第二部分： 阅读理解 （第一节 20小题; 第二节 5小题； 每小题2分，满分50分）

第一节,阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

   My grandfather was a teacher. He was the headmaster of a school for boys between thirteen and eighteen. I know that he was a kind and gentle man at heart, because when I was young, he gave me presents, and seated me on his knee, and told me stories. But I believe the boys at his school were afraid of him.

At school, when he walked into a room full of noisy boys, there was silence at once. When he looked at a boy with a certain look in his eyes, the boy went red in the face, and looked down at his shoes. If a boy brought him poor, careless work that was not the best the boy could do, my grandfather would pick up the boy’s book and throw it across the room, shouting, “Do it all again, and bring it back to me in the morning!” If the boy was late, or if he forgot to bring the work, he had to do it again, and again, and yet again. My grandfather never forgot.

He was a very different man at school from the man I saw day by day in his own home.

1. I knew my grandfather was kind and gentle, because _________

A．he was a teacher. 

B．he let me sit on his knee and told me stories.

C．he told me stories about how kind he was

D．he was the headmaster of a school

2. When he looked at a boy in a certain way, the boy ________

A．went red and could not return my grandfather’s look

B．looked back at my grandfather’s red face

C. looked at his shoes to see if they were dirty.

D. went red in the face because his shoes were dirty.

3．When he received poor work, my grandfather _______.

A．would become very angry.    

B．threw the work on the floor, and shouted across the room

C．threw the book at the boy.  

D．went red in the face

4．He was a different man at home because  ________.

A．he didn’t get angry at home as he did at school. 

B．he was not as gentle at home

C．he didn’t throw books about at school like he did at home

D．he did not get angry at home.

阅读理解：

阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

　“Do you believe in life after death?” Jack's boss asked Jack.

　“Yes, sir.”

　“Well, then, that makes everything just fine.” the boss went on. “About an hour after you left yesterday to go to your grandfather's funeral(葬礼), he dropped in to see you.”

1． What do you suppose Jack did the day before? 

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A． He attended his grandfather's funeral.

B． He told a lie to get the day off.

C． He meant to attend a funeral but didn't.

D． He did nothing special, he worked as usual.

2． What do you suppose Jack's grandfather was doing the day before?

[　　]

A． He knew Jack had cheated his boss and came to expose him.

B． He was thought to be dead but in fact was well and alive.

C． He was dying but was saved by the doctors.

D． He was going about his usual business.

3． When the boss said, “That makes everything just fine.”

[　　]

A． he meant he was glad that Jack's grandfather was still alive.

B． he meant he was glad that Jack believed in life after death.

C． he was, in fact, telling Jack that everything was OK.

D． he was, in fact, telling Jack that he had been found out.

4． Who does the story tell us really believed in life after death? 

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A． Jack.　　　　　　　　B． Jack's boss.

C． Jack's grandfather.　　　D． No one.

阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案

　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 writer knew the river valley very well because______.

[　　]

A．he looked at it long

B．he saw it before

C．he had studied it carefully for days

D．he lived there

(2) There was a large lake in the ______ of the river valley.

[　　]

A．south　　　B．north　　　C．northeast　　　D．southwest

(3) I could hear no sounds of work. This sentence means ______.

[　　]

A．the writer was deaf

B．there were no sounds of work

C．none of Howard's men was working

D．there were no people there

(4) Most of the men were looking for ______.

[　　]

A．their camp　　　B．the river valley

C．the lake　　　　D．the writer

(5) What did the writer come to the food store for?

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A．Because it was dark.

B．He tried to hide himself in the store.

C．He wanted to take some tins of food.

D．He did not know where to hide.