单选题It seems that the writer______.A is interested in the imaginary life formsB is eager to find a different form of lifeC is certain of the existence of a new life formD is critical of the imaginative people

第1题：

One way of talking about the different stages in getting used to life in a new country is the distinction of (), depression, adjustment and acceptance.

A、criticism

B、admiration

C、euphoria

D、shock

参考答案：C

第2题：

Gypsies are often treated with disapproval, lack of trust, and lack of understanding because their way of life is so different from the way most other British people live.

正确答案：吉普赛人的生活方式和大部分英国人大不相同所以人们对吉普赛人的态度总是不以为然很不信任而且对他们的生活缺乏了解。
吉普赛人的生活方式和大部分英国人大不相同，所以人们对吉普赛人的态度总是不以为然，很不信任，而且对他们的生活缺乏了解。

第3题：

When we talk about intelligence we do not mean the ability to get good scores on certain kinds of tests or even the ability to do well in school. By intelligence we mean a way of living and behaving, especially in a new situation. If we want to test intelligence, we need to find out how a person acts instead of how much he knows to do.

For example, when in a new situation, an intelligent person thinks about the situation, not about himself or what might happen to him. He tries to find out all he can do, and then he acts immediately and tries to do something about it. He probably isn’t sure how it all works out, but at least he tries. And if he cannot make things work out right, he doesn’t feel ashamed that he failed, he just tries to learn from his mistakes. An intelligent person, even if he is very young, has a special outlook in life, a special feeling about life, and a special way of how he fits into it.

If you look at children, you’ll see a great difference between what we call ”bright” children and “not bright” children. They are actually two different kinds of people, not just the same kind with different amounts of intelligence. For example, the bright child really wants to find out about life—he tries to get in touch with everything around him. But the unintelligent child keeps more to himself and his own dream world; he seems to have a wall between him and life in general

1、According to this passage, intelligence is the ability to______.

A、work by oneself do well in any

B、situation

C、know what is right and wrong

D、adapt oneself to a new situation

2、In a new situation, an intelligent person ____________.

A、knows more about what might happen to him

B、is well-prepared for his action

C、pays greater attention to the situation

D、completely ignores himself

3、If an intelligent person failed, he would ________

A、feel ashamed about the failure

B、learn from his experiences

C、find out what he can’t do

D、make sure what’s wrong with

his outlook in life

4、An intelligent child ________

A、learns more about himself

B、shows interest in things around him

C、studies everything that may be interesting

D、looks down upon unintelligent children

5、Why does an unintelligent child seem to have a wall between him and life in general?

A、Because he can hardly see the outside world.

B、Because life is far away from him.

C、Because he knows nothing about life in general.

D、Because he has little interest in things around himself.

正确答案：1D 2C 3B 4B 5D

第4题：

A life B existence C survival D maintenance

正确答案：C

第5题：

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第三篇

“Life Form Found" on Saturn ' s Titan

Scientists say they have discovered hints of alien life on the Saturn'5 moon.The discovery of a sort of
life was announced after researchers at the US space agency,NASA,analyzed data from spacecraft Cassini,
which pointed to the existence of methane-based form of life on Saturn's biggest moon.
Scientists have reportedly discovered clues showing primitive alien beings are"breathing"in Titan's
dense atmosphere filled with hydrogen.
They argue that hydrogen gets absorbed before hitting Titan's planet-like surface covered with methane
lakes and rivers.This,they say,points to the existence of some"bugs"consuming the hydrogen at the surface
of the moon less than half the size of the Earth.
"We suggested hydrogen consumption because it's the obvious gas for life to consume on Titan,similar
to the way we consume oxygen on Earth,"says NASA scientist Chris McKay."If these signs do turn out to be
a sign of life,it would be doubly exciting because it would represent a second form of life independent from
water-based life on Earth."
To date,scientists have not yet detected this form of life anywhere,though there are liquid-water-based
microorganisms on Earth that grow well on methane or produce it as a waste product. On Titan,where
temperatures are around minus 17 Kelvin(minus 290 degrees Farenheit),a methane-based organism would
have to use a substance that is liquid as its medium for living processes,but not water itself. Water is frozen
solid on Titan'5 surface and much too cold to support life as we know it.
Scientists had expected the Sun'5 interactions with chemicals in the atmosphere to produce a coating of
acetylene on Titan'5 surface.But Cassini detected no acetylene on the surface.
The absence of detectable acetylene on the Titan's surface can very well have a non-biological explana-
tion,said Mark Allen,a principal investigator of the NASA Titan team.
"Scientific conservatism suggests that a biological explanation should be the last choice after all non-
biological explanations are addressed,"Allen said."We have a lot of work to do to rule out possible non-bio-
logical explanations.It is more likely that a chemical process,without biology,can explain these results."

