教师业务学习-初一英语自我介绍

第二部分 阅读理解(2)（2016年4月统考）全真翻译版

以下16篇阅读理解考试中100%考一篇， 答案是四个选项之一。出现在考试中阅读部
分的第二部分 ，简化或硬背，必须掌握，原题出现，答案位置不变，考1题10分，一定不
可以丢。建议多看短文的中 文意思，然后记下选项答案。
Passage 1 （目标有三种）
There are three kinds of goals: short-term, medium-range and long-term goals.
目标有三种：短期目标，中期目标和长期目标。
Short-term goals are those that usually deal with current activities, which we can apply on a
daily basis. Such goals can be achieved in a week or less, or two weeks, or possibly, months. It
should be remembered that just as a building is no stronger than its foundation, long- term goals
cannot amount to very much without the achievement of solid short-term goals. Upon completing
our short-term goals, we should date the occasion and then add new short-term goals that will
build on those that have been completed.
短期目标是根据每日制定的为了处理当前事物的目标。短期目标可以以少于一个 星期，
一个星期，两个星期，或者可能的话一个月来完成。我们必须记住，正如只有地基牢靠，建
筑物才坚固一样，长期目标脱离了扎实的短期目标的实现是不能实现的。短期目标的实现是
以以前完成 的目标为前提的。
The intermediate goals build on the foundation of the short-term goals. They might deal
with just one term of school or the entire school year, or they could even extend for several years.
Any time you move a step at a time, you should never allow yourself to become discouraged or
overwhelmed. As you complete each step, you will enforce the belief in your ability to grow and
succeed. And as your list of completion dates grow, your motivation and desire will increase.
中期目标是在短期目标的基础上指定的。可以以一个学 期或整个学年为周期指定，或
者延长至几年。每次你根据目标前进了一步，都不要让自己感到没有信心或 者压力重重。当
你完成了一个目标，你都会增加成功的信心。并且当你完成目标的日期越来越近，你的动 力
和希望都会增加。
Long-term goals may be related to our dreams of the future. They might cover five years or
more. Life is not a static thing. We should never allow a long-term goal to limit us or our course of
action.(221 words)
长期目标可以和我们 未来的梦想相关联。可以是五年或五年以上的目标。生活不是一
成不变的。我们不能让长期目标制约了我 们或我们的行为。
11. Our long-term goals mean a lot ____________.
如果我们能完成各个短期目标，那么我们的长期目标将意义深远。
A. If we cannot reach solid short-term goals
C. If we have dreams of the future
提的。
A. a daily basis
C. current activities










B. your achievement in a week
D. the goals that have been completed
B. If we complete the short- term goals
D. If we put forward some plans
12. New short-term goals are built upon ____________. 短期目标是以以前完成的目标为前
13. When we complete each step of our goals, ____________.每完成一个目标，将会增加我们
成功的信心。
A. we will win final success B. we are overwhelmed

C. we should build up confidence of success
new goals
A Life is a dynamic thing.
D. we should have strong desire for setting
14. What is the main idea of this passage? ____________ 这篇短文的中心思想是什么？
B. we should set up long-term goals
C. Different kinds of goals in life. 目标的不同种类。 D. The limitation of long-term goals.
15. Which of the following statements is wrong according to the passage? ____________
根据短文，下面哪种说法是错误的？
A. The long-term goals cannot amount to very much without the achievement of solid
short- term goals
B. The intermediate goals build on the foundation of the short-term goals.
C. Life is a static thing, thus we should never allow a long-term goal to limit us or our course
of action.
生活是一成不变的，所以我们不能让长期目标制约我们的生活和我们的行为。
D. We should often add new short-term goals to those which have been completed.
KEY：BDCCC
Passage 2 （牛顿市）
Today Newton is a very clean place. Many years ago, however, there were millions of rats in it.
They attacked the cats and dogs. Sometimes a great number of them knocked down a man or
woman walking home at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed many people.
They goverment ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they didn’t kill many.
The goverment promised to pay some money for each dead rat. The made the people very happy.
They killed thousands of rats everyday. A goverment officer put all the dead rats in a big pile.
Sometimes a man brought hundreds in one day.
After two weeks there were not many rats in the city, but people still brought many rats to the
goverment office. The goverment officer thought that people were stealing dad rats from the pile.
He ordered his mean to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no mroe rats, and the
goverment didn’t pay any more momey.
如今牛顿市是一个非常干净的地方。然而，很多年前，那里有上百万只老鼠。 它们袭击猫狗。
走夜路回家的人中，无论男女，也经常有人被一大群老鼠撞到。那些老鼠个头很大，是很 多
人受伤。
政府下令每个人都要灭鼠。大多数人很懒，所以灭掉的不多。政府许诺会为每只死 老鼠付赏
金，这让人们很兴奋。 每天人们灭掉成千上万只老鼠，一名政府工作人员将死老鼠堆成一大堆。有时一个人一天就带来百只死老鼠。
两周后，城里就没有很多老鼠了。但人们仍然将大量死 老鼠带到政府工作人员那里。他认为
有人在从老鼠堆里偷死老鼠，于是命令输下挖一个深坑，将死老鼠丢 进坑里。很快那里就没
有老鼠了，政府也不用再付赏金了。
1. Newton is a place which , 牛顿市是一个 的地方。
A．used to be very clean B. Is no longer a city C is very clean很干净 D. Will be
very clean
2. when the goverment first ordered the people to kill rats, the people .
当政府初次下令市民灭鼠，人们 .
A. Asked for some money for each dead rat B. Stole dead rats from the pile
B. Were too lazy to kill many rats 太懒所以没有大量灭鼠 D. Killed nearly all the rats

quickly
people killed rats . 人们灭鼠 .
A. To get money from the goverment 为了从政府领到赏金
B. To help the goverment make the city clean
C. Tomake the goverment officer happy
D. To protect(保护)their cats and dogs
4. A deep hole was dug so that . 挖深坑的目的是 .
A. the rats couldn’t come out to attack people at night.
B. people could take rats from it easily
C. people would kill more rats
D. nobody could take any rats from the pile 没有人能从死老鼠堆里拿走老鼠
5. What is the best topic for this passage ? 本文最佳标题是什么？
A．How to Kill Rats B. Newton--- A City of Rats
C. How Newton Became a Very Clean Place 牛顿市如何成为一个干净的地方
D. How Newton Became a Famous City
KEY: CCADC
Passage 3 （书商）
One day a bookseller (书商) let a big box of books fall on his foot. “Go to see the doctor，” said
his wife. “No”, he said, “I’ll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I’ll ask
him about my foot. If you I go to see him, I’ll have to pay him.”
On the next day the doctor came into the shop for some books. When the bookseller was
gettinghim ready, he told the doctor about his bagd foot. The doctor look at it.
“You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put somthing on it,” said the
deoctor.
He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it. “Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed
every night，”he said.
“ Thank you,” said the bookseller. “And now, sir, here are your books.”
“How much？”said the doctor.
“Two pounds.”
“Good,”said the doctor. “I shall not have to pay you nothing.”
“Why？”asked the bookseller.
“I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them
to pay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds.
And i came here, didn’t I？”
一天一位书商被一大箱书砸到了 脚。他妻子说：“去看医生吧。”他说“不，我要等医生下次
到店里来，然后他帮我看脚。如果到他那里 看，我就给付给他诊金了。”
第二天医生到书店里来买书。书商把书找齐，然后把脚伤告诉了医生。医生给他看脚。
医生说 ：“你每晚要用热水泡脚，然后上药。他拿出一张纸写下药方，说：“买这种药，然后
每晚睡前涂在脚上 。”
书商说：“谢谢。那么，先生，这是您的书。”
医生问：“多少钱？”
“2英镑。”

“太好了，”医生说：“我就不用付您钱了。”
“为什么？”书商问道。
“我给你看了脚，收你两英镑。像那样的小伤，如果到我那里看我只 收一英镑。但是要我出
诊，就收两英镑。而我到你这里来给你看病了，不是吗？”
1. What happened to the bookseller one day ? 有一天书商发生了什么事情？
A. He lost a box of books. B. His foot was wounded by a box of books.
C. He lent the doctor a box of books. D. He sold out all his books.
2. The bookseller’s wife asked him . 书商的妻子让他 .
A. to go out fo some medecine B. To send somebody for a doctor
C. to go to see the doctor 去看医生 D. To wait for the doctor to come
3. The bookseller didn’t take his wife’s advice because .
书商没有接受妻子的建议是因为 .
A. He was afraid of the doctor B. He didn’t take to take medicine
B. He couldn’t walk by himself D. He didn’t want to pay the doctor 他不想付钱给医
生
4. The doctor paid for the books. 医生支付了 买书。
A．one pound pounds C. Nothing 没有 D. Something
5. The bookseller paid moeny for seeing the doctor in the end.
A. more 更多 B. Less C. The same amount of
KEY：BCDCA

Passage4 （科学家）
What makes a person a scientist? Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different
from those of others? The answer is “no”. It is not the tools a scientist uses but how he uses these
tools that make him a scientist. You will probably agree that knowing how to use a power is
important to a carpenter. You will probably agree, too, that knowing how to investigate, how to
discover information, is important to everyone. The scientist, however, goes one step further, he
must be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his questions and that his answer can be confirmed
by other persons. He also works to fit the answer he gets to many questions into a large set of
ideas about how the world works.
是什么使一个普通人成为科学家？他有与从不同的学习方法和工 具吗？答案是否定的。
不是因为科学家使用的工具，而是因为他使用工具的方法使他成为科学家。你也许 认同怎么
用力对一名木匠来说很重要。你也许也认同怎么研究调查，发现信息对每个人来说都很重要。< br>然而，科学家比这更进一步，他必须确定他对自己的问题得出了一个合理的答案，并且他的
答案通 过别人也可以得到证实。他同时把自己得出的许多答案归结为一个系统的关于世界如
何运作的观点。
The scientist’s knowledge must be exact. There is no room for half right or right just half the
time. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit. What works under one set of conditions
at one time must work under the same conditions at other times. If the conditions are different, any
changes the scientist observes in a demonstration must be explained by the changes in the
conditions. This is one reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, who
developed the theory of relativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy of this
mathematics was later tested through investigations, Einstein’s ideas were shown to be correct. A

scientist uses many tools for measurements. Then the measurements are used to make
mathematical calculations that may test his investigations.
科学家的知识必须很确切。不能给半错半对或 者只有一半机会对的情况留任何空间。他
必须在条件允许的情况下尽可能正确。在一种条件下成功一次的 话必须在同样的条件下都能
成功。如果条件不同，科学家在证明过程中观察到的任何变化都必须解释他的 条件是如何变
化的。这是关于调查研究在科学研究中十分重要的其中一个理由。爱因斯坦通过数学方法提
出了相对论。他的数学运用的正确性被后人通过调查研究的方法证实该理论是正确的。一个
科学 家会用很多工具来测量。测量的结果用来进行数学计算，再进行调查研究的测试。
11. What makes a scientist according to the passage? 根据这篇文章的观点科学家是如何来
的？
A. The tools he uses. B. The way he uses his tools. 他使用工具的方法
C. His way of learning. D. The various tools he uses.
12. “The scientist, however, goes one step further…”. The author says this to show _______.
“然而，科学家比这更进一步„„”作者这么说是为了说明什么？
A. the importance of information
B. the importance of thinking

C. the difference between scientists and ordinary people科学家与普通人的区别
D. the difference between carpenters and people with other jobs
13. A sound scientific theory should be one that _______.一项伟大的科学理论应该是怎么样
的？
A. works not only under one set of conditions at one time, but also under the same conditions
at other times 不仅只在一种条件下一次可行，而是要在同样的条件下一直可行。
B. does not allow any changes even under different conditions
C. can be used for many purposes
D. leave no room for improvement
14. The author quotes the case of Albert Einstein to illustrate _______.作者引用爱因斯坦的例子
是为了证明什么？
A. that measurements are 答案s to success in science
B. that accuracy of mathematics
C. that the investigations are important in science调查研究在科学领域十分重要。
D. that the mathematical calculations may test his investigations
15. What is the main idea of the passage? 这篇文章的中心意思是什么？
A. The theory of relativity.
B. Exactness is the core of science.
C. Scientists are different from ordinary people.

