Mr. Read works in an office. He is very busy and has no time to have a good rest. Every evening, when he comes back from his office, he’s always tired and wants to go to bed early. But his wife often has a lot of interesting things to tell him after supper. She doesn’t stop talking until she 1.________________________, but it’s usually too late and Mr. Read has to get up in time in the morning.
One day the man felt terrible and couldn’t go to work. He decided to 2. ____________________. Mrs. Read went with him. The doctor wrote out a prescription and said to Mrs. Read, “The bottle of medicine is for your husband and the pills are for you.”
“For me?’ the woman said in surprise. “I’m fine. I don’t need any medicine!”
“3. ______________________, madam,” said the doctor. “They are sleeping pills. Your husband will soon be all right if you take them.”

There was a man who had a little son. He loved him very much. Every day after work the man would come home and play with the little boy.

When the man came home from work one night, he found that he had some extra work to do. And he wasn’t able to play with his little son. He wanted to give the boy something to keep him busy. So, looking around his study, he saw a magazine with a large map of the world on the cover. He got an idea. He patiently tore the map up into pieces. Then he led his son into the dining room and spread the pieces on the table. He explained to the boy that it was a map of the world. He told the boy to put it back together and they could play together when he finished. Surely this could keep the child busy for hours, he thought.

After about thirty minutes, the boy came to the man and said, “Okay, it’s finished, Dad. Can we play now?”

The man was surprised, saying, “That’s amazing! How did you do that?” The boy said, “It was easy. On the back of the page was a picture of a man. When I put the man together, the whole world appeared completely.”

1. Why couldn’t the man play with his son that night? 

A. He had to read a magazine.                 B. He had some extra work to do.

C. He had to learn something about a map.     D. He had to stay at his office for extra work.

2.What did the man ask his son to do?

A. To read the magazine to find the map.

B. To tear the map of the world up into pieces.

C. To put the pieces of the map of the world back together.

D. To clean the dining room first, and then read the map of the world.

3. How long did it take the boy to finish the work?

A. A few hours.      B. About an hour.    C. About half an hour.   D. The whole night.

4.Which of the following is TRUE about the passage?

A. It’s a report about a father’s extra work.

B. It’s a story between a father and his clever son.

C. It’s an advertisement for the map of the world.

D. It’s a poster about how to deal with parents’ problems.

Never go into a supermarket hungry! This is a good piece of advice. If you go shopping for food before lunchtime, you’ll probably buy more than you plan to. Unfortunately, however, just this advice isn’t enough for shoppers these days. Modern shoppers need an education in how and how not to buy things at the store. First, you check the weekly newspaper ads. Find out the items that are on sale and decide if you really need these things. In other words, don’t buy anything just because it’s cheaper than usual! Second, never let “New and Improved!” or “All Natural” on the front of a package influence you. Instead, read the list of contents on the back. Third，compare prices: that is, you should examine the prices of both different brands(品牌)and different sizes of the same brand.
Another suggestion for shoppers is to buy ordinary items instead of famous brands. Ordinary items in supermarkets come in plain packages. These products are cheaper because producers don’t spend much money on packing or advertising. However, they are still of high quality. In the same way, in buying clothes, you can often find high quality and low prices in brands that are not famous. Shopping in discount clothing stores can help you save a lot of money. Although these stores aren’t very attractive, and they usually do not have individual dressing rooms, not only are the prices low, but you can often find the same famous brands that you find in high-priced department stores.
Wise shoppers read magazine ads and watch TV commercials(商业广告)，but they do this with one advantage: knowledge of the psychology behind the ads. In other words, will-informed shoppers watch for information and check for misinformation. They ask themselves questions: Is the advertiser hiding something in small print at the bottom of the page? Is there any real information in the commercial, or is the advertiser simply showing an attractive image? With the answers to these questions, shoppers can make a wise choice.
【小题1】 The author gives ________ suggestions to the shoppers in the passage.

任务型阅读（5分）

Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers

as the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers when they have   (1)  time during the day to learn what is   (1)  in the world.

(2)Sometimes we are too busy to read all the news. So we just take a quick look at the front page. At times, we may be in a hurry to look at the names of the passages.

In the world we can find newspapers everywhere. Some publishing houses publish(出版)

newspapers once a week, but they publish most of the papers once a day with many pages. You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers, some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They only choose what they like.

Today newspapers in English have the largest number of the readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21^st Century. They bring us more and more information together with the Internet.

1. 在(1)句的空白处填入适当的词使句意完整，上下文通顺_________ ,_________

2.将(2)句译成中文：_________________________________________________

3. How often do publishing house publish(出版) most of the papers ?

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4.在文中划出与下列句子意思相近的句子：

Sometimes we may read the titles of the passages in a hurry.

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5. 找出文中或写出最能表达该短文主题的句子：

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