(完整版)高中英语阅读理解练习题100(附有答案)
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阅读理解题是考查学生对活的语言材料的理解能力,即通过阅读材料获得信息的能力。
具
体说来,阅读理解能力测试的主要要求是:(1)掌握所读材料的主旨大意,以及用以
说明主旨大意的事
实和细节;(2)既理解具体事实,也理解抽象的概念;(3)既理解字
面意思,也理解深层含义,包括
作者的态度、意图等;(4)既理解某句、某段的意义,
也理解全篇的逻辑关系,并能根据文章进行推理
和判断;(5)既能根据材料所提供的信
息去理解,也能结合中学生应有的常识去理解。根据这几项能力
测试的要求,试题中常采
用如下几种题型:事实询问题、推理判断题、数据推算题、识图解意题和主旨大
意题。根
据这一测试要求和题型设计,答题时可以采取如下解题技巧和对策。
1.首先解题时
要充满自信。由于平时有些同学对做阅读理解时存在一种畏惧心理,
因此考试做题时心理就难免会产生紧
张感,特别是阅读时再遇到几个生词就头脑发胀,从
而使自己的思路更加模糊不清。其实这是完全没有必
要的,因为阅读中遇到几个生词或几
个难以理解的句子是常有的事,也是正常现象。因为按大纲要求,试
卷中允许有不超过3%
的生词,只要认真分析,仔细阅读,这些生词和句子很可能并不影响你的解题。所
以答题
之前首先要有必胜的信心。
2.扫读全文,理解全文主旨大意。拿到一篇文章,首先要
快速扫读全文,虽为扫读,
但不可漫不经心,阅读时也应聚精会神,力求可能多地获取材料信息,只是这
次遇到生词
和难句先不必去处理,不要因纠缠文中的个别生词和难句而影响了对全文的主旨大意的了解。
3.对症下药,各个击破。了解全文的大概意思之后,再把短文的问题简单看一遍,
弄懂题意,然后带着问题再去寻读全文。这次阅读过程中要善于抓文章中的关键词句。寻
读也就是迅速的
查找需要了解的信息,是为某些特定的问题而阅读,因此阅读时要有较强
的针对性,对与问题有关的数据
,词句等仔细阅读,认真理解,同时结合不同考查内容的
题型,采取如下解题对策:
(1)事
实询问题:这类试题通常是以疑问词what,who,when,where,why,h
ow等引起
的特殊问句,就文章中某一词语、某一句子、某一段落或某一具体细节和事实
进行提问。解答此类试题首
先要弄清题目和每一个选项的含义,然后按题目要求寻找与之
相关的细节,正确估计答案来源,同时注意
题目和文章中的暗示作用。特别注意辨别各种
信息,确认各种信息。
(2)推理判断题:此题
要求我们通过表面文字信息去推测文章隐含的意思,对文章
的发展情节及作者的态度、意图等做出合乎逻
辑的的推理判断。这种题要求我们在阅读时
要抓住文章的主题和细节、从分析文章的结构入手,根据上下
文的内在联系,充分挖掘文
章的深层含义。对暗含在文章中事件的因果关系,人物的动机,以及作者未言
明的倾向、
态度、意图、观点进行合乎逻辑的推理、分析和判断。同时善于抓住文中实质性的东西,不要被带假象的表面信息或似是而非的东西所迷惑。并且注意推断作者态度时要力求从作
者的态度、
观点去思考,切勿想当然,凭个人的观点习惯看法来回答的问题。
阅读理解技巧
1
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(3)数据
推算题:此题要求我们就文章提供的数据,以及数据与文章中其他信息的
关系做出计算和推断,然后做出
选择。这就要求我们解题时,要在理解好题意的前提下去
对与数据有关的信息认真分析,若数据信息较多
,还要注意弄清数据之间的关系,同时分
清有用与无用信息,最终作出正确判断。
(4)主旨
大意题:此题用以考查我们对文章主题或中心思想的领会和理解能力。在
解答此类试题时要注意每段的中
心句,抓住每一段的主题句。一般主题句都用来表达一段
主旨大意,因此,只要找准每段的主题句,文章
的中心思想和文章的最佳标题也就不难确
定了。
相信将这些阅读理解的技巧灵活的运用在做题过程中,英语阅读理解一定会有所提高。
高中英语限时阅读理解 100篇
1、(1分)5分钟完成
O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer
of short stories. His real name was William Sydney
Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862.
As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did
not go to school
for very long, but he managed
to teach himself everything he needed to know.
When he was about 20 years old,
O. Henry went
to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first
worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a
bank, when some money went missing from the
bank O. Henry was believed to have stolen it.
Because of that, he
was sent to prison. During
the three years in prison, he learned to write
short stories. After he got out of prison,
he
went to New York and continued writing. He wrote
mostly about New York and the life of the poor
there.
People liked his stories, because
simple as the tales were, they would finish with a
sudden change at the end, to
the reader’s
surprise.
1. In which order did O. Henry do
the following things?
a. Lived in New York.
b. Worked in a bank. c. Travelled to Texas. d. Was
put in prison. e. Had a newspaper Job.
f.
Learned to write stories.
A. e. c. f. b. d.
a B. c. e. b. d. f. a C. e. b. d. c. a.
f. D. c. b. e. d. a f.
2. People enjoyed
reading O. Henry’s stories because
A. they
had surprise endings B. they were easy to
understand C. they showed his love for the poor
D. they were about New York City
3. O.
Henry went to prison because .
A.
people thought he had stolen money from the
newspaperB. he broke the law by not using his own
name
C. he wanted to write stories about
prisoners D. people thought he had taken money
that was not his
4. What do we know about O.
Henry before he began writing?
A. He was
well-educated.B. He was not serious about his
work.
C. He was devoted to the poor.D. He
was very good at learning.
5. Where did O.
Henry get most material for his short stories?
A. His life inside the prison. B. The
newspaper articles he wrote.
C. The city
and people of New York. D. His exciting early life
as a boy.
2、(1分)5分钟完成
One day a few
years ago a very funny thing happened to a
neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at one of
London’s big medical schools, He had finished
his teaching for the summer term and was at the
airport on his
way to Russia to give a
lecture.
He had put a few clothes and his
lecture notes in his shoulder bag, but he had put
Rupert, the skeleton (人体
骨骼) to be used in his
lecture, in a large brown suitcase (箱子). At the
airport desk, he suddenly thought that he
had
forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his suitcase
near the desk and went over to the shop.
When he got back he discovered that someone had
taken his suitcase by mistake. He often wonders
what
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they said when they got
home and found Rupert.
1. Who wrote the story?
A. Rupert’s teacher. B. The neighbour’s
teacher.C. A medical school teacher. D. The
teacher’s neighbour.
2. Why did the teacher
put a skeleton in his suitcase?
A. He
needed it for the summer term in London.B. He
needed it for the lecture he was going to give.
C. He wanted to take it to Russia for
medical research.D. He wanted to take it home as
he had finished his
teaching.
3. What
happened at the airport?
A. The skeleton
went missing . B. The skeleton was stolen .
C. The teacher forgot his suitcase. D. The
teacher took the wrong suitcase .
4. Which of
the following best tells the teacher’s feeling
about the incident?
A. He is very angry .
B. He thinks it rather funny .
C. He feels
helpless without Rupert.D. He feels good without
Rupert .
5. Which of the following might have
happened afterwards?
A. The teacher got
back the suitcase but not Rupert.
B. The
teacher got back neither the suitcase nor Rupert.
C. The teacher got back Rupert but not the
suitcase.
D. The teacher got back both the
suitcase and Rupert.
3、(1分)5分钟完成
On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man
with brown hair and blue eyes entered the
beautiful hall of the
Bell Tower Hotel in
Xi’an with his bicycle. The hotel workers received
him and telephoned the manager, for they
had
never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before
though they lived in “the kingdom of bicycles.”
Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived
in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which
started last
December in New Delhi, India.
When he was 11, he read the book Marco
Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road.
Now, after 44
years , he was on the Silk Road
in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.
Robert Friedlander’s next destinations
(目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will
complete
his trip in Pakistan.
1. The best
headline(标题) for this newspaper article would be
.
A. The Kingdom of Bicycles B. A
Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an
C. Marco Polo and
the Silk Road D. An American Achieving His Aims
2. The hotel workers told the manager about
Friedlander coming to the hotel because .
A. he asked to see the manager B. he
entered the hall with a bike
C. the manager
had to know about all foreign guestsD. the manager
knew about his trip and was expecting him
3.
Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the
following order, .
A. China, India,
and Pakistan B. India, China, and Pakistan
C. Pakistan, China, and India D.
China, Pakistan, and India
4. What made
Friedlander want to come to China?
A. The
stories about Marco Polo . B. The famous
sights in Xi’an .
C. His interest in
Chinese silk. D. His childhood dreams about
bicycles .
5. Friedlander can be said to be
.
A. clever B. friendly C.
hardworking D. strong—minded
4、(1分)5分钟完成
Mr. Grey was the manager of a small office
in London. He lived in the country, and came up to
work by
train. He liked walking from the
station to his office unless it was raining,
because it gave him some exercise.
One
morning he was walking along the street when a
stranger stopped him and said to him, “You may not
remember me, sir, but seven years ago I came
to London without a penny in my pockets, I stopped
you in this
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street and asked you
to lend me some money, and you lent me £ 5,
because you said you were willing to take a
chance so as to give a man a start on the way
to success.”
Mr Grey thought for a few
minutes and then said, “Yes, I remember you. Go on
with your story!” “Well,”
answered the
stranger, “are you still willing to take a
chance?”
1. How did Mr. Grey get to his
office? A. He went up to work by train
B. He walked to his office. C. He went
to his office on foot unless it rained.
D.
He usually took a train to the station and then
walked to his office if the weather was fine.
2. Mr Grey liked walking to his office because
________.
A. he couldn’t afford the buses
B. he wanted to save money
C. he wanted to
keep in good health D. he could do some exercises
on the way
3. Mr. Grey had been willing to
lend money to a stranger in order to_______
A. give him a start in life B. help him
on the way to success
C. make him rich
D. gain more money
4. One morning the stranger
recognized Mr. Grey, and_______
A. wanted
to return Mr. Grey the money B. again asked
Mr. Grey for money
C. would like to make
friends with him
D. told Mr. Grey that he
had been successful since then
5. In the
second paragraph, “…take a chance” means ______.
A. Mr. Gray happened to meet a stranger B.
Mr. Grey had a chance to help a stranger
C.
Mr. Grey helped a stranger by chance
D. Mr.
Grey took the risk that the stranger would not
give back the money which he lent him
5、(1分)5分钟完成
Even if you are a good
high-jumper, you can jump only about seven feet
off the ground. You cannot jump
any higher
because the earth pulls you hard. The pull of the
earth is called gravity.
You can easily
find out the pull of the earth. If you weigh
yourself, you will know how much gravity is
pulling you.
Since there is gravity,
water runs down hill. When you throw a ball into
the air, it falls back down. Because
of
gravity, you do not fall off the earth as it
whirls (旋转) around.
Then, can we get away
from the earth and go far out into space? Now you
can do it, because spaceships
have been
invented. Then spaceship will go so fast that it
can escape (逃出) the earth’s gravity and carry you
into space.
1. In this passage, the word
“gravity” means.
A. the pull of everything.
B. the force of attraction(吸引) among objects.
C. the force which attracts objects towards the
centre of the earth
D. the force which
attracts the earth towards the sun.
2. When
you slip(滑) you always fall to the ground because
A. the earth always turns round.
B. the earth has gravity
C. the earth’s
gravity is greater than your weight. D. you
are careless.
3. Gravity is strong that
A. it can throw a ball into the air. B.
it makes you jump only seven feet.
C. it
can let you fly away from the earth. D. it can
keep everything on earth.
4. Because of
gravity,
A. water flows everything.
B. we can go everywhere by ship.
C. water
always flows downwards. D. fish can live in
water.
5. We can get away from the earth by
spaceship because
A. the spaceship goes
very fast. B. the earth can’t pull the
spaceship.
C. the spaceship has a strong
force. D. the spaceship can jump higher than
other things.
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6、(1分)5分钟完成
An expensive car speeding down the main street of
a small town was soon caught up with by a young
motorcycle policeman. As he started to make
out the ticket, the woman behind the wheel said
proudly, “Before
you go any further, young
man, I think you should know that the mayor of
this city is a good friend of mine.”The
officer did not say a word, but kept writing.
“I am also a friend of chief of police
Barens,”continued the woman,
getting more
angry each moment, Still he kept on writing.
“Young man,”she persisted, “I know Judge Lawson
and State Senator (参议员) Patton.” Handing the
ticket to the woman, the officer asked pleasantly
, “Tell me, do
you know Bill Bronson.”
“Why, no,”she answered.
“Well, that is the
man you should have known,”he said, heading back
to his motorcycle, “I an Bill Bronson.”
1. The
policeman stopped the car because_____
A.
it was an expensive car B. the driver was a proud
lady
C. the driver was driving beyond the
speed limit
D. the driver was going to make
trouble for the police
2. The woman was
getting more angry each moment because _____.
A. the policeman didn’t know her friends B.
the policeman didn’t accept her kindness
C.
the policeman was going to punish her D. she
didn’t know the policeman’s name
3. The
policeman was _______.
A. an honourable
fellow B. a stupid fellow C. an impolite man
D. a shy man
4. The woman was _______.
A. kind-hearted B. a person who depended on
someone else to finish her work
C. trying
to frighten the policeman on the strength of her
friends’ powerful positions
D. introducing
her good friends’ names to the young officer
5. The policeman _______.
A. had no
sense of humor (幽默) B. had s sense of
humor
C. had no sense of duty
D. was senseless
7、(1分)5分钟完成
Elizabeth
Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved
to New York City when she was ten years old.
One day she decided that she wanted to become
a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman
in the middle
of the nineteenth century. After
writing many letters asking for admission(录取) to
medical schools, she was
finally accepted by a
doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that
she taught school and gave music
lessons to
get money for the cost of schooling.
In
1849, after graduation from medical school. she
decided to further her education in Paris. She
wanted to
be a surgeon(外科医师) , but a serious
eye problem forced her to give up the idea.
Upon returning to the United States, she found it
difficult to start her own practice because she
was a
woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister,
also a doctor, along with another woman doctor,
managed to open a
new hospital, the first for
women and children Besides being the first woman
physician and founding her own
hospital , she
also set up the first medical school for women.
1. Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize
her dream of becoming a surgeon?
A. She
couldn’t get admitted to medical school B. She
decided to further her education in Paris
C. A serious eye problem stopped her D. It was
difficult for her to start a practice in the
United States
2. What main obstacle(障碍) almost
destroyed Elizabeth’s chances for becoming for a
doctor?
A. She was a woman. B. She wrote
too many letters.
C. She couldn’t graduate
from medical school. D. She couldn’t set up her
hospital.
3. How many years passed between her
graduation from medical school and the opening of
her hospital?
A. Eight years B. Ten
years C. Nineteen years D. Thirty-
six years
4. According to the passage, all of
the following are “firsts” in the life of
Elizabeth Blacekwell,
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except
that she ______.
A. became the first woman
physician B. was the first woman doctor
C. and several other women founded the first
hospital for women and children
D. set up
the first medical school for women
5.
Eilzabeth Blackwell spent most of her lift in
_______.
A. England B. Paris C.
the United States D. New York City
8、(1分)
In today’s age of fast travel, the world
seems a smaller place---- and to some people, a
less exciting place,
Fifty years ago only a
few English people and holidays abroad, People who
didn’t travel thought of other
countries as
very far away and different. For example, people
thought the French all eat garlic(大蒜), the
Italians
all eat spaghetti(细条实心面). and the
Americans all drink Coca Cola, These definite(明确的)
ideas of other
nationalities are called
stereotypes(陈规老套) . But do we have the same
stereotypes today? People travel more,
we all
watch the same TV programmes, and ideas travel
quickly too. Nowadays everyone eats garlic and
spaghetti and drinks Coca Cola. Everyone
listens to the same music. wears the same
fashions(流行式样) , buys
the same cars. They just
do it in a different language!
1. Now the
world seems to be exciting.
A. bigger
and more B. smaller and more C. smaller and less
D. bigger and less
2. Fifty years ago,
English people travelled abroad.
A. many
B. few C. only some D. a few
3. People
thought of other countries as .
A. near
and different B. near and the same C. remote and
very different D. remote and the same
4.
Nowadays, people’s ideas of other nationalities
.
A. have changed B. are the same
C. are different D. are almost the same
5.
We don’t have the same stereotypes because people
_______.
A. travel more
B. watch the same TV programmes
C. watch
different TV programmes D. travel more and
watch the same TV programmes
6. The best title
for this passage would be .
A. A Big
World B. A Small World C. An Exacting World D. An
Interesting World
9、(1分)
We are used
to the idea of aging in ourselves. We are so used
to this that it comes as a surprise to find that
there may be some animals that do not age. Sea
anemones(海葵) are an example. Some have been kept
for nearly
a century without showing any signs
of lifelessness. Some kinds of sea worms can even
“grow backwards.” If
kept in the dark and
given nothing to eat, they get steadily smaller,
They finally end as a ball of cells(细胞)
looking rather like the egg from which they
came. Under good conditions the ball will turn
back to a worm and
start growing again. One
could probably keep them growing and un-growing
again and again.
1. Some sea worms grow
smaller when they ______.
A. lose weight
B. live in the darkness
C. are under good
conditions D. don’t eat and are kept in the dark
2. According to the passage, some sea animals
________.
A. will die when they become a
ball of cells B. do not grow old
C.
will die without food D. will
stop growing any time they want
3. According
to the passage, which of the following statements
in NOT true?
A. We can keep certain kind of
sea worm growing and ungrowing again and again.
B. Human beings will grow old and die.
C. An anemone is a king of sea worm that can grow
backwards.
D. Some anemones will live
nearly a hundred years.
4. The underlined word
aging in the first sentence means ______.
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A. growing old B. the age of
a person g younger D. un -growing
5. This
passage is mainly about ______.
A. sea
animals B. cells C. aging D.
anemones
10、(1分)
Now I’d like to talk
to you about your final exam. The exam will be
held next Thursday, the last day of the
exam
week. Remember to bring two of three pens in case
you run out of ink. And unlike the midterm exam,
this
test will not include multiple --- choice
questions; it will consist entirely of essays(文章).
You’ll have to answer
three of the five essay
questions. The exam will be comprehensive (全面的),
which means you’ll be responsible
for all of
the subject matters we covered in class this term,
I would suggest you review your midterm exam as
well as textbooks and your class notes. The
final exam will count as 50 percent of your grade
of the course. The
research project (项目) will
count as 20 percent and the midterm exam 30
percent. I’ll be in my office almost all
day
next Tuesday. If you run into any problems, please
drop in. Good luck to you and I’ll see you on
Tuesday.
1. When will the final exam take
place?
A. On Tuesday B. On a Wednesday
C. On a Thursday D. On a Friday
2. What
will be included in the exam?
A. There will
be only multiple-choice questions.
B. The
exam will contain both multiple-choice and essay
questions.
C. The exam will have an oral
and a written section. D. There will be only
essay questions.
3. Why does the teacher call
the exam comprehensive?
A. It will be easy
to understand. B. Students will be tested on all
the material discussed in class.
C. It will
cover topics from a wide variety of subjects. D.
Students must complete all parts of it.
4. The
underlined phrase run into probably means .
A. go into B. meet somebody unexpectedlyC.
come up against something with force D. come
across
5. When was this talk most likely
given?
A. During the first week of class B.
During midterm week
C. On the last day of
classD. On the last day of exam week
11、(1分)
When Dean Arnold got his first job, he was
miserable (痛苦的), Each time he went to work, he
coughed and
he couldn’t breathe. Working in a
bakery(面包房) when you are allergic to (对…过敏) flour
can be painful.
But Arnold stayed with the
National Biscuit Company for ten years. He was a
businessman and he helped
them improve
production. At last his health problems became too
serious. He left and formed his own company.
With his wife and mother, he founded Arnold
Bakery. They tried new recipes (配方). changing the
kind and
amount of flour used. This enabled
Arnold to work there without too much pain. The
bread, made with
unbleached flour (标准粉), was
baked in a brick oven (烘炉).
They began by
baking two dozen loaves. The bread was sold door
to door for fifteen cents a loaf. Winning
customers to his unusual, old-fashioned bread
took time. But Arnold, struggling against his
allergy, built his
bakery into one of the
largest in the United States.
1. A good title
for this passage would be .
A. A Sick
Baker B. A Brick-oven Bread Baker C. An Old-
fashioned Baker D. How to Overcome Allergy
2. Dean left the National Biscuit Company
because he .
A. suffered from allergy
to flour B. didn’t like the job
C. wanted
to make more money D. wanted to form his own
company
3. During his stay in the National
Biscuit Company, .
A. he founded
Arnold Bakery B. he tried a new method of baking
C. he helped the company improve their
production
D. he became successful in his
business
4. Which of the following is NOT
mentioned in the passage?
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A.
Arnold’s bread was baked in a brick oven.B.
Arnold’s bread was made with unbleached flour.
C. Arnold’s bread was sold at a low price.
D. Arnold’s bread was of poor quality.
5. From
the passage we can conclude that Arnold was .
A. determined B. brave C.
unusual D. unhealthy
12、(1分)
When we see well, we do not think about our eyes
very often. It is only when we cannot see
perfectly that
we realize how important our
eyes are.
People who are near-sighted can
only see things that are very close to their eyes,
Everything else seems
blurry(=unclear). Many
people who do a lot of work, such as writing,
reading and sewing become near—sighted.
Then
People who are far-sighted suffer from
just the opposite problem. They can see things
that are far away, but
they have difficulty in
reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s
length. If they want to do much reading ,they
must get glasses, too.
Other people do
not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly
the right shape. They have what is called
astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected
by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy
because of
cataracts (白内障). Long ago these
people often became blind. Now, however, it is
possible to operate on the
cataracts and
remove them.
Having two good eyes is
important for judging distances. Each eye sees
things from a slightly different
angle (角度).
To prove this to yourself, look at an object our
of one eye; then look at the same object out of
your
other eye. You will find the object’s
relation to the background and other things around
it has changed. The
difference between these
two different eye views helps us to judge how far
away an object is. People who have
only one
eye cannot judge distance as people with two eyes.
1. We should take good care of our eyes .
A. only when we can see well B. only when
we cannot see perfectly
C. even if we can
see well D. only when we realize how important
our eyes are
2. When things far away seem
indistinct(模糊不清) , one is probably .
A.
near-sighted B. far-sighted C. astigmatic D.
suffering from cataracts
3. The underlined
word suffer in the third paragraph probably means
.
A. experience B. Imagine C. feel pain
D. are affected with
4. Having two eyes
instead of one is particularly useful for .
A. seeing at night B. seeing objects far
away C. looking over a wide area D. judging
distances
5. People who suffer from
astigmatism have .
A. one eye bigger
than the other B. eyes that are not exactly the
right shape
C. a difficulty that can be
corrected by an operation D. an eye difficulty
that cannot be corrected by glasses
13、(1分)
Grandma was a wonderful story-teller, and
she had a set of priceless, individually (独特地)
tailored stories
with which American
grandparents of her day brought up children. There
was the story of the little boys who had
been
taught complete, quick obedience (服从). One day
when they were out on the grassy plain, their
father
shouted. “Fall down on your faces!”