D. Exactness and ways of using tools are the 答案s to the making of a scientist.
确切性和使用工具的方法是成为科学家的重要因素。
KEY：BCACD
Passage 5 （汤姆）
Mr. Froster lived by himself a long way form town. He hardly ever left his home, but one day
he went iinto town to buy some things in the market. After he had bought them, he went into a
restaurant ans sat down at a table by himself. When he looked around, he saw several old people
put glasses on before reading their man newspapers, so after lunch he decided to go to a shop to

buy himself some glasses too. He walked along the road, and soon found a shop.
The man in the shop made him try on a lot of glasses, but Tom always said, “No, i can’t
read with these.”
The man became more and more puzzled (迷惑不解)，until fianlly he said, “Excuse me, but
can you read at all？”
“No, of course i can’t！” Tom said angrily. “If I was already able to read, do you think i
would have come here to buy glasses？”
汤姆.福瑞斯特先生独自一人住在离城镇很远的地方。他几乎足不 出户，但有一天，他
到城里的市场上买点东西。 买完后，他走进一家餐馆，单独坐在桌边。 环顾四周， 他看
到几位老人读报纸前都先戴上眼镜，所以午餐后， 他决定到商店去给自己也买副眼镜。沿
街走着，很快就找到一家店。
店员让他试戴了好几副眼镜，单汤姆总是说：“不，我戴这副眼镜无法阅读。”
店员越来越感到迷惑不解，知道最后他问道：“恕我失礼，但请问您究竟会阅读吗？”
“当然 不会啦！”汤姆生气地说：“如果我已经能够阅读的话，你以为我还会来这儿买眼
镜吗？”
1. Mr. Forester lived . 福瑞斯特先生居住 .
A. With his family in a city B. With his family in the countryside
B. Alone in a city D. Alone in the countryside 独自一人在乡村
2. Tom went into town. 汤姆 进城。
A．often C. Almost never 几乎从不 D. Everyday
3. The old people in the restaurant read their newspapers .
餐馆里的老人读报纸 。
A． with glasses on 戴着眼镜 B. with glasses off
C. With glasses of beer in front of them D. with glasses pipes in their mouths
4. The shop Tom went into sold . 汤姆走进的那家店卖 .
A. drinking glasses and cups B. glass for windowss and colors
C. glasses for people who could not read
D. Glasses for people who could not see well 眼镜给视力不好的人
5. what kind of mistake did Tom make？ 汤姆犯了什么错误？
A．He went to the wrong kind of shop. B. He didn’t try on all the glasses in the shop
C. He thought that a person who had not learned to read would be able to do so if he wore
glasses.
他认为不会阅读的人戴上眼镜就能阅读了。
left his money in the restaurant
KEY：DCADC

Passage 6 （英国画家）
Once James Thornhill, a famous English painter, was asked to paint some pictures on the
walls of the king’s palace in England.
Then workers were sent for and a big platform(台子) was made.
With the help of a worker, Thornhill started painting on the plastform. They worked for a
whole yeara and at last the pictures were ready.

Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were really beautifu. He looked
at them for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even
more beautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally he was at the very edge of the platform,
but he didn’t know it because he was thinking of his picture.
The worker saw everything. “what should i do？” he thought. “Thornhill was at the very
edge of the platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off in and surely be killed.” So the
worker quickly took some paint (漆)and threw iin at the pictures.
“what are you doing？”cried the painter, running quickly forward to his pictures.
詹姆斯.桑希尔是一名英国画家。有一次，他奉命在皇宫的墙壁上作画。
之后派来了一些工匠，支起一个平台。
在一名工匠的帮助下， 桑希尔开始在平台上作画。他们工作了一整你，油画终于完成。
桑希尔望着油画很开心，因为那些油画 是很美丽。他看了很长时间，然后退一步再看，
现在感觉更美了。他又退一步，然后再退一步， 最后已经很靠近平台边缘了， 但是并不知
道，因为他只想着自己的画。
工匠看到了一切。“ 我该怎么做呢？”他想到，“桑希尔已经在平台的边缘了，如果大声
喊叫，他会再退一步，从平台上掉下 来， 肯定会死。”于是工匠迅速拿油漆泼向油画。
“你在干吗？”画家喊道，飞快的向油画跑来。
1. James Thornhill was an English . 詹姆斯.桑希尔是一名英国 .
A．worker B. artist 艺术家 C. King
2. He was ordered to . 他奉命 .
A. paint the wall of king’s palace in England. 在英国皇宫的墙壁上作画。
B. paint some pictures on the wall of the palace.
C. build a big platform in front of the palace
D. put up some new pictures on the old wall.
3. It took them to finish the pictures. 他们完成油画用了 。
A．a month B. a week e months 十二个月 D. Half a month
4. James Thornhill felt that the he was from the pictures, the they
were.
詹姆斯.桑希尔觉得他距离画 ， 那些画就 .
A．nearer... more beautiful ... more ugly
... more beautiful 越远... 越美丽 D. Higher above... more good-looking
worker threw some paint at the pictures in order no .
工匠向油画泼油漆的目的是 .
A．save Jame’s life 挽救詹姆斯的生命 B. destory the picture
C. make the picture more beautiful the king angrey
KEY：BBCCA

Passage 7（好商人）
Morgan Rees has always been a good businessman. He used to own three petrol stations and
was busy most of the time. When he was 65, the normal retirement age, he decided that the
didn’t want to stop, so he carried on working for another two years. Eventually, when he was
nearly 68, his wiefe, Dolly, asked him to retire because she wanted to enjoy their old age together.

Reluctantaly, he handed over the business to his son.
But he was unhappy. He didn’t know what to do with himself. Although he read a lot of
books and he went on holiday to interesting places with his wife, he was bored and befgan to get
deperessed because he hated being retired.
Then one day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper and, without telling his wife, he
bought a small crockery (陶器) factory. The next week he told his family. They were horrified and
worried. They thought he was too old at 71 to start work again.
He is now 76 and he has expanded the company considerably. He has increased the number
of staff from 6 to 24 and he has found many new customers for the products. He has developed the
export market and has improved profits by 200%. He has opened a new design office and
enpolyed three young designers. They have been all over the world to ger new ideas, and one of
them has gone to France this week to a major trade fair. Most importantly, he hasn’t been bored
since he brought the factory.
摩根.里斯一直是一位不错的生意人。他曾经有过3个加油站， 而且一直都很忙。当他
65岁时，也就是正常退休的年龄时， 他决定不想停止工作， 所以他又接着干了两年。结
果在他快68岁的时候，他妻子多丽让他退休， 希望能和他一起共度晚年的 时光。今天管他
读了很多的书，而且也和妻子一起去一些好玩的地方去度假，但是他感到很无聊， 并且由
于讨厌退休而开始变得压抑沮丧。
在这之后的一天，他在报纸上看到了一则广告，也没 有告诉他的妻子，他就买下了一家
小陶器厂。 一周后他才告诉家里人。他们为此刚到惊讶，而且有些担 心。大家认为他不能
以71岁高龄再重新开始工作了。
现在他76岁， 已经显著地扩大了公司的规模。公司的员工人数从6人增加到24人， 而
且他还开发了很多新客户。 他也开拓了出口市场，利润增长200%。 他还开办了一家新的
设计室， 并且聘用了三名年轻的设计 师。他们一直世界各地四处发掘新的信息，其中一位
本周已经去了法国参加一次重大的商铺交易会。最为 重要的是，自从他收购了这家工厂后，
他便不再感到没事可做。
1. The topic sentence of Para.1 is . 第一段的主题句是？
A. Morgan Rees has always been a good businessman 摩根.里斯一直是以为不错的生
意人。
B. He used to own three petrol stations asn was busy most of the time
C. When Morgen Rees was 65, he got retired
D. Reluctantly, he handed over the business to his son
2. The topic sentence of Para.2 is . 第二段主题句是？
A．he didn’t what to do with himself B. he went on holiday to interesting places with his
wife
C. he was unhappy after he got retired 退休后他并不高兴 D. None of them
3. Which of the following statements can best express the main idea of Para.3？ 以下哪一项
陈述能最好地表达第三段的中心思想？
A．One day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper
B. He bought a small crockery factory in seceret and started work again. 他偷偷买下一家
小陶器厂，并重新开始工作。
C．He told his family he bought a small factory.

D. His family was horried and worried when they learned he bought the small factory.
4. What is the central idea of the last paragraph？ 最后一段的中心思想是？
A．Morgan Rees has worked until he is 76.
B. Morgan Rees has developed the export market and improvedthe profits by 200%
C. Morgan Rees hasn’t been bored since he bought the factory.
D. Since he started working again, Morgan Rees has expanded the company considerably,
which has enriched his retire life. 自从重新开始工作，摩根.里斯显著的扩大了公司的规模，
这丰富了他的退休生活。
5. The passage mainly deals with . 这篇文章主要讲的是？
A．why Morgan Rees bought a small crockery factory
B. how Morgan Rees lived his retired like more happy by turning to work again.
摩根.里斯如何通过重新开始工作使他的退休生活更加快乐。
Morgan Rees became a good businessman
Morgan Rees expanded the company considerably.
KEY：ACBDB

Passage 8（24号居民）
The residents of 24 Acacia Grove were dissatisfied with the condition of the property, so John
Preston called a meeting to discuss things last week. At the meeting John suggested setting up a
residents’ committee. Everyone was so worried and angry about the agent’s inactivity that they
agreed, and they elected John as chairman of the committee. Many residents said that they were
tired of telephoning the agent and tired of complaining about the flats. Although the agent was
responsible for the flats, they thought that he didn’t do enough. Therefore John was asked to write
to the agent and say that they were disappointed with the management of the flats.
The next service payment was due at the end of the month. However, they agreed not to pay
it until they were happy with the plans to improve the property. They decided to tell the agent that
he must start the work within one month. They all went away very pleased with themselves.
阿卡西亚格拉芙街24号的居民对公寓情况不满意, 因此上周约翰.普雷斯顿召开会议进
行讨 论。在会上约翰建议成立居民委员会，对房东代理的无所作为，大家既担心又气愤，所
以，他们都同意成 立委员会。 他们选举约约翰为委员会主席。许多居民说，他们憎恶在给
房东代理打电话，向他们抱怨公 寓的状况。尽管房东代理有责任管理公寓。但是他们认为房
东代理做得不够。因此居民要求约翰写信给房 东代理说明他们对公寓的管理很失望。
下期付费应该在月底，但是他们一致决定直到房东代理制定出令 人满意的改善计划，他
们才付服务费。 他们决定告诉房东代理必须在一个月内开始工作。然后他们都十分满意的
离开了。
1. Why did John Preston call a meeting last week? 上周约翰.普雷斯特为什么召开会议？
A． Because the residents were dissatisfied with the presents’ committee.
B． Because the residents were dissatisfied with the bad management of the flats. 因为居民
们对公寓的管理不满意。
C． Because some residents requested to change the present residents’ committee.
E. Because he wanted to become chairman of the committee.
2. Who elected John as chairman of the committee? 谁推选约翰为委员会主席？
A． The agent B. the residents 居民们 C. the committee D. Acacia Grove

3. What does the word “inactivity” mean in the thrid sentence in Para.1？ 第一段第三句中
的“inactivity” 一词是什么意思？
A. weakness B. Progress C. State D. Lace of actions (缺乏行动)
4. What does the word “due” mean in the first sentence in Para.2？ 第二段第一句中的“due”
一词是什么意思？
A．to be paid 到期支付 B. Proper C. Owed D. large
5. When did they agree to pay the next service payment ? 他们一直同意什么时候付下一期
的服务费？
A．at the end of the month B. Within one month
C. When they were happy with the plans to improve the property. 直到房东代理制定出令
人满意的改善计划时
D. The agent would tell them.
KEY：BBDAC

