We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable .A. were difficult to separateB. could be split into 6 piecesC. were fitted with solid tyresD. were hard to carry on a train

We were surprised that the little girl could work out the difficult math problem．（改为同义句）

_____ _____ _____ ，the little girl could work out the difficult math problem

Passage One

Long time ago, the ancient people could not travel to any far away places for they had no vehicle to carry them across the wide oceans, deep valleys, long rivers or high mountains.

Nowadays people take advantage of steamships, trains, airplanes and modern bridges. Airplanes can carry us to the far countries in a short time; steamships can travel across the wide oceans. It is convenient to the modern people.

Travelling is a good idea to us because we can get more knowledge, such as the customs, the geography of other countries. And people could travel among the different countries in the world. For it is easy to travel from the land by trains, or from the sea by ships.

We learnt that the Italian who made the world large was Mr. Columbus. He was a brave man. Up to the middle of the 15th century, the people were afraid of traveling because they believed it was a dangerous thing.

There is a saying in China, which is "Travelling for thousands is better than reading for ten years." It is to say that we can learn more in different places than we can learn from books.

36. The people in ancient times couldn't travel too far away places because______.

A. they found it no use doing so

B. they liked staying at home

C. there was no modern transportation

D. they were forbidden to go to other countries

The insects would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and heads, if _____ for the protection we get from insect-eating animals.

A. it is not

B. it were not

C. were it not

D. they were not

It’s hard to ( ) everything we did when we were young.

A、remind

B、remain

C、recall

D、reunion

We may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised ________.

A focuses on infant wear and older kids' clothes

B attach equal importance to different genders

C classify consumers into smaller groups

D create some common shoppers' terms

阅读文章回答第69~72题D Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet…You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”. Then he paused: “But you’ll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.”

It was a rare — indeed unique — occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor, William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame. that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout’s Wonderful Bag, a leather case.

Grout’s aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn’t that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage: in Grout’s day, tyres were solid, which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn’t do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated （充气的） tyre.

So, in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse （椭圆）. Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.

Will the young Fitzsimons’s folding wheel make it into production? I haven’t the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It’s as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there’s plenty still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than £1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane — minus wheels, of course — as hand baggage.

Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie’s imagination? No. But it’s progress.

第14题：We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike .

A． was portable

B． had a folding wheel

C． could be put in a pocket

D． looked like a magic carpet

We can assume from the passage that ______.

A. red beards were more fashionable than black ones

B. everyone in fourteenth-century Spain shaved

C. false beards were considered foolish by those who had real beards

D. the popularity of false beards largely died out after the fourteenth century

24． We can learn from the passage that ．

A． flying to Tibet is impossible

B． train to Lhasa is too clean to take

C． train trip to Tibet is popular with travelers

D． taking train to Lhasa causes a lot of trouble

A、were cancelled/ to take

B、having been cancelled/ take

C、have been cancelled/ take

D、had been cancelled/ to take

What can we learn about the design of the "Case Study House"?

A．Mechanical devices were widely used.

B．Natural scenes were taken into consideration.

C．Details were sacrificed for the overall effect.

D．Eco-friendly materials were employed.

From Paragraph 1 we learn that the villagers .

A. worked very hard for centuries

B. dreamed of having a better life

C. were poor but somewhat content

D. lived a different life from their forefathers