Nearly one hundred people _____ attended the meeting.

The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes

from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference 【B1】 ______

between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt

in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener 【B2】 ______

has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. 【B3】 ______

The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting

it may be something from 20 to 70 years. With the playground 【B4】 ______

lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour 【B5】 ______

it is learnt; and, in the general, it passes between children of the 【B6】 ______

same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age

between playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playground

rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or 【B7】 ______

even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over

and over, very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three 【B8】 ______

hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live 【B9】 ______

after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the 【B10】 ______

original wording.

【B1】

sun heats and feeds creatures and mankind. Each year it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly ten million tons of wood.

Coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored energy from the sun. Some was collected by this season's plants as carbon compounds. Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago. Even waterpower derives from the sun. Water turned into vapor by the sun falls as rain. It courses down the mountains and is converted to electric power. Light transmits only the energy that comes from the sun's outer layer, and much of this energy that is directed towards the earth never arrives. About nine tenths of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth. In fact, the earth itself gets only one half millionth of the sun's entire output of radiant energy.

The sun is the source of all of the following EXCEPT______.

A．gasoline

B．natural gas

C．atomic power

D．animal fat

sun heats and feeds mankind. Each year it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly ten million tons of wood.

Coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored-up energy from the sun. Some was collect ed by this season's plants as carbon compounds. Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago.

Even waterpower derives from the sun. Water turned into vapor by the sun falls as rain. It courses down the mountains and is converted to electric power.

Light transmits only the energy that comes from the sun' s outer layers, and much of this energy that is directed toward the earth never arrives. About nine-tenths of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth. In fact; the earth itself gets only one half-billionth of the sun' s entire output of radiant energy.

All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes ______.

A．directly from the sun

B．from the sun' s activity

C．from energy stored by the sun

D．from radiation of the sun

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All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes fromthe activity of the sun. The sun heats and feeds creatures and mankind. Eachyear it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly tenmillion tons of wood, coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored energyfrom the sun. Some was collected by this season’s plants as carbon compounds.Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago. Even waterpower derives from thesun. Water turned into vapor by the sun fails as rain. It courses down themountains and is converted to electric power. Light transmits only the energythat comes from the sun’s outer layer, and much of this energy that is directedtowards the earth never arrives. About nine tenths of it is absorbed by theatmosphere of the earth. In fact, the earth itself gets only one half millionthof the sun&39;s entire output of radiant energy.

The sun is the source of all of the following EXCEPT ________ 查看材料

A.gasoline

B.natural gas

C.atomic power

D.animal fat

Early in November 1965, New York was blacked out by an electricity failure (停电). The Mayor promised that it would not happen again. Pessimists (悲观主义者) were certain that it would happen again within five years. In July 1977, there was a repeat performance which produced a serious disorder throughout the city. At that time the city was in one of its worst heat waves.

In 1965, there was little crime during the darkness, and fewer than a hundred people were arrested. In 1977, hundreds of stores were broken into and looted (劫掠). Nearly 4,000 people were arrested but far more disappeared into the darkness of the night. The number of policeman available was far from enough and some looters even carry guns.

Hospitals had to treat hundreds of people cut by glass from shop windows. Banks and most business remained closed the next day. The blackout started at 9:30 P.M., when lightning hit and knocked out supply cables. Many stores were thus caught by surprise. For twenty-four hours, New York realized how helpless it was without electricity.

According to the first paragraph, who were right: the authorities or the pessimists？

A．The authorities.

B．The pessimists.

C．Both.

D．Neither.

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此题为判断题(对，错)。

A、22

B、23

C、24

D、25

A.Arthur Philip

B.Mathew Flinders

C.Port Jackson

D.Peter Lalor