阅读理解

阅读下面短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

　　It was fifteen past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work. Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first Job. She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day.

　　Once inside the lobby, she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes before she could get on one going to the sixth floor. When she finally reached the office marked “Smith Enterprises”, she knocked at the door nervously and waited. There was no reply. She tapped on the door again, but still there was no answer. From inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in.

　　Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had the interview with Mr. Smith, it looked quite different now. In fart, it hardly looked like an office at all.

　　The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking. In the front of the room, somebody must have just told a good joke, she thought, because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in. For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her.

　　Then one of the men looked at his watch, clapped his hands and said something to the others. Quickly they all went to their desks and, in a matter of seconds, everyone was hard at work. No one paid any attention to Marie. Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office. Hardly looking up from his work, he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr. Smith, who would arrive at any moment. Then Marie realized that the day's work in the office began just before Mr. Smith arrived. Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same train every morning, arriving in the office at 9:35, so that his staff knew exactly when to start working.

1．Marie felt nervous when she knocked at the door became

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A．it was her first day in a new job

B．she was a little bit late for work

C．she was afraid that she had gone to the wrong place

D．there was no answer from inside the office

2．Marie could hardly recognize the office she went into as ________.

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A．she had been there only once

B．Mr. Smith was not in the office

C．nobody was doing any work

D．the office had a new appearance

3．The people in the office suddenly started working because

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A．they saw a stranger in the office

B．their morning break was ended

C．no one wanted to talk to Marie

D．the boss was about to arrive

4．We can infer from the text that the employees of the enterprise ________.

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A．would start their work by listening to a joke

B．were cold to newcomers

C．were always punctual for work

D．lacked devotion to the company

5．The best title for this text would be ________.

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A．Punctual Like A Clock

B．A Cold Welcome

C．An unpunctual Manager

D．Better Late Than Never

第二部分．阅读理解（共25小题。第一节每小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分）
第一节阅读下面五篇短文，从每题后所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。
Most of us lead unhealthy lives; we spend far too much sitting down. If in addition we are careless about our diets, our bodies soon become loose and fatty and our systems slow moving. There are some aspects(方面) of our unhealthy lives that we cannot avoid. I am thinking of such features of modern city life as pollution, noise, rushed meals and stress. But keeping fit is a way to reduce the effects of these evils. The usual suggestion to a person who is looking for a way to keep fit is to take up some sport or other. While it is true that every weekend you will find people playing football and hockey in the local park, they are outnumbered a hundred to one by the people who are simply watching them.
　　For those who do not particularly enjoy competitive sports — and it is especially difficult to do so if you are not good at them — there are such separate activities as cycling, walking, jogging and swimming. What often happens though is that you do them in such a leisurely way, so slowly, that it is doubtful if you are doing yourself much good, except for the fact that you have at least managed to get up out of your armchair.
　　Even after you have found a way for keeping in shape, through sport or gymnastics, you are still only half way to good health, because, according to the experts, you must also master the art of complete mental and physical relaxation(放松). It has to do with deep breathing, emptying your mind of all thoughts, meditation, and so on. Yoga, as practiced in the West, is the most widely known and popular of the systems for achieving the necessary state of relaxation. It seems ironical (讽刺性的), though, that as our lives have improved in a material sense we have found it increasingly necessary to go back to forms of activity — physical effort on the one hand and relaxation on the other — which were the natural way of life of our forefathers.
41. Pollution, noise and stress are examples of _____.
A. the causes of unfitness                                                         B. unavoidable things in town
C. the things we can completely do away with                 D. bad features of modern living
42. We don’t get much out of separate sports because we _____.
A. don’t do them very often                                                   B. don’t do them actively enough
C. find it hard to get out of our armchairs                          D. don’t find them interesting
43. To be healthy we must _____.
A. keep fit and active                                                              B. have a sound mind
C. be active and practise Yoga                                                        D. keep fit and learn to relax
44. Our forefathers were healthy because______.
A. their way of life closely connected with both exercise and relaxation
B. they were careful to get plenty of fresh air
C. they spent most of the time out of doors
D. their environment was not polluted

完形填空

Paul could not sleep late last night. He woke up 1 got up, then he 2 down again. He felt terrible. “I must be sick,”he thought, “ 3 I must study 4 the test.”

He got up and looked 5 his history notebook. He finally found it under 6 clothes on his chair. He 7 his notes. “What 8 I do?”he thought.

9 , Paul's telephone rang. So he put down his notebook and 10 the telephone.

“Good morning,”Jack's 11 said, “you must be wrong about the test.”