They did, and the terrible prairie(草原) fire swept
over them and they
weren’t hurt. There was
also the story of three boys at school, each of
whom received a cake sent from home.
One saved
his, and the mice ate it; one ate all of his , and
he got sick; and who do you think had the best
time?
—Why, of course, the one who shared his
cake with his friends.
1. What is the main
idea of this passage?
A. Children should
obey their parents quickly. B. Children should
share with others.
C. The author remembers
many of her grandma’s wonderful stories.
D.
The grandma’s stories helped teach the children
morals and good manners.
2. Which of the
following details supports the main idea of the
passage?
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A. The children were
saved from the fire because they followed
directions.
B. Grandma told a story of
three boys at school.
C. Each of the three
boys got a cake sent from home. D. The big prairie
fire soon spread over to the village.
3. Which
of the following statements is true?
A. The
author was saved from the fire.B. The author was
brought up from his grandmother.
C. Grandma
was good at telling children stories. D. Grandma
told stories to children just for fun.
4. All
of the following were not praised by the author
except ___________.
A. the boy who shared
his cake with others B. the boy who ate up all his
cake by himself
C. the boy who kept the
cake for the future D. the boys who didn’t obey
their parents
5. According to this passage,
the underlined word tailored probably means
__________.
A. measured B. specially
prepared C. cut D. invented
14、(1分)
The most important use of
drifting (漂流) bottles is to find ocean currents.
When the position and direction
of currents
are known, ships can use the forward movement of a
current or stay away from currents that would
carry them off their course. Benjamin Franklin
was one of the first to use bottles in the study
of currents. He
wondered why British mall
ships needed a week or two longer than U.S. ships
needed in order to cross the
Atlantic Ocean.
Franklin thought the Gulf Stream (墨西哥湾流) might
explain this difference.
Franklin talked
with captains of U.S. ships. He found that they
knew each turn of the Gulf Stream. They
used
the current in every possible way. From his talks
with the captains. Franklin made his first map of
the Gulf
Stream. Then he checked his map by
using sealed (密封的) bottles. The map that he
finally made is still used,
with only a few
changes, today.
1. Why are drifting bottles
used?
A. To determine the position of a
ship. B. To find the direction of a current.
C. To predict the direction of a ship. D. To carry
message across the ocean.
2. What led Franklin
to talk with U.S. captains?
A. U.S. ships
were longer than British ones.B. British ships
could sail the Atlantic faster than U.S. ones.
C. U.S. ships could sail the Atlantic
faster than U.S. ones.D. U.S captains knew more
about maps.
3. What did Franklin make after
his talks with U.S. captains?
A. A map of
the Gulf Stream. B. A map of the
Atlantic Ocean.
C. A map of ocean currents.
D. A map of his first voyage.
4. What did
Franklin do in order to make an exact map?
A. He compared his own map with other maps. B.
He talked with many U.S. captains.
C. He
used drifting bottles to check his map. D.
Both B and C.
5. The underlined word current
in the first paragraph means ______.
A. a
stream of water B. a course of events C. the flow
of electricity D. the situation of the present
time
15、(1分)
The Guidance Department
(教导处) at Burrville High School has a staff (职员) of
eleven. Most of their
work is done with the
students. But the staff sees a lot of parents,
too.
“Parent meetings form a clear
monthly pattern,” says Mildred Foreman, Guidance
Director. “This pattern
stays much the same
from year to year. The busy months are October,
March and May.”
September starts rather
slowly. Few parents come in, Most of these want to
discuss the schedules (日程安
排). October brings
many behaviour (行为) problems. Some parents are
called in. Others come by themselves.
Things
quiet down in November December is a quiet month.
“It’s the holiday,” Ms Foreman says. “People want
to come in, I know , but they decide to wait
until after New Year’s Day.”
Report cards
go home just before Christmas holidays. Bad marks
bring parents in as school reopens. This
happens again in March, another report card
month. May is always the year’s busiest month.
That’s when parents
realize that their
children might be held back (留级). They come in to
see if anything can be done before things
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are decided in June.
1.
“Most of their work is done with the students”
means ______.
A. they have most of their
work done by the studentsB. most of their work is
getting rid of their students
C. most of
their work is dealing with the students D. their
work is mostly done together with the students
2. In the sentence “The staff sees a lot of
parents too.” the word “see” can be replaced with
“_____”.
A. notice B. understand
C. arrange D. meet
3. From the
diagram(图表), we know that the total of their
meetings in April is ______ as many
as that
in December.
A. twice B. a quarter
C. half D. two-thirds
4. In March,
each of the staff working in the Guidance
Department has to interview (会见)
about
______ parents.
A. 10 B. 20
C. 15 D. 5
5. May is always the
busiest month because the parents want to ______.
A. discuss schedules with the staff B. have
something done to help their children’s
promotion(升级)
C. know how their children
are getting on with their lessons D. do something
good for the school or the staff
16、(1分)
Maliyuwa, a nearby village. They lived with the
man’s big family—his parents his brothers, their
wives and
children. They family kept an
elephant, in which the young woman soon took a
great interest. Every day she fed
it with
fruit and sugar.
Three months later the
woman went back to her parents’ home, having
quarrelled with her husband. Soon
the elephant
refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and
heart—broken. One morning after several weeks
the animal disappeared from the house.
It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the
elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it.
The
young woman was so moved (感动) by the act
of the animal that she returned to her husband’s
home.
1. The writer wrote the story in order
to .
A. show that elephants are very
cleverB. tell how a woman trained a wild animal
C. show that women care more for animals
than men do D. tell how an animal reunited a
husband and wife
2. The woman left her new
home .
A. to visit her own parents in
Maliyuwa B. to see if the elephant would follow
her
C. because she was angry with her
husband D. because she was tired of the large
family
3. After the young woman left her
husband’s home, the elephant .
A.
returned to the forest B. was sad because it
missed her
C. went to look for a new home
D. was sick because nobody fed it
4. The
young wife went back to her husband because
.
A. she knew he had sent the animal to her
B. the elephant had come to look for her
C. her parents persuaded her to D. she missed her
new home
17、(1分)
The
blue eyes that looked at him from outside the door
were like the light through a magnifying glass
(放大
镜) when it is at its brightest and
smallest, when paper and leaves begin to smoke.
“Hey ,” said the man in the door.
“Remember me?”
“Yes,” the boy said,
whispering. “Rick.”
He felt so surprised
to see Rick. All of Rick seemed to be shown in the
eyes, with a strong feeling that ought
to have
hurt him
“You knew me,” Rick said. “You
hadn’t forgotten.”
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“You’re
——just the same,” the boy said, and felt much
thankful.
He seemed even to be wearing the
same clothes, the same blue shirt and grey
trousers. He was thin, but he
was built to be
lean; and he was still, or again, sunburnt (晒黑了).
After everything, the slow white smile still
showed the slight feeling of happiness.
“Let’s look at you,” Rick said, dropping into a
chair. Then slowly he felt more at home, and he
became
once more just Rick, as if nothing had
happened. There were lines about his eyes, and
deeper lines on his cheeks
(面颊), but he looked
like——just Rick, lined by sunlight and smiling.
“When I look at you,” he said, “You make
me think about me, for we look like each other.”
“Yes,” said the boy, eagerly, “they all
think we both look like my grandfather.”
1. On
his return , Rick ______.
A. had not
changed much B. looked very old
C. was
much thinner than before D. was wearing different
clothes
2. Rick and the boy are probably
______.
A. brothers B. related
C. friends D. neighbours
3. You
could describe Rick as ______.
A. old and
friendly B. old and nervous C. thin and
nervous D. thin and friendly
4. From the
passage we can tell that the boy ______.
A.
was worried that Rick had forgotten him B. was
proud of what Rick had done
C. was pleased
to see Rick D. wondered where
Rick had been
5. Rick and the boy ______.
A. had similar personalities
B. cared about each other
C. had lived in
the same house D. felt their
friendship had changed
18、(1分)
Can
trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have
reason to believe that trees do communicate (交际)
with each other. Not long ago, researchers
learned some surprising things. First a willow
tree attacked in the
woods by caterpillars
(毛虫) changed the chemistry of its leaves and made
them taste so terrible that they got
tired of
the leaves and stopped eating them. Then even more
astonishing, the tree sent out a special smell---a
signal (信号) causing its neighbors to change
the chemistry of their own leaves and make them
less tasty.
Communication, of course,
doesn’t need to be in words. We can talk to each
other by smiling, raising our
shoulders and
moving our hands. We know that birds and animals
use a whole vocabulary of songs, sounds, and
movements. Bees dance their signals, flying in
certain patterns that tell other bees where to
find nectar (花蜜) for
honey. So why shouldn’t
trees have ways of sending message?
1. It can
be concluded from the passage that caterpillars do
not feed on leaves that ______.
A. are
lying on the ground B. have an unpleasant taste C.
bees don’t like D. have an unfamiliar shape
2. The willow tree described in the passage
protected itself by ______.
A. growing more
branches B. communicating with
birds and bees
C. changing its leaf
chemistry D. shaking caterpillars off
3. According to the passage, the willow tree
was able to communicate with other trees by
______.
A. waving its branches
B. giving off a special smell
C. dropping
its leaves D. changing the
colour of its trunk
4. According to this
passage, bees communicate by ______.
A.
making special movement B. touching
one another
C. smelling one another
D. making unusual sound
5. The author believes
that the incident described in the passage ______.
A. cannot be taken seriously
B. should no longer be permitted
C. must be
checked more thoroughly D. seems
completely reasonable
19、(1分)
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The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was
flying alone from North America to England in a
small single—
engined aeroplane. At midnight,
several hours after she had left Newfoundland, she
ran into bad weather. To
make things worse,
her altimeter (高度表) failed and she didn’t know how
high she was flying. At night, and in
a storm,
a pilot is in great difficulty without an
altimeter. At times, her plane nearly plunged (冲)
into the sea.
Just before dawn, there was
further trouble. Amelia noticed flames (火焰) coming
from the engine. Would
she be able to reach
land? There was nothing to do except to keep going
and to hope.
In the end, Amelia Earhart
did reach Ireland, and for the courage she had
shown, she was warmly welcomed
in England and
Europe. When she returned to the United States,
she was honored by President Hoover at a
special dinner in the White House. From that
time on, Amelia Earhart was famous.
What
was so important about her flight? Amelia Earhart
was the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean
alone,
and she had set a record of fourteen
hours and fifty—six minutes.
In the years
that followed, Amelia Earhart made several flights
across the United States, and on each
occasion
(时刻) she set a new record for flying time. Amelia
Earhart made these flights to show that women had
a place in aviation (航空) and that air travel
was useful.
1. Which of the following
statements is NOT the difficulty which Amelia
Earhart met in her flight from north
America
to England?
A. She was caught in a storm.
B. The altimeter went out of order.
C. Her
engine went wrong. D. She lost her
direction.
2. When Amelia Earhart saw flames
coming from the engine, what did she do?
A.
She did nothing but pray for herself. B. She
changed her direction and landed in Ireland.
C. She continued flying.D. She lost hope of
reaching land.
3. According to the passage,
what was Amelia Earhart’s reason for making her
flights?
A. To set a new record for flying
time.B. To be the first woman to fly around the
world.
C. To show that aviation was not
just for men.D. To become famous in the world.
4. Which of the following statements was NOT
mentioned?
A. She was the first woman who
succeeded in flying across the Atlantic Ocean
alone.
B. She showed great courage in
overcoming the difficulties during the flight.
C She was warmly welcomed in England,
Europe and the United States.
D. She made
plans to fly around the world.
5. Which of the
following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Amelia Earhart—First Across the
Atlantic. B. Amelia Earhart—Pioneer in Women’s
Aviation.
C. A New Record for Flying Time.
D. A Dangerous Flight from North America to
England.
20、(1分)
A nobleman and a
merchant once met in an inn. For their lunch they
both ordered soup. When it was
brought, the
nobleman took a spoonful, but the soup was so hot
that he burned his mouth and tears came to his
eyes, The merchant asked him why he was
weeping. The nobleman was ashamed to admit (承认)
that he had
burned his mouth and answered,
“Sir, I once had a brother who committed a great
crime (犯罪), for which he
was hanged. I was
thinking of his death, and that made me weep.” The
merchant believed this story and began to
eat
his soup. He too burned his mouth, so that he had
tears in his eyes. The nobleman noticed it and
asked the
merchant, “Sir, why do you weep?”
The merchant, who now saw that the nobleman had
deceived (欺骗) him,
answered, “My
lord(=master), I am weeping because you were not
hanged together with your brother.”
1. This
story teaches us ______.
A. not to eat in
inns B. not to eat soup that is too hot
cry when we burn our mouth D. not to believe
everything you hear
2. The nobleman did not
tell the truth because he ______.
A. was a
nobleman B felt ashamed C. was in an
inn D. was angry
3. The nobleman should
have ______.
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A. smiled with
joy B. shouted with laughter C. told the truth D.
scolded the waiter
4. It is probable that the
nobleman ______.
A. had no brother who was
hanged B. had a very good brother
C.
knew the soup was too hot D. had never
eaten soup
5. The merchant’s answer showed
that be ______.
A. was very happy B.
believed the nobleman C. was angry with the
nobleman D. had kind heart
21、(1分)
In
a very real sense, people who have read good
literature have lived more than people who cannot
or will
not read. To have read Gulliver’s
Travels is to have had the experience of listening
to Jonathan Swift, of learning
about man’s
inhumanity (残酷) to man. To read Huckleberry Finn
is to feel what it is like to drift (漂流) down
the Mississippi River on a raft (木排). To have
read Byron is to have suffered his rebellions with
him and to have
enjoyed his nose—thumbing at
(对……的蔑视) society. To have read Native Son is to
know how it feels to be
frustrated (受挫折) in
the particular way in which Blacks in Chicago are
frustrated. This is effective
communication
(交流). It enables us to feel how others felt about
life, even if they lived thousands of miles away
and centuries age. It is not true that “We
have only one life to live.” If we read, we can
live as many more lives
and as many kinds of
lives as we wish.
1. The sentence “People who
have read good literature have lived more than
people who cannot or will not read”
suggests
that ______.
A. reading stimulates(激发) a
desire to travel B. reading broadens(扩大) a
person’s experience
C. people who read much
live longerD. people who read are more relaxed
2. The author implies that good literature
______.
A. must deal with social problems
B. must teach a lesson
C. is varied in
subject and in content (内容) D. is always
exciting and heart--warming
3. According to
the author, reading good literature ______.
A. produces new income B. is quite uselessC.
satisfies the curious D. opens new worlds to
us(眼界)
4. The underlined word effective in
this passage means ______.
A. actual
B. striking C. existing D.
having an effect
22、(1分)
When I lived
in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to
visit England by car. Before they left, they
asked me for advice about how to find
accommodation (住所). I suggested that they should
stay at ‘bed and
breakfast’ houses, because
this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor
a good chance to speak English
with the
family. My friends listened to my advice, but they
came back with some funny stories.
“We
didn’t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they
said, “because we found that most families were
away on
holiday.”
I thought this was
strange. Finally I understood what had happened.
My friends spoke little English, and
they
thought ‘VACANCIES’ meant ‘holidays’, because the
Spanish word for ‘holidays” is ‘vacaciones’. So
they
did not go to house where the sign
outside said ‘VACANCLES’, which in English means
there are free rooms.
Then my friends went to
house where the sign said ‘NO VACANCLES’, because
they thought this meant the
people who owned
the house were not away on holiday. But they found
that these houses were all full. As a result,
they stayed at hotels!
We laughed
about this and about mistakes my friends made in
reading other signs. In Spanish, the word
‘DIVERSION’ means fun. In English, it means
that workmen are repairing the road, and that you
must take a
different road. When my friends
saw the word ‘DIVERSION’ on a road sign, they
thought they were going to
have fun. Instead,
the road ended in a large hold.
English
people have problems too when they learn foreign
languages. Once in Paris. when someone offered
me some more. coffee, I said ‘Thank you’ in
French. I meant that I would like some more,
However , to my
surprise the coffee pot was
taken away! Later I found out that ‘Thank you’ in
French means ‘Mo, thank you.’
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1. My Spanish friends wanted advice about
______.
A. learning English
B. finding places to stay in England
C.
driving their car on English roads D. going
to England by car
2. I suggested that they
stay at bed and breakfast houses because ______.
A. they would be able to practise their
English B. it would be much cheaper than staying
in hotels
C. it would be convenient for
them to have dinner
D. there would be no
problem about finding accommodation there
3.
“NO VACANCIES” in English means ______.
A.
no free rooms B. free rooms C. not
away on holiday D. holidays
4. If you see a
road sign that says ‘Diversion’, you will ______.
A. fall into a hole B. have a lot of fun
and enjoy yourself
C. find that the road is
blocked by crowds of peopleD. have to take a
different road
5. When someone offered me more
coffee and I said ‘Thank you’ in French, I ______.
A didn’t really want any more coffee
B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away
C. really wanted some more coffee D.
wanted to express my politeness
6. I was
surprised when the coffee pot was taken away
because I ______.
A. hadn’t finished
drinking my coffee B. was expecting another
cup of coffee
C. meant that I didn’t want
any more D. was never misunderstood
23、(1分)
A beautiful and very
successful actress was the star of a new musical
show. Her home was in the country,
but she
didn’t want to have to go back there every night,
so she rented (租用) an expensive flat in the centre
of
the city, bought some beautiful furniture
(家具) and hired a man to paint the rooms in new
colours.
It was very difficult to get
tickets for her show because everybody wanted to
see it, so she decided to give
the painter two
of the best seats. She hoped that this would make
him work better and more willingly for her. He
took the tickets without saying anything, and
she heard no more about them until the end of the
month, when she
got the painter’s bill. At the
bottom of it were the words “Four hours watching
Miss Hall sing and dance,£3,”
with this note:
“After 5 p.m. I get fifteen shillings an hour
instead of ten shillings.”
1. In the article,
“Miss Hall” was the name of ______.
A. a
place where people sang and danced B. an
unmarried woman C. a hall D. a street
2. The
woman’s flat was situated ______.
A. near
the city B. near her home C. in the middle of the
city D. by the side of the country road
3.
The actress gave the painter two tickets, hoping
he would______.
A. be pleased
B. ask less money for his work
C. charge
more money for his work D. say a good word for
her musical show
4. After the painter got the
tickets from the actress, he ______.
A.
sold them for £3 B. went to watch the musical
show
C. paid £3 for them D. was very
thankful to her
5. In the story , ______ made
a mistake.
A. both the actress and the
painter B. neither the actress nor the
painter
C. the painter
D. the actress
24、(1分)
The basenji is
a central African hunting dog. It comes from a
country called Chad, which is north of the
Central African Republic. The basenji was
well—known as the “silent dog” because for
centuries no basenjis
has ever been known to
bark (吠). Then at a dog show in London in 1953, a
basenji actually barked.
As well as being
clever, basenjis are known for their natural
courage and are still popular hunting dogs in
Africa. But in America people keep them mainly
because they are gentle and full of fun. The
basenji has an
unusual habit, it washes itself
all over like a cat. It is a middle—sized dog, 16
or 17 inches high from the shoulder.
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It weighs about 20 pounds. A basenji’s coat
is short and silky. It may be brown, white, or
gold , or a mixture of
these three colours.
1. Basenjis were first found .
A.
in Africa, Europe and America B. in both Africa
and America C. in central Africa D. in North
Africa
2. What made Basenjis so special?
A. They were funny enough to make people laugh.B.
One of them barked at a dog show in London.
C. They were a true friend of man.D. They were
born quiet dogs.
3. Americans like basenjis
because they are .
A. pleasant B.
prettyC. clean D. quiet
4. In what way are
basenjis like cats?
A. They make gentle
sounds instead of barking.B. They are fond of
people and look like cats.
C. They clean
themselves all over. D. They have short, silky
fur.
5. Basenjis are good hunters because they
are .
A. strong B. fearless
C. the right colour D. the right weight
25、(1分)
阅读理解。
O. Henry was a pen
name used by an American writer of short stories.
His real name was william Sydney
Porter. He
was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy
he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school
for very long, but he managed to teach himself
everything he needed to know. When he was about 20
years old,
Henry went to Texas, where he tried
different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper,
and then had a job in a bank
When some money
went missing from the bank, O. Henry was believed
to have stolen it. Because of that, he was
sent to prison. During the three years in
prison, he learned to write short stories. After
he got out of prison, he
went to New York and
continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York
and the life of the poor there. People
liked
his stories, because simple as the tales were they
would finish with a sudden change at the end to
the
reader’s surprise.
which order did O.
Henry do the following things?
a. lived in New
York b. worked in a bank c. travelled to Texas
d. was put in prison e. had a newspaper
f.
learned to write stories
(A)e.c.f.b.d.a.
(B)c.b.e.d.a.f. (C)e.b.d.c.a.f
(D)c.e.b.d.f.a.
enjoyed reading O. Henry’s
stories because ____.
(A)they had surprise
ending (B)they were easy to understand
(C)they showed his love for the poor (D)they
were about New York City
went to prison
because ____.
(A)people thought he had stolen
money from the newspape(B)people thought he had
taken money that was not
his
(C)he wanted
to write stories about prisoner(D)he broke the law
by not using his own name
do you know about
O. Henry before he began writing?
(A)He was
well-educated (B)He was very good at
learning
(C)he was devoted to the poor
(D)He was not serious about his work
did O.
Henry get most material for his short stories?
(A)His life inside the prison (B)The
newspaper articles he wrote
(C)The city and
people of New York (D)His exciting early life
as a boy
26、(1分)
An ape has a larger
brain than any animal except man, though it is
much smaller than a man’s brain. Apes all
belong to the hot countries of the
world—tropical Africa and South—east Asia.
The gorilla is the largest of the apes. He is as
tall as six feet when standing upright. Many
people think that
gorillas are very fierce.
They are often described as standing upright like
a man, beating their fists and roaring. In
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their home, in the forests of
Cetral Africa, however, they are not at all like
this, They are peaceful animals and
never use
their great strength unless attacked. Even then,
they retreat if they can.
Gorillas have
black faces and long, black, hairy coats. They
feed during the day on plants and fruit. At night
the old male often sleeps on the ground at the
foot of a tree, while the others each make a
sleeping platform in the
tree bending the
leafy branches. Besides this, gorillas climb trees
very seldom.
1. Apes live in .
A. different parts of the world B. the cold
countries
C. South America and Africa D.
the countries of Africa and South—east Asia
2. An ape’s brain is .
A. as
large as a man’s brain B. a lot smaller than a
man’s brain
C. larger than that of any
other animal including man D. a lot larger than a
man’s brain
3. A gorilla is about six feet
tall when he .
A. stands on his legs
B. stand on his arms C. roars D. uses his great
strength
4. All gorillas live on .
A. vegetables B. leaves and grass C. plants and
fruit D. rice
5. During the night gorilla
usually sleep in trees except .
