一、I worked for a short time as a cashier(出纳员) at a restaurant a few months ago. I also helped to clean up the tables when it was very busy. One night, just before Christmas, I found a large black wallet on the floor near one of the tables. I guessed I should check it to find out who was the owner, but I was very busy at the time. And I imagined that if there was something valuable(有价值的) in the wallet, the owner would be back. Sure enough, an hour later a man came up to the counter and asked if anyone had found a wallet. I asked him to describe the lost wallet, and after he described it exactly, I gave him the wallet. He expressed his thanks when I handed it to him. He asked me if I had opened it, and when I told him “no”. At once he opened it and showed that it had nearly $ 800 in cash(现金). He took out a twenty-dollar bill and handed it to me and I was amazed at this. “A reward(酬劳) for your honesty,” he said and then turned and walked away.
Thinking about it later, I began wondering whether I would have been honest if I had known what was in the wallet! I thought that if I had no way to find the owner and no one returned to get it, I might keep it. But it also came into my mind that I actually saved someone?s Christmas plans by finding and returning the wallet. The good feeling it gave m e was worth more than anything could buy.
1. Which of the following is true?
A. The owner of the wallet found a twenty-dollar bill gone.
B. The writer wasn?t surprised when the man gave her a reward.
C. Nothing in the wallet was missing.
D. The man was very, very excited when he got his wallet back.
2. The writer returned the wallet to the owner because _______.
A. she thought Christmas was coming
B. the owner came back too soon
C. she didn?t know there was so much money in i t
D. as an honest person, she didn?t care much about money
3. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The writer accepted a reward of $ 20.
B. The writer regretted(后悔) that she had returned the wallet.
C. The writer didn?t return the wallet until the owner came back.
D. The writer fell very happy after she returned the wallet.
二、Shlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter. Read it and answer the questions.
Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on their heads. Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their face. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters do not walk very fast. They move from place to pace in tin boxes.
At night, the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.
1. Shlander thinks the people and things on the earth are very ________.
A. strange
B. nice
C. different
D. beautiful
2. Shlander thinks man on the earth is ________.
A. a monkey
B. a earth monster
C. a tin box
D. a strange world
3. The earth monster doesn?t have ________.
A. heads, arms and legs
B. brown or yellow strings on its head
C. a hole on its face
D. a swing on its body
4. The earth monsters don?t put ________ on their holes.
A. nice things
B. balls
C. fire
D. water
5. The square window box is ________.
A. a car or a bus
B. a very small earth monster
C. a TV set
D. a radio
三、Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then, the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father?s lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to end the wars, and the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous last will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas. And so, the man is remembered and respected long after his death.
1. Where was Alfred Nobel born? He was born in ________.
A. Sweden
B. Stockholm
C. Russia
D. Moscow
2. What did Immanuel Nobel invented during the Crimean War?
A. The engineering industry.
B. A strong position.
C. Landmine.
D. Study of explosives.
3. Why did Alfred Nobel return to Sweden ? Because his father ________.
A. went bankrupt
B. was put in prison
C. was ill
D. died
4. How many companies did Alfred Nobel build up? He built up ________ companies in different countries.
A. 20
B. 40
C. 60
D. 80
5. What was Alfred Nobel always searing for? ________.
A. More time and more money
B. A meaning to life
C. How to end the war
D. The peace between nations
四、An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money.
When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother, “Only a miracle can save him now,” the little girl went to her bedroom an d pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully.
She hurried to a drugstore (药店) with the money in her hand.
“And what do you want?” asked the salesman. “It?s for my little brother,” the girl answered. “He?s really, really sick and I want to buy a miracle.” “Pardon?” said the salesman.
“My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?” “We don?t sell a miracle here, child. I?m sorry,” the salesman said with a smile.
“Listen, if it isn?t enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs.”
A well-dressed man heard it and asked, “What kind of a miracle does your brother need?”
“I don?t know,” she answered with her eyes full of tears. “He?s really sick and mum says he needs an opera tion. But my daddy can?t pay for it, so I have brought all my money.”
“How much do you have?” asked the man. “$ 1.11, but I can try and get some more,” she answered.
“Well, what luck,” smiled the man. “$ 1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.”
He took up the girl?s hand and said, “Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let?s see if I have the kind of miracle you need.”
That well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn?t lo ng before Andrew was home again.
How much did the miracle cost?
1. What was the trouble in the little girl?s family?
A. Her brother was seriously ill.
B. They had no money.
C. Nothing could save her brother.
D. Both A and B.
2. In the eye of the little girl, a miracle might be _______.
A. something interesting
B. something beautiful
C. some wonderful medicine
D. some good food
3. The little girl said again and again “...I can try and get some more.” That shows _______.
A. she had still kept some money
B. she hoped not to be refused
C. There was no need to worry about money
D. she thought money was easy to get
4. What made the miracle happen?
A. The girl?s love for her brother.
B. The girl?s money.
C. The medicine from the drugstore.
D. Nobody can tell.
5. From the passage we can infer (推断) that _______.
A. The doctor didn?t ask for any pay
B. A miracle is sure to happen if you keep on
C. The little girl is lovely but not so clever
D. Andrew was in fact not so sick as they had thought
五、This is a song millions of Americans w ill hear this New Year?s Eve. It is called Auld Lang Syne (《友谊地久天长》). It is the traditional music played during the New Year?s celebration. Auld Lang Syne is an old Scottish poem. It tells about the ne ed to remember old friends.
The words “auld lang syne” mean “old long since”. No one knows who wrote the poem first. However, a version by Scottish poet Robert Bums was published (出版) in 1796. The words and music we know today first appeared in a songbook three years later.
