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Reading Comprehension（阅读理解）

1.Time spent in a bookshop can be mostenjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a bookas apresent. You may even have entered the shop just to be kept from a sudden showerof rain. You are carelessof your surroundings. The desire to pick up a bookwith an attractive dust-jacket （书的护封皮） is great, althoughyou might end up with a rather dull book. Thisopportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, themainattraction of a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart's content.If it is a good shop, noassistant will come to you with the“necessary”greeting:“Can I help you, Sir?” You needn't buy anything you don'twant. In a bookshop anassistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing （浏览）. Then,andonly then, are his services necessary. Of course, you may want to find out wherea particular section is, butwhen he has led you there, the assistant goes awaycarefully and looks as if he is not interested in selling a singlebook. It isvery easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come outcarrying a copy of thelatest best-selling novel. Apart from running up a hugeaccount, you can waste a great deal of time wanderingfrom section to section.

(1)According to the passage, a goodassistant in a bookshop should ________.

(2)Which of the following statements is NOTtrue, according to the author?

(3)The assistant should remain “in thebackground”(Paragraph4) so as ________.

(4)In the last paragraph, the author wantsto show that ________.

(5)According to the author, a bookshop ispopular mainly because ________.

2.How do you spend your spare time? Therewill be different answers to it. Most people in Poland（波兰） havetheirown ways of spending free time. Sometimes they just want to take a rest, butthey try to do somethingmore pleasant most of the time. They have manydifferent hobbies, which help them to get away from theireveryday problems andspend their free time happily. Many Polish people like traveling. They alwayslook for newplaces that they have never been to and add new and excitingexperiences to their journey. Some of them like toclimb mountains, others liketo go to a sea or a lake to swim, because these can make them get exercise andaregood for their health. Many Polish people also like to do sports in theirfree time. They are usually crazy aboutfootball, and football is regarded asthe Polish national sport. Many football fans may support a certain team, andtheybuy many things that have any relation with the team. Watching sport and doingit both are good ways torelax. In addition, doctors say that doing sports isvery good for health. Many people in town, especially youngmen, often go to thegym to attend the exercise classes to keep it. Besides these ways, Polishpeople have manyother ways to spend their fee time, And they really enjoy theirfree time.

(1)Which of the following sports is NOTmentioned in the passage?

(2)Why do some Polish people like climbingmountains?

(3)What is the main idea of Paragraph3?

(4)Polish people have many hobbies in orderto ________.

(5)What can we learn from the passage?

3.A car is made up of more than 30,000parts（零部件） . Each part in a new car is as weak as a baby. So a new carrequiresproper care and servicing（保养） . If you’ re unfamiliar with the parts, you have to read through theowner’ sinstructions（说明书） carefully. First of all, the brakes（刹车） of your car areimportant for safetyreasons. Having them checked regularly can reduce the risksof accidents. Another important thing to consider isengine care. Alwaysremember that the life and performance of your car engine（引擎） dependon the engineoil. Replace the engine oil（机油） whenrecommended. If you feel the engine is very hot especially duringsummer it isprobably because the cooling system doesn’ t work well. You’ d better get thecooling systemserviced before the start of summer. In a word, timely and properservicing is an important task for car owners.Good servicing can not onlyextend the life of your newborn baby, but also ensure your safety, and thesafety ofthose who share the road with you.

(1)It is recommended to have the coolingsystem checked when ________.

(2)The last paragraph tells us that thepurpose of carefully servicing a car is _______.

(3)To get familiar with the parts of a newcar, the owner should ________.

(4)The brakes should be checked regularly________.

(5)For a car engine to work long and well,the owner should ________.

