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　　Indianapolis is the capital and largest city of Indiana ,USA , with a Population of 744,000 ,it is one of the largest cities in the world that cannot be reached by water. However, Indianapolis is a city through which many railways , roads, buses and planes pass. There are many factories which make trucks, farm tools , and electrical things. These factories cause pollution for the city. Butler University , well - known for engineering, and the law and medical schools of Indiana University are in the city centre . Nearby is the Indianapolis race course , where the nation's most famous car race is held each year on May 30th .

　　If you visited Indianapolis you would be able to find your way around easily because most of the streets cross each other like a chessboard(棋盘) . In the centre of the city , called the circle, stands the soldiers’ and sailors’ Monument ,100 metres high. Also in the centre there are many buildings made of the famous Indiana stone , which makes them white in colour .

(1) What is Indianapolis best known for ?

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A．Its yearly motor race.

B．lts schools and libraries .

C．Its universities and medical schools.

D．Its soldiers’ and sailors’ Monument.

(2) You can NOT travel to Indianapolis by ________.

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A．boat

B．train

C．car

D．bike

(3) From the text , what do we learn about the size of Indianapolis ?

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A．It is the largest city the U. S.

B．It has a population of over a million.

C．It has a population of under a million.

D．It is one of the largest cities in the world .

(4) It is easy for a stranger to go about in the city because

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A．most of the buildings are in the centre of the city

B．there are many different ways of travelling there

C．the buildings are very close to each other

D．the city is planned in squares

(5) Many buildings in Indianapolis are white because ________.

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A．they are painted white every year

B．the Indiana people keep them clean

C．they are made of a special stone

D．there is little pollution from factories

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　　One day a few years ago a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at one of London's big medical schools . He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture .

　　He had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his shoulder bag ,but he had put Rupert , the skeleton(人体骨架)to be used in his lecture ,in a large brown suitcase(箱子) . At the airport desk , he suddenly thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper . He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop .

　　When he got back he discovered that someone had taken his suitcase by mistake. He often wonders what they said when they got home and found Rupert.

(1) Who wrote the story ?

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A．Rupert's teacher.

B．The neighbour's teacher.

C．A medical school teacher.

D．The teacher's neighbour.

(2) Why did the teacher put a skeleton in his suitcase ?

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A．He needed it for the summer term in London .

B．He wanted to take it to Russia for medical research.

C．He needed it for the lecture he was going to give.

D．He wanted to take it home as he had finished his teaching.

(3) What happened at the airport?

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A．The skeleton went missing.

B．The skeleton was stolen.

C．The teacher forgot his suitcase.

D．The teacher took the wrong suitcase.

(4) Which of the following best tells the teacher's feeling about the incident?

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A．He is very angry .

B．He thinks it rather funny .

C．He feels helpless without Rupert.

D．He feels good without Rupert .

(5) Which of the following might have happened afterwards?

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A．The teacher got back the suitcase but not Rupert .

B．The teacher got back neither the suitcase nor Rupert .

C．The teacher got back Rupert but not the suitcase .

D．The teacher got back both the suitcase and Rupert .

阅读理解

　　You need to write a letter now and then. To be known by another person-to meet and talk freely on the page----to be close despite (尽管)distance. To express the music of your souls.

　　The first step in writing a letter is to forget guilt (负罪感) of not writing. You don't “owe” anybody a letter. Letters are a gift. Sit for a few minutes with the paper in front of you, and let your friend come to mind. Remember the last time you saw each other and how your friend looked and what you said and what was perhaps unsaid between. When your friend becomes real to you, start to write.

　　Write the solution (称呼) - Dear you - and take a deep breath and plunge in (投入). A simple sentence will do, followed by another. As if you were talking to us. Don't think about grammar, don't worry about form, just give us your news. When you come to the end of one paragraph, just start a new one.

　　Don't tear up the paper and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Whatever is in your mind, let it find a way to the page. When you come to the end write “Yours ever” or “Hugs and kisses”.

　　You'd better get everything ready in a drawer (抽屉) , such as envelopes , address books and so on, so you can write fast when the pen is hot.

(1) Writing letters is said to be a way to ________ .

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A．shorten the distance between friends

B．make friends in different places

C．express yourself to others

D．smooth away the guilt he owed to his friends

(2) You can see from between the lines of the second paragraph________ .

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A．getting rid of the guilt is very important before writing a letter

B．many people have to write letters because of feeling guilty of not writing

C．letters are an expression of feeling guilty

D．letter writers are usually feeling guilty

(3) ________ is the first step.

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A．Thinking of the past days and meeting with your friends

B．Preparing some envelopes and papers in the drawer

C．Thinking what your friends are

D．Thinking what to begin with

(4) In writing a letter ________ the key to the writing of letters.

