阅读理解

　　The development (发展) of the English language falls into three reasonable different periods. Old English lasted from about 450A. D., when the first Germanic tribes (部落) began to settle in England, until about 1100. Middle English extended from about 1100 to about 1475. And Modern English began about 1475 and has lasted to the present time. Of course, the breaks were not as sudden and definite (确定) as these dates suggest. There has never been a year when the language was not changing. In spite of that, the traits of the three periods are so different that a man who knows both Old and Modern English well will find a great deal of difficulty reading some of the Middle English writings without additional (另外的) study in the important aspects (方面) of the language.

1．The writer organized (组织) this passage according to ________.

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2．This passage suggests that a person who knows Old English well ________.

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A．can learn foreign langnages well

B．will have much trouble in reading Modern English

C．probably has no difficulty in learning German

D．can certainly speak Modern English well

3．According to passage, which of the following statements is true?

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A．The English language will be different from what it is today in fifty years.

B．If you want to learn Modern English well, you must learn Old English well first.

C．English is spoken widely in the world.

D．The history of the English language is short and simple.

4．We know from this passage ________.

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A．Old English began with the first Germanic tribes' settlement in England

B．Middle English was developed by the Germanic tribes

C．Old English lasted 650 years

D．Middle English lasted 375 years

5．Shakespeare wrote his famous plays during the late 1500s and early 1600s, we can say that he wrote in ________.

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阅读理解

　　In America the red barn (粮仓) has been a familiar sight since the early 1800s.But why have been barns always keen painted red? Why not green or blue or yellow?

　　A painted barn was an unusual sight before the 1800s, because paint was considered an unnecessary expense. Then farmers realized that exposure (曝露) outside harmed wooden buildings. Thus barn painting began.

　　To save money, most farmers mixed paint from materials already on hand. A mixture was usually made from milk, lime (石灰)and glue (胶) made from cow's hooves (蹄). To add colour, they tried something like animals' blood, roots, and grasses. None of those materials, however, successfully coloured the paint.

　　Eventually (偶尔) one farmer used iron oxide (氧化物) , and it worked. Iron oxide made the paint reddish-brown. Thus, the red paint was born.

　　Later scientists discovered that the color red absorbed (吸收) the sun's rays. That kept the barn cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Today cooling and heating systems have made the color red less important for barns, but barns are still often red. They have become a farm tradition (传统).

1．Red barns were hardly seen in the USA ________.

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2．At first barns weren't painted, because farmers thought it ________.

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3．Farmes tried coloring their paint with ________.

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A．milk, lime and glue

B．water, glue and lime

C．animal blood, roots and grasses

D．iron oxide

4．Scientists discovered that red was a good color for barns because ________.

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A．it absorbed the sun's rays

B．it kept a barn cooler in summer and warmer in winter

C．it kept hanks away from the farm animals

D．both A and B

5．The best title of this passage is ________.

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A．Why American barns are often red

B．American barns

C．Clever farmers

D．Good color red

阅读理解

　　Take three basins, fill the first basin with water which is as hot as you are able to bear (承担) with your hands. In the second basin mix hot water with cold water. This luckwarm (微温的) water. Fill the third basin with cold water from the tap.

　　Now place the basins on the table. Put your right hand in the hot water. Put your left hand in the cold water. You will find that your right hand feels hot and your left hand feels cold. After twenty seconds move both your hands into the luckwarm water. What do you feel? Your left hand feels warm and your right hand feels cold. But both hands are in the same basin of water!

1．From the passage we can know that the water in the second basin is ________.

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A．either cold or warm

B．luckwarm water from the tap

C．neither cold nor hot

D．what you are able to bear your hands

2．Twenty seconds, that is to say exactly, is ________.

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3．According to the passage we know that the hand you just took out of ________ feels cold in the luckwarm water.

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4．This passage shows that ________ .

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A．When we measure something we must put both our hands into water

B．We can't really tell whether a thing is hot or cold by feeling it

C．doing experiment is the most important thing

D．basins of water can help us with everything

阅读理解

　　Once Smith, a traveller, was wet and cold because he had been riding in the rain. At last he reached a country in which was so crowded (拥挤) with people that he could not get the fire. So he called out to the innkeeper. “Take some fish to my horse!” The innkeeper answered, “But a horse doesn't eat fish!”Smith then said,“Never mind, do as I tell you.” The crowded people, hearing this strange order, ran out to see the horse eat fish. The traveller, now having the whole room to himself, sat down beside the fire and warmed himself.

　　When the innkeeper came back with the crowd of people, he said, “Your horse wouldn't eat fish!”The traveller answered, “Put it on the table, and when I have quite dried my clothes, I will eat it myself. ”

1．Smith was a ________.

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2．Smith got to ________ finally.