4.Amy had three sons, Dave, Bill and Bob.Every year her sons sent her expensive gifts on her birthday. The eldestsonDave had a lot of money and he wanted his mother to have the most expensivegift, but he didn’t know whatto buy. So he put an ad “Wanted--the greatest giftfor my mother” in the newspaper. About a week before hismother’s birthday, aman came to his office. He brought a big bird. “This bird can speak sixlanguages and singeight songs,” the man said. “Really? I’d like to listen toit,” Dave said. The man made the bird talk in French andtell a joke inJapanese. Then the bird sang a beautiful song. Dave was very happy and paideight thousand dollarsfor the bird. The next day Dave sent the bird to hismother with a birthday card. The day after his mother’ sbirthday he called hismother. “Well, Mother,” he asked, “what do you think of the bird?” “Oh, it’ sverydelicious, dear,” said his mother.

(1)________ was he eldest son.

(2)How many songs could the bird sing?

(3)What did Dave put in the newspaper?

(4)How did the mother deal with the bird?

(5)How much did the bird cost Dave?

5.Asked to give a speech, most of us areshy and embarrassed. Yet, we can conquer the uneasiness. If a fewsimple rulesare followed, anyone can speak well in public. First of all, the speech shouldbe well prepared. In thisway, we are comfortable with what we are going to sayand are able to build up our confidence. There are threethings that we shouldknow when we are preparing our talk. The first one is to know what we aretrying to doand what we want to tell our audience. The second thing is to knowwho our audience will be. If we are talking tochildren, then our talk should besimple; if we are speaking to older people, then our speech can be a littlemorecomplex（复杂） , and so on. The third thing we should know is the length of timewe will be speaking for, andthen we should make sure that we stick to thattime. It has been said that the main objective of any speech is tobring both anidea and an audience together. If we remember that, and speak clearly andhonestly in a friendlyfashion, we should be able to speak in public without anyreal problems at all.

(1)According to the author, anyone canspeak well in public if they ________.

(2)The author believes that by knowing ouraudience we are able to ________.

(3)Which of the following rules should asuccessful public speech follow?

(4)If the audience is made up of adults,them the content and language of the speech may be ________.

(5)If we prepare well before speaking inpublic, we will ________.

6.In one way, it may be thought thatfailure is a part of life. In another, failure may be viewed as a step towardsuccess.The “spider-story” is often told as an example of this. Robert Bruce, leader ofthe Scots in the 13thcentury, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watcheda spider making a web. Bruce is said to have gainedconfidence from this sightand to have gone on to defeat the English. Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb, too,made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way tomake one. So what? First, always thinkabout your failure. What caused it? Werethe conditions right? Were you on top form yourself? What can youchange so thatthings will go right the next time? Second, is the goal you’re trying to reachthe right one? Try todo some thinking about what your real goals may be. Thinkabout this question:“If I do succeed in this, where willit get me?” This mayhelp to prevent failure in the things you shouldn’t be doing anyway. The thirdthing to bearin mind about failure is that it’ s a part of life. Learn to “livewith yourself” even though you may have failed.Remember, “You can’ t win themall.”

(1)This passage is mainly about ________.

(2)Which of the following statements is NOTtrue according to the passage?

(3)Robert Bruce was mentioned in thepassage to show that ________.

(4)Edison’s example shows us that ________.

(5)It can be learned from the passage that________.

Reading Comprehension（阅读理解）

1.Do you want to say what you think in aletter to the President of the United States? You’ll get a reply fromhim---writtenin ink, not typed---after only a few days. The President gets about 4000letters every week. Heanswers everyone who writes to him on the special WhiteHouse paper. But he doesn’t need a lot of time for it.In fact, he only gives 20minutes a week to look at his personal correspondence. He has the most modernsecretaryin the world to help him. It’s a computer, worth $800,000, which has its ownroom on the first floor ofthe White House. It has a bank of electronic penswhich write as the President writes, in his favorite light blue ink.Each letterthe President receives get a number, according to the type of answer it needs.The pens then writethe correct reply for it, according to the number. Eachletter takes less than a second to write. A White Houseofficial said, “It’ snot important that the letters come from a computer. Each letter says what thePresidentwants to say.”

(1)The letters from the President ________.

(2)The computer can be described as________.

