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A．an important name
B．a popular name in the United States
C．his neighbor's name
D．not a good name
In 1996, Arthur C. Clarke predicted that
A．biological power sources would be put into use soon.
B．oil, gas and coal could be repeatedly used in the future.
C．dependence on non-renewable power sources would be reduced soon.
D．the Chernobyl disaster would happen in two years.
Arthur was born as a result of the wizardry of Merlin, who arranged all adulterous liaison between Arthur's father, King Uther Pendragon, and his lover, a married duchess. Merlin agreed to do this only if the lovers allowed him to bring up the child born of the affair. When Uther Pendragon died some years later, there was confusion in the kingdom about who should inherit the throne. Merlin arranged a pageant where many knights came to try their luck at pulling a sword out of a stone. Whoever successfully extracted the blade was the rightful king. After many a brave knight had tried and failed, Merlin presented the young Arthur who, to everyone's surprise, easily pulled out the sword.
As king, Arthur established the knightly fellowship of the Round table at his castle of Camelot, So appear all the other chivalrous knights associated with the king. The knights of the Round Table spent much of their time on the quest for the Holy Grail. The Grail is the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, which was allegedly brought to Britain, then somehow lost. It is notoriously hard to get hold of, as finding it requires an almost superhuman degree of moral purity. At last it was the true gentleman Sir Galahad who eventually found it and set off to return it to its rightful place in the Holy Land.
Arthur's death is a matter of some debate. According to legend, one of Arthur's less intelligent moves was his decision to marry the Lady Guinevere, who fell in love with Sir Lancelot, and their adultery Led to war among the knights of the Round Table, culminating in the Battle of Catalan and Arthur's mortal word. After the Battle of Camlan the wounded king was taken to the mysterious isle of Avalon ruled by his sinister Morgan Le Faye. She, being skilled in the arts of witchcraft and healing, was apparently meant to cure him. But evidently Arthur thought he had little chance, because he gave his sword, Excalibur, to Sir Bedivere to return to the Lady of the Lake, an enigmatic character from whom Arthur had originally received the blade. Bedivere hurled the sword over the water, where a spooky hand appeared from the lake to catch it, waved it around for a while and then carried it down to the murky depths where, who knows, perhaps it still lies. As for Arthur, we can only conclude that his sister wasn't such a good doctor.
Arthur became the king because ______.
A．he was the old king's only son
B．he was supported by many brave knights
C．he was the strongest man in the kingdom
D．he pulled the sword from the stone
Arthur was born as a result of the wizardry of Merlin, who arranged all adulterous liaison between Arthur's father, King Uther Pendragon, and his lover, a married duchess. Merlin agreed to do this only if the lovers allowed him to bring up the child born of the affair. When Uther Pendragon died some years later, there was confusion in the kingdom about who should inherit the throne. Merlin arranged a pageant where many knights came to try their luck at pulling a sword out of a stone. Whoever successfully extracted the blade was the rightful king. After many a brave knight had tried and failed, Merlin presented the young Arthur who, to everyone's surprise, easily pulled out the sword.
As king, Arthur established the knightly fellowship of the Round Table at his castle of Camelot, so appear all the other chivalrous knights associated with the king. The knights of the Round Table spent much of their time on the quest for the Holy Grail. The Grail is the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, which was allegedly brought to Britain, then somehow lost. It is notoriously hard to get hold of, as finding it requires an almost superhuman degree of moral purity. At last it was the true gentleman Sir Galahad who eventually found it and set off to return it to its rightful place in the Holy Land.
Arthur's death is a matter of some debate. According to legend, one of Arthur's less intelligent moves was his decision to marry the Lady Guinevere, who fell in love with Sir Lancelot, and their adultery led to war among the knights of the Round Table, culminating in the Battle of Camlan and Arthur's mortal woound. After the Battle of Catalan the wounded king was taken to the mysterious isle of Avalon ruled by his sister Morgan Le Faye. She, being skilled in the arts of witchcraft and healing, was apparently meant to cure him. But evidently Arthur thought he had little chance, because he gave his sword, Excalibur, to Sir Bedivere to return to the Lady of the Lake, an enigmatic character from whom Arthur had originally received the blade. Bedivere hurled the sword over the water, where a spooky hand appeared from the lake to catch it, waved it around for a while and then carried it down to the murky depths where, who knows, perhaps it still lies. As for Arthur, we can only conclude that his sister wasn't such a good doctor.
The passage is mainly about ______ .
