阅读理解

  At eight o'clock this morning the telephone rang. I picked up the receiver(听筒)in a hurry. I knew at once the lady had dialed (拨号)the wrong number. But it took her a long time to find out. She said her name was Mrs Mills and asked if I was Mr Copper's secretary(秘书). I told her she had dialed the wrong number, but  I didn't think she listened to me.

  She told me she wanted to cancel(取消)her two o'clock appointment(约会)because her husband was ill and she had to take care of him. I told her I was sorry to hear that, but she wouldn't  listen to me. Then she wanted to know if she could make an appointment for next week.I told her I couldn't arrange (安排)it, "I'm not Mr Cooper's secretary."

  At last she heard what I said. She wanted to know why I did  not tell her sooner. I tried to explain it wasn't my fault(错误) ,but she would not listen. Before I could say a word, she hung up.

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1. Whom did Mrs Mills want to speak to?  

[    ]

A. A secretary.  B. The writer.  

C. Mr Cooper.  D. Mr Cooper's secretary.

2. When would she come to the office if her husband were 

   not ill?      

[    ]

A. This morning.   B. Tomorrow afternoon.

C. This afternoon.   D. Next week.

3. It took the lady a long time to find out that ______.

[    ]

A. she had dialed the wrong number

B. the writer was Copper's secretary

C. she couldn't cancel the appointment

D. she could make an appointment for next week

4. Which of the following is not right?   

[    ]

A. She talked so much and didn't hear what the person said 

    at the other end.

B. She wanted to talk with Mr Cooper's secretary.

    to what the person said at the other end.

C. She talked with Mr Cooper's secretary.

D. The person  at the other end told Mrs Mills that she had dialed the wrong number.

5. "She hung up" means _____.      

[    ]

A. She put down the receiver to stop listening.

B. She was very angry at what she heard.

C. She would hang up the writer.

D. She put down the receiver to stop to listen.

完形填空。

  Mrs Hill, who was a woman of thirty, was born in a   1   family.Her father   2   her a lot of money when she married.She thought she was very   3   and often bought all kinds of expensive clothes.The woman did   4   at home but dress herself.

  It was eleven o'clock in the   5  ,   6   the woman Mrs Hill was still in bed.Suddenly the telephone rang.And she   7   it.Her friend told her the latest style of trousers was sold in the shop in the center of the city.Having heard this, she   8   at once and told the   9   to bring her breakfast to her bedroom.And she dressed herself   10   and went there by car.

  A kind young man received her and showed the   11   to her.She loved them very much and   12   two pairs.She heard a kind of new shoes was on show downstairs and   13  

  When she got home, she found she didn't   14   the trousers with her.She had to go to the shop again.The young man brought out two boxes and gave them to her.She found there was something   15   on them.It was the description of the woman buyer:about forty, short and fat, with a red nose and two thick lips.

(1)

[  ]

A.

poor

B.

rich

C.

happy

D.

common

(2)

[  ]

A.

lent

B.

sold

C.

gave

D.

showed

(3)

[  ]

A.

good

B.

bad

C.

terrible

D.

beautiful

(4)

[  ]

A.

anything

B.

something

C.

everything

D.

nothing

(5)

[  ]

A.

morning

B.

afternoon

C.

evening

D.

night

(6)

[  ]

A.

but

B.

so

C.

that

D.

and

(7)

[  ]

A.

held

B.

asked

C.

answered

D.

called

(8)

[  ]

A.

got up

B.

stood up

C.

got to

D.

got on

(9)

[  ]

A.

doctor

B.

driver

C.

cook

D.

policeman

(10)

[  ]

A.

quietly

B.

angrily

C.

carefully

D.

carelessly

(11)

[  ]

A.

trousers

B.

coats

C.

shoes

D.

caps

(12)

[  ]

A.

watched

B.

made

C.

produced

D.

chose

(13)

[  ]

A.

sent away

B.

hurried off

C.

started

D.

finished

(14)

[  ]

A.

bring

B.

pay

C.

try on

D.

look for

(15)

[  ]

A.

drawn

B.

cut

C.

taken

D.

