语篇理解

    Trucks often get very dirty. Many of them are taken to Bill Jackson to be cleaned.

    Last week , Bill was in the back of a large truck, cleaning. The truck driver thought that Bill had finished. He closed the door and bolted it , Bill couldn’t get out. The driver started travelling down the highway（公路） with Bill locked in the back. Eight hours later the truck stopped. When the driver opened the back door, there was Bill, cold and hungry.

    Now when Bill cleans a truck he leaves a sign on the door, It says,“ I’m still in the truck. Don't take me with you.”

1.(　　)The best title（标题）for the passage is ______ .

A. Bill Takes a Trip He Didn’t Want

B. Take a Free Ride

C. How to Clean a Truck

D. A Wonderful Trip

2.(　　)Now when Bill cleans a truck, he ______ .

A. keeps the door open

B. is even more careful

C. leaves a sign

D. warns the driver first

3.(　　)The driver took Bill away in the truck _______.

A. on purpose（故意的）

B. by mistake

C. to make fun of him

D. to teach him a lesson

4.(　　)Bill was locked in the truck for eight hours which made him ______ .

A. pleased　　　B. suffer a lot

C. cold　　　　 D. hungry

5.(　　)The word “bolt” means ______ .

A. lock　　 　　B. open

C. drive　　　　D. wash

　　Reading Comprehension

　　Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go to their offices or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to get up early in the morning and reach home late in the evening.

　　One advantage of living outside London is that houses are cheaper. Even a small flat in London without a garden costs quite a lot to rent. With the same money, one can get a little house in the country with a garden of one's own.

　　Then, in the country one can rest from the noise and hurry of the town. Even though one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep better at night and during weekends and on summer evenings, one can enjoy the fresh, clean air of the country. If one likes gardening, one can spend one's free time digging, planting, watering and doing the hundred and one other jobs which are needed in a garden. Then, when the flowers and vegetables come up, one has the reward of one who has shared the secret of Nature.

　　Some people, however, take no interest in country things: for them, happiness lies in the town, with its cinemas and theaters, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance halls and restaurants. Such people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live outside London. An occasional walk in one of the parks and a fortnight's (两周) visit to the sea every summer is all the country they want, and the rest they are quite prepared to leave to those who are glad to get away from London every night.

1．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

[　　]

A．People who like country things prefer to live outside the city.

B．Some people who work in London prefer to live in the country.

C．Because of certain disadvantages of living outside London, some people who work in London prefer to live outside London.

D．Because of certain advantages of living outside London, many people who work in London prefer to live outside London.

2．One can spend some money buying a little house with a garden in the country, but with the same money he can oily ________ in London.

[　　]

A．get a small flat with a garden

B．have a small flat with a garden

C．rent a small flat without a garden

D．buy a small flat without a garden

3．When the flowers and vegetables in the garden come up, those have the reward of one who has shared the secret of Nature.

[　　]

A．who live in the country

B．who have spent time working in the city

C．who have a garden of their own

D．who have been digging, planting and watering

4．People who think happiness lies in the town would feel that ________ if they had to live outside London.

[　　]

A．their life was meaningless

B．their life was invaluable

C．they didn't deserve a happy life

D．they were not worthy of their happy life

5．“… the rest they are quite prepared to leave to those…”. The underlined words refer to ________.

[　　]

A．the rest time

B．the rest people

C．the rest of the country

D．the rest of the parks and of the sea

语篇理解

　　Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably say that they go to learn their own language and other language, arithmetic, geography, history, science and all the other subjects. That’s quite true, but why do they learn these things? And are these things all that they learn at school?

　　We send our children to school to prepare them for the time when they become big and have to work for society. They learn their own language so that they will be able to tell others clearly what they want and what they know, and understand what others tell them. They learn foreign languages in order to be able to benefit from what people in other countries have written and said, and in order to make people from other countries understand what they themselves mean. They learn arithmetic in order to be able to measure and count things in their daily life, geography in order to know something about the world around them, and history to know something about the human beings they meet every day. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life, but is that the only reason why they go to school?

　　No. There is more in education than just learning facts. We go to school above all to learn how to learn, so that when we have left school, we can continue to learn. A man who really knows how to learn will always be successful, because whenever he has to do something new which he has never had to do before, he will rapidly teach himself how to do it in the best way. The uneducated person, on the other hand, is either unable to do something new, or does it badly. The purpose of schools, therefore, is not just to teach languages, arithmetic, geography, etc, but to teach pupils the way to learn.

