What does it mean to you Today you are doing so much more than just running a house and running after the kids. You're working. You're going to school. It's all part of your lifestyle. The iron can change that lifestyle. By giving you less trouble before you iron. If we can make it easier for you to be a better wife, a better mother, a better house-maker, we want to. The new Self Cleaning Iron is another one of Home-Makers from General Electric. Life-style. We're with yours. GENERAL ELECTRIC A-1 阅读理解 根据以上短文的内容,从每小题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳答案。 41. This passage is ______. A. an introduction to General Electric B. an operating instruction of Self Cleaning Iron C. an advertisement of Self Cleaning Iron D. a description of the change of lifestyle 42. This iron can clean itself by ______. A. empting itself B. washing out mineral deposits C. blocking up mineral deposits D. giving off more steam 43. It is made by General Electric. B. The iron will not produce mineral deposits. C. There will be fewer brown spots on pressed clothes. D. Their clothes will be cleaned at the same time. 44. Self Cleaning Iron can help change your lifestyle because ______. A. you can run your house better B. you don't have to run after the kids C. you can use it while you are working D. we want you to be a better house-maker 45. The word “deposits”in the passage means: ________. A.储蓄 B.沉积物 C. 寄存品 D.矿藏 A-2 词汇填空 根据首字母和句意用短文中所出现的词填空,注意用其适当形式。 46. The crowd p_______ against the locked doors trying to get into the building. 47. She had spent the whole in washing and i________ these garments. 48. She needs a pretty high income to support her l________. 49. The witch put a m_______ spell(咒语)on the prince and turned him into a frog. 50. After the flood, nothing r_______ of the village. 短文 B:请认真阅读下面的文章,然后完成(B-1)阅读理解和(B-2)词汇填空两个部分的题目。 B You might think that “global warming” means nothing more than a rise in the world's temperature. But rising sea levels caused by it have resulted in the first evacuation(撤离)of an island nation—the citizens of Tuvalu will have to leave their homeland. During the 20th century ,sea level rose 8—12 inches. As a result. Tuvalu has experienced lowland flooding of salt water which has polluted the country's drinking water. Paani Laupepa, a Tuvaluan government official ,reported to the Earth Policy Institute that the nation suffered an unusually high number of fierce storms in the past ten years. Many scientists connect higher surface water temperatures resulting from global warming to greater and more damaging storms. Laupepa expressed dissatisfaction with the United States for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement calling for industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions(导致温室效应的气体排放),which are a main cause of global warming.“By refusing to sign the agreement, the US has effectively taken away the freedom of future generations of Tuvaluans to live where their forefathers have lived for thousands of years,” Laupepa told the BBC. Tuvalu has asked Australia and New Zealand to allow the gradual move of its people to both countries. Tuvalu is not the only country that is vulnerable (易受影响的)to rising sea levels .Maumoon Gayoon ,president of the Maldives, told the United Nations that global warming has made his country of 311,000 an “endangered nation”. B-1 阅读理解 根据以上短文的内容,从每小题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳答案。 51. The text is mainly about . A. rapid changes in earth's temperature B. bad effects of global warming C. moving of a country to a new place D. reasons for lowland flooding 52. According to scientists ,the DIRECT cause of more and fiercer storms is . A. greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized nations B. higher surface water temperatures of the sea C. continuous global warming D. rising sea levels 53. Laupepa was not satisfied with the United States because it did not . A. agree to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions B. sign an agreement with Tuvalu C. allow Tuvaluans to move to the US (责任编辑:admin) |