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Passage 1
No one is
glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a
surgeon
（外科医生）
and
part of it taken out
．
Today
，
however
，
we needn't worry about feeling pain during the
operation
．
The
sick person falls into a kind of
sleep
，
and when he
awakes
，
the
operation is
finished
．
But
these happy conditions are fairly
new
．
It is not
many years since a man who had to have operation
felt all its
pain
．
Long
ago
，
operation
had usually to be done while the sick man could
feel everything
．
The sick man had to be held
down on a table by force while the
doctors did their best for
him
．
He could
feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut
off
，
and his
fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of
those who watched
．
Soon after
1770
，
Josept Priestley
discovered
a gas which is now called
“laughing gas”
．
Laughing gas
became known in
America
．
Y
oung men and women went to
parties to try it
．
Most of
them spent their time
laughing
，
but one man at a
party
，
Horace
Wells
，
noticed that people
didn't seem to feel pain when they were using this
gas
．
He decided to make an
experiment on
himself
．
He asked
a friend to help him
．
Wells took some of the
gas
，
and his
friend pulled out one of Well's
teeth
．
Wells felt
no pain at all
．
As he didn't
know enough about laughing
gas
，
he gave a
man less gas than he should
have
．
The man cried out with
pain
when his tooth was being pulled
out
．
Wells tried
again
，
but this time he gave
too much of the gas
，
and the
man died
．
Wells never forgot
this terrible event
．
1
．
It is
＿＿＿＿
since a man being operated felt all the
pain
．
A
．
a few more years
B
．
not long
C
．
few
years
D
．
two thousand years
2
．
Long ago
，
when the sick man was operated
on
，
he
＿＿＿＿．
A
．
could feel nothing
B
．
could not want anything
C
．
could feel all the pain
D
．
could do anything
3
．
Using the laughing
gas
，
the people
did not seem to
＿＿＿＿．
A
．
be
afraid of anything
B
．
feel pain
C
．
want to go to the parties
D
．
be ill
4
．
If
a man took less laughing gas than he should have
when an operation went on, he
＿＿
.
A
．
felt nothing
B
．
felt very
comfortable
（舒服的）
C
．
still felt pain
D
．
would die
5
．
One
who took too much of the laughing gas
＿＿＿．
A
．
would laugh all the time
B
．
would die
C
．
would never feel pain
D
．
would be very calm
参考答案：
BCBCB
Passage 2
Barbara
Jordan, one of the most respected lawyers and
politicians in the United States, was
the first black woman from
the South to be elected to
Congress.
She was born in Houston,
Texas, on February 21, 1936. Right from the start,
she set high standards for herself in
school
．
In high school, Miss
Jordan decided to become a
lawyer
．
At Texas Southern
University she studied political science
（政
治学）
and history
and graduated in 1956 at the top of her
class
．
By 1959 she had earned
a law degree from Boston
University
．
Miss Jordan began
practicing law at her parents? dining room
table
．
Three years later she
opened her own office.
The restless Miss Jordan first broke
into politics in
1966
，
becoming the first
black woman elected to the Texas
senate
（参
议院）
.
After an impressive record as a state senator, she
entered the national scene
．
In 1972 she
won a seat in the U
．
S
．
House Of Representatives
（众议院）
．
During her time in
office she was devoted to
helping
minorities
，
the poor, and the
elderly
．
“My approach is to
respect the humanity of
everybody
，
”she once said.
That?
s just
the way Barbara
Jordan was
．
1
．
Miss Jordan
decided to become a lawyer________.
A. before she ever started
school
B. when she was in
high school
C. while she was in Congress
D. as soon as she finished
her school
2
．
What
did she study at Boston
University?________.
A
．
History and
science
B
．
Law
C
．
Political
science
D
．
Politics and
history
3. The word “restless” in
Paragraph5 means in its
sentence_______
．
A. having no rest all days and nights
B. being
nervous and impatient
C. having too
much rest
satisfied with a
life she
was living and wanting to have some new
experience
4
．
In her
political life she won________in
1972
．
A
．
a
law degree
B
．
an appointment to the
president?s cabinet
C
．
a seat in the
state senate
D
．
a seat in the U
．
S
．
Con
gress
5
．
Miss Jordan was
the first black woman_________.
A
．
to
be appointed as an ambassador
B
．
from the South
to be elected to Congress
C
．
to be appointed
to the congress
D
．
to win a
national election
参考答案：
1. B
2.
B
3.D
4. D
5. B
Passage 3
Many a young person tell me he wants to
be a writer. I always encourage such
people
，
but I also explain
that there's a
big difference between
being a writer and
writing
．
In most cases they
are dreaming of wealth and
fame
，
not the long hours
alone
at a typewriter. “You?ve got to
want
to write,” I say to
them, “not want to be a writer.”
