英語練習(xí) (1)附答案

1、英語練習(xí)復(fù)制姓名： 填空題 *_矩陣文本題 *班級：_一、閱讀理解ALocated in the Atlantic Ocean halfway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are a still-somewhat-undiscovered destination. Known for sweeping landscapes and sometimes-harsh weather, these islands definitely deserve a spot on your bucket list.Fun things avail

2、able hereSee the famous Mulafossur Waterfall in GasadalurHike to Trlanpa to see the Srvgsvatn, the “floating lake”Hike to the Kallur Lighthouse on KalsoyGo sea kayakingAttend a music festival (I loved the G! Festival)Drive out to the town of GjgvSee Saksun Church and the surrounding sceneryExplore t

3、he capital city of TrshavnGetting aroundRenting a car and driving is the best way to fully experience the Faroe Islands. Public transport does exist, but buses dont run to most places very frequently. It is recommended that you book your car ahead of time, especially during the summer. (Search for r

4、ental cars here.) Where to stayThanks to the roads, bridges, and tunnels, nothing is very far away in the Faroe Islands. You can get from Trshavn to Tjrnuvk or Gjgv in just over an hour meaning you could easily base yourself in Trshavn for your whole trip if you wanted.If you do feel like staying ou

5、tside of the capital for a night or two, consider making Gjgv your second base: Funningur is the only accommodation available in Gjgv, but its lovely. A nice guesthouse and restaurant sitting on a hill overlooking the village. (Read reviews on TripAdvisor | Book here)1Which of the following fun thin

6、gs on Faroe Islands are NOT mentioned? 單選題 *AEnjoy music.BTour around the capital city.CHike to the mountains.(正確答案)DAppreciate water scenery.2For a whole-trip plan, its convenient for visitors to live in. 單選題 *AGjgvBTrshavn(正確答案)CTrlanpaDTjrnuvk3Whats the possible title of the passage? 單選題 *AA Trav

7、el Guide to Faroe Islands(正確答案)BTop Things to Do on Faroe IslandsCSome Quick Facts about Faroe IslandsDThe Best Destination for Your Bucket List BI grew up as a country girl. My sister and I didnt play video games. We didnt have cable TV. Summers were filled with swimming in the pond and picking wil

8、d blackberries for Grandma to make a pie. Autumn was filled with corn mazes and crunching through leaves in the woods. And winter was all about building igloos near the frozen lake.My high school had zero diversity. Most people here could visit their entire extended family within 30 miles drive. And

9、 many were perfectly happy with the prospect of staying in rural northeast Ohio forever.It was in high school that I began to realize that I wanted something beyond what I knew inside my Midwest bubble. I loved reading and learning about new places, so I spent the rest of my high school career savin

10、g up so that I could go on a Lord of the Ringsthemed tour of New Zealand when I graduated.After that initial trip to New Zealand, I was fully infected with the travel bug. I joined my college marching band simply because it would mean international performance tours every two years. And I began to r

11、ealize that I couldnt imagine my life without travel in it.I got a great education from both my little rural high school and my little rural Ohio college. But, the more I traveled, the more acutely aware I became of the fact that traveling made up for my education in a way that textbooks and PowerPo

12、int presentations in lecture halls just simply could not.So, is travel the best education? Well, I dont know if it deserves the superlative of the “best”. But travel is definitely really valuable and a necessary part of becoming a global citizen of the world.4Which word best describes the authors ch

13、ildhood? 單選題 *ALonely.BCarefree.(正確答案)CDifficult.DBittersweet.5What can be inferred about the author as a high school student? 單選題 *AShe liked to judge others.BShe was in favor of a rural life.CHer idea of traveling took roots.(正確答案)DShe was never concerned about money.6Why is traveling important to

14、 the author? 單選題 *AShe could apply the knowledge from the textbooks.BShe could go on international performance tours.CShe could receive scholarship where she traveled.DShe could learn beyond the school and textbooks.(正確答案)7What message is mainly conveyed in the text? 單選題 *AEast and west, home is the

15、 best.BHe who doesnt advance loses ground.CLife without travel can only call it survival.(正確答案)DA person to travel, perhaps lonely, may be free. C“Buzz. Buzz. The queen is that way,” said one honey bee to another. “Pass it on.” Honey bees cant speak, of course, but scientists have found that the ins

