阅读理解

阅读下面短文，简要回答短文后提出的问题。

　　Mr Leonard was twenty-three years old and not very rich. He was not married and lived in two rooms in a small house in a city.

　　Every summer Mr Leonard went down to the sea for a holiday. He stayed in small, cheap hotels, but he always wanted to have a clean tidy room. He didn't like dirty places.

　　One summer a friend of his said, “Go to the Tower Hotel in Whitesea. I went there last year, and it was very nice and clean.” So Mr Leonard went to the Tower Hotel in Whitesea. But there was a different manager (经理) that year.

　　The new manager took Mr Leonard to his room. The room looked quite nice and clean, but Mr Leonard said to the manager, “Are the sheets (床单) on the bed clean?”

　　“Yes, of course they are!” he answered angrily, “We washed them this morning. Feel them. They're still damp (湿的)!”

1．Why did Mr Leonard stay in small cheap hotels?

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2．How many rooms are there in his house?

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3．Where did a friend of his ask him to go?

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4．What do you think of the new manager?

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阅读理解

　　The names of certain places in the United States make people think of big businesses. Detroit, a city in Michigan, means cars. Texas means oil. Wall Street in New York City means the stock market(股市) and “big money”.

　　There is another place-name that is well known in the U. S.A. That is Madison Avenue(迈迪逊大街). Madison Avenue in New York is the place where many advertising companies have their offices. And advertising is one of the biggest businesses in America.

　　The same kinds of things are produced and sold by many different companies in the U. S. A. Many different companies sell cars; many others sell oil, soap, and so on. Each company wants the public to buy its goods. By advertising these companies make the public interested in what they want to sell.

　　Each company pays advertisers to tell the public about its goods. Suppose a company has a new type of toy that it wants to sell. In an advertising office on Madison Avenue plans are made for telling the public about the toy. The advertising company takes beautiful pictures of children playing with the toy. The pictures appear in newspapers or magazines and also on TV.

1．What do you think Wall Street is famous for?

[　　]

A．Cars

B．Advertising companies

C．Oil

D．Stock market

2．Which of the following statements is Not true?

[　　]

A．Detroit is well known for its cars.

B．There is a big business of advertising in New York.

C．People consider New York as“big money”. ________

D．Madison Avenue is more famous for advertising companies rather than for any-thing else.

3．Which of the following is not a state but a city?

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4．Companies put advertisements in newspapers, magazines and also on TV because ________.

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A．they want to open their offices in Madison Avenue

B．the producers try to sell their cars or oil

C．it is necessary for them to cut down the cost of newspapers or magazines

D．advertisement helps to sell-goods

5．From this passage we can see ________.

[　　]

A．different companies sell different goods

B．people show no interest in what the companies want to sell

C．many different companies make and sell the same kinds of things

D．advertising offices make plans for telling the public about the goods only by taking pictures

阅读理解

　　Mr Green worked in an office. Every morning he had breakfast with his wife at half past seven, read his newspaper, drank(喝)a cup of tea and then left his house at eight to go to catch his train to town. one morning he was still sitting comfortably (舒适地) at the breakfast table and reading his newspaper at five past eight. He didn't hurry and asked his wife for another cup of tea. “Another cup?” she said in surprise. “Aren't you going to the office today? Have you got a holiday?” “The office?” he said and stopped reading his newspaper. “I thought that I was at the office!”

1. Mr Green's office was in a ______.

[　　]

A. city　　　B. town　　　C. village　　　D. country

2. Mr Green always went to work by ______.

[　　]

A. bike　　　B. bus　　　C. train　　　D. plane

3. That morning it took Mr Green ______to sit at the breakfast table.

[　　]

A. thirty-five minutes

B. half an hour

C. twenty-five minutes

D. an hour

4. Mrs Green was surprised because her husband ______.

[　　]

A. wanted another cup of tea

B. was taking a holiday at home

C. didn't go to work on time

D. had a holiday at home

5. Mr Green forgot that he was ______.

[　　]

A. at home　　　　　　B. at the office

C. in the train　　　 D. in his car

综合阅读

阅读下列短文，简要回答短文后提出的问题。

　　Mr Leonard was twenty-three years old and not very rich. He was not married and lived in two rooms in a small house in a city.

　　Every summer Mr Leonard went down to the sea for a holiday. He stayed in small, cheap hotels, but he always wanted to have a clean tidy room. He didn't like dirty places.

　　One summer a friend of his said, “Go to the Tower Hotel in White Sea. I went there last year, and it was very nice and clean.”

　　So Mr Leonard went to the Tower Hotel in White Sea. But there was a different manager that year.

　　The new manager took Mr Leonard to his room. The room looked quite nice and clean, but Mr Leonard said to the manager, “Are the sheets (床单) on the bed clean?”

　　“Yes, of course they are!” he answered angrily. “We washed them this morning. Feel them. They're still damp (湿的)!”

1．Why did Mr Leonard stay in small cheap hotels?

________________________________________________________________________________

2．How many rooms are there in his house?

________________________________________________________________________________

3．Where did a friend of his ask him to go?

________________________________________________________________________________

4．What do you think of the new manager?

________________________________________________________________________________