1. In the first paragraph the writer ________.

[　　]

A. says children go to school to learn their own language and other subjects

B. tells us that he wonders why children go to school

C. says that he does not understand why children learn the named subjects and other subjects at school

D. expresses his own views by asking us questions

2. In the second paragraph ________.

[　　]

A. the purposes of some subjects are pointed out

B. the importance of foreign languages is explained

C. the reason why children go to school is fully discussed

D. both A and B

3. According to the writer, the most important aim of going to school is ________.

[　　]

A. to learn facts

B. to learn how to learn

C. to learn to do something new

D. to continue to learn

4. The purpose of a school is ________.

[　　]

A. to teach pupils something new

B. to teach pupils how to learn

C. to teach all the important subjects

D. both B and C

5. The best title for the passage is ________.

[　　]

A. The Importance of School

B. School and Education

C. Education

D. The Purpose of Schools

语篇理解

　　Suppose you are twenty. It means you have spent at least 20,000 hours in front of the TV set. From now on, it will increase 10,000 hours every tenth year. I was told that a college student might use 5,000 hours to receive a degree of bachelor（学士）and that 10,000 hours might train an engineer or a scientist, meanwhile he’d be able to master several languages skillfully.

　　Television makes your attention disconcentrated. If one meets with something interesting, it will have a continuous effect on him. Even though the most meaningless and dullest programme will also give those who are idle（无所事事的）mysterious feelings.

　　Television wears down your fighting will by giving you continuous satisfaction and wasting your time without any pain. It is re-ported that in the United States nowadays about 30 million grown-ups are half-illiterate persons, who can not properly read or write advertisement they need, they even can not understand medicine introduction.

1. The writer thought it ________ to avoid the influence（影响）from television.

[　　]

A. easy　　　B. hard　　　C. merry　　　D. unimportant

2. Using ________ hours, a university can make a student an engineer. 

[　　]

A. one thousand　　　B. five thousand

C. one million　　　 D. ten thousand

3. According to this passage, ________ makes your attention dis-concentrated.

[　　]

A. increasing number of hours

B. your being excited

C. mastering languages skillfully

D. often watching television

4. You keep interested because ________.

[　　]

A. you are idle

B. the television is of no effect

C. the programme is meaningless

D. the television affects you

5. Television wears down your fighting will. That is to say, ________.

[　　]

A. your fighting will get weaker and weaker

B. your fighting will get stronger and stronger

C. you will rise up against television

D. you will like more television programmes

语篇理解

　　In 1903, London wrote The Call of the Wild, which made him immediately famous, and his name was soon known all over the United States. For the next twelve years he wrote wildly, and lived an even wilder life and was especially fond of drinking. He never settled down. He served as a newspaper reporter in Asia at the time of the war between Russia and Japan, and did the same job in the Mexican Civil War in 1914. He liked the excitement of it. Wherever there was a fighting, London was always there. So it was not surprising to learn that he died at the young age of forty on November 22, 1916.

1. London in this passage is really the name of ________.

[　　]

A. a city　　　B. a man　　　C. a book　　　D. a war

2. The sentence “He never settled down” means ________.

[　　]

A. he was always moving

B. he never stopped drinking

C. he never gave up his hope

D. he was always writing something

3. From this passage we know that a civil war once broke out in ________.

[　　]

A. the United States　　　B. Japan

C. Russia　　　　　　　　 D. Mexico

4. London became well-known ________.

[　　]

A. because of his name

B. because of his book The Call of the Wild

C. because he loved to report wars

D. because he drank wildly

5. London was born in ________.

[　　]

A. 1912　　　B. 1903　　　C. 1874　　　D. 1876

　　Reading Comprehension

　　Kate spent the whole of the first day making friends with the children. She sat beside them on the desks, asked them questions and encouraged them to talk of themselves. She has already gained some experience and knew how to interest children from the start. She took a book with gray lines. “You can look at it from morning to night and see nothing else there. But if you learn to read and learn about history, geography, and arithmetic and other things, a book like this will suddenly come to life…”

　　She remembered with what curiosity the eyes of the little boys and girls used to listen in her school in Vladimirskoye, especially when she told them about King Saltan:

　　“You begin to learn ABC, then to write letters on the blackboard, then to spell out words and then read words out loud ---- it must be loud ---- one after another from full stop to full stop. But suddenly, one fine day, the lines will disappear and instead of lines in a book you will see a blue sky and waves running up the beach and you will even hear the waves break on the shore and forty soldiers will come out of the sea water in iron chain-mail and helmets, and with them will be Uncle Chemomor with his moustache…”

1．Kate spent her first day ________.