A.
the old female gorilla B. the old male gorilla
C. the young gorillas up to six years old
D. the baby gorillas
27、(1分)
Sam and
Joe were astronauts. There was once a very
dangerous trip and the more experienced astronauts
knew there was only a small chance of coming
back alive (活着). Sam and Joe, however, thought it
would be
exciting though a little dangerous.
“we’re the best men for the job,” they said to the
boss. “There may be
problems, but we can find
the answers.” “They’re the last people I’d trust,”
thought the boss. “But all the other
astronauts have refused to go.”
Once
they were in space, Joe had to go outside to make
some repairs. When the repairs were done, he tried
to get back inside the spaceship. But the door
was locked. He knocked but there was no answer. He
knocked
again, louder this time, and again no
answer came. Then he hit the door as hard as he
could and finally a voice
said, “Who’s there?”
“It’s me! Who else could it be?” shouted Joe. Sam
let him in all right but you can imagine
that
Joe never asked to go on a trip with Sam again!
1. Most of the astronauts were unwilling to go
on a trip because .
A. there was
little chance of being selected B. they weren’t
experienced enough
C. they thought they
might get killed D. it wasn’t exciting enough
2. Why were Sam and Joe chosen?
A. The
boss wanted them to get more experience. B. The
boss trusted them more than anyone else.
C.
They were the last people who wanted to go D. They
were the only men who offered to go.
3. What
did Sam and Joe think the trip would be like?
A. There would be serious problems . B. There
wouldn’t be any danger .
C. It would be
long and tiring. D. It would be exciting .
4.
Joe didn’t want to work with Sam again probably
because he thought Sam .
A. was very
slow and possibly deaf B. didn’t know how to
operate the door
C. was less experienced
than he was D. didn’t know how to do repairs
5. The writer tells this story to .
A. show the dangerous side of the astronauts’
lifeB. show the funny side of the astronauts’ life
C. make people laughD. make people think
28、(1分)
Moscow, Russia (Space
news)—“The computer is a better chess player,”
insisted Viktor Prozorov, the loser.
“It
seemed as if it were laughing after every good
move. I know I should have beaten it for the sake
of mankind
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(为人类着想), but I just
couldn’t win,” he announced and shook his head
sadly.
Prozorov’s disappointment was
shared by several grand masters who were present,
some of whom were so
upset that they shouted
at the machine. Many chess players said that this
meant the end of chess championships
(锦标赛)
around the world, since the fun had been taken out
of the game.
The computer walked—or
rather, rolled—away with 5,000 dollars in prize
money and limited its remarks to
a set of
noises and lights.
1. Which of the following
best gives the main idea of this newspaper
article?
A. 5,000 dollars goes to a
computer ! B. New invention, a laughing computer !
C. World’s best chess player beaten! D.
Computer defeats man in chess !
2. How did
some of the grand masters feel about the chess
game between Prozorov and the computer?
A.
They thought that the game was no fun. B. They
thought that the game wasn’t fair.
C. They
agreed that Prozorov didn’t play well.D. They were
unhappy that the computer had won.
3. What was
it that Prozorov felt most bitter (懊恼) about?
A. That he didn’t win the $$ 5,000. B. That he
hadn’t tried his best.
C. That he had lost
to a machine. D. That this was the end of the
chess game.
4. After winning the game, the
computer .
A. laughed B. walked
away C. made some remarks D. gave out some lights
and sounds
5. Many chess players felt that
playing with a computer would .
A.
make the game tougher B. make the game less
interesting
C. make man appear foolish D.
make man lose lots of money
29、(1分)
“I would almost rather see you dead,” Robert S.
Cassatt, a leading banker (银行家) of Philadelphia,
shouted when his twenty-year-old eldest
daughter announced that she wanted to become an
artist. In the 19th
century, playing at
drawing or painting on dishes was all right for a
young lady, but serious work in art was not.
And when the young lady’s family ranked among
(跻身于) the best of Philadelphia’s social (社交界的)
families,
such an idea could not even be
considered.
That was how Mary Cassatt,
born 1844, began her struggle as an artist. She
did not tremble before her
father’s anger.
Instead, she opposed (抗拒) him with courage and at
last made him change his mind. Mary
Cassatt
gave up her social position (社会地位) and all thought
of a husband and a family, which in those times
was unthinkable for a young lady. In the end,
after long years of hard work and perseverance
(坚持), she became
America’s most important
woman artist and the internationally recognized
leading woman painter of the time.
1. How did
Mr. Cassatt react (反应) when his daughter made her
announcement?
A. He feared for her life. B.
He was very angry. C. He nearly killed her. D. He
warned her.
2. What in fact was Mr. Cassatt’s
main reason in opposing his daughter’s wish?
A. Drawing and painting was simply unthinkable
among ladies in those days.
B. He did not
believe his daughter wanted to work seriously in
art.
C. He believed an artist’s life would
be too hard for his daughter.
D. Ladies of
good families simply did not become artists in
those times.
3. What made Mary Cassatt’s
“struggle” to become a recognized artist
especially hard?
A. She was a woman. B. Her
father opposed her.
C. She had no social
position. D. She did not come from an artist’s
family.
4. What do we know about Mary
Cassatt’s marriage (婚姻)?
A. Her marriage
failed because she never gave a thought to her
husband and family.
B. She never married
because she did not want to be just a wife and
mother.
C. After marriage she decide to
give up her husband rather than her career(事业).
D. She did not marry because for a lady of
her social position to marry below her was
unthinkable.
5. What do we know about Robert
Cassatt’s character from the text?
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A. He was a cruel man B. He was a
stubborn(固执的) man
C. He knew nothing about
art D. He knew little about his daughter
6.
What do we know about Mary Cassatt’s character?
A. She was brave in going against old ideas
B. She got tired of always obeying her father
C. She hated playing at drawing and painting D.
She did not mind being poor at all
7. As we
learn from the text, which of the following was
generally considered the most important in the
life of a
woman in the U.S. in Mary Cassatt’s
times?
A. Money B. Career C. Marriage D.
Courage
30、(1分)
Annealing is a way of
making metal softer by heating it and then letting
it cool very slowly. If metal is
heated and
then cooled very quickly, for example by dipping
(浸) it in water, it will be very hard but also
very
brittle (脆) that is, it will break
easily. Metal that has been annealed is soft but
does not break as easily. It is
possible to
make metal as hard or as soft as is wished, by
annealing it. The metal is heated, and allowed to
cool
slowly for a certain length of time. The
longer the heated metal takes to cool slowly, the
softer it becomes.
Annealing can also be used
on other material, such as glass.
1. Annealing
can make metal .
d tough(韧) B.
hard but brittle C. soft but tough D. soft and
brittle
2. Why do people put hot metal in
water?
it hard B. To make it soft. C. To
make it cool. D. To make it brittle.
3. In
annealing, the required hardness of a metal depend
on .
A. the quantity of water used B.
the temperature of the metal
C. the
softness of the metal D. the timing of the
operation
4. As suggested by the text, how
can glass be made less brittle?
A. It can
be heated an then cooled quickly. B. It can be
cooled and then heated slowly.
C. It can be
heated and then cooled slowly. D. It can be cooled
and then heated quickly.
31、(1分)
A
well-known old man was being interviewed (采访) and
was asked if it was correct that he had just
celebrated his ninety—ninth birthday.
“That’s right.”said the old man. “Ninety—nine
years old, and I haven’t an enemy in the world.
They’re all
dead.”
“Well, sir,”said
the interviewer, “I hope very much to have the
honour of interviewing you on your
hundredth
birthday.”
The old man looked at the yound
man closely, and said, “I can’t see why you
shouldn’t. You look fit and
healthy to me!”
1. The old man said he had not an enemy in the
world, which shows that he was a very .
A. friendly man he never made any enemiesB.
healthy man he lived longer than all his enemies
C. lucky man his enemies had all died D.
terrible man he had got rid of all his enemies
2. When the interviewer said that he hoped
very much to have the honour of interviewing the
old man again
the following year, .
A. he was trying to make the old man happy
B. he wished he himself would live another year
C. he did not believe the old man would
live to be one hundred
D. he did not
believe he would interview the old man again
3. When the old man said “I can’t see why you
shouldn’t”, what he meant was:
A. “You must
try to live another year to interview me again
next year.”
B. “Of course, you can see me
again since you’re so fit and healthy.”
C.
“If I live to a hundred years, you should
interview me again.”
D. “Unless you live
another year, you wouldn’t be able to interview me
again.”
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4. What kind of man
would you say the old man was?
A. He was
silly. B. He was unpleasant.
C. He was very
pround and sure of his health. D. He was very
impolite to young people.
32、(1分)
Joe
and Helen Mills had two small children. One was
six and the other four. They always resisted going
to
bed, and Helen was always complaining (抱怨)
about this and asking Joe for help. But as he did
not come home
until after they had gone, to
bed during the week, he was unable to help except
at weekends.
Joe considered himself a good
singer, but really his voice was not at all
musical. However, he decided that,
if he sang
to the children when they went to bed, it would
help them to relax, and they would soon go to
sleep.
He did this every Saturday and
Sunday night until he heard his small son
whispered to his younger sister, “If
you
pretend that you’re asleep, he stops.”
1. The
children always resisted going to bed, which
.
A. made Helen suffer a lot B. satisfied
their mother
C. Helen was not satisfied
with D. gave Helen much trouble
2. The
husband couldn’t help the wife to look after the
children .
A. because he returned
from work too late B. since his voice sounded
like a singer’s
C. except on Saturday and
Sunday
D. for he did not come home until
after the children had gone to bed weekends
3.
Joe worked .
A. all the week
including Saturday and SundayB. during the week
including the weekends
C. every day but
Saturday and Sunday D. every week except on Sunday
4. Which of the following conclusions can we
draw from the above story?
A. Joe’s song
did help the children to relax. B. With Joe’s
help, the children went to sleep.
C. The
wife must be thankful to her husband for the great
help.
D. The children were so tired of
their father’s voice that they pretended to be
asleep.
5. This joke tells about .
A. Joe and Helen B. Helen’s trouble C. Joe’s
foolery D. the bright idea of the two small
children
33、(1分)
Arli
has learnt how to type for several years. Still,
he types rather slowly, and he can only spell out
words of
four letters or less. But Arli is
doing quite well for a dog.
He is black,
white, and brown. He uses a special typewriter it
has shallow bowl—like keys that are about
two
inches wide. His owner calls out the letter, the
dog hits the keys with this nose.
Arli
does very well at typing “good dog”. But he seems
to have a bit of trouble when he is asked to spell
out
“bad dog”.
1. Arli is the name of
.
A. a typist(打字员) B. a child C. a dog D. a
man
2. The main purpose of the story is to
tell us that Arli is .
A. a very bad
typist B. unusually clever C. a very good
typist D. slow and not clever
3. How do you
think Arli learned to type?
A. He was
helped to do it by a dog . B. He did it with the
help of his master .
C. He started doing it
naturally several years ago. D. He did it for a
living .
4. The writer tells us that Arli’s
typewriter .
A. has only a small
number of keys B. is smaller than an ordinary
typewriter
C. is larger than an ordinary
typewriter D. sometimes gives you a bit of trouble
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34、(1分)
Schools and
parents in Shenzhen City have been asked to take
better care of children’s eyesight as 45
percent of them, were found to be
shortsighted. Too much reading, poor lighting and
too much TV are blamed.
Of the city’s high
school graduates. who applied to attend college
this summer, two—thirds had to have their
choices limited because of poor eyesight,
Shenzhen Special Zone (特区) Daily said.
1. This
piece of news was reported by .
A.
People’s Daily B. Shenzhen Special Zone Daily
C. school in Shenzhen City D. parents in
Shenzhen City
2. The purpose of this passage
is to .
A. criticize children who
are shortsighted
B. blame parents and
schools for children’s being shortsighted
C. ask the high school graduates to pay attention
to their eyesight
D. draw people’s special
attention to eye hygiene(卫生)
3. Only of
the children in Shenzhen City have good eyesight.
A. 45 percent B. less than half C. 55
percent D. two—thirds
4. Generally speaking,
high school students have eyesight than
primary school students.
A. poorer B. still
better C. poor D. brighter
5. Because of being
shortsighted many school graduates .
A. weren’t allowed to enter college B. couldn’t
graduate from high school
C. couldn’t
choose to study what they liked best D. lost their
limited time
6. In order to protect their
eyes, children shouldn’t .
A. read
books glasses C. make their eyes too tired D. see
things far away
35、(1分)
SINGAPORE-
Another Thai worker died in his sleep last Friday,
the second such death in the past three days
and the 10th since the beginning of the year.
Thongehai Sombattra, 22, is said to be the
youngest to have died
mysteriously this year.
A total of 10 young Thai construction workers in
their late 20s and 30s who appeared well
and
healthy when they went to bed have died since the
beginning of this year. They were either found
dead in the
morning or had died suddenly in
the middle on the night after some difficulty in
breathing.
From China Daily, March 19,1990
1. According to the passage ______.
A.
Ten people died mysteriously during the last three
days
B. Two people died mysteriously during
the last three days
C. Two people have died
mysteriously since the beginning of the year
D. Ten people died mysteriously before last Friday
2. During the past three days, Thongchai
Sombattra died last Friday, the other passed away
______.
A. last Monday B. last Thursday
C. last Thursday D. last Sunday
3.
Thongchai Sombattra, who died mysteriously,
_______.
A. was aged 22
B. was in his mid twenties
C. was not more
than 20 years old D. was nearly 30 years
old
4. Besides Thongchai Sombattra, the others
could be _______.
A. from 25 years old to
38 years old B. from 20 years old to 39 years
old
C. from 21 years old to 39 years old
D. from 29 years old to 38 years old
5.
______ caused the ten Thai construction workers’
death.
A. An unexpected accidentB. High
blood pressureC. Heart trouble D. Something
that was unknown
36、(1分)
The man
sitting opposite Robert was the Financial
Controller. Everybody called him “the FC” for
short. He
made all the decisions about money.
Robert needed some more. That was why he had to
see him. The two men
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did not
get on very well. In fact, they had always
disliked each other.
“Your request is out
of the question,” the FC said. Robert had
difficulty in controlling himself, but he
managed somehow. He explained that he wanted
the money in order to make more programmes.
“And why do you want to do that?” the FC asked
sharply. Again, Robert almost lost his temper.
“Because
more and more people are listening to
my department’s programmes. There’s great demand
for them,” he
answered.
The FC did not
seem to believe him. But Robert had a report on
the numbers of listeners to all EBC
programmes. The FC became less confident (自信).
Robert threw the report down on the table and told
him to
read it.
The FC looked at it in
silence. The figures (数字) proved that he had been
wrong, but he did not want to
admit it.
“Well,”he finally said, “I may have made a small
mistake.”Robert noticed the word “may.” He
got
up to leave. But he had the feeling that he would
get the money after all.
1. In the story the
Financial Controller was a person who was in
charge of
A. Robert’s department’s
programmes. B. EBC programmes.
C. EBC
money. D. both B and C.
2. “Your request is out of the question.”Here
“out of the question”means
A. without any
questionB. with some question. C. impossible.
D. possible.
3. Robert decided to make more
programmes because
A. he wanted to meet the
needs of the listeners. B. “the FC”disliked him
C. the members of his department wanted him
to do so. D. he wanted to show himself off.
4. Why were more and more people listening to
Robert’s programmes?
A. Because he always
lost his temper (脾气). B. Because he disliked “the
FC.”
C. Because the programmes were rich
and to the taste of the listeners. D. We don’t
know.
5. Who do you think won the
argument(争论)in the end?
A. The Financial
Controller. B. Robert. C. Nobody. D. The
listeners.
37、(1分)
Not
many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old
man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the
south of England. He had made a lot of money
in trading with foreign countries. When he was
seventy—five, he
gave £ 12,000 to the village
school to buy land and equipment (设备) for a
children’s playground.
As a result of his
kindness, many people came to visit him. Among
them was a newspaperman. During their
talk,
Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and
expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman
asked
him how he managed to be healthy at
seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默).
He liked whisky (威
士忌酒) and drank some each
day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each
evening.”he told the
newspaperman, thinking of
his evening glass of whisky.
The
newspaperman did not understand what Johnson
meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson
was
seventy—five and had a daily injection in
his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands
of letters from all
over Britain, asking him
for the secret of his daily injection.
1.
Johnson became a rich man through
A. doing
business. B. making whisky. C. cheating.
D. buying and selling land.
2. The gift of
money to the school suggests that Johnson
A. had no children. B. was a strange man. C. was
very fond of children. D. wanted people to know
how rich
he was.
3. Many people wrote to
Johnson to find out
A. what kind of whisky
he had. B. how to live longer.
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C. how to become wealthy. D. in which
part of the neck to have an injection.
4. The
newspaperman
A. should have reported what
Johnson had told him. B. shouldn’t have asked
Johnson what injection he had.
C. was eager
to live a long life. D. should have found out what
Johnson really meant.
5. When Johnson said he
had an injection in his neck each evening, he
really meant that
A. he liked drinking a
glass of whisky in the evening. B. he needed an
injection in the neck.
C. a daily injection
in the evening would make him sleep well.D. there
was something wrong with his neck.
38、(1分)
“I’m very tired from working here,”said
Jean to her friend Kate,” I’m on my feet from
morning to night.
For the first quarter of the
day, I clean up the counter (柜台) and set the
tables. For the next quarter, I help in the
kitchen. For the second half of my workday, I
take orders at the counters.”
“Kate, I
wish I had your job,”Jean went on. “For four hours
you just sit at the cash register (收款台)
taking
in money.”
“But I spend two more hours in
the kitchen (厨房) than you do,”said Kate. “It’s
tiring to cook over a hot
stove. I don’t think
you’d really want my job. In fact, I’d like your
job.”
1. Both Jean and Kate probably work in a
A. hotel B. library C. lab
D. shop
2. How long did they work every day?
A. eight hours B. twelve hours.
C. Ten hours D. Nine hours
3. How long did
Kate spend in the kitchen?
A. a quarter
day. B. A half day. C. One-third day. D.
Three-fourths day.
4. From this passage we can
see that
A. they are both interested in
their work. B. their work is neither tiring nor
busy.
C. both of them are tired of their
work. D. they’ve decided to give up their work.
5. Give a proper proverb (谚语) to Jean and
Kate.
A. It’s never too late to learn. B.
It’s no use crying over spilt milk.
C. The
grass is always greener on the other side. D. One
swallow(燕子) does not make a summer.
39、(1分)
In 1985 a French television company sent
its reporters to the Paris Metro. They took
cameras to see what
passengers would do if
they saw someone attached on the platform or in
the trains. They acted out incidents. The
incidents looked real but they were all done
with the help of actors. However, very few people
tried to help, and
most passengers pretended
not to notice. in one incident, a foreigner was
attacked by three men. The attack was
on a
train which was quite full, and although one man
tried to get the passengers to help, they all
refused. It
seems that such behaviour(行为) is
not unusual, but the question is why? Is it a
problem of big cities, or would
the same thing
happen anywhere? To discuss these questions, we
have in the studio(演播室) Professor Wilson,
who
is an expert on the subject…
1. Who did the
experiment?
A. A French television company.
B. The Paris Metro.
C. The City Government
of Paris. D. Professor Wilson.
2. What did
the experiment try to find out?
A. How a
foreigner was attacked on the train.B. How
passengers helped each other on the platform.
C. Passengers’ reactions towards incidents.D.
Actors’ performances during incidents.
3. What
was the finding of the experiment?
A.
Passengers helped a lot during incidents. B. Very
few foreigners were on the train.
C. Very
few passengers tried to help during incidents. D.
Some people were good at acting on the train.
4. Who do the underlined words one man refer
to?
A. One of the three men who attacked a
foreigner.B. One of the actors who took part in
the experiment.
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C. One of
the passengers who were on the train. D. One of
the reporters who were sent to the Paris Metro.
40、(1分)
The clock struck eleven at
night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in
bed except me. Under the
strong light, I
looked sadly before me at a huge pile of that
troublesome stuff(东西) they call “books”.
I
was going to have my examination the next day.
“When can I go to bed?” I asked myself. I didn’t
answer,
In fact I dared not.
The clock
struck twelve.” Oh, dear!” I cried. “Ten more
books to read before I can go to bed!” We pupils
are
the most wretched creatures in the world.
Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not
have to work so hard
when he was a boy.
The clock struck one. I was quite desperate(绝望的)
now. I forgot all I had learned. I was too tired
to go on.
I did the only thing I could. I
prayed, “Oh, God, please help me pass the exam
tomorrow. I do promise to work
hard
afterwards, Amen.” My eyes were so heavy that I
could hardly open them A few minutes later, with
my
head on the desk, I fell asleep.
1.
When the author was going over his lessons, all
the others in the house were .
A.
asleep B. outside C. working in
bed D. quietly laughing at him
2. He
underlined word wretched in Paragraph 3 probably
means .
A. very happy B.
disappointed C. very unhappy D. hopeful
3. Reviewing his lessons didn’t help him
because .
A. it was too late at night
B. he was very tired
C. his eyes lids were
so heavy that he couldn’t keep them open D. he
hadn’t studied hard before the
examination
4. What do you suppose happened to the author?
A. He went to a church to pray again
B. He passed the exam by sheer luck
C. He
failed in the exam D. He was
punished by his teacher
5. The best title for
the passage would be .
A. The Night
Before the Examination B. Working Far
into the Night
C. A Slow Student
D. Going Over My Lessons
41、(1分)
Douglas Grace talks about his ideal city of the
future.
I see the city of the future in
three zones(区域)---inner(内部), middle and outer. In
the inner zone there will
be no private(私人的)
cars. Public transport(交通) will be free and there
will only be ambulances(急救车), fire
engines,
taxis and police cars. This inner zone will be the
residential(住宅的) and recreational(娱乐的) area of
the city. People will live there and go out to
enjoy themselves----to cinemas and restaurants.
There will be parks
and open spaces, trees and
lakes, schools and universities. This way, when
people are at home, they can go out
easily and
safely.
Just outside the inner zone there
will be big car parks for all private cars.
The banks and most of the shops and hospitals will
be in the middle zone. These are things that
people don’t
need every day.
All the
factories and offices will be in the outer zone.
People will travel out of the center to work, and
back
to the center in the evenings. The inner
zone will be cleaner and better to live in and
there will be more space for
industry on the
outside.
This is my ideal city of the
future--- a very beautiful place! But I don’t
really think things will ever be like
that!
1. Where will people live and go out to enjoy
themselves?
A. In the middle zone. B. In
the inner zone. C. In the outer zone. D. In the
inner and middle zone.
2. Where will big car
parks be?
A. Just outside the middle zone.
B. Just inside the middle zone.
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C. Just outside the inner zone. D.
Just inside the inner zone.
3. What will be in
the middle zone?
A. The banks, hospitals
and schools. B. The banks, hospitals and police
stations.
C. The banks, schools and car
parks. D. The banks, hospital and most of the
shops.
4. Where will the factories and offices
be?
A. In the outer zone. B. In the middle
zone.C. In the inner zone. D. In the middle and
inner zone.