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A．letting your thoughts flow on is

B．thinking of long sentences and fine forms is

C．solutions , not grammar are

D．careful arrangements of your thoughts are

(5) Getting everything ready beforehand (事先)________ .

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A．is the first important thing in writing a letter

B．is said to be of great help for you to write very fast

C．will be troublesome during the course of writing

D．will not break your thoughts

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　　Ask three people to look out the same window at a busy street corner and tell you what they see. Chances that you will receive three different answers. Each person sees the same scene, but each perceives (感知)something different about it.

　　Perceiving goes on in our minds. Of the three people who look out the window. One may say that he sees a policeman giving a motorist a ticket. Another may say that he sees a rush-hour traffic jam (拥挤) at the crossing. The third may tell you that he sees a woman trying to cross the street with four children in tow (牵着). For perception is the mind's explanation of what the senses-in this case our eyes-tell us.

　　Many psychologists (心理学家) today are working to try to determine just how a person experiences or perceives the world around him. Using a scientific method, these psychologists set up experiments in which they can control all of the factors. By measuring and charting(用图表示) the results of many experiments, they are trying to find out what makes different people perceive totally different things about the same scene.

(1) Seeing and perceiving are ________ .

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A．the same action

B．two separate actions

C．two actions carried on entirely by the eyes

D．several actions that take place at different times

(2) Perceiving is an action that takes place________ .

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A．in our eyes

B．only when we think very hard

C．only under the direction of a psychologist

D．in every person's mind

(3) People perceive different things about the same scene because ________ .

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(4) Psychologist study perception by ________ .

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A．setting up many experiments

B．asking each other what they see

C．looking out of windows

D．studying people's eyes

(5) The best title of this passage is ________ .

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A．How We See

B．Learning About Our Minds Through Science

C．What Psychologists Perceive

D．How to Become an Experimental Psychologist

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　　Elizabeth lived on the side of a valley. One winter, there was a big flood and a lot of houses down below hers were washed away. When the water had disappeared and the other houses were standing there with no roofs and no walls and all covered with mud, her house was still quite all right.

　　Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had six children, but she took in one of the families that lost everything in the flood and she shared her home with them until it was possible for them to build their house again.

　　Elizabeth's friend was very puzzled when she saw her do this. The friend of hers couldn't understand why she wanted to give herself so much more work and trouble when she already had so many children to support.

　　“Well , ” Elizabeth explained to her friend. “at the end of the First World War , a woman in the town where I then lived in Germany found herself very poor, because her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, as I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won't be able to have much for all of us. Now I'll go and get it. ’She came back with a little girl who was even poorer than they and who had no mother as well as no father. ‘Here's our present,’she said to the children. The children were very excited and happy to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl , and she grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas present. ”

(1) Elizabeth lived ________ .

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(2) Her house was not flooded. because it lay ________ .

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(3) Elizabeth's friend was puzzled by her deed because she ________ .

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A．thought Elizabeth was very foolish

B．could not understand why Elizabeth wanted so much trouble

C．thought Elizabeth was old and ill

D．thought Elizabeth's house was quite small

(4) The woman in the town where Elizabeth lived in Germany was very poor, because________ .

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A．her husband had been put into prison

B．her money had been stolen

C．her husband had been killed in the First World War and she had a lot of children to support

D．she was out of work

(5) The Christmas present that woman brought for her children was________ .

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　　I was on the move by sunrise the next morning. There was one place I knew better than any of them the river valley, because I'd examined it carefully for days.

I kept moving north, hour after hour, all through the day. After a night's sleep I started out again, and at two o'clock the next afternoon I reached the large lake.

I knew what I was going to do caused plenty of trouble! I had to get Howard to come out into the open.

　　Howard's camp was at the north end of the lake. I could hear no sounds of work; he had probably told most of the men to stop working and look for me. He must want to find me very much.

　　I waited until dark, then I looked for the food store. It was easy to find. I took some of tins of food and put them into my bag. Already an idea had come to me.

(1) The story you just read is probably about ________ .

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(2) The writer knew the river valley very well because________ .

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A．he lived there long

B．he had heard of it before

C．he had studied it carefully for days

D．he saw it before

(3) There was a large lake in the ________ of the river valley.

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(4) “I could hear no sounds of work. ” This sentence means ________ .

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A．the writer was deaf

B．there were no sounds of work

C．there were no people there

D．none of Howard's men was working

(5) What do you think the writer came to the food store for?

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A．He wanted to take some tins of food.

B．Because it was dark.

C．He didn't know where to hide.

D．He tried to hide himself in the store.

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　　The Atlantic Ocean (大西洋) is one of the oceans that separate the Old World from the New. For centuries it kept the Americas from being discovered by the people of Europe.

　　The Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the Pacific, but it is still very large. It is more than 4000 miles (6400km) wide where Columbus crossed it. Even at the narrowest it is about 2000 miles wide.

