大学英语B统考真题系列卷 (50)

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   1、Social customs differ from country to country. Does a man walk on the left or the right of a woman in your country? Or doesn't it matter? What about table manners? Should you use both hands when you are eating? Should you leave one in your lap, or on the table?
   The Americans and the British not only speak the same language but also share a large number of social customs. For example, in both America and England people shake hands when they meet each other for the first time. Also, most Englishmen will open a door for a woman or offer their seat to a woman, and so will most Americans. Promptness is important both in England and in America. That is, if a dinner invitation is for 7 o'clock, the dinner guest either arrives close to that time or calls up to explain his delay.
   The important thing to remember about social customs is not to do anything that might make other people feel uncomfortable － especially if they are your guests. There is an old story about a man who gave a formal dinner party. When the food was served, one of the guests started to eat his peas with a knife. The other guests were amused or shocked, but the host calmly picked up his knife and began eating in the same way. It would have been bad manners to make his guest feel foolish or uncomfortable.
1）、The guest should find an excuse if he is to be late for the dinner.
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答案：B
2）、"It would have been bad manners to make his guest feel foolish or uncomfortable" "Bad manners" means shameful.
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答案：B
3）、According to the text, the best host tried his best to make his guests feel comfortable.
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答案：A
4）、The host was polite when he picked up his knife and began eating in the same way.
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5）、This passage mainly tells us something about social customs.
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   2、How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thought 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 present 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 - 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 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 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.  
1）、The origin of language is _________.
A.a legend handed down from the past
B.a matter that is hidden or secret
C.a question difficult to answer
D.a problem not yet solved
答案：D
2）、What is true about words?
A.They are used to express feelings only.
B.They can not be written down.
C.They are simply sounds.
D.They are mysterious.
答案：C
3）、The real power of words consists in their ______.
A.properties
B.characteristics
C.peculiarity
D.representative function
答案：D
4）、By "association" in the last paragraph, the author means ______.
A.a special quality
B.a joining of ideas in the mind
C.an appearance which is puzzling
D.a strange feature
答案：B
5）、Which of the following statements about the real poet is NOT true?
A.He is no more than a master of words.
B.He can convey his ideas in words which sing like music.
C.He can move men to tears.
D.His style is always charming.
答案：A
   3、A guide dog is a dog especially trained to guide a blind person. Dogs chosen for such training must show good disposition, intelligence, physical fitness and sense of responsibility.
   At the age of about fourteen months, a guide dog begins an intensive course that lasts from three to five months. It becomes accustomed to the leather harness and stiff leather handle it will wear when guiding its blind owner. The dog learns to watch the traffic and to cross the street safely. It also learns to obey such commands as "forward", "left", "right" and "sit" and to disobey any command that might lead its owner into danger.
   The most important part of the training course is a four-week program in which the guide dog and its future owner learn to work together. However, many blind people are unsuited by personality to work with dogs. Only a tenth of the blind find a guide dog useful.
1）、A guide dog is a dog trained to help the blind.                                 
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答案：A
2）、A guide dog begins its training course at the age of fourteen months.        
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3）、Learning not to guide its owner in the street is included in the training course.
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答案：B
4）、The most important part of the training course is to teach the dog how to cooperate with its future owner.         
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5）、Guide dogs are not popular because it's hard to train a guide dog.                        
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   4、When foreigners come to China for the first time, they are always surprised by the number of bicycles on the roads. China has more cyclists than any other country in the world.
   Because the roads are so crowded with bicycles, it is very important for cyclists to remember the traffic rules and regulations.
   Before you ride your bicycle on the roads, you must register it and get a number for it. This number will be on a plate on your bicycle. Also, the traffic authorities will want to check the bicycle to make sure that it is in good condition.
   Young children may not ride bicycles in the streets, because there is so much traffic that is dangerous. A cyclist must keep at least one hand on the handlebars at all times, and a bicycle may not carry more than one adult person.
   On which side of the road should you ride? On the right, of course! If you ride on the left of the road, against the traffic, you may cause an accident. Like the driver of a car or bus, you must follow all traffic signs and signals. Everybody knows that you must not turn left or go straight across at a red traffic light. Usually you can turn right, but you must check first to make sure that the road is clear.
   If you want to turn or stop, you must give a signal to the cyclists who are riding behind you. Give a signal with your hand at least ten meters before you turn or stop. When you ride past a parked car, you must be careful in case the door opens suddenly or the car starts and drives out in front of you.
   Remember these rules and regulations when you ride your bicycle, and help to keep China's roads safe.
1）、It is important for cyclists in China to remember the traffic rules because the roads are crowded with bicycles.
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答案：A
2）、Before you take your bicycle out on the roads you must check the condition of the authorities.
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答案：B
3）、It is wrong to ride with both hands off the handlebars.
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答案：A
4）、If you ride on the left side of the road, you will be against the traffic.
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答案：A
5）、At a red traffic light you must give a hand signal.
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答案：B
   5、A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancée （未婚妻）. The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present on her birthday. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he had no idea how to do it, as he had very little money. The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: gold watches, diamond... but all these things were too expensive. There was one thing he could not take his eyes off. It was a beautiful vase. That was a suitable present for his fiancée. He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him.
   The young man told him everything. The manager felt sorry for him and decided to help him. A bright idea struck him. The manager pointed to the corner of the shop. To his great surprise the young man saw a vase broken into many pieces. The manager said: "When the servant enters the room, he will drop it."
   On the birthday of his fiancée the young man was very excited.
   Everything happened as had been planned. The servant brought in the vase, and as he entered the room, he dropped it. There was horror on everybody's face. When the box was opened, the guests saw that each piece was packed separately.
1）、The story took place in the United States.
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答案：B
2）、The young man's family was poor while the beautiful girl is rich, according to the passage.