(3)How long will it take you to receive areply from the President?

(4)It can be inferred from the passage that________.

(5)It takes the computer ________ to writea letter.

2.In adulthood, the things that bring greatjoy--birth, love, and marriage--also bring responsibility and the risk ofloss.Love may not last, loved ones die. For adults, happiness is complicated. Mydictionary defines happy as“lucky”or “fortunate”. But I think a better definition of happinessis “the capability of enjoyment”. The more wecan enjoy what we have, thehappier we are. It’ s easy to neglect the pleasure we get from loving and beingloved,the company（伴随） of friends, the freedom to live where we please, even good health.I added up my littlemoments of pleasure yesterday. First, there was great blisswhen I had the house to myself. I spent a wholemorning writing, which I love.When the kids came home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day. Youneverknow where happiness will appear next. When I asked friends what makes themhappy, some mentionedseemingly tiny things. One of my friends loves thetelephone. “Every time it rings, I know someone is thinkingabout me.” We allexperience moment like these. But few of us regard them as happiness.

(1)The word”bliss”in Line1, Paragraph 3means ________.

(2)In adulthood, happiness ________.

(3)What is the best definition of happinessaccording the author?

(4)Which of the following statements abouthappiness in NOT true?

(5)The author felt very ________ to havethe house to himself.

3.Many people believe that Americans lovetheir cars almost more than anything else. It may be true. From thetimeyoungsters become fourteen years old, they are likely to dream of having theirown cars. Many youngpeople work after school during their last year of highschool in order to buy a car. Learning to drive andobtaining a driver’s licensemay be one of the most exciting things for a young person. People who almostnevergo to a doctor when they are sick usually take their cars to a mechanic atthe first sign of a problem. Those whodo not like to work around the home onSaturdays may devote most of that day to washing and waxing“打蜡”theircars. For some families, it is not enough to have one car. They often have two(or even three) cars---one forwork and one for recreation ( 娱乐). Many menand women in the United States need to have a car. Many needa car to go towork. Housewives need a car to go shopping or to take the children to school orother activities. Inmost states, young people learn to drive in high school,where driver training is one of the most popular courses.At the end of thecourse, the student must take a driving test to obtain a license. For many,that piece of paper isan important symbol that they are now adults.

(1)According to the passage, where do someboys and girls learn to drive?

(2)Why do housewives need cars?

(3)When people find something is wrong withtheir cars, ________.

(4)Why do some young people work afterschool during their last year of high school?

(5)What may be one of the most excitingthings of a young person’s life?

4.Many years ago there lived a very richman who wanted to do something for the people of his town. But firsthe wantedto find out whether they deserved his help. In the center of the main road intothe town he placed avery large stone. Then he hid behind a tree and waited.Soon an old man came along with his cow. “Who put thisstone in the center ofthe road?” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead,with somedifficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way.Another man came along and did the same thing;then another came, and another.All of them complained about the stone in the center of the road but none ofthemtried to remove it. Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw thestone and said:”The nightwill be very dark. Some people will come along andwill fall over the stone.” The young man then began to movethe stone. He pushedand pulled with all his strength to remove it. Imagine his surprise when, atlast, under thestone, he found a bag of money and a piece of paper with thesewords:” The money is for the first honest manwho removes this stone from theroad.”

(1)What did the young man find under thestone?

(2)Which of the following statements istrue?

(3)What did the rich man want to find out?

(4)Who found the stone first?

(5)What did he put in the center of theroad?

5.All the housewives who went to the newsupermarket had one great ambition: to be the lucky customer whodid not have topay for her shopping. For this was what the notice inside the entrancepromised. It said,“Remember, once a week, one of our customers gets free goods. Thismay be your lucky day!” For several weeksMrs. Blake hoped to be the luckycustomer. Unlike many other customers, she never gave up hope. Thecupboards inher kitchen were full of things she did not need. She dreamed of the day, whenthe manager of thesupermarket would come and say to her, “Madam, this is yourlucky day and everything in your basket is free.”One Friday morning, after shehad finished her shopping and had taken all the things to her car, she foundthatshe had forgotten to buy tea. She went to the supermarket, got the tea andwent toward the supermarketcheckout counter. As she did so, she saw the managerof the supermarket approach her. “Madam,” he said,“Congratulations!You are our lucky customer and everything you have in your basket is free!”

