【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 e are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than ￡1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane—minus wheels, of course—as hand baggage.Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie’s imagination? No. But it’s progress.56．We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike ______.A. was portableB. had a folding wheelC. could be put in a pocketD. looked like a magic carpet57．We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable ______.A. were different to separateB. could be split into 6 piecesC. were fitted with solid tyresD. were hard to carry on a train58．We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons’s invention ______.A. kept the tyre as a whole pieceB. was made into production soonC. left little room for improvementD. changed our views on bag design59．Which of the following would be the best title for the text?A. Three Folding Bike InventorsB. The Making of a Folding BikeC. Progress in Folding Bike DesignD. Ways of Separating a Bike Wheel[答案]本文為一篇說明文。文章主要講述了可折疊單車的發(fā)展情況。56．A。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段的“...You can fold it up...”內(nèi)容可知Brompton folding bike是便攜式的，于是答案選A。57．C。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段倒數(shù)第二句可知答案選C。58．A。理解推測題。根據(jù)文章第四段最后兩句可推知，F(xiàn)itzsimons的發(fā)明保持了輪胎的整體性，于是答案選A。59．C。主旨大意題。文章主要介紹了折疊單車的發(fā)展情況，于是答案選C。B(2009安徽江南十校素質(zhì)測試)The death of Steve Irwin earlier this month caught the world by surprise. The adventurous Australian TV star of hundreds of animal programs had placed himself in harm’s way countless times.Irwin, 44, was diving near the Great Barrier Reef when he frightened a large stingray(黃貂魚). The stingray reacted by tying Irwin with its tail. The tail’s 10－inch barb(倒鉤) struck Irwin in the heart and killed him.Many mourners praised Irwin for his strong interest in conservation. He protested wildlife hunts in Australia. He also organized an animal breeding program at the Australian Zoo. The program aided the survival of creatures such as the crested iguana(冠狀蜥) and the canopy goanna(巨蜥)．Germaine Greer, an Australian writer, wasn’t as kind about Irwin’s treatment of animals. Though she praised Irwin’s conservation efforts, she said he also misused wild animals. “There was no habitat that Irwin hesitated to break into. There was not an animal he was not prepared to push，” she added.Robert Thompson, a professor of munications, says Irwin’s shows were like most reality programming—a mixture of fact and fiction. Some astonishing performances on Irwin’s show were less dangerous than they appeared through the use of editing and camera angles. “What Steve Irwin did was wrestle nature documentaries away from education to entertainment，” Thompson told Weekly Reader.Thompson believes that Irwin’s death shocked many people because of the way television mixes reality and fiction. On reality shows, such as Crocodile Hunter and Fear Factor, participants always escape unharmed. “Probably, a lot of people think of the crocodile hunter as fictional character not permitted to die in real life，” he says.60．It can be inferred that Irwin ______.A. was killed by the fish while trying to catch itB. had experienced numberous dangers in his lifeC. was only interested in animals in waterD. was making a TV program about stingrays when the fish struck him61．Irwin is also famous for ______.A. wildlife protectionB. setting up the Australian ZooC. his TV programs about rare animalsD. putting an end to wildlife hunts in Australia62．What was Germaine Greer’s attitude towards Irwin’s treatment of animals?A. She felt in acceptable.B. She was in favor of it.C. She was against it.D. She kept silent about it.63．According to Robert Thompson, Irwin’s shows ______.A. were a bination of reality and fantasyB. focused mainly on dangerous imagesC. were educative and entertainingD. were far beyond facts and reality[答案]澳大利亞的一位電視明星兼動物保護主義者Steve Irwin去世了，他的去世引起了人們的一些爭議。60．B。邏輯推理題。從文章第一段第二句話可知，Irwin經(jīng)歷過無數(shù)次的危險。答案應(yīng)該選B項。61．A。事實細節(jié)題。從文章第三段的內(nèi)容可知答案選A項。62．C。推理判斷題。從文章第四段Germaine Greer所說的話的可以推斷出“她對此不認可”，所以答案選C項。63．A。邏輯推理題。從文章倒數(shù)第二段第一句話的內(nèi)容可以推斷出答案選A項。C(2009全國Ⅱ)It’s only 4 hours flying time from Sydney, but a world away. What better place to rest than a country where the only place people hurry is on the football field and things are done in “Fiji time”？Viti Levu—Great Fiji—is the largest island. Here you’ll find the capital Suva and the international airport at Nadi. Vatoa, on the other hand, is a tiny island in the farthest part of Fiji. Then there are 331 other islands, many of them with places to stay.With less than a million people living on islands, you’ll never feel crowded. And with a climate(氣候) that changes only for five degrees be