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答案：A
3）、The young man wanted to buy a present as a Christmas gift for the girl.
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答案：B
4）、The shop manager came to talk to the young man, because he was poorly dressed.
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答案：B
5）、On the birthday of his fiancée, the young man was excited because the girl was in love with him.
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答案：B
   6、Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666. The servants were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow (暗淡的光) of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning, the glow had become so bright that one of the servants, Jane, woke her master to see it. Pepys went to the window to watch it. It seemed fairly far away, so after a time he went back to bed. When he got up in the morning, it looked as though the fire was dying down, though he could still see some flames. So he set to work to tidy his room and put his things back where he wanted them after the servants had cleaned everything.
   While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard that the fire was a bad one: three hundred houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to the Tower of London and climbed up on a high part of the building so that he could see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning. Someone told him that the fire had started in a baker's house in Pudding Lane, and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So began the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, so it is said, at Pie Corner.
1）、The servants were up very late because they were watching a fire.
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答案：B
2）、Pepys went back to bed because the fire was far away.
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答案：A
3）、A lot of houses were burned down in the fire.
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答案：A
4）、The fire started on London Bridge.
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答案：B
5）、Pie Corner was the place where the fire ended.
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   7、On Christmas Eve─the night before Christmas Day─children all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.
   Father Christmas is very kind and hearted. He gets to the top of each house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with Christmas presents.
   Of course, Father Christmas isn't real. In Jim and Kate's house, "Father Christmas" is really Mr Green. Mr Green doesn't climb down the chimney. He waits until the children are asleep. Then he quietly goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings with small presents. When they were very young, Mr Green sometimes wore a red coat. But he doesn't do that now. The children are no longer young, and they know who "Father Christmas" really is. But they still put their stockings at the end of their beds.
1）、Christmas Eve is the night before Christmas Day.
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答案：A
2）、Father Christmas often puts presents under children's beds.
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答案：B
3）、When the children were very young,they knew who put the presents into their stockings.
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4）、When the children are older, they know that Father Christmas is really their father.
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答案：A
5）、People tell children that Father Christmas comes into the house through the chimney.
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   8、Gladys Holm was a secretary(秘书). She worked in an office all her life. Gladys earned(挣) about $ 15,000 a year. She died when she was 86 years old. And she left a big surprise---$ 18 million! She gave the money to a children's hospital.
   Gladys Holm never got married or had any children. But she always liked children, and she wanted to help them. When her friend's daughter was ill in hospital, Gladys brought her a teddy bear. After that, she visited the hospital many times. Every time she visited, she brought teddy bears for those children. After that, people started to call Gladys the "Teddy Bear Lady".
   Gladys always gave toys and presents to her friends and family but no one knew she had a lot of money. She lived in a small house outside Chicago. Everyone was very surprised when they learned she was a millionaire. A family friend said, "She always gave us nice presents and things, but we didn't know she was rich.
   How did Gladys get so much money? She asked her boss how to earn more money, and she listened to what he said. She bought the stocks(股票) that he told her to buy, and she got very rich. Before she died, she talked to her friends about "giving something to the children's hospital". No one knew that the "something" was $ 18 million!
1）、Gladys Holm often gave children teddy bears because she liked children very much.
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答案：A
2）、Gladys was called the "Teddy Bear Lady".
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3）、Everyone was surprised that Gladys lived such a long life.
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答案：B
4）、She got rich as she did another job in the hospital.
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答案：B
5）、When Gladys Holm became a millionaire, she still lived in the same way.
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答案：A
   9、I felt very sad not to be able to get the ticket for the film Titanic last Friday. I learned in the newspaper that tickets could be bought at the cinema box office (售票处) in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9:00 to 5:30, the only time I could go to the cinema was during my 45-minute lunch time. It is a pity that the cinema is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes.
   Last Monday I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes, waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip. So I had to go back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday my luck changed. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the cinema in twenty minutes. But when I got there, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say that he had been waiting in line for over an hour. I found that I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and went back across the town.
   By Friday I understood my only hope was to make the trip by car. It was expensive, but I felt that it would be worth it to see the film. The trip by car only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I reached the cinema, I was delighted to see that nobody was waiting in line. But I quickly found out that it was because they had already sold all the tickets.
1）、He tried to go to the cinema every day but he only got there three times.
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答案：B
2）、It seems that the writer of the story works in a small town.
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答案：A
3）、The underlined word "delighted" may be replaced (替换) by "surprised".
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答案：B
4）、The writer could buy the tickets neither before nor after work hours.
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答案：A
5）、The best title of the story is "Ticket sold out".
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答案：A
   10、A man was traveling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the car and went shopping. When he came back, its roof was badly damaged. Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it. The man did not believe them, but they took him to a circus which was near there. The owner of the elephant said," I am very sorry! My elephant has a big, round, red chair. He thought that your car was his chair, and he sat on it!" Then he gave the man a letter, in which he said that he was sorry and that he would pay for all the damage. When the man got back to his own country, the customs officers would not believe his story. They said, "You sold your new car while you were abroad and bought this old one". It was only when the man showed them the letter from the circus man that they believed him.
1）、The car was damaged because there was a traffic accident.
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答案：B
2）、A man was traveling abroad in a red car.
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3）、The circus man said that he would pay for all of the damage.
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4）、When the man got back to his country, the customs officers didn't believe his words.
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答案：A
5）、The letter from the police made the officers believe him.
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答案：B
   11、When friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us they are in a hurry and looking at their watches. It isn't that our friends are all very busy; it is just that we haven't got a television. People think that we are very strange. "But what do you do in the evening?" they are always asking. The answer is very simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. We certainly don't spend our evenings staring at the walls. My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends evening classes in foreign languages. This is particularly useful as we often go abroad for our holidays. I collect stamps and I'm always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to the music and playing chess together．
   Sometimes there are power cuts(断电) and we have no electricity in the house. This does not worry us; we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before. Our friends, however, are lost---no television! So they don't know what to do. On such evenings our house is very full, and they all come to us. They all have a good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games．
1）、Their friends don't like to stay at the couple's house as there is not a television.
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答案：A
2）、The couple have not got a television, because they enjoy spending evenings in their own ways.
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3）、At night when there is no electricity, the couple can do nothing but sit in silence.
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答案：B
4）、The writer tries to tell us that life is enjoyable with many friends.
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答案：B
5）、The best title for this passage may be "We Go Without Televisions".
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   12、Four years ago, when Ted was sixty years old, he retired. He had worked in a restaurant for forty-three years. He left and returned to his home village. There he bought a small piece of farm and planted a lot of apple trees in it. He takes good care of them and this year there are plenty of apples in the trees. The old man is very happy.
   But these days the old man has been worried. Nearly every night his garden is broken into and quite a few apples have been lost. So he decided to do his best to catch the thief himself. Last night he sat in a tree and carefully watched who would come and pick the apples. Later at night, Ted was so tired that he went to sleep. Suddenly some noise woke him up. The noise came from a big tree. He went there quietly and saw a boy standing under the tree with a bag full of apples. At once he recognized it was Tom who lives just next to him.
   "How can you do that, Tom?" The old man became angry and shouted. "I'll tell your father about it!"
   But the boy wasn't afraid about it. He looked up and called out, "Have you heard that yet, Dad?"

1）、When Ted was seventeen, he began to work in the restaurant.
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2）、Ted planted lots of apple trees in the farm after he had already retired.
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答案：A
3）、Ted was happy some days ago because his garden was beautiful.

