湖南省株洲二中2016届第三次月考英语试题及答案(2)

   Why it’s so great: You won’t be the only solo traveler in Bali. Everyone is known for being extremely friendly and you’re sure to meet some amazing characters along the way. As a Hindu island, Bali is the perfect place for a relaxing and spiritual retreat（静修）. The Sacred Monkey Forest in Ubud is fantastic—if you like monkeys, anyway.
21. What do the four places have in common according to the text?
  A. They’re cheap to travel around.
  B. There’re no language barriers.
C. They offer good spas and yoga.
D. They’re great for solo travelers.
22. Where can you enjoy both convenient transport and beautiful beaches?
   A. Thailand.                B. Melbourne, Australia.
   C. Hong Kong, China.        D. Bali, Indonesia.
23. What type of writing is this text?
   A. A news report.            B. A business paper.
   C. A travel guide.            D. A press advertisement.

                                  B
Mr. Dawson was an old bad-tempered man, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yards to pick apples, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with his gun.
   One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was walking out with her friend Amy. They had to go by Dawson’s house, but as they got close Janet saw him sitting on his front porch and suggested they cross over the street. Like most, she was scared of the old man.
   Amy said not to worry. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual frown, but when he saw it was Amy, he gave a big smile.
   Amy smiled back and told him Janet was staying overnight with her and they were going to listen to music and play games. Dawson told them that sounded fun, and gave them each an apple.
  Later, Janet asked Amy, “Everyone says he’s the meanest man in town. How come he was so nice to us?”
   Amy explained that when she first started walking past his house he wasn’t very friendly, but she pretended he was wearing an invisible smile and so she always smiled. It took a while, but one day he half smiled back.
   After a while, he started smiling real smiles and then talked to her. She said he always offers an apple now, and is always very kind.
   If we remember that everyone wears an invisible smile, we too will find that most people can’t resist our kindness after a while.
  We are always busy trying to achieve so much that we forget how simply we can bring cheer to ourselves and others. Giving a smile takes so little effort; let’s make sure that we’re not the ones that others have to pretend are wearing invisible smile
24. Why didn't kids enter Mr. Dawson’s yard?
A. The gate was kept locked.     B. Mr. Dawson treated them badly.
C. They would make trouble.     D. Mr. Dawson never smiled.
25. Janet suggested walking on the other side of the street to ______.
A. meet some other friends
B. find out where Mr. Dawson was
C. see what Mr. Dawson was doing.
D. avoid passing by Mr. Dawson’s house
26. What did Mr. Dawson do when he saw Amy?
A. He smiled on her. B. He forced an invisible smile.
C. He came after her with his gun. D. He frowned as usual.
27. The main idea of the last paragraph is that _______.
A. smiling is not difficult at all    B. smiling can make our life different
C. we should bring more smiles to others    D. we should wear invisible smiles

C
If doctors want to test you for something, they’ll usually take a blood or urine sample. But wouldn’t it be much more convenient if they just asked you to breathe through a special instrument?
   In fact, your breath can say a lot about you. In traditional Chinese medicine, doctors draw a conclusion about the health state of a patient based on the smell of his or her breath; trained dogs and rats can identify the smells of the breaths of people suffering from certain cancers; traffic police also monitor drivers’ alcohol consumption by testing their breaths.
Just like blood and urine, your breath contains lots of “metabolites” —the waste chemicals that the body produces, which vary from person to person. They are like personal health fingerprints, which is why scientists sometimes call them “breathprints”, according to Science Daily.
   Compared to blood or urine testing, breath testing takes only seconds instead of hours, and it requires neither a needle nor a container to hold the body fluids(液). This means the test can be taken frequently to better detect early signs of diseases and monitor the progress of a medical treatment.
   On the other hand, as an identifier, you might think that breaths are not as reliable as fingerprints since they might change based on what you eat. However, researchers in Zurich, Switzerland mapped 11 healthy volunteers’ chemical patterns by having them breathe through a special instrument, and they found that each pattern was unique and the patterns didn’t change much throughout the day, reported BBC.
   “Our goal is to develop breath analysis to the point where it becomes competitive with the established analysis of blood and urine,” said Malcolm Kohler, professor at the University Hospital Zurich.