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  There was once a man called Mr.Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life.He spent all his free time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for competitions(比赛).He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup(银杯)for the Rose of the Year.

  Mr.Flowers’ glass-houses were very near to a middle school.Boys of around thirteen of age were often tempted(引诱)to throw a stone or two at one of Mr.Flowers’ glass-houses.So Mr.Flowers did his best to be in or near his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.

  But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times.Mr.Flowers had tried in many ways to protect his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful.He had been to school to report to the headmaster; but this had not done any good.He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden; but the boys could run faster than he could, and they laughed at him from far away.He had even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw; but they soon found others.

  At last Mr.Flowers had a good idea.He put up a large notice(布告)made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses.On it he had written the words:DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE.After this, Mr.Flowers had no further trouble; the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glass-houses.

(1)

It was Mr.Flowers’ hope to ________.

[  ]

A.

build glass-houses in his free time

B.

grow the Rose of the Year in a silver cup

C.

win a silver cup for growing a rose of a new color

D.

grow a rose with the longest name

(2)

Boys were often tempted to ________.

[  ]

A.

throw stones at Mr.Flowers’ glass-house

B.

throw stones at Mr.Flowers from their school

C.

be in or near by Mr.Flowers’ glass-houses

D.

play with Mr.Flowers near his glass-houses

(3)

Mr.Flowers stayed in or near by his glass-houses ________.

[  ]

A.

at times when school-boys were walking near them

B.

all the school day when there were no boys about

C.

where he could not be seen by the boys passing

D.

in his free time at the beginning and end of the school day

(4)

Mr.Flowers had tried to ________ to protect his glass.

[  ]

A.

be on watch in his free time

B.

ask the headmaster for help

C.

pick up all the stones around his garden

D.

do all the above

(5)

Mr.Flowers’ good idea was to ________.

[  ]

A.

write some words on the glass

B.

put up a large notice to cover his glass-houses

C.

give the boys something else to throw stones at

D.

send for policemen

答案:1.C;2.A;3.D;4.D;5.C;
解析:

(1)

“…to win the silver cup for the Rose of the Year.”一句中,不定式在句中作目的状语,也是Mr.Flowers的愿望之所在.

(2)

第二段前两句有明确的说明.

(3)

“So Mr.Flowers did his best to be in or near his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.”是该题的出处.

(4)

为了保护自己的玻璃房子不受损坏,想尽了各种方法.选项A、B、C所述内容均在文中有明确的阐述.

(5)

  由最后一段,特别是其中的关键词large, good, strong以及布告上的DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE, 可知他制作布告牌的真正目的不是要它对孩子们起警示作用,而是利用孩子们的心理让其当作他们投掷的靶子.

  Mr.Flowers嗜花如命,他种花的暖房位于一所学校附近.一些男孩子经常朝他种花的暖房上扔石块.尽管他绞尽脑汁,想尽了一切办法,都无济于事.最后Mr.Flowers想出了一个高招.他挂起了一块结实的布告牌,上面写着“请不要朝布告牌扔石块”.孩子们的兴趣于是转向了这块木牌,Mr.Flowers自此高枕无忧了.


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         [     ]

   A. is giving a lesson  B. is giving a party

   C. is dancing      D. is listening to the music

  2. All his friends _______. 

         [     ]

   A. are taking part in the party   B. are dancing with him

   C. are giving a party        D. are singing

  3. Many people are dancing _______. 

     [     ]

   A. out of the garden  B. in Billy's house

   C. near the garden   D. outside in the garden

  4. ______ are sleeping in the house near the garden.

                         [     ]

   A. The cows      B. Bills'  

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  The dinosaurs once lived happily on the earth.But 65 million years ago,they suddenly died out.What happened to them?

  Scientists think that a change in temperature may be to blame.They have come up with lots of ideas to explain the end of the dinosaurs.

  The most famous one is the minor planet (小行星) idea.Let's go back to that day 65 million years ago to see what happened.Everything was OK before a large minor planet suddenly hit the earth.What a terrible hit! It caused big fires,storms,acid rain,and even earthquakes and volcano eruptions.The hit produced a lot of dust,which flew up into the air and blocked the sun for months.The earth became very cold without sunlight.The plants died first.Then the grass-eating animals died of hunger.Then the meat-eating animals could not find food,either.They began to eat each other,but after a while they died out,too.The dinosaurs,either plant-eaters or meat-eaters,did not live through the disaster(灾难).What a sad story!

  In April,a British scientist thought of a new idea about the death of the dinosaurs.He thinks that after the minor planet hit the earth,the temperature change left more dinosaur boys than girls! Without enough female dinosaurs to hatch the eggs,the dinosaur population became smaller and smaller.

(1)

______ may be the main reason for the dinosaurs dying out according to scientists.

  A.Big fires  B.Earthquakes

  C.Acid rain  D.Temperature change

[  ]

(2)

The passage mentioned ______ ideas that the scientists came up with about

the end of the dinosaurs.

