Last weekend was a busy one,and a lot of fun!On Friday night we had a party for my friend Emily.It was her 20th birthday,and we went to Covent Garden.All the cool restaurants were there.It was such a nice place to go to on a Friday or Saturday night.There was a band (乐队) that played lots of cool music.

The next day my friends and I went to the Tate Britain Museum.There were lots of paintings of British countryside.I saw a few of the paintings we discussed in class,and it was so cool to see them close.

We spent Sunday in Putney,where we saw the Oxford-Cambridge boat race.It has a history of more than 150 years.The students of Oxford and Cambridge are trained all year for this race.It is only 17 minutes long.There were 12,000 people by the river,and it was like a huge party!It was great.

1.According to the passage,Emily was years old last Friday.

A. twelve B. twenty C. twenty-one D. twenty-two

2.Where did the author and his friends go on Friday night?

A. To Covent Garden. B. To the Tate Britain Museum.

C. To Putney. D. To the River Thames.

3.What did the author and his friends do last Saturday?

A. They had a birthday party. B. They listened to cool music.

C. They had a painting lesson. D. They saw a lot of British paintings.

4.When did the Oxford-Cambridge boat competition start?

A. More than 150 years ago. B. More than 1,200 years ago.

C. More than 20 years ago. D. Nobody knows.

5.What did the author think of his weekend?

A. It was very busy and tiring. B. It was very relaxing.

C. It was awful. D. It was very busy and fun.

A good reader is much like a driver. He can change his reading speed to fit his purpose and the material(材料) he is reading, just like a driver does to fit the road situation. A good reader may read a thousand words per minute (WPM), but he won't keep that speed for everything he reads. A good reader doing research in the library may read at the speed of 1000 words per minute when he looks for materials for a report.But once he finds something that is useful to him, he will slow down the speed to 100 WPM.A good reader may read newspapers and magazine articles at 600 WPM, but at 150 WPM when he reads science or maths texts.

1.According to the passage, good readers can ______.

A. go to libraries B. read at 100 WPM

C. spend more time reading D. change his reading speed as needed

2.Reading speed depends on (依赖于)______ according to the passage.

A. the time when you are reading B. the place where you are reading

C. the material and purpose of reading D. the number of books

3.A good reader may read at the highest speed when ______ according to the passage.

A. he is trying to find the material for his report B. he is trying to work out a maths problem

C. he reads the material most useful to him D. he reads newspapers and magazines

4.The passage suggests (暗示) that a good driver should ______.

A. drive at a high speed B. drive in all kinds of situations fast

C. be good at changing driving speed D. be good at driving on a country road

5.The passage is mainly about ______.

A. different reading speeds B. the relationship (关系) between reading and driving

C. the difference between driving and reading D. the best way of fast reading

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