【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 blanket of moved down valleys and made them wider and they moved they took rock and other material with them，creating moraines（冰磧）.When glaciers started to melt water filled up behind these natural dams and created the alpine lakes we know today.The largest of these glaciers is the Aletsch in Switzerland which reaches a length of about 25 longest glacier of the eastern Alps is the 8 km long Pasterze，at the foot of the GroBglockner.The ice and snow of the alpine regions helped create the large rivers of today：the Rhine，Rhone，Danube and the Po.60．From the first two paragraphs we know the Alps ______.A．a(chǎn)re about 260 km wideB．stretch across the western part of AfricaC．a(chǎn)re the youngest mountain system in the worldD．have the highest peak 4,807 meters above sea level61．What does the underlined phrase “this material” in paragraph 3 refer to?A．Sea water and rock. B．Rock that was transformed.C．Rock layers that were folded. D．Limestone which was on the seabed.62．It can be inferred from the passage that the Alps were formed ______.A．before the Ice Age B．during the Ice AgeC．because of seas39。 movement D．because of glaciers39。 movement63．From the passage we know Danube is ______.A．a(chǎn) kind of rock B．one of the Alps39。 famous peaksC．the name of a river D．one of the largest glaciersC（2012南京學情調(diào)查）There is a boy called Bill in my gym class who has unbearable yellow teeth that almost make everyone feel another boy told Bill that he should have his teeth scaled（刮除牙石）.Bill was the other boy had been thinking，he would have realized that there is a better way to handle such a could have dealt with it with tact（得體）.He could have showed this hurtful truth in a more careful，sensitive way—that39。s tact.If a person isn39。t sensitive to another39。s feelings，there is no way he or she can be ，my 5173。year173。old brother proudly announced that he had cleaned the screen of our television ，he used furniture polish，which produced an oily film on the television mother smiled and thanked him for his efforts and then showed how to clean the screen sensitivity enables my brother to keep his self173。，sensitivity alone does not make tact.“Tactfulness” also requires “truthfulness”．Doctors，for example，must be a patient has just been disabled in an accident，a tactful doctor will tell the truth but express it with doctor may try to give the patient hope by telling him curing techniques under study or about advanced equipment now must use tact with patients39。 relatives as of bluntly saying，“Your husband is disabled，” a doctor might say，“I39。m sorry，but your husband has lost feeling in his legs and...”Tact should not be confused with occurs when a nurse is about to give a patient an injection（注射）and says，“This won39。t hurt a bit.”Instead of trickery，the nurse might guarantee the patient that the disfort of the injection is a small thing pared to the benefits of would also be thoughtful for the nurse to tell the patient about some of these benefits.Tact is a wonderful skill to have，and tactful people are usually admired and tact our society would bee an intolerable place to live in.64．The underlined word “crushed” in the first paragraph probably means ______.A．surprised B．cheated C．regretful D．upset65．According to the author，his mother was ______ to his brother.A．sensitive and tactful B．sensitive but not tactful enoughC．truthful but not tactful enough D．sensitive but tricky66．Which of the following is true according to the passage?A．Trickery often occurs in hospital. B．Tactfulness means truthfulness.C．We should be tactful in our society. D．Nurses are not honest to patients.D（2012銀川一中第四次考試）The mon cold is the world39。s most widespread illness，which is a plague that man receives.The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by are are caused by viruses passing on from person to catch a cold by ing into contact，directly or indirectly，with someone who already has cold causes colds，it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them they do in isolated Arctic regions，explorers have reported being free from colds until ing into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.During the First World War，soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches，cold and wet，seldom caught colds.In the Second World War，prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp，naked and starved，were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.At the Common Cold Research Unit in England，volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the disforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of taking hot baths，they put on bathing suits，allowed themselves to be with cold water，and then stood about dripping wet in a wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.If then，cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds，why are they more frequent in winter？Despite the hardest research，no one has yet found out the explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times，and that makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.No one has yet found a cure for the are drugs and painkillers such as aspirin，but all that they do is to relieve the symptoms.67．The writer offered ______ examples to support his argument.A．4 B．5 C．6 D．368．Arctic explorers may catch colds when ______.A．they work in the isolated Arctic regionsB．they write reports in terribly cold weatherC．they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regionsD．they e into touch with people with colds from the outside world69．Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit ______.A．suffered a lot B．never caught coldsC．ofte