单选题The mention of the discovery of 110 previously unknown epigrams by the poet Posidippus serves what purpose in the passage?A Revealing insights into the nuances of court culture in Hellenistic EgyptB Demonstrating how durable a material papyrus can beC
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Revealing insights into the nuances of court culture in Hellenistic Egypt
Demonstrating how durable a material papyrus can be
Arguing for a greater appreciation of this little-known Hellenistic poet
Highlighting the importance of royal patronage in the development or arts and literature in the Hellenistic world
Illustrating the kind of discovery that can be made from researching papyrus fragments
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第1题：
What does the passage tell us?
A. Confidence is more important than modesty.
B. How to accept compliments given by westerners.
C. The Chinese people are modest while westerners are confident.
D. The western culture.
正确答案：C此题为主旨题。根据短文的内容，最后得出本文告诉我们的是：中国人谦虚而西方人自信。
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第2题：
How long is this cell phone guaranteed?()
A、 No problem
B、 You can refund it in 7 days and exchange it in one year
C、 Don’t mention it
参考答案：B
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第3题：
单选题Some paleontologists claim that the discovery of what appear to be feathers in the fossil of an Archosaur could force a revision of current theories on the phylogeny of Archosaurs, alter conceptions of dinosaur skin surfaces, and require scholars to credit birds with a far earlier orion than previously thought.Arequire scholars to credit birds with a far earlier origin than previously thought
Bscholars may be required to credit birds with a far earlier origin than previously thought
Crequire a crediting by scholars of birds with a far earlier origin than previously thought
Dcompared to what was previously thought, require scholars to credit birds with a far earlier origin
Ecrediting birds with a far earlier origin than scholars had previously though
正确答案： A解析：
几个选项相比来看，A项在语法和句法上都比较合适，故本题选A项。 -
第4题：
单选题The author’s primary intention in this passage appears to be which of the following?ATo shed light on the underappreciated work of the Hellenistic poet Posidippus
BTo compare the relative merits of papyrus and wood-pulp paper as media for recording information
CTo discuss the ways in which papyrus fragments help scholars learn about Hellenistic Egypt
DTo answer the questions regarding the burning of the library of Alexandria, one of the great mysteries of the ancient world
ETo suggest possibly fruitful paths for future archeological research into Hellenistic Egypt
正确答案： C解析：
主旨题。根据文章首句“one of the best sources modern scholars have for learning about Hellenistic Egypt is the large supply of papyrus fragments that have turned up in the Egyptian desert over the last century.” 可知本题应选C项。 -
第5题：
单选题Which of the following scenarios would best sport the position given in Passage 2 ?AThe gradual migration of a herd of elephants into new territory due to a shortage of water and food in their original habitat
BAn increase in prehensile taft strength after a species of monkeys began living among taller trees to avoid terrestrial predators
CThe sudden extinction of a breed of wild donkeys following a dramatic change in climate
DThe discovery of prehistoric fossils demonstrating the existence of a creature with both mammalian and amphibious characteristics
EThe discovery of a previously unknown species of crocodile in waters traditionally considered too cold for reptiles
正确答案： E解析：
第二篇文章的作者认为尽管一个物种内发生的微小变化使这个物种的生存机会增加，但是新的物种不会形成。这种观点和B中描述的情况符合。 -
第6题：
单选题The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to tell ______.Areaders how to he popular with people around
Bteenagers how to learn to make a decision for themselves
Cparents how to control and guide their children
Dpeople how to understand and respect each other
正确答案： A解析：
从倒数第二行Find yourself. Be yourself.可知作者的目的是让年轻人学会自己做决定，不要随大流。 -
第7题：
单选题What is the purpose of the passage?ATo tell us just to be ourselves in social life
BTo introduce ways to learn about the world
CTo explain how people communicate with others
DTo encourage us to meet people of different kinds
正确答案： C解析：
通读最后一段可知，作者鼓励我们走出舒适区，认识不同类型的人，只有这样我们才会走出无知，避免偏见和恐惧，这样才能交到更多的朋友，过更精彩的生活（That’s how we make friends… That’s how we live an exciting life.）。因此选D项。 -
第8题：
单选题Which is the best title for the passage?AWhat Is Archaeology?
BArchaeology and History.
CAn Amazing Archaeological Discovery.
DThe Death of "Lindow Man".
正确答案： B解析： -
第9题：
单选题What is the purpose in writing this text?ATelling people how serious the damage caused by landslides is.
BTelling people that sending workers to stabilize mountainsides is a risky job.
CIntroducing a product that can be used to stabilize mountainsides.
DShowing people how to use a new product.
