Is there anything more important than health?I don’t think so.“Health is the greatest wealth,” wise people say.You can’t be good at your studies or work well when you are ill.

If you have a headache,toothache,backache,earache or bad pain in the stomach,if you complain of a bad cough,if you run a high temperature and have a bad cold,or if you suffer from high or low blood pressure,I think you should go to the doctor’s.

The doctor will examine your throat,feel your pulse,test your blood pressure,take your temperature,sound your heart and lungs,test your eyes,check your teeth or have your chest X­rayed.After that he will advise some treatment,or some medicine.The only thing you have to do is to follow his advice.

Speaking about doctor’s advice,I can’t help telling you a funny story.

An old gentleman came to see the doctor.The man was very ill.He told the doctor about his weakness,memory loss and serious problems with his heart and lungs.The doctor examined him and said there was no medicine for his disease.

He told his patient to go to a quiet place for a month and have a good rest.He also advised him to eat a lot of meat,drink two glasses of red wine every day and take long walks.In other words,the doctor advised him to follow the rule,“Eat at pleasure,drink with measure and enjoy life as it is.” The doctor also said that if the man wanted to be well again,he shouldn’t smoke more than one cigarette a day.

A month later the gentleman came into the doctor’s office.He looked cheerful and happy.He thanked the doctor and said that he_had_never_felt_a_healthier_man.

“But you know,doctor,” he said,“it’s not easy to begin smoking at my age.”

64.The writer thinks that________.

A.health is more important than wealth

B.work is as important as studies

C.medicine is more important than pleasure

D.nothing is more important than money

65.The underlined part “he had never felt a healthier man” means “________”.

A.he was feeling better than ever

B.he wasn’t a healthy man

C.he was feeling worse than before

D.he will be well again

66.From the last sentence of the passage,we learn the man________before the doctor told him not to smoke more than one cigarette a day.

A.was a heavy smoker                            B.didn’t smoke so much

C.didn’t smoke                                      D.began to learn to smoke

67.Which of the following is NOT true?

A.The doctor usually tests his/her blood pressure when a person is ill.

B.The man told the doctor he couldn’t remember things.

C.The man thanked the doctor.

D.The man didn’t follow the doctor’s advice.