Passage 9（集邮）
When I was a little girl, my brothers and i collected stamps for many years. My mother
didn’t use to work during the week, but she worked in the post office near our house on
Saturdays and she used to bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued(发行).
On the day of World Cup football final in London in 1996, we were very excited because
England were playing West Germany in the final. When we were having lunch, my mother told us
to go to the post office straight way after the match if England won, but she didn’t tell us why.
At 2 O’clock my mother went back to work as usual, while the rest of the family were watching
the football on TV at home. Although she wasn’t watching the match, she was listening to it on
the readio.
England won 4：2 and so my brothers and I ran to the post office. As we burst in, my mother
was standing behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition with
ENGLAND WINNDERS on eah stamp. We were over the moon.
We still have it today, and perhaps it is worth a lot of money.
当我还是个小女孩， 我的哥哥们和我收集邮票多年。 我母亲通常周一至周五不工作，
但周六 在我们家附近的邮局上班。而且只要一发行最新的邮票，她就把它们都带回家。
1966年伦敦世界杯足球决赛那一天， 我们都非常兴奋， 因为在决赛中英格兰队对阵
西德队。 吃午饭时，母亲告诉我们比赛后如果英格兰队获胜就直接去邮局， 但她没告诉我
们为什么。两点整母亲像往常一样去上班，而家里其他成员都在电视上收看比赛。母亲虽然
没有看，但是她从收音机里收听了比赛。
英格兰队以4比2获胜，于是我和哥哥就跑去邮局。 当我们跑进去时， 母亲正站在柜
台后面。她正等着卖给我们特别限量版的邮票，每一枚邮票上都印着“ 英格兰获胜”的字样。
我们欣喜若狂。
我们直到今天还一直保存着它，或许现在她很值钱了。
1. This passage mainly tell us . 这篇文章主要告诉我们？
A. The auther and her brother used to like stamps very muhch
B. The auther had a very kind mother
C. The auther and her brother had an unforgetable experience in collecting stamps

作者和她的兄弟一次难忘的集邮精力
D． their mother used to support them by working in the post office.
2. Accordin to the passage, her mother worked in the post office . 根据文章的
内容，作者的母亲在邮局工作 .
A． During the week B. on Saturdays 在周六 C. On Sundays D. For six
days
3. Their mother told them to go to the post office straight away after the match if England won,
but she didn’t tell them why. Why do you think she did that ? 母亲告诉他们比赛结束
后如果英格兰队获胜了就直接去邮局但是她没告诉他们为什么。 你认为母亲为什么那
样做？
A． She wanted to give them a surprise. 她想给他们一个惊喜。
B． She doubted if she would get the stamps
C. She forgot to do that. D. She thought is unneccessary to tell them the
reason.
4. What does the sentence “We were over the moon” mean ? 本文中的“We were over the
moon”是什么意思？
A．we jumped high B. We were extremly happy about it. 我们欣喜若狂
C．We watched the moon of a long time D. We couldn’t sleep the whole night
5. What is the best title for this passage ? 本文的最佳标题是什么？
A. My childhood B. My mother C. A precious Stamp
D. A memorable Experience in Collecting Stamps 一次难忘的集邮经历
KEY： CBABD
Passage 10 （约翰和维多利亚）
When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one- year stay, they did not bring
very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy
used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using.
The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s
fastest growing businesses.
当John和Victoria Falls到达纽约开始他们的一年生活时 ，他们没有随身带很多东
西。他们计划要么住在装修好的公寓里，要么买些旧家具。但是他们很快了解到 越来越多的
人正在采用的一种新的方式。租用家具（如窗，桌子，盘子等等）已经成为美国发展最快的< br>行业之一。
What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are
international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married
couple – people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to
another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply
rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want
to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough
money to buy furniture that they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality
furniture than they could afford to buy.
什么样的人是租用家具而不是买家 具的呢？从事国际商务的人，政府官员，外国学生，
航空公司工作人员，刚结婚的年轻夫妇---- 那 些由于工作而被迫频繁来往不同的城市的人。
他们可以省去每次搬家具的麻烦和费用。他们到一个新家的 时候，只需租新的家具就好了。

收入少的年轻人不想买那些他们可能很快就不喜欢的便宜 家具。他们宁愿等到有钱时买他们
真正喜欢的家具。同时，他们发现他们可以租比他们买得起的质量更好 的家具。
One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture
so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people
don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they
are not sure what their neighbors might think. (248words)
有个家庭，他们有属于自己 的大而漂亮的房子，可是他们太喜欢租来的家具了以至于
他们决定继续租用而不买新的家具。但是人们通 常不喜欢告诉别人这些。租家具的想法还是
很新的，他们不能确定邻居们对此会怎么想。
6. Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses?
____________
以下哪个行业已成为美国发展最快的行业之一？
A. Selling home furnishings.
C. Selling used furniture.






B. Renting furnished apartments.
D. Renting home furnishings. 租用家具。
7. Why do some people prefer to rent furniture? ____________
为什么人们更喜欢租用家具？
A. Because the furniture they get in this way is new.
B. Because it saves them a lot of money.
C. Because it saves them much trouble and money. 因为这样可以省去很多麻烦和钱。
D. Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.
8. What can you infer from the passage? ____________
从段落中你能推断出什么？
A. The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.
B. Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town.
在这对夫妇的家乡，租用家具并不流行。
C. Only those who don’t have enough money to rent furniture.
D. People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.
9. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage? ____________
下面哪个作为本段的题目最好？
A. Rent or Buy?
的方法。
C. Furnished Apartments. D. A New Idea.
10. Young people liked renting home furniture in that __________.
年轻人喜欢租用家具是由于什么？他们没有钱而且不想买便宜的家具。
A. They have less money
B. They don’t want to buy old furniture
C. The new furniture is of good quality
D. They don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture
KEY：DCBBD

Passage 11 （美国文化特点）
A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the
self-made man — the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by
working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies
B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings. 一种新的获得家具

a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer
or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in
America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.
美国文化的一个特点，并且几乎成为美国的一项传统 的是对自我奋斗的人的尊敬――通
过自己的努力到达顶峰，通常是白手起家。然而公司，企业的领导，社 会地位很高，在社区
中获得比一般工人或工厂技术人员更多的尊敬的大学教授，都不愿说出自己的父亲在 美国是
从一个农民，工人这类人开始奋斗的。
This attitude toward manual（体力的）labor is now still seen many aspects of American life.
One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously（豪华地）
furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact the family has been able to afford
foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably
will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward, furthermore the
dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various
cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes
pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional may talk about washing the car,
digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he
often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash
dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in
order to pay for his education.
这种对体力劳动的尊敬在美国生活的很多地方都能看到。一个人被邀请到一户家庭赴
宴，这户 家庭装潢不只舒适，可以说是豪华，处处可证明这家人支付的起国外旅行，奢侈的
爱好和孩子的大学教育 。但是这样的女主人很有可能自己做饭招待客人，然后洗刷餐具，并
且这样的宴会不会仅仅提供快餐式的 罐头食品，从附近面包房买的蛋糕或派。相反的，女主
人通常为精心准备特别的菜肴而感到自豪。男主人 会谈论自己如何洗车，在花房劳作，粉刷
房子，他的儿子在外地上大学，做餐厅侍应生，洗盘子来供自己 生活花费，或者暑假的时候
为建筑队在高速公路工作赚钱付学费。
11. From paragraph 1, we know that in America _______.从第一段我们可以知道在美国
_______？
A. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man人们对自我奋斗的人评价很高
B. people can always rise to the top through their own efforts
C. college professors win great respect from common workers
D. people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors
12. According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _______.
从这篇文章来看，女主人自己做饭主要是因为_______？
A. servants in American are hard to get
B. she takes pride in what she can do herself 她对自己可以做的事情感到自豪
C. she can hardly afford servants D. It is easy to prepare a meal with canned food
13. The expression “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “_______”.
第二段中，词组“等在桌旁”的意思是什么？
A. work in a furniture shop B. keep accounts for a bar
C. wait to lay the table
人服务
14. The author’s attitude towards manual（体力的）labor is _______.作者对体力劳动者的态度
D. serve customers in a restaurant在餐厅为客

如何？
A. positive 积极的 B. negative C. humorous D. critical
15. Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?
下面那项最适合作这篇文章的题目？
A. A Respectable Self- made Family.
D. The Development of Manual Labor.
B. American Attitude toward Manual Labor. 美国人对体力劳动者的态度
C. Characteristics of American Culture.
KEY：ABDAB
Passage 12 （如何发明单词文字）
How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a
mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to
express thought and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other;
and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present
those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in
letters, we call words.
人们最初是如何发明单词的不得而知，换句话说，语言的起源是个秘密。所有我们所知
道的只是，人，不同于动物，不知怎么发明了某些声音来表达思想、情感、行为和物质，以
便相互交流； 后来统一了某些被称为字母的符号，这些字母可以连起来代表那些声音，可以
写下来。我们把那些声音叫 做单词，不管他们是口语还是书面语。
The power of words, then, lies in their associations-the thing they bring up before our minds.
Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain
words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more
the number of words that mean something increases.
文字的力量在于其联系性 －它们把这些联系性带到我们的头脑中。通过经历，单词对我
们充满了意义。我们活得越久，某些单词就 越能使我们回忆起过去的喜怒哀乐；我们越是阅
读和学习，有意义的单词数量就越增加。
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in
words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of
words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey
his meaning in words which sing like music and which by their position and association can move
men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or
they will make our speech silly and vulgar.
伟大的作家是那些不仅具有伟大思想而且能用词汇来表达这些思想的人，他们 的思想强
烈地震撼着我们的心灵和情感。单词的这种美妙和寓意用法就是我们所谓的文学性。总之，真正的诗人是文字的掌握着。他可以用音乐般的词汇来表达自己的意思，这些词汇凭借其所
用环境和 联系性能让人感动得流泪。因此，我们应该学会仔细选择所用词汇并准确使用，否
则会使我们说的话可笑 又粗俗。
6. The origin of language is _______. 语言的起源是：
A. a legend handed down from the past
C. a question difficult to answer
题
7. What is true about words? 关于词汇哪一项是对的？
A. They are used to express feelings only. B. They can not be written down.



B. a matter that is hidden or secret
D. a problem not yet solved一个还未解决的问

C. They are simply sounds.他们是简单的声音
A. properties
C. peculiarity

















D. They are mysterious.

8. The real power of words lies in their _______. 文字的真正力量在于其____
B. characteristics
D. representative function 代表功能
B. a joining of ideas in the mind头脑中思想的
9. By “association”, the author means _______. 作者用“联系性”这个词指
A. a special quality
联接
C. an appearance which is puzzling D. a strange feature
10. Which of the following statements about the real poet is NOT true?
关于真正的诗人下列哪项不正确？
A. He is no more than a master of words. 他只不过是一个文字的掌握者。
B. He can convey his ideas in words which sing like music.
C. He can move men to tears. D. His style is always charming.
KEY：DCDBA
Passage 13 （羞怯不快乐原因）
Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious
and self-conscious; that is, they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions.
Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: what kind of impression am I making?
Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing unattractive clothes?
羞怯是许多人不快乐的原因。害羞的人焦虑不安，自我意识强，也就是说，他们过分在
意自己 的形象和行为。焦虑时常萦绕在他们的脑海中：我给人留下了什么印象?他们喜欢我
吗?我让人觉得很傻 吗?我的穿着是否不吸引人?
It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must negatively affect people. A person’s
conception of himself or herself is reflected in the way he or she behaves, and the way a person
behaves affects other people’s reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has a
profound effect on all areas of their lives.
显而易见，这种不舒适的感觉必然给 人们带来了不利的影响。一个人的自我意识反映在
他或她的行为上，而一个人的行为会影响他人的反应。 一般而言，人们认识自己的方式对他
们的生活的方方面面有深远的影响。
Shy people, having low self-esteem, are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others.
They need reassurance that they are doing “the right thing.” Shy people are very sensitive to
criticism; they feel it confirms their feelings of inferiority. They also find it difficult to be pleased
by compliment with a statement like this one, “You’re just saying that to make me feel good. I
know it’s not true.” It is clear that while self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is
harmful.
羞怯的人非常自 卑，他们可能很被动，容易受他人的影响。他们需要得到他人的再次确
认：他们所做的是“正确的事情” 。羞怯的人对批评很敏感，他们认为批评使得他们更低人
一等。他们也发现自己很难因为受到类似的表扬 而高兴，如：你刚才所说的使我感觉很好。
我知道那不是真的。很明显，尽管具有自知之明是件好事，但 过度自谦则是有害的。
Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? Fortunately, people can overcome
shyness with determined and patient efforts in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes hand
in hand with a lack of self-esteems, it is important for people to accept their weakness as well as
their strengths.

