——做人与做事
275
★★
My dad was a serious amateur sailor. He and his friend Chuck 1 the North American Championship,sailing the beautiful wooden dragons.One year they won the 2 to go to the Olympics
Dad didn't become 3 overnight.He had to work at his skill.As a kid,that first summer hehad his own small sailboat,he 4 in all the races in the bay and came in last every time.
At the end of the season, when awards were being 5 something happened. An elderly lady, who had watched Dad's slow but steady 6 , stepped out of her house. She generously 7 a prize made especially for him. “The Hope Cup,” she said. No other award could match the promise of hope — a quality fixed in my dad and 8 us.
As a parent, he was a better sailing 9 .How well I remember him taking me out in our boat, the wind still 10 , the water smooth in the morning hours. “Where do you feel the wind coming from?” he asked. “Look at the flags and they'll show the 11 in which it is blowing. However, every good 12 learns how to feel it.”
“Now,” he said, “look at the sail.” If the sail 13 back and forth, I needed to pull in it. If the wind was behind us, I was to let out the sail. Since then, sailing has been 14 to me. I've learned that we can sail 15 as long as we keep track of the wind.
1.A.lost B.gained C.challenged D.changed
2.A.opportunity B.game C.fame D.trust
3.A.helpful B.cheerful C.successful D.wealthy
4.A.existed B.competed C.majored D.succeeded
5.A.given out B.made up C.sent away D.taken down
6.A.behavior B.smile C.gesture D.progress
7.A.reached B.offered C.handed D.transformed
8.A.left behind B.kept up with C.passed on to D.put forward to
9.A.instructor B.player C.guard D.lifter
10.A.quiet B.tight C.soft D.fierce
11.A.time B.way C,strength D.direction
12.A.swimmer B.sailor C.author D.learner
13.A.turned B.floated C.shook D.fell
14.A.impossible B.unbelievable C.valueless D.effortless
15.A.smoothly B.happily C.wildly D.aimlessly
【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙文。作者在文章中讲述了父亲驾 驶帆船的经历和教作者驾驶帆船的故事。
1.B 解析:根据下文的“the North American Championship” 可知,父亲和他的期友曾获过北美帆船比赛冠军。故选B。
2.A 解析:根据下文的“to go to the Olympics”可知,父亲和朋友获得了参加奥运会的机会。故选 A。
3.C 解析:根据下文的“He had to work at his skill.”和下文的内容可知,父亲天资不高,但他靠自己的努力一步一步走向成功。故选C。
4.B 解析;根据下文的“in all the races in the bay and came in last every time”可知,父亲参加过许多比赛,但每次都排在最后一名。故选B。
5.A 解 析:根据上文的“awards were being” 可知,当颁发奖项时,发生了一件事情。give out意为“分发,颁发”。故选 A。
6.D 解析:根据上文的“slow but steady”可知,这位年迈的女士目睹了父亲的进步。故选D。
7.B 解析:根据下文的“a prize made especially for him”可知,她给父亲颁发了专门为他定制的奖杯——希望之杯。故选B。
8.C 解 析:根据上文的“a quality fixed in my dad”和下文的us 可知,对未来要满怀希望,这是父亲身上的品质,这种品质也传给了作者。pass on to 意为“传递,传给”,符合语境。 故选C。
9.A 解析:下文讲到父亲教作者如何进行帆船训练,由此可知,父亲是一名优秀的帆船教练员。故选 A。
10.C 解析:根据下文的“the water smooth in the morning hours"可知,早晨,海风轻柔,水波平静。故选C。
11.D 解析:根据上文的“Look at the flags”和下文的“it is blowing”可知,旗飘动的方向就是风向。故选D。
12.B 解析:根据上下文的内容可知,作为一个优秀的水手, 他必须学会如何凭感觉判断方向。故选B。
13.C 解析:根据下文的“back and forth”可知,如果帆船上的帆前后摇动,那水手得把帆收起来。故选C。
14.D 解析:根据上文的内容可知,父亲教会自己驾驶帆船,航行便是一件轻而易举的事。effortless 意为“容易的,不 费力气的”。故选D。
15.A 解析:根据下文的“as long as we keep track of the wind” 可知,只要我们把握好风向,我们就可以平稳地驶向远方。故选 A。
【知识补充】
17 amateur n,业余爱好者 adj. 非专业的,业余爱好的 2.steady adj.平稳的
3.back and forth 反复地,来回地 4.as long as只要
5.keep track of明了,跟踪,记录 【长难句分析】
How well I remember him taking me out in our boat, the wind still soft, the water smooth in the morning hours.(第四 段第二句)
句意:我清楚地记得他带我乘船出海的情景:清晨时分,风还 很柔和,水很平静。
分析:本句使用了两个独立主格结构;the wind still soft和 the water smooth,在句中作状语。
四、语法填空
体裁
主题语境
词数
难度
说明文
人与社会——历史、社会与文化
212
★★★
The history of hutongs can date back to the Yuan Dynasty, when the term “hutong”, 1 (initial) meaning “water wells”, first appeared in its capital, now known as Beijing. The Yuan nobles and high-ranking army officials 2 (award) lands as their estates in the city.They built houses and courtyards,now called “Siheyuan”, which were arranged in 3 orderly way around the wells.
