Sphinx 斯芬克斯 sphinx是希腊神话中的一个女怪.她有美女的头和胸.狮子的身躯.鹏鸟的羽翅.毒蛇的尾巴.她蹲在忒拜的一座悬崖上.用智慧女神缪斯教她的怪谜询问过往的行人:早晨用四只脚走路.中午用两只脚走路.晚上用三只脚走路.答不上来的人便被她吃掉.后来.著名的俄狄浦斯猜出了这个谜:人.斯芬克斯恼羞成怒.从悬崖上跳下摔死了. 埃及吉萨的金字塔附近有一尊sphinx的巨大石像.据今已有近六千年的历史(有说四千五百年或四千八百年的历史). 从上面的神话故事里.人们不难理解sphinx还可作“谜一样的人物 解. 查看更多

 

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完形填空。

  Kayah(克扬族)women in Myanmar(缅甸)think long   1   are beautiful, so they   2   brass(铜)neck rings to make their necks grow 3  . A Kayah girl   4   to wear neck rings   5   the age of five. Then she gets more rings every year   6   she is 25 years old. These heavy 7   make her neck grow longer and longer. The    8 neck can be 40 centimetres(厘米)long. This is not   9   at all. If the rings are taken off the   10  , the woman may soon die(死去).

(1) Aheads

Barms

Cnecks

(2) Ahave

Bwear

Ctake

(3) Abig

Btall

Clong

(4) Ahas

Blearns

Cstarts

(5) Aat

Bin

Con

(6) Auntil

Bat

Cwith

(7) Aclothes

Brings

Ccoats

(8) Ashortest

Blongest

Coldest

(9) Abad

Bdangerous

Chealthy

(10) Ahead

Bneck

Cleg

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阅读理解

阅读下面短文,根据短文内容从每题所给的(A)、(B)、(C)、(D)四个选项中选出最佳答案。

  Along with the Great Pyramid(金字塔) of Giza in Egypt, the Great Sphinx is one of the greatest and most studied monuments(纪念碑) of human history.

  Carved(雕刻) from a single piece of stone of hundreds of tons, the Sphinx is the head of a man resting on the body of a lion.

  The nose, eyes and ears have all been carved in the terrific proportions(比例). That's not easy for an object 180 metres long, 64 metres high and 35 metres wide.

  No one knows what tools were used to carve the stone, when this was done, or by whom. The Egyptians wrote very little about the building of the Sphinx.

  There are basically two schools of thought about how it was built.

  No one knows what the Sphinx looked like when it was first finished because both natural erosion(侵蚀) and damage(破坏) done by man have changed its shape.

  Many earlier pictures of the Sphinx show it with wings(翅膀), the body of a lion and ox(公牛), and the face of a man. Today only the man and the lion can be seen.

  To this day, people can't agree with each other on the true role(作用) of the Sphinx.

1.The writer wrote this text to ________.

[  ]

A.tell us some information about the Sphinx

B.talk about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt

C.tell us what the Sphinx looks like today

D.tell us to visit the Sphinx

2.Which of the following about the Sphinx is known to people?

[  ]

A.The date of building it.

B.The size of it.

C.The way of building it.

D.The role of it.

3.We may learn from the text that ________.

[  ]

A.two schools now are studying the Sphinx

B.the Sphinx was made of a lot of very big stones

C.the Sphinx today looks different from what it used to be

D.the Sphinx is the greatest monument

4.Which of the following used to be a part of the Sphinx?

[  ]

A.Wings.

B.The head of an ox.

C.The face of a man.

D.The body of the lion.

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完形填空。

  I first saw the baby panda when she was only 10 days old.She looked like a white mouse.We   1   her Xi Wang.It means “hope”.

  When Xi Wang was born, she weighed(重)  2   100 grams(克).Xi Wang drank her mother’s mild for as much as 14 hours a day.When she was six months old, she started to eat bamboo shoots(嫩芽)and   3  .Eight months later, she was not a small baby any more.She grew into a   4   young panda and weighed 35 kilos.When Xi Wang was 20 months old, she had to look after herself   5   her mother had another baby.

    6  , it is very difficult for pandas to live in the wild(野外).Here are some of the   7   that pandas like Xi Wang may have in the future.

  If hunters(猎人)catch a panda, they will kill it for its fur(毛皮).If farmers   8   trees and forests, pandas will have no place to live in.

  When mother leave baby pandas alone, people will often take them away.People think that the baby pandas need   9  

  If pandas are in danger, we should try our best to protect them.If we do   10  , soon there will be no more pandas in the world!

(1)

[  ]

A.

made

B.

called

C.

told

D.

kept

(2)

[  ]

A.

quite

B.

mostly

C.

just

D.

hardly

(3)

[  ]

A.

leaves

B.

vegetables

C.

trees

D.

chips

(4)

[  ]

A.

strange

B.

weak

C.

famous

D.

healthy

(5)

[  ]

A.

though

B.

until

C.

because

D.

whether

(6)

[  ]

A.

Luckily

B.

Suddenly

C.

Sadly

D.

Especially

(7)

[  ]

A.

examples

B.

questions

C.

matters

D.

problems

(8)

[  ]

A.

cut down

B.

plant

C.

protect

D.

water

(9)

[  ]

A.

money

B.

help

C.

clothes

D.

family

(10)

[  ]

A.

nothing

B.

everything

C.

anything

D.

something

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阅读下列短文,从所给的四个选项中,选出最佳答案

 Do you know Eskimos(爱斯基摩人)? Let me tell you something about their  1 

 The Eskimos live near the North Pole(北极). There are only two seasons therewinter and summer There are no spring  2  autumn there The winter nights are long You can't see the sun for more than two months, even at noon The summer days are long For more than two months, the sun never  3  and there is no night

 The Eskimos have warm clothes They make their clothes from the skins(皮)of animals From skins they make coats, caps and shoes

 Near the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is  4  there The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, stone(石头)or snow When they  5  in a storm(风暴)and can't  6  home, they make houses of snow They  7  these snow houses when the storm is  8  

 Life is  9  for the Eskimos, but they still  10  to live there

                                                                                                                                                     

1Alives

Blife

Cliving

Dlive

[  ]

2Anot

Bor

Cand

Dneither

[  ]

3Arises

Bgoes

Crises up

Dgoes down

[  ]

4Atoo cold

  

Btoo hot

  

Ceither cold or hot

  

Dneither cold nor hot

  

[  ]

  

5Ago out

Bgo over

Cgo on

Dgo up

[  ]

6Aget back

Bgot off

Cget on

Dget up

[  ]

7Aleft

Bleave

Cleave for

Dleft for

[  ]

8Aover

Bfinished

C.ended

D.in the end

[  ]

9Aeasy

B.easily

C.hard

D.hardly

[  ]

10Ahope

B.like

C.want

D.wish

[  ]

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Free or not?(免费否)

  从前,英国有个小镇,镇上有位理发师。为了招徕顾客,他在店旁贴了一张通知,通知上是这样写的:

  What do you think I shave you for nothing and give you a drink?(我给你免费刮脸,还奉送一杯饮料,你以为如何?)

  通知贴出后,很多人拥到店铺里来要求免费刮脸,还要白喝一杯饮料。理发师不慌不忙地在通知上加了三个标点符号,并调整字母的大、小写,顿时,所有拥进店铺的人都感到愕然。

  你们知道理发师是怎样加标点符号的吗?

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