正确答案： A解析：
本文作者首先介绍了山体滑坡的危害，又说明了普通的防护方法的不足，最后向大家推荐了一种新型的机器人，利用这种新型的滑坡抢险产品，可以有效地防止危害的产生。所以主要的目的是介绍一种用于加固山体的产品。 -
第10题：
问答题Culture refers to the social heritage of a people—the learnedpatterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize apopulation or society, include the expression of these patterns (1) ______in material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture (2) _______—abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutionalarrangements—and material culture—physical object like (3) _______cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflectsboth the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinary (4) _______speech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another (5) _______language—the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, (6) _______literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to behuman is to be cultured, because of culture is the common (7) _______world of experience we share with other members of our group. Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a kind of map (8) _______for relating to others. Consider how you find your way about sociallife. How do you know how to act in a classroom, or a departmentstore, or toward a person who smiles or laugh at you? Your culture (9) _______supplies you by broad, standardized, ready-made answers for (10) _______dealing with each of these situations. Therefore, if we know aperson’s culture, we can understand and even predict a gooddeal of his behavior.正确答案：
1.include改为including 现在分词including在此作状语,表示“包括”之意。
2.compose改为composed be composed of是固定搭配,作“由……组成”讲。
3.object改为objects 根据后面的列举可知不只由一个object,所以要用复数。
4.or改为and both与and搭配,作“两者都……”讲。
5.在individual后加who/that 这里需要一个关系代词来引导定语从句以修饰先行词individual。
6.unfamiliar改为familiar 根据句意可知这里要表达“熟悉,了解”之意,故用familiar。
7.去掉of 这里需要一个连词来引导原因状语从句,because of只能引导一个名词性短语。
8.essentially改为essential 这里需要一个形容词来作表语。
9.laugh改为laughs 根据谓语动词smiles或先行词a person可以断定这里动词要使用第三人称单数。
10.by改为with supply sb.. with sth.或supply sth. for sb..都可以表示“为某人提供某物”。解析： 暂无解析 -
第11题：
单选题According to information given in the passage, which of the following locations would probably yield the highest probability of finding a previously undiscovered papyrus fragment?AThe ship of a royal messenger that sank off the Egyptian coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the third century B. C.
BThe charred remnants of an ancient Egyptian palace that was burned by Roman troops in the first century B. C.
CThe refuse heap of an ancient Egyptian town that was buried in the desert in the fifth century A. D.
DThe private collections of French and British explorers from the nineteenth century A. D. who first uncovered many of the principal sites of Egyptian archeology
EThe library of a Hellenistic fishing village that sank into the marshes of the Nile Delta in the third century A. D.
正确答案： B解析：
细节题。第二段第二句提到“Most of the surviving fragments have been found in ancient garbage dumps that were covered over by the desert and preserved in the dry heat.”，故C项是正确的。 -
第12题：
单选题Which of the following would best illustrate how a discarded fragment of papyrus might give us a more accurate picture of the dally lives of ancient Egyptians than a record intended to be permanent?AA poet such as Posidippus may have composed rough drafts of his epigrams on papyrus fragments prior to writing them in their final form.
BGrocery lists, which give insights into the diets of ancient people, would never be included in stone inscriptions but could be scribbled on scraps of papyrus.
CThe Hellenistic monarchs employed some of the finest historians of the Greek world to provide chronicles of their reigns.
DSome papyrus fragments may have been used for purposes other than writing, such as binding wounds or wrapping small packages.
EStone inscriptions describing military events often embellish the truth to favor whoever is paying for the inscription.
正确答案： B解析：
推断题。根据第二段结尾处内容可知，记录希腊埃及人生活的纸莎草可以帮助考古学家更好的了解人们生活的细节，而为了留给后代而修建的石碑上所记载的内容不如这些纸莎草上的内容详细，故本题应选B项。 -
第13题：
The best title for the passage can he ______.
A．What Are Futures Used for
B．Who Are the Arbitrageurs, Speculators and Hedgers
C．How to Hedge Risks
D．How to Trade in Futures Market
正确答案：A
解析：文章最适当的题目应选A项。 -
第14题：
29． What's the purpose of the passage?
A． To give some advice on how to lose weight．
B． To advise people to eat apples every day．
C． To tell people how to enjoy a better life．
D． To advise people to give up bad habits．
正确答案：A
29．A【解析】由全文可知“这篇文章主要介绍了减肥的一些方祛、建议”，故选A。 -
第15题：
单选题What is the main theme of the passage?AExpecting things to be different gives us hope
BAccepting can make our life happier and better
CTraditional culture becomes root of unhappiness
DJudging good or bad is important for our world
正确答案： D解析：
文章开头提出人们不快乐的根源是不愿意接受事物本来的样子，然后进一步分析说明，最后建议人们想要变得快乐就要学会接受、理解事物本来的样子。故选B。 -
第16题：
单选题What can we infer about the intentions of Mohandas Gandhi from the mention of him in the passage?AHe wished to switch the respective socioeconomic positions of the highest andthe lowest castes in Indian society.
BHe desired the reconciliation of India with Pakistan.
CHe rejected the so-called Aryan Invasion in favor of an autochthonous explanation for the roots of Indian culture.
DHe supported the cultural dominance of the Brahman “priest” caste over the Kshatriya “warrior” caste.
