阅读理解

FOREIGN EXCHANGE A CLASS OF THEIR OWN

  * Name: Susan Lane

  Age: 22

  Place: Reykjavik, Iceland, 1994.

  Cost: $ 7,000

  Organisation: AFS

  Experience:“I think it was a turning point in my life. I began to understand more about my own culture by experiencing another culture and seeing how other people live.”

  * Name: Sara Small

  Age: 23

  Place: Crivitz, Germany, 1996.

  Cost: $8,000

  Organisation: EF Foundation

  Experience: “I loved the travelling and I made a lot of friends. I found the European school system to be hard but I am fluent now in German so it was worth it. I did miss my family and friends in Australia but I would love to do it again.”

  * Name: Leanne Smythe

  Age: 20

  Place: Minnesota, America, 1994.

  Cost: $ 6,000

  Organnisation: Southern Cross Cultural Exchange

  Experience: “I learnt how to be really responsible. It was great to be on my own and I got on really well with the family I was with. I will definitely go back one day.”

  * Name: David Links

  Age: 16

  Place: Stuttgart, Germany, 1996.

  Cast: $ 6,000

  Organisation: Southern Cross Cultural Exchange

  Experience: “I wanted to try something that was very different to Australia in culture. 1n Germany everything was different but I soon got settled. The family I was with were great and I really feel as though I have a second family. ”

  * Name: Tom Jennings

  Age: 21

  Place: Conflans, France, 1995.

  Cast: $ 7,000

  Organisation: Southern Cross Cultural Exchange

  Experience: “There were times when it was difficult but I liked it, experiencing a different culture. You just have to play each situation as it comes. If there is one thing you learn when you are on a student-ex-change program it is how to take care of yourself.”

  * Name: Linda Marks

  Age: 19

  Place: Chonburi Province, Thailand, 1994.

  Cost: $ 3,500

  Organisation: Rotary International

  Experience: “It's like a roller-coaster ride, there are lots of ups and downs, but you always come back for more. I had a few problems but there was always someone to turn to and that was great . ”

1.The students who refer to both the good time and the bad time include ________.

[  ]

A.Susan Lane and Sara Small

B.Linda Marks and David Links

C.Tom Jennings and Linda Marks

D.Learns Smythe and Tom Jennings

2.The writing above would probably be ________.

[  ]

A.the records of students' activities

B.the foreign students' name cards

C.the notice about a visit to foreign countries

D.the advertisement from an international travel service

3.The student who valued learning another language is ________.

[  ]

A.Linda Marks
B.Sara Small
C.Tom Jennings
D.Leanne Smythe

4.How many students mention the culture difference they have experienced?

[  ]

A.Three.
B.Four.
C.Five.
D.Six.

阅读理解

  Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, export, report and transport.All these words, you can see, have the same root “port”, which comes from the Latin word, meaning “to carry” or “to move” from one place to another.And according to the bit at the beginning-which we call the prefix(前缀)-the meaning changes:“import” means “to carry in”, or “to bring into a country”; “export”, “ex” means “out of”, so this word means “to carry out of a country”; “re” means “back”, so the word “report” means “to tell somebody, to bring back information to somebody”; “transport”, “trans” means “across” and it means “to carry across one place to another”.

  Let’s look at the following words:supporter, reporter, importer and exporter.You can see that in this case these words are nouns which are made up of the verbs plus a suffix, thus meaning a person who completes the verb.So supporter means somebody who supports.A reporter is somebody who reports.Importer is somebody who imports and exporter is somebody who exports and so on.

(1)

“Some English words are made up the same part…”, in the sentence “part” means ________.

[  ]

A.

different beginnings and different endings

B.

the same part which has several meanings

C.

the root of a word

D.

the same root which has different meanings

(2)

Which of the following is NOT true?

[  ]

A.

Apart from “port”, all English words have the same root which comes from the Latin word.

B.

“Port” is the root forming some English words.

C.

The root “port” means “to carry”.

D.

“Port” has the root meaning “to move” from one place to another.