5. Douglas Grace is probably .
A. a painter B. a builder C.
a town planner D. an officer
6. Write
these words in the zone where you will find them
in Douglas Grace’s city
A==the inner zone
B==outside the inner zone
C==the middle
zone D==the outer zone
Hospital Office
Bank Lake Cinema
School Park
Car park Shops Factory
42、(1分)
Baths and bothing have long
been considered of medical importance to man. In
Greece there are the
ruins(废墟) of a water
system(系统) for baths built over 3,000 years ago.
The Romans had warm public baths. In
some
baths, as many 3,000 persons could bathe at the
same time.
Treating disease by taking
bathing has been popular for centuries. Modern
medical bathing first became
popular in Europe
and by the late 1700’s has also become popular in
the United States.
For many years
frequent(经常的) bathing was believed to be bad for
one’s health. Ordinary bathing just to
keep
clean was avoided(避免), and perfume was often used
to cover up body smells!
By the 1700’s
doctors began to say that soap and water were good
for health. They believed that it was good
for
people to be clean. Slowly, people began to bathe
more frequently. During the Victorian Age of the
late 19th
century, taking a bath on Saturday
night became common.
In the United States
ordinary bathing was slow to become popular.
During the 18th and early 19th centuries,
many
Americans were know as “The Great Unwashed!” In
one American city , for example, a person was only
allowed to take a bathe every thirty days!
That was a law!
Frequency of bathing today
is partly a matter of habit. People know that
bathing for cleanliness is important
to
health, Doctors know that dirty bodies increase
the chance of diseases. As a result, in the United
States, people
generally bathe often. Some
people bath once a day at least. They consider a
daily bath essential (=necessary) to
good
health.
1. A water system for baths was built
by over 3,000 years ago.
A. the Romans
B. the Greeks C. the Americans D. the
Europeans
2. Dirty bodies can .
A.
ruin one’s business B. cause disease C. drive
customers away D. cause good health
3. In the
18th century doctors believed that being clean was
.
A. unimportant B. good for health
C. harmful D. important
4. The underlined
word perfume probably means .
A. a
sweet smelling substance B. good health C. a
strange smelling substance D. large wealth
5.
Which of the following gives the main idea of the
passage?
A. Everybody in America takes a
daily bath.B. A bath a day keeps the doctor away.
C. Taking baths has become popular in the
world. D. Bathing has become easier and cheaper.
43、(1分)
One Sunday, Mark decided to go
sailing in his boat with his friend Dan, but Dan
happened to be away.
Dan’s brother John
offered to go instead though he did not know
anything about sailing. Mark agreed and they
set out to sea.
Soon they found
themselves in a thick fog. Mark was sure they
would be hit by a big ship. Fortunately he
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saw a large buoy (浮标) through
the fog and decided to tie the boat to it for
safety. As he was getting onto the
buoy,
however, he dropped the wet rope. The boat moved
away in the fog carrying John, Who did not know
how
to use the radio. He drifted (漂流) about
and was not seen until twelve hours later.
Mark spent the night on the buoy. In the early
morning he fell asleep. He was having a bad dream
when a
shout woke him up. A ship, the Good
Hope, came up and he climbed onto it and thanked
the captain. The captain
told him that John
had been picked up by another ship and the ship’s
captain had sent out a message. “Without
the
message I would not have found you on the buoy,”
he said.
1. Why didn’t Mark and Dan go sailing
together?
A. Dan asked his brother to go
instead B. Dan was in some other place
C.
Mark was in some other place D. Mark would like
to go with John
2. Mark tried to tie the boat
to the buoy so that .
A. he could
spend the night on it while John was looking for
help
B. he and John could go sailing again
when the fog cleared
C. it wouldn’t be hit
by other ships D. he might be picked up by a
passing ship
3. John and Mark became separated
because .
A. there wasn’t room for
both John and Mark on the buoy B. John couldn’t
control the boat and drifted away
C. Mark
thought it safe to stay on the buoy but John
didn’t D. John had to stay in the boat to radio
for help
4. What made it possible for Mark to
be found on the buoy?
A. John told people
where to look for him. B. John radioed to the
Good Hope to get him.
C. He shouted when he
caught sight of the Good Hope. D. The captain saw
him as the fog cleared.
5. The word he in the
last sentence refers to .
A. the
captain that got the message B. the captain that
sent the message C. John D. Mark
44、(1分)
High in the Swiss Alps many
years ago, there lived a lonely shepherd boy who
longed for a friend to share
his evenings. One
night he saw three old men, each holding a glass.
The first old man said: “Drink this liquid
and you shall be victorious in battle.”
The second old man said: “Drink this liquid and
you shall have countless riches.”
The last
old man said: “I offer you the happiness of
music----- the horn(号角).”
The boy chose
the third glass, The next day, he came upon a
great horn, ten feet in length, When he put his
lips to it, a beautiful melody(旋律) floated
across the valley. He had found a friend.
So goes the legend(传说) of the horn, First known in
the ninth century, the horn was used by
herdsmen(牧
人) to call cattle, for its deep
tones echoed(发出回声) across the mountainsides. Even
today, on a quiet summer
evening, its music
can be heard floating among the peaks(山顶).
1.
What detail about the shepherd boy does the
passage tell us?
A. His lonely job B.
His age, C. His name D. His singing ability
2. Why did the boy choose to drink the glass
offered by the last old man?
A. The boy
liked the old man. B. The boy didn’t like
the other old man.
C. The boy loved music.
D. The boy was thirsty.
3. After the shepherd
boy found the horn, he discovered it was _____.
A. stolen from someone else B.
very easy to carry with him
C impossible to
play D. like a new-found friend
4. Today the horn is heard in the Swiss Alps
_____.
A. when it snows B. in summer
C. when it rains D only in winter
5. Which
of the following would be the best title for the
passage?
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A. The Hobbies of
Shepherd Boys B. The Legend of the Horn
C. The History of the Swiss Alps D. The
Dreams of Shepherd Boys
45、(1分)
A
pretty, well—dressed young lady stopped a taxi in
a big square, and a said to the driver, “Do you
see that
young man at the other side of the
square?”
“Yes,” said the taxi driver. The
young man was standing outside a restaurant and
looking impatiently (不
耐烦地) at his watch every
few seconds.
“Take me over there,”said the
young lady.
There were a lot of cars and
buses in the square, so the taxi driver asked,
“Are you afraid to cross the
street?”
“Oh, no!” said the young lady. “But I promised
that I would meet the young man for lunch at one
o’ clock,
and it is now a quarter to two. If I
arrive in a taxi, it will at least seems as if I
had tried not to be late.”
1. How did the
young woman get to the square?
A. She
arrived in a taxi. B. She drove there in a car.
C. She got there by bus. D. The story doesn’t tell
us.
2. Why did the lady stop the taxi?
A. Because she didn’t want to be late for her
appointment(约会).
B. Because she wanted to
get out of the taxi.
C. Because she wanted
to go to the restaurant in it.D. Because she was
afraid of walking across the street.
3. The
young man at the other side of the square
A. had probably been waiting for a long time.B.
had some problem with his watch.
C. was
probably a waiter of the restaurant.D. was someone
the young lady didn’t want to see.
4. The
young lady was
A. clever at making excuse.
B. not late at all. C. 45 minutes earlier. D.
15 minutes late.
5. Had she tried not to be
late?
A. Yes, she had tried her best.B. No,
she was just pretending that she had tried.
C. Yes, she had tried but she was still late. D.
No, she thought being late was better than being
early.
46、(1分)
A very strict officer
was talking to some new soldiers whom he had to
train. He had never seen them before,
so
began, “My name is Stone, and I’m even harder than
stone, so do what I tell you or there’ll be
trouble. Don’
t try any tricks (诡计) with me,
and then we’ll get on well together.”
Then
he went to each soldier one after the other and
asked him his name, “Speak loudly so that everyone
can hear you clearly,”he said, “and don’t
forget to call me ‘sir’.”
Each soldier
told him name, until he came to the last one. This
man remained silent. and so Captain Stone
shouted at him, “when I ask you a question,
answer it! I’ll ask you again: What’s your name,
soldier?”
The soldier was very unhappy,
but at last he replied, “My name’s Stonebreaker,
sir,” he said nervously (紧
张地).
1. The
officer was strict
A. because the soldiers
were new. B. with any of his soldiers, new or old.
C. because he was named Stone.
D.
only when he was before soldiers.
2. According
to what the officer said,
A. obeying his
orders would sometimes bring no trouble. B.
trouble would come if anybody made tricks.
C. he always got on well with his soldiers. D. he
often had trouble with his soldiers.
3. The
last soldier remained silent because
A. he
didn’t like the way the officer spoke to them.
B. he wanted to see what would happen if he
disobeyed his order.
C. the question was
difficult for him to answer.
D. he was
afraid the officer would be angry when he heard
his name.
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4. According to the
officer, how to answer the question,“How old are
you ?”
A. (sadly)Twenty, sir. B.
(clearly)Twenty.
C. (loudly)Twenty, sir D.
(quickly)Ten years younger than you, sir
5.
Which is the best title (题目) for the passage?
A. A Clever Answer B. A Terrible Answer C. A
Sorry Answer D. A Strange Answer
47、(1分)
Paul couldn’t sleep last night. He woke up early
and sat up, and then he lay down again. He felt
terrible. “I
must be sick,” he thought. “but I
must study for that test.”
He got up and
looked for his history notebook. He finally found
it under a pile of clothes on a chair. He went
over his history notes, but he couldn’t
remember any of the facts in the notes. “What
shall I do?” he thought. He
felt terrible.
Just then Paul’s telephone rang. He put
down his notebook and picked up the telephone.
“Good morning,” Jack’s voice said, “You
must be wrong about that test.”
“What do
you mean?” Paul asked weakly.
“We’re not
going to have the test today.” Jack said. “I wrote
down the date in my notebook. The test will be
next Wednesday; it isn’t today. How do you
feel this morning?”
“Fine,” said Paul.
“Just fine!” Suddenly he really felt fine.
1.
Paul felt uneasy because he
A. was
seriously ill. B. was too tired. C. was worried
about the coming test. D. couldn’t find his
history
notebook.
2. It seemed that Paul
A. was good at history. B. liked to study
history. C. lost interest in history. D. was
ready for the history test.
3. What made Paul
feel fine at once?
A. The telephone call.
B. the coming test.
C. Jack’s notebook D.
The fact that the test was not to be given that
day.
4. “How do you feel this morning?” From
this question we can see Jack
A. knew Paul.
B. knew Paul very well.
C. wanted to help
Paul with his history. D. would lend Paul his
notebook..
5. We can guess from the passage
that
A. Jack was as poor at history as
Paul. B. Jack was as good at history as Paul.
C. Jack was better at history than Paul.
D. Jack was poorer at history than Paul.
48、(1分)
The Antarctica is a actually a
desert. It is the only continent on the earth
without a river or a lake.
The Antarctica
is all ice all year round. The warmest temperature
ever recorded (所记录的) there is zero, at
the
South Pole. Explorers (探险家) used to think that a
place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But
less than
ten inches of snow falls each year.
That is less than half an inch of water. Ten times
that much moisture (水份)
falls in parts of the
Sahara.
The little snow that falls in
Antarctica never melts (融化). It continues to pile
up deeper and deeper year
after year and
century after century. When the snow gets to be
about eighty feet deep it is turned to ice by the
weight of snow above it .
1. Antarctica is
called a desert because it
A. is sandy.
B. has the same temperature as a desert.
C.
has little moisture and no lakes or rivers. D.
there are no people there.
2. Antarctica has
A. ten times as much moisture as the
Sahara.B. the same amount of moisture as the
Sahara.
C. about one—tenth of the moisture
of the Sahara. D. none of the above.
3. The
snow in Antarctica is very deep because it
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A. never stops falling. B.
piles up year after year. C. never melts. D. both
B and C.
4. The snow turns to ice when
A. it gets wet. B. the next snowfall comes.
C. the temperature gets colder. D. the snow above
it is heavy enough.
5. The best title (题目) for
the passage is
A. A Strange Continent
B. An Ice Continent C. Snowfall at the South Pole
D. The World’s Desert
49、(1分)
Today
I’ll be talking about the invention of the camera
and photography. The camera is often thought to be
a
modern invention, but as early as 1727, a
German physicist discovered that light darkens
silver salt. Used as a
camera, a big box was
set up, and a small hole was cut in one side to
let the light in; he made temporary pictures
on the salt. Silver salt is still the base of
the photographic film today. Then a French
scientist made the first
permanent (永久的)
picture by using a special piece of metal which
was covered with silver salt. A photograph
he
made in 1826 still exists.
The painter De
Gear improved the process (制作法) by covering the
metal also with placing the common
salt which
we can eat. This was in 1839, the official date of
beginning of photographs. But the problem was the
printing of the photographs. And it wasn’t
until other scientists developed the kind of
photographic paper we
now use that good prints
were possible and photography became truly modern.
In the 1870’s, Matthew Bradey
was able to take
his famous pictures in American Civil War. In the
20’s of this century, Georges Mann of the
United States simplified film developing (冲洗),
and Dr Edward Lane invented the so—called ‘Instant
Camera’
which uses self—developing film. If we
say photography came into existence in 1839, it
follows that it took
more than 100 years for
the camera to reach its present condition of
technical refinement(密度).
1. What discovery
was the basis of photography?
A. Light
darkens silver salt. B. Light
darkens natural salt.
C. Light darkens
silver. D. Light darkens
self--developing film
2. How was the first
permanent picture made?
A. By making use of
special paper. B. By adding common
salt to silver salt.
C. By giving a slight
colour to the silver salt. D. By using a
special piece of metal.
3. What does the
speaker regard as the official date of beginning
of photography?
A. 1727 B. 1826
C. 1839 D. 1870
4. According to the
speaker why is Matthew Bradey remembered today?
A. He was a soldier. B. He took war
photographs.
C. He painted portraits. D.
He designed a portable camera.
5. What did
Doctor Edward Lane invent?
A. A cheap
process of developing film at home. B. A new kind
of film.
C. An automatic printer.D. An
‘instant camera’ that develops its own film.
50、(1分)
The fiddler crab (蟹) is a
living clock. It indicates(=shows) the time of day
by the colour of its skin, which is
dark by
day and pale by night. The crab’s changing colour
follows a regular twenty—four hour plan that
exactly
matches the daily rhythm (节奏) of the
sun.
Does the crab actually keep time, or
does its skin simply answer to the sun’s rays,
changing colour
according to the amount of
light strikes it? To find out, biologists kept
crabs in a dark room for two months. Even
without daylight, the crab’s skin colour
continued to change exactly on time.
This
characteristic (特性) probably developed gradually
in answer to the daily rising and setting of the
sun,
to help protect the crab from sunlight
and enemies. After millions of years it has become
completely regulated
(受控制) inside the living
body of the crab.
The biologists noticed
that once each day the colour of the fiddler crab
is especially dark, and that each day
this
happens fifty minutes later than on the day
before. From this they discovered that each crab
follows not only
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the rhythm of
the sun but also that of the tides (潮水). The
crab’s period of greatest darkening is exactly the
time
of low tide on the beach where it was
cought!
1. The fiddler crab is like a clock
because it changes colour ______.
A in a
regular 24—hour rhythm B. in answer to the sun’s
rays C. at low tide D. every fifty minutes
2.
The crab’s changing colour ______.
A. tells
the crab what time it is B. protects the
crab from the sunlight and enemies
C. keeps
the crab warm D. is of no real use
3. When the fiddler crabs were kept in the
dark , they ______.
A. did not change
colour B. changed colour more quickly
C. changed colour more slowly D.
changed colour on the same timetable
4. The
crab’s colour—changing ability was probably
developed ______.
A. in the process of
evolution (进化) B. over millions of years C. by the
work of biologists D. both A and B
5. The best
title for this selection would be ______.
A. The Sun and the Tides B. Discoveries in
BiologyC. A scientific StudyD. A Living Clock
51、(1分)
Everyone knows what a needle
is. Of course there are needles and needles,
Needles for sewing machines,
needles for
injection(注射), you name it. But few people think
of the wonder a needle works in the hands of
those who practice acupuncture(针刺疗法).
During the past ten years of so, I have been
suffering from terrible headache. It seems to be
getting from bad
to worse these days . Last
night I got a sudden pain in my head. It was so
terrible that I could hardly bear(忍受)it.
Although I swallowed all kinds of pain-
killers(止痛药), I didn’t feel any better, It seemed
that there was nothing
I could do but phone
for a doctor.
One of our neighbours
happened to be with us. He was not a doctor, but
he timidly(胆怯地) offered his help,
saying “Do
you mind if I tried acupuncture on you? These
needles may possibly do you some good.” I agreed.
In a moment, he had taken out a few needles
from his purse. Without a moment’s delay, he fixed
a few needles
into the skin on my head here
and there, Before long, I felt thoroughly
relieved(缓解疼痛).
Just then, the doctor sped
through my house and said, “Where is our patient?”
“Sorry, Doctor, You are too late, It’s
killed!” I answered in delight.
It’s
miracle , isn’t it?
1. The underlined word
name in the first paragraph means to
A.
give a name to the needles B. name as many
kinds of needle as you can think of
C. call
the needles by the name of needles D. say the
name of a needle
2. The underlined phrase from
bad to worse in the second paragraph refers to the
man’s
A. character B. life
C. headache D. health
3. Which of the
following statements is NOT true according to the
passage?
A. the neighbour fixed needles on
his own headB. The neighbour is a kind-hearted
person.
C. The man’s pain was killed before
the doctor arrivedD. Soon after the acupuncture,
the man was completely
recovered.
4. The
sentences” You are too late. It’s killed .” mean
that
A. the pain was killed because the
doctor came lateB. the man was killed because the
doctor came too late
C. before the doctor
came the man’s headache was already cured
D. it was too late and the man had gone way
5.
The passage tells us that .
A. everyone
knows that acupuncture is a miracle B. the
neighbour wanted to use acupuncture on every
patient
C. the effect of acupuncture on
the man was unbelievable D. the patient did not
believe in acupunctur
52、(1分)
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People used to say, “The hand that rocks
(摇) the cradle (摇篮) rules the world.” and “Behind
every
successful man there is a woman.”
Both these sayings mean the same thing. Men rule
the world, but their mothers and wives rule them..
Most American women wish to make their
husbands and sons successful, but some of them
want more for
themselves. They want good jobs.
When they work they want to be better paid. They
want to be as successful as
men.
The
American women’s liberation movement was started
by women who didn’t want to stand behind
successful men. They wanted to stand beside
men, with the same chance for success. They
refused to work side
by side with men who do
the same work for a higher pay.
A
liberated woman must be proud of being a woman and
have confidence (自信) in herself. If somebody
says to her, “You have come a long way, baby.”
she will smile and answer, “Not nearly as far as
I’m going
to go, baby!”
This movement
is quite new, and many American women don’t agree
yet. But it has already made some
important
changes in women’s lives--- in men’s lives, too.
1. “Behind every successful man there is a
woman” means_______.
A. men are always
successful but not womenB. women are not willing
to stand in front of men
C. women do play
an important part in men’s lives and work D. women
can be as successful as men
2. Which of the
following is NOT true?
A. Some American
women want to work side by side with men and get
the same pay for
the same work.
B.
Most American women want to be more successful
than men.
C. Not every American woman wants
to get a job.
D. The American women’s
liberation movement did make some changes in
women’s lives.
3. According to the passage,
many American women today are ________。
A.
still going a long way to workB. working at easier
jobs than men
C. unwilling to work side by
side with menD. willing to be less important than
men as they used to
4. “Not nearly as far as
I’m going to go”means ______.
A. I’m still
going to work farther away from home B. I’m not
going to work far away from home
C. I’m not
satisfied with what I’ve doneD. What I have done
is not far from success
5. The American
women’s liberation movement ________.
A.
have still a long way to go B. is a
failure
C. was started by many successful
women D. is a new thing not accepted by the
write
53、(1分)
The home computer
industry has been growing rapidly in the United
States for the last ten years .
Computers used
to be large, expensive machines that were very
difficult to use . But scientists and technicians
have been making them smaller and cheaper
while at the same time they have been made easier
to use. As a
result, their popularity has been
increasing as more people have been buying
computers for their homes and
businesses.
Computers have been designed to store information
and compute problems that are difficult for
human beings to work out. Some have voices
that speak with the operators. Stores use
computers to keep records
of their
inventories(库存货物) and to send bills to their
customers(顾客) . Offices use computers to copy
letters,
record business and keep in touch
with other offices. People have been using
computers in their homes to keep
track of the
money they spend.
One important new use
for computers is for entertainment(娱乐). Many new
games have been designed to
be played on the
computers. People of all ages have been playing
these games, People also have been buying
home
computers to play computer games, watch movies and
listen to concerts at home. They have become very
popular indeed.
1. Computers used to
_____.
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A. work rapidly B. be
large and expensive C. be easy to use D. be used
for fun
2. In recent years , computers are
being made ______.
A. larger and more
expensive B. smaller and cheaper
C.
more difficult to use D. to work more
slowly
3. Home computers can be used for
______.
A. writing letters B. playing
games C. doing business D. all of the above
4. Salesmen use computers mainly to ______.
A. check the list of goods and materials
that are kept in the store houseB. play games for
pleasure
C. talk with their friendsD. write
letters
5. The best title for the passage
would be _______.
A. New Uses For Computers
B. The Popularity of Home Computers
C. The
Home Computer Industry D. Computers At Home
54、(1分)
Hank Viscardi was born without
legs. He had—not legs but stumps(残肢) that could he
fitted with a kind of
special boots, People
stared at him with cruel interest. Children
laughed at him and called him ‘Ape Man’ (猿
人)
because his arms practically dragged on the
ground.
Hank went to school like other
boys. His grades were good and he needed only
eight years to finish his
schooling instead of
the usual twelve. After graduating from school, he
worked his way through college. He
swept
floors, waited on table, or worked in one of the
college offices. During all this busy life, he had
been
moving around on his stumps. But one day
the doctor told him even the stumps were not going
to last much
longer. He would soon have to use
a wheel chair.
Hank felt himself got cold
all over. However, the doctor said there was a
chance that he could be fitted with
artificial
legs(假腿). Finally a leg maker was found and the
day came when Hank stood up before the mirror, For
the first time he saw himself as he has always
wanted to be——a full five feet eight inches tall.
By this time he
was already 26 years old.
Hank had to learn to use his new legs. Again and
again he marched the length of the room , and
marched
back again. There were times when he
fell down on the floor, but he pulled himself up
and went back to the
endless marching. He went
out on the street. He climbed stairs and learned
to dance. He built a boat and learned
to sail
it.
When World War II came , he talked the
Red Cross into giving him a job. He took the
regular training. he
marched and drilled along
with the other soldiers. Few knew that he was
legless. This was the true story of Hank
Viscardi, a man without legs.
1. Children
laughed at Hank and called him ‘Ape Man’ because
______.
A. he didn’t talk to them B. he
kept away from them
C. his arms touched the
ground when he moved D. he couldn’t use his arms
2. It can be inferred from the story that five
feet eight inches tall is ______.
A. an
average height for a fully grown person B.
too tall for an average person
C. too short
for an average person D. none of
the above
3. The sentence “he talked the Red
Cross into giving him a job” implies that the Red
Cross _____.