羞怯能根除吗?或至少能减少些吗?幸运的是，许多人能通过坚决而有耐心地建立自信 来
克服羞怯。既然羞怯与自卑天生相伴，那么人们能看见他们的优缺点是很重要的。
Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual, interested in our own personal ways. The
better we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to live up to our full potential. Let’s not
allow shyness to block our chances for a rich and fulfilling life.
每一个人都是独一无二的，都有其价值所在 。我们对我们自己个人的方式感兴趣。我们
了解自己越多，我们就越容易充分发挥自己的潜能。不要让羞 怯妨碍我们实现富裕而有成效
的人生。
11. What does the author try to prove by citing “what kind of impression am I making?”
作者通过引用“我给人留下了什么印象?”来试图说明什么？
A. Shy people benefit from their caring about their appearance.
B. People’s shyness made them care too much about their appearance and actions.
羞怯使他们过分关注他们的形象和行为。
C. It’s natural that shy people don’t believe other’s compliments.
D. Shy people think they are different from others.
12. According to the writer, self-awareness is _______.根据作者的观点，自知之明是一件
_______
A. a good quality 好事







B. the cause of unhappiness
D. a weak point of shy people C. harmful to people
_______
A. good B. unreal 不真实的 C. very reasonable D. harmful
14. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
根据文章含义，下列陈述哪一个是正确的？
A. Shyness helps us to develop our potential.
B. Shyness enables us to understand ourselves better.
C. Shyness can block our chances for a rich life. 羞怯能够阻碍我们实现富裕人生的机会。
D. Shyness has nothing to do with lack of self-esteem.
15. It can be inferred from the passage that shy people _______.从文章中可以推断出羞怯的人
_______
A. should find more of their weakness
13. When being praised, shy people feel that it is _______.当被赞扬的时候，羞怯的人感到这是
B. should understand themselves in the right way应当以正确的方式看待自己
C. had better ignore their weakness
D. can get rid of their shyness while maintaining low self-esteem
KEY：BABCB
Passage 14 （美国打电话）
In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If
you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call
shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is
attached to telephone calls made after 11:00 p.m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours,
he assumes it’s a matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.
In social life, time plays a very important part. In the U.S.A. guests tend to feel they are not highly
regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date.

But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make
an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week
away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus,
misunderstandings arise between people from different cultures that treat time differently.
Promptness is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be
regarded as impolite or not fully responsible. In the U.S. no one would think of keeping a business
associate waiting for an hour, it would be too impolite. A person who is 5 minutes late, will say a
few words of explanation, though perhaps he will not complete the sentence. (260 words)
在美国，一般不习惯每天很早打电话给某个人 。如果你很早打电话给他，在他刮胡子或
吃早饭的时候，那就说明这件事情非常重要，需要立刻处理。晚 上十一点以后打电话也是同
样的意思。如果一个人在睡觉的时候接到电话，那他肯定觉得这是一件事关生 死的大事。打
电话的时间也显示事情的重要程度。在社会生活中，时间是一个非常重要的角色。在美国，
如果在宴会三四天前才受到邀请，那受邀者就会认为自己不是很受重视。但并不是在所有的
国家 都如此。在世界上的其它地方，提前很多时候做约定被认为是很愚蠢的，因为约好一个
星期以后的事情很 容易忘记。所以时间的意义在不同的地方是不一样的。因此，来自不同文
化背景的人之间就会产生误会。 举个例子，准时在美国社会是受到高度认可的。如果某些人
不准时，就会被认为不礼貌或不够负责任。在 美国，没有一个人会把一次商务活动和等待一
小时联系起来，这太不礼貌了。一个人如果迟到五分钟，就 要做出解释，也许这还不够。
6. What is the main idea of this passage? __________ 以下哪项表达了本文的中心思想？
A. It is not customary to telephone someone in the morning and in sleeping hours in the U.S.
B. The role of time in social life over the world. 世界各地时间在社会生活中扮演的角色。
C. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible in the
U.S.
D. Not every country treats the concept of time as the same.
7. What does it mean in the passage if you call someone during his or her sleeping hours?
__________
根据本文，如果你在某人睡觉时间打电话给他，意味着什么？
A. A matter of work.
B. A matter of life or death. 这是一件事关生死的大事
C. You want to see him or her.
D. You want to make an appointment with him or her.
8. Which of the following time is proper if you want to make an appointment with your friend?
__________
如果你想约你的朋友，以下哪个时间是比较恰当的？
A. at 7: 00 am. B. at 4:00 pm. 下午4点 C. at the midnight. D. at
4:00 am.
9. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? __________
根据本文，以下哪项陈述是正确的？
A. In the U.S.A guests tend to feel they are highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party
is extended only three or four days before the party date.
B. There is no misunderstanding arising between people from different cultures about the
concept of time.
C. It may be considered foolish to make an appointment well in advance in the U.S.A..
D. Promptness is valued highly in American life. 准时在美国社会是受到高度认可的。

10. From the passage we can safely infer that __________. 从本文我们可以得出：
A. it’s a matter of life or death if you call someone in day time
B. the meaning of time differs in different parts of the world 世界各地的时间观念是不同
的。
C. it makes no difference in the U.S. whether you are early or late for a business party
D. if a person is late for a date, he needn’t make some explanation
KEY：BBBDB
Passage 15(美国及美国人的由来)
The United States covers a large part of the North American continent. Its neighbors are
Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. Although the United States is a big country , it is not
the largest in the world. In 2000, its population was over 222 million.
When this land first became a nation, after winning its independence from England, it had
thirteen states. Each of the states was represented on the American flag by a star. All these were in
the eastern part of the continent. As the nation grew toward the west, new states were added and
new stars appeared on the flag. For a long time, there were 48 stars. In 1959, however, two more
stars were added to the flag, representing the new states of Alaska and Hawaii.
Indians were the first people of the land which is now the United States. There are still many
thousands of Indians now living in all parts of the country. Sometimes it is said that the Indians are
“the only real Americans”. Most Americans come from all over the world. Those who came first
in greatest numbers to make their homes on the eastern of North America were mostly from
England. It is for the reason that the language of the United States is English and that its culture
and customs are more like those of England than those of any other country in the world.
美国占去北美大陆很大一 部分土地。它北邻加拿大，南接墨西哥。虽然美国是一个大国，
但它不是世界上最大的。在2000年， 它的人口超过2.22亿。
这片土地刚从英国独立出来，第一次成为一个国家的时候，只有十三个州， 每个州在
美国国旗上由一颗星米代表。这些州都是在东部。当这个国家不断向西扩大，就增加了新的州， 同时它们也出现在国旗上。很长一段时间，美国有48个州， 可是到1959年，国旗上
有多了2颗星， 分别代表阿拉斯加和夏威夷。
印第安人是如今叫 做美国的这块土地上的最初的居民。现在在各国各地仍然居住着许多
这些原始居民的后裔。有时人们说印 第安人才是“真正的美国人”。不过， 大部分美国人是
来自世界各地。那些最早大批来到北美东海岸建 立家园的人大部分来自英格兰，也是由于这
个原因，美国的国语为英语，而它的文化习俗也与英国的更为 相像。
1. Which of the following is TURE? 以下选项哪个是正确的？
A． American is the largest country in the world.
B． The United States lies next to Canada and Mexico. 美国邻近加拿大和墨西哥。
C． America covers most part of the North American continent.
D. Mexico is to the north of Canada.

2. After winning its independence, the United States . 在赢得了独立之后，美
国和英格兰就没什么关系了。
A. had nothing to do with England B. made India part of its land
C. mianly developed westward D. took over parts of Canada and Mexico
3. The United States didn’t have states until . 美国在1959年前没有50个
州。
A． thirteen;1959 B. fifty;1959 C. fifty, this land first became a nation
;1964
4. Why is English the language of America? 为什么美国的国语是英语？
A．Because English is the native language of the Indians. 因为土著人的语言是英语。
B. Because most Americans come from all over the world.
C. Because Canada is America’s nearest neighbor.
D. Because most of the people who first settled in America were from England.
5. The best title for the passage is “ ”. 这篇文章最好的标题是美国。
A. the States of America B. The language of America
C. The United States of America D. The Culture and Customs of America
KEY: BABAC
Passage 16（在伦敦工作）
Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go in to their offices or
schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to get up early in the
morning and reach home late in the evening.
很多在伦敦工作的人喜欢住在伦敦郊外，然后每天乘火车、汽车和公交车去上班或上学。
这也就意味着他们不得不早出晚归。
One advantage of living outside London is that houses are cheaper. Even a small flat in
London without a garden costs quite a lot to rent. With the same money, one can get a little house
in the country with a garden of one’s own.
住在伦敦郊外的一个好处就是房子便宜。在伦敦即使是 没有花园的小公寓也需要一笔不
菲的租金，用同样的钱，你可以在郊区买一个带花园的小房子了。
Then, in the country one can really get away from the noise and hurry of busy working lives.
Even though one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep better
at night and during weekends and on summer evenings, one can enjoy the fresh, clean air of the
country. If one likes gardens, one can spend one’s free time digging, planting, watering and doing
the hundred and one other jobs which are needed in a garden. Then, when the flowers and
vegetables come up, one has got the reward together with those who have shared the secret of
Nature.
然后，他在乡村就可以远离喧嚣和忙碌的工作生活。 即使他不得不起得更早，花更多的
时间乘火车或公交车，但他晚上可以睡得更好。在周末和夏季的夜晚， 他可以享受乡村清新
干净的空气。要是他喜欢花园，在花园里干一些想挖土、种植、浇水等许多园艺的活 ，那么
当鲜花和蔬菜生长起来的时候，他就与其他分享大自然秘密的人们一样得到奖赏。
Some people, however, take no interest in country things: for them, happiness lies in the town,

with its cinemas and theatres, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance-halls and restaurants. Such
people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live it outside London. An
occasional walk in one of the parks and a fortnight’s (two weeks) visit to the sea every summer is
all the country they want: the rest they are quite prepared to leave to those who are glad to get
away from London every night.
然而有些人对乡村并不感兴趣。对他们来说，幸福就在市区里，那里有电 影院、剧院、
漂亮的商店、繁忙的街道、舞厅和饭店。如果不得不住在伦敦郊外的话，这些人就觉得生活
没意义了。（对于那些热爱都市生活的人来说）他们所需要的乡村生活，就是偶尔去公园散
步， 每个夏天去海边过上两个星期，其他跟乡村有关的东西，让那些每天晚上都急于离开伦
敦的人们（住在郊 外的人们）去享受吧。
6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? 下列哪个陈述是不对的？
A. People who love Nature prefer to live outside the city.
B. All the people who work in London prefer to live in the country.
所有在伦敦工作的人都喜欢住在伦敦市郊
C. Some people enjoying city life prefer to work and live inside London.
D. Many nature lovers, though working in London, prefer to live outside the city.
7. With the same money needed for _______, one can buy a little house with a garden in the
country.
用同样的钱_______,他可以在乡村买到一套有花园的小房子。
A. getting a small flat with a garden B. having a small flat with a garden
C. renting a small flat without a garden 租一套没有花园的小公寓
D. buying a small flat without a garden
8. When the garden is in blossom, the one _______ has been rewarded.
当花园里开满鲜花的时候，那个_______的人就得到了奖赏。
A. living in the country
作
C. having a garden of his own D. having been digging, planting and watering
9. People who think happiness lies in the city life would feel that _______ if they had to live
outside London.
那些认为幸福就在城市里人会感到_______如果他们不得不住在郊外。
他们的生活毫无意义 B. their life was invaluable A. their life was meaningless
B. having spent time working in the garden花时间在花园里工
C. they didn’t deserve a happy life D. they were not worthy of their
happy life
10. The underlined phrase get away from in the 3rd paragraph refers to _______.
在第3段中，划线的词组get away from指_______。
A. deal with
KEY：BCBAC







