【今日阅读：车轮上的人文】作家梁晓声：我们坐车到法国郊区。前面有辆旅行车，车轮碾起的泥水，扑向我们的车窗。车上两个法国小女孩，不停从后窗看我们 ●我们想?担泛苷５钡厮净担骸霸谡庋穆飞铣凳遣焕衩驳摹！闭底牛橇境低Ａ耍吕匆晃幌壬晕颐堑乃净盗耸裁矗缓蟀殉悼勘撸梦颐窍裙? ●司机转述那位先生的话：我们的车始终在前面，这不公平。车上还有我的两个女儿，我不能让她们感觉这理所当然 ●这句话让我羞愧了好几天。什么是“人文”？人文就是设身处地为人着想的善良。
【今日阅读：一声提醒的价值】管理学大师马歇尔：为赶飞机，我开车一路狂奔。一旁的妻子突然大叫“小心红灯”，我忍不住吼道：“我知道，别以为只有你会开车！” ●在飞机上，我做了一个成本收益分析：听一句“有红灯”成本多少？几乎没有。潜在收益多大？我的生命、她的生命，可能还有无辜者的生命 ●有人给你收益巨大、成本几乎为零的建议，正确的反应只有两个字“谢谢”。所以我充满惭愧地拨通妻子的电话，向她道歉 ●有人提醒或建议你时，即便你再不屑一顾，也千万不要迁怒对方，你能说的只能是“谢谢”。
【今日阅读：为什么偏偏是你】 20xx年，英国网球名将韦德患癌。有个粉丝伤心地来信：“为什么偏偏是你？”她回信写道： ●全世界喜欢网球的孩子有五千万，但能学会的仅五百万，能成为职业选手的仅五万，能参加国际巡回赛的仅五千，能打进温布尔登的仅五十人，而能进入决赛的只有两人 ●当我19xx年获温布尔登女单冠军时，我没问自己“为什么偏偏是我”。当此后33年没有英国人，再夺得大满贯赛事桂冠时，我也没问自己“为什么偏偏是我” ●所以，我现在患上癌症，我也不会问自己“为什么偏偏是我”
【今日阅读：等一等】 ●朋友回忆，他父亲过世前，告诉他很重要的人生哲理：“如果你想生气，不要立刻表现出来，要等24小时。24小时过了之后，你就可以做任何你想要做的事，即使想去揍人也可以，但一定要等足24小时才能行动” ●他说：“这话令我十分受用，从此愤怒没有再对我造成任何困扰。因为24小时之后，整件事情就变得幼稚可笑。有时候我还觉得对方的立场是对的，反而跑去谢谢他” ●“等一等”是人际关系的重要缓冲，有时候太快反应，太快出手，太快回嘴，结果变得一发不可收拾，让人懊悔不已。
【今日阅读：人人都有资格开心】学医出身的台湾知名作家侯文咏： ●有个高血压病人来看我的门诊，我给他开了药方，当他得知这药必须吃一辈子时，非常沮丧：“如果一辈子都得吃药，我的人生不是完了吗？” ●我耐心开导他：“你把药当成饭好了。我们每天必须吃饭才能活下去，但从来不觉得心里难过，不是吗？”“可是，饭是帮助我们的。”我回答他：“这药也是帮助你的。”病人听完就笑了。 ●我们需要很多东西，才能生活下去，不仅仅是阳光、空气、水…只要转个念头，任何苦痛，都不能剥夺我们开心生活的权利。
【今日阅读：孩子的价值观】日本教育家渡边和子：一位母亲带着三岁大的孩子，从正在进行水管作业的工人们身边路过。她边走边告诉孩子：“多亏叔叔们辛苦地劳动，宝宝才能喝上甘甜的水哦。来跟叔叔说句谢谢再走吧！” ●又一位母亲带着小孩，从同一个地方经过。她这样对孩子说：“宝宝要是不学习，长大就只能干这种活哦。” ●价值观就是这样由父母教给孩子的。第一位母亲在孩子的心中种下的，是人与人需要相互扶持、对劳动心存感激的观念。而第二位母亲则赋予孩子对职业的偏见，以及以学历论高低的价值观。
【今日阅读：父亲的“哦”】日本著名作家东野圭吾： ●上班后，我就很少给父母打电话。即便如此，母亲仍会抓住一切机会对我嘘寒问暖，父亲却从未与我通过话 ●一次，我决定辞
职，就打电话给父亲。父亲沉默了许久，发出一声“哦…”我生气地向他宣泄对工作的不满，父亲一直沉默着听完，我以为他会骂我做事没长性，他却又说了一声“哦…”，然后说，“重新开始，没什么大不了的” ●后来我没有辞职，让我改变想法的是父亲的那两声“哦”。如今，只要我回想起那个声音，就会觉得世上的难事多半没什么大不了的。
【今日阅读：残酷的馈赠】 ●20xx年，美国人惠特克。领取了1.3亿美元彩票奖金。随后几年，他遭遇盗窃、诈骗，加上官司缠身，到20xx年末，他又变得穷困潦倒 ●调查显示，美国75%的彩票中奖者，在经过短暂的奢华时光后，会再次回到中奖前的生活 ●19xx年，英国17岁少年唐纳利，买彩票中了2百万英镑。他立即放弃学业，开始极尽挥霍。29岁时，他被发现死于豪宅之中，死因是服用过量药物和酒精 ●据说，他留下这样一句话：给你足够的钱，却不给你人生目标，再没有比这更残酷的事情。
【邻居决定你的快乐】 ●《福布斯》曾通过市民调查，评出美国十大“最悲惨城市”。斯托克顿名列榜首。其实无论经济、气候还是治安，该市都不弱于其它上榜城市。市民的“悲惨”不是因生活条件差，而是这里的人太勤劳。 ●有位市民的话很有代表性：我觉得悲惨的是，无论我怎么努力，都赶不上我的邻居。我刚买房，他们都搬进别墅；我刚开上车，他们又换了豪车。 ●经济学家称此为“赶上邻居”现象，即你的快乐，与拥有的绝对财富关系不大，却与比较他人的相对财富，关系很大。只是，你的快乐真要由别人决定吗？
【今日?亩粒罕鹑说暮媚隳芗亲《嗌倌辏俊? ●法国作家博马舍，某次应邀到一所大学演讲。他看到校园里一张海报，是为患重病的学生比尔，募捐治疗费用。于是他捐了一百元钱。 ●半年后的圣诞节，他收到比尔的贺年卡。已经病愈的比尔，向他表示感谢。从此每年圣诞节他都能收到对方的感谢和祝福。 ●这一直持续到博马舍离开人世之前。因此他在病床上感叹：“我只是捐了一点钱，比尔却感激了我这么多年。所以，现在被感动的不是他，而是我了。” ●别人的好，一时记住很容易，一世不忘却很难，难如一种关乎生命的修行。
【今日阅读：答案是多少】 ●宾夕法尼亚大学的凯迪博士，在“人际关系学”的第一堂课上，总会在黑板写下4和2，问学生：答案是多少 ●“6！2！8！”学生争相作答。他却频频摇头：你们根本没问这是什么题目，又怎能说对答案？人际关系也是如此，很多人没倾听对方的意图，就轻易否定，沟通又怎能顺畅 ●我们常说“正在听”，其实是在内心盘算自己的答案。倾听是一门艺术，你必须学会内心的静默，才能让大脑配合耳朵的速度。当你真的用心倾听，即便双方仍然意见分歧，但因掌握了分歧的本质，所以就有磨合的可能。
【今日阅读：权利和暴力】 ●二战期间，德国企业家辛德勒，拯救了1200余名犹太人，被誉为“国际义人”。当初他刚到被德军占领的波兰，每天都看到残酷屠杀，内心备受煎熬 ●他问一德国军官：我们为什么要杀这么多无辜者？军官得意地说：我们征服了这个国家，就有权力杀死我们厌恶的人 ●他使劲地摇头：不，这不是权力，而是暴力！一头狮子可以轻而易举咬死任何人，难道它就比我们更有权力 ●军官惊讶地追问：那什么才是权力？他指着囚室里的犹太人说：当有人要处死这些人，你却能赦免他们，这才是权力！
【今日阅读：墙上的咖啡】 ●我在洛杉矶一著名咖啡厅闲坐，发现一件怪事：许多人会多付一杯的钱，然后让服务生“贴墙上”；而服务生就在墙上贴张纸，写着“一杯咖啡” ●后来我又到那里，这时进来一人，穿着寒酸。他看看墙上说：“墙上的一杯咖啡。”服务生恭敬地端上咖啡，那人喝完没结账就走了。正当我惊讶时，服务生从墙上揭下一张纸 ●原来如此。
那些顾客在享受咖啡时，会想到同样喜欢、却无力支付的人们；这里的服务生，面对穷人依旧恭敬，让对方无须放弃尊严，而只需看看墙上…那面墙，远比咖啡更加美好。
【今日阅读：心的抗争】 ●缅甸女政治家昂山素季，曾被软禁于其寓所，前后长达15年。在失去自由的日子里，她的心情似乎并未受到影响，生活依然十分规律。 ●每天清晨，她把自己打扮得清清爽爽，到室外散步半小时。然后回到室内，安静地阅读诗歌、散文，学习法语和日语，听自己喜欢的摇滚乐…傍晚时分写日记，在夜里独自弹奏钢琴曲。 ●有记者好奇地问她，如何在囚禁中，依然保持这么好的心态？她说：“那也是生活啊，我何苦要与生活讨价还价？每个人的生活都可能被囚禁，如果他的心灵不够自由的话。”
【今日阅读：精明的文字】 ●清代康熙年间，皇太后赏平南王尚可喜之母，一件名贵的锦袍。但尚可喜有生母、养母两位母亲，两人都吵得要这份风光。 ●他左右为难，准备上奏二母争执不下的实情，将锦袍退回。一位幕僚连忙劝阻，建议将“争执不下”改为“礼让不迭”。 ●皇太后阅后，责怪自己疏忽，又赏了一件锦袍。更难得的是，两位老太太知情后愧疚不已，从此真的相敬如宾。 ●人会根据得到的评价，调整自己的行为，心理学称为“贴标签效应”。所以，想要对方做出你期待的美好表现，不妨先给对方恰当而美好的“标签”
【今日阅读：闲”出来的创造力】 ●美国一项研究显示，过去二十年，人类智商在提高，但创造力在逐渐减弱。原因在于生活被手机、电脑占满，缺少做“白日梦”的时间 ●实验证明，大脑不对外界刺激产生反应时，更有利于内在思考，更能产生富有创意的想法。换而言之，创意思考是“闲”出来的 ●爱因斯坦就擅做“白日梦”。他在某个夏日凝视阳光时，幻想自己骑在太阳的光芒上，因而想到了“相对论” ●所以不要一感到无聊，就马上打开屏幕。给自己留下一段拒绝感官刺激的“空白时间”，就是给思想一次奔跑的机会。
【今日阅读：像金枝玉叶一般生活】 ●陈丹燕的小说《上海的金枝玉叶》里，写到一位富家小姐。她从小锦衣玉食，后来却沦落到下乡清粪桶。物是人非，但她竟还要喝下午茶 ●家里一贫如洗，烘焙蛋糕的电烤炉早已不见。怎么办？她自己动手，用仅有的一只铝锅，在煤炉上烘烤。没有温度控制，凭巧手烘烤出西式蛋糕 ●悠悠几十年，她雷打不动地喝着下午茶，吃着自制蛋糕，浑然忘记身处逆境，悄悄享受着残余的幸福● ●这是一种生活态度，淡定而从容。悲也好，喜也好，陪伴你走过来的不是金钱与容貌，而是你那颗坚强的心。
【今日阅读：瓦伦达心态】 ●瓦伦达，是高空钢索特技史上的传奇人物。他的名言是：“站在钢索上才是生活，其他都只是等待。”但他却在一次重大表演中，不幸失足身亡 ●事后，他太太回想说，她预感到悲剧的发生，因为瓦伦达在上场前，不停对自己说：这次只能成功，不能失败 ●以前每次成功的表演，他绝少考虑结果，?砸恢弊叩煤芎谩Ｈ欢彼辛嘶嫉没际е模谷痪痛烁姹鹆巳松Ｐ睦硌Ъ医税咐莆巴呗状镄奶 ●你越害怕失败，失败往往离你越近。何必计较成败得失，但求走好每一步。
【今日阅读：幸福的想象力】 ●著名媒体人洪晃：我记忆中第一个幸福时刻，是在三岁左右，被允许睡在父母的房间。一张床上，左边是妈妈，右边是爸爸。他俩都在逗我玩 ●其实，这个幸福时刻或许是我“捏造”出来的。因为我根本不确定是否发生了，但在我的记忆中有各种细节，比如在哪个房间，被子是什么颜色 ●作为一个离婚家庭的小孩，我需要有这种幸福时刻。至于是否存在过，这个并不重要 ●幸福不一定是真实的。即使生活很苦，也不要失去对幸福生活的想象力。因为，是我们的选择，决定了我们的幸福。
【今日阅读：读在爱尔兰】 ●全球书店业不景气，但爱尔兰首都都柏林，依然书店林立。这是如何做到的呢 ●一是爱尔兰人爱读书，他们的旅游广告就是“欢迎来到文学的国度”。二是政府对书店有店租补贴，并将图书列为完全免税商品。三是当地物流成本高，网购也价格不菲 ●爱尔兰中小学的语文课没有教科书，老师会开出几十本作品的书单，作业就在其中。而博览群书的学生，也会成为书单的推荐者，这让他们觉得读书是很酷的事 ●这个不足五百万人口的小国，孕育了四位诺贝尔文学奖得主，是阅读，让它拥有深沉的灵魂。
第二篇：每日阅读
每日阅读
阅读A
One day the famous American scientist Albert Einstein met an old friend of his on a street in New York.
“Mr Einstein,” said the friend, “ it seems that you need to put on a new overcoat. Look, how worn-out it is!”
“It doesn’t matter,” answered Albert Einstein. “No one knows me here in New York.”
Several years later they met in New York again. Einstein had been a world-famous physicist after then but he still wore the same old overcoat.Once more his friend persuaded him to buy a new one.
“There is no need now,” said Einstein, “Everybody here has known me.” 根据短文内容，回答问题。
1. Where did Albert Einstein met an old friend of his?
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2. What did the friend want him to buy?
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3. How about Einstein’s overcoat?
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4. Did Einstein still wear the same old overcoat when he became a world-famous physicist?
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5. What did Einstein say when the friend persuade（劝说） once more him to buy a new overcoat?
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完型1
Several years ago I studied in a university in the biggest city in our country. It’s beautiful but it’s hot in __1__. So I usually returned to my hometown when my __2__ began. It is not big, but it’s cool and quiet. I could __3__ in the daytime and have a good sleep at night. One day I had some __4__ to solve. But I didn’t take the dictionaries home. My father told me Charlie, one of my __5__, had a good library. I went to his house at once. We didn’t see each other after I __6__ middle school. At first he didn’t recognize me. He __7__ me up and down. And then he called out, “Oh, dear! It’s you, Fred!” Of course we were __8__ to meet each other again and talked a lot about our schoolmates and __9__. Later on he showed me around his library. It wasn’t big but there were a lot of nice books in it. And the dictionaries I __10__ were in them too. At last I said, “__11__ you lend some dictionaries to me, please?” - 1 -
“I’m sorry I don’t lend any books to __12__,” said the young man.
“Are you afraid I’ll __13__ them?”
“No, I’m not. I’m afraid you won’t __14__ them to me. Look! All the books are not __15__, but borrowed!”
