The Salt Lake City Public Library is sold on the idea. “Literacy specialists admit that children who read below the level of their fellow pupils are often afraid of reading aloud in a group, often have lower self-respect, and regard reading as a headache,” said Lisa Myron, manager of the children’s department.

    Last November the two groups started “Dog Day Afternoon” in the children’s department of the main library. About25 children attended each of the four Saturday-afternoon classes, reading for half an hour. Those who attended three of the four classes received a “paw graphed” book at the last class.

    The program was so successful that the library plans to repeat it in April, according to Dana Thumpowsky, public relations manager.

1. What is mainly discussed in the text?

A．Children’s reading difficulties.

B．Advantages of raising dogs.

C．Service in a public library.

D．A special reading program.

2. Specialists use dogs to listen to children reading because they think _____.

A．dogs are young children’s best friends

B．children can play with dogs while reading

C．dogs can provide encouragement for shy children

D．children and dogs understand each other

3. By saying “The Salt Lake City Public Library is sold on the idea”, the writer means the library ______.

A．uses dogs to attract children

B．accepts the idea put forward by ITA

C．has opened a children’s department

D．has decided to train some dogs

4. A “paw graphed” book is most probably ______.

A．a book used in Saturday classes

B．a book written by the children

C．a prize for the children

D．a gift from parents

    Coming in a dose second—and often wrongly mentioned as the most distant land—is Easter Island, which lies 1 260 miles east of its nearest neighbor, Pitcairn Island, and 2 300 miles west of South America.

    The mountainous 64-square-mile island was settled a round the 5^th century, supposedly by people who were lost at sea．They had no connection with the outside world for more than a thousand years, giving them plenty of time to build more than 1 000 huge stone figures, called moai, for which the island is most famous.

    On Easter Sunday, 1722, however, settlers from Holland moved in and gave the island its name. Today, 2 000 people live on the Chilean territory (智利领土). They share one street, a small airport, and a few hours of television per day.

1. It can be learned from the text that the island of Tristan da Cunha ______.

A．was named after its discoverer

B．got its name from Holland settlers

C．was named by the British government

D．got its name from the Guinness Book of Records

2. Which of the following is most famous for moai?

A．Tristan da Cunha.

B．Pitcairn Island.

C．Easter Island.

D．St. Helena.

3. Which country does Easter Island belong to?

A．Britain.

B．Holland.

C．Portugal.

D．Chile.

    On 17 July, a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earth's atmosphere (大气层) with a massive explosion. About half of the piece is destroyed, but the remaining part hits the South Atlantic at 200 times the speed of sound．The sea boils and a huge hole is made in the sea bed．Huge waves are created and spread outwards from the hole. The wall of water, a kilometer high, rushes towards southern Africa at800 kilometers an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destroyed and millions of people are drowned.

    Before the waves reach South America, the second piece of the comet lands in Argentina．Earthquakes and volcanoes are set off in the Andes Mountains. The shock waves move north into California and all around the Pacific Ocean. The cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo are completely destroyed by earthquakes. Millions of people in the southern half of the earth are already dead, but the north won't escape for long. Because of the explosions, the sun is hidden by clouds of dust, temperatures around the world fall to almost zero. Crops are ruined．The sun won’t be seen again for many years. Wars break out as countries fight for food．A year later, no more than 10 million people remain alive.

    Could it really happen? In fact, it has already happened more than once in the history of the Earth.  The dinosaurs were on the Earth for over 160 million years. Then 65 million years ago they suddenly disappeared．Many scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a piece of object in space. The dinosaurs couldn’t live through the cold climate that followed and they died out Will we meet the same end?

    1. What is mainly described in the passage?

A．A historic discovery.

B．An event of imagination.

C．A research on space.

D．A scientific adventure.

    2. When the first piece hits the South Atlantic, it causes ______.

A．an earthquake

B．damages to cities

C．an Earth explosion

D．huge waves

    3. Why can’t the northern half of the earth escape for long?

A．Because the land is covered with water.

B．Because the light and heat from the sun can not reach the earth.

C．Because people there can not live at the temperature of zero.

D．Because wars break out among countries,

    4. By giving the example of dinosaurs, the author tries to prove _______.

A．animals could not live in the cold climate

B．what happened 65 million years ago was an invented story

C．the human beings will die out in 2094

D．the Earth could be hit by other objects in space

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    1. Which of the following magazines will probably provide you with articles about music and paintings?

A．Apollo.

B．The Week.

C．New Internationalist.

D．The Guardian Weekly.

    2. It is possible that most of the readers of the four magazines are

A．men

B．women

C．children

D．grown-ups

    3. Which of the following would you most probably read if you want to get information from the world’s most popular newspapers?

A．Apollo & The Week.

B．Apollo & New Internationalist.

C．The Guardian Weekly & The Week.

D．The Guardian Weekly & New Internationalist.

    4. The purpose of writing these four texts is to

A．tell the readers the latest news

B．get more readers to subscribe (订阅)

C．show the importance of the four magazines

D．introduce the four magazines to new readers

    After just a few days on the job, I began noticing that the other fellows were overcharging passengers. I’d like to join them, thinking, “Everyone else is doing it.”