The reality
is that writing is a
lonely
，
private and poor-
paying affair. Only a few writers were kissed by
fortune, however
there are thousands
more whose work is never
rewarded
．
When I did a
20-year career in the U
．
S
．
Coast Guard
(
海岸巡逻队
队员
) to
become a freelance (
自由作家
)
writer, I had no proposals at all. What I did have
was a friend who found me in my
room in
a New York department building. I didn?t even care
that it was cold and had no bathroom. I
immed
iately bought a used
typewriter and felt like a good writer.
After a year
I still hadn?t got a break and began to doubt
myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I
hardly made enough t
o
eat
．
But I knew 1
wanted to write
．
I had
dreamed about it for years
．
I
wasn't going to be one of those people who did
wondering
“What if”. I would keep
putting my dream to the
test
，
even though it meant
living with uncertainty and fear of
failure
．
This is
the Shadowland (
虚幻境界
)of
hope
，
and anyone with a dream
must learn to live there
．
l. The passage is meant
to_______
．
A
．
warn young
people of the hardships that a successful writer
has to experience
B
．
advise young
people to give up their idea of becoming a
professional writer
C
．
show young
people it?s unrealistic for
a writer to
pursue wealth and fame
D
．
encourage young
people to pursue a writing career
2
．
What can be
concluded from the passage? _______.
A
．
Good writers
often find their work interesting and rewarding
B
．
Writer's
success depends on luck rather than on effort
C
．
Famous writers
usua1ly live in poverty and isolation
D
．
The chances for
a writer to become successful are small
3
．
Why did the
author begin to doubt himself after the first year
of his writing career?
_______
．
A
．
Because he
wa
sn?t able to produce a single
book
B
．
Because he
hadn't seen a change for the better
C
．
Because he
wasn't able to have a rest for a whole year
D
．
Because he
found his dream would never come true
4
．
The word
“people” in the sentence“…people who did
wondering…??in Paragraph 3 refers to those
_______
．
A
．
who think a lot
without making a decision
B
．
who regret
giving up their career halfway
C
．
who think too
mach of the positive side of life
D
．
who are full of
imagination even upon death
5.“Shadowland '?in the last sentence
refers to_______
．
A
．
the wonderful
land one often dreams about
B
．
the bright
future that one is looking forward to
C
．
the state of
uncertainty before one's final goal is
reached
D
．
a word that
exists only in one's imagination
参考答案：
1. A
2.
D
3. B
4. A
5. C
Passage 4
If you've been joining in chat room
conversations, or trading email with net pals(
(
网友
),
),
you have become
one of the
millions who write in a
special, short form of English. Throughout the
world, every night children and their elders are
online
—
many of
them are talking at the same time.
It
?s fast: trying talking to
six people once. It?s convenient: three or four
words per exchange. It takes cleverness,
concentration and quick
fin
gers. And it requires very simple
language. There?s neither time nor space for
explanations. Why
waste precious key-
strokes
（键盘敲击）
telling six friends you have to leave
for a moment to take care of your little brother
when BRB
(=be right back) will do?
Want to enter a conversation? Just type
PMFJI (=pardon me for jumping in).Interested in
whom you're talking to? Type A/S/L,
the
common request to know your pal's age,
sex and location. You may
get 15/M/HK as a reply from your pal. If something
makes you laugh, say you're OTF
(=on the
floor), or LOL (=laughing out loud), or join the
two into ROTFL (= rolling on the
floor
laug
hing).And when it?s time to get
back to work or go to bed, you type GTG (=got to
go) or TTYL (=talk to you later).
People want to write as fast as
possible, and they want to get their ideas across
as quickly as they can. Capital letters are
left in the dust, except when
expressing feeling, as it takes more time to hold
down the
is going too.
1.
when people are online, they talk by ______.
A. using body language
B.
drawing some strange pictures
C. Making
phone calls
D .making use of
an especially short form of English
2. The Internet makes many people in
the world ______
A. talking at the same
time
B. discover
their friends and relatives
C. pick out
good things to buy
D. find out about some
problems in society
3. The sentence
A. people should use words
properly
B.
people should know what time it is when they are
talking
C. People online
have to express themselves in a simple
way
D. people should communicate in a funny
way
4. If you get 19/M/HK as an answer
to your A/S/L, it means
A. the person
who is talking to you is 19 from Hong Kong and he
is high
B. you are talking
to a boy 19 years old and he lives in Hong
Kong
C. you are talking to
19 boys from Hong Kong at the same time
D. the boy from Hong Kong has been
online for 19 minutes
5. which of the
following is a way to save online time?
A. People seldom use capital letters or
punctuation marks.
B. Many people
draw pictures.
C. People only use the
mouse instead of the keyboard
D.
People never use the
参考答案：
1.D
2. A
3. C
4.B
5. A
Passage 5
Many
people believe they are supposed to drink eight
glasses of water a day, or about two liters. Why?