A. was only glad to give him a
job B. gave him a job because he was a good
soldier
C. gave him a job after he talked
to someone whom he knew in the organization
D. was not willing to give him a job at first
4. When Hank marched and drilled along with
the other soldiers, he ______.
A. did
everything the other soldiers did B. did most of
the things the other soldiers did
C. did
some of the things the other soldiers did D. took
some special training
5. The writer suggests
that Hank Viscardi _______.
A. had no
friends B. never saw himself as
different from others
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C. was
very shy D. was too proud to accept
help from others
55、(1分)
In the United
States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to
know it. And even if he does not become
very
rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is
what ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ is about, It is
the story of
someone who tried to look as rich
as his neighbours.
The expression was
first used in 1913 by a young American called
Arthur Momand. He told this story about
himself. He began earning $$ 125 a week at the
age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days.
He got married
and moved with his wife to a
very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City.
When he saw that rich people
rode horses,
Momand went horseback riding every day. When he
saw that rich people had servants. Momand and
his wife also hired a servant and gave big
parties for their new neighbours.
It
was like a race, but one could never finish this
race because one was always trying to keep up. The
race
ended for Momand and his wife when they
could no longer pay for their new way of life.
They moved back to an
apartment(公寓房间) in New
York City.
Momand looked around him and
noticed that many people do things just to keep up
with rich life--style of
their neighbours. He
saw the funny side of it and started to write a
series (系列) of short stories, He called it
‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ because ‘Jones’
is a very common name in the United States.’
Keeping up with
the Joneses’ came to mean
keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people
around you. Momand’s series appeared in
different newspapers across the country for
over 28 years.
People never seem to get
tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there
are ‘Jonses’ in every city of the
world. But
one must get tired of trying to keep up with the
Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones
always seems to be ahead.
1. Some people
want to keep up with the Joneses because they
______.
A. want to be as rich as their
neighbours B. want others to know or to think that
they are rich
C. don’t want others to know
they are rich D. want to be happy
2. It can be
inferred from the story that rich people like to
________.
A. live outside New York City
B. live in New York City
C. live in
apartments D. have many neighbours
3. The underlined word neighbourhood in the
second paragraph means ________.
A. a
person who lives near another B. people
living in an area
C. an area near the place
referred to D. an area in another town or city
4. Arthur Momand used the name ‘Jones’ in his
series of short stories because’ Jones’ is
________.
A. an important name
B. a popular name in the United States
C.
his neighbour’s name D. not a good
name
5. According to the writer, it is
to keep up with the Joneses.
A. correct
B. interesting C. impossible D. good
56、(1分)
Precipitation, commonly
referred to as rainfall(降雨量), is a measure of the
quantity of water in the form of
either rain,
hall(雹子), or snow which reaches the ground, The
average annual(每年的) precipitation over the
whole of the United States is thirty-six
inches. It should be understood, however, that a
foot of snow is not equal
to a foot of
precipitation. A general formula(公式) for computing
the precipitation of snowfall(降雪量) is that
thirty-- eight inches of snow is equal to one
inch of precipitation. In New York State, for
example, seventy-six
inches of snow in one
year would be recorded as only two inches of
precipitation. The total annual precipitation
Forty inches of rain would be recorded as
forty inches of precipitation. The total annual
precipitation would be
recorded as forty-two
inches.
1. The word “precipitation” includes
_____.
A. only rainfall B. rain, hail, and
snow C. rain, snow, and fog D. rain, snow, and
ice
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2. What is the average
annual rainfall in inches in the United States?
A. Thirty-six inches B. Thirty-eight
inchesC. Forty inches D. Forty-two inches
3.
If a state has 152 inches of snow in a year. by
how much does this increase the annual
precipitation?
A. By two feet B. By
four inches C, By four feet D. By 152
inches
4. Another word which is often used in
place of precipitation is ______.
A.
wetness B. snowfall C. rainfall
D. dryness
57、(1分)
Driving a car at
high speed along a highway seems to be fun. You
need only to follow the bright traffic(交通)
signs beside the highways and it will take you
to where you wish.
But to a London taxi
driver, driving is not an easy job. A taxi driver
has to have not only good driving skills
but
also a good knowledge of the city of a London,
from the smallest lane(小巷) to the most popular
bar(酒吧)
around. He has to be at the service of
all kinds of passengers at all times.
A
certain London taxi driver told of his job as
follows.
During the night it is quite
usual for him to stop two or three times for some
refreshments (点心). He said.
“I never drink
when I’m working ---- I would lose my
licence(执照).”
He normally goes home
between 2 and 3 O’clock in the night, There are
times he has to stay longer and try
to make
more runs. He said, “That’s the worst thing about
working for yourself. If you don’t make the money
,
no one is going to give it to you.”
London taxi drivers not only ‘take’ but also
‘give’ , Every summer hundreds of children from
London
will go for a day at the sea--- by
taxi! Their rides are paid by the taxi drivers,
and these fares(车费) all go to the
‘London Taxi
Fund for Underprivileged Children.’ At the sea.
they are met by the mayor, and a lunch party is
also held in honour of the taxi drivers and
the children. After a happy day running around the
sea beaches and
visiting the market, the
children go home again-- by taxi, and free of
charge, of course!
1. To be a London driver is
not easy because ______.
A. he has to
follow the bright traffic signsB. he has to have
good driving skills and know all the places in the
city C. he has to serve all kinds of
passengers at all timesD. both B. and C
2. The
London taxi drivers _______.
A. work hard
because on one would give them money for doing
nothing B. never stop driving in the city
C. only work between 2 and 3 o’clock in the night
D. are very rich
3. The author of the passage
says that _______.
A. the taxi driver works
longer than is necessary B. the more runs the taxi
driver makes, the more he gets
C. the taxi
driver doesn’t like to work for others
D.
the taxi drivers in the city not only take money
but also give money
4. London taxi driver
_______.
A. take money because they have to
pay for the children’s rideB. go to the sea for a
day in the summer
C. pay the fares for the
poor children to the sea for a day once every year
D. give the poor children a free ride for a
day at the sea once every year
5. The
underlined words Underprivileged Children mean
children _______.
A. of low income families
B. who like to travel in taxi
C. who wish
to go to sea but have no money D. from London
58、(1分)
People living in the country
enjoy several advantages that people living in the
city cannot enjoy.
They are in close
contact (接触) with nature. They make friends with
trees and stones. owns can dogs. They
breathe
fresh air. They fight with strong winds. They
listen to the song of birds.
This contact
with nature is good for health. There are many
diseases that are common in the city, but are not
to be found in the country, For example, near
---sightedness is almost unknown to country
people.
Because of the absence of cars,
one can walk more freely in the country than in
the city, There are no rules
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of
the road nor traffic signs to obey.
People
living in the country can easily get fresh
vegetables, fresh fruit and fresh milk, Are they
get them at
lower prices than in the city.
Country life is economical (节俭的) in other
ways, too. There are practically no temptations to
waste
money.
Country people are mostly
honest. They say what they mean, and make and keep
promises with sincerity
(诚意). They do not put
on air (摆架子). They do not pretend to have those
ridiculous (荒谬的) manners which
are necessary
in what we call polite society.
1. What can’t
country people often enjoy?
A. Musical
concerts. B. Fresh air. C. Song of birds.
D. Close contact with nature.
2. What is
probably more expensive in the country than in the
city?
A. Vegetables. B. Beer.
C. Milk. D. Fruit.
3. What is NOT
true of country life?
A. The traffic
accident rate is very high in the country. B.
Living in the country saves one a lot of money.
C. Country people enjoy better health than
the city people. D. Country people are honest.
4. Which of the following statements is true
according to the passage?
A. People living
in the country enjoy no advantages.
B.
People living in the city are in close contact
with nature.
C. People living in the
country suffer from more diseases than those
living in the city.
D. The prices of farm
products are lower in the country than in the
city.
5. Which of the following would be the
best title for the passage?
A. The
Disadvantages of Living in the Country. B. The
Expenses of Living in the Country.
C.
Country Life.D. Healthy Country People.
59、(1分)
One of the favorite foods in
the United States is the hamburger(汉堡包), a kind of
flat found bread with
fine-cut beef(牛肉)in
between. The favorite place to buy a hamburger is
a fast food restaurant At fast food
restaurants, people order their food, wait a
few minutes to get it over the counter, and carry
it to their tables
themselves. People also
take their food out of the restaurant and eat it
in their cars or in their homes. At some fast
food restaurants , people can order their
food, pay for it and pick it up without leaving
their cars.
There are many kinds of fast
food restaurants in the United States, Most of the
restaurants sell hamburgers
or other popular
foods among Americans, In addition(另外), there are
many fast food restaurants that serve
Chinese
food, Italian food, chicken, seafood and ice-
cream. The idea of a fast food restaurant is so
popular that
nearly every kind of food can be
found in one.
Fast food restaurants are
popular because they show the American way of
life, First , they are not formal
restaurants.
People wear any type of dress when they go to a
fast food place. Second, they are fast. People who
are busy do not want to spend time preparing
their food or waiting while someone else prepares
it. In fast food
restaurants the food is
usually ready before the customer even orders it.
Finally , most food in a fast food
restaurant
is not expensive. Therefore, people can often eat
at a fast food restaurant without spending too
much
money, while they may not be able to go
to more expensive restaurants very often.
1.
Which of the following is NOT true according to
the passage?
A. Chinese food is also served
in some fast food restaurants.
B. People
can have almost every kind of food in fast food
restaurants.
C. Fast food is usually
expensive. D. Fast food can be taken out of the
restaurants .
2. Fast food restaurants are
popular because they _______ .
A. are many
B. are fast C. are expensive restaurants D.
serve expensive food
3. According to the
writer, American people ______.
A. are
always busy B. prefer ordinary type of dress
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C. do not want to spend too
much time preparing their food
D. go to
more expensive restaurant very often
4.
According to the passage., the favorite
restaurants in the U.S. are _____.
A. the
Chinese restaurants B. the fast food
restaurants
C. more expensive restaurants
D. less expensive restaurants
5. The best
title for this passage would be ______.
A.
Fast Food Restaurants in the U.S B. The
Favorite Food in the U.S
C. The American
Way of Life D. Different kinds of
Restaurants
60、(1分)
The following is a
piece of international news in China Daily, March
13th, 1994.
A train derailment yesterday
in this town just south of the capital, Brussels
(布鲁塞尔), killed one passenger
and hurt more
than two dozen, some seriously, The officials said
the cause of the derailment was being looked
into.
1. The accident happened in .
A. Holland B. Beigium C. France
D. Germany
2. According to the passage .
A. the accident was caused by the fact that
on passenger was killed
B .the officials
announced the cause of the accidentC. why the
derailment happened was obvious
D. the
cause of the accident was yet to be found out
3. The underlined word derailment in this
passage probably means _______.
A. a train
going off the rail B. two trains running into each
other
C. a train fire D. a train running
over a passenger
4. The news tells us that
passengers suffered from the accident.
A.
20 B. 24 C. more than a score of
D. no more than twenty-one
5. The derailment
happened .
A. on March 13th, 1994
B. on March 12th, 1994 C. quite often D. more
terrible than it was reported
61、(1分)
It must have been around nine O’clock when I drove
back home from work because it was already dark.
As
I came near to the gates I turned off the
headlamps of the car so as to prevent the beam(光荣)
from swinging(摇
摆)in through the window and
waking Jack, who shared the house with me. But
needn’t have done so, I noticed
that his
light was still on, so he was awake anyway---
unless he had fallen asleep while reading. I put
the car
away and went up the steps, Then I
opened the door quietly and went to Jack’s room.
He was in bed awake but he
didn’t even turn
towards me.
“What’s up, Jack?” I said.
“For God’s sake(看在上帝面上), don’t make a
noise,” he said.
The way he spoke reminded
me of someone in pain who is afraid to talk in
case he does himself a serious
injury(伤害).
“Take your shoes off, Neville,” Jack said.
I thought that he must be ill and that I
had better humour (迁就)him to keep him happy,
“There’s a snake
here” he explained, “It’s
asleep between the sheets. I was lying on my back
reading when I saw it. I knew that
moving was
out of the question. I couldn’t have moved even if
I’d wanted to .” I realized that he was serious.
“I
was relying on you to call a doctor as soon
as you came home.” Jack went on.” It hasn’t bitten
me yet but I
daren’t do anything to upset it.
It might wake up. I’m sick of this,” he said, :” I
took it for granted that you
would have come
home an hour ago.”
There was no time to
argue or apologize for being late. I looks at him
as encouragingly as I could and went
out to
telephone the doctor.
1. When he got home,
Neville found that ______?
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A. Jack had fallen asleep while reading B.
Jack had been reading for some time
C.
Jack’s light was not turned off D.
Jack was ready to answer the door
2. The
underlined phrase out of the question means
_______.
A. impossible B. no problem
C. no doubt D. without difficulty
3.
Which of the following statements is NOT true
according to the passage?
A. Neville and
Jack lived in the same house B. Neville thought
that Jack had fallen ill
C. Neville really
believed that Jack was not making a joke
D.
Neville refused to argue or to make an apology for
coming late
4. The reason why Neville thought
that Jack must be ill is that Jack _______.
A. asked Neville to take off his shoes B. made a
gesture to show the presence of the snake
C. was afraid to upset the snake sleeping between
the sheets D. behaved strangely as if he was badly
hurt
5. According to the passage, Neville
should have been home at _______.
A. 7p. m
B. 8p. m C. 9p. m D. midnight
62、(1分)
It doesn’t matter when or how
much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest
to stay alive. That’s what
all doctors
thought, until they heard about AI Herpin. AI
Herpin, it was said, never slept, Could this be
true? The
doctors decided to see this strange
man themselves.
AI Herpin was 90 years old
when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey.
They thought for sure that he
got some sleep
of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched
every movement he made. But they were
surprised . Though they watched him hour after
hour and day after day, they never saw Herpin
sleeping , In fact,
he did not even own a bed.
He never needed one.
The only rest that
Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable
chair and reading newspapers. The
doctors were
puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness.
They found only one answer that might explain
his condition. Herpin remembered some talk
about his mother having been injurted(伤害)several
days before he
was born. But that was all. Was
this the real reason? No one could be sure.
Herpin died at the age of 94.
1. The main idea
of this passage is that _______.
A. large
numbers of people do not need sleep B. a person
was found who actually didn’t need any sleep
C. everyone needs some sleep to stay alive D.
people can live longer by trying not to sleep
2. The doctors came to visit Herpin ,
expecting to ______.
A. cure him of his
sleeplessness B. find that his sleeplessness was
not really true
C. find a way to free
people from the need of sleepin D. find out why
some old people didn’t need any sleep
3. After
watching him closely, the doctors came to believe
that AL Herpin ________.
A. was too old to
need any sleep B. often slept in a
chair
C. needed no sleep at all
D. needed some kind of sleep
4. One reason
that might explain Herpin’s sleeplessness was
________.
A. that he hadn’t got a bed
B. that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping
habit
C. his mother’s injury before he was
born D. his magnificent physical condition
5. AI Herpin’s condition could be regarded as
______.
A. a common one B. one that could
be cured C. very healthy D. a rare one
63、(1分)
Read the following directions
on a bottle of medicine:
“Take two
tablets(药片)with water, followed by one tablet
every eight hours, as required, For
maximum(最大量) night-time and early morning
relief(缓解疼痛), take two tablets at bed - time, Do
not take
more than six tablets in twenty-four
hours.
For children six to twelve years
old, give half the amount for a grownup. For
children under six years old,
ask for your
doctor’s advice.
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Reduce the
amount if nervousness, restlessness, or
sleeplessness occurs,”
1. The directions on
this medicine bottle clearly warn the patient not
to take more than .
A. twenty-four
tablets a day. B. eight tablets a day.
C. six tablets a day.
D. three tablets a day.
2. We can infer from
the directions that .
A. the medicine
could cause some people to feel nervous.
B.
children may take the same amount that grown-ups
take.
C. one may not take this medicine
before going to bed. D. the medicine is a liquid.
3. If one cannot sleep, it is suggested that
he .
A. take two tablets before going
to bed. B. take less than two tablets before
going to bed.
C. stop taking the medicine.
D. ask advice of a doctor.
4. Obviously the
medicine .
A. may be dangerous to
small children. B. cannot be taken by children
under twelve years old.
C. may be taken by
children but not by grown-ups.
D. may be
taken by grown-ups but not by children.
64、(1分)
In earliest times, men
considered lightning to be one of the great
mysteries (神秘的事物) of nature. Some
ancient
peoples believed that lightning and thunder were
the weapons (武器) of the gods.
In reality,
lightning is a flow of electricity formed high
above the earth. A single flash of lightning 1.6
kilometres long has enough electricity to
light one million light bulbs (灯泡).
The
American scientist and statesman, Benjamin
Franklin, was the first to show the connection
between
electricity and lightning in 1752. In
the same year he also built the first lightning
rod (避雷针). This device (装置
物) protects
buildings from being damaged by lightning.
Modern science has discovered that one stroke (闪击)
of lightning has a voltage (电压) of more than 15
million volts (伏特). A flash of lightning
between a cloud and the earth may be as long as 13
kilometers, and
travel at a speed of 30
million meters per second.
Scientists
judge that there are about 2,000 million flashes
of lightning per year. Lightning hits the Empire
State Building in New York City 30 to 48 times
a year. In the United States alone it kills an
average (平均数) of
one person every day.
The safest place to be in case of an electrical
storm is in a closed car. Outside, one should go
to low ground
and not get under tress. Also,
one should stay out of water and away from metal
fences. Inside a house, people
should avoid
open doorways and windows and not touch wires or
metal things.
With lightning, it is better
to be safe than sorry?
1. People once thought
lightning came from ________.
A. the sky
B. the gods C. the earth D. nature
2. According to the passage what do you think
all buildings need?
A. Metal fences.
B. Electricity. C. lightning rods. D.
Machines.
3. Lightning can travel ________.
A. as quickly as water B. not so quickly
as electricity C. at very low speed D. at very
high speed
4. Which of the following is NOT
true?
A. In the U.S about one person per
day dies from lightning.
B. The Empire
State Building frequently gets hit by lightning.
C. Swimming during a thunder storm is a
good idea.
D. A closed car is the best
place to be during an electrical storm.
5.
Lightning is probably ______ to man.
A.
useful B. kind C. useless
D. friendly
65、(1分)
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Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is
spoken by many people around the world every day.
English
speakers are always creating(创造) new
words, and we are often able to know where most
words come from.
Sometimes , however, no
one may really know where a word comes from. Did
you ever think about why
hamburgers(汉堡包) are
called hamburgers, especially when they are not
made with ham(火腿)? About a
hundred years ago,
some men went to America from Europe. They came
from a big city in Germany called
Hamburg.
They did not speak good English, but they ate good
food. When some Americans saw them eating
round pieces of beef(牛肉), they asked the
Germans what it was. The Germans did not
understand the question
and answered, “We come
from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a
restaurant, and had an idea. He
cooked some
round pieces of beef like those which the men from
Hamburg ate. Then he put each between two
pieces of bread and started selling them. Such
bread came to be called “hamburgers”. Today
“hamburgers” are
sold in many countries around
the world.
Whether this story is true or
not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why any
word has a certain meaning is
interesting.
too. This reason, for most English words, can be
found in any large English dictionary.
1.
According to the writer, English is .
A. as old as Chinese B. older than German C. not
so old as Chinese D. very difficult to learn
2. Hamburg is .
A. a kind of food
B. a round piece of beef C. the name of a village
D. a city in Germany
3. According to the
story, .
A. few Americans like
hamburgers B. hamburgers are made with
beef
C. hamburgers are made with ham
D. hamburgers were first sold about a century ago
4. According to the writer, which of the
following can often be found in any large English
dictionary?
A. Where all the new words come
fromB. Where those Germans came from
C. The
reason why a word has a certain meaning D. The
reason why English is spoken around the world
5. According to the story, the word
“hamburger” comes from .
A. China
because it has a long history B. England because
Germans don’t speak good English
C. the
round pieces of beef which those people from
Hamburg were eating
D. English speakers
because they always create new words
66、(1分)
In 1933 an unknown American called
Clarence Nash went to see the filmmaker Walt
Disney. He had an
unusual voice and he wanted
to work in Disney’s cartoon(动画片) film for
children. When Walt Disney heard
Nash’s voice,
he said “Stop! That’s our duck!”
The duck
was the now-famous Donald Duck, who first appeared
in 1934 in the film The Wise Little Hen.
Donald lived in an old houseboat(水上住家) and
wore his sailor jacket and hat. Later that year he
became a star
after an eight-minute Mickey
Mouse film. The cinema audience liked him because
he was lazy and greedy(贪婪
的), and because he
lost his temper(发脾气) very quickly . And they loved
his voice when he became angry with
Mickey’s
eight nephews(侄子). Soon Donald was more popular
than Mickey Mouse himself, probably because
he
wasn’t a goody-goody like Mickey.
In the
1930S,’ 40s and ‘50s Donald and hid friends Mickey
, Goofy and Pluto made hundreds of Disney
cartoons. He also made educational films about
the place of the USA in the world, and safety in
the home. Then
in 1966 Donald Duck and his
voice disappeared---there were no more new
cartoons.
Clarence Nash died in February,
1985. But today’s children can still see the old
cartoons on television and
hear that famous
voice.
1. Who made Donald Duck film?
A.
Mickey Mouse B. Clarence Nash C. Walt
Disney D. Pluto
2. When was the first
Donald Duck film made?
1933 B.
In 1934 C. In 1966 D. In
1930
3. Who was Clarence Nash?
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A. A cartoonist B. Donald Duck’s voice
C. A film-maker D. A film star
4. Where do
today’s children see Donald Duck?
A. In new
film B. At the cinema C. On
television D. At concerts
5. The
underlined word audience in the second paragraph
means .
A. reads interview C. law
freedom D. the people who watch a film at a
cinema
6. The underlined word goody-goody in
the second paragraph means a person who .
A. likes to appear to be faultless in behaviour
B. who likes to appear to be faulty in behaviour
C. dislikes to appear to be faultless in
behaviour D. dislikes to be faulty in behaviour
67、(1分)
Why do we have in a
camera a lens(镜头)instead of a simple hole?
The reason can be seen from the figures(图像).
In Figure 1, the hole is small. Rays of light from
a point (P1)outside reach a very small part of the
wall
opposite, and we see there a small point.
But when the hole is bigger, as in Figure 2, rays
from the point(P2)can
cover a larger part of
the wall opposite, and we don’t see a clear point,
Rays from other points(Q) outside can
also
fall on the same place inside. Therefore the
picture is not clear when the hole is big and it
is not bright when
the hole is small because
very very little light can pass through it.. We
can get better result with a lens. If the lens
is made in the shape shown in Figure 3, all
the rays of light from the point(P3) are thrown on
point(P’) inside.
The picture which we see,
therefore, is clear, and it is also bright because
more light can pass through a lens than
through a small hole.
1. In Figure 1 we
see a faint small point on the wall because .
A. the point(P1) is very small
B. the hole isn’t big enough
C. light rays
don’t travel in straight lines D. light rays
can’t pass through a small hole
2. Figure 2
shows that the bigger the hole is, .
