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1、镇成立由镇委书记孙广东任组长，镇委副书记、镇长任副组长，镇直相关部门主要领导为成员的意识形态工作领导小组，统筹协调全镇意识形态工作话题语篇专攻练10人物传记(一)(建议用时40分钟). 阅读理解AEdmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200 years ago. He studied the observations of comets(彗星)which other scientists had made. The orbit(轨道)of one particular comet was a very difficult m
2、athematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems. However, Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton, who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton thought he had already worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers on which he had do
3、ne it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellipse(椭圆形). Now Halley set to work. He figured out(解决, 计算出)the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by scientists. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607, and 1682 all h
4、ad the same orbit. Yet their appearance had been 75 to 76 years apart. This seemed very strange to Halley. Three different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about it, the more he thought that there had not been three different comets as people thought. He decided that they had
5、simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come back again. It was an astonishing idea! Halley felt certain to make a prediction(预言)of what would happen in the future. He decided that this would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halleys prediction
6、 could be tested. In 1758 the comet appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he had died some years before. Ever since then that comet had been called Halleys comet, in his honor. 【文章大意】文章介绍了哈雷和他发现的哈雷彗星, 以及发现验证哈雷彗星的过程。1. Edmund Halley figured out the orbit of_. A. some different comets appear
7、ing several timesB. the same comet appearing at different timesC. three different comets appearing at the same timeD. several comets appearing at the same time【解析】选B。推理判断题。根据第四段中He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. 及上文提到的看见彗星的时间分别是1531年、1607年、1682年可以判断。2. Halley made his
8、discovery_. A. by doing experimentsB. by means of his own careful observationC. by using the working of other scientistsD. by chance【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第一段第二句He studied the observations of comets which other scientists had made. 可知哈雷的发现是在研究其他科学家们的观察中得出来的, 故选C。3. Halley made a surprising, but correct pred
9、iction in the year_. A. 1704B. 1705C. 1706D. 1707【解析】选B。数字计算题。根据第五段中He decided that this would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halleys prediction could be tested. 可以推断出哈雷做出预言的时间是1705年, 故选B。4. This passage in general is about_. A. Halley and other scientistsB. the orbit of a
10、 cometC. Newton and HalleyD. Halley and his discovery【解析】选D。主旨大意题。纵观全文可知文章的中心是哈雷以及他发现的哈雷彗星, 故选D。B(2017佛山模拟)Mr Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retailer(零售商)who left school at 14, rose to become a partner in Marshall Fields Chicago. Founded in 1852, it was one of the first and most ambitious US departme
11、nt scores. Mr Selfridge had done well with Marshall Fields. He liked to say, “The customer is always right, ”which made the Chicago store popular. And he is believed to have invented the phrase, “Only so many Shopping Days until Christmas”. When he visited London on holiday in 1906 he was surprised
12、to find most of the citys department stores were no match of their American and Parisian competitors. This led Selfridge to leave the US and establish Selfridgesa department store named after him, at the west end of Londons Oxford Street. In Oxford Street, Selfridges design team shaped an ambitious
13、classical palace building with a wall of plate glass windows. Opened in 1909, Selfridges offered customers a hundred departments along with restaurants, a roof garden, reading and writing rooms, reception areas for foreign visitors, a first aid room and most importantly, a small army of knowledgeabl
14、e floor-walking assistants who served as guides as well as being thoroughly instructed in the art of making a sale. Mr Selfridge did much to make the department store a destination rather than just a big and comprehensively stocked city shop. It became a place to meet and for ladies to lunch. Mr Sel
15、fridge later introduced the department store as a key element of the 20th Century culture, and Chaplin acknowledged the growing trend for shopping in the department store in his film The Floorwalker. 【文章大意】本文主要介绍了美国著名销售大师Selfridge的销售特色以及他开拓英国市场的过程。5. What can be learned about Mr Selfridge from Parag
16、raph 1? A. He was well-educated. B. He was a gifted businessman. C. He was a modest man. D. He was dishonest. 【解析】选B。推理判断题。根据第一段后三句可知Mr Selfridge擅长商业经营, 故选B。6. What made Selfridge build a department store in London? A. The large population in London. B. His desire to own a department store. C. His confidence in business success. D. Affection for London ar