Because that is
what they have been
told all their life. But a new report offers some
different advice. Experts say people should obey
their
bodies;
they should drink as much water as they
feel like drinking.
The report says
most healthy people meet their daily needs for
liquid by letting thirst be their guide. The
report is from
the Institute of
Medicine, part of the National Academies. This
organization provides scientific and technical
advice to the
government and the
public.
The report contains some
general suggestions. The experts say women should
get about two-point-seven liters of water
daily. Men should get about three-
point-seven liters. But
wait
—
in each case that is
more than eight glasses.
There is an
important difference. The report does not tell
people how many glasses of water to drink. In
fact, the experts
say it may be
impossible to know how many glasses are needed to
meet these guidelines
(
指导方针
). This is because the
daily
water requirement can include the
water content in foods. People do not get water
only by forcing themselves to drink a set
number of glasses per day. People also
drink fruit juices and sodas and milk. They drink
coffee and tea. These all contain water.
As you might expect, the Institute of
Medicine says people need to drink more water when
they are physically active. The
same is
true of those who live in hot climates.
Spending on
heat and activity, people could need two times as
much water as
others do.
1.
According to the passage, experts
advise people to _______
A
.
drink eight glasses of water a day
B.
drink as much water as they feel like
drinking
C. drink a glass of
water after each meal
D. drink no less than eight
glasses of water a day
2.
Most healthy people meet their daily
needs for water by drinking
A
when they are
tired
B when
they are sweating
C when
they are thirsty
D when they are hungry
3.
The Institute of Medicine usually
A
changes some
traditional ideas
B
announces some medical advances
C provides scientific and technical
advice to the government and the public
D provides scientific and technical
advice to the National Academies
4,
which of the following is TRUE?
A
People?s daily
water requir
ement can include the water
content in foods.
B The
report does tell people how many glasses of water
to drink a day.
C The experts say it
may be possible to know how many glasses are
needed to meet these guideline:
D
People can?t get water when they
drin
k fruit juices and sodas and milk.
5.
People need to drink more
water
A when they are physically active
B when they
live in hot climates
C when they are
running long distance
D all of the
above
参考答案：
1. B
2. C
3.
C
4. A
5. D
Passage 6
How
often one hears children wishing they were grown
up
，
and old people wishing
they wee young again. Each age has
its
pleasures and its pains
，
and
the happiest person is the one who
enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his
time in
useless regrets.
Youth is a time when there are few
tasks to make life difficult
. If a
child has good parents
，
he is
fed
，
looked after and loved
whatever he may do. It is impossible
that he will ever again in his 1ife be given so
much without having to do anything in
return. In
addition
，
life is always
presenting new things to the child-things that
have lost their interest for older people because
they are too well-known. But a child
has pains:
he is not so free to do what
he wishes to do
；
he is
continually being told not to
do
things
，
or being punished for
what he has done wrong.
When the young
man starts to earn his own
1iving
，
he can no 1onger
expect others to pay for his
food
，
his
clothes
，
and his
room
，
but has to
work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends
most of his time playing about in the way that he
used to as
a
child
，
he will go hungry. And
if he breaks the laws of society as he used to
break the laws of his
parents
，
he may go to prison.
If
，
however, he
works hard
，
keeps out of
trouble and has good
health
，
he can have the great
happiness of building up for himself
his own position in society.
1. People can experience happiness if
they
.
A. always think of the past and regret
it
B. value the present
C. are no
longer young
D. become old
and have much experience
2. When people
were young
，
they used to
.
A. be in charge of many businesses
B. have few things to think about and
take on
C.1ook after their younger sisters and
brothers
D. face a lot of difficulties
3. The pains of children lie in the
fact that
.
A. no one helps them make right
decisions
B. they are often beaten by their
parents
C. they
can not be accepted and praised by others
D.
they are not allowed to do what they like to
do
4. Children are usually
happy because
.
A. old people lose interest in them
B. they are free to do wrong
C. they are
familiar with everything going on around
them
D. things
are new to them
5. Which of
the following is NOT needed for a young man to be
happy?
A. Hard
work.
B. Being free from
troubles.
C.
Wealth.
D.
Health.
参考答案：
1.
B
2. B
3. D
4.
D
5. C
Passage
7
Some of the notebooks George Washington
kept as a young man are still in existence. They
show that he was learning
Latin, was
very interested in the basics of good behavior in
society, and was reading English literature.
At school he seems only to have been
interested in mathematics. In fact, his formal
education was surprisingly brief for a
gentleman, and incomplete. For unlike
other young Virginians of that day, he did not go
to the College of William and Mary in
the Virginian capital of Williamsburg.