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答案：B
4）、Ted sat in the tree to catch the thief.
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5）、Tom wasn't afraid because his father had brought him to the farm.
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   13、Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? Things have changed.
   China has banned free plastic bags at shops and supermarkets, and people have to pay for using plastic bags. The rule started on June 1. It came because our country tried to make litter less. Making super-thin plastic bags has also been banned.
   The Chinese once used about 3,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags a day, and they have caused pollution of the environment. The bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution because they are not easy to break and people throw them away here and there. So the Chinese people are encouraged to bring their own bags for shopping.
   What kind of shopping bag is the best to bring? Some students in Chongqing have a good idea. They make their own shopping bags. They use old clothes to make cloth bags, and send them to their parents as presents. They also ask their parents and friends to use cloth bags instead of plastic ones. They think it is their duty to protect the environment.
1）、People in China have to pay for using plastic bags at shops and supermarkets now.
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答案：A
2）、China made this rule because plastic bags were bad for the environment.
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3）、The Chinese people are encouraged to bring their own bags for shopping.
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4）、Some students in Chongqing buy cloth bags for their parents.
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答案：B
5）、The main idea of the article is the bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution.
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   14、Morgan Rees has always been a good businessman. He used to own three petrol stations and was busy most of the time. When he was 65, the normal retirement age, he decided that he didn't want to stop, so he carried on working for another two years. Eventually, when he was nearly 68, his wife, Dolly, asked him to retire because she wanted to enjoy their old age together. Reluctantly, he handed over the business to his son.
   But he was unhappy. He didn't know what to do with himself. Although he read a lot of books and he went on holiday to interesting places with his wife, he was bored and began to get depressed because he hated being retired.
   Then one day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper and, without telling his wife, he bought a small crockery (陶器) factory. The next week he told his family. They were horrified and worried. They thought he was too old at 71 to start work again.
   He is now 76 and he has expanded the company considerably. He has increased the number of staff from 6 to 24 and he has found many new customers for the products. He has developed the export market and has improved profits by 200%. He has opened a new design office and employed three young designers. They have been all over the world to get new ideas, and one of them has gone to France this week to a major trade fair. Most importantly, he hasn't been bored since he bought the factory.
1）、The topic sentence of Para. 1 is ______.
A.Morgan Rees has always been a good businessman
B.he used to own three petrol stations and was busy most of the time
C.when Morgan Rees was 65, he got retired
D.reluctantly, he handed over the business to his son
答案：A
2）、The topic sentence of Para. 2 is ______.
A.he didn't know what to do with himself
B.he went on holiday to interesting places with his wife
C.he was unhappy after he got retired
D.none of them
答案：C
3）、Which of the following statements can best express the main idea of Para. 3?
A.One day he saw an advertisement in the newspaper.
B.He bought a small crockery factory in secret and started work again.
C.He told his family he bought a small crockery factory.
D.His family was horrified and worried when they learned he bought the small factory.
答案：B
4）、What is the central idea of the last paragraph?
A.Morgan Rees has worked until he is 76.
B.Morgan Rees has developed the export market and improved the profits by 200%.
C.Morgan Rees hasn't been bored since he bought the factory.
D.Since he started working again, Morgan Rees has expanded the company considerably, which has enriched his retired life.
答案：D
5）、The passage mainly deals with ______.
A.why Morgan Rees bought a small crockery factory
B.how Morgan Rees lived his retired life more happily by turning to work again
C.how Moran Rees became a good businessman
D.how Moran Rees expanded the company considerably
答案：B
   15、New York is one of the most exciting cities in the world.
   You might want to do some shopping in New York. Fifth Avenue is probably New York's most famous shopping street, but if you go, be prepared to "window shop" only. This is shopping for the rich. There are other less expensive shopping areas nearby, and you'll soon come across famous stores such as Bloomingdales, Macy's and FAO Schwartz.
   And if you've brought your rollerblades, then a visit to Central Park is a must. This is a large, open park right in the middle of Manhattan, but if you thought that people came here to relax, sit down for a few minutes and get away from the rush of New York life, then you'd be wrong. Nobody sits in Central Park: they run, jog（慢跑）, and most of all they rollerblade.
   When you leave New York, you might be tired, even poor and overweight, but the one thing you won't be is bored!
1）、You would probably only "window shop" in Fifth Avenue because it is a famous shopping street.
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答案：B
2）、People don't run in Central Park according to the author.
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答案：B
3）、New York is an exciting place according to the passage.
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答案：A
4）、In the last paragraph, the writer implies you are attracted by New York.
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5）、The meaning of "window shop"in the second paragraph means looking only without buying.
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答案：A
   16、Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention in class. Contrary to what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.
1）、During the test, those who were tested were given very rich breakfast.
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答案：B
2）、The results of the test show that breakfast has a great effect on work and studies.
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答案：A
3）、According to the passage many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast, you will lose weight.
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答案：A
4）、It's unknown that you will gain weight if you have breakfast.
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5）、Eating less in lunch and supper may help to lose weight.
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   17、For several years，Americans have enjoyed teleshopping－watching TV and buying things by phone. Now teleshopping is starting in Europe. In a number of European countries，people can turn on their TVs and shop for clothes，jewelry，food，toys，and many other things.
   Teleshopping is becoming popular in Sweden，for example. The biggest Swedish company sells different kinds of things on TV in 15 European countries，and in one year it made $100 million. In France there are two teleshopping channels，and the French spend about $20 million a year to buy things through those channels.
   In Germany，until last year teleshopping was only possible on one channel for 1 hour every day. Then the government allowed more teleshopping. Other channels can open for telebusiness，including the largest American teleshopping company and a 24-hour teleshopping company. German businesses are hoping this new teleshopping will help them sell more things.
   Some people like teleshopping because it allows them to do their shopping without leaving their homes. With all the problems of traffic in the cities，this is an important reason. But at the same time，other Europeans do not like this new way of shopping. They can do teleshopping "junk on the air". Many Europeans usually worry about the quality of the things for sale on TV. Good quality is important to them，and they believe they cannot be sure about the quality of the things on TV.
   The need for high quality means that European teleshopping companies will have to be different from the American companies. They will have to be more careful about the quality of the things they sell. They will also have to work harder to sell things that the buyers cannot touch or see in person.
1）、Teleshopping is cheap in Europe.
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2）、People like teleshopping because it is easier.
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3）、Some Europeans don't like teleshopping because they don't watch TV.
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4）、In Germany，teleshopping may have fewer buyers.
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5）、The best title of this passage is " Teleshopping in Europe" .
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   18、Tom is a little boy, and he is only seven years old. One day he went to the cinema. It is the first time for him to do that. He bought a ticket and then went in. But after two or three minutes he came out, bought a second ticket and went in again. After a few minutes he came out again and bought a third ticket. Two or three minutes later he came out and asked for another ticket. Then the girl in the ticket office asked him, "Why do you buy so many tickets? How many friends do you meet?" Tom answered," No, I have no friend here. But a big boy always stops me at the door and tears（撕）my ticket to pieces."
1）、Tom wanted to buy the fourth ticket when the girl asked him.
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2）、The big boy stopped Tom at the door because the big boy didn't like Tom.
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3）、The big boy was a worker at the cinema.
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4）、From the story we know the little boy had a lot of money.
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5）、Tom was too young to make friends.
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   19、Mark Twain was a famous writer. He wrote many famous stories which are still popular in many countries today. Mark Twain was also famous in his day as a public speaker. In his public speeches Twain liked to tell stories. He also liked to listen to funny stories and to play jokes on his friends. One day, one friend, John, lost his wallet and asked Mark Twain to pay his train fare for him.
   "But I don't have enough money to pay both your fare and my fare,"Mark Twain said.
   John didn't know what to do. He was worried.
   "We can do this,"said Mark Twain."We can get on the train and when the conductor comes to take the tickets, you can hide under my seat."
   Later, however, on the train, when the conductor came, Mark Twain gave him two tickets - one for himself and one for John. Then in a loud voice, Mark Twain explained:
   "My friend here is a strange man. When he travels on a train, he prefers to lie on the floor under the seat. He doesn't like to sit on the seat."
   Of course, everyone in the train then looked at the poor friend under the seat and laughed at him.
1）、The passage states that Mark Twain is famous not only for his writing but also for his public speeches.

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2）、According to the passage, Mark Twain didn't buy train tickets for his friends.

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3）、Mark Twain didn't have enough money to buy a ticket for John.
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4）、Mark Twain gave the conductor some money in order to help John.
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5）、John lied on the floor under the seat because Mark Twain played a joke on him.

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   20、Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. Very soon it spread to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to background music.
   To begin with, background music was intended simply to create a soothing （舒适的） atmosphere. Recently, however, it's becoming a big business. An American marketing expert has shown that music can boost（提升） sales or increase factory production by as much as a third.
   But it has to be the light music. Lively music has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increase receipts（收入） by 34%. This is probably because shoppers slow down and have more opportunity to spot items they would like to buy. Yet, slow music isn't always the answer. The expert found that in restaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals, which reduced overall sales. So restaurant owners might be well advised to play faster music to keep the customers moving－unless, of course, the resulting indigestion（消化不良） leads to complaints.
1）、Backgroundmusic was first used in the factories, shops and restaurants in the USA.

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2）、AnAmerican marketing expert has found background music can increase sales or factory production.

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3）、Slow musichas no effect on sales.
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4）、Slow music is useless in factoriesin increasing sales.
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5）、Restaurant owners are advised to play lively musicto increase overall sales.
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   21、In 1626, Manhattan Island was purchased（购买）from the Indians by Peter Minuit. It cost about $ 2,400. At first, it was called New Amsterdam by the Dutch settlers. Later it was renamed New York by the English.
   The city grew rapidly. There were several reasons for this, but the most important one is its location. New York is situated on the best American harbor on the Atlantic Ocean. It also lies on the Hudson River, which allows water transportation into the middle of the United States.
   Today New York has a population of approximately eight million. The city has groups from many races. It is famous for its Chinatown. It also has the largest Jewish population of any city outside Israel. After the blacks were released from slavery, a large number of them moved into cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. More recently, people from Puerto Rico have done the same thing.
   New York is made up of five boroughs（行政区）. The Bronx is the only one located on the mainland, with Brooklyn, Richmond, and Queens being on islands. It is a large manufacturing center because factories can be located near good water transportation. Two of the main businesses are the clothing industry and the printing industry. Most large publishing companies have their headquarters there.
1）、Manhattan was bought by Peter Minuit.
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2）、The Indians named the city New York.
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3）、New York grows so rapidly, because of its people.
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4）、New York borough Bronx is not on an island.
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5）、The printing industry and the clothing industry are two of the main businesses of New York.
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   22、A friend of mine was fond of drawing horse. He drew the horses very well, but he always began at the tail. Now it is the Western rule to begin at the head of the horse, that is why I was surprised. It struck me that it could not really make any difference whether the artist begins at the head or the tail or the belly or the foot of the horse, if he really knows his business. And most great artists who really know their business do not follow other people's rule. They make their own rules. Every one of them does his work in a way peculiar to himself; and the peculiarity means only that he finds it more easy to work in that way.
   Now the very same thing is true to literature. And the question, "How shall I begin?" only means that you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. That is, you are not yet experienced enough to trust to your own powers. When you become more experienced you will never ask the question, and I think that you will often begin at the tail --- that is to say, you will write the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning.
1）、One of the writer's friends drew the horses in the way of his own rule.
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2）、The writer was surprised because the artist did not follow other people's rule.
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3）、You are not yet experienced because you don't know where to begin.
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4）、When you become more experienced you will never ask questions.
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5）、The topic of the passage is Trust Your Own Powers.
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   23、Good children must be good students at school. They should work hard at all subjects and do what is given to them on time. They should develop the ability to care for themselves, to try not to depend too much on their parents, to think independently and to work in a planned way. They ought to respect teachers, have a cooperative attitude towards schoolmates and always be ready to help others.
   At home, good children should be tidy and hard working. Besides schoolwork they should help their parents with housework and be always ready to show respect and gratitude to their parents whenever their parents do something for them. They should also be very considerate towards their entire family. They ought to please their family with something that makes them happy and feel good instead of upsetting them with their personal worries. When it is absolutely necessary to talk to their parents about their personal problems, they should talk nicely and calmly, getting ready to take advice from their parents since they are much more experienced in life. If any disagreement occurs, good children should try to iron out (解决、消除) the disagreement by listening to the parents' opinions. They never take it for granted that they are always in the right. On the contrary, good children learn quickly by listening to others.

