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discovered.The Roman emperor Nero may have made a king of ice cream.He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains.He used it to make cold drinks.Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.Hundreds of years later,ice cream reached England.It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much.There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.Today ice cream is known throughout the world.Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year. ?êìa￡oMore than 2 billion quarts of ice cream have been eaten ( ) A: by Americans in one year
B: all over the world in one year C: since the time of Nero
D: since America was discovered ±ê×?′eìa:
(μ￥??ìa)10: At the 1908 Olympics in London the Marathon race was held on a very hot day.The race started at Windsor Castle,one of the homes of the Royal Family,so that the Royal children could see the runners leave.The race was planned to continue for 26 miles 385 yards (42,195 metres),now the accepted distance for this race,into Central London.Because of the great heat,however,many runners had to give up before they could finish the race.Towards the end,the large crowd waited with great excitement for the South African,Charles Hefferon,to come into the stadium first.They were surprised,however,when the 1st man to appear was the small Italian,Pietri Dorando.Dorando was by now extremely tired and weak and,as he was running round the stadium towards the finishing line,he fell to the groud,unable to continue.Doctors rushed to help him and he soon got to his feet and continued,with loud cheers from the crowd.As he came close to the line he had to be helped again, this time by a journalist,but finally he finished the race.He was not,of course,allowed to receive the gold because he had had help during the race.Afterwards, Dorando argued unsuccessfully that he had not asked for this help.But the medal was given to an American,Hayes,who had finished second.However, Dorando later received a special gold cup from Queen Alexandra for his courage. ?êìa￡oa good title for the passage is ( )
A: Dorando,hero of the Olympics B: Dorando,the fastest runner
C: A Marathon race held on a hot day D: who was the 1st runner? ±ê×?′eìa:
(μ￥??ìa)11: At first,she was almost alarmingly (apathetic) and seemed to be totally uninterested in my visit.
A: active
B: indifferent C: emotional D: enthusiastic ±ê×?′eìa:
(μ￥??ìa)12: \really the rain was more than welcome after last year's (drought). A: lack of rain B: heavy storm C: strong wind D: heavy snow ±ê×?′eìa:
(μ￥??ìa)13: The history of the Winter Games,however,has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games.Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions,held every 4 years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1992,had been in the Scandinavian countries-Sweden,Norway and Finland.The sportsmen of these countries believed that the Winter Games could only be held in the Scandinavian way.Coubertin,himself,was against a separate Winter Olympics as he felt that they would cause trouble within the Olympic movement.However,as winter holidays in the Alps became more and more popular,so did the idea of a truly international Winter Games.The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in 1924,though they were only recognized by the International Olympic Committee as \before them,the 1st Games were a success,but the problems did not end there.In 1935,it was decided by the IOC that ski teachers could not compete in the Olympics because they were professionals.This caused a big argument between the IOC and the International Ski Federation,who agreed with the ski teachers and,as the two organizations could come to an end very soon after their beginning.However,war came and with it an end to the discussions.When the war was finally over,the Winter Games were started up again,as before,in St Moritz in 1948 and the crisis had passed. ?êìa: the above passage mainly discusses ( ) A: the birth of the winter Olympics B: the problems of the Winter Olympics C: the history of the Winter Olympics
D: the necessity for a separate Winter Olympics ±ê×?′eìa:
(μ￥??ìa)14: New measurements taken from sleeping people explain,at least in part,why dreams tend to have such bizarre but vivid storylines.The findings deal a blow to the Freudian interpretation of
dreams but leave open the possibility that some useful personal meaning can be extracted from them.The main purpose of dreams,however,the authors of the new study believe,is to test whether the brain has had enough sleep and,if so,to wake it up.The new results show that in sleep,the frontal lobes of the brain are shut down.In the absence of activity in these lobes,which integrate other information and make sense of the outside world,the sleeping brain's images are driven by its emotional centers.The content of these dreams may be vivid and gripping but lacks coherence.The new results are consistent with the theory that memories are consolidated during sleep.From the pattern of activity that was recorded,\system are being read out and filed in terms of their emotional salience,with is an extremely interesting idea,\Dr.J.Allan Hobson of Harvard Medical School.The new measurements were made by applying the technique known as PET scanning to sleeping subjects.The biologists focused on the two forms of sleep,known as slow-wave sleep and REM sleep.REM sleep,so named because of the rapid eyeball movements that occur then,takes palce about four times during the night and is the phase from which the most vivid dreams are recalled. ?êìa￡oThe new results of the study ( )
A: show that in sleep the frontal lobes of the brain are active B: record the pattern of dream activity
C: prove that memories are consolidated during sleep
D: prove that dreams are based on and reflect daily facts ±ê×?′eìa:
(μ￥??ìa)15: In 1989,Melissa started Kids F.A.C.E.as an after-school club at her elementary school.The six-member group met each Monday to write letters and plan cleanup activities.\anything more than a group of kids coming together so they could talk about the environment,\Trish Poe,her mother.But then a letter from Milissa to the \other kids heard about the club,they wrote asking how they could get involed.So Melissa,with the help of her mother,who today manages the Kids F.A.C.E.office as executive director,developed a membership book that instructed kids on environmental projects and how to start a club of their own.\felt like I had to write them all back at once because I didn't like what the president did to me.Because I didn't like being ignored...I didn't want the kids to have the same feeling,\Melissa.Requests for information came from all over the nation.At first,Melissa's parents paid the postage and supply bills for the club,but soon expenses became too high.So the club found a sponsor,War-Mart Inc.,which began underwriting the bimonthly newsletter,Kids F.A.C.E.illustrated,which currently provides
environmental updates,suggestions,and ideas to more than 2 million people world wide. ?êìa￡oMore people wanted to join the club after( )
A: a newspaper interview was made B: enough letters were distributed
C: they heard about the club from a television show D: Melissa became an executive director ±ê×?′eìa:
(μ￥??ìa)16: The inventor of spectacles probably lived in the town of Paris, Italy, around 1286, and was almost certainly a craftsman working in glass. But nobody knows his name. We only know this much about him because Friar Giordane preached a sermon one Wednesday morning in February 1306 at a church in Florence. \there was found the art of making eye-glasses which make for good vision,\said the Friar.\of the best arts and most necessary that the world has. So short a time is it since there was invented a new art that never existed. I have seen the man who first invented and created it, and I have talked to him.\We know what Friar Giordane said because admirers copied his sermons down as he gave them. The inventor of spectacles apparently kept the method of making them to himself. Perhaps he thought this was the best way of getting money from his invention. But the idea soon got around. As early as 1300, craftsmen in Venice,the centre of Europe￡§s glass industry, were making the new \for the eyes\Concave lenses, for short-sighted people, were not developed until the late 15th century. Spectacles allowed people to go on reading and studying long after bad eyesight would normally have forced them to give up.They were like a new pair of eyes. The inventor of such a valuable thing should be honored, everyone thought. But for centuries no one had any idea who the inventor really was. So all kinds of candidates were put forward: Dutch, English, German, Italians from rival cities. A fake memorial was erected last century in a church in Florence to honor a man as the true inventor of spectacles-but he never even existed. ?êìa￡oThe final paragraph discusses ( ) A: the function of spectacles B: the fake memorial
C: the invention of spectacles D: the identity of the inventor ±ê×?′eìa:
(μ￥??ìa)17: While death might (beckon)at any time,its dark shadow came directly into their home sometime after dusk every Thursday. A: make an unnoticed departure