W hich came first, the chicken or the egg, the methane or the life on Mars; this is the confounding questions hane must mean bio material is degrading, or it simply means we don't know anything for sure.
If you know we are a planet and the twinkling little lights in the sky are the same or similar to the planet we live on, you would have to have had a lobotomy not to think it possible that life could exist on a plant other than Earth.
Now, zoom to prent day and all the scientific technological advances; we should be able to determine if Mars was ever able to support life. The truth is, NASA has nt probes up, rovers, spacecraft to circle the red planet and take pictures, spent millions of dollars to answer this very question and as of yet there is no conclusive evidence to support the hypothesis that life did exist on Mars.
If someone were to come to Earth after its terrain and atmosphere failed, don't you think they could figure it out in about, oh...say five minutes. We the people of earth would have left stuff there, like landfills, old buildings that surely would have survived storms, freezing temperatures, sun storms, lava, and the hell that a natural living planet could produce. We still don't know for sure who shot President Kennedy either.
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The point is that until we get up there, dig deeper and get conclusive evidence, then the answer to the 'Life on Mars' question has to be approached the Joe Friday way, "Just " The truth is the facts would tell us and the fact that we don't have any solid facts yet, well that just means Life on Mars shall remain a fiction until sometime in the future. No mystery, just no life that's all. So all the bored people of this planet spend time turning tales and letting their over active imaginations skew their practical ns. Go do something with your life and worry about Mars when the little green men show up.
1、The passage is written comically, but what phra refers to why the author believes there is no proof of life on mars.
The methane or the life on mars
We should b able to determine whether Mars was ever able to support life
The truth is, the facts would ell us
...until we get up there, dig deeper and get
No mystery, just no life.
2、Which of the following statements best describes the author's attitude?
Actively supportive of space exploration
Positive that there is life on Mars《水浒传》简介
Sarcasm toward tho who believe in life on Mars
Anti space exploration
Belief hat he knows how to find life on Mars.
B eing-done-good-to is, I understand, much in vogue in the purlieus of Fifth Avenue where it
is practiced with skill and persistence by a large and needy cult of grateful recipients. Our Square doesn't take to it. As recipients we are, I fear, grudgingly grateful. So when Miss Holland transferred her enthusiasms and activities to our far-away corner of the world she met with a lack of respon which might have discouraged one with a less new and superior n of duty to the lower orders. She came to us through the Bonnie Lassie, guardian of the gateway from the upper strata to our humbler domain, who - Pagan that she is! - indiscriminately accepts all things beautiful simply for the
ir beauty. Having arrived, Miss Holland proceeded to organize us with all the energy of high-blooded sweet-and-twenty and all the imperiousness of confident wealth and beauty.
3、This passage suggests which of the following about the Square?
It is an upper-class area comparable to Fifth Avenue.
It is an area of working class people who struggle to make ends meet.
It is an elite shopping district of New York.
It is a major tourist attraction.
It is situated in a prominent location in the midst of New York.
4、The word “imperiousness” in line 26 means
arrogance
vanity
pity
incurity
philanthropy
5、How old does the author indicate Miss Holland is?
eighteen
nineteen
twenty
twenty-one
twenty-three
T heodor Seuss Geil was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachutts to Henrietta Seuss and Theodor P. Geil. He also had two sisters. His father was a parks commander in charge of Queen Victoria Park (Niagara Falls).
As a freshman member of the Dartmouth College class of 1925, he joined the Dartmouth Jack-O-La
ntern as his primary activity throughout college, eventually rising to the rank of editor-in-chief. However, after Geil was caught throwing a drinking party (and thereby violating Prohibition), the school insisted that he resign from all extra-curricular activities. In order to continue his work on the Jack-O-Lantern without the administration's knowledge, Geil began signing his work with the pen name "Seuss" (which was both his middle name and his mother's maiden name). His first work signed as "Dr. Seuss" appeared after he graduated, six months into his work for The Judge (a humor magazine). Alexander Liang, who rved with Geil on the staff
of the Jack-O- Lantern and was later a professor at Dartmouth, illustrated this point.
