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1、19春阅读（II）作业2-0002试卷总分:100 得分:100一、 单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)1.As the candle (flickered out),so would their lives.A.shone brightly and then died outB.fluttered and became dimC.burnt unsteadily and gradually died outD.burnt brightly and then became dim正确答案:C2.In 1989,Melissa started Kids F.A.C.E.as an af
2、ter-school club at her elementary school.The six-member group met each Monday to write letters and plan cleanup activities.We never thought it was anything more than a group of kids coming together so they could talk about the environment,says Trish Poe,her mother.But then a letter from Milissa to t
3、he Today show got her club on television in 1990.When 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
4、projects and how to start a club of their own.I felt like I had to write them all back at once because I didnt like what the president did to me.Because I didnt like being ignored.I didnt want the kids to have the same feeling,says Melissa.Requests for information came from all over the nation.At fi
5、rst,Melissas 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
6、 2 million people world wide. 问题：How many people worldwide can have access to the clubs bimonthly newsletter?A.1 millionB.2 millionC.3 millionD.4 million正确答案:B3.Surely a (telltale hole )in the melted wax would expose the end of the metal capsule concealed in the base of the candle.A.a hole that reve
7、aled the secretB.a hoel that was able to tell a storyC.a hole that was able to be used in a taleD.a hoel that appeared in a tale正确答案:A4.In the (haze) I saw two of my trek mates.A.darknessB.lightC.thin mistD.heavy smog正确答案:C5.The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue(the month to worship all th
8、e deities).The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel
9、(laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him he
10、r lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,dates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the o
11、riginal laba gruel. 问题：The 8th day of the last lunar month was remarkable because that day Sakyamuni( )A.ate a meal given by a shepherdessB.found the meal very deliciousC.made a deep meditationD.obtained the final enlightenment正确答案:D6.Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park,Illinois,a prosperous subu
12、rb of Chicago.His father,a physician,was an enthusiastic hunter and fisheman who taught his son to handle a rod and a gun.Hemingways respect for these skills and his love of the open air run through his writing.He has tired to capture the point of view,actions,feelings,and speech of men who excel in
13、 the activities he admires.In school Hemingway was a good student,with a wide range of interests beyond the classroom.He was known as a boxer,a football player,a member of the swimming team,and manager of the track team.For 3 years he played in the school orchestra.But much of his activity was conne
14、cted with words,which were to be his lifelong preoccupation.First as reporter,then as editor,he gained experience on the school paper,to which he contributed articles and stories.When Hemingway graduated from high school in 1917,World War I was still being fought.After a few months as a reporter on
15、the Kansas City Star,he sailed for Europe in May,1918,as a volunteer ambulance driver and later transferred to the Italian infantry.Two weeks before his 19th birthday a leg wound brought him close to death.War and death have been recurrent themes in Hemingways writing.Of war he has said, I thought a
16、bout Tolstoi and about what a great advantage an experience of war was to a writer.It was one of the major subjects and certainly one of the hardest to write truly of . 问题：Hemingway thought that his experience of war was to him ( )A.the hardest subject to write aboutB.something very useful for writingC.something as terrible as deathD.like that of Tolstois正确答案:B7.Dorothy
