【正文】 meat is too strong. Also, buffalo meat isn’t easy to chew even if it is cooked for a long time. Most people don’t like buffalo meat for ___________ reason. A. One B. two C. three D. four Scientists would like to place a huge mirror in space above the earth. It might be 60 miles wide. It would be used to catch the rays of the sun. It would direct the sun’s rays upon the earth as a child might do to make the sunlight dance on the wall with a hand mirror. Why do they want to do this? The sun’s rays could be helpful in many ways. They could light up cities by night. The warm rays could stop frosts which might e at night and hurt fruit crops. They could melt dangerous icebergs in the ocean. Perhaps they could change cloud movements and bring rain where it it needed. 1. The huge mirror would ________. A. stand 60 miles in height B. be 60 miles from side to side C. cover 60 miles of the earth D. be 60 miles above the earth. 2. The mirror would be used to______. A. Reflect sunlight B. absorb sunlight C. see what the earth looks like D. see how cloud move strong light from the mirror could possibly_____. A. Hurt fruit crops B. set fire to cities C. bring longer days D. shine through walls 4. The huge mirror is ______. A. Something in a story B. already made C. just an idea D. to be made soon The Family History Library is open to the public every day except Sunday and some holidays. Visitors are invited to use its books and other materials. Library officials say it is one of the most popular places for visitors in Utah. About two thousand four hundred people use the library each day. Normally how many visitors does the library in Utah receive in a week? 細(xì)節(jié)理解題 A. 2,400. B. 3,000. C. 14,400. D. 16,800 A radar set produces radio waves and gives them out into space by means of its antenna. When the radio waves get to an object, they will e back to the radar antenna. The radar set changes the radio echoes into an image. And from this image, we can find out the direction of the object and its distance from the set. How can the radar show us the distance to the object? Radio waves go out at a known speed about 300,000 kms every second. If the radio waves e back in 1/1000 second, then they have some 300 kms. So the object must be half that distance, that is, 150 kilometres away. Which of the following orders show correctly how a radar works? a. The operator determines the distance and the direction according to the image. b. Radio waves are sent out into space by radar. c. The antenna receives the radio echoes and changes them into an image. d. The image of an object is shown on the screen. A. a, d, c, b B. b, c, d, a C. a, b, d, c D. a, c, b, d Jack London was a famous American writer. He burned himself out when he was 40. He thought of his mother, Flora, who had never been a very responsible person. He was sure she was mentally ill and that he was being like her. At last he became too tired to care. He would not work and continued to spend money he did not have. He would not change his life, or his writing, perhaps he could not. Jack London’s last days were ______. A. usual one B. not poor ones C. rich ones D. unhappy ones Literal Comprehension ? Words in context: Guess the meaning of a new word or phrase ? Question forms: 1. The word “…” refers to/probably means/could best be replaced by _________. 2. The word “…” most likely means _________. 3. What do you think the expression “…” stands for? 4. By saying “…” we mean _________. 5. “…” , as used in the passage, can best be defined as _________. TIPS: ?Words, like people, are frequently known by the pany they keep. A word’s context or surroundings can provide clues to meaning. Skill: pay attention to guessing skills Learning From Context Yesterday I got up at seven o’clock, I had a cheepice for breakfast and drank some teafiter. When we came near the school, the fastier suddenly stopped. I almost bumped into the person sitting in front of me. I looked out of the amfow to see what happened. I saw a hallipion running across the street, with something in its mouth. A man was running after it. It took me three weathies to get to school. When I was finally there, it was all very quiet. Class had already begun. What do you guess the underlined words mean? cheepice a kind of food teafiter a drink fastier a vehicle amfow window hallipion an animal weathies periods of time Skills of guessing the new words: I. Guess from the definition II. Guess from synonym and antonym from mon sense from the context V. Guess from word formation 1. They estimated that the earth was probably more than 10 millions years old. 2. Each year you grow physicallyyou grow taller and heavier and you do more things than you could before. 3. If you keep bread too long, it bees stale. 4. One day ,when the father and son were bringing bags of refined sugar home on their donkeys, they had to gross a shallow river. When they were in the middle of it, one of the bags began to fall. 5. You can select any periodical to read: Reader, Harvest, Window of the World, Youth Digest. 6. One of the strangest things that happened durin