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469期 高三QUIZ TIME
作者:21ST
时间:2012-11-05

Day 1
Textspeak takes over (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. What is main point of the article?
A. To report the popularity of texting among teens.
B. To introduce the effects of texting on grammar.
C. To inform us that texting is likely to become a second language for teens.
D. To analyze how texting influences the culture of mobile communication.
2. According to the new study, the more you text, _____.
A. the faster you may learn a second language
B. the poorer your communication skills might become in real life
C. the more it could affect your ability to write using traditional language.
D. the better you will become at shifting between standard grammar and abbreviations
3. What do linguists think about Sundar’s new finding according to the article?
A. Worried. B. Supportive.
C. Critical. D. Doubtful.
4. With the sample of the questions at the end of the article, the author intends to _____.
A. get teens to attach more importance to grammar exams
B. give some useful tips on how to pass a grammar exam
C. get teens to find out how much texting has affected their use of language
D. prove that teens’ routine of texting is changing their understanding of basic grammar

Day 2
Why are we so ... (P4-5)
Choose the best answer:
1. The main purpose of the article is to _____.
A. remind us to enjoy ourselves in the elevator
B. tell us some unwritten rules of elevator etiquette
C. share an interesting but awkward elevator ride
D. analyze what makes people feel awkward in an elevator
2. According to Gray, when people enter an elevator, they usually _____.
A. turn around and greet one another
B. look around or examine their phone
C. make eye contact with those in the elevator
D. try to keep a distance from other people
3. Which of the following describes how people usually stand when there are at least two people in an elevator?

4. The underlined phrase “size up” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. judge B. ignore
C. put up with D. make the best of
5. According to the article, people feel awkward in lifts because of _____.
A. someone’s odd behaviors
B. the lack of space
C. their unfamiliarity with one another
D. their eye contact with one another


Day 3
Listen before you smell (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. The author mentions the movie Jurassic Park at the beginning in order to _____.
A. show the scientific inspiration that comes from the movie
B. introduce the idea that our senses can be closely related
C. remind people to use sound to guess the size or weight of an object
D. show that many of our abilities developed during the process of evolution
2. Which of the following is TRUE about Daniel Wesson and Donald Wilson’s research?
A. What they found went beyond their expectations.
B. They discovered that mice’s olfactory tubercle is very similar to that found in humans.
C. Their research was based on Charles Spence and Anne-Sylvie Crisinel’s discovery.
D. They found that the olfactory tubercle is the part of the brain that receives and sends information about smell.
3. How many sense pairings are mentioned in the article?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
4. What is the main point of the article?
A. Our senses have developed and work together because of evolution.
B. Different senses cooperate more than they work independently.
C. Different senses work together with and on each other.
D. Some scientific discoveries are made by chance.

Day 4
Drawn to a cello (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?
A. It was Romeo and Juliet that urged the author to pick up the cello.
B. The author played the cello so well that many passers-by stopped to appreciate his performance.
C. The author enjoyed being a student again and was making progress step by step.
D. When the author started playing, Margrave was pessimistic about whether he could successfully learn the cello.
2. Why did the author mention his ride home on that snowy night?
A. To show how hard he practiced playing the cello.
B. To mark the milestone in his cello learning process.
C. To introduce his interesting encounter with the strange man.
D. To indicate it was Mozart’s works that inspired him to improve.
3. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Learning the cello was easier than the author had expected.
B. The author is not so satisfied with his cello skills.
C. The author kept playing the cello because he wanted to be envied by his friends and daughter.
D. The author admires the famous cellist not only for his good cello performance but also his strong will.
4. What is the main message the author conveys in the story?
A. A good beginning is the key to success.
B. You are never too old to learn something new.
C. It takes devotion and determination to succeed.
D. A good teacher knows how to inspire his or her students.

Day 5
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
A French billionaire used to have a rough time when he was young. Later he __1__ himself in the field of drawing sales. Within ten years, he had __2__ a young media tycoon (大亨) in France. He died of cancer in 1998.
A French newspaper published his __3__ after his death, in which he claimed: “I was a poor guy. Before I reach the threshold (门槛) of heaven, I leave my secret of how to become __4__ to the world. Anyone who can answer the question ‘What do the poor __5__ most?’ will have discovered my __6__ of becoming rich. He will have my __7__. My deposit of one million francs in the private safe of my bank will be the prize for his 8 in uncovering the riddle of __9__.” Many people __10__ to the publicized will. The answers, as one might imagine, were __11__. The majority of them thought the poor were missing money most. Some stated that what the poor most __12__ was opportunity. Still others thought that the poor needed skills to make money. The rest of the answers claimed that poverty could be attributed to the __13__ of help, love, attractiveness, name-brand clothes, and __14__ who is in government.
On the first anniversary of the billionaire’s passing, his lawyer and representative __15__ his private safe in the bank; the secret of getting rich was __16__. The billionaire believed that the most absent among the poor was the __17__ of getting rich.
It was a nine-year-old girl who __18__ the nail on the head. Why did she regard “ambition” as the thing the poor lacked most? The day she was officially __19__ the one million francs, she said: “Every time my elder sister brought her boyfriend home, she always __20__ me not to be ambitious. So, I thought perhaps ambition was something that brought what you wanted.”
1. A. introduced B. guided C. persuaded D. established
2. A. visited B. assisted C. become D. recognized
3. A. story B. will C. book D. finding
4. A. rich B. positive
C. successful D. determined
5. A. save B. expect C. lack D. achieve
6. A. cost B. secret C. reason D. effort
7. A. position B. ideas
C. dreams D. congratulations
8. A. wisdom B. skill C. courage D. honesty
9. A. privacy B. adventure C. poverty D. mystery
10. A. applied B. responded C. admitted D. contributed
11. A. various B. incorrectC. creative D. related
12. A. cared B. valued C. needed D. shared
13. A. presence B. absence C. rejection D. dependence
14. A. even B. still C. so D. yet
15. A. collected B. discovered C. locked D. opened
16. A. discussed B. explored C. revealed D. hidden
17. A. idea B. ambition C. luck D. opportunity
18. A. missed B. lost C. hit D. decided
19. A. awarded B. received  C. returned D. donated
20. A. agreed B. warned C. promised D. supported
(答案见下期)
上期参考答案
D1 1-3 BDC D2 1-4 CCDB D3 1-5 DBCCA
D4 1-5 AADDA D5 1-5 ADDBA 6-10 CDBCB


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