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　　There are four oceans in the world and the Indian Ocean is the third largest one. Only the Pacific and the Atlantic are larger. More than one fifth of all the world's water supply is in the Indian Ocean. The Indian Ocean touches four different continents. To the south is Antarctica and to the east, Australia. Africa lies to the west and Asia, to the north. There are several important islands in the Indian Ocean. These include Madagascar, the largest one, which is near Africa and SriLanka, which is near India. There is also a group of islands called the Seychelles near the African coast.

　　The Indian Ocean is extremely important to the countries in Southeast Asia. Strong winds from the Indian Ocean bring warm weather and heavy rains which are necessary for growing crops.

(1)Which of the following is in the west of the Indian Ocean?

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(2)The Seychelles lie nearer to ________.

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A．China than to India

B．Africa than to Asia

C．the Pacific than to Africa

D．America than to the Atlantic

(3)The Indian Ocean, the third largest ocean, ________.

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A．belongs to South Asia

B．has four continents in it

C．lies to the east of Australia and the west of Asia

D．covers over twenty percent of the world's water

(4)Heavy rains brought from the Indian Ocean by winds ________.

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A．hardly do any good to crops in Asia

B．supply all the world with warm weather

C．cause much trouble to the countries in Asia

D．are important to the countries in Southeast Asia

(5)As we can learn from the passage, Sri Lanka is ________.

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A．not far from India

B．part of the Seychells

C．the name of an ocean

D．the largest island in the Indian Ocean

阅读理解

　　Robert E Peary was a great U . S . explorer (探险家) , He reached the North Pole in 1809 , For more than 20 years, he tried to reach the pole. During much of his this time, he kept a diary of trips. A diary is the writing of a person that tells about his or her life day by day. Here is what Peary wrote in his diary on the day he reached the pole .

　　“The pole at last ! My dream for 20 years. Mine at last ! I cannot bring myself to believe it. It all seemed so simple…”

　　This page was written on the biggest day in Robert E . Peary' s life . But the diary also tells about the hard times he had. Many times during his travels, Peary had to say good - bye to his wife. Once he wrote.

　　“Another good - bye, and there have been so many ! Strong brave woman, You have lived with me through all my hard work . This life is a dog's life. Will I succeed? Will I return?”

(1)An explorer is a person who ________ .

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A．makes a short trip

B．flies a plane

C．keeps a diary

D．goes into a place to learn about it

(2)On the day he reached the Pole , Peary felt excited and happy because ________ .

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A．his dream had come true

B．his living conditions had been greatly improved

C．he had heard from his wife

D．he had just had a pleasant dream

(3)From the last paragraph, you can tell that Peary probably felt ________ .

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A．calm and pleased

B．proud and merry

C．sad and worried

D．silly and lonely

(4)In this diary Peary wrote, “This life is a dog' s life ……” It means

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A．this life is an ordinary life

B．this life is a hard life

C．this life is a short life

D．this life is an easy life

(5)For which reason do people keep a diary

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A．They tell about all the interesting stories they have heard.

B．They want to keep all the things in their minds.

C．They tell about the most important things they do every week .

D．They write down what they do and feel every day

阅读理解

　　Shrffield

　　Lincoln College of English

　　Classes for foreign students at all levels 3 mths , 6 mths , 9 mths and one year course open all year.

　　Small class (maximum 12 students) , library, language lab and listening centre, accommodations (膳宿供应) with selected families 25 minutes from London.

　　Course fees (费用) for English for one year are ＄ 1380 with reduction (减少) for shorter periods of study.

(1)The college that placed the ad (广告) is attempting (企图) to ________ .

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A．take on English teachers

B．introduce itself to the public

C．take in the students who want to get accommodation there

D．take in the students who want to study English there

(2)________ are admitted in .

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A．Both foreigners and native speakers

B．Only foreign beginners

C．Only foreign advanced students

D．Foreign students from beginners to the advanced

(3)If you want to study there you will be accepted ________ .