The song is played in the United Sta tes mainly on New Year?s Eve. The version (译文) you are hearing today is by the Washington Saxophone Quartet. As we end our program with Auld Lang Syne. I would like to wish all of our radio friends a very Happy New Year! This is Buddy Thomas. (from https://www.doczj.com/doc/b21324730.html,)
1. Where is this passage from?
A. A newspaper.
B. A magazine.
C. A TV program.
D. A radio program.
2. Who is introducing Auld Lang Syne to us?
A. Robert Bums.
B. The Washington Saxophone Quartet.
C. Buddy Thomas.
D. The passage doesn?t tell us.
3. When is Auld Lang Syne mainly played in the USA according to the passage?
A. On New Year?s Eve.
B. On Christmas Eve.
C. On weekends.
D. On holidays.
4. When did the words and music of Auld Lang Syne we know today first appear?
A. In 1790.
B. In 1793.
C. In 1796.
D. In 1799.
5. What?s Auld Lang Syne about?
A. It?s about the history of Scotland.
B. It?s about an old Scottish poet.
C. It?s about the need to remember old friends.
D. It?s about the wishes to the radio friends.
六、
(A)
Henry was an office worker in a big city. He worked very hard and enjoyed traveling in his holidays.
He usually went to the seaside, but one year he saw an advertisement in a newspaper. “Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks a t West Hill Farm. Good food. Fresh air. Horse riding. Walking. Fishing. Cheap and interesting.”
“This sounds a good idea,” he thought. “I?ll spend a month at West Hill Farm. I think I can enjoy horse riding, walking and fishing. They?ll make a change from sitting by the seaside and swimming.”
He wrote to the farmer. In the letter he said that he would like to spend all of July there. Then on the first of July, he left for West Hill Farm.
But four days later, he returned home.
“What was wrong with West Hill Farm?” his best friend, Ed, asked him.“Didn?t you enjoy country life?”
“Country life was very good,” Henry said. “But there was another problem.”
“Oh. What?”
“Well,” he said, “the first day I was there a sheep died, and we had roast mutton for dinner.”
“What?s wrong with that?” Ed asked. “Fresh meat is the best.”
“I know, but on the second day a cow died, and we had roast beef for dinner.”
“Lucky you!”
“You don?t understand,” Henry said. “on the third day a pig died and we had roast pork for dinner.”
“A different meat every day,” Ed said loudly, “and you are complaining!”
“Let me finish,” Henry said. “on the fourth day the farmer died, and I didn?t dare (敢)stay for dinner!”
1. How did Henry find out about the farm?
A. He saw it in a newspaper advertisement.
B. His best friend told him.
C. He wrote to the farmer.
D. Maybe he learned it from the radio.
2. Henry came back home several days later because ______________.
A. he didn?t like the country life at all
B. the farmer wasn?t friendly to him
C. his holiday was over
D. he thought he might have to eat the farmer
3. “…and you are complaining!”, the word “complain” means __________.
A. 夸奖
B. 说三道四
C. 抱怨
D. 故弄玄虚
4. Which of the following sentences is true?
A. Ed could eat a different kind of meat every day.
B. Henry thought he could enjoy a change.
C. Henry couldn?t think of anything else to do, so he went to the farm.
D. The farmer died because of the bad meat he ate.
5. Which is the best title for the passage?
A. What a beautiful farm!
B. Have a good time.
C. A short holiday
D. Henry and the farmer.
(B)
Paragraph 1
Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day, they are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus (柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; 94) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷类), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.
Paragraph 2
People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn?t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned (罐装的) or frozen (冷冻的). It doesn?t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o?clock in the afternoon or at eleven o?clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.
Paragraph 3
There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on the earth. The first is to find some way to feed the world?s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food t o make them grow to be strong and healthy.
6. According to(依据)the scientists，which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch？
A. Chicken, apples, cereal and cabbages.
B. Potatoes, carrots, rice and bread.
C. Oranges, bananas, fish and tomatoes.
D. Beef, pork, fish and milk,
7. It is important for people to eat ______.
A. three times a day
B. dinner at twelve o?clock
C. cooked food all the time
D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day
8. People in different countries and different places of the world ________.
A. have the right kinds of food to eat
B. cook their food in the same way
C. have their meals at the same time
D. eat food in different ways
9. Which of the following is not true？
A. People in some places don?t have enough to eat.
B. There are too many people in the world.
C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.
D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.
10. If there is Paragraph (段落) 4, what do you think is going to be talked about？
A. When people eat their lunch.
B. What to do with the two problems.
C. How to cook food in different ways.
D. Why people eat different kinds of food.
(C)
People often say, “Children can?t do math problem, it?s because parents can?t do their children?s homework.” Here?s an example to show what I mean.
The other day my daughter brought home her math homework. “I have to subtract (减) 179 from 202,” she said.
“It?s quite easy,” I said. “You put the 202 over the 179.”
“But we need a 10 here. Where is the 10?”
“I don?t know where the 10 is. Let?s just subtract 179 from 202. Nine from two is three. You carry one and add it to seven. Eight from zero is two. The answer is 23.”
“We can?t do it that way. We have to use the 10.”
“Well, I?m going to call your teacher to see how she subtracts 179 from 202.”
Over the telephone, I said that I was having a bit of trouble with the homework she had given to my daughter. The teacher said, “In the right-hand column (栏) we have units of one. The two in that column counts for two ones. The zero in the center counts for zero tens. The two in the left-hand column counts for hundreds. Are you clear?” But I didn?t think I was clear.
I hung up and found my way to the medicine box. My head was now hurting. I started putting pills of medicine into my mouth. “How many did you take?” my wife asked. “I took one and then I took another…I know one and one was two, but don?t ask me what it is now.”
