B
People come in all shapes and sizes,colors and races (种族). Some speak differently while others act differently.
My mother is in a wheelchair. I would like to say something about this special woman I call "Mommy".
My mom does what a mom needs to do every day. She picks me up from school,drives me to meetings,cooks dinner,and helps me with my homework. This is just part of what makes her great,though.
She is my best friend and can immediately notice when I am unhappy. She helps me solve problems that my friends do not understand. Mommy makes me laugh when times are tough. I look forward to coming home because I know there is someone there who cares about what I have done.
Mommy has always tried to be like a "normal" mom. But I think my mother is a wonderful woman and she doesn’t need to change. She teaches me life lessons that no teacher or friend can. She shows me how to accept everyone for what is inside,rather than what is on the outside.
You may have realized that all the qualities (品质) I admire have nothing to do with what she looks like. Everyone could be the way she is,but most are not.
I want everyone to look beyond the surface and see what is inside others. You may fail to notice someone who is very special like my mom because you cannot accept their outside features.
【小题1】 What’s the function of Paragraph 1?

A.To tell us that people are born to be different.
B.To show the main idea of the passage.
C.To suggest we enjoy what we have.
D.To lead to the topic of the passage.
【小题2】Which of the following words can best describe the writer’s mother?
A.Ugly.B.Normal.C.Useless.D.Wonderful.
【小题3】 We can know from Paragraph 5 that             
A.the writer’s mother has tried to be like a normal mom
B.the writer expects his mother to change
C.the writer has no teachers or friends
D.the writer accept everyone for what is inside
【小题4】What can we learn from the passage?
A.Most people accept who they are.
B.People admire the writer’s mother very much.
C.The writer doesn’t mind her mother’s disability.
D.The writer’s mother is a normal person in fact.
【小题5】 The writer writes the passage to                  
A.encourage his mother to be happy
B.tell us that everyone acts differently
C.tell us to respect the disabled around us
D.tell us to look beyond the surface and see what is inside people

第二节信息匹配 (共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)

阅读下列应用文及相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。首先,读下面应用文:

The Travel Pavilion. Explore places you have never been to before, and experience different way of life. Visit the Amazon jungle village, the Turkish market, the Tai floating market, the Berber mountain house and others. Talk to the people there who will tell you about their lives, and things they make. You can try making a carpet, making nets, fishing. . .

The Future Tower. This exhibition shows how progress will touch our lives. It allows us to look into the future and explore the cities of the next century and the way we’ll be living then. Spend some time in our space station and climb into our simulator for the journey to Mars!

The Nature Park. In the Safari Park you can drive among African animals in one of our Range Bruisers: see lions, giraffes, elephants in the wild. Move on to the Monkey Park to watch the monkeys. And then there is still the Aviary.

The Pyramid. This is the centre of Adventure land. Run out of film, need some postcards and stamps? For all these things and many more, visit our underground shopping centre. Come here for information and ideas too.

The Ancient Village. In the village you will find people live a simple life just as the ancient people did. They wore ancient clothes and were selling the old goods and food. You can even watch an old dance performed by some actors and actresses.

The Underwater World. Here you will find a variety of fish and even some kinds of sharks. You will think you are in the water but of course this is not true. If you are interested in fish I suggest that you pay a visit to it.

请阅读下面个人的信息,然后匹配他或她的最佳选项:

56. Michelle    I am interested in science and I hope very much to know what our life will be like in the days to come.

57. Harry    After visiting the Adventure land I want to buy my friend and parents some souvenirs.

58. Maria    I am Nostalgia and I often recall the past days. I think people used to live more happily than us.

59. Dick    I am tired of the unchanged and dull life now and what I look forward to is a completely new life.

60. Alice    I read a lot about the whales but I haven’t seen them for myself. I hope this dream can come true in Adventure land.

人名                          游览地

56. Michelle                      

A.The Travel Pavilion

57. Harry

B.The Future Tower

58. Maria

C.The Nature Park.

59. Dick

D.The Pyramid.

60. Alice                          E. The Ancient Village

F. The Underwater World

 

How should one invest a sum of money in these days of inflation(通货膨胀)? Left in a bank it will hardly keep its value, however high the interest rate.Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market (股市).Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past.Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting antique (古董) clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques.

I sometimes wonder what a being from another planet might report back about our way of life.“ The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound.It has a face with twelve black marks and two hands.Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round people’s wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control.This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves.”

Whether or not we are slaves of time today depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time.Certain men were very clever at measuring the time of day according to the beating of their own hearts.They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would shout the time.So it seems that the first clocks were human beings.

However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time.They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun.They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour-glasses, and invented water-clocks.Indeed, any serious student of antique should spend as much time as possible visiting palaces, stately homes and museums to see some of the finest examples of clocks from the past.

Antique clocks could be very expensive, but one of the joys of collecting clocks is that it is still possible to find quite cheap ones for your own home.After all, if you are going to be ruled by time, why not invest in an antique clock and perhaps make a future profit ?

1.According to the passage, collecting antique clocks___________.

     A.can hardly keep the value of your savings

     B.will cost much of your savings             

       C.may increase your wealth        

       D.needs your bravery

2.By quoting (引用) the remark (话) of a being from another planet, the author intends to ________________.

     A.suggest human beings are controlled by a clock

     B.describes why clocks can rule the planet Earth

     C.tell readers what clocks look like

     D.compare clocks to human beings

3.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to measure the time ?

     A.Counting the beating of one’s own heart.

     B.Making use of candles, sand and water.

     C.Observing shadows cast by the sun.

     D.Keeping all the slaves busy day and night.

