0492《大学英语三》阅读理解习题1. Careful and careless are different as fire and water. But it is strange that quite a few scientists haveboth these qualities. They are both careful and careless. Newton （ 牛 顿 ） , the famous Englishscientist, was such a person. Once Newton invited a friend to dinner at home. When they were ready to eat, Newton left to get abottle of wine. But after his friend had waited for a long time, Newton still didn't come back. At lasthis friend found Newton in his lab. When Newton was going to get the bottle of wine, he suddenly hada new idea for his experiment. So he quite forgot his friend and the dinner. Another time, Newton wasleading a horse up a mountain, and held the rein（缰绳）in his hand. While he was walking, he keptthinking about problems. When he got to the top of the mountain, he found that the rein was not in hishand and that the horse was gone. Einstein（爱因斯坦）was another example. Once he was waiting for a friend at a bridge. Whilewaiting, he became lost in thought. It started to rain. The rain kept on for some time. When he tookout a piece of paper to write something down, the paper was wet and then he knew that it was raining.But after he put the paper into his pocket, he forgot he was standing in the rain again. 1. When Newton and his friend began to eat, Newton had a new idea for his experiment.A. T B. F答案：B2. Newton was riding his horse up to the mountain top. A. T B. F答案：B3. Einstein kept thinking in the rain.A. T B. F答案：A4. Newton and Einstein were careless about their lives, and careful in their studies.A. T B. F答案：A5. All scientists are both careful and careless like Newton and Einstein. A. T B. F答案：B2. Oil is so important that it is sometimes called “black gold”. Almost half of our energy comes fromoil. We use it to run our cars and factories and to heat our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday1 Some people prefer to travel by sea when possible. There are large liners and river boats. You canvisit many other countries and different parts of your country on them. Ships are not so fast as trainsor planes, but traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable. You can travel three or fourhundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like. You can stop wherever youwish - where there is something interesting to see, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a goodmeat, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is why traveling by car is popular for pleasure trips, whilepeople usually take a train or plane when they are traveling on business.1. From the passage, we know the fastest way of traveling is by plane. A. T B. F答案：A2. The underlined word “They” in the passage refers to comfortable seats and dining-cars. A. T B. F答案：A3. If we travel by car, we can make our own timetable. A. T B. F答案：A4. When people travel on business, they usually take a plane or a car. A. T B. F答案：B5. Four ways of traveling are mentioned in the passage. A. T B. F答案：A12. Peter wondered why he didn't have many friends. The reason was he was always taking, nevergiving. One day Peter told Bill, “I'd like to give a party on Saturday, I'd like you to come and bringMartha, too.” “Thanks, Peter. We'd be happy to come.” “Perhaps you'd like to bring your violin. Youand Martha sing well together. I'm sure everyone will want you to sing for us.” That was how Peterbegan to plan his party. Next he asked another friend, Betty, to bring a cake. “You make the best cakein the world, Betty, and I like to eat your cake better than have one from the bakery.” Peter invited afew other friends to come to his party. He didn't forget to ask something from each one of them. Heeven asked Jim and Mary Jackson to let him give the party at their house! They agreed. The party was a big success. However, as the guests were leaving, they said “Thank you ” to Billand Martha for the music, Betty for the cake, the Jacksons for the use of the house and to others fortheir hard work. To Peter they just said, “Thanks for the invitation.”10 答案：D113. Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxiousand self-conscious; that is, they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions.Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: what kind of impression am Imaking? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing unattractive clothes?It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must negatively affect people. A person’sconception of himself or herself is reflected in the way he or she behaves, and the way a personbehaves affects other people’s reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has aprofound effect on all areas of their lives.Shy people, having low self-esteem, are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others.They need reassurance that they are doing “the right thing.” Shy people are very sensitive tocriticism; they feel it confirms their feelings of inferiority. They also find it difficult to be pleasedby compliment with a statement like this one, “You’re just saying that to make me feel good. Iknow it’s not true.” It is clear that while self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it isharmful.Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? Fortunately, people can overcomeshyness with determined and patient efforts in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes handin hand with a lack of self-esteem, it is important for people to accept their weaknesses as well astheir strengths.Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual, interested in our own personal ways. Thebetter we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to live up to our full potential. Let’s notallow shyness to block our chances for a rich and fulfilling life. 1. What does the author try to prove by citing “what kind of impression am I making?” (Para.1)__________A. Shy people benefit from their caring about their appearance.B. People’s shyness make them care too much about their appearance and actions.C. It’s natural that shy people don’t believe other’s compliments.D. Shy people think they are different from others.答案：B2. According to the writer, self-awareness is __________.A. a good quality B. the cause of unhappinessC. harmful to people D. a weak point of shy people答案：A3. That shy people react to a compliment in such a way is ___________.A. good B. unreal C. very reasonable D. harmful答案：D4. Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage? _________A. Shyness helps us to develop our potentialB. Shyness enables us to understand ourselves betterC. Shyness can block our chances for a rich lifeD. Shyness has nothing to do with lack of self-esteem答案：C5. It can be inferred from the passage that shy people ________.A. should find more of their weaknessB. should understand themselves in the right wayC. had better ignore their weaknessD. can get rid of their shyness while maintaining low self-esteem答案：B114. Today Newton is a very clean place. Many years ago, however, there were millions of rats100 in it. They attacked the cats and dogs. Sometimes a great number of them knocked down a man orwoman walking home at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed many people.The Government ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they didn't killmany. The Government promised to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the peoplevery happy. They killed thousands of rats everyday. A Government officer put all the dead rats ina 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 theGovernment office. The Government officer thought that people were stealing dad rats from thepile. He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats,and the Government didn't pay any more money. 1. Newton is a place which ______.A. used to be very clean B. is no longer a cityC. is very clean D. will be very clean答案：C2. When the Government first ordered the people to kill rats, the people ______.A. asked for some money for each dead ratB. stole dead rats from the pileC. were too lazy to kill many ratsD. killed nearly all the rats quickly答案：C3. The people killed rats ______.A. to get money from the GovernmentB. to help the Government make the city cleanC. to make the Government officer happyD. to protect（保护）their cats and dogs答案：A4. A deep hole was dug so that ______.A. the rats couldn't come out to attack people at nightB. people could take rats from it easilyC. people would kill more ratsD. nobody could take any rats from the pile答案：D5. What is the best topic for this passage?A. How to Kill RatsB. Newton 一 A City of RatsC. How Newton Became a Very Clean PlaceD. How Newton Became a Famous City答案：C115. Mr Brown was very good at fixing things around the house when they broke. One day hewent to another city to do some work there, and his wife was alone in the house. While Mr Brownwas away, one of the faucets （自 来水 龙头 ） on the bathtub broke. Mrs Brown didn't knowmuch about fixing broken faucets, so she telephoned a plumber（管子工）.The plumber came to the house that afternoon and fixed the faucet in a few minutes. When hefinished, he gave Mrs Brown his bill for the work.She looked at it for several seconds and then said, "Your prices are very high, aren't they? Doyou know, the doctor costs less than this when he comes to the house?""Yes, I know," answered the plumber, "I know that very well, because I was a doctor until Iwas lucky enough to find this job a few months ago."1. As one of her faucets broke, Mrs Brown asked a plumber to fix it.101 A. T B. F答案：A2. It took the plumber only a few minutes to finish the work because the plumber didn't do itcarefully, but very quickly.A. T B. F答案：B3. In fact, the plumber's prices were even higher than a doctor's.A. T B. F答案：A4. The plumber knew that very well because he went to see a doctor a few months ago.A. T B. F答案：B5. The plumber thought he was lucky because he could get more money than before.A. T B. F答案：A116. Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother and father wereof Puritan ( 清 教 徒 的 ) religion. They left England and moved to the English colony ofMassachusetts in order to escape persecution ( 迫害) for their religion. In Boston, Franklin leftschool when he was ten years old and worked for his father for two years. Then he went to workon his brother's newspaper. He became the editor of this paper when he was sixteen. Because hewanted to be independent, he went to Philadelphia. There he bought his own newspaper. Heworked hard and saved his money. And by the age of 24 he was one of the most successful menin Philadelphia.In 1732 Franklin published a book POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC( 历 本 ). Most almanacscontained information for farmers, such as information about the days and weeks of the year andabout the weather. To his almanac, Franklin added wise sayings, his observations about life, someof these sayings are still famous today. For example, "Early to bed, early to rise makes a manhealthy, wealthy and wise," and "Waste not, want not," and "A penny saved is a penny earned."1. Benjamin Franklin was of English origin.A. T B. F答案：A2. His parents moved to Massachusetts because they wanted to make a fortune.A. T B. F答案：B3. At the age of 11, he worked for his brother.A. T B. F答案：B4. He moved to Philadelphia because he wanted to be dependent.A. T B. F答案：B5. Franklin's almanacs contained information for farmer and wise sayings.A. T B. F答案：A117. A pretty, well-dressed young lady stopped a taxi in a big square, and said to the driver, “Doyou 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 lookingimpatiently at his watch every few seconds.102 “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 tocross the street?”“Oh, no!” said the young lady. “But I promised that I would meet the young man for lunch atone o' clock, and it is now a quarter to two. If I arrive in a taxi, it will at least seem as if I hadtried not to be late.”1. The story doesn't tell us how the young woman got to the square.A. T B. F答案：A2. The lady stopped the taxi because she was afraid of walking across the street.A. T B. F答案：B3. The young man at the other side of the square had probably been waiting for a long time.A. T B. F答案：A4. The young lady was clever at making excuse.A. T B. F答案：A5. The young lady was just pretending that she had tried.A. T B. F答案：A118. One day John's wife was ill. He called the doctor and made sure they would meet at five. Inthe afternoon, he drove his car to the doctor's and got there at twenty to five. He thought, "It's alittle earlier. I'll wait for a moment. It's good to keep the time."Then he stopped his car in front of the doctor's. He looked around and saw a noisy squarenearby. He went there and sat down on a chair to enjoy the last sunlight in the afternoon andmake himself quiet. He saw some children playing and some women talking to each otherhappily.Suddenly he heard a girl crying. He came up to her and asked some questions. Then he knewshe got lost. John tried to find out her address and took her home. The girl's parents were verythankful.Then John hurried to the doctor's. The doctor said angrily when he saw him, "You're late.Why did you keep me waiting for twenty minutes? "John said nothing but one word-"Sorry!"1. John arrived at the doctor's before five o'clock.A. T B. F答案：A2. John went to the square to help the children.A. T B. F答案：B3. The girl cried because she didn't find the way home.A. T B. F答案：A4. At last John got to the doctor's at twenty past five.A. T B. F答案：A5. From the story, we know John is a busy person.A. T B. F答案：B103 119. Ali, who was working a long way from home wanted to send a letter to his wife, but hecould neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody towrite his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter writer whose name wasNasreddin.Nasreddin was already in bed. “It is late,” he said. "What do you want?" "I want you to write aletter to my wife, "said Ali, Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and thensaid, "Has the letter got to go far?" "What does that matter?" answered Ali. "Well, my writing isso strange that only I can read it, and if I have to travel a long way to read your letter to yourwife, it will cost you a lot of money." Ali went away quickly.1. Ali wanted to have a letter written to his wife.A. T B. F答案：A2. At last he found the house of a letter-writer.A. T B. F答案：A3. When Ali told Nasreddin what he wanted to do, Nasreddin was excited.A. T B. F答案：B4. Nasreddin said that his writing was too strange for anyone to write.A. T B. F答案：B5. This story tells us not to trouble others at night.A. T B. F答案：A120. Wall Street is the name of a street in New York and very famous in the whole world. It is thefinancial （ 金 融 的 ） center of the USA, exerting （ 施 加 ） a significant influence upon theworld's economy. Hetty Green, who was born in 1835, was nicknamed the Wizard (奇才) of WallStreet. She became almost a legendary figure in Wall Street, because she made a lot of moneybuying and selling shares（份股）in companies.Hetty Green began making money when her father died and she inherited(继承遗产) all hismoney. By investing wisely, she soon built up her fortune to over 100 million dollars. However,she hated spending money on herself or on her family. Actually, she hated spending money oneverything except buying shares. She was so mean that when her son Edward broke his leg, shewould not send for a doctor. She did not want to pay a doctor's bill. She refused to send her son toa good hospital. Instead, she took the boy to a free charity hospital. There he did not get very good treatment and, to save his life, he had to have his leg cut off.Still his mother would not pay for proper hospital treatment. She sent for a doctor who cut off theboy's leg in her living room. It's incredible（难以置信的）, isn't it? 1. Wall Street is the name of Chinatown in New York. A. T B. F答案：B2. Hetty Green was called the Wizard of Wall Street because she made a large sum of money withshares.A. T B. F答案：A3. The underlined word “mean” in the 2nd paragraph probably can be replaced by nice.A. T B. F答案：B104 4. When her son broke his leg, Hetty Green sent for a doctor.A. T B. F答案：B5. Hetty Green died a poor old woman.A. T B. F答案：B121. Once Mark Twain and two friends were sitting in a restaurant. One friend had just returnedfrom a trip to Vermont. The friend said that the air in the mountains of Vermont was very clear.In many places the echo of a voice came back five times stronger than the original voice. Thesecond friend said that was nothing. In Colorado, where he lived, in many places the echo of avoice spoken in the morning came back in the afternoon. Mark Twain laughed. The he said:"Listen! The echoes which you have told about are very unusual. But in a small church inMissouri, where I was born, there is an echo more unusual even than those.""What is so strange about the echo there?" asked one of the men."Well, I will tell you," said Mark Twain. "The echo in that church is so unusual that if oneasks in a loud voice: Good morning! How are you? The echo repeats very clearly after a moment:Very well, thank you. And how are you?" 1. The story happened at a gathering after one of Mark Twain's friends was back from his trip toVermont.A. T B. F答案：A2. Mark Twain and his friends were talking about their recent travels in the restaurant.A. T B. F答案：B3. Mark Twain was born in Mississippi.A. T B. F答案：B4. The topic of their stories is very serious.A. T B. F答案：B5. You can infer from the story Mark Twain had a good sense of humor.A. T B. F答案：A122. Mark Twain was famous as a writer, but he was also famous as a public speaker and teller offunny stories. He often went from town to town giving lectures.One day he was walking along the street of a small town where he was going to give a lecturethat evening. He met a young man who said, "Mr. Twain, I'd like to talk to you for a minute,please. I have an uncle that I'm fond of. The problem is he never laughs or smiles. Can you doanything?""Bring your uncle to my lecture this evening, young man. I guarantee that he'll laugh andsmile."That evening the young man and his uncle sat in the first row. Mark Twain spoke directly atthem. He told some funny stories, but the old man never smiled. Then he told the funniest storieshe knew, but the old man's face still remained blank （茫然的）. At last, Mark Twain left theplatform almost exhausted.Later Mark Twain was talking with a friend about this."Oh!" said the friend, "I know that old man. He has been deaf for years."1. Mark Twain often went from town to town because he was fond of traveling.105 A. T B. F答案：B2. The young man asked Mark Twain to do something to make his uncle laugh and smile.A. T B. F答案：A3. That evening the young man and his uncle sat in the first row.A. T B. F 答案：A4. When Mark Twain told the funniest stories in the lecture, the young man and his uncle lefthalfway.A. T B. F答案：B5. The old man didn't laugh in the lecture because he had been unable to hear for years.A. T B. F答案：A123. As she walked round the huge department store, Edith reflected how difficult it was tochoose a suitable Christmas present for her father. She wished that he was as easy to please as hermother, who was always delighted with perfume.Besides, shopping at this time of the year was a most unpleasant experience: people trod onyour toes, poked (戳) you with their elbows and almost knocked you over in their haste to get abargain ahead of you.Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a counter where some attractive ties were ondisplay. “They are real silk”, the assistant assured her, trying to tempt her. “Worth double theprice.” But Edith knew from past experience that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father.She moved on reluctantly and then quite by chance, stopped where a small crowd of men hadgathered round a counter. She found some good quality pipes on sale－and the prices were veryreasonable. Edith did not hesitate for long: although her father only smoked a pipe occasionally,she knew that this was a present which was bound to please him.When she got home, with her small well-chosen present concealed in her handbag, her parentswere already at the supper table. Her mother was in an especially cheerful mood, “Your father hasat last decided to stop smoking.” She told her daughter.1. It is difficult to choose a suitable present for Edith's father.A. T B. F答案：A2. The assistant spoke to Edith because she seemed interested in ties.A. T B. F答案：A3. Edith stopped at the pipe counter purposely.A. T B. F答案：B4. Edith's father smoked a pipe on social occasions.A. T B. F答案：B5. Shopping was very unpleasant at that time of the year because it was too crowded.A. T B. F答案：A124. Paul got on the bus to go to the town. It was very crowded, and he had to stand for about five106 minutes. Then some of the passengers got off. Paul sat down next to a fat lady. She had severalshopping bags, and Paul didn't have much room on the seat. At last the bus got to the town. Allthe passengers started to get off. Paul was very polite, so he stood up to let the fat lady get offbefore him. She said, "Thank you." Then she tried to get out of the seat with all her bags. But shecouldn't move. She was stuck!Paul had to push the lady. The conductor pulled her. Finally they got her free but she wasn'tpleased."I'll write to the bus company," she said. "I'll tell them not to make buses with such smallseats."1. The lady couldn't get out of the seat, because the bus was very crowded.A. T B. F答案：B2. Paul got a seat on the bus just before he wanted to get off.A. T B. F答案：B3. Paul was very polite and he stood up to let the lady get off before him.A. T B. F答案：A4. ... and Paul didn't have much room on the seat. The word "room" here means part of a house.A. T B. F答案：B5. She was stuck! In the story it means she wasn't able to move or to get out.A. T B. F答案：A125. Lily was sitting in her living-room. She was looking out of the window. There was a man inthe street. He had a black hat and a black jacket. He walked to the house with the glass door. Heknocked at the door. And the door wasn't open. Then he walked away from the house."Who is that? And what is he doing?" Lily said to herself.The man walked to the house again. He had a ladder. He went up the ladder. The bedroomwindow was open. The man went to it."He must be a thief!" Lily thought and telephoned the police.Lily looked out of the window again. The ladder was there, but the man wasn't there. He wasin the house. Lily went to the house and knocked on the glass door. But the man was in thebedroom. He was not coming to the door. Lily went up the ladder. She went to the bedroomwindow. The man was there."Who are you? What are you doing on my ladder?" the man said."What are you doing in this house?''"It's my house, but my wife has the key."Just then, the police car came. "Why are you standing on that ladder? Is that your house?'' apoliceman asked."No," answered Lily."Ah! You are the thief."1. One day when Lily was in her living-room, she saw a man in black walk to a house with aglass door.A. T B. F答案：A2. The man had a ladder when he walked to the house again because he was a policeman.A. T B. F答案：B107 3. The man went into the house through the bedroom window.A. T B. F答案：A4. Lily thought he was a thief and telephoned to the police.A. T B. F答案：A5. At last, the policeman thought there was no thief.A. T B. F答案：B126. A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man - the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning byworking with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupiesa higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the commonlaborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father startedlife in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.This attitude toward manual (体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life.One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously ( 豪华地)furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to affordforeign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probablywill cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward; furthermore, thedinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents ofvarious cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usuallytakes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional may talk about washing thecar, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, justas he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table andwash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on ahighway in order to pay for his education. 1. From Para. 1, we know that in America _________.A. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made manB. people can always rise to the top through their won effortsC. college professors win great respect from common workersD. people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors答案：A2. According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _________.A. servants in America are hard to get. B. she takes pride in what she can do herselfC. she can hardly afford servantsD. it is easy to prepare a meal with canned food答案：B3. The underlined expression “wait on table” in Para. 2 means “_________”.A. work in a furniture shop B. keep accounts for a barC. wait to lay the table D. serve customers in a restaurant答案：D4. The author’s attitude towards manual labor is _______.A. positive B. negative C. humorous D. critical答案：A5. Which of the following could be the best title of the passage? A. A Respectable Self-made Family B. American Attitude toward Manual LaborC. Characteristics of American Culture D. The Development of Manual Labor108 答案：B127. Madison Avenue in New York is a well-known place in the U.S. It is the place where manyadvertising companies have their offices. And advertising is one of the biggest businesses inAmerica. The same kinds of things are produced and sold by many different companies in the U.S.Many different companies sell cars; many others sell oil. Many different companies sell clothes,tires, and so on. Each company wants the public to buy its products. By advertising thesecompanies make the public interested in what they want to sell. Each company pays advertisers to tell the public about its products. Suppose a company has anew breakfast cereal (谷类食物) that it wants to sell. In an advertising office on Madison Avenueplans are made for telling the public about this product. The advertising company takes beautifulpictures of people eating the cereal. These pictures appear in newspapers or magazines, and alsoon TV. Here is an example of a TV advertisement telling the public about a new breakfast cereal. It shows a well-known basketball player eating a big bowl of WAKE-UPS. We know it isWAKE-UPS because the box is beside him on the table. Basketball Player: I always start my day with WAKE-UPS, the cereal made especially forpeople like me. I have to have good health. WAKE-UPS can make me strong. If you want to bestrong and have good health, eat WAKE-UPS every morning! 1. Madison Avenue is well-known because there are many advertising companies there.A. T B. F答案：A2. In order to persuade the public to buy its products, a company should start an office in MadisonAvenue.A. T B. F答案：B3. If a company wants to sell a new breakfast cereal, it will have to pay an advertiser to makeadvertising plans.A. T B. F答案：A4. WAKE-UPS is the name of an advertising company.A. T B. F答案：B5. The best title for this text is the Big Business of Advertising.A. T B. F答案：A128. Wang Yani was born in 1975 in Gongcheng, China. Even when she was a baby, she loved todraw lines everywhere. Seeing this, her father decided to help her. He gave her paint, brushes andpaper. She practised hard and improved very quickly. Soon her lines became flowers, trees andanimals. Some of her pictures were shown in an art exhibition in Shanghai at the age of 4.By age six, Yani had made over 4,000 paintings. She loved to draw animals, especiallymonkeys and cats. Although her father was good at drawing, he didn't give her any art lessons.He even stopped painting his own pictures. Instead, he often took the little girl to parks and zoosto get ideas for her work. In this way, Yani developed her own style of painting with brightcolours. All her pictures were different from others.At the age of 8, one of her monkey paintings was made into a Chinese stamp. Later, shestarted to draw pictures of country scenery and people. And when she was just 14, she became theyoungest person to have personal shows in Washington D. C. and many other cities around theworld.109 1. The party was held at Peter's house. A. T B. F答案：B2. Betty made the best cake. A. T B. F答案：A3. All his friends liked Peter. A. T B. F答案：B4. Peter did everything to give the party. A. T B. F答案：B5. From the story, we can see Peter was a selfish man. A. T B. F答案：A13. Have you ever listened to young children talking in the playground? They are always boasting.They say things like, "My Dad's car is bigger than your Dad's, "and "My Mom is smarter than yours."They particularly like to boast about their families. There were three little boys, Harry, Ted and Gavin, who were always boasting. Gavin was theworst. Everything about his family was always the best or the biggest or the most expensive. Whatever the others said, he could always go on better. One day when they were walking toschool, Harry said, "My father had a bath twice a week," Ted spoke next. " That's nothing," he said."Having a bath twice a week is dirty. My father has a bath every day, sometimes twice a day." Tedlooked at Gavin. Now it was his turn. But what could he say? " This time, " Ted thought, " I'm goingto win." Gavin didn't know what to say. He couldn't say that his father had a bath three times a day.That was silly. He walked on in silence. Ted smiled at Harry, and Harry smiled back. They were surethat for once they had beaten Gavin. They reached the school gates. Still Gavin said nothing. Theywent into class. Morning break，lunch time and afternoon break all passed. Still Gavin said nothing."We've won, " Ted said to Harry, but he spoke too soon. On the way home, Gavin said, "My Dad is soclean that he doesn't have to bathe at all." 1. According to the passage，the meaning of the word "boast" is " to talk big ". A. T B. F答案：A2. Harry boasted about the number of times his father had a bath every week. A. T B. F11 1. Wang Yani' s pictures were first shown in Gongcheng.A. T B. F答案：B2. She was especially good at drawing monkeys and cats before she was eight.A. T B. F答案：A3. Her father took her to zoos and parks because he wanted the girl to get ideas for her work.A. T B. F答案：A4. Yani had her personal shows in Washington D. C. at the age of 14.A. T B. F答案：A5. Yani's father often gave her art lessons.A. T B. F答案：B129. We say that a person has good manners if he or she behaves politely and is kind and helpfulto others. Everyone likes a person with good manners but no one likes a person with badmanners. “Yes”, you may say, “ but what are good manners? How do I know what to do and whatnot to do?”People all over the world agree that being well-mannered really means being kind and helpingothers, especially to those older or weaker than ourselves. If you remember this, you will not govery far wrong.Here are some examples of the things that a well-mannered person does or does not do.He never laughs at people when they are in trouble. Instead, he tries to help them. He isalways kind, never cruel, either to people or to animals. When people are waiting for a bus, or ina post office, he takes his turn. He does not push to the front of the queue. In the bus, he gives hisseat to an old person or a lady who is standing. If he accidentally bumps into someone, or gets intheir way, he says, “excuse me” or “I'm sorry”.He says “please” when making a request, and “thank you” when he receives something. Hestands up when speaking to a lady or an older person, and he does not sit down until the otherperson is seated. He does not interrupt other people when they are talking. He does not talk toomuch himself. He does not talk loudly or laugh loudly in public. When eating, he does not speakwith his mouth full of food. He uses a handkerchief when he sneezes or coughs.1. Being kind to ourselves is considered as being well-mannered. A. T B. F答案：B2. If you try to be kind and helpful to others, you will be considered very polite.A. T B. F答案：A3. When waiting for a bus, a well-mannered person should stand where he is and wait for his turn.A. T B. F答案：A4. According to this passage, a polite person will not speak without his mouth full of food wheneating.A. T