In the Ming Dynasty, the center of Beijing was the Forbidden City, with the Inner City and Outer City 4 (surround) it. Upper class citizens were permitted to live closer 5 the center. Nobles lived to the east and west of the palace. The hutongs formed by their houses were lined by spacious homes and gardens. Farther from the palace and to its north and south 6 (be) the commoners. Their Siheyuans were far smaller in size and simpler in 7 (decorate), and the hutongs were narrower.
Nowadays, if you visit Beijing, Nanluoguxiang is a must-see. The 786-meter-long south-north hutong is lined with bars, hotels and stores. There are also 8 hutongs — 8 (hide) on the east and west sides of the main lane of Nanluoguxiang as well as former residences 9 celebrities once lived.
Hutongs are the home of the Beijing 10 (local), who have a deep affection for them.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
【语篇导读】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了北京胡同 的历史及其作用。
1.initially 解析 :考查副词。修饰动词mean 应 用 副 词 initially 作状语。故填initially。
2.were awarded 解 析 :考查动词的时态和语态。主语与谓 语构成动宾关系,且描述过去发生的事情应用一般过去时的被动语态。故填were awarded。
3.an 解析 :考查冠词。短语 in an orderly way表示“有序 地”。故填an。
4.surrounding 解 析 :考查非谓语动词。此处surround与 the Inner City and Outer City 构成主谓关系,故用现在分词作宾补。故填surrounding。
5. to 解析:考查介词。短语close to表示“靠近”。故填to。
6.were 解析 :考查主谓一致。此处为完全倒装,主语为the commoners, 结合上文were 可知,句子为一般过去时,谓语用复数。故填 were。
7.decoration 解析 :考查名词。作宾语,应用名词decoration。 故填decoration。
8.hidden 解析:考查非谓语动词。分析句子结构可知,hide 与逻辑主语8 hutongs 构成动宾关系,故用过去分词作后置定语。故填hidden。
9.where 解析:考查定语从旬。此处为定语从句修饰先行词 residences, 从句缺少地点状语,故用where引导。故填where。
10.locals 解 析 :考查名词的数。local 为可数名词,其前没有 不定冠词,且后文调语 have 为原形,故用复数形式。故填 locals。
1
学科网(北京)股份有限公司
$$第 六 练
一、阅读理解
A
体裁
主题
难度
议论文
人与社会——社会服务与人际沟通
346
★★★
Slowing down was the last thing on Elaine Schaefer's mind when she turned 70 last year.She'd enjoyed an ambitious travel schedule for the previous decade.She didn't feel too old to travel.
Yet many people are asking that slightly embarrassing question: Can you be too old to travel? The travel industry has already responded. Try renting a car in Europe, for example. In Croatia, Schaefer wouldn't be able to this year, because the maximum age is 70. Insurance companies require higher rates; tour operators limit certain activities. That feels like a “no” for many travelers.
Definitely some folks should think twice before traveling, but not only based on their age. It's their level of fitness, says Kirsten Veldman, a former tour guide who now edits a retirement blog. She recalls a 93-year-old who was disabled and traveling alone on a Caribbean tour. “You can't expect to ask a tour leader to be there for you 24/7 for medical care,” she says. “Tour guides don't have the time, skills, and knowledge for it. So, in this case, my advice is: he shouldn't have traveled with us in this situation.”
But some tour operators serve older travelers. For example, Grand Circle Travel started in 1958 to serve senior members. “We have travelers into their 80s and even 90s. Some travel as a couple and some alone,” says company spokeswoman Ann Shannon. “We have no age limit.”