A.
the more light can pass through B. the
clearer the picture will be
C. the better
result we will get D. the faster the
light rays travel
3. From figure 3, we can
see a lens .
A. can form a clear
picture B. can make light go in a
straight line
C. can help light rays to go
faster D. cannot give the picture more
light than in Fig. 2
4. The main idea of the
second paragraph of the article is that .
A. a smaller hole is better than a bigger oneB.
big holes are better than small ones
C.
both a big hole and a small one have their weak
points
D. light rays are sure to pass
through a hole no matter it is big or small
5.
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Light can go through all kinds of materialsB. A
camera can’t be made without a lens
C. The
lens is only used in a camera D. Most of the light
we get is from the lens
68、(1分)
Overhead bridges are found in many parts of
Beijing, especially in places where traffic is
very heavy and
crossing the road is dangerous.
The purpose of these bridges is to enable
pedestrians (行人) to cross roads safely. Overhead
bridges are used
to very much the same way as
zebra crossings. They are more efficient (效率高的)
although less convenient
because people have
to climb up a long flight of steps. This is
inconvenient especially to older people. When
pedestrains use an overhead bridge, they do
not hold up traffic. However, when they cross a
busy road using a
zebra crossing, traffic is
held up. This is why the government has built many
overhead bridges to help pedestrians
and to
keep traffic moving at the same time.
The
government of Beijing has spent a large amount of
money on building these bridges. For their own
safety, pedestrians should be encouraged to
use them instead of risking (冒…危险) their lives by
dashing across
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the road. Old
people , however , may find it a little difficult
climbing up and down the steps, but it is still
much
safer than walking across the road with
all the danger of moving traffic.
Overhead
bridges serve a very useful purpose. Pedestrians,
both old and young, should make it a habit to
use them. This will prevent unnecessary
accidents and loss of life.
1. What is the
advantage of overhead bridges mentioned in this
passage?
A. Taller trucks can pass under
them. B. Pedestrians can climb up and have a view
of the city.
C. They are safer for
pedestrians and can keep traffic moving at the
same time.
D. They are easier and more
convenient for the pedestrians.
2. Why were
overhead bridges built in Beijing?
A.
Because they prevent traffic from being held up.
B. Because they provide an easy way for the
drivers to cross the road.
C. Because they
save money for the government. D. Because they
save time for the pedestrians.
3. Which of the
following statements is true according to the
passage?
A. Overhead bridges are found in
every part of Beijing.
B. Overhead bridges
are only found in the centre of Beijing.
C.
Overhead bridges are found in many parts of big
cities in China.
D. Overhead bridges are
found in places where traffic is heavy.
4. The
underlined words a zebra crossing probably mean
________.
A. a safe place across a road for
pedestrians to walk across the road
B. a
wild animal from Africa that looks like a horse
with broad dark brown and white stripes
on its body
C. a safe place across a road
for zebras to walk across the road
D. a
safe place across a road for children to play a
game
5. What is the writer’s attitude towards
overhead bridges?
A. It is inconvenient to
older people to walk across the road.
B. It
is much safer for pedestrians though climbing up
and down the steps may be a little difficult,
C. An overhead bridge is more beautiful than a
zebra crossing.
D. To build overhead
bridges is the business of the government.
69、(1分)
One day, President Lincoln
went to a party, At the gathering, a man called
Douglas was repeatedly talking
about Lincoln’s
low position in life and saying that he first met
Lincoln when he was a shop assistant at a village
shop. Finally he said, “And Mr. Lincoln was a
very good waiter too.”
People burst into
laughter, but they quieted down when Mr. Lincoln
said quietly.
“Gentlemen, what Mr.
Douglas has said is true. I did keep a grocery
(食品杂货店), and I did sell cotton,
candles and
cigars(雪茄烟), and sometimes whisky(威士忌酒). But I
remember that in those days Mr. Douglas
was
one of my best customers. I often stood on one
side of the counter and sold whisky to Mr. Douglas
on the
other side, but the difference between
us now is: I have left my side of the counter, but
Mr. Douglas still sticks
to his as firmly as
ever.”
1. Where was Douglas talking about
Lincoln’s low position in life?
A. At a
meeting B. In a college C. At home
D. In a restaurant
2. Why was Douglas
repeatedly talking about Lincoln’s low position in
life?
A. Because he was friendly to
Lincoln.
B. Because Lincoln was an example
to show that an American of low position in life
can become President of
the U. S.
C.
Because he wanted others to look down upon
Lincoln.
D. Because he wanted to tell other
people about Lincoln’s honesty as a shop
assistant.
3. How did Lincoln win the oral
competition(口头的比赛)?
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A. He
won it by telling of his low position in life in
his early days.
B. He won it by telling of
his high position in life in his early days.
C. He won it by saying Douglas was telling lies.
D. He won it by comparing his present
position with Douglas.
4. What do you suppose
the sentence “Mr. Douglas still sticks to his as
firmly as ever means?”
A. Douglas was still
talking about Lincoln’s low position in life.
B. Douglas was still standing on the other side of
the counter.
C. Douglas remained a drunkard
(酒鬼)and had not changed a bit.
D. Douglas
kept on going to gatherings and talking a lot.
70、(1分)
Man is a land animal, but he
is also closely tied to the sea. Throughout
history the sea has served the needs
of man.
The sea has provided man with food and a
convenient (便利的) way to travel to many parts of
the world.
Today, nearly two—thirds of the
world’s population live within 80 kilometers of
the sea coast.
In the modern technological
world, the sea offers many resources to help
mankind survive (=continue to
live). Resources
on land are beginning to be used up. The sea,
however, still can be hoped to supply many of
man’s needs.
The list of riches of the
sea yet to be developed by man’s technology is
impressive. Oil and gas explorations
(探险) have
been carried out for nearly 30 years. Valuable
amounts of minerals exist on the ocean floor ready
to
be mined (开采).
Fish farming
promises to be a good way to produce large
quantities of food. The culture of fish and
shellfish
(贝类动物) is an ancient skill practised
in the past mainly by Oriental people.
Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources
of energy. Experts believe that the warm
temperature of
the ocean can be used in a way
similar to the steam in a steamship. Ocean
currents (水流) and waves offer
possible use as
a source of energy.
Technology is enabling
man to explore (勘探) ever more deeply under the
sea. The development of strong,
new materials
has made this possible.
The technology to
harvest the sea continues to improve. Experts
believe that by the year 2000 the problems
that prevent us from exploiting fully the
food, minerals, and energy sources of the sea will
be largely solved.
1. The major things that
the sea offers man are ______.
A. fish and
oil B. minerals and oil C. warm temperature and
ocean currents D. the food, energy sources, and
minerals
2. The sea serves the needs of
man because ______.
A. in provides man with
food B. it offers oil to man C. it supplies man
with minerals D. all of the above
3. We can
conclude from this passage that ______.
A.
the sea resources have largely been used upB. the
sea, in the broad sense, has not yet been
developed
C. the problems that prevent us
from using the food, minerals, and energy sources
of the
sea have already been solved.
D. by the year 2000 , the technology will
be good enough to exploit all the sea resources
4. The underlined words Oriental people in the
fourth paragraph probably mean ______.
A.
the people in Asia B. African people C. European
people D. American people
5. The best title
for this passage is ______.
A. Sea Harvest
B. Sea Food C. Technology for Exploiting the Sea
D. Man and the Sea
71、(1分)
The famous
Lorelel rock——a well-known scenic spot in Germany,
lies between the towns of Koblenz and
Mainz.
At Koblenz the River Marco joins the Rhine and the
River Main does the same at Mainz. The largest
town on the Main is Frankfurt, while
Heldelberg is a famous town on the Nickar.
Upstream (在上游) on the
Rhine is the town of
Worms in the part of Germany called the Rhineland.
Further upstream in the northern part of
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the Black forest is the
resort(胜地) of Baden-Baden. The River Rhine forms
the border(边界) between Germany
and France in
the west, and Germany and Switzerland in the
south.
1. The towns of Koblenz, are on the
Rhine.
A. Mainz and Heldelberg B.
Mainz and Frankfurt
C. Mainz and Worms
D. Mainz, Worms and Heldelberg
2. The town of
Mainz lies .
A. in the Rhineland B. in
the northern part C. where the Main joins the
Rhine D. in the Black Forest
3. Which of the
following statements in NOT true?
A.
Germany lies south of SwitzerlandB. France lies to
the west of the Rhine
C. Switzerland lies
to the south of the RhineD. Germany lies to the
north of the Rhine
4. The Nickar is the name
of a .
A. river B. scenic spot in
Germany
C. town on the Main D. town
on the border between Germany and France .
72、(1分)
Now and again I have had
horrible dreams, but not enough of them to make me
lose my delight in dreams.
To begin with. I
like the idea of dreaming, of going to bed and
lying still and then, by some queer
magic(神奇的
魔力), wandering into another kind of
existence. As a child, I could never understand
why grown-ups took
dreaming so calmly when
they could make such a fuss(大惊小怪) about any
holiday, This still puzzles me. I am
puzzled
by people who say they never dream and appear to
have no interest in the subject. It is much more
astonishing than it would be if they said they
never went out for a walk. Most people do not seem
to accept
dreaming as part of their lives.
They appear to see it as an irritating(令人困扰的)
little habit, like sneezing or
yawning(打哈欠).I
can never understand this. My dream life does not
seem as important as my waking life
because
there is far less of it, but to me it is
important.
1. What is the author’s attitude
toward dreaming?
A. He likes it B. He
thinks it puzzling C. He hates it D. He doesn’t
accept it as part of his life
2. For the
author of the passage, dreaming is .
A.
an irritating little habit B. a
horrible but wonderful experience
C. a true
reflection of reality D. another kind of
existence
3. The author of the passage
suggests that people who say they never go out for
a walk are .
A. interesting B.
mysterious(难以理解的) C. foolish D. lazy
4. The author of the passage enjoys dreaming
most .
A. only when he was a child
B. only when he is a grown-up
C. both as a
child and as a grown-up D. only in his old
age
5. The author of the passage complains(抱怨)
that most people .
A. are overexcited
about their dreams B. have had dreams most of
the time
C. are not interested in talking
about their dreamsD. consider their dreams of to
much importance
73、(1分)
One morning,
when we had been riding on our bikes for five
hours, we came to a bridge where the railway
crossed a pond(池塘). For 30 feet there was
nothing but the widely-spaced wooden sleepers(枕木)
under our
wheels, and nothing to stop us
falling into the steaming pond below if we lost
our balance. Right under the bridge
lay the
body of a dead cow. I watched Mat as he came near
to the bridge and rode straight over, without
ever,
slowing down. I stopped.
“What’s
up?” he cried out from the other side.
“I’m not riding over that thing. If I slip, I’ll
be in there with that cow,” “There’s nothing to
it. I just did it.
didn’t I?”
“You’re
stronger and taller. My feet don’t touch the
ground. You do it for me!”
Mat said
strength didn’t come into it and rode off. I knew
he would give me at least an hour before coming
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to help. The sun burned my
face, sweat ran off my forehead into my eyes and
stuck my blouse(女衬衫) to my
body. Try myself
rather than wait for Mat to help. I rode back to
get a good run-up and over I went. Mat was that
right: all the difficulties were in the mind.
1. The bridge looked dangerous to the girl
because .
A. there was a 30 foot drop
to the water below B. it had nothing at the sides
C. there were pieces of wood all over the
roadD. there was a railway line below
2. The
reason she stopped was that she .
A.
was tired B. suddenly saw the dead cow below
C. wanted to let Mat go first D. was afraid of
losing her balance
3. Mat argued that .
A. the bridge wasn’t at all difficult to
crossB. she had no other choice but to cross the
bridge
C. the cow was harmless because it
was deadD. there was no difference between them in
strength
4. Mat rode away leaving the girl
because he .
A. didn’t know what he
could do to help her B. felt she should overcome
her fear by herself
C. didn’t believe she
was really afraidD. couldn’t wait any longer for
her
5. The girl finally decided to ride across
the bridge, for she .
A. realized that
it was easier than it looked B. was tired of
waiting for Mat to come and help her
C.
knew she couldn’t stay where she was any longerD.
was afraid that Mat would go and leave her behind
74、(1分)
Grandma Moses is among the
most famous twentieth-century painters of the
United States, yet she did not
start painting
until she was in her late seventies. As she once
said of herself:” I would never sit back in a
rocking
chair, waiting for someone to help
me.” No one could have had a more productive old
age.
She was born Anna Mary Robertson on a
farm in New York State, one of five boys and five
girls. At twelve
she left home and was in
domestic(家庭的) service until, at twenty—seven, she
married Thomas Moses, the
hired hand of one of
her employers. They farmed most of their lives,
first in Virginia and then in New York State,
at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children , of
whom five survived her husband died in 1927.
Grandma Moses painted a little as a child
and made embroldery(刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but
only changed
to oils in old age because her
hands had become too stiff(硬的) to sew and she
wanted to keep busy and pass the
time. Her
pictures were first sold at the local
drugstore(杂货店) and at a market and were soon
noticed by a
businessman who bought everything
she painted . Three of the pictures exhibited in
the Museum of Modern Art,
and in 1940 she had
her first exhibition in New York. Between the
1930’s and her death she produced some
2,000
pictures: detailed(详细的)and lively portrayals(描绘)
of the country life she had known for so long,
with
a wonderful sense of colour and form. “I
think really hard till I think of something really
pretty, and then I paint
it.” she said.
1.
According to the passage, Grandma Moses began to
paint because she wanted to .
A. make
herself beautiful B. keep active C. earn more
money D. become famous
2. Grandma Moses spent
most of her life .
A. mursing B.
painting C. embroldering D. farming
3. The underlined word survived means .
A. graduated from college B.
examined the condition of the house
C.
lived longer than the other children D. gave
up themselves to the police
4. From Grandma
Moses’ description of herself in the first
paragraph, it can be inferred that
she was
.
A. independent B. pretty C. rich
D. nervous
5. Which of the following would be
the best title for the passage?
A. Grandma
Moses: Her Life and Pictures. B. The Children
of Grandma Moses.
C. Grandma Moses: Her
Best Exhibition. D. Grandma Moses and Other
Older Artists.
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75、(1分)
In recent years advances in medical technology
have made it possible for people to live longer
than in the
past. New medicines and
instruments are being developed every day to
extend(延长) life. However, some people,
including some doctors, are not in favour of
these life extending measures, and they argue that
people should
have the right to die when they
want. They say that the quality of life is as
important as life itself, and that people
should not be forced to go on living when
conditions of life have become unbearable(不能忍受的).
They say that
people should be allowed to die
with dignity(尊严) and to decide when they want to
die. Others argue that life
under any
conditions is better.
1. The best title for
this passage would be .
A. The Right to
Live B. The Right to DieC. The Doctor’s Duty D.
Life is Better Than Death
2. In recent years,
people can live longer than in the past, It’s
because of .
A. the development of
medical technology B. big hospitals
C. good doctors D. both B
and C
3. According to some people, whether a
dying patient has the right to die or not is up to
.
A. the doctors B. the surroundings(环境)C.
his or her family D. the patient himself or
herself
4. The writer’s opinion is .
A. death is better than life B.
life is better than death
C. neither death
nor life is good D. none of the above
5. Which of the following statements is true
according to the passage?
A. Most of the
medical workers join in the argument.B. The
argument has ended in favour of the patients.
C. The argument hasn’t ended yet.
D. The
quality of life is not as important as life
itself, so it is generally thought that people
should not be allowed to die under any
conditions.
76、(1分)
Blondin was a very
famous acrobat(杂技师) in the 19th century. He used
to walk on a tight--rope across the
Niagara
Falls(瀑布). On September 8th, 1860, a crowd of
about 300,000 people gathered at Niagara to watch
Blondin carry a man across! Three men had
offered to go with him, but they falled to appear,
so Blondin asked
his manager, Mr. Colcord, to
climb on his back, Colcord agreed to go this so as
not to disappoint the crowd, but
he was
terrified. The crossing was very difficult because
Colcord was heavier than Blondin thought. After he
had
gone a short way, Blondin had to stop in
order to rest. He asked Colcord to get down. At
first Colcord refused,
but at last he had to.
He clung to (紧紧握住) Blondin’s leg and the rope in
order not to fall, Blondin had to stop
six
times during the crossing so as to rest. Sometimes
the rope swung(荡,摆动) as much as 40 feet! At last
both
men crossed safely. The crowd sighed with
relief(松一口气) and so did poor Mr. Colcord.
1.
How did Blondin walk across Niagara Falls on
September 8th , 1860?
A. On a tight—rope
with his manager on his back. B. On a tight—rope
by himself.
C. On a tight—rope with three
men on his back.
D. On a tight—rope with
one of his helpers on his back.
2. Why do you
think the three men did not appear?
A. They
couldn’t walk on tight-rope. B. They
did not dare to take the risk.
C. They were
ill. D. They had met
with an accident.
3. Mr. Colcord agreed to act
with Blondin because he .
A. was brave
B. was Blondin’s true friend
C. did not
want to disappoint the 300,000 people D. was
Blondin’s manager
4. Blondin stopped six times
during the crossing .
A. in order to
help Colcord B. in order to get his strength back
C. because Colcord clung to his leg and the
rope D. because Colcord was heavier than him
5. Blondin’s nationality was .
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A. American B. Canadian C.
Englishman D. not mentioned in the passage
77、(1分)
One day last November, Tom
Baker stopped out of his house into the morning
light and headed across the
rice fields toward
the bank of the Rapti River. Tom, a 32-year-old
school teacher in the farming village of
Madanpur, was going for his morning bath.
As he approached(走近) the river, the head of a
tiger(老虎) suddenly appeared over the edge of the
river
bank. Before he could turn to run, the
tiger was upon him. It jumped on his shoulder and
threw him to the ground,
its huge jaws
attacked his head in a killing bite.
Peter
Smith was also on his way to the river and saw the
attack. He screamed. The tiger lifted its head and
roared(吼叫) at him. Peter ran.
From the
window of his house John Brown heard the tiger
roar and ran out to see it attacking a man. He
screamed, too, and all the villagers ran out
shouting as the tiger dropped its victim(牺牲品) and
ran off. When the
villagers reached the river
bank, Tom was already dead.
For the
villagers, the horror of the incident
intensified(加剧) by the tales of man-eating tigers
that has once run
around in the countryside,
killing hundreds.
1. How many people saw the
tiger before it was driven off?
A One
person. B. Two persons. C. Three
persons. D. Four persons.
2. What was
the victim’s professional job?
A. A hunter.
B. A teacher. C. A farmer. D. A
manager.
3. The reason why the tiger attacked
the man was .
A. it was hungryB. it was
angryC. it was frightened by the man D. not
mentioned in the passage
4. When did the
attack take place?
A. Early in the morning
B. At noonC. Late in the afternoon D. At five
before dark
5. According to the passage, the
underlined word screamed in the third paragraph
probably means ____.
A. gave a sharp
cry because of fear. B. shouted
out for help.
C. made some loud noise.
D. cried out in pain.
78、(1分)
I’m a
Chinese student studying in Canada. I have been a
boarder(寄宿生) with the Carsons for more than a
year and a half.
The Carsons live in
their own house, which has four bedrooms including
the one in the basement(底层)
which I live in.
Judy does all the work in the house and Andrew is
responsible for the work in the garden. When
they go out in they evening, they often ask me
to look after their children.
Judy’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris, lived in another
city. Judy was their only child and naturally they
doted on(溺爱) Judy’s children. They often sent
the children presents.
Last April Mr.
Morris died. Now that Mrs. Morris was quite alone,
I expected that Judy would want her to
come
and live with them. One day, Margaret told me
grandma was coming to live with them and her daddy
and
mummy would want my room back. The news
didn’t surprise me and the next day I went to Judy
and asked her
about it. I said I couldn’t
think of living in their basement room any longer
if it was needed for Mrs. Morris. Judy
seemed
surprised at first. Then she told me there was no
deed for me to move, for they hadn’t yet come to
any
decision about her mother coming to live
with them. “Naturally I’m worried about my mother.
She has been in
poor health.” She smiled sadly
and added. “To be honest, Andrew and my mother
have never got on well. We’ll
wait a bit and
see what happens. Perhaps Moter will be all right
living herself, of perhaps they will both change
their minds.”
That was six months ago.
During this time I’ve heard that Mrs. Morris has
had two illnesses and that her
health has got
worse. A nursing home was mentioned once but Mrs.
Morris refused to go there. So up to now
she’s
still living alone and I’m still living in the
basement room.
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1. What is the
relationship between the speaker and the Carsons?
A. He is a brother of Andrew Carson.B. He
is a close friend of the Carsons.
C. He is
a student of Judy Carson.D. He is a student who
pays to live and have meals at the Carsons’ house.
2. Why did the speaker expect Mrs. Morris to
come to live with her daughter?
A. Because
Mr. Morris was dead.B. Because Mrs. Morris
suffered from illness.
C. Because Mrs.
Morris lived all by herself.D. Because of all the
reasons mentioned in A, B and C.
3. Which of
the following statements is NOT true according to
the passage?
A. Mrs. Morris was coming to
live with the Carsons, so they asked the speaker
to move.
B. Judy had no brothers or sisters
to look after her mother.
C. Mrs. Morris
loved her grandchildren very much.
D. The
Carsons once suggested that Mrs. Morris go to live
in a nursing home.
4. Why didn’t Mrs. Morris
come to live with her daughter’s family?
A.
Because the speaker lived in the basement room and
there was no other room for her to live in.
B. Because she did not have a good relationship
with her son-in-law.
C. Because she was in
rather poor health and could not come.
D.
Because she did not want to leave her own house.
5. Which of the following would be the best
title for the passage?
A. My Landlady. B.
The Boarder.C. Family Relationships is Canada. D.
Nursing Homes and the Aged.
79、(1分)
To
discover whether bees can see colors, the
following experiment is set up. A table is put in
a garden, and
on the table is a piece of blue
cardboard (硬纸板) with a drop of syrup (糖浆) on it.
After a short time, bees come
to the syrup.
The bees then fly to their hive (蜂蜜) and give the
syrup to other bees in the hive. Then they return
to the feeding-place which they have
discovered. After a while, the blue cardboard with
the syrup on it is taken
away. Instead of this
card, a blue card is now put on the left side of
the first feeding-place and a red card to its
right. These new cards have no syrup on them.
Thus, the blue card is on the left, the red card
on the right, and
there is nothing where the
first blue feeding-card used to be. Very soon bees
arrive again, and fly straight to the
blue
card. None go to the red card.
1. To do the
experiment, altogether how many cards do you need
to prepare?
A. Two, one blue and one red.
B. Three, two blue and one red.
C. Three,
one blue and two red. D. Four, two
blue and two red.
3. During step 2 of the
experiment, the bees come to ______.
A. the
original (原来的)blue card with syrup on it. B. the
new blue card with no syrup on it.
C. the
empty space where the original blue card was. D.
the new blue card with syrup on it.
4. The
experiment has proved that bees ______.
A.
cannot see colors.B. can see colors.C. cannot see
blue. D. cannot see red.
5. Which title best
gives the idea of the passage?
