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Some people hate everything that is modern.They cannot imagine how anyone can really like modern music;they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing;they think that all modern painting is ugly;and they seldom have a good word for the new buildi
题目
We can’t judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time,even though we admire the ancient buildings.Technologically,the modern buildings are more advanced.The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works,but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials,he will never be content to imitate the past.He is too proud to do that.
Some people hate everything that is modern because_______.
B.they find it hard to accept modern things
C.they take their standards of perfection from the Greek
D.they look at things by the standards of the past
相似问题和答案
第1题：
The modern people like traveling now because______.
A. it can bring us more knowledge
B. it can make us rich
C. they have too much money
D. it is a good idea
此题为细节题。答案在第三段内；Travelling is a good idea to us because we can get more about knowledge。现代人喜欢旅游是因为可以从旅行中开阔眼界，增长知识。
第2题：
第二篇
Shopping at Second-Hand Clothing Stores
When 33-year-old Pete Barth was in college,shopping at second-hand clothing stores was just something
he did一“like changing the tires on his car."He looked at his budget and decided he could save a lot of
money by shopping for clothes at
thrift shops.
" Even new clothes are fairly disposable（可丢掉的）and worn out after a couple of years , " Barth said.
"In thrift shops,you can find some great stuff whose quality is better than new clothes."
Since then,Barth,who works at a Goodwill thrift shop in the US state of Florida,has found that there are
all kinds of reasons for shopping for second一hand clothing.Some people,like him,shop to save money.Some
shop for a crazy-looking shirt. And some shop as a means of conserving energy and helping the environment.
Pat Akins , an accountant at a Florida Salvation Army (SA)（救世军）thrift shop, said that, for her,
shopping at thrift shops is a way to help the environment.
"When my daughter was little,we looked at it as recycling,"Akins said."Also,why pay 30 dollars for
a new coat when you can get another one for a lot less?"
Akins said that the SA has shops all over the US一“some as big as department stores".All of the
clothes are donated（捐赠）,and when they have a surplus（盈余）,they' ll have "stuff-a-bag" specials,
where customers can fill a grocery sack with clothes for only 5 or 10 dollars.
Julia Slocum,22,points out,however,that the huge amount of second-hand clothing in the US is the
result of American wastefulness.
"I'd say that second-hand stores are the result of our wasteful,materialistic culture,"said Slocum,who
works for a pro-conservation organization,the Center for a New American Dream."Thrift shops prevent the
waste from going to landfills（垃圾填埋场）;they give clothing a second life , provide cheaper clothing for
those who can' t afford new ones and generate（生成）income for charities. They also provide a way for the
wealthy and middle classes to shed（摆脱）some of the guilt for their level of consumption."
A:give clothing a second life
B:generate income for charities
C:provide cheaper clothes for the poor
D:stop rich people from wasting money
由文章第一段第二句“He looked at his budget and decided he could save a lot of money by shopping for clothes at thrift shops”可知，Pete Barth上大学时发现在二手服装店购买衣服可以给 他省下很多的钱，因此他才去旧货店买衣服，由此可知，他这样做的目的是省钱，故选A。
由文章第四段可知，Pat Akins是“救世军”旧货店的一名会计，故选B。
由文章最后一段的倒数一、二句内容可知，旧货店低价处理衣物可以避免那些衣服被 当作垃圾扔到垃圾填埋场；能让衣服重新被使用；给没钱买新衣服的人提供了选择；给慈善机 构带来了收益；除此之外，还能帮助富裕的中产阶级摆脱奢侈浪费的内疚感。但这并不是说， 这种方式能够阻止有钱人浪费，故选D。
one dollar shop的意思是“廉价商店”;thrift的意思为“节约，节俭”，在第一段中，thrift shops也是指“廉价商店”，故thrift可以用one dollar替换。 第三篇 本篇文章主要通过两个研究说明了熬夜并不能带来好的学习成绩，并对此进行了分析。
第3题：
A
Good morning. The program today is about music. The word “music” comes from the Greek word “muse”. The Muses are the goddesses of the arts. Music is only one of the arts. It is like the spoken language,but is uses sounds. Today's program brings together music from different corners of the world. Who invented music？ Who sang the first song？ No one knows exactly the answers to these questions. But we know that music plays an important part in almost everyone's life. Babies and young children love to hear people singing to them. When they are a little older, they like to sing the songs they have heard. When children go to school,their world of music grows. In the middle grades students take music lessons. When they reach high school,they become interested in listening to pop music.
The records we have chosen for you today are form. American country music,Indian music,pop music and so on. Music has meaning for everyone. It can make people happy or it can make them sad. In this program we shall study the language of music. We shall be trying to find out more about how music works. We shall try to find out how music says what people feel.
