蓝鸽英语作业

2024年4月1日发(作者：林在峨)

蓝鸽英语作业

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Passage 1

Romantic love is one of the most enticing (迷人的) topics

around. Just about every movie, TV show, and country-music

song contains some element of romance. For many, romantic

relationships are by far the most important in their lives.

As a society, we long for intimacy. We grow up believing that

if we "just meet the right person" we will be happy. This message

is popularized by modern media. It is perhaps one of the most

destructive messages around. Quentin Crisp says: "The

consuming desire of most human beings is to deliberately plant

their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would

describe this method of arching for happiness as immature ..."

When we feel unhappy it is natural to start arching for the

cau of our distress. There is nothing wrong with this, but it

becomes a problem when we start arching outside of ourlves.

We are taught that if we are happily "coupled" we won't have

problems. It is therefore natural to blame our partner for our

"aloneness." The conquences of this belief are enormously lf-destructive.

Romantic love is exciting, but what happens when the

romance wears off? Experts estimate that romantic xual

attractions last only 18 months to two years. Using love or x as

a drug will only prevent us from reaching maturity. We do need

excitement and stimulation and joy and intimacy. But in mature

love we are concerned with our loved one's joy and fulfillment.

The satisfaction comes not from our own immediate gratification,

but from the joy of giving to the other person, and watching

them grow and thrive.

If you are single, the best thing you can do to prepare for a

life-long loving relationship is to work on getting your own needs

met. The first thing to do is to start identifying what they are. For

instance: you long for affection and need a hug. Have you

thought of asking a friend to hug you? You will be amazed what

will happen if you start asking people directly to meet your needs.

You will get some negative respons, but for the most part you

will find that people are happy to help you.

Many of us were taught our needs are wrong. Our needs are

not wrong. We get into difficulty when we try to meet our needs

in indirect ways. It is not that we shouldn't enjoy the excitement

of a new relationship or love interest; we get into difficulty when

we think we will get all our needs met from this one "magical"

person.

1. What does Quentin Crisp think of the popular arch for

happiness?____

[A] The arch is not nsible.

[B] The media should be responsible for the arch.

[C] You can surely find happiness without the help of some

other person.

[D] It is advisable to make such a arch together with some

other person.

2. When one is unhappy, he tends to ____.

[A] make himlf happily coupled with another

[B] arch for the cau of his distress inside himlf

[C] arch for the cau of his distress with his partner

[D] think it's his beloved one that caus his problems

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true about

romantic love?____

[A] Romantic love lasts for a lifetime.

[B] Romantic love does not equal mature love.

[C] Romantic love is exciting but it can wear off.

[D] Many people regard romantic love as the most important

part in their lives.

4. To prepare for a life-long loving relationship, one should

identify his own needs first and ____.

[A] avoid longing for too much intimacy

[B] meet some of his needs in indirect ways

[C] ask a friend to help him find a romantic lover

[D] not get all his needs met from his partner alone

5. What is the main idea of the passage?____

[A] There is always an unequal give-and-take in mature love.

[B] We shouldn't expect romantic love to meet all our needs.

[C] It's a wrong belief that we should enjoy the excitement of

a new relationship.

[D] It is natural to derive satisfaction from watching one's

loved ones grow and thrive.

Passage 2

Born black in a land where white people were powerful and

respected, born female in a land where decisions were masculine

(男子的), I had been afraid of the life of poverty and despair. In

the prime of my youth, whenever I thought about growing old, I

always carried a profound belief that I wouldn't live past the age

of 28. Tears would fill my eyes and bathe my face when I thought

of dying before my son became an adolescent.

I was thirty-six before I realized I had lived years beyond my

deadline and needed to revi my thinking about an early death.

I would live to e my son an adult and mylf at the half-century

mark. With that realization life turned sweeter. Old acquaintances

became friendships, and new acquaintances showed themlves

more interesting. I did not live in undue absorption in the bygone

loves burdened with disappointments and betrayals. I found new

loves were coming.

I decided I would connt to living to an old age. White

strands of hair would emerge near my temple (太阳穴). I would

speak more slowly, choosing my words just like an elder

stateswoman. My clothes would gradually become more

distinguished-looking: gray suits and elegant dress. And while

I would refu to wear old ladies' comforts, I would give away the

three-inch-high heels that had given me the advantage of being

taller than nearly everyone el in the world. And I would choo

good shoes with medium heels. I would keep company with

other old women who would be equally prettily dresd, and I

would always have an elegant, well-dresd man holding my arm.

