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第二部分阅读理解
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2017
年
12
月统考）全真翻译版
以下
1
6
篇阅读理解考试中
100%
考一篇，
答案是四个选项之一。
出现在考试中
阅读部分的第二部分，
简化或硬背，必须掌握，原题出现，答案位置不变，
考
1
题
10
分，一定不可以丢
。建议多看短文的
中文意思，然后记
下选项答案。
最后附录为搭桥联想记忆法，适合
10
分钟内强化记忆。
Passage
1(
美国及美国人的由来
)
The
United States covers a large part of the North
American continent. Its neighbors are Canada to
the
north and Mexico to the south.
Although the United States is a big country , it
is not the largest in the world.
In
2000, its population was over 222 million.
When
this
land
first
became
a
nation,
after
winning
its
independence
from
England,
it
had
thirteen
states. Each of the
states was represented on the American flag by a
star. All these were in the eastern part
of the continent. As the nation grew
toward the west, new states were added and new
stars appeared on the
flag.
For
a
long
time,
there
were
48
stars.
In
1959,
however,
two
more
stars
were
added
to
the
flag,
representing the new states of Alaska
and Hawaii.
Indians
were
the
first
people
of
the
land
which
is
now
the
United
States.
There
are
still
many
thousands of Indians now living in all
parts of the country. Sometimes it is said that
the Indians are
“
the
only
real
Americans
”
.
Most
Americans
come
from
all
over
the
world.
Those
who came
first
in
greatest
numbers
to
make
their
homes
on
the
eastern
of
North
America
were
mostly
from
England.
It
is
for
the
reason
that the language of the United States is English
and that its culture and customs are more like
those
of England than those of any
other country in the world.
美国占去北美大陆很大一
部分土地。它北邻加拿大，南接墨西哥。虽然美国是一个大国，但它
不是世界上最大的。
在
2000
年，它的人口超过
2.22
亿。
这片土地刚从英国独立出来，第
一次成为一个国家的时候，只有十三个州，
每个州在美国国旗
上由一颗星米代表。这些州都是在东部。当这个国家不断向西扩大，就增加了新的州，<
/p>
同时它们也
出现在国旗上。很长一段时
间，美国有
48
个州，
可是到
1959
年，国旗上有多了
< br>2
颗星，
分别代
表阿拉斯加和夏威夷。
印第安人是如今叫做美国的这块土地上的最初的居民。现在在各国各地仍然居住着许多这些原<
/p>
始居民的后裔。
有时人们说印第安人才是
“真正的美国人”
。
不过，
大部分美国人是来自世界各地。
那些最早大批来到北美东海岸建立家园的
人大部分来自英格兰，也是由于这个原因，美国的国语为
英语，而它的文化习俗也与英国
的更为相像。
1.
Which of the following is TURE?
以下选项哪个是正确的？
A
．
American is the largest country in the
world.
B
．
T
he United States lies next
to Canada and Mexico.
美国邻近加拿大和墨西哥。
C
．
A
merica covers most part of
the North American continent.
D.
Mexico is to the north of
Canada.
2.
After
winning its independence, the United States .
在赢得了独立之后，
美国和英格兰就没什么关系
了。
A. had
nothing to do with England
B. made India
part of its land
C. mianly
developed westward
D. took over parts of
Canada and Mexico
3.
The United States
didn
’
t havestates until.
美国在
1959
年前没有
50
个州。
A
．
thirteen;1959
B. fifty;1959
C. fifty, this land first
became a 1964
4.
Why is English the language of America?
为什么美国的国语是英语？
A
．
Because English
is the native language of the Indians.
因为土著人的语言是英语。
B.
Because most Americans come from all over the
world.
C. Because
Canada is America
’
s nearest
neighbor.
D. Because most
of the people who first settled in America were
from England.
5.
The best title for the
passage is
“”
.
这篇文章最好的标题是美国。
A. the States of America
B. The language
of America
C. The United
States of America
D.
The Culture and Customs of America
KEY:
BCBDC
Passage 2
（科学家）
What makes a person a scientist?