16、ects combine teamwork and chemicals to relay the queens location to the rest of the community, revealing an extraordinary means of long distance, mass communication.Individual honey bees communicate with the chemical called pheromones, which scientists have long known. But just how these individual

17、signals work together to gather tens of thousands of bees around a queen has remained a mystery.In the new study, Dieu My Nguyen, a scientist at the University of Colorado, and his colleagues focused on a colony of western honey bees, the most common honey bee species in the world. The researchers s

18、et up a flat, pizza boxsize arena with a transparent ceiling, in which the bees could walk around, but not fly. They put the queen bee into a cage on one side and released the worker honey bees on the other. The scientists then recorded the insects movements from above with a camera and an AI softwa

19、re tracking bees that were releasing pheromones.Once the first worker honey bees located the queen, they began to gather chains of evenly spaced bees that extended outward from the queen, with each bee sending out pheromones to its neighbor down the line. The findings are the first direct observatio

20、ns of this collective communication in honey bees. Like smelly bread crumbs, the branching communication lines guided far-off honey bees back to the queens location a feat no single bee could achieve alone.Mark Carroll, an insect biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, cautions that the wor

21、k was done in a closed, practically 2D space. In reality, he notes, honey bee colonies are 3D, and they often have to fight with elements like wind and rain, which make communicating more complicated. “The next step will be to observe natural honey bee swarms and see if theyre actually doing this.”

22、he says.8What is the focus of the new study? 單選題 *AWhy worker bees gather around a queen bee.BHow pheromones function in a bees body.CWhy insects mass communication is limited to short distances.DHow the queens location is passed on to the rest of the colony.(正確答案)9What is mainly talked about in Par

23、agraph 3? 單選題 *AThe process of the experiment.(正確答案)BThe equipment required for the experiment.CThe technique used in the experiment.DThe species chosen for the experiment.10What does the underlined word “feat” in Paragraph 4 refer to? 單選題 *ADirection.BMovement.CLocation.DRelay.(正確答案)11Whats Mark Ca

24、rrolls attitude to the study? 單選題 *ADoubtful(正確答案)BReliableCRealisticDInfluential. DGoogle is getting further into the business of saving lives. The internet giant announces that users of its Android phones in New Zealand will receive warnings of damaging earthquakes about to strike their locations.

25、 And those earthquakes will be detected not by the usual seismometers, but by the phones themselves.Traditional warnings, even if they only come seconds before a quake hits, can buy people enough time to survive the quake. These systems are practical, but they are difficult and expensive to develop.

26、 One system, known as ShakeAlert, cost $60 million to build and needs more than $30 million annually to operate. Such an earthquake warning system as developed by Google can cut down this expense and has great potential globally.A phone-based network makes earthquake detection possible because moder

27、n devices are equipped with motion sensors that monitor movement, such as when a user picks up or rotates the phone. Those sensors can also be programmed to detect the distinctive shaking caused by the pressure and waves of earthquakes.Google has built quake-sensing capabilities directly into its mo

28、re than 2 billion active Android phones. When a Android phone detects an earthquake signal, it sends word, along with a rough location, to a central server and more than 100 phones need to sound the alarm before Google believes it. Android phones have been publicly detecting earthquakes worldwide si

29、nce last year and have detected more than 1000 quakes. The warnings have performed well in terms of speed and accuracy when compared with ShakeAlert. Regardless of it, false alarms havent been too hard to weed out.The Android system still has a lot to prove, including its ability to detect quakes th

30、at start in less populated regions. New Zealand will pose a particular challenge, because much of its population is gathered in a few cities. That means phones might not warn of a quake that starts far from downtown until after the trembling has already begun. Until the systems performance is clear,

31、 Google should be cautious of promising too much.12What can we learn from the text? 單選題 *ATraditional earthquake warnings are ineffective.BResidents in New Zealand have benefited from the new warning system.CMotion sensors are built in Android cellphones.(正確答案)DShakeAlert system cost $90 million in

32、total.13Compared to traditional warnings, which is NOT the advantage of Android warning system? 單選題 *ASpeedierBCheaperCMore accurateDMore practical(正確答案)14What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4? 單選題 *AIt is too hard to identify false alarms.BSome false warnings are easy to get

33、 rid of.(正確答案)CFalse warnings happen frequently.DIt is impossible to avoid issuing false warnings.15Whats the best title of the article? 單選題 *AGoogles Effort to Detect Earthquakes(正確答案)BGoogles Promise to Save More LivesCGoogles New Challenge in New ZealandDGoogles Announcement about New Zealand二、七選