In terms of formal training then, Washington
contrasts sharply with some other early
American Presidents such as John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In later
years, Washington probably regretted
his lack of intellectual training. He
never felt comfortable in a debate in Congress, or
on any subject that had not to do with
everyday, practical matters. And
because he never learned French and could not
speak directly to the French leaders, he did not
visit the country he admired so much.
Thus, unlike Jefferson and Adams, he never reached
Europe.
1. Why didn?t
Washington go to college
?
A. His family
could not afford it .
B. A college education was rather
uncommon in his time.
C. He didn?t like the young
Virginian gentlemen.
D.
The author doesn?t give any
reason.
2.
Washington felt uncomfortable in Congress debates
because he
.
A. lacked
practice in public speaking.
B. felt his education was
not good enough
C. didn?t like arguing and debating
with people.
D. felt that debating was like
intellectual training.
3.
The reason why Washington didn?t visit
Fran
ce was probably that he
.
A. didn?t really care about
going
B. didn't know French
leaders
C. couldn?t communicate
directly with the French leaders
D.
was too busy to travel
4. According to the author
.
A.
Washington?s lack o
f formal education
placed him at a disadvantage in later
life
B.
Washington should have gone to France even though
he could not speak French
C. Washington was not as good a
president as Adams, Jefferson or Madison
D. Washington was a model
for all Virginian gentlemen.
5. The
main idea of the passage is that Washington?s
education
.
A. was of
great variety, covering many subjects
B. was probably
equal to those of most young gentlemen of his time
C. may seem poor by modern
standards, but was good enough for his time.
D. was rather limited for a
president
参考答案：
1. D
2. B
3.
C
4. A
5. D
Passage 7
Man has always wanted to
fly. Some of the greatest men in history had
thought about the problem. One of them, for
example, was the great Italian artist,
Leonardo Da Vinci (
达芬奇
(
意大利的著名美术家、
雕塑家、
建筑家、
工程师和科学家
).
In the
sixteenth century he made designs for machines
that would fly, but they were never built.
Throughout history, other less famous
men had wanted to fly. An example was a man in
England 800 years ago. He made
a pair
of wings from chicken feathers. Then he fixed them
to his body and jumped into air from a tall
building. He did not fly
very far.
Instead, he fell to the ground and broke every
bone in his body.
The first real steps took
place in France, in 1783. Two brothers, the
Montgolfiers, (
蒙戈尔费埃，约瑟夫·米切尔
1740-1810
法国航空发明家，与其兄
雅克·艾蒂安
(1745-1799
年）制造了第一个
可飞行热气球并乘该气球升空
) made a
very
large “hot air balloon”. They knew that hot air
rises. Why not fill a balloon with it? The balloon
was made of cloth and
paper.
In September of that year, the King and Queen of
France came to see the balloon. They watched it
carry the very first air
passengers
into the sky. The passengers were a sheep and a
chicken. We do not know how they felt about the
trip. But we do
know that the trip
lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed
safely. Two months later, two men did the same
thing. They
rose above Paris in a
balloon of the same kind. Their trip lasted
twenty-five minutes and they traveled about.
1. Leonardo Da Vinci________
A.
said that man would fly in the sky one
day
B. built a kind of
machine which never flew
C. drew many beautiful pictures of
birds
D. made designs for
flying machines
2. Eight hundred years
ago an Englishman________.
A. made a kind of flying
machine
B.
tried to fly with wings made of chicken feather
C.
wanted to build a kind of balloon
D. tried to fly on a large
bird
3. In fact, the Englishman who
tried to fly_______.
A. lost his life
B. flew only 8
minutes
C. got badly wounded
D.
succeeded in flying
4. The very first
air passengers in the balloon were ________
A.
the King and the Queen
B. two Frenchmen
C. two animals
D. the Montgolfiers
5. When did two Frenchmen rise above
Paris?
A. In December 1783
B. In September
1783
C. In November 1783
D. In the
seventeenth century
参考答案：
1.
D 2. B. 3. A. 4. C 5. C.
Passage 8
The
modern sailing ship was developed by a man who
never went to sea. He was Prince Henry of
Portugal, the younger
son of the
Portuguese king and an English princess.
Prince
Henry
lived
in
the
fifteenth
century
.
As
a
boy
he
became
devoted
to
the
sea,
and
he
dedicated
himself
to
improving the design of ships and the
methods of sailing them. In 1416, when he was
twenty-two, Henry founded a school for
mariners
（海员）
, to
which
he
invited
everyone who
could
help
him
—
Jewish
astronomers
(
天文学家
),
Italian
and
Spanish
sailors, and Arab
mathematicians and map makers who knew how to use
the crude (
粗糙的
) compass
(
罗盘
) of the day and
could improve it.
Henry?s goal
was to de
sign and equip vessels
(
船
) that would be capable of
making long ocean voyages without having to
keep close to the shore. The caravel
(
轻快帆船
), which he helped
design, carried more sails and was longer and
slimmer than
any ship then made, yet
was tough enough to stand up against
gales
（大风）
at sea.