A．a brief history of King Arthur
B．the story of the Round Table Knights
C．a legendary life of King Arthur
D．the death of King Arthur
4. The Round Table Knights The Round Table Knights were a group of greatest knights who had the honour to sit at the Round Table at King Arthur's court. According to a story, Arthur had a carpenter build the Round Table to show that no knight, not even Arthur himself was "head of the table". All were equal and the king was just "first among equals". The table was so large that it had enough seats for 1600 men and yet could be folded up and carried on horseback. According to another source. Merlin the magician had the table built for Uther, Arthur's father. Uther gave the table to King Leodegan. Later, Leodegan gave the table to Arthur after Arthur married Guenevere, Leodegan's daughter. Still another story says that the Round Table had 12 seats around it, like the table at the Last Supper, with an empty place representing Judas's seat. This seat was called the Siege Perilous, and was reserved for the knight so pure in heart that he would someday find the Holy Grail, the cup or dish used by Jesus at the Last Supper. Any other knight who sat in the seat would die. One day, Sir Galahad's name appeared on the seat. From then on, he occupied the Siege Perilous. Later, as expected, he found the Holy Grail with the other two knights. Knights considered it a great honour to have a seat at the Round Table. Brave men came to Arthur's court from many countries hoping to become a Round Table Knight. Many stories describe the heroic deeds of various Knights of the Round Table. Several tell of the adventures of Sir Tristram and Sir Gawin. Other famous Round Table Knights included Lancelot, Bedevere, Bors, Galahad, Perceval and Modred. The greatest adventure of the Round Table was the search for the Holy Grail. However, only the three knights---Bors, Galahad and Perceval were pure enough to be able to find the Grail. All the others had various moral defects. This fact damaged the reputation of the Round Table. To make things worse, a love affair developed between Queen Guenevere and Sir Lancelot, who was perhaps the greatest of the Round Table knights. This scandal destroyed the bonds of respect and friendship that had united all the knights. The mortal blow to the Round Table was given by Sir Modred, who tried to seize Arthur's power. In a battle between the forces of the two men, Arthur killed Modred but he himself was seriously wounded and soon died. The Round Table broke up following the death of Arthur. 7. How many kinds of story about the source of the Round Table does the passage tell us？
A、One.
B、Two.
C、Three.
D、Four.
Decide what types of evidence are used in the following argumentative paragraphs. A, fact B. statistics C. examples D. authority E. personal experience For example: Americans are downing close to 200 pounds of meat, poultry, and fish per capita per year, an increase of 50 pounds per person from 50 years ago. We each consume something like 110 grams of protein a day, about twice the federal government’s recommended allowance; of that, about 75 grams come from animal protein. It’s likely that most of us would do just fine on around 30 grams of protein a day, virtually all of it from plant sources. __B____ 1. The flow of spam(垃圾邮件) is often seasonal. It slows in the spring, and then in the month that technology specialists call “black September”--when hundreds of thousands of students return to college, many armed with new computers and access to fast Internet connections --the levels rise sharply.________ 2. Even sure-footed natives on a dark night could misjudge the lay of land，stumbling into a ditch or off a precipice. In Aberdeenshire, a 15-year-old girl died in 1973 after straying from her customary road through a churchyard and tumbling into a newly dug grave. The Yorkshireman Arthur Jessop, returning from a neighbor’s home on a cold January night, fell into a stone pit after losing her bearings. ________
Kevin Rogers used to be my boss. At that time he was a hardworking, up-and-coming businessman and a real slave-driver, always telling us we had to sell more and more. As soon as I could, I got a job with another company. The last time I saw Rogers was more than ten years ago. At least that's what I thought until last Thursday. But now I'm not so sure.
I was on my way back to my office in the center of town. There is a small park nearby which I sometimes walk through after lunch. It was almost empty, except for an unshaven, shabby-looking man on one of the benches. He looked about fifty years old and was wearing an old, grey overcoat. It was a cold, wintry day, and he was shivering.
"It's been a long time since I had a meal. Can you help me？" he said. There was something about his voice that sounded familiar. I gave him a few coins and he mumbled something about being grateful. As he stumbled past me, I looked at his face closely. I wondered where I had seen him before. Then it hit me. Could it possibly be "'？ No! Impossible, I thought I watched him walking away. He was the same height as Rogers but looked a lot thinner than I remembered. Then, as he left the park and turned down the street, I caught sight of his face again, this time in profile. Then nose was the same as Rogers, too. I almost followed him but something made me stop. I just couldn't be sure. But the resemblance was very close.
Yesterday I run into someone who had worked for Rogers at the same time I did, and had stayed no longer. I started telling him about the man I had seen in the park. For a moment I thought it was our old boss. The voice, the nose, and even the face were just like Rogers. But it couldn't have been. "Rogers must be the director of a big company by now," I said.
