It was on a warm day last summer. I was walking by the sea. The waves came and went. But I didn't see them. I was lost in my thoughts. A row of small holes soon caught my eyes. They lay in the sandy earth by the side of a road. In a minute I would have stepped onthem. What are these holes? I wanted to know. I had an answer soon. A fat, hairy insectclimbed up from the earth. It had a wide tail. It was using the tail to dig in the ground. The insect moved round and round in one spot. Soon it had made another hole. When it By now my thoughts of the early morning had gone. This new hole and the insect were all my world. So I sat there by the side of the road. And I waited. As I watched, a small antcrossed the road. It passed my foot, and then it crossed the sandy earth. In a little while it reached the edgeof the hole. I saw it start to fall in. The ant tried to turn back. but it couldn't. And then I knew. I knew why the holes were there. For just then the fat insect came up out of the hole. It ate the ant who was trappedthere. Later I learned the insect's name. It's called ant lion. It digs holes to catch ants. I'll never forget that day. The holes looked so small to me. But to the ant and the ant lion, they were the whole world. I took my walks by the sea that summer. But I never again learned as much as I did on that one. (1) The ant lion dug holes with . (2) The girl didn't see the waves because she . (3) The ant lion dug the holes to . (4) The ant lion hid in the holes so that the ant . (5) If the ant fell in the hole, it couldn't .   答案: 查看更多

 

题目列表(包括答案和解析)

阅读短文,然后根据短文内容选择最佳答案。

  During his life Dr James Naismith worked as a doctor, taught P.E and wrote several books.While he never thought it very important, Dr Naismith is today best known for one thing.He was the inventor of basketball.

  Dr James Naismith was born in Canada in 1861 and his first job was at a special sports school in the USA.One day the school principal told James he was having a problem with the students.Because of heavy snow, the students could not go outside.He told James that they needed a sport the boys could play indoors and gave the teacher two weeks to think of something.

  It was on the very last day that James came up with his idea.The “birth of basketball” is said to be on December 21, 1891, when two teams from the school played the first game.It was quite different from the basketball games of today.It had 9 players on each team and footballs were used instead of basketballs.Soon after, the game changed to 5 players on each side, using special “basketballs” through nets.

  Although Dr Naismith did not live to see basketball become the worldwide game it is today, in 1936, just three years before his death, basketball became an Olympic sport at the games in Berlin.

(1)

Which of the following things did Dr James Naismith NOT do?

[  ]

A.

Teach P.E in school.

B.

Write some books.

C.

Work at hospital.

D.

Take part in the Olympic Games.

(2)

In which season did Dr Naismith invent basketball?

[  ]

A.

Summer.

B.

Winter.

C.

Spring.

D.

Autumn.

(3)

Why is December 21 thought to be the birthday of basketball?

[  ]

A.

It was on this day that Dr Naismith came up with his idea for basketball.

B.

It was the day on which Dr Naismith was born.

C.

It was the day on which Dr Naismith was asked by his boss to invent a new game.

D.

It was on this day that the first game of basketball was played.

(4)

At the time of Dr Naismith’s death, which of the following was true?

[  ]

A.

Basketball was already a worldwide game.

B.

Basketball was played with 9 players on each side.

C.

Basketball was an Olympic sport.

D.

Basketball was still played using footballs.

(5)

What would be the best title for this story?

[  ]

A.

History of Basketball

B.

How Basketball Has Changed

C.

Father of Basketball

D.

Happy Birthday, Basketball

查看答案和解析>>

请先阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从方框中所给的词中选出最恰当的10个,用其适当形式填空。每个词限用一次。

  My favorite TV program is a reality show called Survivor(幸存者).It isn't on TV at the moment   1   it was on last year.

  In the show, two teams of people are taken to a(an)   2  .All of them have to sleep   3   because there aren't any houses or hotels.They usually choose   4   really useful like a toothbrush since they can only   5   one thing with them.The people also have to find food and they spend a lot of time fishing and collecting fruit from the   6  .Every week one person has to   7  .At the end, there are only two people on the island and one them is chose   8   the winter.

  I really like Survivor because it's very   9   and the people have to do things like hunting for food.I really   10   myself when I watch it.I don't want to be on the show, however, I like living in a house!

查看答案和解析>>

Read “A Pool near Rajpur” and answer questions 1 to 7.