He also developed the
carrack
（西班牙大
帆船）
,
which was a slower ship, but one that was capable
of carrying more cargo
（货物）
.
The world owes credit to Prince Henry
for the development of craft
(
船舶
) that made oceanic
exploration possible. He lives in
history as Henry the Navigator.
1. Henry the Navigator was a member of
the royal family of ______________.
A. England
B. Spain
C. Italy
D. Portugal
2. Prince Henry started his
school for the purpose of
______________________________.
A. helping
mariners
B. improving ship
design and sailing methods
C. studying
astronomy and mathematics
D. improving his own skill as a
sailor
3. The teachers in
Prince Henry?s school seemed to have
been_______________________.
A.
members of the royal family
C. shipbuilders
B. astronomers,
sailors and map makers
D.
All of the above
B. travel faster than
those in use at that time
4. Prince
Henry?s goal was to design vessels that could
___________________________.
A.
make long deep-sea voyages
C. explore the coastline of
Portugal
D.
carry larger crews and more cargo than existing
ones
5. Prince Henry?s principal
achievement was that of ___________________.
A. making oceanic exploration
possible
B.
improving the compass
C. founding a school for
mariners
D.
inventing the clipper ship
(
快速大帆船
)
参考答案：
1. D
2.A
3. B
4. A
5.a
Passage 9
Marriage is still a popular
institution in the United States, but divorce is
becoming almost as
people get married,
but at the present time, fifty percent of American
marriages end up in divorce. However four out of
five
divorced people do not stay
single. They get married a second time to new
partners. Sociologists tell us that in the next
century,
most American, people will
marry three or four times in one lifetime.
Alvin Toffler, an American
sociologist, calls this new social form serial
marriages. In his book Future Shock,
Toffler gives
many
reasons
for
this
change
in
American
marriage.
In
modem
society,
people's
lives
don't
stay
the
same
for
very
long.
Americans frequently
change their jobs, their homes, and their circle
of friends. So the person who was a good husband
or wif
e
ten years ago is
sometimes not as good as ten years later. After
some years of marriage, a husband or
wife can feel that their
lives have
become very different, and they don't share the
same interests any more.
For
this
reason
Toffler
says,
people
in
the
twenty-
first
century will
not
plan
to
marry
only
one
person
for
an
entire
lifetime. They will plan to stay
married to one person for perhaps five or ten
years, and then marry another. Most Americans
will expect to have a
word
A) a social practice
B)a social
organization
C) a state
law
D)
an established habit
2. In
the United States __ _
A)marriage is less Popular than divorce
now
B) remaining single is
becoming more and more popular now
C)divorce is as popular as it was
D) remarriage is getting
more popular now
percentage of remarriage among divorced Americans
is _______.
A) fifty percent
B) eighty percent
C) forty percent
D) ninety percent
4. One of the reasons for the change in
American marriages is ________.
A)
difference in interests
B) difference in making friends
C)
difference in choosing jobs
D) difference in family background
5. In the twenty-first
century
, American's attitude towards
remarried people will be _
A) suspicious
B) critical
(
挑剔的
,
对
...
表示不满意的
)
C) fussy
(
爱挑剔的
,
难取悦的
)
D) approving
参考答案：
1. A
2.D
3. B
4. A
5.B
Passage 10
How
men first learn to invent words is unknown; in
other words, the origin of language is a mystery.
All we know is
that men, unlike
animals, somehow invented certain sounds to
express thoughts and feelings, actions and things,
so that they
could communicate with
each other; and that later they agreed upon
certain signs, called letters, which could be
combined to
represent those sounds, and
which could be written down. Those sounds, whether
spoken, or written in letters, we call words.
The power of words, then,
lies in their
associations(
联想
)---the
things they bring up before our minds. Words
become
filled with meaning for us by
experience, and the longer we live, the more
certain words recall to us the glad and sad
events
of
our past; and the
more we read and learn, the more the number of
words that mean something to us increases.
Great writers are those who
not only have great thoughts but also express
these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully
to our minds and emotions. This
charming and telling
(
生动的
)use of words is what we
call literary style. Above all, the real
poet is a master of words. He can
convey his meaning in words which sing like music,
and which by their position and
association can move men to tears. We
should therefore learn to choose our words
carefully and use them accurately, or they
will make our speech silly and vulgar
(
粗俗的
,
庸俗的
).
1. The origin of language is _____.
A. a legend handed down
from the past
B. a question
difficult to answer
C. a
matter that is hidden or secret
D. a problem not yet solved
2. One of the reasons why men
invented certain sounds to express thoughts and
actions was that _____.
A. they could communicate with each
other
B. they could agree
upon certain signs
C. they
could write them down
D.
they could combine them
3. What is true about the words?
A. They are meaningful sounds that
could be written down.