1. A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter
2. A. birthday B. Saturday C. Sunday D. holiday
3. A. study B. play C. rest D. run
4. A. words B. sentences C. problems D. stories
5. A. brothers B. sisters C. aunts D. classmates
6. A. finished B. heard C. saw D. met
7. A. lifted B. carried C. looked D. pulled
8. A. angry B. happy C. worried D. sad
9. A. doctors B. teachers C. workers D. drivers
10. A. looked for B. read C. wrote D. looked at
11. A. Need B. Must C. May D. Can
12. A. other B. the other C. others D. another
13. A. lose B. sell C. throw D. know
14. A. pay B. return C. use D. look after
15. A. made B. picked C. won D. bought
每日阅读
阅读B
I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the more wonderful thing in the world.
Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,” she said again, “it’s for Elizabeth. ”
I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter. it never happened.
And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface(表面)”.
As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive(原谅) me.
I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.
My hope turned to disappointment(失望), then little interest and, finally, peace— it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.
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Now the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside —a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded(折叠) and refolded many times.
Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. The writer began to love her mother’s desk ______.
A. after Mother died
B. before she became a writer
C. when she was a child
D. when Mother gave it to her
2. The passage shows that ______.
A. mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter
B. mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done
C. mother cared much about her daughter in words
D. mother wrote to her daughter in careful words
3. The word “gulf” in the passage means ______.
A. deep understanding between the old and the young
B. different ideas between the mother and the daughter
C. free talks between mother and daughter
D. part of the sea going far in land
4. What did mother do with her daughter’s letter asking forgiveness?
A. She had never received the letter.
B. For years, she often talked about the letter.
C. She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in all her life.
D. She read the letter again and again till she died.
5. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. My letter to Mother
B. Mother and Children
C. My mother’s Desk
D. Talks between Mother and Me
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Mr. Wang teaches English in a middle school. He likes his work very much. He wanted 1 a teacher even when he was a young boy.
There are six classes in a school day at Mr. Wang's middle school. Mr. Wang teachers five of these six classes. 2 his "free" hour from 2 to 3 in the afternoon, Mr. Wang 3 meet with parents, check students' homework and 4 many other things. So Mr. Wang works hard from the moment he gets to school early in the morning until he leaves for home late in the afternoon, and his "free" hour - 3 -
is not free at all.
In his English lesson, Mr. Wang sometimes teaches poems (诗). He likes poems very much, and he likes Li Bai’s poems 5 of all.
In his fifth class today, Mr. Wang taught a poem. He wrote the poem on the blackboard and read it. As soon as he finished 6 the poem, the students began to ask questions. He answered all the questions. Then he asked his students to talk about the poem. 7 one wanted to stop when the bell rang. 8 home, Mr. Wang thought about the fifth class. He was happy about what he did as a teacher. Every one of his students 9 the poem. When they started to talk, they forgot about the time. He did not have to make them 10 . He only had to answer their questions and help them understand the poem.
1. A. was B. being C. to be D. be
2. A. In B. At C. To D. On
3. A. has to B. has C. able to D. will
4. A. take care for B. care of C. take care of D. be careful of
5. A. better B. good C. well D. best
6. A. reading B. to read C. read D. doing
7. A. Not B. No C. Have no D. Any
8. A. By the way B. To his way C. On his way D. In the way
9. A. liked B. asked C. had D. wanted
10. A. learning B. to learn C. learn D. leant
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Once Goethe, the great German poet, was walking in a park. He was thinking about something when he noticed he came to a very, very narrow road. Just at that time, a young man came towards him from the other end of the road. It was too narrow for both of them to pass through at the same time. They stopped and looked at each other for a while. Then the young man said rudely, “I never make way for a fool.” But Goethe smiled and said, “I always do.” Then he turned back quickly and walked towards the end of the road.
根据短文内容，回答问题。
1. Where was Goethe walking?
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2. Who came towards Goethe from the other end of the road?
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3. Was the road too narrow for both of them to pass through at the same time? ________________________________________________________________
4. Did the young man make way for Goethe?
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5. Who turned back quickly and walked towards the end of the road?
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Many animals use some kinds of “language”. They use signals(信号) and the signals have meanings. For example, __1 a bee has found some food, it goes 2 its home. 3 is difficult for a bee to tell __4 bees where the food is speaking to them, but it can do a little dancing. This tells the bees where the food is and 5 it is. Some animals show 6 they feel by making sounds. It is not difficult to tell if a dog is angry because it barks. Birds make several different sounds and 7 has its meaning. Sometimes we humans make sounds in the same way. We make sounds like “Oh” to 8 how we feel about __9__ or we 10 something on our feet.
We humans have languages. We have words. These words have meaning of things, action, feeling or ideas. We are able to __11__ each other information, to tell other people 12 we think or we feel. By writing down words, we can remember what has happened or 13 messages to people far away.
Languages, like people, live and die. If a language is not used by people, it is called a dead language. This language cannot live and grow because 14 speaks it.
A living language, of course, is often spoken by people today. It grows and changes with time. New words are created, and some old words have 15 meanings.
1. A. because B. since C. when D. as
2. A. out of B. back from C. away from D. back to
3. A. It B. This C. That D. He
4. A. each other B. another C. the other D. others
5. A. how long B. how far away C. how many D. how old
6. A. why B. which C. how D. what
7. A. each B. every C. all D. some
8. A. show B. say C. talk D. speak
9. A. everything B. something C. nothing D. anything
10. A. put B. drop C. fall D. set
11. A. give B. put C. show D. take
12. A. that B. which C. what D. why
13. A. send B. bring C. push D. get
14. A. someone B. no one C. anyone D. everyone
15. A. new B. right C. real D. good
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Not many years ago, some farmers were worried because hawks were taking many of their chicken. The farmers didn’t know what to do. Finally they went to the country officials and asked for help.
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“Kill the hawks,” the officials said, “We will even pay for them,” so the farmers began to think of ways to kill the hawks.
The farmers killed many hawks. They no longer had to worry about their chickens. But they now had a new worry. Field mice were eating up a lot of the farmers’ grain.
How did this happen? Hawks eat not only chickens but also field mice. They eat more field mice than chickens. But the farmers didn’t know this. When they killed a lot of hawks, they changed the balance.
When people move into a new place, they often destroy many wild plants. Often these plants are food for the animals. If the animals can’t find enough plants to eat, they will starve or have to leave the place.
In one part of the USA, for example the deer there like to eat a certain kind of wild roses. The mountain lions there eat the deer. The number of deer, mountain lions and wild roses doesn’t change much if people leave things as they are.
But people killed many mountain lions in order to protect the deer. Soon there were so many deer that they ate up all the wild roses. Then the deer began to eat the green leaves of young trees. These trees were important to the farmers. So the farmers thought of ways to protect their trees. Now the deer had nothing to eat, and many of them died. This was another lesson from nature.
To keep the balance of nature is important for us to remember.
根据以上短文内容判断正误，正确的用“T”表示，错误的用“F”表示。
1. Finally the officials told the farmers to kill the hawks.
2. Field mice eat not only chickens but also the farmers’ grain.
3. When the animals can’t find enough plants to eat in a place, they will starve or have to leave.
4. The number of animals changes much if people leave things as they are.
5. It is important for us to keep the balance of nature.
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It’s never easy to admit(承认) you are wrong. We all __1__ to know the art of apology（道歉）. Think how often you’ve done wrong. Then count how many __2__ you’ve expressed clearly you were __3__. You can’t go to bed with an easy mind if you do __4__ about it.
A doctor friend, Mr. Lied, told me about a man who came to him with different kinds of signs: headaches, heart __5__ and insomnia (失眠). __6__ some careful exams, Mr. Lied found nothing ___7__ with him and said, “If you don’t tell me what’s __8__ you, I can’t help you.” The man admitted he was cheating his brother of his inheritance(遗产). Then and there the __9__ doctor __10__ the man write to his brother and __11__ his money. As soon as the __12__ was put into the post box, the man suddenly cried. “Thank you,” he said to the doctor, “I think I’ - 6 -
ve got __13__.”
An apology can not only save a broken relationship(关系) but also make it __14__. If you can think of someone who should be __15__ an apology from you. Do something about it right now.
1. A. decide B. have C. need D. try
2. A. mistakes B. people C. ways D. times
3. A. sorry B. weak C. sad D. wrong
4. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
5. A. trouble B. matter C. illness D. problem
6. A. Before B. After C. Till D. Since
7. A. well B. wrong C. good D. bad
8. A. hurling B. changing C. touching D. worrying
9. A. clever B. silly C. good D. kind
10. A. made B. helped C. saw D. let
11. A. returned B. gave C. kept D. paid
12. A. paper B. box C. money D. letter
13. A. better B. well C. sick D. worse
14. A. never B. worse C. stronger D. harder
15. A. given B. received C. known D. forgotten
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Little Tommy was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything—tutors (家庭教师), cards, special learning centers—in short, everything they could think of. Finally they took Tommy to a catholic (天主教的) school.
After the first day, little Tommy came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn’t kiss his mother hello. Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread (铺开) out all over the room and little Tommy was hard at work. His mother was surprised. She called him down to dinner and as soon as he finished eating, he went back to his room, without a word. In no time he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time, day after day while the mother tried to understand what was happening.
Finally, little Tommy brought home his report card. He quietly put it on the table and went up to his room and hit the books. His mom looked at it and to her surprise, little Tommy got an A in math. She could no longer hold her curiosity - 7 -
(好奇心). She went to his room and asked, “Son, what was it? Was it the nuns (修女)?”
Little Tommy looked at her and shook his head, “No. ”
“Well then,” she asked again. “WHAT was it?”
Little Tommy looked at her and said, “Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that man nailed (钉) to the plus sign (), I knew they weren’t joking. ”
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. Why did Tommy’s parents send him to a catholic school?
A. Because he could eat well there.
B. Because he could earn more about nuns.
C. Because his parents wanted him to do better in his math.
D. Because his parents didn’t want him to learn math any more.
2. Tommy’s mother felt surprised that his son _______.
A. was still the same as usual
B. ate so much at dinner
C. kissed her hello after school
D. worked hard but said little
3. “Hitting the books” means “_______” in Chinese.
A. 用功
B. 捶书
C. 发泄
D. 振作
4. The last sentence in the passage shows that _______.
A. Tommy felt sorry for the mail
B. Tommy was afraid of being nailed
C. Tommy didn’t like the plus sign
D. Tommy liked playing jokes on others
5. From the passage, we can infer (推断) that _______.
A. teachers should be strict with their students
B. mistaking (误解) might do good sometimes
C. a catholic school is much better than other ones
D. nuns are good at helping children with their math
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Mr. and Mrs. king have lived in our town for nearly twenty years. They have - 8 -
a bookshop by the bus station. They’re __1__ to everybody and have a lot of friends. They often __2__ the poor students and sell them some books cheaply. So there’re many young men in their shop. Of course people __3__ them and their friends often call on (拜访) them and __4__ them. We can always hear their rooms are full of __5__ and quarrel.
It was a Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. King were going to have a picnic on the island the next __6__. It was a little far from our town. So they had to __7__ earlier than usual to catch a six o’clock train. After __8__ a few friends came to see them while they were cooking some __9__ and drinks for the picnic. Mr. king and his wife had to stop __10__ them. They talked a lot and few of them looked at the __11__ on the wall. Mr. and Mrs. King were anxious (焦急) but they couldn’t tell the visitors about it. The woman thought for a few __12__ and had an idea. She said to her __13__, “Oh, it’s eleven o’clock! You’d better stop talking, dear! Our guests are anxious to __14__!
Mr. king heard this and stood up and said __15__ to the visitors and they left soon.
1. A. had B. polite C. cold D. careful;
2. A. help B. hurt C. hit D. watch
3. A. know B. understand C. meet D. like
4. A. play with B. fight with C. talk with D. catch up with
5. A. cry B. shout C. noise D. laugh
6. A. morning B. afternoon C. evening D. laugh
7. A. go to work B. get up C. go to sleep D. open the shop
8. A. breakfast B. lunch C. supper D. meal
9. A. clothes B. bags C. books D. food
10. A. receive B. to receive C. receiving D. to accept
11. A. phone B. photo C. clock D. picture
12. A. minutes B. days C. weeks D. months
13. A. visitor B. husband C. brother D. father
14. A. go home B. go to bed C. go shopping D. have a rest
15. A. hello B. goodbye C. sorry D. nothing
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When my family moved to America from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture. One of the rules is that young people should always respect(尊敬) elders. Unluckily, this rule led to my very first embarrassment in the United States.
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was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect the elderly. As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive(敏感) Americans are and how they dislike the description “old”. I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed and were no longer angry.
In my village in China, people are proud of being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.
However, in the United States, people think “growing old” is a problem since “old” shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging, and women put on makeup, hoping to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they didn’t want to hear.
After that, I changed the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don't respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don’t show my feelings through words.
By Jack
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. Jack brought the couple their food very fast because _______.
A. the manager asked him to do so
B. he respected the elderly
C. the couple wanted him to do so
D. he wanted more pay
2. When Jack called the couple “elderly”, they became _______.
A. nervous
B. satisfied
C. unhappy
D. excited
3. In Jack’s hometown, _______.
A. people dislike being called “old”
B. people are proud of being old
C. many people reach the age of seventy or eighty
D. the elderly are the first to get food in restaurants
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4. After this experience, Jack _______.
A. lost his job in the restaurant
B. made friends with the couple
C. no longer respected the elderly
D. changed his way with older people
5. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The more Jack explained, the angrier the couple got.
B. Jack wanted to show his feelings through words after his experience.
C. The manager went back to the table and apologized to the couple.
D. From this experience, Jack learned more about American culture.
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Martin Henfield talks about some of his experience(经历) as a twin: when we were small my mother dressed us __1_ the same clothes. That was bad enough and we didn’t like it. But we went on our first camping trip, it was even __2__. We were only ten years old, and while __3_ went into their sleeping bags for the _4__, we were not happy to snuggle(偎依) inside a double sleeping bag my mother made for us. At school our classmates __5__us Henfield One and Henfield Two, so people ___6__ even see our difference according to our initials because __7__ of us were M.O. It was only when I went to _8___ and began to have my own friends that I started to feel my own freedom of identity（身份）.
Before I went to college, during my secondary school __9__, I __10__ to a job on a building site. My twin brother, Mike Henfield, didn’t work. One day I asked my boss, “Can I have a week _11__?” “Certainly,” he said, “but you won’t have the job when you 12__ back.” I didn’t want to __13__ the job. So on Monday morning, Mike went there in my _14__, jacket and hat and he worked for me for one week __15___ of them knew the difference.
1. A. in B. for C. on D. with
2. A. badder B. worse C. good D. better
3. A. all boys B. another boy C. all the other boys D. all the boys
4. A. day B. holiday C. night D. mid-night
5. A. called B. knew C. told D. made
6. A. didn’t B. needn’t C. mustn’t D. couldn’t
7. A. very B. each C. both D. all
8. A. middle school B. college C. high school D. school
9. A. holidays B. week C. weekend D. holiday
10. A. received B. got C. find D. made
11. A. off B. free C. on D. back
12. A. came B. will get C. got D. are
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13. A. miss
14. A. coat
15. A. None
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B. lose B. shirt B. Nobody C. lost C. shoes C. All D. losing D. trousers D. Each
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Jean is a bright young woman who comes from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy. Well, almost everything. The problem is that the people in Jean’s family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her. In fact, Jean is quite lonely.
So Jean spends a lot of time on her QQ. She likes being anonymous(匿名), talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often.
Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common(共同的) interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself: He was a tall, good-looking young man with a big, happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.
