第二部分 (大学英语统考)阅读理解(2)全真翻译版

2021年1月25日发(作者：野餐)
第二部分

阅读理解
(2)
（
2016
年
4
月统考）全真翻译版






以下
16
篇阅读理解考试中
100%
考一篇，

答 案是四个选项之一。
出现在考试中阅读部
分的第二部分，简化或硬背，必须掌握，原题出现，答 案位置不变，
考
1
题
10
分，一定不
可以丢
。建议 多看短文的中文意思，然后记下选项答案。


Passage 1
（目标有三种）

There are three kinds of goals: short-term, medium-range and long-term goals.
目标有三种：短期目标，中期目标和长期目标。

Short- term goals are those that usually deal with current activities, which we can apply on a
daily basis. Such goals can be achieved in a week or less, or two weeks, or possibly, months. It
should be remembered that just as a building is no stronger than its foundation, long- term goals
cannot amount to very much without the achievement of solid short-term goals. Upon completing
our
short-term
goals,
we
should
date
the
occasion
and
then
add
new
short-term
goals
that
will
build on those that have been completed.
短期目标是根据每日制定的为了处理当前事物 的目标。
短期目标可以以少于一个星期，
一个星期，两个星期，或者可能的话一个月来完成。我 们必须记住，正如只有地基牢靠，建
筑物才坚固一样，
长期目标脱离了扎实的短期目标的实现是 不能实现的。
短期目标的实现是
以以前完成的目标为前提的。

The
intermediate
goals
build
on
the
foundation
of
the
short- term
goals.
They
might
deal
with just one term of school or the entire school year, or they could even extend for several years.
Any time you move a step at a time, you should never allow yourself to become discouraged or
overwhelmed. As you complete each step, you will enforce the belief in your ability to grow and
succeed. And as your list of completion dates grow, your motivation and desire will increase.
中期目标是在短期目标的基础上指定的。可以以一个学期或整个学年为周期指定， 或
者延长至几年。
每次你根据目标前进了一步，
都不要让自己感到没有信心或者压力重 重。
当
你完成了一个目标，
你都会增加成功的信心。
并且当你完成目标的日期 越来越近，
你的动力
和希望都会增加。

Long-term goals may be related to our dreams of the future. They might cover five years or
more. Life is not a static thing. We should never allow a long-term goal to limit us or our course of
action.(221 words)
长期目标可以和我们未来的梦想相关联。可以是五年或五年以上的目标。生活不是一成不变的。我们不能让长期目标制约了我们或我们的行为。

11.
Our long-term goals mean a lot ____________.

如果我们能完成各个短期目标，那么我们的长期目标将意义深远。

A. If we cannot reach solid short-term goals

C. If we have dreams of the future


提的。

A. a daily basis

C. current activities










B. your achievement in a week
D.
the goals that have been completed
B.
If we complete the short-term goals
D. If we put forward some plans
12.
New short-term goals are built upon ____________.

短期目标是以以前完成的目标为前
13.
When we complete each step of our goals, ____________.
每完成一个目标，将会增加我们
成功的信心。

A. we will win final success




B. we are overwhelmed
C.
we should build up confidence of success
new goals
A Life is a dynamic thing.




D. we should have strong desire for setting
14.
What is the main idea of this passage? ____________


这篇短文的中心思想是什么？






B. we should set up long-term goals
C.
Different kinds of goals in life.
目标的不同种类。

D. The limitation of long-term goals.
15.
Which of the following statements is wrong according to the passage? ____________

根据短文，下面哪种说法是错误的？

A.
The
long- term
goals
cannot
amount
to
very
much
without
the
achievement
of
solid
short-term goals
B. The intermediate goals build on the foundation of the short-term goals.
C.
Life is a static thing, thus we should never allow a long-term goal to limit us or our course
of action.