Does he have ways or tools of learning
that are different from those
of
others? The answer is “no”. It is not the tools a
scientist uses but how he uses these tools that
make him a
scientist. You will probably
agree that knowing how to use a power is important
to a carpenter. You will
probably
agree, too, that knowing how to investigate, how
to discover information, is important to everyone.
The
scientist,
however,
goes
one
step
further,
he
must
be
sure
that
he
has
a
reasonable
answer
to
his
questions and that his answer can be
confirmed by other persons. He also works to fit
the answer he gets to
many questions
into a large set of ideas about how the world
works.
是什么使一个普通人成为科学家？他有与从不
同的学习方法和工具吗？答案是否定的。不是因
为科学家使用的工具，而是因为他使用工
具的方法使他成为科学家。你也许认同怎么用力对一名木
匠来说很重要。你也许也认同怎
么研究调查，发现信息对每个人来说都很重要。然而，科学家比这
更进一步，他必须确定
他对自己的问题得出了一个合理的答案，并且他的答案通过别人也可以得到
证实。他同时
把自己得出的许多答案归结为一个系统的关于世界如何运作的观点。
The scientist’s knowledge
must be exact. There is no room for half right or
right just half the time. He
must be as
nearly right as the conditions permit. What works
under one set of conditions at one time must
work
under
the
same
conditions
at
other
times.
If
the
conditions
are
different,
any
changes
the
scientist
observes in a
demonstration must be explained by the changes in
the conditions. This is one reason that
investigations are important in
science. Albert Einstein, who developed the theory
of relativity, arrived at
this theory
through mathematics. The accuracy of this
mathematics was later tested through
investigations,
Einstein’s
ideas
were
shown
to
be
correct.
A
scientist
uses
many
tools
for
measurements.
Then
the
measurements are used to
make mathematical calculations that may test his
investigations.
科学家的知识必须很确切
。不能给半错半对或者只有一半机会对的情况留任何空间。他必须在
条件允许的情况下尽
可能正确。在一种条件下成功一次的话必须在同样的条件下都能成功。如果条
件不同，科
学家在证明过程中观察到的任何变化都必须解释他的条件是如何变化的。这是关于调查
研
究在科学研究中十分重要的其中一个理由。爱因斯坦通过数学方法提出了相对论。他的数学运用
< br>的正确性被后人通过调查研究的方法证实该理论是正确的。一个科学家会用很多工具来测量。测量
的结果用来进行数学计算，再进行调查研究的测试。
11. What makes a scientist
according to the passage?
根据这篇文章的观点科学家是如何来的？
A. The tools he uses.
way he uses his tools.
他使用工具的方法
C. His
way of learning.
D. The various
tools he uses.
12. “The scientist,
however, goes one step further…”. The author says
this to show _______.
“然而，科学家比这更进一步??”作者这么说是为了说明什
么？
A. the importance of
information
B. the
importance of thinking
C.
the difference between
scientists and ordinary
people
科学家与普通人的区别
D. the difference between carpenters
and people with other jobs
13. A sound
scientific theory should be one that
_______.
一项伟大的科学理论应该是怎么样的？
A.
works not only under one
set of conditions at one time, but also under the
same conditions at other
times
不仅只在一种条件下一次可行，而是要在同样的条件下一直可行。
B. does not allow any changes even
under different conditions
C. can be
used for many purposes
D. leave no room
for improvement
14. The author quotes
the case of Albert Einstein to illustrate _______.
作者引用爱因斯坦的例子是为了
证明什么？
A. that measurements are
答案
s to success in science
B. that accuracy of mathematics
C.
that the investigations
are important in
science
调查研究在科学领域十分重要。
D. that the mathematical calculations
may test his investigations
15. What is
the main idea of the passage?
这篇文章的中心意思是什么？
A.
The theory of relativity.
B.
Exactness is the core of science.
C.
Scientists are different from ordinary people.
D.
Exactness and ways of
using tools are the
答案
s to
the making of a scientist.