When Jean’s father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite rock singer. But when she knocked on David’s door in San Francisco, she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim!
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. Jean spends a lot of her time on QQ because she is _______.
A. rich B. famous
C. young D. lonely
2. Jean thought “David” was special because he _______.
A. made her quite happy on QQ B. was from San Francisco
C. sent her a picture of himself D. was tall and good-looking
3. When Jean and “David” met and introduced themselves to each other, who felt surprised?
A. “David”. B. Both “David” and Jean.
C. Jean. D. Neither “David” nor Jean.
4. What’s the main idea of the passage?
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A. Don’t believe those you get to know on QQ so easily.
B. People don’t use their real names on QQ so often.
C. Don’t go to meet those you get to know on QQ.
D. People should tell their real names to others on QQ.
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Have you ever seen the advertisement: Learn a foreign language in six weeks, 1 give your money back? Of course, it 2 happens quite like that. The only language 3 to learn is the mother language. And think 4 practice is needed for that. Before the Second World War people usually learned a foreign language 5 the literature(文学) of the country. Now most people want to 6 a foreign language. Every year millions of people start learning 7 . How do they do it? Some people try at home 8 books and tapes, others go to evening classes or watch TV programs. 9 they use the language only 2 or 3 times a week, learning it will 10 a long time, like language learning at school.
A few people try to learn a language fast by studying for 6 or 11 hours a day. It's much easier to learn the language in the country where it 12 . But most people are 13 to do this, and many people don't have to do so. Machines and good books will be very 14 , but they can not do the students' work. 15 the language is learned quickly or slowly, it is hard work.
1. A. so B. or C. and D. but
2. A. can＇t B. impossible C. never D. often
3. A. easily B. difficult C. able D. easy
4. A. how much B. how long C. how fast D. how many
5. A. studied B. to study C. studying D. study
6. A. talk B. tell C. speak D. say
7. A. them B. this C. that D. it
8. A. without B. with C. in D. by
9. A. If B. When C. Since D. Until
10. A. spend B. use C. take D. cost
11. A. some B. more C. other D. less
12. A. speaks B. is speaking C. spoke D. is spoken
13. A. able B. possible C. unable D. not possible
14. A. careful B. forgetful C. wonderful D. helpful
15. A. either B. whether C. what D. how
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Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding.
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When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special time—like my wedding (婚礼) and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address (地址) Unknown. ” I had no idea how to find Linda.
Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share (分享) happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.
One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman — Linda’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, but J still wrote to her.
She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Linda Evans Wagman is my mother. ”
Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. The writer went to piano lessons with Linda Evans _______.
A. at the age of 13
B. before she got married
C. after they moved to new homes
D. before the writer’s family moved away
2. They didn’t often write to each other because they _______.
A. got married
B. had little time to do so
C. didn’t like writing letters
D. could see each other on special time
3. There was an empty place in the writer’s heart because she _______.
A. was in trouble
B. didn’t know Linda’s address
C. received the card that she sent
D. didn’t have a friend like Linda to share her happiness or sadness
4. The writer was happy when she _______.
A. read the newspaper
B. heard Linda’s voice on the phone
C. met a young woman who looked a lot like Linda
D. wrote to the woman whose last name was Wagman
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5. They haven’t kept in touch _______.
A. for about 40 years
B. for about 27 years
C. since they got married
D. since the writer’s family moved away
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I have tried many ways to be 1 . I don’t wear a sweater when I 2 , and two days ago I walked in the 3 without my shoes. But so far nothing 4 . Debbie once told me about a boy in her class who liked 5 school. He would rub(摩擦) the end of the thermometer (温度计) until it went 6 to 39℃. Then he’d put it in his mouth and his mother would think he was 7 ill. This morning I tried doing that but it 8 went above 35℃ and I rubbed it for ten 9 . So I held the thermometer 10 the light on my desk and it went up to 40℃. I thought I’d put it in my mouth and walk downstairs like that. 11 my mother would take it out and she would be 12 when she saw that I was rather ill.
The only trouble was I didn’t know the thermometer would be so 13 , As soon as I put it into my mouth I burnt my tongue(舌头)! I spit (吐) the thermometer out. It fell 14 the floor but it 15 .
1. A . well B. fine C. ill D. bad
2. A . could B. should C. must D. might
3. A . water B. rain C. sun D. wind
4. A . happens B. happened C. will happen D. has happened
5. A . being away from B. leaving C. staying at D. being out of
6. A . on B. down C. up D. off
7. A . really B. real C. bad D. badly
8. A . can’t B. not C. never D. didn’t
9. A . seconds B. hours C. minutes D. moments
10. A . near B. near to C. next D. next to
11. A . When B. Then C. So D. If
12. A . worried B. surprised C. happy D. frightened
13. A . cold B. hot C. warm D. cool
14. A . off B. down C. to D. on
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A man went to see his doctor one day, because he was suffering from pains in his stomach. After the doctor had examined him carefully, he said to him, “Well, there’s nothing really wrong with you, I’m glad to say. Your only trouble is - 15 -
that you worry too much. Do you know, I had a man with the same trouble as you here a few weeks ago, and I gave him the same advice as I am going to give you. He was worried because he couldn’t pay his tailor’s bills. I told him not to worry about the bills any more. He took my advice and when he came to see me again two days ago, he told me that he now felt quite all right again. ” “Yes, I know all about that,” answered the patient sadly. “You see, I’m that man’s tailor!”
根据以上短文内容判断正误，正确的用“T”表示，错误的用“F”表示。
1. The tailor went to see his doctor because he has got a headache.
2. There is nothing serious with the tailor.
3. A man with the same trouble as the tailor a few days ago.
4. The doctor gave the man and the tailor the same advice.
5. The tailor was worried because a man couldn’t pay his bills.
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Do you know Eskimos (爱斯基摩人)? Let me tell you something about their 1 . The Eskimos live near the North Pole (北极). There are only two 2 there, winter and summer, There are no spring 3 autumn there. The winter nights are 4 . You can't 5 the sun for more than two months, even at noon. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never 6 and there is no night. The Eskimos have 7 clothes. They make their clothes from the skin of animals. From these skins they make coats, caps and 8 . Near the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is too 9 there. The Eskimos 10 make their houses from skins, snow or stones (石头). When they 11 in storm and can't 12 home, they make house of snow. They 13 these snow houses when the storm is 14 . Life is 15 for the Eskimos, but they still like to live there.
1. A. work B. life C. holiday D. families
2. A. weather B. seasons C. months D. years
3. A. not B. or C. and D. as
4. A. short B. warm C. long D. cold
5. A. see B. watch C. look D. look at
6. A. rises B. goes up C. drops D. goes down
7. A. beautiful B. metal C. warm D. cool
8. A. goods B. drinks C. medicine D. shoes
9. A. cold B. hot C. dry D. wet
10. A. will B. should C. never D. have to
11. A. go out B. go over C. keep on D. get on
12. A. get back B. got off C. get on D. get in
13. A. make B. leave C. stay D. break
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14. A. over
15. A. easy
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I worked for a short time as a cashier(出纳员) at a restaurant a few months ago. I also helped to clean up the tables when it was very busy. One night, just before Christmas, I found a large black wallet on the floor near one of the tables. I guessed I should check it to find out who was the owner, but I was very busy at the time. And I imagined that if there was something valuable(有价值的) in the wallet, the owner would be back. Sure enough, an hour later a man came up to the counter and asked if anyone had found a wallet. I asked him to describe the lost wallet, and after he described it exactly, I gave him the wallet. He expressed his thanks when I handed it to him. He asked me if I had opened it, and when I told him “no”. At once he opened it and showed that it had nearly $ 800 in cash(现金). He took out a twenty-dollar bill and handed it to me and I was amazed at this. “A reward(酬劳) for your honesty,” he said and then turned and walked away.
Thinking about it later, I began wondering whether I would have been honest if I had known what was in the wallet! I thought that if I had no way to find the owner and no one returned to get it, I might keep it. But it also came into my mind that I actually saved someone’s Christmas plans by finding and returning the wallet. The good feeling it gave me was worth more than anything could buy.
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. Which of the following is true?
A. The owner of the wallet found a twenty-dollar bill gone.
B. The writer wasn’t surprised when the man gave her a reward.
C. Nothing in the wallet was missing.
D. The man was very, very excited when he got his wallet back.
2. The writer returned the wallet to the owner because _______.
A. she thought Christmas was coming
B. the owner came back too soon
C. she didn’t know there was so much money in it
D. as an honest person, she didn’t care much about money
3. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The writer accepted a reward of $ 20.
B. The writer regretted(后悔) that she had returned the wallet.
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完型10 Life in the twenty-first century will be very 1 . Many changes will take place, but 2 will the changes be. The population is growing 3 . There will be many 4 in the world and most of them will live 5 than people in the twentieth century. Computers will be much smaller and 6 and there will be at least one in every 7 . And 8 studies will be one of the important subjects in school then.
People will work 9 and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelling. 10 will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to 11 countries for holidays. There will be changes in our 12 , too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead, they eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be 13 . Work in the future will be different, too. 14 and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this, 15 will not have enough work to do .This will be a problem.
1. A. interesting B. hard C. different
2. A. why B. how
3. A. slowly
5. A. long 4. A. people C. when B. fast C. quietly D. beautiful D. what D. suddenly D. doctors B. workers C. scientists B. longer C. happy D. lucky
6. A. more useful B. useful C. helpful D. less useful
7. A. hospital B. factory C. home D. town
8. A. science B. maths C. English D. computer
9. A. fewer hours B. more hours C. eight hours
hours
10. A. Seeing doctors B. Going to the cinema C. Shopping D. Travelling
11. A. rich B. other C. poor D. small
D. more pleased 12. A. food B. clothes C. fruit D. drinks 13. A. fatter B. thinner C .healthier
14. A. Safe
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A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a - 19 - D. more than eight B. Easy C. Simple D. Dangerous 15. A. a few people B. all the people C. many people D. some people
Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin(顽童) was walking around the shining car. “Is this your car, sir?” he asked.
Paul answered, “Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was surprised. “You mean your brother gave it to you and it did cost you nothing? Sir, I wish?” He hesitated(犹豫). Paul thought of course he knew what the boy wanted, but what the boy said surprised him greatly. “I wish,” the boy went on, “that I could be a brother like that.” Paul looked at the boy in surprise, and then he said again, “Would you like to take a ride in my car?” “Oh yes, I’d love to,” the boy answered.
After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said, “Sir, would you mind driving in front of my house?”
Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the boy wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again. “Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked.
He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled(残疾的) brother. He sat down on the step and pointed to the car.
“There he is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And some day I’m going to give you one just like it?then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas windows that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”
Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed elder brother climbed in beside him and the three began an unforgettable holiday ride.
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. The street urchin was very surprised when _______.
A. he met Paul
B. Paul told him about the car
C. Paul received an expensive car
D. he was walking around the car
2. From the story we can see the urchin _______.
A. wished to give his brother a car
B. wanted Paul’s brother to give him a car
C. wished he could have a brother like Paul’s
D. wished Paul could be a brother like that
3. The urchin asked Paul to stop his car in front of his house ______.
A. to show he had a rich friend
B. to show his neighbors the big car
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C. to let his brother ride in the car
D. to tell his brother about his wish
4. We can find from the story that _______.
A. the urchin wished Paul to give his car to Buddy
B. the urchin wished to have a rich brother
C. the urchin had a deep love for his brother
D. the urchin’s wish came true in the end
5. The best name of the story is _______.
A. A Christmas Present B. Paul, a Kind-hearted Person
C. A Brother Like That D. An Unforgettable Holiday Ride
完型11 Many people go to school for an education. 1 learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and maths. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can 2 a living. School 3 is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he 4 , can not teach his students everything they 5 to know. The teacher's job is to show his students how to read and how to 6 . So much more is to be learned 7 school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study by 8 than to memorize(熟记)some facts or formula(公式). It is 9 quite easy to learn a 10 fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in 11 out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn't learn many things from school. But they were all so 12 that they invented so many things for mankind. The 13 for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not 14 at school. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of 15 .
1. A. Students B. They C. We D. People
2. A. make B. do C. have D. get
3. A. education B. degree C. lesson D. task
4. A. teaches B. knows C. learns D. practises
5. A. manage B. expect C. fail D. want
6. A. study B. play C. think D. work
7. A. From B. in C. within D. outside
8. A. heart B. students C. us D. oneself
9. A. not B. actually C. seldom D. known
10.A. real B. true C. certain D. great
11. A. setting B. working C. making D. doing
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12. A. famous B. popular C. successful D. modest
13. A. experiment B. reason C. result D. way
14. A. kept B. showed C. expressed D. taught
15. A. duties B. jobs C. experiments D. records
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Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying (摧毁) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏) that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.
A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.
“I was eating with my wife and children,” he said, “When we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened.”
Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.
“There was no time to take anything,” she said, “A few minutes later, the roof came down.”
Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利机构) brought them food, clothes and shelter.
1. How many homes altogether (总共) were damaged in the storm?
A. Fourteen B. Twenty-one
C. Twenty-nine D. Thirty-six
2. Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began?
A. He was in bed. B. He was inside the house.
C. He was outside the house. D. He was on the roof.
3. Mrs. Woo and her family didn’t get hurt because _________.
A. her husband knew there would be a storm
B. they were all outside the house when the storm became worse
C. she felt the house was moving
D. the welfare department helped her
4. The underlined word “shelter” in this passage means ______.
A. something to eat B. something to wear
C. somewhere to study D. somewhere to stay
5. Which of he following may be the best title for this passage?
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B. A Lucky Woman
D. Clever People
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About 70,000,000 Americans are trying to lose weight(减肥). That is almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Some people eat 1 food and they hardly have any fats or sweets. Others do running, exercise with machines, take medicines, or even have operations. 2 you can see losing weight is 3 work, and it will also cost a lot of money. But __4 do so many people in the United States want to lose weight?
Many people in the United States worry about their look of the body. For many people, looking nice also means to be 5 . Other people worry about their health as many doctors 6 overweight is not good.
Most people want to find an 7 way to take off fat, and books of this kind are very popular. These books tell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like these are 8 . Each one says it can easily help people take fat away.
Losing weight can be 9 . Some overweight people go to health centres, like La Costa in California. Men and women 10 several hundred dollars a day at these health centres. People live there for one week or two, 11 exercise, eating different foods. Meals there may be just a little. All these work for losing weight. __12__ 4 days on the programme, one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5 pounds (2.27kg). At $ 400 a day, she spent $ 320 to lose each pound. But she said she was still __13__ to do so.
Health centres, books, medicines, operations, running and exercise machines all __14__ a lot of money. So in the United States, losing weight may mean losing __15__ too.
1. A. less B. more C. nice D. fast
2. A. For B. So C. Or D. And
3. A. good B. useful C. hard D. easy
4. A. why B. what C. how D. when
5. A. high B. short C. thin D. fat
6. A. talk B. say C. speak D. tell
7. A. dearer B. harder C. shorter D. easier
8. A. taken B. given C. written D. copied
9. A. cheap B. expensive C. easy D. safe
10. A. pay B. cost C. take D. have
11. A. making B. taking C. playing D. using
12. A. Before B. In C. After D. At
13. A. sorry B. angry C. sad D. glad
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14. A. need B. have C. use D. get
15. A. health B. time C. food D. money
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We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 kinds of them.
No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide that she loves you. She? Yes, she. It’s true that male mosquito doesn’t bite(咬) and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn’t like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are chosen. You’re different from the others!
If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different. After she bites, you will have an itch(痒) on your body because she puts something from her mouth together with your blood. By the time the itching begins, and she has flown away.