B. do away with
D. prevent from C. escape from 逃脱某个地方

第二部分 阅读理解(2)（2016年4月统考）全真翻译版

以下16篇阅读理解考试中100%考一篇， 答案是四个选项之一。出现在考试中阅读部
分的第二部分 ，简化或硬背，必须掌握，原题出现，答案位置不变，考1题10分，一定不
可以丢。建议多看短文的中 文意思，然后记下选项答案。
Passage 1 （目标有三种）
There are three kinds of goals: short-term, medium-range and long-term goals.
目标有三种：短期目标，中期目标和长期目标。
Short-term goals are those that usually deal with current activities, which we can apply on a
daily basis. Such goals can be achieved in a week or less, or two weeks, or possibly, months. It
should be remembered that just as a building is no stronger than its foundation, long- term goals
cannot amount to very much without the achievement of solid short-term goals. Upon completing
our short-term goals, we should date the occasion and then add new short-term goals that will
build on those that have been completed.
短期目标是根据每日制定的为了处理当前事物的目标。短期目标可以以少于一个 星期，
一个星期，两个星期，或者可能的话一个月来完成。我们必须记住，正如只有地基牢靠，建
筑物才坚固一样，长期目标脱离了扎实的短期目标的实现是不能实现的。短期目标的实现是
以以前完成 的目标为前提的。
The intermediate goals build on the foundation of the short-term goals. They might deal
with just one term of school or the entire school year, or they could even extend for several years.
Any time you move a step at a time, you should never allow yourself to become discouraged or
overwhelmed. As you complete each step, you will enforce the belief in your ability to grow and
succeed. And as your list of completion dates grow, your motivation and desire will increase.
中期目标是在短期目标的基础上指定的。可以以一个学 期或整个学年为周期指定，或
者延长至几年。每次你根据目标前进了一步，都不要让自己感到没有信心或 者压力重重。当
你完成了一个目标，你都会增加成功的信心。并且当你完成目标的日期越来越近，你的动 力
和希望都会增加。
Long-term goals may be related to our dreams of the future. They might cover five years or
more. Life is not a static thing. We should never allow a long-term goal to limit us or our course of
action.(221 words)
长期目标可以和我们 未来的梦想相关联。可以是五年或五年以上的目标。生活不是一
成不变的。我们不能让长期目标制约了我 们或我们的行为。
11. Our long-term goals mean a lot ____________.
如果我们能完成各个短期目标，那么我们的长期目标将意义深远。
A. If we cannot reach solid short-term goals
C. If we have dreams of the future
提的。
A. a daily basis
C. current activities










B. your achievement in a week
D. the goals that have been completed
B. If we complete the short- term goals
D. If we put forward some plans
12. New short-term goals are built upon ____________. 短期目标是以以前完成的目标为前
13. When we complete each step of our goals, ____________.每完成一个目标，将会增加我们
成功的信心。
A. we will win final success B. we are overwhelmed

C. we should build up confidence of success
new goals
A Life is a dynamic thing.
D. we should have strong desire for setting
14. What is the main idea of this passage? ____________ 这篇短文的中心思想是什么？
B. we should set up long-term goals
C. Different kinds of goals in life. 目标的不同种类。 D. The limitation of long-term goals.
15. Which of the following statements is wrong according to the passage? ____________
根据短文，下面哪种说法是错误的？
A. The long-term goals cannot amount to very much without the achievement of solid
short- term goals
B. The intermediate goals build on the foundation of the short-term goals.
C. Life is a static thing, thus we should never allow a long-term goal to limit us or our course
of action.
生活是一成不变的，所以我们不能让长期目标制约我们的生活和我们的行为。
D. We should often add new short-term goals to those which have been completed.
KEY：BDCCC
Passage 2 （牛顿市）
Today Newton is a very clean place. Many years ago, however, there were millions of rats in it.
They attacked the cats and dogs. Sometimes a great number of them knocked down a man or
woman walking home at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed many people.
They goverment ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they didn’t kill many.
The goverment promised to pay some money for each dead rat. The made the people very happy.
They killed thousands of rats everyday. A goverment officer put all the dead rats in a big pile.
Sometimes a man brought hundreds in one day.
After two weeks there were not many rats in the city, but people still brought many rats to the
goverment office. The goverment officer thought that people were stealing dad rats from the pile.
He ordered his mean to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no mroe rats, and the
goverment didn’t pay any more momey.
如今牛顿市是一个非常干净的地方。然而，很多年前，那里有上百万只老鼠。 它们袭击猫狗。
走夜路回家的人中，无论男女，也经常有人被一大群老鼠撞到。那些老鼠个头很大，是很 多
人受伤。
政府下令每个人都要灭鼠。大多数人很懒，所以灭掉的不多。政府许诺会为每只死 老鼠付赏
金，这让人们很兴奋。 每天人们灭掉成千上万只老鼠，一名政府工作人员将死老鼠堆成一大堆。有时一个人一天就带来百只死老鼠。
两周后，城里就没有很多老鼠了。但人们仍然将大量死 老鼠带到政府工作人员那里。他认为
有人在从老鼠堆里偷死老鼠，于是命令输下挖一个深坑，将死老鼠丢 进坑里。很快那里就没
有老鼠了，政府也不用再付赏金了。
1. Newton is a place which , 牛顿市是一个 的地方。
A．used to be very clean B. Is no longer a city C is very clean很干净 D. Will be
very clean
2. when the goverment first ordered the people to kill rats, the people .
当政府初次下令市民灭鼠，人们 .
A. Asked for some money for each dead rat B. Stole dead rats from the pile
B. Were too lazy to kill many rats 太懒所以没有大量灭鼠 D. Killed nearly all the rats

quickly
people killed rats . 人们灭鼠 .
A. To get money from the goverment 为了从政府领到赏金
B. To help the goverment make the city clean
C. Tomake the goverment officer happy
D. To protect(保护)their cats and dogs
4. A deep hole was dug so that . 挖深坑的目的是 .
A. the rats couldn’t come out to attack people at night.
B. people could take rats from it easily
C. people would kill more rats
D. nobody could take any rats from the pile 没有人能从死老鼠堆里拿走老鼠
5. What is the best topic for this passage ? 本文最佳标题是什么？
A．How to Kill Rats B. Newton--- A City of Rats
C. How Newton Became a Very Clean Place 牛顿市如何成为一个干净的地方
D. How Newton Became a Famous City
KEY: CCADC
Passage 3 （书商）
One day a bookseller (书商) let a big box of books fall on his foot. “Go to see the doctor，” said
his wife. “No”, he said, “I’ll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I’ll ask
him about my foot. If you I go to see him, I’ll have to pay him.”
On the next day the doctor came into the shop for some books. When the bookseller was
gettinghim ready, he told the doctor about his bagd foot. The doctor look at it.
“You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put somthing on it,” said the
deoctor.
He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it. “Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed
every night，”he said.
“ Thank you,” said the bookseller. “And now, sir, here are your books.”
“How much？”said the doctor.
“Two pounds.”
“Good,”said the doctor. “I shall not have to pay you nothing.”
“Why？”asked the bookseller.
“I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them
to pay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds.
And i came here, didn’t I？”
一天一位书商被一大箱书砸到了 脚。他妻子说：“去看医生吧。”他说“不，我要等医生下次
到店里来，然后他帮我看脚。如果到他那里 看，我就给付给他诊金了。”
第二天医生到书店里来买书。书商把书找齐，然后把脚伤告诉了医生。医生给他看脚。
医生说 ：“你每晚要用热水泡脚，然后上药。他拿出一张纸写下药方，说：“买这种药，然后
每晚睡前涂在脚上 。”
书商说：“谢谢。那么，先生，这是您的书。”
医生问：“多少钱？”
“2英镑。”

“太好了，”医生说：“我就不用付您钱了。”
“为什么？”书商问道。
“我给你看了脚，收你两英镑。像那样的小伤，如果到我那里看我只 收一英镑。但是要我出
诊，就收两英镑。而我到你这里来给你看病了，不是吗？”
1. What happened to the bookseller one day ? 有一天书商发生了什么事情？
A. He lost a box of books. B. His foot was wounded by a box of books.
C. He lent the doctor a box of books. D. He sold out all his books.
2. The bookseller’s wife asked him . 书商的妻子让他 .
A. to go out fo some medecine B. To send somebody for a doctor
C. to go to see the doctor 去看医生 D. To wait for the doctor to come
3. The bookseller didn’t take his wife’s advice because .
书商没有接受妻子的建议是因为 .
A. He was afraid of the doctor B. He didn’t take to take medicine
B. He couldn’t walk by himself D. He didn’t want to pay the doctor 他不想付钱给医
生
4. The doctor paid for the books. 医生支付了 买书。
A．one pound pounds C. Nothing 没有 D. Something
5. The bookseller paid moeny for seeing the doctor in the end.
A. more 更多 B. Less C. The same amount of
KEY：BCDCA

Passage4 （科学家）
What makes a person a scientist? Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different
from those of others? The answer is “no”. It is not the tools a scientist uses but how he uses these
tools that make him a scientist. You will probably agree that knowing how to use a power is
important to a carpenter. You will probably agree, too, that knowing how to investigate, how to
discover information, is important to everyone. The scientist, however, goes one step further, he
must be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his questions and that his answer can be confirmed
by other persons. He also works to fit the answer he gets to many questions into a large set of
ideas about how the world works.
是什么使一个普通人成为科学家？他有与从不同的学习方法和工 具吗？答案是否定的。
不是因为科学家使用的工具，而是因为他使用工具的方法使他成为科学家。你也许 认同怎么
用力对一名木匠来说很重要。你也许也认同怎么研究调查，发现信息对每个人来说都很重要。< br>然而，科学家比这更进一步，他必须确定他对自己的问题得出了一个合理的答案，并且他的
答案通 过别人也可以得到证实。他同时把自己得出的许多答案归结为一个系统的关于世界如
何运作的观点。
The scientist’s knowledge must be exact. There is no room for half right or right just half the
time. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit. What works under one set of conditions
at one time must work under the same conditions at other times. If the conditions are different, any
changes the scientist observes in a demonstration must be explained by the changes in the
conditions. This is one reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, who
developed the theory of relativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy of this
mathematics was later tested through investigations, Einstein’s ideas were shown to be correct. A

scientist uses many tools for measurements. Then the measurements are used to make
mathematical calculations that may test his investigations.
科学家的知识必须很确切。不能给半错半对或 者只有一半机会对的情况留任何空间。他
必须在条件允许的情况下尽可能正确。在一种条件下成功一次的 话必须在同样的条件下都能
成功。如果条件不同，科学家在证明过程中观察到的任何变化都必须解释他的 条件是如何变
化的。这是关于调查研究在科学研究中十分重要的其中一个理由。爱因斯坦通过数学方法提
出了相对论。他的数学运用的正确性被后人通过调查研究的方法证实该理论是正确的。一个
科学 家会用很多工具来测量。测量的结果用来进行数学计算，再进行调查研究的测试。
11. What makes a scientist according to the passage? 根据这篇文章的观点科学家是如何来
的？
A. The tools he uses. B. The way he uses his tools. 他使用工具的方法
C. His way of learning. D. The various tools he uses.
12. “The scientist, however, goes one step further…”. The author says this to show _______.
“然而，科学家比这更进一步„„”作者这么说是为了说明什么？
A. the importance of information
B. the importance of thinking

C. the difference between scientists and ordinary people科学家与普通人的区别
D. the difference between carpenters and people with other jobs
13. A sound scientific theory should be one that _______.一项伟大的科学理论应该是怎么样
的？
A. works not only under one set of conditions at one time, but also under the same conditions
at other times 不仅只在一种条件下一次可行，而是要在同样的条件下一直可行。
B. does not allow any changes even under different conditions
C. can be used for many purposes
D. leave no room for improvement
14. The author quotes the case of Albert Einstein to illustrate _______.作者引用爱因斯坦的例子
是为了证明什么？
A. that measurements are 答案s to success in science
B. that accuracy of mathematics
C. that the investigations are important in science调查研究在科学领域十分重要。
D. that the mathematical calculations may test his investigations
15. What is the main idea of the passage? 这篇文章的中心意思是什么？
A. The theory of relativity.
B. Exactness is the core of science.
C. Scientists are different from ordinary people.