确切性和使用工具的方法是成为科学家的重要因素。
KEY
：
BCACD
Passage
3
（书商）
One day a
bookseller (
书商
) let a big
box of books fall on his foot.
“
Go to see the
doctor
，
”
said his wife.
“
No
”
,
he said,
“
I
’
ll
wait until the doctor comes into the shop next
time. Then I
’
ll ask him
about my
foot. If you I go to see him,
I
’
ll have to pay
him.
”
On the next
day the doctor came into the shop for some books.
When the bookseller was gettinghim ready,
he told the doctor about his bagd foot.
The doctor look at it.
“
You must put that foot in
hot water every night. Then you must put somthing
on it,
”
said the
deoctor.
He took out a piece of paper
and wrote on it.
“
Buy this
and put it on the foot before you go to bed every
night
，”
he said.
“
Thank
you,
”
said the
bookseller.
“
And now, sir,
here are your books.
”
“
How
much
？”
said the doctor.
“
Two
pounds.
”
“
Good,
”
said the doctor.
“
I shall not have to pay you
nothing.
”
“
Why
？”
asked
the bookseller.
“
I told you
about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If
people come to my house, I ask them to pay one
pound
for
a
small
thing
like
that.
But
when
I
go
to
their
houses,
I
want
two
pounds.
And
i
came
here,
didn
’
t
I
？”
一天一位书商被一大箱书砸到
了脚。他妻子说：“去看医生吧。”他说“不，我要等医生下次到店
里来，然后他帮我看
脚。如果到他那里看，我就给付给他诊金了。”
第二天医生到
书店里来买书。书商把书找齐，然后把脚伤告诉了医生。医生给他看脚。
医生说：“你每晚要用热水泡脚，然后上药。他拿出一张纸写下药方，说：“买这种药，然后每晚
睡前涂在脚上。”
书商说：“谢谢。那么，先生，这是您的书。”
医生问：“多少钱？”
“
2
英镑。”
“太好了，”医生说：“我就不用付您钱了。”
“为什么？”书商问道。
“我给你看
了脚，收你两英镑。像那样的小伤，如果到我那里看我只收一英镑。但是要我出诊，就
收
两英镑。而我到你这里来给你看病了，不是吗？”
1.
What happened
to the bookseller one day
?
有一天书商发生了什么事情？
A.
He lost a box
of books.
B. His foot was
wounded by a box of books.
C.
He lent the doctor a box of
books.
D. He sold out all his
books.
2. The
bookseller
’
s
wife asked him.
书商的妻子让他
.
A. to go out fo some
medecine
B. To send somebody for a
doctor
C. to go
to see the doctor
去看医生
D.
To wait for the doctor to come
3. The
bookseller didn
’
t take his
wife
’
s advice because .
书商没有接受妻子的建议是因为
.
A.
He was afraid
of the doctor
B. He
didn
’
t take to take medicine
B.
H
e
couldn
’
t walk by himself
D. He didn
’
t want
to pay the doctor
他不想付钱给医生
4. The
doctor paid
for the books.
医生支付了买书。
A
．
one pound
pounds
C. Nothing
没有
D. Something
5.
The bookseller paid
moeny
for seeing the doctor in the end.
A. more
更多
B.
Less
C.
The same amount of
KEY
：
BCDCA
Passage
4
（牛顿市）
Today
Newton
is
a
very
clean
place.
Many
years
ago,
however,
there
were
millions
of
rats
in
it.
They
attacked the cats and
dogs. Sometimes a great number of them knocked
down a man or woman walking
home at
night. The rats were very large in size and they
harmed many people.
They
goverment
ordered
everybody
to
kill
rats.
Most
people
were
lazy,
so
they
didn
’
t
kill
many.
The
goverment promised to pay some money
for each dead rat. The made the people very happy.
They killed
thousands
of
rats
everyday.
A
goverment
officer
put
all
the
dead
rats
in
a
big
pile.
Sometimes
a
man
brought hundreds in one day.