11. The daughter wanted ______ the other day.
A. to give her father a lesson
B. to show how difficult math was
C. her father to phone her teacher
D. her father to help her with her homework
12. Which of the following sentences is not true?
A. The father had a different way to do the math problem.
B. The father couldn?t do his daughter?s homework.
C. The daughter couldn?t understand her father?s way.
D. The daughter had some trouble doing the math problem.
13. From what the teacher said, we know that the word “units” means ______ here.
A. whole numbers less than 10
B. whole things
C. groups of lessons
D. the smallest numbers
14. What the teacher said made the father _________.
A. angry
B. worried
C. sad
D. tired
15. Can you guess what would happen next in the story?
A. The father would go to school and begin to learn math.
B. The father would become very ill and have to take more medicine.
C. The father would never do his daughter?s math problems again.
D. The father would go to the school and fight with the teacher.
【答案及解析】
(A) 假日里，亨利喜欢到海边去旅游。有一次，他想去西山农场享受一下田园风光，并计划在那儿度过一个月的时间。可是令人惊奇的是，才去四天之后他就回来了。当朋友问起其中的缘由时，亨利说道：第一天，农场里死了一只羊，晚餐时美美地吃了一顿烤羊肉；第二天农场死了一头牛，又吃了一顿烧牛肉；第三天农场死了一头猪，结果又吃了一顿烤猪肉。可是，到了第四天，农场主死了，我不敢再留下来吃饭了。
1. A。第二段的首句“...but one year he saw an advertisement in a newspaper.”即是答案的出处。
2. D。本题考查根据语境进行分析判断的能力。由上下文，显然可知这是报纸上的一则广告信息。
3. C。本题考查通过上下文对词汇的推测能力。根据亨利的叙述可得出此答案。
4. B。这由“A different meat every day, and you are complaining!”一句可知。
5. C。本来打算要在乡村农场过一个暑假，结果四天之后就回来了。这能不是个短暂的假期吗？用此作标题既切合题意，又具有幽默的味道。
(B) 这篇短文分为三个落：第一段列举了科学家研究了人们每天要吃的食物；第二段讲述了不同国家的人们饮食习惯和饮食结构等各方面有很大差异。但这些对人来说都没不是很重要的，重要的是每天吃什么。第三段阐述了两个问题：如何解决世界人口的吃饭问题，既要吃饱，又要吃得健康。
6. A。本题属表层理解题。由第一段科学家建议七大类食品可知答案非A莫属。
7. D。由“The important thing is what you eat every day.”及第一段的内容可知D是正确答案。而根据第二段可知A、B、C皆为错误的。
8. D。第二段开头的“People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways.”这两句是解答本题的关键。
9. C。根据第三段所讲的内容，C项显然是错误的。
10. B。A、C和D都是在上文刚刚谈论过的，又根据第三段“There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on the earth.”所提的两个问题，可以推知下文可能要谈论如何解决这两个问题。故答案为B。
(C) 作者向我们讲述了很多人都可能遇到的一个问题：父母往往回答不上来小孩子问的一些非常简单的数学问题。文中作者的女儿向他询问怎样计算202减去179这道题。结果，他的女儿不但弄不懂他的解释，而且他还无法解释清楚女儿提出的问题。他只好向女儿的老师求助，而自己被老师的解释搞得天昏脑胀……
11. D。细读第二段，再联系父女俩的谈话即可得出答案。
12. B。根据“but I didn?t think I was clear.”以及“I took one and then I took another…I know one and one was two, but don?t ask me what it is now.”可知B项是错误的。
13. A。根据短文内容，那位老师所说的“”她的意思是说“个位上的数字是几就表示几个一”，当然应是小于1的数。
14. D。由“My head was now hurting.”这句话，可知“父亲”听了老师的解释后没有生气、焦虑或悲伤，而是头昏脑胀，疲惫之至。
15. C。选项A是不现实的，而选项C、D更是荒诞离奇。体会一下文末一段“父亲”的举动，就可以想起他是一种什么样的心情。
短文改写填空型阅读理解实例分析
一、实例训练
Robert is fifteen now. Two and a half years ago he came to the city and began to study in a middle school. He studies hard and gets on well with his classmates. And he often helps his friends with their lessons. But as he comes from a village, the headmaster who was born in a rich family is bad to him and does his best to make excuses to punish him. The boy knows it and takes precautions against(提防) it.
One afternoon all the students went to have lunch and he bought a piece of bread. He was reading a book under a big tree, while a dog was standing near him. At that moment the headmaster came out and saw it. He became angry and said, “Don?t you know we do n?t let anybody rear (饲养) dogs in the school?”
“Yes, I do, sir. ”said the boy.
“Why have you brought your dog to school, then?”
“It isn?t my dog. ”
“Why is it following you, then?”
“You?re following me now, sir. ” said the boy, “Can you say you are mine?”
请根据以上短文在改写后短文的空白处填入适当的词，使其完整。
Robert is fifteen. He is in Grade _______(1) now. He studies hard and his classmates are _______(2) to him. And he often helps his friends to _______(3) their lessons. But as he was _______(4) in a farmer family, the headmaster from a _______(5) family is bad to him and does_______(6) he can to punish him.
One day in the _______(7), all the students went _______(8) lunch and he bought a piece of bread, reading a book under a tree. At the moment a dog was standing near him. _______(9) the headmaster saw this, he wanted to_______(10) him. But he failed that day again.
二、答题分析
第一步：快读全文，掌握大意。通读原文我们知道。文章讲叙了Robert 和校长的一些情况，Robert 是一个初中学生，他出生于贫困之家，但学习努力与同学相处融洽。校长出生于富贵家庭对Robert很不友好，总是想尽办法惩罚他, Robert 时刻小心提防他。一天下午校长又想趁机惩罚他，但未能得逞。
第二步：细读改写，寻找异同。如原文中说Two and half years ago he came to the city and began to study in a middle school. 而改写中却是He is in Grade_______(1) now. 由原文中的Two and half years ago 可知第(1)空要填Three. 原文中说He studies hard and gets on well with his classmates, 而改写中却是He studies hard and his classmates are _______(2) to him. 由于“他与同学相处融洽”那么“他的同学一定是对他很友好了”。因此第二空填kind或friendly。第3空是一个典型的同义句改写，即help sb. with sth. 与help sb. to do sth. 的转换。
第三步：字斟句酌，各个击破。比如第4, 5, 7空与原文几乎没多大差别可先填好(4) born, (5) rich, (7) afternoon。对于与原文有较大差异的空，则需要字斟句酌，细仔推敲了。我们要在对比改写文中的句子与原文句子差别的前提下，推测改写文中的句子所要表达的意思，然后根据我们所学的知识推出所要填写的单词。如：
原文中的and does his best to make excuses to punish him 正是改写文中and does _______(6) he can to punish him 要表达的意思。这里does后面是一个宾语从句，而从句缺少引导词，因此填入what正合适。这一空较难因为can后面省去了动词原形do。这句话意为“并且做他所能做的事情来惩罚他”。
而原文中的…all the students went to have lunch 与改写文中的all the students went _______(8) lunch. went to have lunch
与went for lunch 同义。故第8空填for。
改写中的_______(9) the headmaster saw this, he wanted to _______(10) him. But he failed that day again. 是对原文第二段后面部分的概括，通过比较我们知道改写中要表达的意思是“当校长看见那种情况时，他想惩罚他，但那一天他又失败了”。因此第9空填，when第10空填punish。
第四步：复读改写，纠正失误。如：第1空应大写首字母，很多考生可能会忽略这一点。
精选中考英语阅读理解训练
(A)
Now satellites are helping to forecast(预报) the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere (大气), because this is where the weather forms (形成). They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists(气象学家) can see the weather of any part of the world. From the pictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change.
Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries receive satellite pictures. When they receive new pictures, the meteorologists compare them with earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, the meteorologists can say this.
So the weather satellites are a great help to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented, the scientists could forecast the weather for about 24or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead (提前).
1. Satellites travel __________.
A. in space
B. above space
C. above the ground
D. in the atmosphere
2. Why do we use the weather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere？Because _______.
A. clouds form there
B. the weather forms there
C. the weather satellites can do it easily
D. the pictures can forecast the weather
3. Meteorologists forecast the weather _______.
A. without studying satellite pictures
B. before they receive satellite pictures
C. when they have received satellite pictures
D. after they have compared the new satellite pictures with the earlier ones
4. Maybe we?ll soon be able to forecast the weather for _________.
A. one day
B. two days
C. five days
D. seven days or even longer
5. The main idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in __________.
A. taking pictures of the earth
B. receiving pictures of the atmosphere
C. weather forecasting
D. doing other work in many ways
(B)
There was once a man called Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for competitions (比赛). He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup (银杯) for the Rose of the Year.
Mr. Flowers? glass-houses were very near to a middle school. Boys of around thirteen of age were often tempted (引诱) to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flowers? glass-houses. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or near his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.
But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to protect his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful. He had been to school to report to the headmaster; but this had not done any good. He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden; but the boys could run faster than he could, and they laughed at him from far away. He had even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw; but they soon found others.
At last Mr. Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice (布告) made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses. On it he had written the words: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flowers had no further trouble; the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glass-houses.
6. It was Mr. Fl owers? hope to ________.
A. build glass-houses in his free time
B. grow the Rose of the Year in a silver cup
C. win a silver cup for growing a rose of a new color
D. grow a rose with the longest name
7. Boys were often tempted to ________.
A. throw stones at Mr. Flowers? glass-house
B. throw stones at Mr. Flowers from their school
C. be in or near by Mr. Flowers? glass-houses
D. play with Mr. Flowers near his glass-houses
8. Mr. Flowers stayed in or near by his glass-houses _______.
A. at times when school-boys were walking near them
B. all the school day when there were no boys about
C. where he could not be seen by the boys passing
D. in his free time at the beginning and end of the school day
9. Mr. Flowers had tried to ______ to protect his glass.
A. be on watch in his free time
B. ask the headmaster for help
C. pick up all the stones around his garden
D. do all the above
10. Mr. Flowers? good idea was to ______.
A. write some words on the glass
B. put up a large notice to cover his glass-houses
C. give the boys something else to throw stones at
D. send for policemen
（C）Napoga is a 12-year-old girl in Ghana(加纳), Africa. It is hard for her family to get clean water. Every morning, she leaves home at half past five to get clean water for her family in a village far away. It takes her six hours to get enough clean water for daily(日常) cooking and drinking. She has no time to go to school or to play with her friends. Millions of people in the world are like Napoga. They can?t get enough clean water to keep healthy.
Earth Day is April 22. But on all other days, we must also remember it. The water we use is the most important natural resource(自然资源) on the earth.
Water covers 70% of the earth?s surface(表面). But most of that is sea water. We can?t use it for very many things. Fresh water covers only 1% of the earth?s surface.
Y ou probably feel lucky that your life isn?t as hard as Napoga?s. But that doesn?t mean you don?t have to worry about water. We all face serious water problems. One of them is water pollution. All kinds of things from cars, factories, farms and homes make our rivers, lakes, and oceans dirty. Polluted water is very bad for people to drink. And dirty water is bad for fish, too. Now, 34% of all kinds of fish are dying out.
How do cars and factories make our water dirty? First, they pollute the air. Then, when it rains, the rain water comes down and makes our drinking water dirty. Dirty rain, called acid rain(酸雨), is also bad for plants, animals and buildings.
Scientists say that in 30 years, more than half of the people in the world won?t have enough clean wat er. We have to learn how to save more water for ourselves and our children. Here is some advice for saving water:
●Turn off the water while you brush your teeth. You can save as much as 450 liters(升) each month.
●Leaky taps(漏水的龙头) waste a lot of water. Fix them right away!
●You can easily cut your 10-minute showers(沐浴) in half—and you?ll be just as clean.
●When you wash dishes, don?t let the water run.
●Only wash clothes when you have a lot to wash. If your washing machine isn?t full, you?re wasting wat er!
1. Every morning Napoga went to get clean water _______.
A. before she went to school
B. after she finished school
C without going to school D. after she played with her friends
2. On the earth, _______.
A. sea water is widely used than fresh water
B. there is very little water for our living
C. there is 71% of fresh water
D. we don?t need to worry about water
3. Acid rain _______.
A. is only bad for living things
B. can be produced in factories
C. doesn?t do harm to people, but it?s bad fo r plants, animals and buildings
D. doesn?t just do harm to human beings but to ani mals, plants and buildings
4. Which of the following wastes water?
A. We need ten minutes if we want a clean shower.
B. We should put in enough clothes when we wash them in washing machines.
C. You can keep yourself clean by having a shower for five minutes.
D. Don?t let the water run when we brush our teeth and wash dishes.
5. What?s the main idea of the passage?
A. Something must be done to prevent water form being polluted.
B. Clean water means much to human beings and living things around us.
C. It?s time to take care of the water we use.
D. Water is the most important natural resource on the earth.
（D）Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don?t agree with them.
Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources(资源), we are short of(缺乏) others, for example, fresh water(淡水). It is reported that we will have no coal(煤) or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, what can we use in the future and where can we move? Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.
In our everyday life, we can do many things to prevent waste from happening, for example, turn off the water taps(水龙头) when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day, if we do our best.
1. From the passage we know that some students often _______ in the school.
A. eat too much
B. don?t work hard
C. waste things
D. throw rubbish everywhere
2. Which is not mentioned in this passage?
A. Fresh water.
B. Forest.
C. Oil.
D. Coal.
3. What may happen in 100 years?
A. We may still have enough oil.
B. We may still have enough coal.
C. We may have a little oil.
D. We may have no coal or oil to use.
4. Which of the following is right?
A. Waste brings problems.
B. Waste can bring no problem.
C. China is rich in fresh water.
D. Students never waste things.
5. Which is the best title of this passage?
A. Stop Wasting
B. School life
C. Waste in the School
D. Rich Resources in China
（E）Christmas Eve means a warm get-together with friends, a candlelight dinner, or perhaps a celebration at a pub(酒馆) for students. But, for Cai Yingjie, the night has a different meaning: helping beggars(乞丐) and the homeless(people without homes).
Cai, who is a student in journalism at Tsinghua, coul d be found at Beijing?s Wudaokou Light Railway Station that special evening. When she saw an old beggar, she took the cold, rough hands of the woman with her warm, clean hands, and gave the woman some warm bread and helped her put on a pair of new gloves(手套).
The woman was surprised for a few seconds, then burst into tears, saying “for the first time I feel respected(尊重)”.
Cai said, “A beggar?s life is very hard. That?s why I want to help them.”
Cai was one of 14 Tsinghua students spending Christmas Eve among the poor. They walked in the cold wind along the streets from 4 to 7 pm on Friday, visiting 15 beggars in Beijing?s Haidian District.
They brought bread and gloves with them, and stopped to greet beggars and offer them some of the warm food. Each beggar greeted them with a look of surprise.
“I know the activity can?t help much, but it?s meant to show our respect and care for beggars and the homeless who have been neglected for so long,” said Sun, head of the group. “And Christmas is a good time for that.”
1. What does Christmas Eve mean to the 14 Tsinghua students?
A. Taking 15 beggars to Tsinghua.
B. Getting together with friends.
C. Showing care to the beggars and the homeless.
D. Selling bread and gloves to the beggars.
2. What doe s the beggar mean by saying “for the first time I feel respected”?
A. The beggar has been waiting for Cai for long.
B. The beggar hasn?t been shown care for so long.
C. The beggar has been respecting Cai for a long time.
D. This is the first time the beggar has seen Tsinghua students.
3. What did each beggar feel when they received greetings?
A. Sad.
B. Amazed.
C. Frightened.
D. Proud.
4. The word “neglected” in the last passage means _______.
A. protected
B. found
C. taken care of
D. given no enough care
（F）What are you going to do if you are in a burning house? How will you escape? Do you know how to save yourself? Please read the following passage.
Escaping a fire is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save you life. It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone in the family, such as stairways and fire escapes, but not lifts.
From the lower floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is possible, learn the best way of leaving by windows with the least chance of serious injury.
The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average(平均高度的) person, hanging by the finger-tips will have a drop of about six feet to the ground. It is about the height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a burning building.
Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed. Or smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may leaked(渗) into the room. On a second or third floor, the best windows for escape are those that open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping onto cement(水泥) might end in injury. Bushes(灌木丛) and grass can help to break a fall.
1. It is important to _______.
A. put out the fire in the burning house
B. know the ways to escape the fire
C. jump off a burning house
D. keep the door closed
2. It is possible to escape through the windows _______.
A. if there are some bushes on the ground
B. if you are strong enough
C. if you live on a lower floor
D. If you have a long rope
3. Which of the following escaping way is NOT right? _______.
A. You can escape though stairways.
B. You can choose fire escapes.
C. Escape from the windows that open onto a roof.
D. Use a lift to come down at once.
4. Open the window so that _______ if the building is on fire.
A. you can get fresh air
B. you can call for help
C. you can easily jump off
D. you can be seen first
5. The best title of the passage is _______.
A. Escaping from the Windows
B. Save Yourself in the Burning House
C. Knowledge on Fire
D. Waiting for Help （J）He is quiet and shy. He likes to hide his eyes behind his hair. He doesn?t smile very often. However, if you talk to him about music, he?ll have a lot to say.
This is Jay Chou, the 24-year-old Taiwanese pop king(天王). His fans are so excited because he will sing songs in Beijing on September 12. Those songs are from his new album (唱片), “Ye Huimei”, and the album was released (发行) in July and was named after his mother.
Chou grew up just with his mother. He did not talk much and did badly in many school subjects.
His mother noticed the boy?s special interest in music and sent him to learn piano when he was only three years old. He loved it and kept on practicing.
Chou is not very handsome. He does not speak clearly when he sings or talks. But the singer h as huge crowds of fans. “He is really good at music. It makes him attractive(有魅力的) to me,” said Liu Jiajun, a Junior 2 student in No.101 Middle School in Beijing.
“He is true to himself. He never follows others,” said Zhang Yujie, a Junior 1 girl at Huaibei Middle School in Sihong, Jiang su Province.
1. From this passage, we know that Jay Chou _______.
A. is very handsome
B. has a bright smile
C. often makes too much noise
D.. is a pop music star
2. His fans are so excited because _______.
A. he released a new album in July
B. he will sing new songs in Beijing
C. he can play the piano very well
D. his new album was named after his mother
3. When he was a little child, he _______.
A. talked a lot every day
B. did well in his study at school
C. started to like music
D. had huge crowds of fans
4. According to one of his fans, Jay _______.
A. is a good student
B. has long and beautiful hair
C. is a well-known pianist
D. is very attractive to them
5. The sentence “He never follows others” in the last paragraph means _______.
A. he always has his own style(风格)
B. he likes to walk alone
C. he doesn?t like other people?s songs at all
D. no one can catch up with him
（K）Do you know how to play a game called “Musical Chairs”? It is easy to play and most people enjoy it. All you need are some chairs, some people and some way of making music. You may use a piano or any other musical instrument, if someone can play it. You may use a tape recorder. You can even use a radio.