EHe wished to free a class of people from the stigma of an unfavorable name.
正确答案： C解析：
推断题。第二段结尾处提到“The Indian statesman Mohandas Gandhi, in an effort to promote social equality, encouraged people to refer to Untouchables as the Harijan, which means ‘Children of God.’” ，所以可以推断E项是正确的。 -
第17题：
单选题What is the purpose of the author in writing the passage?ATo describe different kinds of phobias.
BTo expound phobia and their possible treatments.
CTo help the phobia sufferers to get better.
DTo tell readers how to prevent such phobias.
正确答案： C解析：
文章主旨题。文章第一段指出对恐惧症的了解带来了一系列的治疗方法，并且第三段又描述了不同类别的恐惧症，由此可知本文的主要内容是详细讲解恐惧症及可能的治疗方法。故选项B符合。 -
第18题：
单选题What was the author’s purpose when writing this passage? _____ATo give practical instruction for pruning a tree.
BTo give a general description of pruning.
CTo explain how trees develop diseases.
DTo discuss different methods of pruning.
正确答案： C解析：
文章讲了修剪的目的以及方法，为修剪树木提供实用的指导。 -
第19题：
单选题The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to tell _____.Areaders how to be popular with people around
Bteenagers how to learn to make a decision for themselves
Cparents how to control and guide their children
Dpeople how to understand and respect each other
正确答案： D解析：
从倒数第二行“Find yourself. Be yourself.”可知作者的目的是让年轻人学会自己做决定，不要随大流。 -
第20题：
单选题What can we learn from the passage?AIt may be difficult for the young to learn new skills.
BDogs play an important part in language and culture.
CWe can be successful if we learn from our own mistakes.
DDogs like the hottest days in summer very much.
正确答案： B解析：
本题是推断题。全文主要介绍了许多和狗有关的习语，由此可以看出，狗在英语文化中有着特定的含义，因此B项正确。文章说道老年人学习新技能很慢，但并没有提到有关青少年学习新的技能的事情，因此A项错误。文章第二段第三句说“想要成功，就得工作的很努力才行”，所以C项“想要成功，我们就必须从错误中吸取教训”是错误的。D项“狗非常喜欢夏天最热的那几天”文章并未提及，因此可以排除。 -
第21题：
单选题What is the author´s primary purpose in writing the passage?ARevealing the procedures for foreign adoptions.
BRecounting an amazing childhood camping experience.
CInvestigating how Hidden Valley serves foreign adoption families.
DDemonstrating how culture camps help foreign adoption families.
正确答案： A解析： -
第22题：
单选题The mention of the discovery of 110 previously unknown epigrams by the poet Posidippus serves what purpose in the passage?ARevealing insights into the nuances of court culture in Hellenistic Egypt
BDemonstrating how durable a material papyrus can be
CArguing for a greater appreciation of this little-known Hellenistic poet
DHighlighting the importance of royal patronage in the development or arts and literature in the Hellenistic world
EIllustrating the kind of discovery that can be made from researching papyrus fragments
正确答案： A解析：
推断题。第三段结尾处提到：These new epigrams have yielded fascinating insight into the court culture and literary sensibilities of early Hellenistic Egypt，所以可知文中提到新发现的波斯迪普斯的短诗是一个例证，故E项的表达是正确的。 -
第23题：
单选题What does the author imply by the final statement: “If that library had not burned down, maybe archeologists today would not have to spend so much of their time sorting through ancient trash!”?AThe author implies that if the library had not burned down, archeologists would be able to appreciate the full cultural legacy of King Ptolemy II Philadelphos.
BThe author implies that if the library had not burned down, scholars today would have not only the full works of Posidippus, but also those of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
CThe author implies that if the libravv had not burned down, the scrolls contained within the library would have decomposed before modern times in any event, because they would not have been preserved in the dry heat of the desert.
DThe author implies that if the library had not burned down, it might have contained more complete details about the life and culture of Hellenistic Egypt than can be found in the papyrus fragments from ancient refuse dumps.
EThe author implies that if the librarv had not burned down, the cultural awakening of the Renaissance might have occurred centuries earlier.
正确答案： C解析：
推断题。文章内容中提到纸莎草碎片一般是在古代垃圾中找到，它们为不能在其他史料中找到的人们日常生活进行了描述。所以可知本文最后一句话是作者在暗示，如果该图书馆没有被烧毁，那么考古学家可能可以从中找到关于人们日常生活的记录，而不用去生活垃圾中寻找，故D项的表述是正确的。 -
第24题：
单选题What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?ATo stop people from drinking milk.
BTo refute the theory that milk is good for health.
CTo introduce us a new discovery on genetic mutation.
DTo infer the declination of the cattle industry.
正确答案： A解析：
文章开头指出人在成年后还能喝牛奶是很奇妙的。接着解释为什么这一现象是不正常的。进而说明是因为基因突变导致。综上所述，选C项。