Tho were my plans. But at sixty my body which had never

displayed a mind of its own, turned uncontrollable, stubborn and

disloyal. My face became wrinkled, the skin on my thighs turned

lumpy (粗糙的) and my waist thickened. I began to be

overwhelmed with doubt and pessimism.

But now, as I walk slowly nearer to my ventieth year, my

optimism has returned. My appetites have also returned. True, I

can't eat fried chicken with potato salad and then head for

bed. I eat smaller portions earlier and try to take a short walk.

A smooth Scotch whisky still caus me to smile, and a decent

wine is received with gratitude. What I have learned so far about

aging, despite the old bones and the wrinkles of one's once-silken skin, is this: do it. By all means, do it.

6. The narrator believed she wouldn't live past the age of 28

becau ____.

[A] her parents did not live past that age

[B] she could not live long without her son

[C] her husband was white and treated her badly at home

[D] the prospect of leading a life of poverty and without

respect rendered her hopeless

7. Deciding she would live to an old age, the narrator

planned her future life in a way that she would ____.

[A] speak more slowly and wear old ladies' comforts

[B] speak like an elder stateswoman and dress herlf

elegantly

[C] make friends with other elegantly dresd men and

women

[D] wear shoes with high heels to give her the advantage of

being taller

8. Which word can be ud to describe the narrator's attitude

toward life when she reached sixty?____

[A] Rentful.

[B] Optimistic.

[C] Pessimistic.

[D] Grateful.

9. Which of the following statements is true about the

narrator?____

[A] As she grew older, she found life more difficult.

[B] Only when she turned 70 did she find life sweet.

[C] As she grew old, she spent more time thinking about her

bygone loves.

[D] At different stages of her life, she had different

understandings of aging.

10. By describing her life experiences, what does the author

intend to tell us?____

[A] Black women should earn more power and respect.

[B] Different people have different interpretations of life and

death.

[C] Old people should pursue spiritual happiness instead of

material things.

[D] A person should be optimistic and try to enjoy life even

when he is old.

Section 1

11. Not until he saw in the mirror that his hair was turning

grey _ __ (他才意识到青春是多么短暂).he realized that the youth is

so short

Section 2

12. ____ (考虑到她只有12岁), the girl has done a good job.

Considering that she is only 12 years old

Section 3

13. ____ (正是共同的兴趣奠定了友谊的基础), although good

friends do not necessarily have everything in common. It is

common interest lay a foundation of friendship

Section 4

14. Happiness should not be bad on money, big hous,

etc. becau ____ (无论这些物质的东西给你带来了多么高的社会地位),

they will not bring lasting happiness to you at all. Whether the

material things to bring you a very high social status

Section 5

15. Did you read Sam's article in today's newspaper? ____ (再没有比如此无耻地扭曲事实更让人厌恶的了). There is nothing so

shamelessly distore the facts more disgusting.

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Passage 1

Millions of Americans vacation abroad in the summer not

only to e new sights but also with the hope of forming new

friendships. The difficulty when strangers from two countries

meet is that they have different expectations about what [16]N

friendship and how it comes into being. In tho European

countries that Americans are most likely to visit, genuine

friendship is quite sharply [17] I from other, more casual relations.

For a Frenchman, friendship usually carries a heavier burden of

[18] G . But for us Americans, "friend" can be applied to a wide

range of relationships: some are superficial; some are enduring.

For the French, friendship demands a [19] H awareness of the

other person's intellect, tastes and particular interests.

Intellectual friends may meet for evenings of conversation.

Working people may meet at the little pub where they drink and

talk. Marriage does not affect such friendships; wives do not have

to be taken into [20] J. The special relationship of friendship is

bad on what the French value most - on the mind and on the

[21] L of their outlooks on life.

English friendships follow still a different pattern. Their basis

is [22 ] K activity. In the midst of the activity, whatever it may be,

people play a game or tell stories or [23]D as members of a

demanding committee. Americans who have made English

friends comment that, even years later, "You can take up just

where you [24] O off." Meeting after a long interval, friends are

like a couple who begin to dance again when the orchestra strikes

up after a pau.

What, then, is friendship? It involves freedom of choice. A

friend is someone who choos and is chon. Each friend gives

the other the n of being a special individual, on whatever [25]

C it is bad. And between friends there is inevitably a kind of

equality of give and take. The similarities make the bridge

between societies possible, and the American's openness to

different styles of relationship makes it possible for him to find

new friends abroad with whom he feels at home.

A) account

B)compatibility

C) commitment D) constitutes

E)

distinguished

F) forged

G) grounds

H) keen

I) left

J) originated

K) remote

L) shared

M) rve

N) sincerity

O) worthy

第二次作业阅读理解

Passage 1

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well

as by the company he keeps;

for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and

one should

always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of

men.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same

today that it always was,

and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful

of companions.