(1)What did the supermarket promise itscustomers?

(2)Which of the following is NOT trueaccording to the passage?

(3)Why did Mrs. Blake go back to thesupermarket after her shopping?

(4)What was Mrs. Blake hoping?

(5)Which of the following would be Mrs.Blake’s feeling at the end?

6.Being a salesman, the most importantthing is to understand people. You’ve got to know what they’re thinking.If youcan figure that out, you can get them to do a lot. They come in with an ideaabout what they want. You getthem talking about themselves, about what theylike. If it’s a man, you talk about football, or something like that.If it’s awoman, you ask her about fashions. That way they get comfortable with you. Youask them a lot ofquestions and get them saying yes. Then they just get into thehabit of saying yes. In the end, you can put theminto anything you want, ifyou’re really good. For example, if they need a little car for the city; yousend themhome a truck. Of course, I wouldn’t really do that. It wouldn’t beright. You’ve got to sell on this job, but you alsohave to be fair. It’ s notfair to take advantage of people too much. There are some people in thisbusiness who’d do anything. But I don’ t believe in that.

(1)Which of the following statements isTRUE according to the passage?

(2)According to the passage, you can make awoman feel comfortable by ________.

(3)According to the last paragraph, theauthor believes that ________.

(4)To be a good salesman, the mostimportant thing is to ________.

(5)One way to make people get into thehabit of saying yes is to________.

Reading Comprehension（阅读理解）

1.Teaching is one of the most rewarding（值得做的） jobs.It is also one of the most stressful. If you want to be ateacher, you shouldhave passion（激情） for young people. If you are thinking about going into teaching foranyother reason rather than this, you need to find another job. Teaching isdifficult. Students can be difficult. Parentscan be difficult. If you do nothave passion for the young people that you teach, you will burn out quickly.Passionis what keeps an excellent teacher going. When students have troubleunderstanding what is taught, it is whatdrives him to spend long hours tryingto think out how to help them. If you do not have enough passion for yourstudents,you might last a year or two but not long. Passion is a must-have quality（品质） forevery good teacher.Teaching can be rewarding, but you shouldn’t expect thatreward to come easily. Teachers who search out betterand new methods are theones who will make it. A good teacher needs to be able to work with everyone.Allteachers face stress. It is important to be able to deal with everythingthat is thrown at you when you walkthrough your classroom doors. There are somany chances for stress within a classroom that an excellent teacherhas to beable to bring it in control. If you cannot manage stress quite well, thenteaching may not be the rightjob for you.

(1)The key words for the passage are________.

(2)Most stress is thrown at the teacher________.

(3)According to the passage, if you want tobe a teacher, ________.

(4)A successful teacher is someone who________.

(5)An excellent teacher knows ________.

2.XIAMEN ( Xinhua) – The Chinese mainlandRed Cross organization handed over a suspect in a financial crime toitscounterpart in Taiwan here last Thursday. The repatriated man, Cai Zhiwei, a27-year-old Taiwan bank clerk,fled to Hong Kong on 30 April, this year withpart of the 31,44 million Taiwan yuan ($1.12 million) he had stolenfromcustomer accounts at the bank where he worked. Cai entered Shenzhen on 1 May,carrying a total of$685,000, including HK $1 million ($135,135) in cash, andthe rest in traveler’ s checks.He was held forquestioning when he cashed thetravelers’ checks at the Bank of China Shenzhen Branch on 5 May. The funds hedepositedin a local bank were also frozen.The Taiwan Red Cross expressed thanks for theco-operation ofits mainland counterpart and hoped that such co-operation wouldcontinue.The two sides worked out arepatriation agreement in September 1990 andsince then have completed a total of 14 repatriations of illegalimmigrants andsuspected criminals.