1）、The most suitable title for this passage would be that What Good Children Should Be.
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2）、One important ability good children are supposed to develop is to think independently.
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3）、Good children should never talk about their personal worries.
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4）、When there is a disagreement between parents and children, good children should talk nicely.
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5）、In the last paragraph, the sentence "They never take it for granted that they are always in the right" means they never think that they are always right.
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   24、Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three people wrote 63. To write six hundred and three, people wrote 6 3.The space between six and three was there to mean." not any " tens. Sometimes people did not remember the space. It was hard to see and read.
   Later people used a dot to hold the space. Six hundred and three looked like this 6.3.But the dot was hard to see. So people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3.Then people could see the dot. They remembered the space. At last, only the circle around the dot was used. It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero came to be used.
   Now zero has many important uses. Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways of using zero?
1）、Long, long ago people didn't know how to write zero.
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2）、Long, long ago if they wrote two hundred-eight, people wrote 218.
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3）、Later a dot was used to mean space.
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4）、People used circles to remember ways.
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5）、The story tells us how zero came to be used.
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25、A City of the World
   Most people imagine New York to be a city of skyscrapers. Perhaps too, they associate the city with the World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty, Fifth Avenue, Times Square, the United Nations, and Central Park and so on. Except for the Statue of Liberty, all these places are in one part of the city, that is, Manhattan, which seems to be an island of skyscrapers.
   The city is also a place where the headquarters of the United Nations is located. People from all over the world live in the city and work at the United Nations. The translators working at the UN must speak one of the five official languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese.
   The World Trade Center is a "United Nations of Commerce" along the Hudson River. The towers of the World Trade Center are 405 meters high, and each has 110 floors. Together the two towers have 48,600 windows. Three of the 102 elevators in each tower can take you from the first to the 11th floor in one minute. Besides, there are international banks, government offices, transportation companies, restaurants and import and export businesses inside the twin towers. The lobby of a building is usually on the ground floor, but at the World Trade Center there are lobbies in the sky!
1）、The passage is entitled "A City of the World", because the United Nations and the World Trade Center are in the city.
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2）、Skyscrapers can be seen everywhere in it.
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3）、The World Trade Center is a "United States of Commerce".
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4）、The passage says, "...at the World Trade Center there are lobbies in the sky!" It means the lobbies are not open to public.
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5）、The city's development is NOT discussed in the passage.
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   26、Grandma was a wonderful story-teller, and she had a set of priceless, individually tailoredstories with which American grandparents of her day brought up children. There was the story of the little boys who had been taught complete, quick obedience（服从）. One day when they were out on the grassy plain, their father shouted: "Fall down on your faces!" They did, and the terrible grassland fire swept over them and they weren't hurt. There was also the story of three boys at school, each of whom received a cake sent from home. One saved his, and the mice ate it; one ate all of his, and he got sick; and who do you think had the best time? -Why, of course, the one who shared his cake with his friends.
1）、The main idea of this passage is the grandma's stories helped teach the children morals and good manners.
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2）、The big fire soon spread over to the village supports the main idea of the passage.
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3）、Grandma was good at telling children stories.
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4）、The boy who shared his cake with others        was praised by the author.

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5）、According to this passage, the underlined word "tailored" probably means measured.

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   27、Our family is trying to decide where to go for our vacation this summer. Our son, Tom, wants to go to Yellow Stone Park again to see the bears. We did that last summer and what an experience it was! When we got there, we put up our tent and went to explore. As we returned, we heard our daughter Susie cry out and then we saw a bear enter our camp. Tom wanted his father to chase him away. His father said, "No, it's dangerous to chase a bear, and don't let him chase you!" Susie said"What shall we do? Maybe we ought to climb a tree." Tom said, "No, we've got to get him out of there. He might go to sleep in our tent." "Maybe we could make him leave if we put some honey outside for him to eat." Susie suggested. Then I said, "How are you going to get the honey? It's in the tent."
   We watched the bear enter the tent and heard him upset everything inside. "It's foolish for us to try to catch him," said my husband, "leave him alone and wait for him to come out." We waited, but the bear stayed inside. We had to sleep in the car.
1）、The family have decided to go camping in the vacation this summer.
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2）、Susie saw the bear first.
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3）、They chased the bear away when they saw a bear enter their tent.
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4）、The bear drank the beer in the tent.
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5）、Tom wanted to go to Yellow Stone Park to see wolves.
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   28、People are often killed while crossing the road. Most of them are old people and children. Old people are often killed because they usually can't see or hear very well. Children are often killed because they are careless.
   A car, truck or bus can't stop very quickly. If a car is going very fast, it will travel many meters before it stops. People don't understand this. They think a car can stop within a few meters. The faster a car is traveling, the longer it needs to stop. It is very hard for a person to know how fast a car is traveling.
   The only safe way to cross the road is to look both ways, right and left. When the road is clear, it's safe to cross. The correct way to cross the road is to walk quickly. It's not safe to run. If people run across the roads, they may fall to the ground.