[　　]

A．answering the children questions

B．encouraging the children to talk about themselves

C．both A and B

D．gaining some experience

2．What did she already know? She ________.

[　　]

A．knew how to interest children from the beginning

B．took a book and opened it

C．learned to read and write

D．make friends with children

3．When she told the children about King Saltan, they ________.

[　　]

4．The children saw ________ when they could look at the book from morning till night.

[　　]

A．a story book

B．the lines in a book

C．a blue sky and waves running up the beach

D．letters on the blackboard

5．If children were well educated, they would ________.

[　　]

A．find the lines to come over

B．hear the waves break on the shore

C．see forty soldiers come out of the sea water

D．both B and C

语篇理解

　　Just how important is school nowadays?Teachers often complain that homework is not done properly and that pupils are constantly arriving at school red-eyed and yawning through lack of sleep.

　　There are,it appears,two main explanations for this phenomenon.Firstly,many young children stay up late to watch TV.Programs suitable for them may finish as late as eight.No child wants to be an exception in an age of conformity(同龄人)and admits not having seen what everybody else has .Secondly,a growing number of older children,particularly those approaching school-leaving age,are taking up part-time employment mainly involving evening or weekend work.They feel that working experience,not academic qualifications,will help them find jobs on leaving school.One can sympathize(同情)with both group of children but it doesn't make a teacher's life any easier.

1．Nowadays teachers complain ______.

[　　]

A．the kids'homework is too much

B．students like to paint their eyes red

C．many students don't think much of schooling

D．yawning makes students sleep less

2．According to the writer's opinion,many students'arriving late at school ______.

[　　]

A．is reasonable

B．sounds wonderful

C．looks very strange

D．remains unsolved

3．The reason that children stay up late to watch TV is that ______.

[　　]

A．the TV programs are usually really too good

B．they want to be an exception in an age of conformity

C．young people are usually very active in the night

D．since every child is watching TV,nobody wants to be an exception

4．According to the passage,______,

[　　]

A．all the school kids have evening jobs

B．the higher the grade is,the more students take up part-time jobs

C．only a few students take up weekend work

D．those who watch a lot of TV are those who take up evening or weekend work

5．The children think ______.

[　　]

A．academic qualifications are not so important than working experience

B．academic qualifications are more important than working experience

C．they will be looked down up by the teachers if they go to school early

D．teachers'life is easier than ever

语篇理解

　　A warm,dusty wind was blowing over the harbour(海港) from the south.Where it stopped,it left a thin layer of fine African sand,a bit of unwanted Africa,and also unwanted by France.

　　Clive stood with Dick,a racing driver,in the ship,watching the cars being taken from the land.Some of the cars were already in the ship.

　　‘I hope this wind will have changed by the time we get there,’the driver said,staring up at the cream-coloured sky.‘These conditions wouldn't be any good for racing’.

　　‘Don’t worry,’Clive said with a smile.‘It'll hardly trouble us,since Argentina is about 7,000 miles away.’

　　Surprise came over the driver’s face.‘Is that so? We should leave it behind then,shouldn’t we?’

　　They talked for a while about Argentina.Clive was going on business,but Dick was to take part in a motor-race.It was his first important event outside Europe.He mentioned the date of the race December 30,and added,‘I’ve never raced in cold winter before.’

　　Their conversation was then turned to the young driver.He was an engineer,twenty-six years old.Motor-racing was his great love,and he was recently driving a car made in France.He spoke well enough,so Clive thought he must have had a good education.However,something seemed to have gone wrong or was different these days.Here he was ,going to Argentina,but without much idea where the country was .When he spoke of a cousin of his who worked in South Africa ‘Is there any chance of this ship calling there?’ Clive realized that the young man had no map of the world in his mind.

　　He had plans to race in South Africa and in Japan.To him,they were places on the earth,and probably that was all.Clive was interested because the man seemed cheerfully unconscious of his lack of knowledge.What was worse,he even thought everyone else was as foolish as him.

　　Dust blew into their faces.“This wind from Africa…”but he did not go on .Was there any point of his saying so?To the young man,it might have been the same as a wind from China.Were there many people,he wondered,who did not know where they were going,or even where they were?

1．Clive and Dick were on the ship because they ______.

[　　]

A．were leaving for South America

B．wanted to see a French motor-race

C．tried to stay away from a dust storm

D．had gone there to get the motor-cars

2．Clive was puzzled when the driver spoke about the weather conditions because ______.

