问题 听力题

根据下列各句句意及所给单词的首字母或汉语提示,用正确形式的单词填空。

小题1:I can see many beautiful Christmas __________ (装饰) on the streets.

小题2:She was always __________ (乐观的), even when things were at their worse.

小题3:A cinema is a public place of __________ (消遣).

小题4:He prefers going on with his work to __________ (退休).

小题5:He is to be __________ (祝贺) for his success.

小题6:It is reported that an aircraft c__________ near the city but luckily no one was killed.

小题7:Little Tom wrote “Granny, Heaven” on the e__________, and then gave it to his father to post.

小题8:A few of the students failed in the examination, you i__________.

小题9:I don’t know if we can help – that d__________.

小题10:The doctor had to cut off his left leg and fix an a__________ leg for him.

答案

小题1:decorations  

小题2:optimistic    

小题3:entertainment 

小题4:retiring

小题5:congratulated   

小题6:crashed      

小题7:envelope      

小题8:included     

小题9:depends  

小题10:artificial

题目分析:

小题1:decorations 根据上文的many说明这里使用复数形式。

小题2:optimistic 形容词乐观的:optimistic

小题3:entertainment 名词娱乐entertainment,由动词entertain娱乐转换而来。

小题4:retiring  考点固定结构prefer doing A to doing B 宁愿做A而不愿做B。

小题5:congratulated   动词祝贺congratulate。根据句意说明使用被动的形式。

小题6:crashed    动词crash撞击;坠毁。

小题7:envelope  根据write说明写的是信件,所以是在信封上写。

小题8:included     动词include包括;you与include构成被动关系,故使用过去分词的形式。

小题9: depends     固定词组it depends视情况而定

小题10:artificial 根据上文的cut off his left leg说明是把腿切除,如何撞上假肢,人造的artificial

点评:单词拼写考察实词居多,特别应注意名词单复数的变化,动词时态语态的变化,形容词和副词的变化。

单项选择题
单项选择题

After World War Ⅱ the glorification of an ever-larger GNP formed the basis of a new materialism, which became a sacred obligation for all Japanese governments, businesses and trade unions. Anyone who mentioned the undesirable by-products of rapid economic growth was treated as a heretic. Consequently, everything possible was done to make conditions easy for the manufacturers. Few dared question the wisdom of discharging untreated waste into the nearest water body or untreated smoke into the atmosphere. This silence was maintained by union leaders as well as by most of the country’s radicals; except for a few isolated voices, no one protested. An insistence on treatment of the various effluents would have necessitated expenditures on treatment equipment that in turn would have given rise to higher operating costs. Obviously, this would have meant higher prices for Japanese goods, and ultimately fewer sales and lower industrial growth and GNP.

The pursuit of nothing but economic growth is illustrated by the response of the Japanese government to the American educational mission that visited Japan in 1947. After surveying Japan’s educational program, the Americans suggested that the Japanese fill in their curriculum gap by creating departments in chemical and sanitary engineering. Immediately, chemical engineering departments were established in all the country’s universities and technical institutions. In contrast, the recommendation to form sanitary engineering departments was more or less ignored, because they could bring no profit. By 1960, only two second-rate universities, Kyoto and Hokkaido, were interested enough to open such departments.

The reluctance to divert funds from production to conservation is explanation enough for a certain degree of pollution, but the situation was made worse by the type of technology the Japanese chose to adopt for their industrial expansion. For the most part, they simply copied American industrial methods. This meant that methods originally designed for use in a country that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific with lots of air and water to use as sewage receptacles were adopted for an area a fraction of the size. Moreover, the Japanese diet was much more dependent on water as a source of fish and as an input in the irrigation of rice; consequently discharged wastes built up much more rapidly in the food chain.

According to the text, no measures were resorted to in environmental protection after World War Ⅱ in Japan because()

A. they were reckoned to be unnecessary

B. they would check economic development

C. no one was much interested in them

D. pollution was held as inevitable at that time