生活是一成不变的，所以我们不能让长期目标制约我们的生活和我们的行为。

D. We should often add new short-term goals to those which have been completed.
KEY
：
BDCCC
Passage 2
（牛顿市）

Today Newton is a very clean place. Many years ago, however, there were millions of rats in it.
They
attacked
the
cats
and
dogs.
Sometimes
a
great
number
of
them
knocked
down
a
man
or
woman walking home at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed many people.
They goverment ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they didn
’
t kill many.
The goverment promised to pay some money for each dead rat. The made the people very happy.
They
killed
thousands
of
rats
everyday.
A
goverment
officer
put
all
the
dead
rats
in
a
big
pile.
Sometimes a man brought hundreds in one day.
After two weeks there were not
many rats in
the city,
but people still brought
many rats to the
goverment office. The goverment officer thought that people were stealing dad rats from the pile.
He ordered his mean to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no mroe rats, and the
goverment didn
’
t pay any more momey.
如今牛顿市是一个非常干净的地方。
然而，
很多年前，
那里有上百万只老鼠。
它们袭击猫狗。
走夜路回家的人中，
无论 男女，
也经常有人被一大群老鼠撞到。那些老鼠个头很大，是很多
人受伤。

政府下令每个人都要灭鼠。
大多数人很懒，
所以灭掉的不多。
政府许诺会为每只死老鼠 付赏
金，这让人们很兴奋。

每天人们灭掉成千上万只老鼠，一名政府工作人员将死老 鼠堆成一
大堆。有时一个人一天就带来百只死老鼠。

两周后，
城里就没有很 多老鼠了。
但人们仍然将大量死老鼠带到政府工作人员那里。
他认为
有人在从老鼠堆里 偷死老鼠，
于是命令输下挖一个深坑，
将死老鼠丢进坑里。
很快那里就没
有老 鼠了，政府也不用再付赏金了。

1. Newton is a place which











,
牛顿市是一个











的地方。

A
．
used to be very clean




B. Is no longer a city



C is very clean
很干净



D. Will be
very clean
2. when the goverment first ordered the people to kill rats, the people










.


当政府初次下令市民灭鼠，人们











.
A.

Asked for some money for each dead rat






B. Stole dead rats from the pile
B.

Were
too
lazy
to
kill
many
rats
太懒所以没有大量灭鼠



D.
Killed
nearly
all
the
rats
quickly
people killed rats










.


人们灭鼠












.
A.

To get money from the goverment

为了从政府领到赏金

B.

To help the goverment make the city clean
C.

Tomake the goverment officer happy
D.

To protect(
保护
)their cats and dogs
4. A deep hole was dug so that










.

挖深坑的目的是










.


A. the rats couldn
’
t come out to attack people at night.


B. people could take rats from it easily


C. people would kill more rats


D. nobody could take any rats from the pile
没有人能从死老鼠堆里拿走老鼠

5. What is the best topic for this passage

?
本文最佳标题是什么？



A
．
How to Kill Rats





B. Newton--- A City of Rats


C. How Newton Became a Very Clean Place
牛顿市如何成为一个干净的地方



D. How Newton Became a Famous City
KEY: CCADC
Passage 3
（书商）

One day a bookseller (
书商
) let a big box of books fall on his foot.
“
Go to see the doctor
，
”

said
his wife.
“
No
”
, he said,
“
I
’
ll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I
’
ll ask
him about my foot. If you I go to see him, I
’
ll have to pay him.
”

On
the
next
day
the
doctor
came
into
the
shop
for
some
books.
When
the
bookseller
was
gettinghim ready, he told the doctor about his bagd foot. The doctor look at it.

“
You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put somthing on it,
”

said the
deoctor.
He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it.
“
Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed
every night
，
”
he said.
“

Thank you,
”

said the bookseller.
“
And now, sir, here are your books.
”

“
How much
？”
said the doctor.
“
Two pounds.
”

“
Good,
”
said the doctor.
“
I shall not have to pay you nothing.
”

“
Why
？”
asked the bookseller.
“
I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them
to pay one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds.
And i came here, didn
’
t I
？”

一天一位书商被一大箱书砸到了脚。他妻子 说：
“去看医生吧。
”他说“不，我要等医生下次
到店里来，然后他帮我看脚。如果到 他那里看，我就给付给他诊金了。
”