B. F答案：B5. The word "accidentally" (Line 5, Para. 4) means by accident.A. T B. F答案：A110 130. A friend of mine was fond of drawing horses. He drew horses very well, but he alwaysbegan at the tail. Now it is the Western rule to begin at the head of the horse. That is why I wassurprised. It struck me that it could not really make any difference whether the artist begins at thehead or the tail or the belly or the foot of the horse, if he really knows his business. And mostgreat artists who really know their business do not follow other people's rule. They make theirown rules. Every one of them does his work in a way strange to himself; and the peculiaritymeans only that he finds it easier to work in that way. Now the very same thing is true of literature. And the question, “How shall I begin?” onlymeans that you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. Thatis, you are not yet experienced enough to trust your own powers. When you become moreexperienced you will never ask the question, and I think that you will often begin at the tail-that isto say, you will write the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning.1. A friend of the writer's drew horses in the way of his own rule. A. T B. F答案：A2. The writer was surprised because the artist followed other people's rule.A. T B. F答案：B3. You are not yet experienced because you do not trust your own powers. A. T B. F答案：A4. When you become more experienced you will write the end of the story. A. T B. F答案：A5. The passage is about how to make your own rules.A. T B. F答案：B131. In November 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt and some of his friends went on a huntingtrip to Mississippi. After hours of searching, Roosevelt and his group had not come across anywild animals. Finally, the group did track down and surrounded a helpless bear. One of the guidesasked the president to shoot the bear so he could win a hunting trophy ( 奖 励 ). The presidentraised his riffle first and then put down his gun, letting the poor bear go. News reportersthroughout the country reported the story, spreading Roosevelt's kind act.Not long after this report, a famous cartoonist named Clifford Benyman drew a cartoon basedon Roosevelt's rescue of the bear. When a store owner in Brooklyn saw the cartoon, he decided tomake toy bears to sell in his shop. He asked the president Roosevelt for permission to use thename. "Teddy's Bear" for his toys, as a reminder of the bear Roosevelt had set free.Nowadays, everyone knows these toys as Teddy Bears, but few people know that they werenamed after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.1. Roosevelt and his friends went to Mississippi for hunting in November 1902.A. T B. F答案：A2. The reason that one guide asked Roosevelt to shoot the bear was the president could get thehunting prize.A. T B. F答案：A3. The news reporters reported the story about Roosevelt for their own popularity.A. T B. F111 答案：B4. Everyone knew how the toy was named Teddy's Bear.A. T B. F答案：B5. According to the whole passage, the toy Teddy's Bear was named after President Roosevelt.A. T B. F答案：A132. In 1896, the first modern Olympic Games was held in Athens, Greece. Since then manycountries have successfully held the Olympics, such as England, France, Germany, Canada, theUSA, Spain and Australia. After more than a century the Games returns to its hometown thisyear.When people hold the Olympic Games, they always make an emblem (会徽). The emblem ofthe Athens Olympic Games this time is a white circle of oliver branches in the sky.Now Athens is developing a spirit of peace. An officer said, “While in Athens, the worldshould be at peace. We hope the peace is not just for a short time. We would like the messagefrom the Athens Games to help countries come together and solve their problems.”Four years later, the Olympic Games will be held in China. And China has already made aseal as the emblem of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The emblem has a single Chinesecharacter on a red seal and means “Chinese seal-dancing Beijing ”. Below it, there are the words“Beijing 2008”. The character in the emblem is “Jing”. It means “capital” of China and it is alsolike a runner or a dancer. The running figure of the emblem shows the spirit of the Olympics ---faster, higher and stronger.1. The first modern Olympics was held in Greece.A. T B. F答案：A2. People always make an emblem when they hold the Olympic Games.A. T B. F答案：A3. The Athens Olympic Games wants to give the message of peace.A. T B. F答案：A4. One hundred years had passed when Athens again held the Olympic Games.A. T B. F答案：B5. The spirit of the Olympic Games is peace, friendship and development.A. T B. F答案：B112 133. Now satellites are helping to forecast the weather. They are in space, and they can reach anypart of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere, because this is where the weatherforms. They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists（气象学家）can seethe weather of any part of the world. From the pictures, the scientists can often say how theweather will change.Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries receive satellite pictures. Whenthey receive new pictures, the meteorologists compare them with earlier ones. Perhaps they mayfind that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather onthe ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, the meteorologists can say this.So the weather satellites are a great help to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented,the scientists could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make goodforecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for aweek or more ahead.1. Satellites travel above space.A. T B. F答案：B2. We use the weather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere because the weather formsthere.A. T B. F答案：A3. Meteorologists forecast the weather after they have compared new satellite pictures with earlierones.A. T B. F答案：A4. Maybe we'll soon be able to forecast the weather for five days.A. T B. F答案：B5. The main idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in weather forecasting.A. T B. F答案：A134. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms areboth at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use hishead. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but theystill live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard theapples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. Theydecided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends andbought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor.Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later theyhad to sell them at a low price. They felt unhappy and returned to their village."I can't understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)" Uncle Li asked one day."The tractor was too small " Uncle Wang said without thinking. "We'll carry more apples on atruck next time!""I agree!" said Uncle Li. "How foolish we were !"1. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because their farms are at the footof the mountain.A. T B. F答案：B113 2. The two farmers carried the apples to the city to make a profit.A. T B. F答案：A3. The two farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because a lot of apples had been alreadycarried to the city.A. T B. F答案：A4. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang were unhappy because they lost again in business in the city.A. T B. F答案：A5. The two farmers found out why they were poor.A. T B. F答案：B 135. Swee Lin has an interesting hobby. She collects stamps. She spends a lot of time on herstamp collection after school hours. She has collected hundreds of stamps from all over the world.They are all in color.Swee Lin likes stamps with pictures of animals and birds on them. In this way, she learns thenames of many animals and birds. She also borrows books on animals and birds from her schoollibrary. She learns many things about them.Sometimes Swee Lin has many stamps of the same kind. She gives them to her friends. Theythen give her other stamps in return. Swee Lin writes to friends in many countries. She sends them stamps of her country. In return,they send her stamps of their countries. Swee Lin's father also gives her stamps. He brings themhome from his office for her.Many of Swee Lin's friends collect other things. Some collect coins and others collectmatchboxes. But, all of them say that Swee Lin's collection is the most interesting of all.1. Swee spends a lot of time on her hobby during school hours.A. T B. F答案：B2. Many of her stamps are in color.A. T B. F答案：B3. She learns a lot about animals and birds from her stamps.A. T B. F答案：A4. Sometimes Swee Lin has many stamps of the same kind. She then sells them to her friends. A. T B. F答案：B5. Hobby means doing things one likes.A. T B. F答案：A136. Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the women's liberation movement in theUnited States. She was born on a farm in Missouri in 1892. She had a very happy life as a child.She was the only daughter and the youngest child of five. Her parents and her brothers alwaystreated her as their favorite.In 1896 the family moved to Chicago. Three years later they moved back to St. Louis whereAgnes spent the rest of her childhood. She enjoyed her years in school and was a very goodstudent of mathematics. She was also quite good as a painter.114 It was when Agnes went off to college that she first learned that women were not treated asequals. She didn't like being treated unequally but she tried not to notice it. After graduating fromcollege she tried to get a job in her major field, physics. She soon found it was almost impossiblefor a woman.Agnes spent a full year looking for a job. Finally she gave up in anger. She began writingletters to various newspapers. An editor in New York liked her ideas very much. He speciallyliked her style. He asked her to do a series of stories on the difficulties that women had in findinga job. And there she began her great fight for equal rights for women.1. Agnes parents treated her as their favorite, which made her brothers sad.A. T B. F答案：A 此题答案应该是 B2. The Millers moved back to Chicago in 1896.A. T B. F答案：B3. Agnes studied mathematics when she was in college.A. T B. F答案：B4. Agnes first came to realize that women were treated unequally when she started her collegelife.A. T B. F答案：A5. An editor in New York liked both the ideas in her letters and her writing style.A. T B. F答案：A137. Researchers have discovered a link between drinking and thinking. A moderate amount ofalcohol may help us keep our mental abilities as we age. Brain scans show alcohol abuse(酗酒)kills brain cell. But little is known about the effects of life-long drinking. So moderate drinkersmay want to toast new findings from researchers at Duke, and Indiana Universities. Dr. JoeChristian of Indiana Universities says men who have one or two drinks each day retain slightlystronger comprehension skills than the non-drinker or the heavy drinker. The doctor and hiscolleagues gave mental tests to nearly 4000 male twins between the ages of 66 and 76. Themoderate drinkers had slightly better reasoning ability than his brothers who drink more or lessdid. Other studies have found that alcohol in moderation can help the heart. But alcohol abuse cancause bone loss and other health problems. This study was presented at an alcoholism meeting inSan Antonio.1. Recent research has found about drinking that heavy drinking is not necessarily harmful toone's health.A. T B. F答案：B 2. Moderate drinkers would feel pleased about the new research finding.A. T B. F答案：A3. The result of the study was first made public at a conference.A. T B. F答案：A4. Other studies have found that alcohol in moderation can hardly help the heart.A. T B. F答案：B5. Brain scans show alcohol abuse kills brain cell.115 A. T B. F答案：A138. Hello! Greetings from the future! My name's Linda. I'm ten years old and live in the year3044. We call it the year 58AL. AL means “After Living”. You see, 58 years ago, there were toomany people on Earth and there was too much pollution （污 染 ） . The only way to save theEarth is to send people into space. So lots of people, including my family, went into space.However, there were still a few people choosing to live on Earth. We're now living in a new city on Mars（火星）. Life here is very nice, and we are happy inour new home. I have a friend called John on Earth. Every week I use our school's time machineto send messages to him. The food here is different from your food: we take medicine and drink juice to keep healthy.My history book says you eat meat from other animals! That is strange to me. We don't eat anyanimals or bread. Every day I catch the school spaceship and fly to school. We don't have schools. We meet ourlearning guides (you called them teachers) in different places and solve （ 解 决 ） problemstogether. 1. The year 3014 is the year 28 AL. A. T B. F答案：A2. Lots of people went into space to have a different life from Earth.A. T B. F答案：B3. Linda takes medicine for dinner.A. T B. F答案：A4. Linda sends messages to John by spaceship.A. T B. F答案：B5. Linda takes medicine and drinks juice to keep healthy.A. T B. F答案：A139. If you ask Daniel Radcliffe who acted Harry Potter to pick a special moment from the lastyear of his life, you will find it almost impossible. “Oh, wow, that's really difficult,” he says witha smile.“There have been so many things, so many memories that at times it's hard to recall them all,”says Daniel. “But I guess one of the best ones was the London premiere( 首 映 ) for ThePhilosopher's Stone（魔法石）. It was just amazing, one of the best nights of my life.”“But I've had such a great time doing The Chamber of Secrets（消失的密室）. I love doingthe work. I love meeting new people and being part of the team. It's been great.”Daniel has changed. He turned 14 in July, 2002. He is taller, his voice is deeper and his frameis filling out as he begins his teenage years, and he has become an excellent actor, too.Daniel was born in London where his father, Alan, worked as an agent and his mother,Marcia, as a casting director, and both have been an essential guiding influence on their onlychild.1. Daniel Radcliff was 15 years old in 2003.A. T B. F答案：A116 2. According to the passage Daniel Radcliff did not have many unforgettable experiences in thepast year.A. T B. F答案：B3. According to the passage, Daniel would like to become a director one day.A. T B. F答案：B4. Daniel's parents influenced Daniel greatly.A. T B. F答案：A5. Daniel was born in London.A. T B. F答案：A140. Thousands of years before Columbus came to the New World, the American Indians enteredNorth America by crossing a narrow strip of land that once connected Alaska and Siberia. Themigrants entered a new world in which there were no people at all. But there were many animalsto hunt, and there were forests where nuts, roots, and berries could be gathered. When the Europeans came to the New World, the Indians, at first, taught the settlers how toplant corn, bake fish, make boats, and smoke tobacco. In return the whites introduced horses,guns, gun-power, alcohol. But at last, there were struggles for land, and the struggles could haveonly one result--war. Today Indians live on the land called reservation. Now, some of themirritated their tribal life, some wish to modernize the reservations. These alternatives, with manyvariations, are what most Indians have chosen--a future in modern technology and education, orthe revival of ancient tradition and treaties. 1. The Indians entered North America before Columbus did. A. T B. F答案：A2. The Indians moved to a new world which was once settled by Europeans. A. T B. F答案：B3. As soon as the Europeans set their foot on the New World, they were hostile（敌对的）to theIndians. A. T B. F答案：B4. Some Indians have adopted modern culture and technology. A. T B. F答案：A5. The Indians were good at making boats. A. T B. F答案：A141. A taxi hit a truck. A policeman spoke to the taxi driver and to the truck driver. He also spoketo Tom. He was a witness (目击者). This is what they said.TRUCK DRIVER: I was driving from the airport to Newton. A car crossed the road, so Islowed down. I did not stop. A taxi hit the back of my truck. Nobody was seriously hurt but bothcars were damaged.TAXI DRIVER: I was driving behind a truck a few kilometers from Newton. The truckstopped suddenly. The driver did not give me a warning. I was driving very slowly. I could notpass the truck because there were two cars coming near from Newton. My taxi hit the truck, and117 some glass cut my left hand.TOM: I was watching the traffic about a kilometer from the airport. A truck was going toNewton. It was not going very quickly. There was a taxi about two hundred meters behind thetruck. It was going fast. When the truck slowed down, the taxi hit it. The taxi driver was notlooking at the truck. He was looking out of the window at something. My friend saw the accident,too. Tom's friend spoke to the policeman and agreed with Tom.1. Five people are mentioned in the story.A. T B. F答案：A2. The truck was hit on the way to the police station.A. T B. F答案：B3. From the story, we know the truck driver didn't tell the truth.A. T B. F答案：B4. In fact, Tom's friend was also a witness.A. T B. F答案：A5. A Taxi Driver is the best title for this passage.A. T B. F答案：B142. Last summer, I took my first airplane flight from London to New York. I boarded the planeat Croydon Airfield and, from that moment on, my life was arranged for me on the trip. First, Iwas directed to my seat by the stewardess. Then, when the plane was ready to take off, the otherpassengers and I were told to fasten our seat belts. A few minutes after take-off, magazines andnewspapers were passed out. Because my ears hurt, I was given some gum to chew. Next, wewere given instructions on what to do in case of an emergency. We were given earphones to listento music and told that a movie would be shown after dinner. Before dinner, we were asked if wewanted a cocktail. Dinner was served on a tray, but it was attractive and delicious. We werepermitted to have a refill on any beverage. After dinner, we were shown a new Hollywood movie.When I felt cold, I was given a blanket and when I felt airsick, I was given a paper bag.Everything was done for the comfort of the passengers. When the plane landed, I was almostsorry to get off and have to start doing things for myself again.1. Before the take-off, the passengers were asked to chew some gum.A. T B. F答案：B2. Chewing some gum could ease the passengers' earache caused by the change in the airpressure.A. T B. F答案：A3. The man was sorry when the plane landed because he has to do things for himself again.A. T B. F答案：A4. When the man felt airsick, he was given a paper bag.A. T B. F答案：A5. The author took his first airplane flight from New York to Landon last summer.A. T B. F118 答案：B143. Mr and Mrs Jones did not often go out in the evening, but last Saturday Mrs Jones said toher husband, "There is a good film at the cinema tonight. Can we go and see it?"Mr Jones was quite happy about it, so they went, and both of them enjoyed the film.They came out of the cinema at 11 o'clock, got into their car and began driving home. It wasquite dark. Then Mrs Jones said, "Look, Bill. A woman's running along the road very fast, and aman's running after her. Can you see them?"Mr Jones said, "Yes, I can." He drove the car slowly near the woman and said to her, "Can wehelp you?""No, thank you," the woman said, but she did not stop running. "My husband and I always runhome after the cinema, and the last one washes the dishes at home!" 1. Mr and Mrs Jones went out one evening because they wanted to see a film.A. T B. F答案：A2. Both the husband and wife enjoyed the film.A. T B. F答案：A3. Mr Jones wanted to help that woman.A. T B. F答案：A4. The woman was running back home to wash dishes.A. T B. F答案：B5. So Mr and Mrs Jones needn't give help.A. T B. F答案：A144. In the USA, there are many types of restaurants. Fast food restaurants are very famous. Youcan find McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken in many countries around the world. You lookat a menu above the counter, and say what you'd like to eat. You pay the person who serves you.You take your food and sit down or take it away. There's no need to leave a tip.In a coffee shop you sit at the counter or at a table. You don't wait for the waitress to showyou where to sit. She usually brings you coffee when you sit down. You tell her what you'd liketo eat and she brings it to you. You pay the cashier as you leave. In a family restaurant the atmosphere is casual, but the waitress shows you where to sit. Oftenthe waitress tells you her name, but you don't need to tell her yours. If you don't eat everything,your waitress gives you a doggy bag to take your food home. You add an extra fifteen percent tothe bill as a tip.In top class restaurants, you need a reservation and you need to arrive on time. The waitershows you where to sit. If you have wine, he may ask you to taste it. You can only refuse it if ittastes bad, not if you don't like it. When you get your bill, check it and then add fifteen to twentypercent to it as a tip for the waiter.1. There are three types of restaurants mentioned here.A. T B. F答案：B2. We should sit at a counter in a coffee shop.A. T B. F答案：A3. In a coffee shop the waitress often tells you her name.119 答案：A3. Gavin boasted the most. A. T B. F答案：B4. Ted's father often had a bath twice a day. A. T B. F答案：B5. "He spoke too soon" in the last paragraph means he was wrong. A. T B. F答案：A14. Americans, like many people elsewhere in the world, like to invite friends to their homes for anevening of food, drink and conversation. Formal dinners in fine homes and hotels in the United Statesare much the same as formal dinners anywhere in the world. But as most people in the United Stateshave no servants, their dinner parties at home are decidedly informal. As many new small homes haveno separate dining room or just have very small dining space, guests can also serve themselves and eatin the living room, holding their plates or trays on their knees.A more enjoyable form of entertainment is the picnic. Americans are great picnickers, and almostevery family has a picnic basket. Summer invitations are often for a picnic at a park or in the opencountryside. Unless hamburgers or hot dogs are cooked over a fire, picnic food is usually cold －sandwiches, salads, potato chips, pickles. Watermelon is a favorite dessert, followed very often bybaseball for the young and active, and naps for the old and weary. 1. Americans like to invite their friends over to dinner at their homes. A. T B. F答案：A2. Most Americans prefer informal parties because they cannot afford formal ones. A. T B. F答案：B3. Guests sit and eat at an informal dinner, in the dining room or in the living room. A. T B. F答案：A4. According to the passage, people seldom have hot food at a picnic. A. T B. F答案：A5. The picnic is considered a more enjoyable form of meal because a dessert is always served. 12 A. T B. F答案：B4. In a top class restaurant you need to add fifteen percent as a tip.A. T B. F答案：A5. The writer takes McDonald's as fast food restaurant.A. T B. F答案：A145. A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam.He called his parents from San Francisco. “Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor toask. I have a friend. I'd like to bring him home with me.”“Sure,” they replied, “we'd love to meet him.”“There's something you should know,” the son continued, “he was injured pretty badly in thefighting. He stepped on a land mine（地雷） and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else togo, and I want him to live with us.”“We're sorry to hear that, son. But, maybe we can help him find somewhere to live.”“No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.”“Son,” said the father, “you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicapwould be a terrible burden to us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something likethis interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'llfind a way to live on his own.”At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A fewdays later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died afterfalling from a building. The police believed he had killed himself.The grief-stricken（悲痛欲绝的） parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the citymorgue（太平间） to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horrorthey also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg.1. The soldier called his parents from San Francisco after having fought in Vietnam. A. T B. F答案：A2. The soldier told his parents that he wanted them to meet his friend in the army.A. T B. F答案：B3. His father considered his plan unacceptable. A. T B. F答案：A4. A few days later the parents were told by the police that their son had killed himself. A. T B. F答案：A5. The son killed himself because he was unable to find a job. A. T B. F答案：B146. What is your favourite colour? Do you like yellow, orange, red? If you do, you must be anoptimist, a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement. Do you prefer greysand blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy and you would rather follow than lead. If you lovegreen, you are strong-minded and determined. You wish to succeed and want other people to seeyou are successful. At least this is what psychologists tell us, and they should know, because theyhave been seriously studying the meaning of colour preference, and the effect that colours have120 on human beings. They tell us that we don't choose our favourite colour as we grow up. If youhappen to love brown, you did so as soon as you opened your eyes, of at least as soon as youcould see clearly.A yellow room makes us feel more cheerful and more comfortable than a dark green one, anda red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. On the other hand, black isdepressing. Light and bright colours make people not only happier but more active. It is a factthat factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines arepainted orange rather than black or dark grey.Remember, then, that if you feel low, you can always brighten your day or your life with anew shirt or a few colourful things. Remember also that you will know your friends and yourenemies better when you find out what colours they like and dislike. And don't forget that anyonecan guess a lot about your character when you choose a piece of handkerchief.1. According to this passage, one has to choose his favourite colour as soon as he can see clearly.A. T B. F答案：B2. You can know your friends better by the colours they like or dislike.A. T B. F答案：A3. One's colour preference has something to do with his character and colours have effects onhuman beings.A. T B. F答案：A4. People who love red are determined to achieve their dreams.A. T B. F答案：B5. "I am feeling black" means I am excited.A. T B. F答案：B147. Peter arrived home and discovered that he had forgotten his door key. He rang the bell, butnobody came to open the door. He rang again, and waited, but still there was no answer. Hewalked around the house to see if he could find an open window. But they were all closed. It wasbeginning to rain and he did not know what to do. Dorothy, his wife, had obviously gone out, andhe did not know where she had gone, or when she would return. He waited for half an hour. Stillnobody came. Finally feeling wet and angry, he picked up a big stone and threw it through thekitchen window and was climbing through it. When he heard the front door open, his wife cameback.1. Peter could not open the door with his key one day.A. T B. F答案：B2. It was raining that day.A. T B. F答案：A3. He threw a big stone through a window to get into his house.A. T B. F答案：A4. His wife came back when he was walking around the house.A. T B. F答案：B5. Peter walked around the house to see if he could find that somebody could help him.121 A. T B. F答案：B148. Mr. Tom Forester lived by himself a long way from town. He hardly ever left his home, butone day he went into town to buy some things in the market. After he had bought them, he wentinto a restaurant and sat down at a table by himself. When he looked around, he saw several oldpeople put glasses on before reading their newspapers, so after lunch he decided to go to a shop tobuy 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 readwith these."The man became more and more puzzled（迷惑不解）, until finally he said, "Excuse me, butcan you read at all?""No, of course I can't!" Tom said angrily. "If I was already able to read, do you think I wouldhave come here to buy glasses?" 1. Mr Forester lived ______.A. with his family in a city B. with his family in the countrysideC. alone in a city D. alone in the countryside答案：D2. Tom ______ went into town.A. often B. always C. almost never D. everyday答案：C3. The old people in the restaurant read their newspapers ______.A. with glasses on B. with glasses offC. with glasses of beer in front of them D. with glass pipes in their mouths答案：A4. The shop Tom went into sold ______.A. drinking glasses and cups B. glass for windows and doorsC. glasses for people who could not read D. glasses for people who could not see well答案：D5. What kind of mistake did Tom make?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 woreglasses.D. He left his money in the restaurant.答案：C149. Gail and Howard liked to travel. Every holiday they went to a different place. They werealways careful when they left the house. They locked the doors and windows. Then Gail took theextra keys and left them with her mother.Gail and Howard spent two weeks camping in the mountains. They had a great time, but whenthey came home, all they wanted to do was to sleep. They both looked for the keys everywhere,but no luck. The keys were not anywhere. They went to their mother's house, but she wasn'thome. Howard had to climb up to open a window, but he forgot that the window was locked, too. Heclimbed back down, broke the window with a stick and climbed into the house. He went to openthe front door for Gail, only to find the police.A frightened neighbor heard the noise and thought there was a robbery; so she called thepolice. Howard was almost caught by the police but luckily their neighbors proved that he livedin that house. Finally, Gail and Howard brought their luggage in, climbed into bed, and fell asleepright away.122 1. After Gail and Howard returned from the trip, they were very tired.A. T B. F答案：A2. They could not go into the house because they had locked the doors.A. T B. F答案：B3. They managed to get into the house, but the window was broken.A. T B. F答案：A4. They got into trouble because there was a robbery.A. T B. F答案：B5. Their parents helped Gail and Howard a great deal.A. T B. F答案：B150. It looks like a mobile phone, but the service is much cheaper. It acts like a mobile phone, butonly in your own city. Beyond the city walls, it is useless."Little Smart", also called "Xiaolingtong", has always been compared to mobile phones. Butactually it is more like one of those cordless phones （无绳电话） used around the home. Theonly difference is that this one reaches much further. It can travel across an entire city.Cheap costs are the main reason for the success of Little Smart. It costs 25 yuan a month forthe line and about 0.1 yuan per minute to use. What's more, unlike mobile phones, there is no feefor incoming calls. But Little Smart is not really that smart. Users often complain about its bad service quality. "Icouldn't receive a phone call if I was on a bus," said Li, a user in Beijing. "It worked fine when Istood still, but there were breaks in signal when I was moving."Scientists are trying to make Little Smart more user-friendly. Messaging and Internet access（ 接 入 ） have been added to the service. And the latest Little Smart handset even has colorscreen（彩屏）. 