1）、Young men and women are most likely to be killed when crossing the road.
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2）、Old people are often hit by cars because they can't see or hear clearly.
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3）、It is likely for a car to hit people on the road because some drivers are too careful.
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4）、To look both ways while crossing the road is the only safe way to cross the road.
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5）、It is not advisable for people to run across the road because they can't stop before a car hits them.
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   29、There are different ideas about pets in different parts of the world. In most cultures, animals are in a worse position than human beings. In some cases, however, people treat their pets like members of their families, or perhaps better. In the United States and Europe, there are special shops that sell clothing and food for cats and dogs.
   In many countries of the world, there is special food for pets. It is common for big markets in many places to sell cat food and dog food. However, in a small town in France, there is a special restaurant for dogs. Dogs are the only customers. There is seating for twenty of them. The dogs choose from a variety of dishes on the menu.
   Of course, in most parts of the world, pets don't live in such wealth and comfort. People treat their pets in a more practical way. People own cats and dogs because they keep away mice and other unwanted animals. Owners have some loving feelings for their pets, but they do not see them as equal to family members. In most places in the world, there isn't any special clothing or fine food for animals. There aren't any special restaurants for dogs.
   Pets around the world live in a great variety of ways, just as people do.
1）、According to the passage, in most countries people treat their pets like members of their families.
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2）、According to the passage, there are restaurants for dogs in every city in France.
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3）、For many people, pets may have a more practical function because cats and dogs can be used to keep away mice.
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4）、In some cases, animals have better food and clothing than people.
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5）、The main idea of this reading passage is that people treat pets in very different ways in different parts of the world.
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   30、Once there was a rich man who lived with his wife and child. He loved the child so much that he sent him to Oxford for two or three years. At the end of the first year at the university, this young student came home. He wanted a change. And he also wanted to tell his parents about Oxford.
   It happened one night that the father, the mother, and the young student were sitting at supper. They had in front of them only two chickens. Just as they were about to begin eating, the father said, " My boy, I have spent a lot of money on you to send you to Oxford. Now I want to know what you have learned." The son smiled and said, "Father, I have studied a science which can prove that these two chickens on the plate are really three chickens." "Well," said the father, "this is something I would like very much to know." "There are two chickens on the plate," said the student, and then he took one of the chickens in his hand and said, "Here is one more, and one and two makes three. So here are three chickens." Then the father took one of the chickens to himself, gave the other to his wife, and said, "I will have one of the chickens myself, your mother will have another, and you can have the third for supper and nothing else." The father kept his word and so the student went without his supper.
1）、The rich man loved his son very much, so he sent him to Oxford to study.
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2）、The father asked his son how much money he had spent at the university.
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3）、The student said that he could prove the two chickens on the plate were really three.
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4）、Both the father and the son were clever.
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5）、In the end the student had nothing to eat for his supper.
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   31、Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious and self-conscious; that is, they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions. Worrisome thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: what kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing unattractive clothes?
   It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must negatively affect people. A person's conception of himself or herself is reflected in the way he or she behaves, and the way a person behaves affects other people's reactions. In general, the way people think about themselves has a profound effect on all areas of their lives.
   Shy people, having low self-esteem, are likely to be passive and easily influenced by others. They need reassurance that they are doing "the right thing." Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; they feel it confirms their feelings of inferiority. They also find it difficult to be pleased by compliment with a statement like this one, "You're just saying that to make me feel good. I know it's not true." It is clear that while self-awareness is a healthy quality, overdoing it is harmful.
   Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? Fortunately, people can overcome shyness with determined and patient efforts in building self-confidence. Since shyness goes hand in hand with a lack of self-esteem, it is important for people to accept their weaknesses as well as their strengths.
   Each one of us is a unique, worthwhile individual, interested in our own personal ways. The better we understand ourselves, the easier it becomes to live up to our full potential. Let's not allow shyness to block our chances for a rich and fulfilling life.
1）、What does the author try to prove by citing "what kind of impression am I making?" (Para. 1)__________
A.Shy people benefit from their caring about their appearance.
B.People's shyness make them care too much about their appearance and actions.
C.It's natural that shy people don't believe other's compliments.
D.Shy people think they are different from others.
答案：B
2）、According to the writer, self-awareness is __________.
A.a good quality
B.the cause of unhappiness
C.harmful to people
D.a weak point of shy people
答案：A
3）、That shy people react to a compliment in such a way is ___________.
A.good
B.unreal
C.very reasonable
D.harmful
答案：D
4）、Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage? _________
A.Shyness helps us to develop our potential
B.Shyness enables us to understand ourselves better
C.Shyness can block our chances for a rich life
D.Shyness has nothing to do with lack of self-esteem
答案：C
5）、It can be inferred from the passage that shy people ________.
A.should find more of their weakness
B.should understand themselves in the right way
C.had better ignore their weakness
D.can get rid of their shyness while maintaining low self-esteem
答案：B
   32、Mrs Sharp, a large, red-faced woman in her late sixties, has lived in Greenleas, a 'new town' in the countryside outside London, since 1958. Before that she lived in Bethnal Green, an area of inner London. She was moved to Greenleas by the local authorities when her old house was demolished (拆除).
   She came from a large family with six girls and two boys, and she grew up among brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents and cousins. When she married her boyfriend from school at eighteen, they went on living with her parents, and her first child was brought up more by her mother than by herself, because she always worked.
   As the family grew, they moved out of their parents' house to a flat. It was in the next street, and their life was still that of the extended family. "All my family used to live around Denby Street," said Mrs Sharp, "and we were always in and out of each other's houses." When she went to the shops, she used to call in on her mother to see if she wanted anything. Every day she would visit one sister or another and see a nephew or niece at the corner shop or in the market.
   "You always knew 90% of the people you saw in the street every day, either they were related to you or you were at school with them," she said.
   When her babies were born (she had two sons and a daughter), she said, "All my sisters and neighbours would help - they used to come and make a cup of tea, or help in some other way." And every Saturday night there was a family party. It was at Mrs Sharp's mother's house. "Of course we all know each other very well. You have to learn to get on with each other. I had one neighbour who was always poking(管闲事) her nose into our business. She was forever asking questions and gossiping (拨弄是非). But you had to put up with everyone, whatever they were like."  

1）、Mrs. Sharp had to move to Greenleas because she had to work there.
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2）、When she got married, she lived together with her parents all the time.
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3）、She knew so many people because they were either her relatives or schoolmates.
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4）、The sentence "I had one neighbour who was always poking her nose into our business." in the last Para. means I had one neighbour who always showed her interests in our private affairs.
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5）、This passage mainly deals with what the extended family is like.
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   33、An English traveler found himself in Norway with only enough money to buy the ticket for his journey back home. As he knew that it would take him only two days to get to England, he decided that he could easily spend the time without food. So he bought a ticket and got on the ship. The man closed his ears to the sound of the lunch bell. When dinnertime came, he didn't go to dinning room, saying that he was not feeling very well.
   The next morning he still didn't have breakfast and at lunchtime he again stayed in his room. But at dinnertime he was so hungry that he went to the dinning room and ate everything the waiter put in front of him. He got ready for the quarrel.
   "Bring me the bill," he said. "The bill, sir?" said the waiter in surprise. "There isn't any bill. On our ship meals are included (包括) in the money for the ticket," said the waiter.
1）、The story happened on a ship from Norway to England.
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2）、The traveler didn't go to the dinning room first,because he had no money.
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3）、The traveler went to the dinning room to eat something because his friend had given him some money.
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4）、The traveler had two meals on the ship.
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5）、After the traveler finished eating, he came to know that travelers on the ship had free meals.
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答案：A
   34、Everywhere we look, we see Americans running. They run for every reason anybody could think of. They run for health, for beauty, to lose weight, to feel fit and because it's the thing they love to do. Every year, for example, thousands upon thousands of people run in one race, the Boston Marathon, the best known long distance race in the United States. In recent years, there have been nearly 5,000 official competitors and it takes three whole minutes for the crowd of runners just to cross the starting line.
   You may have heard the story of the Greek runner Pheidippides. He ran from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of the great victory 2,500 years ago. No one knows how long it took him to run the distance. But the story tells us that he died of the effort. Today no one will die in a Marathon race. But the effort is still enormous. Someone does come in first in this tiring foot race. But at the finish line we see what this race is about: not being first but finishing. The real victory is not over one's fellow runners but over one's own body. It's a victory of will-power over fatigue. In the Boston Marathon each person who crosses that finish line is a winner.
1）、Americans run every day for various reasons.
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答案：A
2）、Boston Marathon is the best known long distance race in US.
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答案：A
3）、The victory of will-power over fatigue is the real victory for the thousands of Marathon runners.
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答案：A
4）、The runner who runs to keep fit is a winner in the competition.
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答案：B
5）、The ancient Greek runner Pheidippides won the first prize.