A. Bees Love
Blue. B. Bees Love Syrup.C. Bees, Color and Syrup.
D. Can Bees See Color?
80、(1分)
Benin
Benin is one of the smallest African states. It
lies in West Africa on the Gulf (海湾) of Guinea, to
the south
of Burkina Faso and Niger, between
Togo on the west and Nigeria on the east.
Benin used to be called Dahomey and was controlled
and ruled by France from 1893 to 1960, when it
became independent (独立). In 1963 the army
general Soglo overthrew (推翻) the first president.
Maga. Soglo
set up an army government and
called himself head of state in 1965, but was
overthrown and replaced (取代) by
a civilian
(非军人) government in 1967. In December 1969 Benin
had another change of power with the army
again taking over (接管). In May 1970, Maga and
two other men set up a new government, with each
of them
acting as president in turn for two
years. However, half a year after Maga turned over
power to the second man
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Ahomadegbe, the three-man government was
overthrown by the army once more and General
Kerekou became
president. In November 1975
Kerekou changed the name of the nation from
Dahomey to Benin, Benin being the
name of a
17th century kingdom covering the same place.
Kerekou also announced that Benin would be a
People’s Republic based on Marxism-leninism.
2. For how long was Benin under France?
A. For over a century. B. For roughly a century.
C. For over half a century D. Under half a
century.
3. For how long was Benin an
independent state before it became a People’s
Republic?
A. 15 years. B.
25 years. C. 20 years. D. 30
years.
4. Choose the right order in which the
following people ruled in Benin.
(Ah=Ahomedegbe;Ke=Kerekou;Ma=Maga;So=Soglo)
A. So, Ma, Ah, Ma, Ke B. Ma, So, Ma, Ke, Ah C.
So, Ma, Ke, Ma, Ah D. Ma, So, Ma, Ah, Ke
5.
When and how did Benin get its two names--Benin
and Dahomey?
A. Dahomey was its oldest
name, but it has been replaced by Benin.
B.
Benin was its oldest name. The name Dahomey was
used later, but has been replaced by Benin again.
C. Dahomey was its oldest name. The name
Benin was used later, but has been replaced by
Dahomey again.
D. Benin was its
oldest name, but it has been replaced by Dahomey.
81、(1分)
Have you eaten too much over
the holidays? You should try fidgeting for a
while. Those around you might
not like it, but
scratching (moving your nails (指甲) against a part
of your body) and twitching (moving suddenly
and quickly when you don’ t want to) is an
important way of burning up calories (卡路里).
American researchers have found that some people’s
squirming (continuously turn your body when
nervous)
and wigging (move in small movements,
especially from side to side) equals (等于) several
miles of slow
running each day.
The
scientists, based at the National Institute of
Health’s laboratory in Phenix, Arizona, are
studying why
some people get fat and other
stay slim.
In one study 177 people each
spent 24 hours in a room in the institute where
the amount (量) of energy is
measured by their
oxygen and carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) levels. By the
end of the day, some people had burned
up 800
calories in toe-tapping, (moving the front part of
your foot up and down) finger-drumming (hitting
your
fingers continuously and lightly against
something hard) and other nervous habits. However,
others had burned
up only 100 calories.
The researchers found that slim women fidget more
than fat women, but there was no significant
difference
in men. Heavy people burn up more
energy when they fidget than do thin people.
1. Which of the following can be used to
explain the meaning of “fidgeting”?
A.
scratching and twitching B. squirming and
wiggingC. slow running D. moving one’s body
nervously
2. We can know from the passage that
scientists believe the reason why some people get
fat and other people stay
slim is that ____ .
A. thin people burn up less calories than
fat people B. fat people burn up more calories
than thin people
C. those who burn up more
calories than others will be thinner
D.
those who fidget more than others will be thinner
3. Scientists found in the experiment that
____ .
A. the energy burned up by fat
people when they fidget was more than that burned
up by thin people when
they fidget
B.
some people’s fidgeting burned up more than 800
calories, but some people’s fidgeting burned up
less than
100 calories
C. slim women
fidget more than fat women but fat men fidget more
than thin men
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D. thin men
fidget more than fat men
4. If someone is thin
in a pleasant way, we say they are ____ .
A. skinny B. bony C. slim D. underweight
5.
Scientists think a fidget habit to be ____ .
A. a way to lose fat B. a nervous habit
annoying(使讨厌) the people around
C. a better
exercise than slow runnin D. a habit of thin
people
82、(1分)
Scientists would like
to place a huge mirror in space above the earth.
It might be sixty miles wide. It would
be used
to catch the rays (光线) of the sun. It would direct
the sun’s rays upon the earth as a child might do
to
make sunlight dance on the wall with a hand
mirror.
Why do they want to do this? The
sun’s rays could be helpful in many ways. They
could light up cities by
night. The warm rays
could stop frosts(霜冻) which might come at might
and fruit crops. They could melt (融化)
dangerous icebergs in the ocean. Perhaps they
could change cloud movements and bring rain where
it is needed.
1. The huge mirror would ______.
A. stand 60 miles in height (高度). B.
be 60 miles from side to side.
C. cover 60
miles of the earth. D. be 60 miles above
the earth.
2. The mirror would be used to
______.
A. reflect (反射)sunlight.B. absorb
(吸收) sunlight.C. see what the earth looks like.D.
see how clouds move.
3. The strong light from
the mirror could possibly ______.
A. hurt
fruit crops. B. set fire to cities.C. bring longer
daytime.D. shine through walls.
4. The huge
mirror is ______.
A. something in a story.
B. already made. C. just an idea. D. to be made
soon.
83、(1分)
In Denmark, parents are
allowed to set up a new school if they are
dissatisfied with the school in the area
where
they are living. Although these schools have to
follow the national courses, they are allowed a
lot of
choice in deciding what to teach. Some
of these new schools are called “small schools”
because usually the
number of pupils in them
is only sixty, but a school has to have at least
twenty-seven pupils.
Cooleenbridge School
in Ireland, is a small school similar to the ones
in Denmark, it was set up by parents
who came
from Holland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, England and
other parts of Ireland. They came because they
wanted to live in the countryside and to grow
their own food. In June 1986, they decided to
start a school. They
managed to get an old,
disused primary-school (小学) building and started
with twenty-four children aged from
four to
twelve.
The teachers say, “The important
thing in school is doing, not sitting.”And so the
courses includes yoga(瑜
伽), cooking, knitting,
kite-making, music, fishing, drama (戏剧) and
environmental(环境的) river studies, as
well as
reading, writing, maths and science.
1. What
are the rules for setting up a new school in
Denmark?
A. Parents are allowed to set up
their own school. B. The school has to follow the
national courses.
C. The school has to have
at least 27 pupils.D. All of the above.
2. The
writer tells about the Cooleenbridge School in
Ireland because ____ .
A. it was set up by
parents who are not people of Denmark
B. it
was taken as an example of this kind of “small
school”
C. there were only twenty-four
childrenD. the pupils there were aged from 4 to 12
3. What makes this kind of school special?
A. It is set up by parents not by
government.B. It is free to decide what to teach.
C. The number of pupils in it is only
sixty. D. It has to have at least 27 pupils.
4. “The important thing in school is doing not
sitting.” What the teachers say actually means
____ .
A. What we should do is teaching in
the classroom, not sitting in the office.
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B. Children should do more
homework at home, not just sit in class to listen
to the teachers.
C. Children should learn
by themselves not rely on teachers.
D.
Children should learn through practice not just
from books.
5. The courses includes ____ .
A. yoga, cooking, knitting, kite-making,
music, fishing, drama and environmental river
studies, except
reading, writing, maths and
science
B. either yoga, cooking, knitting,
kite-making, music, fishing, drama and
environmental river studies, or
reading,
writing, maths and science
C. not only
reading, writing, maths and science, but also
yoga, cooking knitting, kitemaking, music,
fishing,
drama and environmental river studies
D. mainly yoga, cooking, knitting, kite-
making, music, fishing, drama and environmental
river studies, and
supplemental (补充的) reading
writing, maths and science
84、(1分)
Sixty-year-old grandmother, Fiona McFee, is going
to stop working next year and she decided to
realize a
childhood dream and sail around the
coast of Scotland in a small boat. Although the
inside of the boat is very
cosy it has no
running water or electricity. Fiona says she can
live without these things but she plans to take
her
small CD player, her hot water bottle and
a bag of books to make sure life isn’t too
uncomfortable.
We asked her if she was
afraid of being at sea for so long. She said,
“Well, I’m going to take a good
compass (指南针).
Anyway I’m not afraid of death because I love the
sea---I just hope it loves me.” Fiona
certainly has plenty of energy; in her spare
time, she enjoys playing the piano, rock-climbing,
canoeing and
dancing. Although she is sixty,
she doesn’t want to have a quiet and peaceful
life. “I’m looking forward to having
fun in
the rest of my life and that’s exactly why I’d
like to be a sailor for a while.”
1. The
underlined word cosy in the first paragraph means
____ .
A. bright B. dirty C. comfortable D.
dark
2. When Fiona McFee said “---I just hope
it loves me.” What she meant was ____
A.
Of course , it loves me , since I love it . B. If
I love it , it should love me.
C. I hope it
will bring me a safe sailing as a return for my
love of it .
D. I hope it will save my life
when I am in time of danger .
3. The reason
why she would like to have the sail is that ____.
A. she thinks it will be very exciting B.
she likes sports and enjoys canoeing
C. she
has decided to realize a childhood dream D. she
wants to be still active when she gets old
4.
What kind of person would you say the old woman is
?
A. Someone who does not show what she is
feeling .B. Someone who is very proud and sure of
her success .
C. Someone who doesn’t use
her head much D. Someone who is open , honest
and brave .
5. The best title for this passage
is ____ .
A. Life Begins at SixtyB. A Round
Coast SailC. An Old Woman Sailor D. An Unusual
Hobby(爱好)
85、(1分)
Of all the fish we
catch in the world, we eat only three quarters of
it. The rest goes to glue (胶水), soap,
margarine (人造奶油), pet food and fertilizer.
Fishermen usually freeze fish they catch
at sea. Back in port, they defrost the fish, make
the fish have no
bones in it and sell it as
fresh fish.
Over ninety-five percent of
fish caught is in the northern hemisphere. Thus,
only about five percent of all
fish caught is
from south of the equator.
The Japanese
are the world champion fish eaters. They eat twice
as much fish as the Scandinavians, and five
times as much fish as the Americans.
The Russian sturgeon (鲟鱼) is the most expensive
fish in the world. The eggs of the sturgeon are
called
caviar.
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1. What do
we do with the fish we catch in the world?
A. We eat all the fish we catch.B. We use some of
it to make pet food and fertilizer.
C. We
do not use 25% of it. D. We freeze all the fish
we catch.
2. We catch most fish ____ .
A. south of the equator B. on or just north of
the equator
C. in the northern part of the
earth D. in the southern hemisphere
3. In the
second paragraph, the word “defrost” means ____ .
A. make the fish dead B. make the fish
alive
C. make the fish become unfrozen D.
make the fish clean
4. Which of the following
statements is correct according to the passage?
A. Americans eat five times as much fish as
the Scandinavians.
B. Scandinavians eat
five times as much fish than the Americans.
C. Japanese eat more fish only than the Americans
and Scandinavians in the world.
D. The
Americans do not eat so much fish as the Japanese.
86、(1分)
Robert is nine years old and
Joanna is seven. They live at Mount Ebenezer.
Their father has a big property.
In Australia
they call a farm a property.
Robert and
Joanna like school very much. At school they can
talk to their friends but Robert and Joanna
cannot see their friends. They live 100,
perhaps 300, miles away and like Robert and
Joanna, they all go to school
by radio.
Mount Ebenezer is in the centre of Australia. Not
many people live in “The Centre”. There are no
schools
with desks and blackboards and no
teachers in “The Centre”. School is a room at home
with a two-way radio.
The teacher also has a
two-way radio. Every morning she calls each
student on the radio. When all students
answer, lessons begin… Think of your teacher
300 miles away!
1. The children in “The
Centre” do not go to a school because ______.
A. they live too far away from one another.
B. they do not like school.
C. they are not
old enough to go to school. D. their families
are too poor.
2. In order to send their
children to school, parents in “The Centre” of
Australia must have ______.
A. a property.
B. a car. C. a school room at home. D. a special
radio.
3. Teachers in “The Centre” of
Australia teach ______.
A. not in a
classroom but at the homes of the students.
B. by speaking only and not showing anything in
writing.
C. without using any textbooks or
pictures.
D. without knowing whether the
students are attending .
4. When children are
having a lesson, they can hear their teacher.
A. but their teacher cannot hear them.B. and their
teacher can hear them too.
C. but cannot
hear their schoolmates.D. and see him or her at
the same time.
5. A “Property” in Australia is
a
A. house. B. school.C. farm. D.
radio.
87、(1分)
Calories show the
energy content of different foods. We all need a
certain amount each day to make our
bodies
work properly. Unfortunately, people in Europe and
the US now eat about 20 times as much sugar and at
least five times as much fat as they did in
1800. This may have something to do with the
increase in heart disease
in Western countries
.
For wedding feasts(婚宴), the Bedouin
people sometimes prepare a meal of stuffed roast
camel. First, they
stuff a fish with eggs.
Then they put the fish inside a chicken. They put
the chicken inside a whole roast sheep.
Then,
finally, they put all of this inside a cooked
camel!
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The avocado contains
165 calories for every 100 grams of fruit. This is
more than eggs or milk. It also
contains twice
as much protein (蛋白质) as milk and has more vitamin
A, B and C.
2. Calories show the ____ .
A. fat content of food B. sugar content of
food
C. heat and energy content of food D.
protein content of food
3. The writer tells
about the “stuffed roast camel” because it ____ .
A. shows how important wedding feast to the
Bedouin peopleB. serves as an example of a high
calorie food
C. is made in a very special
way D. is more tasty than any other food
4.
What is special for the avocado ?
A. It
weighs 100 grams. B. It is a fruit.C. An avocado
fruit has 165 calories.
D. It contains more
calories and vitamin A ,B and C than milk and eggs
.
5. Which of the statements is correct
according to the passage ?
A. People eat
more sugar in Europe than in the US.
B.
People in Europe and the US eat less sugar than
ever before .
C. People eat more fat in the
US than in Europe .
D. People who eat too
much fat and sugar will have some health problems
.
88、(1分)
The 17th-century Irish
farmer Rober Cook was the most unusual person in
County Waterford. he always
wore white linen.
His underwear, night clothes and shirts were all
in white, and so were his suits, coats and hats.
He became so famous for his clothes and his
love for white that he was known all over Ireland
as “Linen Cook”.
He refused to have any
brown cows in the field of his farm at Cappoquin
and even his horses had to be the
same pure
white as his clothes.
Cook was a eager
vegetarian and refused to eat the flesh of any
animal or to wear anything produced by an
animal.
A fox which attacked (袭击) his
chickens was not killed when it was caught.
Instead, he gave it a talk on the
evils (罪恶)
of murder, then offered it a sporting chance by
making it run through a line of his farm workers,
who
had sticks.
Cook had a long and
healthy life and showed that “water for drink,
vegetables for food and linen and other
plant
life for clothing were enough to live on.”
He died in 1726 when he was over eighty years old
and was buried in a white linen shroud (寿衣).
1. The man the writer tells us about is a ____
.
A. person who has a strange habit B.
famous person all over the world
C. healthy
man D. man who lived a long life
2. From the
passage we can know that ____ .
A. he
wasn’t married all his life B. he didn’t wear
leather(皮的) shoes or woolen(毛的) clothes
C.
he disliked the colour brown mostD. he died at the
age of 80
3. “Vegetarians”are people who do
not ____ .
A. buy animals B. kill animals
C. eat animals D. keep animals
4. We can
inferred from the passage that the fox wasn’t
killed by Robert Cook, but perhaps ____ .
A. it could understand what it did was bad after
Robert gave it a talk on the evils of murder.
B. it had sports together with Robert’s farm
workers
C. it was given a chance to run
away D. it had got a beat from Robert’s farm
workers
5. “water for drink, vegetables for
food and linen and other plant life for clothing
were enough to live on.” That is
____ .
A. the conclusion drawn by the writer B. the words
of Robert Cook
C. a saying D. the belief of
a certain famous person
89、(1分)
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A HOLIDAY jet pilot (飞行员) said that he
would land and call the police after a woman
refused to stop
smoking.
He warned
Maureen Harkavy, “Put that cigarette out, or I’ll
land the plane and have you arrested.”
Maureen, 47, was so shocked she wrote to the
airline’s chairman. But his reply was even ruder.
“You seem to think you have a God-given
right to pollute your neighbours’ atmosphere,”
wrote John
Ferriday of Paramount Airways.
(a)Said Maureen, “I only found out about it when I
was checking in. I’m a nervous flyer so I lit a
cigarette
during the flight. A stewardess (空姐)
asked me to put it out, but I said I wanted to
carry on as there was no rule
against smoking
on the plane.” She was just finishing her
cigarette when the pilot arrived.
(b) I’ve
never seen such an unpleasant letter. She said, “I
don’t think I’ll ever fly again.” But there was
a funny side. Maureen explained, “We were
offered duty-free (免税) cigarette from the
stewardess on the
plane!”
(c) Mr.
Ferriday went on; “Believe me, you haven’t.
Especially when you travel on my planes.”
Maureen and her husband Michael were moved to
Paramount flight just before they left Portugal.
But they
were not told of the company’ s (公司的)
no smoking policy.
(d) “He was loud and
rude,” said Maureen. “He said if I lit another
cigarette he would land the plane at
Bordeaux
and hand me to the French police.”
Later,
from her home in Mosely, Birmingham, Maureen wrote
to the company and received the rude reply.
1.
The second half of the story has been in wrong
order. (Parts a-d) Choose the rearranged order
which you think
is right.
A. a, c, b, d
B. c, a, b, d C. c, a, d, b D. d, a, b, c
2.
What was Maureen Harkey warned to do by the pilot?
A. The pilot said that she must throw her
cigarette out of the plane, or he would get her
off the plane.
B. The pilot said
she must stop smoking immediately, otherwise he
would bring down the jet
and hand her to
the police.
C. The pilot said that she
couldn’t lit another cigarette after her first
one.
D. The pilot said that he would get
her arrested by the police if she kept on smoking.
3. Maureen Harkavy ____ on the plane.
A. accepted the warning B. agreed to the warning
C. refused to do what she was told toD. was
so shocked that she wrote to the airline’s
chairman
4. In the answer letter to Maureen
Harkavy, the airline’s chairman ____ .
A.
made an apology to her for his worker’s rudenessB.
made sure that he would solve the problem
C. said that she had the right to smoke on his
plane because the right is given by God to
everyone.
D. actually completely agreed
with what the pilot said
5. From the story we
can see that the writer probably takes the side of
____ .
A. the pilot B. the airline’s
chairman C. the stewardress D. Maureen Harkav
90、(1分)
Good afternoon, and welcome to
England. We hope that your visit here will be a
pleasant one. Today, I
would like to draw your
attention to a few of our laws.
The first
one is about drinking. Now, you may not buy
alcohol (酒) in this country if you are under 18
years
of age, nor may your friends buy it for
you.
Secondly, noise. Enjoy yourselves by
all means, but please don’t make unnecessary
noise, particularly at
night. We ask you to
respect other people who may wish to be quiet.
Thirdly crossing the road. Be careful. The
traffic moves on the left side of he road in this
country. Use
pedestrian crossings (人行横道) and
do not take any chances when crossing the road.
My next point is about litter (throwing
away waste material in a public place). It is an
offence (违法行为) to
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drop litter
in the street. When you have something to throw
away, please put it in your pocket and take it
home,
or put it in a litter bin.
Finally, as regards smoking, it is against the law
to buy cigarettes or tobacco (烟草) if you are under
16
years of age.
I’d like to finish by
saying that if you require any sort of help or
assistance, you should contact your local
police station, who will be pleased to help
you.
Now, are there any questions?
1.
The main purpose of this speech would be to ____ .
A. prepare people for international
travelB. declare the laws of different kinds
C. give advice to travellers to the country D.
inform people of the punishment for breaking laws
2. How many laws are there discussed in the
speech?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six
3. From the speech we learn that ____
A. In this country, if you are under 18 years of
age, you may not buy alcohol, but your
friend can buy it for you.
B. You may not
buy cigarettes or tobacco unless you are above 16
years of age.
C. Because the traffic moves
on the left side of he road ,you must use
pedestrian crossings
when crossing the
road.
D. You can’t make noise except at
night.
4. The underlined word contact in the
seventh paragraph means ____ .
A. keep in
touch with B. get in touch with C. join D. report
5. Who do you think is most likely to make the
speech?
, A. A policeman B. A lawmaker C. A
teacher D. A lawyer
91、(1分)
At five he
was collecting old newspapers to make money. And
when he was 15 he signed his schoolmates
up to
start a baby-sitting circle.
Now 20,
third-year Cambridge University student, Peter
Blackburn is managing director of a company with
a £ 30,000 plan. And he thinks it will make
more than $$15,000 by next summer.
He set
up Peter Blackborn Ltd last year to bring out a
new, colour term-planner that now students all
over
the UK are using.
“I felt that
most of the planners going around were pretty
unimaginative,” he says, “I believed that I could
do a better job and decided to have a go”.
Blackburn admits that he is putting far
more effort into business than his computer
studies course at
university. While fellow
students are out with their friends, he keeps in
touch with his business office in
Lancashire
by movable phone. Before he set up the company he
spent one holiday preparing a plan that would
persuade his bank to lend him money.
“Most students work hard for a good degree because
they believe that will help them get a job to
support
themselves,” he says “I work hard at
my company, because that is what will support me
next year, after I leave
college.”
Friends believe that Blackburn will make £ 1
million within 5 years.
He is not quite so
sure, however. “There’s a lot to be done yet,” he
says.
1. Choose the right order of the facts
given in the passage.
a. He spent his
holiday preparing a plan.b. He collected
newspapers. c. He set up his own company.
d. He asked the bank for money.e. He set up a
babysitting circle.
A. e, b, c, a, d B. b,
e, a, d, c C. b, e, d, a, c D. b, e, c, a, d
2. When he was quite young, Blackburn ____ .
A. already made a lot of money
B. already had a business brain
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C. was already managing director of a
company D. already set up his own business
3. The underlined expression in the fourth
paragraph “have a go,” here means ____ .
A.
give up this job and have a new one B.
leave the company
C. have a try
D. develop my business quickly
4. In spite of
a college student, Blackburn ____ .
A.
spends more time on his business than on his
studies course
B. keep in touch with his
business office by movable phoneC. seldom goes out
with his friends
D. often spends whole
holiday preparing business plan
5. Which of
the following best explain why Blackburn works
hard at his company?
A. He wants to do more
business practice before he leaves college.
B. He wants to make more money before he leaves
college.
C. He wants to get a good job like
most students after he leaves the college.
D. he depends on the company for his living in the
future.
92、(1分)
Richard Williams works
hard. He’s clever, careful, and fast .His work is
dangerous. Richard thinks of
himself as a
professional—a professional thief.
