2021年岼各哂嚣劔籾(忝栽窃)_0.docx

精品word 可编辑资料 - - - - - - - - - - - - -岼各哂囂劔籾 〔 忝栽窃 〕及匯何蛍 堋響尖盾 〔75 蛍〕及匯鐙 HerculesOnce upon a time there was a great Greek hero. Hercules.He was taller and stronger than anyone you have ever seen.On his shoulder he carried a club and in his hand he held a bow. He was known as the hero of a hundred adventures.Hercules served a king. The king was afraid of him. So again and again he sent him on difficult tasks. One morningthe king sent for him and told him to fetch three golden apples for him from the garden of the Singing Maidens 〔 梧溺〕. But no one knew where the garden was.So Hercules went away. He walked the whole day and therest day and the next. He walked for months before he saw mountains far in the distance one fine morning. One of the mountains was in the shape of a man. with long. long legs andarms and huge shoulders and a bugs head. He was bolding up the sky. Hercules knew it was Atlas. the Mountain God. So he asked him for help.Atlas answered. My head and arms and shoulders all ache.1第 1 页,共 26 页 - - - - - - - - - -精品word 可编辑资料 - - - - - - - - - - - - -Could you hold up the sky while I fetch the golden apples for you.Hercules climbed the mountain and shouldered the sky.Soon the sky grew very heavy. When finally Atlas came back with three golden apples. he said. Well . you are going to carrythe mountain for ever. Im going to see the king with the apples. Hercules knew that he couldnt fight him because ofthe sky on his back. So he shouted: Just one minutes help. My shoulders are hurting. Holdthe sky for a minute while I make a cushion 〔究徨 〕 for my shoulders.Atlas believed him. He threw down the apples and help up the sky.Hercules picked up the apples and ran back to see the king.1. What do you know about Hercules according to the first paragraph.＄ A. He was a Greek hero.＄ B. He was a king.＄ C. He was the Mountain God.＄ D. He was a man of adventures.2. Hercules was given many difficult tasks because2第 2 页,共 26 页 - - - - - - - - - -精品word 可编辑资料 - - - - - - - - - - - - - .＄ A. he was the strongest man.＄ B. the king wanted to get rid of him.＄ C. the king wanted to test his strength.＄ D. those tasks had to be done anyway3. Which of the following can best describe Atlas according to the text.＄ A. He looked like a mountain.＄ B. He was a man with bug shoulders and arms.＄ C. He was a man with long legs and a huge head.＄ D. He was the giant who bled up the sky.4. Atlas got the golden apples for Hercules because .＄ A. he wanted to help Hercules＄ B. he was afraid of Hercules.＄ C. he did not want to hold the sky any more.＄ D. he wanted to be the king himself5. Hercules finally managed to get the apples .＄ A. by fooling Atlas＄ B. by defeating Atlas＄ C. because he ran faster than Atlas＄ D. because Atlas threw down the apples3第 3 页,共 26 页 - - - - - - - - - -精品word 可编辑资料 - - - - - - - - - - - - -及屈鐙 TokyoTokyo is one of those places that you can love and hate at the same time.In Tokyo there are always too many people in the placeswhere I want to be. Of course there are too many cars. The Japanese drive very fast when they can. But in Tokyo they often spend a long time in traffic jams. Tokyo is not differentwhen one wants to walk.At certain times of the day there are a lot of people on foot in Londons Oxford Street. But the streets near Ginza in Tokyo always have a lot of people on foot. and sometimes it isreally difficult to walk. People are very polite; there are just too many of them.The worst time to be in the street is at 11:30 at night. That is when the night-clubs are closing and everybody wants to go home. There are 35.000 night-clubs in Tokyo. and you do not often see one that is empty.Most people travel to and from work by train. Tokyopeople buy six million train tickets every day. At most stations. trains arrive every two or three minutes. but at certain hoursthere do not seem to be enough trains. Although they are usually crowded. Japanese trains are very good. They always4第 4 页,共 26 页 - - - - - - - - - -精品word 可编辑资料 - - - - - - - - - - - - -leave and arrive on time. On a London train you would see everybody reading a newspaper. In Tokyo trains everybody ina seat seems to be asleep. whether his journey is long or short.In Tokyo. I stood outside the station for five minutes.Three fire-engines raced past on the way to one of the manyfires that Tokyo has every day. Tokyo has so many surprises that none of them can really surprise me now. instead. I am surprised at myself: I must go there next year on business. Iknow I hate the overcrowded city.。