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   35、People often say that the Englishman's home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than flats, and many people own their homes. This means that they can make them personal, and change them in any way they like. Most houses have a garden, even if it is a small one, and the garden is usually loved. The house and the garden are the private space of a person. In a crowded city a person knows that he or she has a private space which is only for himself or herself and for invited friends.
   People usually like to mark their space. If you are on the beach you may have spread your towels around you; in the rain you may have put your coat or small bag on the seat beside you; in a library you may spread your books around you.
   Once I was traveling on a train to London. I was on a section for four people and there was a table between us. The man opposite to me had his briefcase on the table. There was no space on my side of the table at all. I was unhappy. I thought he thought that he owned the whole table. I had been reading a book about nonverbal （非语言的） communication so I took various papers out of my bag and put them on his case! When I did this he suddenly became angry and his eyes nearly popped out （突出）of his head. I had taken up his space! A few minutes later I took my papers off in order to read them. He immediately moved his case to his side of the table.
1）、The home matters greatly to Englishmen.
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答案：A
2）、The British can own private space like the house and the garden.
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答案：A
3）、According to Paragraph 2, if you spread your books around you in a library, it means  you want to tell others the space belongs to you.
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答案：A
4）、The man opposite to the writer showed that he owned the whole table by reading a book.
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答案：B
5）、The writer tried to get back his space by moving the case off the table.
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答案：B
   36、On February 14th many people in the world celebrate an unusual holiday, St. Valentine's Day, a special day for lovers. The origin of this holiday is uncertain but according to one story it gets its name from a Christian named Valentine who lived in Rome during the 3rd century A.D. His job was to perform marriages for Christian couples. Unfortunately, the Emperor of Rome didn't allow Christian marriages. So they had to be performed in secret. Finally Valentine was arrested and put into prison. While he was in prison he fell in love with the daughter of the prison guard. After one year the Emperor offered to release Valentine if he would stop performing Christian marriages. Valentine refused and so he was killed in February, 270 A.D. Before he was killed Valentine sent a love letter to the daughter of the prison guard. He signed the letter "from your Valentine". That was the first Valentine.
   Today Valentines are cards usually red and shaped like hearts with messages of love written in them. On Valentine's Day tens of millions of people send and receive Valentines. Whether it is an expensive heart-shaped box of chocolates from a secret admirer or a simple hand-made card from a child, a Valentine is a very special message of love.
1）、The passage is mainly about a special holiday.
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答案：A
2）、Valentine was put into prison because he sent a love letter to the daughter of the prison guard.
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答案：B
3）、It is because he refused to accept the Emperor's offerthat Valentine was killed.

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答案：A
4）、Valentines are cards usually red, and shaped like hearts with messages of love written in them.
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答案：A
5）、People send Valentines to each other nowadays to celebrate Valentine's birthday.

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答案：B
   37、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 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 getting them ready, he told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it.
   "You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put something on it," said the doctor.
   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 anything."
   "Why?" asked the bookseller.
   "I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them 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?"
1）、What happened to the bookseller one day?
A.He lost a box of books.
B.His foot was wounded by a box of books.
C.He lent the doctor a box of books.
D.He sold out all his books.
答案：B
2）、The bookseller's wife asked him ______.
A.to go out for some medicine
B.to send somebody for a doctor
C.to go to see the doctor
D.to wait for the doctor to come
答案：C
3）、The bookseller didn't take his wife's advice because ______.
A.he was afraid of the doctor
B.he didn't like to take medicine
C.he couldn't walk by himself
D.he didn't want to pay the doctor
答案：D
4）、The doctor paid ______ for the books.
A.one pound
B.two pounds
C.nothing
D.something
答案：C
5）、The bookseller paid ______ money for seeing the doctor in the end.
A.more
B.less
C.the same amount of
D.no
答案：A
   38、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.
   The Government ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they didn't kill many. The Government promised to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy. They killed thousands of rats everyday. A Government officer put all the dead rats in a big pile. Sometimes a man brought hundreds in one day.
   After two weeks there were not many rats in the city, but people still brought many rats to the Government office. The Government officer thought that people were stealing dad rats from the pile. He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats, and the Government didn't pay any more money.
1）、Newton is a place which ______.
A.used to be very clean
B.is no longer a city
C.is very clean
D.will be very clean
答案：C
2）、When the Government first ordered the people to kill rats, the people ______.
A.asked for some money for each dead rat
B.stole dead rats from the pile
C.were too lazy to kill many rats
D.killed nearly all the rats quickly
答案：C
3）、The people killed rats ______.
A.to get money from the Government
B.to help the Government make the city clean
C.to make the Government officer happy
D.to protect（保护）their cats and dogs
答案：A
4）、A deep hole was dug so that ______.
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
答案：D
5）、What is the best topic for this passage?
A.How to Kill Rats
B.Newton一A City of Rats
C.How Newton Became a Very Clean Place
D.How Newton Became a Famous City
答案：C
   39、A lawyer, an artist and a musician got lost in the woods. At last they came to a farmer's house and asked if he could let them stay for the night.
   "Sure," the farmer said. "But I've got room for only two of you in the house. The other one will have to sleep in the barn（牲畜棚）with the animals, and the smell is very bad there. ""I'll sleep in the barn," the artist said.
   Half an hour later, a knock was heard on the farmer house's door, and there stood the artist, saying, "I can't take the smell. ""All right," said the lawyer, "I'll sleep in the barn."And off he went.
   In a while there was another knock on the door. "I felt terrible with the smell from the bad food," the lawyer said in an angry way.
   "You're too sissies（女人气的男子）," said the musician. "I'll sleep in the barn."
   Thirty minutes later, came another knock. When they opened the door, there stood all the animals from the barn.
1）、The lawyer, artist, and the musician came to a farmer's house because they couldn't find their way in the woods.

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答案：A
2）、One of them had to sleep in the barn for the reason that one of them liked to sleep in the barn.
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答案：B
3）、The artist wanted to sleep in the barn as he didn't think that the smell was so terrible.

