阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

Mr. Jones woke early one morning, before the sun had risen. It was a beautiful morning, 1 he went to the window and looked out. He was surprised to see a neatly 2 , middle-aged professor, who walked 3 the university just up the road from Mr. Jones's house, coming from the direction of the town. He had grey hair and thick glasses, and was 4 an umbrella, a morning newspaper and a bag. Mr. Jones thought 5 he must have arrived by the night train, and decided to walk to the university 6 of taking a taxi.

Mr. Jones had a big tree in his garden, and the children had tied a long rope to one of the branches, so that they could swing on it.

Mr. Jones was 7 to see the professor 8 when he saw the rope, and looked carefully up and down the road. When he saw that there was nobody in 9 , he stepped into the garden, put his umbrella, newspaper, bag and hat neatly in the grass and 10 hold of the rope. He pulled it hard to see 11 it was strong enough to take his weight, then ran as fast as he could and swung into the 12 on the 13 of the rope, his grey hair 14 all around his face. Backwards and forwards he swung, occasionally taking a few more 15 steps on the grass when the rope began to swing 16 slowly for him.

At 17 the professor stopped, straightened his tie, combed his hair carefully, put on his hat, picked up his umbrella, newspaper and bag, and continued 18 his way to the university, looking 19 quite and correct and respectable as 20 would expect a professor to be.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

A great French writer has said that we should help each other as 1 as possible, because we often need help 2 . 3 can even help the great. To explain what he means by that he tells the following 4 story.

An ant 5 at a small stream when she suddenly fell in. She tried to reach the side by all 6 , but made no 7 at all. The poor ant, almost 8 ,was bravely doing her best 9 a pigeon saw her. The pigeon took 10 on her and 11 her a piece of grass, which 12 her like a canoe, and 13 she reached the bank again. While she was resting and 14 herself in the sun she heard a man coming near. He was walking along barefooted(赤脚)and 15 a gun in his hand. 16 seeing the pigeon, he wished to kill her, and he 17 so, but the ant bit(咬)him in the foot 18 he raised his bun to fire. He stopped to see what had bitten him, and the pigeon immediately flew away. It was 19 than herself 20 had saved her life.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

One day, a group of students took a trop in the suburb, after covering thirty miles, they came to a mountain, They stopped walking and looked for a place to take a rest. They had a good time 1 in the afternoon, the boys put 2 their tent in the middle of a field. As soon as this 3 ,they cooked 4 over an open fire. They were all hungry and the food smelt 5 .After a wonderful meal, they told stories and sang songs 6 the camp fire. But 7 later it began to rain. The 8 felt tired so they put 9 the fire and 10 into their tent. 11 sleeping-bags were warm and comfortable 12 they all slept 13 . In the middle of the night, two boys woke 14 and began shouting:“The tent was full of 15 !”They all crept out of their 16 and hurried outside. It was raining 17 and they found that a stream 18 in the field. The stream 19 its way across the field and then flowed 20 under their tent!

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

What happens when a person is forced not to sleep for a long time? To find the answer 1 this question, an American from New York, Peter Tripp, 2 to stay awake 200 hours. During the time, he was 3 by a group of doctors, who 4 on his movement.

After staying awake for three days. He began to show 5 of mental breakdown(心理上的衰竭). He 6 at things which were not funny. But wept at things which were not 7 . Complaining all the time about the pressure 8 by a hat on his head, he tried repeatedly to take it off. But, of course, he was not 9 a hat 10 .

On the fifth day he creed out that the doctor's jacket looked like crawling(蠕动)worms. Then he 11 he was in another city; he tried to run away from the building, because he thought it was 12 fire. After 200 hours without sleep,“Tripp,'' said the doctors,“was clearly 13 from mental illness.” He was nearly mad! 14 to stand, Tripp was helped across the street to a room in a hotel, 15 ,after being 16 for 201 hours and 13 minutes, he fall 17 . He did not wake up 18 nine hours and eleven minutes 19 . When he awoke, his first 20  were,“I feel much better.”

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

Tom Smith was a writer. He wrote detective(侦探)stories for magazines. One evening he could not find 1 for a story. He sat 2 his typewriter in front of him, but he had no 3 . so he 4 to go to the cinema.

When he came back, he found that he 5 a visitor. 6 had 7 into his flat. The man had 8 himself to a 9 , smoked several of Tom's cigarettes,and had read his 10 , the visitor 11 Tom a note:

“I have read your story and I don't think 12 of it Please read my 13 and then you can finish it. 14 the way, I am a burglar(窃贼). I am not going to 15 anything tonight. But if you become a 16 writer, I will return!”

Tom read the burglar's note. Then he sat down and wrote the 17 of the story. He is still not a good writer, and he is 18 for his burglar to return. Before he goes 19 in the evening, he 20 leaves a half-finished story near his type-writer.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

Although we can't see it, there is air all around 1 .If you wave(挥动)your hand in front of your face, you can feel the air moving as your hand pushed through it. 2 on to the back of your hand and you can feel the air coming out of your mouth. We can't live 3 air for we breathe it again and again through our noses and mouths. Air is 4 and it gives life to every 5 thing. When it is still, we don't notice it, but when it moves, we call 6 wind.

