问题 单项选择题

Part 4


Questions 26-45


·Read the following article and choose the best word for each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.

iPhone Left in Hot Car for Three Hours


The normally peaceful suburban town of Winnetka is still reeling following the news Monday (26) a local resident, whose name is being (27) by police pending a full investigation, left an iPhone unattended for more than three hours in a car (28) in the hot sun.
"Responding to calls from (29) . passersby, who observed the iPhone sitting in a vehicle in the parking (30) of the Westfield Shopping Center, police arrived on the (31) at approximately 4 p.m. and immediately intervened to save the device," said Winnetka police chief Douglas Blaine. "Security cameras have shown that the iPhone had been in the car— with the doors (32) and the windows rolled (33) —since 1 p.m. Due to the tragic and highly emotional (34) of this case, we cannot say any (35) at this time."

A. warmth B. coldness C. gratitude D. concern

According to official police records, two officers forcibly (36) into the car at 4:07 p.m. and found the iPhone (37) face down on the dashboard. The iPhone at first showed no (38) of life, but after a tense few seconds, officers were able to wake it and get it to (39) to a series of simple touch commands. Police said that if the iPhone were left in the extreme (40) for any longer, it could have died.
The iPhone was rushed by ambulance to a nearby Apple facility for careful (41) .Miraculously, no damage to its memory, screen, or wireless capabilities was reported.
Upper-middle-class suburbanites from all over the North Shore area have reacted to the near-tragedy with an unprecedented outpouring of (42) . Hundreds of cards and letters have come streaming in, and local talk radio shows have been flooded (43) calls demanding that the iPhone’s (44) be prosecuted. Many have come forward offering to take the iPhone into their custody, and still (45) have donated free downloads, ringtones, and MP3s to the victimized object.

答案

参考答案:D

解析: [考点] 词义辨析

[分析]: 本句意为“史无前例的______涌入。”4个选项的意思分别为:选项A “热情”:选项B“冷淡”;选项C“感激”;选项D“关心”。根据上下文,选项D最符合题意。

阅读理解与欣赏

阅读下面的文段,完成1——4题。   

  一位朋友向我讲述了在南美洲一片森林边缘发生的故事。那一天,由于游客的不慎,使临河的一片草丛起火了。顺着风势游走着的火舌活像一挂红色的项链,开始围向一个小小的丘陵,这时,明眼的巴西向导向我们叫道:“一群蚂蚁被火包围了!”我们顺着他指点的方向看去,可不是,被大火缩小着的包围圈里已经变成了黑压压的一片。“这群可怜的蚂蚁肯定要葬身火海了。”我心里惋惜地想着,可万万没有想到,这区区的弱者并没有束手待毙,而是迅速聚拢,抱成一团,然后向河岸的方向滚去,蚁团在火舌舔动的草丛间越来越迅速地滚动着,不断发出外层蚂蚁被烧焦后身体爆裂的声响,但是蚁团却不见缩小。显然,外层被灼焦的蚁国英雄们至死也不松动丝毫,肝胆俱裂也不离开自己的岗位,一会儿,蚁团冲进了河流,随着向对岸的滚动,河面上升腾起一小层薄薄的烟雾。  

  我听着这则蚁国发生的真实故事,像听着一曲最悲壮的生命之歌,小小的蚂蚁,其重不足毫克。然而,在人类往往也要遭到重大伤亡的火灾面前,竟然能如此沉着、坚定、团结一致,不惜牺牲自己,以求得种族的生存,其斗争的韧性,其脱险方式的机警,又是如此感人,怎能不发人深思,油然而生出敬慕的情感来?  

  逐渐地,我感到原先那种认为“蝼蚁之命,何足挂齿”的想法,实在是太无知、太浅薄了。

1.第1段中说外层蚂蚁被烧焦后“蚁团却不见缩小”,这是为什么?

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2.请用简洁的语言概述这则故事的要点。

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3.作者认为蚂蚁的哪些表现“又是如此感人”?

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4.读了这则故事后,你对“千里之堤,溃于蚁穴”有何新的理解?

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