Now,here comes the music today,I shall explain why they are all good music…
66.The first paragraph is mainly about the _______________
A.styles of music B.history of music
C.taste of music D.knowledge of music
第4题：
A Good Idea
No satisfactory way exists to explain how to form a good idea. You think about a problem until you're tired,forget it,maybe sleep on it,and then flash!
When you aren't thinking about it,suddenly the answer arrives as a gift from the gods.Of course,all ideas don't occur like that but so many do,particularly the most important ones. They burst into the mind,glowing with the heat of creation.How they do it is a mystery,but they must come from somewhere.
Let's assume they come from the"unconscious".This is reasonable,for psychologists use this term to describe mental processes,which are unknown to the individual.Creative thought depends on what was unknown becoming known.
All of us have experienced this sudden arrival of a new idea,but it is easiest to examine it in the great creative personalities,many of whom experienced it in an intensified form and have written it down in their life stories and letters.
One can draw examples from genius in any field,from religion,philosophy,and literature to art and music,even in mathematics,science,and technical invention,although these are often thought to depend only on logic and experiment.All truly creative activities depend in some degree on these signals from the unconscious,and the more highly insightful the person,the sharper and more dramatic the signals become.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned
文章第二段讲到：当你不去想它的时候，答案却突然从天而降，仿佛上苍赐予你的一份礼物。当然，并非所有的思想都是这样产生的。由此我们可以判断该句的表述是正确的。
依据文章第三段，“心理学家就是用这一术语（潜意识）来描述不为人知的思维过程”可知，本句的表述是正确的。
文章第四段第一句提到：我们都有过灵机一动、突然有了一个新想法的经历，而这在那些富有创造性的天才人物身上最显而易见。因此该句的表述是错误的。
文章第四段“…the great creative personalities...written it down in their life stories and letters”的the great creative personalities是指富有创造性的天才人物，其中包括各个领域的人才。因此本句的表述是错误的。
从第五段第一句我们知道，本句的表述是正确的。
文章最后一句只是说，一个人洞察力越强，这些（潜意识）信号就越鲜明、越引人注目，但是并没有提到是否只有洞察力强的人有这些信号，因此本句文章中没有提到。
第5题：
Musical Chairs
Do you know how to play a game called"Musical Chairs"?It is easy to play and most people enjoy it. All you need are some chairs,some people and some way of making music.You may use a piano or any other musical instrument,if someone can play it. You may use a tape recorder. You can even use a radio.
Put the chairs in a row.The chairs may be put in twos,back to back.A better way is to have the chairs in one row with each chair facing in the opposite direction to the chair next to it.
The game is easy.When the music starts,the players walk round the chairs.Everyone goes in the same direction,of course,they should walk in time to the music .If the music is fast they should walk quickly .If the music is slow,they should walk slowly.
The person playing music cannot see the people in the game.When the music stops,the play-ers try to sit on the chairs.If a person cannot find a chair to sit on,he drops out. Then,before the music starts again,one chair must be taken away.When the music stops again,one more player will be out.
At last,there will be two players and one chair. The one who sits on the chair when the music stops is the winner.
A: with the desks
B: before the winner
C: all over the room
D: in a line
在第一段中提到了A、B、C三种可以播放音乐的器具，而D项没有，因为一般来说电话是不能播放音乐的，故选D。
第二段的 Put the chairs in a row就是“把椅子排成一排”之意。故选D。
由第三段中的句子When the music starts, the players walk round the chairs．故选C。
本题可用排除法，由第一段第二句It is easy to play,A项正确；由最后一句The one who sits on the chair when the music stops is the winner. C项正确；由第四段的句子The person playing music cannot see the people in the game. D项正确。故选B。
第6题：
Passage Five
Some people hate everything that is modern. They cannot imagine how anyone can really like modern music; they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing; they think that all modern painting is ugly; and they seldom have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world. Such people look for perfection in everything, and they take their standards of perfection from the past. They are usually impatient with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in materials original ways. It is, of course, true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can only be considered as failures. If the work of art is a painting, the artist's failure concerns himself alone, but if it is a building, his failure concerns others too, because it may damage the beauty of the whole place. This does sometimes happen, but it is completely untrue to say, as some people do, that modern architecture is nothing.
We can't judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time, even though we admire the ancient buildings. Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced. The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works, but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials, he will never be content to imitate the past. He is too proud to do that.
51. Some people hate everything that is modern because ______.
A. they are aged
B. they find it hard to accept modern things
C. they take their standards of perfection from the Greek
D. they look at things by the standards of the past
51．答案为D。根据第一段第三句，Such people look for perfection in everything，and they take their standards of perfection from the past作出该项选择。
第7题：
第二篇
Shopping at Second-Hand Clothing Stores
When 33-year-old Pete Barth was in college,shopping at second-hand clothing stores was just something
he did一“like changing the tires on his car."He looked at his budget and decided he could save a lot of
money by shopping for clothes at
thrift shops.
