【正文】 t of housing, he said. Delays in marriage while was not the only factor for the family changes. smaller figure of families reported here is ______.A．1980 B． 80,400,0。答案：DABDC(12)s story, gives us information byA．making us laughB．talking about whaling in general. C．paring whaling to other fishing. D．dramatically(戲劇性地) telling what happened.5． The word carcass refers to theA．whale39。s name is James Bartley. The records to prove his unusual experience are in the British Admiralty. Bartley was making his first trip on the whaling ship Star of the East. Suddenly the lookout found a huge 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(魚叉) was thrown and it found its mark. It sank into the whale39。s illness?A．A Doctor in Qatar. B．Nurse Maitland.C．Dr. Brown. D．Agatha Christie. 2．Why was the baby sent to London?A．She was a British girl whose parents were working in Qatar. B．The hospitals in Qatar were full at that time. C．She was the daughter of a doctor in one of the places. D．The Qatar doctors were not sure they could cure her. 3．As far as we can tell from passage, Agatha Christie. A．had never even met this baby. B．had spent a long time as a police officer. C．visited the baby in the hospital at Hammersmith. D． gave Nurse Maitland some advice on the phone . 4．Nurse Maitland spoke to the doctorsA．when she heard them discussing the possibility ofthallium poison. B．because she could see that the doctors had made a mistake.C．to suggest a possible reason for the patient39。s illness, a nurse asked to speak to them. “Excuse me,” said Nurse Marsha Maitland, “but I think the baby is suffering from thallium poisoning(鉈中毒) .”“What makes you think that?” Dr. Brown asked. “Thallium poisoning is very rare.”“A few days ago, I was reading a novel called ‘A Pale Horse39。(9)People bury treasure to stop other people from taking it. They choose a quiet place, dig a deep hole and bury the treasure in it. Then they make a map of where the treasure is or write down other clues（線索）that will help them or someone else to find it again. In Britain a few years ago。s time are always slower than men39。t be doing anyway. The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it39。t have any machines to help them. So they heated the rock with fire and then threw cold water over it. When the rock cracked（裂）, they dug it out. Roman soldiers and slaves built the roads with their hands and simple tools, but the roads were so well built that they were used for hundreds of years. 1．The story tells us ______ . A．building roads without modern machines was Roman soldiers’ only jobB．it was no easy job for the Romans to build their roadsC．people in advanced countries still use the old Roman way to build their roads todayD．most people in the African countries still use the old Roman way to dig their tunnels through the mountains2．To build mountain roads, the old Romans had to ______ . A．explode the rock before they started to digB．crack the rock with fire and cold waterC．dig through the hard rock with their handsD．invent some machines to help them with the work3．On the whole, the story is about ______ . A．how to build up our modern roads todayB．Roman tools in building a wide straight roadC．the Romans’ roads built two thousand years agoD．the reason why the Romans had to build their roads4．Why did the Romans build so many roads at that time? It was because ______ . A．their slaves and soldiers had to do something, or, they would have nothing to doB．they dared not sail in the ocean and the roads were their only choiceC．they needed land trade roads and the roads to move their grand armies as quickly as possibleD．the old Romans wanted to show how clever they were in building the roads5．According to the passage, which of the following four choices is correct?A．The old Romans found soft soil did not make a solid base for the road.B．The Romans built roads only on flat（平）landC．Flat stones were mostly used in the roads of AsiaD．The old Romans used to make use of the soft soil for the base of their roads in North Africa(5)Perhaps the most famous theory, the study of body movement, was suggested by Professor Ray Birdwhistell. He believes that physical appearance is often culturally（文化的）programmed. In other words, we learn our looks we are not born with them. A baby has generally unformed face features（特征）. A baby, according to Bird whistle, learns where to set the eyebrows（眉毛）by looking at those around family and friends. This helps explain why the people of some areas of the United States look so much alike, New Englanders or Southerners have certain mon face features that cannot be explained by genetics（遺傳學(xué)）. The exact shape of the mouth is not set at birth, it is learned after. In fact, the final mouth shape is not formed until well after new teeth are set. For many, this can be well into grownups. A husband and wife together for a long time often e to look somewhat alike. We learn our looks from those around us. This is perhaps why in a single country there are areas where people smile more than those in other areas. In the United States, for example, the South is the part of the country where the people smile most frequently. In New England they smile less, and in the western part of New York State still less. Many Southerners find cities such as New York cold and unfriendly, partly because people on Madison Avenue smile less than people on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgi A．People in largely populated areas also smile and greet each other in public less than do people in small towns. 1．Ray Bird whistle believes physical appearanceA．has little to do with culture. B．has much to do with culture. C．is ever changing. D．is dif