Which of the following can replace the title of this passage?
A:Different Life Form,a Possibility.
B:Earthlike Living Beings Found on Titan.
C:Finding of One More Moon of Saturn.
D:Titan,a New Satellite Discovered.

答案：A

解析：

由文章第一段第二句话中“The discovery of...which pointed to the existence of methane- based form of life on Saturn' s biggest moon.”可知，科学家们的证据显示，土星的这个最大的卫星上有甲烷基的生命形态存在，故选B。
由文章第二、三段的内容可知，科学家们发现有线索显示“土卫六”上原始的外星生物在由氢气环绕的稠密大气层中“呼吸”，也就是说这个卫星上有氢气的消耗现象。故选D。
由文章前五段的内容可知，科学家在文章开头提出“土卫六”上可能有甲烷基的生命形态，即methane-based life，接下来的内容给出了科学家们对此说法的一系列证据来进行论证，故选C。
由文章的最后两段中Mark Allen的话，尤其是文章最后一句“It is more likely that a chemical process ,without biology , can explain these results.”可知，科学家们认为应该用化学过程来解释为什么“土卫六”表面没有乙炔，故选B。
由文章内容可知，科学家们提出了土星的这个最大的行星上可能有一种不依赖于水的生命形态，并从各方面进行了证明，故选A。第5部分：补全短文

第6题：

Now and again I have had horrible dreams, but not enough of them to make me lose my delight in dreams. To begin with, I like the idea of dreaming, of going to bed and lying still and then, by some queer magic, wandering into another kind of existence. As a child I could never understand why grown-ups took dreaming so calmly when they could make such a fuss about any holiday. This still puzzles me. I am mystified by people who say they never dream and appear to have no interest in the subject. It is much more astonishing than if they said they never went out for a walk. Most people or at least more Western Europeans do not seem to accept dreaming as part of their lives. They appear to see it as an irritating little habit, like sneezing or yawning.
I have never understood this. My dream life does not seem as important as my waking life, if only because there is far less of it, but to me it is important. As if there were at least two extra continents added to the world, and lightning excursions running to them at any moment between midnight and breakfast. Then again, the dream life, though queer and confusing and unsatisfactory in many respects, has its own advantages. The dead are there, smiling and talking. The part is there, sometimes all broken and confused but occasionally as fresh as a daisy. And perhaps, as Mr. Dunne tells us, the future is there too, winking at us. This dream life is often overshadowed by huge mysterious anxieties, with luggage that cannot be packed and trains that refuse to be caught; and both persons and scenes there are not as dependable and solid as they are in waking life, so that Brown and Smith merge into one person while Robinson splits into two, and there are thick woods outside the bathroom door and the dining room is somehow part of a theater balcony; and there are moments of loneliness or terror in the dream world that are worse than anything we have known under the sun. Yet this other life has its interests, its happiness, its satisfactions, and at certain rare intervals, a serene glow or a sudden joy, like glimpses of another form of existence altogether, that we cannot match with open eyes. Silly or wise, terrible or excellent, it is a further helping of experience, a bonus after dark, another slice of life cut differently, for which, it seems to me, we are never sufficiently grateful. Only a dream! Why only? It was there and you had it.
"If there were dreams to sell," Beddoes inquires, "What would you pay?" I cannot say off hand, but certainly the price would be rather more than I could afford.
In the author′ s opinion, we should thank a dream because__________.

A.it makes us enjoy a different life
B.we can avoid terrible things in real life
C.we can experience various emotions in dreams
D.it can help us regain the innocent moments of life

答案：A

解析：

推断题。根据第二段的倒数第四句话“silly or wise，terrible or excellent，it is a further helping of experience，a bonus after dark，another slice of life cut differently，for which，it seems to me，we are never sufficiently grateful．"可知．我们应该感激梦是因为它使我们体验了另一种不同的生活，故选A。

第7题：

People greatly differ ( ) their views of life.
A. form B. in
C. at D. to

答案：A

解析：

第8题：

问答题

Practice 8　　(1) Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one.