(3)

By adding a prefix or a suffix to a root, we can get a word which has ________.

[  ]

A.

the meaning of a Latin word

B.

a different meaning

C.

the meanings of “in” or “out of”

D.

a lot of meanings

(4)

According to the passage, if we talk about a repairman, you know that he must be ________.

[  ]

A.

somebody who has regained(恢复)health

B.

a person who can repair something

C.

somebody who has good health

D.

a person who can do only simple things


第二部分:阅读理解(共25小题,第一节每小题2分,第二节每小题1分;满分45分)
第一节:阅读下面的短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。                              A
Endless sea, sand and sunshine on a tiny island--everyone' s idea of heaven. Who wouldn' t want to live in such a place.?
One person who certainly does is Ben Southall, from the UK. The 34-year-old was one of more than 34,000 people who applied for the post of "caretaker" on Hamilton Island, Australia, which the local government called "the best job in the world". The position starts in July and runs for six months. The salary is 150,000 Australian dollars(780,639 yuan).
Why Southall? Well, first let's take a look at the criteria(标准) for the job: "We're looking for applicants who like to have adventures, have a great love of the outdoors and have good commu-nication skills. "
On his application video, Southall expressed a love of adventure and included photographs of himself riding an ostrich(鸵鸟 ), running a marathon, diving, and kissing a giraffe. "From the time he was announced in the Top 50, and then the Top 16, Southall did a great job by showing true ex-citement about Queensland," Tourism Minister Peter Lawlor said in a statement.
"His ideas for how he will make the role his own.., as well as his ability to rise to a challenge impressed the judges and helped him to win his place in the top job," Lawlor said.
Southall was born in Coventry, UK and used his parents' home as a base for his adventures. He had an old Land Rover that he used for a charity-fund-raising trek(跋涉) across Africa which in-volved joining in five marathons( a 42.16 km race) and climbing five mountains.
"It was sometimes hard work to make him get his head down and do his work because he always wanted to be outside," his mother said about his early years.
"He wanted to go surfing in South Africa, so he got a job house-sitting to pay for it. We regu-larly ask him when he is going to get a proper job, but he is confident and has a strong set of friends and is a great social animal. Now he has got the perfect job for his skills," said his father.
So, you see? No matter what type of person you are, there's always the possibility of getting a dream job. How' s that? Just read the job descriptions carefully and think about how your skills and qualities fit with the ones needed for the job. That' s what Southall did to get his job.
41. The post of "caretaker" on Hamilton Island is said-to be the best job in the world mainly because of_____
A. a beautiful landscape                          B. a short working time
C. great pay for a fun job                          D. very good weather
42. According to Lawlor, what wasn' t the reason that helped Southall win the job?
A. His outstanding application video
B. His passion for the job and ability to face up to challenges
C. His great love of adventures
D. His true excitement about the Austrilian lifestyle
43. Which of the following statements about Southall is true?
A. He did a poor job in school when he was young.
B. He worked as a house-sitter to raise charity funds.
C. He has won five marathons.
D. He is good at communicating with others.
44. We can leam from Southall that_____
A. the world offers opportunities for everyone    
B. setbacks will only make you stronger
C. all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy  
D. where there is a will, there is a way

Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but no­body is desperate enough to drink it.

  There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but ex­perts usually put the minimum at fifty li­tres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litres—less than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that day—two or three buckets’ worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; it’s cheaper. Like the poorest people every­where, the people of New Delhi’s slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.

1.The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.

A. a village

B. a small town

C. the part of a town that lacks water badly

D. an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings

2.Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.

A. there is no electricity             B. the weather is bad

C. there is no water            D. people don’t want the dirty water

3.A person needs at least ________ litres of water a day.

A. forty           B. four hundred         C. a hundred      D. fifty

4.The passage mainly tells us ______.

A. how India government manages to solve the problem of water gets their water

B. how women in Kesum Purbahari

C. how much water a day a person deeds

D. that India lacks water badly

 

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