问题 单项选择题

Passage Two

When imaginative men turn their eyes towards space and wonder whether life exists in any part of it, they may cheer themselves by remembering that life need not resemble closely the life that exists on Earth. Mars looks like the only planet where life like ours could exist, and even this is doubtful. But there may be other kinds of life based on other kinds of chemistry, and they may multiply on Venus or Jupiter. At least we cannot prove at present that they do not.
Even more interesting is the possibility that life on their planets may be in a more advanced stage of evolution. Present-day man is in a peculiar and probably temporary stage. His individual units retain a p sense of personality. They are, in fact, still capable under favorable circumstances of leading individual lives. But man’s societies are already sufficiently developed to have enormously more power and effectiveness than the individuals have.
It is not likely that this transitional situation will continue very long on the evolutionary time scale. Fifty thousand years from now man’s societies may have become so close-knit that the individuals retain no sense of separate personality. Then little distinction will remain between the organic parts of the multiple organism and the inorganic parts (machines) that have been constructed by it. A million years further on man and his machines may have merged as closely as the muscles of the human body and the nerve cells that set them in motion.
The explorers of space should be prepared for some such situation. If they arrive on a foreign planet that has reached an advanced stage (and this is by no means impossible), they may find it being inhabited by a single large organism composed of many closely cooperating units.
The units may be "secondary"—machines created millions of years ago by a previous form of life and given the will and ability to survive and reproduce. They may be built entirely of metals and other durable (耐用的) materials. If this is the case, they may be much more tolerant of their environment, multiplying under conditions that would destroy immediately any organism made of carbon compounds and dependent on the familiar carbon cycle.
Such creatures might be relics of a past age, many millions of years ago, when their planet was favorable to the origin of life, or they might be immigrants from a favored planet.

What does the word "cheer" (Line 2, Para. 1) imply

A.Imaginative men are sure of success in finding life on other planets.

B.Imaginative men are delighted to find life on other planets.

C.Imaginative men are happy to find a different kind of life existing on other planets.

D.Imaginative men can be pleased with the idea that there might exist different forms of life on other planets.

答案

参考答案:D

解析:词汇+推断题。文章第一句说,当富有想象力的人们把目光投向太空,怀疑太空的任何地方是否有生命存在时,他们可能会因为想到生命不一定要与地球上存在的生命相同而感到欢欣鼓舞。D项与本句意思相符,是正确答案。

阅读理解

All of my childhood and early, adult life, my mom weighed over 220 pounds (one pound =" 0.454" kilograms). I could feel the pain that my mom experienced with her fatness.

I was never uncomfortable about my mother, but I think she was uncomfortable about herself, and that feeling was painful for all of us. And she began to lose weight.

After more than twenty years of battling obesity(肥胖), my mother completed a forceful eighteen-month diet that left her ninety pounds lighter than before. A new woman was born! At age twenty-eight, I got a new mom! For the first time, I met the woman my mother truly was, the beautiful little lady under the fatness. It wasn’t so much her new body that was the surprise, but rather her new spirit.

To celebrate her new size and to devote herself to dancing again, my mother joined a “Mrs. Forty-Plus” competition, where she would have to model, give a speech and provide a dance performance. She told our family that she did not care if she won — she simply had always wanted to perform on stage.

She told each one of us, “I’m not doing it to win; I’m doing it to dance!”

The competition was exciting! I prayed that my mom would win, but while watching her on stage I was simply overjoyed just by her effort. To me, she had already won. She posed to perfection, her speech brought tears to everyone’s eyes, and her performance was wonderful.

That night, at age fifty-three, my mother was crowned (为......加冕) “Mrs. Forty-Plus”. She was the first person in our family to ever win such a title.

64. The first two paragraphs mainly show that the author’s mom was __________.

A. experienced      B. painful          C. comfortable        D. fat

65. After the author’s mom completed a forceful eighteen-month diet, she was about __________.

A. 85 kilograms    B. 41 kilograms      C. 130 pounds         D. 90 pounds

66. In order to join in the “Mrs. Forty-Plus” Competition, the author’s mom has to do the following EXCEPT __________.

A. providing a dance performance            B. telling a funny story about herself

C. giving a speech to a large number of people  D. wearing special clothes to show to people

67. The underlined part in Paragraph 6 means that __________.

A. the author’s mom succeeded in modeling and speaking

B. the author’s mom’s performance was very wonderful

C. the author’s mom was not successful in modeling

D. the author’s mom succeeded in making a speech

单项选择题 A1/A2型题