After two weeks there were not many
rats in the city, but people still brought many
rats to the goverment
office. The
goverment officer thought that people were
stealing dad rats from the pile. He ordered his
mean
to dig a deep hole and
put the rats in it. Soon there were no mroe rats,
and the goverment didn
’
t pay
any
more momey.
如今牛顿市是一个非常干净
的地方。然而，很多年前，那里有上百万只老鼠。它们袭击猫狗。走夜
路回家的人中，无
论男女，也经常有人被一大群老鼠撞到。那些老鼠个头很大，是很多人受伤。
政府下令每个人都要灭鼠。大多数人很懒，所以灭掉的不多。政府许诺会为每只死老鼠付赏金，这
让人们很兴奋。
每天人们灭掉成千上
万只老鼠，一名政府工作人员将死老鼠堆成一大堆。有时一个
人一天就带来百只死老鼠。
两周后，城里就没有很多老鼠了。但人们仍然将大量死老鼠带
到政府工作人员那里。他认为有人在
从老鼠堆里偷死老鼠，于是命令输下挖一个深坑，将
死老鼠丢进坑里。很快那里就没有老鼠了，政
府也不用再付赏金了。
1. Newton is a place which ,
牛顿市是一个的地方。
A
．
used to be very
clean
B. Is no longer a city
C
is very clean
很干净
D. Will be very clean
2. when the goverment first ordered the
people to kill rats, the people .
当政府初次下令市民灭鼠，人们
.
A.
A
sked for some money for
each dead rat
B.
Stole dead rats from the pile
B.
W
ere too lazy to kill many
rats
太懒所以没有大量灭鼠
D. Killed nearly all the
rats quickly
people killed rats .
人们灭鼠
.
A.
To get money from the goverment
为了从政府领到赏金
B.
To help the
goverment make the city clean
C.
Tomake the
goverment officer happy
D.
To
protect(
保护
)their cats and
dogs
4. A deep hole was dug so that .
挖深坑的目的是
.
A. the rats
couldn
’
t come out to attack
people at night.
B. people could take rats from it
easily
C.
people would kill more rats
D. nobody could take any
rats from the pile
没有人能从死老鼠堆里拿走老鼠
5.
What is the best topic for this passage
?
本文最佳标题是什么？
A
．
How to Kill
Rats
B. Newton--- A
City of Rats
C.
How Newton Became a Very Clean Place
牛顿市如何成为一个干净的地方
D. How Newton Became a
Famous City
KEY: CCADC
Passage 5
（汤姆）
Mr. Froster lived by himself a long way
form town. He hardly ever left his home, but one
day he went
iinto town to buy some
things in the market. After he had bought them, he
went into a restaurant ans sat
down
at
a
table
by
himself.
When
he
looked
around,
he
saw
several
old
people
put
glasses
on
before
reading their
man newspapers, so after lunch he
decided to go to a shop to buy himself some
glasses too.
He walked along the road,
and soon found a shop.
The man in the
shop made him try on a lot of glasses, but Tom
always said,
“
No, i
can
’
t read with
these.
”
The man became more and more puzzled (<
/p>
迷惑不解
)
，
u
ntil fianlly he said,
“
Excuse me, but can you
read at all
？”
“
No, of course i can
< br>’
t
！”
Tom said angrily.
“
If I was already able to
read, do you think i would
have come here to buy
glasses
？”
汤姆
.
福瑞斯特先生独自一人住在离城镇很远的地方。他几乎足不出户，但有一
天，他到城里的
市场上买点东西。
买完后，他走进一家餐馆，单独坐在桌边。
环顾四周，
他看到几位老人读报纸<
/p>
前都先戴上眼镜，
所以午餐后，
他决定到商店去给自己也买副眼镜。
沿街走着，
很快就找到一家店。
店员让他试戴了好几副眼镜，单汤姆总
是说：“不，我戴这副眼镜无法阅读。”
店员越来越感到迷惑
不解，知道最后他问道：“恕我失礼，但请问您究竟会阅读吗？”
“当然不会啦！
”
汤姆生气地说：
“如果我已经能够阅读的话，
你以为我还会来这儿买眼镜吗？”
1.
