In Britain, people have different attitudes(态度)to the police. Most people generally   1  them and the job they do, but some people said that the police shouldn’t    have special   2 .

What does a policeman actually do? It is not a(n)  3  job to describe. After all，a policeman has a number of jobs to do. A policeman often has to   4  traffic, either on foot in the centre of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed，in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend a lot of time  5  up and down main roads. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving，stop speeding cars and help when there is a(n)  6  .

A policeman has to help keep the  7 ，too. If there is a fight, we  8  the police to come immediately. And they often have to deal with situation at great risk of their own  9 .

We want the police to solve crimes，of course，so an ordinary(普通) policeman,    10  he is not a detective，he will often have to help   11  criminals. And   12  do we call when there is an emergency—an air crash，a fire or an earthquake？Of course the police. So a policeman has to  13  to face any terrible emergency that may happen in the modern world.

The police do a  14  job，they do it so well that I support them. But I do not envy policemen. I do not think that I could   15  do the job of a policeman.

1.                A．dislike　　　    B．protect         C．admire　　　  D．suspect

 

2.                A．power　　      B．thoughts        C．knowledge    D．abilities

 

3.                A．funny　　      B．difficult　　     C．attractive　　 D．easy

 

4.                A．control         B．stop　　　      C．remove　　　　   D．break

 

5.                A．walking　　     B．driving　　　    C．marching　　  D．searching

 

6.                A．murder         B．robbery        C．accident  D．theft

 

7.                A．peace　　　    B．balance         C．situation　　　 D．rule

 

8.                A．order　　      B．encourage      C．allow　　　   D．expect

 

9.                A．family　        B．safety　　      C．future　　　  D．work

 

10.               A．only if　　      B．as 　　        C．since　　 D．even if

 

11.               A．interview　　　 B．notice          C．arrest　　　   D．warn

 

12.               A．how　　　　    B．where         C．what　　　    D．who

 

13.               A．hope　　　     B．promise　　　   C．prepare　　   D．decide

 

14.               A．comfortable     B．hopeless        C．necessary  D．meaningless

 

15.               A．hardly　　      B．ever　　       C．forever　　　 D．never

 

 

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One evening I went to have dinner with my uncle and aunt. They had 　l invited another person, a young woman, so that there would be four people at 2　 . Her face was familiar (面熟的). I was quite 　3 　that we had met 4 , but I could not 　5 　where I had seen her face. In the course of the talk, however, the young woman 　6 　to tell us that she had lost her purse the other day. All at once I remembered where I had seen her face. She was just the young girl in the photo in the purse I had picked up while walking down the street that afternoon, although she looked much older. She was 　7 　, of course, when I was 　8 　to describe her purse to her. Then I explained (解释) that I had recognized (认出) her from the photo I had found in the purse. My uncle insisted on going to the police station immediately to fetch the purse.

As the policeman handed it 　9 , he said I had found not 　10 　the purse, but the person who had lost it.

1.	A．too B．also　　 　 C．else D．either

 

2.	A．once B．noon C．table D．work

 

3.	A．strange B．happy C．certain D．excited

 

4.	A．before 　　 B．ago C．then D．soon

 

5.	A．know B．find C．see D．remember

 

6.	A．began B．wanted C．happened D．decided

 

7.	A．glad B．angry C．strange D．surprised

 

8.	A．able B．about C．sorry D．ready

 

9.	A．over B．in C．up D．down

 

10.	A．also B．only C．yet D．except

 

When you look up into the sky at night, have you ever felt that your eyes are playing tricks on (捉弄) you? It seems that the stars are moving all the time.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with your eyes. This twinkling effect is called scintillation (交光). Scintillation happens because of air movements in the earth’s atmosphere (大气). Light is “bent (弯曲的)” when it travels through different parts of the earth’s atmosphere. As the air in the earth’s atmosphere is moving all the time, the light from the stars looks as if it is moving too.
The same thing also happens to things on the ground. On a very hot and shiny day, if you look at the road, the image in the distance is not clear and things move slightly. You can also see the same effect if you drop a rock into water. The rock appears a little unclear under the moving water.
This twinkling effect causes a lot of problems for astronomers (天文学家) since they cannot observe the stars clearly. A telescope (望远镜) was sent into space so that the air movements in the atmosphere could be avoided (避免). It took a long time to build the space telescope but finally in 1990, a huge space telescope called the Hubble Space Telescope was successfully sent into space. Since then, astronomers have many important observations that have helped people understand space better.
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【小题1】What happens to the light from the stars we see when the air in the earth’s atmosphere is moving?

A．It looks even brighter.

B．It looks as if it is bent.

C．It looks as if it is moving.

D．It looks like drops of rain.

【小题2】Scintillation also happens on 　　　　 according to the passage.

A．rainy days	B．shiny days
C．cloudy days	D．windy days

【小题3】What can you see when you drop a rock into the water?

A．The rock gets broken.

B．The rock becomes unclear.

C．The water becomes much polluted.

D．The water does not move anymore.

【小题4】The underlined word “observe” means “　　　　”.

A．watch

B．listen

C．draw

D．explain

【小题5】Why is scintillation a problem for astronomers?

A．The stars never stay still.

B．It makes the stars too dark to see.

C．It makes astronomers feel too hot to work.

D．Astronomers cannot observe the stars clearly.

Now satellites are helping to forecast the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere（大气）, because this is where the weather forms. They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists（气象学家）can see the weather of any part of the world. From the pictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change.
　　Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries receive satellite pictures. When they receive new pictures, the meteorologists compare them with earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, the meteorologists can say this.
So the weather satellites are a great help to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented, the scientists could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead（提前）.
【小题1】Satellites travel ___________.

A．in space	B．in the atmosphere
C．above the ground	D．above space

【小题2】 Why do we use the weather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere?
Because ________.

A．the weather satellites can do it easily	B．clouds form there
C．the weather forms there	D．the pictures can forecast the weather

【小题3】Meteorologists forecast the weather ________.

A．when they have received satellite pictures

B．after they have compared new satellite pictures with earlier ones

C．before they received satellite pictures

D．during they study satellite pictures

【小题4】Maybe we’ll soon be able to forecast the weather for ________.

A．one day	B．two days
C．five days	D．seven days or even longer

【小题5】The main idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in ______.

A．taking pictures of the atmosphere

B．receiving pictures of the atmosphere

C．doing other work in many ways

D．weather forecasting