“What do you mean?”Paul asked weakly.

“We are not 12 to have a test today,”Jack said. “I wrote down the 13 in my notebook. The test will be next Wednesday; it isn't today. 14 do you feel this morning?”

“Fine,”said Paul. “Just fine!”Suddenly he 15 felt fine.

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第三节  完形填空(每空1分，共20分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

After the war between Britain and France which lasted 7 years, James Cook got married and   21   down in London. For several years, Captain Cook   22   to the east of America   23   he made a map of its  24   ．In 1768 came Cook's   25   for a major expedition. The navy was   26   a plan for an expedition   27   the South Pacific Ocean in   28   of watching a very unusual   29  ， that is the planet Venus   30　　between the earth and the sun in 1769. His   31   hope was to find a new land   32   was thought to be   33   in the Indian and Pacific Ocean.   34   Captain Cook was to be there in charge of this expedition   35   Captain of the ship   36  "Endeavour". It was an old merchant ship just like   37   on which Cook had learnt his seamanship. It was strongly built and had a lot of space   38   for storage. Cook understood there would be a lot of hardship for them, so he got everything   39   it. In this expedition, he had sailed around   40   and up the east coast of Australia, charting(绘制) over 8,000 miles of coastline that had been unknown before.

 21. A. set          B. sailed      C. sent       D. settled

 22. A. went       B. flew        C. sailed     D. came

 23. A. which     B. where     C. that        D. when

 24. A. countries    B. coasts      C. cities      D. seas

 25. A. chance           B. hope       C. ship       D. expedition

 26. A. finding      B. learning     C. doing     D. making

 27. A. in               B. to               C. for         D. at

 28. A. the hope     B. a view     C. an idea   D. plan

 29. A. accident     B. incident      C. matter    D. event

 30. A. existing      B. setting     C. passing   D. appearing

 31. A. first        B. second           C. third       D. last

 32. A. which     B. where     C. what       D. on which

 33. A. passing      B. going      C. existing      D. sailing

 34. A. but         B. as          C. and         D. for

 35. A. of           B. for          C. like        D. as

 36. A. which called      B. called  C. call        D. calling

 37. A. one         B. it         C. the one       D. what

 38. A. down      B. off          C. up          D. away

 39. A. full prepared for            B. fully prepared for

C. fully preparing         D. full preparation

40. A. Endland          B. Australia   C. New Zealand      D. Tasmania

信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）。
下面是一篇应用文及其应用场合的信息，请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。(答案写在答题卡上)
首先请阅读下列应用文：
HOW TO BOOK (预定)
Booking tickets for an important play on September 8.
A  By Telephone
For credit card (信用卡) bookings. Calls are answered.
Box office (售票处) 
01789-95623 9a.m.-8p.m.(Mon.-Sat.)
0541-541051 (24 hours, 7 days, no booking charge)
B  By Fax
For credit card bookings. Please allow at least 48 hours for reply, if required.
Box office　01789-261974 or 01862-387765
C  By Post
　  Please enclose(附上) a cheque (支票) details together with 50p to the total amount (总额) to cover postage. Please send to the Box Office, RST, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV376BB.
　　Booking opens for all the plays.
D In Person
　  Box office
　  RST hall, 9:30a.m.-8p.m.(Mon.-Sat.)
　  9:30a.m.-6p.m.when theatres are closed (Sun.)
E  Overseas Booking
　  The easiest method of payment is by credit card.
　  CREDIT CARDS
　　We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express and Diners Club. Please give the card number, name and address of the card holder.
F  By E-mail
Please visit the website http://www.bigcitytheatre.com and you will get the ticket in no time. Book the ticket online through the online payment system. 10p would be charged for each ticket.
请阅读以下购票者的信息，为他们匹配最合适的购票方式。
【小题1】Mr. Wallet is a retired man and has lots of free time. Watching plays is one of his favorites. The theatre is not far from his home.
【小题2】 Mrs. Bright is a business woman. There is a fax machine in her office but she wants to get the ticket as soon as possible. She doesn’t want to pay extra money for the ticket.
【小题3】Anna is a college student. At the beginning of this term, she is busy in all kinds of things. Thus, she can not afford to go to the theatre to book the ticket by herself. And she has no credit card at hand right now.
【小题4】 Shelly studies in Beijing University now. She will fly back to her country this weekend, before which she must book the ticket for the play.
【小题5】Mr. William works in a company as a computer programmer and has an easy access (机会) to the Internet. He wants to get the ticket as soon as possible.