四、阅读理解
There’s a box of chocolates in the fridge. It’s been there for more than a week since I was given it as a present. I do love chocolates, but they make me fat if I eat too many! Can I control myself? If I eat one, will I have to eat all of them?
My son Harry is obsessed with playing Wii(/wi:/, 任天堂的一款游戏机) games. Sometimes, it’s difficult to get him to concentrate on his homework because he wants to play some more.
Last week I had to wake up a student in my class. I asked him why he was so tried and he said he had stayed up late to play his favourite Internet game, Farmville. He said he just couldn’t stop playing it! Now his academic work is suffering because he can’t control his urge to play games.
What my son, my student, and I myself need is simply self-control.
In the late 1960’s, American psychologist Walter Mischel launched an experiment about self-control. He left a group of four-year-olds in a room and told them that if they could wait 20 minutes, they could have two marshmallows, a kind of sweet. If they couldn’t wait, he would only give them one.
In videos of the experiment, you can see children squirming, kicking, hiding their eyes—desperately trying to control themselves. Some did wait patiently, while others couldn’t wait a single minute.
Years later, the self-controlled children turned out to get higher SAT scores and got into better colleges. The children who couldn’t wait were more likely to become bullies.
So, the chocolates are still in the fridge. My son Harry is doing his homework with a promise that he can play on the Wii later, and my student says he will try harder to control himself. We all have our own temptations. But if we can control them, we will achieve more.
56. Which of the following is different from the other three?
A. The writer.                                          B. Harry.
C. The writer’s student.                             D. Walter Mischel.
57. We can know from paragraph 5 to paragraph 7 that____________.
A. all the children got two marshmallows
B. all the children waited patiently  
C. self-control can help children succeed later
D. the children who lack self-control get higher SAT scores
58. Which of the following statement is true?
A. The writer is addicted to Wii.
B. The writer’s son is addicted to Farmville.
C. The writer’s student is addicted to chocolates.
D. The writer’s student is addicted to Farmville.
59. What does the underlined word mean in paragraph 5?
A. Something we can eat.                   B. A kind of toy.
C. A kind of mushroom.                     D. A kind of prize.

Jack went to a barber's shop and had his hair cut, but when he came out, he was not happy with the result(结果). When his friend Bob saw him, he laughed and said, "What has happened to your hair, Jack?"
Jack said, "I tried a new barber's shop today, because I wasn't quite satisfied with my old one, but this one seems even worse."
Bob agreed(同意). "Yes, I think you're right, Jack. Now I'll tell you what to do when you go into a barber's shop next time: look at all the barber's hair, find out whose hair looks worst, and then go straight to him."
"Why shall I go to him?" Jack asked. "But that would be foolish!"
"Oh, no, it wouldn't," answered Bob. "Who cut that man's hair? Just think it. He couldn't cut it himself, could he? Another of the barbers cut it. So you know he can't be the worst barber."
【小题1】 When Jack went out of the barber's shop, he was not happy because ____.

A.nobody had cut his hair
B.the barber hadn't cut his hair well
C.the barber had cut his hair carefully
D.he was not satisfied with his old barber
【小题2】"I tried a new barber's shop today." means ____.
A.this barber's shop was a new one
B.this was the only barber's shop in this town
C.Jack often went to this barber's shop
D.Jack had not been to this barber's shop before
【小题3】After Jack had his hair cut, he thought ____.
A.the new barber's shop was the best one
B.the old barber's shop wasn't so good as the new one
C.the new barber's shop was worse than the old one
D.the old barber's shop was the worst one
【小题4】Bob told Jack to find out which barber's hair looked the worst and then go straight to him. Why?
A.Because he was certainly the best barber.
B.Because he was free all the time.
C.Because he was the worst barber.
D.Because he wasn't the worst barber.
【小题5】From the story we know that ____.
A.it's foolish to have one's hair cut at a barber's shop
B.barbers cut each other's hair
C.barbers never have their hair cut
D.a barber always cuts his hair by himself

