I will never forget the lesson about my window. Four years ago, I moved to a house in a large town. One of my new neighbors’ house was only a few feet away from mine. There lived a woman. Through one of my windows, I could see her reading by her window every afternoon.
Several months later, I found I couldn’t see the woman clearly. I thought her window was too dirty. I said to myself, “Why doesn’t she clean her window? It looks terrible!”
One afternoon, I decided to clean my house including the window. I felt tired after three hours of hard work. So I sat down by the window for a rest. What a surprise! I could see the woman reading there clearly again! By that time, I realized that my own window was too dirty, not hers! I really felt ashamed for myself. I had been watching her through my dirty window in the past days!
The experience is very important for me. So I try to clean the window of my heart before judging others

1. 1.

   How long has the writer lived in the house according to the passage?

   1. A.
      One years
   2. B.
      Two years
   3. C.
      Three years
   4. D.
      Four years
2. 2.

   What did the woman do every afternoon?

   1. A.
      Read by her window
   2. B.
      played tennis on the grass
   3. C.
      Danced in her house
   4. D.
      sang in front of the house
3. 3.

   The writer couldn’t see the woman clearly because______.

   1. A.
      the writer’s window was dirty
   2. B.
      the woman’s house was too far
   3. C.
      the woman didn’t open her window
   4. D.
      there was something wrong with his eyes
4. 4.

   The underlined word “ashamed” means______.

   1. A.
      高兴的
   2. B.
      放松的
   3. C.
      羞愧的
   4. D.
      自豪的
5. 5.

   According to the passage, the writer has learnt how to______.

   1. A.
      clean the house
   2. B.
      judge others
   3. C.
      help neighbors
   4. D.
      learn English

    Ken Roberts, the man who found the hare, had been looking for it for nearly two years. Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic (逻辑), not by luck.  His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start. He had realized that the words: “One of Six to Eight” under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of Aragon, the first of Henry Ⅷ’s six wives. Even here, however, Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kim Bolton in Cambridge shire in 1536 and thought that Williams had buried the hare there. He had been digging there for over a year is fore a new idea occurred to him.  He found out that Kit Williams had spent his childhood near Amp hill, in Bedfordshire, and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well, but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone crossed in Amp hill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.

    Even then his search had not come to an end．It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him to continue, and on February 24^th 1982, he found the reassure, It was worth ￡3 000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.

1. The underlined word “them” (Paragraph1) refers to _____.

A．red herrings

B．treasure hunts

C．Henry Ⅷ’s six wives

D．readers of Masquerade

2. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare?

A．Two stone crosses in Amp hill.

B．Stevenson’s Treasure Island.

C．Katherine of Aragon.

D．Williams’ hometown.

3. The stone crosses in Amp hill were built _______.

A．to tell about what happened in 1773

B．to show respect for Henry Ⅷ’s first wife

C．to serve as a road sign in Amp hill Park

D．to inform people where the gold hare was

4. Which of the following describes Roberts’ logic in searching for the hare?

A．Henry Ⅷ’s six wives

A．Simon Singh

B．Andrew Wiles

C．Pierre de Fermat

D．a French woman scientist

5. What is the purpose of writing these three texts?

A．To make the books easier to read.

B．To show the importance of science.

C．To introduce new authors.

D．To sell the books.

C．Williams’ childhood in Amp hill

D．Katherine of Aragon

e．stone crosses in Amp hill Park

A．a, b, c, e, d

B．d, b, c, e, a

C．a, d, b, c, e

D．b, a, e, c, d

5. What is the subject discussed in the text?

A．An exciting historical event.

B．A modern treasure hunt.

C．The attraction of Masquerade.

D．The importance of logical thinking.

For the 17 years my life was very happy. Then the first sad thing happened. My mother became very ill, and soon she knew that she was dying. Just before she died, she asked Elizabeth and me to go to her room. She held our hands and said, “Victor and Elizabeth, my children, I’m very happy because you love each other, and because one day you’ll get married. Everyone in the family loves you, Elizabeth. Will you take my place in the family, my dear? I can die happy if you look after them when I have gone.”
My mother died and we were very sad, because we loved her dearly. Elizabeth was brave and helped us; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother’s death. The time came for me to go to university. I didn’t want to leave my sad family, but we all knew that I should go. It was hard to leave, too, because the parents of my good friend Henry would not let him go to university with me. So I had gone alone.
On my first day at university I met my teacher, Professor Waldman, who was one of the greatest scientists in the world. He gave a wonderful talk to all the students who were starting at the university. He ended his talk by saying, “Some of you will become the greatest scientists of tomorrow. You must study hard and discover everything that you can. This is why God made you intelligent—to help other people.”
After the professor’s talk, I thought very carefully. I remembered the storm when I was 15; I remembered how the lightning had destroyed the tree. From then on, I wanted to use electricity to help people, and I wanted to discover the secrets of life. I decided to work on these two things.
I started to work the next day. I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist.
The professor helped me very much, and other important scientists who were his friends helped me, too. I was interested in my work and I did not take one day’s holiday during the next two years, I did not go home, and my letters to my family were very short.
After two years, I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was the best in the university. My machine would help me answer the most important question of all. How does life begin? Is it possible to put life into dead things? To answer these questions about life I had to learn first about death. I had to watch bodies from the moment when they died and the warm life left them. In the hospital and in the university, I watched the dying and the dead. Day after day, month after month, I followed death, so it was a dark and terrible time.
I built a tall mast about 150 meters high, which is higher than the tallest building in the city, to catch lightning and send the electricity down to my machine in the lab. I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead.
Then one day, the answer came to me. Suddenly I was sure that I knew the secret of life.

1. 1.

   Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

   1. A.
      Elizabeth married shortly after Victor’s mother died.
   2. B.
      Elizabeth was a brave girl who loved Victor and gave him much help.
   3. C.
      Victor’s mother was very angry when she knew he loved Elizabeth.
   4. D.
      Victor did not want to leave his family because his mother died not long before.
2. 2.

   Victor did all the following during his research in the university EXCEPT that       .

   1. A.
      he discovered many things and built a scientific machine
   2. B.
      he learnt much about death both in the hospitals and in the university
   3. C.
      he worked hard and took only one day’s holiday during the next two years
   4. D.
      he built a tall mast to catch lightning and send the electricity down to the lab
3. 3.

   According to the author, the secret of life is to        .

   1. A.
      give life to things that were dead
   2. B.
      use electricity to help others
   3. C.
      build the best machine to learn about death
   4. D.
      become the greatest scientist of tomorrow
4. 4.

   Which is the correct order about the life of Victor?
   ① Victor’s mother passed away.
   ② Victor got help from the professor and other scientists.
   ③ Victor went to university and attended the professor’s talk.
   ④ Victor found the answer to giving life to things that were dead.
   ⑤ Victor experienced a storm, seeing the lightning destroying the tree.

   1. A.
      ①②③④⑤
   2. B.
      ⑤①②④③
   3. C.
      ①③②⑤④
   4. D.
      ⑤①③②④