Man was, is and always will be trying to improve his living conditions.

A.reminded of B.absorbed in C.tended by D.concerned about

A:as B:like C:for D:of

Bartley was making his first trip on the whaling ship Star of the East. Suddenly the lookout sighted a huge sperm whale. The whalers knew it was a huge whale by the size of the spray it blew into the air. They lowered their small boats. James Bartley was in the first longboat. The men rowed until they were close to the whale. A harpoon was thrown and it found its mark. It sank into the whale&39;s flesh. The maddened beast crashed into the boat, snapping its tail at the men and the wreckage of their boats. When the survivors were picked up, James Bartley was missing. Shortly before sunset, the whale was finally captured. The sailors tied the whale&39;s dead body to the side of the ship. Because of the hot weather it was important that they cut up the whale right away. Otherwise, the meat would begin to rot and oil would begin to spoil. When they got to the stomach, they felt something moving about wildly. They thought it would be a big fish still alive inside. But when they opened the stomach they found James Bartley. After this trip, Bartley settled in England, and never returned to sea. 1、This passage is mainly about__________. A.how to hunt whales for their oil and meat B.The hard and dangerous lives that whalers had to live C.The duties of each man on a whaling ship D.a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived James Barfley probably never went to sea again because__________.A.he wanted different kinds of adventures B.of fright and shock C.he was crippled by the whale D.he often got seasick The sailors knew that something was in the whale's stomach because__________.A.they could feel it moving about wildly B.The whale seemed very heavy C.The whale was swelling at one spot D.The captain heard Bartley yelling for help The author, in telling James Bartley's story, informs us by__________.A.narrating the plain facts B.referring to whaling in general C.comparing whaling to other fishing D.dramatically telling what happened 请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

A．The return trip is too expensive B．There is no technology to get people back． C．People don’t want to return． D．The return trip is too risky．

A．stiff B．straight C．steady D．hard

Then one evening，after he had looked through the straw and emptied the factory worker's pockets【17】usual，he said to him，“Listen，I know that you are smuggling things【18】this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you're bringing into the country so successfully？ I'm an old man，and today's my last day on the job. Tomorrow I'm going to【19】. I promise that I shall not tell anyone if you tell me what you've been smuggling. ”The factory worker did not say anything for【20】. Then he smiled，turned to Henry and said quietly：“Bicycles. ” (11) A．should B．might C．would D．must

When Prince Charles saw her aboard Britannia at Cowes in the late summer of 1980, he wasn't however particularly interested. She belonged to his younger brother Andrew's set, and had come aboard, not at Chariest s invitation, but with Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones, his cousin and sixteen years his junior. Diana was three years older than Sarah, but still almost a generation away. And besides, Charles had his mind on other things—most particularly the breakup of his romance with the beautiful but self-willed Anna Wallace. There was also the fact that if he noticed Diana in anything more than passing, he thought about her as the sister of one of his former girlfriends—Lady Sarah Spencer—who had recently married (he hadn't attended), and whatever others might have been plotting he most certainly was not thinking of renewing his romantic links with the Spencer girls. But if Charles was not instantly enchanted by the fresh, gambolling nineteen-year-old who spent some days aboard the Royal Yacht, his staff were. "She was so unassuming and so natural,' one recalls. And in the manner of all servants, particularly ones who are in the employ of the bachelor Prince, they inevitably started speculating amongst themselves if she was the one for what they called "the job". So, it seems, did Diana. At the age of sixteen she had jokingly told a friend that she was "out to get' Charles. But that may have been just romantic fantasizing on the part of a young girl whose main reading was the soapy romances penned by her step-grandmother, the redoubtable Barbara Cartland. The Prince's late valet, Stephen Barry; insisted however: "She went after the Prince with single-minded determination. She wanted him—and she got him!" She had, of course, met him many times before in the years of her childhood spent as a near-neighbour of the Windsors at Sandringham when Charles used to pop his head round the nursery door where she was having tea with Andrew and Edward, or during a shooting party on Sandringham Estate where at the age of sixteen she was reintroduced to him by her sister Sarah. More recently she had encountered him at polo. But then he had always been busy or with a girlfriend in tow. This time he was alone. She made sure Charles was watching when she bravely followed his example and went windsurfing in the ehoppy and not-too-warm waters of the Solent. Naturally flirtatious, she made sure he noticed her long slim legs and trim figure. And he could not fail but start to take an interest—if only a comparative one—in the beautiful younger sister of a former girlfriend. Accounts of this first meeting vary. Some claim that it is where the famous romance began. Others insist that his interest was but a mild one; that with Anna still in mind, the timing was wrong and he simply regarded her as a new and pretty addition to his surprisingly limited circle of friends. But she had certainly impressed him enough for him to invite her up to Balmoral shortly afterwards. Diana accepted with alacrity. To impress a young man, Diana might choose to play a game of tennis, because ______. A．she was a highly skilled tennis player B．she looked attractive in her tennis outfit C．she preferred tennis to swimming D．her hair-style. was fashionably designed