    When I got home that night, I told my dad what I wanted to do. “You give an honest day’s work,” he said, looking at me straight in the eye. “They’re paying you If they want to do that, you let them do that.”

    I followed my dad’s advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever since.

    Of all the jobs I’ve had, it was my experience at Pennsylvania Railway Station that has stuck with me. Now I teach my players to have respect for other people and their possessions. Being a member of a team is a totally shared experience. If one person steals, it destroys trust and hurts everyone. I can put up with many things, but not with people who steal. If one of my players were caught stealing, he’d be gone.

    Whether you’re on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can’t trust one another, there’s going to be trouble.

    1. What can be inferred about the baggage boys?

A．They could earn much, but they had to work hard.

B．Many of them earned money in a dishonest way.

C．They were all from poor families.

D．They were all thin, young boys.

    2. What does the father’s advice imply?

A．It is wrong to give more pay to the passengers.

B．Don’t believe them if they are paying you more.

C．Don’t follow others to overcharge the passengers.

D．It is difficult to work hard and live as an honest boy.

    3. The writer can’t put up with stealing because he thinks that

A．it is a totally shared experience

B．it is considered as the most dangerous

C．it does great harm to human relationship

D．it may lead to the loss of his sports team

    4. It can be concluded from the text that

A．his father’s advice helped him to decide which job to take up

B．working in the sports team was his most important experience

C．he learnt much from his shared experience with his team members

D．his experience as a baggage boy had a great influence on his later life

    Coloring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packaged (包装) in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colors. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.

    When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colors turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective, Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.

    The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.

    It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging !

    The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for25 years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius (天才) to sell it. ”

    1. Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?

A．The cost of its package.

B．The price of the product.

C．The color of its package.

D．The brand name of the product.

    2.The underlined part “the colors turned the customers off ” (in Para．3) means  that the colors

A．attracted the customers strongly

B．had weak effects on the customers

C．tricked the customers into shopping

D．caused the customers to lose interest

    3. Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?

A．The way to promote goods.

B．The discovery of a genius.

C．The team to produce a good product.

D．The brand name used by successful producers.

    4. Which of the following would be the best title for this text?

A．Choice of Good Products

B．Disadvantages of Products

C．Effect of Packaging on Shopping

D．Brand Names and Shopping Tricks

    · 584 Asians

    · 124 Africans

    · 95 Eastern and Western Europeans

    · 84 Latin Americans

    · 55 former Soviets (including Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and other national groups)

    · 52 North Americans

    ·6 Australians and New Zealanders

    The people of the village would speak:

    · 165 Mandarin

    ·86 English

    ·83 Hindu/Urdu

    · 64 Spanish

    ·58 Russian

    · 37 Arabic

    The above list covers the mother tongues of only half the village.

    One-third of the people in the village are children, and only 60 are over the age of 65.Just under half of the married women in the village have access to modern equipments.

    This year 28 babies will be born. Ten people will die, 3 of them for lack of food, 1 from cancer. Two of the deaths will be of babies born within the year. With the 28 births and10 deaths, the population of the village next year will be1 018.

    In this village of 1 000 persons, 200 people receive 75 percent of the income; another 200 receive only 2 percent of the income.

    About one-third have access to clean, safe drinking water.

    Of the 670 adults in the village, half can not read nor write.

    The village has a total yearly budget (预算), public and private, of over $ 3 million— $ 3 000 per person if it is distributed evenly. Of the total $ 3 million:

    $ 181 000 goes to weapons and warfare

    $ 159 000 to education

    $ 132 000 to health care

    These weapons are under the control of just 100 of the people. The other 900 are watching them with deep anxiety, wondering whether they can learn to get along together.

    1.Which of the following is true about Mandarin according to the text?

A．Nearly one-third of Asian people speak Mandarin in the village.

B．About 8.25 per cent of the people speak Mandarin in the village.

C．About 16.5 per cent of the people speak Mandarin in the village.

D．Nearly all the Mandarin-speaking people are from Asia in the village.

    2.Which of the following problems is NOT mentioned in the text?

A．Poverty.

B．Education.

C．Environment.

D．Marriage.

    3.The underlined part “have access to” (in Para.4) means

A．use

B．buy

C．produce

D．try

    4.The last sentence in the text implies that most of the people long for _____.

A．a peaceful world

B．has to be polite to everyone she meets there

    2.Where do people usually meet their friends in England?

A．In a care.

B．In a restaurant.

C．In a nightclub．

D．In a pub.

    3.The underlined part “it” (in Para．4) refers to

A．a taxi

B．the money

C．a bomb

D．public transport

    4.The writer took her neighbor to France for Christmas because he

A．felt lonely in England

B．had never been to France

C．was from a typical French family

D．didn’t like the British idea of family

C．better health care

D．a life without anxiety

    Things have changed．For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good manners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good manners—people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.

    I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You’re forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.

    As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p. m. I used to use it, but now I'm afraid.

