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阅读理解
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答案
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一．基本技巧介绍
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一．基本技巧介绍
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%
< br>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
，
how
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。
< br>（
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。
（
3
< br>）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
< br>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
一、阅读理解
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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 newspaper
B.
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.
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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 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.
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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 guests
D. 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
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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 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
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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
passag
e, 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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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
str
ength
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
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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,
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
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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 idea
s 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
、
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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 unde
r 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 ______.
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
、
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/p>
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 unexpectedly
C. 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 class
D. On the last day of exam week
11<
/p>
、
（
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?
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
、
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/p>
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
m
uch 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
objec
t’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
、<
/p>
（
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?
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
、<
/p>
（
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
、<
/p>
（
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 qui
et
month. “It’s the holiday,” Ms Foreman says.
“People
want to come in, I
k
now , 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 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 students
B. 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<
/p>
、
（
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 clever
B. 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
、
（<
/p>
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.”
“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
、
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/p>
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<
/p>
、
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1
分）
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
rea
son 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.
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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
felt
ashamed
C.
was
in
an
inn
D.
was angry
3. The nobleman
should have ______.
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 a
nswer showed that be
______.
A. was very happy
B. believed the
nobleman
C. was angry with the nobleman
D. had
kind heart
21
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/p>
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
cent
uries 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 n
ot 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 longer
D. 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 useless
C.
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
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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 ‘V
ACANCIES’
meant ‘holidays’, because the
Spanish
word for ‘holidays” is ‘vacaciones’. So they did
not go to house where
the
sign outside said
‘V
ACANCLES’, which in English means
there are free rooms. Then
my
friends
went
to
house
where
the
sign
said
‘NO
V
ACANCLES’,
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
P
aris. 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.’
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 V
ACANCIES” in
Engl
ish 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 people
D.
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
wa
nt any more
D. was never
misunderstood
23
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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
in
stead 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
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/p>
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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. 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<
/p>
、
（
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 newspaper
(B)people thought he
had taken money that was not his
(C)he
wanted to write stories about prisoners
(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
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/p>
、
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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
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
m
an’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
、
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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 probl
ems, 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 were
n’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’
life
B. show the funny side of
the astronauts’ life
C. make people
laugh
D. make people think
28
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/p>
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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
(
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 h
adn’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
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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?
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
、
（<
/p>
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
、
（<
/p>
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 enemies
B. 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.”
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
、
（<
/p>
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 Sunday
B. 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<
/p>
、
（
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
34
、<
/p>
（
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<
/p>
、
（
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 accident
B.
High blood pressure
C. 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 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.
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.
< br>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 cry
ing 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<
/p>
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
ex
pert 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.
C. One of the passengers
who were on the train.
D. One of the reporters who
were sent to the Paris Metro.
40
、<
/p>
（
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
< br>“
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
、<
/p>
（
1
分）
Douglas Grace talks about his ideal
city of the future.
I see the city
of the future in three zones(
区域
< br>)---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.
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
、
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/p>
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. caus
e 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
、
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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
g
o
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 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 anoth
er
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. Ma
rk 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
、<
/p>
（
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
).<
/p>
”
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?
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<
/p>
、
（
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,
an
d 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
forg
et
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.
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
< br>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 i
n 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?” Pau
l 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
te
st 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<
/p>
、
（
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
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
、
（<
/p>
1
分）
Today
I’ll
be
talking
about
the
invention
of
the
camera
and
photo
graphy.
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
ce
ntury,
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 ow
n film.
50
、<
/p>
（
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
daylig
ht,
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 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 Biology
C.
A scientific Study
D. A Living
Clock
< br>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
acup
uncture(
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 doct
or 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 head
B. The neighbour is a kind-hearted
person.
C. The man’s pain was killed
befo
re the doctor arrived
D. 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 late
B. 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
acupuncture
52
、
（
1
分）
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 women
B. 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 work
B. working at
easier jobs than men
C. unwilling to work side
by side with men
D. 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
goin
g 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 done
D. 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 writer
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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 _____.
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 house
B.
play games for pleasure
C. talk with their friends
D.
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
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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 d
idn’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
C. was very shy
D.
was too proud to accept help from others
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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
’
becau
se ‘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
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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
2. What is the average annual
rainfall in inches in the United States?
A.
Thirty-six inches
B.
Thirty-eight inches
C. 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
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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
Underprivileg
ed Children.’
At the sea. they are met by the mayor,
an
d 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 signs
B. 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
times
D. 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. tak
e money because they
have to pay for the children’s ride
B.
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
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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 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.
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