And then what happens? Well, after her delicious dinner, the mosquito feels tired. She just wants to find a place to have a good rest. There, on a leaf or a wall, she begins to lay eggs, hundreds of eggs.
1. “Mosquito” means _______ in Chinese.
A. 苍蝇 B. 蜻蜓 C. 跳蚤 D. 蚊子
2. We know mosquitoes very well because ___________.
A. they can be found easily B. they fly here and there
C. there are many kinds of them D. they can fly
3. If the mosquito doesn’t bite you, it will ________.
A. get angry with you B. be afraid of you
C. make a lot of noise D. choose another one
4. The mosquito bites you _________.
A. when you’re asleep B. because you have choose it
C. too quickly to let you know D. but doesn’t like you
5. Which of the following sentences is wrong?
A. The itching begins after the mosquito bites you.
B. You feel terrible when the mosquito bites you.
C. Mosquitoes use blood to lay eggs.
D. All the mosquitoes don’t like to bite people for blood.
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When the boys 1 home, it was eleven o’clock. It was dark 2 but there was a light inside their home and the door 3 . They could see a man inside.
“Who can 4 be? ” Said Peter. “Mother and Father 5 to do some 6 . They won’t be home 7 eight o’clock. ” When the man saw Peter, he looked 8 . Then he smiled and said. “Come in! You don’t know me, but I’m a friend of 9 .” The man didn’t see John. Peter went inside and began 10 to the man but John didn’t. He quickly but quietly ran off. He soon found a policeman and brought him back 11 home. The man was 12 there, but when he saw the policeman, he tried to run off. The policeman caught him 13 the arm. Just then the boys’ parents 14 .
“Is the man your friend?” The policeman asked Mr. Turner .
“No, he is a thief. He wanted to steal my money. 15 nice of you to catch him.”
1. A. reached B. arrived at C. goes to D. reached to
2. A. out of B. outside C. outsides D. inside
3. A. opened B. was open C. was opened D. open
4. A. he B. she C. it D. that
5. A. have been B. have gone C. go D. went
6. A. shops B. shopping C. shoppings D. shop
7. A. until B. at C. to D. before
8. A. frightening B. fear C. frightened D. surprised
9. A. your father B. your father’s C. your mother D. your family
10. A. saying B. talking C. speaking D. telling
11. A. to B. to their C. their D. at
12. A. already B. always C. still D. yet
13. A. in B. on C. at D. by
14. A. returned B. returned back C. had returned D. had returned back
15. A. It’s B. This’s C. This is D. So is
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Shlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter. Read it and answer the questions.
Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on their heads. Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their face. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters do not walk - 25 -
very fast. They move from place to pace in tin boxes.
At night, the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.
根据短文内容选择正确答案。
1. Shlander thinks the people and things on the earth are very ________.
A. strange B. nice
C. different D. beautiful
2. Shlander thinks man on the earth is ________.
A. a monkey B. a earth monster
C. a tin box D. a strange world
3. The earth monster doesn’t have ________.
A. heads, arms and legs B. brown or yellow strings on its head
C. a hole on its face D. a swing on its body
4. The earth monsters don’t put ________ on their holes.
A. nice things B. balls
C. fire D. water
5. The square window box is ________.
A. a car or a bus B. a very small earth monster
C. a TV set D. a radio
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It is common in English to ask people about their holidays. In the
West, many 1 go away on holiday during the summer months, 2 so it is very usual to 3 about this. If the holiday has not 4 taken place, then their holiday plans 5 be talked about. And if it is already over, then where 6 went, whether they 7 it and so on can be discussed. Similar questions are asked 8 some public holidays. 9 living and working in China often 10 opportunities for travel, either at weekends or during 11 holidays, so such kind of 12 lead to fruitful discussions. They may be 13 to know if they have chosen the 14 places, especially those a little less 15 ones.
1. A. factories B. families C. schools D. farms
2. A. but B. and C. because D. for
3. A. ask B. see C. know D. write
4. A. still B. already C. yet D. often
5. A. must B. should C. need D. can
6. A. we B. he C. they D. she
7. A. liked B. followed C. finished D. found
8. A. to B. before C. with D. by
9. A. Visitors B. Foreigners C. Strangers D. Players
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10. A. make B. carry C. have D. keep
11. A. his B. her C. their D. its
12. A. Answers B. exercises C. excuses D. Questions
13. A. glad B. interested C. worried D. lucky
14. A. right B. different C. helpful D. terrible
15. A. expensive B. famous C. useful D. friendly
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Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then, the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father’s lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to end the wars, and the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous last will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas. And so, the man is remembered and respected long after his death.
根据短文内容，选择能回答所提问题的正确答案。
1. Where was Alfred Nobel born? He was born in ________.
A. Sweden B. Stockholm
C. Russia D. Moscow
2. What did Immanuel Nobel invented during the Crimean War?
A. The engineering industry. B. A strong position.
C. Landmine. D. Study of explosives.
3. Why did Alfred Nobel return to Sweden ? Because his father ________.
A. went bankrupt B. was put in prison
C. was ill D. died
4. How many companies did Alfred Nobel build up? He built up ________ companies in different countries.
A. 20 B. 40
C. 60 D. 80
5. What was Alfred Nobel always searing for? ________.
A. More time and more money B. A meaning to life
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C. How to end the war D. The peace between nation
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Dear George, Half a year has gone by 1 we said goodbye to each other at the Kaitak airport (飞机场) . Except for 2 hurriedly written notes you have not written to any of your old 3 any letters 4 a few days. We are studying 5 a foreign university, but know 6 of what is going on about you. Last night, John, Tom and I 7 a happy reunion (重聚) in dinner. It was all like the old high school 8 except that you were not in this get together. 9 we all felt 10 you. We then began to talk about you and wondered 11 at that moment. At last we 12 to your health.
What kind of life you are living in London? Is your school-work keeping you 13 ? And there are a thousand things we want to 14 . Please tell us. My 15 regards (问候) , also John’s and Tom’s.
Your old friend,
Tonny
1. A. since B. after C. before D. when
2. A. little B. a little C. few D. a few
3. A. classmates B. friends’ C. comrades’ D. masters’
4. A. in B. for C. with D. during
5. A. in B. at C. on D. to
6. A. something B. everything C. anything D. nothing
7. A. made B. started C. had D. did
8. A. time B. place C. days D. teaching
9. A. Suddenly B. But C. Or D. And
10. A. to miss B. in missing C. miss D . missing
11. A. what were you doing B. what you were doing
C. how were you doing D. how you were doing
12. A. drink B. drank C. had drunk D. was drinking
13. A. busy B. happy C. free D. sorry
14. A. understand B. hear C. see D. know
15. A. good B. better C. best D. well
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An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money.
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him now,” the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully.
She hurried to a drugstore (药店) with the money in her hand.
“And what do you want?” asked the salesman. “It’s for my little brother,” the girl answered. “He’s really, really sick and I want to buy a miracle.” “Pardon?” said the salesman.
“My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?” “We don’t sell a miracle here, child. I’m sorry,” the salesman said with a smile.
“Listen, if it isn’t enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs.”
A well-dressed man heard it and asked, “What kind of a miracle does your brother need?”
“I don’t know,” she answered with her eyes full of tears. “He’s really sick and mum says he needs an operation. But my daddy can’t pay for it, so I have brought all my money.”
“How much do you have?” asked the man. “$ 1.11, but I can try and get some more,” she answered.
“Well, what luck,” smiled the man. “$ 1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.”
He took up the girl’s hand and said, “Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let’s see if I have the kind of miracle you need.”
That well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn’t long before Andrew was home again.
How much did the miracle cost? (from )
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. What was the trouble in the little girl’s family?
A. Her brother was seriously ill.
B. They had no money.
C. Nothing could save her brother.
D. Both A and B.
2. In the eye of the little girl, a miracle might be _______.
A. something interesting
B. something beautiful
C. some wonderful medicine
D. some good food
3. The little girl said again and again “...I can try and get some more.” That shows _______.
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A. she had still kept some money
B. she hoped not to be refused
C. There was no need to worry about money
D. she thought money was easy to get
4. What made the miracle happen?
A. The girl’s love for her brother.
B. The girl’s money.
C. The medicine from the drugstore.
D. Nobody can tell.
5. From the passage we can infer (推断) that _______.
A. The doctor didn’t ask for any pay
B. A miracle is sure to happen if you keep on
C. The little girl is lovely but not so clever
D. Andrew was in fact not so sick as they had thought
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One will feel happy when others flatter( 奉承) him in his face. It is said that the best way of flattering someone is to give him a “top hat” 1 . A student was going to leave the capital to become 2 official(官员) in a city far away. Before he started, he came to say 3 to his teacher.
“It is 4 job to be a good official.” his teacher said. “ you must be strict 5 yourself and never be careless.”
“Don’t worry about me, sir.” The student answered. “I have already 6 one hundred top hats, which will 7 those people quite happy.”
“But we are really gentlemen! 8 could a real gentleman do such a thing” his teacher was a bit 9 . “Never forget 10 I taught you in class!”
“ 11 are always right, sir I also hate such things. But, sir, 12 no one really gentleman like you can be seen in the world now.” said the student. It seemed that he had to do so. After hearing this , the teacher was 13 . “What you said is true!” “I have 14 one top hat already. Now I have ninety-nine 15 .” the student said to his friend later on when he asked the student what he had talked with the teacher about.
1. A. to put on B. putting on C. wearing D to wear
2. A. a B . the C. an D. /
3. A. hello B. good bye C. OK D. thanks
4. A. not an easy B. not easy C. a good D. difficult
5. A. about B. with C. from D. to
6. A. made B. Bought C. prepared D. repaired
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7. A. give B. let
8. A. How B. What
9. A. anger B. angry
10. A. that B. how
11.A. You B. We
12. A. hardly B. about
13. A. disappointed B. pleased
14. A. sent out B. bought
15. A. left B. already
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This is a song millions of Americans will hear this New Year’s Eve. It is called Auld Lang Syne (《友谊地久天长》). It is the traditional music played during the New Year’s celebration. Auld Lang Syne is an old Scottish poem. It tells about the need to remember old friends.
The words “auld lang syne” mean “old long since”. No one knows who wrote the poem first. However, a version by Scottish poet Robert Bums was published (出版) in 1796. The words and music we know today first appeared in a songbook three years later.
The song is played in the United States mainly on New Year’s Eve. The version (译文) you are hearing today is by the Washington Saxophone Quartet. As we end our program with Auld Lang Syne. I would like to wish all of our radio friends a very Happy New Year! This is Buddy Thomas. (from )
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. Where is this passage from?
A. A newspaper. B. A magazine.
C. A TV program. D. A radio program.
2. Who is introducing Auld Lang Syne to us?
A. Robert Bums. B. The Washington Saxophone Quartet.
C. Buddy Thomas. D. The passage doesn’t tell us.
3. When is Auld Lang Syne mainly played in the USA according to the passage?
A. On New Year’s Eve. B. On Christmas Eve.
C. On weekends. D. On holidays.
4. When did the words and music of Auld Lang Syne we know today first appear?
A. In 1790. B. In 1793.
C. In 1796. D. In 1799.
5. What’s Auld Lang Syne about?
A. It’s about the history of Scotland.
B. It’s about an old Scottish poet.
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C. It’s about the need to remember old friends.
D. It’s about the wishes to the radio friends.
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“It’s over! Thank goodness!” school was 1 and I was tired. I 2 at the front of the school bus. Janie, the driver, tries to 3 the uncomfortable atmosphere by striking the match of talks. I try to listen 4 , but usually I am too 5 thinking about my day. On this day, however, her talk was worth 6 .
“My father’s ill ,” she said to no one in particular(特别地). I could see worry in her 7 . I had never seen her like this before. She always meets students 8 a smile.
With a sudden change of interest, I asked, “ what’s wrong with him?” With her eyes wet and her voice 9 , she answered, “Heart trouble.” Her eyes lowered as she continued. “I’ve already 10 my mum, so I don’t think I can stand losing him.” I couldn’t answer. My heart ached for her. I sat on the 11 thinking of the great pain my own mother was thrown into when her father died. I saw how hard it was, and still is, for her. I wouldn’t want to anyone to go through that.
Suddenly I realized Janie wasn’t only a bus 12 , that was just her job. She had a whole world of family and cares 13 . I suddenly 14 very selfish. I paid no attention to Janie because she was a bus driver. I had judged her by her job and brushed her off as unimportant.
I shouldn’t have been so selfish and self-centered. 15 people is an art.
1. A. in B. off C. over D. on
2. A. ran B. walked C. sat D. stood
3. A. rest B. break C. close D. open
4. A. polite B. rude C. politely D. quickly
5. A. busy B. free C. busily D. freely
6. A. looking at B. agreeing with C. talking to D. listening to
7. A. eyes B. face C. mouth D. ears
8. A. with B. within C. without D. for
9. A. usually B. usual C. unusual D. truly
10. A. remembered B. forgotten C. lost D. missed
11. A. seat B. house C. room D. desk
12. A. worker B. driver C. teacher D. doctor
13. A. also B. either C. too D. at all
14. A. felt B. feel C. thought D. was
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Have you ever heard of a girl of 15, who set up a company of her own? Wendy Wong is the girl. She started the business two years ago. She has already written several successful computer games. They are so popular that over half a million games are sold every year. Now all of her family work in her business, and she is still at school.
She gets up early in the morning, and then she talks with her family about the business over breakfast. Every day she goes to school in her own car with a driver, for she is not old enough.
She enjoys her school, but some of the work is too easy for her to feel interested. She usually gets ‘A’ grades in all her subjects, so the other students often ask her for help.
She finished her homework in half an hour after her driver takes her home. After dinner, she goes to her office and goes on working on her computer, writing games until 2 am. She does not usually need so much sleep as other children.
根据短文内容，回答问题。
1. When did Wendy Wong start the business?
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2. What has Wendy Wong already written successful?
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3. How does Wendy Wong go to school every day?
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4. How about her grades in all her subjects?
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5. How long can she finish her homework?
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The women’s college had a very small car park, and because several of the teachers and students, and many of the students’ boyfriends, had cars, it was often 1 to find a place to park. The head of the college, Miss Baker, had a 2 in the car park for her own small car. There were white 3 around it, and it had a small blackboard saying, “Only for Head of College.”
One evening when Miss Baker got 4 to the college a few minutes before the time all the students should be in, she 5 another car in her parking place. There were two 6 in it, one of her girl students and a young man. Miss Baker - 33 -
7 that the young man would have to leave soon, 8 she decided to ask him to move his car a bit, for her to park her car in the place for the night 9 going to bed.
Because the young man’s car was 10 to the railing, Miss Baker had to drive up beside it on the other 11 , where the girl was sitting. She came up on this side, 12 her own window and tapped her horn lightly. The girl was having her head on the 13 shoulder. She looked round in 14 . She was even more surprised when she 15 Miss Baker say, “Excuse me, but may I change places with you?” 1. A. late 2. A. place 4. A. out
B. difficult C. important D. quick B. seat B. up
C. room C. lines C. away
D. card D. walls D. back D. missed D. waited D. so D .from D. same
3. A. pictures B. maps 5. A. stopped B. found 6. A. boys B. women
C. caught
C. teachers D. people
C. though C. about
7. A. said B. forgot C. knew 8. A. until B. since 9. A. before B. after 10. A. next B. far 11. A. way B. side
C. ready
C. hand D. corner
C. opened D. cleaned
D. man’s D. close
12. A. closed B. pulled 14. A. trouble B. time 每日阅读
13. A. car’s B. woman’s C. park’s 15. A. heard B. learned C. taught
C. surprise D. hurry
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Henry was an office worker in a big city. He worked very hard and enjoyed traveling in his holidays.
