题目内容
D Water, water everywhere. It lasted almost two months, but in August it ended. It left 45 people dead and $10 billion worth of damage in nine states of the USA. It was quite a big Mississippi flood ever recorded. In St. Louis, Missouri, 9,000 people were forced to leave their homes while the city was in danger. St. Louis is just downriver from the points where the Missouri and Illinois Rivers flow into the Mississippi. All the three rivers were flooding. But the city escaped the worst when levees broke upriver. A levee is built of river sand and clay. Eleven miles of flood walls were built in the late 1960s. The walls are 18 inches thick and 5 to 22 feet high. They were designed to protect against a 52-foot flood. In St. Louis, water almost reached the top of flood walls. It measured 49.4 feet. The highest flood referred to in the passage was about ______.
查看答案
搜索结果不匹配？点我反馈
更多问题
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。A Many American presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their childhood in little wooden rooms. They got little education. Washington and Lincoln, for example, never went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln once did jobs of a worker, shopkeeper and postmaster in his early years. A large number of American presidents had experiences in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they graduated from the same school— West Point Military Academy (西点军校). One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was once fined because he broke the roles of the school. The jobs of the US president are tiring. He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work waits for him to do and he has to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was once brought to visit President Taft. The old president said to him, "When you grow up you should not be the president. It’s a tiring job." The second paragraph mainly tells us ______.
C The English author, Richard Savage, was once living in London in great poverty. In order to earn a little money he had written the story of his life, but not many copies of the bock had been sold in the shop, and Savage was living from hand to mouth. As a result of his lack of food he became very ill, but after a time, because of the skill of the doctor who had looked after him, he got well again. After a week or two the doctor sent a bill to Savage for his visits, but poor Savage hadn’t any money and couldn’t pay it. The doctor waited for another month and sent the bill again. But still no money came. After several weeks he sent it to him again asking for his money. In the end he came to Savage’s house and asked him for payment, saying to Savage, "You know you owe your life to me and I expected some gratitude from yon." "I agree," said Savage, "that I owe my life to you, and to prove to you that I am not ungrateful for your work I will give my life to you." With these words he handed to him two copies entitled THE LIFE OF RICHARD SAVAGE. The best title for this text should be ______.
B Our surroundings are being polluted faster than ever and it seems that people cannot prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry, more cars, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials. What can explain and settle this problem The fact is that pollution is caused by man—by his desire for a modern way of life. We make "increasing industrialization" as our first aim. So we are often ready to offer everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is a constant flow of people from the country-side into the cities, eager for the achievements of our modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last 20 years, pollution has become a serious problem. Isn’t it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going—and why It makes one think of the story about the pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker," I’ve some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we’re making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we are lost and don’t know where we’re going." The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when speaking of our modern society. The story about the pilot tells us that ______.
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 Recently I was invited to a friend’s house for supper—and had a meal I had never had before. All the friends invited were a little (36) . It’s not that Ben is unsociable, or a bad cook, but it’s just that he never (37) more than he has to. So how come he was inviting us round for a meal Had he bought something (38) for his friends He greeted us at the door and showed us into his dining room where a (39) table was waiting for us. "Nothing but the (40) for my friends!" saidBen. We all sat down and looked (41) at each other—what was he (42) Ben returned with four bowls of hot soup. "It’s a (43) of carrots, potatoes and tomatoes," said Ben. The next (44) was also a little strange (45) we didn’t quite know what it was again. It was just another mixture of vegetables. As we ate we chatted and finally the (46) turned back to what we were eating. "Was there a recipe for this," asked Marina, "or did you (47) it up" Ben put his fork down, "What I cooked (48) what I could find. "Marina was surprised," But you can find anything in supermarkets these days." "But there’s (49) choice in what you can find (50) supermarkets," he replied. (51) that we had all finished the food, Ben decided to tell the troth. He had read recently that supermarkets usually (52) away five percent of their food every day. So Ben decided to look inside his local supermarket bins. There he found food that was slightly out of (53) , boxes of vegetables and fruit thrown away. So Ben had (54) provided a decent meal for his friends, and made us aware of the fact that there are many poor people who need the food, but the amount of food thrown away is enough to (55) millions of people.
微信支付 
支付宝支付