11选10词汇题练习含答案6套

It was already midnight. At one end of the big house, on a sort of a raised platform, Major was already sitting in comfort on his bed of straw. He was twelve years old and had __1__ grown rather fat, but he was still a majestic-looking (威武的) pig, with a wise and kind appearance. Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves __2_ _ after their different fashions. First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform. The hens rested themselves beside the window. The pigeons flew up to the rafters(房梁). The sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs. The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs (马蹄) with great care in case there should be some small animal __3_ in the straw. Clover was a motherly horse ___4___ middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth baby. Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses ___5____ __ together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate ___6__ __, but he was ___7__ __ respected for his steadiness of character and ___8___ powers of work. After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey. Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst ___9___ __. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some ironical __10__ _----for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would rather have had no tail and no flies. Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed. If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at.2.BJGHEKCDAIWhen Minnesota Bank and Trust opened in 2008, CEO Kate Kelly was determined to make it a place people wanted to work. So she __1__ three volunteers to the employee event committee and waited to see what would happen. Soon, there was lawn bowling, miniature golf, blue-jean Fridays and a(n) __2__ _ holiday trip to Wal-mart where each worker got $ 10 to buy a Secret Santa gift.‘It is nice every once in a while to just laugh,’ Kelly said. ‘There is a(n) ___3__ _ difference in the mood here after an event. Everyone is chatting and laughing. You don’t have to spend a lot of money.’Yet the __4_ __ is significant: people want to wor k there. And that’s important, according to a report __5__ __ by the Society of Human Resources Management. If employers don’t want their best talent to slip out the door for good, they need to develop the programs aimed at keeping their employees.Some executives say they are determined to keep their best talent and to spend the time and money necessary to __6 __ that all workers have a fun, engaging workplace where they feel ___7_ _. Kelly said her bank grew from 20 employees to 33 in four years. At the same time, she’s lost just three workers since 2008. It takes 12 to 18 months of training to replace a person who leaves. So her ___8_ __ in fun makes a lot of sense.Jessica Pecoraro is a member of the Women President Organisation. Every leader in that group ‘is looking for _9__ methods other than salary to motivate people, one, so they perform and two, so they stay.’Beyond money, they look for ways to have fun. Other _10__ on investments come in all sizes of smiles and in all manner of nuttiness(疯狂) that often have little to do with the job at hand.In this section, children are introduced to botany and zoology, and to the life cycle. And the circle of life is __1__ with the seasons, and the cycle of the seasons is explained. The help of the parent or teacher is much needed in explaining the seasons to young children.Most adults know that the seasons are not determined by the earth’s rotation (自转), which __2_ causes the daily cycle of light and dark. But __3__ _ in our educational system have left many parents and teachers with a rather unclear understanding of the cycle of the seasons. Surveys show that many Americans think the earth is closer to the sun in summer than in winter. In fact, the earth is farthest away from the sun in our summer and closest in winter, though the difference in distance is of minor importance. It is the tilt (倾斜) of the earth on its axis (轴) (toward the sun in summer and away from the sun in winter) as it ___4___ around the sun that causes the seasonal __5__ __ of winter and summer. To help children understand the sea sons in North America, it will be most useful to use a physical model. Here’s a simple suggestion for one.The seasonal __6__ between the earth and the sun can be __7___ _ to a child by putting a knitting needle through a tennis ball to ‘act’ as the ea rth and its axis. On the surface of the tennis ball, the equator (赤道) should be __8___ __ at right angles to the knitting needle. The tennis ball can then be circled around a burning light bulb in a plane(平面) __9__ __ to the floor at the same height as the bulb, keeping the axis at a(n) ___10__ _tilt toward the north. As the ball circles close to the bulb, the dark and light sides of the ball will be clearly seen, and so will the differences in light intensity on different parts of the ball.4.IFGEDKhJBCRobert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learnt it __1__ __ and thoroughly to fight against the feeling of __2__ __ and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew (犹太人) at Princeton. There was a certain __3__ __ comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was looking down on him, although, being very shy and a thoroughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym. He was Spider Kelly's star pupil. Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighed one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds. But it seemed to ___4__ __ Cohn. He was really very fast. He was so good that Spider promptly overmatched him and got his nose permanently ___5___ ___. This increased Cohn's distaste for boxing, but it gave him a certain ___6____ of some strange sort, and it certainly improved his nose. In his last year at Princeton he read too much and took to wearing spectacles. I never met any one of his class who remembered him. They did not even remember that he was middleweight boxing champion.I ___7____ __ all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always ____8___ that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his face, or that maybe his mother had been frightened or seen something, or that he had, maybe, ____9_ __ into something as a young child, but I finally had somebody ___10____ the story from Spider Kelly. Spider Kelly not only remembered Cohn. He had often wondered what had become of him.WikiLeaks have no connection with the online encyclopedia or related websites. It is a non-profit organization that Assange and a few others set up in late 2006 in order to leak secret information ___1__ __ by governments and other organizations. Its philosophy, roughly speaking, is that secrecy can allow governments and other powerfulorganizations to get away with __2___ that are unjust, and that they would be pressured to operate in a better way if the public knew more about what they get up to.WikiLeaks generally ___3___ __ secret information either from computer hackers or from whistle-blowers(告密者) working inside governments and companies. It does not have an official director, or indeed official employees, but Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, is seens as the ___4___ __ force behind it.The leak that made WikiLeaks front-page news came at the end of November last year, when it started ___5___ ___ more than 250,000 top secret cables sent between the US State Department (foreign ministry) and US embassies (大使) around the world. WikiLeaks passed the documents to some major European newspapers, which began publishing what they considered the most interesting parts. Ths included information and opinions from US diplomats __6____ the governments of the countries they were working in, and the opinions of ___7___ __ in some countries (expressed in conversations with US diplomats) regarding other countries’ governments.Opinion on the recent leaks is ___8__ __. While many think WikiLeaks is enhancing democracy by increasing freedom of information, there are others ----including many US government officials—who think the leaks are __9_____ and dangerous. They say secrecy is often vital in ___10____ and diplomatic relations, as well as in military operations.6.A. bredB. exhaustionC. freshD. goE. knowingF. narrativeG. readingH. strugglesI. sunkJ. usesK. disappointmentsIn fiction, as in anything else, it is hard to do anything new. It’s hard to break rules that have never been broken. It’s ha rd to find new styles, and new rhythms, and new ways of structuring a ___1____ that keeps the reader engaged, and the reading exper ience ___2____. But what’s much harder than all of this is to change, or try to change, the way people think.In her new novel, NW, Zadie Smith has a(n) ___3___. She writes about a corner of North West London, and the people who call it home. She writes, in particular, about a group of people who grew up in the same community, the ones who seem to have survived and succeeded, and the ones who seem to have ___4____. She writes, in other words, about the hopes, and ___5___, and successes, and ____k___ of a group of people who were born and ___6___ in London, but whose parents weren’t. And she does this by hardly ever talking about the colour of anyone’s skin.It was, said Smith I an interview, one of the things she did to ‘amuse’ herself. ‘I remember as a kid,’ she said, ___7___ Updike or Roth, writers I loved, but half way through the book you’d have to deal with the appearance of ‘the black man’, who would be described as ‘the black man’. That can be quite exhausting to read, so I wanted to see if I cou ld create that ___8___ the other way round.’She ___9___, for example.The rhythms of London street slang to show that what’s often more important than race in a city of migrants, and children of migrants, is culture and class. A character, we can guess from the fact that her friend calls a ‘coconut’, is black. But skin colour is mostly only mentioned when it’s white.。