In 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenzalike cases. Influenza is sometimes called “flu”or a “bad cold”. He took samples from the throats of patients in his hospital and was able to find the virus（病毒）of this influenza.

There are three main types of influenza virus. The most important of these are types A and B, each of them having several sub-groups（亚群）. At the hospital the doctor recognized that the outbreak was because of a virus group A, but he did not know the sub-group. He reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. W. H. O. published the important news together with reports of the same kind of outbreak in Hong Kong, where about 15％～20％ of the population had become ill.

As soon as the London doctors received the package of throat samples, they began to test them. They found that they could reproduce themselves at a very high speed. Continuing their careful tests, the doctor checked the effect of medicine used against all the known sub-groups of type A virus. On this virus, none of them was of any use.

Having separated the virus, the two doctors now made tests on some selected seleceted animals. In a short time the usual signs of the disease appeared. These experiments showed that the new virus spread easily, but that it was not a killer. Scientists, like the general public, called it simply “Asian flu”.

19. The Asian flu mentioned in the passage ____.

A. had something to do with a virus group B

B. was reported to W. H. O in Geneva by a doctor in Hong Kong

C. broke out not only in Singapore but also in Hong Kong

D. was taken from the throats of the patients in a hospital in Singapore

20. London doctors considered ____. 

A. Asian flu as a bad cold

B. there were three main types of influenza

C. it was necessary to test the other groups of virus besides group A

D. the influenza called “Asian flu”a new one

21. The Singapore doctor helped the world by ____. 

A. making those with Asian flu well again

B. killing the virus that caused Asian flu

C. finding the sub-group of the virus

D. reporting the outbreak of Geneva

22. The Asian flu virus ____.  

A. was a killer

B. was very weak

C. could reproduce very quickly

D. died very fast

This brief book is aimed at high school students, but speaks to anyone learning at any stage of life．

    Its formal, serious style closely matches its content, a school-masterly book on schooling．The author, W．H．Armstrong, starts with the basics: reading and writing．In his opinion, reading doesn’t just mean recognizing each word on the page; it means taking in the information, digesting it and incorporating it into oneself just as digests a sandwich and makes it a part of himself．The goal is to bring the information back to life, not just to treat it as dead facts on paper from dead trees．Reading and writing cannot be completely separated from each other; in fact, the aim of reading is to express the information you have got from the text．I’ve seen it again and again: someone who can’t express an idea after reading a text is just as ineffective as someone who hasn’t read it at all．

Only a third of the book remains after that discussion, which Armstrong devotes to specific tips for studying languages, math, science and history．He generally handles these topics thoroughly(透彻地) and equally, except for some weakness in the science and math sections and a bit too much passion(激情) regarding history．Well, he was a history teacher — if conveyed only a tenth of his passion to his students, that was a hundred times more than my history teachers ever got across．To my disappointment, in this part of the book he ignores the arts．As a matter of fact, they demand all the concentration and study that math and science do, though the study differs slightly in kind．Although it’s commonly believed that the arts can only be naturally acquired, actually, learning the arts is no more natural than learning French or mathematics．

My other comment is that the text aged．The first edition apparently dates to the 1960s — none of the references(参考文献)seem newer than the late 1950s．As a result, the discussion misses the entire computer age．

These are small points, though, and don’t affect the main discussion．I recommend it to any student and any teacher, including the self-taught student．

1.According to Armstrong, the goal of reading is to________．

A．gain knowledge and expand one’s view        

B．understand the meaning between the lines

C．express ideas based on what one has read             

D．get information and keep it alive in memory

2.The author of the passage insists that learning the arts_________．

A．requires great efforts           B．demands real passion

C．is less natural than learning maths       D．is as natural as learning a language

3.What is a shortcoming of Armstrong’s work according to the author?

A．Some ideas are slightly contradictory．

B．There is too much discussion on studying science．

C．The style is too serious．

D．It lacks new information．

4.This passage can be classified as________．

A．an advertisement            B．a book review        

C．a feature story                   D．a news report

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L =" Lucy  " J = Jim

L : Oh, I’ve just had a (76) t        day today.                                 76．     

J : What (77) h         ?                                                                                       77．     

L : Well, I overslept in the morning. I didn’t hear the                         

(78) a        clock.                                                                 78．     

J : Oh, everyone does that once in a (79) w                                  79．     

L : I was late for class, so I drove a little (80) f       . Guess who saw me?

80．     

J : A policeman? You got a ticket?

L : Yeah. He didn’t care that I was late. Anyway, I got to class,

(81) b        I had brought the wrong book. The teacher wasn’t 81．     

(82) h         .                                                                      82．     

J : That’s really had.

L : What’s (83) w        , I have a paper due tomorrow. It’s on a      83．     

Hard drive (硬盘). I went to the computer lab and I couldn’t

(84) f          my file. I forgot to save the information.           84．     

J : Oh, not!

L : And now I need to go home. And you know (85) w       ?          85．     

My car keys are missing.

M: Well, this is it! What do you think of it?

W: I can hardly believe it's real．I've d        of seeing it ever since  _______

I saw it in books when I was a child．Just thinking of all this being built

by hand more than 2,000 years ago! No w       it's one of the         _______

wonders of the world．

M: A      the started building is more than 2,500 years ago when     ________

China was divided into v      states．Three of the northern states      ________

built defensive walls along their borders to keep o       the enemies．   ________

W．But I always thought the wall had been built by Qin Shihuang, the first

E       of China．        _______

M: Well, yes．In the way, you see, he united thew      country in the          ________

third century B．C．and one of the things he did was to join the s          ________

walls into one big wall and to build more walls from the east coast right

across the length of north China to the west．

W: It is certainly something any nation could be proud of．I hear this is the

only humanc       on the earth that can be seen from the moon．         ________

By the way, how tall is the wall?

M: The average h       is 7．8 meters; the average width is 6．5 meters    ________

at the base and 4．5 meters at the top．Would you like to go up to the top?

W: Yes! I'd like to have a look from the top．