Mr. Forester
lived .
福瑞斯特先生居住
.
A.
With his family in a city
B.
With his family in the countryside
B.
Alone in a
city
D. Alone in the countryside
独自一人在乡村
2.
Tom
went into town.
汤姆
进城。
A
．
often
C. Almost never
几乎从不
D. Everyday
3. The old people in the restaurant
read their newspapers .
餐馆里的老人读报纸
。
A
．
with glasses on
戴着眼镜
B.
with glasses off
C. With glasses of beer in front of
them
D. with glasses pipes in their mouths
4. The shop Tom went into sold .
汤姆走进的那家店卖
.
A. drinking glasses and cups
B. glass for windowss and colors
C. glasses for people who could not
read
D. Glasses for people who could not see
well
眼镜给视力不好的人
5.
what kind of mistake did Tom
make
？
汤姆犯了什么错误？
A
．
He
went to the wrong kind of shop.
B. He
didn
’
t try on all the
glasses in the shop
C. He thought that a person who had not
learned to read would be able to do so if he wore
glasses.
他认为不会阅读的人戴上眼镜就能阅读了。
left his money in the restaurant
KEY
：
DCADC
Passage
6
（英国画家）
Once
James Thornhill, a famous English painter, was
asked to paint some pictures on the walls of the
king
’
s palace in
England.
Then workers were sent for and
a big platform(
台子
) was made.
With the help of a worker, Thornhill
started painting on the plastform. They worked for
a whole yeara
and at last the pictures
were ready.
Thornhill was happy when he
looked at the pictures, for they were really
beautifu. He looked at them
for a long
time, and then took one step back and looked
again. Now the pictures were even more beautiful.
He took another step, then another.
Finally he was at the very edge of the platform,
but he didn
’
t know it
because he was thinking of his picture.
The worker saw everything.
“
what should i
do
？”
he thought.
“
Thornhill was at the very
edge of the
platform. If I cry out, he
will take another step, fall off in and surely be
killed.
”
So the
worker quickly took
some paint
(
漆
)and threw iin at the
pictures.
“
what are you
doing
？”
cried the painter,
running quickly forward to his pictures.
詹姆斯
.
桑希尔是一名英国画家。有一次，他奉命在皇宫的
墙壁上作画。
之后派来了一些工匠，支起一个平台。
在一名工匠的帮助下，
桑希尔开始在平台上作画。他们工作了一整你，油画终于完成。
桑希尔望着油画很开心，因为那些油画是很美丽。他看了很长时间，然后退一步再看，现
在感
觉更美了。他又退一步，然后再退一步，
最后已经很靠近平台边缘了，
但是并
不知道，因为他只
想着自己的画。
工
匠看到了一切。“我该怎么做呢？”他想到，“桑希尔已经在平台的边缘了，如果大声喊叫，
他会再退一步，从平台上掉下来，
肯定会死。”于是工匠迅速拿油漆泼向油画。
“你在干吗？”画家喊道，飞快的向油画跑来。
1.
James
Thornhill was an English .
詹姆斯
.
桑希尔是一名英国
.
A
．
worker
B. artist
艺术家
C.
King
2. He was ordered to .
他奉命
.
A. paint the
wall of king
’
s palace in
England.
在英国皇宫的墙壁上作画。
B. paint some
pictures on the wall of the palace.
C. build a big platform in
front of the palace
D. put up some new pictures on the old
wall.
3. It took them
to finish the pictures.
他们完成油画用了。
A
．
a
month
B. a week
e months
十二个月
D. Half a month
4. James Thornhill felt that the
he was from the pictures,
the
they were.
詹姆斯
.
桑
希尔觉得他距离画，
那些画就
.
A
．
nearer... more
beautiful
... more ugly
...
more beautiful
越远
...
越美丽
D. Higher above... more
good-looking
worker threw
some paint at the pictures in order no.