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A．in spring

B．in autumn

C．at the beginning of the year

D．whenever you wish to

(4)While you stay there, ________ will take care of you.

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A．the school where you study

B．the family you have chosen

C．your classmates

D．your parents

(5)If you go there for one term course , you will pay ________ for it.

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A．$ 1380

B．over $ 1380

C．much less than $ 1380

D．nothing

阅读理解训练

　　Right is right. Right? But is left wrong? Well, the Romans used to think so. They thought left-handed people were mistakes of nature. Latin, the language of the Romans, had many words that expressed this view (观点) .Some words we use today still have this meaning. The Latin word“dexter”means“right”. The English word “odexterous”comes from this word. It means“handy”(clever with hands), so, right, is handy. But the Latin word for left is“sinistra”. The English word“sinister”comes from this word. Sinister means“evil”(very bad). Is it fair to call right-handed people handy and left-handed people evil? Well fair or not, many languages have words that express such beliefs. In old English, the word for left means“weak”. That isn't much of an improvement over“evil”.

　　Not very long ago, children were often forced to write with their right hands. Doctors have since found that this can be very harmful. You should use the hand you were born to use.

　　People who use their left hands are just starting to get better treatment. But why did they get all these bad names in the first place? One reason may be that there are not as many left-handed people as there are right handed people. There is one left-handed person for every five right-handed ones. People who are different are often thought to be wrong. But attitudes (态度) do seem to be changing. Fairminded right-handed people are finally starting to give left-handed people a hand.

(1) The passage leads us to believe that when one writes ________.

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A．he can use his right hand only

B．he can use his left hand only

C．he can use either his left hand or his right hand

D．he shouldn't use his left hand

(2) Which of the following is true to the passage?

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A．Odexterous comes from old English.

B．The Latin word for left is sinister.

C．The word for left in old English is a little better than that in Latin.

D．The word evil for left comes from Latin.

(3) Left-handed people today are ________.

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A．just as weak as left-handed people of the past

B．being treated better than those in the past

C．thought to be strange

D．being taught to use their right hands

(4) “Fair-minded right-handed people are finally starting to give left-handed people a hand”means that they are ________.

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A．persuading them

B．teaching them how to use their right hands

C．starting to give them a chance and help them out

D．shaking hands with them

(5) What's the main idea of the passage?

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A．Many languages have words that express the idea that left is bad.

B．Majorities often get good treatment.

C．Throughout the history, left-handed people have been treated poorly.

D．There are a lot of differences between left-handed people and right-handed people.

阅读理解　　 

　　Some people do not like anything to be out of place, they are never late for work; they return their books to the library on time; they remember people's birthday and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive. Mr. Dodds is such a person.

　　Mr. Dodds works in a bank, and lives alone. The only family he has were in the next town: his sister lives there with her husband, and her son, Mark. Mr. Dodds does not see his sister, or his family, from one year to the next, but he sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten one of Mark's seventeen birthdays. Last week Mr. Dodds had quite a surprise. He drove home from the bank at the usual time and drove neither too slowly nor too fast; he parked his car where he always parked it, out of the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal. At once, there was a knock at the door. Mr. Dodds opened the door to find a policeman standing at the door.

　　“What have I done wrong?”Mr Dodds asked himself.“Have I driven on the wrong side of the road? Has there been some trouble at the bank? Have I forgotten to pay an important bill?”

　　“Hello, Uncle”said the policeman,“My name's Mark.”

(1) Mr. Dodds sees his sister ________.

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(2) Mr. Dodds ________.

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A．has forgotten more than one Mark's birthday

B．has not sent Mark anything on his seventeenth birthday

C．always sends a Christmas card on Mark's birthday

D．always sends Mark something on his birthday

(3) When he heard a knock at the door, he was ________.

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(4) Mr. Dodds was surprised that ________.

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A．a policeman visited him

B．Mark came to see him

C．he had forgotten Mark's birthday

D．someone was knocking at the door

(5) Which of the following best describes the writer's attitude towards Mr. Dodds? ________.

