For years, Jon Wright considered commuting(往返于两地)the 10 miles to work by bicycle. But it wasn't until the terrorist bombings(恐怖轰炸)on London's subway and bus system on July 7 that he finally decided to make the leap. “It should have really taken less than the threat of being blown up to make me jump on a bike, but I'm now recommending it to everyone I see,” says Wright, 32, a hotel manager.
It's not quite Amsterdam or Copenhagen, where commuting by bike is common, but London is quickly becoming a major cycling city. Much of the change is a direct result of the bombings, which killed 52 people.
No hard figures are available on the number of cyclists in the city. A poll in 2003 found that 300 000 daily journeys are made by bicycle. The Transport for London office estimates(估计)cycling has increased 52% in the capital since 2000, based on the number of cyclists crossing bridges over the Thames River. Still, only 2% of Londoners cycle to work, compared with 20% in Copenhagen and 28% in Amsterdam. London Maybor Ken Livingstone, a bicycle enthusiast, wants to increase cycling 80% by 2010. “Cycling is the fastest, cheapest, most healthy and environmentally friendly way to get around London, and more and more people are taking it up,” Livingstone said. “The number of cyclists has doubled over the last five years, while those killed or seriously injured has fallen by 40%.”
Under the London Cycling Action Plan, London will be transformed into a world-class cycling city to reduce traffic jams and pollution. London now has 273 miles of bike routes, half built since 2000. The goal is 560 miles by 2010.
The sudden increase of cyclists after the July attacks took London by surprise. In July, the number of bike commuters was 26% higher than the same period last year, according to the transport office.
On the day of the bombings, which crippled(使瘫痪)the transportation system for weeks, bicycle shops sold out of their stock within hours.
(1)Which of the following is best supported in Paragraph 3?
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A.Cycling has been gaining its popularity in London.
B.Amsterdam or Copenhagen has more cyclists than London.
C.Cycling is the best way to travel in London.
D.London encourages its residents to cycle to work.
(2)The London government's attitude to cycling is that ________.
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A.all the residents should cycle to work
B.more bike routes will be built
C.bicycles should replace the subway and the bus system
D.more bicycle shops will be opened
(3)It can be learned from the passage that ________.
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A.most people in Amsterdam and Copenhagen cycle to work
B.no traffic jams and pollution will exist by the year 2010
C.the terrorist bombings gave cycling a big drive in London
D.bicycle shops are gaining more benefits than other ones
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:054
完形填空
阅读下列短文,掌握其大意,然后从1-25各题所给的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案
Nancy Johnson was a good friend with all the boys and girls in her class. She had a nice face and __1__ eyes. She spoke __2__ than the other girls, but she __3__ basket-ball better than most of them. Nancy __4__ everything at school, and she never thought she was __5__ from the other pupils __6__ she was a Negro girl.
Miss Dietrich, Nancy's __7__ teacher, taught her drawing. She taught Nancy __8__ take an idea and make a __9__ out of it. “Your picture must be your idea, a part of __10__ ,” Miss Dietrich said. She __11__ Nancy that it is __12__ to draw a good picture. “Your picture must not __13__ look nice,” Miss Dietrich said. “You must work at it __14__ the picture begins to live, until it is not __15__ any other picture in the world.”
Nancy __16__ Miss Dietrich, and she was always happy when she began to __17__ a new idea, Nancy had a secret that only Miss Dietrich __18__. She wanted to go to the City Art School when she finished __19__. She knew, of course, that __20__ didn't have enough money to __21__ her there. But every year there was a schoolchildren's __22__ competition at the Art School. The __23__ could go to the school and did not __24__ to pay for the first year. Miss Dietrich and Nancy wanted to sent Nancy's __25__ pictures to the Art School competition.
(1) A. broad |
B. beautiful |
C. likely |
D. straight |
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(2) A. more |
B. less |
C. louder |
D. slower |
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(3) A. played the |
B. threw |
C. enjoyed |
D. played |
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(4) A. learned |
B. said |
C. took part in |
D. attended |
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(5) A. far |
B. clever |
C. welcome |
D. different |
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(6) A. thanks to |
B. but for |
C. on condition that |
D. because |
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(7) A. old |
B. best |
C. most famous |
D. favourite |
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(8) A. to |
B. how to |
C. where to |
D. how |
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(9) A. house |
B. lesson |
C. picture |
D. story |
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(10) A. the world |
B. picture |
C. you |
D. your home |
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(11) A. explained |
B. asked |
C. warned |
D. taught |
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(12) A. wonderful |
B. necessary |
C. difficult |
D. easy |
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(13) A. a little |
B. a bit |
C. only |
D. necessarily |
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(14) A. on |
B. until |
C. unless |
D. if only |
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(15) A. dawn |
B. copy |
C. like |
D. paint |
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(16) A. believed |
B. understood |
C. depended on |
D. learnt |
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(17) A. think of |
B. draw |
C. consider |
D. wonder |
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(18) A. disclosed |
B. let out |
C. knew |
D. meant |
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(19) A. learning |
B. school |
C. drawing |
D. graduation |
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(20) A. she |
B. her teacher |
C. her father |
D. her school |
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(21) A. offer |
B. afford |
C. encourage |
D. send |
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(22) A. speaking |
B. drawing |
C. sports |
D. singing |
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(23) A. girl |
B. runner |
C. player |
D. winner |
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(24) A. have |
B. want |
C. like |
D. require |
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(25) A. best |
B. famous |
C. favourite |
D. largest |
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:054
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Tadatoyo Yamamoto is a Japanese businessman.He 1 the US from time to time.While he was 2 at a hotel on a visit to Chicago,he put his bag on the 3 .A few minutes 4 ,Mr Yamamoto reached down for it,but it was 5 .Inside it were about $ 900,his passport(护照), 6 of his family,and his 7 tickets to Japan.
