1、 1 2017 - A,B,C D Many people believe Henry Ford invented the automobile ( ) But Henry Ford did not start to build his first car until 1896.That was eleven years after two Germans developed the worlds first automobile.Many people believe Henry Ford invented the production line that moved a cars part
2、s to the worker instead of making the worker move to the parts.That is not true either.Many factory owners used methods of this kind before Ford.What Henry Ford did was to use other peoples ideas and make them better.And he made the whole factory a moving production line. In the early days of the au
3、tomobile almost every car maker raced his cars.It was the best way of gaining public notice.Henry Ford decided to build a racing car.Fords most famous race was his first one.It was also the last race in which he drove the car himself. The race was in 1901 at a field near Detroit.All of the most famo
4、us cars had entered, but only two were left the Winton and Fords.The Winton was famous for its speed.Most people thought the race was over before it began. The Winton took an early lead.But halfway through the race, it began to lose power.Ford started to gain.And near the end of the race, he took th
5、e lead.Ford won the race and the United States.Within weeks of the race, Henry Ford formed a new automobile company.In 1903, a doctor in Detroit bought the first car from the company.That_sale great mass of people.It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for one person to operate and
6、 care for.It will be built of the best materials.It will be built by the best men to be employed.And it will be built with the simplest plans that modern engineering can produce.It will be so low in price that no man making good money will The Model T was a car of that kind.It only cost $850.It was
7、a simple machine that drivers could depend on.Doctors bought the Model T So did farmers.Even criminals. They considered it the fastest and surest form of transportation.Americans loved the Model T They wrote stories and songs about it.Thousands of Model Ts were built in the first few years. 2 1 What
8、 do we know about Henry Ford from Paragraph 1? A He made good use of ideas from others. B He produced the first car in the world. C He knew how to improve auto parts. D He invented the production line. A 2 Why did Henry Ford take part in the 1901 car race? A To show off his driving skills. B To draw
9、 public attention. C To learn about new technology. D To raise money for his new company. B 3 A the selling of Ford cars at reduced prices B the sale of Model T to the mass of people C the selling of a car to a Detroit doctor D the sales target for the Ford Company C In 1903, a doctor in Detroit bou
10、ght the first car that sale 4 What was Henry Fords dream according to the text? A Producing cars for average customers. B Building racing cars of simple design. C Designing more car models. D Starting more companies. A A.B.C D Were all connected. You can send an e-mail message to a friend, and your
11、friend can pass it on to one of his or her friends, and that friend can do the same, continuing the chain. Eventually, your message could reach just about anyone in the world, and 3 it might take only five to seven e-mails for the message to get there. Scientists recently tested that idea in a study
12、 involving 24,000 people. Participants had to try to get a message forwarded to one of 18 randomly chosen people. Each participant started by sending one e-mail to someone they knew. Recipients could then forward the e-mail once to someone they knew, and so on. Targets, who were randomly assigned by
13、 researchers from Columbia University in New York, lived in 13 countries. They included an Australian police officer, a Norwegian veterinarian, and a college professor. Out of 24,000 chains, only 384 reached their goal. The rest petered out, usually because one of the recipients was either too busy
14、to forward the message or thought it was junk mail. The links that reached their goal made it in an average of 4.05 e-mails. Based on the lengths of the failed chains, the researchers estimated that two strangers could generally make contact in five to seven e-mails. The most successful chains relie
15、d on casual acquaintances rather than close friends. Thats because your close friends know each other whereas your acquaintances tend to know people you dont know. The phenomenon, known as the strength of weak ties, explains why people tend to get jobs through people they know casually but arent tha
16、t close to. So, start networking and instant messaging now. As they say in show business: Its all about who you know. 6. If you want to get into touch with a stranger in the world, how many e-mails might it take for the message to reach him/her? A. 5 to 7 B. 18 C. 13 D. 384 7. Which of the following
17、 is Not true about the test? A. 24,000 people took part in the study and sent e-mails to people they knew. B. The 18 targets were chosen by chance. C. About 98.4% of the too busy or they mistook the message for junk mail. 4 D. The targets come from 13 countries, such as Australia, Norway and New Yor
18、k. 8 A. make sure B. suppose C. think over D. imagine 9. Why do people tend to get jobs more easily through casual acquaintances than close friends? B. Because casual acquaintances can help you know more people and make more friends. D. Because casual acquaintances are kinder and more willing to hel
19、p others. 10. In which part of a newspaper will readers read this passage? A. Culture B. Entertainment C. Information and Technology D. Health 6. A 7. D A, B, C D 8. B B suppose 9. B 10. C e-mail A B C D) 2013 Imagine putting a seed in a freezer, waiting 30,000 years, and then taking the seed out an