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答案：A
4）、From the story we see that the musician was clever.
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答案：A
5）、They saw all the animals standing in front of the door because the animals didn't like the musician.
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答案：B
   40、Mr Grey liked hunting very much. He did not get much practice at hunting wild animals, but he was quite good at shooting. One of his troubles was that his eyes were not very good and he had to wear glasses. When it rained and his glasses got wet, Mr Grey could not see very well.
   One day he was invited to go out shooting bears in the mountains. It was rather a rainy day, and by mistake Mr Grey shot at the other hunter and hit him in the leg.
   Then he was taken before a judge and the judge said, "Why did you shoot at Mr Robinson?" Mr Grey answered, "I thought that he was a bear."
   "When did you realize that you were wrong, then?" the judge asked.
   "When 'the bear' began to shoot at me!" Mr Grey answered in an unhappy voice.
1）、From the story we know that Mr Grey could shoot well in rainy days.   
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答案：B
2）、Mr Grey had to wear glasses when he was shooting.
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答案：A
3）、Mr Grey hit a hunter in the leg because he thought the hunter was a bear.         
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答案：A
4）、Mr Robinson was a soldier.                     
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答案：B
5）、The writer wants to tell us that Mr Robinson was even wrong to shoot back at Mr Grey.               
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答案：A
   41、In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is attached to telephone calls made after 11:00 pm. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it's a matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.
   In social life, time plays a very important part. In the U.S.A. guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date. But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings arise between people from different cultures that treat time differently. Promptness is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible. In the U.S. no one would think of keeping a business associate waiting for an hour, it would be too impolite. A person, who is 5 minutes late, will say a few words of explanation, though perhaps he will not complete the sentence.
1）、What is the main idea of this passage? ________
A.It is not customary to telephone someone in the morning and in sleeping hours in the U.S.
B.The role of time in social life over the world.
C.If people are late, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible in the U.S.
D.Not every country treats the concept of time as the same.
答案：B
2）、What does it mean in the passage if you call someone during his or her sleeping hours? _______
A.A matter of work.
B.A matter of life or death.
C.You want to see him or her.
D.You want to make an appointment with him or her.
答案：B
3）、Which of the following time is proper if you want to make an appointment with your friend in the U.S. A.?
A.at 7:00 am
B.at 4:00 pm
C.at the midnight
D.at 4 am
答案：B
4）、Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? ________
A.In the U.S.A. guests tend to feel they are highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date.
B.No misunderstandings arise between people from different cultures about the concept of time.
C.It may be considered foolish to make an appointment well in advance in the U.S.A..
D.Promptness is valued highly in American life.
答案：D
5）、From the passage we can safely infer that _______
A.it's a matter of life or death if you call someone in day time.
B.the meaning of time differs in different parts of the world.
C.it makes no difference in the U.S. whether you are early or late for a business party.
D.if a person is late for a date, he needn't make some explanation.
答案：B
   42、Once there was something wrong with a machine in a factory. The workers could do nothing but turn to a German engineer for help, who drew a line on it and then said, "Take off the part where the line is and change it for a new one." The machine, with a new part on, began running well again. The engineer then asked for $30,000 for what he had done. The following were what he wrote on a bill, "The new part only costs one dollar, and knowing where the problem with the machine costs $29,999."
   One dollar for changing a new part sounds reasonable（有道理的）but the $29,999 is exactly the value of wisdom and knowledge.
1）、The factory turned to the German engineer because the workers could not repair the machine.
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答案：A
2）、The problem of the machine was just a part.
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答案：A
3）、According to the engineer, the finding of the problem cost $ 29,999.
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答案：A
4）、The writer wants to tell us that the workers should pay the money.
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答案：B
5）、The best title of the passage is The Expensive Machine.
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答案：B
   43、Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere, they have a language of their own.
   One such thing is "get your act together". When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry, he may shout "get your act together". "Getting your act together" is getting organized. In business it usually means developing a calm and orderly plan of action. It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. But it is probable that it was in the theater or movie industry. Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes. The director may have said "Calm down now, get your act together." Word expert James Roger says the expression was common by the late 1970s.
   Another expression used by American business people is "cut to the chase". For example, at an important meeting of one company, one official was giving a very long and uninteresting report and some people were falling asleep. Finally the president of the company said "Cut to the chase". "Cut to the chase" means stopping spending so much time on details or unimportant material, hurrying and getting to the good part. This saying was started by people who make movies. Hollywood movie producers believe that most Americans want to see action movies. Many of their movies show scenes in which the actors chase each other in cars or in airplanes or on foot. "Cut" is the director's word for stop. The director means stopping filming to leave some material and getting to the chase scene now.
1）、The passage is mainly about American business language.
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答案：A
2）、The expression "get your act together" probably came from schools.
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答案：B
3）、The expression "get your act together" was popular by the late 1970s.
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答案：A
4）、The expression "cut to the chase" means stop wasting time on details or unimportant material, hurry and get to the good part.
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答案：A
5）、"Cut" is the movie director's word for stop.
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答案：A
   44、In the world, soccer or football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup. The World Cup is held every four years.
   To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup, children from different countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and spent three weekends drawing a big picture called "Dream World Cups" in Japan. The children drew animals, flowers and people playing soccer under a blue bright sky. They wished each football team good luck by drawing the flags of all the countries that will take part in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The picture was put up in a park near a playground in Yokohama. Some football teams will have games there.
   Are you a football fan？The World Cup makes more and more people interested in football. Teenagers like playing and watching football. Many of them love some football stars so much that they get the pictures of their favourite players on the walls of their rooms. That is the way to show their love for the World Cup as children in Japan.
1）、If a country wants to take part in the World Cup, she must have many football players.
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答案：B
2）、The next World Cup will be held in 2014.
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答案：A
3）、From the passage, in the picture children drew many things except pictures of some football stars.
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答案：B
4）、In "Dream World Cup", the children drew the flags of some countries to tell the people their stories.
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答案：B
5）、Many teenagers own the pictures of some football stars because they are football fans.
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答案：A
   45、My Aunt Edith was a widow of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors discovered what was then thought to be a very serious heart disease.
   Aunt Edith didn't accept defeat easily. She began studying medical reports in the library and found an article in a magazine about a well-known heart surgeon, Dr. Michael DeBakey, of Houston, Texas. He had saved the life of someone with the same disease. The article said his fees were very high; Aunt Edith couldn't possibly pay them. But could he tell her of someone whose fees she could pay?
   So Aunt Edith wrote to him. She simply listed her reasons for wanting to live: her three children, who would be on their own in three or four more years; her little-girl dream of traveling and seeing the world. There wasn't a word of self-pity－only warmth and humor and the joy of living. She mailed the letter, not really expecting an answer.
   A few days later, my doorbell rang. Aunt Edith didn't wait to come in; she stood in the hall and read aloud:
Your beautiful letter moved me very deeply. If you can come to Houston, there will be no charge for either the hospital or the operation.
   Signed :Michael DeBakey
1）、Aunt Edith stopped working as a secretary when she knew she had a very serious heart disease.
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答案：B
2）、From the story we can see Aunt Edith accepted defeat easily.

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答案：B
3）、In Aunt Edith's letter to the doctor, she showed she was warm, humorous and enjoying living.

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答案：A
4）、When Aunt Edith mailed her letter, she didn't expect the doctor would give her a reply.

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答案：A
5）、Michael DeBakey mainly told Aunt Edith in the letter that her disease was so serious that he couldn't cure her.

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答案：B
   46、My husband and I got married in 1981 and for the first ten years of our marriage I was very happy to stay home and raise our three children. Then four years ago, our youngest child went to school and I thought I might go back to work.
   My husband was very supportive and helped me to make my decision. He emphasized all of the things I could do around the house, and said he thought I could be a great success in business.
   After several weeks of looking for a job, I found my present job, which was working for a small public relations firm. At first, my husband was very proud of me and would tell his friends,"My clever little wife can run that company she's working for."
   But as his joking statement approached truth, my husband stopped talking to me about my job. I have received several promotions and pay increases, and I'm now making more money than he is. I can buy my own clothes and a new car. Because of our joint incomes, my husband and I can do many things we had always dreamed of doing, but we don't do these things because he is very unhappy.
   We fight about little things and my husband is very critical of me in front of our friends. For the first time in our marriage, I think it is possible that our marriage may come to an end.
   I love my husband very much, and I don't want him to feel inferior, but I also love my job. I think I can be a good wife and a working woman, but I don't know how. Who can give me some advice? Will I have to choose one or the other or can I keep both my husband and my new career?

1）、The passage most probably written around 1996.

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答案：A
2）、The husband was supportive, for he took over what she used to do at home.
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答案：B
3）、Her husband stopped talking to her about her job when her career was approaching success.

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答案：A
4）、As she was making more money, she was very critical of her husband.
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答案：B
5）、The difficult position a working woman is in is a choice between job and marriage.
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答案：A
   47、When a close friend dies, the death often forces you to consider your own death. If you have a lot in common with your friend, his/her death will make you wonder about your own. You may easily say to yourself, "It could just as easily have been me." The death of a close friend may also cause you to think again about the direction of your own life.
   Jack's story is a good example. A successful businessman making a lot of money, Jack didn't spend as much time with his family as he wanted. He had to work long hours at his job. Three years ago one of his best friends died of a heart attack (心脏病) in a restaurant while celebrating his daughter's eighteenth birthday. He was only fifty years old.
   Soon after his friend's death, Jack started to have chest pains. He went for a medical examination, but nothing was found wrong with him. The chest pain continued. He kept thinking of the death of his friend. Jack thought about how much his friend missed in life and he saw how hard it was for his friend's family to manage after his death.
   Jack realized that he didn't want to end his life that way. He talked about his feelings with his wife and children, and decided to change his way of life. The family moved to a small town where Jack started a simple life. Now he is running a small business. He says he has never been so happy in his life. And he has got no more chest pain.
1）、The death of a friend will make you think again about how you should live the rest of your life.
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答案：A
2）、Jack was a good friend of the writer's.
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答案：B
3）、Jack had a chest pain, most probably because he missed his friend so much.
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答案：B
4）、Jack decided to change his way of life because he didn't want to die like his friend.
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答案：A
5）、While living in the small town, Jack lives a different life.
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答案：A
   48、A pretty, well-dressed young lady stopped a taxi in a big square, and said to the driver, "Do you see that young man at the other side of the square?"
   "Yes," said the taxi driver. The young man was standing outside a restaurant and looking impatiently at his watch every few seconds.
   "Take me over there," said the young lady.
   There were a lot of cars and buses in the square, so the taxi driver asked, "Are you afraid to cross the street?"
   "Oh, no!" said the young lady. "But I promised that I would meet the young man for lunch at one o' clock, and it is now a quarter to two. If I arrive in a taxi, it will at least seem as if I had tried not to be late."
1）、The story doesn't tell us how the young woman got to the square.