4.The underlined phrase stately homes in paragraph 4 means ____.

       A.state-owned houses                B.houses in very good condition

       C.grand houses open to the public     D.houses where statesmen meet regularly

5.The purpose of the passage is ________________.

       A.to introduce the culture of antique clocks

       B.to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks

       C.to compare different ways to make a future profit

       D.to explain convenient and reliable ways of telling time

 

I am an e-mail user. When I first started to use the e-mail system I used to read all my e-mail. I didn’t have much mail. I was very excited about receiving any e-mail. I gave my friends my e-mail address. Soon I had more mail than I wanted. Some of the mail was junk mail. I was worried. I didn’t want my mail to control me.

I’ve tried some methods to help me get control of my mail. First, I check my mail at the same time every day. Also I try to allow myself only 15-20 minutes every day to process my e-mail. This doesn’t always work, but I try. Sometimes I save the messages. Sometimes I just read them, maybe answer a few, and then delete them.

Sometimes I’m not at all interested in a message, so I don’t even open it. I delete it right away. This is very much the way I go through the mail that the postal service delivers to my home.

These methods are very simple. I have some friends who are very clever with computers. From time to time, they teach me new tricks for managing my e-mail. I’ve also learned to transfer some messages to a disk so they don’t fill up my mail files. Then I can read them later and maybe use them in my work. I’m still amazed at what e-mail can do for me! I’m still worried, however, about having too much to read.

1.Which is the best title for this passage?

A.How I Go through my E-mail           B.How I Manage my E-mail

C.How I Transfer my E-mail          D.How I Use my E-mail System

2.What does the writer suggest by “This is very much the way I go through the mail that the postal service delivers to my home.”

A.That he deals with the mail delivered by the post service almost in the same way.

B.That he receives more postal mail than e-mail.

C.That he likes e-mail much better than the mail delivered by the post service.

D.That he likes going through the mail delivered by the post service.

3.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.Sometimes the writer checks his mail in the morning and sometimes in the evening.

B.The writer teaches his friends how to manage their e-mail.

C.The writer always spends less than 15 minutes processing his e-mail.

D.After giving his friends his e-mail address the writer had more e-mail than he wanted.

4.In the first paragraph, the underlined phrase “junk mail” probably means       .

A.常规邮件   B.病毒邮件  C.垃圾邮件   D.商务邮件

5.In the last paragraph, the underlined word “transfer” probably means       .

A.转换       B.改变      C.传递       D.转移

 

阅读下列回函:

Reply letter A

Thank you for your valuable suggestions. We have decided to show the Chinese character along with the Hanyu Pinyin for names of Chinese personages, places and specific things as from the next issue.

Reply letter B

Thank you for your suggestions. Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. One of our staff reporters has just returned from Xinjiang and written a long article about her trip. Next year, we will have even more coverage of Xinjiang.

Reply letter C

Other readers have asked us for similar information and we have so far answered them individually. In this issue, we will print an open reply. We discovered after making a survey that there are few books to be found on China printed in English. Most are published by the Foreign Languages Press and China International press, from where it is possible to buy books directly.

Reply letter D

A majority of Chinese tourists travel abroad in order to see different landscapes and various cultures, to appreciate an exotic atmosphere and to get to know local customs. Some Chinese tourists nevertheless go to China towns, because they can eat Chinese food there. For those who don’t know English or the native language of the country they visit, it is convenient to go shopping or find entertainment in a Chinatown.

Reply letter E

We have taken on your suggestions to start a column on personalities. There are kinds of reports, such as movie stars, directors, businessmen, singers and so on. Our reports not only introduce their achievements, but also report their inner world. We hope you will enjoy it.

Reply letter F

Thanks for your appreciation of our magazine. We have mailed your letter and your e-mail address to Tingting. Since both of her two letters were sent by ordinary mail and did not give her e-mail address or telephone number. We could not get in touch with her any other way.

阅读下列信函,然后匹配相关信息:

Letter A

I have just started reading your magazine regularly and enjoy the articles very much. I have one comment to make. Can you include the Chinese characters for the names of people, places, etc that you mention with the Hanyu Pinyin of Romanized phonetic system that you use? For example, what is “Emei” or “Qitaihe”or “Shaoxing” in Chinese? It’s also helpful for those of us who are learning Chinese.

Letter B.

It was interesting to read the magazine. I wonder if you could start a column which introduces the Chinese elites of art, business, sports, politics, especially directors, actors, anchors(主持人)and singers. I believe readers will also appreciate a livelier style.

Letter C

I am a civil servant in Xinjiang, a region relatively underdeveloped in comparison with other provinces. But this does not mean it belong to another world. Xinjiang could benefit from overseas exchanges as well as contact with people living in other regions. Could you include articles about Xinjiang and its people? I suggest magazines report more about the western regions, especially exotic and charming Xinjiang.

Letter D

I am an avid(热衷的)reader of your magazine and it has helped me to introduce China to foreign friends. Thank you for great efforts to bring New China to the world. Next month, I may get the opportunity to go to Nigeria, so I must learn more about China’s history and culture. Could you kindly recommend a suitable book in English?

Letter E

It was interesting to read “Chinese Travelers Step out”. It seems a large percentage of Chinese tourists visit the West. In Indonesia, Chinese New Year is an official holiday. How would you assess the level of interest Chinese tourists have in Indonesia? Would they like to visit Chinatowns or other unique attractions in Indonesia?

信函                                         回函

1.LetterA                                  A. Reply letter A

2.LetterB                                  B. Reply letter B

3.LetterC                                  C. reply letter C

4.LetterD                                   D. Reply letter D

5.LetterE                                  E. Reply letter E

 

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