" Even new clothes are fairly disposable（可丢掉的）and worn out after a couple of years , " Barth said.
"In thrift shops,you can find some great stuff whose quality is better than new clothes."
Since then,Barth,who works at a Goodwill thrift shop in the US state of Florida,has found that there are
all kinds of reasons for shopping for second一hand clothing.Some people,like him,shop to save money.Some
shop for a crazy-looking shirt. And some shop as a means of conserving energy and helping the environment.
Pat Akins , an accountant at a Florida Salvation Army (SA)（救世军）thrift shop, said that, for her,
shopping at thrift shops is a way to help the environment.
"When my daughter was little,we looked at it as recycling,"Akins said."Also,why pay 30 dollars for
a new coat when you can get another one for a lot less?"
Akins said that the SA has shops all over the US一“some as big as department stores".All of the
clothes are donated（捐赠）,and when they have a surplus（盈余）,they' ll have "stuff-a-bag" specials,
where customers can fill a grocery sack with clothes for only 5 or 10 dollars.
Julia Slocum,22,points out,however,that the huge amount of second-hand clothing in the US is the
result of American wastefulness.
"I'd say that second-hand stores are the result of our wasteful,materialistic culture,"said Slocum,who
works for a pro-conservation organization,the Center for a New American Dream."Thrift shops prevent the
waste from going to landfills（垃圾填埋场）;they give clothing a second life , provide cheaper clothing for
those who can' t afford new ones and generate（生成）income for charities. They also provide a way for the
wealthy and middle classes to shed（摆脱）some of the guilt for their level of consumption."
A:charity
B:one dollar
C:first class
D:two dollars
由文章第一段第二句“He looked at his budget and decided he could save a lot of money by shopping for clothes at thrift shops”可知，Pete Barth上大学时发现在二手服装店购买衣服可以给 他省下很多的钱，因此他才去旧货店买衣服，由此可知，他这样做的目的是省钱，故选A。
由文章第四段可知，Pat Akins是“救世军”旧货店的一名会计，故选B。
由文章最后一段的倒数一、二句内容可知，旧货店低价处理衣物可以避免那些衣服被 当作垃圾扔到垃圾填埋场；能让衣服重新被使用；给没钱买新衣服的人提供了选择；给慈善机 构带来了收益；除此之外，还能帮助富裕的中产阶级摆脱奢侈浪费的内疚感。但这并不是说， 这种方式能够阻止有钱人浪费，故选D。
one dollar shop的意思是“廉价商店”;thrift的意思为“节约，节俭”，在第一段中，thrift shops也是指“廉价商店”，故thrift可以用one dollar替换。 第三篇 本篇文章主要通过两个研究说明了熬夜并不能带来好的学习成绩，并对此进行了分析。
第8题：
Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the【31】of the year, or manured a field; but we know【32】about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so【33】so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are【34】that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are,【35】they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in【36】an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and【37】them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is【38】conquerors and generals have done -- is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other【39】by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then【40】that that side which has killed most has won.
(31)
A．number
B．length
C．depth
D．width
解析：length of the year意思为“一年的天数(时间长度)”；其他选项意思与语境不相符合。
第9题：
That year, in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids was the stupidest child that anyone had ever seen. It made no difference how quickly or how slowly they tried explaining numbers to him; he would always end up saying something enormously stupid. Like two plus two was five, seven times three was twenty-seven, or a triangle had thirty comers, etc.
Before this boy arrived, math lessons had been the most boring of all. Now they were great fun. Encouraged by the new teacher, the children would listen to the pieces of nonsense spouted by the new kid, and they would have to correct his mistakes.
Whenever the new teacher asked questions, the stupid kid would stand up but made the wrong answers, the other students all wanted to be the first to find his mistakes, and then think up the most original ways to explain them. To do this they used all kinds of stuff: sweets, playing cards, oranges, paper planes, etc. It didn′t seem like any of this bothered the new kid.
However, little Lewis was sure that it was bound to make him feel sad inside. Lewis was sure he would see him crying. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school. On leaving school, the new kid walked a few minutes to a local park, and there he waited for a while, until someone came along to meet him.
It was the new teacher!
The teacher gave the new kid a hug, and off they went, hand in hand. Following from a distance, Lewis could hear they were talking about math.
What does the underlined word "this" in the third paragraph refer to?
B.To think up the most original ways to explain.
C.To use all kinds of stuff.
D.To follow him home after school.
第10题：
B.Be present
C.Pay a unique compliment
D.Name,places,things
E.Find the“me too”s
F.Skip the small talk
G.Ask for an opinion