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　　I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang．It was an eccentric(怪癖的)farmer．I had never met him before although I had often heard people talk about him．He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understood anything．Even then all I could make out was that someone called Milly had had a very bad accident．I hadn't the slightest idea who she was but I obviously had to go．

　　It had been snowing heavily that day and I didn't know the way．I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place．He was standing there, waiting for me．It seemed Milly had died．“She meant more to me than anyone…even my own wife!” he said．I could see that he had been crying．I thought something terrible had taken place, a possible scandal(丑闻)．I was even more shocked when he told me he had put her in the barn(厩)．“I wouldn't leave her out in the cold!” he said．

　　Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his．I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door．He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground．“She was such a good cow!I wouldn't let anyone but a doctor touch her!”he said, and burst into tears again．

(1)

The underlined phrase make out in the first paragraph means ________．
[　　]
A．	expect
B．	understand
C．	see clearly
D．	hear clearly

(2)

Before he arrived at the farmer's house, the writer expected to see Milly lying ________．
[　　]
A．	on the ground of a barn
B．	on the floor of a room
C．	in bed in a room
D．	in bed in a barn

(3)

What do we know about Milly from the story?
[　　]
A．	She had met with an accident．
B．	She had caused a scandal．
C．	She was seriously ill．
D．	She was hidden somewhere．

(4)

The farmer wished that the writer might ________．
[　　]
A．	look into the matter
B．	bring Milly back to life
C．	free him from a scandal
D．	keep the whole thing a secret

(5)

The person who told the story is probably a ________．
[　　]
A．	farmer
B．	policeman
C．	country doctor
D．	newspaper reporter

答案：1．B;2．C;3．A;4．B;5．C;
解析：

(1)	这是一道词义辨析题．通过第一段不难推断出make out是“明白、了解”之意，故选B．
(2)	文中提及作者原以为Milly是农夫的情人，遇到灾祸，当然要将其放在床上医治．这是常识．
(3)	这是一道判断题．文中提及someone called Milly had had a very bad accident，因此A为正确答案．
(4)	这是一道综合判断题．文中提及农夫对这头母牛甚至比对自己的妻子更爱，可知B为正确答案．
(5)	文中提及Milly遭遇横祸，其主人深夜打电话给作者，初步可判断作者是一个乡间医生；下文I wouldn't let anyone but a doctor touch her，更加明确了作者的身份．

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　　When Laura reached school-going age the discussions about moving became more urgent (紧迫的). Her father did not want the children to go to school with the village children and for once her mother agreed with him. Not because, as he said, they ought to have a better education than they could get at Lark Rise; but because she feared they would tear their clothes and catch cold and get dirty heads going a mile and a half to and from the school in the village. So empty cottages in the market town were examined and often it seemed that the next week or the next month they would be leaving Lark Rise for ever, but again each time something would happen to prevent the removal, and gradually a new idea came up. To gain time, their father would teach the two eldest children to read and write, so that, if asked by the School Attendance Office, their mother could say they were leaving the small village shortly, and in the meantime, were being taught at home.

　　So their father brought home two copies of Mavor's First Reader and taught them the alphabet; but just as Laura was beginning on words of one syllable (音节), He was sent away to work on a distant job, only corning home at weekends. Laura, left at the c-a-t s-I-t-s on the m-a-t's stage, then had to carry her book round after her mother as she went about her housework, asking,“Please, Mother, what does h-o-u-s-a spell?”or“W-a-l-k, Mother, what is that?”

　　Often when her mother was too busy or too tired to attend to her, she would sit and fix her eyes on a page that might as well have been printed in Hebrew (希伯来语) for all she could make of it, frowning (锁眉) and studying the print as though she would make out the meaning by force of concentration (专注).

　　After weeks of this, there came a day when, quite suddenly, as it seemed to her, the printed characters took on a meaning. There were still many words, even in the first page of that simple book, she could not understand; but she could jump those and make sense of the whole.“I'm reading! I'm reading!” she cried aloud.“Oh, Mother! Oh, Edmund! I'm reading!”

1．Laura's father didn't want his children to go to school at Lark Rise because ________.

[　　]

A．it was too far away

B．they couldn't learn enough

C．their hair would become dirty

D．they would ruin their clothes

2．The children's father decided to teach them to read and write so that they ________.

[　　]

A．had an excuse not to have to move

B．had a reason for not attending school

C．could write to the School Attendance Office

D．would be educated before they left the village

3．The underlined part “left at the c-a-t s-I-t-s on the m-a-t's stage”means that ________.

[　　]

A．Laura was working hard and learning quickly

B．her father had no time to teach her

C．her mother was too busy to attend to her

D．Laura knew little about how to read and write

4．From the passage we can infer that ________ made Laura stare at a page in her book.

[　　]

A．her lack of concentration

B．her inability to understand

C．her need to understand Hebrew

D．her determination to understand

5．Laura finally discovered she could read when she ________.