B.
They are used to express feelings only.
C. They are letters.
D. They are mysterious.
4. By
A. a special quality
B. an appearance which is puzzling
C. a strange feature
D. joining
ideas in the mind
5. In
expressing their thoughts, great writers are able
____.
A. to confuse the
readers
B. to
move men to tears
C. to
move our action
D. to
puzzle our feelings
参考答案：
1. D 2.A 3.A 4.D 5.B
Passage 10
It was Monday. Mrs Smith's dog was
hungry, but there was not any meat in the house.
Considering that there was no better
way,
Mrs Smith took a piece
of paper, and wrote the following words on it:
“Give my dog half a pound of meat.” Then she
gave the paper to her dog and said
gently: “Take this to the butcher and he's going
to give you your lunch today.”
Holding the
piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the
butcher's. It gave the paper to the butcher. The
butcher read it
carefully, recognized
that it was really the lady's handwriting and soon
did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy,
and
ate the meat up at once.
At noon, the
dog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a
piece of paper again. After reading it. he gave it
half a
pound of meat once more.
The next day,
the dog came again exactly at noon. And as usual,
it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This
time, the
butcher did not take a look
at paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had
regarded the dog as one of his customers (*people
who buy sth. from a shop).
But, the dog came again at
four o'clock. And the same thing happened once
again. To the butcher's more surprise, it came
for the third time at six o'clock, and
brought with it a third piece of paper. The
butcher felt a bit puzzled. He said to himself,
“This is a small dog. Why does Mrs
Smith give it so much meat to eat
today?”
Looking at the piece of paper, he found
that there were not any words on it!
1.
It seemed that the dog knew well that the paper
Mrs Smith gave it_______.
A. might do it much harm
B. could do it
much good
C.
would help the butcher
D. was worth many pounds
2.
The butcher did not give any meat to the dog
__________.
A. before he
felt sure that the words were really written by
Mrs Smith
B.
when he found that the words on the paper were not
clear
C. because he had
sold out all the meat in his shop
D.
until he was paid enough by Mrs Smith
3. From its experience, the dog found
that ________.
A. only the
paper with Mrs Smith's words in it could bring it
meat
B. the butcher would
give the meat to it whenever he saw it
C. Mrs Smith would pay for the meat it
got from the butcher
D. a
piece of paper could bring it half a pound of
meat
4. At the end of the
story, you'll find that _______.
A. the dog was clever enough to write
on the paper
B. the dog dared not go to the
butcher's any more
C. the
butcher was told not to give any meat to the dog
D. the butcher found
himself cheated (*act in a way that is not
honest)by the clever animal
参考答案：
1--4
BADD
Passage 11
Mrs.
Andrews
had
a
young cat,
and
it was
the cat?s
first winter.
One
evening
it
was
outside
when
it
began
to snow
heavily (
下大雪
).
Mrs. Andrews looked everywhere
(
到处
) and called its name,
but she did not find it, so she called the police
and said, “I lost a small black cat.
Did anybody find one?”
“No,
Madam, ” said the policeman. “But the cats are
really very strong animals. They sometimes live
for days in the
snow, and when it melt
(
融化
) or somebo
dy
finds them, they are all right.” Mrs. Andrews felt
happier when she heard this.
“And,” she
said. “Our cat is very clever
(
聪明
). She almost
(
几乎
)
---
”
The
policeman was getting tired. “Well, then, ” he
said, “Why don?t you put your telephone down?
Maybe sh
e is trying
to
telephone you now. ”
1. Mrs.
Andrews? cat __________________.
A. was at home
B. was very old
C.
didn?t
know its name
D.
was lost
2. Where was the
cat when it began to snow heavily?
________________
A. At home
with Mrs. Andrews
B. In the
snow with other cats
C. It
stayed outside
D. It ran everywhere
happily in the snow
3. When did the
story happen (
发生
)?
______________________
A. On a winter
evening
B. It happened
when the policeman was tired
C. It happened when the snow melted
D. It happened
on one morning
4. The word “ she” in
the last sentence (
句子
)
means__________________.
A. one
of Mrs. Andrew?s friends
B. one of the
policewomen
C. Mrs.
Andrew?s cat
D. the policeman?s wife
5. The policeman was getting tired
because___________________.
A. he had
to look for the ca
t B. Mrs.
Andrews felt happier
C. the cat was
very stron
g, it?s hard for him to catch
it
D. Mrs. Andrews talked
too much to him on the phone
参考答案：
1
—
5 DCACD
Passage 12
A
Letter of Complaint
20th October
Dear Mrs. Hugget,
Y
ou may remember
that we have discussed the noise that your
children make while they are practicing their
musical
instruments.
Y
ou agreed to make sure that they would
stop practicing in
the
evenings.
