What would you do if Martians (火星人) kidnapped (綁架) your mom? In the 3-D animated movie Mars Needs Moms, a
young boy named Milo finds himself in this exact difficult situation. The
aliens want to steal Milo’s mother’s “momness” for their own young. Now it’s up
to the 9-year-old to get his mom back before she is lost forever.
Every good
action movie has a bad guy. The villain (反派角色) in this film is the Martian Supervisor, played by Mindy Sterling.
The Supervisor has an icy cold heart. Remarkably, Sterling acted out almost all
of her scenes in a special Martian language created just for the movie. “Learning
Martian was a piece of cake,” Sterling said. “There wasn’t too much to learn;
sometimes, I just made it up!”
Anyone who has a
mother will be moved by this movie. In fact, anyone who loves someone will be moved
by this movie. Maybe it is because the story was inspired by a real-life event.
The movie is based on a novel by prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed. He
wrote the book after a dinner-table incident between his wife and son, who was
then 4 years old. That night, Breathed’s son had thrown his broccoli into the
air and rushed out of the room angrily, yelling at his mother on the way out. Breathed
told his son, “You might think differently about your mom if she were kidnapped
by Martians.” He wrote the novel that same evening.
All kids get
into arguments with their parents. The fights may be about homework, chores or
eating vegetables. Mars Needs Moms tells us to look past these silly
disagreements and to remember the importance of family and the things that
really matter.
1.In the movie Mars Needs Moms the
aliens want to _____.
A. kill Milo’s
mother
B. take Milo as
their kid
C. make Milo’s
mother their kids’ mom
D. send their
kids to Milo’s family
2.To Mindy Sterling, learning Martian
language is _____.
A. simple B. difficult C.
interesting D. unacceptable
3.What made Breathed write the novel?
A. The movie
producer’s idea.
B. His wife’s
inspiration and help.
C. His good
relationship with his mother.
D. His son’s bad
behavior toward his mother.
4.In the last paragraph the author wants to _____.
A. advise
children to help with the housework
B. encourage
readers to learn something from the movie
C. stress the
importance of doing something different
D. ask parents
to be good teachers of their children
CLASS TIME: 8:30a.m.—10:00a.m.,
10:30a.m.—12:00a.m., 1:30p.m.—3:00p.m..
The Language Center is open Monday to
Friday. Each class has one afternoon free per week. On the first day, go to the
lecture hall to check your timetable.
SELF-ACCESS: The language laboratory (Room
1110) is open Monday to Friday from 3:15p.m. to 5:00p.m. for all full-time
students.
You can learn how to use computers for
language games or word-processing(文字處理). There are tapes for students to borrow to practice their English.
Go in and ask the teacher to show you. If you plan to take public examinations,
there are dictation and listening comprehension tapes for you to practice with.
There are cloze exercises on the computers. Ask your class teacher for a list
of past exam essays. Students can borrow tapes to take home but they must be
returned after two days.
ATTENDANCE(出勤):All students are expected to attend classes as
it is required. Students who do not attend classes will be reported to OSS.
Eighty percent attendance is required for students to receive their
certificates(證書(shū))when
they finish their courses. It is also required by OSS for an extension to your
visa.
BOOKS: If students are given course books,
the books are their responsibility. If a book is lost, the student will be
expected to pay for it.
If students wish to buy books, there is a
bookshop in the college specializing in English books (Room 3520).
60. When do classes begin and end on a full
day?
A.
8:30a.m.—1:30p.m.. B.
8:30a.m.—3:00p.m..
C.
8:30a.m.—3:15p.m.. D.
3:15p.m.—5:00p.m..
61. Which of the following statements is
TRUE?
A. No teachers are in the language lab.
B. 90% attendance is required for the
students.
C. Books can’t be taken out of the center.
D. Students can prepare for exams by
listening to tapes.
62. Timetable can be seen in _____.
A. the lecture
hall B. Room
3520 C. the
classroom D. Room 1110
63. The books which the students wish to
buy are in the _____.
A.
library
B. bookshop in the college C. street D.
classroom
The host poured the tea into the cup and
placed it on the small table in front of his guests, who were a father and
daughter, and put the cover on the cup. Apparently thinking of something, he
hurried into the inner room, leaving the thermos (熱水瓶) on the table. His two
guests heard a cupboard opening.
They remained sitting in the sitting room,
the ten-year-old daughter looking at the flowers outside the window, the father
just about to take his cup, when the crash came, right there in the sitting
room. Something was hopelessly broken.
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the
floor. The girl looked over her shoulder, shocked, staring. It was mysterious.
Neither of them had touched it, not even a bit. True, it hadn't stood steadily
when their host placed it on the table, but it hadn't fallen then.
The explosion caused the host to rush back.
Gawking at the steaming floor, the host said "It doesn't matter! It
doesn't matter!"
The father started to say something. Then
he said softly, "Sorry, I touched it and it fell."
"It doesn't matter," the host
said.
When they left the house, the daughter
said, "Daddy, did you touch it?"
"No. But it stood so close to me.
"
"But you didn't touch it. I saw your
reflection in the window glass. "
The father laughed. "What then would
you give as the cause of its fall?"
"The thermos fell by itself. The floor
is not smooth. Daddy, why did you say that you …"
"That won't do, girl. It sounds more
acceptable when I say I knocked it down. There are things which people accept
less the more you defend them. The truer the story you tell, the less true it
sounds. "
The daughter was lost in silence for a
while. Then she said, "Can you explain it only in this way?"