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答案：A
2）、The lady stopped the taxi because she was afraid of walking across the street.
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答案：B
3）、The young man at the other side of the square had probably been waiting for a long time.
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答案：A
4）、The young lady was clever at making excuse.
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答案：A
5）、The young lady was just pretending that she had tried.
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答案：A
   49、Lily was sitting in her living-room. She was looking out of the window. There was a man in the street. He had a black hat and a black jacket. He walked to the house with the glass door. He knocked at the door. And the door wasn't open. Then he walked away from the house.
   "Who is that? And what is he doing?" Lily said to herself.
   The man walked to the house again. He had a ladder. He went up the ladder. The bedroom window was open. The man went to it.
   "He must be a thief!" Lily thought and telephoned the police.
   Lily looked out of the window again. The ladder was there, but the man wasn't there. He was in the house. Lily went to the house and knocked on the glass door. But the man was in the bedroom. He was not coming to the door. Lily went up the ladder. She went to the bedroom window. The man was there.
   "Who are you? What are you doing on my ladder?" the man said.
   "What are you doing in this house?''
   "It's my house, but my wife has the key."
   Just then, the police car came. "Why are you standing on that ladder? Is that your house?'' a policeman asked.
   "No," answered Lily.
   "Ah! You are the thief."

1）、One day when Lily was in her living-room, she saw a man in black walk to a house with a glass door.
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答案：A
2）、The man had a ladder when he walked to the house again because he was a policeman.
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答案：B
3）、The man went into the house through the bedroom window.
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答案：A
4）、Lily thought he was a thief and telephoned to the police.
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答案：A
5）、At last, the policeman thought there was no thief.
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答案：B
   50、Wang Yani was born in 1975 in Gongcheng, China. Even when she was a baby, she loved to draw lines everywhere. Seeing this, her father decided to help her. He gave her paint, brushes and paper. She practised hard and improved very quickly. Soon her lines became flowers, trees and animals. Some of her pictures were shown in an art exhibition in Shanghai at the age of 4.
   By age six, Yani had made over 4,000 paintings. She loved to draw animals, especially monkeys and cats. Although her father was good at drawing, he didn't give her any art lessons. He even stopped painting his own pictures. Instead, he often took the little girl to parks and zoos to get ideas for her work. In this way, Yani developed her own style of painting with bright colours. All her pictures were different from others.
   At the age of 8, one of her monkey paintings was made into a Chinese stamp. Later, she started to draw pictures of country scenery and people. And when she was just 14, she became the youngest person to have personal shows in Washington D. C. and many other cities around the world.

1）、Wang Yani' s pictures were first shown in Gongcheng.
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答案：B
2）、She was especially good at drawing monkeys and cats before she was eight.
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答案：A
3）、Her father took her to zoos and parks because he wanted the girl to get ideas for her work.
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答案：A
4）、Yani had her personal shows in Washington D. C. at the age of 14.
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答案：A
5）、Yani's father often gave her art lessons.

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   51、Hello! Greetings from the future! My name's Linda. I'm ten years old and live in the year 3044. We call it the year 58AL. AL means "After Living". You see, 58 years ago, there were too many people on Earth and there was too much pollution（污染）. The only way to save the Earth is to send people into space. So lots of people, including my family, went into space. However, there were still a few people choosing to live on Earth.
   We're now living in a new city on Mars（火星）. Life here is very nice, and we are happy in our new home. I have a friend called John on Earth. Every week I use our school's time machine to send messages to him.
   The food here is different from your food: we take medicine and drink juice to keep healthy. My history book says you eat meat from other animals! That is strange to me. We don't eat any animals or bread.
   Every day I catch the school spaceship and fly to school. We don't have schools. We meet our learning guides (you called them teachers) in different places and solve（解决）problems together.


1）、The year 3014 is the year 28 AL.
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答案：A
2）、Lots of people went into space to have a different life from Earth.
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答案：B
3）、Linda takes medicine for dinner.
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答案：A
4）、Linda sends messages to John by spaceship.
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答案：B
5）、Linda takes medicine and drinks juice to keep healthy.
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答案：A
   52、If you ask Daniel Radcliffe who acted Harry Potter to pick a special moment from the last year of his life, you will find it almost impossible. "Oh, wow, that's really difficult," he says with a smile.
   "There have been so many things, so many memories that at times it's hard to recall them all," says Daniel. "But I guess one of the best ones was the London premiere for The Philosopher's Stone. It was just amazing, one of the best nights of my life."
   "But I've had such a great time doing The Chamber of Secrets. I love doing the work. I love meeting new people and being part of the team. It's been great."
   Daniel has changed. He turned 14 in July, 2002. He is taller, his voice is deeper and his frame is filling out as he begins his teenage years, and he has become an excellent actor, too.
   Daniel was born in London where his father, Alan, worked as an agent and his mother, Marcia, as a casting director, and both have been an essential guiding influence on their only child.
1）、Daniel Radcliff was 15 years old in 2003.
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答案：A
2）、According to the passage Daniel Radcliff did not have many unforgetables experiences in the past year.
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答案：B
3）、According to the passage, Daniel would like to become a director one day.
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答案：B
4）、Daniel's parents influenced Daniel greatly.
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答案：A
5）、Daniel was born in London.
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答案：A
　53、Mr and Mrs Jones did not often go out in the evening, but last Saturday Mrs Jones said to her husband, "There is a good film at the cinema tonight. Can we go and see it?"
　Mr Jones was quite happy about it, so they went, and both of them enjoyed the film.
　They came out of the cinema at 11 o'clock, got into their car and began driving home. It was quite dark. Then Mrs Jones said, "Look, Bill. A woman's running along the road very fast, and a man's running after her. Can you see them?"
　Mr Jones said, "Yes, I can." He drove the car slowly near the woman and said to her, "Can we help you?"
　"No, thank you," the woman said, but she did not stop running. "My husband and I always run home after the cinema, and the last one washes the dishes at home!"
1）、Mr and Mrs Jones went out one evening because they wanted to see a film.

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答案：A
2）、Both the husband and wife enjoyed the film.
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答案：A
3）、Mr Jones wanted to help that woman.
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答案：A
4）、The woman was running back home to wash dishes.
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答案：B
5）、So Mr and Mrs Jones needn't give help.
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答案：A
   54、Mr. Tom Forester lived by himself a long way from town. He hardly ever left his home, but one day he went into town to buy some things in the market. After he had bought them, he went into a restaurant and sat down at a table by himself. When he looked around, he saw several old people put glasses on before reading their 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 finally 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?"
1）、Mr Forester lived ______.
A.with his family in a city
B.with his family in the countryside
C.alone in a city
D.alone in the countryside
答案：D
2）、Tom ______ went into town.
A.often
B.always
C.almost never
D.everyday
答案：C
3）、The old people in the restaurant read their newspapers ______.
A.with glasses on
B.with glasses off
C.with glasses of beer in front of them
D.with glass pipes in their mouths
答案：A
4）、The shop Tom went into sold ______.
A.drinking glasses and cups
B.glass for windows and doors
C.glasses for people who could not read
D.glasses for people who could not see well
答案：D
5）、What kind of mistake did Tom make?
A.He went to the wrong kind of shop.
B.He didn't try on all the glasses in the shop.
C.He thought that a person who had not learned to read would be able to do so if he wore glasses.
D.He left his money in the restaurant.
答案：C
   55、These days, children often think of superheroes(超级英雄) as cute(帅气的), cool and strong supermen. A poor, short and thin boy wearing glasses may not interest the kids today. Yet in less than 4 years, Harry Potter has taken the world by the storm. J. K. Rowling, the writer of Harry Potter, was a British single mother out of work and living on money given to her by the government. One day, when she was on a long train trip，she had the idea for this book. She wrote the first book of the seven in the cafe with her baby daughter sleeping beside her. Last year, the fans welcomed the birth of the fourth by lining outside the bookstores. Today these books are still popular among people. Harry Potter is something more than fantasy (幻想). Rowling tries to tell the readers how things are not always what they seem to be. However, millions of the fans don't care about such a lesson. They would like to spend many sleepless nights waiting in line for the fifth, the sixth and the seventh to come. For them, surprising stories of the little boy are what they want.
1）、J.K. Rowling was very poor and didn't get work for herself when she wrote the first book.
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答案：A
2）、When Rowling thought of the idea of writing her book, she was on her way to find work.
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答案：B
3）、Four books of the seven have come out according to this passage.      
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答案：A
4）、Rowling wants to show to her readers,how things are not always what they seem to be.
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答案：A
5）、Rowling wrote the first book with her daughter's help.
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答案：B

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