Put the chairs in a row. The chairs may be put in twos, back to back. A better way is to have the chairs in one row with each chair facing in the opposite direction to the chair next to it.
The game is easy. When the music starts, the players walk round the chairs. Everyone goes in the same direction, of course, they should walk in time to the music. If the music is fast they should walk quickly. If the music is slow, they should walk slowly.
The person playing music cannot see the people in the game. When the music stops, the players try to sit on the chairs. If a person cannot find a chair to sit on, he drops out. Then, before the music starts again, one chair must be taken away. When the music stops again, one more player will be out.
At last, there will be two players and one chair. The one who sits on the chair when the music stops is the winner.
1. If ten people are playing musical chairs, you must begin with _______.
A. nine chairs
B. ten chairs
C. eleven chairs
D. one chair
2. Which of the following is not suitable for playing musical chairs? _______.
A. A piano
B. A radio
C. A tape recorder
D. A telephone
3. The chairs should be put _______.
A. with the desks
B. before the winner
C. all over the room
D. in a line
4. When the music starts, the players must _______.
A. run about the room
B. get down
C. walk around the chairs
D. sit on the chairs
5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The game “Musical Chairs” is not difficult to learn.
B. The last one can sit on the last chair.
C. The winner can sit on the chair.
D. If the person plays music, he cannot be the winner.
（L）“Well, we?re in our new house. Let?s get a new pet to get along with it,” Mrs Brown said to her husband.
“That sounds like a pretty good idea,” he answered. “Do you want to see the ads in the newspaper?”
“Let?s go to the animal shelter. Many pets there need homes. Since tomorrow is Saturday, we can both go,” she said.
Next morning the Browns met Mr Snow at the animal shelter. “We want to be sure that the pets here go to good homes,” Mr Snow said, “So I need to ask you some questions.”
After they talked for a while, the Browns decided to get a small dog. It wouldn?t need a big house or a big yard. A small dog would bark(吠) and warm them if someone tried to break into their house. After Mr Snow gave the Browns a book on pet care, they chose one and wanted to take her home right away. But the animal doctor hadn?t checked her yet. So Mr Snow told them to return on Sunday.
O n Sunday afternoon the Browns went to the animal shelter. The animal doctor said, “Shadow has had all of her shots(预防针). She will be healthy.” The browns thanked the doctor and took Shadow home.
1. From the reading we learn that _______.
A. the Browns have never had a pet before.
B. the Browns knew about Shadow from the newspaper.
C. Shadow is a small and healthy dog.
D. Mr Brown didn?t quite agree with his wife.
2. The word shelter in the reading means _______.
A. a place to sell small dogs
B. a place to keep homeless animals
C. a place to study animals
D. a place to sell books on pet care
3. Mr Snow asked the Browns some questions to _______.
A. see if they had moved to a new house
B. find out how rich the Browns were
C. know where t hey?d keep their new pet
D. make sure they?d take care of pets
4. The Browns thinks that a small dog _______.
A. doesn?t need any room to keep
B. can help them watch their house
C. eats less food than a bigger one
D. usually has a beautiful name
5. It?s clear that _______.
A. Shadow will not be easy to get ill
B. the Browns were not satisfied with Shadow
C. Mr Snow didn?t check Shadow at all
D. Shadow likes barking a lot
（L）A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a ￥100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, “Who would like this ￥100 bill?” The students began to put up their hands at once.
Then he said, “I am going to give this ￥100 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He then made the bill into a ball. Then he said, “Who wants it now?” The hands went back into the air.
“Well,” he said, “What if I do this?” and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumpled bill and said, “Who still wants it?” Hands went back into the air.
“My friends,” he said, “you have learned a valua ble lesson today. No matter (无论) what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not go down in value (价值). It was still worth ￥ l00!”
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things that happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value: you are always valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesn?t come from what you do or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.
You are special and va luable. Don?t ever forget it!
1. Even though it was dirty, the money _______.
A. still went up in value
B. was worth nothing
C. didn?t go down in value
D. was still ours
2. We are always valuable to the people _______.
A. who pay us
B. who call us
C. who hate us
D. who love us
3. Your value doesn?t come from what you do but _______.
A. who you know
B. who made you
C. who you remember
D. who you are
4. The sentence “Hands went back into the air” means “_______”.
A. the students put up their hands again
B. the students put down their hands
C. the students put their hands behind their backs again
D. the students put their hands in front of them
5. Why did the famous teacher use a ￥100 bill at his lesson?
A. Because he wanted to make the bill into a ball.
B. Because he used to drop a bill on the floor and stepped on it.
C. Because he was going to give the bill to one of his students.
D. Because he wanted to make the students know what value was.
（M）“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”
“I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”
“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”
“I spend more time in chat rooms(聊天室) than with my …real-1ife? friends.”
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction(瘾) called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug(毒品) use. People lose control(控制) of the time they spend on the Internet
For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight.
Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family. Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms(症状):
●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet. ●You can?t wait for your next online time.
●You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
●You go out with your friends less and less.
1. What does the beginning of the passage tell us?
A. How to become an Internet addict.
B. What an Internet addict usually does.
C. Where to find an Internet addict.
D. Why to write this passage.
2 How does the writer describe the addicts? use of Internet?
A. It is something like keeping drugs.
B. It is a way of producing drugs.
C. It is like taking drugs.
D. It is terrible to imagine.
3. Why do people worry about the teens?
A. The teens are wasting too much money.
B. They used to work on the Internet.
C. The playing field of the teens will disappear.
D. More and more of the teens wil1 become addicted to the Internet.
4. The example in the passage shows that _______.
A. Internet problems are more serious among college students
B. Internet addicts usually stay in the computer lab without sleep
C. Some of the Internet users have already been seriously addicted
D. The police often help to find those Internet addicts.
5. What is the writer trying to tell us at the end of the passage?
A. Don?t be addicted to the Internet .
B. Go to family activities more often.
C. Do things as you have planned
D. Stay with your parents as often as possible. 表格式阅读理解题3篇
A. Monday
B. Tuesday
C. Wednesday
D. Thursday
2. You have ______ Chinese classes every week.
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
3. How long will you rest for lunch-time?
A. 60 minutes
B. 70 minutes
C. 80 minutes
D. 90 minutes
4. You have ______classes only on Monday and Wednesday?
A. art
B. music
C. biology
D. P.
E.
