Everything was perfect for the picnic the weather．
A．in place of B．as well as
C．except for D．in case of
He has made progress that we all praise him．
A．so a great B．such a great C．so great D．such great
Tomorrow is Tom’s birthday．Have you got any idea the party is to be held．
A．what B．which C．that D．where
He made a mistake，but he corrected the situation it went worse．
A．until B．when C．before D．as
We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why.
“Look down, Elsa,” father said. I gathered all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the village. And I saw the crisscross (十字形) of twisting, turning streets leading to the square. “ See, my dear,” father said gently. “ There is more than one way to the square. Life is like that. If you can’t get to the place where you want to go by one road, try another.”
Now I understood why I was there. Earlier that day I had begged my mother to do something about the awful(糟糕的) lunches that were served at school. But she refused because she could not believe the lunches were as bad as I said.
When I turned to father for help, he didn’t say anything. Instead, he brought me to this high tower to give me a lesson. By the time we reached home, I had a plan.
At school the next day, I secretly poured my luncheon（午餐）soup into a bottle and brought it home. Then I asked our cook to serve it to mother at dinner. The plan worked perfectly. She swallowed one spoonful and sputtered（喷溅出） “ The cook must have gone mad！” Quickly I told her what I had done, and Mother stated firmly that she would take up the matter of lunches at school the next day!
In the years that followed I often remembered the lesson father taught me. I began to work as a fashion designer two years ago. I wouldn’t stop working until I tried every possible means to my goal. Father’s wise words always remind me that there is more than one way to the square.
1.The author's father took her to the top of a church tower to _____．
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A．enjoy the beautiful scenery of the whole town |
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B．find out how many ways lead to the square |
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C．inspire her to find out another way to solve her problem |
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D．help her forget some unpleasant things earlier that day |
2.What did the author want her mother to do earlier that day?
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A．Do something delicious for lunch. |
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B．Taste her awful lunch. |
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C．Dismiss the mad cook. |
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D．Speak to the school about lunch. |
3.By sharing her own experiences, the author tries to tell us ____________.
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A．when one road is blocked, try another |
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B．how bad the lunch of her school is |
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C．how wise her father is |
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D．about the church tower near her home |
“If you talk to the plants, they will grow faster and the effect is even better if you’re a woman.” Researchers at Royal Horticultural Society carried out an experient to find that the voice of a woman gardener makes plants grow faster.
The experiment lasted a month and by the end of the study scientists managed to discover that tomato plants grew up two inches taller when women gardeners talked to them instead of male.
Sarah Darwin was the one making the plants registered the best growth. Her voice was the most “inspiring” for plants than those of nine other gardeners when reading a passage from The Origin of Species. The great-great-granddaughter of the famous botanist(植物学家) Charles Darwin found that her plant grew about two inches taller than the plant of the best male gardener.
Colin Crosbie, Garden Superintendent at RHS, said that the finding cannot yet be explained. He assumes that women have a greater range of pitch（音高） and tone（音调） which might have a certain effect on the sound waves that reach the plant. “Sound waves are an environmental effect just like rain or light ,”said Mr Grosbie.
The study began in April at RHS Garden Wisley in Survey. Scientists started with open auditions(听力) for the people who were asked to record passages from John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer's Night Dream and Darwin's The Origin of Species.
Afterwards researchers selected a number of different voices and played them to 10 tomato plants during a period of a month. Each plant had headphones（耳机） connected to it. Through the headphones the sound waves could hit the plants. It was discovered that plants that “listened” to female voices on average grew taller by an inch in comparison to plants that heard male voices.
Miss Darwin said, “I think it is an honor to have a voice that can make tomatoes grow, and especially fitting because for a number of years I have been studying wild tomatoes from the Galapagos Island at the Natural History Museum in London.”
1.What does the passage talk about?
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A．Plants enjoy men’s voices than women’s. |
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B．A botanical experiment in a museum. |
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C．Voice’s influence on plant growing. |
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D．Strange phenomenon（现象） at Royal Horticultural Society. |
2.What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean?
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A．Plants need sound as well as rain and light. |
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B．Sound is basic for the plant to grow. |
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C．Sound has a good effect as rain or light does. |
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D．Plants can’t live without sound, rain or light. |
3.Sarah Darwin is most likely a (an)_____.
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A．botanist |
B．gardener |
C．astronomer |
D．environmentalist |
4.What can we learn from the passage?
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A．The experiment ended in May. |
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B．Scientist can explain the findings clearly. |
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C．Plants enjoy listening to the passages from masterpieces. |
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D．The findings are of great importance to human beings. |