工匠向油画泼油漆的目的是
.
A
．
save
Jame
’
s life
挽救詹姆斯的生命
B. destory the
picture
C. make the picture more
beautiful
the king angrey
KEY
：
BBCCA
Passage
7
（好商人）
Morgan
Rees has always been a good businessman. He used
to own three petrol stations and was busy
most of the time. When he was 65, the
normal retirement age, he decided that the
didn
’
t want to stop, so
he carried on working for another two
years. Eventually, when he was nearly 68, his
wiefe, Dolly, asked
him to retire
because she wanted to enjoy their old age
together. Reluctantaly, he handed over the
business
to his son.
But he
was unhappy. He didn
’
t know
what to do with himself. Although he read a lot of
books and
he went on holiday to
interesting places with his wife, he was bored and
befgan to get deperessed because
he
hated being retired.
Then one day he
saw an advertisement in the newspaper and, without
telling his wife, he bought a
small
crockery (
陶器
) factory. The
next week he told his family. They were horrified
and worried. They
thought he was too
old at 71 to start work again.
He is
now 76 and he has expanded the company
considerably. He has increased the number of staff
from 6 to 24 and he has found many new
customers for the products. He has developed the
export market
and has improved profits
by 200%. He has opened a new design office and
enpolyed three young designers.
They
have been all over the world to ger new ideas, and
one of them has gone to France this week to a
major trade fair. Most
importantly, he hasn
’
t been
bored since he brought the factory.
摩根<
/p>
.
里斯一直是一位不错的生意人。
他曾经
有过
3
个加油站，
< br>而且一直都很忙。
当他
65
岁时
，
也就是正常退休的年龄时，
他决定不想停止工作，
所以他又接着
干了两年。结果在他快
68
岁的时
候，
他妻子多丽让他退休，
希望能和他一起共度晚年的时光。今天
管他读了很多的书，而且也和妻
子一起去一些好玩的地方去度假，但是他感到很无聊，<
/p>
并且由于讨厌退休而开始变得压抑沮丧。
在这之后的一天，他在报纸上看到了一则广告，也没有告诉他的妻子，他就买下了一家小陶器
厂。
一周后他才告诉家里人。他们为此刚到惊讶，而
且有些担心。大家认为他不能以
71
岁高龄再
< br>重新开始工作了。
现在他
76
岁，
已经显著地扩大了公司的规模。
公司的员工人数从
6
人增加到
24
人，
而且他
还开发了很多新客户。
他也开拓了出口市场，利润增长
200%
。<
/p>
他还开办了一家新的设计室，
并
且聘用了三名年轻的设计师。他们一直世界各地四处发掘新的信息，
其中一位本周已经去了法国参
加一次重大的商铺交易会。最为重要的是，自从他收购了这
家工厂后，他便不再感到没事可做。
1.
The topic
sentence of Para.1 is .
第一段的主题句是？
A.
Morgan Rees
has always been a good businessman
摩根
.
里斯
一直是以为不错的生意人。
B.
He used to own three petrol stations
asn was busy most of the time
C.
When Morgen
Rees was 65, he got retired
D.
Reluctantly,
he handed over the business to his son
2.
The topic
sentence of Para.2 is .
第二段主题句是？
A
．
he
didn
’
t what to do with
himself
B. he went on holiday to interesting
places with his wife
C. he
was unhappy after he got retired
退休后他并不高兴
D. None of them
3.
Which of the following statements can
best express the main idea of
Para.3
？
< br>以下哪一项陈述能最
好地表达第三段的中心思想？
A
．
One day he saw
an advertisement in the newspaper
B.
He bought a small crockery factory in
seceret and started work again.
他偷偷买下一家
小陶器厂，
并重新开始工作。
C
．
He told his
family he bought a small factory.
D. His family
was horried and worried when they learned he
bought the small factory.
4.
What is the central idea of
the last paragraph
？
最后一段的中心思想是？
A
．
Morgan Rees has
worked until he is 76.