1. Little Smart is so popular in China because it looks like a mobile phone.A. T B. F答案：B2. The cost of the service of Little Smart is about 0.1 yuan per minute to use.A. T B. F答案：A3. Users are not satisfied with Little Smart because the quality of its service is bad.A. T B. F答案：A4. The word “handset” in the last paragraph means appearance.A. T B. F答案：B5. Scientists are trying to make Little Smart more user-friendly.A. T B. F答案：A154. On Christmas Eve 1971, Julia Smith was taking a flight in Peru with her mother to join herfather, a professor, who was an expert on the jungle and plants and animals living there.Unfortunately, the plane crashed in a storm. The passengers all died except Julia who only had a123 few cuts. She was determined to survive. She had no map, only a bag of sweets and her tornclothes. She found a stream and followed it, trying to keep in the shade as much as possible,because she had no hat. For ten days, she walked along the river, eating fruits from the trees. Atnight she slept near the river bank, on the ground which was wet from the rain. She often feltweak, but she refused to give up. On the 10th day, she arrived at a small hut. The three Indianhunters who visited the hut every two weeks rescued her and took her by boat to a small villagefrom where she was flown to a hospital. She was safe at last.1. Julia was taking a flight in Peru to be with her mother on Christmas.A. T B. F答案：B2. Julia survived the accident after the plane crashed.A. T B. F答案：A3. Julia tried to stay in the shade when she walked along the river to avoid wild animals.A. T B. F答案：B4. The three Indian hunters drove Julia to a hospital.A. T B. F答案：B5. Julia Smith was taking a flight in Peru on Christmas Eve 1971.A. T B. F答案：A152. Who will stage the games?Preparing for the Olympic Games is a huge undertaking (工程). Just like the athletes, the hostcity spends years getting ready for the event. Before deciding which city will host the OlympicGames, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has to examine bids from all over the world.Bidding for the games begins about ten years in advance. Without preparing a very strong bid, acity will not win the competition to host the games. Beijing was chosen for the 2008 games fromfive bidders 一 Osaka, Paris, Toronto and Istanbul.Why does it take so long to prepare? Building the infrastructure (基础设施) costs huge amounts of money. Holding the World Cupin 2002 in Japan and South Korea, for example, meant that ten new stadiums had to be built, aswell as many hotels and an improved transport system. In Beijing, after winning the bid thegovernment began major construction projects 一 the extension of the underground, theimprovement of the airport and the building of new motorways. Each host city must also build anOlympic village for the athletes. By planting trees and creating parks, the city becomes moreattractive for tourists.Why do countries want to host the Olympic Games?Hosting the games has a major effect on the economy and brings international prestige( 声望)to the country. Thousands and thousands of visitors come to the games and the host cities arepermanently improved. 1. Bidding for the Olympic Games usually starts one year before the games are really held.A. T B. F答案：B2. Beijing was one of the five bidders for the 2008 games.A. T B. F124 答案：A3. The World Cup 2002 was held in China.A. T B. F答案：B4. Beijing started the improvement of the airport after winning the bid.A. T B. F答案：A5. Countries want to host the Olympic Games because it has a major effect on the economy.A. T B. F答案：A153. Jack Brown, an office worker, lives in Washington. He inherited ( 继承) a million dollarswhen he was 23, but he wasn't happy at all. When his college friends were looking for their jobs,he didn't have to. Jack decided to live a simple life like everyone else. He gave $l0,000 of hismoney to a charity (慈善机构) to help poor children live a better life. Today he is 36. He stillwears cheap shoes and clothes and drives a small car only, but he is very happy.Up to now Jack has helped some children from poor countries all over the world, by sendingthem each $200 a month. The money was used for the children's study, food, medicine andclothing. Jack receives a report each year on the children's progress. They can write to each other.but usually the children do not speak English.When Jack first heard about these children, he wanted to help them. “It was nothing special,”he said. “Until I went to these countries and met the children I was helping, I didn't knowanything about their life.” Once Jack went to meet a little girl in Africa. He said that the meetingwas very exciting. “When I met her. I felt very, very happy.” he said. “And I saw that the moneywas used for a good cause. It brought me happiness. I want to do everything I can to go onhelping those children.”1. Jack didn't need to look for a job before he went to college.A. T B. F答案：B2. Jack has sent them each $200 a month to help some poor children only in Africa．A. T B. F答案：B3. Jack learned about the children's progress by getting a report every year.A. T B. F答案：A4. The underlined (划线的) words "for a good cause" means "行善" in Chinese．A. T B. F答案：A5. The main idea of the story is help others, and you will feel happy．A. T B. F答案：A154. Let me tell you a story about Bert and Mildred Bumbridge, who were very forgetful. Forexample, Mildred would forget to cook dinner, or Bert would go to work on Sunday, thinking itwas Monday. One summer they were to take a long plane trip. What do you suppose happened?Well, they got to the airport with only ten minutes to spare. So time was short. They just had tobuy some flight insurance first. After all, who knows what will happen on a plane flight? Theyquickly put some coins into a machine and out came their insurance policy（保险单）."Who would get the money if we crash, I wonder?" asked Mildred. 125 "My mother, of course," her husband replied."We'll mail the policy to her. Now quick, give me a stamp, will you?" he said. "The plane'sgoing to take off in another minute."Bert put the stamp on the envelope, dropped it in the mail box, and suddenly let out a cry.What happened, do you suppose? He had mailed their plane tickets to his mother!1. Mildred was Bert's wife.A. T B. F答案：A2. Bert and Mildred were afraid of traveling by air.A. T B. F答案：B3. After putting coins into a machine, they got their flight insurance policy.A. T B. F答案：A4. According to Bert and Mildred's decision, Mildred's mother would get the insurance money iftheir plane crashed.A. T B. F答案：B5. Bert realized that he had put the plane tickets in the envelope after he put the envelope into themail box.A. T B. F答案：A155. Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. Theybelieve that their family members don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, itis quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they go to their friends forsome ideas.It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even whenthey are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on thephone. This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can talkabout something, and these things are difficult to say to their family members.However, parents often try to choose friends for their children. Some parents may even stoptheir children from meeting their good friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions?Who chooses your friends?Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?Have you got a good friend your parents don't like?Your answers are welcome.1. Many teenagers think that friends can understand them better.A. T B. F答案：A2. When teenagers have something difficult to say to their parents, they usually stay alone athome.A. T B. F答案：B3. The underlined sentence "Your answers are welcome." means you are welcome to discuss thequestions with us.A. T B. F答案：A4. Friends are important to children because friends can talk about things which are hard for themto say to their families.126 A. T B. F答案：A5. Parents always like their children's good friends.A. T B. F答案：B156. Telephone books in the United States have white, blue and yellow pages.The white pages list people with phones by last name. The blue pages contain numbers of cityservices, government agencies, and public schools. Businesses and professional services are listedin a special section - the Yellow Pages.To make a long distance call, you need an area code. Each area in the U.S. has an area code.The area covered by one area code may be small or large. For example, New York City has onearea code, but so does the whole state of Oregon. If you want to know the area code of a place,you can look it up in the area code map which is printed in the front of the white pages.There are a lot of public telephones in the U.S. They have their own numbers. If you aremaking a long distance call on a public telephone and run out of money, give the number on yourphone to the person you're talking to. Then hang up the receiver and he can call you back. If youmake a long distance call and get a wrong number, call the operator and explain what happened.This means that you can make the call again to the right number without having to pay moremoney.1. The topic of the passage is how to use the telephone books in the United States.A. T B. F答案：A2. You can find businesses and professional services in the Blue Pages.A. T B. F答案：B3. You can find the telephone number of a city council in the telephone book in the yellow pages.A. T B. F答案：B4. You can find an area code map of the U.S. in the front of the white pages.A. T B. F答案：A5. You should tell the operator what has happened when you get a wrong number in making along distance call.A. T B. F答案：A157. Taking away a city's rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it.Most rubbish is made up of things we can't eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soonhave a mountain of rubbish.In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside the city to a dump. Often the citydump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken intosmall pieces and sent into the sewage（污水，排水）system. The sewage system takes away theused water from toilets, bathtubs and other places.To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later,grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there,and then you'd never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything except themetal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. Thefood parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called127 humus （ 腐 殖 质） , which looks like black earth. It is rich with the kinds of things that feedplants and help make them grow. 1. You can most probably read this kind of passage in a telephone book.A. T B. F答案：B2. The main idea of the passage is to tell people to take useful things out of rubbish.A. T B. F答案：B3. The underlined word “sewage” in the second paragraph means laundry.A. T B. F答案：B4. According to the passage, the food parts of rubbish can be used again to feed plants.A. T B. F答案：A5. We should take care of a used metal box by reusing and recycling it.A. T B. F答案：A158.company and was given his weekly wages every Friday evening. As soon as he got home onFridays, his wife used to make him give her all his money, and then she used to give him backenough to buy his lunch in the office every day.One day the small man came home very excited. He hurried into the living-room. His wifewas listening to the radio and eating chocolates there."You'll never guess what happened to me today, dear," he said.He waited for a few seconds and then added, "I won ten thousand pounds on the lottery!""That's wonderful!" said his wife delightedly. But then she thought for a few seconds andadded angrily, "But wait a moment! How could you afford to buy the lottery tickets?" 1. The small man was allowed to keep just enough to buy his lunch in the office every day. A. T B. F答案：A2. The man won a lottery one day. A. T B. F答案：A3. The woman is good-natured. A. T B. F答案：B4. The woman was pleased yet suspicious when her husband won a lottery. A. T B. F答案：A5. The man had to give almost all his money to his wife every week. A. T B. F答案：B159. Mrs. Weeks was reading a newspaper story to her class. The story said: "Were you ever in a hospital when you were small? How did you feel?" The doctors inChildren's Hospital are asking for money for children's toys. Some children in the hospital muststay in bed for many weeks. Toys are needed to keep the sick children happy and quiet. Moneyfor them can be sent to the hospital. After Mrs. Weeks read the story, she said, "This story gave me an idea." "You want us to bring some money for the toys." "We could bring some of our own toys for128 the children in the hospital, "said the boys and the girls one after another. "Well, your ideas would be nice, "Mrs. Weeks said, "but mine is different.""We could make some toys, "shouted one of them. Mrs. Weeks smiled. "Do you think you could make toys?" she asked."Yes, yes, "the whole class answered. "Great! Let's begin to make toys tomorrow, "said Mrs. Weeks. On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Weeks took the children to the hospital with the toys made byher students. The children in the hospital felt very happy to see the toys. So did the children in theclass. A few days later, Mrs. Weeks read another newspaper story to the class: Some school pupils brought toys to Children's Hospital last week. The toys were made by thepupils of Grade Three in Green Street School. The doctors said, "We have never had so manywonderful toys. Our children are very happy with them. They say, 'THANK YOU, GRADETHREE.'" 1. The first newspaper story was mainly about sick children in children's Hospital.A. T B. F答案：A2. Let the class make some toys and give them to the children in the hospital was in Mrs. Weeks'mind.A. T B. F答案：A3. At first, the doctors in Children's Hospital wanted to get some money to buy toys for the sickchildren.A. T B. F答案：A4. From the passage we can learn that what Mrs. Weeks really wanted to do is to ask her class tosave money for toys.A. T B. F答案：B5. The author's tone in this passage is enthusiastic.A. T B. F答案：A160. Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky. But there have been times when snowhas looked red, green, yellow, or black. There have been snowflakes of almost every color. Thinkhow it would seem to have colored snowflakes coming down all around you.Black snow fell in France one year. Another year grey snow fell in Japan. It was found thatthe snow was mixed with ashes. This made it look dark. Red snow had come down in othercountries. When this happened, the snow was mixed with red dust.Most snow looks white, but it is really the color of ice. Snow is ice that comes from snowcloud. Each snowflake begins with a small drop of frozen water. More water forms around thisdrop. The way the water freezes gives the snowflakes its shape.No two snowflakes are ever just the same size or shape. Sometimes the snowflakes are brokenwhen they come down. Other snowflakes melt as they fall. All snowflakes are flat and have sixsides, if they are not broken or melted. When the air is cold and dry, the falling snowflakes aresmall and hard. If the air wet and warm, the snowflakes are big and soft.Would you be surprised to see snowflakes as big as your head falling from the sky? Ithappened once in the United States. It could happen again. 1. The first two paragraphs mainly tell us that sometimes snow has different colors.A. T B. F答案：A129 A. T B. F答案：B15. Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. It is true. People usuallybegin their talks with "Isn't it a nice day?" "Do you think it will rain?" "What a fine day!", etc.Many people think they can tell what the weather is going to be like. But they hardly agree witheach other. One man may say, "Do you see how cloudy it is in the east? It's going to rain tomorrow."Another man will say, "No, it's going to be fine tomorrow."People often look for the weather they want. When a farmer needs water, he looks for somethingto tell him it's going to rain; he won't believe anything else. When friends have a travel, they are surethe weather is going to clear up very quickly.Almost everyone listens to what the weatherman says. But he doesn't always tell us what we want,and once in a while he makes a mistake. Still, he probably comes closer to being correct than anyoneelse.1. "Nobody does anything about the weather" means nobody can change weather.A. T B. F答案：A2. Talking about the weather is a common way to start a talk.A. T B. F答案：A3. Many people hope the weather will be like what they like it to be.A. T B. F答案：A4. A weatherman probably is a man who can change weather.A. T B. F答案：B5. The weatherman always gives correct information.A. T B. F答案：B16. A film crew was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. This was in 1868,before they prohibited cigarette ads from American television. Darrell Winfield was watching thecrew set up the equipment. The scene included an actor crossing a river on horseback, but when thetime came to shoot, the man was too drunk to ride. Someone from the crew saw Winfield and askedhim if he would ride the horse for 50 dollars. “Hell,” said Winfield, “for 50 bucks, I'll jump that damnhorse over the moon!” To people in many countries, Winfield is just a familiar but nameless face, a simple cowboy with13 2. No two snowflakes are just the same size, but all snowflakes are hard.A. T B. F答案：B3. Snowflakes begin with cloud.A. T B. F答案：B4. The bigger the snowflakes are, the softer they are.A. T B. F答案：A5. Black snow fell only in European Countries.A. T B. F答案：B161. Johnny lived with his mother and father in a small town in the mountains. One day there was an earthquake near the town. Many houses were broken. Everyone thoughtthat there would soon be another earthquake. They were worried that the second earthquake would be worse than the first. "We must sendJohnny to a safe place," Johnny's mother said to her husband. "Many of our friends are sendingtheir children to relatives in other towns." "We'll send him to my brother, Peter," Johnny's fathersaid. "He lives a long way away. Johnny will be safe with him." He telephoned Johnny's uncle Peter and asked him if he would let Johnny live with him. "Heis a good boy," he said. "He won't give you any trouble." "All right," Johnny's uncle Peter said."But I'm not used to children. I live a very quiet and peaceful life." "You won't know Johnny's inthe house," his father told him. So Johnny, who was eight, went to live with his uncle.Two days later, his mother and father received a telegram from Peter. It said, "A returningchild. Please send earthquake." 1. Johnny and his parents lived in the mountains.A. T B. F答案：A2. Johnny's parents sent him away because they did not want him to get hurt.A. T B. F答案：A3. Uncle Peter liked to live with Johnny very much.A. T B. F答案：B4. Uncle Peter sent Johnny back home because there was an earthquake in his town.A. T B. F答案：B5. Johnny certainly made some trouble in his uncle's house.A. T B. F答案：A162. One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school, a teacher came to me. She had astudent who finished his work before all the others and needed something more difficult for himto do. “Could you help me in the library?” she asked. I said, “Send him along.”Soon, a golden-haired boy appeared. “Do you have a job for me?” he asked. I told him about asystem for sorting books. He picked up the idea immediately. Then I showed him some cards forsome unreturned books that I thought had been returned but not recorded. Maybe some bookswere put on wrong places. He said, “Is it a kind of a detective （侦探） job?” I answered yes,and then began his work.130 He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and said,“Time for rest!” he argued for finishing the finding job, but the teacher won. The next morning, he arrived early, “I want to finish these books,” he said. At the end of theday, when he asked to work with me more often, it was easy for me to say yes.After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, inviting me to dinner at the boy's home. At theend of a pleasant evening, his mother declared that the family would be moving to anotherschool. Her son's first concern, she said, was leaving the library. “Who will find the lost books?”he asked. When the time came, it was hard to say goodbye. Though at the beginning he hadseemed an ordinary boy, his strong feeling of interest had made him different.Do you know who he is? This boy became a great man of the Information Age: Bill Gates.1. The teacher went to the library to find a job for Bill Gates.A. T B. F答案：A2. The librarian was too busy to have a rest.A. T B. F答案：B3. The sentence "He picked up the idea immediately" means that he learned that system quickly.A. T B. F答案：A4. Bill Gates was expected to find books with wrong cards.A. T B. F答案：A5. Bill Gates felt sad when his family would move to another school area.A. T B. F答案：B163. We were late as usual. My husband had insisted on watering the flowers in the garden byhimself, and when he discovered that he couldn't manage he had asked me for help at the lastmoment. So now we had an hour to get to the airport. Luckily, there were not many cars or buseson the road and we were able to get there just in time. We checked in and went straight to a bighall to wait for our flight to be called. We waited and waited but no announcement was made. Weasked for information and the girl there told us that the plane hadn't even arrived yet. In the endthere was another announcement telling us that passengers waiting for Flight LJ108 could get afree meal voucher (凭单) and that the plane hadn't left Spain for technical problems. We thoughtthat meant that it wasn't safe for the plane to fly. We waited again for a long time until lateevening when we were asked to report again. This time we were given free vouchers to spend thenight in a nearby hotel. The next morning after a bad night because of all the planes taking off and landing, wereported back to the airport. Guess what had happened while we were asleep! Our plane hadarrived and taken off again. All the other passengers had been woken up in the night to catch theplane, but for some reason or other we had been forgotten. You can imagine how we felt!1. The plane the writer and her husband would take was not to leave till the next morning. A. T B. F答案：B2. The plane was delayed because something was wrong with the machine.A. T B. F答案：A3. The passengers were given a free meal because they arrived at the airport early.A. T B. F答案：B131 4. They were in a big hall, waiting for their flight to be announced.A. T B. F答案：A5. The writer and her husband missed the plane because they forgot the time.A. T B. F答案：B 132 an advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few peopleknow that he is 55, a family man who's been married to the same woman for 37 years and has 5children and 7 grandchildren. Most surprisingly, he's a real, working cowboy who raises horses in hisranch in Wyoming.One of the most striking things about the Marlboro Man is that success hasn't changed him much.He says that complete strangers sometimes come up to him and say, “I've met you, know you fromsomewhere. ” Whenever it happens, he says that he gets embarrassed.1. Marlboro commercials were allowed on television in America before 1868.A. T B. F答案：A2. The word “prohibited” in the first paragraph mean "forbidden".A. T B. F答案：A3. When they filmed the ad, Winfield was too drunk. A. T B. F答案：B4. From the passage, we know that Winfield was a rich man. A. T B. F答案：B5. When people recognized Winfield, he felt uncomfortable.A. T B. F答案：A17. Nowadays, any Chinese can enjoy the luxury ( 奢侈 ) of owning a private car, if he or she hasenough money to buy it. Having a car of your own means no more traveling on crowded buses orsubway trains, and you can drop off the children at school on the way. What's more, it also means thatyou can enjoy the weekends and holidays better, because with a car you can go to places where theregular buses and trains do not go to. However, besides the advantages of owning a car, there are also disadvantages of owning a car. Onone hand, with the increasing number of the private cars, the roads are becoming more and morecrowded, and it often makes the journey hard and more and more traffic accidents happen. On theother hand, we know the prices of gasoline and repairs are constantly rising, so it is very expensive torun a car. You have to pay more for a license and insurance. Comparing the advantages and disadvantages of owning a car, we can make a conclusion that theadvantages of owning a car outweigh (超过) the disadvantages. Therefore, it seems that China shouldincrease its output of cars and make the private car market larger. The result would be that cars would14 become cheaper and cheaper. 1. Private cars can take you to places where the regular buses do not go.A. T B. F答案：A2. The roads are crowded because of the rising number of private cars.A. T B. F答案：A3. If the private car market becomes larger, cars will become cheaper and cheaper.A. T B. F答案：A4. According to the writer, to take a bus is better than to drive a car.A. T B. F答案：B5. The best title for the passage is “The Market of the Private Cars”.A. T B. F答案：B18. Johnny Kelley is 86 years old. He has just run the last eleven kilometers of the Boston Marathon.It took him one hour and fifteen minutes to run the eleven kilometrers. After his run, he went to thehospital center. The nurse was surprised and pleased to see his blood pressure was 139 over 84. Shetold him that his blood pressure was very good. Then she said, “I wish mine were that good.” Johnny Kelley is known as the great grandfather of the Boston Marathon. He ran all the 42kilometres of the marathon 61 times. This year was the second time that he has cut back and run onlypart of it. Kelley holds the record(保持记录) for running more Boston Marathon than anyone else.Thousands of people cry “come on”(加油) to him as he runs. Today an 11-year-old boy called outto Kelley. “Hey, Mr. Kelley, you are great, Great man.” Kelley smiles and thanks people as he runs.“It's wonderful.” he said. “people come out to shake my hand. I am welcomed by thousands of people.I think a lot of them thought I ran the whole race. And maybe they congratulated me because theyknow me after all these years and they don't know the other runners. ” 1. Kelley is known as the great grandfather of Boston Marathon because Kelley ran all the 42kilometres of Boston Marathon 61 times.A. T B. F答案：A2. When Kelley said it was wonderful, he meant that he was welcomed by thousands of people.A. T B. F答案：A15 3. Kelley holds the record for running the fastest.A. T B. F答案：B4. Kelley went to the hospital center after the race to have a good rest. A. T B. F答案：B5. Johnny Kelley was very old but quite healthy.A. T B. F答案：A19. Here is a story told an American general (将军) who was a very important figure in the Americanarmy during the First World War. Everybody in the United States knew him and many people wishedto have a picture or something of his in their homes.Soon after the war the general returned to Washington. One day he went to a dentist and had sixteeth pulled out. A week later the general heard that his teeth were being sold in curiosity shops ( 古玩店) at $5 each. On each of the teeth there was a label with the name of the general and words, "Buythese teeth and show them to your friends at home." The general got angry. He rushed to his office andordered six officers to go around the city and buy all his teeth.The officers went out and visited every curiosity shop in the capital. They were away from theoffice all day. In the evening they returned and put on the table in front of the general the teeth theyhad bought. They had collected 175 teeth.1. The general's teeth were sold in the museum.A. T B. F答案：B2. In the evening, the officers went back with all the teeth which cost $175.A. T B. F答案：B3. The general felt angry when he heard his teeth were sold.A. T B. F答案：A4. There was the general's picture on the label of each tooth. A. T B. F答案：B5. The general ordered his men to look for his teeth and buy all of them.A. T B. F16 答案：A20. Mobile phone has become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia havestopped students from carrying mobile phones during school hours.Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several childrenhave got mobile phones as Christmas presents, and more students will want them.Mary Bluett, an official, said: “Mobile phone use is a distraction( 分心的事) to students duringschool hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also sayingthat sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.”She said that some schools tried to ban(禁止) mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy becausethey couldn't get in touch with their children.Many teachers said that students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there was a goodreason, they could leave their phones at school office. They also said there were many reasons why thestudents should not have mobile phones at school: they were easy to lose and were a distraction fromstudies.Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones, butthey think that schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.1. We know from the passage that some children get mobile phones from their parents and friends.A. T B. F答案：A2. Some middle schools in Australia have banned students from carrying mobile phones when they areat school.A. T B. F答案：A3. The underlined word “cheat” means “核对”.A. T B. F答案：B4. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with their children during schoolhours.A. T B. F答案：A5. The passage tells us that students shouldn’t have mobile phones at school except for some specialreasons.A. T B. F答案：A21. On a practical level, teachers need a wide variety of skills and abilities. They have to be ready to17 spend many hours at home planning their lessons and preparing homework. They have to be wellorganized in class, patient with students, able to appear bright and interested even if they are in facttired or unhappy, and lively enough to control a group of young people for almost 200 days a year.Outside the classroom, they may have to prepare teaching materials, to choose books to use as texts, tohelp organize the work of other teachers, or to organize spare time activities for students. If you think that you have all the necessary qualities, you may feel that you would like to be ateacher. If you live in the United States, one way to decide is by joining a club for future teachers,such as Student Action for Education. Clubs like this give advice about your field, and also allow youto watch teachers at work, attend meetings and experiment with teaching methods and equipment.You could also talk with the job advisor at your school or university. Finally, you could try teaching ayounger student or becoming an advisor at a summer camp for children. Any activity in which you aredealing with, children will help you decide whether you have a calling for teaching. 1. A teacher should show a firm mind that is able to control tiredness and unhappiness.A. T B. F答案：A2. The first paragraph is mainly about how to plan lessons and prepare homework.A. T B. F答案：B3. The second paragraph is about ways to decide whether teaching should be one's future employment.A. T B. F答案：A4. Student Action for Education is an activity at a summer camp.A. T B. F答案：B5. The author suggests that talking with job advisors will help you make decisions on taking ateaching job.A. T B. F答案：A22. Pearl Carlson was shaken awake at 3:30 a.m. by a forceful pull. King, the family dog, was tryingto pull her out of the bed. Then she smelled smoke and heard the sound of fire from her parent's room.Pearl's screams awaked her mother, Fern, and father, Howard, who had recently been in hospital forlung disease. Helping Howard to a first-floor window, Fern told him to climb out, then ran to herdaughter.Still inside, King appeared at Pearl's window, making squeaking ( 短 促 尖 叫 ) sounds. Whenrunning toward Pearl's bedroom, Fern realized her husband hadn't yet escaped. She made her way18 back through the smoke and flames, following King's sound to where Howard lay semiconscious ( 半昏迷) on the floor. Fern helped him get outside. King came out only after both were safe.As day dawned, the Carlsons saw that King's paws were badly burnt, and his entire body wasburnt, too. His chain collar had gotten so hot that it burnt his throat, making it impossible for him tobark (叫) normally. Only after the seven-year-old dog refused food did they find pieces of wood in hismouth and realize that King, who slept outside, had bitten through a wood door to warn his family. 1. According to the story, the first one who was completely out of danger could be Fern.A. T B. F答案：B2. King was the family's dog. A. T B. F答案：A3. When the master's room caught fire, the dog waked Pearl up.A. T B. F答案：A4. After reading this story, we've learnt that the dog was badly burned and not able to eat.A. T B. F答案：A5. From this story it can be inferred that the dog is man's best friend.A. T B. F答案：A23. A driver stopped his car on a street side to have a rest. As he lay down in the seat and closed hiseyes, a man came up and knocked at the window to ask the time. The driver opened his eyes andlooked at his watch. “It's 8 a.m.,” he said. Then he went to sleep again.But soon he woke up because a second person was knocking at the window. “Sir, do you have thetime?” he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told the man it was 8:30 a.m..At this rate (照此下去), he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short note and put it up on thewindow for all to see. It said, “I don't have the time.”Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later, a third person came alongand began knocking at the window. “Hey, sir,” he said, “it's a quarter to nine.”1. He was woken up again by the second person a few minutes later.A. T B. F答案：B2. The driver stopped his car because he was very tired.19 things are made from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the material. The soap you wash your hands withmight also be made from oil. Your favorite plastic toy is made from oil.Oil is hard to find, because it is trapped deep under the earth. Once the only way people knewthere was oil someplace if it leaked out of the ground. Today, however, we have many ways of findingoil. One tool measures the pull of gravity. Places where gravity is weaker are more likely to have oil.Another tool is sound waves. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds.We can use them to find the rocks that have oil in them.We need a lot of oil, and we are using up the oil wells we know about. Soon we must find newways of looking for this “black gold”. 1. From this passage, we can know oil is a source of energy.A. T B. F答案：A2. According to the passage, we can tell that oil is found only under water.A. T B. F答案：B3. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds.A. T B. F答案：A4. Many things are made from oil.A. T B. F答案：A5. The main idea of the whole story is that oil is important for us but hard to find.A. T B. F答案：A3. Mr Perkin stood at the bus-stop and watched the cars go by. Many of the cars were new Beta 400s,and most of them were yellow. Mr Perkin always wore the same clothes as other men, ate the samefood as other people, and did the same things after work, and at the end of the week, Mr Perkin did notlike to be different.The following week, Mr Perkin bought a new, bright yellow Beta 400s. He was satisfied with it,and drove to work in it the very next day. He was even more satisfied with his new car, when he sawall the other Beta 400s, in front, behind, and on both sides of him.Mr Perkin parked his car in a big car-park near his office, and walked the rest of the way. Butwhen he came back at five o'clock, there were so many bright yellow Beta 400s in the car-park that hedid not know which car was his. He tried his key in some of the cars, but people passing by gave him2 A. T B. F答案：A3. The driver had a very good rest after he put up the note on the window.A. T B. F答案：B4. The third person came to knock at the window to tell him the time.A. T B. F答案：A5. According to this passage, we know that the driver didn't have his own house.A. T B. F答案：B24. Newspapers, along with reporting the news, educate, entertain, and give opinions. An importantway of reading a large, big-city newspaper is to put it into different sections. Can you find theseseparate sections: world news, national and local news, sports, business, entertainment, opinions, ads?Does your newspaper have other sections? News stories give facts, not the reporters' opinions. Some newspaper editorials ( 社论) come outwith the writer's name, but many newspapers only carry editorials without putting the writers' nameson. You can be a better reader if you know what to expect in a newspaper. For example, you canexpect headlines ( 新 闻 标 题 ) to leave out unnecessary words. You can expect to find the mostimportant facts in the lead paragraph (the first paragraph) of a news story. You can expect importantnews items to be on the front page. You can expect less important items to be on the inside pages. Most of all, the more you know about news of the present time, the more you will understand whatis in the newspaper. Important stories are generally presented one day and followed up on followingdays. So, an important way to read newspapers is reading one frequently. 1. Important news items are usually on the inside pages.A. T B. F答案：B2. A good way to read a newspaper is to find separate sections and read according to your needs.A. T B. F答案：A3. Newspaper headlines contain no unnecessary words.A. T B. F答案：A4. If you are reading for major facts in the news stories, you should read the headlines only.20 A. T B. F答案：B5. The writer suggests that we should read one newspaper frequently.A. T B. F答案：A25. A man got into a train and found himself sitting opposite a woman who seemed to be about thirty-five years old. Soon they began talking to each other, and the man said to her, "Do you have afamily?""Yes, I have one son," the woman answered."Oh, really?" said the man. "Does he smoke?""No, he's never touched a cigarette," the woman replied."That's good," the man continued. "I don't smoke either. Tobacco is very bad to one's health. Anddoes your son drink wine?""Oh, no," the woman answered at once. "He's never drunk a drop of it.""Then I congratulate you, ma'am," the man said. "And does he ever come home late at night?""No, never," his neighbor answered. "He goes to bed immediately after dinner every night.""Well," the man said, "he's a wise young man. How old is he?""He's six months old today. But he will grow up to be a gentleman," the woman replied proudly.1. The man and the woman are talking about the woman's son. A. T B. F答案：A2. The woman thinks her son will be a gentleman. A. T B. F答案：A3. The conversation took place on a train. A. T B. F答案：A4. The word "disappointed" probably best describes the man's feeling at the end of the conversation.A. T B. F答案：B5. The woman is so proud of her son that she does not really understand what the man's questionsmean. A. T B. F答案：B26. Large modern cities are too big to control. They impose their own living conditions on the people21 who live in them. City-dwellers（居住在城市的人）have to adopt an unnatural way of life. Theylose touch with the land and the rhythm of nature so that they are hardly conscious of the seasons.A few flowers in a public park may remind people that it is spring or summer and a few leaves onthe roadside may remind them that it is autumn. Beyond that, what is going on in nature seems totallyunrelated to them. All the simple, good things of life, such as sunshine and fresh air are far away. Tallbuildings blot out （ 把 … 遮 住 ） the sun, and waste gases from cars pollute the air. Even thedistinction between day and night is lost. In the night, it is almost as bright and noisy as it is in the dayand people are busy with what they hope to deal with. The funny thing about it all is that city-dwellers pay dearly for living in the city. The prices forhouses are so high that it is often impossible for ordinary people to buy a house of their own. Highrents must be paid for small flats which even country hens would dislike to live in. Moreover, the costof living is very high. Everything you buy is likely to be more expensive than it would be in thecountry.1. It can be seen from the passage that the author doesn't like living in the city.A. T B. F答案：A2. According to the 1stparagraph, city-dwellers don't have a natural way of life.A. T B. F答案：A3. The phrase “the rhythm of nature” in the 1stparagraph refers to the change of seasons.A. T B. F答案：A4. The cost of living in large modern cities is very low.A. T B. F答案：B5. It can be inferred from the passage that the author loves nature and hopes to be close to it.A. T B. F答案：A27. No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water ices and milk ices mayhave been made by the Chinese between three thousand and four thousand years ago. In time, the dishreached India. The Indians, in turn, may have passed on the secret to the Arabs and Persians. ThePersians called their dish Sharbat, from which our word sherbet（冰冻果子露）comes.Marco Polo, an Italian who traveled widely in the thirteenth century, noted that he found theChinese had long been making ices out of fruit juices and milk. From the fourteenth century on, icesbecame popular, first in Venice and then throughout Italy.22 In 1533, when Catherine de Medicis left Italy to marry the future King Henry Ⅱof France, she tookher cooks with her. They made desserts the French had never tasted before. Among them was "icecream". For each day of the wedding festivities( 庆 祝 活 动 ， 庆 典 ) Catherine's cooks prepared adifferent flavor of her favorite dessert-"ice cream."At first ice cream was a luxury(奢侈品) in France. Only rich people had money to buy it. Then, in1660, a young man from Sicily, Francisco Procopio, arrived in Paris. He opened a shop that sold icecream at prices people could afford. Procopio's"ice-cream parlor(店堂)" became so popular that othershops were opened.About 1640, King Charles I introduced ice cream to England. He had heard it was popular in Italyand France. He served ice cream for dessert at a banquet(宴会). The surprise dish was a great success.The King ordered his cook to keep the recipe(制作方法) for ice cream a secret. Charles felt that onlyroyalty( 王 室 ) should serve the dessert. But the secret soon leaked out. Ice cream quickly becamepopular in England too.1. This passage is mainly about the history of ice cream.A. T B. F答案：A2. Marco Polo's remark shows that he traveled in India.A. T B. F答案：B3. Ice cream was unknown in France until 1640.A. T B. F 答案：B4. Ice cream was introduced to England by King Charles I.A. T B. F答案：A5. Development of ice cream in France and other countries is discussed in the passage.A. T B. F答案：A28. I felt very sad not to be able to get the ticket for the film Titanic last Friday. I learned in thenewspaper that tickets could be bought at the cinema box office ( 售票处) in Richland Hills any daybetween 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9:00 to 5:30, the only time I could go to the cinema wasduring my 45-minute lunch time. It is a pity that the cinema is on the other side of the town, and thebus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you canmake the round trip in 45 minutes. 23 Last Monday I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes, waiting for a bus. By the time I saw onecome around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip. So I had to go back to theoffice. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday my luckchanged. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the cinema in twenty minutes. But when I got there, Ifound a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say that he had been waiting in line forover an hour. I found that I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and wentback across the town. By Friday I understood my only hope was to make the trip by car. It was expensive, but I felt thatit would be worth it to see the film. The trip by car only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me.When I reached the cinema, I was delighted to see that nobody was waiting in line. But I quicklyfound out that it was because they had already sold all the tickets. 1. He tried to go to the cinema every day but he only got there three times.A. T B. F答案：B2. It seems that the writer of the story works in a small town.A. T B. F答案：A3. The underlined word “delighted” may be replaced (替换) by “surprised”.A. T B. F答案：B4. The writer could buy the tickets neither before nor after work hours.A. T B. F答案：A5. The best title of the story is “Ticket sold out”.A. T B. F答案：A29. Today the official language of the United Sates and most of Canada is English. However, Frenchalmost became the official language because of a war.The French and Indian War was fought between 1754 and 1763. The name of this war is notaccurate because the war was actually between England and France. The Indian fought on the side ofthe French.France and England were trying to gain control of North America. France held Canada, andEngland held part of what is now the United States. However, France tried to expand its land bymoving southward into New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia. When the French built a fort onthe Ohio River, the residents in Virginia sent George Washington to attack the fort in 1754. However,24 the French defeated Washington.The French, aided by Indians, outsmarted （更精明） the English and won many early battles.Later, the British began to do well against the French. In the final battle in Quebec, Canada, GeneralWolfe of England faced General Montcalm from France. Both general died in this battle, but theEnglish outlasted（比……持久）the French and won the battle. Thus, most of North America todayhas the English culture and language.1. A good title for this selection is The French and Indian War.A. T B. F答案：A2. Most of North America today has the English culture and language.A. T B. F答案：A3. General Wolfe died in France.A. T B. F答案：B4. Washington lost his battle at the fort on the Ohio River at the end of the war.A. T B. F答案：B5. Both general died in the final battle.A. T B. F答案：A30. Chinese New Year, which is also called the Spring Festival （ 节 目 ） , is the most importantfestival in China. The holiday begins on the first day of the new cycle （循环）of the moon, whichoccurs in late January or early February. The celebration will last 2 weeks.In the week before the New Year, families clean their houses in order to sweep away all the badlucks.On the evening before the New Year, families gather for a big feast （盛宴）. They prepare allkinds of dishes and dumplings（饺子）. At midnight, they set off fireworks（焰火）.On the first day of the New Year, people put on new clothes and then they take gifts to friends andrelatives. The adults（成人）usually give new year bonus（压岁钱）to their children.During the Spring Festival, the most special activity is the dragon and lion dances. As many as 50or more people support special dragons and lions which are made of cloth, while dancing down thestreet.The celebrations end with the Lantern Festival （元宵节）on the 15th day of the 1stmonth of the25 lunar year.1. The most important festival in China is the Spring Festival. A. T B. F答案：A2. The celebration of the Spring Festival will last 2 weeks. A. T B. F答案：A3. In order to get away the bad lucks in the old days, in the week before the Spring Festival, peoplelight fireworks. A. T B. F答案：B4. On the first day of the Spring Festival, the children are given some money. A. T B. F答案：A5. The dragons and lions which people use in the dances are made of metal. A. T B. F答案：B31. In 1933 an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see the filmmaker Walt Disney. Hehad an unusual voice and he wanted to work in Disney's cartoon（动画片） film for children. WhenWalt Disney heard Nash's voice, he said, "Stop! That's our duck!"The duck was the now-famous Donald Duck, who first appeared in 1934 in the film The WiseLittle Hen. Donald lived in an old houseboat and wore his sailor jacket and hat. Later that year hebecame a star after an eight-minute Mickey Mouse film. The cinema audience liked him because hewas lazy and greedy, and because he lost his temper very quickly. And they loved his voice when hebecame angry with Mickey's eight nephews. Soon Donald was more popular than Mickey Mousehimself, probably because he wasn't a goody-goody like Mickey.In the 1930s, 40s and 50s Donald and his friends Mickey, Goofy and Pluto made hundreds ofDisney cartoons. He also made educational films about the place of the USA in the world and safety inthe home. Then in 1966 Donald Duck and his voice disappeared---there were no more new cartoons. Clarence Nash died in February, 1985. But today's children can still see the old cartoons on televisionand hear that famous voice.1. Walt Disney made Donald Duck film. A. T B. F答案：A2. The first Donald Duck film was made in 1934.26 A. T B. F答案：A3. Clarence Nash was a film-maker. A. T B. F答案：B4. The underlined word “audience” in the second paragraph means readers. A. T B. F答案：B5. The underlined word “goody-goody” in the second paragraph means a person who likes to appear tobe faultless in behavior. A. T B. F答案：A32. One evening a little girl was sitting with her father in the living room. They were both reading.Her father was reading the newspaper and she was reading a book, but every once in a while shesounded a word that she didn't understand and asked him to explain it to her.“Daddy,” she said, “what's a gossip?”“a gossip,” said her father, “is someone who repeats unpleasant things about other people,someone who talks about people behind their back.”“Oh,” she said, “you mean like Mrs. Stein.”“That's right,” said her father, and he continued, reading his paper.A few moments later, she interrupted him again.“Daddy,” she said, “what's a bore?”“A bore,” said her father, trying to be patient, “is a person who is not interesting, a person whotalks about himself all the time, for example.”“Oh, you mean someone like Mr. Kelly?” she asked.“Exactly,” answered her father, returning to his paper.“Daddy?” she said, with a question in her voice.“Yes?” said her father, losing his patience. “What is it now?”“Daddy,” said the little girl. “what's a pain in the neck?”Her father put down his newspaper, looked at her kindly saying, “A pain in the neck is a girl whokeeps asking her father questions while he is trying to read the newspaper.”1. The little girl asked her father new words from time to time. A. T B. F答案：A2. The little girl's father was reading newspaper.27 A. T B. F答案：A3. When the little girl asked her father questions, he tried to answer her. A. T B. F答案：A4. The little girl asked her father two questions. A. T B. F答案：B5. The phrase “a pain in the neck” means that someone hurts his neck and he feels pain. A. T B. F答案：B33. What makes a person a scientist? Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different fromthose of others? The answer is “no”. It is not the tools a scientist uses but how he uses these tools thatmakes him a scientist. You will probably agree that knowing how to use a power is important to acarpenter. You will probably agree, too, that knowing how to investigate, how to discoverinformation, is important to everyone. The scientist, however, goes one step further, he must be surethat he has a reasonable answer to his questions and that his answer can be confirmed by otherpersons. He also works to fit the answers he gets to many questions into a large set of ideas about howthe world works.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 onetime must work under the same conditions at other times. If the conditions are different, any changesthe scientist observes in a demonstration must be explained by the changes in the conditions. This isone reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, who developed the Theory ofRelativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy of his mathematics was latertested through investigations, and Einstein’s ideas were shown to be correct. A scientist uses manytools for measurements. Then the measurements are used to make mathematical calculations that maytest his investigations.1. What makes a scientist according to the passage? ________ A. The tools he uses. B. The way he uses his tools. C. His ways of learning. D. The various tools he uses.答案：B2. The underlined part in the passage shows_______.A. the importance of informationB. the importance of thinking28 C .the difference between scientists and ordinary peopleD. the difference between carpenters and people with other jobs答案：C3. A sound scientific theory should be one that _________.A. works not only under one set of conditions at one time, but also under the same conditions atother timesB. does not allow any changes even under different conditionsC. can be used for many purposesD. leaves no room for improvement答案：A4. The author quotes the case of Albert Einstein to illustrate __________.A. that measurements are keys to success in scienceB. that accuracy of mathematicsC. that investigations are important in scienceD. that the mathematical calculations may test his investigations答案：C5. What is the main idea of the passage? ________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 keys to the making of a scientist.答案：D34. She is a cute, quiet girl. As a daughter, she has no secrets from her mother, who is very pleasedwith her. But these days she has become not so open as before. She has a diary that she keeps underlock and key. Her mother cannot help worrying about her. “What will I do if she falls in love, which istoo early for her age? After all she is reaching the dangerous time”. These thoughts have causedtrouble in the mother’s mind.One weekend, the girl came to tell her mother that she was going to the cinema with herschoolmates and would return late. This was the first time her mother had agreed, and she couldn’thelp worrying because her daughter had never been away at night before. The mother waited till nine.She decided to go out to meet her daughter. Just at that time, she heard the noise of a car parking. Shewent to the window and saw her daughter waving goodbye to a boy. Her heart missed a beat. Whenthe girl came in, the mother was watching TV, pretending nothing had happened. “Mum, I’m back.”“Yeah.” “Sorry to be late. Still sitting up?” “Yes. Oh, that…Who is that boy?” The daughter got asurprise. “Ah…He is my monitor. He gave me a lift on his way home. Mum, I’m going to bed.” “Allright. Go to sleep early.”29 a look he didn't like. So he stopped.Poor Mr Perkin had to wait nearly two hours until his was the only yellow Beta 400s in the car-park.1. Mr Perkin wanted a new yellow Beta 400s because he liked to do the same as other people.A. T B. F答案：A2. He drove to work in his new car the very next day.A. T B. F答案：A3. He was satisfied with his new car because other cars were not as bright as his.A. T B. F答案：B4. People gave him a look because he had a nice new car.A. T B. F答案：B5. Mr Perkin had to wait until there was only one yellow Beta 400s in the car-park.A. T B. F答案：A4. Many people now keep animals as pets. Numerous people have cats and dogs in their houses. Otherpeople like fish, caged birds, tortoises and even snakes, monkeys or lions. Millions of dollars andmuch time are spent every year on pet food, equipment, taming and medical treatment.Of course, there are some people who do not look after their pets properly or are even cruel tothem. For this reason a royal society was created in 1824 in Britain to prevent cruel treatment ofanimals.In contrast to the love of pets is the fact that blood sports still exist in most countries. People gohunting foxes, elephants, pandas, ducks, rabbits, and other animals, or go fishing, not because theyneed the meat to eat, but just for pleasure. In some countries, blood sports like bull fighting and cockfighting are common and hunting rare animals for commercial purposes has brought about an evenmore serious problem in the protection of the ecosystem.It is strange that people love certain animals, but enjoy killing others, in cruel ways, too. 1. Most people spend a large amount of money and time taking care of their pets. A. T B. F答案：A2. Horse racing is a blood sport. 3 The next morning, when the mother went to the daughter’s room to do some cleaning, she foundher diary left on the bed. After a few minutes’ thinking, she at last opened it to the page of the nightbefore. It read: Mum, it is love that made you ask, but it would show your understanding of me if youhadn’t. 1. The mother worried because her daughter always went back home too late.A. T B. F答案：B2. The mother used to be pleased with her daughter.A. T B. F答案：A3. The daughter was surprised because her mother knew she stayed with a boy that night.A. T B. F答案：A4. The mother found her daughter's diary because the girl forgot to lock her diary and left it on thebed.A. T B. F答案：B5. The article tells parents that children need more understanding than love.A. T B. F答案：A35. Six people were travelling in a compartment（包厢） on a train. Five of them were quiet and wellbehaved, but the sixth was a rude young man who was causing a lot of trouble to the other passengers.At a station this young man got out with his two heavy bags. None of the other passengers helpedhim, but one of them waited until the rude young man was very far away. Then he opened the windowand shouted to the young man, "You left something behind in the compartment!" Then he closed thewindows again.The young man turned around and hurried back with his two bags. He was very tired when hearrived, but he shouted through the window, "What did I leave behind?"As the train began to move again, the passenger who had called him back opened the window andsaid, "A very bad impression!"1. One of the passengers helped the young man.A. T B. F答案：B2. The sixth young man was impolite.A. T B. F30 答案：A3. Having heard the shout, the young man was frightened.A. T B. F答案：B4. The young man left something unpleasant in the train.A. T B. F答案：A5. The other passengers were not happy with the young man's behavior.A. T B. F答案：A36. New York, London, Paris and other big cities are exciting places to live in. There are manyinteresting things to see and to do. You can go to different kinds of museums, parks and cinemas. Youcan also go shopping to buy things from all over the world.But there are some problems in big cities, too. The cost of living is high, and there are too manypeople in some places of big cities. Every year many people move to the cities because there are somechances to find good jobs, to study at good schools, and to see good doctors. But sometimes thesepeople cannot find work or a good place to live in. Also, too many people in a small place make ithard to keep the cities safe and clean.Some people enjoy living in big cities, but others do not. Before people move to big cities, theyshould think about the problems of living there.1. All people like to live in big cities.A. T B. F答案：B2. In big cities people can go to different kinds of museums.A. T B. F答案：A3. The writer advises people not to move to a big city without thinking about the problems there.A. T B. F答案：A4. Big cities have problems too.A. T B. F答案：A5. The best title for this passage is “Advantages of living in Big cities”.A. T B. F答案：B31 37. A man was traveling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the car and went shopping. Whenhe came back, its roof was badly damaged. Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it. Theman did not believe them, but they took him to a circus which was near there. The owner of theelephant said,” I am very sorry! My elephant has a big, round, red chair. He thought that your car washis chair, and he sat on it!" Then he gave the man a letter, in which he said that he was sorry and thathe would pay for all the damage. When the man got back to his own country, the customs officerswould not believe his story. They said, "You sold your new car while you were abroad and bought thisold one”. It was only when the man showed them the letter from the circus man that they believedhim.1. The car was damaged because there was a traffic accident.A. T B. F答案：B2. A man was traveling abroad in a red car.A. T B. F答案：A3. The circus man said that he would pay for all of the damage.A. T B. F答案：A4. When the man got back to his country, the customs officers didn't believe his words.A. T B. F答案：A5. The letter from the police made the officers believe him.A. T B. F答案：B38. Bill and Fred are students, and they're good friends. They don't have much money, so when it istime for their holidays, Bill says, "Let's take our holidays in a trailer, Fred. It's cheaper than a hotel. Ican borrow my father's trailer." Fred is very happy, and they begin their holidays.They want to get up early the next morning to go fishing, but they don't have a clock."That's all right, Bill." Fred says, "I put these small pieces of bread on the roof(房顶) of the trailerat night and they will wake us up in the morning."Bill is very surprised, but he doesn't say a word. Fred is right. Early the next morning, some smallbirds come down on the roof to eat the bread and they make a lot of noise. Bill and Fred get up whenthey hear the noise.1. A trailer is something like a house.A. T B. F32 答案：A2. Bill and Fred take their holidays in a trailer because they do not have enough money.A. T B. F答案：A3. Their first problem is to find the place for their holiday.A. T B. F答案：B4. Bill thinks out a good way to get up early.A. T B. F答案：B5. The birds come down on the roof to eat the bread.A. T B. F答案：A39. When friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us they are in a hurryand looking at their watches. It isn’t that our friends are all very busy; it is just that we haven’t got atelevision. People think that we are very strange. “But what do you do in the evening?” they arealways asking. The answer is very simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. We certainly don’t spendour evenings staring at the walls. My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends eveningclasses in foreign languages. This is particularly useful as we often go abroad for our holidays. Icollect stamps and I’m always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to the music andplaying chess together．Sometimes there are power cuts( 断电 ) and we have no electricity in the house. This does notworry us; we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before. Our friends, however,are lost---no television! So they don’t know what to do. On such evenings our house is very full, andthey all come to us. They all have a good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television,everybody talks and plays games．1. Their friends don't like to stay at the couple's house as there is not a television. A. T B. F答案：A2. The couple have not got a television, because they enjoy spending evenings in their own ways.A. T B. F答案：A3. At night when there is no electricity, the couple can do nothing but sit in silence.A. T B. F33 答案：B4. The writer tries to tell us that life is enjoyable with many friends.A. T B. F答案：B5. The best title for this passage may be “We Go Without Televisions”.A. T B. F答案：A40. Bob was happy. He was at a new school, and the other students were friendly. "Hi, Bob!" theysaid. But some students said, "Hi, Peter!" Bob didn't understand. He asked another student, "Why dosome students call me Peter?" "Oh, that's easy to answer," the students said. "Peter was a student here last year. Now he goes to adifferent school. You look like Peter. Some students think that you're Peter." Bob wanted to meet Peter. He got Peter's address from a student and went to Peter's house. Peteropened the door. Bob couldn't believe his eyes. He looked really like Peter! Bob and Peter had thesame color eyes and the same smile. They had the same black hair. They also had the same birthday.And they both were adopted（领养） by two different families. Bob and Peter found out that they were twin brothers. Soon after the boys were born, one familyadopted Bob, and another family adopted Peter. Bob's family never knew about Peter, and Peter'sfamily never knew about Bob. Bob and Peter's story was in the newspaper. There was a photo of Bob and Peter next to the story.A young man named John saw the photo in the newspaper. John couldn't believe his eyes. He lookedreally like Bob and Peter! He had the same color eyes and the same smile. He had the same black hair.He had the same birthday. And he, too, was adopted by another family. Later John met Bob and Peter. When Bob and Peter saw John, they couldn't believe their eyes.John looked really like them! Why did John look really like Bob and Peter? You can guess. Bob andPeter are not twins. Bob, Peter and John are triplets（三胞胎）. 