阅读理解。
     For eighty four days old Santiago had not caught a single fish. At first a young boy, Manolin, had
shared his bad fortune, but after the fortieth luckless day the boy's father told his son to go in another
boat. From that time on, Santiago worked alone. The boy loved the old fisherman and  always helped
him with money and food. Usually, they would talk about the fish they had taken in luckier times or
about American baseball after supper, while at night, alone in his cottage, Santiago dreamed of lions on
the beaches of Africa, where he had gone years before. He no longer dreamed of his dead wife.
On the eighty-fifth day, Santiago set off to fish before dawn. Two of his baits (饵) were fresh tunas (金
枪鱼) the boy had given him, as well as sardines (沙丁鱼) to cover his hooks. Then he set his lines
which went straight down into deep dark water.
      As the sun rose he saw other boats in toward shore. A bird showed him where dolphin were chasing
some flying fish. This time Santiago saw tuna jumping in the sunlight. A small one took the hook on his
line. Pulling the fish aboard, the old man thought it a good fortune.
     Toward noon a marlin, a common fish in the sea, started eating the bait which was one hundred
meters down. Gently the old man played the fish, a big one, as he knew from the weight on the line. At
last he struck to settle the hook. The fish did not come out of the surface. Instead, it began to pull the
boat to the northwest. The old man followed it. Although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his
skill and knew many tricks. He waited patiently for the fish to be tired .
     It was cold after the sunset. When something took one of his remaining baits, he cut the line with his
knife. Once the marlin leaned suddenly, pulling Santiago forward on his face and cutting his cheek. By
dawn his left hand was cramped (抽筋的). The fish had headed northward; there was no land in sight.
Hungry, he cut pieces from the tuna and chewed them slowly.
     That morning the fish jumped. Seeing it, Santiago knew he had hooked the biggest marlin he had
ever seen. Then the fish went down and turned toward the east. Santiago drank a little water from the
bottle during the hot afternoon.
     Close to nightfall a dolphin took the small hook he had rebaited. He lifted it aboard, careful. After he
had rested, he cut meat from the dolphin and kept also the two flying fish he found in its stomach. That
night he slept. He awoke to feel the line running through his fingers as the fish jumped. Feeding line
slowly, he tried to tire the marlin. After the fish slowed its run, he washed his cut hands in sea water and
ate one of the flying fish. At sunrise the marlin began to circle. Faint, he worked to bring the big fish
nearer with each turn. Almost exhausted, he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon
(鱼叉).
The fish was two feet longer than the boat. No fish like it had ever been seen in Havana harbor.
      An hour later, he sighted the first shark, a fierce Mako, and it came in fast to chase after the dead
marlin. The old man struck the shark with his harpoon. The Mako rolled and sank, carrying the harpoon
with it and leaving the marlin bloody. He knew the smell would spread. Watching, he saw two sharks
closing in. He struck at one with his knife and watched it sliding down into deep water. The other he
killed while it tore at the flesh of the marlin. When the third appeared, he thrust (刺) it with the knife.
The other sharks came at sunset. At first he tried to beat them with the tiller (舵柄) from the boat, but
his hands were bleeding and there were too many in the sea. In the darkness, as he steered toward the
harbor of Havana, he heard them hitting the boat again and again. But the old man thought only of his
steering and his great tiredness. He had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him. He knew they
would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of the big marlin.
     All lights were out when he sailed into the little harbor and beached his boat. He could just make out
the white backbone and the upstanding tail of the fish. Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently
until he could gather his strength to go on.
In his cottage he fell on his bed and went to sleep.
1. The above story is adapted from __________.
A. Treasure Island                
B. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
C. The Old Man And The Sea       
D. The Son Of The Sea
2. Why did the man feel that he could be lucky this time?
A. Because a small tuna took the hook on his line.
B. Because he dreamed about the American lions.
C. Because he saw many flying fish were chased by the dolphins.
D. Because a lot of sharks followed his boat.
3. According to the text, which statement is NOT true about Manolin?
A. The boy had mercy on Santiago.
B. The boy often shared his stories with Santiago.
C. The boy showed his great concerns to Santiago.
D. The boy was Santiago's adopted son.
4. Why does Santiago let the marlin lead his boat instead of pulling the big fish up? 
A. He wanted to kill the marlin first before he pulled it up to the boat.
B. He was too tired and hungry to pull the big fish up.
C. His experience told him not to do so before the fish was tired out.
D. He wanted to use the marlin as a bait to catch the sharks.
5. Which sentence below can be used to best describe Santiago's character?
A. "He no longer dreamed of his dead wife."(Para 1)
B. "Although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his skill and knew many tricks."(Para4)
C. "Almost exhausted, he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon."(Para7) 
D. "Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength to go on ."(Para 9)
6. According to the text, what will be talked about in the next paragraph?
A. the man's action to realize his dream about the lions.
B. people's reflection when they saw the giant marlin outside.
C. people's discussion about how they ate the giant marlin.
D. a funeral held by the boy and the local people after his death.

What will man be like in the future-in 5000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today. For man is slowly changing all the time.

   Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is relatively short period of time, so we may suppose that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain's capacity. As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change to the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.

   Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over very long period of time it is likely that man's eyes will grow stronger.

   On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.

   But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald.

   Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with use. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and emotions similar to our own.

71. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

  A. man's life will be different in the future

   B. future man will look quite different from us

    C. man is growing taller as time passes

  D. man will disappear

72. What serves as the evidence(证据)that man is changing?

  A. Man has got stronger eyes now than he ever had.

  B. Man's hair is getting thinner and thinner.

  C. Man's arms and legs have become lighter and weaker.

  D. Man has been growing taller over the past 500 years.

73. The change in man's size of forehead is probably because ________.

  A. he makes use only 20 % of the brain's capacity

  B. his brain has grown larger over the past centuries

  C. the other 80% of his brain will grow in due time

  D. he will use his brain more and more as time goes on

74. What is true about a human being in the future?

  A. He is hairless because hair is no longer useful.

  B. He has smaller eyes and wears better glasses.

  C. His fingers grow weaker because he doesn't have to make use of them.

  D. He thinks and feels in different way.

75. We can infer that _______.

  A. human beings will become less attractive in the future.

  B. less use of a bodily organ may lead to its becoming worse

  C. human beings hope for a change in the future life

  D. future life is always predictable

Sometime today — perhaps several times — Dick Winter will think about the 19-year-old who saved his life.

Because of this young man, Winter enjoys things like friendships, colours and laughter every day.

The young man saved Winter’s life by signing an organ donor card (器官捐献卡).

“I can’t say thank you enough,” Winter said yesterday at the news conference marking the tenth anniversary (周年纪念日) of the Multi Organ Transplant (移植) Program at Toronto General Hospital.

What Winter knows of the 19-year-old who saved his life is only that he died in a car accident and that his family was willing to honour his wishes and donate his organs for transplantation.

His liver (肝脏) went to Winter, who was dying from liver trouble. “Not a day goes by that I don’t think of what a painful thing it must have been for them,” Winter said yesterday.

