【题目】Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, I myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.

My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.

I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountain jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.

Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibreglass. We have televisions, cell phones, papers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.

Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains and perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.

【1】The best title for the passage would be __________.

A. Touched by the moon

B. The pleasures of modern life

C. A bottomless well of silence

D. Break away from modern life

【2】The writer felt sorry for himself because ___________.

A. there was too much pollution

B. he usually failed to see the fullest moon

C. he didn’t get used to modern inventions

D. there were many accidents on the road

【3】What impressed the writer most in the mountain jungle of northern India?

A. No modern equipment.

B. Complete silence.

C. The nice moonlight.

D. The high mountains.

【4】Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to ________.

A. show that the writer likes city life very much

B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life

C. explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature

D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them

【5】 The author wrote the passage to __________.

A. express the feeling of returning to nature

B. show the love for the moonlight

C. advise modern people to learn to live

D. want to communicate the longing for modern life

【题目】My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it the other day and I washed a lot of things. Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband's socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

The next morning, I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in, I greeted them and told them what we were going to do that day. When I turned around to the blackboard, the class broke out a roar. They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was afraid the headmaster would be in and to see this. I asked the class to stop, but the more I talked, the more they laughed. I decided to pay no attention to them and continued to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they roared even more. Finally, the teacher who was in the next room came in to see what all the laughter was about. When he came in, he started laughing, too!

"Good heavens," I said. "Will someone please tell me what is so funny?"

"Oh, God, "said the teacher. "You have a brown sock stuck to the back of the skirt!"

So that's how I found my husband's missing sock.

"Oh, well," I said to the class, "Let's just say you have had an unforgettable lesson on static electricity (静电学). "

【1】From the passage we know that the writer cannot be __________.

A. a physics teacher

B. a good wife

C. a cleaner

D. a clever woman

【2】What happened when the writer turned around to write on the blackboard?

A. The class didn't pay attention to what the teacher said.

B. The class began to laugh loudly.

C. Another boy made faces in the classroom.

D. Another teacher came in.

【3】The reason why the writer couldn't find one of her husband's socks was that __________.

A. it was torn to pieces while being washed

B. her husband himself had taken it away

C. she had left it in the washing machine

D. it was stuck to the back of her own skirt

【4】 How did the writer react (反应) when she got to know why her students laughed?

A. She gave an explanation for the matter in a clever way.

B. She wanted to punish those students who laughed at her.

C. She tried to persuade the class to study physics well.

D. She regretted not having taught her students physics well.

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