题目内容
People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred
languages in the world. Each contains many thousands of words A very large dictionary, for example,
contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. To read short stories you
need to know only about two thousand words. Before you leave school, you will learn only one thousand
or more.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary bigger.
Read as many books as you can. There are a lot of books written in easy English for you to read. You will
enjoy them. When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your most useful
book.
B. 15 000
C. 500
D. 1500
B. five hundred thousand words
C. more than one thousand words
D. three or four thousand words
B. read as many books as you can
C. buy a lot of books
D. have a very large English dictionary
B. your dictionary
C. your new words
D. finding new words in a dictionary
B. can read easy short stories
C. can read as many books as he likes
D. will find the dictionary not useful
阅读理解
Mr. King is a tall and strong man. He teaches P.E. in a middle school. He wears a long beard(胡子)and takes good care of it.
It was Sunday yesterday. There was a big football match of the year on the playground in the centre of the city. Mr. king likes the game very much and of course he was going to watch it. With his friends' help he got a ticket a few days ago.
After breakfast he hurried to the bus stop, but a lot of people were waiting there. A bus came and he hardly got on. There were plenty of people in it and it was difficult for them to put their feet. He had to grip(抓住)a back of the chair. At the next stop a boy got on the bus. He was short and couldn't grip anything. Suddenly the bus stopped and the boy hardly fell onto the floor. He looked around and saw Mr. King's beard and grip it. The man found it at once and called out, "Let go of(松开)my beard, boy!"
"Are you going to get off, sir?" asked the boy.
【小题1】Mr. King is a ___.
A.player | B.runner | C.teacher | D.driver |
A.he teaches P.E. in a middle school | B.he likes football very much |
C.he had already got a ticket | D.he didn't go to work yesterday |
A.he had drunk too much | B.the bus was too small |
C.he got on the bus too late | D.it was very crowded in the bus |
A.he was afraid to fall again | B.he wanted to make the man angry |
C.he hoped the man to find a seat for him | D.he hoped the man to get off soon |
A.the boy would pull him down | B.the boy would hurt his beard |
C.the boy could be hurt again | D.the boy would borrow his ticket |
阅读理解
A beautiful and very successful actress was the star for a new musical show. Her home was in the country, but she didn’t want to go back there every night, so she bought an expensive house in the center of the city, got some beautiful furniture and got a man to paint the rooms in new colour.
It was very difficult to get tickets for her show in the evening, because everyone wanted to see it. So she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of month, when she got the painter’s bill. At the bottom of it were these words: “Four hours from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. watching Miss Hall sing and dance: 3 pounds,” with this note: “Before 5:00 p.m. I get 10 shillings (先令)an hour and after 5:00 p.m. 15 shillings.”
1.The actress bought a house in the center of the city because .
A.she liked to live in the busiest place |
B.she didn’t like to live in the country |
C.she wanted to work harder than before |
D.she didn’t want to live in old house |
2. In order to make the painter work better for her, the actress .
A.gave him two tickets for her show |
B.sang and danced for four hours |
C.decided to give him 3 pounds |
D.invited him for a big dinner |
3. The actress got the painter’s bill .
A.to ask for the money of his painting work |
B.to ask her to pay for his watching her show |
C.in which he showed his thanks for the tickets |
D.in which he expressed his dissatisfaction |
4.It can be learned from the text that one pound is shillings.
A.10 |
B.12 |
C.15 |
D.20 |
5.What kind of man was the painter?
A.He was a careful man. |
B.He was a poor man. |
C.He was not friendly to others. |
D.He knew little about music and dance. |