But three weeks 8 he returned to Tokyo,Mr Yamamoto 9 an envelope.There was 10 inside but his passport,his airline tickets,photos of his family and 11 orders for more than $900 and a 12 from Mr Joseph Loveras.It said:
“I 13 this money order and the things … will make you believe in the 14 of Chicago.”
The next 15 he travelled to the US,Mr Yamamoto 16 Mr Loveras.He was a 67-year-old sick man with a total 17 of $ 493 a month.
He explained that he 18 the bag on a street corner and 19 the money and the tickets in the top part of the 20 .He changed the money into money orders and 21 his own money to send it to Japan.
Mr Yamamoto was very 22 by what Mr Loveras had done. “I asked him 23 he would go to all the trouble to return 24 to me.He told me that if he had not done it,it would have made him feel bad for the rest of his 25 .”
Now they have become friends,and Mr Yamamoto visits Mr Loveras every time he is in the US.
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D.till |
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B.accepted |
C.picked up |
D.heard from |
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B.something |
C.everything |
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B.post |
C.spoken |
D.bank |
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B.letter |
C.programme |
D.passage |
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B.believe |
C.hope |
D.learn |
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B.hotels |
C.police |
D.people |
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B.hour |
C.time |
D.way |
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B.looked after |
C.called at |
D.called on |
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B.income |
C.saving |
D.cost |
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A.bought |
B.tried |
C.saw |
D.picked |
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A.found |
B.paid |
C.passed |
D.changed |
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A.bus |
B.bag |
C.jpise |
D.wall |
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B.got |
C.wasted |
D.spent |
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B.surprised |
C.moved |
D.frigtened |
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B.when |
C.whether |
D.why |
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B.everything |
C.the bag |
D.the money |
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B.country |
C.city |
D.family |
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科目:高中英语 来源:英语教研室 题型:054
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
This was one of my experiences 1 .When I was in my 30s,I was working for a large international company which had its head office in London. I was working in the 2 department.
The company had a training center which was just outside London. Different courses were held there throughout 3 and I 4 go on one training course a year. These usually started 5 a Sunday evening and lasted six days.
Once I was 6 a week’s training course with about forty 7 sales people. I was in the bar on the Friday evening and suddenly a woman who was 8 behind the bar asked me a curious question.“I hope you don’t 9 my asking,” she said, “but I’ve been 10 about it all week. Have you got a sister 11 Mary?” The woman’s name was June. And she used to do various jobs at the training center’s worked in the office, she organized all the food and drink for the center and she worked in the bar at lunch time and in the evening.
My answer 12
June’s question was
“Yes”,and June said,“I thought 13
.I met her last September when she was organizing a course here.” At
that time, my sister was working for 14 company but in a different part of the
country. That was 15
she came to be at the
training center.
16 surprised me was how June guessed we were brother and sister.
Three things made it even more 17 .First, she had met my sister six months
before she met me. Second, they have about sixty new people every week at the
training center’s about one thousand five hundred people had 18 the
center in those six months. And 19
,my sister is married, so she doesn’t have the same family name as
me.
We’re not 20 ,but I guess we must look quite like each other.
1. A.in work B.out of work
C.at work D.about work
2. A.selling B.sales
C.sale D.sold
3. A.the year B.the month
C.the week D.the day
4. A.used to B.once
C.get used to D.was used to
5. A.at &Unbsp; B.in
C.during D.on
6. A.on B.in
C.during D.over
7. A.other B.another
C.the other D.one other
8. A.hearing B.waiting
C.serving D.seeing
9. A.matter B.care for
C.remind of D.mind
10. A.understanding B.wondering
C.discovering D.worrying
11. A.called B.calling
C.calling on D.calling up
12. A.of B.about
C.to D.for
13. A.that B.it
C.such D.so
14. A.the same B.a different
C.another D.the other
15. A.where B.when
C.what D.how
16. A.All B.What
C.That &Unbsp; D.It
17. A.surprising B.surprised
C.strange D.puzzled
18. A.passed through B.passed away
C.left D.passed by
19. A.finally B.at the end
C.at last D.later
20. A.friends B.relatives
C.twins D.brother and sister
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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:054
“Do you think we’ll win? ”ten-year-old Tyrus Lucas asked his mother 1 he wrote his name on the entry(参赛作品) to Cartoon Network’s toy sweepstakes.