It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or

distress. It always

receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing

us in youth,

and comforting and consoling (抚慰) us in age.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the love

they have each for a book - just as two persons sometimes

discover a friend by the admiration which

both have for a third. There is an old proverb, "Love me, love

my dog." But

there is more wisdom in this: "Love me, love my book." The

book is a truer

and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and

sympathize with each

other through their favorite author. They live in him together,

and he in

them.

"The poet's ver (诗句)," said Hazlitt, "slides in the current of

our blood. We read them when young, we remember them when

old. We feel that it has

happened to ourlves. They are to be had very cheap and

good. We

breathe but the air of books."

A good book is often the best urn (瓮) of a life enshrining the

best that life could think

out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the

world of his

thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words,

the golden

thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our

constant

companions and comforters. "They are never alone," said Sir

Philip Sidney,

"that are accompanied by noble thoughts."

Books bring us into the prence of the greatest minds that

have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we e them as

if they were really alive; we

sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them;

their

experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were, in a

measure, actors

with them in the scenes which they describe.

The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed

(保存) in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice.

It is an intellect to which one

still listens. Hence we ever remain under the influence of the

great men of

old. The imperial intellects of the world are as much alive now

as they were

ages ago.

12. The main idea of the first paragraph is that ____.

[A] one should read good books

[B] books are like one's best companions

[C] one should make friends with good books

[D] one should not live without books and friends

13. The word "affinity" in the third paragraph most probably

means ____.

[A] similarity

[B] understanding

[C] rewards

[D] compassion

14. A good book provides us with ____.

[A] survival skills in society

[B] love for the whole of humanity

[C] good words and golden thoughts

[D] vers written by the best poets

15. By saying "The great and good do not die even in this

world", the author means that

____.

[A] the influence of great men never stops

[B] writers normally enjoy a long life in history

[C] good books have been well cherished in history

[D] books have best prerved the wisdom of great writers

16. The best title of the passage is "____".

[A] The Role of Books

[B] The Influence of Books

[C] The Companionship of Books

[D] The Contribution of Books

Passage 2

To adjust your baby to the external world, educating him is

your main assignment. How will you educate him? What role will

he play in the world?

According to Darwin's theory of the evolution of the species,

we are a competitive species and one survives by adapting itlf

biologically to diver

environments through diver ways. Competition was a

resource uful for

the progress of society and for the survival of human beings.

Today, however, the challenges are different. The 21st

century is a computer science age, but there are environmental

imbalance, deaths of thousands of

children every day by starvation and countless epidemics (流行病).

Therefore, it is urgent that the philosophy of preparing our

children for

competition and power be replaced by one of preparing

them for love and

cooperation.

The earth is a unique home to us all. The ecological (生态的)

balance has to be pursued and this pursuit reflects the internal

balance of each living being.

We must educate our children so that they want to prerve

nature and

thus to prerve the opportunity to render themlves more

powerful and

capable in society. Our children have to learn that we don't

need to

practice actions that benefit only our homeland while all

other countries

are destroyed. The destruction of other countries and lives

leads to the

impossibility of the future existence of the place we call

home. It

imbalances the eco-system and shades the hope of a better

future. We

must teach our children that the main necessity of men and

children is love.

Love is good to ourlves, others and nature. But it is getting

harder to love

or to donate something good to another. We are not capable

of

demonstrating hate to a flower, grabbing it and throwing it

at the floor and

stepping on it. It sounds insane! But we are innsitive to the

extent of

eing a homeless person thrown there on the ground and

pretending it's

not our problem! Our exaggerated competition has led us to

total

innsibility!

17. Darwin's theory of evolution tells that ____.

[A] cooperation leads to the progress of society

[B] one survives by adapting onelf well to the competitive

world

[C] the survival of human beings depends on the progress of

society

[D] one survives by cooperating well with others in diver

environments

18. Why should we prepare children for love and cooperation

in the 21st century?____

[A] Becau we are confronted with new challenges.

[B] Becau the 21st century is a computer science age.

[C] Becau they will live in a more completive society.

[D] Becau environmental imbalance has caud many

deaths.

19. What is the benefit of keeping an ecological balance?____

[A] We can prerve our existing environment.

[B] It will help maintain our internal balance.

[C] We will become more competitive in society.

[D] Our kids will live in a better natural environment.

20. Which of the following should NOT be embodied in our

philosophy of education? ____

[A] Our children should learn to cherish a love for mankind.

[B] Our children should know how the eco-system benefits

us.