“They are very, very special people.”

Winter, 63, is fitter now than he was 10 years ago, when he got the transplant. He has five medals from the 1995 World Transplant Games in swimming and hopes to collect some more next year in Japan.

“At one time, we were probably strange people in the eyes of other people. Now it’s expected you should be able to go back and do everything you did before, only better.”

The biggest change for Winter, however, isn’t that he has become a competitive athlete. The biggest change is how deeply he appreciates every little thing about his life now.

“ I have no time for arguments,” said Winter.

“You change everything. Material things don’t mean as much. Friendships mean a lot.”

Also at yesterday’s news conference was Dr. Gray Levy, Winter’s doctor.

Levy said he has bitter-sweet feelings when he looks at Winter and hears of his athletic exploits.

Levy knows that for every recipient (接受者) like Winter, there are several others who die even though they could be saved because there aren’t enough donated organs.

“For every Mr. Winter, we have five to ten people that will never be given the chance that Mr. Winter was given,” Levy said.

Levy said greater public awareness (意识,认识) and more resources are needed. He noted that in Spain and the United States, hospitals receive $10,000 per donor to cover the costs of the operating room, doctors, nurses and teams to work with the donors’ families.

1.Which of the following is true about the 19-year-old?

A. He died of liver trouble.                                 B. He got wounded in a battle.

C. He was willing to donate his organs.               D. He became a recipient of a prize.

2.What do we learn about Dick Winter?

A. He is becoming less competitive now.

B. He is always thinking about his early life.

C. He knows all about the young man and his family.

D. He values friendships more than material things.

3.Dr. Levy would agree that  __________.

A. Spanish hospitals have more favorable (有利的) conditions for organ transplant

B. the Canadian public have realized the importance of organ donation

C. Spanish hospitals received more money from the donors

D. Canadian hospitals now have enough donated organs

4.What’s the author’s purpose in writing this article?

A. The public should give more support to organ transplant.

B. Transplant patients are thankful for the help they receive.

C. Transplant can change a patient’s life greatly.

D. It is not easy to get organs for transplant.

    Bobby was sitting out in his back yard in the snow. The thin sneakers he wore had a few holes in them. Try as he might, he could not come up with an idea for his mother’s Christmas gift.

    Ever since his father had passed away three years ago, his mother worked nights at the hospital, but the small wage could only be stretched so far.

    What the family lacked in money and material things, they more than made up for in love and family unity. They ran the household in their mother’s absence. All three of his sisters had already made beautiful gifts for their mother.

    It was Christmas Eve already, and he had nothing. Bobby started to walk down to the street. He walked from shop to shop. Everything seemed so beautiful and so out of reach. It was starting to get dark, then suddenly his eyes caught a shiny dime. Never has anyone felt so wealthy as Bobby did at that moment.

    He went inside a flower shop. When the owner asked if he could help him, Bobby presented the dime and asked if he could buy one flower. The shop owner looked at Bobby, then said, “You just wait here and I’ll see what I can do for you.”

    The shop owner returned holding red roses all tied together with a big silver bow. Bobby’s heart sank as the owner placed them gently into a long white box. “That will be ten cents, young man,” said the shop owner, reaching out his hand for the dime. Slowly, Bobby moved his hand to give the man his dime.

    Then the shopkeeper’s wife appeared. “Where are the roses you were fixing?”

    The shop owner replied, “A strange thing happened to me this morning. I thought I heard a voice telling me to set aside a dozen of my best roses for a special gift. I wasn’t sure at the time whether I had lost my mind or what, but I set them aside anyway. When I saw that little boy tonight, I knew who that voice was.”

56. According to the first three paragraphs we know that _____.

    A. Bobby’s sisters didn’t help Bobby to buy a gift

    B. Bobby had known what gift he’d give to his mother

    C. the children in the family all loved their mother

    D. Bobby’s family was rich before his father died

57. Why did Bobby walk along the street?

    A. Because he didn’t know what to do.

    B. Because he wanted to try his luck there.

    C. Because he wanted to get some money.

    D. Because he hoped to see what he could get.

58. What could he buy with a dime then?

    A. A flower. B. Nothing. C. A piece of cake. D. Many flowers.

59. Bobby slowly gave the dime to the shop owner because _______.

    A. he did not want any rose flowers     

B. the flowers weren’t worth a dime

    C. the shop owner would cheat him     

D. he hardly believed what had happened

60. From the last two paragraphs we can infer that the shop owner ______.

    A. was shocked by the voice he heard    

B. was always ready to help others

    C. didn’t know how to run a business    

D. was good at making up stories

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