题目内容
阅读理解
It is often difficult for a man to be quite sure how much tax he ought to pay to the government because it depends on so many different things; whether the man is married; how many children he has; whether he supports any relatives; how much he earns; how much interest he receives; how much he has spend on his house during the year, and so on, All this makes it difficult to decide exactly how much the tax is. But a certain artist was always very careful to pay proper amount.
One year, after posting his check as usual, he began to wonder if he had paid enough, and after a lot of work with a pencil and paper, he decided that he had not.
He was just writing another check to send to the tax-collector when the postman dropped a letter into the box at the front door. Opening it, the artist found inside it a check for five pounds from the tax-collector. The official explained that too much had been paid, and that therefore the difference was now returned to the taxpayer.
The artist was not only surprised, but he was worried. He therefore wrote to the official and said, “I thank you for your check for five pounds, but I think that, if you study the figures again, you will find that a mistake has been made.”
Several weeks later he received another check from the tax-collector, but this check was for forty-five pounds. The official said that he was sorry about the mistake, and hoped the matter was now settled.
1.According to the passage, the artist wrote to the tax-collector ________.
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A.to say sorry and admit his mistake
B.to say thanks and pointed out that the collector had made a mistake
C.to pay for the money he should have
D.to pay for the money he owed to the government
2.“Difference was now returned to the taxpayer,”“Difference” here means ________.
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A.extra money
B.reward
C.money for encouragement
D.payment
3.What's the title of the passage?
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A.Heavy Taxation
B.Surprised Taxpayer
C.Relation Between a Taxpayer And a Tax-collector
D.A Tax-collector's Job
4.From this passage, the author suggests that ________.
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A.an artist is always honest
B.a tax-collector is always careless
C.a. man should know how much the tax he ought to pay to the government exactly
D.tax is so difficult to deal with that even the tax-collector makes a mistake about it
阅读理解
New York , May 25? Millions of volunteers (志愿者)joined in a long chain spreading 4 125 miles across the world's richest nation Sunday and burst into songs , reaching the highest development in the Hands Across America road to raise 50 million for the nation's homeless and hungry.
The chain began with a 6-year-old homeless girl named Amy in New York's Buttery Park. It spread across 16 states and Washington, D.C. where it crossed the White House to the Queen Mary's port in California. The last people in the line were Bill and Mary Jones and their five small children, who lived in a family shelter (收容所) for the homeless in Venice, California.
The chain was not unbroken some gaps were planned for safety, others opened where there were not enough people to cover the ground. But along most of the route, the healthy joined the sick, beautiful film stars , homeless beggars , wealthy artists , poor children and President and Mrs Regan all took places in the long line.
1.What is the main idea of the passage?
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A.Millions of volunteers support the poor.
B.The longest line is waiting for support.
C.The homeless and poor need help.
D.The richest nation faces the problem.
2.The underlined word “raise” in the first paragraph means _______.
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A.try to lift |
B.manage to collect |
C.bring up |
D.join up |
3.From the article, we know that the volunteers were made up of ________.
[ ]
A.both the homeless and the poor
B.the government officials, including President Regan
C.people in every field
D.people of 16 states except Amy
4.What do you think of the people in the chain spreading 4 125 miles?
[ ]
A.They were hand in hand. |
B.They were in good order. |
C.They were troublesome. |
D.They were planned for safety. |
5.Although the United States is a developed country, ________.
[ ]
A.there is still a rebellion sometimes.
B.there is still many people waiting for jobs
C.there are still some family shelters
D.there are still many social problems to be solved.
阅读理解
New York , May 25? Millions of volunteers (志愿者)joined in a long chain spreading 4 125 miles across the world's richest nation Sunday and burst into songs , reaching the highest development in the Hands Across America road to raise 50 million for the nation's homeless and hungry.
The chain began with a 6-year-old homeless girl named Amy in New York's Buttery Park. It spread across 16 states and Washington, D.C. where it crossed the White House to the Queen Mary's port in California. The last people in the line were Bill and Mary Jones and their five small children, who lived in a family shelter (收容所) for the homeless in Venice, California.
The chain was not unbroken some gaps were planned for safety, others opened where there were not enough people to cover the ground. But along most of the route, the healthy joined the sick, beautiful film stars , homeless beggars , wealthy artists , poor children and President and Mrs Regan all took places in the long line.
1.What is the main idea of the passage?
[ ]
A.Millions of volunteers support the poor.
B.The longest line is waiting for support.
C.The homeless and poor need help.
D.The richest nation faces the problem.
2.The underlined word “raise” in the first paragraph means _______.
[ ]
A.try to lift |
B.manage to collect |
C.bring up |
D.join up |
3.From the article, we know that the volunteers were made up of ________.
[ ]
A.both the homeless and the poor
B.the government officials, including President Regan
C.people in every field
D.people of 16 states except Amy
4.What do you think of the people in the chain spreading 4 125 miles?
[ ]
A.They were hand in hand. |
B.They were in good order. |
C.They were troublesome. |
D.They were planned for safety. |
5.Although the United States is a developed country, ________.
[ ]
A.there is still a rebellion sometimes.
B.there is still many people waiting for jobs
C.there are still some family shelters
D.there are still many social problems to be solved.
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