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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阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

　　Some people are lucky enough to he born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will． be able to find it again years later．

　　I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there． When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for．

　　I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me． Often people do not like to admit that they don’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their home-town very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction．

　　If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results．

　　Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building． I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building． However, at this point, I decided it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting．

　　Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions o my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked．

1．What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

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A．He will direct the right way to the person willingly．

B．He will reply as if he were a stranger to the town．

C．He will give the very person long list of direction．

D．He is going to show the man an opposite direction．

2．Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

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A．Because of his poor sense of direction．

B．Because he always forget the way to home．

C．Because he did not have any friend．

D．Because he used to be too shy to ask the way．

3．How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

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A．He felt strange．

B．He felt embarrassed．

C．He felt very sad．

D．He felt astonished．

 

II．完形填空：（每小题1．5分, 满分30分）

         阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16到35各题所给的四个选项选出最佳答案。

         Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, an old woman waited beside door with her hand outstretched．Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met．She never failed to__16__ smile, my grasp, and my greeting．

         On the last day of our visit, I found myself__17__on a busy corner across the street from our hotel．Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me．We had been advised to walk__18__ through the crowded traffic without looking right or left．Let them__19__ us．

         __20__tonight I was by myself and felt uncertain to__21__ the flood of vehicles．As I __22__ on the roadside．I felt a hand on my elbow and looked__23__to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me．She nodded her head toward the street__24__ that she would take me across．Together, we moved slowly into the disorder．

         When we__25__ the corner of the crossing, I looked down at her again, and couldn’t help saying, “You have the most beautiful smile in the world．”

She__26__knew little English, but must have__27__ the tone, for she threw both arms around me in a big hug while the__28__streamed by us on both sides．

Then we__29__ moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then walked away,__30__smiling and waving back to me．

I had not given her a single__31__．But we had__32__ something much more important---a warming of hearts in friendship．

This__33__ reminded me of something Mother Teresag once said, “ If you cannot do great things, you can do small things with great__34__．” I will always remember this__35__．

16．A．receive       B．accept        C．return                  D．answer

17．A．alone B．away C．off                D．aside

18．A．purposefully       B．straight      C．actively                D．carefully

19．A．miss   B．avoid C．separate             D．dismiss

20．A．And    B．So       C．But              D．Therefore

21．A．see     B．meet C．face             D．witness

22．A．moved        B．wandered  C．hesitated            D．wondered

23．A．up       B．back   C．down          D．forward

24．A．explaining  B．marking     C．meaning              D．expressing

25．A．covered      B．reached     C．touched               D．hit

26．A．actually      B．obviously   C．generally             D．personally

27．A．recognized         B．required     C．misunderstood           D．achieved

28．A．customers B．strangers  C．traffic                   D．passengers

29．A．suddenly    B．continuously      C．luckily                   D．unwillingly

30．A．yet     B．even  C．already                D．still

31．A．gift     B．present      C．cake            D．coin

32．A．owed B．owned        C．shared                 D．seized

33．A．exploration         B．experience         C．adventure           D．interview

34．A．love    B．feeling        C．courage               D．pity

35．A．aspect        B．idiom C．sentence             D．lesson

 

II．完形填空：（每小题1．5分, 满分30分）

       阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16到35各题所给的四个选项选出最佳答案。

       Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, an old woman waited beside door with her hand outstretched．Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met．She never failed to__16__ smile, my grasp, and my greeting．

       On the last day of our visit, I found myself__17__on a busy corner across the street from our hotel．Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me．We had been advised to walk__18__ through the crowded traffic without looking right or left．Let them__19__ us．

       __20__tonight I was by myself and felt uncertain to__21__ the flood of vehicles．As I __22__ on the roadside．I felt a hand on my elbow and looked__23__to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me．She nodded her head toward the street__24__ that she would take me across．Together, we moved slowly into the disorder．

       When we__25__ the corner of the crossing, I looked down at her again, and couldn’t help saying, “You have the most beautiful smile in the world．”

She__26__knew little English, but must have__27__ the tone, for she threw both arms around me in a big hug while the__28__streamed by us on both sides．

Then we__29__ moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then walked away,__30__smiling and waving back to me．

I had not given her a single__31__．But we had__32__ something much more important---a warming of hearts in friendship．

This__33__ reminded me of something Mother Teresag once said, “ If you cannot do great things, you can do small things with great__34__．” I will always remember this__35__．

16．A．receive     B．accept       C．return              D．answer

17．A．alone B．away C．off           D．aside

18．A．purposefully    B．straight     C．actively           D．carefully

19．A．miss  B．avoid C．separate           D．dismiss

20．A．And  B．So     C．But          D．Therefore

21．A．see    B．meet  C．face          D．witness

22．A．moved      B．wandered  C．hesitated          D．wondered

23．A．up     B．back  C．down        D．forward

24．A．explaining       B．marking    C．meaning          D．expressing

25．A．covered    B．reached     C．touched           D．hit

26．A．actually    B．obviously  C．generally         D．personally

27．A．recognized       B．required    C．misunderstood         D．achieved

28．A．customers B．strangers   C．traffic              D．passengers

29．A．suddenly   B．continuously    C．luckily             D．unwillingly

30．A．yet    B．even  C．already            D．still

31．A．gift   B．present     C．cake         D．coin

32．A．owed B．owned      C．shared             D．seized

33．A．exploration      B．experience       C．adventure         D．interview

34．A．love  B．feeling      C．courage           D．pity

35．A．aspect       B．idiom       C．sentence           D．lesson

阅读理解

阅读下列文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: it seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.

    Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the rage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised.

    But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor woke up from the dream, realizing he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the renter of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and built the first really practical sewing machine. Elias Howe was nut the only one in finding the answers to his problem in this way.

    Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.

    To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then a part of your mind is still working. The unconscious (无意识) , but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problem you have had during the day. It stores all information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you are asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images (图像) which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.

1．According to the passage, Elias Howe was ________.

    A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep

    B. much more hard-working than other inventors

    C. the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked

    D. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams

2．The problem Howe was trying to solve was ________.

    A. what kind of thread to use

    B. how to design a needle which would not break

    C. where to put the needle

    D. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle

3．Dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves” because ________.

    A. strange images are used to communicate ideas

    B. images which have no meaning are used

    C. we can never understand the real meaning

    D. only special trained people can understand them

4．From the passage we know that ________.

    A. when we sleep, our mind is sleeping too

    B. when we sleep, not all our mind is sleeping

    C. all great inventors once got their ideas in their dreams

D. if we run into a problem in the day. we'll always have a strange dream at night