    The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England．My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbor who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.

    1.The writer doesn’t like London because she

A．is not used to the life there now

B．has lived there for seventeen years

C．prefers to live in an old-fashioned house

D．has to be polite to everyone she meets there

    2.Where do people usually meet their friends in England?

A．In a care.

B．In a restaurant.

C．In a nightclub．

D．In a pub.

    3.The underlined part “it” (in Para．4) refers to

A．a taxi

B．the money

C．a bomb

D．public transport

    4.The writer took her neighbor to France for Christmas because he

A．felt lonely in England

B．had never been to France

C．was from a typical French family

D．didn’t like the British idea of family

    Best time to visit is during the off-season, from early May to mid-June, or in October. This way you can avoid sharing the high way with mobile (移动的) homes which can be pulled by cars. But whatever the season is, take some lunch with you from Banff, because there are only a few food stops on the road.

    Forty minutes north of Banff, side by side with the Banff National Park, sits world-famous Lake Louise. This surprisingly small body of water is attractive with towering mountains around it. Glaciers, huge masses of ice, moving very slowly against rocks, produce what is called glacier rock flour, making its water dark to see. It is worth taking a walk around the grounds of the Chateau Lake Louise, another beauty, proud of its early 20^th century history.

    Back on the road, and it’s time to continue north past the astonishing Columbia Icefield, then turn off the highway and take the short road to the base of the Athabaska Glacier. You can rent ice cleats (夹板) and do some climbing or do a more pleasant snowmobile tour. Either way, you can enjoy endless beautiful sights.

    Finally you'll reach Jasper, the usual turning around the place for the Banff-Jasper loop (回路).  It’s worth riding the Jasper Skytram, and be sure to visit the wonderful Jasper Park Lodge, also dating back to the 1920s. If you can have lunch there, do it. The restaurant has an adventurous menu and their wine list would put a smile on any visitor’s face.

    1. According to the passage, The Pines is a _____.

A．place in which you can see many mobile homes

B．mountain where you can get a good view of the valley

C．town which happens to be near the Banff National Park

D．restaurant where you can ask for some special kinds of food

    2. What will probably happen when visitors come at the end of June?

A．They may have trouble finding a restaurant.

B．They may come across traffic jams.

C．They may travel more easily with cars.

D．They may do much more sightseeing.

    3. Similar to the Chateau Lake Louise, ______.

A．the Banff National Park is to the west of Banff

B．the Columbia Icefield lies between Lake Louise and the Banff National Park

C．the Jasper Skytram has a history of more than 80 years

D．the Jasper Park Lodge was built in the 1920s

    4. Besides the beautiful sights in Jasper Park Lodge, visitors to Jasper can enjoy themselves by ______.

A．taking the Jasper Skytram and eating in the restaurant

B．taking the Banff-Jasper loop and Jasper Skytram

C．having a lot of food to order in the restaurant

D．taking the Jasper Skytram hack to Banff

    Not all cases of Alzheimer’s disease look like this, but Alzheimer’s is a serious disease that is said to be the fourth or fifth leading cause of death for people over age 75.

    It is said that about three percent of the U.S. population over age 65 have Alzheimer’s. In the early stages, people may exhibit short term memory loss. Some may experience changes in personality, easy to be angry.  As the disease progresses, patients might lose the ability to move and may be unable to speak or move at all. This progressive disease generally lasts 8 to 10 years before death occurs.

    While no one is certain what causes these changes in the brain's nerve fibers (神经纤维), their effect is certain. Alzheimer's destroys not only the patients, but also spouses(配偶), friends and families.

    What should you do if you notice progressive memory loss in yourself or a loved one? Have the person examined by a doctor who is a specialist in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Though many reasons other than Alzheimer's disease may cause memory loss, its early diagnosis (诊断) and treatment may delay some of the most serious effects.

    What feeling will you likely experience should a loved one suffer from Alzheimer’s disease? A person will often go through the various stages of sadness, shock, anger, and so on. If the spouse develops the disease, you may experience hurt and disappointment when he or she doesn’t rememberおyou are married.

    Life for the Alzheimer's patients and their loved ones will never be the same as the disease progresses, bringing a deep sorrow, loss and even anger towards God．No matter what feelings are present, facing them honestly will serve one better than burying them.

    1. What can be inferred from the passage about the gray-haired lady?

A．She has been living with her father.

B．She was sad about the death of her father.

C．She can’t search for her father without being watched.

D．She suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.

    2. When people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease,

A．their families and friends will suffer from the same disease

B．their families and friends will experience mental sufferings

C．they will certainly die in 8 to 10 years

D．they will forget everybody but their spouses

    3. Memory loss occurs _______.

A．from Alzheimer’s disease and nothing else

B．from sadness, shock, anger, and so on

C．for a number of reasons

D．with changes in personality

    4. From the passage we know that _______.

A．early treatment may stop Alzheimer’s disease occur ring

B．it is still unknown what causes the changes in the brain’s nerve fibers

C．nerve fibers in the brain will cause Alzheimer’s disease

D．when one suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he will be buried

 

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