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【模拟试题】
Passage 1
A tourist comes
out of the airport . There are a lot of taxis ,
but the tourist asks every taxi - driver
his name . He takes the third taxi . It
costs
￡
5 from
the airport to the hotel . “How much does it
cost for the whole day ”the tourist
asks . “
￡
100
.”says the taxi
- driver . This is very
expensive ,
but the tourist accepts the
price .
The taxi - driver takes the
tourist everywhere . He shows him all the
monuments
（纪念馆）
and all
the museums . In the evening they go
back to the hotel . The tourist gives the taxi -
driver
￡
100
and
say
：
“What about tomorrow
”The taxi
-
driver looks at
the tourist , “Tomorrow It’s another
￡
100 tomorrow . ”But the
tourist says
：
“That’s O. K.
If that’s the price , that’s the price . See
you tomorrow .”The tax
i -
driver is very pleased .
The next day
the taxi - driver takes the tourist everywhere
again . They visit all the museums and
all the monuments again . And in the
second evening they go back to the hotel . The
tourist gives
the tai - driver another
￡
100 and
says
：
“I’m going home
tomorrow .”The taxi
- driver is sorry .
He likes the tourist and , above all ,
￡
100 a day is
good money . “So you’re going home .
Where do you come from ”he asks
.
“I come from New York
.”
“New York !”says the taxi
-
driver , “I
have a sister in New York . Her name is
Susannah . Do you
know her ”
“Of course I know her . She gave me
￡
200 for you
.”
Multiple choice
：
1. The story
takes place in ________ .
a. U. S. A.
b. England
c.
France
d. Sweden
2. The
tourist is _______ .
a. an
Englishman
b. A Frenchman
c. a
Swedish
d. An American
3. The tourist asks every taxi - driver
his name because ________ .
a. he is
afraid of being cheated
b. he knows one
of the taxi - drivers
c. he knows of
one of the taxi drivers
d. there is a
friend of his among the taxi drivers
4.
Why is the taxi - driver very pleased with the
tourist
a. None but the
tourist agrees the price given without arguing
with him .
b. His sister knows the
tourist .
c. His sister has brought so
much money to him .
d. He wants to be
the guide of the tourist .
5. We can
conclude that the tourist is _________ .
a. a cheat
b. a serious and
careful person
c. a person
who can’t be believed in
d.
a person who is fond of fun
Passage 2
The world is made up of seven
continents and five oceans . The seven continents
are
：
Asia ,
Africa , Europe , North America , South
America . Oceania and Antarctica . The five oceans
are
：
the Atlantic Ocean ,
the Pacific Ocean , the Indian Ocean , the Arctic
Ocean and the Antarctic
Ocean .
Asia is the biggest continent , on the
east of which is our motherland . Another country
in East
Asia is Japan , an island
country in the Pacific Ocean , Korea is also in
East Asia . India is in
South Asia .
Most of the countries in West Asia are
Arab countries . The countries in North Africa are
Arab
countries too . The Arab countries
in West Asia and North Africa are usually called
“the Middle
East .”
Africa is made up of North Afria ,
South Africa , West Africa , East Africa and
Central Africa . It
is also a big
continent , though not as big as Asia . Egypt is
in North Africa . Most people in
Africa
, except those living in the north , are black
people . They speak many different languages .
Europe is smaller than Africa . Belgium
, France , Germany and Italy are developing
countries on
this continent . Britain
is in Northwest Europe . It is an island country
in the Atlantic Ocean , off
the
European mainland , Part of the Soviet
Union
（
苏联）
is in
East Europe and part of it is in North
Asia . It is regarded as a European
country .
North America and South
America are two separate continents between the
Pacific Ocean and the
Atlantic Ocean .
In North America there are three big countries
：
Canada , the United States
and
Mexico , with Canada in the north ,
Mexico in the south and the United States between
the two .
Oceania is a small continent
. It is a big island between the Pacific and the
Indian Ocean .
Sometimes people call it
Australia .
Antarctica is
in the farthest south of the world , a very cold
yet very rich continent with no people
living there .
Multiple
choice
：
6. Africa
is generally considered to be made up of _______
parts .
a. two
b.
three
c. four
d. five
7. Only a small part
of African people are white people , living in
___________ .
a. Egypt
b. Arab
countries
c. North
Africa
d. South Africa
8. Japan is an island country , lying
_______ the east of China .
a.
in
. to
c.
toward
d.
on
9. The Soviet Union is looked upon
as ___________
a. an island country
b. an Asian country
c. a
European country
d. an Arab country
10. How many big countries are there in
North America
a. One
.
b. Two .
c. Three .
d. Four .
Passage 3
Although the Arabian camel can go
without drinking for a long while , its
hump
（驼峰）
does not
store water as is commonly believed .
The real secret of the a
nimal’s unusual
ability to store water
lies in the fact
that very little of the camel’s water is lost by
evaporation
（蒸发）
through the
skin .
Instead of sweating out great
quantities of water , the camel’s body temperature
rises , sometimes
as much as eleven
degrees , to
compensate
（低消）
for heat
outside . When a camel does require
water , it replaces only the amount
lost since its last drink .
In Egypt ,
between November and April , the camel can go for
three or four months without
drinking
if it
grazes
（
吃草）
in
pastures where dew
（露水）
and
showers keep the vegetation green .
If
only dry feed is available , the camel will get
thirsty after several weeks
——
even during
January .
The length of time
a camel can go without drinking is greatly
determined by time of year , force of
wind , heat in the air ,
intensity
（
强度）
of
sunlight , amount of reflected heat , kind of food
, weight
of the load carried , speed
the camel travels , and number of hours spent
daily in travel .
Multiple
choice
：
11. The
real purpose of a camel’s hump
is
_________
a. to store food instead of
water
b. to evaporate water
c. to carry huge loads
d.
not mentioned
12. The camel sweats very
little because ________ .
a. its body
temperature rises as temperature outside increases
b. it can reduce the temperature
c. it has no
pores
（毛孔）
in its skin
d. it eats dry vegetation
13. When a camel does drink , it drinks
_________ .
a. enough to last for three
or four months
b. as much as it has
lost
c. very little
d.
enough to last until the next
oasis
（绿洲）
14. The
maximum
（最大的）
lenght of time a
camel can go without drinking __________ .
a. depends on how much water it has
stored in its hump
b. depends only on
the season of the year
c. is four
months
d. varies
15. Which of the following does not
affect the length of time a camel can go without
drinking
a. Its diet
b. Its sex
c. Wind
d. Heat