34、五We know that choosing a college major can be stressful._16_! Heres what you need to know about college majors before you commit.Career preparationChoose a major because it will prepare you for a specific career path or advanced study. Maybe you already know that you want to be a nurse, a physical t

35、herapist, or a web developer._17_. Make sure youre ready for the coursework required for the career of your dreamsEarning potentialFuture earning potential is worth considering. After all, college is such a big investment. The majors that lead to the highest salaries include just about any type of e

36、ngineering, mathematics, computer science, and economics._18_. That six figure salary may not be worth it if youre not happy at the office_19_Some students choose a major simply because they love the subject matter. If your love is philosophy, dont write it off just because youre not sure about what

37、 the job market holds for philosophers. Many liberal arts majors provide students with critical thinking skills and writing abilities that are highly valued by employers.Explore your interestsIf you truly have no idea what you want to study, thats okay._20_. That gives you four semesters to play the

38、 field Make the most of any required general education courseschoose ones that interest you. Exploring your interests will help you find your best fit majorand maybe even your ideal career.16 單選題 *AMany schools dont require students to declare a major until the second yearBThe most exciting aspects

39、of college life is that it fosters new passionsCA double major provides you with an understanding of two academic fieldsDHowever, keep your quality of life in mind, tooEBut have no fear(正確答案)FBefore you decide, check out the curriculaGSubjects you love17 單選題 *AMany schools dont require students to d

40、eclare a major until the second yearBThe most exciting aspects of college life is that it fosters new passionsCA double major provides you with an understanding of two academic fieldsDHowever, keep your quality of life in mind, tooEBut have no fearFBefore you decide, check out the curricula(正確答案)GSu

41、bjects you love18 單選題 *AMany schools dont require students to declare a major until the second yearBThe most exciting aspects of college life is that it fosters new passionsCA double major provides you with an understanding of two academic fieldsDHowever, keep your quality of life in mind, too(正確答案)

42、EBut have no fearFBefore you decide, check out the curriculaGSubjects you love19 單選題 *AMany schools dont require students to declare a major until the second yearBThe most exciting aspects of college life is that it fosters new passionsCA double major provides you with an understanding of two academ

43、ic fieldsDHowever, keep your quality of life in mind, tooEBut have no fearFBefore you decide, check out the curriculaGSubjects you love(正確答案)20 單選題 *AMany schools dont require students to declare a major until the second year(正確答案)BThe most exciting aspects of college life is that it fosters new pas

44、sionsCA double major provides you with an understanding of two academic fieldsDHowever, keep your quality of life in mind, tooEBut have no fearFBefore you decide, check out the curriculaGSubjects you love三、完形填空After thirty-three years of managing a grocery store in my small hometown of Athens, Alaba

45、ma, I decided to sell our business and retire How could I retire but still have a feeling of_21_with my community? After all, they are the people who_22_my effort when I first opened the business and I wanted to give something backKnowing my_23_, a friend told me about a hospice meeting and asked if

46、 I would be interested in becoming a hospice volunteer. I was so_24_! Here was my opportunity to serve my community, give back to it,_25_friendships and begin new ones._26_with information from my new training class, I was assigned my first job. With_27_knees, I knocked on the door. Then came the_28

47、_couple who were struggling to care for each other. At first they were a little _29_ to let anyone into their lives, but soon they appreciated the bunches of roses from my garden. My rose garden was my greatest_30_.A fresh red bunch of “Dolly Partons” or the creamy pink “Barbara Bushes” always seeme

48、d to_31_their sick room My garden of eight to ten bushes, inspired by their_32_, began to grow. Twenty, then forty, then sixty-five bushes, a whole yard of wonderful fragrant roses just waited to be cut and they seemed to know their_33_and outdid themselves with big blooms. The roses began to appear

49、 at weddings, teas, and on other social_34_in our community. Just another way I found to give back.My_35_job continued. When I got a call from the hospice with the words “Someone has asked for you ”, I was filled with great humanity and was really ready to help21 單選題Aconnection(正確答案)BbusinessCoccupationDcommunication22 單選題 *AmadeBsupported(正確答案)CputDdiscovered23 單選題AtargetBdreamCdecisionDdilemma(正確答案)24 單選題AamusedBshockedCexcite