Question

Harnnibal was a general from Carthage, a city on the northern coast of Africa．He fought the ancient Romans and won great battles at a time when the Romans were the most powerful people in the world．His army was small, but it was made up of soldiers from many countries that didn't want to be ruled by the Romans.

Before Harnnibal could fight the Romans, he had to cross the Alps, the high mountains that the Romans always had thought would protect them from enemy armies．When winter came, the Romans did not think Hannibal could possibly cross the mountains．Harnnibal surprised them．With some of his soldiers riding huge strong elephants—where no elephants had ever travelled before—he crossed the mountains with his army．The paths rising and falling sharply, were icy and dangerous．The elephants had to walk slowly without resting through the mountain snowstorms and howling(怒號) winds ．The enemies rolled rocks down to try to stop them．Even raging rivers couldn' t stop them．Harnnibal's soldiers built rafts(木排)strong enough to carry the elephants across．At last, half of them never reached the end of their journey．But the other half of the army and some of the elephants did finish the journey.

1．Harnnibal knew that he ________.

       A．must have a powerful army to beat the Romans

       B．must cross the Alps to win the battles

       C．was sure to beat the Romans before crossing the Alps

       D．had to break away from the Romans to cross the Alps

2．Which of the following is not true?

       A．Before Harnnibal' s army crossed the Alps, the Romans were the most powerful people in the world.

B．The Romans thought it impossible for Harnnibal to cross the Alps .

       C．Harnnibal used the elephant to help cross the Alps because the elephants were good at walking on mountain paths.

       D．Harnnibal managed to cross the Alps after all with his army.

3．After reading this passage, we can easily remember a saying:

       A．Where there's a will, there's a way.

B．Strike while the iron is still hot.

       C．He who doesn't reach the Great Wall is not a true man.

       D．Failure is the mother of success.

Answer 1

BCA