英语在小学是必修课吗?necessary“必要的”。significant“重要的”,如:a significant decision重要的决定。obligatory“必须的,强制性的”,如:Attendance at school is obligatory.必须到校。difficult“困难的”。
第3题:
We are facing both promising opportunities and grave challenges.
A:hard
B:brave
C:severe
D:difficult
答案:C
解析:
我们既面临有希望的机遇,也面临严峻的挑战。hard“困难的”,如:This problem is so hard that it cannot be solved soon.这个问题非常困难,无法很快解决。brave“勇敢的”,如:Our brave soldiers fought day and night on the battlefield.我们勇敢的士兵日夜奋战在战场上。severe“严峻的”,如:This company is facing severe cash flow problems.该公司面临严峻的资金周转问题。difficult“困难的”,如:No matter how difficult it is, we shall overcome it.无论有多困难,我们都会克服的。只有severe意思上与grave最接近。
第4题:
13.
A.funny
B.lonely
C.happy
D.noisy
正确答案:B 13.B【解析】根据下句中的alone可知牛仔的生活是寂寞的和危险的.故选B。
第5题:
This is the age of the quick action. We have instant satisfaction, fast food, speed reading, mobile phones; even the stress management books have titles like "Stress Management in 60 Seconds".
Canadian Classics Professor Margaret Visser points out that the perception that we have "no time" is one of the most strict concepts of Western culture. Visser says that "no time" is used as an excuse and also as a spur (刺激); it both goads us and forces us, just as a concept such as "honour" did for the ancient Greeks. According to Visser, the feeling that Westerners have "no time" is abstract, quantitative, amoral (非道德性的), unarguable, bringing pressure on each person as an individual. At the same time, the "no time" excuse escapes censure by claiming to be a condition created entirely out of our good fortune.
Life offers "so many pleasures, so many choices".
The fact that women now work outside the home has contributed to the "no time" trend. But more important, Visser says, is the fact that feeling rushed has become an important component of our economy. Marketing of "time-saving" products causes people to buy more and work longer. So we eat out or buy prepared food to save time. The fax-it-to-me-in-my-car technology only contributes to the constant hurry. In our rushed and exhausted state, even the obligation (义务) to sit down to casual meal with family seems like a pressure. In comparison with the decision to act on a sudden whims (一时的兴致) to consume a microwave mug of soup, the act of eating together and not getting up from the table until everyone else has finished seems an incredibly time-consuming event. Being in one′ s own personal hurry in the West is somehow "free and preferable".
Which of the following doesn′t contribute to feeling rushed?
A.Marketing of time-saving products.
B.The fax-it-to-me-in-my-car technology.
C.Eating together and not getting up until everybody has finished.
D.Longer working hours.
答案:C
解析:
细节题。由最后一段中“feeling rushed has become an important component of our economy.Marketing of“time-saving”products causes people to buy more and work longer.…The fax-it-to-me-in-my-car technology only contributes to the constant hurry.”可知,A、B和D项都使人感到越发匆忙。由最后一段倒数第二句中“the act of eating together and not getting up from the table until everyone else has finished seems an incredibly time-consuming event”可知,这种行为是很耗费时间的,并不能促使人们感觉匆忙。故选C。