Y
ou can
imagine
my surprise,
then,
when
I realized
that
things
had
not changed
and
the
situation
was
continuing
as
before. I find
it difficult to stay in the house and I invent any
excuse to go out for the evening to be away from
the terrible noise.
Much as I like
music, I have had enough, and to be
honest, I am not prepared
to put up with the situation anymore.
I think it is high time you
realized your responsibilities as a member of the
community, and I must warn you that unless
you do something about the situation, I
will be forced to take legal action. I have sent a
copy of this letter to my lawyer.
Y
ours sincerely,
Mr Barge
1. From this
letter, we know Mrs Huggett is Mr Barge's
___________.
A.
friend
B.
neighbore
C.
teacher
D. lawyer
2. Mr
Barge feels angry because ________.
A. Mrs Huggett does not
allow her children to play their musical
instruments in the evenings
B. Mrs Huggett's children
play their musical instruments so badly.
C. Mrs Huggett
has refused to talk about the noise problem with
Mr Barge
D. Mrs
Huggett has broken her promise
3. Which of the following statements is
correct according to the passage?
A. Mr Barge is not fond of
music.
B. Mr
Barge likes music but he doesn't like the noise
C. Mr Barge
often goes out in the evenings to give music
lessons.
D. Mr
Barge does not like children.
4. Mr Barge has to leave the house in
the evenings because_________.
A. he wants to have a
discussion with Mrs Huggett
B. he can always invent
some excuse to go out
C. he wants to be away from the noise
D. he realizes
his responsibilities to stop the children from
practicing the musical instruments.
5. Mr Barge is prepared to _________.
A. help Mrs
Huggett to persuade her children not to play their
musical instruments any more
B. take his
responsibilities as a member of the community
C. sue Mrs
Huggett
D.
force Mrs Huggett to send a copy of his letter to
her lawyer
参考答案：
1 B
2 D
3 B
4 C
5 C
Passage 13
There was once a man in South America
who had a parrot, a pet bird that could imitate
human speech. The parrot was
unique.
There was no other bird like him in the whole
world. He could learn to say any word
exc
ept one. He could not say the
name of his native town, Cotano. The
man did everything he could to teach the parrot to
say “Cotano” but he never succeeded.
At
first he was very gentle with the bird, but
gradually he lost his temper. “Y
ou
stupid bird! Why can?t you learn to say that One
word! Say ?Cotano? or I?ll kill you!”
But the parrot would not say it. Many times the
man screamed, “Say ?Cotano? or I?ll
kil
l
you!”
But
the
bird would
never
repeat the
name.
Finally
the
man
gave
up.
He
picked
up
the
parrot
an
d
threw
him
into
the
chicken house. “Y
ou are even
more stupid than the chickens!”
In the chicken house, there were four
old chickens waiting to be killed for Sunday?s
dinner. The next morning, when he
went
out to the chicken house, the man opened the door.
He was shocked by what he saw. He could not
believe his eyes and
ears. On the floor
lay three dead chickens, the parrot was screaming
at the fourth, “Say ?Cotano? or I?ll kill you!”
1. Why
couldn?t
the parrot say the
name of his native town?
A.
Because it was stupid.
B. Because it
didn?t
want to say it.
C. Because the man
didn
?t teach it how to say.
D. The reason is not
mentioned in the story.
2.
Why did the man lose his temper?
A. Because the bird
couldn?t
repeat
his master?s na
me.
B. Because the bird
screamed all day long.
C.
Because the bird uttered the wrong word.
D. Because the
bird failed to say the name of the town.
3. Who killed the three
chickens?
A. The cruel
master.
B. The
man in the kitchen.
C. The pet bird.
D. The fourth chicken.
4. Why was the man shocked
at the scene the next morning?
A. The bird had finally understood his
threat.
B. The
bird managed to escape from the chicken house.
C. The bird had learned to
scream back at him.
D. The bird was living peacefully with
the chickens.
5. Which of
the following is NOT true according to the
passage?
A. The man loved
his parrot very much and always treated it kindly.
B. The parrot
could imitate a lot of human language.
C. The parrot was thrown into the
chicken house by its master.
D. Three of the
old chickens were dead the next day.
参考答案：
1. D 2. D 3. C 4.
A
5. A
Passage 14
When
we see well,
we
do
not
think
about
our
eyes
very
often.
It
is
only when we
cannot see
perfectly that we
realize
how
important our eyes are.
People who are near-sighted can only
see things that are very close to their eyes,
Everything else seems blurry(=unclear).
Many people who do a lot of work, such
as writing, reading and sewing become
near
—
sighted. Then
People who
are far-sighted
suffer from
just
the
opposite
problem.
They can see
things
that
are
far
away,
but
they
have
difficulty in reading a
book unless they hold it at arm?s length. If they
want to do much reading ,they must get glasses,
too
.
Other people do
not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly
the right shape. They have what is called
astigmatism
(
散光
).