5. You can send and receive e-mail from ______to ______ in computer class on Friday.
A. 8:00; 9:00
B. 8:55; 10:45
C. 10:00; 11:40
D. 2:00; 3:40
A. Yang Jun
B. Zhang Hui
C. Liu Hong
D. Li Nan
2. You may telephone ______ for help if your grandmother is ill.
A. Yang Jun
B. Zhang Hui
C. Liu Hong
D. Li Nan
3. We can call ______ when we want to take a taxi to Hangzhou Railway Station.
A. 139********
B. 0745-*******
C. 1992301636
D. 137********
4. Of the four, we can?t send fax to the ______.
A. driver
B. teacher
C. doctor
D. farmer
5. If you have some questions about your health, please send an E-mail to ______.
A. Linan@https://www.doczj.com/doc/b21324730.html,
B. cclh@https://www.doczj.com/doc/b21324730.html,
C. hzyi@https://www.doczj.com/doc/b21324730.html,
D. hhmx@https://www.doczj.com/doc/b21324730.html,
(3)
A. never pay for meals
B. pay a little for meals
C. work on weekends
D. work in the afternoon
2. If you buy the house, you ______.
A. may pay more than ￥150, 000 for it
B. must have breakfast in the kitchen
C. have to take a bath in the public bathroom
D. may live on the south side of the city
3. Any customer with a Tianjin Daily of June 1, 2005 will get a small present from ______.
A. every supermarket
B. Huanghe Road
C. Tianjin Daily
D. Yingbin Supermarket
4. When will the concert be?
A. Julu1, 2005
B. June 8, 2005
C. July 3, 2005
D. June 25, 2005
5. If two adults and two students want to go to the concert, the tickets will cost RMB______.
A. 220 yuan
B. 440 yuan
C. 270 yuan
D. 370 yuan
【实例一】
Most people want to work, but it has become more difficult in today?s world to find work for everyone. The economy (经济) of the world needs to grow by 4% each year just to keep the old number of jobs for people. Often this is not possible, and so more people are out of work. Some people have no jobs now because new machines can do the work of many people in short time. Also, machines do not ask for more money and longer holiday. In all of the countries of the world, machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but also on the farms. One machine can often do the work from forty people. About 75,000 people are moving to the cities a day to look for jobs, but only 70% of them can find jobs.
1. It was _______ for people to find work before than today.
A. not possible
B. difficult
C. more difficult
D. easier
2. If the economy of the world grows by 4% each year, _______.
A. people will have no jobs
B. people can still have jobs as before
C. 4% of the people will have jobs
D. 97% of the people will have jobs
3. One machine can do as much work as _______.
A. 40% of the people
B. 4% of the people in the world
C. 40 people
D. 75,000 people
4. How many people outside cities go into to look for jobs each day?
A. 70% of the people.
B. 4% of the people in the world.
C. More than 75,000.
D. About 75,000 people.
5. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Machines are taking work instead of people.
B. Now more people are out of work.
C. Machines need more money and longer holidays.
D. Most people want to have jobs.
【实例二】A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long.
He came downstair s, where his mother and his two sisters were washing up tea things in the kitchen. “These new trousers are too long.” He said. “ They need shortening (缩短)by about two inches. Would one of you mind doing this for me, please?” His mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything.
But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son?s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.
Later on, after sup per, the elder sister remembered her brother?s trousers. She was a kind-hearted girl, so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches.
The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came back, she , too, remembered what her brother had said. So she ran upstairs and took two inches off the legs of the new trousers.
1. The young man bought the new trousers _______ his size.
A. as long as
B. two inches longer than
C. as big as
D. two inches shorter than
2. He asked _______ to shorten his new trousers.
A. his mother and sisters
B. his two sisters
C. his elder sister
D. his mother and one of his sisters
3. His mother and sisters ________.
A. agreed to do that
B. didn?t want to do that
C. said nothing to him
D. said something to him
4. His elder sister shortened the trousers ________.
A. after finished washing
B. before she went to bed
C. when she came back from the cinema
D. after having supper
5. The next morning the young man would find the trousers were _______.
A. two inches shorter
B. four inches shorter
C. six inches shorter
D. eight inches shorter
【实例三】When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “ How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.
Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It?s important to master(掌握) the rules(规则) for word order in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can?t understand the speaker?s sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes, But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn?t change. Let?s see the difference between the two pair s of sentences.
“She only likes apples.”
“Only she likes apples.”
“I have seen the film already.”
“I have already seen the film.”
When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神实质) of the language and use it as the English speaker does.
1. From the passage we know that _______when we are learning English.
A. we sh ouldn?t put every word into our own language
B. we should look up every word in the dictionary
C. we need to put every word into our own language
D. we must read word by word
2. The writer thinks it is _______ in learning English.
A. difficult to understand different sounds
B. possible to remember the word order
C. important to master the rules in different ways
D. easy to master the rules for word order
3. We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words
B. The order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence
C. sometimes different order of words has a different meaning
D. if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different
4. “She only likes apples.” ________.
A. is the same as “Only she likes apples.”
B. is different from “Only she likes apples.”
C. means “She likes fruit except apples.”
D. means “She doesn?t like apples.”
5. Which is the best title (标题) for this passage?
A. Different Orders, Different Meanings
B. How to Speak English
C. How to Put English into Our Own Language
D. How to Learn English
(1)
We are already familiar with computers—computers work for us at home, in offices and in factories. But it is also true that many children today are using computers at schools before they can write. What does this mean for the future? Are these children lucky or not?