written

Difficult times often bring out the best in people. Many well-known people come to help those who are in trouble. And this was the case for basketball player Yao Ming. He hosted a television show in Shanghai and raised US $ 300,000 to help researchers (研究员) find a medical cure. Fund-raising, or charity, is an act of goodwill(好意) towards others.
Charities in the West have more ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a rich woman in the UK, for example. Ruth wakes up in the morning and collects her post. There’s a letter addressed to her with a picture of a half-dead, beaten(筋疲力尽的) horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. She turns on the television, and sees a picture of a wide–eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with a request (请求) for money to help the child. The tickets for the charity shows often cost her a lot of money, but she doesn’t mind because most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS. She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.
Edna, a little old lady, looks after a second-hand shop—a charity shop. Any profit (收益) it has made goes to a cancer(癌症) charity. Now that she doesn’t have to work, she has lots of time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue (美德) that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope. “As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,” said Scottish writer Henry Drummond.
【小题1】Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.
A.make more moneyB.raise money for his basket team
C.make himself more famousD.raise money for researchers to find a cure for SARS
【小题2】We can infer (推断)from the passage that _____.
A.Edna may not be a rich lady but she is willing to do something for others
B.Ruth is angry because she has been asked to donate too much money
C.Ruth leads a busy life and she feels very tired
D.Yao Ming wants to be a television host
【小题3】Which of the following is TRUE?
A.Only Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna try their best to do things for charity.
B.Ruth has given a lot of support to charity although she is not very rich.
C.The writer hopes that more people can do things for charity.
D.Edna is very rich because she has her own shop.
【小题4】One morning, Ruth received a letter with a picture of a horse in it because _____.
A.she lost her horse
B.a charity wanted her to donate some money
C.she loved horse very much
D.she wanted to keep a horse as a pet
【小题5】The underlined(划线) part in the last paragraph probably means that _____.
A.what impresses people deeply is what they have done for others
B.when you want to do something for others, you need stand out
C.the moment you stand out, you can do something for others
D.when you look back sometimes, you need stand out
阅读理解。
     Mrs. Smith often felt lonely when her husband went to work. The room was small and it took her only
 half an hour to tidy it. She couldn't get up early in the morning, so Mr. Smith had to cook breakfast
 himself. She usually had some bread and milk for lunch and only cooked spper for herself and her husband. They had no television. Mr. Smith always went to bed at nine.
     It was a winter morning. The sun was shining and it was warmer outside than it in the room. The woman
  sat on the step of a shop, 100-king at the busy traffic.  At that moment a man with a map in his hand was
  coming towards her.
     "Excuse me, madam," said the man. "Could you tell me how to get to the nearest hospital, please?"
     Mrs. Smith looked at him up and down. "He seems to be a farmer," the woman said to herself.  "Let
 me play a joke on him. " Then she turned to him and said, "Lie down in the middle of the street and you'll
 soon be sent to a hospital. "
     "Please set an example to me, then," said the man.
     She had to tell the way to him and then she said, "I think you have been in a city for the first time.  It's
 much more beautiful than the field. Is that right?"
     "Yes, madam," said the farmer with a smile  "But I think it was built on the field! "
1. Mr. Smith always went to bed at nine because _____..
    A. he was in poor health    
    B. he had nothing to do in the evening
    C. there was no lamp in the room
    D. he was very tired in the daytime
2. Mrs. Smith sat on the step to _____..
    A. look at the traffic
    B. buy some cheap things in the shop
    C. wait for her husband
    D. bathe (沐浴) in the sunlight
3. The woman thought _____, so she was going to laugh at him.
    A. the man was poor
    B. the man would ask her the way     .
    C. the man was a traveler
    D. the man came from a village
4. Which of the following is TRUE?
    A. Mrs. Smith smiled at the farmer.
    B. Mrs.  Smith got the farmer into trouble.
    C. rhe farmer cleverly answered the woman.
    D. The farmer didn't know how to answer the woman.
5. Why did the woman say "Lie down in the middle of the street and you'll soon be sent to a hospital. " in
    Paragraph 4?
    A. She thought it's the best way to get to the nearest hospital.
    B. She didn't understand what the farmer asked.
    C. She was making a joke.
    D. She didn't want to talk with the farmer.

 The volunteers who brought the nine-year-old to the orphanage* knew little about her. The streets where they found her had been her home for many years. Her parents were unknown. They had left her long ago.

At the orphanage, the girl, like all the children there, was taught to read and write. While she was studying at the orphanage, she learned something else -- to be independent*. At twenty-one, she left the orphanage and began work as a secretary.

And then, in 1975, while she was still working as a common secretary, something very unusual happened. She entered the Miss Hong Kong competition -- and won it. This was the turning point in her life. Now Mary Cheung was very popular in Hong Kong.

Mary entered the competition because she was full of ambitions* and because she wanted to show that orphanage girls could be something. Winning the competition gave her the chance to start a new life. This led her first into television and then to a business manager. When she was working as a manager, she had trouble with her reports. “My English just wasn’t good enough,” she said. Fortunately, she had a boy-friend (who later became her husband) to help her.

Mary studied management at Hong Kong Polytechnic and graduated in 1980. She started her own company in 1995. But she was still working hard to develop herself. She then studied for a Fine Arts degree at the University of Hong Kong. Her ambition was to teach arts in Hong Kong. Since 1987, she has spent a lot of her time on photography. She has held several exhibitions of her work in many places, including China, New Zealand and Paris. She still found time, however, to work on TV and for charity, to write for newspapers and bring up her family.

The girl from street has come a long way, but her journey is not finished yet.

1 Mary ______ when the volunteers found her.

   A. was known well                               B. lived with her parents

   C. had been homeless for many years           D. was at school like all the children

2______ was the turning point in Mary’s life.

A. Being brought to the orphanage                  B. Being taught to read and write

C. Having trouble with her reports               D. Winning the Miss Hong Kong competition

3 The underlined sentence “The girl from street has come a long way” means that ______.

A. Mary has travelled a lot

B. Mary is very tired because she has run a long way

C. Mary is always hard-working and she has made a great success

D. Mary needs to have a rest because she has made a great success

4 From the passage we can learn that ______.

  A. Mary has achieved all her ambitions

  B. Mary never stopped developing herself all the time

  C. Mary’s life as a small child was very happy and comfortable

D. Mary became a secretary after she won the Miss Hong Kong competition

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