正确答案：
每个国家都倾向于把自己的生活方式看做正常的方式,并对与此相似或不同的他国生活方式进行褒贬。

解析：暂无解析

第9题：

单选题

Life is more enjoyable to people _____ are open to new ideas.

A

whose

B

whom

C

who

D

which

正确答案： B

解析：
本题考查后置定语。后置定语的先行词是people，且people在这里作主语，要用who来引导。which表示“哪一个”，whom在句中作宾语，whose表示的是“谁的”，故正确答案为C。句意：对于善于接受新观点的人来说，生活更是一种享受。

第10题：

问答题

练习11　　Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one.

正确答案：每个国家都倾向于把自己的生活方式看做正常的方式,并对与此相似或不同的他国生活方式进行褒贬。

解析：暂无解析

第11题：

单选题

Even most imaginative people have to admit that______.

A

human societies are as advanced as those on some other planets

B

planets other than Earth are not suitable for life like ours to stay

C

it is difficult to distinguish between organic parts and inorganic parts of the human body

D

organisms are more creative than machines

正确答案： C

解析：
文章首段“Mars looks like the only planet where life like ours could exist，and even this is doubtful.”表达了对外星上是否有地球人的置疑，第五段“If this is the case，they may be much more tolerant of their environment，multiplying under conditions that would destroy immediately any organism made of carbon compounds and dependent on the familiar carbon cycle.”说明外星不适合现在的人类居住，故B项正确。

第12题：

单选题

Many old people in the cities find themselves unable to get used to the rapid _____ of city life.

A

rate

B

speed

C

step

D

pace

正确答案： A

解析：
句意：城市里的很多老人发现他们不能适应快速发展的城市生活。rate最常见的词义为“率”。inflation rate通货膨胀率。speed“速度”，at a speed/a rate of 100 km an hour以每小时100公里的速度，在该搭配中，rate和speed同义。step意为“脚步”，walk with slow steps行走缓慢。only a few paces/steps away只几步之遥，这里的pace和step可替换。the pace of life生活的节奏，是固定搭配。故答案为D。

第13题：

The text intends to express the idea that

A medicine will further prolong people's lives.

B. life beyond a certain limit is not worth living.

C. death should be accepted as a fact of life.

D. excessive demands increase the cost of health care.

正确答案：C

第14题：

People’s dreams of a better life ().

A、are nearly the same worldwide

B、take various forms

C、express different demands on life

D、reflect the economic power of the country

参考答案：BC

第15题：

From Paragraph 1 we learn that the villagers .

A. worked very hard for centuries

B. dreamed of having a better life

C. were poor but somewhat content

D. lived a different life from their forefathers

正确答案：C

第16题：

Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to protnote social change by opening more areas of life to decision.
In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social changes is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp difference. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
The passage is mainly discussing__________.

A.certain factors that determine the ease with which social changes occur
B.certain factors that promote social change
C.the necessity of social change
D.two different societies

答案：A

解析：

全文共三段，根据每段的第一句“Social change is more likely to occur in societies…”，“Wi“n a society，social changes is also likely to occur more frequenfly and more readily in…”和“Furthermore，social change is easier if it is gradual”可知，本文讲的不是哪些因素能推动社会变革，而是哪些因素使社会变革更容易发生，因此选A。

第17题：

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第三篇

“Life Form Found" on Saturn ' s Titan

Scientists say they have discovered hints of alien life on the Saturn'5 moon.The discovery of a sort of
life was announced after researchers at the US space agency,NASA,analyzed data from spacecraft Cassini,
which pointed to the existence of methane-based form of life on Saturn's biggest moon.
Scientists have reportedly discovered clues showing primitive alien beings are"breathing"in Titan's
dense atmosphere filled with hydrogen.
They argue that hydrogen gets absorbed before hitting Titan's planet-like surface covered with methane
lakes and rivers.This,they say,points to the existence of some"bugs"consuming the hydrogen at the surface
of the moon less than half the size of the Earth.
"We suggested hydrogen consumption because it's the obvious gas for life to consume on Titan,similar
to the way we consume oxygen on Earth,"says NASA scientist Chris McKay."If these signs do turn out to be
a sign of life,it would be doubly exciting because it would represent a second form of life independent from
water-based life on Earth."
To date,scientists have not yet detected this form of life anywhere,though there are liquid-water-based
microorganisms on Earth that grow well on methane or produce it as a waste product. On Titan,where
temperatures are around minus 17 Kelvin(minus 290 degrees Farenheit),a methane-based organism would
have to use a substance that is liquid as its medium for living processes,but not water itself. Water is frozen
solid on Titan'5 surface and much too cold to support life as we know it.
Scientists had expected the Sun'5 interactions with chemicals in the atmosphere to produce a coating of
acetylene on Titan'5 surface.But Cassini detected no acetylene on the surface.
The absence of detectable acetylene on the Titan's surface can very well have a non-biological explana-
tion,said Mark Allen,a principal investigator of the NASA Titan team.
"Scientific conservatism suggests that a biological explanation should be the last choice after all non-
biological explanations are addressed,"Allen said."We have a lot of work to do to rule out possible non-bio-
logical explanations.It is more likely that a chemical process,without biology,can explain these results."