"Only in this way," her father
said.
56. Which statement is a possible theme of
this story?
A. People rarely tell the truth.
B. You can't always make people believe the
truth.
C. If you defend yourself, people will
believe you.
D. People should take the blame for what
they didn't do.
57. It can be inferred from the story that
the father _______.
A. didn't know the host
well
B. felt satisfied that he didn't tell the truth
C. was sorry that he told the truth
D. didn't think the host would believe the truth
58. From the story we know that the
daughter ________.
A. thought her father should tell the
truth B. didn't know why the
thermos fell
C. knocked over the
thermos
D. strongly objected to her father's explanation
59. The underlined "gawking at"
probably means _______.
A. staring at with
anger
B. looking at curiously
C. glancing at
hopelessly
D. looking at in a dull way
The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was
flying alone from North America to England in a small single—engined aeroplane. At midnight,
several hours after she had left Newfoundland, she ran into bad weather. To
make things worse, her altimeter (高度表) failed and she didn't know how high she was flying. At night, and
in a storm, a pilot is in great difficulty without an altimeter. At times, her
plane nearly plunged (沖) into the sea.
Just before dawn, there
was further trouble. Amelia noticed flames (火焰) coming from the engine. Would she be able to
reach land? There was nothing to do except to keep going and to hope.
In the end, Amelia
Earhart did reach Ireland, and for the courage she had shown, she was warmly
welcomed in England and Europe. When she returned to the United States, she was honored by President Hoover at a special dinner in the White House.
From that time on, Amelia Earhart was famous.
What was so important about
her flight? Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean alone,
and she had set a record of fourteen hours and fifty—six minutes.
In the years that
followed, Amelia Earhart made several flights across the United States, and on
each occasion (時(shí)刻)
she set a new record for flying time. Amelia Earhart made these flights to show
that women had a place in aviation (航空) and that air travel was useful.
71. Which of the following statements is
NOT the difficulty which Amelia Earhart met in her flight from north America to
England?
A. She was caught in a
storm.
B. The altimeter went out of order.
C. Her engine went
wrong.
D. She lost her direction.
72. When Amelia Earhart saw flames coming
from the engine, what did she do?
A. She did nothing but pray
for herself.[來(lái)源:學(xué)_科_網(wǎng)]
B. She changed her direction
and landed in Ireland.
C. She continued flying.
D. She lost hope of reaching
land.
73. According to the passage, what was
Amelia Earhart’s reason for making her flights?
A. To set a new record for
flying time.
B. To be the first woman to
fly around the world.
C. To show that aviation was
not just for men.
D. To become famous in the
world.
74. Which of the following statements was
NOT mentioned?
A. She was the first woman who
succeeded in flying across the Atlantic Ocean alone.
B. She showed great courage in
overcoming the difficulties during the flight.
C She was warmly welcomed in England, Europe and the United States.
D. She made plans to fly
around the world.
75. Which of the following would be the
best title for the passage?
A. Amelia Earhart—First Across
the Atlantic.
B. Amelia Earhart—Pioneer in
Women’s Aviation.
C. A New Record for Flying
Time.
D. A Dangerous Flight from
North America to England.
LONDON: What
could possibly be wrong with planting trees? The benefits are obvious;
they firm the soil, soak up (攝取) extra water and take carbon dioxide (二氧化碳)
out of the atmosphere.
However, it
now turns out that planting trees could add to global warming.
Tree roots do
a great job of keeping soil firmly on the ground and out of the wind’s power.
The problem is that some of those dust clouds play an important part in taking
in carbon dioxide.
Huge dust
storms blow out over the oceans from dry parts of North Africa and central
Asia. Tons of dust are lifted and left as a thin film over the ocean surface.
The dust fuels oceanic life.
Dust from
China is carried east and left in the Pacific Ocean. If a tree-planting
programme there is successful and the dust supply reduced, the final result may
be that less carbon dioxide gets locked away in the ocean.
Andy Ridgwell,
an environmental scientist from the University of East Anglia, has spent the
past few years studying dust and says his work “shows clearly the complexity of
the system and the importance of not tinkering(粗劣地修補(bǔ)) with it without understanding the results. For this
reason the need is to focus(集中) on cutting carbon
dioxide giving off rather than monkeying (瞎弄) about
with the land surface.”
An American
scientist, Robert Jackson, has shown that when native grassland areas are
invaded(侵入) by trees,
carbon is lost from the soil. “We are studying why the soil carbon disappears,
but one theory is that trees do a lot more of their growing above ground
compared to grasses, so less carbon goes directly into the soil from trees, ”
says Jackson.
In wet areas
of the world, the gain from trees absorbing carbon dioxide above ground seems
to be outweighed(超過(guò)) by
the loss of carbon from the soil below ground. Countries that plan to combat
global warming by planting trees may have to think again.
Solutions to
environmental problems are often more complex than they first appear, and
understanding the Earth’s climate is a very great challenge.
1.People
usually hold the opinion that_____________.
A.
huge dust storms can destroy carbon dioxide
B.
huge dust storms can destroy the oceans on the earth
C.
huge dust storms can’t do anything beneficial for man
D.
planting trees is the only way to control huge dust storms
2. Andy
Ridgwell, the environmental scientist, believes that_____________.
A.
dust plays a more important part than trees
B.
trees shouldn’t have been planted in dry places
C.
carbon dioxide is harmful to everything on the earth
D.
environmental problems are more complex than expected
3. Robert
Jackson’s experiment proves that_____________.