He usually went to the seaside, but one year he saw an advertisement in a newspaper. “Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks at West Hill Farm. Good food. Fresh air. Horse riding. Walking. Fishing. Cheap and interesting.”
“This sounds a good idea,” he thought. “I’ll spend a month at West Hill Farm. I think I can enjoy horse riding, walking and fishing. They’ll make a change from sitting by the seaside and swimming.”
He wrote to the farmer. In the letter he said that he would like to spend all
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of July there. Then on the first of July, he left for West Hill Farm.
But four days later, he returned home.
“What was wrong with West Hill Farm?” his best friend, Ed, asked him. “Didn’t you enjoy country life?”
“Country life was very good,” Henry said. “But there was another problem.” “Oh. What?”
“Well,” he said, “the first day I was there a sheep died, and we had roast mutton for dinner.”
“What’s wrong with that?” Ed asked. “Fresh meat is the best.”
“I know, but on the second day a cow died, and we had roast beef for dinner.” “Lucky you!”
“You don’t understand,” Henry said. “on the third day a pig died and we had roast pork for dinner.”
“A different meat every day,” Ed said loudly, “and you are complaining!” “Let me finish,” Henry said. “on the fourth day the farmer died, and I didn’t dare (敢)stay for dinner!”
1. How did Henry find out about the farm?
A. He saw it in a newspaper advertisement.
B. His best friend told him.
C. He wrote to the farmer.
D. Maybe he learned it from the radio.
2. Henry came back home several days later because ______________.
A. he didn’t like the country life at all
B. the farmer wasn’t friendly to him
C. his holiday was over
D. he thought he might have to eat the farmer
3. “?and you are complaining!”, the word “complain” means __________.
A. 夸奖 B. 说三道四 C. 抱怨 D. 故弄玄虚
4. Which of the following sentences is true?
A. Ed could eat a different kind of meat every day.
B. Henry thought he could enjoy a change.
C. Henry couldn’t think of anything else to do, so he went to the farm.
D. The farmer died because of the bad meat he ate.
5. Which is the best title for the passage?
A. What a beautiful farm! B. Have a good time.
C. A short holiday D. Henry and the farmer.
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Long ago there was a poor farmer called Fred. Fred and his wife, Doris lived 1 together in their small old house. One winter night, the Luck Fairy (仙女) - 35 -
visited them .
“Fred, you’re a 2 farmer. I’d like to give you a wish,” said the Luck Fairy.
“A wish?” Said Fred.
Fred and Doris smiled at each other. Then Fred said, “ Thank you , Luck Fairy. We’re very 3 and happy.”
“ 4 we’re old, we still work in the field every day,” said Doris. “You wok very hard but you 5 very little money. Would you like some gold coins ” asked the Luck Fairy.
“Oh no , my dear Luck Fairy. We’re poor. But we have 6 food to eat.” Replied Fred.
“You can use the gold coin to buy some clothes. The winter here is very cold,” said Luck Fairy.
“Though we haven’t got 7 clothes, we’ve got enough,” said Doris. “Well, what about a nice new house?” Asked Luck Fairy.
“Thank you, but I 8 my small old house very much. I’ve lived here since I was born. I don’t 9 a new house,” said Fred.
“You’re quite different from other people. I like you very much,” said the Luck Fairy. “I wish you happiness and Luck forever.” Then the Luck Fairy 10 and never came back.
1. A. sadly B. happily C. worried D. anxiously
2. A. bad B. lazy C. good D. unhelpful
3. A. healthy B. careful C. difficult D. important
4. A. If B. But C. Because D. Though
5. A. cost B. lose C. make D. borrow
6. A. no B. little C. enough D. expensive
7. A. old B. many C. bad D. clean
8. A. hate B. love C. need D. dislike
9. A. need B. see C. buy D. build
10. A. smiled B. nodded C. laughed D. disappeared
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Paragraph 1
Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day, they are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus (柑桔) fruits and tomatoes;
(3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; 94) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs;
(5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷类), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.
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Paragraph 2
People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned (罐装的) or frozen (冷冻的). It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.
Paragraph 3
There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on the earth. The first is to find some way to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.
6. According to(依据)the scientists，which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch？
A. Chicken, apples, cereal and cabbages.
B. Potatoes, carrots, rice and bread.
C. Oranges, bananas, fish and tomatoes.
D. Beef, pork, fish and milk,
7. It is important for people to eat ______.
A. three times a day
B. dinner at twelve o’clock
C. cooked food all the time
D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day
8. People in different countries and different places of the world ________.
A. have the right kinds of food to eat
B. cook their food in the same way
C. have their meals at the same time
D. eat food in different ways
9. Which of the following is not true？
A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat.
B. There are too many people in the world.
C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.
D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.
10. If there is Paragraph (段落) 4, what do you think is going to be talked about？
A. When people eat their lunch.
B. What to do with the two problems.
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C. How to cook food in different ways.
D. Why people eat different kinds of food.
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A thousand years ago, Hong Kong was covered by a thick forest. As more and more people came to 1 in Hong Kong, these trees were cut down and burnt. Now there is 2 forest left, though there are still some small areas(地方) covered with trees. We call these woods.
Elephants, tigers and many 3 animals were living in the thick forest. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the 4 began to die out. Early farmers grew rice and 5 pigs and chickens in the valleys. They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed 6 to keep themselves warm in winter, to cook their food and to keep away the dangerous animals. Elephants quickly disappeared(消失) because there was not enough food for them. 7 did most of the wolves and tigers. Monkeys and many other animals soon 8 in the same way. You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong 9 in the zoos. There are still about 36 different animals 10 there. One of the most interesting of Hong Kong’s animals is the barking deer. These are beautiful little animals 11 a rich brown coat and a white patch(补丁) under the tail. They look like deer 12 but they are much like a dog 13 . In Hong Kong the barking deer has only a real enemy(敌人)— 14 . People hunt these little animals though it is illegal(违法的). There are now not many barking deer left. So it is important 15 people to protect (保护) wild animals.
1. A. work
2. A. many
3. A. other B. study C. live D. enjoy D. not B. a few C. no B. others C. the other D. another
B. animals C. plants D. things
B. made C. got
D. kept D. stoves(炉子) 4. A. people 5. A. grew 6. A. fire
7. A. So B. hotness C. heat B. Such C. As
B. died D. Nor 8. A. lived
9. A. besides
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10. A. live
11. A. have
12. A. high
13. A. shouting
14. A. tigers
15. A. to B. to live C. lived D. living B. without C. with B. higher C. short D. get D. shorter B. crying C. barking D. talking B. men C. wolves D. elephants C. like D. of B. for
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(A)
Now satellites are helping to forecast(预报) the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere (大气), because this is where the weather forms (形成). They send these pictures to the weather stations. So
meteorologists(气象学家) can see the weather of any part of the world. From the pictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change.
Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries receive satellite pictures. When they receive new pictures, the meteorologists compare them with earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the 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 24or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead (提前).
1. Satellites travel __________.
A. in space B. above space C. above the ground D. in the atmosphere
2. Why do we use the weather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere？Because ___________.
A. clouds form there B. the weather forms there
C. the weather satellites can do it easily D. the pictures can forecast the weather
3. Meteorologists forecast the weather _______.
A. without studying satellite pictures
B. before they receive satellite pictures
C. when they have received satellite pictures
D. after they have compared the new satellite pictures with the earlier ones
4. Maybe we?ll soon be able to forecast the weather for _________.
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A. one day B. two days
C. five days D. seven days or even longer
5. The main idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in __________.
A. taking pictures of the earth B. receiving pictures of the atmosphere
C. weather forecasting D. doing other work in many ways
(B)
There was once a man called Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for competitions (比赛). He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup (银杯) for the Rose of the Year.
Mr. Flowers? glass-houses were very near to a middle school. Boys of around thirteen of age were often tempted (引诱) to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flowers? glass-houses. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or near his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.
But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to protect his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful. He had been to school to report to the headmaster; but this had not done any good. He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden; but the boys could run faster than he could, and they laughed at him from far away. He had even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw; but they soon found others.
At last Mr. Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice (布告) made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses. On it he had written the words: DO NOT
THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flowers had no further trouble; the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glass-houses.
6. It was Mr. Flowers? hope to ________.
A. build glass-houses in his free time
B. grow the Rose of the Year in a silver cup
C. win a silver cup for growing a rose of a new color
D. grow a rose with the longest name
7. Boys were often tempted to ________.
A. throw stones at Mr. Flowers? glass-house
B. throw stones at Mr. Flowers from their school
C. be in or near by Mr. Flowers? glass-houses
D. play with Mr. Flowers near his glass-houses
8. Mr. Flowers stayed in or near by his glass-houses _______.
A. at times when school-boys were walking near them
B. all the school day when there were no boys about
C. where he could not be seen by the boys passing
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D. in his free time at the beginning and end of the school day
9. Mr. Flowers had tried to ______ to protect his glass.
A. be on watch in his free time B. ask the headmaster for help
C. pick up all the stones around his garden D. do all the above
10. Mr. Flowers? good idea was to ______.
A. write some words on the glass
B. put up a large notice to cover his glass-houses
C. give the boys something else to throw stones at
D. send for policemen
(C)
Come to Austria!
Soll is a village in the mountains in western Austria, and the Hotel Post, opened by a local (当地的) family, is clean and not expensive. From the hotel you can see the whole village, the forest and the mountains. Temperatures in summer are usually 20℃ to 25℃ in the daytime, but much cooler by evening.
Enjoy Thailand!
When you visit Bangkok in Thailand, don?t miss the early morning river boat trip to the Floating (漂浮的) Market just outside the city. There you will find many kinds of fruits and vegetables. There you can pay for them when you sit in your boat. Don?t forget your hat: the sun can be strong and it may be as hot as 40℃ about midday!
Visit Hawaii!
Maybe the most beautiful place in Hawaii is Kauai. You can visit its long, sandy beaches in the south and west of the island, and mountains and forests in the north, but be careful: there are many mosquitoes (蚊子), and don?t be surprised if it rains in the center of the island. Daytime temperatures there are usually around 24℃ to 26℃ by the sea, and only a little cooler by late evening.
根据上面的三则广告，在下面句子的空白处填入适当的词。
11. If you stay at the Hotel Post, you have a view (风景) of_____________.
12. At the Floating Market you can buy things in _____________.
13. Because the sun is strong in Bangkok, you should bring___________.
14. In the north of Kauai Island there are___________.
15. The warmest place of the three is____________.
D
Napoga is a 12-year-old girl in Ghana(加纳), Africa. It is hard for her family to get clean water. Every morning, she leaves home at half past five to get clean water for her family in a village far away. It takes her six hours to get enough clean water for daily(日常) cooking and drinking. She has no time to go to school or to play with her friends. Millions of people in the world are like Napoga. They can?t get enough clean water to keep healthy.
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Earth Day is April 22. But on all other days, we must also remember it. The water we use is the most important natural resource(自然资源) on the earth.
Water covers 70% of the earth?s surface(表面). But most of that is sea water. We can?t use it for very many things. Fresh water covers only 1% of the earth?s surface.
You probably feel lucky that your life isn?t as hard as Napoga?s. But that doesn?t mean you don?t have to worry about water. We all face serious water problems. One of them is water pollution. All kinds of things from cars, factories, farms and homes make our rivers, lakes, and oceans dirty. Polluted water is very bad for people to drink. And dirty water is bad for fish, too. Now, 34% of all kinds of fish are dying out.
How do cars and factories make our water dirty? First, they pollute the air. Then, when it rains, the rain water comes down and makes our drinking water dirty. Dirty rain, called acid rain(酸雨), is also bad for plants, animals and buildings.
Scientists say that in 30 years, more than half of the people in the world won?t have enough clean water. We have to learn how to save more water for ourselves and our children. Here is some advice for saving water:
●Turn off the water while you brush your teeth. You can save as much as 450 liters(升) each month.
●Leaky taps(漏水的龙头) waste a lot of water. Fix them right away!
●You can easily cut your 10-minute showers(沐浴) in half—and you?ll be just as clean. ●When you wash dishes, don?t let the water run.
●Only wash clothes when you have a lot to wash. If your washing machine isn?t full, you?re wasting water!
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. Every morning Napoga went to get clean water _______.
A. before she went to school B. after she finished school
C without going to school D. after she played with her friends
2. On the earth, _______.
A. sea water is widely used than fresh water B. there is very little water for our living
C. there is 71% of fresh water D. we don?t need to worry about water
3. Acid rain _______.
A. is only bad for living things
B. can be produced in factories
C. doesn?t do harm to people, but it?s bad for plants, animals and buildings
D. doesn?t just do harm to human beings but to animals, plants and buildings
4. Which of the following wastes water?
A. We need ten minutes if we want a clean shower.
B. We should put in enough clothes when we wash them in washing machines.
C. You can keep yourself clean by having a shower for five minutes.
D. Don?t let the water run when we brush our teeth and wash dishes.
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5. What?s the main idea of the passage?
A. Something must be done to prevent water form being polluted.
B. Clean water means much to human beings and living things around us.
C. It?s time to take care of the water we use.
D. Water is the most important natural resource on the earth.
E
Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don?t agree with them.
Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources(资源), we are short of(缺乏) others, for example, fresh water(淡水). It is reported that we will have no coal(煤) or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, what can we use in the future and where can we move? Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.
In our everyday life, we can do many things to prevent waste from happening, for example, turn off the water taps(水龙头) when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day, if we do our best.
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. From the passage we know that some students often _______ in the school.
A. eat too much B. don?t work hard C. waste things D. throw rubbish everywhere
2. Which is not mentioned in this passage?
A. Fresh water. B. Forest. C. Oil. D. Coal.
3. What may happen in 100 years?
A. We may still have enough oil. B. We may still have enough coal.
C. We may have a little oil. D. We may have no coal or oil to use.
4. Which of the following is right?
A. Waste brings problems. B. Waste can bring no problem.
C. China is rich in fresh water. D. Students never waste things.
5. Which is the best title of this passage?
A. Stop Wasting B. School life
C. Waste in the School D. Rich Resources in China
F
Christmas Eve means a warm get-together with friends, a candlelight dinner, or perhaps a celebration at a pub(酒馆) for students. But, for Cai Yingjie, the night has a different meaning: - 43 -
helping beggars(乞丐) and the homeless(people without homes).
Cai, who is a student in journalism at Tsinghua, could be found at Beijing?s Wudaokou Light Railway Station that special evening. When she saw an old beggar, she took the cold, rough hands of the woman with her warm, clean hands, and gave the woman some warm bread and helped her put on a pair of new gloves(手套).
The woman was surprised for a few seconds, then burst into tears, saying “for the first time I feel respected(尊重)”.
Cai said, “A beggar?s life is very hard. That?s why I want to help them.”
Cai was one of 14 Tsinghua students spending Christmas Eve among the poor. They walked in the cold wind along the streets from 4 to 7 pm on Friday, visiting 15 beggars in Beijing?s Haidian District.
They brought bread and gloves with them, and stopped to greet beggars and offer them some of the warm food. Each beggar greeted them with a look of surprise.
“I know the activity can?t help much, but it?s meant to show our respect and care for beggars and the homeless who have been neglected for so long,” said Sun, head of the group. “And Christmas is a good time for that.”
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. What does Christmas Eve mean to the 14 Tsinghua students?
