After the Trojan War had ended, not a11 of the Greeks got to enjoy ap1 easant homecoming j ourney.0dy sseus'return was fu11 of difficulties. It took him tenyears to get back to his home.Odysseus had many obstac1es put in his way by the sea godPoseidon after having hurt the god' s feelings. He was then trapped by Ca1ypso on herisland. The goddess made him her 1over. For seven years, she refused to 1et him 1eave.Finally, Zeus - the king of a11 gods - stopped Calypso. 0dysseus sailed away on a sma11 boat.However, the boat was destroyed by a storm. Lucki1y, he was able to make it home safe1y at1ast. After having arrived home, 0dysseus found that many men were chasing after his wifeP enelope. Together with his son Te1 emachus, Odysseus fought to get rid of these men. Afterthis was done, Odysseus real ized that Penelope had been faithful to him. However,when shesaw him for the first time after sO many years, she could not be sure that he was real1yher husband.“Dear Queen, how can you be sO hard-hearted when you see that your husbandhas returned after such a 1ong time? ”begged 0dysseus. But sti11, Penelope was not surewhether she could trust him. She decided to test the man standing in front of her. Sheasked a servant to move the bed out of the bedroom.How can that be done?asked0dysseus.“If it is my bed, then nobody could move it except me. I made it myself.One ofits pillars (床腿)is the olive tree that grew on the spot where I built the bedroom.”Andnow Penelope knew that the man was truly her husband. She had waited for him for so manyyears!She threw her arms around him and cried for joy.(1) In a11, Odysseus’homecoming journey took him seven years.A、TB、F(2) The under1ined wordobstaclesin Paragraph 1 could mean suggestions.A、TB、F(3) Telemachus helped Odysseus to get rid of the men who were chasing after his wife.A、TB、F(4) Penelope fe1t excited when she saw her husband for the first time after he had returnedhome.A、TB、F(5) Odysseus proved to Penelope that he was truly her husband by menti oning some secretsabout their bed.A、TB、F

第1题

Half a year after the war, schools in the country returned to __. A．normal B．cultivation

C．instruction D．education

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第2题

Washington lost his battle at the fort on the Ohio River ______.A．at the beginning of the

Washington lost his battle at the fort on the Ohio River ______.

A．at the beginning of the war

B．in the middle of the war

C．at the end of the war

D．two years after the war

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第3题

After each war， new ideas， new attitudes， new trades and occupations were revealed to vill

agers.

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第4题

What had occurred shortly after the Civil War？A．The Wyoming Territory was admitted to the

What had occurred shortly after the Civil War？

A．The Wyoming Territory was admitted to the Union.

B．A women's suffrage bill was introduced in Congress.

C．The eastern states resisted the end of the war.

D．Black people were granted the right to vote.

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第5题

After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________.

A.an agrarian community…an industrialized and commercialized society

B.an agrarian community…a society of freedom and equality

C.a poor and backward society…an industrialized and commercialized society

D.an industrialized and commercialized society…a highly developed society

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第6题

It is NOT implied in paragraph 2 that__________ ．A.John Kennedy was an excellent servicema

It is NOT implied in paragraph 2 that__________ ．

A.John Kennedy was an excellent serviceman in the army during the World War ll

B.Kennedy once took a job of journalist after the World Warll

C.Many irregularities arose during Kennedy’S Administration

D.Kennedy became a Congressman after he entered politics

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第7题

Hemingway was born in Illinois, his family took him as a boy on frequent hunting and fishi

ng trips and so acquainted him early with the kinds of virtues (美德) such as courage and endurance, which were later reflected in his fiction (文学作品) . After high school, he worked as a newspaper reporter and then went oversea to take part in World War I. After the war he lived for several years in Paris, where he became part of a group of Americans who felt strange from their country. They considered themselves a lost generation. It was not long before he began to publish the powerful novel "The Sun Also Rises". His subjects were often war and its effects on people, or contests, such as hunting or bullfighting, which demand stamina and courage.

Hemingway's style. of writing is striking. His sentences are short, his words simple, yet they are often filled with emotion. A careful reading can show us, furthermore, that he is a master of the pause. That is, if we look closely, we see how the action of his stories continues during the silences, during the times his characters say nothing. This action is often full of meaning. There are times when the most powerful effect comes from restraint (适度). Such times occur often in Hemingway's fiction. He perfected the art of expressing emotion with few words.

The word "stamina" in the last line of paragraph 1 can most probably be replaced by______.

A．money

B．time

C．energy

D．weapon

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第8题

It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the Briti

sh sea defense around the Firth of Forth and damaged a British cruiser, Reston and a colleague contrived to get the news past British censorship. They cabled a series of seemingly harmless sentences to The Times's editors in New York, having first sent a message instructing the editors to regard only the last word of each sentence. Thus they were able to convey enough words to spell out the story. The fact that the news of the submarine attack was printed in New York before it had appeared in the British press sparked a big controversy that led to an investigation by Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence. But it took the investigators eight weeks to decipher The Times's reporters' code, an embarrassingly slow bit of detective work, and when it was finally solved the incident had given the story very prominent play, later expressed dismay that the reporters had risked so much for so little. And the incident left Reston deeply distressed. It was so out of character for him to have. become involved in such a thing. The tactics were questionable and, though the United States was not yet in the war, Britain was already established as America's close ally and breaking British censorship seemed both an irresponsible and unpatriotic thing to do.

The episode recounted in the passage took place ______.

A．just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War

B．bofore Britain entered the Second World War

C．before the United States entered the Second World War

D．while the United States was in the Second World War

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第9题

A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly hand

led, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world's best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed.

It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea's LG Electronics. ) Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America's machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.

All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fail as well. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America's industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas.

How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been straggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt has yielded to blind pride. "American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick-witted," according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity," says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washington, D. C. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes, that people will look back on this period as "a golden age of business management in the United States".

Which of the following statements is TRUE about US economic predominance after World War Ⅱ？

A．The unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy.

B．The war had destroyed the economies of most potential competitors.

C．Its domestic market was eight times larger than before.

D．It had made painstaking efforts towards this goal.

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第10题

Scientists discovered that atoms of some substances are radioactive. This means that they

are unstable and can be split. The chain of splitting atoms releases great destructive energy and it was this discovery which led scientists to develop the idea of an atomic bomb. The American government secretly worked to produce such a bomb and the first version was much more powerful than anyone had thought.

By this time, the World War II had ended in Europe. But the Japanese refused to surrender, the Americans decided that by dropping an atomic bomb on Japan, they could end the war quickly and save more of their soldier’s lives.

Soon after midnight on 6 August 1945, a bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, a civilian target. No warning was given and there was total devastation. Almost all the buildings were destroyed and more than 100000 people died or were horribly wounded.

The Japanese military still did not want to surrender so three days later, the Americans dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing 45000 people. The Japanese government was discussing ending the war when they heard the news of Nagasaki. Finally, they surrendered and the World War II came to an end.

At first, the scientists who had built the bomb were pleased that it had helped to end the war. However, many would come to realize that they had helped to create the most terrible weapon known to man.

The first atomic bomb ______.

A．was less powerful

B．was dropped in Nagasaki

C．was a failure

D．was tested in desert

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