If you ask travel experts, they'll tell you that age is just a number. It's a question of physical, and to a certain extent, mental ability, “Many of our travelers are retired, focused on keeping their good health, and are experienced travelers who have a good idea of what to expect,” says Sara Baer-Sinnot, president of Oldways, a food and nutrition nonprofit that operates tours.“Someone in their 40s may struggle more than someone in their 80s.”
1.What is expected if Schaefer travels in Croatia this year?
A.She can rent a car to go around.
B.She has to pay more insurance fees.
C.She can join in all kinds of activities.
D.She will receive 24/7 medical care.
2.What caused Veldman to disapprove of the 93-year-old's traveling?
A.His old age.
B.His lack of money.
C.His poor health.
D.His insociable personality.
3.What do we know about Grand Circle Travel?
A.It is a nonprofit traveling organization.
B.It offers service to a wide range of travelers.
C.It has a history of more than seven decades.
D.Its main customers are senior travelers.
4.What is the author's attitude towards traveling old?
A.Opposed. B.Supportive. C.Tolerant. D.Objective.
B
体裁
主题语境
词数
难度
说明文
人与自然——灾害防范
324
★★★
Some of the most attractive pictures to come out of the Alaska earthquake are the photos that show slope(斜坡) failures, in which parts of formerly solid hills caved in, tore or let loose. And if there happened to be a road or building on top of the slopes that failed, the result was horrible.
Slopes can fail without earthquakes, as the result of pouring rain or weathering. But the shaking caused by a quake— particularly a large one like what occurred near Anchorage on Friday — can either speed up the process or create entirely new failures that wouldn't have otherwise happened.
Several slope failures were documented in the Anchorage area in the hours after the earthquake Friday,the most interesting of which was on Vine Road southwest of Wasilla. It's as if someone came along with a large destroying ball and dropped it on Vine Road, which wrinkled like a broken egg.
Scientists seemed surprised at how many slope failures occurred as a result of the 7.0-magnitude(震级)quake. The center of the quake was deep, at 27 miles below the surface -- a key reason why the damage in Anchorage was relatively light. Such an earthquake would be expected to produce shaking over a large area, but probably with reasonably modest top ground accelerations, Friday's earthquake would certainly be felt, but the surface of Earth wouldn't be moving badly enough to produce widespread landslides.
Photos from Alaska show a lot of lateral(横向的)spread, in which the ground tears open. Whatever is on top of the ground at the place it tears in half is also torn in half afterwards, like highways or buildings. The buildings surrounding the spread are also at risk of damage because of the force of the ground spreading out away from the tear. There's also documentation of block spread, in which part of the ground breaks off a hill and slides away mostly perfect.
5.What do we know about slope failures?
A.They may cause earthquakes.
B.They usually happen with a road on top.
C.They always happen with earthquakes.
D.They may pull parts of the hills apart.
6.What can we infer from paragraph 2?
A.Earthquakes have great effect on slope failures.
B.Most slope failures occur after the pouring rain.
C.Earthquakes result in slope failures immediately.
D.Slope failures occur mainly with large earthquakes.
7.What did the scientists think of the Alaska earthquake Friday?
A.It produced shaking over a large area.
B.It caused fewer slope failures than expected.
C.It wasn't felt for its deep center.
D.It didn't produce landslides.
8.In which circumstance can we find the ground slides down a hill almost unbroken?
A.Land slides. B.Slope failures.
C.Lateral spread. D.Block spread.
阅读、七选五、完型、语法填空 组合练
1
学科网(北京)股份有限公司
二、七选五
体裁
题语境
词数
难度
说明文
人与社会——科学与技术
260
★★★
The Meaning and Power of Smell
Research into smell has never ended and in fact,there are so many interesting findings with regard to this sensation.Everyone knows that smell can cause strong emotional responses.In a survey,people were asked to report how they feel about a particular smell.Commonly,a smell connected with a good experience can please us,while an odour(气味)bonded with a bad memory may disgust us. 1 Such associations can be so powerful that odours generally labeled unpleasant become agreeable, and those generally considered sweet become disagreeable for particular individuals.
