阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

A little brown mouse lived in a small house in the country.His cottage was very warm and comfortable,with lots of flowers in front of it and a few apple trees behind.In his living room the brown country mouse ate good fresh food.

One day his cousin from town came to visit him. “It is so nice to see you,” the country mouse said. “Come in.Sit down.Let’s have supper.” Soon he brought in some bread,bacon and corn for supper and they drank fresh clean water.After supper they sat and talked.

The town mouse said,“ How can you live here?The country is so quiet.I don’t like the food either.Come and stay with me!”

So the next morning the mice went to town.The town mouse’s house was beautiful.But they got into the house by going under the back door.They were very hungry,so the town mouse took his cousin to the dining room.There was a lot of food on the table. “Look at that!” said the town mouse.The mice jumped onto the table.They began to eat some fine French cheese,some very tasty cakes and biscuits.They drank lemonade and milk.

Suddenly the door opened and a man walked in.He came to the table to get some fruit. “Be quiet!” whispered the town mouse.

The man took an apple and went out of the room.The town mouse began to eat again,but the country mouse could not eat a thing,because he felt so afraid.Suddenly he saw a big cat near the sofa in the corner of the room.The cat was sleeping,but then it heard something.It opened its eyes and saw the mice.The country mouse began to cry:“Help!” The cat tried to catch the mice.The mice ran into a hole in the floor.The cat couldn’t get in.

“Oh,dear,” said the country mouse. “Your food is good,but your life is not.I feel afraid everywhere.Goodbye.I’m going back to the country.”

1.The town mouse considered the life of the country mouse to be________.

A.interesting B.boring

C.exciting D. terrifying

2.The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 4 refers to________.

A.the town mouse’s home B.the back door

C.a lot of food on the table D.the dining room

3.The cat didn’t catch the mice because________.

A.one cat couldn’t fight with two mice

B.the cat was still sleepy at that time

C.the mice were powerful after eating the magic cakes

D.the cat couldn’t get into the hole in the floor

4.The country mouse went back to the country because________.

A.life is quiet but safe in the country

B.the city cat was not friendly at all

C.nowhere is better than one’s own home

D.the city life was too busy for it to enioy

5.This passage is a________.

A.piece of news B.science novel

C.fairy tale D.drama

Obviously!

Until Descartes came along in the seventeenth century, everyone assumed that we exited. Obviously. The fact seemed so mind-blowing obvious that it wasn’t really discussed. We could see ourselves in the mirror, we could feel pain and pleasure, we could think thoughts for ourselves and, more importantly, perhaps, all the world’s main religions assumed that we do exist. So we exist.

No you don’t it!

You don’t exist. That’s because it’s impossible to show once and for all that you do. There’s no proof. You might think you exist-that you are sitting at a table reading this book, for instance-but how could you show with 100 percent certainty that this is true? There’s no experiment that could prove it. Although Descartes said just you could prove your own existence by the fact that you are able to think, this isn’t actually, according to the British philosopher A. J. Ayer. Just because we know that we are thinking, this doesn’t mean that there is a “you” doing the thinking. It just shows that the thoughts are happening, not that anyone is having them. Thoughts exists, “You” don’t.

_____________!

What a waste of time this question is. Although you can argue until the end of time whether you exist or not, it doesn’t get you anywhere. Unless you forget about this unanswerable question, you’ll be stuck thinking about it forever, and that isn’t of any use to anyone. Move on. Think about something more important! This very roughly, is the view of almost all philosophers, who prefer to answer other, apparently more useful, questions.

Yes, but…

You exist, but not in the way you might think. According to the great French philosopher Ren Descartes, you can’t show that anything exists—apart from your own self. The existence of the entire world can be doubted in one way or another, but the facts you’re having thoughts shows that there might be something (that’s you) having them. This let Descartes to write the famous philosophical phrase, “ I think before I am”.

1.Which of the following can be the missing heading?

A. Forget about it B. What a ridiculous point

C. Think about it D. What a pointless question

2.This passage is anything but a(n)___________.

A. comment B. discussion

C. argument D. debate

3.The famous answer to the question “Do I exist?” is ___________.

A. No, you don’t exist.

B. I think, therefore, I am.

C. Yes, you do exist.

D. It won’t get you anywhere

CANYOUIMAGINEHOWHARDITWOULDBETOREADSENTENCESLIKETHIS? Every one of us gets so used to punctuation marks that not many of us give them a second thought. Actually, the ancient Greeks wrote this way. The lack of punctuation marks probably didn’t bother good readers, though. As they read, they just put pauses where they fit best. Also at this time, sentences switched directions. A sentence read from left to right. The next one read right to left, and then left to right again, etc. The ancient Romans sometimes punctuated like this: They • put • something • that • can • separate • words • in • a • sentence. The word punctuation actually comes from this idea and the Latin word punctum, which means a dot.

When the 5th century arrived, there were just two punctuation marks: spaces and points. The spaces separated words while the points showed pauses in reading. Then in the 13th century, a printer named Aldus Manutius tried to standardize punctuation. He always used a period for a complete stop at the end of a sentence. He used a slash (/) to indicate a short pause. Over time, that slash was shortened and curled, and it became the modern comma (逗号).

Since that time, other marks have enlarged the punctuation family. The exclamation mark (感叹号) comes from the Latin word io. It means “exclamation of joy.” The question mark originally started out as the Latin word questio, meaning question. Eventually, scholars put it at the end of a sentence to show a question.

Punctuation even keeps changing nowadays. New marks are coming into existence, and old punctuation marks are used in new ways. Take for example the “interrobang”. This 1962 invention combines the question mark and exclamation mark for times when writers want both. For example, “She did what?” or “How much did you pay for that dress?” Obviously, the interrobang is not widely used or recognized yet, but its invention shows that English is not yet finished with its punctuation.

1.From the first paragraph, we can know that _______.

A. good readers had trouble reading without punctuation marks

B. a sentence always read from left to right in ancient Greece

C. ancient Greeks switched the direction of punctuation marks

D. the use of punctuation marks can date back to ancient times

2. The passage is developed _______.

A. by time B. by space

C. by comparison D. by importance

3. We can learn from the passage that _______.

A. ancient Romans didn’t use any punctuation marks

B. exclamation and question marks came from Latin

C. spaces and slashes were already used before the 5th century

D. Aldus Manutius first started to use commas

4. What can be concluded from the last paragraph?

A. The combination of two marks will not work.

B. It takes time for people to accept new punctuation marks.

C. Old punctuation marks need to be standardized.

D. Punctuation marks are still changing today.

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