The expression"this form of life"in Paragraph 5 refer to_____________.
A: water-based life
B: oxygen-based life
C: methane-based life
D: liquid-based microorganisms

答案：C

解析：

由文章第一段第二句话中“The discovery of...which pointed to the existence of methane- based form of life on Saturn' s biggest moon.”可知，科学家们的证据显示，土星的这个最大的卫星上有甲烷基的生命形态存在，故选B。
由文章第二、三段的内容可知，科学家们发现有线索显示“土卫六”上原始的外星生物在由氢气环绕的稠密大气层中“呼吸”，也就是说这个卫星上有氢气的消耗现象。故选D。
由文章前五段的内容可知，科学家在文章开头提出“土卫六”上可能有甲烷基的生命形态，即methane-based life，接下来的内容给出了科学家们对此说法的一系列证据来进行论证，故选C。
由文章的最后两段中Mark Allen的话，尤其是文章最后一句“It is more likely that a chemical process ,without biology , can explain these results.”可知，科学家们认为应该用化学过程来解释为什么“土卫六”表面没有乙炔，故选B。
由文章内容可知，科学家们提出了土星的这个最大的行星上可能有一种不依赖于水的生命形态，并从各方面进行了证明，故选A。第5部分：补全短文

第18题：

Now and again I have had horrible dreams, but not enough of them to make me lose my delight in dreams. To begin with, I like the idea of dreaming, of going to bed and lying still and then, by some queer magic, wandering into another kind of existence. As a child I could never understand why grown-ups took dreaming so calmly when they could make such a fuss about any holiday. This still puzzles me. I am mystified by people who say they never dream and appear to have no interest in the subject. It is much more astonishing than if they said they never went out for a walk. Most people or at least more Western Europeans do not seem to accept dreaming as part of their lives. They appear to see it as an irritating little habit, like sneezing or yawning.
I have never understood this. My dream life does not seem as important as my waking life, if only because there is far less of it, but to me it is important. As if there were at least two extra continents added to the world, and lightning excursions running to them at any moment between midnight and breakfast. Then again, the dream life, though queer and confusing and unsatisfactory in many respects, has its own advantages. The dead are there, smiling and talking. The part is there, sometimes all broken and confused but occasionally as fresh as a daisy. And perhaps, as Mr. Dunne tells us, the future is there too, winking at us. This dream life is often overshadowed by huge mysterious anxieties, with luggage that cannot be packed and trains that refuse to be caught; and both persons and scenes there are not as dependable and solid as they are in waking life, so that Brown and Smith merge into one person while Robinson splits into two, and there are thick woods outside the bathroom door and the dining room is somehow part of a theater balcony; and there are moments of loneliness or terror in the dream world that are worse than anything we have known under the sun. Yet this other life has its interests, its happiness, its satisfactions, and at certain rare intervals, a serene glow or a sudden joy, like glimpses of another form of existence altogether, that we cannot match with open eyes. Silly or wise, terrible or excellent, it is a further helping of experience, a bonus after dark, another slice of life cut differently, for which, it seems to me, we are never sufficiently grateful. Only a dream! Why only? It was there and you had it.
"If there were dreams to sell," Beddoes inquires, "What would you pay?" I cannot say off hand, but certainly the price would be rather more than I could afford.
The advantageous aspect of dreams lies in ____________.