第二天医生到书店里来买书。书商把书找齐，然后把脚伤告诉了医生。医生给他看脚。

医生说：
“你每晚要用热水泡脚，然后上药。他拿出一张纸写下药方，说：
“买这种药，然后
每晚睡前涂在脚上。
”

书商说：
“谢谢。那么，先生，这是您的书。
”

医生问：
“多少钱？”

“
2
英镑。
”

“太好了，
”医生说：
“我就不用付您钱了。
”

“为什么？”书商问道。

“我给你看了脚，收你两英镑。
像那样的小伤，如 果到我那里看我只收一英镑。但是要我出
诊，就收两英镑。而我到你这里来给你看病了，不是吗？”
1.

What happened to the bookseller one day

?
有一天书商发生了什么事情？

A.

He lost a box of books.













B. His foot was wounded by a box of books.
C.

He lent the doctor a box of books.




D. He sold out all his books.

2. The bookseller
’
s

wife asked him









.


书商的妻子让他










.


A. to go out fo some medecine




B. To send somebody for a doctor


C. to go to see the doctor
去看医生




D. To wait for the doctor to come
3. The bookseller didn
’
t take his wife
’
s advice because











.



书商没有接受妻子的建议是因为











.

A.

He was afraid of the doctor





B. He didn
’
t take to take medicine
B.

H
e couldn
’
t walk by himself




D. He didn
’
t want to pay the doctor

他不想付钱给医
生

4. The doctor paid












for the books.

医生支付了











买书。




A
．
one pound





pounds





C. Nothing
没有






D. Something
5. The bookseller paid











moeny for seeing the doctor in the end.


A. more
更多






B. Less






C. The same amount of







KEY
：
BCDCA

Passage4
（科学家）


What makes a person a scientist?
Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different
from those of others? The answer is “no”. It is not the tools a scientist uses but how he uses these
tools
that
make
him
a
scientist.
You
will
probably
agree
that
knowing
how
to
use
a
power
is
important to a carpenter. You will probably agree, too, that knowing how to investigate, how to
discover information, is important to everyone. The scientist, however, goes one step further, he
must be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his questions and that his answer can be confirmed
by other persons. He also works to fit
the answer he gets to
many questions into a large set of
ideas about how the world works.

是什么使一个普通人成为科学家 ？他有与从不同的学习方法和工具吗？答案是否定的。
不是因为科学家使用的工具，
而是因为他 使用工具的方法使他成为科学家。
你也许认同怎么
用力对一名木匠来说很重要。
你也许 也认同怎么研究调查，
发现信息对每个人来说都很重要。
然而，
科学家比这更进一步，
他必须确定他对自己的问题得出了一个合理的答案，
并且他的
答案通过别人也可以得到 证实。
他同时把自己得出的许多答案归结为一个系统的关于世界如
何运作的观点。


The scientist’s knowledge must be exact. There is no room for half right or right just half the
time. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit. What works under one set of conditions
at one time must work under the same conditions at other times. If the conditions are different, any
changes
the
scientist
observes
in
a
demonstration
must
be
explained
by
the
changes
in
the
conditions. This is one reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, who
developed the theory of relativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy of this
mathematics was later tested through investigations,
Einstein’s ideas were shown to be correct. A
scientist
uses
many
tools
for
measurements.
Then
the
measurements
are
used
to
make
mathematical calculations that may test his investigations.

科学家的知识必须很确切。
不能给半错半对或者 只有一半机会对的情况留任何空间。
他
必须在条件允许的情况下尽可能正确。
在一种条 件下成功一次的话必须在同样的条件下都能
成功。
如果条件不同，
科学家在证明过程中 观察到的任何变化都必须解释他的条件是如何变
化的。
这是关于调查研究在科学研究中十分重要 的其中一个理由。
爱因斯坦通过数学方法提
出了相对论。
他的数学运用的正确性被后人 通过调查研究的方法证实该理论是正确的。
一个
科学家会用很多工具来测量。测量的结果用来进 行数学计算，再进行调查研究的测试。

11.
What
makes
a
scientist
according
to
the
passage?
根据这篇文章的观点科学家是如何来
的？




A. The tools he uses.




B.

