题目内容

Mr. Samson was a newspaper editor in Boston, America. On the night of August 28, 1988, when he was on night duty, he dreamed that a volcano(火山)near the Island of Java(爪哇岛) erupted(爆发) , and that the local people were buried under lava(熔岩).

When he woke up from the bad dream with a start, he thought it was very interesting material, so he wrote it down on a piece paper, left it on the desk and went home. Early in the morning, the editor-in-chief came to work and saw the paper. He took it for the latest news that something important had happened last night and published it immediately . Only after did he find it was merely about what Mr. Samson had seen in his dream. But it was too late because the newspaper had already been delivered.

In no time the editors met to discuss the serious problem. They finally decided to make an apology in the newspaper. Just at that time word came that a volcano on a small between Java and Sumatra (苏门答腊岛)destroyed 163 villages and killed over 40 000 people . It was really a great tragedy（灾难）in human.

1.The editors in the newspaper office _______.

A. didn’t make an apology　　

B. took back all the newspapers

C. made an apology to the readers in the newspaper

D. didn’t realize the serious problem

2. Which of the following do you think is the best if we give another title to the passage 、

A. The latest news　　　　　 B. News leading to a Tragedy

C. Seeing Is believing　　　　 D. Dream news became True

1. A 从最后一段可以看出，编辑们决定道歉的时候就传来了火山爆发的消息，说明了他们刊登的消息的真实性，所以他们就不用道歉了。

2．D 仔细阅读全文就会发现D项正是文中的概括。

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　　It was Monday morning. Susie left home early that day because she was going to start a new job in downtown Manhattan. She was only eighteen and this was her first job. When she got to the bus stop, there were so many people waiting that she almost called a passing taxi. Later she was glad that she had waited for the bus because the traffic was so heavy that even a taxi would not have arrived much earlier. As it was, she was a few minutes late.

　　She took the elevator (电梯) to the eighth floor and went directly to the office where she had been interviewed (面试) by Mr Samson two weeks before. This was the man she was going to work for. She knocked on the door slightly and waited, but there was no answer. Just then she heard the sound of someone's voice coming from the next office. She opened the door and looked in. There Mr Samson was talking angrily to all the people in the office. He suddenly turned around and left the room. Later in the day, Susie found out what had happened. Because Mr Samson lived forty miles away in Westchester Country, he had to take the train to work and would normally arrive at the office around nine thirty. This morning, however, he happened to catch a late train, and when he arrived at the office, not a single person was working. They were all standing around smoking, chatting and telling jokes.

1．________made Susie go to work late on the first day.

[　　]

A．The slow taxi

B．The heavy traffic

C．An traffic accident

D．Oversleep

2．Mr Samson asked Susie to start working ________ at the interview.

[　　]

A．the next day

B．two weeks later

C．on the coming Wednesday

D．two days later

3．When she arrived, ________ was (were) in the room she wanted to enter.

[　　]

4．Mr Samson usually ________ to work.

[　　]

A．took a bus

B．took a train

C．drove his own car

D．was picked up by a taxi

5．The man Susie was going to work for was angry on Monday because ________ .

[　　]

A．someone smoked at the office

B．only Susie arrived early

C．some people were chatting about his private things

D．none of his employees (雇员) was working

　　阅读理解

1．________made Susie go to work late on the first day.

[　　]

A．The slow taxi

B．The heavy traffic

C．An traffic accident

D．Oversleep

2．Mr Samson asked Susie to start working ________ at the interview.

[　　]

A．the next day

B．two weeks later

C．on the coming Wednesday

D．two days later

3．When she arrived, ________ was (were) in the room she wanted to enter.

[　　]

4．Mr Samson usually ________ to work.

[　　]

A．took a bus

B．took a train

C．drove his own car

D．was picked up by a taxi

5．The man Susie was going to work for was angry on Monday because ________ .

[　　]

