The local villager gave such a(n)______description that all the tourists felt as if they were right on the scene.

The local villager gave such a(n)______description that all the tourists felt as if they were right on the scene.

A．elegant           B．qualified          C．standard          D．vivid

The local villager gave such a(n)______description that all the tourists felt as if they were right on the scene.

1. A.
   elegant
2. B.
   qualified
3. C.
   standard
4. D.
   vivid

Scientists recently discovered that animals who live in groups such as elephants, foxes and wolves are especially likely to follow rules. If they don't and each does its own thing the group might be  1 . Group members would then be forced to live alone and they'd have a  2  time hunting and raising their young. In a way we could say animals have selfish reasons to  3 , that is, it's in their own  4  to do so. But sometimes these same animals go out of their way to do what's right even though there is nothing in it for them.

Take Sniff, 'the African chimpanzee as an example. When this young and  5  animal, who always avoided people,  saw a hungry local villager trying to knock some fruit from a tree with a stick to get a meal, Sniff' took a(n)  6 . He picked up an armload of fruits, swung  7  down from the tree-tops and handed them to the amazed villager,  And then there is the story of Tobie the generous cat who would always  8  her dinner with the hungry dog that lived next door.

Scientist Mark Benson says, "Nobody is sure why some  9  act this way. It might simply feel good to be 10 , just as it does for humans".

1．A. broken down         B. torn apart           C. drawn in            D. sent away

2．A. shorter              B. free              C. harder             D. great

3．A. fight                B. leave             C. combine          D. co-operate

4．A. interest            B. advantage            C. mercy              D. assistance

5．A. friendly              B. wild               C. shy              D. powerful

6．A. risk                 B. order               C. rest              D. opportunity

7．A. generously           B. hungrily            C. rigidly            D. swiftly

8．A. help                B. share               C. tease             D. give

9．A. villagers              B. scientists           C. chimpanzees        D. animals

10．A. selfish              B. kind              C. greedy                   D. honest

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Around the end of my stay in Yellowknife, I had a chance to ride in a dogsled (狗拉雪橇). I went to   36    a man who had   37    dogsled tournaments more than four times. In his house, there were lots of awards on the shelves. I had a girl take my picture in    38   of the awards.

     Finally, the time came to take a    39    in a dogsled. The instructor asked me time and time again if the clothes I was    40   were warm enough. Because it wasn’t so   41    outside, I thought I was wearing    42    .

     However, my thinking   43    right after the 12 dogs started to    44    the sled on the frozen lake. It was freezing! I don’t know how fast they were running, but I lost all    45    in my hands and feet. Sometimes the snow which the dogs    46    up hit me.

     After my ride in the dogsled, I went to see an igloo (圆顶建筑),which is a house    47    snow. There I had a    48    to hear the stories about Eskimos(爱斯基摩人).

     Of course, as a person from Japan, I couldn’t    49    what they were talking about.  50   , there was a(n)   51    beside me, so he translated everything the Eskimo was saying. Then the Eskimo kindly    52    me some of the tools that they used. I had    53    seen such strange things before.

     He talked about the    54    he needed to learn while traveling in the Arctic, such as how to make an igloo, how to make water from ice, and how to hunt using their inventions. I    55    that I didn’t take pictures of their tools because I didn’t have my camera at that time.

36. A. instruct         B. invite            C. take            D. visit

37. A. beaten            B. won                    C. received        D. defeated

38. A. front            B. need                 C. honor          D. celebration

39. A. drive            B. look                     C. ride             D. tour

40. A. buying         B. wearing            C. choosing      D. borrowing

41. A. cool             B. warm               C. cold             D. hot

42. A. enough        B. obviously          C. comfortably    D. fully

43. A. gathered        B. reminded           C. remained      D. changed

44. A. push           B. pull                C. drive           D. carry

45. A. blood                 B. temperature        C. feeling        D. movement

46. A. kicked           B. picked             C. turned          D. made

47. A. covered with    B. decorated with      C. made of       D. filled with

48. A. chance           B. time                C. moment        D. message

49. A. hear             B. understand           C. realize        D. admire

50. A. Therefore      B. Otherwise         C. However       D. Besides

51. A. villager        B. teacher              C. instructor          D. translator

52. A. lent             B. showed                C. sold              D. gave

53. A. ever             B. also                      C. usually            D. never

54. A. skills          B. materials           C. experiments    D. conditions

55. A. think          B. consider               C. regret           D. infer