24.What does the underlined word “apprehensive” in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Shocked. B. Curious. C. Worried. D. Eager.
25. How did Sam get along with Lightning at first?
A. Lightning followed Sam everywhere it went. B. They fought with each other fiercely.
C. They kept a certain distance from each other. D. Sam was unfriendly to Lightning.
26.What can we infer from the text?
A.Lightning knew Sam had died.
B.Sam means a lot to Lightning.
C.We took Lightning home to accompany Sam.
D.Sam came back to stay with Lightning again.
27.What can be the best title of the text?
A. The Friendship between Sam and Lightning B. The Coming of Sam and Lightning
C. The Death of Sam to Lightning D. The Importance of Sam to Us
C
Poetry is the artistic expression of the human thoughts and feelings in rhythmical and emotional language. Compared with prose (散文) , it lays more stress on rhythm, imagery (意象), emotion, and imagination. As its language is rhythmical, its sound is highly musical. We may say, “No rhythm, no poetry”, no matter the rhythm of poetry is traditional as in metrical (格律的) style or “natural” as in free verse.
So the poet must write carefully and reflectively in order to find words that not only fulfills the demands of meter and rhyme, but also expresses the meaning in a manner that complements the imagery and tone of the rest of the poem. This careful use of language is the most significant difference between ordinary prose and poetry.
The ordinary prose writer neatly builds an argument using words the way a mason (石匠)
builds a house using bricks; the poet is an artisan who creates a fieldstone hearth (大卵石壁炉炉床)
— each stone or each word is turned over, examined, and often laid aside until it can be placed where its shape, weight, and color will contribute to the strength and beauty of the whole. Prose, according to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is “words in their best order”, and poetry is “the best words in their best order”.
The reader’s chief delight in reading poetry comes from his response to its musical effect, which comes from many metrical patterns represented in conventional iambic (抑扬格) feet or from repetitions and parallel phrasing shown in free verse and from other elements of poetry.
28.What’s the purpose of saying “No rhythm, no poetry” in paragraph 1?
A.To show the importance of rhythm in poetry.
B.To show rhythm is the most important element.
C. To show there is no limit on the use of rhythm.
D. To show rhythm is more important than poetry.
29. What is the most important difference between ordinary prose and poetry?
A. The degree of emotion. B. The careful choice of words.
C. The delicate use of the metric style. D. The demands of meter and rhyme.
30.Where is the reader’s main joy in reading poetry?
A.The experience of the poet’s emotion.
B.The appreciation of the metrical pattern.
C.The reader’s reaction to the musical effect.
D.The comprehension of the thoughts and feelings.
31.How is the text mainly developed?
A. By definition. B. By examples. C. By quotation. D. By comparison.
D
A Russian spacecraft traveling to the International Space Station Thursday had to make an emergency landing when a rocket engine failed to fire. It was the latest in a recent series of failures for the Russian space program, which is also used by the U.S. to carry its astronauts to the station.
United States astronaut Nick Hague and Russian astronaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely about 20 kilometers from Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. The city is about 450 kilometers from the Russia’s Baikonur space center, which Russia operates through an agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Both the U.S. space agency NASA and Russia’s Roscosmos reported that the two were quickly recovered from the landing area by rescue crews. A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “Thank God the crew is alive” after they had landed safely.
About two minutes after launching, the three-stage Soyuz booster rocket suffered an unspecified failure of its second stage. Russia’s TASS news agency said the capsule carrying the two men separated from the troubled rocket safely. This caused the capsule to drop very sharply into the Earth’s atmosphere. Parachutes（降落伞）helped slow the returning capsule. Search and rescue teams were sent to recover the crew.
Russia’s RIA news agency reported that Russia has immediately put off all manned space launches after the failure. Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said he had ordered a state commission to carry out an investigation into what went wrong. He said Russia will share all relevant information with the U.S.
The TASS news agency said that the ISS crew has enough supplies and that the failed launch will not affect operations.
The U.S. and other nations have depended on Russia to carry astronauts to the ISS since the retirement of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. In coming years, American aerospace companies SpaceX, with its Dragon 2, and Boeing, with its Starliner, are expected to return to space.
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32. What can be the best title of the text?
A. The Rescue of Two Astronauts B. The Launch of Russian Spacecraft
C. Cooperation between Russia and America D. Emergency Landing in Failed Space Launch
33. What caused the failure of the launch?
A. The problem of the engine. B. The terrible weather.
C. The drop of the capsule. D. The wrong operation.
34.What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?
A.SpaceX is sure to go back to space soon.
B.America carried astronauts to the ISS by itself before 2011.
C.Now only Russia can carry astronauts to space.
D.the ISS crew lives a very good life in the space station.
35.What can we learn about the launch?
A.The capsule landed safely in Dzhezkazgan, Russia.
B.Russia had never failed in the space launch before this failure.
C.The failed launch will have a serious effect on the operations.
D.At first the capsule dropped very rapidly into the Earth’s atmosphere.
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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Rising through stages to realize ourselves
Many modern people have the problem that they don’t know who they are and what their
purpose is. 36 . Once high school seniors graduate, they seem to lose their identity. They
once studied hard. But after they stop working, they begin to lose their way.
In the theory of the Hierarchy of Needs（需求理论）, Abraham Maslo, put forward a similar situation, which consists of the five levels of a person’s need. The fifth and final level is
self-realization, which is where our final achievement lies. 37 .
I think self- realization has three major aspects. The first stage is acceptance, the second stage is discovery and the last stage is perseverance.
Acceptance is the first stage. We should be reminded that we are all born unique, so we all have our own strengths and weaknesses. Only when we understand these, can we pursue them or
change them. 38.
Once we’ve accepted ourselves, we can discover what we are interested in and what we want
to be. 39 but indeed we should live for ourselves. So before we start working towards a purpose, we should ask ourselves “Is this what we truly desire?” and “Is this going to change the situation we’re in?”
The last stage is perseverance. 40 . Those who can self-realize are people who focus on