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3．Smith was wet and cold. He wanted to dry his clothes, so he wanted to get near ________.

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4．All the people in the room heard the strange order and ran out ________ at once.

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5．When all the people came back, Smith had ________.

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阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

　Dinner, for English people, is the richest meal of the day and is a very formal meal．Many people even wear special clothes for dinner, so if you are asked out to dinner you must find out whether you are expected to wear a dinner suit; for you would feel very upset if when you get there, you were the only person in ordinary clothes．Dinner is generally served at about half past seven．All the members of the family sit down together and eat on their best behavior．The head of the family sits at one end of the table; his wife sits at the other．If there is a guest, he generally sits in the place of honour, which is at the right of the lady of the house．If there are several guests, the most important one is asked to sit there．During the meal conversation is carried on, you should try to get in conversation with the person on your right or left, but you should not try to talk to someone who is a long way from you．

1．English dinner is the richest meal of the day, which suggests that ______．

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A．you have the best meal you have never had before

B．you can enjoy quantities of or all sorts of food and drink

C．such dinner usually costs a lot of money

D．you can receive a best service

2．Before going to dinner, you should be careful ______．　　　

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A．to keep yourself calm

B．to find out who invites you

C．of the exact time and place

D．about your clothes for the dinner

3．The most important guest usually sits______．　　　

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A．at the right side of the housewife

B．at the place he likes best

C．at one end of the table

D．between the head of the family and the lady of the house

4．During the dinner conversation, the guest should only talk to______．

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A．the one in the place of honour

B．the one just at his or her side

C．the one at either end of the table

D．the one who is a long way off

5．For English people, dinner is a very formal meal．The reason for this is that ______．

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A．the last meal of the day should be formal

B．guests are often invited to dinner

C．it just follows the custom of the British

D．something special often takes place then

　　Confucius was born five hundred and fifty years before Christ.Unlike Jesus Christ,he did not bring words of God to the people .He was a clever teacher and a philosopher,looking for truth and wisdom.Most of his teaching was about life in this world .

　　

　　Confucius was very keen to give people good rulers .Someone asked him ,”What does a country need ?”Confucius answered,”Enough food ,a good army ,and a good leader .”The people then asked ,”Which one is the most important ?”Confucius answered,”An army is not very important .All men must die ,so food is not the most important .But if the leader of the country is not good ,then everything will be bad .”

　　

1．A philosopher is a person who ________.

　　

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A ． does not like Jesus Christ

　　

B ． teaches people how to live in this world

　　

C ． seeks after truth and wisdom

　　

D ． is more clever than most of other people

　　

2．According to Confucius ,the most important thing in any country was _________.

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A ．the army

B ．the ruler

C ．life of the people

D ．food

3．Jesus Christ ________ .

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A ．was born more than half a century earlier than Confucius

B ．taught people about God

C ．did no tell people anything about God

D ．was a philosopher sent by God

4．Confucius taught people all these things except ________ .

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A ．How to live in the world

B ．the importance of the leader of the country

C ．any ideas about God

D ．how to make good judgments

5．For Confucius a man ________ .

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A ．could not escape death

B ．would die if he didn’t have a good ruler

C ．was not important compared with food

D．ought to die if he considered food to be the most important for him

阅读理解

　　You have seen the moon many times. Does it look large or small? Does it look near or far away?

　　When you see the moon from the earth, the moon looks small. The moon is really very large, but not as large as the earth. It is much larger than the largest mountain on the earth.

　　Why does the moon look small when you see it from the earth?

　　The moon is very far away from the earth.

　　Things that are far away from you look smaller than things that are close.

　　Which looks smaller, the moon or the tree?

　　The moon looks smaller, even though it is really much larger than a tree. It looks smaller because it is far away from you and the tree is close to you.

　　What is moonlight?

　　You can see the sun and the stars in the sky. They give off light. The moon does not give off any light of its own. How then can you see the moon at night?

　　Light from the sun shines on the moon. Some of this light reaches the earth from the moon. The moon reflects (反射) sunlight, which now can be called moonlight.

　　How is light reflected? You can see how light is reflected if you hold a mirror in the sun. The mirror will reflect some sunlight.

　　The moon is something like a mirror. It reflects the light of the sun.

　　If you see light shining on the ball, half of the ball is in the light and the other half is dark.

　　The sun shines all the time. However, it shines on only half of the moon at a time. Like the earth, half of the moon is in sunlight. The other half is dark.

　　What part of the moon can you see? The only part of the moon you can see is the part that is in sunlight.

　　

1．The moon is really very large, ________.

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A．but as large as the largest mountain on the earth

B．but not as large as the sun

C．but not as small as the earth

D．but as large as the earth

2．The moonlight is ________.

