11-12学年度第488期7版Quiz time答案：
高二版
D1
1. failed 2. excitement 3. field 4. launch 5. wind 6. communicating 7. cuter 8. still 9. view 10. cool
D2 1-5 BBDBA
D3 1-4 BBAA
D4 1-3 DBB
D5 1-5 DADAD 6-10 ABDBB
答案解析
D2
1. B. 纵观全文作者从自己从小立志做记者讲起，提到了自己成长为一名记者的过程中发生的种种事件，介绍了自己的记者生活。
2. B. 文中提到I have lost count of the numbers of emails I have had ignored (忽略). I have spent hours at meetings listening as hard as I could for a story – only to go home empty-handed.也提到作者的文章被删改的惨痛经历。可见作者作为记者所遇到的主要挫折就是努力工作却收效甚微。
3. D. 文章结尾提到For me, there is no better career than making a difference – and telling the world about it.之前也讲述了作者写文章报道养老院管理不善促使管理者改进的事情。可见作者觉得作为记者能够伸张正义为社会做贡献是让她为自己的职业自豪的原因。
4. B. 原文提到Strangely, though, that challenge made me want to keep going. If you do succeed, the rewards (回报) of journalism are truly great.可见作者并不在意职业生涯中遇到的种种挑战和挫折。但这也并不意味着作者喜欢危险刺激的工作。
5. A. 文章主要引用了雪夜采访和报道养老院管理不善这两个具体的事例。
D3
1. B. 作者在文章开头提到电影中的赌博者，其实是为了引出文章中提到的关于掷骰子的最新研究这一话题。
2. B. 文中提到such as the thickness of the air, the acceleration (加速度) of gravity, and the friction (摩擦力) of the table surface。可知这三个要素影响了投骰子的结果。
3. A. 作者在文中用英国的蝴蝶震动翅膀引发澳大利亚暴风雨进行类比来说明混沌原理。注意the chaos theory looks at how small changes at the start of an event might lead to a chain of things happening that have completely different results是对上文类比内容的说明，而不是下定义。
4. A. Initial表示“最初的，首先的”意思。我们根据上文中They found that the dice is more likely to fall on the face that is the lowest at the beginning. 特别是at the beginning是很好的提示。
D4
1. D。从第三段的“She thought they had been cheering her on the entire time”可以得此答案。ABC文中都没有提到。
2. B。第三段的“What she had mistakenly thought to be encouragement inspired her to try harder against all odds. And that made all the difference!”说明：正是别人的“鼓励”对第二只青蛙产生了极大的激励作用，让她能够成功地跳出来。
3. B。作者用讲故事的方式得出了最后一段的结论：因为保持了乐观的心态，没有受到负面观点的影响，最后第二只青蛙终于克服了困难实现了目标。所以我们需要智慧来找到正确的道路，然后坚持做下去，不盲目地被别人的观点所左右。