Many people who do not know about computers think of them as machines that children play with. They worry that children do not learn from experience but just from pressing a button and that this is not good for them. They think that children are growing not knowing about the real world.
But people who understand more about computers say that computers can be very good for children. A computer can help them to learn about the real world more quickly, to learn what they want to learn and think for themselves. And for the future, do n?t we need people who can think clearly, who know how to get information quickly and use it well? What do you think?
1. “To be familiar with” means to ______.
A. know nothing
B. know about
C. dislike
D. like
2. Does everyone think computers are good for children?
A. Yes, they do.
B. No, not everyone thinks so.
C. They don?t know.
D. They are not sure.
3. What can computers help children to do?
A. To think clearly, to do homework and to write.
B. To play games, to do math and to copy.
C. To think clearly, to get information and to use it well.
D. To count, to clean the house and to get information.
4. Does the writer think computer is a good thing?
A. It isn?t mentioned.
B. No, he doesn?t think so.
C. He doesn?t know.
D. Yes, he does.
(2)
Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke from his gun before the sound reaches your ears.
This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that the light that you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km. per minute. In some cases, the light from one of tonight?s stars had started on its journey to you before you were born.
Thus, if we want to be honest, we can?t say, “The stars are shining tonight.” We have to say instead, “The stars look pretty. They were shining four years ago, but their light has only just reached the earth.”
1. Light speed is ______ sound speed
A. as fast as
B. a million times slower than
C. about millions of times faster than
D. about a million times faster than
2. If you stand 200 metres away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that ______.
A. you can hear the sound before you see the smoke
B. the sound does not travel as fast as light
C. the sound will reach you before the man fires
D. sound travels about a million times faster than light
3. Sunlight obviously (明显地) ______ than the light of the moon
A. has to travel a greater distance
B. moves less quickly
C. travels much more quickly
D. is less powerful(有力的)
4. The scientific way of saying "The stars are shining tonight" should be ______.
A. the stars have been shining all the time
B. the stars seen tonight will shine four years later
C. the stars were shining long ago but seen tonight
D. the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago
(3)
A. Saturday morning
B. Monday afternoon
C. Saturday evening
D. Friday afternoon
2. From Peter?s plan we learn that Peter likes ______.
A. table tennis
B. music
C. art
D. basketball
3. On Sunday morning Mary will ______.
A. be free
B. be busy
C. see the doctor
D. go shopping
4. What will Mary do on Wednesday evening?
A. See her friends
B. Play basketball
C. Go to her art class
D. Prepare for an exam
(1)We were going to play against a team from a country school.
They didn?t come until the last minute. They looked worse than we had thought. They were wearing dirty blue trousers and looked like farm boys.
We sat down for a rest. We felt that we didn?t need any practice against a team like that.
The game began. One of us got the ball and he shot a long pass to our forward(前锋). From out of nowhere a boy in an old
T-shirt stopped the ball and with beautiful style(姿势) he shot and got two points. Then another two points in a minute. Soon the game was all over. We were beaten by the country team.
After that, we thought a lot. We certainly learned that even though your team is very good, you can?t look down upon the others and still need to do your best. And the most important lesson we learned was: One can?t judge (判断) a person or a team only by their clothes.
1. The team from the country w ere in old clothes so the writer?s team ______.
A. looked down upon them
B. couldn?t win
C. didn?t like the city boy
D. were afraid of them
2. The country team arrived so late that ______.
A. nobody saw them
B. the writer?s team were angry
C. they had no time to warm up
D. they looked worse
3. The team from the country won because ______.
A. they were in old clothes
B. they didn?t practice before the game
C. they practiced before the game
D. the team was better than the writer?s
4. From the text, we can guess the writer?s team is ______.
A. a basketball from a country school
B. a football team from a school in the city
C. a basketball team from a school in the city
D. a football team from the country
5. The writer?s team learned a lot from the game. They got to know how to ______.
A. do better from then on
B. fight against the country boys
C. play against a weak team
D. judge a man or a team by clothes
(2)In America, just as in Europe, men usually open doors for women, and women always walk ahead of men into a room or a restaurant, unless(除非) the men have to be ahead of the ladies to choose the table, to open the door of a car or do some other things like the above. On the street, men almost always walk or cross the street on the closer side of the ladies to the traffic. But if a man walks with two ladies, he should walk between them. Then if the host (男主人) or hostess(女主人) or both of them come in a car to get their guest for dinner, the guest should sit at the front seat and leave the back seat though there is no people sitting on it.
1. In America men usually ______.
A. walk ahead of women
B. eat in a restaurant
C. walk behind women
D. drive a car to work
2. In the street men ______.
A. cross the street
B. walk on the right side of the ladies
C. walk on the closer side of the ladies to the traffic
D. walk near the ladies
3. If a man walks with two ladies, he should ______.
A. walk between them
B. run before them
C. follow them
D. go away
4. If Mrs Green wants you to her house in a car, you should ______.
A. sit beside a guest
B. sit at the front seat
C. sit at the back seat
D. drive the car
3)“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the wor ld has changed, the word has had many different meanings. “Cool” can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, “It?s cool.” You may think, “He?s so cool,” when you see your favourite footballer. We all maximize (扩大) the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new” or “surprising”. Here?s an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall (瀑布) they had visited. On one stu dent?s paper was just the one sentence, “It?s so cool.” Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.
But the story also shows a scarcity(缺乏) of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility(可信性). Can you think of many other words that make your life as colourful as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.
1. We know that the word “cool” has had ______.
A. only one meaning
B. no meanings
C. many different meanings
D. the same meaning
2. In the passage, the word “express” means “______.”
A. see
B. show
C. know
D. feel
3. If you are ______ something, you may say, “It?s cool.”
A. interested in
B. angry about
C. afraid of
D. unhappy with
4. The writer takes an example to show he is ______ the way the word is used.
A. pleased with
B. strange to
C. worried about
D. careful with
5. In the passage, the writer suggests(暗示) that the word “cool” ______.
A. can be used instead of many words
B. usually means something interesting