[　　]

A．understood the main idea

B．understood all the words in her book

C．recognized the printed characters

D．jumped the first pages of her book

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　　I needed to buy a digital camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps(快照), maybe occasionally for magazines．Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand．So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store．There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list．And it was on special offer．Oh joy．I pointed at it and asked an assistant,“Can I have one of those?”He looked perturbed(不安)．“Do you want to try it first?" he said．It didn't quite sound like a question．"Do I need to?" I replied．"There's nothing wrong with it?" This made him look a bit insulted and I started to feel bad．"No, no．But you should try it," he said encouragingly．" Compare it with the others．"

　　I looked across at the others：shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box．With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time．But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with：first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model．

　　But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice．In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen．The assistant seemed a sincere man．So I let him take out my chosen camera from the cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers…and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well．

　　Why do we think that new options(选择)still offer us anything new?Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine．

(1)

The shop assistant insisted that the writer should ________．
[　　]
A．	try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it
B．	compare the camera he had chosen with the others
C．	get more information about different companies
D．	trust him and stop asking questions

(2)

What does the writer mean by "it would be worth half what I paid for it"(Paragraph 2)?
[　　]
A．	He should get a 50％ discount．
B．	The price of the camera was unreasonably high．
C．	The quality of the camera was not good．
D．	The camera would soon fall in value．

(3)

The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he ________．
[　　]
A．	knew very little about it
B．	didn't trust the shop assistant
C．	wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best
D．	had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers

(4)

It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer's opinion, ________
[　　]
A．	people waste too much money on cameras
B．	cameras have become an important part of our daily life
C．	we don't actually need so many choices when buying a product
D．	famous companies care more about profit than quality

阅读理解

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　　I looked across at the others：shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box．With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time．But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with：first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model．

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　　Why do we think that new options still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine．

(1)

The shop assistant insisted that the writer should _________．
[　　]
A．	try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it．
B．	compare the camera he had chosen with the others．
C．	get more information about different companies．
D．	trust him and stop asking questions．

(2)

What does the writer mean by “it would be worth half what I paid for it ”(paragraph 2)
[　　]
A．	He should get a 50％ discount．
B．	The price of the camera was unreasonably high．
C．	The quality of the camera was not good．
D．	The camera would soon fall in value．

(3)

The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he _________．
[　　]
A．	knew very little about it．
B．	didn’t trust the shop assistant
C．	wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best．
D．	had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers．

(4)

It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion _________．
[　　]
A．	people waste too much money on cameras
B．	cameras have become an important part of our daily life
C．	we don’t actually need so many choices when buying a product
D．	famous companies care more about profit than quality

阅读理解

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　　I looked across at the others：shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box．With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time．But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with：first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model．

　　But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice．In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen．The assistant seemed a sincere man．So I let him take out of my chosen camera from cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers… and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well．

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The shop assistant insisted that the writer should ________．
[　　]
A．	try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it．
B．	compare the camera he had chosen with the others．
C．	get more information about different companies．
D．	trust him and stop asking questions．

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What does the writer mean by “it would be worth half what I paid for it ”(paragraph 2)
[　　]
A．	He should get a 50％ discount．
B．	The price of the camera was unreasonably high．
C．	The quality of the camera was not good．
D．	The camera would soon fall in value．

(3)

The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he ________．
[　　]
A．	knew very little about it．
B．	didn’t trust the shop assistant
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(4)

It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion ________．
[　　]
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B．	cameras have become an important part of our daily life
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D．	famous companies care more about profit than quality

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　　Somehow the boy s had shipped away to the back lot with their kites．Now, evet at the reis of having Brother caught to beat carpets．they had sent him to the kitchen tox exsre xding, sccmed there was no limt to the heights to which kites would fly today

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　　On the way we met Mrs．Patrick, Ianghing guiltily as if she wrig doing woeig wrong

　　The never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our frsh string into the boys' kites up higher and higher, We could hardly distingwish the orang-coloced sports of the kites Now and then we slowly pullked one kite back, watching it dancing upo and down in the wind and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending yt up again

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　　"Sany!"A smile shpped out frow his jips．"Do you remem-no, of course you wouldn't make the impression on you as it did on me．”

　　I hardly dared speak,”Remrmber what?

　　“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camo(战俘营)，when things weren's too good, DO you remember the we flew the kites?

(1)

mrs．patnck was laughing gultily because she thought ________
[　　]
A．	she was too old to fly kites
B．	her husband would make fun of her
C．	she shoule have been doing her how
D．	supposed to the don't game

(2)

by “we were all beside ourselves writer means that they all ________
[　　]
A．	felt confused
B．	went wild with joy
C．	looked on
D．	forfot their fights

(3)

what did the think atfer the kite flying?
[　　]
A．	boys must hace had nore fun than the firls
B．	shoule have finished their work before playing
C．	her parents should spend more time with them
D．	all the others must have forgotten that day

(4)

why did the writer finally agree to jtake her little girl for an outing?
[　　]
A．	she suddenluy renmenbered ther duty as mother
B．	she was reminded of the day thety felw kits
C．	she ha dfinished her
D．	she thought it was a

(5)

the youngest patrick boy iss mentioned to show that ________
[　　]
A．	the write was not alone in treasuring her fond menories h
B．	his expenience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life
C．	childhood friend\ship means so much to the writer
D．	people like him really changed a lot after the war

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