We used to live near a big park.英译汉

a party going on in the next room can attest to the effects of noise on ones level of stress. Noise has been found to be related to job dissatisfaction and to result in irritation and anxiety. One expert describes noise as the most troublesome of all stresses in our environment. Most disturbing is noise that constantly changes in pitch, intensity or frequency. We may become used to more common noise and almost ignore it. People, who live near airports for example, seem to not even hear the planes after a while. However, just because you become accustomed to the noise or are able to tune it out doesnt mean you are not being affected by it. Noise is measured in decibels. At 85 decibels, stress responses usually develop, and prolonged exposure to sounds above 90 decibels can result in hearing damage.

A、She has only seen sharks in movies.

B、She used to live near the sea.

C、She likes snakes and spiders.

D、She gets close to sharks easily.

The Sea

What do you know about the sea？ We know that it looks very pretty when the sun is shining on it. We also know that it can be very rough when there is a strong wind．What other things do we know about it？

The first thing to remember is that the sea is very big. When you look at the map of the world you will find there is more water than land．The sea covers three quarters of the world.

The sea is also very deep in some places. It is not deep everywhere. Some parts of the sea are very shallow. But in some places the depth of the sea is very great. There is one spot, near Japan, where the sea is nearly 11 kilometers deep! The highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometers high. If that mountain were put into the sea at that place, there would be 2 kilometers of water above it! What a deep place!

If you have swum in the sea, you know that it is salty. You can taste the salt. Rivers, which flow into the sea, carry salt from the land into the sea. Some parts of the sea are saltier than other parts. There is one sea, called the dead Sea, which is very salty. It is so salty that swimmers cannot sink! Fish cannot live, in the Dead Sea!

In most parts of the sea, there are plenty of fishes and plants. Some live near the top of the sea. Others live deep down. There are also millions of tiny living things that float in the sea. These floating things are so small that it is hard to see them. Many fishes live by eating these.

The sea can be very cold．Divers, who go deep down in the sea, know this. On the top the water may be warm. When the diver goes downwards, the sea becomes colder and colder. Another thing happens. When the diver goes deeper, the water above presses down on him. It squeezes him. Then the diver has to wear clothes made of metal. But be cannot go very deep. Some people who wanted to go very deep used a very strong diving ship. They went down to the deepest part of the sea in it. They went down to a depth of eleven kilometers !

第 41 题 When does the sea look beautiful？

A．When it is calm.

B．When the weather is fine.

C．When there is a strong wind.

D．When there is a storm.

Why is Ms. Rawson interested in the house？

A．She inherited the house.

B．She can afford to buy it.

C．She used to live in the house with her relatives.

D．She works near the house.

ainted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.

About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet. The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world. These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.

According to the first paragraph, pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves because ______.

A．the pictures were thought to be helpful

B．the painters wanted to tell stories in pictures

C．the painters wanted to paint their hunted animals

D．both A and B

We ________ in a small village in the countryside. Now we all live in cities.

A. used to live

B. live

C. lived

It was in this house _______ we used to live in.

A: where

B: that

C: which

D: in which

What can we learn about the woman's accommodation arrangements？

[A] She will stay in a house near the university.

[B] She will live in a dormitory in the university.

[C] She will live in her relative's apartment.

[D] She will stay in her classmate's home.

A.were used to hear

B.in

C.no one

D.near