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A．Mr. Dodds always insists on his opinion

B．Mr. Dodds is not strict in his work

C．Mr. Dodds never makes a mistake

D．Mr. Dodds does not care about others

阅读理解

　　Life gets noisier every day and very few people can be free from noise of some sort or another. It doesn't matter where you live in the middle of a modem city, or a faraway village the chances are that you'll be disturbed (烦扰) by jet aeroplanes, transistor radios, oil-powered engines, etc. We seem to be getting used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely without background music while they're working.

　　Scientific tests have shown that total silence can be a very frightening experience for a human being. However, some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to their eardrums (耳鼓) . The noise level in some discos is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas.

　　One recent report about noise and concentration (专心) suggests that although a lot of people say that noise disturbs their concentration, what really influences their concentration or what really influences their ability to concentrate is a change in the level of noise. It goes on to say that a background noise which doesn't change too much (music, for example) may even help people to concentrate.

(1) According to this passage, the noise pollution ________.

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A．has become the worst in the countryside

B．has become better in big cities

C．has spread from cities to villages

D．has been controlled in modern cities

(2) What does background music refer to? ________

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A．Music played while people are working.

B．Music played in the backyard.

C．Noise that continues while you're listening to other noises.

D．Music used to help people to concentrate.

(3) Some people have their hearing harmed ________.

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(4) Which of the following isn't included among the things causing noise?________

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(5) Scientists have discovered that what prevents people from concentrating on something is ________.

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A．all kinds of noise

B．great changes in the level of noise

C．background noise

D．popular music

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　　Laura woke up feeling excited. It was her birthday. Today she thought she would get a pet of her own at last. Uncle Bob had been hinting that he would bring her one. She hoped it would be a puppy or a kitten or maybe a soft, fluffy (有绒毛的) rabbit.

　　But Laura's birthday did not turn out as she had hoped. She had certainly never expected to have a pet mouse. She did not even like mice. But that is what Uncle Bob gave her.

　　When Uncle Bob left, Laura burst into tears. She was so disappointed. “Don't be sad,” said the mother. “I think the mouse will be lots of fun. We'll teach it some tricks. Mice are very smart, you know.”

　　Mother was right. Before long, Laura found she could hardly wait to get home from school. It was such fun to watch what Ralph, her mouse, could do. He learned a lot of tricks. She and her mother built a special machine for Ralph. Here is how it worked.

　　Ralph would pull a string to open a door. Then he would go up a little adder. At the top of the ladder was a button. The button was really an electric switch. When Ralph pushed the button, a motor would start. The motor turned a wheel that pulled a string. The string pulled a dish that had food in it for Ralph, who was happy to do the trick over and over again.

(1) Why was Laura excited when she woke up?

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A．It was her birthday.

B．She had gotten a pet.

C．She wanted to teach the mouse tricks.

D．Her Uncle Bob would come to see her.

(2) Why did Laura burst into tears?

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A．She didn't want her birthday to end.

B．She didn't want Uncle Bob to leave.

C．She was disappointed with her gift.

D．She hated Uncle Bob.

(3) What caused the motor to start?

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(4) Laura was disappointed with the mouse because ________.

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A．she thought a mouse was stupid

B．she never took a mouse as a pet before

C．she was afraid of mice

D．she didn't like mice before

(5) Ralph was happy to do the trick to ________.

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　　Different countries and different people have different manners. We must find out their customs, so that they will not think us ill-mannered. Here are some examples of the things that a well-mannered person does or does not do.

　　If you visit a Chinese family you should knock at the door first. When the door opens, you'll not move before the host says “Come in, please”. After you enter the room, you wouldn't sit down until the host asks you to take a seat. When a cup of tea is put on a tea-table before you or sent to your hand, you'll say, “Thank you.” and receive it with your two hands, not one hand, or they'll think you are ill-mannered. Before entering a house in Japan, it is good manners to take off your shoes. In European countries, even though shoes sometimes become very dirty, this is not done. In a Malay house, a guest never finishes the food on the table. He leaves a little to show that he has had enough. In England, a guest always finishes a drink or the food to show that he has enjoyed it. This will make the host, especially the hostess pleasant.