20、d planting it. Do you think a flower would grow? Amazingly, scientists have just managed to do something very similar. They found the fruit of an ancient plant that had been frozen underground in Siberia a region covering central and eastern Russia for about 31,800 years. Using pieces of the fruit,
21、the scientists grew plants in a lab. The new blooms have delicate white petals. They are also the oldest flowering plants that researchers have ever revived from a deep freeze. 5 ike re University of California, Los Angeles biologist Jane Shen-Miller. The plant has a long history. Back when mammoths
22、 and woolly rhinoceroses walked the land, an Arctic ground squirrel buried seeds and fruits in an underground chamber near the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia. The ground became permafrost, a layer of soil that stays frozen for a long time. Recently, Russian scientists dug out the old squirrel
23、hole and found the plant remains 38 meters below the surface. Back at the lab, the team fed nutrients to tissue from three of the fruits to grow shoots. Then the scientists transferred the shoots to pots filled with soil. The plants produced seeds that could be used to grow even more of them. ant fo
24、r scientists to know that plant tissues can still be revived after being fr preserve the seeds of modern plants by freezing them and then storing them in giant lockers at various spots around the globe. One such endeavor, an underground facility in Norway, is called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. I
25、t stores hundreds of thousands of frozen seeds. If a plant ever goes extinct, scientists could bring it back by taking its seeds from the Svalbard or other storage lockers. ows how long they are able to live for, but freezing is basically - a good thing that at least some plants are tough enough to
26、survive the experience. 31. How did the fruit originally get underground? A. It was placed there by an animal. B. It was trapped there during the ice-age. C. It was planted there by ancient farmers. D. It was buried there after the earthquake. A Back when mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses walked the
27、land, an Arctic ground squirrel buried seeds and fruits in an underground chamber near the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia. 6 A 32. Which of the following was NOT used to recreate the ancient plant? A. Modern nutrients. B. Parts of its fruit. C. Its frozen seeds. D. Plant pots with soil. C Russ
28、ian scientists dug out the old squirrel hole and found the plant remains 38 meters below the surface. Back at the lab, the team fed nutrients to tissue from three of the fruits to grow shoots. Then the scientists transferred the shoots to pots filled with soil. C 33. Why are scientists interested in
29、 this discovery? A. It helps them learn how plant life has changed in the past 30,000 years. B. It can help guide future efforts to protect endangered plant-life. C. It can provide directions for where to look for other ancient plants. D. It proves that all plant life can survive for thousands of ye
30、ars when frozen. B Th the seeds of modern plants by freezing them and then storing them in giant lockers at various spots around the globe. If a plant ever goes extinct, scientists could bring it back by taking its seeds from the Svalbard or other storage lockers. B 34. The underlined wor A. plants
31、B. seeds C. scientists D. storage lockers B If a plant ever goes extinct, scientists could bring it back by taking its seeds from the Svalbard or other storage lockers. able to live for B 35. The purpose of the passage is to _. A. discuss a plant conservation effort 7 B. introduce some ancient plant
32、s C. outline some causes of global warming D. describe a scientific research project D D A.B.C D British author JK Rowling was at the release of her latest Harry Potter book call London, Friday July 20, 2007. J.K. Rowling has been spotted at cafes in Scotland working on adetective novel, a British n
33、ewspaper reported Saturday. The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Ian Rankin, a fellow author andneighbor of Rowlings, as saying the creator of the “Harry Potter“books is turning to crime fiction. “My wife spotted her writing her Edinburgh criminal detective nove l,“ the newspaper quoted Rankin as telli
34、ng a reporter at an Edinburg h literary festival. “It is great that she has not abandoned writing or Edinburgh caf es,“ said Rankin, who is known for his own police novels set in the historic Scottish city. Rowling famously wrote initial drafts of the Potter story in theScottish citys cafes. Back th
35、en, she was a struggling single mothe r who wrote in cafes to save on the heating bill at home. Now shes Britains richest woman - worth $1 billion, according t o Forbes magazine - and her seven Potter books have sold more than335 million copies worldwide. In an interview with The Associated Press la
36、st month, Rowling sai d she believed she was unlikely to repeat the success of the Potter 8 series, but confirmed she had plans to work on new books. “Ill do exactly what I did with Harry - Ill write what I rea lly want to write,“ Rowling said. 11 What is JK Rowling famous for? A. detective novels B. crime fiction C. Harry Potter books D. love stories 12 Which of the following is Not rue about Ian Rankin? A. He is a writer famous for police novels. B. Most of the stories in his novels happened in the historic Scottish city. C. It was Rankin himself who witnessed JK Rowing