A Pool near Rajpur

  Ranji had been less than a month in Rajpur when he discovered the pool in the forest. It was the height of the summer, and his school had not yet opened; and, having as yet made no friends in this town, he wandered about a good deal by himself into the hills and forests that stretched away interminably on all sides. It was hot, very hot, at that time of the year, and Ranji walked about in his vest and shorts, his brown feet white with the chalky dust that flew up from the ground. The earth was parched, the grass brown, the trees listless, hardly stirring, waiting for a cool wind or a refreshing shower of rain.

  It was on such a day-a hot, tired day -that Ranji found the pool in the forest. The water had a gentle translucency, and you could see the smooth round pebbles at the bottom of the pool. A small stream emerged from a cluster of rocks to feed the pool. During the monsoon, this stream would be a rushing torrent, cascading down from the hills, but during the summer it was barely a trickle. The rocks, however, held the water in the pool, and it did not dry up like the pools in the plains.

  When Ranji saw the pool, he did not hesitate to get into it. He had often gone swimming, alone or with friends, when he had lived with his parents in a thirsty town in the middle of the Rajputana desert. There, he had known only sticky, muddy pools, where buffaloes wallowed and women washed clothes. He had never seen a pool like this-so clean and cold and inviting.

1.The first paragraph describes how Ranji went exploring in the forest ________.

[  ]

A.with his school friends

B.after school each day

C.without his parents' permission

D.despite the unpleasant weather

2.In the second paragraph, the writer wants the reader to feel that the pool was ________.

[  ]

A.well-known to local people

B.a delightful place to be on a hot day

C.popular with local children

D.a dangerous place for a boy on his own

3.The word “translucency” indicates that the water in the pool was ________.

[  ]

A.clear
B.light
C.visible
D.still

4.The trees are described as “listless”. This means that the trees were ________.

[  ]

A.bending in the wind
B.affected by the heat
C.covered with dust
D.growing close together

5.Water remained in the pool during the summer because ________.

[  ]

A.the water was clean and cold

B.there were rocks to dam the water

C.trees hung over the pool to shade it

D.the pool was in a cool forest

6.The reader can assume that Ranji ________.

[  ]

A.owned very few good clothes

B.found new experiences difficult to cope with

C.felt homesick for the town where he once lived

D.felt safe wandering in the forests near Rajpur

7.What is Ranji likely to do next?

[  ]

A.chase some buffaloes away from the pool

B.enjoy swimming in the pool

C.tell his parents about the pool

D.wait for his family to arrive

查看答案和解析>>

请先阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从方框中所给的词中选出最恰当的10个,用其适当形式填空。

  My favorite TV program is a reality show called Survivor (幸存者).It isn't on TV at the moment   1   it was on last year.

  In the show, two teams of people are taken to a (an)   2  .All of them have to sleep   3   because there aren't any houses or hotels.They usually choose   4   really useful like a toothbrush since they can only   5   one thing with them.The people also have to find food and they spend a lot of time fishing and collecting fruit from the   6  .Every week one person has to  7  .At the end, there are only two people on the island and one them is chose   8   the winter.

  I really like Survivor because it's very   9   and the people have to do things like hunting for food. I really   10   myself when I watch it.I don't want to be on the show, however, I like living in a house!

查看答案和解析>>

阅读理解

  It was on a foggy day in the autumn of 1938, when I arrived in London with Aunt Huang and her husband who had brought me to England all the way from my hometown Nanchang .

  They left their luggage at their flat, and they took me together with my small suitcase to my parents' flat. But the neighbours told us that my parents had moved away long ago, and no one knew their address.

  Good Heavens! What should we do? The only thing to be done was to inquire of the Chinese Embassy (中国大使馆). When we got there, we were told that my parents must still be somewhere in London as my father had held an exhibition (展览会) of traditional Chinese painting in the West End not very long ago.

1.The story happened ________ .

[  ]

A.in autumn in Nanchang

B.in autumn in London

C.in 1938 in Nanchang

D.in 1938 in China

2.Aunt Huang helped the writer to ________ .

[  ]

A.leave his hometown

B.study

C.look for his parents

D.go to England

3.The neighbours told the writer ________ .

[  ]

A.his parents in London

B.his parents moved away

C.his parents in the West End

D.his parents in Chinese Embassy

4.________ knew the writer's parents' new address.

[  ]

A.Everyone

B.Aunt Huang

C.The neighbours

D.No one

5.From the story we know ________ .

[  ]

A.the writer liked painting

B.Aunt Huang was kind-hearted

C.his parents liked London

D.Aunt Huang' husband left London

查看答案和解析>>


同步练习册答案