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　　Washingtons D. C. is not just the capital of the United States, it is also one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It was designed by a French engineer to resemble Paris with its wide streets, beautiful squares, and sweeping views. The site was chosen by George Washington because it was near his Mount Vernon home. But John Adams was the first president to actually move in, in 1800.

　　The 555 feet Washington Monument and the gleaming(闪闪发光)Capital Building are the most famous Washing- ton landmarks. According to law, no building in the city can be taller than these two. The Lincoln Memorial and the White House are two of Washington' s other greater buildings.

(1)The best tide for the passage may be ________.

［　　］

A．A Famous City

B．An Important City

C．The History of Washington, D.C.

D．Washington, D. C. and Its Great Buildings

(2)The word“resemble”in the passage means ________.

［　　］

A．replace B．look like

C．stand for D．run after

(3)The city is named Washington because ________.

［　　］

A．it' s near George Washington' s home

B．it' s chosen by George Washington

C．the Americans want to show their respect to George Washington

D．all of the above

(4) It can be concluded that ________.

［　　］

A．the White House is the only one white building in Washington, D. C.

B．Washington D. C. has beautiful squares but it's a small city

C．none of the buildings is above 555 feet high in Washington, D. C.

D．all the American presidents have worked in the White House

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　　With the development of material prosperity (繁荣), advertisements have become more important in our daily life.

　　Advertisements give the newest information about products. If there were no advertising, consumers could not know about goods in their nearby shops. An advertisement helps sell to a bigger market. Therefore, as more goods are sold, they are cheaper. Advertisements also provide money for newspapers , magazines , radio and TV stations , etc.

　　But there are also some opinions against advertising. Some people think that advertisements do not give much in- formation but only try to persuade to buy. They cause a demand for goods that are not really needed. Besides, advertising adds to the price of goods.

　　 Actually, every coin has two sides. Advertising is no exception. But in today' s world, advertising is not only necessary but also helpful.

(1)Advertisements have become more and more important because ________.

［　　］

A．consumers wouldn't buy any goods in their daily life

without them

B．the more goods the shops sell , the cheaper they will be

C．they have a lot of advantages

D．newspapers , magazines , radio and TV stations get money by advertising

(2)Some people oppose advertising because it ________.

［　　］

A．adds to the price of goods

B．helps sell more goods

C．leads to a demand for necessary goods

D．give too much information

(3)What is the writer's attitude to advertising?

［　　］

A．He is against it.

B．He is for it.

C．He thinks it unnecessary.

D．The writer's attitude is not easy to see.

(4)“Advertising is no exception”means advertising ________

［　　］

A．has two sides--the good and the bad

B．has the right side and the dark side

C．has the right side and the wrong side

D．is just like a coin with the exception of their uses

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　　Today, air travel is far safer than driving a car on a busy motorway. But still there is a danger that grows every year. Airliners(n.定期班机,客机)get larger and larger. Some airplanes can carry over 300 passengers. And the air itself becomes more and mere crowded. If one huge airliner struck into another in midair,600 lives could be lost.

　　From the moment an airliner takes off to the moment it lands, every movement is watched on radar screens. Air traffic controllers tell the pilot exactly when to turn, when to climb, and when to come down. The air traffic controllers around a busy airport like London Heathrow may deal with2500 planes a day. Not all of them actually land at the airport. Any plane that flies near the airport comes under the orders of the controllers there. Even a small mistake on their part could cause a terrible accident.

　　Recently such a disaster almost happened. Two large jets(n. 喷气式飞机)were flying towards the airport. One was carrying 69 passengers from Toronto, the other 176 passengers from Chicago. An air traffic controller noticed on his radar screen that the two planes were too close to each other. He ordered one to turn to the right and to climb. But he made a mistake. He ordered the wrong plane to do this. So, instead of turning away from the second plane, the first plane turned towards it. Fifteen seconds later it flew directly in front of the second plane. They avoided (vt. 避免；回避)each other by the smallest part of a second. The distance between them was less than that of a large swimming pool. This is an example of the danger that grows every, year.

(1)Which of the following is true according to the passage?

[　　]

A．Travelling by air is as safe as by car.

B．Travelling by air is not as safe as by car.

C．Travelling by car is as dangerous as by air.

D．Travelling by ear is more dangerous than by air.

(2)The air traffic controllers of an airport________.

[　　]

A．control all the planes flying near the airport

B．give orders to planes leaving the airport

C．only deal with the planes that want to land there

D．are allowed to handle 250 planes a day

(3)The danger of air crashes grows every year because________.

[　　]

A．airliners are getting larger and air traffic is becoming heavier

B．a pilot does not always hear a controller' s order

C．a controller is likely to make more and more mistakes

D．airports can hardly serve the growing number of air- planes

(4)The example in the passage is to show that________.

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A．air traffic controllers are often careless

B．air traffic controllers should pay much attention to a- voiding accidents

C．it is difficult for airplanes to avoid terrible accidents

D．two planes should not fly too close to each other

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　　Is mere life on Mars (火星)? We do not know. We are sure that earth people do not live on Mars. Earth people need oxygen to breathe. There is almost no oxygen on Mars.

