科目:高中英语 来源:2012-2013学年福建省福州外国语学校高二上学期期中考试英语卷(带解析) 题型:阅读理解
Is it true that cats have nine lives? One 4-year-old American cat named Sugar definitely seems to have more than one. Sugar fell from the 19th floor of her owner’s home in Boston last month and was only hurt a little on her chest.
“This story isn’t much of a surprise,” said Jake Socha, a scientist at Virginia Tech University, US, in an interview with the BBC. “There have been lots of records of these cats surviving.”
Back in 1987, scientists studied 132 cats. All of them had been brought to a vet’s clinic in New York after falling from tall buildings. Around 90 percent of these cats were alive after their fall and only 37 percent had been seriously injured.
“Being able to survive falls is a critical thing for animals that live in trees, and cats are one of them,” said Socha.
Cats have developed special body structures to survive accidental falls. Their legs are muscular. This can protect their bones from breaking, Professor Andrew Biewener from Harvard University told the BBC. Cats can also spread out their legs like a parachute to reduce their falling speed, he said.
The strange part, according to scientists, is that cats have a better chance of survival if they fall from higher than seven stories. This is because cats have a good sense of which way is down. They can twist their bodies as they fall to make sure they land on their feet. A higher fall means more time for the cat to change its body position.
However, you should not throw your cat out of the window to see how this works. Most pet cats are overweight nowadays. They are not fit enough to change their position in midair, warned Steve Dale, an American cat behavior scientist.
“This cat (Sugar) was lucky,” Dale said. In fact, most cats would suffer serious lung damage, a broken leg or a broken jaw or teeth damage, he said.
【小题1】What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A.Cats really do have nine lives. |
B.Many cats can survive falls. |
C.Cats are the softest animals in the world. |
D.More than half of the cats that fall from high places end up badly injured. |
A.Important. | B.Easy. | C.Challenging. | D.Serious. |
A.a, b | B.b, c | C.c, d | D.b, d |
A.A pet cat that falls out of a tall building is not really at risk. |
B.Sugar was lucky that she was only injured in the leg. |
C.Cats are confused as to which way is down when they are in midair. |
D.A cat that falls from the fourth story of a building is more likely to die than one that falls from the 10th story. |
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— Jake told me he was in the museum just now.
— He is actually at home.________, he’s upstairs doing his homework.
A.Believe it or not | B.In general |
C.In your opinion | D.In the end |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015届黑龙江牡丹江一中高一下期期末考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
SYDNEY 2005-01-01 08:33—Mother of two, Jillian Searle, had to choose between her children when she made a life-or-death decision.
Swept up by mountainous tsunami (海啸) waves at a Thai resort ( 旅游胜地), she could not hold on to both her young sons and survive . Fighting to stay above the waters , she had to choose which one would have to take his chances in the swirling torrent (漩流).
“I knew I had to let go of one of them and I just thought I’d better let go of the one that’s the older,” she told Sky News television in a report broadcast on Thursday. She said she was accompanied by the two boys, Lachie, 5, and two-year-old Blake, and their father, Brad, who had watched the drama helplessly from their first-floor hotel room, when the waves struck. “And I was screaming, trying to find him, and we thought he was dead,” she told reporters on arrival back in Australia. Lachie was found alive about 2 hours later clinging to a door and, looked uninjured as his mother spoke to reporters.
British surfer (冲浪运动员) Martin Markwell is also a lucky man. He had always dreamed of catching that perfect wave –but when it finally came along, it was a nightmare. He was on his surfboard when he was swept up by a tsunami wave.
“It was really terrible because I was surfing, I was really surfing on a wave I wasn’t supposed to be on,” he said. “As an experienced surfer, when I saw the wave come I realized something was wrong, but I couldn’t escape because my surfboard was tied to my ankle.”
His wife Vicki and son Jake looked on in horror from a hotel balcony as he crashed towards the shore. Luckily , he stayed on top of his board until he reached the hotel , jumped off and got to safety as the ocean rolled back to feed a much larger tsunami wave on its way . The family regrouped and ran to safety just minutes before a giant tsunami wave 10 meters high.
1.When the waves struck, the father Brad .
A. reported the disaster to Sky News television
B. was watching a drama play on TV in the hotel
C. tried to find his son lost in the waters
D. watched things going on , unable to do anything
2.The underlined word “him” refers to .
A. an old man B. Lachie C. Brad D. Blake
3.Which of the following is wrong ?
A. Lachie and Martin were both with their family members when the disaster happened.
B. Lachie and Martin both survived from the high waves when tsunami struck.
C. Lachie and Martin were both travelers from Europe on holiday in Thailand.
D. Lachie and Martin were both alive owing to their good luck.
4.The best title of this news story would be .
A. Narrow Escape B. Disaster Caused by Tsunami
C. Exciting Surfing Experience D. Struggle Against Tsunami
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— Jake told me he was in the museum just now.
— He is actually at home.________, he’s upstairs doing his homework.
A.Believe it or not B.In general
C.In your opinion D.In the end
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