A.the short moments it has relieved people from the burden of life
B.experiencing the impossible or unrealistic, even broken parts of life
C.the refreshing power it endows people when they wake up in the morning
D.the mystery it brings when in dream people can predict their future

答案：B

解析：

细节题。定位到第二段，该段提到“Then again，the dream life，though queer and confusing and unsatisfactory in many respects，has its own advantages．”，接着展开论述“The dead are them，smiling and talking． The part is there，sometimes all broken and confused but occasionally as fresh as a daisy．”，最后总结道“Silly or wise， terrible or excellent，it is a further helping of experience…”。由此可见，在梦境中，我们可以经历那些不可能的、不现实的，甚至是破碎的生活片段，故选B。

第19题：

At the first sight the planet Mars does not appear very welcome to any kind of life．It has very little oxygen and water,the temperature at night is below-50~Cand winds of 100 miles per hour cause severe dust storms．However,the surface of the planet seems to show that water flowed across it some time in the past,and it is believed that there is enough ice at the poles to cover the planet with water if it melts．Although there is no life on the Mars now,some scientists think that there may have been some form of life long time ago．At that time,the planet had active volcanoes;the atmosphere was thicker and warmer;and there was water．In fact,in some ways the Mars may have been similar to the Earth,where life exists.
Some people believe that the Mars could support life in the future if the right conditions were produced．The first step would be to warm the planet using certain gases which trap the Sun's heat in the planet's atmosphere．With warmth,water and carbon dioxide(二氧化碳),simple plants could begin to grow．These plants could slowly make the Mars more suitable for living．It is estimated that the whole process might take between 100,000 and 200,000 years．In the meantime,people could begin to live on the planet in special closed environments．They would provide a lot of useful information about conditions on the Mars and the problems connected with living there.

There could be life on the Mars in the future if

A.it supported life in the past
B.certain gases are used to cool the planet
C.the atmosphere can be heated enough to grow simple plants
D.the planet's volcanoes become as active as they were in the past

答案：C

解析：

第二段大意是：如果要想改变火星的条件使之适合居住，首先要提高星球的温度，其方法是用某些气体收集太阳的热能。有了温度、水和二氧化碳，一些植物便可生长。慢慢地使星球适合生存。选项C，“人们可以以提高环境的温度的方式来使一些植物生长”是正确的。

第20题：

单选题

1Life is more enjoyable to people ______ are open to new ideas.

A

whose

B

whom

C

who

D

which

正确答案： C

解析：
本题考查后置定语。后置定语的先行词是people，且people在这里作主语，要用who来引导。which表示“哪一个”，whom在句中作宾语，whose表示的是“谁的”，故正确答案为C。句意：对于善于接受新观点的人来说，生活更是一种享受。

第21题：

单选题

Even most imaginative people have to admit that _____.

A

human societies are as advanced as those on some other planets

B

planets other than Earth are not suitable for life like ours to stay

C

it is difficult to distinguish between organic parts and inorganic parts of the human body

D

organisms are more creative than machines

正确答案： D

解析：
文章首段“Mars looks like the only planet where life like ours could exist, and even this is doubtful.”表达了对外星球上是否有地球人的置疑，第五段“If this is the case, they may be much more tolerant of their environment, multiplying under conditions that would destroy immediately any organism made of carbon compounds and dependent on the familiar carbon cycle.”说明外星球不适合现在的人类居住，故B项正确。

第22题：

单选题

It seems that the writer______.

A

is interested in the imaginary life forms

B

is eager to find a different form of life

C

is certain of the existence of a new life form

D

is critical of the imaginative people

正确答案： C

解析：
综观全文，作者对外星上可能存在的生命形式作了细致、丰富的推理，可见其对此的兴趣和热情，故A项正确。

第23题：

单选题

What does the underlined word “cheer” (Para. 1) imply?

A

Imaginative men are sure of success in finding life on other planets.

B

Imaginative men are delighted to find life on other planets.

C

Imaginative men are happy to find a different kind of life existing on other planets.

D

Imaginative men can be pleased with the idea that there might exist different forms of life on other planets.

正确答案： C

解析：
cheer意为“使…快活，使…欢呼”，但为什么富有想像力的人会感到欢欣鼓舞?文章第一句“When imaginative men…cheer themselves by remembering that life need not resemble closely the life that exists on Earth.”故D项符合题意。

第24题：

单选题

It seems that the writer _____.

A

is interested in the imaginary life forms

B

is eager to find a different form of life

C

is certain of the existence of a new life form

D

is critical of the imaginative people

正确答案： B

解析：
综观全文，作者对外星球上可能存在的生命形式作了细致、丰富的推理，可见其对此的兴趣和热情，故A项正确。

单选题It seems that the writer______.A is interested in the imaginary life formsB is eager to find a different form of lifeC is certain of the existence of a new life formD is critical of the imaginative people

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