　　Living on Mars would be like living on a very high mountain. There would be little air. It might be 50 degree above zero at noon and 100 degree below zero at night.

　　Many people think there may be plants on Mars. We know that Mars has carbon. This is a kind of material found in all plants and animals on earth. Through a telescope, Mars looks red. In some places, it seems gray. At times, the gray colour turns gray-green, then brown, then gray a- gain. The gray - green colour may be a kind of plant life changing colour with seasons.

　　Will man go to Mars one day? If they do, they will have to take along their own oxygen, food, clothing, and shelter(住所).

(1)What do you think is the main reason why men cant live on Mars? Because ________.

[　　]

A．living on Mars is like living on a high mountain

B．there is no oxygen on Mars

C．there are not any plants or animals on Mars

D．on Mars it is too hot at noon and too cold at night

(2)The story does not say this, but from what we have read, we can tell that ________.

[　　]

A．someday we may know if there is life on Mars

B．men must take food and clothing with them when they go to Mars

C．people on Mars need no air to breathe

D．the plants on Mars are red

(3)“Carbon”is ________.

[　　]

A．a kind of food

B．a gas only found on the earth

C．a kind of material whose colour is gray

D．a kind of material that almost all living things need

(4)The main idea of the whole story is that________.

[　　]

A．there may be life on Mars

B．earth people could live on Mars

C．Mars turns its colour with seasons

D．Man will one day land on Mars

(5)Which of the following does this story lead you to believe? ________.

[　　]

A．Some earth people have 'already visited Mars

B．There is a lot of oxygen and carbon on Mars

C．There may be strange forms of life on

D．Mars is earth peoples future home

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　　The conflict (争论) over what or how much homework should be comes partly from the fact that people can't seem to agree on the purpose of homework.

　　What teachers think?

　　Some teachers think that homework is necessary to reinforce (巩固) what is learned in school. And so they ask their students to memorize what was discussed in class through homework.

　　Some teachers think the point of homework is to cover material that the class didn't have time to get to, so their homework is to let students learn additional things.

　　Other teachers like homework simply because they want students to form work habits and still others believe homework is necessary because it is the best way for parents to learn what their children do in school.

　　Parents' ideas.

　　But many parents seem to have different ideas.

　　Eliassa Cohen, who has twins at Lafayette Elementary School, doesn't like the fact that the third-grade students in DC elementary schools are asked to write about25 book summaries a year. “They do the same thing over and over without really getting into alternate (交替的) ways of thinking about books and thinking about reading and writing.”

　　Expel' opinions.

　　Some education reformers (改革者), such as Howard Gardner, a Harvard University professor, well-known for his theory on multiple intelligence (智力), think that Cohen is on the right track.

　　But it is often hard to persuade overworked teachers to give much thought to homework tasks.

(1)How many opinions do the teachers have on “homework”.？

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(2)According to the experts's opinions, ________.

[　　]

A．teachers should give necessary work to the students

B．teachers should not work too hard or too long

C．teachers should let the students repeat what they didn't have time to get in class 

D．what Cohen's thinking about is correct

(3)What's the problem with Elissa Cohen's twins in wasting about their book report? 

A．They find homework really hard．

B．They simply copy one repeatedly.

C．They aren't given much thinking about what read．

D．They get different ways of thinking about their work.

　　On June 17, 1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In letter the next day they refused the offer as follows:

　　We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are certain that you mean to do us good by your suggestion; and we thank you heartily. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at thing, and you will therefore not the displeased if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces: they were taught all your sciences; but, when they car hack to us, they were had runners, and they knew little of every means of living in the woods..., they were totally good for nothing.

　　We are, however, not the less obliged for your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know, and make men of them.

(1)The passage is about ________

[　　]

A．the talk between the Indians and the officials

B．the colleges of the northern provinces

C．the educational values of the Indians

D．the problems of the Americans in the mid-eighteenth century

(2)The Indians' chief purpose in writing the letter seems to be to ________.

[　　]

A．politely refuse a friendly offer

B．express their opinions on equal treatment

C．show their pride

D．describe Indian customs

(3)Different from the officials' view of education, the Indians thought ________.

[　　]

A．young women should also be educated

B．they had different objects of education

C．they taught different branches of science

D．they should teach the sons of the officials first

(4)The mood of the letter as a whole is best described as ________.

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　　Texas was the biggest state before Alaska, the forty-ninth state of the United States in 1959. One good way to understand the size of Texas is to learn about its weather. It is really unusual for a southern state that the weather is so different from place to place within one state. That is, different parts of the state have different kinds of weather at the same time of the year.

　　Amarillo, being in the north of Texas, gets very cold in winter. There is sometimes more snow in Amarillo than in New York which is a northern city. Summer is better, but sometimes it gets quite hot. The best time to Amarillo is in autumn when it is cool.

　　Laredo is in the south of Texas and it is one of the hottest cities in the United States in summer. The best time to Laredo is in winter, when it is pleasantly warm.

(1)Which of the following is true according to the passage?