When we see a bottle is empty and has 7 in it, that is not really 8 , for the bottle is 9 of air. If the bottle is pushed under water, we can see the air coming out of it as the water goes in.

Although we can't see it and although it is 10 light that we 11 notice it touching us , air has some strength. 12 example, it stops a piece of paper from 13 as quickly as the lid of a tin, If you hold the lid of a tin in our left hand and a small piece of paper in your right hand and 14 them together, the lid will fall quickly, but the paper will fall 15 more slowly. This is 16 the paper has more 17 in pushing its way through the air than the lid has. This shows us that falling things 18 to push their way through the air and that is how parachutes(降落伞)push their way through the air, and that is how parachutes were 19 to same the lives of pilots in 20 accident.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

A shopkeeper in England was sent a telegram 1 him of the news 2 his 3 won 100,000 pounds in the Irish Sweepstakes(爱尔兰大马赛). He 4 to be home nursing a heart condition, and his wife opened the message. 5 that the 6 news might 7 a heart failure to her husband, she invited the family 8 to dinner and asked him 9 on the good news with professional tact(策略).After dinner, the doctor 10 his patient to one side.

“How are you 11 on with your business?” the doctor began.

“It could be better. I could use a few hundred pounds,” said the shopkeeper.

“Well,”the doctor said 12 ,“you have a sweepstakes ticket. What would you do if you 13 1,000 pounds?”

“Nobody 14  wins,”the an answered with a sigh(叹息).“But if I win, I will send my family to the seashore, and 15 off our debts.”

“ 16 you win 50,000 pounds…”

“I would buy this house and a villa(别墅) 17 the country.”

“What would you do if you won 100,000 pounds?”

The man looked up.“ Listen, my friend,” he said 18 .“I swear(发誓)I would give you half of it.”

19 this, the doctor gasped(喘粗气), opened his mouth, and dropped 20 .

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

“A little hero”is selected 1 “Heart”a famous book 2 by an Italian writer, Edmondo De Amics. The book has been put 3 many languages.

About 100 years 4 , Italy was ruled 5 Austrian Empire. Don't confuse Austria 6 Australia, 7 lies in Oceania(大洋洲), 8 the capital 9 Canberra(堪培拉).

10 a brave Italian boy, the little hero 11 the text, was working 12 the branch before a farm house, he saw a group of Italian soldiers 13 14 to him. The captain who led the group 15 whether he had seen 16 Austrians(奥地利人)pass 17 . From this he knew that they were searching 18 the enemy. He was glad to hear that and was quite 19 to do anything 20 them.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

Mrs. Black was having a lot of 1 with her skin, so she went to her 2 about it. He could not find 3 wrong with her, however, so he sent her to the local hospital for some 4 . The hospital, of course, sent the results direct 5 Mrs. Black's doctor, and the next morning he 6 to give her a list of the things that he thought she could not 7 , as any of them might be the 8 of the skin trouble.

Mrs. Black 9 wrote all the things down on a piece of paper, 10 she then left beside the telephone, 11 she went to a ladies meeting.

When she got back two hours 12 ,she found her 13 waiting for her. He had a big basket 14 packages beside him, and when he saw her he said:“Hello, dear, I have done all your shopping 15 you.”

“Done all my shopping?”she asked in 16 .“But how did you know 17 I wanted?”

“Well, when I got home, I found your shopping 18 beside the telephone,”answered the husband.“So I went to the shops and bought everything you 19 written down.”

Of course Mrs Black had to tell him that he had bought all the 20 that the doctor did not allow her to eat.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

A certain student passed all his school examinations and then went to a college to continue his studies. There he put his name 1 for a course in geography, but after the first lecture, he did not go to it 2 .The geography lecturer noticed that this student was always absent and thought that he had 3 to another course, so he was very 4 when he was the boy's name on the 5 of students who wanted to 6 the geography examination at the end of the year.

The lecturer had prepared a difficult examination paper, 7 followed his lecture very closely, and he was 8 to see 9 the boy's answers 10 the questions would be. He 11 that they would he very bad, but when he examined the paper 12 , he was able to find only one small mistake 13 it. As this surprised him very much, he went 14 the paper once again, but was 15 not able to find more 16 that one small mistake, so he 17 for the student to question him about his work.

When the student had come into the room and had sat down, the lecturer said to him, “I know that you came only to my first lecture and that you have been absent 18 all the others; but now I have examined your answer paper throughly and I have been able to find only one small mistake, I am 19 to know your explanation for that.”

“Oh, I am very sorry about that mistake, sir ”answered the student.“After the examination, I realized what I ought to have written. I 20 that mistake if I had not been confused(混淆)by your first lecture.”

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