The way he uses his tools.
他使用工具的方法




C. His way of learning.




D. The various tools he uses.
12. “The scientist, however, goes one step further…”. The author says this to show _______.




“然而，科学家比这更进一步??”作者这么说是为了说明什么？




A. the importance of information
B. the importance of thinking






C.
the difference between scientists and ordinary people
科学家与普通人的区别




D. the difference between carpenters and people with other jobs
13.
A
sound
scientific
theory
should
be
one
that
_______.
一项伟大的科学理论应该是怎么样
的？

A.
works not only under one set of conditions at one time, but also under the same conditions
at other times
不仅只在一种条件下一次可行，而是要在同样的条件下一直可行。




B. does not allow any changes even under different conditions



C. can be used for many purposes



D. leave no room for improvement
14. The author quotes the case of Albert Einstein to illustrate _______.
作者引用爱因斯坦的例子
是为了证明什么？




A. that measurements are
答案
s to success in science



B. that accuracy of mathematics



C.
that the investigations are important in science
调查研究在科学领域十分重要。




D. that the mathematical calculations may test his investigations
15. What is the main idea of the passage?
这篇文章的中心意思是什么？




A. The theory of relativity.




B. Exactness is the core of science.



C. Scientists are different from ordinary people.

D.
Exactness and ways of using tools are the
答案
s to the making of a scientist.



确切性和使用工具的方法是成为科学家的重要因素。

KEY
：
BCACD
Passage 5
（汤姆）

Mr. Froster lived by himself a long way form town. He hardly ever left his home, but one day
he went iinto town to buy some things in the market. After he had bought them, he went into a
restaurant ans sat down at a table by himself. When he looked around, he saw several old people
put glasses on before reading their

man newspapers, so after lunch he decided to go to a shop to
buy himself some glasses too. He walked along the road, and soon found a shop.
The man in the shop made him try on a lot of glasses, but Tom always said,
“
No, i can
’
t
read with these.
”

The man became more and more puzzled (
迷惑不解
)
，
until fianlly he said,
“
Excuse me, but
can you read at all
？”

“
No, of course i can
’
t
！
”

Tom said angrily.
“
If I was already able to read, do you think i
would have come here to buy glasses
？”

汤姆
.
福瑞斯特先生独自一人住在离城镇很远 的地方。他几乎足不出户，但有一天，他
到城里的市场上买点东西。

买完后，他走进一家餐馆，单独坐在桌边。

环顾四周，

他看
到几位老人读报纸前都先戴上眼镜，所以午餐后，

他决定到商店去给自己也买副眼镜。沿
街走着，很快就找到一家店。

店员让 他试戴了好几副眼镜，单汤姆总是说：
“不，我戴这副眼镜无法阅读。
”

店员越来越感到迷惑不解，知道最后他问道：
“恕我失礼，但请问您究竟会阅读吗？”

“当然不会啦！
”
汤姆生气地说：
“如果我已经能够阅读的话，
你以 为我还会来这儿买眼
镜吗？”

1.

Mr. Forester lived










.




福瑞斯特先生居住











.
A.

With his family in a city








B. With his family in the countryside
B.

Alone in a city















D. Alone in the countryside


独自一人在乡村

2.

Tom











went into town.




汤姆











进城。

A
．
often













C. Almost never
几乎从不





D. Everyday
3. The old people in the restaurant read their newspapers









.

餐馆里的老人读报纸











。

A
．

with glasses on
戴着眼镜














B. with glasses off


C. With glasses of beer in front of them







D. with glasses pipes in their mouths
4. The shop Tom went into sold










.




汤姆走进的那家店卖











.
A. drinking glasses and cups




B. glass for windowss and colors
C. glasses for people who could not read



D. Glasses for people who could not see well
眼镜给视力不好的人

5. what kind of mistake did Tom make
？


汤姆犯了什么错误？



A
．
He went to the wrong kind of shop.