[　　]

A．Texas is the biggest state in the USA．

B．Texas became the 49th state of the USA in 1959.

C．Texas is much larger than Alska in size.

D．Texas is the second largest state in the USA．

(2)The passage tells us that Texas lies ________.

[　　]

A．in the north of the USA

B．in the south of the USA

C．next to New York City

D．right to the south of New York

(3)Which of the following gives the right position of the three places mentioned in the passage?

[　　]

(4)What does the passage tell us through the description of the weather in Texas?

[　　]

A．Texas has the same weather as other states.

B．The best time to visit different parts of Texas.

C．Different weather in Texas of the USA．

D．Texas is a big state in the USA．

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　On Manhattan are some of the most wonderful sights in the new world, as great and splendid as any of those in the Old World．Which is the easiest way to see them?

　　First, get a map of the New York city. These maps are of the supplied free at petrol stations and tourist offices. Of course, you take a bus tour, but the better way to see the sights is to walk, and you'll walk with your head thrown back so that you can look up at the tall buildings rising like steep cliffs (峭壁悬崖) on either side of the streets. It's not easy to get lost. The streets of New York from squares called “blocks”. If you ask the way you may get the reply, “Go four blocks east and then turn left” or “It's at the end of the block”. Nearly all the streets are in straight lines, running from East to West. Those running from North to South are called avenues. Most of the avenues and streets have only numbers but there are a few which have names: For example, between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue there is an avenue called Lexington; the upper part of Fourth Avenue is called Park Avenue; and Fifth Avenue is Madison Avenue. And Broadway, which is the centre of the worlds of the theatre, music and cinema, and which is known as the Great White Way, runs for nearly the whole length of the island．It seems that the New Yorkers don't want to make things too easy!

(1)The best title for the passage is ________.

[　　]

(2)The best way to see the wonderful sights on Manhattan is ________.

[　　]

A．first to go to the gas station, and then to take a bus

B．first to get a map of New York city, and then to walk

C．first to go to the tourist office, and then take a car

D．first to go to a petrol station, and then take a car

(3)Which statement is tree according to the passage?

[　　]

A．It's easy to get lost in New York.

B．All of the streets are straight from East to West.

C．It's easy for you to get to the place where you want to go.

D．The tall building are standing on either side of steep cliffs.

(4)It seems that New Yorkers don't want to make things too easy because _______.

[　　]

A．Broadway is the centre of the worlds of the theatre, music and cinema

B．most of the streets and avenues have only numbers

C．broadway runs for nearly the whole length of the island

D．the streets running from East to West and the avenues running from North to South from squares called “blocks”

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　　From 4th June 1996, Asiana spreads its wings from Beijing to Pusan, Korea's second largest city. Asiana is one of Asia's fastest growing airlines, with an ever expanding network, which is why more and more passengers around the world are warming to our service, and service that's based on 5,000 years' traditional Korean hospitality. No wonder we are bringing so many people from so many places closer together.

(1)The word “wing” in the first line means ________.

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(2)More and more passengers are warming to our service because ________.

[　　]

A．our planes are larger than before

B．the fares are cheaper than others

C．we have an expanding network and fast growing airlines

D．our service is based on 5,000 years of traditional Korean hospitality

(3)According to the schedule you can not fly from Beijing to Pusan ________.

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(4)Passengers can reach ________ from Seoul with a non-stop flight.

[　　]

(5)We can infer ________.

[　　]

A．more and more people will take Asiana's plane

B．Beijing and Shanghai are busy cities

C．Asiana is opening more airlines

D．fewer people will take Asiana's plane

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　Tokyo: Three snakes, whose poison could kill a person in ten minutes, are guarding a blue star sapphire (蓝宝石) worth nearly six hundred thousand dollars at a Japanese exhibition of jewels sent from an Indian museum．

　“Normally it would be forbidden to let these poisonous snakes guard exhibition objects, but it's different this time because the jewels are being exhibited at a hotel． ”a police official said．

　Exhibition officials said that a person bitten (咬) by one of these snakes would need at least 80ml of an anti-poison medicine to be saved． Medicine was being kept ready at a nearby hospital．

　Star sapphires and other valuable jewels worth a total of one million dollars are on show behind glass． Hundreds of visitors came to see the special blue sapphire and were surprised when they saw the sixty-centimetre-long brown guards．

1．Using snakes at exhibitions of valuable objects is ______．　　　

[　　]

A．quite normal　　　  B．never allowed

C．often necessary　　　D．usually forbidden

2．The jewels were being shown in ______．　　　

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A．an Indian hotel　　 　B．an Indian museum

C．a Japanese hotel　　　D．a Japanese museum

3．Why were the snakes and jewels at the same exhibition?　　　

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A．They were both special things from India．

B．The snakes were there to keep the jewels safe．

C．The organizers wanted to do something unusual．

D． People liked to visit an exhibition guarded by snakes．

4．Many visitors came to the exhibition because______．　　　

[　　]

A．the snakes were on show

B．so many jewels were being exhibited

C．exhibition officials said it was special

D． they were interested in seeing a famous jewel