  A.two  B.three  C.four  D.five

[  ]

(3)

The underlined expression “volcano eruptions” probably is ______.

  A.the name of a minor planet

  B.one kind of dinosaurs

  C.one kind of disaster    

  D.the name of an earthquake

[  ]

(4)

The earth became cold because ______.

  A.the sun refused to rise  

  B.the dust kept the sunlight away

  C.there was too much rain  

  D.there were too many dinosaurs

[  ]

(5)

This passage may be found in ______.

  A.a science fiction  B.a story book   C.a dictionary     D.a science magazine

[  ]

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  You will have a lot of reading to do in this grade this year.You can do more of it in less time if you learn to read rapidly.

  Perhaps you have been told about some habits (习惯) which keep a person from reading fast and have been strongly asked to break those habits which you might have.

  Do you still have any of these bad habits?Check yourself by answering“yes”or“no”to these questions.

  (1) Do you move your lips (嘴唇) when reading silently?

  (2) Do you point to words with your finger as you read?

  (3)Do you move your head from side to side as you read?

  (4)Do you read one word at a time?

  If you answer“yes”to any of these questions,start at once to break the habit.If you move your tips,hold your fingers over them,or hold a piece of paper be-tween your lips while you are reading.Then if your lips move,your will know it and can stop them.

  If you point to words,hold the two sides of your book,one side with your left hand,the other side with your right hand.Then you won't have a free finger to use in pointing while reading.If you move your head,place your chin (下巴) in one hand and hold your head still (静止不动的).

  If you read no more than one or two or three words at a time,you need to work very hard in learning to take in (吸收) more words at each glance (一瞥) as your eyes travel across the lines of words.

  Even if you do rather fast now,you can learn to read even faster.As you probably have been told,the secret of fast reading is to take in whole groups of words as each glance.Read in through groups and force (迫使) your eyes along the lines of words as fast as you can to make them go.Anyone who practices doing these things will he able to read faster.

(1)

You may hold your fingers over your lips while reading so as ______.

  A.to tell others to be silent

  B.to feel whether your lips move or not

  C.to hold a piece of paper between them

  D.to keep yourself from talking to others

[  ]

(2)

When you read,______.

  A.don't keep your head still

  B.don't hold your books with your hands

  C.don't stand up near a desk

  D.don't use your finger to point to words

[  ]

(3)

If you learn to read fast,______.

  A.you can read more in less time

  B.you can write faster

  C.you can understand better

  D.you can read less in more time

[  ]

(4)

You must _______ those habits that we are talking about in this reading.

  A.remember  B.have C.get rid of D.keep

[  ]

(5)

This reading is mainly about ______.

  A.the way of reading fast

  B.the importance of fast reading

  C.the bad habits in reading

  D.how to speak quickly

[  ]
阅读理解

  Long, long ago the Mouse King had a beautiful daughter. When she was old enough to be married, he called together the oldest and cleverest mice to talk about it.

  “My daughter, He said, is far too beautiful to marry just anybody. I have decided to marry her to the greatest thing in the world. Now, who shall it be?

  “The sun, the first mouse said at once, is the greatest thing in the world. It shines over the whole world.

  “Well, then, I shall marry her to the sun, said the Mouse King.

  “But, said the second, a cloud can cover the sun.

  “Then, she must be married to the cloud.

  “But, said the third, the rain breaks through the clouds and puts an end to them.

  “That is true. I must marry her to the rain.

  “But, cried the fourth, no matter how hard the rain falls, it cannot wash away the trees.

  “Then she must be the tree's wife.

  “But, shouted the fifth, a strong wind can blow down the trees.

  “Very true. Then the wind must be her husband.

  “But, remembered the sixth, no matter how hard the wind blows, it cannot blow away the earth.

  “Then I must marry her to the earth.

  “But, called out the seventh, the earth is covered by the wooden floors of men's houses.

  “Then she shall marry the wooden floor at once.

  “But, the last said slowly, no matter how strong the wooden floor is, a mouse can bite his way through it.

  “It is clear that a mouse is the greatest thing in the world, the happy Mouse King said, with a smile on his face.

  And that was why the Mouse King's daughter married a mouse at last.

1. How many mice are mentioned in the passage?

A. Eight  

B. Nine   

C. Ten  

D. Three

2. Which mouse had a beautiful daughter?

A. The old one    

B. The cleverest one   

C. The first one   

D. The Mouse King

3. Who thought the wind should be the daughter's husband?

A. The second mouse   

B. The fourth mouse   

C. The fifth mouse

D. A and C

4. What was the result?

A. There was no result.

B. All those would be the daughter's husbands.

C. The daughter would be married to a mouse.

D. The daughter would live alone.

5. Why was the result so?

A. Because all the mice agreed.

B. Because all the mice wanted to have a rest.

C. Because the Mouse King thought a mouse was the greatest thing in the world.

D. Because the daughter was glad.

 

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