(1)Which of the following statements istrue about Cai Zhiwei?

(2)The suspect was caught _____.

(3)The suspect was handed over to _____.

(4)This passage is mostly taken form _____.

(5)Which of the following words can be usedto replace the word “deposited” in the sentence “ The funds hedeposited in alocal bank were also frozen” ?

3.In Canada， most people canspeak English or French. These are the two official languages. But many peoplecanspeak other languages, too. The native people of Canada have about 52 languages.There are about 680,000native Canadians. Many people move to Canada from othercountries. One in six people in Canada don’t speakEnglish or French at home.There are almost 100 different mother tongues in Canada and Chinese is one ofthem.Many Chinese people live in Canada, and they can speak Chinese very well.In parts of Toronto and Vancouver,many Chinese stores have signs in Chinese.（15.00

(1)The native people of Canada speak_____.

(2)In Canada, you can see_____.

(3)______is the language of the governmentand schools.

(4)In schools in Canada, the children speak_____.

(5)In Canada’s big cities you can see manysigns in _____.

4.Most people now keep animals as pets.Numerous people have cats and dogs in their houses. Other people likefish,caged birds and even snakes, monkeys or lions. Millions of dollars and muchtime are spent every year onpet food, equipment, training and medicaltreatment. Of course, there are some people who do not look aftertheir petsproperly or are even cruel to them. For this reason a royal society was createdin 1824 in Britain toprevent cruel treatment of animals. In contrast to thelove of pets is the fact that blood sports still exist in mostcountries. Peoplego hunting foxes, elephants, and other animals, or go fishing, not because theyneed the meatto eat, but just for pleasure. In some countries, blood sportslike bull fighting and cock fighting are common andhunting rare animals formoney has brought about an even more serious problem in the protection of theecosystem（生态系统） . Itis strange that people love certain animals, but enjoy killing others, in cruelways, too.

(1)What does the passage mainly imply?

(2)A royal society was set up in Britain to________.

(3)Which of the following seems to affectthe earth’s ecosystem most seriously?

(4)What do you think is he author’sattitude toward blood sports?

(5)Which of the following is NOT a bloodsports?

5.Jack, a banker, is from New York. He isvey rich. Every night, he likes to go to a bar for a drink before goinghome.There is a clock shop, a grocery store and a pet shop near the bar. The ownersknow Jack. One night, whenJack is going home, he is suddenly shot in the belly.It happens in front of the pet shop. The owner of the grocerystore calls anambulance. At the same time, the pet shop and the clock shop are still open.Detective Dino asksthe owners of the three shops to tell their stories. Yourtask: One of the three owners is telling a lie. He/She wasthe shooter. Try tofind out him/her. Mrs. Smith, the pet shop’s owner: I’m 65 years old. I don’thear very well.But I saw Jack fall down in front of my shop. I was walking mydog. I didn’t see the shooter. Alex, the grocerystore’s owner: I saw theshooter. He came up from behind Jack and shot him. So I called 911. Then an ambulancecameright away. Frank, the clock shop’s owner: I was repairing an old clock. Iheard a shot. Then I ran out of myshop and saw Jack. He was lying on the ground.

(1)Where does Jack like to go before goinghome ?

(2)How many shops are near the bar?

(3)According to Paragraph3, what does adetective probably do?

(4)What was Mrs. Smith doing when theshooting accident happened?

(5)Who was the shooter?