1. Bob was happy at a new school.A. T B. F答案：A2. Some students thought Bob was Peter.A. T B. F答案：A3. Bob saw Peter at school.A. T B. F答案：B34 4. John knew the story from a book.A. T B. F答案：B5. Bob, Peter and John were triplets.A. T B. F答案：A41. We spent a day in the country and picked a lot of flowers. Our car was full of flowers inside! Onthe way home we had to stop at traffic lights, and there my wife saw the bookshelf. It stood outside afurniture shop. "Buy it," she said at once. "We'll carry it home on the roof-rack （车顶架） . I'vealways wanted one like that."What could I do? Ten minutes later I was twenty dollars poorer, and the bookshelf was tied on tothe roof rack. It was tall and narrow, quite heavy, too.As it was getting darker, I drove slowly. Other drivers seemed more polite than usual that evening.The police even stopped traffic to let us through. Carrying furniture was a good idea. After a time my wife said, "There's a long line of cars behind. Why don't they overtake（超车）?"Just at that time a police car did overtake. The two officers inside looked at us seriously when theywent past. But then, with a kind smile they asked us to follow their car through the busy traffic. Thepolice car stopped at our village church. One of the officers came to me."Right, sir," he said. "Do you need any more help now?"I didn't quite understand. "Thanks, officer," I said. "You've been very kind. I live just down theroad."He was looking at our things: first at the flowers, then at the bookshelf. "Well, well," he said andlaughed. "It's a bookshelf you've got there! We thought it was--er, something else."My wife began to laugh. Suddenly I understood why the police drove here. I smiled at the officer."Yes, it's a bookshelf, but thanks again." I drove home as fast as I could.1. Carrying furniture was "a good idea" as other drivers would let him go first.A. T B. F答案：A2. From the story we know that the writer was not very glad to buy the bookshelf for his wife.A. T B. F答案：A3. The police were rude with the writer and his wife.A. T B. F答案：B4. The writer's wife laughed as now she knew the mistake the police had made.35 A. T B. F答案：A5. The officers began to realize they had made a mistake before arriving at the church.A. T B. F答案：B42. Our child's behavior is greatly influenced by the way we react to what he has done. Our reactionshelp to determine whether our child will repeat his behavior or whether he will do something different.This statement is a very important part of a principle of behavioral psychology.The principle states that a behavior is influenced or affected by how the environment ---- people,places and things ---- immediately responds to the behavior. Perhaps without realizing it, you haveused this principle many times.On the occasion when you told your child what a good boy he was after he cleaned up his room,you used the principle. When you sent your child to his room for fighting with his brother, you usedthe principle. When I gave Kim a cookie after she started to cry, I used the principle. In each of theseexamples, a particular behavior occurred first ---- cleaning up a room, fighting, and crying.In addition, there was a reaction to each behavior ---- the child was praised, sent to his room, orgiven a cookie. By these actions, we have influenced the previous behaviors and have helped todetermine whether those behaviors will occur again in the future.1. The lecture is mainly about Children's behavior and our response.A. T B. F答案：A2. The lecture is based on the principle in behavioral psychology.A. T B. F答案：A3. The audience at this lecture might be social workers.A. T B. F答案：B4. According to the lecture, the child was sent to his room as a kind of reward.A. T B. F答案：B5. People, places and things are elements of "environment" meant by the lecturer.A. T B. F答案：A43. A famous American writer was visiting Japan last year. He went to a university to talk to a largegroup of students. As most of them could not understand English, he had to have an interpreter（翻译36 员）.In his talk, he told an interesting story. He spoke for a long time and then stopped for theinterpreter to put into Japanese. But he was very surprised that the interpreter did this in a very fewwords, and all the students began to laugh.After the talk, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work, and then said to him, "Nowplease tell me how you could put my long story into a very short Japanese one.""I didn't tell the story at all," the man answered with a smile. "I only said, 'Our American friendhas just told a very interesting story. Now please laugh, all of you!"1. The interpreter helped the students to understand a few of the writer's words.A. T B. F答案：B2. The famous writer talked to the students in their language.A. T B. F答案：B3. The students laughed because the interpreter told them to do so.A. T B. F答案：A4. So the students knew nothing of the story.A. T B. F答案：A5. An interpreter must know all the languages.A. T B. F答案：B44. I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The advertisement inthe paper said that you could buy tickets at the theatre（剧院）box office in Richland Hills any daybetween 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9 o'clock to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theaterwas during my 45-minute lunch break. Unluckily, the theatre is on the other side of the town, and thebus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you canmake the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for 15 minutes waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one comearound the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip, so I gave up and went back to theoffice. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday, my luckchanged, I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly 20 minutes. When I got there,however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting inline for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and37 headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi. It wasnot cheap, but I felt it would be worth it to hear the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, butit felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting inline. The reason, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets.1. The writer may be a salesman.A. T B. F答案：B2. He learned that there would be a concert last Friday over the radio.A. T B. F答案：B3. He tried to go to the theatre every day but only managed to get there one time.A. T B. F答案：B4. He failed to get the ticket on Friday because the tickets had been sold out.A. T B. F答案：A5. The underlined word "relieved" means "pleased".A. T B. F答案：A45. My grandparents can be good fun. They are retired, so they don't work anymore. My grandfather is68 and my grandmother is 67, but they are not too old to be active. They exercise by playing golf andthey go out for meals and to the theater. Sometimes they take me out, too. We have a good time. Theyalso go on great holidays. Last year, they went to China and walked along the Great Wall!Sometimes, my grandparents like to criticize me. They think that children today have an easy life.Life was very different when they were young and there are many things about my life that they donot understand. They tell me, over and over, how they had to start work at 16. They know that I willgo on to university and won't be getting a job until I am 22! They also think that I have too manypossessions, such as mobile phones, computers and PSPs(掌上游戏机). When they were young, theydid not have anything like that. What they do not realize is that they cannot compare children atpresent time. They had the same kinds of things as the rest of people of their age, so do I. It would bevery strange if I only had the possessions that they had when they were my age. 1. My grandparents sometimes criticize me. One reason is that children today have an easy life.A. T B. F答案：A2. Grandparents don't work anymore because they are tired.38 A. T B. F答案：B3. Grandparents had the same kinds of things as people of their age when they were young.A. T B. F答案：A4. The sentence "but they are not too old to be active" means that they are old, so they are not active.A. T B. F答案：B5. My grandparents don't understand many things about my life.A. T B. F答案：A46. A young man who refused to give his name dived into the river yesterday morning to save atwelve-year-old boy. The boy was in danger in the river. He had been swimming in the river andcaught his foot between two concrete posts under the bridge. He shouted out for help. At the time ayoung man was riding across the bridge on his bicycle. He quickly got down and dived into the river.He then freed the boy's foot and helped him to the river bank where a small crowd had collected. Theboy thanked his rescuer sincerely, then ran off down the road. He was last seen climbing over a gatebefore disappearing over the top of the hill. The young man who was about 20 years of age said, "Idon't blame the boy for not giving his name. Why should he? If he wants to swim in the river, that'shis business. And if I want to help him, that's mine. You can not have my name either." He then ranback to the bridge, got his bicycle and rode away.1. The young man jumped into the river immediately when he saw the boy in danger.A. T B. F答案：A2. The 12-year-old boy had his foot caught between two concrete posts in the river.A. T B. F答案：A3. The little boy thanked the young man after being rescued.A. T B. F答案：A4. The young man heard "help" when he was running across the bridge.A. T B. F答案：B5. The young man was about 24 years old.A. T B. F39 A. T B. F答案：B3. The speaker's attitude toward blood sports is that they are cruel. A. T B. F答案：A4. Illegal killing of rare animals seems to affect the earth's ecosystem most seriously.A. T B. F答案：A5. The passage mainly implies that rare animals should be killed for profits. A. T B. F答案：B5. Long ago, there was a rich man. He had a very big house with a lot of treasures. He had manyservants to look after it for a few days. One day, two silver saucers were stolen from the cupboard.After a few days, another two saucers were stolen again. The rich man was very angry. He thought,"Someone must have stolen them. I must catch the thief, or another two saucers would be stolen in afew days."Then he had an idea. He called in all his servants and said, "Some of my silver saucers havedisappeared. Someone among you must have taken them. Who has taken them?"The servants looked at one another and kept quiet. The rich man said," I shall catch the thiefmyself. I am giving each of you a stick. Look, all the sticks are of the same length. Keep the sticks.Bring them back tomorrow. The thief's stick will grow two centimeters longer."That evening, Salleh, one of the servants, went home sadly. His wife asked him, "Why are you sosad this evening?""This stick will grow two centimeters longer tomorrow because I have taken the silver saucers," hesaid."Oh, don't worry. Cut off two centimeters from the stick," his wife said. "In other words, your stickwill be of the same length as any of the other sticks."When Salleh heard this, he was very happy. At once, he cut off two centimeters from the stick witha knife.The next day, each of the servants brought back his stick. The rich man then measured each of thesticks. He found Salleh's stick shorter by two centimeters, Salleh was the thief. He was caught and putinto prison. The rich man got back the stolen saucers. 1. The silver saucers were kept in a box.A. T B. F答案：B4 答案：B47. Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry.In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical family had many children. In a farmfamily, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts livednearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families becamesmaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to moveagain whenever necessary. And large families can not be moved from place to place as smallerfamilies can. So, at present people tend to have smaller families.In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even moreoften than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consistsonly of a man and a woman. A small number of families may take child raising as their chief work. Atthe same time they may also raise other people's children, leaving those families free to move from jobto job. 1. The passage discusses influence of science and industry on American families. A. T B. F答案：A2. Families of the past, the present and the future are described in the passage. A. T B. F答案：A3. People no longer want to have children. A. T B. F答案：B4. Grandparents will take the chief responsibility of raising children in the future. A. T B. F答案：B5. Large families cannot fit in with a highly industrialized society. A. T B. F答案：A48. 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 he didn't want to stop, so he carried on working for another two years. Eventually, when he was nearly 68, his wife, Dolly, asked him to retire because she wanted to enjoy their old age together. Reluctantly, 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 began to get depressed 40 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 employed three young designers. They have been all over the world to get 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 bought the factory.1. The topic sentence of Para. 1 is ______.A. Morgan Rees has always been a good businessmanB. he used to own three petrol stations and was busy most of the timeC. when Morgan Rees was 65, he got retiredD. reluctantly, he handed over the business to his son答案：A2. The topic sentence of Para. 2 is ______.A. he didn't know what to do with himselfB. he went on holiday to interesting places with his wifeC. he was unhappy after he got retiredD. none of them答案：C3. Which of the following statements can best express the main idea of Para. 3?A. One day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper.B. He bought a small crockery factory in secret and started work again.C. He told his family he bought a small crockery factory.D. His family was horrified and worried when they learned he bought the small factory.答案：B4. What is the central idea of the last paragraph?A. Morgan Rees has worked until he is 76.B. Morgan Rees has developed the export market and improved the 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, whichhas enriched his retired life.答案：D41 5. The passage mainly deals with ______.A. why Morgan Rees bought a small crockery factoryB. how Morgan Rees lived his retired life more happily by turning to work againC. how Moran Rees became a good businessmanD. how Moran Rees expanded the company considerably答案：B49. When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring verymany things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy usedfurniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The rentingof home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s fastest growingbusinesses.What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who areinternational business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young marriedcouples - people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another.They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent newfurniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheapfurniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buyfurniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they couldafford to buy.One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture somuch that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don’t liketo tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not surewhat their neighbors might think. 1. Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses? A. Selling home furnishings.B. Renting furnished apartments.C. Selling used furniture.D. Renting home furnishings.答案：D2. Why do some people prefer to rent furniture?A. Because the furniture they get in this way is new.B. Because it saves them a lot of money.C. Because it saves them much trouble and money.D. Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.答案：C3. What can you infer from the passage?42 A. The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.B. Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town.C. Only those who don’t have enough money to rent furniture.D. People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.答案：B4. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?A. Rent or Buy?B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings.C. Furnished Apartments.D. A New Idea.答案：B5. Young people liked renting home furniture because_________A. they have less money.B. they don’t want to buy old furniture.C. the new furniture is of good quality.D. they don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture.答案：D50. 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 platform. They worked for a whole year and at last the pictures were ready.Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were really beautiful. 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 pictures.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 it and surely be killed. "So the worker quickly took some paint（漆）and threw it at the pictures."What are you doing?" cried the painter, running quickly forward to his pictures.1. James Thornhill was an English ______.A. worker B. artist C. king D. writer答案：B2. He was ordered to ______.A. paint the wall of the king's palace in England43 B. paint some pictures on the wall of the palaceC. build a big platform in front of the palaceD. put up some new pictures on the old wall答案：B3. It took them ______ to finish the pictures.A. a month B. a week C. twelve months D. half a month答案：C4. James Thornhill felt that the ______ he was from the pictures, the ______ they were.A. nearer…more beautifulB. farther…more uglyC. farther…more beautifulD. higher above…more good-looking答案：C5. The worker threw some paint at the pictures in order to ______.A. save James' lifeB. destroy the pictureC. make the picture more beautifulD. make the king angry答案：A51. When I was a little girl, my brothers and I collected stamps for many years. My mother didn't useto work during the week, but she worked in the post office near our house on Saturdays, and she usedto bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued (发行).On the day of the World Cup football final in London in 1966, we were very excited becauseEngland were playing West Germany in the final. When we were having lunch, my mother told us togo to the post office straightaway after the match if England won, but she didn't tell us why. At 2o'clock my mother went back to work as usual, while the rest of the family were watching the footballon TV at home. Although she wasn't watching the match, she was listening to it on the radio. England won 4:2 and so my brothers and I ran to the post office. As we burst in, my mother wasstanding behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition with ENGLANDWINNERS on each stamp. We were over the moon.We still have it today, and perhaps it is worth a lot of money. 1. This passage mainly tells us ______.A. the author and her brother used to like stamps very muchB. the author had a very kind motherC. the author and her brothers had an unforgettable experience in collecting stamps44 D. their mother used to support them by working in the post office答案：C2. According to the passage, her mother worked in the post office ______.A. during the week B. on SaturdaysC. on Sundays D. for six days答案：B3. Their mother told them to go to the post office straightaway after the match if England won, but shedidn't tell them why. Why do you think she did that? A. She wanted to give them a surprise.B. She doubted if she would get the stamps.C. She forgot to do that.D. She thought it unnecessary to tell them the reason.答案：A4. What does the sentence "We were over the moon." mean? A. We jumped high.B. We were extremely happy about it.C. We watched the moon for a long time.D. We couldn't sleep the whole night.答案：B5. What is the best title for this passage? A. My ChildhoodB. My MotherC. A Precious StampD. A Memorable Experience in Collecting Stamps答案：D52. Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious andself-conscious; that is, they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions.Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: what kind of impression am I making?Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing unattractive clothes?It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must negatively affect people. A person’sconception of himself or herself is reflected in the way he or she behaves, and the way a personbehaves affects other people’s reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has aprofound effect on all areas of their lives.Shy people, having low self-esteem, are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. They45 need reassurance that they are doing “the right thing.” Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; theyfeel it confirms their feelings of inferiority. They also find it difficult to be pleased by complimentwith a statement like this one, “You’re just saying that to make me feel good. I know it’s not true.” Itis clear that while self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful.Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? Fortunately, people can overcomeshyness with determined and patient efforts in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes hand inhand with a lack of self-esteem, it is important for people to accept their weaknesses as well as theirstrengths.Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual, interested in our own personal ways. The betterwe understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to live up to our full potential. Let’s not allow shynessto block our chances for a rich and fulfilling life. 1. What does the author try to prove by citing “what kind of impression am I making?” (Para.1)__________A. Shy people benefit from their caring about their appearance.B. People’s shyness make them care too much about their appearance and actions.C. It’s natural that shy people don’t believe other’s compliments.D. Shy people think they are different from others.答案：B2. According to the writer, self-awareness is __________.A. a good qualityB. the cause of unhappinessC. harmful to peopleD. a weak point of shy people答案：A3. That shy people react to a compliment in such a way is ___________.A. good B. unreal C. very reasonable D. harmful答案：D4. Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage? _________A. Shyness helps us to develop our potentialB. Shyness enables us to understand ourselves betterC. Shyness can block our chances for a rich lifeD. Shyness has nothing to do with lack of self-esteem答案：C5. It can be inferred from the passage that shy people ________.A. should find more of their weaknessB. should understand themselves in the right way46 C. had better ignore their weaknessD. can get rid of their shyness while maintaining low self-esteem答案：B53. A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-mademan - the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with hishands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher socialposition and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilledfactory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer orlaborer of some sort.This attitude toward manual ( 体力的) labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life.One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously ( 豪 华 地 )furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to affordforeign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably willcook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward; furthermore, the dinnerwill not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and acake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in carefulpreparation of special dishes. A professional may talk about washing the car, digging in hisflowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps herwith the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for hisliving, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay forhis education. 1. From Para. 1, we know that in America _________.A. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made manB. people can always rise to the top through their won effortsC. college professors win great respect from common workersD. people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors答案：A2. According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _________.A. servants in America are hard to get. B. she takes pride in what she can do herselfC. she can hardly afford servantsD. it is easy to prepare a meal with canned food答案：B3. The underlined expression “wait on table” in Para. 2 means “_________”.A. work in a furniture shop47 B. keep accounts for a barC. wait to lay the tableD. serve customers in a restaurant答案：D4. The author’s attitude towards manual labor is _______.A. positive B. negative C. humorous D. critical答案：A5. Which of the following could be the best title of the passage? A. A Respectable Self-made FamilyB. American Attitude toward Manual LaborC. Characteristics of American CultureD. The Development of Manual Labor答案：B54. Man is a land animal, but he is also closely tied to the sea. Throughout history the sea has servedthe needs of man. The sea has provided man with food and a convenient way to travel to many parts ofthe world. Today, nearly two-thirds of the world's population live within eighty kilometers off the seacoast. In the modern technological world the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive.Resources on land are beginning to be used up. The sea, however, still offers hope to supply many ofman's needs in the future.The riches of the sea yet to be developed by man's technology are impressive. Oil and gasexplorations have been carried out for nearly thirty years. Valuable amounts of minerals such as iron,copper and so on exist on the ocean floor ready to be mined.Fishing farming promises to be a good way to produce large quantities of food. The culture of fishand shellfish is an ancient skill practiced in the past mainly by Oriental people.Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources of energy. For example, warm temperature ofthe ocean can be used in a way similar to the steam in a steamship. Ocean currents and waves mayalso offer a source of energy.Technology is enabling man to explore even more deeply under the sea. It is obvious that thetechnology to harvest the sea continues to improve. Experts believe that by the year 2050 the problemsto explore the food, minerals and energy resources of the sea will be largely solved.1. The major things that the sea offers man are the food, energy sources, and minerals.A. T B. F答案：A2. The sea serves the needs of man because it offers minerals to man.48 A. T B. F答案：B3. We can conclude from this passage that the sea, in a broad sense, has not yet been explored fully.A. T B. F答案：A4. The underlined words "Oriental people" in the 4th paragraph probably mean "Asian people".A. T B. F答案：A5. The best title for this passage is "Use of the Sea for Man's Profit".A. T B. F答案：A55. Tom had a few days' holiday, so he said, "I'm going to the north by train." He put on his bestclothes, took a small bag and got into the train. He had a beautiful hat, and he often put his head out ofthe window during the trip and looked at the hills and rivers. But the wind took his hat off.Tom quickly took up his old bag and threw it out of the window too.The other people in the train laughed. "Is your bag going to bring your beautiful hat back?" theyasked."No," Tom answered, "but there's no name and no address in my hat, and there is a name and anaddress on the bag. Someone is going to find both of them near each other, and he's going to send methe bag and the hat." 1. Tom looked out of the window in the train.A. T B. F答案：A2. Tom went to the north to have a holiday with a hat and a bag.A. T B. F答案：A3. Tom liked to see the beautiful hills and rivers.A. T B. F答案：A4. Tom thought he was going to lose his hat.A. T B. F答案：B5. Tom thought he was clever to throw his bag out.A. T B. F49 2. The rich man found six silver saucers were stolen.A. T B. F答案：B3. The rich man gave each of his servants a stick of the same length.A. T B. F答案：A4. The next day, the rich man knew that Salleh was the thief because Salleh's stick was shorter by twocentimeters.A. T B. F答案：A5. Salleh did as what his wife told him.A. T B. F答案：A6. Many years ago there lived a very rich man who wanted to do something for people of this town.But first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help. In the center of the main road into thetown he placed a very large stone. Then he hid behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came alongwith his cow. "Who put his stone in the center of the road?" said the old man, but he did not try to remove thestone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued his way.Another man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of themcomplained about the stone in the center of the road but none of them tried to remove it. Later in theafternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone and said, "The night will be very dark. Someneighbor will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone." The young man then beganto move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his strength to remove it. How great was his surpriseat last when, under the stone, he found a bag of money and a piece of paper with these words: "Thismoney is for the first honest man who removes this stone from the road."1. The rich man wanted to find out whether the people of the town were worthy of his help. A. T B. F答案：A2. The man put a sack of rice in the center of the road. A. T B. F答案：B3. Most people tried to move the stone away. A. T B. F5 答案：A56. A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When theother frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The twofrogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogskept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed of （倾听） what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs shouted athim to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, theother frogs said, "Didn't you hear us?" The frog explained to them that he was a little deaf. He thoughtthey were encouraging him the entire time.This story teaches us two lessons:1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is downcan lift him up and help him make it through the day.2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill him.Be careful of what you say. The power of words is sometimes hard to understand because anencouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of thespirit to continue in difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time to encourageanother.1. The expression "as good as" (in line 2, paragraph 1) means almost, practically.A. T B. F答案：A2. When other frogs told the two frogs there was no hope, the two frogs gave up their effortsimmediately.A. T B. F答案：B3. One of the frogs fell down and died because he was so tired.A. T B. F答案：B4. The other frog managed to jump out of the pit because he was very strong physically.A. T B. F答案：B5. People should avoid saying destructive words to those who are in trouble.A. T B. F答案：A50 57. 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 he didn't want to stop, so he carried on working for another two years. Eventually, when he was nearly 68, his wife, Dolly, asked him to retire because she wanted to enjoy their old age together. Reluctantly, 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 andhe went on holiday to interesting places with his wife, he was bored and began to get depressedbecause he hated being retired.Then one day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper and, without telling his wife, he bought asmall 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 ofstaff from 6 to 24 and he has found many new customers for the products. He has developed theexport market and has improved profits by 200%. He has opened a new design office and employedthree young designers. They have been all over the world to get new ideas, and one of them has goneto France this week to a major trade fair. Most importantly, he hasn't been bored since he bought thefactory.1. The topic sentence of Para. 1 is ______.A. Morgan Rees has always been a good businessmanB. he used to own three petrol stations and was busy most of the timeC. when Morgan Rees was 65, he got retiredD. reluctantly, he handed over the business to his son答案：A2. The topic sentence of Para. 2 is ______.A. he didn't know what to do with himselfB. he went on holiday to interesting places with his wifeC. he was unhappy after he got retiredD. none of them答案：C3. Which of the following statements can best express the main idea of Para. 3?A. One day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper.B. He bought a small crockery factory in secret and started work again.C. He told his family he bought a small crockery factory.D. His family was horrified and worried when they learned he bought the small factory.