A．someone smoked at the office

B．only Susie arrived early

C．some people were chatting about his private things

D．none of his employees (雇员) was working

David’s Haircut
When David steps out of the front door he is blinded for a moment by the white, strong sunlight and reaches for his dad’s hand automatically. It’s the first really warm day of the year, an unexpected heat that bridges the gap between spring and summer. Father and son are on their way to the barbershop, something they have always done together.
Always, the routine is the same. “It’s about time we got that mop of yours cut,” David’s dad will say, pointing at him with two fingers, a cigarette caught between them. “Perhaps I should do it. Where are those scissors, Janet?” Sometimes his dad runs after him round the living room, pretending to cut off his ears. When he was young, David used to get too excited and start crying, scared that maybe he really would lose his ears, but he has long since grown out of that.
Mr Samuels’ barbershop is in a long room above the chip shop, reached by a steep and worn flight of stairs. David follows his father. He loves the barbershop — it’s like nowhere else he goes. It smells of cigarettes and men and hair oil. Sometimes the smell of chips will climb the stairs along with a customer and when the door opens the waiting men lift their noses together. Black and white photographs of men with various out-of-fashion hairstyles hang above a picture rail at the end of the room, where two barber’s chairs are fixed to the floor. They are heavy, old-fashioned chairs with foot pumps that screams as Mr Samuels adjusts the height of the seat. In front of the chairs are deep sinks with a showerhead and long metal pipe attached to the taps, not that anyone seems to use them. Behind the sinks are mirrors and on either side of these, shelves overflowing with all types of plastic combs, shaving mugs, scissors, cut throat razors, hair brushes and, 10 bright red bottles of Brylcreem(男士发油), piled neatly in a pyramid. At the back of the room sit the customers, silent for most of the time, except when Mr Samuels breaks off from cutting and smoke his cigarette, sending a stream of grey-blue smoke like the tail of kite twisting into the air.
When it is David’s turn for a cut, Mr Samuels places a wooden board covered with a piece of red leather across the arms of the chair, so that the barber doesn’t have to bend to cut the boy’s hair. David scrambles up onto the bench.
“Hey, young man, you’re shooting up, you won’t need this soon, you’ll be able to sit in the chair,” the barber says.
“Wow,” says David, turning round to look at his dad, forgetting that he can see him through the mirror. “Dad, Mr Samuels said I could be sitting in the chair soon, not just on the board!”
“So I hear,” his father replies, not looking up from the paper. “I expect Mr Samuels will start charging me more for your hair then.”
“At least double the price,” said Mr Samuels, winking at David.
Finally David’s dad looks up from his newspaper and glances into the mirror, seeing his son looking back at him. He smiles.
“Wasn’t so long ago when I had to lift you onto that board because you couldn’t climb up there yourself,” he says.
“They don’t stay young for long do they, kids”, Mr Samuels declares. All the men in the shop nod in agreement. David nods too.
In the mirror he sees a little head sticking out of a long nylon cape. Occasionally he steals glances at the barber as he works. He smells a mixture of smelly sweat and aftershave as the barber moves around him, combing and cutting, combing and cutting.
David feels like he is in another world, noiseless except for the sound of the barber’s shoes rubbing on the plastic carpet and the click of his scissors. In the reflection from the window he could see through the window, a few small clouds moved slowly through the frame, moving to the sound of the scissors’ click.
Sleepily, his eyes dropping to the front of the cape where his hair falls softly as snow and he imagines sitting in the chair just like the men and older boys, the special bench left leaning against the wall in the corner. He thinks about the picture book of Bible stories his aunt gave him for Christmas, the one of Samson having his hair cut by Delilah. David wonders if his strength will go like Samson’s.
When Mr Samuels has finished, David hops down from the seat, rubbing the itchy hair from his face. Looking down he sees his own thick, blonde hair mixed among the browns, greys and blacks of the men who have sat in the chair before him. For a moment he wants to reach down and gather up the broken blonde hair, to separate them from the others, but he does not have time.
They reach the pavement outside the shop. “I tell you what, boy, let’s get some fish and chips to take home, save your mum from cooking tea,” says David’s dad and turns up the street.
The youngster is excited and catches his dad’s hand. The thick-skinned fingers close gently around his and David is surprised to find, warming in his father’s palm, a handful of his own hair

1.
How old is David most probably age according to the context?
1. A.
  2
2. B.
  4
3. C.
  10
4. D.
  17
2.
Why does the author describe the barbershop detailedly in David’s eyes in Paragraph 3?
1. A.
  Because David is not familiar with this place and tries to remember it
2. B.
  Because David develops great friendfish with the shop owner
3. C.
  Because the barbershop is a place that attracts him greatly
4. D.
  Because the barbershop is very traditional and David can see one nowhere else
3.
Saying “I expect Mr Samuels will start charging me more for your hair then”, David’s dad is ________
1. A.
  showing his proudness of his son’s growth
2. B.
  complaining about the price of the haircut
3. C.
  expressing his thanks to the shopowner’s kindness
4. D.
  counting his expense on his son’s haircut
4.
The underlined sentence sugests that David ________
1. A.
  looks down upon those old, grey-haired men
2. B.
  feels extremely excited about becoming a bigger boy
3. C.
  thinks blond hair is much more precious than other color
4. D.
  is quite curious about his broken blonde hair
5.
Which detail from the story best shows the deep love that father gives son?
1. A.
  Dad runs after his son round the living room
2. B.
  Dad buys his son some fish and chips
3. C.
  Dad sees his son through the mirror
4. D.
  Dad holds some of his son’s hair in his palm
6.
What is the author’s tone of writing this passage?
1. A.
  serious
2. B.
  light-hearted
3. C.
  critical
4. D.
  persuasive