2 One respondent believes there is no true emotional bonding without smelling a loved one. Infants recognize their mothers' odours soon after birth. Individuals were able to distinguish by the smell of clothing worn by their partners from similar clothing worn by other people,
Despite its importance to our emotional and sensory lives, smell is probably the most undervalued sense.While our olfactory (嗅觉的)powers are not as fine as those of certain animals,they are remarkably sensitive. 3
Odours, unlike colours, can't be named in many languages because the specific vocabulary simply doesn't exist. “It smells like...”We have to say when describing an odour,struggling to express our olfactory experience. 4
5 Smells considered offensive in some cultures may be acceptable in others. Therefore, our sense of smell is a means of interacting with the world. The study of the cultural history of smell is indeed an investigation into the essence of human culture.
A.Odours are also essential signals in social bonding.
B.Besides, odours are granted different cultural values.
C.Human's perception of smell facilitates the spread of human culture.
D.Our noses can perceive odours present in extremely small quantities.
E.Nor can odours be recorded:there is no effective way to capture or store them over time.
F.Some people's preference for a particular odour was influenced by their emotional well-being.
G.Yet,many people noted that their olfactory(嗅觉的)preferences were based on emotional associations.
三、完形填空
体栽
语境
词数
难度
记叙文
人与自我——做人与做事
275
★★
My dad was a serious amateur sailor. He and his friend Chuck 1 the North American Championship,sailing the beautiful wooden dragons.One year they won the 2 to go to the Olympics
Dad didn't become 3 overnight.He had to work at his skill.As a kid,that first summer hehad his own small sailboat,he 4 in all the races in the bay and came in last every time.
At the end of the season, when awards were being 5 something happened. An elderly lady, who had watched Dad's slow but steady 6 , stepped out of her house. She generously 7 a prize made especially for him. “The Hope Cup,” she said. No other award could match the promise of hope — a quality fixed in my dad and 8 us.
As a parent, he was a better sailing 9 .How well I remember him taking me out in our boat, the wind still 10 , the water smooth in the morning hours. “Where do you feel the wind coming from?” he asked. “Look at the flags and they'll show the 11 in which it is blowing. However, every good 12 learns how to feel it.”
“Now,” he said, “look at the sail.” If the sail 13 back and forth, I needed to pull in it. If the wind was behind us, I was to let out the sail. Since then, sailing has been 14 to me. I've learned that we can sail 15 as long as we keep track of the wind.
1.A.lost B.gained C.challenged D.changed
2.A.opportunity B.game C.fame D.trust
3.A.helpful B.cheerful C.successful D.wealthy
4.A.existed B.competed C.majored D.succeeded
5.A.given out B.made up C.sent away D.taken down
6.A.behavior B.smile C.gesture D.progress
7.A.reached B.offered C.handed D.transformed
8.A.left behind B.kept up with C.passed on to D.put forward to
9.A.instructor B.player C.guard D.lifter
10.A.quiet B.tight C.soft D.fierce
11.A.time B.way C,strength D.direction
12.A.swimmer B.sailor C.author D.learner
13.A.turned B.floated C.shook D.fell
14.A.impossible B.unbelievable C.valueless D.effortless
15.A.smoothly B.happily C.wildly D.aimlessly
四、语法填空
体裁
主题语境
词数
难度
说明文
人与社会——历史、社会与文化
212
★★★
The history of hutongs can date back to the Yuan Dynasty, when the term “hutong”, 1 (initial) meaning “water wells”, first appeared in its capital, now known as Beijing. The Yuan nobles and high-ranking army officials 2 (award) lands as their estates in the city.They built houses and courtyards,now called “Siheyuan”, which were arranged in 3 orderly way around the wells.
In the Ming Dynasty, the center of Beijing was the Forbidden City, with the Inner City and Outer City 4 (surround) it. Upper class citizens were permitted to live closer 5 the center. Nobles lived to the east and west of the palace. The hutongs formed by their houses were lined by spacious homes and gardens. Farther from the palace and to its north and south 6 (be) the commoners. Their Siheyuans were far smaller in size and simpler in 7 (decorate), and the hutongs were narrower.
Nowadays, if you visit Beijing, Nanluoguxiang is a must-see. The 786-meter-long south-north hutong is lined with bars, hotels and stores. There are also 8 hutongs — 8 (hide) on the east and west sides of the main lane of Nanluoguxiang as well as former residences 9 celebrities once lived.
Hutongs are the home of the Beijing 10 (local), who have a deep affection for them.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
$$