11-12学年度第459期7版Quiz time答案：
高二版
D1
1. She is planning to do/make Christmas in China.
2. It’s said that eating mince pies during Advent brings good luck for the next year.
3. 令人伤心的是，正如中国人不过圣诞节一样，在中国你也找不到做馅饼的主要配料。
4. Chingmas pudding, baijiu butter, a soundtrack of Chingmas carols.
D2 1-4 BCCA
D3 1-4 BACD
D4 1-4 ACDB
D5 1-5 ABBBD 6-10 DCCBA
答案解析
D2
1. B。dilemma表示“困境”的意思。肯尼亚由于拥有很多优秀中长跑选手，所以选择代表肯尼亚出战奥运会成了一个大问题。
2. C。根据Kenyans appear to be at their best at the 3000 meters, but they also excel (表现卓越) in marathons and running other distances，可知3000米长跑是肯尼亚选手的优势项目。
3. C。根据Kenyan-born journalist John H. Manners, who has trained in the Great Rift Valley with many top Kenyan sportspeople, argues in his book The Running Tribe that they are equipped with the ideal genes for running.可知，肯尼亚选手，特别是Kalenjin部落的选手之所以能够取得好成绩，是因为优良的基因。
4. A。纵观全文，主要介绍了肯尼亚选手在中长跑体育竞技项目中的优势。
D3
1. B。根据第一段中“One is about 10 billion times the mass of our sun, the second even bigger, as much as 21 billion the size of the sun”可推知，黑洞的体积越大，其质量也越大。故选B。
2. A。根据第四段中“The two newly-found black holes are at the center of two faraway galaxies，both more than 300 million light years from Earth”可知，答案选A。
3. C。根据第五段“First... Then…The part of the star…”可知，答案选C。
4. D。根据最后一段“Measurements of these massive (巨大的) black holes will help us understand how their host galaxies were assembled…”可知，答案选D。
D4
1. A。根据第一段中“However, his bright smile and big heart won him plenty of friends”可知，Kevin是个阳光开朗、友善的男孩，故选A。
2. C。根据第三段中“this is our last game and Kevin’s never made a basket. I think we should let him make a basket”可知，他们想给Kevin一个进球的机会，故选C。
3. D。根据倒数第二段中“BOTH teams had circled Kevin by this time…”以及“It was stopped at 4.3 seconds…”可知，答案选D。
4. B。通读全文可知，文章是围绕一次比赛中，大家（Kevin的队友、他的对手、计时员，以及教练等）齐心协力给Kevin创造一个进球的机会，故选B。
