Passage 17
A mysterious “black cloud” approaches the earth – our planet’s weather is severely affected.
Throughout the rest of June and July temperatures rose steadily all over the Earth. In the British isles the temperature climbed through the eighties, into the nineties, and moved towards the hundred mark. People complained, but there was no serious disaster.
The death number in the U. S. Remained quite small, thanks largely to the air-conditioning units that had been fitted during previous years and months. Temperatures rose to the limit of human endurance throughout the whole country and people were obliged to remain indoors for weeks on end. Occasionally air-conditioning units failed and it was then that fatalities occurred.
Conditions were utterly desperate throughout the tropics (热带地区) as may be judged from the fact that 7943 species of plants and animals became totally extinct. The survival of Man himself was only possible because of the caves and cellars (地窖) he was able to dig. Nothing could be done to reduce the hot air temperature. More than seven hundred million persons are known to have lost their lives.
Eventually the temperature of the surface waters of the sea rose, not so fast as the air temperature it is true, but fast enough to produce a dangerous increase of humidity (湿度). It was indeed this increase that produced the disastrous conditions just remarked. Millions of people between the latitudes of Cairo and the Cape of Good Hope were subjected to a choking atmosphere that grew damper and hotter from day to day. All human movement ceased. There was nothing to be done but to lie breathing quickly as a dog does in hot weather.
By the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics lay balanced between life and total death. Then quite suddenly rain clouds appeared over the whole globe. The temperature declined a little, due no doubt to the clouds reflecting more of the Sun’s radiation back into space, But conditions could not be said to have improved. Warm rain fell everywhere, even as far north as Iceland. The insect population increased enormously, since the burning hot atmosphere was as favorable to them as it was unfavorable to Man many other animals.
81. In the British Isles the temperature .
A) stayed at eighty
B) ranged from eighty to ninety
C) approached one hundred
D) exceeded the hundred mark
82. Few people in the United States lost their lives because .
A) the temperature was tolerable
B) people remained indoors for weeks
C) the government had taken effective measures to reduce the hot temperature
D) people were provided with the most comfortable air-conditioners
83. Millions of people in Cairo (开罗) and the Cape of Good Hope (好望角) were subjected to a choking atmosphere because .
A) the temperature grew extremely hot
B) the temperature became damper and hotter as the humidity of the surface waters of the sea increased
C) their conditions were too dangerous
D) nothing could be done with the hot temperature
84. By the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics were such that .
A) human survival would be impossible
B) more and more people would lose their lives
C) fewer people could be saved
D) survival or death was still undecided
85. The insect population increased due to .
A) the hot air
B) the tropical climate
C) the rain clouds
D) the damp atmosphere
A busy doctor had a lot of patients and one was a rich lady. She was always coming to his hospital to see him, and spent hours in his waiting room every week. But when he sent her his bill, she did not remember to pay them.
One day he met her on the street, and she said, "Please help me, doctor. I have got a terrible headache and it is making my shopping very difficult."
"All right," the doctor said, "Close your eyes and count to one hundred. And do not forget to keep your eyes closed until I tell you to open them."
The woman did this, and the doctor hurried away quickly. The woman never came to see him again, nor did she ever pay her bill.
40.There _______ among the doctor's patients.
A. was only one rich lady
B. were many rich ladies
C. was only rich lady
D. were a lot of ladies
41.The rich lady spent _______ time in the doctor's waiting room every week.
A. a little
B. a lot of
C. no
D. little
42.The doctor _______ his bills every week.
A. sent her
B. forgot to send
C. paid her
D. paid
43.The doctor told her _______.
A. to close eyes for a moment
B. to keep her eyes open
C. to count to one hundred
D. to close her eyes and keep them closed until he told her to open them
答案:abad
翻译一个忙碌的一生有很多病人要看,其中一位是一个富有的太太。她经常去医院看他(医生),并且每周在等候室里一呆就是几个小时。但是当医生给她账单的时候,她总是不记得付款。
一天他和她在街上遇到,她说到:“大夫帮帮我,我的头疼很厉害,并且这让我购物有困难。”
“好吧”,大夫说,“闭上眼睛,数到100,在我让你睁开眼之前不要睁开眼”。
女士照他说的作了,大夫很快的就离开了。从那以后那位女士再也没有找过大夫,也没有付过账单。
40.在医生的病人里:
A. 只有一个富太太。
B. 有很多富太太。
C. 只有富太太(没有别人)
D. 有很多富太太
41.每周,富太太在医生的候诊室呆多少时间
A. 很少
B. 很多
C. 没有
D. 几乎没有(本题选项用中文没法理解。。。。。)
42.一生每周都将帐单怎样?
A. 发给她
B. 忘记发给她
C. 为她付
D. 医生付他自己的账单
43.一生告诉她 _______.
A. 闭一会眼
B. 一直睁眼
C. 数到一百
D. 闭眼,一直到他让她睁开