(1) We must find out what the different manners are in different countries so that ________.

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A．we won't be thought in poor health

B．they won't think we are ill

C．we can know what to do and what not to do when we go there

D．we can give some examples

(2) In China, when the host opens the door, ________ before he says “Come in, please.”

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(3) In Japan, it is good manners to take off your shoes ________.

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A．before your host enters your house

B．before you enter your host's house

C．before you visit a family

D．before you sit down and receive a cup of tea

(4) In European countries, ________ when you get into a house.

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A．you needn't take off your shoes

B．you must take off your dirty shoes

C．you are not allowed to wear dirty shoes

D．you should put on clean shoes

(5) In a Malay house, a guest leaves a little food ________.

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A．to show that he has enjoyed it.

B．to show that he can't have any more

C．to show that he is not hungry at all

C．to show that he needs some drink

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　　Mrs. Brown had just put the dinner on the table when she heard a knock on the door. She was surprised because the postman and the milkman had already been, and she wasn't expecting any visitors. She went to the window to see who it was. A man was standing on the steps leading to the front door.

　　He was a tall and very strong man wearing an old coat and a big blackcap pulled forward over his eyes, so that it was difficult to see his face clearly. His shoes were old and dirty. He carried a small black box in one hand.

　　As she looked at him, Mrs. Brown remembered the stories, she had read in the newspaper about old ladies who opened the door to strangers, and were hit on the head and all their money was stolen. She felt rather frightened. “I'm not going to open the door,” she said to herself. “If I don't, perhaps he'll think there's no one in the house and he'll go away.” She stood still, trembling.

　　The man looked around him quickly, put his hand in pocket, drew out a key, and began to try to open the front door.

(1) When Mrs. Brown heard the knock, she was ________.

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(2) She looked out of the window because ________.

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A．she was expecting a visitor

B．she wanted to see who was there

C．she never had any visitors

D．she thought it might be her neighbour

(3) The man on the doorstep ________.

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A．was wearing an army uniform

B．looked like postman

C．wanted to get into the house secretly

D．didn't want anyone to see who he really was

(4) Mrs. Brown was frightened because she remembered something ________.

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(5) The man tried to open the door ________.

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A．before Mrs. Brown saw him

B．because he knew Mrs. Brown would not open it

C．while Mrs. Brown was watching him

D．because he knew there was no one in

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　　Mrs. Evans had carefully locked the door when she left the house, but she was surprised to find it unlocked on her return. When she walked into the house, she saw a stranger fast asleep in the chair in the living room. Mrs. Evans left the house immediately and went to a neighbor's house and called the police. The police car arrived in a short while and Mrs. Evans returned to her house with two policemen. But it was obviously too late. The man had disappeared. Just then, to her surprise, her husband appeared at the head of the stairs and greeted her. He explained that he had returned from office early. Then he said, “I've a surprise for you. You've never met my cousin John from Michigan. He arrived this afternoon, so he could get a good job with a good company, and I brought him home with me.”

(1) When she found a stranger in the house, Mrs. Evans ________.

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A．hurried to the nearest police station

B．called the police from a neighbour's house

C．asked her husband to call in the policemen

D．hurried to the telephone and called the police

(2)  We know from the story that the strange man was ________.

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(3)The two policemen arrived ________.

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A．after Mr. Evans came back from office

B．when the strange man was sleeping

C．after Mrs. Evans saw her husband at home

D．before Mrs. Evans went to a neighbour's house

(4)Who do you think opened the door of Mrs. Evan's house?

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(5)John arrived at the Evans' because ________.

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A．Mrs. Evans had never met him before

B．he hoped to get a better job in Michigan

C．Mr. And Mrs. Evans invited him to live with them

D．he wanted to find a job in a good company