6.Chongqing, China’ s newest municipality,with a population of 30 million, has welcomed its first test-tube baby;threemore are expected to be born this year.The boy, weighing three kilograms, wasborn on 9 April, 1997at the Chongqing Maternity Hospital. The mother had beenunable to conceive because of blocked fallopiantubes.The hospital pioneered theresearch of assisted reproductive technology in southwest China bylaunching astudy in 1994. The hospital has used the technology on 67 women, 27 percent ofwhom becamepregnant. The hospital said three more test-tube babies, including aset of triplets, will be born this year.Chongqing is the seventh Chinese cityto report the birth of test-tube babies, following Beijing, Shanghai,Hangzhou,Shenyang, Haikou and other cities. More than 250 test-tube babies have beenborn in these citiessince the first in Beijing in 1998.

(1)Which of the following cities has notreported the birth of test-tube babies?

(2)The first test-tube baby in Chongqing_____.

(3)Which of the following statements is NOTtrue about Chongqing?

(4)Among the 67 women, on whom the assistedreproductive technology has been used, about _____ becamepregnant.

(5)There are supposed to be altogether_____ test-tube babies born in Chongqing this year.

Multiple Choices（多项选择， 根据短文选出正确的选项）

1.Different countries and different peoplehave different manners. We must find out their customs so that theywill notthink us ill-mannered. Here are examples of the things that a person with goodeducation does or doesnot do. If you visit a Chinese family, you should knockat the door first. When the door opens, you will not movebefore the hostsays" Come in, please." After you come into the room, you would notsit down until the host asksyou to take a seat. When a cup of tea is put on atable before you or sent to your hand, you will say "thank you"andreceive it with two hands, not one hand or they will think you are illmannered. Before entering a house inJapan, it is a good manner to take off yourshoes. In European countries, even though shoes sometimes becomevery dirty,this is not done. In a Malay house, a guest never finishes the food on thetable. He leaves a little toshow that he has had enough. In England, a guestalways finishes the drink or the food to show he has enjoyed it.This will makethe host the host, and especially the hostess, happy. Which statements are trueaccording to thepassage?

Multiple Choices（多项选择， 根据短文选出正确的选项）

1.Michael Schumacher was born inHurth-Hermuhlheim, Germany, on 3 January 1969. When he was only fouryears old,he was given a toy kart and later a lawnmower engine was fitted to it.Schumacher’s parents thoughthe was not safe driving his kart on the pavementsaround their home so they arranged for him to use the localkart track. At theage of 15, he won his first major championship-the German Junior KartingChampionship.When he was nineteen, he turned to racing cars and immediatelybegan winning. At the age of 22, he took partin his first Grand Prix, driving aJordan, but shortly after that he joined the Benetton team.

Multiple Choices（多项选择， 根据短文选出正确的选项）

1.The ancient Olympic Games were part of areligious festival in honour of the Greek god Zeus, the father of allGreek godsand goddesses. The festival and games were held in olympia, a religioussanctuary. The athletes cameto Olympia from all parts of the Greek world, fromas far as Spain in the west and Turkey in the east. The ancientOlympic Gamesbegan in the year 776 BC when Koroibos, a cook from the city of Elis, won a200-metre-long race.They took place for a period of 617 years until the lastgames were held in AD 393. In the ancient games, athletesreceived prizes worthlarge amounts of money. In fact the word "athlete" is an ancientGreek word, meaning"one who competes for a prize". Although women didnot compete in the games, there was a separate festivalheld at the same time inhonour of Hera, wife of Zeus. At this festival unmarried girls competed in footraces. Themarathon was not an event of the ancient Olympic Games. The marathonis a modern event that was firstintroduced in the Olympic Games in 1896. It wasnamed after a village called Marathon where the Persians weredefeated by asmall Greek army. The news of the victory was brought to Athens by soldier, whoran the 26 milesfrom the village of Marathon to the capital. 26 miles wastherefore adopted as the distance of the modernmarathon race. The Olympic flagwas introduced in 1908 and carries the symbol of five linked rings.Whichrepresentthe five continents - Africa, America, Asia, Australasia and Europe. TheOlympic flame was first carriedin the 1932 0lympic Games in Los Angeles. Therewas no torch relay in the ancient Olympic Games. The firsttorch relay in themodern Olympic Games was staged in Berlin in 1936.