3.　 What does the underlined word “critical”mean?

　　 A. Important.　　　 B. Careless.　　 C. Dangerous.　　　 D. Surprising.

2. 　According to the passage, the busiest rail route in Britain is　　　　　

　　 A. From Preston to Carlisle　　　　 B. Between Euston and Glasgow

　　 C. From Oxenholme to Tebay　　　 D. Between Virgin and Pendolino

1. 　What made the rescue come so late?

　　 A. It's not accessible to reach the accident spot.

　　 B. No enough helicopters and ambulances could be found at that time.

　　 C. It was too far from hospital to Cumbria.

　　 D. No one called the emergency center.

9.　 What is the author’s view on the tiger-shoots he has seen?

A.Modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-face

B.Modern hunters should use more advanced weapons

C.Modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigers

D.Modern hunters should put their safety first

第25天　　　　　　　　　　　　 A

An elderly woman died and several other passengers were critically injured when a crowded Virgin express train crashed in Cumbria last night.

　　 A huge rescue operation involving RAF helicopters and dozens of ambulances arrive. After passengers were trapped in the train for more than four hours because fallen power line poles made access for emergency workers difficult.

　　 Authorities reported up to 80 injuries. Thirteen people were taken to hospital in a“critical or serious condition.”

　　 Between 180 and 200 passengers were on the 5:15pm Virgin service from London Euston to Glasgow Central when all nine carriages left the rails between Oxenholme and Tebay. Witnesses said that the train shook violently before toppling(倾斜) over into an embankment(筑堤)with at least four carriages overturning. Early this morning, authorities confirmed an elderly woman had died and some other passengers had suffered injuries including back strains, head wounds and broken bones.

　　 Ruth Colton, a passenger on the train, said she was reading a book when the journey became uncomfortable. It seemed that the train was being beaten by heavy winds,“as if we were on a plane”.

　　 The accident brought concerns that Britain's busiest rail route would be crippled(瘫痪)for some time. The line between Preston and Carlisle was postponed as Virgin Trains promised a rapid investigation into the “serious incident”-the company's first big crash.

　　 It is understood that the investigation will examine whether there was an obstacle on the track and the possibility of speeding or mechanical breakdown. The driver, who was injured, will be interviewed and a black-box recorder installed in the train will be examined.

8.　 What do we learn about the big-game hunters?

A.They hunt old animals

B.They mistreat animals

C.They hunt for food

D.They hunt for money

7.　 The author thinks modern hunters kill mainly____.

A.to make the countryside safe

B.to earn people’s admiration

C.to gain power and influence

D.to improve their health

6.　 There is no more hunting in India now partly because___.

A.it is dangerous to hunt there

B.hunting is already out of date

C.hunters want to protect animals

D.there are few animals left to hunt

5.　 What is the passage mainly about?

A. Negotiation in family　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　B. Education in family

C. Harmony in family　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. Teenage trouble in family

B

Hunting

The days of the hunter are almost over in India. This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals which still survive.

Some people say that Man is naturally a hunter. I disagree with this view. Surely out earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.

I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself.

The greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives(动机).One of them wrote.

“You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animal’s own territory(领地)。You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day. This is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals, Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing – not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people.”

I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears(矛) and bravely caught them by the tail. But this is very different from many tiger-shoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used.The so-called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants. Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits. (07北京卷)

4.　 According to the author, teenage rebellion____.

A. may be a false belief　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. is common nowadays

C. existed only in the 1960s　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. resulted from changes in families

3.　 Compared with parents of 30 years age, today’s parents___.

A. go to clubs more often with their children　　　　　 B. are much stricter with their children

C. care less about their children’s life　　　　　　　　 D. give their children more freedom