[　　]

A．the weather didn't look like changing

B．the driver couldn't race that day

C．the driver thought conditions would be the same in Argentina

D．the long distance to Argentina had surprised the man

3．______ made Clive try to find out more of the young driver.

[　　]

A．It was his interest in people with exciting jobs that

B．The young man's idea that the race would be run in winter

C．His wish to make a friend for the long trip

D．His wish to make the young driver feel less worried

4．What seemed to have gone wrong was that ______,

[　　]

A．an engineer should waste time racing

B．people started on long journeys without any maps

C．the young man's education was far from perfect

D．the young man was on the wrong ship for South America

5．Clive and Dick were not the same kind of people because ______.

[　　]

A．the driver was much younger than Clive

B．their jobs were different

C．Clive knew his way about the world,but the young man didn't

D．the wind worried Dick,but it didn't trouble Clive

　　Reading Comprehension

　　I was walking along Orchard Road when I realized a tall young man wearing a jacket and tie was following me. I noticed him because not many people wear a jacket and tie in the middle of a hot summer day, and I had already seen this man four times that afternoon.

　　To make sure he was following me, I walked on quickly and then stopped to look in a shop window. Soon, the man appeared and stopped at another shop window. 1 walked on and stopped several times. When I stopped, he stopped, too.

　　I began to be rather worried and decided to get rid of this strange man. When I saw a taxi coming, I jumped into it. As I was telling the taxi driver where to go, I found the man got into another taxi, which then followed mine. As the two taxis slowly made their way along the Orchard Road, I looked back at the taxi behind, and saw that the stranger was looking out at me.

　　At MRT station I told the taxi driver to stop and I got out. As I was paying my fare, I saw that the man was getting out of his taxi.

　　By now I got angry, so I turned and walked straight to him. I asked him why he was following me. At first he said he was not following me at all, but when I threatened to call the police, he admitted he was. He then told me that he was a journalist and that he was writing an article on how elderly people in the United States spend their time. He said he was observing me to gather materials for his article.

1．The writer noticed that a stranger was following him because ________.

[　　]

A．the stranger was very tall

B．the stranger seemed nervous

C．the stranger wore too much on a hot day

D．the stranger's jacket and tie looked attractive

2．The writer got into a taxi in order ________.

[　　]

A．to go to another shopping center

B．to go to MRT station

C．to follow the stranger

D．to get rid of the stranger

3．What did the stranger do when the writer jumped into a taxi?

[　　]

A．The stranger tried to get into the same taxi.

B．The stranger tried to stop the writer's taxi.

C．The stranger got into another taxi and left immediately.

D．The stranger got into another taxi and continued his following.

4．The writer was probably ________.

[　　]

5．Which of the following is TRUE?

[　　]

A．The writer got tired, for he walked a long way.

B．The writer asked a policeman to stop the stranger.

C．The stranger followed the writer only to find where he lived.

D．The stranger admitted what he was doing only after the writer threatened to call the police.

语篇理解

　　When a tornado (龙卷风) destroys a house, it doesn't blow it down the way a hurricane (十二级台风) does. It makes the house explode. Why does the house explode?

　　The air that surrounds a house presses against it all the time. It usually has a force of about fifteen pounds per square inch. The air inside the house presses out against the walls just as hard. When a tornado passes over a house, it suddenly sucks away the air outside the house. The air inside the house still pushes out against the walls, but now there is nothing pushing back. So the walls are pushed out in an explosion.

　　Pieces of the house are sucked up into the tornado and carried away. There is little left where the house once stood.

1．A tornado makes a house ______.

[　　]

A．explode　　　B．blow away　　　C．fall down　　　D．catch fire

2．The walls of a house stay up when ______.

[　　]

A．air pushes from the outside

B．air pushes from the inside

C．there is no pressure on them

D．air pushes from both the outside and the inside

3．In paragraph 2, the sentence “The air inside the house presses out against the walls just as hard.” means ______,

A．the air in side the house presses out more greatly than the air outside

B．the air pressure outside the house is usually the same as the pressure inside

C．the air pressure inside the house is usually less than the pressure outside

D．the air pressure inside the house is just as difficult as the pressure outside

4．A house’s walls are pushed out when ______.

[　　]

A．the air outside is taken away

B．the air inside is taken away

C．too much air is pushing outside

D．they are in very poor conditions

5．A house destroyed by a tornado would look ______.

[　　]

A．as if a hurricane had hit it

B．as if there had been a fire

C．like a pile of wood

D．as if a bomb had exploded in it