【正文】 nother set of eggs in the wild. Prof Jones was awarded the $250,000 (163。t enjoy the stress and the tension of the criticism I received, reflecting on the start of his career, he said the Maurutius kestrel project had been seen as a dead loss at the time. In the 1970s there was fierce opposition to the captive breeding techniques, with critics arguing that they were too risky and took the emphasis off breeding in the wild.returnB.honorD.an endangered birdB.a popular birdD.Taking eggs from the nests has worked well.B.Kestrel has adapted to the life in the wild.D.s difficult to protect kestrel.（4）Prof Jones39。 nests ________. A.B.was promoted officiallywas criticized by some people【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，介紹了生物學(xué)家 （1）考查詞義猜測。 （2）考查推理判斷。 （3）考查推理判斷。”可知紅隼的數(shù)量已經(jīng)開始增加了，所以推斷出人工繁殖的方法很有效，故選A。根據(jù)第一段“A biologist once criticized for stealing eggs from the nests of the rarest bird in the world has been awarded the Nobel Prize of conservation after his methods saved nine species from extinction.”；以及倒數(shù)第二段中的“In the 1970s there was fierce opposition to the captive breeding techniques, with critics arguing that they were too risky and took the emphasis off breeding in the wild.”可知 Jones 教授從稀有鳥類的巢穴中取出鳥蛋的行為被一些人批評，故選D。6．閱讀理解 Orville would discover in later years that he and Wilbur39。 Both boys loved to solve problems that seemed difficult to others. The more difficult the problem was, the more they saw it as a challenge. Exploring the unknown was such a joy for then that Orville once said, I can remember when Wilbur and I could hardly wait for the morning to e to get at something that interested us. That39。 Putting their gift to work, the boys entered the printing business soon after high school. Orville designed and then built a printing press（印刷機）for this enterprise. At first, they did contract printing for other people, and soon one of their customers during the early 1890s was Father Milton39。 Branching out into other areas, they also opened a bicycle business. Bicycling was the fastest growing sport in the country at that time, and their repair shop soon led them into building bicycles of their own design, often with tools of their own construction, such as the lathe（車床）driven by a onecylinder gasoline engine built by Orville. The bicycle shop would provide the livelihood（生計）that would allow them to carry out their experiments on airplanes. （1）What may inspire Wilbur and Orville Wright to be keen on flight in childhood？ A.Their wishes to travel by plane.C.Their interest in duplicating toys.（2）What kind of children were the Wright brothers？ A.Quiet and modes.C.Stubborn but careful（3）What business did Wilbur and Orville enter shortly after high school？ A.The printing business.C.The bicycle business.（4）What will possibly be discussed following this text？ A.What trouble they would meet in their business.C.How the two brothers began to invent planes.【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，介紹了 萊特兄弟是怎樣的發(fā)明飛機的過程。根據(jù)第二段中的“Orville would discover in later years that he and Wilbur39。奧維爾后來發(fā)現(xiàn)他和威爾伯對飛行第一次興趣是從他們小時候開始的，由于他們的父親從鄉(xiāng)村給他們帶回家的，用橡皮筋為動力的直升機玩具，可知選C。根據(jù)第二段中的“They were just crazy about these things for the reasons that they did not yet understand”他們只是因為他們還不明白的原因 而對這些事情瘋狂 ；和第三段中的“Both boys loved to solve problems that seemed difficult to others. The more difficult the problem was，the more they saw it as a challenge”兩個男孩都喜歡解決別人覺得困難的問題。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。 故選B。根據(jù)最后一段中的“The bicycle shop would provide the livelihood（生計）that would allow them to carry out their experiments on airplanes”自行車店將提供生計 ，允許他們在飛機上進行實驗 ，可知選D。 During the period from 1660 through 1800, Great Britain became the world39。 Johnson changed all that, but the task was not an easy one. Renting a house at 17 Gough Square, Johnson began working in the worst of conditions. Supported only by his publisher, Johnson worked on the Dictionary with five assistants. Compared to the French Academy39。s dictionary was pleted by very few people very quickly.Balanced on a chair with only three legs, Johnson sat against a wall in a room filled with books. Johnson would read widely from these books, mark passages illustrating the use of a particular word, and give the books to his assistants so that they could copy the passages on slips of paper. These slips were then stuck to eighty large notebooks under the key words that Johnson had selected. Fixing the word by this method, Johnson could record a word，s usage and its definition.s modern biographer Walter Jackson Bate, the original total number could have been over 240,000. How many words were defined by the lexicographer? Over 40,000 words appeared in two large books in April of 1755. Did Johnson fully understand the huge task he was undertaking when he began? As he told his contemporary biographer James Boswell, I knew very well what I was undertaking and very well how to do it — and have done it very well.（1）What is the problem of early English dictionaries? A.They list just a few foreign words.C.D.A publisher.B.A maker of dictionaries.D.He standardized English.He cared about authority a lot.C.He plained of working conditions.（4）What is the purpose of this passage? A.To encourage people to work on a project.C.To introduce how Johnson plete his dictionary.【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了Johnson編纂詞典的故事。根據(jù)第一段中的“These, however, were often little more than lists of hard words”可知，早期英語詞典的問題是只是增加了一些難詞。 （2）考查詞義猜測。故選C。根據(jù)第一段中的“This need to fix the English language is best illustrated (描述) in the making of The Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.”及最后一段中的Samuel Johnson為詞典編纂所作的努力可以推斷出，Samuel Johnson使得英語標準化。 （4）考查推理判斷。所以本文主要是告訴讀者Johnson編纂詞典的故事，故