Then one evening, after he has looked【48】the straw and emptied the factory worker's ,pockets【49】usual, he【50】to him, "Listen. I know that you are smuggling things【51】this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you are bring into. Today's my last day on the【52】. Tomorrow I'm going to【53】. I promise that I shall not tell【54】if you tell me what you've been smuggling." The factory worker did not say anything for【55】. Then he smiled, turned to Henry and said quickly: "Bicycles." (66) A．should B．would C．might D．must

Pidgin English, though sometimes regarded as" baby talk", is a useful language spoken in a large part of Pacific islands. About 30 to 50 million people speak some form. of it. Pidgin English we know today was born on the Chinese coast 300 years ago when the Western nations first began to trade there. The Western merchants and the Chinese communicated with each other by using Westerner's words and Chinese sentence patterns. The result became known as "business" language, or because the closest Chinese could come to pronounce business as "bishin" or later "bijin"--at last "pidgin". It has nothing to do with a pigeon though it's sometimes spelt that way. What do you think the British official's words mean？ A．This man wants to marry you. Is it possible？ No, it's not possible. B．This man wants to know if you are married If not, will you marry me？ C．This man wants you to find a wife for him. Can you help him？ D．This man wants to marry you and take you to his homeland Do you agree？

A．discarded B．scattered C．sorted D．decorated

One day, he received an exciting telephone call from someone who claimed that he had just come through a big flood in a village it in his paper that evening. He was delighted to see that no other paper had got hold of the story. Unfortunately, however, angry telephone calls soon showed that he had been tricked, so in the next day's paper he wrote: "We were the first and only newspaper to report yesterday that the village of Greenbridge had been destroyed by a flood. Today, we are proud to say that our newspaper is the first one to bring our readers the news that yesterday's story was quite false." 6.Mr. Hodges always tries to bring to his readers a lot of pleasure. A.T B.F 7.A big flood up in the mountains was the news that someone gave Mr. Hodges one day. A.T B.F 8.After Mr. Hodges received the news, he published it right away. A.T B.F 9.Mr. Hodges found later the flood was really terrible. A.T B.F 10.Mr. Hodges is a good editor. A.T B.F

The first real steps took place in France, in 1783.Two brothers, the Montgolfiers, made a very large “hot air balloon”.They knew that hot air rises.Why not fill a balloon with it？The balloon was made of cloth and paper.In September of that year，the King and Queen of France came to see the balloon.They watched it carry the very first air passengers into the sky.The passengers were a sheep and a chicken.We do not know how they felt about the trip.But we do know that the trip lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed safely.Two months later，two men did the same thing.They rose above Paris in a balloon of the same kind.Their trip lasted twenty-five minutes and they travelled about eight kilometers. 26.Leonardo da Vinci ______ . A.said that man would fly in the sky one day B.built a kind of machine which never flew C.drew many beautiful pictures of birds D.made designs for flying machine 27.Eight hundred years ago an Englishman ______ . A.made a kind of flying machine B.tried to fly with wings made of chicken feather C.wanted to build a kind of balloon D.tried to fly on a large bird 28.In fact，the Englishman who tried to fly ______ . A.lost his life B.flew only 8minutes C.got badly wounded D.succeeded in flying 29.The very first air passengers in the balloon were ______. A.two animals B.two Frenchmen C.the King and the Queen D.the Montgolfiers 30.When did two Frenchmen rise above Paris？______ A.In December 1783. B.In September 1783. C.In November 1783. D.In the seventeenth century.

A．panel B．jury C．court D．legislation

One year，after posting his check as usual，he began to wonder if he had paid enough，and after a lot of work，with a pencil and paper，he found that he had not. He thought that he owed the government something. He was just writing another check to send it to the tax collector when the postman dropped a letter into the box at the front door. Opening it，the artist was surprised to find inside it a check for five pounds from the tax collector. The official explained that too much had been paid，and that therefore the difference was now returned to the taxpayer. 11. According to the passage，to decide the exact amount of tax to be paid is ____________. A. simple B. easy C. difficult D. interesting 12. It is mentioned in the passage that one has to pay tax according to ____________. A. how much education one has received B. whether one is single or married C. how old one’s children are D. where one lives 13. The word “proper” in the second paragraph means __________. A. small B. big C. right D. wrong 14. After a lot of work，the artist thought that he had paid the government ____________. A. less tax than he should have B. more tax than he should have C. as much tax as usual D. just enough tax 15. Why did the tax collector send a letter to the artist？ A. To send him a new tax form. B. To return the money overpaid. C. To remind him of paying the tax. D. To explain the rules of tax paying.