D. Exactness and ways of using tools are the 答案s to the making of a scientist.
确切性和使用工具的方法是成为科学家的重要因素。
KEY：BCACD
Passage 5 （汤姆）
Mr. Froster lived by himself a long way form town. He hardly ever left his home, but one day
he went iinto town to buy some things in the market. After he had bought them, he went into a
restaurant ans sat down at a table by himself. When he looked around, he saw several old people
put glasses on before reading their man newspapers, so after lunch he decided to go to a shop to

buy himself some glasses too. He walked along the road, and soon found a shop.
The man in the shop made him try on a lot of glasses, but Tom always said, “No, i can’t
read with these.”
The man became more and more puzzled (迷惑不解)，until fianlly he said, “Excuse me, but
can you read at all？”
“No, of course i can’t！” Tom said angrily. “If I was already able to read, do you think i
would have come here to buy glasses？”
汤姆.福瑞斯特先生独自一人住在离城镇很远的地方。他几乎足不 出户，但有一天，他
到城里的市场上买点东西。 买完后，他走进一家餐馆，单独坐在桌边。 环顾四周， 他看
到几位老人读报纸前都先戴上眼镜，所以午餐后， 他决定到商店去给自己也买副眼镜。沿
街走着，很快就找到一家店。
店员让他试戴了好几副眼镜，单汤姆总是说：“不，我戴这副眼镜无法阅读。”
店员越来越感到迷惑不解，知道最后他问道：“恕我失礼，但请问您究竟会阅读吗？”
“当然 不会啦！”汤姆生气地说：“如果我已经能够阅读的话，你以为我还会来这儿买眼
镜吗？”
1. Mr. Forester lived . 福瑞斯特先生居住 .
A. With his family in a city B. With his family in the countryside
B. Alone in a city D. Alone in the countryside 独自一人在乡村
2. Tom went into town. 汤姆 进城。
A．often C. Almost never 几乎从不 D. Everyday
3. The old people in the restaurant read their newspapers .
餐馆里的老人读报纸 。
A． with glasses on 戴着眼镜 B. with glasses off
C. With glasses of beer in front of them D. with glasses pipes in their mouths
4. The shop Tom went into sold . 汤姆走进的那家店卖 .
A. drinking glasses and cups B. glass for windowss and colors
C. glasses for people who could not read
D. Glasses for people who could not see well 眼镜给视力不好的人
5. what kind of mistake did Tom make？ 汤姆犯了什么错误？
A．He went to the wrong kind of shop. B. He didn’t try on all the glasses in the shop
C. He thought that a person who had not learned to read would be able to do so if he wore
glasses.
他认为不会阅读的人戴上眼镜就能阅读了。
left his money in the restaurant
KEY：DCADC

Passage 6 （英国画家）
Once James Thornhill, a famous English painter, was asked to paint some pictures on the
walls of the king’s palace in England.
Then workers were sent for and a big platform(台子) was made.
With the help of a worker, Thornhill started painting on the plastform. They worked for a
whole yeara and at last the pictures were ready.

Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were really beautifu. He looked
at them for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even
more beautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally he was at the very edge of the platform,
but he didn’t know it because he was thinking of his picture.
The worker saw everything. “what should i do？” he thought. “Thornhill was at the very
edge of the platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off in and surely be killed.” So the
worker quickly took some paint (漆)and threw iin at the pictures.
“what are you doing？”cried the painter, running quickly forward to his pictures.
詹姆斯.桑希尔是一名英国画家。有一次，他奉命在皇宫的墙壁上作画。
之后派来了一些工匠，支起一个平台。
在一名工匠的帮助下， 桑希尔开始在平台上作画。他们工作了一整你，油画终于完成。
桑希尔望着油画很开心，因为那些油画 是很美丽。他看了很长时间，然后退一步再看，
现在感觉更美了。他又退一步，然后再退一步， 最后已经很靠近平台边缘了， 但是并不知
道，因为他只想着自己的画。
工匠看到了一切。“ 我该怎么做呢？”他想到，“桑希尔已经在平台的边缘了，如果大声
喊叫，他会再退一步，从平台上掉下 来， 肯定会死。”于是工匠迅速拿油漆泼向油画。
“你在干吗？”画家喊道，飞快的向油画跑来。
1. James Thornhill was an English . 詹姆斯.桑希尔是一名英国 .
A．worker B. artist 艺术家 C. King
2. He was ordered to . 他奉命 .
A. paint the wall of king’s palace in England. 在英国皇宫的墙壁上作画。
B. paint some pictures on the wall of the palace.
C. build a big platform in front of the palace
D. put up some new pictures on the old wall.
3. It took them to finish the pictures. 他们完成油画用了 。
A．a month B. a week e months 十二个月 D. Half a month
4. James Thornhill felt that the he was from the pictures, the they
were.
詹姆斯.桑希尔觉得他距离画 ， 那些画就 .
A．nearer... more beautiful ... more ugly
... more beautiful 越远... 越美丽 D. Higher above... more good-looking
worker threw some paint at the pictures in order no .
工匠向油画泼油漆的目的是 .
A．save Jame’s life 挽救詹姆斯的生命 B. destory the picture
C. make the picture more beautiful the king angrey
KEY：BBCCA

Passage 7（好商人）
Morgan Rees has always been a good businessman. He used to own three petrol stations and
was busy most of the time. When he was 65, the normal retirement age, he decided that the
didn’t want to stop, so he carried on working for another two years. Eventually, when he was
nearly 68, his wiefe, Dolly, asked him to retire because she wanted to enjoy their old age together.

Reluctantaly, he handed over the business to his son.
But he was unhappy. He didn’t know what to do with himself. Although he read a lot of
books and he went on holiday to interesting places with his wife, he was bored and befgan to get
deperessed because he hated being retired.
Then one day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper and, without telling his wife, he
bought a small crockery (陶器) factory. The next week he told his family. They were horrified and
worried. They thought he was too old at 71 to start work again.
He is now 76 and he has expanded the company considerably. He has increased the number
of staff from 6 to 24 and he has found many new customers for the products. He has developed the
export market and has improved profits by 200%. He has opened a new design office and
enpolyed three young designers. They have been all over the world to ger new ideas, and one of
them has gone to France this week to a major trade fair. Most importantly, he hasn’t been bored
since he brought the factory.
摩根.里斯一直是一位不错的生意人。他曾经有过3个加油站， 而且一直都很忙。当他
65岁时，也就是正常退休的年龄时， 他决定不想停止工作， 所以他又接着干了两年。结
果在他快68岁的时候，他妻子多丽让他退休， 希望能和他一起共度晚年的 时光。今天管他
读了很多的书，而且也和妻子一起去一些好玩的地方去度假，但是他感到很无聊， 并且由
于讨厌退休而开始变得压抑沮丧。
在这之后的一天，他在报纸上看到了一则广告，也没 有告诉他的妻子，他就买下了一家
小陶器厂。 一周后他才告诉家里人。他们为此刚到惊讶，而且有些担 心。大家认为他不能
以71岁高龄再重新开始工作了。
现在他76岁， 已经显著地扩大了公司的规模。公司的员工人数从6人增加到24人， 而
且他还开发了很多新客户。 他也开拓了出口市场，利润增长200%。 他还开办了一家新的
设计室， 并且聘用了三名年轻的设计 师。他们一直世界各地四处发掘新的信息，其中一位
本周已经去了法国参加一次重大的商铺交易会。最为 重要的是，自从他收购了这家工厂后，
他便不再感到没事可做。
1. The topic sentence of Para.1 is . 第一段的主题句是？
A. Morgan Rees has always been a good businessman 摩根.里斯一直是以为不错的生
意人。
B. He used to own three petrol stations asn was busy most of the time
C. When Morgen Rees was 65, he got retired
D. Reluctantly, he handed over the business to his son
2. The topic sentence of Para.2 is . 第二段主题句是？
A．he didn’t what to do with himself B. he went on holiday to interesting places with his
wife
C. he was unhappy after he got retired 退休后他并不高兴 D. None of them
3. Which of the following statements can best express the main idea of Para.3？ 以下哪一项
陈述能最好地表达第三段的中心思想？
A．One day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper
B. He bought a small crockery factory in seceret and started work again. 他偷偷买下一家
小陶器厂，并重新开始工作。
C．He told his family he bought a small factory.

D. His family was horried and worried when they learned he bought the small factory.
4. What is the central idea of the last paragraph？ 最后一段的中心思想是？
A．Morgan Rees has worked until he is 76.
B. Morgan Rees has developed the export market and improvedthe profits by 200%
C. Morgan Rees hasn’t been bored since he bought the factory.
D. Since he started working again, Morgan Rees has expanded the company considerably,
which has enriched his retire life. 自从重新开始工作，摩根.里斯显著的扩大了公司的规模，
这丰富了他的退休生活。
5. The passage mainly deals with . 这篇文章主要讲的是？
A．why Morgan Rees bought a small crockery factory
B. how Morgan Rees lived his retired like more happy by turning to work again.
摩根.里斯如何通过重新开始工作使他的退休生活更加快乐。
Morgan Rees became a good businessman
Morgan Rees expanded the company considerably.
KEY：ACBDB

Passage 8（24号居民）
The residents of 24 Acacia Grove were dissatisfied with the condition of the property, so John
Preston called a meeting to discuss things last week. At the meeting John suggested setting up a
residents’ committee. Everyone was so worried and angry about the agent’s inactivity that they
agreed, and they elected John as chairman of the committee. Many residents said that they were
tired of telephoning the agent and tired of complaining about the flats. Although the agent was
responsible for the flats, they thought that he didn’t do enough. Therefore John was asked to write
to the agent and say that they were disappointed with the management of the flats.
The next service payment was due at the end of the month. However, they agreed not to pay
it until they were happy with the plans to improve the property. They decided to tell the agent that
he must start the work within one month. They all went away very pleased with themselves.
阿卡西亚格拉芙街24号的居民对公寓情况不满意, 因此上周约翰.普雷斯顿召开会议进
行讨 论。在会上约翰建议成立居民委员会，对房东代理的无所作为，大家既担心又气愤，所
以，他们都同意成 立委员会。 他们选举约约翰为委员会主席。许多居民说，他们憎恶在给
房东代理打电话，向他们抱怨公 寓的状况。尽管房东代理有责任管理公寓。但是他们认为房
东代理做得不够。因此居民要求约翰写信给房 东代理说明他们对公寓的管理很失望。
下期付费应该在月底，但是他们一致决定直到房东代理制定出令 人满意的改善计划，他
们才付服务费。 他们决定告诉房东代理必须在一个月内开始工作。然后他们都十分满意的
离开了。
1. Why did John Preston call a meeting last week? 上周约翰.普雷斯特为什么召开会议？
A． Because the residents were dissatisfied with the presents’ committee.
B． Because the residents were dissatisfied with the bad management of the flats. 因为居民
们对公寓的管理不满意。
C． Because some residents requested to change the present residents’ committee.
E. Because he wanted to become chairman of the committee.
2. Who elected John as chairman of the committee? 谁推选约翰为委员会主席？
A． The agent B. the residents 居民们 C. the committee D. Acacia Grove

3. What does the word “inactivity” mean in the thrid sentence in Para.1？ 第一段第三句中
的“inactivity” 一词是什么意思？
A. weakness B. Progress C. State D. Lace of actions (缺乏行动)
4. What does the word “due” mean in the first sentence in Para.2？ 第二段第一句中的“due”
一词是什么意思？
A．to be paid 到期支付 B. Proper C. Owed D. large
5. When did they agree to pay the next service payment ? 他们一直同意什么时候付下一期
的服务费？
A．at the end of the month B. Within one month
C. When they were happy with the plans to improve the property. 直到房东代理制定出令
人满意的改善计划时
D. The agent would tell them.
KEY：BBDAC