[C] Our children should be educated to value our own

homeland better than other

countries.

[D] Our children need to know that individuals are

interdependent despite their

differences.

21. The purpo of this passage is to ____.

[A] analyze the role that competition plays in a child's

education

[B] propo that we should educate children to love and

cooperate with others

[C] introduce the ways of overcoming children's fears of

stepping into the world

[D] explain why competition and cooperation should coexist

in modern society

Section 1

22. He was immerd in the virtual world ____ (突然断电了).

Sudden power

Section 2

23. The more stress you lay on scores, ____ (学生的成绩可能会越差). Student

achievement may be wor

Section 3

24. Be nice to him. He came here ____ (不是为了吵架，而是想协商达成一致). Not to

quant, but to reach an agreement

Section 4

25. The two companies cooperate so well ____ (赢得了该地区大部分的客户).

To win customers in most of the area

Section 5

26. As is universally acknowledged, ____ (一个国家如果不向世界打开门户它就不可能

繁荣昌盛). If a county does not open the door to the world it

wound not

be thriving and prosperous

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Passage 1

The Olympic flame reprents the basic spiritual significance

of the Olympics and it is a symbol of peace among peoples of

the world.

In memories of the Olympic Games' origin, the flame is lit

some months before the opening of the Games. The torch is

usually carried hand-to-hand by relays

of runners from Olympia to the main [27] K of the current

Games. To

carry the torch during any part of its journey is considered a

great honour.

In 2004 the first global torch relay was undertaken in a

journey that [28]

H 78 days. The relay of the Olympic flame [29] M a distance

of more

than 78,000 km in the hands of some 11,300 torchbearers.

On the day of the opening of the Games, the flame enters

the stadium, [30] N it will continue to burn for the entire length

of the Games. The flame is

extinguished (熄灭) on the final day of the Games at the

closing [31] B .

The torch ceremony ts the Olympic Games [32] A from any

other sports event.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the Modern

Olympics concluded

that the torch ceremony had four specific [33] L : 1) historical

meaning;

2) an educational message; 3) artistic appeal; 4) religious

esnce.

Historically, the most common u of the torches was to shed

light in darkness, especially for travelers at night. Educationally,

the message for mankind

was to teach people [34] I play and instill (灌输) a high regard

for

cooperation and togetherness. Artistically, the torch [35] E

the

elegance of the ceremonies. Finally, the religious esnce

derives from the

first Olympic Games in 776 B.C. when young boys raced 200

yards to win

the [36] C of lighting the altar (圣坛) fire honoring the Greek

god

Zeus.

A) apart

B) ceremony

C) champion

D) conquered

E) covered

F) enhances

G) fair

H) lasted

I) privilege

J) reliable

K) stadium

L) traits

M) transmits

N) when

O) where

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Passage 1

Changes in the atmosphere

If you were to compare the earth with an apple from the

supermarket, the atmosphere would be no thicker than the layer

of shiny wax applied to it.

Yet this thin, finite wrapping of air around the planet receives

more than

700,000 metric tons of pollutants each day in the United

States alone.

Pollutants are substances with which ecosystems have had

no prior

evolutionary experience, in terms of kinds or amounts, and

so have no

mechanisms for dealing with them. From the human

perspective,

pollutants are substances that verely affect our health,

activities, or

survival.

Local air pollution

Industrial smog is gray air that predominates in

industrialized cities with cold, wet winters. London, New York,

Pittsburgh, and Chicago are examples. The

cities u fossil fuel for heating, manufacturing, and

producing electric

power. The burning fuel releas airborne pollutants,

including dust, smoke,

ashes, soot, asbestos, oil, bits of heavy metals, and sulfur

oxides (硫氧化合

物). Industrial smog was the cau of London's 1952 air

pollution, in which

4,000 people died.

Photochemical (光化学的) smog is brown and smelly

trademark of large cities found in warm climates. When the

surrounding land forms a natural basin, as it

does around Los Angeles and Mexico city, photochemical

smog can reach

harmful concentrations. The main component of

photochemical is nitric

oxide (一氧化氮) ,which is produced chiefly by cars and other

vehicles with

internal combustion engines. Nitric oxide reacts with oxygen

in the air to

form nitrogen dioxide(二氧化氮). When expod to sunlight,

nitrogen

dioxide can react with hydrocarbons to from photochemical

oxidant(光化

氧化物质). Other components of smog are ozone and PANs

( short for

peroxyacetyl nitrates(硝酸过氧乙酰酯)). PANs are similar to

tear gas; even

traces can sting the eyes and irritate the lungs.

