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     Venice is an attractive city in Italy. Tourists throughout the world love traveling to Venice. But sometimes

you'll have such strange experiences. One moment you walk across the Rialto Bridge, and there's nothing

special. Unfortunately, when you come back to the bridge an hour later, it's underwater and everyone's wearing

rain boots.   

     That's just the way it has always been, which may be considered seriously by Italian government. Before

the sea comes to Venice, the government has decided to build the MOSE gates. Actually (实际上), there were

many kinds of gates that were built to stop the floods, but all the gates were just built on the ground. Besides,

the flooding was becoming worse. Industrial (工业的) factories built nearby on the mainland also made the

condition get worse, causing the city to sink about 0.75 feet in the 20th century.

     So the Italian government asked some of Italy's biggest construction and engineering companies to build

the MOSE project, which was planned to be built under the sea water to stop floods. Now the government

are using 3 000 people and expect to spend nearly five billion euros (欧元) on it. The MOSE gates are being

built at the inlets (海湾). Each MOSE gate is 197 feet long, 28.5 to 37 feel tall, and weight up to 22 tons. It's

nearly the size of a 20-story building. Before the gates are in use, under the sea full of water. When the flood

comes, the water in the gates will be poured out, and then the gates will be filled with air. So the gates can go

up with the sea water. Once they're in the right place, they will stop the sea water pouring into Venice. These

gates will be able to deal with floods up to 10 feet, and as long as the sea level (平面) rises no more than two

feet in the next 100 years, the MOSE will work as expected.

      The MOSE project is now two-thirds done. The head engineer, Giovanni Cecconi, said, "This is a war.

During the war, it's not important that you win. It's important that you're alive. We've alive." Anyway, this

project is saving Venice from falling.

1. The underlined word "construction" in the passage means "_______" in Chinese.

A. 建筑

B. 农业

C. 交通

2. Before building the MOSE gates, the Italian government _______ to stop the floods.

A. never built gates on the ground

B. built many kinds of gates on the ground

C. built some gates which were under the ground

3. When the flood comes, _______ can describe the working steps of the MOSE gates.

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The Italian government ate using 3000 people and expect to spend nearly five billion dollars on the MOSE.

B. The MOSE project is half done now.

C. Each MOSE gate is 197 feet long, 28.5 to 37 feet tall, and weighs up to 22 tons.

5. The best title for this passage should be _______.

A. The Journey to Venice

B. The MOSE Project in Venice

C. Several Kinds of Floods in Venice

大自然的语言  竺可桢 （8分）

几千年来，劳动人民注意了草木荣枯、候鸟去来等自然现象同气候的关系。据以安排农事。杏花开了，就好像大自然在传语要赶快耕地；桃花开了，又好像在暗示要赶快种谷子。布谷鸟开始唱歌，劳动人民懂得它在唱什么：“阿公阿婆，割麦插禾。”这样看来，花香鸟语，草长莺飞，都是大自然的语言。

这些自然现象，我国古代劳动人民称它为物候。物候知识在我国起源很早。古代流传下来的许多农谚就包含了丰富的物候。到了近代，利用物候知识来研究农业生产，已经发展为一门科学，就是物候学。物候学记录植物的生长荣枯，动物的养育往来，如桃花开、燕子来等自然现象，从而随着时节推移的变化和这种变化对动植物的影响。

物候观测使用的是“活的仪器”，是活生生的生物。它比气象仪器复杂得多，灵敏得多。物候观测的数据反映气温、温度等气候条件的综合，也反映气候条件对于生物的影响。应用在农事活动，比较简便，容易掌握。物候对于农业的重要性就在这里。   

小题1:根据所供材料，请你给物候学下个定义（所填不超过15字）。（2分）

物候学就是：                                                的科学 。

小题2:文中划波浪线的句子分别采用了                  和                      的说明方法？（2分）

小题3:第一自然段中所选的三个例子能否调换顺序，为什么？（2分）

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　15、“阿公阿婆，割麦插禾”是一则农谚，请你再例举一则农谚，并说说它所包含的物候知识。（2分）

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外用杀虫止痒，内服壮阳通便的药物是（）

A.雄黄

B.硫黄

C.杜仲

D.巴戟天

E.蛇床子

民谚“南人不梦驼，北人不梦象”说明了（）

A.存在决定意识

B.意识反作用于存在

C.意识具有相对独立性

D.意识决定社会存在的变化

物位仪表按工作原理可分为哪几类？