“Remove your beak at once,” ordered the clam. But the bird was stubborn, though she was able to pull out her beak, she refused.
“I will not remove my beak until you open your shell,” the bird mumbled. Like the clam, she found it was difficult to speak clearly under the situation. Of course, the clam was not about to listen to the bird and open his shell. But the bird threatened (威胁),“Open your shell or you’ll be a dead clam.” “Remove your beak at once,” returned the clam.
“Open it!”
“ Remove it!”
“Open it!”
The two went back and forth like this for several hours. But neither of them would follow the other’s orders first, they stayed in such a state until a young man who happened to come here and carried two of them off for dinner!
( )41. Why the clam choose the bank to have a rest?
A. Because it was a place where he felt cool when the clouds passed and warm when the sun returned.
B. Because he likes daydreaming.
C. Because it wanted to meet the bird on the bank..
D. Because it could find some food for dinner.
( )42. In the fourth paragraph, the word “mumble” means _________.
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A.慢条斯理地说 B.含糊地说 C.狠狠地说 D.快速的说
( )43. Which of the following can be true according to the passage?
A. The clam opened his shell first. B. The bird removed his beak first
C. The clam and the bird didn’t agree with each other until the young man came
D. The clam and the bird were cooked as a good dinner by the young man
( )44.Which of the following sayings can explain the story well?
A. Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
B. Two heads are better than one.
C. Think twice before you do
D. Saying is one thing and doing another
( )45. The best title of the passage is _________.
A. Remove it first B. A daydream
C. A stubborn bird D. The bird and the clam
D
Look at the center circles of Diagram (图)A and Diagram B.
Which of the centre circles looks larger? In Diagram B. In fact , they
are exactly the same size.
Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase? Or two faces?Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time.
“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:
When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret(解读)the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it “visual illusion(视觉错误)”.
Movie makers often make use of visual illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk the kids just make use of visual illusions.
( )46. Why does the centre circle in Diagram A look smaller than that in Diagram B?
A. something is wrong with our eyes
B. the two circles are not the same size
C. our brains interpret the information in a wrong way
D. the two pictures change quickly from one to the other
( )47. What’s the right order according to the passage?
a. We look at things with our eyes.
b. Our brains interpret the messages.
c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.
d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.
A. a d b c B. c a b d C. a c d b D. b c a d
( )48. What do movie makers make use of visual illusions for ?
A. To help the actors look better
B. To make the actors much braver
C. To help the actors become stronger
D. To make the actors seem different in size ( )49. In the picture on the right, it seems that Line AB is shorter
than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line CD.
Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?
A. The second one. B. The third one.
C. The fourth one. D. The sixth one.
( )50. Where is the text probably taken from?
A. an advertisement B. a science book
C. a movie magazine D. a story book
第Ⅱ卷 (非选择题，共50分)
四、根据句意，用所给词的适当形式填空： (共10小题，每小题1分，计10分)
51. Mary passed her exam because she studied very ___________(hard).
52. That’s the ________(enter) to the hall. Please come this way.
53. Look! How ________(happy) Kate looks after hearing the bad news!
54. The man in his (forty) is the person who saved that boy.
55.I can’t __________(simple) understand what you said.
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