A. Taking 15 beggars to Tsinghua.
B. Getting together with friends.
C. Showing care to the beggars and the homeless.
D. Selling bread and gloves to the beggars.
2. What does the beggar mean by saying “for the first time I feel respected”?
A. The beggar has been waiting for Cai for long.
B. The beggar hasn?t been shown care for so long.
C. The beggar has been respecting Cai for a long time.
D. This is the first time the beggar has seen Tsinghua students.
3. What did each beggar feel when they received greetings?
A. Sad. B. Amazed.
C. Frightened. D. Proud.
4. The word “neglected” in the last passage means _______.
A. protected B. found
C. taken care of D. given no enough care
G
Little Tommy was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything—tutors (家庭教师), cards, special learning centers—in short, everything they could think of. Finally they took Tommy to a catholic (天主教的) school.
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kiss his mother hello. Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and
papers were spread (铺开) out all over the room and little Tommy was hard at work. His mother was surprised. She called him down to dinner and as soon as he finished eating, he went back to his room, without a word. In no time he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time, day after day while the mother tried to understand what was happening.
Finally, little Tommy brought home his report card. He quietly put it on the table and went up to his room and hit the books. His mom looked at it and to her surprise, little Tommy got an
A in math. She could no longer hold her curiosity (好奇心). She went to his room and asked, “Son, what was it? Was it the nuns (修女)?”
Little Tommy looked at her and shook his head, “No.”
“Well then,” she asked again. “WHAT was it?”
Little Tommy looked at her and said, “Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that man nailed (钉) to the plus sign (加号), I knew they weren?t joking.”
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. Why did Tommy?s parents send him to a catholic school?
A. Because he could eat well there.
B. Because he could earn more about nuns.
C. Because his parents wanted him to do better in his math.
D. Because his parents didn?t want him to learn math any more.
2. Tommy?s mother felt surprised that his son _______.
A. was still the same as usual B. ate so much at dinner
C. kissed her hello after school D. worked hard but said little
3. “Hitting the books” means “_______” in Chinese.
A. 用功 B. 捶书
C. 发泄 D. 振作
4. The last sentence in the passage shows that _______.
A. Tommy felt sorry for the mail B. Tommy was afraid of being nailed
C. Tommy didn?t like the plus sign D. Tommy liked playing jokes on others
5. From the passage, we can infer (推断) that _______.
A. teachers should be strict with their students
B. mistaking (误解) might do good sometimes
C. a catholic school is much better than other ones
D. nuns are good at helping children with their math
H
What are you going to do if you are in a burning house? How will you escape? Do you know how to save yourself? Please read the following passage.
Escaping a fire is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save you life. It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone in the family, such as stairways and fire escapes, but not lifts.
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From the lower floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is possible, learn the best way of leaving by windows with the least chance of serious injury.
The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average(平均高度的) person, hanging by the finger-tips will have a drop of about six feet to the ground. It is about the height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a burning building.
Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed. Or smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may leaked(渗) into the room.
On a second or third floor, the best windows for escape are those that open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping onto cement(水泥) might end in injury. Bushes(灌木丛) and grass can help to break a fall.
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. It is important to _______.
A. put out the fire in the burning house B. know the ways to escape the fire
C. jump off a burning house D. keep the door closed
2. It is possible to escape through the windows _______.
A. if there are some bushes on the ground B. if you are strong enough
C. if you live on a lower floor D. If you have a long rope
3. Which of the following escaping way is NOT right? _______.
A. You can escape though stairways. B. You can choose fire escapes.
C. Escape from the windows that open onto a roof. D. Use a lift to come down at once.
4. Open the window so that _______ if the building is on fire.
A. you can get fresh air B. you can call for help
C. you can easily jump off D. you can be seen first
5. The best title of the passage is _______.
A. Escaping from the Windows B. Save Yourself in the Burning House
C. Knowledge on Fire D. Waiting for Help
I
He is quiet and shy. He likes to hide his eyes behind his hair. He doesn?t smile very often. However, if you talk to him about music, he?ll have a lot to say.
This is Jay Chou, the 24-year-old Taiwanese pop king(天王). His fans are so excited
because he will sing songs in Beijing on September 12. Those songs are from his new album (唱片), “Ye Huimei”, and the album was released (发行) in July and was named after his mother.
Chou grew up just with his mother. He did not talk much and did badly in many school subjects.
His mother noticed the boy?s special interest in music and sent him to learn piano when he was only three years old. He loved it and kept on practicing.
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Chou is not very handsome. He does not speak clearly when he sings or talks. But the singer has huge crowds of fans. “He is really good at music. It makes him attractive(有魅力的) to me,” said Liu Jiajun, a Junior 2 student in No.101 Middle School in Beijing.
“He is true to himself. He never follows others,” said Zhang Yujie, a Junior 1 girl at
Huaibei Middle School in Sihong, Jiangsu Province.
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. From this passage, we know that Jay Chou _______.
A. is very handsome B. has a bright smile
C. often makes too much noise D.. is a pop music star
2. His fans are so excited because _______.
A. he released a new album in July B. he will sing new songs in Beijing
C. he can play the piano very well D. his new album was named after his mother
3. When he was a little child, he _______.
A. talked a lot every day B. did well in his study at school
C. started to like music D. had huge crowds of fans
4. According to one of his fans, Jay _______.
A. is a good student B. has long and beautiful hair
C. is a well-known pianist D. is very attractive to them
5. The sentence “He never follows others” in the last paragraph means _______.
A. he always has his own style(风格) B. he likes to walk alone
C. he doesn?t like other people?s songs at all D. no one can catch up with him
第三部分 阅读练习二
A
Do you know how to play a game called “Musical Chairs”? It is easy to play and most
people enjoy it. All you need are some chairs, some people and some way of making music. You may use a piano or any other musical instrument, if someone can play it. You may use a tape recorder. You can even use a radio.
Put the chairs in a row. The chairs may be put in twos, back to back. A better way is to have the chairs in one row with each chair facing in the opposite direction to the chair next to it.
The game is easy. When the music starts, the players walk round the chairs. Everyone goes in the same direction, of course, they should walk in time to the music. If the music is fast they should walk quickly. If the music is slow, they should walk slowly.
The person playing music cannot see the people in the game. When the music stops, the players try to sit on the chairs. If a person cannot find a chair to sit on, he drops out. Then, before the music starts again, one chair must be taken away. When the music stops again, one more player will be out.
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music stops is the winner.
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. If ten people are playing musical chairs, you must begin with _______.
A. nine chairs B. ten chairs C. eleven chairs D. one chair
2. Which of the following is not suitable for playing musical chairs? _______.
A. A piano B. A radio C. A tape recorder D. A telephone
3. The chairs should be put _______.
A. with the desks B. before the winner C. all over the room D. in a line
4. When the music starts, the players must _______.
A. run about the room B. get down C. walk around the chairs D. sit on the chairs
5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The game “Musical Chairs” is not difficult to learn.
B. The last one can sit on the last chair.
C. The winner can sit on the chair.
D. If the person plays music, he cannot be the winner.
B
“Well, we?re in our new house. Let?s get a new pet to get along with it,” Mrs Brown said to her husband.
“That sounds like a pretty good idea,” he answered. “Do you want to see the ads in the newspaper?”
“Let?s go to the animal shelter. Many pets there need homes. Since tomorrow is Saturday, we can both go,” she said.
Next morning the Browns met Mr Snow at the animal shelter. “We want to be sure that the pets here go to good homes,” Mr Snow said, “So I need to ask you some questions.”
After they talked for a while, the Browns decided to get a small dog. It wouldn?t need a big 吠) and warm them if someone tried to break into their house. After Mr Snow gave the Browns a book on pet care, they chose one and wanted to take her home right away. But the animal doctor hadn?t checked her yet. So Mr Snow told them to return on Sunday.
On Sunday afternoon the Browns went to the animal shelter. The animal doctor said,
“Shadow has had all of her 预防针). She will be healthy.” The browns thanked the doctor and took Shadow home.
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. From the reading we learn that _______.
A. the Browns have never had a pet before.
B. the Browns knew about Shadow from the newspaper.
C. Shadow is a small and healthy dog.
D. Mr Brown didn?t quite agree with his wife.
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2. The word shelter in the reading means _______.
A. a place to sell small dogs
B. a place to keep homeless animals
C. a place to study animals
D. a place to sell books on pet care
3. Mr Snow asked the Browns some questions to _______.
A. see if they had moved to a new house
B. find out how rich the Browns were
C. know where they?d keep their new pet
D. make sure they?d take care of pets
4. The Browns thinks that a small dog _______.
A. doesn?t need any room to keep
B. can help them watch their house
C. eats less food than a bigger one
D. usually has a beautiful name
5. It?s clear that _______.
A. Shadow will not be easy to get ill
B. the Browns were not satisfied with Shadow
C. Mr Snow didn?t check Shadow at all
D. Shadow likes barking a lot C
A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a ￥100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, “Who would like this ￥100 bill?” The students began to put up their hands at once.
Then he said, “I am going to give this ￥100 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He then made the bill into a ball. Then he said, “Who wants it now?” The hands went back into the air.
“Well,” he said, “What if I do this?” and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumpled bill and said, “Who still wants it?” Hands went back into the air.
“My friends,” he said, “you have learned a valuable lesson today. No matter (无论) what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not go down in value (价值). It was still worth ￥ l00!”
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things that happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value: you are always valuable to those
people who love you. Your value doesn?t come from what you do or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.
You are special and valuable. Don?t ever forget it!
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
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1. Even though it was dirty, the money _______.
A. still went up in value B. was worth nothing
C. didn?t go down in value D. was still ours
2. We are always valuable to the people _______.
A. who pay us B. who call us C . who hate us D. who love us
3. Your value doesn?t come from what you do but _______.
A. who you know B. who made you
C. who you remember D. who you are
4. The sentence “Hands went back into the air” means “_______”.
A. the students put up their hands again
B. the students put down their hands
C. the students put their hands behind their backs again
D. the students put their hands in front of them
5. Why did the famous teacher use a ￥100 bill at his lesson?
A. Because he wanted to make the bill into a ball.
B. Because he used to drop a bill on the floor and stepped on it.
C. Because he was going to give the bill to one of his students.
D. Because he wanted to make the students know what value was.
D
“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”
“I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”
“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”
“I spend more time in chat rooms(聊天室) than with my ?real-1ife? friends.”
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction(瘾) called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug(毒品) use. People lose control(控制) of the time they spend on the Internet
For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight.
Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.
Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms(症状):
●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
●You can?t wait for your next online time.
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●You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
●You go out with your friends less and less.
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。
1. What does the beginning of the passage tell us?
A. How to become an Internet addict. B. What an Internet addict usually does.
C. Where to find an Internet addict. D. Why to write this passage.
2 How does the writer describe the addicts? use of Internet?
A. It is something like keeping drugs. B. It is a way of producing drugs.
C. It is like taking drugs. D. It is terrible to imagine.
3. Why do people worry about the teens?
A. The teens are wasting too much money.
B. They used to work on the Internet.
C. The playing field of the teens will disappear.
D. More and more of the teens wil1 become addicted to the Internet.
4. The example in the passage shows that _______.
A. Internet problems are more serious among college students
B. Internet addicts usually stay in the computer lab without sleep
C. Some of the Internet users have already been seriously addicted
D. The police often help to find those Internet addicts.
5. What is the writer trying to tell us at the end of the passage?
A. Don?t be addicted to the Internet.
B. Go to family activities more often.
C. Do things as you have planned
D. Stay with your parents as often as possible.
E简答专项
A
Nearly all American students in colleges and universities pay for their education. There are many expenses. First of all, there is tuition (学费). At some schools, the tuition is very high, ten thousand dollars a year or more. At other schools, it may only be a few hundred dollars a year. At some community (社区) colleges, tuition is free. There are other expenses as well. Many students leave their homes to go to schools in other cities. They may live in dormitories or apartments ( flats), and they must pay for it. Finally, students must buy textbooks for their courses. Some families start saving money for their children?s education when the children are small. Many students work to save money for tuition. They can also get loans (贷款) from the government. They pay the money back to the government when they finish their education.
阅读短文，回答问题或完成答句，每题词数不超过5个
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1. Which students pay for their education?
_______________ in colleges and universities pay for their education.
2. How much is the higher tuition?
It is _______________ or more.
3. Are there any free tuition colleges?
___________________________.
4.Why do many students live in dormitories or apartments?
Because they_______________.
5. What must students buy finally?
They must _______________.
6. When do many students pay back their loans from the government?
They pay them back_______________.
B
Some people want to be shot into space after their death, others want to lie deep under the sea. But most people want to go into the freezer(冷藏库).These are believers in cryogenics(低温冷冻学).
Now some diseases can?t be cured, but they may be cured sometime in the future. So some people hope that their bodies can be frozen after they die. When a cure is found, warm up his or her body, bring it back to life and take the cure. Once the body is frozen, it is kept in liquid nitrogen(液态氮) at a temperature of 328 degrees below zero.
Now around a thousand people are going to take cryogenic treatment(处理), though most scientists say it won?t work. If we freeze huge creatures(生物) like humans, every one of their cells(细胞) will be broken. Can they be brought back to life in the future?
根据短文内容回答下列各问题。
7. Where do most people hope that their bodies are kept after their death?
_________________________________________
8. Why do they want the world to keep their bodies well?
_________________________________________
9. How do scientists usually keep a dead man?s body?
_________________________________________
10. How many people are going to take cryogenic treatment after they die?
___________________________________________
C
A rich man was once riding along the road and saw an old man digging in his garden. On the ground lay a young tree, ready to be planted. The rich man called out to the old man, “What kind of tree are you planting there, my good man?”
“This is a fig(无花果) tree, sir. ” He said.
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“I am ninety years old.”
“What!” cried the rich man, “You?re ninety years old. You are planting a very young tree now and it?ll take years to give fruit. You certainly don?t hope to live long enough to get any
fruit from this tree. ” The old man looked around the garden. Then he said with a smile, “Tell me, sir. Did you eat figs when you were a boy? ”“Sure,” the man did not know why he asked this question. “Then tell me this,” he said, “Who planted the fig trees?” “Why-why? I don?t know.” “You see, sir.” went on the old man,“Our forefathers(祖先) planted trees for us to enjoy and I am doing the same for the people after me.”
The rich man was quiet and said, “You are right，my good man. We should do some things for the people after us. Thank you very much.” Then he rode away.
根据短文内容回答下列各问题。
11.What tree was the old man planting when the rich man saw him?
________________________________________
12. How old was the old man?
_________________________________________
13. The old man was planting the tree to get himself some fruit to eat，wasn?t he? Who was he planting the tree for?
____________________________________________
14. Did the rich man eat figs when he was a boy?
____________________________________________
15. What should we do for the people after us?
_____________________________________________
D
In general，laws for children are a good thing.
One hundred years ago in industrial countries, children worked 18 hours a day in a factory at age seven. The factory owner could beat a child who fell asleep or was not fast enough. Both parents and teachers could do the same.
Today, there are many laws about children all over the world. Some people think children must obey rules or they should be punished，others do not agree. The Inuits or Eskimos in
Alaska almost never punish their children. The parents don?t hit them. If the children go too far，the parents punish them by making fun of them.
Children in other parts of the world are not as lucky as Eskimo children. American parents can spank(打……臀部) their children at home，but a teacher cannot hit a child in a public school. This is also true in Germany. In contrast(对比), it is against the law for anyone to hit a child in Sweden. Swedish parents cannot spank their children. The children also have a special
government official who works for their rights. There is even a plan for children to divorce from their parents though this is not a law yet！
根据短文内容回答下列各问题。
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16. How were children treated in industrial countries 100years ago?