“We can 2 , ”said his mother, a divorced mother who works as a teacher and struggled to 3 her kids, she didn’t have much money for 4 .
A week later the phone rang. “Your son won our drawing!” a woman 5 .
“Great, ”cried his mother, “Which 6 did he win? ”
“All of them. A thousand toys!”
The next Saturday when the doorbell of their home rang, Tyrus, not 7 the surprise, opened the door and his face 8 up. “Mom, ”he cried, “Cartoon Network is here!”
So were dozens of 9 kids who had run over to the cartoon-covered truck. They jumped 10 as hundreds of toys tumbled(摇晃) from the truck’s back doors.
Tyrus thought he could 11 his whole room with them. But as he looked at the children around him, he 12 . The others in their working-class neighborhood didn’t have
13 either.
“Here, ”he said, 14 a doll to a little girl. Then he handed a boy another. “Take
15 you want, ”Tyrus told the kids—and they did, 16 him over and over.
Tyrus kept several games, but he hasn’t done giving. “Why don’t we give some to your
17 , Mom? ” he asked. They 18 almost 100 toys to the elementary school where she works. “The first thing my son thought of was to 19 , ”his mother says, smiling, “I’m so 20 of him. ”
1. A. though B. as
C. as long as D. so that
2. A. guess B. ask
C. wait D. try
3. A. support B. promise
C. treat D. consider
4. A. drawings B. extras
C. food D. schooling
5. A. declared B. explained
C. spoke D. praised
6. A. prize B. pay
C. toy D. wealth
7. A. seeing B. helping
C. knowing D. enjoying
8. A. lighted B. looked
C. turned D. set
9. A. attractive B. warm
C. helpful D. excited
10 . A. off B. out
C. down D. up and down
11. A. join B. fill
C. keep D. have
12. A. worried B. stopped
C. laughed D. examined
13. A. much B. great
C. little D. quantities
14. A. showing B. moving
C. handing D. driving
15. A. wherever B. however
C. whenever D. whatever
16. A. troubling B. interrupting
C. reminding D. thanking
17. A. schools B. friends
C. students D. children
18. A. contributed B. delivered
C. sold D. lent
19. A. take B. lend
C. give D. imagine
20. A. fond B. proud
C. sure D. kind
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科目:高中英语 来源:英语教研室 题型:054
“We can 2 , ”said his mother, a divorced mother who works as a teacher and struggled to 3 her kids, she didn’t have much money for 4 .
A week later the phone rang. “Your son won our drawing!” a woman 5 .
“Great, ”cried his mother, “Which 6 did he win? ”
“All of them. A thousand toys!”
The next Saturday when the doorbell of their home rang, Tyrus, not 7 the surprise, opened the door and his face 8 up. “Mom, ”he cried, “Cartoon Network is here!”
So were dozens of 9 kids who had run over to the cartoon-covered truck. They jumped 10 as hundreds of toys tumbled(摇晃) from the truck’s back doors.
Tyrus thought he could 11 his whole room with them. But as he looked at the children around him, he 12 . The others in their working-class neighborhood didn’t have
13 either.
“Here, ”he said, 14 a doll to a little girl. Then he handed a boy another. “Take
15 you want, ”Tyrus told the kids—and they did, 16 him over and over.
Tyrus kept several games, but he hasn’t done giving. “Why don’t we give some to your
17 , Mom? ” he asked. They 18 almost 100 toys to the elementary school where she works. “The first thing my son thought of was to 19 , ”his mother says, smiling, “I’m so 20 of him. ”
1. A. though B. as
C. as long as D. so that
2. A. guess B. ask
C. wait D. try
3. A. support B. promise
C. treat D. consider
4. A. drawings B. extras
C. food D. schooling
5. A. declared B. explained
C. spoke D. praised
6. A. prize B. pay
C. toy D. wealth
7. A. seeing B. helping
C. knowing D. enjoying
8. A. lighted B. looked
C. turned D. set
9. A. attractive B. warm
C. helpful D. excited
10 . A. off B. out
C. down D. up and down
11. A. join B. fill
C. keep D. have
12. A. worried B. stopped
C. laughed D. examined
13. A. much B. great
C. little D. quantities
14. A. showing B. moving
C. handing D. driving
15. A. wherever B. however
C. whenever D. whatever
16. A. troubling B. interrupting
C. reminding D. thanking
17. A. schools B. friends
C. students D. children
18. A. contributed B. delivered
C. sold D. lent
19. A. take B. lend
C. give D. imagine
20. A. fond B. proud
C. sure D. kind
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