Passage 9（集邮）
When I was a little girl, my brothers and i collected stamps for many years. My mother
didn’t use to work during the week, but she worked in the post office near our house on
Saturdays and she used to bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued(发行).
On the day of World Cup football final in London in 1996, we were very excited because
England were playing West Germany in the final. When we were having lunch, my mother told us
to go to the post office straight way after the match if England won, but she didn’t tell us why.
At 2 O’clock my mother went back to work as usual, while the rest of the family were watching
the football on TV at home. Although she wasn’t watching the match, she was listening to it on
the readio.
England won 4：2 and so my brothers and I ran to the post office. As we burst in, my mother
was standing behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition with
ENGLAND WINNDERS on eah stamp. We were over the moon.
We still have it today, and perhaps it is worth a lot of money.
当我还是个小女孩， 我的哥哥们和我收集邮票多年。 我母亲通常周一至周五不工作，
但周六 在我们家附近的邮局上班。而且只要一发行最新的邮票，她就把它们都带回家。
1966年伦敦世界杯足球决赛那一天， 我们都非常兴奋， 因为在决赛中英格兰队对阵
西德队。 吃午饭时，母亲告诉我们比赛后如果英格兰队获胜就直接去邮局， 但她没告诉我
们为什么。两点整母亲像往常一样去上班，而家里其他成员都在电视上收看比赛。母亲虽然
没有看，但是她从收音机里收听了比赛。
英格兰队以4比2获胜，于是我和哥哥就跑去邮局。 当我们跑进去时， 母亲正站在柜
台后面。她正等着卖给我们特别限量版的邮票，每一枚邮票上都印着“ 英格兰获胜”的字样。
我们欣喜若狂。
我们直到今天还一直保存着它，或许现在她很值钱了。
1. This passage mainly tell us . 这篇文章主要告诉我们？
A. The auther and her brother used to like stamps very muhch
B. The auther had a very kind mother
C. The auther and her brother had an unforgetable experience in collecting stamps

作者和她的兄弟一次难忘的集邮精力
D． their mother used to support them by working in the post office.
2. Accordin to the passage, her mother worked in the post office . 根据文章的
内容，作者的母亲在邮局工作 .
A． During the week B. on Saturdays 在周六 C. On Sundays D. For six
days
3. Their mother told them to go to the post office straight away after the match if England won,
but she didn’t tell them why. Why do you think she did that ? 母亲告诉他们比赛结束
后如果英格兰队获胜了就直接去邮局但是她没告诉他们为什么。 你认为母亲为什么那
样做？
A． She wanted to give them a surprise. 她想给他们一个惊喜。
B． She doubted if she would get the stamps
C. She forgot to do that. D. She thought is unneccessary to tell them the
reason.
4. What does the sentence “We were over the moon” mean ? 本文中的“We were over the
moon”是什么意思？
A．we jumped high B. We were extremly happy about it. 我们欣喜若狂
C．We watched the moon of a long time D. We couldn’t sleep the whole night
5. What is the best title for this passage ? 本文的最佳标题是什么？
A. My childhood B. My mother C. A precious Stamp
D. A memorable Experience in Collecting Stamps 一次难忘的集邮经历
KEY： CBABD
Passage 10 （约翰和维多利亚）
When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one- year stay, they did not bring
very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy
used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using.
The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s
fastest growing businesses.
当John和Victoria Falls到达纽约开始他们的一年生活时 ，他们没有随身带很多东
西。他们计划要么住在装修好的公寓里，要么买些旧家具。但是他们很快了解到 越来越多的
人正在采用的一种新的方式。租用家具（如窗，桌子，盘子等等）已经成为美国发展最快的< br>行业之一。
What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are
international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married
couple – people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to
another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply
rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want
to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough
money to buy furniture that they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality
furniture than they could afford to buy.
什么样的人是租用家具而不是买家 具的呢？从事国际商务的人，政府官员，外国学生，
航空公司工作人员，刚结婚的年轻夫妇---- 那 些由于工作而被迫频繁来往不同的城市的人。
他们可以省去每次搬家具的麻烦和费用。他们到一个新家的 时候，只需租新的家具就好了。

收入少的年轻人不想买那些他们可能很快就不喜欢的便宜 家具。他们宁愿等到有钱时买他们
真正喜欢的家具。同时，他们发现他们可以租比他们买得起的质量更好 的家具。
One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture
so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people
don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they
are not sure what their neighbors might think. (248words)
有个家庭，他们有属于自己 的大而漂亮的房子，可是他们太喜欢租来的家具了以至于
他们决定继续租用而不买新的家具。但是人们通 常不喜欢告诉别人这些。租家具的想法还是
很新的，他们不能确定邻居们对此会怎么想。
6. Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses?
____________
以下哪个行业已成为美国发展最快的行业之一？
A. Selling home furnishings.
C. Selling used furniture.






B. Renting furnished apartments.
D. Renting home furnishings. 租用家具。
7. Why do some people prefer to rent furniture? ____________
为什么人们更喜欢租用家具？
A. Because the furniture they get in this way is new.
B. Because it saves them a lot of money.
C. Because it saves them much trouble and money. 因为这样可以省去很多麻烦和钱。
D. Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.
8. What can you infer from the passage? ____________
从段落中你能推断出什么？
A. The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.
B. Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town.
在这对夫妇的家乡，租用家具并不流行。
C. Only those who don’t have enough money to rent furniture.
D. People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.
9. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage? ____________
下面哪个作为本段的题目最好？
A. Rent or Buy?
的方法。
C. Furnished Apartments. D. A New Idea.
10. Young people liked renting home furniture in that __________.
年轻人喜欢租用家具是由于什么？他们没有钱而且不想买便宜的家具。
A. They have less money
B. They don’t want to buy old furniture
C. The new furniture is of good quality
D. They don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture
KEY：DCBBD

Passage 11 （美国文化特点）
A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the
self-made man — the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by
working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies
B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings. 一种新的获得家具

a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer
or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in
America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.
美国文化的一个特点，并且几乎成为美国的一项传统 的是对自我奋斗的人的尊敬――通
过自己的努力到达顶峰，通常是白手起家。然而公司，企业的领导，社 会地位很高，在社区
中获得比一般工人或工厂技术人员更多的尊敬的大学教授，都不愿说出自己的父亲在 美国是
从一个农民，工人这类人开始奋斗的。
This attitude toward manual（体力的）labor is now still seen many aspects of American life.
One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously（豪华地）
furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact the family has been able to afford
foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably
will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward, furthermore the
dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various
cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes
pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional may talk about washing the car,
digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he
often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash
dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in
order to pay for his education.
这种对体力劳动的尊敬在美国生活的很多地方都能看到。一个人被邀请到一户家庭赴
宴，这户 家庭装潢不只舒适，可以说是豪华，处处可证明这家人支付的起国外旅行，奢侈的
爱好和孩子的大学教育 。但是这样的女主人很有可能自己做饭招待客人，然后洗刷餐具，并
且这样的宴会不会仅仅提供快餐式的 罐头食品，从附近面包房买的蛋糕或派。相反的，女主
人通常为精心准备特别的菜肴而感到自豪。男主人 会谈论自己如何洗车，在花房劳作，粉刷
房子，他的儿子在外地上大学，做餐厅侍应生，洗盘子来供自己 生活花费，或者暑假的时候
为建筑队在高速公路工作赚钱付学费。
11. From paragraph 1, we know that in America _______.从第一段我们可以知道在美国
_______？
A. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man人们对自我奋斗的人评价很高
B. people can always rise to the top through their own efforts
C. college professors win great respect from common workers
D. people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors
12. According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _______.
从这篇文章来看，女主人自己做饭主要是因为_______？
A. servants in American are hard to get
B. she takes pride in what she can do herself 她对自己可以做的事情感到自豪
C. she can hardly afford servants D. It is easy to prepare a meal with canned food
13. The expression “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “_______”.
第二段中，词组“等在桌旁”的意思是什么？
A. work in a furniture shop B. keep accounts for a bar
C. wait to lay the table
人服务
14. The author’s attitude towards manual（体力的）labor is _______.作者对体力劳动者的态度
D. serve customers in a restaurant在餐厅为客

如何？
A. positive 积极的 B. negative C. humorous D. critical
15. Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?
下面那项最适合作这篇文章的题目？
A. A Respectable Self- made Family.
D. The Development of Manual Labor.
B. American Attitude toward Manual Labor. 美国人对体力劳动者的态度
C. Characteristics of American Culture.
KEY：ABDAB
Passage 12 （如何发明单词文字）
How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a
mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to
express thought and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other;
and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present
those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in
letters, we call words.
人们最初是如何发明单词的不得而知，换句话说，语言的起源是个秘密。所有我们所知
道的只是，人，不同于动物，不知怎么发明了某些声音来表达思想、情感、行为和物质，以
便相互交流； 后来统一了某些被称为字母的符号，这些字母可以连起来代表那些声音，可以
写下来。我们把那些声音叫 做单词，不管他们是口语还是书面语。
The power of words, then, lies in their associations-the thing they bring up before our minds.
Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain
words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more
the number of words that mean something increases.
文字的力量在于其联系性 －它们把这些联系性带到我们的头脑中。通过经历，单词对我
们充满了意义。我们活得越久，某些单词就 越能使我们回忆起过去的喜怒哀乐；我们越是阅
读和学习，有意义的单词数量就越增加。
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in
words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of
words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey
his meaning in words which sing like music and which by their position and association can move
men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or
they will make our speech silly and vulgar.
伟大的作家是那些不仅具有伟大思想而且能用词汇来表达这些思想的人，他们 的思想强
烈地震撼着我们的心灵和情感。单词的这种美妙和寓意用法就是我们所谓的文学性。总之，真正的诗人是文字的掌握着。他可以用音乐般的词汇来表达自己的意思，这些词汇凭借其所
用环境和 联系性能让人感动得流泪。因此，我们应该学会仔细选择所用词汇并准确使用，否
则会使我们说的话可笑 又粗俗。
6. The origin of language is _______. 语言的起源是：
A. a legend handed down from the past
C. a question difficult to answer
题
7. What is true about words? 关于词汇哪一项是对的？
A. They are used to express feelings only. B. They can not be written down.



B. a matter that is hidden or secret
D. a problem not yet solved一个还未解决的问

C. They are simply sounds.他们是简单的声音
A. properties
C. peculiarity

















D. They are mysterious.

8. The real power of words lies in their _______. 文字的真正力量在于其____
B. characteristics
D. representative function 代表功能
B. a joining of ideas in the mind头脑中思想的
9. By “association”, the author means _______. 作者用“联系性”这个词指
A. a special quality
联接
C. an appearance which is puzzling D. a strange feature
10. Which of the following statements about the real poet is NOT true?
关于真正的诗人下列哪项不正确？
A. He is no more than a master of words. 他只不过是一个文字的掌握者。
B. He can convey his ideas in words which sing like music.
C. He can move men to tears. D. His style is always charming.
KEY：DCDBA
Passage 13 （羞怯不快乐原因）
Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious
and self-conscious; that is, they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions.
Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: what kind of impression am I making?
Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing unattractive clothes?
羞怯是许多人不快乐的原因。害羞的人焦虑不安，自我意识强，也就是说，他们过分在
意自己 的形象和行为。焦虑时常萦绕在他们的脑海中：我给人留下了什么印象?他们喜欢我
吗?我让人觉得很傻 吗?我的穿着是否不吸引人?
It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must negatively affect people. A person’s
conception of himself or herself is reflected in the way he or she behaves, and the way a person
behaves affects other people’s reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has a
profound effect on all areas of their lives.
显而易见，这种不舒适的感觉必然给 人们带来了不利的影响。一个人的自我意识反映在
他或她的行为上，而一个人的行为会影响他人的反应。 一般而言，人们认识自己的方式对他
们的生活的方方面面有深远的影响。
Shy people, having low self-esteem, are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others.
They need reassurance that they are doing “the right thing.” Shy people are very sensitive to
criticism; they feel it confirms their feelings of inferiority. They also find it difficult to be pleased
by compliment with a statement like this one, “You’re just saying that to make me feel good. I
know it’s not true.” It is clear that while self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is
harmful.
羞怯的人非常自 卑，他们可能很被动，容易受他人的影响。他们需要得到他人的再次确
认：他们所做的是“正确的事情” 。羞怯的人对批评很敏感，他们认为批评使得他们更低人
一等。他们也发现自己很难因为受到类似的表扬 而高兴，如：你刚才所说的使我感觉很好。
我知道那不是真的。很明显，尽管具有自知之明是件好事，但 过度自谦则是有害的。
Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? Fortunately, people can overcome
shyness with determined and patient efforts in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes hand
in hand with a lack of self-esteems, it is important for people to accept their weakness as well as
their strengths.

