---- Was the driving pleasant when you vacationed in Mexico last summer?
---- No, it ________ for four days when we arrived, so the roads were very muddy．
A．was running B．had been raining
C．would be raining D．has rained
Any opportunity should be made ______ of _______ your spoken English．
A．use; to practice B．fun; to practice
C．fun; practicing D．use; practicing
----- What about _________job?
----- It’s too difficult ______ job for me?
A．a; the B．the; a C．the ; the D．a; a
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Sometimes life gets a little dull．What used to be fun and different becomes boring．That is the
time to look for something new．It is the time for a big idea to get your mind off everyday life．So why not search for extraterrestrial （地球外的） intelligence? Or even better, why not get your computer to do it for you?
Over two million people have joined the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence（SETI）
project．Based in California, the SETI project analyzes information taken from a giant radio telescope based in South America．Its task is to look for signals from outer space that might prove that life exists on other planets．
Processing this information is far too big a job for one computer．So the SETI project workers
divide the work among volunteers who visit their website．Each computer gets some information to work out from the SETI network through the Internet．This process is often known as “meta-computing”．
It is a wonderful thought．You are sleeping, eating a meal or going out with friends．All this
time, your computer is searching the stars for signs that might show something is out there trying to get in touch．Volunteers are proud of being involved in the SETI project．It shows that they understand the potential of computing．They know that it is more than just a way of working or playing games．
Meta-computing may also be creating intelligence as well as looking for it．This idea is based
on the theory that human intelligence is created by the way in which different parts of the brain communicate with each other．As the saying goes, “The whole is more than the sum of its parts．” People who join the SETI project sometimes wonder whether their computer will become part of a huge network that has learned to think for itself．
1.According to the writer, meta-computing may be creating intelligence __________．
A．because human beings are intelligent
B．because a computer works as the brain does
C．because of a network of many computers
D．because of the number of computers
2.Which of the following shows the order in which the SETI network works?
A．Radio telescope→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers→SETI base
B．Radio telescope→SETI base→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers
C．SETI base→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers→Radio telescope
D．SETI base→Radio telescope→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers
3.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to________．
A．extra-terrestrial intelligence B．human intelligence
C．the SETI project D．meta-computing
4.The passage mainly tells us about __________．
A．a new way to work on the computer
B．a new way to work and play games
C．a new way to search for life outside the earth
D．a new way to make life interesting and different．
The days of the hunter are almost over in India．This is partly because there is practically
nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken mainly by banning tiger-shooting to protect those animals which still survive．
Some people say that man is naturally a hunter．I disagree with this view．Surely our earliest
forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals．
I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his
courage in overpowering dangerous animals．Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauty of the wild countryside．There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat．I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself．
The greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer
motives．One of them wrote:
“You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it clearly and on the animal’s own
territory （领地）．You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day．This is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals．Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing — not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people．”
I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with
spears and bravely caught them by the tail．But this is very different from many tiger-shoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used．The so-called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants．Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits．
1.There is little hunting in India now partly because ________．
A．it is dangerous to hunt there B．hunting is already out of date
C．hunters want to protect animals D．there are few animals left to hunt
2.The author thinks modern hunters kill mainly ________．
A．to make the countryside safe B．to earn people’s admiration
C．to gain power and influence D．to improve their health
3.What do we learn about the big-game hunters?
A．They hunt old animals． B．They mistreat animals．
C．They hunt for food． D．They hunt for money．
4.What is the author’s view on the tiger-shoots he has seen?
A．Modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-face．
B．Modern hunters should use more advanced weapons．
C．Modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigers．
D．Modern hunters should put their safety first．
