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1、19春阅读（II）作业1-0001试卷总分:100 得分:100一、 单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)1.While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me.Im baffled,he said.A child has written an essay called ‘The Properties of the Nucleus.’His teacher cant understand it.Neither can I.I went to the school and met Ma
2、rk,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test.What is Mars?I asked.Most children his age say,A chocolate bar.He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older chil
3、dren.Then he looked at me as if to say:Cant you come up with something more difficult?I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was off the mapas far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Marks principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal
4、child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Marks parents what they thought of him.He can be a pain in the neck,his mother said.He asks suc
5、h impossible questions,she smiled.But we love him dearly.This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. 问题：Which of the following is not t
6、ure? ( )A.the author and the principal seperated the boy from the other children to be tutored by a science teacherB.the author and the principal encouraged the boy to join the Club ScoutsC.the gifted children needed love like the rest of usD.the boy might not be stupid正确答案:A2.You dont have to set u
7、p a foundation or spend hours raising money to help the environment.Joey Gordon-Levitt,16,does his part by simply collecting his newspapers,plastic,and cans-and have them recycled.Everyone should recycle,the teen star says.Singer and actor Better Midler goes a step further-She picks up other peoples
8、 garbage.For example,Midler has helped remove truckloads of trash from Fort Tryon Park in New York City.Such simple efforts at trash collection and reduction are catching on.Last year,the Environmental Protection Agency counted 7,500 recycling programs in the US. Thats up from just 1,000 programs in
9、 1988.Almost half of the countrys population now lives in towns and cities with curbside recycling.So were on the right track to reducing trash.But we still have a long way to go.In 1994, about 40% of paper products and plastic soda bottles produced in this country were recycled. But only 2% of food
10、 packaging was recovered!We also have to work on creating more demand for recycled material.You can help by checking labels-and buying products made from recovered paper, plastic,and metal.Recycling saves resources like water and trees,and cuts down on air pollution.So what are you waiting for?Get t
11、o work taking care of our rock.If we dont,well all have to move to Mars,says Gordon-Levitt.The only problem is that we dont know how to do that yet! 问题： What is unusual about Better Midler?A.She helps the environmentB.She picks up other peoples trashC.she collects newspapers, plastic and cans like G
12、ordon-LevittD.she urges other people to take their garbage out of the city正确答案:B3.Astronomers（天文学家） can tell just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon toward the sun gets two degrees hotter than boiling water（沸水）.The night side reaches 243 degrees below zero（零度）.In an eclipse（月蚀
13、）,the earths shadow falls on the moon.Then the moons temperature may drop 300 degrees in a very short time.A temperature change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on the moon?Astronomers think that the surface of the moon is dust.On the earth,rocks store heat from the sun.When t
14、he sun goes down,the rocks stay warm.But the dust of the moon cannot store heat.So when the moon gets dark,the heat escapes quickly.The moon gets very cold. 问题：The surface of the moon is probably ( )A.rock that stores heatB.dust that stores heatC.dust that cannot store heatD.rock that does not store
15、 heat正确答案:C4.No one thought of anything even a little bit like the zipper until Whitecomb L.Judson came along. There were buttons and button-holes, hooks and eyes, laces and buckles. They all took an irritatingly long time to do up, especially when men wore high-laced boots and fashionable ladies sq
16、ueezed themselves into long corsets. Whitecomb L.Judsons slide-fastener was an out-of-the-blue invention, and no one knows what gave him the idea. No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engineer living in Chicago and that he patented other inventions, to do with a street railway system and motor-cars. Judson invented the first zipper(called, at the time, a Clasp Locker