B. He didn
’
t try on all the glasses in the shop


C. He
thought
that
a
person
who
had
not
learned
to read
would
be
able
to
do
so
if
he
wore
glasses.
他认为不会阅读的人戴上眼镜就能阅读了。

left his money in the restaurant

KEY
：
DCADC

Passage 6
（英国画家）

Once
James
Thornhill,
a
famous
English
painter,
was
asked
to
paint
some
pictures
on
the
walls of the king
’
s palace in England.
Then workers were sent for and a big platform(
台子
) was made.
With
the
help
of
a
worker, Thornhill
started
painting
on
the
plastform.
They
worked
for
a
whole yeara and at last the pictures were ready.
Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were really beautifu. He looked
at them for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even
more beautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally he was at the very edge of the platform,
but he didn
’
t know it because he was thinking of his picture.

The worker saw everything.
“
what should i do
？”

he thought.
“
Thornhill was at the very
edge of the platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off in and surely be killed.
”

So the
worker quickly took some paint (
漆
)and threw iin at the pictures.
“
what are you doing
？”
cried the painter, running quickly forward to his pictures.
詹姆斯
.
桑希尔是一名英国画家。有一次，他奉命在皇宫的墙壁上作画。

之后派来了一些工匠，支起一个平台。

在一名工匠的帮助下，

桑希尔开始在平台上作画。
他们工作了一整你，
油画终于完成。

桑 希尔望着油画很开心，因为那些油画是很美丽。他看了很长时间，然后退一步再看，
现在感觉更美了。他 又退一步，
然后再退一步，

最后已经很靠近平台边缘了，

但是并不知
道，因为他只想着自己的画。

工匠看到了一切。
“我该 怎么做呢？”
他想到，
“桑希尔已经在平台的边缘了，
如果大声
喊叫，他会再 退一步，从平台上掉下来，

肯定会死。
”于是工匠迅速拿油漆泼向油画。

“你在干吗？”画家喊道，飞快的向油画跑来。

1.

James Thornhill was an English










.
詹姆斯
.
桑希尔是一名英国










.
A
．
worker






B. artist
艺术家






C. King








2. He was ordered to










.




他奉命











.



A. paint the wall of king
’
s palace in England.
在英国皇宫的墙壁上作画。



B. paint some pictures on the wall of the palace.


C. build a big platform in front of the palace


D. put up some new pictures on the old wall.
3. It took them











to finish the pictures.

他们完成油画用了










。



A
．
a month





B. a week




e months
十二个月






D. Half a month
4.
James
Thornhill
felt
that
the











he
was
from
the
pictures,
the











they
were.


詹姆斯
.
桑希尔觉得他距离画










，

那些画就










.


A
．
nearer... more beautiful













... more ugly



... more beautiful
越远
...
越美丽




D. Higher above... more good- looking

worker threw some paint at the pictures in order no








.


工匠向油画泼油漆的目的是










.
A
．
save Jame
’
s life
挽救詹姆斯的生命




B. destory the picture
C. make the picture more beautiful










the king angrey
KEY
：
BBCCA

Passage 7
（好商人）

Morgan Rees has always been a good businessman. He used to own three petrol stations and
was busy most of the time. When he was 65, the normal retirement age, he decided that the
didn
’
t want to stop, so he carried on working for another two years. Eventually, when he was
nearly 68, his wiefe, Dolly, asked him to retire because she wanted to enjoy their old age together.
Reluctantaly, he handed over the business to his son.
But he was unhappy. He didn
’
t know what to do with himself. Although he read a lot of
books and he went on holiday to interesting places with his wife, he was bored and befgan to get
deperessed because he hated being retired.
Then one day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper and, without telling his wife, he
bought a small crockery (
陶器
) factory. The next week he told his family. They were horrified and
worried. They thought he was too old at 71 to start work again.
He is now 76 and he has expanded the company considerably. He has increased the number
of staff from 6 to 24 and he has found many new customers for the products. He has developed the
export market and has improved profits by 200%. He has opened a new design office and
enpolyed three young designers. They have been all over the world to ger new ideas, and one of
them has gone to France this week to a major trade fair. Most importantly, he hasn
’
t been bored
since he brought the factory.
摩 根
.
里斯一直是一位不错的生意人。他曾经有过
3
个加油站，

