阅读短文,回答问题:Around the world more people are taking part in dangerous sports and activities. Now, there are people who look for an immediate excitement from a risky activity which may only last a few minutes or even seconds.I would consider bungee jumping (蹦极)to be a good example of such an activity. You jump from a high place 200 meters above the ground with an elastic (弹性的)rope tied to your feet. You fall at up to 150 kilometers an hour until the rope stops you from hitting the grounD. It is said that about 2 million people around the world have now tried bungee jumping. Other activities which most people would say are as risky as bungee jumping include jumping from tall buildings and div-ing into the sea from the top of high cliffs.Why do people take part in such activities as these Some psychologists suggest that it is be-cause life in modern societies has become safe and boring. Not very long ago, people’s lives were constantly in danger. They had to go out and hunt for food, diseases could not easily be cured, and life was a continuous battle for survival.Nowadays, according to many people, life offers little excitement. They live and work in quite safe conditions: they buy food in shops, and there are doctors and hospitals to look after them if they become ill. The answer for some of these people is to look for danger in activities such as bungee jumping. In bungee jumping, you__________
A. jump as high as you can
B. slide down a rope to the ground
C. tie yourself to a rope and fall
D. fall without a rope
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阅读短文,回答问题:Eddie McKay, a once-forgotten pilot, is a subject of great interest to a group of history stu-dents in Canada.It all started when Graham Broad, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, found McKay’s name in a footnote in a book about university history. McKay was included in a list of u-niversity alumni(校友 )who had served during the First World War, but his name was unfamiliar to Broad, a specialist in military history. Out of curiosity, Broad spent hours at the local archives (档案馆 )in a fruitless search for information on McKay. Tired and discouraged, he finally gave up. On his way out, Broad’s glance happened to fall on an exhibiting case showing some old newspa-pers. His eye was drawn to an old picture of a young man in a rugby uniform.As he read the words beside the picture, he experienced a thrilling realization. "After looking for him all day, there he was, staring up at me out of the exhibiting case," said BroaD. Excited by the find, Broad asked his students to continue his search. They combed old newspapers and other materials for clues. Gradually, a picture came into view.Captain Alfred Edwin McKay joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1916. He downed ten enemy planes, outlived his entire squadron( 中队)as a WWI flyer, spent some time as a flying in-structor in England, then returned to the front, where he was eventually shot down over Belgium and killed in December 1917. But there’s more to his story. "For a brief time in 1916 he wasprobably the most famous pilot in the world," says BroaD. "He was credited with downing Oswald Boelcke, the most famous German pilot at the time." Yet, in a letter home, McKay refused to take credit, saying that Boelcke had actually crashed into another German plane.McKay’s war records were destroyed during a World War II air bombing on London--an ex-planation for why he was all but forgotten.But now, thanks to the efforts of Broad and his students, a marker in McKay’s memory was placed on the university grounds in November 2007. "I found my eyes filling with tears as I read the word ’deceased’(阵亡)next to his name," said Corey Everrett, a student who found a picture of Mckay in his uniform. "This was such a simple example of the fact that he had been a student just like us, but instead of finishing his time at Western, he chose to fight and die for his coun-try.” What made Professor Broad continue his search for more information on McKay
A uniform of McKay.
B. A footnote about McKay.
C. A book on McKay.
D. A picture of McKay.
阅读短文,回答问题:Eddie McKay, a once-forgotten pilot, is a subject of great interest to a group of history stu-dents in Canada.It all started when Graham Broad, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, found McKay’s name in a footnote in a book about university history. McKay was included in a list of u-niversity alumni(校友 )who had served during the First World War, but his name was unfamiliar to Broad, a specialist in military history. Out of curiosity, Broad spent hours at the local archives (档案馆 )in a fruitless search for information on McKay. Tired and discouraged, he finally gave up. On his way out, Broad’s glance happened to fall on an exhibiting case showing some old newspa-pers. His eye was drawn to an old picture of a young man in a rugby uniform.As he read the words beside the picture, he experienced a thrilling realization. "After looking for him all day, there he was, staring up at me out of the exhibiting case," said BroaD. Excited by the find, Broad asked his students to continue his search. They combed old newspapers and other materials for clues. Gradually, a picture came into view.Captain Alfred Edwin McKay joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1916. He downed ten enemy planes, outlived his entire squadron( 中队)as a WWI flyer, spent some time as a flying in-structor in England, then returned to the front, where he was eventually shot down over Belgium and killed in December 1917. But there’s more to his story. "For a brief time in 1916 he wasprobably the most famous pilot in the world," says BroaD. "He was credited with downing Oswald Boelcke, the most famous German pilot at the time." Yet, in a letter home, McKay refused to take credit, saying that Boelcke had actually crashed into another German plane.McKay’s war records were destroyed during a World War II air bombing on London--an ex-planation for why he was all but forgotten.But now, thanks to the efforts of Broad and his students, a marker in McKay’s memory was placed on the university grounds in November 2007. "I found my eyes filling with tears as I read the word ’deceased’(阵亡)next to his name," said Corey Everrett, a student who found a picture of Mckay in his uniform. "This was such a simple example of the fact that he had been a student just like us, but instead of finishing his time at Western, he chose to fight and die for his coun-try.” We can learn from the last paragraph that McKay__________
A. preferred fight to his study
B. went to war before graduation
C. left a picture for Corey Everrett
D. set an example for his fellow students
Jack wasn’t saying anything, but the teacher smiled at him__________ he had done very clever.
A. as if
B. in case
C. while
D. thought
It is impossible to __________ the news unless you need the newspaper everyday.
A. look up in
B. keep up with
C. put up with
D. catch up