How many coins have you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two? or One?
With a phonecard you can make up to 200 calls without any change at all.
1. What do you do with it?
Go to a telephone box marked “Phonecard”. Put in your card to start, make your call and when you have finished, a screen tells you how much is left on your card.
It costs no extra for the cards, and the calls cost 10p per unit, the same as any other pay-phone call.
You can buy them in units of 10, 20, 40, 100 or 200.
2. Now appearing in a shop near you
Near each phonecard place you will find a shop where you can buy one. They’re at bus, train and city tube stations.
At many universities, hospitals and clubs, restaurants and gas stations on the highway and shopping centers.
At airports and seaports.
3. No more broken payphones
Most broken payphones are like that because they’ve been damaged. There are no coins in a cardphone to excite thieves’ interest in it. So you’re not probably to find a broken one.
Get a phonecard yourself and try it out. Or get a bigger wallet.
【小题1】The passage is most probably          .

A.a warningB.a notice
C.an advertisementD.an announcement
【小题2】There are three sections in the passage. Which one do you think is about why phonecards are good?
A.Section 1B.Section 2.C.Section 3.D.none.
【小题3】Which statement of the following is right by inference(推断)?
A.Using a phonecard will cost you less money than payphone call.
B.Phonecards are easier to carry.
C.If a thief steals your phonecard, he can’t use it any more.
D.When you finish your call, take out your card first and then you will see how many calls you can still make.

One day in 1965when I worked at View Ridge School in Seattlea fourth?grade teacher approached me.She had a student who finished his work before all the others and needed a challenge.“Could he help in the library” she asked.I said, “Send him along.”

Soon a slightsandy?haired boy in jeans and a T?shirt appeared.“Do you have a job for me” he asked.

I told him about the Dewey Decimal System(杜威十进分类法) for shelving books.He picked up the idea immediately.Then I showed him a stack() of cards for long?overdue books that I was beginning to think had actually been returned but were misshelved with the wrong cards in them.He said“Is it kind of a detective job” I answered yesand he became working.

He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and announced“Time for break”He argued for finishing the finding jobshe made the case for fresh air.She won.

The next morninghe arrived early.“I want to finish these books”he said.At the end of the daywhen he asked to be a librarian on a regular basisit was easy to say yes.He worked untiringly.

After a few weeks I found a note on my deskinviting me to dinner at the boy’s home.At the end of a pleasant eveninghis mother announced that the family would be moving to a neighbouring school district.Her son’s first concernshe saidwas leaving the View Ridge library.“Who will find the lost books” he asked.

When the time cameI said an unwilling good?bye.I missed himbut not for long.A few days later he came back and joyfully announced“The librarian over there doesn’t let boys work in the library.My mother got me transferred back to View Ridge.My dad will drop me off on his way to work.And if he can’tI’ll walk

I should have had an idea such focused determination would take that young man wherever he wanted to go.What I could not have guessedhoweverwas that he would become a genius of the Information AgeBill Gatestycoon(企业巨头) of Microsoft and America’s richest man.

1.What was the author when the story happened?

AA teacher.? BA librarian.

CA detective.? DA student.

2.Why was the boy sent to the library by the fourth?grade teacher?

AHe failed to finish his work on time.

BHe challenged the teacher in the class.

CHe disturbed all the other students in the class.

DHe needed something to do to challenge himself.

3.What was the boy told to do on his first day in the library?

ATo rearrange the books according to the new system.

BTo put those overdue books back to the shelves.

CTo find out the books with wrong cards in them.

DTo put the cards back in the long?overdue books.

4.The boy got transferred back to View Ridge because ________.

Ahe didn’t get along well with the librarian in the new school

Bhe was not allowed to work in the new school’s library

Che missed his old schoolmates and teachers

Dhe had to walk a long way to go to school

 

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