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Making the judges believe

  Vallandigham was a lawyer.In his last appearance in the courtroom, he represented a client(委托人)on trial for murder.He insisted that the victim(受害人)had drawn his own gun in a way that caused it to fire, killing himself.To prove what he said was true, Vallandigham showed the victim’s method of drawing a gun using the evidence gun filled with bullets.The gun went off, and he lost his life-but proved his case.

Gone fishing

  A fisherman in Kiev killed himself by electricity while fishing in the river.The 43-year-old man connected cables to the main power supply of his home and put the end into the river.The electric shock killed the fish, which floated to the top of the water.The man stepped into the river to collect his catch, forget ting to remove the live wire and terribly suffered the same fate as the fish.The man was fishing for a mourning meal to remember the first anniversary(周年紀念)of his mother-in-law’s death.

Wrong and wronger

  A 40-year-old official of the local government took his dog out for a walk.He met with a Police Academy student who was guarding two women to their homes.The student pointed out that the official’s dog was not allowed on a public street without a lead.Now, no one would be brave enough to tell a village official what to do, so the two men began to argue.Unable to resolve the matter by oral means, the official finally pulled out a military RGD-5 hand grenade(手榴彈)and threw it to the student’s feet.His well trained dog immediately ran for the object and fetched it for his master…and the man and dog met the same fate.

What’s that sound?

  Police said an Olathe man was struck and killed by a train after his vehicle broke down on Interstate 35.His attempts to repairing his car had failed, and he had stepped away from the busy freeway to call for help, when the train engineer spotted him standing on the tracks.The engineer said the man was holding a cell phone to one ear, and cupping his hand to the other ear to block the noise of the train.

(1)

What the lawyer Vallandigham did showed that ________.

[  ]

A.

he had to kill himself to prove the case

B.

he had planned carefully to prove the case by killing himself

C.

he hadn’t thought he would lose life

D.

he killed himself in order to save his client

(2)

What caused the death of the fisherman?

[  ]

A.

The fish in the river.

B.

His carelessness.

C.

The electric wire.

D.

His mother-in-law’s anniversary.

(3)

Who is wronger?

[  ]

A.

The dog

B.

The student.

C.

The official

D.

One of the women.

(4)

How dare the driver stand on the tracks while a train was coming near?

[  ]

A.

He thought the train would stop in front of him.

B.

He thought the train wasn’t near enough to kill him.

C.

He couldn’t hear the train coming.

D.

He failed to notice the danger of the coming train.

(5)

The best title of the passage might be“________”.

[  ]

A.

The Strangest Deaths

B.

The Funniest Deaths

C.

The Most Stupid Deaths

D.

The Most Forgettable Deaths

答案:1.C;2.B;3.A;4.D;5.C;
提示:

(1)

律師喪命屬于意外事故,他太專注于向法庭演示,忘記了會造成自己死亡的后果。

(2)

也是意外事故,由于粗心大意,忘了把電線拿開就下水了。

(3)

標(biāo)題Wrong and wronger可翻譯為“錯上加錯”,狗的主人扔手榴彈是錯誤的,狗把手榴彈叼回來是“錯上加錯”,造成了它和主人的死亡。

(4)

火車來時他只注意到火車的噪音影響他打電話,所以用手捂起另一只耳朵,卻忘記了火車會將他軋死。

(5)

文中列舉的死亡都是意外事故。死者太專注于某一方面,而忘記了會造成死亡的因素。


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科目:高中英語 來源:山東省臨清三中2011-2012學(xué)年高二11月學(xué)分認定測試英語試題 題型:050

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The Best of Friends

  The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families.But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image(印象)of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.

  An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.” We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team.” They’re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的)and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well.There’s more negotiation(商議)and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-makin mso-ascii-font-famg process.They don’t want to rock the boat.”

  So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.” My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall.” I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing.As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees.” Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation.For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night.But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”

  Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected.It is possible that the idea of teenagers rebellion is not rooted in real facts.A researcher comments,” Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in out social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings.But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled.The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”

(1)

What is the popular images of teenagers today?

[  ]

A.

They worry about school

B.

They dislike living with their parents

C.

They have to be locked in to avoid troubles

D.

They quarrel a lot with other family members

(2)

The study shows that teenagers don’t want to _______

[  ]

A.

share family responsibility

B.

cause trouble in their families

C.

go boating with their family

D.

make family decisions

(3)

Compared with parents of 30 years age, today’s parents _______.

[  ]

A.

go to clubs more often with their children

B.

are much stricter with their children

C.

care less about their children’s life

D.

give their children more freedom

(4)

According to the author, teenage rebellion _______.

[  ]

A.

may be a false belief

B.

is common nowadays

C.

existed only in the 1960s

D.

resulted from changes in families

(5)

What is the passage mainly about?

[  ]

A.

Negotiation in family

B.

Education in family

C.

Harmony in family

D.

Teenage trouble in family

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