羞怯能根除吗?或至少能减少些吗?幸运的是，许多人能通过坚决而有耐心地建立自信 来
克服羞怯。既然羞怯与自卑天生相伴，那么人们能看见他们的优缺点是很重要的。
Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual, interested in our own personal ways. The
better we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to live up to our full potential. Let’s not
allow shyness to block our chances for a rich and fulfilling life.
每一个人都是独一无二的，都有其价值所在 。我们对我们自己个人的方式感兴趣。我们
了解自己越多，我们就越容易充分发挥自己的潜能。不要让羞 怯妨碍我们实现富裕而有成效
的人生。
11. What does the author try to prove by citing “what kind of impression am I making?”
作者通过引用“我给人留下了什么印象?”来试图说明什么？
A. Shy people benefit from their caring about their appearance.
B. People’s shyness made them care too much about their appearance and actions.
羞怯使他们过分关注他们的形象和行为。
C. It’s natural that shy people don’t believe other’s compliments.
D. Shy people think they are different from others.
12. According to the writer, self-awareness is _______.根据作者的观点，自知之明是一件
_______
A. a good quality 好事







B. the cause of unhappiness
D. a weak point of shy people C. harmful to people
_______
A. good B. unreal 不真实的 C. very reasonable D. harmful
14. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
根据文章含义，下列陈述哪一个是正确的？
A. Shyness helps us to develop our potential.
B. Shyness enables us to understand ourselves better.
C. Shyness can block our chances for a rich life. 羞怯能够阻碍我们实现富裕人生的机会。
D. Shyness has nothing to do with lack of self-esteem.
15. It can be inferred from the passage that shy people _______.从文章中可以推断出羞怯的人
_______
A. should find more of their weakness
13. When being praised, shy people feel that it is _______.当被赞扬的时候，羞怯的人感到这是
B. should understand themselves in the right way应当以正确的方式看待自己
C. had better ignore their weakness
D. can get rid of their shyness while maintaining low self-esteem
KEY：BABCB
Passage 14 （美国打电话）
In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If
you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call
shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is
attached to telephone calls made after 11:00 p.m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours,
he assumes it’s a matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.
In social life, time plays a very important part. In the U.S.A. guests tend to feel they are not highly
regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date.

But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make
an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week
away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus,
misunderstandings arise between people from different cultures that treat time differently.
Promptness is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be
regarded as impolite or not fully responsible. In the U.S. no one would think of keeping a business
associate waiting for an hour, it would be too impolite. A person who is 5 minutes late, will say a
few words of explanation, though perhaps he will not complete the sentence. (260 words)
在美国，一般不习惯每天很早打电话给某个人 。如果你很早打电话给他，在他刮胡子或
吃早饭的时候，那就说明这件事情非常重要，需要立刻处理。晚 上十一点以后打电话也是同
样的意思。如果一个人在睡觉的时候接到电话，那他肯定觉得这是一件事关生 死的大事。打
电话的时间也显示事情的重要程度。在社会生活中，时间是一个非常重要的角色。在美国，
如果在宴会三四天前才受到邀请，那受邀者就会认为自己不是很受重视。但并不是在所有的
国家 都如此。在世界上的其它地方，提前很多时候做约定被认为是很愚蠢的，因为约好一个
星期以后的事情很 容易忘记。所以时间的意义在不同的地方是不一样的。因此，来自不同文
化背景的人之间就会产生误会。 举个例子，准时在美国社会是受到高度认可的。如果某些人
不准时，就会被认为不礼貌或不够负责任。在 美国，没有一个人会把一次商务活动和等待一
小时联系起来，这太不礼貌了。一个人如果迟到五分钟，就 要做出解释，也许这还不够。
6. What is the main idea of this passage? __________ 以下哪项表达了本文的中心思想？
A. It is not customary to telephone someone in the morning and in sleeping hours in the U.S.
B. The role of time in social life over the world. 世界各地时间在社会生活中扮演的角色。
C. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible in the
U.S.
D. Not every country treats the concept of time as the same.
7. What does it mean in the passage if you call someone during his or her sleeping hours?
__________
根据本文，如果你在某人睡觉时间打电话给他，意味着什么？
A. A matter of work.
B. A matter of life or death. 这是一件事关生死的大事
C. You want to see him or her.
D. You want to make an appointment with him or her.
8. Which of the following time is proper if you want to make an appointment with your friend?
__________
如果你想约你的朋友，以下哪个时间是比较恰当的？
A. at 7: 00 am. B. at 4:00 pm. 下午4点 C. at the midnight. D. at
4:00 am.
9. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? __________
根据本文，以下哪项陈述是正确的？
A. In the U.S.A guests tend to feel they are highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party
is extended only three or four days before the party date.
B. There is no misunderstanding arising between people from different cultures about the
concept of time.
C. It may be considered foolish to make an appointment well in advance in the U.S.A..
D. Promptness is valued highly in American life. 准时在美国社会是受到高度认可的。

10. From the passage we can safely infer that __________. 从本文我们可以得出：
A. it’s a matter of life or death if you call someone in day time
B. the meaning of time differs in different parts of the world 世界各地的时间观念是不同
的。
C. it makes no difference in the U.S. whether you are early or late for a business party
D. if a person is late for a date, he needn’t make some explanation
KEY：BBBDB
Passage 15(美国及美国人的由来)
The United States covers a large part of the North American continent. Its neighbors are
Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. Although the United States is a big country , it is not
the largest in the world. In 2000, its population was over 222 million.
When this land first became a nation, after winning its independence from England, it had
thirteen states. Each of the states was represented on the American flag by a star. All these were in
the eastern part of the continent. As the nation grew toward the west, new states were added and
new stars appeared on the flag. For a long time, there were 48 stars. In 1959, however, two more
stars were added to the flag, representing the new states of Alaska and Hawaii.
Indians were the first people of the land which is now the United States. There are still many
thousands of Indians now living in all parts of the country. Sometimes it is said that the Indians are
“the only real Americans”. Most Americans come from all over the world. Those who came first
in greatest numbers to make their homes on the eastern of North America were mostly from
England. It is for the reason that the language of the United States is English and that its culture
and customs are more like those of England than those of any other country in the world.
美国占去北美大陆很大一 部分土地。它北邻加拿大，南接墨西哥。虽然美国是一个大国，
但它不是世界上最大的。在2000年， 它的人口超过2.22亿。
这片土地刚从英国独立出来，第一次成为一个国家的时候，只有十三个州， 每个州在
美国国旗上由一颗星米代表。这些州都是在东部。当这个国家不断向西扩大，就增加了新的州， 同时它们也出现在国旗上。很长一段时间，美国有48个州， 可是到1959年，国旗上
有多了2颗星， 分别代表阿拉斯加和夏威夷。
印第安人是如今叫 做美国的这块土地上的最初的居民。现在在各国各地仍然居住着许多
这些原始居民的后裔。有时人们说印 第安人才是“真正的美国人”。不过， 大部分美国人是
来自世界各地。那些最早大批来到北美东海岸建 立家园的人大部分来自英格兰，也是由于这
个原因，美国的国语为英语，而它的文化习俗也与英国的更为 相像。
1. Which of the following is TURE? 以下选项哪个是正确的？
A． American is the largest country in the world.
B． The United States lies next to Canada and Mexico. 美国邻近加拿大和墨西哥。
C． America covers most part of the North American continent.
D. Mexico is to the north of Canada.

2. After winning its independence, the United States . 在赢得了独立之后，美
国和英格兰就没什么关系了。
A. had nothing to do with England B. made India part of its land
C. mianly developed westward D. took over parts of Canada and Mexico
3. The United States didn’t have states until . 美国在1959年前没有50个
州。
A． thirteen;1959 B. fifty;1959 C. fifty, this land first became a nation
;1964
4. Why is English the language of America? 为什么美国的国语是英语？
A．Because English is the native language of the Indians. 因为土著人的语言是英语。
B. Because most Americans come from all over the world.
C. Because Canada is America’s nearest neighbor.
D. Because most of the people who first settled in America were from England.
5. The best title for the passage is “ ”. 这篇文章最好的标题是美国。
A. the States of America B. The language of America
C. The United States of America D. The Culture and Customs of America
KEY: BABAC
Passage 16（在伦敦工作）
Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go in to their offices or
schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to get up early in the
morning and reach home late in the evening.
很多在伦敦工作的人喜欢住在伦敦郊外，然后每天乘火车、汽车和公交车去上班或上学。
这也就意味着他们不得不早出晚归。
One advantage of living outside London is that houses are cheaper. Even a small flat in
London without a garden costs quite a lot to rent. With the same money, one can get a little house
in the country with a garden of one’s own.
住在伦敦郊外的一个好处就是房子便宜。在伦敦即使是 没有花园的小公寓也需要一笔不
菲的租金，用同样的钱，你可以在郊区买一个带花园的小房子了。
Then, in the country one can really get away from the noise and hurry of busy working lives.
Even though one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep better
at night and during weekends and on summer evenings, one can enjoy the fresh, clean air of the
country. If one likes gardens, one can spend one’s free time digging, planting, watering and doing
the hundred and one other jobs which are needed in a garden. Then, when the flowers and
vegetables come up, one has got the reward together with those who have shared the secret of
Nature.
然后，他在乡村就可以远离喧嚣和忙碌的工作生活。 即使他不得不起得更早，花更多的
时间乘火车或公交车，但他晚上可以睡得更好。在周末和夏季的夜晚， 他可以享受乡村清新
干净的空气。要是他喜欢花园，在花园里干一些想挖土、种植、浇水等许多园艺的活 ，那么
当鲜花和蔬菜生长起来的时候，他就与其他分享大自然秘密的人们一样得到奖赏。
Some people, however, take no interest in country things: for them, happiness lies in the town,

with its cinemas and theatres, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance-halls and restaurants. Such
people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live it outside London. An
occasional walk in one of the parks and a fortnight’s (two weeks) visit to the sea every summer is
all the country they want: the rest they are quite prepared to leave to those who are glad to get
away from London every night.
然而有些人对乡村并不感兴趣。对他们来说，幸福就在市区里，那里有电 影院、剧院、
漂亮的商店、繁忙的街道、舞厅和饭店。如果不得不住在伦敦郊外的话，这些人就觉得生活
没意义了。（对于那些热爱都市生活的人来说）他们所需要的乡村生活，就是偶尔去公园散
步， 每个夏天去海边过上两个星期，其他跟乡村有关的东西，让那些每天晚上都急于离开伦
敦的人们（住在郊 外的人们）去享受吧。
6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? 下列哪个陈述是不对的？
A. People who love Nature prefer to live outside the city.
B. All the people who work in London prefer to live in the country.
所有在伦敦工作的人都喜欢住在伦敦市郊
C. Some people enjoying city life prefer to work and live inside London.
D. Many nature lovers, though working in London, prefer to live outside the city.
7. With the same money needed for _______, one can buy a little house with a garden in the
country.
用同样的钱_______,他可以在乡村买到一套有花园的小房子。
A. getting a small flat with a garden B. having a small flat with a garden
C. renting a small flat without a garden 租一套没有花园的小公寓
D. buying a small flat without a garden
8. When the garden is in blossom, the one _______ has been rewarded.
当花园里开满鲜花的时候，那个_______的人就得到了奖赏。
A. living in the country
作
C. having a garden of his own D. having been digging, planting and watering
9. People who think happiness lies in the city life would feel that _______ if they had to live
outside London.
那些认为幸福就在城市里人会感到_______如果他们不得不住在郊外。
他们的生活毫无意义 B. their life was invaluable A. their life was meaningless
B. having spent time working in the garden花时间在花园里工
C. they didn’t deserve a happy life D. they were not worthy of their
happy life
10. The underlined phrase get away from in the 3rd paragraph refers to _______.
在第3段中，划线的词组get away from指_______。
A. deal with
KEY：BCBAC







B. do away with
D. prevent from C. escape from 逃脱某个地方