He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, intending to earn a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer Geil, married her in 1927, and went to the United States without earning the degree. The "Dr." in his pen name is an acknowledgment of his father's unfulfilled hopes that Seuss would earn a doctorate at Oxford.He began submitting humorous articles and illustrations to Judge, The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Vanity Fair, and Liberty. He became nationally famous from his advertiments for Flit, a common incticide at the time. Geil supported himlf and his wife through the Great Depression by drawing advertising for General Electric, NBC, Standard Oil, and many other companies.小米海参
6、According to biographical information, Dr. Seuss was named after who of the following?
His mother and his father.
His mother and his aunt.
His father and his grandfather
His uncles and his father
His mother and her father.
7、About how old was Dr Seuss when he began writing for audiences?
12
19
8
25
40
8、The reader might get the idea that Dr. Seuss was what kind of person?
三十六计与孙子兵法Obedient
Arrogant
Mischievous
Angry
Apathetic
S aunderson was one of tho men who firmly believed that he knew everything, and exasperated people by telling them how to do things; and Denison, the supercargo of the Palestine, hated him most fervently for the continual trouble he was giving to every one, and also becau he had brought a harmonium on board, and played dismal tunes on it every night and all day on Sundays. But, as Saunderson was one of the partners in the firm who owned the Palestine, Denison, and Packenham the skipper, had to suffer him in silence, and trust that something might happen to him before long.
What irritated Denison more than anything el was that Saunderson frequently expresd the opinion that supercargoes were superfluous luxuries to owners, and that such work "as they tried to do could well be done by the captains, provided the latter were intelligent men."
孟子离娄9、Which of the following words best describes Saunderson?
Amiable
Courteous
Arrogant
Shy
腊肠炒莴笋Impetuous
10、Which of the following reasons was why Denison and Packenham put up with Saunderson?
He played the harmonium so well
He told wonderful stories
He was disabled and they felt sorry for him
He was a partner in the firm that owned the ship
He was blackmailing them
11、What is the name of the ship?
Patagonia
Palomino
Preston
Pharoah
Palestine
12、In the last ntence, to whom does "the latter" refer?
The supercargoes
The midshipmen
The captains
The first mates
The ship owners
I t was nearly bed-time and when they awoke next morning land would be in sight. Dr. Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, arched the heavens for the Southern Cross. After two years at the front and a wound that had taken longer to heal than it should, he was glad to ttle down quietly at Apia for twelve months at least, and he felt already better for the journey. Since some of the pasngers were leaving the ship next day at Pago-Pago they had had a little dance that evening and in his ears hammered still the harsh notes of the mechanical piano. But the deck was quiet at last. A little way off he saw his wife in a long chair talking with the Davidsons, and he strolled over to her. When he sat down under the light and took off his hat you saw that he had very red hair, with a bald patch on the crown, and the red, freckled skin which accompanies red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, preci and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a Scots accent in a very low, quiet voice.
第一次相亲应该聊些什么Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arin the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to propinquity rather than to any community of taste. Their
chief tie was the disapproval they shared of the men who spent their days and nights in the smoking-room playing poker or bridge and drinking. Mrs. Macphail was not a little flattered to think that she and her husband were the only people on board with whom the Davidsons were willing to associate, and even the doctor, shy but no fool, half unconsciously acknowledged the compliment. It was only becau he was of an argumentative mind that in their cabin at night he permitted himlf to carp.
13、What, of the following, was still hammering harsh in his ears from the night before?
Women's shrill gossip
The claps of thunder from a storm
The harsh notes of the mechanical piano
The high pitched laughter of the crew
The voices of angry men arguing
14、Which of the following words was not ud to describe Dr. Macphail?
Amiable
Red Haired
Pedantic
Freckled
Forty
15、What is the reason given for the McPhails and the Davidsons to have become good friends?
They shared the same religious beliefs
更改桌面图标They mutually disapproved of the men who played poker
They were from the same city
They had been friends for years
Their children had gone to the same school
16、Choo from the following the word that has the clost meaning to the word 'pedantic' from the first paragraph.
Nervous
Sickly
Smug
Bored
Sad
"They are not trying to force the passage of the bridge! Everything is for the best!" shouted Langdon.
"No, they dare not," shouted St. Clair in reply. "No column could live on that bridge in face of our fire."
It emed strange to Harry that the Northern troops made no attempt to cross. Why did all this