而且一直都很忙。当他
65
岁时，也就是正常退休的年龄时，

他决定不想停止工作，

所以他又接着干了两年。结
果在他快
68< br>岁的时候，
他妻子多丽让他退休，

希望能和他一起共度晚年的时光。
今天管他
读了很多的书，而且也和妻子一起去一些好玩的地方去度假，但是他感到很无聊，

并且由
于讨厌退休而开始变得压抑沮丧。

在这之后的一天，
他在报 纸上看到了一则广告，
也没有告诉他的妻子，
他就买下了一家
小陶器厂。
< br>一周后他才告诉家里人。他们为此刚到惊讶，而且有些担心。大家认为他不能
以
71岁高龄再重新开始工作了。

现在他
76
岁，

已经显 著地扩大了公司的规模。
公司的员工人数从
6
人增加到
24
人，
而
且他还开发了很多新客户。

他也开拓了出口市场，利润增长
200%
。

他还开办了一家新的
设计室，

并且聘用了三名年轻的设计师。他们一直世界 各地四处发掘新的信息，其中一位
本周已经去了法国参加一次重大的商铺交易会。最为重要的是，自从他 收购了这家工厂后，
他便不再感到没事可做。

1.

The topic sentence of Para.1 is










.




第一段的主题句是？

A.

Morgan Rees has always been a good businessman


摩根
.
里斯一直是以为不错的生
意人。

B.

He used to own three petrol stations asn was busy most of the time
C.

When Morgen Rees was 65, he got retired
D.

Reluctantly, he handed over the business to his son
2.

The topic sentence of Para.2 is










.




第二段主题句是？

A
．
he didn
’
t what to do with himself



B. he went on holiday to interesting places with his
wife

C. he was unhappy after he got retired
退休后他并不高兴




D. None of them

3.

Which of the following statements can best express the main idea of Para.3
？


以下哪一项
陈述能最好地表达第三段的中心思想？




A
．
One day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper



B.

He bought a small crockery factory in seceret and started work again.
他偷偷买下一家
小陶器厂，并重新开始工作。




C
．
He told his family he bought a small factory.



D. His family was horried and worried when they learned he bought the small factory.
4.

What is the central idea of the last paragraph
？




最后一段的中心思想是？

A
．
Morgan Rees has worked until he is 76.
B. Morgan Rees has developed the export market and improvedthe profits by 200%
C. Morgan Rees hasn
’
t been bored since he bought the factory.
D. Since he started working again, Morgan Rees has expanded the company considerably,
which has enriched his retire life.

自从重新开始工作，摩根
.
里斯显著的扩大了公司的规模，
这丰富了他的退休生活。

5. The passage mainly deals with










.



这篇文章主要讲的是？

A
．
why Morgan Rees bought a small crockery factory
B. how Morgan Rees lived his retired like more happy by turning to work again.



摩根
.
里斯如何通过重新开始工作使他的退休生活更加快乐。

Morgan Rees became a good businessman
Morgan Rees expanded the company considerably.
KEY
：
ACBDB

Passage 8
（
24
号居民）

The residents of 24 Acacia Grove were dissatisfied with the condition of the property, so John
Preston called a meeting to discuss things last week. At the meeting John suggested setting up a
residents
’
committee. Everyone was so worried and angry about the agent
’
s inactivity that they
agreed, and they elected John as chairman of the committee. Many residents said that they were
tired of telephoning the agent and tired of complaining about the flats. Although the agent was
responsible for the flats, they thought that he didn
’
t do enough. Therefore John was asked to write
to the agent and say that they were disappointed with the management of the flats.

