About one million years ago, the Ice
Age began. The Ice Age was a long period of time in which four great glaciers
pushed southward to cover almost all the upper half of North America, and then
melted away. Each glacier was a thick sheet of ice and snow that spread out from
a centre near what is now Hudson Bay in Canada. The winters were long, and the
cool summers were too short to melt much of the ice and snow. The ever-growing
sheet built up to a thickness of two miles at its centre.
As all
glaciers do, these great glaciers slid. They pushed down giant trees in their
paths and scraped the earth bare of soil. Many animals moved farther south to
escape. Others stayed and were destroyed.
When winters of little
snow came, the summer sun cut into the edges of the ice sheets. As the glaciers
melted, rocks, soil and other things
A. the Ice Age was a long period of time
B. great glaciers covered North America many years ago
C. changes in climate helped to melt the glaciers
D. how glaciers changed North America
[单项选择]Which sport is regarded as a major British industry
A. Tennis.
B. Golf
C. Horse racing.
D. Boxing.
[单项选择] Passage Four
Television is one of today’s most
powerful and widespread means of mass communication. It directly influences our
lives on both a short and long-term basis; it brings worldwide situations into
our homes; it affords extensive opportunities for acquiring higher education;
and it performs these tasks in a convenient yet effective manner. We are all
aware of the popularly accepted applications of television, particularly those
relative to entertainment and news broadcasting. Television, however, has also
been a vital link in unmanned deep space exploration (such as the Voyager I and
Ⅱ missions), in providing visions from hazardous areas (such as proximity to
radioactive materials or environments) in underwater research, in viewing storms
moving across a metropolitan area (the camera being placed in a
weather-protective enclosure near t
A. are as good as those in the U.S.
B. have been seen on many government-controlled networks
C. are as gray and dismal as the uninformed might unnecessarily visualize
D. are not as gloomy as the uninformed might unnecessarily visualize
[单项选择]Passage Four
One of Britain’s few distinctive contributions to the world culture may be doomed, according to a survey that suggests holiday postcards are being emailed and texted extinction. More than half of the 1000 holiday-makers interviewed said they had decided to send fewer cards, turning instead to their electronic rivals. A quarter of the respondents dismissed postcards as old-fashioned and slow to arrive. A further 14% admitted that thinking of something to fill the space was too challenging, compared with a call home. Although officially invented by a Hungarian, Emanuel Herrmann, 1869, the idea of illustrated cards was taken up with most enthusiasm in Victorian Britain, joining Gothic architecture and landscape gardening as fields in which the country excelled. “If the British postcard did become extinct we would lose for ever something of great importance to the nation,” said Chris Mottershead of Thomson Holiday, which commissioned the poll Marie Angelou of Sussex Uni
A. holiday postcards were not popular among those interviewed
B. half of the British are thinking of quitting postcards
C. holiday postcards may have a gloomy future
D. a quarter of the interviewed threw away their postcards
[单项选择]Passage Four
One of America’s greatest exports to the rest of the world has been entertainment. America, a nation of incredible energy and talent, has flooded the world markets with her films, theaters and songs. In America the two centers where this talent is most brilliantly and successfully essayed are Hollywood and Broadway.
Hollywood is a district within the city of Los Angeles. Its name is synonymous with the motion-picture industry. Since the early 1900s, when movie makers found southern California an ideal blend of mild climate and varied geography, it has become the home for cinematic dreams. All the great names of cinema have passed through Hollywood on the road to international careers.
Today it still remains the place where dreams are said to come true and fantasies are carefully nurtured. Known as "The Movie Capital of the World", Hollywood is one of the few places where epic films can still be made on such a large scale. Ancient Rome,
A. It attracts actors from all over the world.
B. It’s the dreamland of young people.
C. It’s controlled by American filmmakers.
D. It’s named after a famous actor.
[单项选择]Passage Four
One of America’s greatest exports to the rest of the world has been entertainment. America, a nation of incredible energy and talent, has flooded the world markets with her films, theaters and songs. In America the two centers where this talent is most brilliantly and successfully essayed are Hollywood and Broadway.
Hollywood is a district within the city of Los Angeles. Its name is synonymous with the motion-picture industry. Since the early 1900s, when movie makers found southern California an ideal blend of mild climate and varied geography, it has become the home for cinematic dreams. All the great names of cinema have passed through Hollywood on the road to international careers.
Today it still remains the place where dreams are said to come true and fantasies are carefully nurtured. Known as "The Movie Capital of the World", Hollywood is one of the few places where epic films can still be made on such a large scale. Ancient Rome, the P
A. influence
B. lead
C. control
D. hold
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