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A．the sun gives off light

B．the moon gives off light of its own

C．the sun and stars give off light

D．some of this light that comes from the sun and stars in the sky and reaches the earth from the moon

3．Like the earth, half of the moon is in sunlight. The other half is dark because ________.

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A．the sun shines all the time

B．we can see a part of the moon only

C．the only part of the moon we can see in the part that is in sunlight

4．The moon looks smaller than large mountains on the earth because ________.

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A．the moon is not a real object

B．large mountains are bigger than the moon

C．large mountains are closer than the moon

D．the sun shines on the moon

5．Which of the following is not true?

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A．The moon reflects sunlight all the time.

B．The sun shines all the time.

C．When we are not in sunlight, it is at night.

D．We can see the dark half of the moon.

阅读理解

　　Dinner, for English people, is the richest meal of the day and is a very formal meal. Many people even wear special clothes for dinner, so if you are asked out to dinner you must find out whether you are expected to wear a dinner suit: for you would feel very upset if when you get there, you were the only person in ordinary clothes. Dinner is generally served at about half past seven. All the members of the family sit down together and eat on their best behavior. The head of the family sits at one end of the table; his wife sits at the other. If there is a guest, he generally sits in the place of honour, which is at the right of the lady of the house. If there are several guests, the most important is asked to sit there. During the meal conversation is carried on, you should try to get in conversation with the person on your right or left, but you should not try to talk to someone who is a long way from you.

1．English dinner is the richest meal of the day, which suggests that ________.

[　　]

A．you have the best meal you have never had before

B．you can enjoy quantities of or all sorts of food and drink

C．such dinner usually costs a lot of money

D．you can receive a best service

2．Before going to dinner, you should be careful ________.

[　　]

3．The most important guest usually sits ________.

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A．at the right side of the housewife

B．at the place he likes best

C．at one end of the table

D．between the head of the family and the lady of the house

4．During the dinner conversation, the guest should only talk to ________.

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A．the one in the place of honour

B．the one just at his or her side

C．the one at either end of the table

D．the one who is a long way off

5．For English people, dinner is a very formal meal. The reason for this is that ________.

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A．the last meal of the day should be formal

B．guests are often invited to dinner

C．it just follows the custom of the British

D．something special often takes place then

阅读理解(从每题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案)

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　　Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long ago, the world had only a few thousand people . These people moved from place to place . They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.

　　No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any more. They could stay in one place and grow it. People began to live near one another. And so the first village grew many people. These villages grew very big.

　　When machines appeared, life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. Cities began to come into being. Some of them grew very big.

　　Today , some people are moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?

　　Choose the best answer for each blank.

1．Long ago, people moved from place to place hunting ________.

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A．animals

B．dogs

C．pigs

D．foxes

2．The story says, “No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed.” This means ______ appeared.

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A．Animals

B．Cities

C．People

D．Villages

3．What happened when factories were built? ________

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A．People began to live in the factories.

B．More and more people lived near the factories.

C．There were many machines in the factories.

D．Many people moved from place to place .

4．Which of the following does this story lead you to believe?

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A．All people like to live in big cities.

B．It's good to live near a factory.

C．Some people do not like to live in big cities.

D．AII people like to live in small towns.

5．The main idea of the whole story is that ________

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A．factories were built after the cities grew big.

B．people like to eat when they visit big cities.

C．cities began when people lived and worked near each other.

D．villages began before people learned about growing food.

阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

    Americans feel proud of themselves for working hard, but they feel　　 equally proud of themselves when they sit and do nothing over weekends.

　　     As a matter of fact some Americans measure success in terms of (由…的观点) the length and frequency of their vacations (＝holidays).　　 The man who gets a month's vacation each year considers himself more　　 successful than the man who gets two weeks. Many people become teachers　　 because teachers get a three-month vacation every year.

　　     In brief, the less work some Americans do the more ________ they　　 consider themselves.　　

(1) According to the passage, Americans usually feel proud of　　 themselves for _________.

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A. only one thing: doing nothing over weekends 　　

B. two things: working hard and taking longer vacations 　　

C. nothing but resting 　　

D. the way they measure success 　　

(2) Frequency of vacations means ________.

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A. how long they last　　 　　 B. how often they occur (＝ take place)　　 　　

C. how much fun they are 　　D. how much they cost 　　

(3) From the passage we know that people become teachers because of _______.

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A. the good salary　　

B. the high social position　　 　　

C. the long vacations

D. the pleasant working condition 　　

(4)What word is most suitable for the blank (文中空白)? It is ______.

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A. lazy　　B. troublesome　　C. successful　　D. unfortunate

(5) Which of the following does NOT support the author's claim(主张)?

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A. Many Americans choose to give up their work early. 　　

B. Many workers take long lunch breaks. 　　

C. Women fight for the right to work. 　　

D. Labor-saving plans are very popular.