阅读理解

  We have met the enemy and he i s our s.We bought him at a pet shop.When monkey-pox, a di sea se u sually found in the African rain fore st suddenly turn s up in children in the American Midwe st, it' s hard not to wonder of the di sea se that come s from foreign animal s i s homing in on human being s.“Mo st of the infection s we think of a s human infection s started in other animal s, ” say s Stephen Mor se, director of the Center for Public Health Preparedne s s at Columbia Univer sity.

  It' s not ju st that we're going to where the animal s are; we're al so bringing them clo ser to u s.Popular foreign pet s have brought a whole new di sea se to thi s country.A strange illne s s killed I sak sen' s pet s and she now think s that keeping foreign pet s i s a bad idea, “I don't think it' s fair to have them a s pet s when we have such alimited knowledge of them.” say s I sak sen.

  “Law s allowing the se animal s to be brought in from deep fore st area s without stricter control need changing.” say s Peter Schantz.Monkey-pox may be the wake-up call.Re searcher s believe infected animal s may infect their owner s.We know very little about the se new di sea se s.A new bug(病毒)may be kind at fir st.But it may develop into something harmful.Monkey-pox doe sn't look a major infectiou s di sea se.But it i s not impo s sible to pa s s the di sea se from per son to per son.

(1)

We learn from Paragraph 1 that the pet sold at the shop may ________.

[  ]

A.

come from Columbia

B.

prevent u s from being infected

C.

enjoy being with children

D.

suffer from monkey-pox

(2)

Why did I sak sen advi se people not to have foreign pet s?

[  ]

A.

Becau se they attack human being s.

B.

Becau se we need to study native animal s.

C.

Becau se they can't live out of the rain fore st.

D.

Becau se we do not know much about them yet.

(3)

What doe s the phra se “the wake-up call” in Paragraph 3 mo st probably mean?

[  ]

A.

A new di sea se.

B.

A clear warning.

C.

A dangerou s animal.

D.

A morning call.

阅读理解

  My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car.From the time I wa s a saver.My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week.I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura.In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural.The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get.I earned some of my money picking one crop or another.When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time.She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked.I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day.Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker.

  In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away.She left me 100 share s of AT&T.One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me$240 per year in dividend s(利息).That wa s huge for a kid my age.

  By the time I wa s seventeen.I had saved up $ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted.Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up $ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car.I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”.I wa s so excited.

  My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got.Thi s wa s not a bad thing.I learned self-reliance.Self-reliance i s equal to freedom.Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father.

(1)

Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of $1, 300?

[  ]

A.

Weekly allowance.

B.

Her earning s by picking crop s.

C.

Share s left by grandma.

D.

Money earned from selling share s.

(2)

The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________.

[  ]

A.

she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s

B.

enough money had been earned for her car

C.

the work wa s too hard for children like her

D.

she had no time to do that again for some rea son

(3)

We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________.

[  ]

A.

16

B.

17

C.

18

D.

19

(4)

The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________.

[  ]

A.

give the author freedom

B.

be unwilling to buy the author a car

C.

teach the author to learn self-reliance

D.

give the author a big surpri se

阅读理解

  Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47,experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s.When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent.“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French.”

  Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country.The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain.

  The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military.The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that.

  Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice.Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent.

  Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent.Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common.

  When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent.However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot.

(1)

According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome.

[  ]

A.

who se parent ha s experienced a head injury

B.

who have lived in a foreign country for a long time

C.

who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke

D.

who have learned foreign language from their coworker s

(2)

If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________.

[  ]

A.

hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him

B.

he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again

C.

he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s

D.

hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent

(3)

Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________.

[  ]

A.

introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information

B.

warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke

C.

make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured

D.

tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为选项.

Ea sy Way s to Keep Your Brain Sharp

  Everyone i s forgetful, but a s we age, we start to feel like our brain s are slowing down a bit-and that can be a very annoying thing.  1   Read on for some technique s worth trying.

  1.  2  

  People who regularly made plan s and looked forward to upcoming event s had a 50 percent reduced chance of Alzheimer' s di sea se(老年性痴呆症), according to a recent study.  3   Something a s simple a s setting a goal to have a weekly coffee date with a friend will do.There' s evidence that people who have a purpo se in life or who are working on long or short-term goal s appear to do better.In other word s, keep your brain looking forward.

  2.Go for a walk.

  Mildly rai sed glucose(葡萄糖)level s can harm the area of the brain that help s you form memorie s and phy sical activity can help get blood glucose down to normal level s.In fact, exerci se produce s chemical s that are good for your brain.  4  

  3.Learn something new.

  Take a Spani sh cla s s online, join a drawing club, or learn to play card s.A study found that mental stimulation limit s the weakening effect s of aging on memory and the mind.But the be st thing for your brain i s when you learn something new and are phy sically active at the same time.  5   Or you can ju st go dancing with your friend s.

A.Focu s on the future.

B.Thi s can be e specially harmful to the aged.

C.It should be something like learning gardening.

D.So take a few minute s each day to do some reading.

E.But don't worry if our schedule i sn't filled with life-changing event s.

F.Luckily, re search show s there i s a lot you can do to avoid tho se moment s.

G.In other word s, when you take care of your body, you take care of your brain.

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     One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had
ordered to arrive. Suddenly I   1   that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing
in my direction, _  2       he knew me. The man had a newspaper     3    in front of him, which
he was   4   to read, but I could     5    that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter
brought my    6  , the man was clearly puzzled by the    7   way in which the waiter and I   8  
each other. He seemed even more puzzled as    9   went on and it became   10   that all the
waiters in the  restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the    11   . When he
came out, he paid his bill and   12   without another a glance in my direction.
     I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had   13  .  "Well, "he said,
"That man was a detective(侦探). He 14   you here because he thought you were the
man he 15  ." "What ?"I said, showing my  16  . The owner continued, "He came into the
kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man.  I   17   say he looked very much like
you! Of course  since we know you, we told him that he had made a __18_." "Well, it's
really  19   I came to a restaurant where I'm known, "I said. "  20  , I might have been in
trouble."
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(     )2.A. since
(     )3.A. flat
(     )4.A. hoping
(     )5.A. see
(     )6.A. menu
(     )7.A .direct
(     )8.A. chatted with
(     )9.A. the waiter
(     )10.A. true
(     )11.A. restaurant
(     )12.A. left
(     )13.A. wanted
(     )14.A. met
(     )15.A. was to beat
(     )16.A. care
(     )17.A. must
(     )18.A. discovery
(     )19.A. a pity
(     )20.A. Thus


B. unders tood
B. even if
B. open
B. thi nking
B. find
B. bill
B. familiar
B. looked at
B. time
B. hopeful
B. washroom
B. acted
B. tried
B. caught
B was dealing with
B. surprise
B can
B mistake
B natural
B However


C. noticed
C .though
C. cut
C. pretending
C. guess
C. paper
C. strange
C. laughed at
C. I
C .clear
C. office
C. sat down
C. ordered
C. followed
C. was to meet
C. worry
C. need
C decision
C. a chance
C.Otherwise


D.recognized?
D.as if?
D. fixed ?
D.continuing?
D. learn?
D. food ?
D. funny ?
D. talked about
D. the dinner
D. possible
D .kitchen?
D. calmeddown
D. wished?
D. discovered?
D. was looking for
D. regret?
D. may?
D. fortune?
D. lucky?
D. Therefore


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