Yesterday was a typical day. Richard dressed in a
business suit, took his briefcase (手提箱), and drove
to a
town about ten miles from his home. He
parked his car in a busy area, then began to walk
along the street. No
one looked at him. He was
another businessman walking to work.
At
8:05, Richard saw what he wanted. A man was
leaving his house. Richard walked around the block
again. At 8:10 , he watched a woman leave the
same house. After she left, Richard worked
quickly. He walked to
the side of the house
and stood behind a tree. He took a screwdriver
(螺丝刀) out of his briefcase and quickly
opened
the window and climbed in. First, he looked
through the desk in the living room. He found $200
in cash
(现金). In the dining room, he put the
silverware (银器) into his briefcase. The next stop
was the bedroom.
Richard stole a diamond ring
and an emerald (祖母绿宝石) necklace. Richard passed a
color TV, a stereo (音响),
and a camera, but he
didn’t touch them. Everything had to fit into his
briefcase. In less than five minutes,
Richand
climbed back out the window. He looked around
carefully, then began his walk down the street
again.
No one looked at him. He was just
another businessman, walking to work.
1. Why
did Richard wear a business suit?
A. Because
he is a professional. B. Because he didn’t want
to draw others’ attention to him.
C. Because
he works hard. D. Because he is a thief.
2. Richard ____ , after the man left his
house.
A. stood behind a tree B. entered
the house
C. walked around the block again
D. opened the window with a screwdriver
3. No
one saw Richard get into the house because ____ .
A. it was night time B. he ran very fastC.
he stood behind a tree D. he was very clever
4. How long did Richard stay in the house?
A. Five minutes. B. One hour. C. Nearly
five minutes. D. Fifteen minutes.
5. The
reason why Richard didn’t take the TV set is that
____ .
A. it is too big to carry B. it
is too heavy to carrC. it is worth nothing
D. it is difficult for him to carry such a thing
without being noticed
93、(1分)
I found
out one time that doing a favor for someone could
get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth
grade at the time, and we were having a final
test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me
whispered something,
but I didn’t understand.
So I leaned over her way and found out that she
was trying to ask me if I had an extra
pen.
She showed me that hers was out of ink and would
not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I
took it
out of my pocket and put it on her
desk.
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Later, after the test
papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to
stay in the room when all the other
students
were dismissed. As soon as we were alone she began
to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she
talked about how important it was to stand on
your own two feet and be responsible (负责任) for
your own acts.
For a long time, she talked
about honesty and emphasized the fact that when
people do something dishonest, they
are really
cheating themselves. She made me promise that I
would think seriously about all the things she had
said, and then she told me I could leave. I
walked out of the room wondering why she had
chosen to talk to me
about all those things.
Later on, I found out that she thought I
had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over
to talk to the girl
next to me, it looked as
if I was copying answers from the girl’s test
paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all
she could say was it seemed very very strange
to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the
pen the day she
talked to me right after the
test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just
doing the girl a favor by letting her use
my
pen, I am sure she continued to believe that I had
cheated on the test.
1. The story took place
exactly ____ .
A. in the teacher’s office
B. in an exam room C. in the school D. in the
language lab
2. The girl wanted to borrow a
pen, because ____ .
A. she had not brought
a pen with her B. she had lost her own on her way
to school
C. there was something wrong with
her wn D. her own had been taken away by someone
3. The teacher saw all this, so she asked the
boy ____ .
A. to go on writing his paper B.
to stop whispering
C. to leave the room
immediately D. to stay behind after the exam
4. The thing(s) emphasized in her talk
was(were) ____ .
A. honesty B. sense of
duty C. seriousness D. all of the above
5. The
boy knew everything ____ .
A. the moment he
was asked to stay behind B. when the teacher
started talking about honesty
C. only some
time later D. when he was walking out of the room
94、(1分)
To be a good teacher, you need
some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be
able to hold the attention and
interest of
your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a
good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under
your control; and you must be able to act what
you are teaching, in order to make its meaning
clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will
see that he does not sit still before his class:
he stands the whole time
he is teaching; he
walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to
help him in his explanations, and his face to
express feelings. Listen to him, and you will
hear the loudness, the quality (音色) and the
musical note of his
voice always changing
according to what he is talking about.
The
fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of
a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be
able to
act well on the stage, for there are
very important differences between the teacher’s
work and the actor’s. The
actor has to speak
words which he has learnt by heart; he has to
repeat exactly the same words each time he plays
a certain part, even his movements and the
ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed
beforehand (预先).
What he has to do is to make
all these carefully learnt words and actions seem
natural on the stage.
A good teacher works
in quite a different way. His audience takes an
active part in his play: they ask and
answer
questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t
understand something, they say so. The teacher
therefore
has to meet the needs of his
audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his
part by heart, but must invent it as
he goes
along.
I have known many teachers who were
fine actors in class but were unable to take part
in a stage-play
because they could not keep
strictly to what another had written.
1. What
is the text about ?
A. How to become a good
teacher. B. What a good teacher should do outside
the classroom.
C. What teachers and actors
could learn from each other.
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D. The similarities(相似处) and differences between a
teacher’s work and an actor’s.
2. The word
“audience” in the fourth paragraph means ____ .
A. students B. people who watch a play
C. people who not on the stage D. people who
listen to something
3. A good teacher ____ .
A. knows how to hold the interest of his
students B. must have a good voice
C. knows
how to act on the stage D. stands or sits still
while teaching
4. In what way is a teacher’s
work different from an actor’s ?
A. The
teacher must learn everything by heart . B. He
knows how to control his voice better than an
actor .
C. He has to deal with unexpected
situations . D. He has to use more facial
expressions .
5. The main difference between
students in class and a theatre audience is that
____.
A. students can move around in the
classroomB. students must keep silent while
theatre audience needn’t
C. no memory work
is needed for the students D. the students must
take part in their teachers’ plays
6. Why is
it that some good teachers are unable to play well
on the stage ?
A. Nobody has taught them
how to act on the stage . B. Their audiences are
different .
C. It is impossible for them to
do so much memory work .
D. They are not
used to repeating exactly the same words .
7.
Which of the following is true ?
A.
Teachers have to learn by heart what they are
going to say in class .
B. A teacher cannot
decide beforehand what exactly he is going to say
in class .
C. A teacher must speak louder
than an actor . D. A teacher must have a better
memory than an actor .
95、(1分)
In 1909
an English newspaper offered £ 1,000 to the first
man to fly across the English Channel in an
aeroplane. Today, modern jets cross it in
minutes. But at that time it still seemed a good
distance. The race to win
the money soon
became a race between two men. Both were very
colourful.
One was Louis Bleriot. He owned
a factory in France that made motor car lamps. He
was already well
known as a pilot (飞行员)
because he had had accidents several times. Some
people laughed at him. One man
said, “He may
not be the first to fly across the Channel but he
will certainly be the first to die in an
accident!”
But Bleriot was really a good and
brave pilot. He also had many good ideas about
aeroplane design.
The other man was Hubert
Latham. He was half French and half English. He
took up flying when his
doctors told him he
had only a year to live. “Oh, well,” he said, “if
I’ m going to die soon, I think I shall have a
dangerous and interesting life now.” Latham
was the first to try the flight (飞行) across the
Channel. Ten
kilometres from the French coast,
his plane had some trouble. It fell down into the
water and began to sink under
the water. A
boat reached Latham just in time. He was sitting
calmly on the wing and was coolly lighting a
cigarette (香烟). Bleriot took off six days
later. He flew into some very bad weather and very
low cloud. He
somehow got to the English side
and landed in a farmer’s field. When he did so, a
customs (海关) officer rushed
up to his plane.
Planes have changed since then, but customs
officers have not. “Have you anything to declare?”
The officer demanded.
1. The story took
place ____ .A. in the early 20th century B. in the
19th century C. right after World War I
D.
at a time not mentioned in the passage
2.
Bleriot was well known as a piton because ____ .
A. he was unusually brave B. he was quite
rich
C. he had many good ideas about
aeroplane design D. he had had a few accidents
3. The flight for Bleriot was ____ .
A.
a sad one B. a dangerous one C. his first one D.
an easy one
4. Why did Hubert Latham want to
fly across the Channel?
A. He thought he
could manage it easily.B. He wanted to be the
first one to cross the Channel.
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C. He knew he only had a year to live.D. He
had always been interested in flying.
5. Which
of the following is NOT true?
A. Latham
became a pilot on the doctor’s advice. B. He was
told he could live another year.
C. His
plane had some trouble. D. He was saved by a boat
when his plane was sinking.
6. Why did the
costumes officer rush to the plane?
A. To
see if everything was all right with the plane. B.
To make sure that the pilot was not hurt.
C. To ask why the plane had landed in a farmer’s
field. D. None of the above.
7. “Do you have
anything to declare?” means ____ .
A. “Do
you want any help?”B. “Is there anything wrong?”
C. “Have you brought anything on which
custom duties must be paid?”
D. “Do you
have anything to say to the public?”
96、(1分)
The Doctor’s Call
There was ice on the
road, and the doctor’s car hit a tree and turned
over three times. To his surprise, he was
not
hurt. He got out of the car and walked to the
nearest house. He wanted to telephone the garage
(汽车修理站)
for help. The door was opened by one
of his patients.
“Oh, Doctor.” she said,
“I have only just telephoned you. You must have a
very fast car. You have got
here very quickly
indeed. There has been a very bad accident (事故) in
the road outside. I saw it through the
window.
I am sure the driver will need your help.”
1.
Where was the doctor going in his car?
A.
We don’t know. B. To a patient’s home. C. To a
garage. D. To his own home.
2. Which of
the following was the cause of the accident?
A. Careless driving. B. A tree had
fallen across the road.
C. A slippery (滑)
road. D. There was a thick fog.
3.
The doctor went to the house because
A. he
knew one of his patients lived there.B. he had
received a call to go there.
C he wanted to
use the telephone. D. he was injured (受伤) and
could walk no further.
4. Why did the woman
patient telephone the doctor?
A. She needed
medical treatment. B. She believed somebody else
needed a doctor.
C. To ask how quickly the
doctor could come.
D. To ask whether the
doctor was coming on his regular visit.
5. How
did the woman feel on opening the door and seeing
the doctor?
A. She had been expecting the
doctor, but was surprised that he had come so
quickly.
B. She had not expected the doctor
and wondered why he had come.
C. She felt
glad that the doctor was not hurt in the accident.
D. She was alarmed (惊慌) at seeing the
doctor in a bad state after the accident.
6.
Which of the following is the most likely reply
the doctor gave the woman patient at the end
of the story?
A. “Yes, he does need help-
your help, not mine. B. “Another accident? I’ve
just had an accident myself!”
C. “I got
your call and rushed over. I hope I’m not too
late.D. “I didn’t get your call. But I’m here and
hope I
can help.”
97、(1分)
My
father, at the death of his father, was six years
old, and he grew up without education. He moved
from
Kentucky to Indiana when I was seven. We
reached our new home about the time the state came
into the Union.
It was a wild area, with many
bears and other wild animals still in the woods. I
grew up there. There were some
so-called
schools, but what was required of a teacher never
went beyond “reading, writing, and adding.” If a
stranger supposed to understand Latin happened
to live for a time in the area, he was looked on
as wizard (奇才).
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There was
simply nothing to excite a desire for education.
Of course, when I grew up, I did not know much.
Still,
somehow, I could read, write, and add,
but that was all. The advance I have now made is
on this store of
education, which I have
picked up under the pressure of necessity.
1.
When the writer was a child ____ .
A. his
grandfather died in the state of KentuckyB. his
family settled down in the countryside of Indiana
C. Kentucky joined the Union as a member
state D. his family had to move from place to
place
2. When the writer was seven, his family
moved to an area where ____ .
A. educated
people were greatly respected B. only a few had a
knowledge of Latin
C. people were often
killed by wild animals D. the land had yet to be
farmed
3. The schools in the area ____ .
A. were of poor quality (质量) B. offered all
kinds of subjects
C. respected those who
knew Latin D. had teachers good at reading,
writing, and adding
4. How did the writer look
at his early education?
A. He believed he
met the school requirements.B. He thought he was
well-educated.
C. He thought it was not
satisfactory. D. He believed he was poorly
educated.
5. At the time he wrote, the writer
____ .
A. had to learn to read, write and
add B. found it necessary to receive advanced
education
C. was probably fairly well-
educated D. was dissatisfied with his level of
education
98、(1分)
Tarawa is one of the
two largest of the Gilbert Islands in the western
Pacific Ocean, but it is a very tiny
island,
with an area of about eight square miles, and a
population of about 17,000. Small as it is, three
nations
fought to control and use it as an air
base during World War II. The Japanese took it
from the British in 1941,
only to lose it to
the Americans tow years later after one of the
bloodiest (血腥的) battles of the war. Today, the
Gilbert Islands having become part of the
Kiribati Pepublic, Tarawa is now its capital and
major seaport (海港).
2. Tarawa belongs to
______.
A. Japan. B. the U.S.
C. Britain. D. Kiribati.
3. Tarawa lies
nearer to ______.
A. Japan than to the U.S.
B. the U.S. than to Japan.C. Britain than to the
U.S. D. Britain than to Japan.
4. Tarawa was
important during World War II because of its
______.
A. size. B. population.
C. position. D. history.
5. In recent
history, Tarawa ______.
A. had been ruled
by three nations one after another.
B. has
been fought over in a tough battle by three
nations.
C. has been divided and ruled by
three different nations.
D. has always
stayed out of the way of wars and battles.
99、(1分)
The flying fox is not a fox at
all. It is an extra large bat that has got a fox’s
head, and that feeds on fruit
instead of
insects (昆虫). Like all bats, flying foxes hang
themselves by their toes when at rest, and travel
in great
crowds when out flying. A group will
live in one spot for years. Sometimes several
hundred of them occupy (占
据) a single tree. As
they return to the tree toward sunrise, they
quarrel among themselves and fight for the best
places until long after daylight.
Flying foxes have babies once a year, giving birth
to only one at a time. At first the mother has to
carry the
baby on her breast wherever she
goes. Later she leaves it hanging up, and brings
back food for it to eat.
Sometimes a baby bat
falls down to the ground and squeaks (尖叫) for
help. Then the older ones swoop (俯冲)
down and
try to pick it up. If they fail to do so, it will
die. Often hundreds of dead baby bats can be found
lying
on the ground at the foot of a tree.
1. The passage tells us that there is no
difference between the flying fox and the ordinary
bat in______.
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A. their size.
B. their appearance. C. the kind of food they
eat. D. the way they rest.
2. Flying foxes
tend to ______.
A. double (翻一番) their
number every year. B. fight and kill a lot of
themselves.
C. move from place to place
constantly.D. lose a lot of their young.
3. At
daybreak every day flying foxes begin to______.
A. fly out toward the sun.
B. look for a new resting place.
C. come
back to their home. D. go out and
look for food.
4. Flying foxes have fights
______.
A. to occupy the best resting
places. B. only when it is dark.
C. to protect their homes from outsiders (外来者).D.
when there is not enough food.
5. How do
flying foxes care for their young?
A. They
only care for their own babies. B. They share the
feeding of their young.
C. They help when a
baby bat is in danger.D. They often leave home and
forget their young.
100、(1分)
Shu
Pulong has helped at least 1000 people bitten (咬)
by snakes. “It was seeing people with snake bites
(伤口) that led me to this career,” he said.
In 1963, after his army service, Shu
entered a medical school and later became a doctor
of Chinese medicine.
As part of his studies he
had to work in the mountains. There he often heard
of people who had their arms and
legs cut off
after a snake bite in order to save their lives.
“I was greatly upset by the story of an
old farmer I met. It was a very hot afternoon. The
old man was
pulling grass in his fields when
he felt a pain in his left hand. He at once
realized he had been bitten by a
poisonous
snake. In no time he wrapped a cloth tightly
around his arm to stop the poison spreading to his
heart.
Rushing home he shouted ‘Bring me the
knife!’ Minutes later the man lost his arm
forever.”
“The sad story touched me so
much that I decided to devote myself to helping
people bitten by snakes,” Shu
said.
1. The
best headline (标题) for this newspaper article is
.
A. Astonishing Medicine B. Farmer Loses
Arm C. Dangerous Bites D. Snake Doctor
2.
The farmer lost his arm because .
A.
the cloth was wrapped too tightly B. he cut it
off to save his life
C. Shu wasn’t there
to help him D. he was alone in the fields
3.
She decided to devote himself to snake medicine
because .
A. he wanted to save
people’s arms and legs B. he had studied it at a
medical school
C. he had seen snakes
biting peopleD. his army service had finished
4. Why did Shu go into the mountains?
A. He wanted to study snake bites . B. He wanted
to help the farmers .
was being trained to
be a doctor . D. He was expected to serve in the
army .
5. Which of the following words can
take the place of the word career in the first
paragraph(段)?
A. conclusion B. story C.
incident D. job
阅读理解 〈答卷〉
一、阅读理解
1、(1分) 1B 2 A 3 D 4 D 5 C 2、(1分) 1D
2 B 3 A 4 B 5 B
3、(1分) 1D 2 B 3 B 4 A 5 D
4、(1分) 1D 2 C 3 B 4 B 5 D
5、(1分) 1C 2 B3 D4 C 5 A 6、(1分) 1C
2 C 3 A 4 C 5 B
7、(1分) 1C2 A 3
A4 B5 C 8、(1分) 1C 2 B 3 C
4 C 5 D 6 B
9、(1分) 1D2 B3 D 4 A 5 C
10、(1分) 1C 2 D 3 B 4 D 5 C
11、(1分) 1B 2 A3 C4 D 5 A 12、(1分)
1C 2 A 3 D 4 D 5 B
13、(1分)
1D2 A 3 C4 A 5 B 14、(1分)1B 2 C 3 A
4 D 5 A
6 0
15、(1分) 1C2 D 3 A4
D5 B 16、(1分) 1D 2 C 3 B
4 B
17、(1分) 1A 2 B 3 D 4 C 5 B 1
8、(1分) 1B 2 C 3 B 4 A 5 D
19、(1分) 1D 2 C 3 C 4 D 5 B 20、(1分)
1D 2 B 3 C 4 A 5 C
21、(1分) 1B 2
C 3 D 4 D 22、(1分) 1B 2 A 3 A 4 D
5 C 6 B
23、(1分) 1B 2 C 3 A 4 B 5 A
24、(1分) 1C 2 D 3 A 4 C 5 B
25、(1分) 1.D
2.A 3.B 4.B 5.C 26、(1分) 1D 2 B
3 A 4 C 5 B
27、(1分) 1C2 D 3 D 4 A 5 C
28、(1分) 1D 2 D 3 C 4 D 5 B
29、(1分) 1B2 D 3 A 4 B5 D 6 A 7 C 30、(1分)
1C 2 A 3 D 4 C
31、(1分) 1B 2 A 3 B 4 C
32、(1分) 1C 2 C 3 C 4 D 5 C
33、(1分) 1C
2 B 3 B 4 C 34、(1分) 1B 2 D 3 C 4 A
5 C 6 C
35、(1分) 1B 2 C 3 A 4 D 5 D
36、(1分) 1C 2 C 3 A4 C5 B 37、(1分)
1A 2 C 3 D 4 D 5 A
38、(1分) 1A2 A 3 B4
C 5 C 39、(1分) 1D 2 C 3 C 4
B
40、(1分) 1A2 C3 D 4 C 5 A
41、(1分) 1B 2 C 3 D 4 A 5 C
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Hospital-C Office-D Bank-C Lake-A
Cinema-A
School-A Park-A Car park-B
Shops-C Factory-D
42、(1分) 1B 2 B 3 B 4
A 5 C 43、(1分) 1B 2 C 3 B 4 A 5 A
44、(1分) 1A 2 C 3 D 4 B 5 B
45、(1分) 1D 2 C 3 A 4 A 5 B
46、(1分)
1B 2 B 3 D 4 C 5 C 47、(1分) 1C 2 C
3 D 4 B 5 A
48、(1分) 1C 2 A 3 D 4 B 5 B
4 9、(1分) 1A 2 D 3 C 4 B 5 D
50、(1分) 1A 2 B 3 D 4 D 5 D
51、(1分) 1B
2 C 3 A 4 C 5 C 52、(1分) 1C 2 B 3 D
4 C 5 A
53、(1分) 1B 2 B 3 D 4 A 5 B
54、(1分) 1C 2 A 3 D 4 A 5 B
55、(1分) 1B 2 A 3 C4 B 5 C 56、(1分)
1B 2 A 3 B 4 C
57、(1分) 1D
2 A 3 B 4 C 5 A
58、(1分) 1A 2
B 3 A 4 D 5 C 59、(1分) 1C 2 B 3 C
4 B 5 A
60、(1分) 1B 2 D 3 A 4 C 5
B 61、(1分) 1C 2 A 3 D 4 D 5 B
62、(1分) 1B 2 B 3 C4 C5 D 63、(1分)
1C 2 A 3 B 4 A
64、(1分) 1B 2 C 3 D 4
C 5 A 65、(1分) 1C 2 D 3 D 4 C 5 C
66、(1分) 1C 2 B 3 B 4 C 5 D 6 A
67、(1分) 1B 2 A 3 A 4 D 5 B
68、(1分)
1C 2 A 3 D 4 A 5 B 69、(1分) 1A 2
C 3 D 4 C
70、(1分) 1D 2 D 3 B 4 A
5 A 71、(1分) 1C 2 C 3 A 4 A 5 C
72、(1分) 1A 2 D 3 B 4 C 5 C 7
3、(1分) 1B 2 D 3 D 4 B 5 B
74、(1分) 1B 2
D 3 C 4 A 5 A 75、(1分) 1B 2 A 3 D 4 D
5 C
76、(1分) 1A 2 B 3 C 4 B 5 D
77(1分) 1C 2 B 3 D 4 A5 A
78、(1分) 1D 2
D 3 A 4 B 5 C
79、(1分)1B 2 C 3
B 4 B 5 D 80、(1分) 1C 2 C 3 A
4 D 5 B
81、(1分) 1D 2 C 3 A 4 C 5 A
82、(1分) 1B 2 A 3 C 4 C
83、(1分) 1D
2 B 3 A 4 D 5 C 84、(1分) 1C 2 C 3 D
4 D 5 A
85、(1分) 1B 2 C 3 C 4 D
86、(1分) 1A 2 D 3 .B 4 B 5 C
87、(1分) 1B
2 C 3 B 4 D 5 D(1分) 88. 1A 2 B 3 C 4 D
5 B
89、(1分) 1C 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 D
90、(1分) 1C 2 C 3 B 4 B 5 A
91、(1分) 1B 2 B
3 C 4 A 5 D 92、(1分) 1B 2 C 3 C 4 C 5
D
93、(1分) 1B 2 C 3 D 4 A 5 C
94、(1分)1D 2 A 3 A 4 C 5 D 6 D 7 B
95、(1分) 1A
2 D 3 B 4 C 5 A 6 D7 C 96、(1分) 1A 2 C 3 C
4 B 5 A 6 A
97、(1分) 1B2 D 3 A 4 C 5 C
98、(1分) 1A 2 D 3 A 4 C 5 A
99、(1分) 1D 2 D 3
C4 A 5 C 100、(1分) 1D 2 B 3 A 4 C 5 D
6 1