________________________________________.
17. What does the author mean by “go too far?”
________________________________________.
18. Can a teacher in Germany hit his students in public school?
________________________________________.
19. What kind of people can beat children in Sweden?
__________________________________________.
20. What does it mean by “a plan for children to divorce from their parents?”
_________________________________________.
E
Sydney is a young city. Its history goes back just over 200 years. But in Australia, it is the oldest city. It is also the country?s largest city. Sydney is the capital of New South Wales and the most populous(人口稠密的) city of Australia.
The climate(气候) of Sydney is very good. It?s not too cold during the winter and not too hot during the summer. The sky is blue，the air is fresh(清新的), birds sing in the garden. People who live in Sydney seem to have an easy life style. They will tell you, “Don?t worry. ”
Many people think that Sydney is one of the most attractive cities in the world. It has many tall and modern buildings. Among them, Centrepoint Tower is the tallest. Standing on the 305--metre(80 storeys) tower, you will have a great view(视野) of the city.
Sydney is famous for its deep harbor(港口) .The harbor has many bays(湾) and beautiful surf beaches. Among them, Bondi beach is the most popular. Sydney Harbor is not only
beautiful, it also serves as a large port. Ships carry wool, wheat and meat from Sydney to other countries.
People living in Sydney like to call themselves Sydneysiders. They are mostly friendly and easygoing. When they are not working, they love to have a good time at the beach, swimming and sailing.
根据短文内容回答下列各问题。
21. How old is Sydney?
________________________________________
22. How is the climate of Sydney?
________________________________________
23. How tall is Centrepoint Tower?
________________________________________
24. What is Sydney famous for?
________________________________________
25. What do people living in Sydney love to do when they are not working?
________________________________________
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F 简答实例
(A)
John Smith was an old porter. He worked at the station. Every day he was busy carrying heavy things for the people. He was careful with his work. He was kind to everyone. He was always ready to help others.
One morning he stood in the station. He was waiting for the train. Just then he saw a man running towards the trains with a big bag in his hand.
“No train is starting. Why is he in such a hurry?” the old man thought to himself.
He went up to the man and asked, “May I help you?”
As soon as the man saw the porter, he stopped running.
“Can I catch the 10:35 train to London?” the man asked. He looked worried.
The old porter looked at him for a few seconds and said, “Well, sir. I?d like to help you, but I can?t answer your question because I don?t know how fast you can run.” Then he explained to the man, “The 10:35 train to London left five minutes ago. Can you run fast enough to catch it?”
1. What was John?s job?
____________________________
2. Where do you think the man was going?
_______________________________
3. Why did the man run towards the trains and look worried?
_______________________________
4. What time was it when the man got to the station?
_______________________________
5. What do you think of John Smith?
______________________________
(B)
John Brown, an office worker, lives in Washington, He inherited(继承) $ 1,000, 000 when he was 23. He didn?t feel happy at all. His college friends were looking for their first jobs, but he didn?t have to. John decided to keep living a simple life like everyone else. He didn?t tell any of his friends and gave $ 100, 000 of his money to a charity(慈善团体) that helped poor children to live better lives, but he is much happier.
Up to now,John has helped 15 children from poor countries all over the world, $ 200 a month for each. The child does not receive the money in cash(现金). The money pays for the child?s school expenses, food, medical care and clothing. John receives a report each year on the child?s progress. They can write to each other, but usually the children do not speak English.
When John first heard about these children, he wanted to help them. “It was not anything special,” he said, “Until I had the chance to go to these countries and meet the children I was helping, I did not know anything about the type of life they had.”
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Once John went to meet a little girl in Africa. He said that the meeting was very exciting. “When I met her, I felt very very happy,” he said, “I saw that the money was used for a very good plan. It brought me closer to the child in a way that giving money alone cannot” “ I want to do everything I can. I will go on helping those children in need, “he added.
根据短文内容回答下列问题，不超过五个单词：
1. What kind of life is John living?
He is living a _______________________..
2. Did John want to look for a job or stay at home after he got the money?
___________________
3. Does John only help the poor children in Africa?
____________________________
4. The child receives the money in cash, doesn?t he?
_______________________________
5. Why did John say that the meeting with the little girl was very exciting?
Because he saw his money was well used and this made him_____________.
6.. How do you like John Brown?
He is_______________________
G 回答问题
阅读下列短文，然后根据短文内容回答问题。
(1)
It?s hard to make friends if you stay at home alone all the time. Get out of the house and do things that will put you in touch with(接触) other people. It?s easier to make friends when you have similar interests.
Don?t be afraid to show people what you?re really good at. Talk about the things you like and do best. People will be interested in you if there is something interesting about you.
Look at people in the eye when you talk to them. That way, they?ll find it easier to talk to you, or people may think you?re not interested in them and may stop being interested in you.
Be a good listener. Let people talk about themselves before talking about “me, me, me”. Ask lots of questions. Show an interest in their answers.
Try to make friends with the kind of people you really like, respect (尊敬), and admire (羡慕)—not just with those who are easy to meet. Be friendly with a lot of people. That way, you?ll have a bigger group of people to choose from and have more chances for making friends.
1. How can we have more friends, get in touch with other people or stay at home?
_________________________________________________
2. When Jim talks to people, he always looks right, left, or at the floor. Do you think it?s right? Why or why not?
_________________________________________________
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3. Cindy always talks about herself when she talks to other people. What advice (it?80 do you think she needs to follow?
_________________________________________________
4. What should you do if you want to have more chances for making friends?
_________________________________________________
5. What?s the main idea of the passage?
__________________________________________________
(2)
Thanksgiving Day is a very special day for people in the United States. They celebrate it on the last Thursday in November. Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving Day, but they do it on the second Monday of October. In Britain, where this festival is called Harvest Festival, people celebrate it earlier in the year, in September.
A harvest is the fruit you take from the trees and the crops you take from the ground. In North America and Britain, harvest time for most fruit and crops is in the autumn. In these countries and other Christian places, people give thanks to God on a special day of the year. They thank God for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good harvest they have had. People usually take small boxes of fruit, flowers, and vegetables to their churches to show their thanks.
The first thanksgiving service (仪式) in North America took place on December 4th, 1619 when 38 English people, arrived in America to make their home in the new country. They held this service not to thank God for the harvest, but to thank God for their safe journeys. The next year, many more English people arrived. They had a bad winter, but fortunately the harvest was good. they decided to celebrate it with a big meal. They shot and killed small animals to eat and cooked everything outside on large fires. About 90 Indians also came to the meal. Everyone ate at tables outside their houses and played games together. The festival lasted three days.
A Thanksgiving Day celebration was held every year for a long time, but not always on the same day of the year. Then, in 1789, President George Washington named November 26th as the Day of Thanksgiving. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln changed the date, and said that the last Thursday in November should be Thanksgiving Day.
Nowadays, North Americans around the world get together with their families on this day to eat good food and have a happy time.
1. Is Thanksgiving Day celebrated on the same day in North American countries?
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2. When did the first thanksgiving service take place in North America?
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3. Who made the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day in the USA?
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4. What does the word “fortunately” mean in Chinese?
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5. Translate the sentence "They thank God for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good harvest they have had." into Chinese.
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Reading for pleasure is the easiest way to become a better reader in English. It is also the most important way.
Some students say they don?t want to read for pleasure. They say they want to use their time to learn the rules of the language and new words. They say that pleasure reading is too easy.
Many experts (专家) say pleasure reading is very important for learning English. Dr. Stephen Krashen, a famous expert on learning languages, says that pleasure reading helps you learn many important things about English. Students learn more grammar and more words when they read for pleasure. They also learn more about good writing.
Dr. Krashen tells us that pleasure reading helps each student in a different way. Each student needs to learn something different. Pleasure reading makes it possible for each student to learn what he or she needs.
Reading for pleasure is not the same as studying. When you read for pleasure, you choose your own books, and you don?t have to remember everything. There are no tests on your pleasure reading books. Pleasure reading will help you:
●learn how English speakers use English
●read faster in English
●find examples of good writing in English
●learn new words
●learn about the cultures (文化) of English speakers
1. Is pleasure reading important for learning English?
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2. Which is the easier way to become a better reader, pleasure reading or studying?
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3. What do some students think of pleasure reading?
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4. How can we become better readers?
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5. What?s the greatest advantage (优点) of pleasure reading?
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H表格式阅读
阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
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A. Monday B. Tuesday C. Wednesday D. Thursday 2. You have ______ Chinese classes every week. A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6 3. How long will you rest for lunch-time?
A. 60 minutes B. 70 minutes C. 80 minutes D. 90 minutes 4. You have ______classes only on Monday and Wednesday? A. art B. music C. biology D. P.E.
5. You can send and receive e-mail from ______to ______ in computer class on Friday. A. 8:00; 9:00 B. 8:55; 10:45 C. 10:00; 11:40 D. 2:00; 3:40
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A. Yang Jun B. Zhang Hui C. Liu Hong D. Li Nan 2. You may telephone ______ for help if your grandmother is ill. A. Yang Jun B. Zhang Hui C. Liu Hong D. Li Nan
3. We can call ______ when we want to take a taxi to Hangzhou Railway Station. A. 139xxxxxxxx B. 0745-2709348 C. 1992301636 D. 137xxxxxxxx 4. Of the four, we can?t send fax to the ______. A. driver B. teacher C. doctor D. farmer
5. If you have some questions about your health, please send an E-mail to ______. A. Linan@21cn.com B. cclh@163.com C. hzyi@163.com D. hhmx@163.com
A. never pay for meals B. pay a little for meals C. work on weekends D. work in the afternoon 2. If you buy the house, you ______.
A. may pay more than ￥150, 000 for it B. must have breakfast in the kitchen C. have to take a bath in the public bathroom D. may live on the south side of the
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city
3. Any customer with a Tianjin Daily of June 1, 2005 will get a small present from ______.
A. every supermarket B. Huanghe Road
C. Tianjin Daily D. Yingbin Supermarket
4. When will the concert be?
A. Julu1, 2005 B. June 8, 2005
C. July 3, 2005 D. June 25, 2005
5. If two adults and two students want to go to the concert, the tickets will cost RMB______.
A. 220 yuan B. 440 yuan C. 270 yuan D. 370 yuan
I 判断正误
根据下面一篇短文的内容判断下列句子的正误，正确的用“A”表示，错误的用“B”表示。
(1)
Miss Grey lived in a small house. She was old and did not like noise at all, so she was very pleased when her noisy neighbor moved out. A young man moved in and Miss Grey thought the man seemed to be quiet.
But at three o?clock the next morning, the noise of a dog woke her up. She thought she had never heard a dog there before. It must be the young man?s dog. So she telephoned the young man, said something bad about the dog and then hung up the telephone before he could answer. Nothing more happened until three o?clock the next morning. Then Miss Grey?s telephone rang, and when she answered, a voice said, “You telephoned me twenty-four hours ago. Now I?ve rung you up to say that I haven?t a dog.”
1. Miss Grey felt sorry when her noisy neighbour moved out.
2. Miss Grey?s new neighbour was as noisy as the old one.
3. Some noise woke her up in the early morning.
4. She thought the new neighbour had brought a dog with him.
5. The young man rang up Miss Grey in the early morning, because he wanted to punish(惩罚) her.
(2)
Yesterday evening, when I went to town with my mother, we met a strange old man. It was raining hard and we had no umbrella(伞). We were trying to get into a taxi when he came up to us. He was carrying a nice umbrella and he said that he would give it to us for only a pound. He had forgotten his wallet, he said, needed taxi-fare(出租汽车费) to go back home. My mother didn?t believe what he had said at first, and asked him a lot of questions. But the old man didn?t - 61 -
get into a taxi. We followed(跟随) him and found he went into a pub(小酒店) and bought himself a glass of whiskey (威士忌) with the pound. After he drank it, he put on his hat and took up one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off with the new one. Soon after that, he sold it again.
1. The old man sold an umbrella to the writer and her mother.
2. He gave it to them for only a pound because he had forgotten his wallet and needed taxi fare to go back home.
3. The umbrella was worth more than one pound.
4. The old man sold his own umbrella.
5. He was an honest man.
J实例分析（四篇）
【实例一】
Most people want to work, but it has become more difficult in today?s world to find work for everyone. The economy (经济) of the world needs to grow by 4% each year just to keep the old number of jobs for people. Often this is not possible, and so more people are out of work. Some people have no jobs now because new machines can do the work of many people in short time. Also, machines do not ask for more money and longer holiday. In all of the countries of the world, machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but also on the farms. One machine can often do the work from forty people. About 75,000 people are moving to the cities a day to look for jobs, but only 70% of them can find jobs.
1. It was _______ for people to find work before than today.
A. not possible B. difficult C. more difficult D. easier
2. If the economy of the world grows by 4% each year, _______.
A. people will have no jobs B. people can still have jobs as before
C. 4% of the people will have jobs D. 97% of the people will have jobs
3. One machine can do as much work as _______.
A. 40% of the people B. 4% of the people in the world
C. 40 people D. 75,000 people
4. How many people outside cities go into to look for jobs each day?
A. 70% of the people. B. 4% of the people in the world.
C. More than 75,000. D. About 75,000 people.
5. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Machines are taking work instead of people.
B. Now more people are out of work.
C. Machines need more money and longer holidays.
D. Most people want to have jobs.
【实例二】
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A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long.
He came downstairs, where his mother and his two sisters were washing up tea things in the kitchen. “These new trousers are too long.” He said. “ They need shortening (缩短)by about two inches. Would one of you mind doing this for me, please?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything.
But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son?s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.
Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother?s trousers. She was a kind-hearted girl, so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches.
The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came back, she , too, remembered what her brother had said. So she ran upstairs and took two inches off the legs of the new trousers.
1. The young man bought the new trousers _______ his size.
A. as long as B. two inches longer than
C. as big as D. two inches shorter than
2. He asked _______ to shorten his new trousers.
A. his mother and sisters B. his two sisters
C. his elder sister D. his mother and one of his sisters
3. His mother and sisters ________.
A. agreed to do that B. didn?t want to do that
C. said nothing to him D. said something to him
4. His elder sister shortened the trousers ________.
A. after finished washing B. before she went to bed
C. when she came back from the cinema D. after having supper
5. The next morning the young man would find the trousers were _______.
A. two inches shorter B. four inches shorter
C. six inches shorter D. eight inches shorter
【实例三】
When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “ How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.
Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It?s important to master(掌握) the rules(规则) for word order in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can?t understand the speaker?s sentence easily. Sometimes - 63 -
when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes, But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn?t change. Let?s see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.
“She only likes apples.”
“Only she likes apples.”
“I have seen the film already.”
“I have already seen the film.”
When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神实质) of the language and use it as the English speaker does.
1. From the passage we know that _______when we are learning English.
A. we shouldn?t put every word into our own language
B. we should look up every word in the dictionary
C. we need to put every word into our own language
D. we must read word by word
2. The writer thinks it is _______ in learning English.
A. difficult to understand different sounds
B. possible to remember the word order
C. important to master the rules in different ways
D. easy to master the rules for word order
3. We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words
B. The order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence
C. sometimes different order of words has a different meaning
D. if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different
4. “She only likes apples.” ________.
A. is the same as “Only she likes apples.”
B. is different from “Only she likes apples.”
C. means “She likes fruit except apples.”
D. means “She doesn?t like apples.”
5. Which is the best title (标题) for this passage?
A. Different Orders, Different Meanings
B. How to Speak English
C. How to Put English into Our Own Language
D. How to Learn English
【实例四】
A cheap sweater
Mr. Ford saw a nice sweater in the shop window. It was very cheap. So he bought one. When he went back home he put the sweater on, It was all right and he was pleased with it. In the afternoon he went out to work in his garden. It soon began to rain, and Mr. Ford had - 64 -
to run into his house. He ran quickly, but he still got wet.
