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 as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world.
Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick loot at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines(标题) of te passage.
Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.
Some newspapers are published (出版) once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.
Today newspapers in English have the largest numbers of readers in the world, The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21st Century. Also they bring us more and more information with internet.
【小题1】People read newspapers in order to            .
A.learn the latest newsB.meet their own different needs
C.read the short storiesD.find the morning news
【小题2】From the passage we can see that            when people get newspapers.
A.they read them very carefullyB.they just read the headlines
C.not everyone reads all the pagesD.they have no time to read them
【小题3】According to the passage, besides newspapers, people also get information        from           .
A.magazinesB.advertisementsC.e-mailsD.internet

完形填空 阅读短文, 从每题所给选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
Peter’s job was to examine cars when they crossed the frontier(国境) to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私) anything into the country. Every evening he would see a factory worker coming   1  the hill towards the frontier, pushing a bike with a pile of goods(货物) of old straw on it. When the bike   2  the frontier, Peter would stop the man and   3  him take the straw off and untie(解开) it. Then he would examine the straw very   4  to see   5   he could find anything, then he would look in all the man’s pockets   6  he let him tie the straw again. The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it. Although Peter was always   7  to find gold or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he never found anything. He was sure the man was   8  something, but he was not  9  to think out what it could be.
Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the worker’s pockets   10  usual, he   11  to him, “Listen, I know you are smuggling things  12  this frontier. Won’t you tell me what it is? I’m an old man, and today is my   13 day on the job. Tomorrow I’m going to retire(退休). I promise I shall not tell  14  if you tell me what you’ve been smuggling.” The worker did not say anything for   15 . Then he smiled, turned to Peter and said quietly, “Bikes.”

【小题1】
A.towardsB.downC.toD.up
【小题2】
A.arrivedB.appearedC.cameD.reached
【小题3】
A.askB.orderC.makeD.call
【小题4】
A.carefullyB.quicklyC.silentlyD.horribly
【小题5】
A.thatB.whereC.howD.if
【小题6】
A.beforeB.afterC.firstD.so
【小题7】
A.luckyB.hopingC.thinkingD.wondering
【小题8】
A.takingB.smugglingC.stealingD.pushing
【小题9】
A.possibleB.strongC.ableD.clever
【小题10】
A.likeB.moreC.thenD.as
【小题11】
A.toldB.criedC.orderedD.said
【小题12】
A.crossB.pastC.acrossD.into
【小题13】
A.lastB.firstC.newestD.second
【小题14】
A.everyoneB.anyoneC.no oneD.someone
【小题15】
A.momentB.long timeC.sometimeD.some time

阅读理解。
     "Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were
growing up?"
     "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I told him. "All the food was slow.""Where did you
eat?""It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home
from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was
allowed to sit there until I did like it."
     Some parents never owned their houses, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a
credit card (信用卡).
     My parents have never drove me to football practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of
football. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed. We didn't have a television
in our house until I was 11. I was 13 when I tasted my first pizza; it was called "pizza pie." When I bit (咬)
into it, I burned the roof of my mouth (上颚) and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered (粘) itself
against my chin (下巴) and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
      I delivered newspapers, six days a week. The paper cost 7 cents, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had
to get up at 4 a. m every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite
customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change.
     If you grew up in a generation (一代) before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these
memories with your children and grandchildren.
     Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
1. By saying "All the food was slow", the writer implies (暗示) that ______.
A. when he was growing up, he never ate fast food
B. he didn't like fast food when he was growing up
C. his mother made food slowly
D. he had to wait for a long time for the fast food
2. From the writer's childhood life, we know that ______.
A. the writer lived a colorful life
B. the writer's parents treated him badly
C. the writer had to sell pizza to support his family
D. life was harder for him than it is for his children
3. The writer's purpose of writing this passage is to ______.
A. tell his children there was no fast food in the past
B. tell us that life has been changing
C. tell us how hard it is to deliver newspapers
D. make us understand the meaning of life

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