B. Morgan Rees
has developed the export market and improvedthe
profits by 200%
C. Morgan Rees
hasn
’
t been bored since he
bought the factory.
D. Since he started
working again, Morgan Rees has expanded the
company considerably, which has
enriched his retire life.
<
/p>
自从重新开始工作，摩根
.
里斯显著的扩
大了公司的规模，这丰富了他的退休
生活。
5. The passage mainly deals with .
这篇文章主要讲的是？
A
．
why Morgan Rees
bought a small crockery factory
B. how
Morgan Rees lived his retired like more happy by
turning to work again.
摩根
.
里斯
如何通过重新开始工作使他的退休生活更加快乐。
Morgan Rees became a good businessman
Morgan Rees expanded the company considerably.
KEY
：
ACBDB
Passage 8
（
24
号居民）
The residents of 24 Acacia Grove were
dissatisfied with the condition of the property,
so John Preston
called a meeting to
discuss things last week. At the meeting John
suggested setting up a
residents
’
committee. Everyone was so worried and
angry about the agent
’
s
inactivity that they agreed, and they
elected John as chairman of the
committee. Many residents said that they were
tired of telephoning the
agent and
tired of complaining about the flats. Although the
agent was responsible for the flats, they
thought that he
didn
’
t do enough. Therefore
John was asked to write to the agent and say that
they were
disappointed with the
management of the flats.
The next service payment was due at the
end of the month. However, they agreed not to pay
it until
they were happy with the plans
to improve the property. They decided to tell the
agent that he must start the
work
within one month. They all went away very pleased
with themselves.
阿卡西亚格拉芙街
24<
/p>
号的居民对公寓情况不满意
,
因此上周
约翰
.
普雷斯顿召开会议进行讨论。
在
会上约翰建议成立居民委员会，对房东代理的无所作为，大家既担心又气愤，所以，他们都同意
< br>成立委员会。
他们选举约约翰为委员会主席。许多居民
说，他们憎恶在给房东代理打电话，向他们
抱怨公寓的状况。尽管房东代理有责任管理公
寓。但是他们认为房东代理做得不够。因此居民要求
约翰写信给房东代理说明他们对公寓
的管理很失望。
下期付费应该在月底，但是他们一致决定直到
房东代理制定出令人满意的改善计划，他们才付
服务费。
他们决定告诉房东代理必须在一个月内开始工作。然后他们都十分满意的离开了。
1.
Why did
John Preston call a meeting last week?
上周约翰
.
普雷斯特为什么召开会议？
A
．
Because the residents were dissatisfied
with the presents
’committee
.
B
．
B
ecause the residents were
dissatisfied with the bad management of the flats.
因为居民们对公
寓的管理不满意。
C
．
B
ecause some residents
requested to change the present
residents
’
committee.
E.
Because he
wanted to become chairman of the committee.
2.
Who elected
John as chairman of the committee?
谁推选约翰为委员会主席？
A
．
The
agent
B. the residents
居民们
C.
the committee
D. Acacia Grove
3.
What does the word
“
< br>inactivity
”
mean in the thrid sentence in
Para.1
？
第一段第三句中的<
/p>
“
inactivity
”
一词是什么意思？
A.
weakness
B.
Progress
C.
State
D. Lace of actions
(
缺乏行动
)
4.
What does the
word
“
due
”
mean in the first sentence in
Para.2
？
第二段第一句中的<
/p>
“
due
”
一词
是什么意思？
A
．
to be paid
到期支付
B. Proper
C. Owed
D. large
5.
When did they agree to pay
the next service payment
? <
/p>
他们一直同意什么时候付下一期的服务
费？
A
．
at the end of
the month
B. Within one month
C. When they
were happy with the plans to improve the property.
直到房东代理制定出令人满意的
改善计划时
D. The agent would tell them.
KEY
：
BBDAC
Passage
9
（集邮）
When I was
a little girl, my brothers and i collected stamps
for many years. My mother
didn
’
t use to
work during the week, but she worked in
the post office near our house on Saturdays and
she used to bring
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