Then his sweater started to shrink. It got smaller and smaller. Mr. Ford tried to take it off, but he couldn?t.
In the end, with the help of his wife, he got out of the sweater. Mrs. Ford laughed, “ You see, you bought a cheap thing, but…”
阅读短文，然后根据文章内容判断下列各句是否正确，对的用“T”、错误的用“F”表示。
1. Mr. Ford bought the sweater because it was very nice and cheap.
2. “Shrink” here means “become smaller”.
3. Mr. Ford was not good at buying things.
4. Mr. Ford put the sweater on as soon as he bought it.
5. Mr. Ford took off the sweater by himself.
K主观性考题
根据短文内容，完成下列句子或短文，每空填一个英语单词。
(1)
One day, Mr White told the class to get ready for a hobby show. All the students had the whole morning to get what they were going to show.
All the students came back on time except Bob, the laziest boy in his classmates? eyes. It was very difficult to believe that such a boy could have a hobby. But to their surprise, Bob came back with many beautiful stamps in his hand. Mr White was very happy after watching them. However, Bob was going to take them back.
“Bob, you can?t take them back until the others watch them this afternoon,” said Mr White. “But I?m sorry they are my brother?s,” he answered. “He doesn?t want them to be out of our home for long. He?s afraid that they will be lost.”
“Bob, you should show your own hobby here, not someone else?s” Mr White became a bit angry.
But Bob?s following words made him even angrier. “Mr White, it?s true that I have a hobby.
My hobby is watching my brother collecting stamps.”
1. All the students ______ the whole morning in ______ready for the hobby show.
2. Bob was so______ that his classmates didn?t ______ he could have a hobby.
3. When Bob ______ to his classroom, he brought many beautiful ______.
4. The things in ______ hand were ______ his but his brother?s.
5. Bob thought he ______ a “hobby”. He liked ______ his brother collecting.
(2)
John,
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I?ll be home late tonight. I have to stay for a business meeting after work. Will you please pick up my jacket from the dry cleaner? The children are at Mother?s. Pick them up there. Could you give them their bath and make dinner for them? Don?t wait for me for dinner. I don?t know what time the meeting will end. And please don?t forget to buy some bread, milk and a little fuller at the supermarket. We don?t have any.
Love,
Sue
This is a (1) ______ from Sue to John. Sue is John?s (2) ______. One day Sue had to stay for a meeting and couldn?t go home for (3) ______. The children were at their (4) ______ home. So Sue wrote to tell John to do some (5) ______. He would go and get the children (6) ______ first then he would (7) ______ some bread, milk and (8) ______ the children to take a bath. She didn?t tell John how long the meeting would (9) ______ because she didn?t (10) ______ when the meeting would be over.
(3)
I will never forget the lesson which Mr Li gave us. One day Mr Li was speaking to us in our school meeting room. He began his speech by holding up a ￥100 bill. He asked, “Who would like this ￥ 100 bill?” Most of us put up our hands quickly. Then he said, “I am going to give this ￥ 100 to one of you, but first let me do this.” He then made the bill into a ball and said, “Who wants it now?” We raised our hands again. But he said, “Wait a moment.” He then dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. After that, he picked up the dirty bill and said, “Who still wants it?” Many hands were still up. “My friends,” he said, “you have learned a valuable lesson today. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not go down in value. It was still worth ￥100!”
“We always lose many chances we take in our lives.” He went on speaking, “We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value, you are always valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesn?t come from what you do or who you know, but WHO YOU ARE.”
“You are special and valuable. Don?t ever forget it!”
1. The writer will never forget the lesson which ______.
2. After Mr Li made the bill______, he asked who wanted it.
3. No matter what Mr Li had done to the bill, the students still wanted it because they knew that ______.
4. When people lose many chances in their lives, they feel______.
5. From the story we learn that if we are in trouble, ______.
L 模拟考题
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阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
(1)
We are already familiar with computers—computers work for us at home, in offices and in factories. But it is also true that many children today are using computers at schools before they can write. What does this mean for the future? Are these children lucky or not?
Many people who do not know about computers think of them as machines that children play with. They worry that children do not learn from experience but just from pressing a button and that this is not good for them. They think that children are growing not knowing about the real world.
But people who understand more about computers say that computers can be very good for children. A computer can help them to learn about the real world more quickly, to learn what they want to learn and think for themselves. And for the future, don?t we need people who can think clearly, who know how to get information quickly and use it well? What do you think?
1. “To be familiar with” means to ______.
A. know nothing B. know about C. dislike D. like
2. Does everyone think computers are good for children?
A. Yes, they do. B. No, not everyone thinks so.
C. They don?t know. D. They are not sure.
3. What can computers help children to do?
A. To think clearly, to do homework and to write.
B. To play games, to do math and to copy.
C. To think clearly, to get information and to use it well.
D. To count, to clean the house and to get information.
4. Does the writer think computer is a good thing?
A. It isn?t mentioned. B. No, he doesn?t think so. C. He doesn?t know. D. Yes, he does.
(2)
Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke from his gun before the sound reaches your ears.
This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays left the moon
1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that the light that you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km. per minute. In some cases, the light from one of tonight?s stars had started on its journey to you before you were born.
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Thus, if we want to be honest, we can?t say, “The stars are shining tonight.” We have to say instead, “The stars look pretty. They were shining four years ago, but their light has only just reached the earth.”
1. Light speed is ______ sound speed
A. as fast as B. a million times slower than
C. about millions of times faster than D. about a million times faster than
2. If you stand 200 metres away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that ______.
A. you can hear the sound before you see the smoke
B. the sound does not travel as fast as light
C. the sound will reach you before the man fires
D. sound travels about a million times faster than light
3. Sunlight obviously (明显地) ______ than the light of the moon
A. has to travel a greater distance B. moves less quickly
C. travels much more quickly D. is less powerful(有力的)
4. The scientific way of saying "The stars are shining tonight" should be ______.
A. the stars have been shining all the time
B. the stars seen tonight will shine four years later
C. the stars were shining long ago but seen tonight
D. the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago
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A. Saturday morning B. Monday afternoon C. Saturday evening D. Friday afternoon
2. From Peter?s plan we learn that Peter likes ______.
A. table tennis B. music C. art D. basketball
3. On Sunday morning Mary will ______.
A. be free B. be busy C. see the doctor D. go shopping
4. What will Mary do on Wednesday evening?
A. See her friends B. Play basketball C. Go to her art class D. Prepare for an exam
M 精编精讲
阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
(1)
We were going to play against a team from a country school.
They didn?t come until the last minute. They looked worse than we had thought. They were wearing dirty blue trousers and looked like farm boys.
We sat down for a rest. We felt that we didn?t need any practice against a team like that.
The game began. One of us got the ball and he shot a long pass to our forward(前锋). From out of nowhere a boy in an old T-shirt stopped the ball and with beautiful style(姿势) he shot and got two points. Then another two points in a minute. Soon the game was all over. We were beaten by the country team.
After that, we thought a lot. We certainly learned that even though your team is very good, you can?t look down upon the others and still need to do your best. And the most important lesson we learned was: One can?t judge (判断) a person or a team only by their clothes.
1. The team from the country were in old clothes so the writer?s team ______.
A. looked down upon them B. couldn?t win
C. didn?t like the city boy D. were afraid of them
2. The country team arrived so late that ______.
A. nobody saw them B. the writer?s team were angry
C. they had no time to warm up D. they looked worse
3. The team from the country won because ______.
A. they were in old clothes B. they didn?t practice before the game
C. they practiced before the game D. the team was better than the writer?s
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4. From the text, we can guess the writer?s team is ______.
A. a basketball from a country school B. a football team from a school in the city
C. a basketball team from a school in the city D. a football team from the country
5. The writer?s team learned a lot from the game. They got to know how to ______.
A. do better from then on B. fight against the country boys
C. play against a weak team D. judge a man or a team by clothes
(2)
In America, just as in Europe, men usually open doors for women, and women always walk ahead of men into a room or a restaurant, unless(除非) the men have to be ahead of the ladies to choose the table, to open the door of a car or do some other things like the above. On the street, men almost always walk or cross the street on the closer side of the ladies to the traffic. But if a man walks with two ladies, he should walk between them. Then if the host (男主人) or hostess(女主人) or both of them come in a car to get their guest for dinner, the guest should sit at the front seat and leave the back seat though there is no people sitting on it.
1. In America men usually ______.
A. walk ahead of women
C. walk behind women
2. In the street men ______.
A. cross the street B. walk on the right side of the ladies B. eat in a restaurant D. drive a car to work
C. walk on the closer side of the ladies to the traffic D. walk near the ladies
3. If a man walks with two ladies, he should ______.
A. walk between them B. run before them C. follow them D. go away
4. If Mrs Green wants you to her house in a car, you should ______.
A. sit beside a guest B. sit at the front seat C. sit at the back seat D. drive the car
(3)
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“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings. “Cool” can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything.
When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, “It?s cool.” You may think, “He?s so cool,” when you see your favourite footballer. We all maximize (扩大) the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new” or “surprising”. Here?s an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall (瀑布) they had visited. On one student?s paper was just the one sentence, “It?s so cool.” Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.
But the story also shows a scarcity(缺乏) of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some more flexible(灵活的)words. Can you think of many other words that make your life as colourful as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.
1. We know that the word “cool” has had ______.
A. only one meaning B. no meanings
C. many different meanings D. the same meaning
2. In the passage, the word “express” means “______.”
A. see B. show C. know D. feel
3. If you are ______ something, you may say, “It?s cool.”
A. interested in B. angry about C. afraid of D. unhappy with
4. The writer takes an example to show he is ______ the way the word is used.
A. pleased with B. strange to C. worried about D. careful with
5. In the passage, the writer suggests(暗示) that the word “cool” ______.
A. can be used instead of many words B. usually means something interesting
C. can make your life colourful D. may not be as cool as it seems
N 三篇
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根据下面一篇短文的内容判断下列句子的正误，正确的用“A”表示，错误的用“B”表示。
(1)
In 1605, a scientist took a willow branch(柳枝) and planted it. He didn?t plant it in the ground, however. He planted it in a vase of soil(泥土). For the next five years, the scientist watered that willow carefully.
The willow grew and grew. Where did it get the food for its growth? To most people, this was an easy question. The willow plant, of course, took the food from the soil.
The scientist, however, wanted evidence(证据).If the willow took the food from the soil for its growth, then, as it grew and weighed more, the soil ought to weigh less. He weighed the willow branch before he planted it. It weighed five pounds. Then he weighed the soil. It weighed 200 pounds. After five years, he weighed the plant and the soil again. The willow tree weighed 169 pounds, but the soil weighed almost the same.
The result(结果) was surprising. Where did the 164 pounds come from?
After many investigations(调查), the scientist got the answer. He had given water to the willow, and the willow got its food from the water.
He was right, in a way. Today we know more about the question.
1. The scientist did the experiment in the sixteenth century.
2. Most people thought the plant got the food from the soil for its growth.
3. The soil in the vase weighed two hundred pounds.
4. The scientist found that the willow grew and weighed more and the soil weighed less.
5. The soil weighed 164 pounds after five years.
6. Now we know about the question as much as the scientist did.
(2)
Young people are often unhappy when they are with their parents. They say that their parents don?t understand them. They often think their parents are too strict with them, and they are never given a free hand.
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Parents often find it difficult to win their children?s trust(信任) and they seem to forget how they themselves felt when they were young.
For example, young people like to do things without much thinking. It?s one of their ways to show that they grow up and they can do with any difficult things. Older people worry more easily. Most of them plan(计划) things ahead and don?t like their plans to be changed.
When you want your parents to let you do something, you will have better success (成功) if you ask before you really start doing it.
Young people often make their parents angry by clothes they want, the music they enjoy and something else. But they don?t mean to cause (引起) any trouble. They just feel that in this way they can be cut off from the old people?s world and they want to make a new culture (文化) of their own. And if their parents don?t like their music or clothes or their manner of speech, the young people feel very unhappy.
Sometimes you even don?t want your parents to say, “Yes” to what you do. You want to stay at home alone and do what you like.
If you plan to control (控制) your life, you?d better win your parents trust and try to get them to understand you. If your parents see that you have high sense of responsibility (责任感), they will certainly give you the right to do what you want to do.
1. When young people are with their parents, they don?t feel pleased.
2. What young people think is different from what older people do.
3. What young people do is to make their parents unhappy.
4. When children grow up, they hope to let them do everything alone.
5. If you try to get your parents to understand you, you must do well in everything.
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Now TV programs play an important part in our daily life. We can get a lot of knowledge and a lot of fun from it. Today is Saturday. The following are some TV programs on different channels today. Now read these TV programs and try to find some information for you and your
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2. My father is a football fan. He prefers football matches. He can watch CCTV Channel 1.
3. My mother likes watching TV plays. She wants to watch XATV Channel 4 in the afternoon.
4. My sister is only six years old. I want to find a program for her. I think she can watch CCTV Channel 6.
5. I?m a student. I like music, but I am not very busy tonight. So I can watch CCTV Channel 3 this evening.
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先仔细阅读短文后所提出的问题，带着问题通读全文，把握文章意思，然后再研读跟问题相关的句子、句子的关键词/短语等；在此基础上再结合上下文进行分析判断、逻辑推理、归纳提炼出问题答案的表述内容；记住要看清问题，不要答非所问，同时表述的句子内容要简洁明了、语法正确、语句通顺、书写规范，不要照搬照抄原文的句子。
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If you are studying English, the Language Study Fair (游乐会)that is being held this month will certainly attract you. The fair is going on between the 28th and 30th of June at the National Education Centre. It is held to answer all your questions about self-study no matter how your English is.
The Language Study Fair gives a very good chance for you to see and to get all kinds of information to help you improve the way you study. Over 350 producers of educational materials (材料)will be at the fair. Come along to this, and you won?t waste your money in the future on materials that are out-of-date, or books that you just don?t need. We?ve got lots of different things for you to see and hear. There will be stands (展台)showing different kinds of self-study textbooks and talks by educational speakers on the best ways to study by yourself. We?re sure you?ll also enjoy watching - 74 -
people using the latest computer programs to make studying English alone so much easier. This is for you to make good decisions about what to buy. You can come to the fair from nine thirty to five. Tickets cost ￡5 each, or ￡3 if you?re a full-time student. All tickets can be booked by ringing the ticket hotline. The number is 9847711.
So, we hope to see you there!
1.Who will go to the Language Study Fair?
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2.What will attract those who go to the Language Study Fair ?
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3.What will you buy if you want to make studying English much easier?
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4.What is the opening time of the fair ?
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5. How can you get a ticket for the fair ?
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P 短文改写
首先要通读短文全文并弄清短文大意，抓关键句；其次浏览缩写后的短文；在了解其大意的同时，确定所要填写的内容，即所要填写的词语或短语是否与已知文段相一致（如有的是固定搭配；有的句子是文章中原句的同义句等），同时要注意填写的词语（短语）的正确性（如动词的时态、人称、名词的单复数、大小写、主谓一致等），千万不要在没有读懂文章的情况下匆匆填写单词，这样往往会出错；填写完后，再将改写的文章通读一遍，看看改写的短文是否流畅，语句是否通顺，语法是否正确，逻辑是否合理；同时还要注意到原文，看所改写的短文是否与原文意思相符。
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This is a a meeting and couldn?t go home for Sue wrote to tell John to do some first, then he would some bread, milk and the children to take a bath. She didn?t tell John how long the meeting would because she didn?t when the meeting would be over.
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