答案：B4. What is the central idea of the last paragraph?51 A. Morgan Rees has worked until he is 76.B. Morgan Rees has developed the export market and improved the 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, whichhas enriched his retired life.答案：D5. The passage mainly deals with ______.A. why Morgan Rees bought a small crockery factoryB. how Morgan Rees lived his retired life more happily by turning to work againC. how Moran Rees became a good businessmanD. how Moran Rees expanded the company considerably答案：B58. A young boy was playing with a ball in the street. He kicked too hard, and it broke the window ofa home and fall inside. A lady came to the window with the ball and shouted at the young boy, so heran away, but he still wanted his ball back. A few minutes later he returned and knocked at the door ofthe house, and when the lady answered it, he said, “My father is going to come and fix your windowvery soon.” After a few minutes a man came to the door with tools in his hand, so the lady let the boy take hisball away. When the man finished fixing the window, he said to the lady, “That will cost you ten dollars.”“But aren't you the father of that boy?” the women asked, looking surprised. “No,” he answered,equally surprised. “Aren't you his mother?” 1. One day a boy played with a ball near his house.A. T B. F答案：B2. The lady shouted at the boy because the boy kicked the ball too hard.A. T B. F答案：B3. The boy ran away and brought his father when the lady shouted at him.A. T B. F答案：B4. The lady gave the ball back to the boy because she thought the boy's father came to repair thewindow.A. T B. F答案：A5. The repairman thought that the lady was the boy's mother.A. T B. F52 答案：A59. Paul could not sleep last night. He woke up early and sat up, and then he lay down again. He feltterrible. "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 hischair. He went over his history notes, but he couldn't remember any of the facts in his notes. "Whatshall I do?" he thought. He felt terrible.Just then Paul's telephone rang, so he put down his notebook and picked up the telephone."Good morning," Jack's voice said. "You must be wrong about that test.""What do you mean?" Paul asked weakly."We are not going to have a test today." Jack said. "I wrote down the date in my notebook. The testwill 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 couldn't sleep last night because that test worried him.A. T B. F答案：A2. Paul found his history notebook under a pile of clothes. A. T B. F答案：A3. Paul tried to go over his history notes after he found his notebook. A. T B. F答案：A4. Paul couldn't sleep and phoned Jack.A. T B. F答案：B5. Paul felt fine suddenly because he had a good sleep.A. T B. F答案：B60. It was Monday. Mrs. Smith's dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house. Mrs. Smithtook a piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it: “Give my dog half a pound of meat. ”Then she gave the paper to her dog and said gently: “Take this to the butcher and he's going to giveyou your lunch today.”Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butcher's. It gave thepaper to the butcher. The butcher read it carefully, recognized that it was really the lady's handwritingand soon did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up at once. At noon, thedog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading it, he gave it halfa pound of meat once more. The next day, the dog came again exactly at noon still with a piece of53 paper in the mouth. This time, the butcher did not take a look at paper, and gave the dog its meat, forhe had regarded the dog as one of his customers. But, the dog came again at four o'clock. And thesame thing happened once again. To the butcher's more surprise, it came for the third time at sixo'clock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled. He said to himself,“This is a small dog. Why does Mrs. Smith give it so much meat to eat today? ” Looking at the pieceof paper, he found that there were not any words on it!1. Mrs. Smith treated her little dog quite kindly.A. T B. F答案：A2. The dog seemed to know that the paper Mrs. Smith gave it might do much harm.A. T B. F答案：B3. The butcher did not give any meat to the dog before he felt sure that the words were really writtenby Mrs. Smith.A. T B. F答案：A4. The dog always went to the butcher's with a piece of paper, because it found that the paper onlywith Mrs. Smith's words could bring it meat.A. T B. F答案：B5. At the end of the story, you'll find that the butcher found himself cheated by the clever animal.A. T B. F答案：A61.Computers are very important to modern life. Many people think that in the future computers willbe used in lots of aspects of everyday life. It is thought that we won't have to go shopping because wewill be able to get most things which are sold in shops on the Internet. There will be no more booksbecause we will be able to get all texts from computers. The Internet will be used to play games, seefilms and buy food. Most telephone calls will be made by computers. Some people are glad about these new ways of shopping and communicating. Others do not thinkthat computers will replace our old ways. Let's look at books, for example. Some people think that one day we will not read books made ofpaper. Instead, we will buy and read books using computers. We will read texts on small pocketcomputers. The computers will keep many different books in them at the same time. We won't need toturn lots of pages and paper will be saved. Computerized (计算机化的) books will be used more andmore. Is Internet shopping such a pleasure as going to the shop? Many people say it is not. It is a pleasure54 to go into shops and look at things you want to buy. Also probably people won't like to read large textson our computers. Because paper books seem to be more friendly. Maybe computers won't changethese two habits. 1. In the first paragraph it is thought that people will use computers to play games, go shopping andmake telephone calls.A. T B. F答案：A2. Computerized books won't be very expensive is NOT mentioned in the passage.A. T B. F答案：A3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means people like to read paper books.A. T B. F答案：A4. The last paragraph tells us internet shopping is a great pleasure.A. T B. F答案：B5. The best title of this passage could be " Computers Are the Future ".A. T B. F答案：B62. It was difficult to find jobs in the north of England at that time. When John lost his job, he foundthat he could not get a new one. He soon spent all his money, so he went to the south of the country,as people said it was easier to find work there. The easiest way to go there was to take a train. SoonJohn got on a train.The train started. There were not many people on the train. Suddenly a man with a gun came in.He went up to John and said, "Your money, or your life!""But I've got no money, sir," John answered. He looked sad."Then why are you so afraid?" asked the man with a gun angrily. "I thought you wanted to see my ticket, and I had no money to buy one. " said John.1. John went to the south of England when he spent all his money.A. T B. F答案：A2. John thought he could get a new job in the south.A. T B. F答案：A3. When a man with a gun came, John was afraid because he had no ticket.A. T B. F55 答案：A4. The man with a gun wanted to see John's ticket.A. T B. F答案：B5. All the people on the train wanted to travel to the south to get a job.A. T B. F答案：B63. Linda and David have traveled by air from London to Sydney, Australia. Linda has promised hermother that she will ring her to let her know that they have arrived safely. This is something she haddone ever since she was a child. David thinks it is not a good idea to ring so far, to spend too much,and to say so little. "If there were an accident." He says, " They'd know soon enough. Bad news travels fast." But Linda has promised that she would ring. "However," she says, "it doesn't cost much when youjust think that it's the other side of the world. It's only six pence per second (每秒六便士). " "If you're on that telephone for less than one minute, I'll eat my hat," David says, "And oneminute's nearly four pounds." "That's no more than you'd pay for a new hat," Linda answers. She has asked the man at the hotel desk to get her the number. The telephone rings. Linda picks itup."Hello, Mum. Is that you?" She says."Six pence per second, "David reminds her. "Hello, love." It is Mrs. Lee, Linda's mother, speaking from London. " I can hear you very clearlyjust like you are in the next room. It's a better line than when you called me from your office. Do youremember? I shouted at that time, and still you couldn't hear me sometimes. " "Yes, Mum." Linda puts in. "I just wanted to ring to …" "I remember how you rang when you went to Betty's house to eat, when you were a little girl. Andthen when you …" Mrs. Lee is a great talker."Nearly four pounds." says David. Linda tries to tell her mother that it is time to say goodbye. "Yes, all right, "says Mrs. Lee," But you will write, won't you, as you did when you were at work…" Once again, Mrs. Lee talks about the past, and there is no stopping her. "Four pounds fifty," says David. At last, Linda cuts her mother short, promises to write, and rings off. "There! That wasn't long, was it?" " Four pounds, ninety pence." David answers. "And you didn't even say that we've arrived. " 56 1. Linda is telephoning home to say that she and David have arrived safely.A. T B. F答案：A2. Linda does not think it expensive to ring, because she will speak from one side of the world to theother.A. T B. F答案：A3. David says, "Nearly four pounds," because he wants to remind Linda of the cost of the call. A. T B. F答案：A4. Mrs. Lee goes on talking for so long because she likes to hear all about the past. A. T B. F答案：B5. Linda stopped her mother by writing a letter as she has promised to do.A. T B. F答案：B64. In recent years, many Americans of both sexes and various ages have become interested inimproving their bodies. They have become devoted to physical fitness. Many persons have a strongdesire to be more physically fit. By nature, Americans are enthusiastic and energetic about hobbies orpastimes. Many of them apply this enthusiasm, optimism, and energy to running. As a result, there arerunning clubs to join and numerous books and magazines to read about running.The desire to be physically fit is explained by a "passion" for good health. The high rate of heartattacks in the 1960s caused an increase of interest in improving the human body. Middle-aged menespecially suffer from heart attacks. Thus, they are one group strongly interested in more physicalexercises. In fact, many doctors encourage their patients to become more physically active, especiallythose who have inactive jobs. It is interesting to note that the rate of heart attacks began to decreasebetween 1972 and 1974 and it is still decreasing. Physical fitness has now become a new "love" ofAmericans. Will it last long? Only time will tell--or until another "new passion" comes along?1. The word "passion" in the second paragraph means "enthusiasm".A. T B. F答案：A2. The rate of heart attacks between 1972 and 1974 in the United States was increasing.A. T B. F答案：B3. Americans are interested in physical exercises because they have a strong desire for good health.A. T B. F57 答案：A4. The patients who have spare time are strongly encouraged to take part in physical exercises.A. T B. F答案：B5. In conclusion, more people will take part in the physical exercises.A. T B. F答案：B65. My wealthy uncle was dying. He wanted to leave me his entire fortune, which was about half amillion dollars. There was, one condition: I must be married before he died. If not, I wouldn't receive acent.I was not a greedy man, but I thought half a million dollars was a rather high price for keeping myfreedom. I decided to make the great sacrifice. It was easier said than done. The doctor was certain myuncle would be dead within a fortnight( 两周). That put me in a difficult position. You see, besidesbeing forty years old, I was also ugly. I had no lady friends, I couldn't possibly advertise myself aswealthy until after my marriage. Advertise! What a good idea!I ran an advertisement in one of the popular Sunday newspapers. To my surprise and joy, Ireceived over a thousand replies. I spent hours opening the letters.My heart sank. I couldn't possibly read all the letters. Time was running out. In despair, I burnt allthe letters. No choice was better than a bad choice. In this dejected( 灰心的) state of mind, I went tosee a good friend. He was a waiter in a restaurant. I told him my problem. “If you are really serious,”he said, I can recommend my sister. She's an excellent cook and a good housekeeper. She is all alonenow.“But is she interested in marriage?” I asked.1. The writer wanted to marry because his uncle was dying.A. T B. F答案：B2. His biggest problem in finding a wife was that he was forty and ugly.A. T B. F答案：A3. He burnt all the letters because there were no suitable persons.A. T B. F答案：B4. He went to the restaurant to get advice from his friend there.A. T B. F答案：A5. The waiter at the restaurant recommended his own sister because she was a good looking girl.58 A. T B. F答案：B66. Dear Mrs. Huggett,You may remember that we have discussed the noise your children make while practicing theirmusical instruments （ 乐 器 ） . You agreed to make sure that they would stop practicing in theevenings.You can imagine my surprise, then, when I realized that nothing had changed and the situation wascontinuing as before. I find it difficult to stay in the house and I invent（找寻） any excuse to go outfor the evening to be away from the terrible noise. Much as I like music, I have had enough, and to befrank（坦率地）, I am not prepared to put up with the situation any more.I think it is high time you realized your responsibilities （责任）as a member of the community,and I must warn you that unless you do something about the situation I will be forced to take legalaction.I have sent a copy of this letter to my lawyer. Yours sincerely R.G. Barge1. Mr. Barge feels angry because Mrs Hugget has broken her promise.A. T B. F答案：A2. Mr. Barge often goes out in the evenings to listen to music.A. T B. F答案：B3. Mr. Barge is prepared to take Mrs. Huggett to court if the situation continues.A. T B. F答案：A4. Mrs. Huggett agreed to stop her children practicing in the evenings before Mr. Barge wrote her thisletter.A. T B. F答案：A5. According to the passage，Mrs. Huggett is an honest person.A. T B. F答案：B67. Hi, dear boys and girls! Do you know how to be a healthy kid? Here are some rules you shouldfollow.59 答案：B4. The young man found a bag of money and a letter under the stone. A. T B. F答案：A5. A very rich man wanted to do something for the poor people of the city. A. T B. F答案：B7. Jean-Michael Lourdis was a promising young pianist. But when the young man played, it seemedto him, as if his hands were iron. He worried so much about his playing that he became oversensitive（过度敏感的） to the comments of his playing. Unfortunately, in those days, a critic（批评家）was not considered a critic, unless he found something wrong. This attitude of the critics would oftenleave the young man ready to give up his dream and return home.He was invited to play in Helsinki（赫尔辛基）. The rich, the famous, the leaders of State wereall there. Jean-Michael had one of those days when everything went wrong. That night as he played,he felt as if it were the worst concert of his young life. The next day, in the newspapers, some of thecomments were so unkind. The young musician was painful.That day, as he sat in his hotel room in total despair（绝望）, there came a knocking at his door.He had a visitor. The famous Finnish composer（作曲家） Jean Sibelius had come by to congratulatethe young pianist on his performance. Jean-Michael asked how he thought of that and began to quotesome of the newspaper critics. "Hands of iron. No imagination. Little skill, no joy. Don't you hearwhat they say?" he asked.Jean Sibelius looked at young Jean-Michael and said, " Remember, son, there is no city in theworld where they have erected a statue（雕像） for a critic."1. According to the passage, Jean-Michael Lourdis cared too much about what the critics had said. A. T B. F答案：A2. A critic in those days usually said kind and encouraging words to musicians. A. T B. F答案：B3. The young musician was painful because some of the comments were so unkind. A. T B. F答案：A4. The comments mentioned all EXCEPT little skill. A. T B. F6 First, eat different foods, especially fruit and vegetables. You may have a favourite food, but you'dbetter eat something different, if you eat different foods, you will probably get more nutrients (营养物质) your body needs.Second, drink water and milk as often as possible. When you're really thirsty, cold water is the No.l choice. Milk is a great drink that can give you more calcium ( 钙) your body needs to grow strongbones.Third, listen to your body. How do you feel when you are full? When you are eating, notice howyour body feels and when your stomach feels comfortably full. Eating too much will not make youfeel comfortable and make you fat.Fourth, limit screen time. Screen time is the time you watch TV, DVDs and videos, or usingcomputers. It is good to take more exercise such as basketball, bike riding and swimming. You can'twatch TV for more than two hours a day.Fifth, be active. One thing you'd like to do as a kid is to find out which activity you like best. Findways to be active every day.Follow these rules and you can be a healthy kid. 1. You should eat different foods especially fruit and vegetables.A. T B. F答案：A2. Juice can give you more calcium.A. T B. F答案：B3. According to the passage, you should follow five rules if you want to be healthy.A. T B. F答案：A4. When you're eating, you don't have to notice how your body feels.A. T B. F答案：B5. The best title for the passage is "How to be a healthy kid".A. T B. F答案：A68. As long as the sun shines, the earth will not run out of energy. The sun pours more energy on earththan we can ever use. Most of that energy comes to us as heat and light. Energy from the sun is calledsolar energy.Anything to do with the sun is called "solar". The word began with the Roman word for the sunand their god of the sun, who was called Sol. Solar energy is a safe kind of energy. It doesn't makepollution or have dangerous leftovers. That is why scientists and investors are experimenting with60 ways of harnessing（治理利用）the sun to do some of the jobs fossil fuels have been doing.But to make the sun do work like that, they have to solve some problems. They have to collect thesun's energy. Collecting sunshine is not easy, unless you are a plant. Sunshine is not easy to store,either. You can't fill a tank with it or put it in the wood box. You cannot move it through a pipe or awire. You cannot just turn it on. 1. Most of solar energy takes the form of "light and heat" to reach us.A. T B. F答案：A2. The word "solar" comes from Greek.A. T B. F答案：B3. Solar energy is a green energy.A. T B. F答案：A4. Scientists who want to use solar energy find it is not easy to find out.A. T B. F答案：B5. The writer's purpose of writing the passage is to give a brief introduction to solar energy.A. T B. F答案：A69. Babies sleep about eighteen hours a day. Mrs. Thatcher and Napoleon both said they only neededto do it three or four hours a night. Sleep. No one can live without it. But how much do we reallyneed?Research by the National Sleep Foundation in Washington says that we all need eight hours' sleepevery night. Scientists have found that people who sleep for less than six and a half hours a night aremore often ill than people who sleep for eight hours. Going without sleep also increases the chance ofserious illness. Workaholics（工作狂） who sleep for less than five hours often die young, and doless well at work.The scientists found that adults usually sleep for seven hours a night, with 32% sleeping less thansix hours.It also says that the idea that we need less sleep as we get older is completely untrue. “People haveno idea how important sleep is to their lives,” Dr. Thomas Roth, director of the Foundation says.“Good health needs good sleep.”“But not too much of it,” says Professor Jim Horne of Loughborough University. “Sleep is likefood and drink,” he believes. “You would always like to have a little bit more, but that doesn't meanyou need it.” Professor Horne studied a group of people who could spend as many hours as they61 wanted in bed, after ten hours they didn't find it any easier to get up in the morning. And people whosleep for more than nine hours a night die younger than people who usually sleep for seven or eight!1. Babies sleep about 18 hours a day.A. T B. F答案：A2. It's good for your health to work without sleep.A. T B. F答案：B3. The word “it” means “sleep” in the underlined sentence “But not too much of it”.A. T B. F答案：A4. Professor Horne found people were happy to get up in the morning after ten hours' sleep.A. T B. F答案：B5. The passage is about sleep.A. T B. F答案：A70. My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it and I washed a lotof things.Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband's socks missing. I looked everywhere for it,but I couldn't find it anywhere.The next morning, I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. Igreeted them first and then told them what we were going to do that day.When I turned around to write on the blackboard, the class broke out a roar!They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was afraid the headmaster wouldbe into seeing all this.I asked the class to stop, but the more I talked, the more they laughed. I decided to pay no attentionto them and I continued to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they roared even more.Finally, the teacher who had the room next to mine came in to see what all the laughter was about.When he came in, he started laughing, too!“Good heavens,” I said. “Will someone please tell me what is so funny?”“Oh, God,” said the teacher. “You have a brown sock to the back of your skirt!”So that's how I found my husband's missing sock.“Oh, well,” I said to the class. “Let's just say you have had an unforgettable lesson on static (静止的) electricity.”1. The writer was a teacher.62 A. T B. F答案：A2. When the writer turned around to write on the blackboard, the class began to laugh loudly.A. T B. F答案：A3. She couldn't find one of her husband's socks, because her husband had taken it away.A. T B. F答案：B4. The teacher from the next room laughed, because he found a sock on the back of the writer's skirt.A. T B. F答案：A5. The students told her about the laughing.A. T B. F答案：B71. Today the official language of the United States and most of Canada is English. However, Frenchalmost became the official language because of a war.The French and Indian War was fought between 1754 and 1763. The name of this war is notaccurate because the war was actually between England and France. The Indians fought on the side ofthe French.France and England were trying to gain control of North America. France held Canada, andEngland held part of what is now the United States. However, France tried to expand its land bymoving southward into New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia. When the French built a fort（堡垒）on the Ohio River, the residents in Virginia sent George Washington to attack the fort in1752. However, the French defeated Washington.The French, aided by the Indians, outsmarted （比…..聪明） the English and won many earlybattles. Later, the British began to do well against the French. In the final battle in Quebec, Canada,General Wolfe of England faced General Montcalm from France. Both generals died in this battle, butthe English outlasted （比… ..持久）the French and won the battle. Thus, most of North Americatoday has the English culture and language.1. The best title for this passage is "The French and Indian War".A. T B. F答案：B2. The word “gain” in the 3rd paragraph is closest in meaning to “buy”.A. T B. F答案：B63 3. We may conclude that George Washington preferred the English.A. T B. F答案：A4. General Wolfe died in Canada.A. T B. F答案：A5. Washington won his battle at the fort on the Ohio River.A. T B. F答案：B72. Mr. and Mrs. White had two sons and three daughters. One Sunday, Mrs. White said to herhusband, “The children don't have any lessons today, and you're free too ．There's a new funfair（庙会）in the park．Let's all go there to play.”Her husband said. “I want to finish some work today.” “oh, forget it. Go there and make ourchildren happy．That's the most important work.” Mrs. White said.So Mr. and Mrs. White took their children to the funfair．Mr. White was forty-five years old. Buthe enjoyed the funfair more than his children. He hurried from one thing to another, and ate lots ofsweets. One of the children said to her mother, “Dad is just like a small child, isn't he, Mom?” Mrs.White didn’t want to follow her husband around any more at that time and answered, “He is evenworse than a small child, Mary, because he might spend more money than a small child.”1. There were five children in the White family.A. T B. F答案：A2. One Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. White wanted to go to a shop with their children.A. T B. F答案：B3. Mr. White liked the place so much that he bought lots of sweets.A. T B. F答案：B4. From the story we know Mrs. White was a little angry with Mr. White.A. T B. F答案：A5. Of all the family members, Mr. White enjoyed playing there most that Sunday.A. T B. F答案：A73. I used to think education was the most important thing in my life. Recently my attitude has begun64 to change, although I still hold that it is essential for everyone in the world today. As a top juniorstudent in my college, I was asked to make a speech on how to learn English well. Standing in front ofthe audience facing so many freshmen, I was trembling. I didn't remember any word that I hadprepared. I ran out of the conference room without finishing my speech, leaving everyone puzzled. Icried that night in my room, feeling that I was a loser. Studying takes so much of my time that I feelunable to really develop myself. I am just storing knowledge; yet fail to communicate with others. Ihave received many awards in school, but they don't necessarily reflect anything about me. I don'tknow how to socialize. When I leave school I fear I will be of no use to society.I realize that everyone has her or his own way of living. I want to change my lifestyle. Of course Iwill keep studying. Yet I plan to look for a part time job, which might turn out to be a good chance toget to know society. I still believe that working my hardest does make me happy. I will still stay on incollege, but I will not allow it to shelter me from the real world. 1. From this passage, we know that the author comes to learn it is most important to make a publicspeech.A. T B. F答案：B2. The author didn't finish her speech on how to learn English well because she was very nervous.A. T B. F答案：A3. The author thinks the awards she has received show that she is a top student.A. T B. F答案：B4. The author fears that she will be useless to society, because she does not know how to communicatewith others.A. T B. F答案：A5. The author says that she wants to get some shelter from the real world.A. T B. F答案：B74. When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York from London for a one-year stay, they did notbring very many things with them. They had neither planned to buy a house of their own nor plannedto buy lots of furniture. They were going to rent a house either with furniture or they would buy usedfurniture. But they soon learned about a new way that more and more people were using in settlingdown in new places. The renting of home furnishings-beds, tables, dishes, and so on, has become oneof the fastest growing businesses in the United States. What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? Many kinds of people65 do: international business people, government officials, airline ( 航空公司) workers, young marriedcouples - people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city (or country)to another. They are saved the trouble and cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rentnew furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buycheap furniture that they won’t like any more within a short time. They prefer to wait until they haveenough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find that they can rent better qualityfurniture than they could afford to buy. One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture somuch that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But they don't like to tellpeople about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure whattheir neighbors might think. 1. The text is mainly about why some people rent their furniture.A. T B. F答案：A2. According to the text, home furnishings may include beds, tables, dishes and so on.A. T B. F答案：A3. People who have to move frequently rent home furnishings.A. T B. F答案：A4. One reason that people rent home furnishings is that they like new furniture.A. T B. F答案：B5. To the family who have a large, beautiful home of their own, renting furniture is not a wise thing todo.A. T B. F答案：B75. How to apply for a free mailbox?First you have to connect to the Internet and go to the home pages of the ICP providing freemailboxes. Then you will find an icon(图标) showing "apply for a free mailbox". Click the icon, anagreement about the rules for using the free mailbox will appear. If you want to go on, click the icon"I agree". Then you have to fill in a form about your basic personal data, and the name and pin of themailbox. The pin is the key to the mailbox. After finishing these, you will get a mailbox like this: yourname@ mail server (For example: tvguide@ mail.cctv.com.cn, "tvguide" is the name of the mailbox,and "mail.cctv.com.cn" is the name of the mail server). The mailbox is separated into two parts by aseparator "@", which is read as "at". The former part is the name of the mailbox. The latter is the66 domain name（域名）of the mail server（电子邮件服务器）. All mail to you will be received bythe server and put into your mailbox. You can read this mail on any computer in the world, as long asyou have the name and pin of the mailbox.1. If you want to send or receive an e-mail you should first go to the post office.A. T B. F答案：B2. When you get a FREE mailbox, you can send an e-mail without paying any money. A. T B. F答案：A3. Here is an e-mail address "johnbrown @ mail.hz.zj.cn." The mailbox's name is mail.hz.zj.cn.A. T B. F答案：B4. The writer mainly wants to tell us how to apply for a free e-mail box in this passage.A. T B. F答案：A5. The underlined word "pin" means needle in this passage.A. T B. F答案：B76. Mark Twain was a famous writer. He wrote many famous stories which are still popular in manycountries today. Mark Twain was also famous in his day as a public speaker. In his public speechesTwain liked to tell stories. He also liked to listen to funny stories and to play jokes on his friends. Oneday, one friend, John, lost his wallet and asked Mark Twain to pay his train fare for him. "But I don't have enough money to pay both your fare and my fare," Mark Twain said. John didn't know what to do. He was worried. "We can do this," said Mark Twain."We can get on the train and when the conductor comes to takethe tickets, you can hide under my seat."Later, however, on the train, when the conductor came, Mark Twain gave him two tickets - one forhimself and one for John. Then in a loud voice, Mark Twain explained: "My friend here is a strange man. When he travels on a train, he prefers to lie on the floor underthe seat. He doesn't like to sit on the seat."Of course, everyone in the train then looked at the poor friend under the seat and laughed at him.1. The passage states that Mark Twain is famous not only for his writing but also for his publicspeeches.A. T B. F答案：A67 2. According to the passage, Mark Twain didn't buy train tickets for his friends.A. T B. F答案：B3. Mark Twain didn't have enough money to buy a ticket for John.A. T B. F答案：B4. Mark Twain gave the conductor some money in order to help John.A. T B. F答案：B5. John lied on the floor under the seat because Mark Twain played a joke on him.A. T B. F答案：A77. Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it.Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. Verysoon it spread to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming difficult to go shopping or eat a mealwithout listening to background music.To begin with, background music was intended simply to create a soothing （ 舒 适 的 ）atmosphere. Recently, however, it's becoming a big business. An American marketing expert hasshown that music can boost（提升）sales or increase factory production by as much as a third.But it has to be the light music. Lively music has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increasereceipts（收入） by 34%. This is probably because shoppers slow down and have more opportunityto spot items they would like to buy. Yet, slow music isn't always the answer. The expert found that inrestaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals, which reduced overall sales.So restaurant owners might be well advised to play faster music to keep the customers moving －unless, of course, the resulting indigestion（消化不良）leads to complaints.1. Backgroundmusic was first used in the factories, shops and restaurants in the USA.A. T B. F答案：A2. AnAmerican marketing expert has found background music can increase sales or factoryproduction. A. T B. F答案：A3. Slow music has no effect on sales.A. T B. F答案：B4. Slow music is useless in factories in increasing sales.68 A. T B. F答案：B5. Restaurant owners are advised to play lively music to increase overall sales.A. T B. F答案：B78. Henry works in a factory. He comes from a poor family and was in school for only four years. Hehas to do the hard work, but he is paid less. He likes to watch football matches very much and spendsmuch time on them.One evening there was a big football match on a playground. He borrowed some money from hisfriend and hurried there. There were a lot of people there. And all the tickets were sold out. He wassorry for it. He saw a pole outside the playground and climbed it quickly. A policeman came and said,“It is dangerous to stay on it! Come down!”“Wait a minute, please!” Henry said and just at that moment the policeman heard cheers on theplayground and asked in a hurry, “Which team has kicked a goal?” “Ours!” “Wonderful! You can staythere. But take care!” The policeman said happily and left. When the match would be soon over, hecame back again and asked, “Who has won?” “Theirs, 3:2.” “Come down,” the policeman saidangrily. “Such a match is not worth watching!”Henry had to come down. But soon they heard cheers again. The policeman said in a hurry,“Climb up quickly and see who has kicked a goal.” 1. Henry is paid less because he didn't have much schooling.A. T B. F答案：A2. Henry stayed on the pole because he had no ticket.A. T B. F答案：A3. Both Henry and the policeman like football.A. T B. F答案：A4. The policeman asked Henry to come down at first because he wanted to climb the pole.A. T B. F答案：B5. The other team won at last.A. T B. F答案：B79. Most American families are smaller than the families in other countries. Most American families69 答案：B5. Jean Sibelius came to visit the young musician because he wanted to tell the young man hisperformance was great. A. T B. F答案：A8. Gladys Holm was a secretary(秘书). She worked in an office all her life. Gladys earned(挣) about$ 15,000 a year. She died when she was 86 years old. And she left a big surprise---$ 18 million! Shegave the money to a children's hospital.Gladys Holm never got married or had any children. But she always liked children, and she wantedto help them. When her friend's daughter was ill in hospital, Gladys brought her a teddy bear. Afterthat, she visited the hospital many times. Every time she visited, she brought teddy bears for thosechildren. After that, people started to call Gladys the “Teddy Bear Lady”.Gladys always gave toys and presents to her friends and family but no one knew she had a lot ofmoney. She lived in a small house outside Chicago. Everyone was very surprised when they learnedshe was a millionaire. A family friend said, “She always gave us nice presents and things, but wedidn't know she was rich.How did Gladys get so much money? She asked her boss how to earn more money, and shelistened to what he said. She bought the stocks( 股票) that he told her to buy, and she got very rich.Before she died, she talked to her friends about “giving something to the children's hospital”. No oneknew that the “something” was $ 18 million!1. Gladys Holm often gave children teddy bears because she liked children very much. A. T B. F答案：A2. Gladys was called the “Teddy Bear Lady”. A. T B. F答案：A3. Everyone was surprised that Gladys lived such a long life. A. T B. F答案：B4. She got rich as she did another job in the hospital. A. T B. F答案：B5. When Gladys Holm became a millionaire, she still lived in the same way. A. T B. F答案：A7 have one or two parents and one or two children each. Children in the US will leave their parents' home when they grow up. They usually live far fromtheir parents because they want to find good jobs. They often write to their parents or telephone them.And they often go to visit their parents on holidays. Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs. Americans think it important for youngpeople to decide on their lives by themselves. Children are asked to do some work around their house. And in many families, children are paidfor doing some housework so that they learn how to make money for their own use. 1. The size of most American families is smaller than that of other countries. A. T B. F答案：A2. When children grow up, they leave their parents' home to get married. A. T B. F答案：B3. They visit their parents at any time. A. T B. F答案：B4. Parents don't ask their children to do the housework.A. T B. F答案：A5. Some parents pay their children for doing housework because children can learn how to makemoney for themselves. A. T B. F答案：A80. In 1626, Manhattan Island was purchased（购买）from the Indians by Peter Minuit. It cost about$ 2,400. At first, it was called New Amsterdam by the Dutch settlers. Later it was renamed New Yorkby the English.The city grew rapidly. There were several reasons for this, but the most important one is itslocation. New York is situated on the best American harbor on the Atlantic Ocean. It also lies on theHudson River, which allows water transportation into the middle of the United States.Today New York has a population of approximately eight million. The city has groups from manyraces. It is famous for its Chinatown. It also has the largest Jewish population of any city outsideIsrael. After the blacks were released from slavery, a large number of them moved into cities like NewYork, Philadelphia, and Washington. More recently, people from Puerto Rico （波多 黎各） havedone the same thing.New York is made up of five boroughs （行政 区）. The Bronx is the only one located on the70 mainland, with Brooklyn, Richmond, and Queens being on islands. It is a large manufacturing centerbecause factories can be located near good water transportation. Two of the main businesses are theclothing industry and the printing industry. Most large publishing companies have their headquartersthere.1. Manhattan was bought by Peter Minuit.A. T B. F答案：A2. The Indians named the city New York.A. T B. F答案：B3. New York grows so rapidly, because of its people.A. T B. F答案：B4. New York borough Bronx is not on an island.A. T B. F答案：A5. The printing industry and the clothing industry are two of the main businesses of New York.A. T B. F答案：A81. Mr. Simpson worked in a shop which sold cleaned and repaired hearing-aids（助听器）. One dayan old gentleman entered and put one down in front of him without saying a word. "What's the matter with it?" Mr. Simpson said. The man didn't answer. Of course Mr. Simpsonthought the old man must be deaf and that his hearing-aid must be faulty, so he said again, moreloudly, "What's wrong with your hearing-aid, sir?" Again the man said nothing. So Mr. Simpsonshouted his question again as loudly as he could. The man then took a pen and a piece of paper and wrote: "It is not necessary to shout when you arespeaking with me. My ears are as good as yours. The hearing-aid is my wife's, not mine. I've just had athroat（咽喉） operation, and my problem is not that I can't hear, but that I can't speak."1. The old gentleman went to Mr. Simpson's shop to buy a hearing-aid.A. T B. F答案：B2. When the old didn't answer him, Mr. Simpson thought the old man was very strange. A. T B. F答案：B3. The old gentleman's wife's hearing-aid was faulty.A. T B. F71 答案：A4. The old man finally made himself understood by writing on a piece of paper.A. T B. F答案：A5. The old man could not answer Mr. Simpson because he had just had a throat operation. A. T B. F答案：A82. Do you forget to turn off the lights and heaters when you go out of a room? In 2040 it will notmatter. They will turn themselves off and on again when you return. A sensor will detect the presenceof a human and turn the systems on, and when the humans leave it will turn them off again.The sensors will work through the central home computer, and they will do much more than justturn the fires and lights on and off for you. They will detect faulty electrical appliances, isolate themso that they cannot harm anyone, and then warn you that they need repair. They will detect fire and ifyou are out of the house, the computer will call the firemen. It will also call the police, should thesensors detect an intruder（非法闯入者）. You will open the door using your personal card--the oneyou use for shopping--maybe using a number known only to you.1. The author intends to tell the readers that in year 2040 there will be no switches for lights andheaters.A. T B. F答案：B2. According to the passage, people will save much trouble with the help of advanced technology.A. T B. F答案：A3. According to the author, in 2040, new technology will free us from the keys we use today.A. T B. F答案：A4. Thanks to computers, in 2040 people will be controlled by computers.A. T B. F答案：B5. The best title for the passage is "The Development of Science and Technology".A. T B. F答案：B83. The undersea world is very beautiful. Now more and more people want to dive in the water to findthe secrets there. Scuba （ 戴 水 肺 ） diving is a new sport today. It can take you into a wonderfulundersea world.72 You will find many strange animals in the sea. Some are like a school bus. Many sea animals giveout light in the dark and some have sharp teeth.During the day, there is enough light. Here, under the sea, everything is blue and green. When fishswim nearby, you can catch them with your hands. When you have bottles of air on your back, youcan stay in deep water for a long time. However, you can't dive too deep. And you must be verycareful when you dive in deep water.The deep sea is not an easy place to live in. It is cold, and it is dark, too. The deeper it is, the lesssunlight there is. At about 3,000 feet, there is no light at all. It is very dark in the sea. Many fisheshave no eyes. Some have big eyes. A few have eyes on one side.Besides the coldness and the darkness, deep-sea animals face a third danger - other animals.Animals eat! They must find food to eat. Many animals eat plants. However, some animals eatmeat. This means these sea animals have two big jobs. They need to find animals as food, and theyhave to try not to become other animals' meal. 1. People want to dive in the sea because they want to find the secrets of the undersea world.A. T B. F答案：A2. In the daytime, when you dive in the sea, you can see everything green and blue.A. T B. F答案：A3. Animals will meet four types of danger under the deep sea.A. T B. F答案：B4. When you do scuba diving, you can dive freely without any danger.A. T B. F答案：B5. At the depth of 3,000 feet under the sea, all animals can find their way with the help of their eyes.A. T B. F答案：B84. Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe that trees do communicatewith each other. Not long ago, researchers learned some surprising things. First a willow tree attackedin the woods by caterpillars (毛虫) changed the chemistry of its leaves and made them taste so terriblethat they got tired of the leaves and stopped eating them. Then even more astonishing, the tree sent outa special smell--a signal causing its neighbors to change the chemistry of their own leaves and makethem 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 vocabulary73 of songs, sounds, and movements. Bees dance their signals, flying in certain patterns that tell otherbees where to find nectar (花蜜) for honey. So why shouldn't trees have ways of sending message?1. It's implied that caterpillars do not feed on leaves that have an unpleasant taste.A. T B. F答案：A2. The willow tree described in the passage protects itself by growing more branches.A. T B. F答案：B3. The willow tree was able to communicate with other trees by giving off a special smell.A. T B. F答案：A4. It can be inferred from the passage that bees communicate by making special movements.A. T B. F答案：A5. The author holds that the incident described in the passage must be checked more thoroughly.A. T B. F答案：B85. There are different ways in which people try to deal with the problem of energy. One way is thegreater production of common energy sources, such as coal, oil and gas. The trouble with thesesources, however, is that they are not renewable（可再生的）.Another way is energy conservation （ 节 能 ） , which means using energy more efficiently. Insome very cold countries, people build special houses to save energy. They place materials betweenthe inside and outside of the walls of the house to keep the cold out and the warmth in.Finally, renewable energy sources are used even though they are often expensive to develop. Oneform of these is geothermal energy （地热 ） . In certain parts of the world, the temperature of theearth increases thirty degrees centigrade （ 摄 氏 ） with each kilometer down. At six kilometers,therefore, it rises to nearly two hundred degrees. Heat from the earth is already used in somecountries.1. Four different ways of dealing with energy problems are talked about in the passage.A. T B. F答案：B2. We can learn from the passage that coal is the most common source of energy.A. T B. F答案：B3. Special houses are built because they can save energy.A. T B. F74 答案：A4. According to the passage, geothermal energy is heat inside the earth.A. T B. F答案：A5. At four km deep, the temperature of the earth rises to nearly 200°C.A. T B. F答案：B86. One of the favorite foods in the United States is the hamburger, a kind of flat round bread withfine-cut beef in between. The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant. At fast foodrestaurants, people order their food, wait a few minutes to get it over the counter, and carry it to theirtables themselves. People also take their food out of the restaurant and eat it in their cars or in theirhomes. At some fast food restaurants, people can order their food, pay for it and pick it up withoutleaving their cars.There are many kinds of fast food restaurants in the United States. Most of the restaurants sellhamburgers or other popular foods among Americans. In addition, there are many fast food restaurantsthat serve Chinese food, Italian food, chicken, seafood and ice-cream. The idea of a fast foodrestaurant is so popular that nearly every kind of food can be found.Fast food restaurants are popular because they show the American way of life. First, they are notformal restaurants. People wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place. Second, they arefast. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their food or waiting while someoneelse prepares it. In fast food restaurants the food is usually ready before the customer even orders it.Finally, most food in a fast food restaurant is not expensive. Therefore, people can often eat at a fastfood restaurant without spending too much money, while they may not be able to go to moreexpensive restaurants very often.1. Fast food can be taken out of the restaurants.A. T B. F答案：A2. Fast food restaurants are popular because they are fast.A. T B. F答案：A3. According to the writer, American people are always busy.A. T B. F答案：B4. According to the passage, the favorite restaurants in the U.S. are the Chinese restaurants.A. T B. F答案：B75 5. The best title for this passage would be 'Fast Food Restaurants in the U.S'.A. T B. F答案：A87. In 1889 all Paris admired the Eiffel Tower. It was the engineering wonder of the world. AlexandreGustave Eiffel had completed his masterpiece in steel.Steel as a building material was then still new. The 984-foot tower was a lacy （网 眼 状 的 ）network of girders（支架）. There were thousands of steel pieces. Two and a half million rivets（铆钉） joined them.From four corners, the legs of the tower slope inward. They rise to form a pointed top. Lifts carryvisitors to three platforms at different heights. On a clear day, countryside sixty miles off is viewedfrom the top platform（平台）.As Eiffel planned, his structure is a landmark（地标） of Paris. It is even higher today. A stationlater constructed for radio and television has added almost fifty feet to the original height of the tower.1. The Eiffel Tower was completed in 1899.A. T B. F答案：B2. The tower named after its builder.A. T B. F答案：A3. The tower was an engineering wonder because of its location.A. T B. F答案：B4. The article describes the tower as being lacy.A. T B. F答案：A5. To reach the top platform, sightseers use lifts.A. T B. F答案：A88. Ramon was very proud of his dog Blackie. Whenever he got a chance, he would ask his dog toamuse his friends with some tricks.One day Ramon went to visit his friend Frank who was sick at home with a bad cold. "How areyou feeling?" asked Ramon. "Worse than yesterday," replied Frank. "I have a terrible cough, andthere's not a drop of medicine in the house.""Cheer up, Frank. I'll send Blackie to the local drugstore for some cough syrup ( 糖浆). He'll beback in a minute, before you know it." Ramon put a five-dollar bill in Blackie's mouth and the dog ran76 down the street. "And keep the change," Ramon shouted after him."Oh, Ramon, don't be silly. You know that dog won't be back with any medicine." "Oh yes, hewill," replied Ramon. Half an hour later, however, Blackie had not returned. Ramon was feelingembarrassed, and felt angry at his friend's little smile."Something has happened to him, I'm sure," said Ramon. "He obeys me as a rule." Just then Franksaw Blackie at a distance. He hurried to open the door and let him in. Frank was shocked to see abottle of medicine in the dog's mouth."Good boy," said Ramon, "but what took you so long?" Blackie ran over to the window, barkingand wagging (摆动) his tail. Ramon glanced out and saw a bone outside. 1. Frank's cold had worsened and he had no medicine at home. A. T B. F答案：A2. Ramon called for a doctor. A. T B. F答案：B3. Ramon felt embarrassed when Blackie was late. A. T B. F答案：A4. Blackie barked at the bone outside the window because he wanted to have it. A. T B. F答案：B5. The story mainly implies dogs are after all dogs, however clever they are. A. T B. F答案：A89. Foulsham House is a fine, large house of the l790s. It stands by the River Byre, in twenty-fivehectares (公顷) of the best farmland in the southwest. The house was built by Smithson, and the story goes back to George, the son of King of Whales,who fell in love with the beautiful Lady Kitty, at one of the first Foulsham's wild woods ( 野 外 )parties. Many years ago many great men rode on the hills about Foulsham House, and many fine girlstook tea in the Green Room. The house has eight bedrooms, three bathrooms, two living-rooms, and a dining-room with a realAdam fire-place. Its library has a good view over the park and the river. All rooms are light and airy,with good, high windows, and wood floors. At the back of the house there is room for four cars. The third Foulsham once kept horses there. Inmany other ways, this house of the l790s meets the needs of the 1990s. If you wish to know more about Foulsham House, write to: 77 Harvey. Platt, Longford & Sons 6, Castle Green, Gilham, Byreside. 1. Foulsham House is a house with a history of more than two hundred years.A. T B. F答案：A2. We learn from the reading that Smithson built the house for wild woods parties.A. T B. F答案：B3. The sentence "Its library has a good view over the park and the river" means " The park and theriver can be seen clearly from the library ".A. T B. F答案：A4. The third Foulsham often rode his horses at the back of the house.A. T B. F答案：B5. We can infer (推断) that Harvey wants to sell the house.A. T B. F答案：A90. 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 platform. They worked for a wholeyear and at last the pictures were ready.Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were really beautiful. He looked atthem for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even morebeautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally he was at the very edge of the platform, but hedidn't know it because he was thinking of his pictures.The worker saw everything. "What should I do?" he thought. "Thornhill was at the very edge ofthe platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off it and surely be killed. "So the workerquickly took some paint（漆）and threw it at the pictures."What are you doing?" cried the painter, running quickly forward to his pictures.1. James Thornhill was an English ______.A. worker B. artist C. king D. writer答案：B2. He was ordered to ______.A. paint the wall of the king's palace in EnglandB. paint some pictures on the wall of the palace78 C. build a big platform in front of the palaceD. put up some new pictures on the old wall答案：B3. It took them ______ to finish the pictures.A. a month B. a week C. twelve months D. half a month答案：C4. James Thornhill felt that the ______ he was from the pictures, the ______ they were.A. nearer…more beautifulB. farther…more uglyC. farther…more beautifulD. higher above…more good-looking答案：C5. The worker threw some paint at the pictures in order to ______.A. save James' life B. destroy the pictureC. make the picture more beautiful D. make the king angry答案：A91. Ours is a big world, complex and full of many diverse people. People with many varying points ofview are constantly running up against others who have differing opinions. Those of us who smokeare just one group of many. Recently, the activism of non-smokers has reminded us of the need to beconsiderate of others when we smoke in public. But, please! Enough is enough! We should like to remind non-smokers that courtesy is a two-waystreet. If you politely request that someone not smoke you are more likely to receive a cooperativeresponse than if you scowl（皱眉）fiercely and hurl insults. If you speak directly to someone, youare more likely to get what you want than if you complain to the management. Many of us have been smoking for so long that we sometimes forget that others are not used to thearoma of burning tobacco. We' re human, and like everyone else we occasionally offend unknowingly.But most of us are open to friendly suggestions and comments, and quite willing to modify ourbehaviour to accommodate others.Smokers are people, too. We laugh and cry. We have hopes, dreams, aspirations. We havechildren, and mothers, and pets. We eat our hamburgers with everything on them and salute the flag atFourth of July picnics. We hope you'll remember that the next time a smoker lights up in public. 1. The purpose of the first paragraph is to reveal the author's reason for writing this essay. A. T B. F答案：A2. The second sentence in the second paragraph implies that we have different ways of doing things. A. T B. F79 9. In the eighteenth century young ladies in Italy knew history and geography little.Once the French officer in Rome was giving a ball to which many important people were invited.The Italian Minister（大臣） came very late. A young lady, who knew him, saw him enter the ball-room and asked why he was so late."Oh, nothing important," answered the Minister. " Our head forgot to take his letters with him andwent back to his hotel to bring them. If he had left them in Brazil we should have had to wait at leastsix months for them.""Is Brazil so far from Rome?" asked the lady, who knew very little geography."It is in the New World," said the Minister."In the New World?" repeated the lady in great surprise."Yes, in the New World, which was discovered by Christopher Columbus."When the young lady heard this, she rushed into the middle of the ball-room and shouted as loudas she could:"Ladies and gentlemen, have you heard the latest news? A new world has just been discovered bya certain Christopher Columbus."1. The head left his letters in the hotel. A. T B. F答案：A2. The minister left his letters in his office. A. T B. F答案：B3. The young lady shouted because she knew the Minister. A. T B. F答案：B4. Her shouting showed she was lack of knowledge. A. T B. F答案：A5. The best title for the passage is 'An Ignorant Italian Woman'. A. T B. F答案：A10. One way that scientists learn about man is by studying animals, such as mice and monkeys. Thescientists in this laboratory are experimenting on mice. They are studying the relationship betweendiet and health. At this time, over one hundred experiments are being done in this laboratory.In one of these experiments, the scientists are studying the relationship between the amount offood the mice eat and their health. The mice are in three groups. All three groups are receiving the8 答案：B3. If you don't like to have someone smoking beside you, tell him politely that you are not used tosmoke. A. T B. F答案：A4. Some smokers smoke in public because there is no law against it. A. T B. F答案：B5. The author tries to persuade the reader through appealing to people's emotions. A. T B. F答案：A92. After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, Albert Hall was forced to move to anew neighborhood. He surprised his landlord by telling him that he was leaving because he could notafford to buy any more chocolate.It all began a year ago when Albert returned home one evening and found a large dog in front ofhis gate. He was very fond of animals and as he happened to have a small piece of chocolate in hispocket, he gave it to the dog. The next day, the dog was there again. It held up its paws and receivedanother piece of chocolate as a reward. Albert called his new friend "Bingo". He never found out thedog's real name, nor who his owner was. However, Bingo appeared regularly every afternoon and itwas quite clear that he preferred chocolate to bones. He soon grew dissatisfied with small pieces ofchocolate and demanded a large bar a day. If at any time Albert neglected his duty, Bingo got veryangry and refused to let him open the gate. Albert was now at Bingo's mercy and had to bribe him toget into his own house! He spent such a large part of his weekly wages to keep Bingo supplied withthat in the end he had to move somewhere else. 1. Albert lived there for many years. A. T B. F答案：B2. Albert was moving because he did not like the place. A. T B. F答案：B3. Albert and the dog became friends a year ago. A. T B. F答案：A4. The dog visited Albert every day because it wanted the chocolate. A. T B. F答案：A80 5. Albert "had to bribe him" means he had to take care of him. A. T B. F 答案：B93. Jack worked in an office in a small town. One day his boss said to him, "Jack, I want you to go toLondon to see Mr. Brown in his office."Jack went to London by train. He left the station, and thought, "The office isn't far from the station.I'll find it easily."But after an hour he was still looking for it, so he stopped and asked an old lady. She said "Just goalong the street, turn to the left at the end, and it's the second building on the right." Jack went andfound it.A few days later he went to the same city to visit the same person. But again he did not find theoffice, so he asked someone on his way. It was the same lady! She was very surprised and said, "Areyou still looking for the place?"1. Jack worked in a small town. A. T B. F答案：A2. Jack went to the office in London to see his boss. A. T B. F答案：B3. Mr. Brown's office was near the station. A. T B. F答案：A4. Jack went to the office by plane. A. T B. F答案：B5. The old lady was surprised to see Jack again. A. T B. F答案：B94. Clowns （小丑）like to make people laugh. They paint their faces and put on funny noses.Sometimes they put on a sad face but most of the time they put on a happy face. They also wear funnyclothes.Most clowns work in circuses. They do all kinds of silly things to make the audience laugh. Theyrun, jump, fall down, turn somersaults (翻滚，斤头), and roll over. They ride donkeys backwards.They push each other in wagons or wheelbarrows （ 独 轮 车 ） . Sometimes they shout and sing.Clowns are funny men, and occasionally, women, too! A circus is not a circus without clowns!81 Children especially enjoy watching clowns. A clown named Cookie often visits hospitals toentertain sick children as well as older people. Sick people need to laugh. It helps them to get betterfaster.There is an old saying: "Laughter is good medicine." 1. Clowns make people laugh by doing all kinds of silly things. A. T B. F答案：A2. Clowns are mostly female. A. T B. F答案：B3. The sentence "A circus is not a circus without clowns" means a circus will not be of much fun if ithas no clowns. A. T B. F答案：A4. Clowns are a great favorite with children. A. T B. F答案：A5. The best interpretation of the old saying "Laughter is good medicine" may be laughter curespeople's diseases. A. T B. F答案：B95. Nasreddin was cutting a branch off a tree in his garden. While he was sawing, another manpassed in the street. He stopped and said, "Excuse me, but if you continue to saw that branch like that,you will fall down with it." He said this because Nasreddin was sitting on the branch and cutting it at aplace between himself and the trunk of the tree. Nasreddin said nothing. He thought, "This is some foolish person who has no work to do and goesabout telling other people what to do and what not to do."The man continued on his way. Of course, after a few minutes, the branch fell and Nasreddin fellwith it."My God!" he cried. "That man knows the future!" and he ran after him to ask how long he wasgoing to live. But the man had gone.1. One day Nasreddin was cutting a branch off a tree in his garden. A. T B. F答案：A2. Another man told him he would fall down. A. T B. F82 答案：A3. After the man went away, Nasreddin thought that he was a silly fellow. A. T B. F答案：A4. After a few minutes, Nasreddin hurted himself. A. T B. F答案：B5. This story is about the necessity of taking good advice. A. T B. F答案：A96. A friend of mine was fond of drawing horse. He drew the horses very well, but he always beganat the tail. Now it is the Western rule to begin at the head of the horse, that is why I was surprised. Itstruck me that it could not really make any difference whether the artist begins at the head or the tailor the belly or the foot of the horse, if he really knows his business. And most great artists who reallyknow their business do not follow other people's rule. They make their own rules. Every one of themdoes his work in a way peculiar to himself; and the peculiarity means only that he finds it more easy towork in that way. Now the very same thing is true to literature. And the question, "How shall I begin?" only meansthat you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. That is, you arenot yet experienced enough to trust to your own powers. When you become more experienced youwill never ask the question, and I think that you will often begin at the tail --- that is to say, you willwrite the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning. 1. One of the writer's friends drew the horses in the way of his own rule. A. T B. F答案：A2. The writer was surprised because the artist did not follow other people's rule. A. T B. F答案：A3. You are not yet experienced because you don't know where to begin. A. T B. F答案：B4. When you become more experienced you will never ask questions. A. T B. F答案：B5. The topic of the passage is Trust Your Own Powers. A. T B. F83 答案：A97. Robert Bruce was a famous Scottish（苏格兰）general. In the early 14th century he tried todrive the English out of Scotland, but he was not successful because the English were too strong.Finally, Bruce had to run away and hide in a cave. One day, he lay in his cave thinking of the sad state of Scotland. A spider began to make a webabove his head. Simply to pass the time, Bruce broke the web. Immediately the spider began to make anew one. Six times Bruce broke the web and six times the spider immediately made a new one. Brucewas surprised at this. He told himself that he would break the web a 7th time. If the spider made a newone, it would be a good lesson to him, for like the spider, he had been defeated six times. Bruce thenbroke the web. Again the spider made a new one. From this simple fact, Bruce became encouraged. He again got an army together. This time he wassuccessful and drove the English out of Scotland.1. Robert Bruce was a Scottish general. A. T B. F答案：A2. Bruce hid in a cave because he was looking for spiders. A. T B. F答案：B3. In the beginning he broke the spider web just because he wanted to pass the time. A. T B. F答案：A4. He broke the web six times altogether. A. T B. F答案：B5. The way the spider kept making its web encouraged Bruce to continue his effort to fight against theEnglish. A. T B. F答案：A98. The market is a concept. If you are growing potatoes for sale you are producing for the market.You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the manager of the local supermarket. In eithercase, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. If people stopbuying potatoes, you will stop producing them. If your sister looks after a sick person to make money, she is also producing for the market. If yourbrother is a steelworker or a bus driver or a doctor, he is producing goods or services for the market.When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in84 stores, gas station and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hiresyou to drive the delivery lorry, he is buying your labor in the labor market. The market may seem to be something abstract（抽象的）. But for each person or business whois making or selling something, it's very real. If nobody buys your potatoes, it won't be long beforeyou get the message. The market is telling you something. It's telling you that you are wastingenergies and resources in doing something that market doesn't want you to do.1. If your sister looks after a sick person to make money, she is working in a hospital.A. T B. F答案：A2. You are buying from the market when you do some window-shopping.A. T B. F答案：B3. The word ''real'' in the second sentence of the last paragraph most probably means ''important''.A. T B. F答案：B4. You will probably get the message about how to grow your potatoes when nobody buys yourpotatoes.A. T B. F答案：B5. The best title for the passage would be "What Is the Market".A. T B. F答案：A99. Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant. He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that. One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, "Here are two bottles of poison and somenice food in the house. You must take care of them." With these words, he went out. But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from hishome, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. Whenthe rich man came back, he couldn't find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke theservant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He wasafraid to be punished, so he drank the poison to kill himself.1. In the story, only the rich man liked wine and good food very much.A. T B. F85 答案：B2. The rich man knew that it was the cat that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.A. T B. F答案：B3. The rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because he wanted to kill the cat.A. T B. F答案：B4. In fact, the servant ate all the nice food and drank the wine.A. T B. F答案：A5. From the story, we know that the servant is very clever.A. T B. F答案：A100. In earlier days few people read Whitman's poems. One person who did read them was AbrahamLincoln who was then a country lawyer. He liked the strength and honesty of Whitman's words. Heoften read them to visitors in his office. Whitman didn't know Lincoln, but he wrote a long articleabout slavery and presidency(总统的职权). Whitman was against slavery. He wanted to see a newkind of president, not a professional politician, but an ordinary working man. This man would be wise,healthy and middle-aged. He would have a beard. Whitman didn't know it, but he was describingLincoln. Before he was a lawyer, Lincoln worked with his hands. He was wise, healthy and middle-aged, and he had a beard.In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected the president of the United States. In March 1865, Whitmanwas in Washington. Abraham Lincoln became president for the second time. Whitman watched theceremony. The two men had never met but they had seen each other. Washington was very hot insummer. Sometimes Lincoln went outside the city. He passed Whitman's house on the way. He andWhitman often nodded to each other.Early in April the civil war ended. But on April 13 someone shot President Lincoln, and on 14Lincoln died. To Whitman it was like the death of a friend. He loved Lincoln so much. He wrote apoem to express his feelings about the death of the president. It was one of his saddest and mostbeautiful poems.1. Whitman wrote a long article about slavery because he was strongly against slavery.A. T B. F答案：A2. A working man was not the kind of president that Whitman wanted to see.A. T B. F答案：B86 3. Lincoln was the right person because he was a worker with his hands.A. T B. F答案：A4. Lincoln died before the civil war ended.A. T B. F答案：B5. Whitman wrote a poem to support his friend Lincoln.A. T B. F答案：B101. Down the entrance hall of the school walk four eighth-grade students. Each one is carrying asmall basket with a single egg inside. Soon more students join them-each one of them is also carryinga basket with an egg. The eggs in a basket are part of a new school program that helps young peopleunderstand that having a baby is a great duty.At the beginning of the program, the teacher puts the students in pairs-one girl and one boy. Eachpair gets an egg, which they must take care of for two weeks. For those fourteen days, the studentshave to take care of the eggs as though they were real babies. Students whose eggs get broken have tostart the two weeks all over again with a new egg.One person in each pair must have the egg with him or her at all times-twenty-four hours a day. Atno time can they let the egg be out of sight. "If a teacher catches you without your egg," said onestudent, "she makes you go get it. They are really strict." The teachers also make the students spendhalf an hour each day sitting with the egg and just watching it. That can get pretty boring. But it's alsosomething that parents spend a lot of time doing.Children say that the program has helped them understand the duties involved in having a child. "Itwas really hard," said one student, "You had to think all the time about the egg."1. The purpose of the program is to help students grasp the idea of bringing up a baby.A. T B. F答案：A2. At the beginning, eight students became members of the program.A. T B. F答案：B3. In the third line of Paragraph 2, "they" refers to students.A. T B. F答案：B4. If students in the program do not do sit with an egg and just watch it, they will fail in theexamination.A. T B. F答案：B87 5. From the last paragraph, we can infer that the program is of help to children's understanding ofparents.A. T B. F答案：A102. Herman had worked for the bank of Ruritania for ten years and was still only a clerk. He was notsatisfied with the position and wanted to find something better. Yet he did not want to lose his positionin bank before he had got another one, so he prepared a letter about himself, with the words "HELP! IAM A PRISONER OF THE BANK OF RURITANIA!" in big letters across the top. Then he sent it toseveral other banks, asking them for a job.A few days later, one of these letters came into the hands of Herman's boss at the bank; someonehad given it to him at a party. The next morning, Herman's boss asked him to come into his room andsaid, "Herman, I have some very good news for you. The bank of Ruritania is setting you free!"1. Herman was not happy because he was in prison in the bank.A. T B. F答案：B2. Herman did not want to leave the Bank of Ruritania immediately because he had not found a betterjob yet.A. T B. F答案：A3. He wished some other bank to give him a better job.A. T B. F答案：A4. A few days later, Herman's boss found one of these letters in his office.A. T B. F答案：B5. The boss asked Herman to come into his room as he decided to fire him.A. T B. F答案：A103. To use it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains. But actuallythe umbrella was not invented as protection against rain. Its first use was as a shade against the sun!Nobody knows who first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably thefirst to use it were the Chinese, way back in the eleventh century B. C..We know that the umbrella was used in ancient Egypt and Babylon as a sunshade. And there was astrange thing connected with its use: it became a symbol of honor and authority. In the Far East inancient times the umbrella was allowed to be used only by royalty or by those in high office.88 In Europe, the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella as a sunshade. And the umbrella was incommon use in ancient Greece. But it is believed that the first persons in Europe to use the umbrellaas protection against the rain were the ancient Romans.During the Middle Ages, the use of the umbrellas practically disappeared. Then it appeared againin Italy in the late sixteenth century. And again it was considered a symbol of power and authority. By1680, the umbrella appeared in France, and later on in England.By the eighteenth century, the umbrella was used against rain throughout most of Europe.Umbrellas have not changed much in style during all this time, though they have become much lighterin weight. It wasn't until the twentieth century that women's umbrellas began to be made, in a wholevariety of colors.1. According to this passage, the umbrellas was probably first invented in ancient China.A. T B. F答案：A2. In Europe the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella as protection against the rain.A. T B. F答案：B3. A strange feature of the umbrella's use is that it was used as a symbol of honor and power.A. T B. F答案：A4. In Europe, the umbrella was first used against the rain in Greece.A. T B. F答案：B5. This passage talks mainly about the history and use of the umbrella.A. T B. F答案：A104. Good children must be good students at school. They should work hard at all subjects and dowhat is given to them on time. They should develop the ability to care for themselves, to try not todepend too much on their parents, to think independently and to work in a planned way. They ought torespect teachers, have a cooperative attitude towards schoolmates and always be ready to help others.At home, good children should be tidy and hard working. Besides schoolwork they should helptheir parents with housework and be always ready to show respect and gratitude to their parentswhenever their parents do something for them. They should also be very considerate towards theirentire family. They ought to please their family with something that makes them happy and feel goodinstead of upsetting them with their personal worries. When it is absolutely necessary to talk to theirparents about their personal problems, they should talk nicely and calmly, getting ready to take advicefrom their parents since they are much more experienced in life. If any disagreement occurs, good89 same healthy diet. But the amount of food that each group is receiving is different. The first group iseating one cup of food each day, the second group is eating two cups, and the third group of mice iseating three cups.After three years, the healthiest group is the one that is only eating one cup of food each day. Themice in this group are thinner than normal mice. But they are more active. Most of the day, they arerunning, playing with one another, and using the equipment in their cages. Also, they are livinglonger. Mice usually live for two years. Most of the mice in this group are still alive after three years.The second group of mice is normal weight. They are healthy, too. They are active, but not asactive as the thinner mice. But they are only living about two years, not the three years or more of thethinner mice.The last group of mice is receiving more food than the other two groups. Most of the day, thesemice are eating or sleeping. They are not very active. These mice are living longer than the scientiststhought - about a year and a half. But they aren't as healthy. They're sick more often than the other twogroups.1. The scientists in the laboratory are studying the relationship between the amount of food and diet. A. T B. F答案：B2. The first two groups are receiving the most food. A. T B. F答案：B3. The first group is the thinnest because they do not have a healthy diet. A. T B. F答案：B4. Normal mice usually live for two years. A. T B. F答案：A5. The text tells us that people who eat less and exercise more will live longer. A. T B. F答案：A11. Modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by plane. With amodern airliner you can travel in one day to places which it takes a month or more to get to a hundredyears ago. Traveling by train is slower than by plane, but it has its advantages. You can see the country whenyou are traveling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining-cars. They make even thelongest journey enjoyable. 9 children should try to iron out ( 解决. 消除) the disagreement by listening to the parents' opinions.They never take it for granted that they are always in the right. On the contrary, good children learnquickly by listening to others. 1. The most suitable title for this passage would be that What Good Children Should Be. A. T B. F答案：A2. One important ability good children are supposed to develop is to think independently. A. T B. F答案：A3. Good children should never talk about their personal worries. A. T B. F答案：B4. When there is a disagreement between parents and children, good children should talk nicely. A. T B. F答案：B5. In the last paragraph, the sentence "They never take it for granted that they are always in the right"means they never think that they are always right. A. T B. F答案：A105. Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious andself-conscious; that is, they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions.Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: what kind of impression am I making?Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing unattractive clothes?It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must negatively affect people. A person’sconception of himself or herself is reflected in the way he or she behaves, and the way a personbehaves affects other people’s reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has aprofound effect on all areas of their lives.Shy people, having low self-esteem, are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. Theyneed reassurance that they are doing “the right thing.” Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; theyfeel it confirms their feelings of inferiority. They also find it difficult to be pleased by complimentwith a statement like this one, “You’re just saying that to make me feel good. I know it’s not true.” Itis clear that while self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful.Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? Fortunately, people can overcomeshyness with determined and patient efforts in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes hand inhand with a lack of self-esteem, it is important for people to accept their weaknesses as well as theirstrengths.90 Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual, interested in our own personal ways. The betterwe understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to live up to our full potential. Let’s not allow shynessto block our chances for a rich and fulfilling life. 1. What does the author try to prove by citing “what kind of impression am I making?” (Para.1)__________ A. Shy people benefit from their caring about their appearance. B. People’s shyness make them care too much about their appearance and actions. C. It’s natural that shy people don’t believe other’s compliments. D. Shy people think they are different from others.答案：B2. According to the writer, self-awareness is __________. A. a good quality B. the cause of unhappiness C. harmful to people D. a weak point of shy people答案：A3. That shy people react to a compliment in such a way is ___________. A. good B. unreal C. very reasonable D. harmful答案：D4. Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage? _________ A. Shyness helps us to develop our potential B. Shyness enables us to understand ourselves better C. Shyness can block our chances for a rich life D. Shyness has nothing to do with lack of self-esteem答案：C5. It can be inferred from the passage that shy people ________. A. should find more of their weakness B. should understand themselves in the right way C. had better ignore their weakness D. can get rid of their shyness while maintaining low self-esteem答案：B106. One day a bookseller（书商）let a big box of books fall on his foot. "Go to see the doctor," saidhis wife. "No, "he said. "I'll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I'll ask himabout my foot. If 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 gettingthem ready, he told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it."You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put something on it," said the91 doctor.He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it. "Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bedevery 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 anything.""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 topay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds. And Icame here, didn't I?"1. What happened to the bookseller one day? 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.答案：B2. The bookseller's wife asked him ______. A. to go out for some medicine B. to send somebody for a doctor C. to go to see the doctor D. to wait for the doctor to come答案：C3. The bookseller didn't take his wife's advice because ______. A. he was afraid of the doctor B. he didn't like to take medicine C. he couldn't walk by himself D. he didn't want to pay the doctor答案：D4. The doctor paid ______ for the books. A. one pound B. two pounds C. nothing D. something答案：C5. The bookseller paid ______ money for seeing the doctor in the end. A. more B. less C. the same amount of D. no答案：A107. 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 womanwalking home at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed many people.92 The Government ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they didn't kill many.The Government promised to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy.They killed thousands of rats everyday. A Government 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 theGovernment office. The Government officer thought that people were stealing dad rats from the pile.He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats, and theGovernment didn't pay any more money. 1. Newton is a place which ______.A. used to be very clean B. is no longer a cityC. is very clean D. will be very clean答案：C2. When the Government first ordered the people to kill rats, the people ______.A. asked for some money for each dead ratB. stole dead rats from the pileC. were too lazy to kill many ratsD. killed nearly all the rats quickly答案：C3. The people killed rats ______.A. to get money from the GovernmentB. to help the Government make the city cleanC. to make the Government officer happyD. to protect（保护）their cats and dogs答案：A4. A deep hole was dug so that ______.A. the rats couldn't come out to attack people at nightB. people could take rats from it easilyC. people would kill more ratsD. nobody could take any rats from the pile答案：D5. What is the best topic for this passage?A. How to Kill RatsB. Newton 一 A City of RatsC. How Newton Became a Very Clean PlaceD. How Newton Became a Famous City答案：C93 108. In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If youtelephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call shows thatthe matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is attached totelephone calls made after 11:00 pm. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it'sa matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.In social life, time plays a very important part. In the U.S.A. guests tend to feel they are not highlyregarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date.But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make anappointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tendto be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandingsarise between people from different cultures that treat time differently. Promptness is valued highly inAmerican life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not fullyresponsible. In the U.S. no one would think of keeping a business associate waiting for an hour, itwould be too impolite. A person, who is 5 minutes late, will say a few words of explanation, thoughperhaps he will not complete the sentence. 1. What is the main idea of this passage? ________A. It is not customary to telephone someone in the morning and in sleeping hours in the U.S.B. The role of time in social life over the world.C. If people are late, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible in the U.S.D. Not every country treats the concept of time as the same.答案：B2. What does it mean in the passage if you call someone during his or her sleeping hours? _______A. A matter of work. B. A matter of life or death.C. You want to see him or her. D. You want to make an appointment with him or her.答案：B3. Which of the following time is proper if you want to make an appointment with your friend in theU.S. A.?A. at 7:00 am B. at 4:00 pm C. at the midnight D. at 4 am答案：B4. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? ________A. In the U.S.A. guests tend to feel they are highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party isextended only three or four days before the party date.B. No misunderstandings arise between people from different cultures about the concept of time.C. It may be considered foolish to make an appointment well in advance in the U.S.A..D. Promptness is valued highly in American life.答案：D5. From the passage we can safely infer that _______94 A. it’s a matter of life or death if you call someone in day time.B. the meaning of time differs in different parts of the world.C. it makes no difference in the U.S. whether you are early or late for a business party.D. if a person is late for a date, he needn’t make some explanation.答案：B53. The modern sailing ship was developed by a man who never went to sea. He was Prince Henry ofPortugal, the younger son of the Portuguese king and an English princess.Prince Henry lived in the fifteenth century. As a boy he became devoted to the sea, and hededicated himself to improving the design of ships and methods of sailing them. In 1416, when he wastwenty-two, Henry founded a school for mariners, to which he invited everyone who could help him－Jewish astronomers （天文学家 ） , Italian and Spanish sailors, and Arab mathematicians and mapmakers who knew how to use the crude compass of the day and could improve it.Henry's goal was to design and equip vessels that would be capable of making long ocean voyageswithout having to keep close to the shore. The caravel, which he helped design, carried more sails andwas longer and slimmer than any ship then made, yet was tough enough to stand up against gales atsea. He also developed the carrack, which was slower ship, but one that was capable of carrying morecargo.The world owes credit to Prince Henry for the development of craft that made oceanic explorationpossible. He lives in history as Henry－the Navigator. 1. Henry the Navigator was a member of the royal family of England. A. T B. F答案：B2. Prince Henry started his school for the purpose of studying astronomy and mathematics.A. T B. F答案：B3. All teachers in Prince Henry's school seem to have been shipbuilders. A. T B. F答案：B4. Prince Henry's goal was to design vessels that could make long voyages. A. T B. F答案：A5. The possible title for this passage is The First School for Sailors.A. T B. F答案：B109. Mr. Tom Forester lived by himself a long way from town. He hardly ever left his home, but one95 day he went into town to buy some things in the market. After he had bought them, he went into arestaurant and sat down at a table by himself. When he looked around, he saw several old people putglasses on before reading their newspapers, so after lunch he decided to go to a shop to buy himselfsome 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 withthese."The man became more and more puzzled（迷惑不解）, until finally he said, "Excuse me, but canyou read at all?""No, of course I can't!" Tom said angrily. "If I was already able to read, do you think I would havecome here to buy glasses?" 1. Mr Forester lived ______.A. with his family in a city B. with his family in the countrysideC. alone in a city D. alone in the countryside答案：D2. Tom ______ went into town.A. often B. always C. almost never D. everyday答案：C3. The old people in the restaurant read their newspapers ______.A. with glasses on B. with glasses offC. with glasses of beer in front of themD. with glass pipes in their mouths答案：A4. The shop Tom went into sold ______.A. drinking glasses and cups B. glass for windows and doorsC. glasses for people who could not read D. glasses for people who could not see well答案：D5. What kind of mistake did Tom make?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.D. He left his money in the restaurant.答案：C109. These days, children often think of superheroes( 超级英雄 ) as cute( 帅气的), cool and strongsupermen. A poor, short and thin boy wearing glasses may not interest the kids today. Yet in less than4 years, Harry Potter has taken the world by the storm. J. K. Rowling, the writer of Harry Potter, was a96 British single mother out of work and living on money given to her by the government. One day,when she was on a long train trip, she had the idea for this book. She wrote the first book of the sevenin the cafe with her baby daughter sleeping beside her. Last year, the fans welcomed the birth of thefourth by lining outside the bookstores. Today these books are still popular among people. HarryPotter is something more than fantasy ( 幻想 ). Rowling tries to tell the readers how things are notalways what they seem to be. However, millions of the fans don't care about such a lesson. Theywould like to spend many sleepless nights waiting in line for the fifth, the sixth and the seventh tocome. For them, surprising stories of the little boy are what they want.1. J.K. Rowling was very poor and didn't get work for herself when she wrote the first book. A. T B. F答案：A2. When Rowling thought of the idea of writing her book, she was on her way to find work.A. T B. F答案：B3. Four books of the seven have come out according to this passage. A. T B. F答案：A4. Rowling wants to show to her readers, how things are not always what they seem to be. A. T B. F答案：A5. Rowling wrote the first book with her daughter's help. A. T B. F答案：B110. What makes a person a scientist? Does he have ways or tools of learning that are differentfrom those of others? The answer is “no”. It is not the tools a scientist uses but how he uses thesetools that makes him a scientist. You will probably agree that knowing how to use a power isimportant to a carpenter. You will probably agree, too, that knowing how to investigate, how todiscover information, is important to everyone. The scientist, however, goes one step further, hemust be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his questions and that his answer can beconfirmed by other persons. He also works to fit the answers he gets to many questions into alarge set of ideas about how the world works.The scientist’s knowledge must be exact. There is no room for half right or right just half thetime. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit. What works under one set of conditionsat 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 theconditions. This is one reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, whodeveloped the Theory of Relativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy ofhis mathematics was later tested through investigations, and Einstein’s ideas were shown to becorrect. A scientist uses many tools for measurements. Then the measurements are used to makemathematical calculations that may test his investigations.97 1. What makes a scientist according to the passage? ________A. The tools he uses. B. The way he uses his tools.C. His ways of learning. D. The various tools he uses.答案：B2. The underlined part in the passage shows_______.A. the importance of informationB. the importance of thinkingC. the difference between scientists and ordinary peopleD. the difference between carpenters and people with other jobs答案：C3. A sound scientific theory should be one that _________.A. works not only under one set of conditions at one time, but also under the same conditionsat other timesB. does not allow any changes even under different conditionsC. can be used for many purposesD. leaves no room for improvement答案：A4. The author quotes the case of Albert Einstein to illustrate __________.A. that measurements are keys to success in scienceB. that accuracy of mathematicsC. that investigations are important in scienceD. that the mathematical calculations may test his investigations答案：C5. What is the main idea of the passage? ________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 keys to the making of a scientist.答案：D111. 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 platform. They worked for a whole year and at last the pictures were ready.Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were really beautiful. 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 pictures.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 it and surely be killed. "So the worker quickly took some paint（漆）and threw it at the pictures."What are you doing?" cried the painter, running quickly forward to his pictures.1. James Thornhill was an English ______.A. worker B. artist C. king D. writer答案：B2. He was ordered to ______.A. paint the wall of the king's palace in EnglandB. paint some pictures on the wall of the palaceC. build a big platform in front of the palace98 D. put up some new pictures on the old wall答案：B3. It took them ______ to finish the pictures.A. a month B. a week C. twelve months D. half a month答案：C4. James Thornhill felt that the ______ he was from the pictures, the ______ they were.A. nearer…more beautiful B. farther…more uglyC. farther…more beautiful D. higher above…more good-looking答案：C5. The worker threw some paint at the pictures in order to ______.A. save James' life B. destroy the pictureC. make the picture more beautiful D. make the king angry答案：A112. When I was a little girl, my brothers and I collected stamps for many years. My motherdidn't use to work during the week, but she worked in the post office near our house onSaturdays, and she used to bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued (发行).On the day of the World Cup football final in London in 1966, we were very excited becauseEngland were playing West Germany in the final. When we were having lunch, my mother toldus to go to the post office straightaway after the match if England won, but she didn't tell us why.At 2 o'clock my mother went back to work as usual, while the rest of the family were watchingthe football on TV at home. Although she wasn't watching the match, she was listening to it onthe radio. England won 4:2 and so my brothers and I ran to the post office. As we burst in, my motherwas standing behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition withENGLAND WINNERS on each stamp. We were over the moon.We still have it today, and perhaps it is worth a lot of money. 1. This passage mainly tells us ______.A. the author and her brother used to like stamps very muchB. the author had a very kind motherC. the author and her brothers had an unforgettable experience in collecting stampsD. their mother used to support them by working in the post office答案：C2. According to the passage, her mother worked in the post office ______.A. during the week B. on Saturdays C. on Sundays D. for six days答案：B3. Their mother told them to go to the post office straightaway after the match if England won,but she didn't tell them why. Why do you think she did that? A. She wanted to give them a surprise.B. She doubted if she would get the stamps.C. She forgot to do that.D. She thought it unnecessary to tell them the reason.答案：A4. What does the sentence "We were over the moon." mean? A. We jumped high. B. We were extremely happy about it.C. We watched the moon for a long time. D. We couldn't sleep the whole night.答案：B5. What is the best title for this passage? A. My Childhood B. My Mother C. A Precious Stamp D. A Memorable Experience in Collecting Stamps99