This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some
people
’
s eyes become cloudy
because of cataracts (
白内障
).
Long ago
these people often became
blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on
the cataracts and remove them.
Having two good eyes is important for
judging distances. Each eye sees things from a
slightly different angle
(
角度
). To
prove
this to yourself, look at an object our of one
eye; then look at the same object out of your
other eye. Y
ou will find the
objec
t?s
relation
to
the
background
and
other
things
around
it
has
changed.
The
difference
between
these
two
different
eye
views helps us to judge how far away an
object is. People who
have only one eye
cannot judge distance as people with two
eyes.
1. We should take good
care of our eyes .
A. only when we can
see well
B. only when we
cannot see perfectly
C. even if we can
see well
D. only when we realize how
important our eyes are
2.
When things far away seem
indistinct(
模糊不清
) , one is
probably .
A. near-sighted
B. far-sighted
C. astigmatic
D.
suffering from cataracts
3. The
underlined word suffer in the third paragraph
probably means .
A. experience
B.
imagine
C. feel pain
D.
are affected with
4. Having
two eyes instead of one is particularly useful for
.
A. seeing at night
B. seeing objects far away
C.
looking over a wide area
D. judging distances
5. People who suffer from astigmatism
have .
A. one eye bigger than the other
B.
eyes that are not exactly the right shape
C. a difficulty that can be corrected
by an operation
D. an eye difficulty that cannot be
corrected by glasses
参考答案：
1C 2
A
3 D 4 D 5 B
Passage 15
When we can see
well
，
we don?t think about
our eyes very often
．
It is
only when we cannot see perfectly that we come
to see how important our eyes
are
．
People who
are nearsighted can only see things that are very
close to their eyes
．
Many
people who do a lot of close
work
，
such as
writing
，
reading and
sewing
，
become
nearsighted
．
Then they have
to wear glasses in order to see distant things
clearly
．
People
who are farsighted suffer from just the opposite
problem
．
They can see things
that are far away
．
but they
have
difficulty reading a book unless
they hold it at arm?s
length
．
If they want to do
much reading
，
they must get
glasses too
．
Other
people
don?t
see
clearly
because
their
eyes
are
not
exactly
the
right
shape
．
This
，
too
，
can
be
corrected
by
glasses
．
Some
people?s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts(<
/p>
白内障
)
．
Lo
ng ago these people often became blind
．
Now
，
however
，
it is possible to operate on the
cataracts and remove them
．
When night
falls
，
colors become
fainter(
更暗淡的
)to the eye and
finally disappear
．
After your
eyes have grown used to
the
dark
，
you can see better if
you use the sides of your eyes rather than the cen
ter
．
Sometimes
，
after dark
，
you see a
small thing
to one side of
you
，
which seems to disappear
if you turn your head to its
direction
．
This is because
when you turn your head
，
you
are
looking
at
the
thing
too
directly
．
Men
on
guard
duty
sometimes
think
they
see something
moving
to
one
side
0f
them
．
When they
turn to look straight at
it
，
they cannot see it any
more
，
and they believe they
were mistaken
．
However
，
this
mistake happens
because the center of the
eye
，
which is very
sensitive(
敏感的
)in
daylight
，
is not as sensitive
as the sides of the
eye after
dark?
1
．
We don?t
realize that our eyes are important
until______.
[A] we are sick
[B]
we can?t
see clearly
[C] we wear glasses
[D]
we burst into tears
2
．
If
a person is farsighted, he will_______.
[A] see close things clearly
[B] have no trouble in reading a book
at arm?s length
[C] do a lot
of close work
[D] have the
same problem as the nearsighted person
3
．
Cataracts is a
kind of illness that _____________.
[A]must lead to blindness
[B]can not be treated by
operations
[C]can be cured
[D]can change
the color of eyes
4
．
The
passage mainly discusses____
[A] the
nearsighted
[B]
the farsighted
[C]
cataracts
[D] eyes
5
．
Which of the
following is TRUE?
[A]Sometimes we can
not see a thing because we look directly at
it
[B]Sometimes we can not
see a thing because we use the sides of eyes to
see it
[C]The center of the eye is more
sensitive than the sides of the eye
after dark?
[D]The center of
the eye is as sensitive as the sides of the eye in
daylight
参考答案：
1.B
2.B
3.C
4.D
5.A
Passage 16
Let me tell you a story about Bert and
Mildred
Bumbridge, who used to be very
forgetful. For example, Mildred would
forget to cook dinner, or Bert would
show up for work on Sunday thinking it was Monday.
One summer they were to take a
long
plane trip. What do you suppose happened? Well,
they got to the airport with only ten minutes to
spare.
So time was short.
In
that situation anyone would get on the plane right
away. But not Mr. And Mrs. Bumbridge. They just
had to buy some flight
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