The next service payment was due at the end of the month. However, they agreed not to pay
it until they were happy with the plans to improve the property. They decided to tell the agent that
he must start the work within one month. They all went away very pleased with themselves.
阿卡西亚格拉芙街
24
号的居民对公寓情况不满意
,
因此上周约翰
.
普雷斯顿召开会议进
行讨论。在会上约翰建议成立居民委员会，对房东代理的无所作 为，大家既担心又气愤，所
以，他们都同意成立委员会。

他们选举约约翰为委员会主 席。许多居民说，他们憎恶在给
房东代理打电话，
向他们抱怨公寓的状况。
尽管房东代 理有责任管理公寓。
但是他们认为房
东代理做得不够。因此居民要求约翰写信给房东代理说明他 们对公寓的管理很失望。

下期付费应该在月底，
但是他们一致决定直到房东代理制定 出令人满意的改善计划，
他
们才付服务费。

他们决定告诉房东代理必须在一个月内开始工作。然后他们都十分满意的
离开了。

1.

Why did John Preston call a meeting last week?


上周约翰
.
普雷斯特为什么召开会议？

A
．

Because the residents were dissatisfied with the presents
’
committee.
B
．

B
ecause the residents were dissatisfied with the bad management of the flats.

因为居民
们对公寓的管理不满意。

C
．

B
ecause some residents requested to change the present residents
’
committee.
E.

Because he wanted to become chairman of the committee.
2.

Who elected John as chairman of the committee?


谁推选约翰为委员会主席？

A
．

The agent




B. the residents
居民们






C. the committee





D. Acacia Grove

3.

What does the word
“
inactivity
”

mean in the thrid sentence in Para.1
？

第一段第三句中
的“
inactivity
”

一词是什么意思？





A. weakness






B. Progress






C. State







D. Lace of actions

(
缺乏行动
)
4.

What does the word
“
due
”

mean in the first sentence in Para.2
？

第二段第一句中的
“
due
”

一词是什么意思？

A
．
to be paid
到期支付







B. Proper








C. Owed








D. large

5.

When did they agree to pay the next service payment

?
他们一直同意什么时候付下一期
的服务费？

A
．
at the end of the month








B. Within one month






C. When they were happy with the plans to improve the property.
直到房东代理制定出令
人满意的改善计划时

D. The agent would tell them.
KEY
：
BBDAC

Passage 9
（集邮）

When I was a little girl, my brothers and i collected stamps for many years. My mother
didn
’
t use to work during the week, but she worked in the post office near our house on
Saturdays and she used to bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued(
发行
).
On the day of World Cup football final in London in 1996, we were very excited because
England were playing West Germany in the final. When we were having lunch, my mother told us
to go to the post office straight way after the match if England won,

but she didn
’
t tell us why.
At 2 O
’
clock my mother went back to work as usual, while the rest of the family were watching
the football on TV at home. Although she wasn
’
t watching the match, she was listening to it on
the readio.
England won 4
：
2 and so my brothers and I ran to the post office. As we burst in, my mother
was standing behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition with
ENGLAND WINNDERS on eah stamp. We were over the moon.
We still have it today, and perhaps it is worth a lot of money.
当我还是个小女孩，

我的哥哥们和我收集邮票多年。

我母亲通常周一至周五不工作，
但周六在我 们家附近的邮局上班。而且只要一发行最新的邮票，她就把它们都带回家。

1966
年伦敦世界杯足球决赛那一天，

我们都非常兴奋，

因为在决赛中英格兰队对阵
西德队。

吃午饭时，
母亲告诉我们比赛后如果英格兰队获胜就直接去邮局，

但她没告 诉我
们为什么。
两点整母亲像往常一样去上班，
而家里其他成员都在电视上收看比赛。
母亲虽然
没有看，但是她从收音机里收听了比赛。

英格兰队以
4< br>比
2
获胜，
于是我和哥哥就跑去邮局。

当我们跑进去时，

母亲正站在柜
台后面。
她正等着卖给我们特别限 量版的邮票，
每一枚邮票上都印着
“英格兰获胜”
的字样。

我们欣喜若狂。

我们直到今天还一直保存着它，或许现在她很值钱了。

1.

This passage mainly tell us










.



这篇文章主要告诉我们？

A.

The auther and her brother used to like stamps very muhch
B.

The auther had a very kind mother
C.

The auther and her brother had an unforgetable experience in collecting stamps