　　Two things make the Atlantic Ocean rather unusual. For so large an ocean it has very few islands. Also , it is the world's saltiest ocean.

　　There is so much water in the Atlantic that it is hard to imagine how much there is. But suppose no more rain fell into it and no more water was brought to it by rivers. It would take the ocean about 4000 years to dry up. In most places the water is a little more than two miles deep, but in some places it is much deeper. The deepest spot measures 30 246 feet----almost six miles.

　　Ocean currents (洋流) are sometimes called “rivers in the sea ”. One of these “rivers ” in the Atlantic is called the Gulf Stream (墨西哥湾流). It is a current of warm water. Another is the Labrador Current----cold water coming down from the Arctic (北冰洋). Ocean currents affects(影响)the weather of the land near which they flow.

　　The Atlantic supplies much food for the people on its shores. There are a lot of fishing areas there.

　　Today the Atlantic is a great highway (交通干线). It is not, however, always a smooth and safe one. We now have such fast ways of travelling that this big ocean seems to have grown smaller. Columbus sailed for more than two months to cross it. A fast modern steamship can make the trip in less than four days. Planes fly from New York to London in only eight hours and from South America to Africa in four!

(1) The Pacific is ________ as large as the Atlantic.

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(2) The Atlantic is well-known for ________ .

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(3) The weather of the lands near the ocean currents has ________ to do with the currents in temperature.

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(4) Columbus crossed the Atlantic in more than two months, that's to say, he sailed ________ kilometres a day.

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(5) If Jomolangma Peak (珠穆朗玛峰) were put in the deepest spot in the Atlantic , then we could ________ above the water.

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　　San Francisco has been called one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is built on 14 hills with the Pacific Ocean on one side and San Francisco Bay(海湾) on the other . Each hill has a view over the water. San Franciscans are proud of their views. Everyone wants a house with a view. Most big cities in the United States are built on flat land . People can't see very far. They can only see tall buildings . When they choose their homes they look inside. They want a house with pleasant moms to look at. When San Franciscans choose their homes, they look outside. They want a house with a view.

(1) The paragraph is mainly talking about ________ .

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A．San Francisco's scenery(风景)

B．fourteen hills in San Francisco

C．how to choose homes in San Francisco

D．people's opinions on San Francisco's beauty

(2) The city of San Francisco is surrounded by ________ .

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(3) People in most of the cities in the United States ________ .

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A．want to live on flat land

B．don't want houses with views

C．want houses with beautiful rooms

D．enjoy staying inside the rooms

(4) You will find in San Francisco that ________ .

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A．the outsids of rooms are beautiful

B．you can see very far in rooms

C．people don't like to travel very far

D．people don't want houses with pleasant rooms to look at

(5) Which of the following statements is not true?

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A．There are fewer buildings in San Francisco .

B．Tall buildings in some other cities prevent people from seeing very far.

C．San Francisco is the most beautiful city in the world .

D．Many houses in San Francisco have views over the sea because they are built on hills .

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　　Good afternoon. This is your“captain”speaking. We have been warned of the danger of strong air turbulence:(气流) ahead for the next forty miles or so. Passengers are therefore strongly asked to remain in their seats with their seat belts(安全带)on for their safety and not to use the restrooms(厕所)during that dangerous period, if at all possible. During the time young children should be firmly fastened(系紧) into their seats.

　　Please observe these precautions(预防措施) until the seatbelt warning sign has gone off. Lunch will be served after we have passed through the air turbulence zone. Thank you .

(1) This passage is ________ .

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(2) The captain has asked passengers to keep their seat belts on because ________ .

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A．the plane is going to land

B．the plan is going to take off

C．the air might become very tough

D．children won't run around

(3) The captain asked the passengers not to ________ during this time.

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(4) When will the passenger be able to get up again?

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A．The captain says so .

B．The seat -belt sign goes off.

C．They become hungry .

D．The plane meets another turbulence .

(5) The best title for this would be “________” .

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A．The Captain and the Passengers

B．Something About the Strong Air Turbulence

C．For Your Own Safety

D．Don't Move Around, and Keep Still

阅读下列短文, 从所给的四个选项中, 选出最佳答案。

　　     Robert E.Peary was a great U.S. explorer. He reached the North　　 Pole in 1809. For more than 20 years, he tried to reach the Pole.　　 During much of this time, he kept a diary of his 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 can't　　 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 time he had. Many times during　　 his travel, 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 ____________.

[    ]

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 ___________.   

[    ]

A. calm and pleased

B. proud and merry

C. sad and worried

D. silly and lonely  

(4) In his diary, Peary wrote, "This is a dog's life……" It means　　  ____________.

[    ]

A. this life is an ordinary life

B. his 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

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