Acid deposition 1

Oxides of sulfur(硫磺) and nitrogen(氮) are among the most

dangerous air pollutant.

Coal-burning power plants, factories, and metal smelters (金属冶炼厂)are

the main sources of sulfur dioxides. Vehicles, power plants

that burn fossil

fuels, and nitrogen fertilizers are sources of nitrogen oxides.

Depending on climatic conditions, tiny particles of the

substances may be airborne for a while and then fall to earth as

dry acid deposition. Most sulfur and

nitrogen dioxides dissolve in atmospheric water to form

weak solutions of

sulfuric acid and nitric acid. Winds can distribute them over

great distances

before they fall to earth in rain or snow; this is called wet acid

deposition.

Acid rain can be four to forty times more acidic than normal

rainwater,

sometimes as much as lemon juice. The acid attack marble,

metals, mortar,

rubber, plastic, even nylon stockings. And they are disrupting

ecosystems. Rearchers confirmed years ago that power plants,

factories, and vehicles are the main sources of acid deposition,

and that the depositions are indeed

damaging the environment. Not much has been done about

it. Also, some

of the respons to local air pollution standards have

contributed to the

problem, as when very tall smokestack(大烟囱)are added to

power plants

and smelting plants. The idea is to dump acid-laden smoke

high in the

atmosphere so winds can distribute it elwhere－which

winds readily do.

The world's tallest smokestack, in Sunbury, Ontario, accounts

for about one

per cent of the annual worldwide emission of sulfur dioxide.

Damage to the ozone layer

The ozone layer in the lower stratosphere (平流层) absorbs

most of the ultraviolet wavelengths (紫外线的波长) from the sun--a form of radiation that is

harmful to organisms. Yet this layer has been thinning since

1976. Each

spring, an ozone "hole" appears over the Antarctic; it extends

over an area

about the size of the continental United States.

Satellites and high-altitude planes have been monitoring the

ozone hole since 1978 by 1987, ozone levels above Antarctica

had declined by fifty per cent--this

compared to the previous worst ca of forty per cent in

1985.

The reduction in the ozone layer is allowing more ultraviolet

(紫外线的)radiation to reach the earth's surface, with potentially

rious and wide-ranging

conquences. Already there has been a dramatic increa in

skin cancers,

which almost certainly are related to increas in ultraviolet

radiation.

Contracts (白内障) may become more common, and it

appears that

ultraviolet radiation also can weaken the immune system,

making

individuals more vulnerable to some viral and parasitic(寄生的)infections. The cau of ozone reduction are hotly debated in

the scientific community, To be

sure, large volcanic eruption and cyclic(周期的)changes in

solar activity

have some effects. But the prime suspects are

chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs氯

氟碳), which are compounds of chlorine and carbon. The

odorless,

invisible, and otherwi harmless compounds are widely

ud as

propellants in aerosol spray cans, collants in refrigerators and

conditioners,

and industrial solvents; and they also are ud in making

plastic foams,

including the Styrofoam cups and cartons ud for

packaging foods, drinks,

and other consumer goods.

An international group asmbled by the United Nations

Environment Program agreed to a draft treaty to halve CFC

emissions by the year 1999. Most nations

em certain to ratify (承认，批准) its provisions. The treaty is

a step in the

right direction, although some feel that it is too little and too

late. CFCs

already in the air will be there for over a century, before

natural process

eutralize them. You, your children, and your grandchildren

will be living

with their destructive effects. Think about that, the next time

you carry a

Styrofoam container (泡沫塑料饭盒) from a fast-food

restaurant.

59. The atmosphere around the planet receives more than

700,000 metric tons of pollutants

each day worldwide.____

Y

N

NG

60. It can be inferred that PANs may do great harm to eyes

and lungs.____

Y

N

NG

61. Acid rain is as acidic as normal rainwater.____

Y

N

NG

62. Very tall smokestacks are erected to distribute the the

sulfur dioxide, thus relieving the

problem of acid deposition.____

Y

N

NG

63. The increa in skin cancers and contracts should be

attributed to the acid

deposition.____

Y

N

NG

64. The cau of ozone reduction is still in doubt, although

there are some asrtion.____ Y

N

NG

65. China also agreed to halve CFC emissions in the light of

the appeal United Nations

Environment Program.____

Y

N

NG

66. In 1952, the air pollution in London was caud

by .FOSSIL FUEL

67. In Sunbury, Ontario, the world's tallest smokestack

accounts for about one percent

of the annual worldwide emission of sulfur dioxide.

68. Most of the ultraviolet wavelengths from the sun was

absorbed by the reduction

in the lower stratosphere.