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

Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Interact forum(论坛)asking what“PK”meant.

    “My family has been watching the‘Super Girl’singing competition TV programme.My little daughter asked me what’PK’meant,but I had no idea,”explained the puzzled father.

    To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online,it is impossible not to know this term.In such Internet games,“PK”is short for“Player Kill”,in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.

    In the case of the“Super Girl”singing competition.“PK”was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking.

    Like this father,Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students’compositions using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand.A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language,but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons  that she didn’t understand.

    “My‘GG’came back this summer from college.He told me I’ve grown up to be a‘PLMM’.I loved to‘FB’with him together;he always took me to the‘KPM’,”went one composition.

    “GG”means Ge Ge(Chinese pinyin for brother).“PLMM”refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei(beautiful girl).“FB”means Fu Bai(corruption).“KPM”is short for KF.Pizza Hut and McDonald’s.

    Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language.

    If you do not even know what a Kong Long(dinosaur,referring to an ugly looking female)ora Qing wa (frog,referring to an ugly looking male)is,you will possibly be regarded as a CaiNiao!

1.By writing the article,the writer tries to         

A.explain some Internet language

B.suggest common Internet language

C.laugh at the Beijing father

D.draw our attention to Internet language

2.What does the writer think about the term“PK”?                       

A.Fathers can’t possibly know it.

B.The daughter should understand it.

C.Online game players may know it.

D.“Super Girl”shouldn’t have used it.

3.The examples of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons          

A.are used not only online

B.can be understood very well

C.are welcomed by all the people

D.cause trouble to our mother tongue

4.The underlined word“jargons”means“        ”in Chinese.

A.行话       B.粗口       C.歌词        D.趋势

 

 (06·陕西B篇)

LONDON Thursday Just Read—Eddy missed his girlfriend so made he flew back to Britain from Austrahe to propose(求婚) to her.The pooblem is she did the same in the opposite diffion.

He and Anna crea manaed to miss each other when the the same airporr waiting room in Singaoore at he same time to wait for connecting mghrs.

Anna,heartbrok,when she arrived at Eddy’s Sydney flat lind he had flow to London,told times,“It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on. ”

“He is the most romantic person I have ever known.I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive(冲动的)people.We are always trying to surprise each other.”

After an 11,000-mile flight across gome,she wa greeted by Eddy’s astonished  roommate asking what she was doing.

Eddy,a  27-year-old enginee taken year off to travel round Austr be he was  missing Anna,a 26-year sece,so much he got a job on a Syd   (工地)and started savir for a surprase.

He then flew bome no   and went to her flat armed with  engegerment(订婚) ring,wine

and thougens.

“I really miseed Anna and I’d been thinking about her all the come I was so excited  when she phoned me flom Ausrralia,”he said.

Eddy then asked Anna to marry him on tbe phone .“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but I accepted,”she said.

Anna was given a tour of Sydney by Eddy’s friends before going back home.Eddy and to stav in Britain for two weeks beean a could not change his ticket.

45.What does the last sentence of the first paragraph tell us?

A.Anna flew to Britain from Australia to marry him.

B.Anna flew to Australia from Britain to marry him.

C.Anna flew to Britain from Australia to propose to him.

D.Anna flew to Australia from Britain to propose to him.

46.The underlined word“miss”in paragraph 2 most probably means_______.

A.escape from                            B.fail to understand

C.fail to meet                             D.long to see

47.Eddy got a job on a Sydney building site because he________.

A.wanted to travel round Australia

    B.needed monev to pay his daily cost

C.was an engineer at this building site

D.hoped to make money from this job

48.Which of the following is TRUE about Eddy and Anna according to the text?

A.Eddy proposed to Anna on the phone and Anna accepted.

B.Anna stayed in Australia waiting for Eddy’s arrival.

C.Anna bad a good time touring Sydney with Dddy.

D.Eddy met Anna in the airport waiting room by chance.

  

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三、阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)

第一节(共15小题,每小题2分,满分30分)

    Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States, yet she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said of herself: “I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.” No one could have had a more productive old age.

    She was born Anna Mary Robertson on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At twelve she left home and was in domestic(家庭的) service until, at twenty-seven, she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927.

    Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery(刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff(硬的) to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at a local market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures: detailed and lively portrayals(描绘) of the country life she had known for so long, with a wonderful sense of colour and form. “I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it.” she said.

36. According to the passage, Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to______.

   A. make herself beautiful               B. keep active

   C. earn more money                   D. become famous

37. The underlined word “survived” means_____ .

   A. graduated from college               B. examined the condition of the house

   C. lived longer than the other children      D. gave up themselves to the police

38. From Grandma Moses’ description of herself in the first paragraph, it can be inferred that she wa__________.

   A. independent     B. pretty     C. rich     D. nervous

39. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

   A. Grandma Moses: Her Life and Pictures.    B. The Children of Grandma Moses.

   C. Grandma Moses: Her Best Exhibition.    D. Grandma Moses and Other Older Artists.

LONDON Thursday Just Read-Eddy missed his girlfriend so made he flew back to Britain from Austrahe to propose(求婚) to her.The pooblem is she did the same in the opposite diffion.

He and Anna crea manaed to miss each other when the the same airporr waiting room in Singaoore at he same time to wait for connecting mghrs.

Anna,heartbrok,when she arrived at Eddy’s Sydney flat lind he had flow to London,told times,“It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on. ”

“He is the most romantic person I have ever known.I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive(冲动的)people.We are always trying to surprise each other.”

After an 11,000-mile flight across gome,she wa greeted by Eddy’s astonished  roommate asking what she was doing.

Eddy,a  27-year-old enginee taken year off to travel round Austr be he was  missing Anna,a 26-year sece,so much he got a job on a Syd   (工地)and started savir for a surprase.

He then flew bome no   and went to her flat armed with  engegerment(订婚) ring,wine and thougens.“I really miseed Anna and I’d been thinking about her all the come I was so excited  when she phoned me flom Ausrralia,”he said.

Eddy then asked Anna to marry him on tbe phone .“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but I accepted,”she said.

Anna was given a tour of Sydney by Eddy’s friends before going back home.Eddy and to stav in Britain for two weeks beean a could not change his ticket.

1. What does the last sentence of the first paragraph tell us?

A. Anna flew to Britain from Australia to marry him.

B. Anna flew to Australia from Britain to marry him.

C. Anna flew to Britain from Australia to propose to him.

D. Anna flew to Australia from Britain to propose to him.

2. The underlined word“miss”in paragraph 2 most probably means_______.

A. escape from                     B. fail to understand

C. fail to meet                    D. long to see

3. Eddy got a job on a Sydney building site because he________.

A. wanted to travel round Australia

B. needed money to pay his daily cost

C. was an engineer at this building site

D. hoped to make money from this job

4. Which of the following is TRUE about Eddy and Anna according to the text?

A. Eddy proposed to Anna on the phone and Anna accepted.

B. Anna stayed in Australia waiting for Eddy’s arrival.

C. Anna bad a good time touring Sydney with Daddy.

D. Eddy met Anna in the airport waiting room by chance.

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