My ex-colleague shook his head, "I thought you knew."
"Knew？ Knew what？ What are you talking about？"
"Rogers was sent to prison six years ago. He's sleeping on park benches and begging money from passers-by."
It seems that when Rogers was the writer's boss, the writer ______.
A．rather liked Rogers.
B．admired Rogers' ability to sell
C．thought Rogers was lazy
D．was not very happy in his job
Section D
Have you ever thought about inventing something？ Were you worried that your idea was too strange or unrealistic？ Well, maybe you should think again.
Strange and unrealistic ideas never stopped Arthur Pedrick. Pedrick was a British inventor. Originally a government clerk, he spent his retirement in the 1960s and 1970s developing new and unusual ideas. Some of these ideas contradicted basic physics, but that didn’t stop Pedrick. One of his strangest ideas was a plan to connect Australia and Antarctica using large tubes, a distance of 10, 000 km! These tubes were designed to carry giant ice balls from Antarctica to Australia. The ice would then melt in the Australian desert, and the water would be used for irrigation. Another of Pedrick’s inventions was a radio-controlled golf ball. A golfer could change the speed and direction of the golf ball using small flaps attached to the ball, which could be controlled by computer chips. Using radio waves, golfers could also find their lost golf balls. Arthur Pedrick had thousands of bizarre ideas for inventions, most of which were never constructed.
Though many of Pedrick’s inventions were never developed, a lot of other strange ideas have been. In 1989, a company designed and sold a theft-prevention device for expensive cars. As part of this device, several tubes were attached to the bottom of a car. If someone tried to steal the car, super hot flames were emitted from the tubes and burned the car thief. Some people who were not thieves, however, were seriously injured by this device which they accidentally set off by walking past the car.
Other strange inventions include underwear for dogs and pens with drinkable ink. The underwear keeps dogs from making a mess when they go out for a walk. Also if you were ever thirsty during a test, a pen with drinkable ink would be very handy!
If you have an idea that seems a little out in left field, don’t let that stop you from trying it. You' 11 be in good company.
Summary:
Most inventions are for useful things that help people in everyday life. Some inventions, however , are just【46】Some of the world’s weirdest ideas for inventions came from a man named Arthur Pedrick. Pedrick’s inventions included irrigation【47】that would carry ice from Antarctica to Australia and【48】golf balls. Not all weird inventions came from Pedrick, however. Every year many people【49】products that could be【50】unusual. Things like underwear for dogs and pens with drinkable ink are good examples.
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Edgar Allan Poe did something【39】for writers of his time: he used a narrator in a story to【40】what was happening. Edgar Allan Poe is also remembered as the father of modern【41】fiction, stories of an investigator who has to solve murders and other【42】Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, wrote about how Poe【43】other crime writers: "Their main art must trace back to those admirable stories of Monsieur Dupin". Dupin is a【44】that appears in a series of Allan Poe's detective stories.
Allan Poe was born in 1 089 and died in 1 849. Every year on January nineteenth, Poe's birthday, a man dressed in black【45】. His face is covered. He places a bottle of wine and three roses on Poe's grave. No one really wants to know the visitor's identity. They prefer that it remain a mystery, much like Edgar Allan Poe himself.
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A．short
B．long
C．boring
D．narrow
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文： For two months after he started the website digg. com, Kevin Rose didn't need an alarm clock. "By 6 a. m. , I was up and on the computer," he recalls. "(26)It was the sheer fear of not knowing what was on my own home page."
Here's why: experienced editors do not deliberate over Digg's front page. It's strictly a popularity contest. Users post news stories and images found anywhere from the websites of big newspapers to small blogs—and with the click of a button, other users either "digg" the items (meaning they like them) or "bury" them (meaning they don't).
(27)Kevin Rose started Digg as an "experiment". But he quit his day job within months, Today, the site gets 35 million different visitors a month. When he started Digg, he thought, "If this can pay my rent and I can stay cool in my apartment and drink my tea and have an awesome little office, that'd be more than I could ask for." As a child in Las Vegas, Rose was "the most unpopular kid in school". In the early '90s, he persuaded his parents to buy him his own computer, which he used to talk technology in chat rooms.
(28)Like many websites, Digg hasn't yet figured out how to transform. its traffic into profit. Nonetheless, it continues to develop. Digg now recommends stories to users based on other stories they like. It also lets them vote on questions they want to ask politicians and famous people.
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A．Because he was excited about the website.
B．Because he was keen on computers.
C．Because he was anxious about the website.
D．Because he was eager to succeed in the website.
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