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　When Mr Smith was retired, he bought a small cottage in a seaside village． The cottage was built in 1584, but was in very good condition．Mr Smith was looking forward to a quiet life, but in the summer holidays he got a shock． Hundreds of tourists came to the seaside village． Mr Smith's cottage was the most interesting building in the village and many of the tourists came to watch it． From morning till night there were a lot of tourists outside the cottage． They kept looking through windows and many of them even went into Mr Smith's garden． This was too much for Mr Smith． He decided to drive the unwelcome visitors off, so he put up a notice in the window． The notice said：“If you want to satisfy your curiosity, come in and have a look．The price：ten pence!” Mr Smith was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong． The number of visitors increased and Mr Smith spent every day showing them round his cottage． In the end he sold the cottage and bought a small modern house． It was an uninteresting little place and no one wanted to see it． But it was certainly quiet and peaceful．

1．Why did Mr Smith buy a small cottage in a seaside village after he was retired?

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A．Because he wanted to earn more money．

B．Because he liked to swim．

C．Because he wanted to live a quiet life．

D．Because he liked the village．

2．The cottage Mr Smith bought was built ______．

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A．in the sixteenth century　　　B．in the fifteenth century

C．1584 years ago　　　　　 D．thousands of years ago

3．Many of the tourists were so interested in the cottage that ______．　　　

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A．they wanted to buy it

B．they stayed there from morning till night

C．they stayed outside the cottage all day long

D．they went into Mr Smith's garden

4．In order to drive the unwelcome visitors off, Mr Smith _____．　　　

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A．put up a notice in the window

B．taught them a lesson

C．showed them around his garden

D．asked them to leave his cottage at once

阅读理解：

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　　　I went to Scapli first in 1948． There were no local (当地的) planes in those days, so I made the trip by bus． The journey was a thousand kilometres and it took the bus twenty hours． Throughout this time I sat beside a man about my age, 24． He told me that his name was Castleton, John Castleton, but he told me hardly anything else． I had never met anybody with so little to say． I was glad when the conductor handed out pillows (枕头), which gave me an excuse to try to sleep． I shall never forget that silent, unpleasant trip．

　　　The next time I went to Scapli was in 1976, by air this time． The new town was being officially opened by the President, after many years of construction work． In the plane I had a long and interesting talk with a man who turned out to be chief engineer of the new town． When the plane landed, we exchanged names． To my great surprise, he was John Castleton, whom I felt sure I had met many years before．

1． The passage tells us ___________． 　　　

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A． Scapli's today and yesterday

B． the author's two trips to Scapli

C． how Scapli changed

D． how the author went to Scapli

2． The author sat beside a man, who ________． 　　　

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A． told him only his age, 24 years old

B． went to sleep during the whole journey

C． said nothing but his name

D． didn't say a single word to the author

3． The author __________． 　　　

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A． visited Scapli again after twenty-eight years

B． found many men were called John Castleton

C． went to Scapli again shortly after there was local planes

D． knew John Castleton was the President

4． Why did the author still remember the man's name after so many years? Because _________． 　　　

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A． they had a long and interesting talk

B． the man had few words, which made him unpleasant and lonely

C． the man's name was easy to remember

D． he was as old as the man beside him

5． During the two trips, the author ____________． 　　　

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A． met two men, who were all men of few words

B． found Castleton wasn't what he used to be

C． sat beside two men with the same name

D． came to know the truth that talking with another could make trips pleasant

阅读理解

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　　When other nine－year－old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship(奖学金) and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard：The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.

　　Liz Murray, a 22－year－old American girl, has been writing a real－life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug－addicted (吸毒) parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.

　　Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

　　She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”

　　Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.

1．In which order did the following things happen to Liz?

a．Her mother died of AIDS.

b．She worked at a petrol station.

c．She got admitted into Harvard.

d．The movie about her life was put on.

e．She had trouble finding a place to sleep.

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2．The main idea of the passage is ________.

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A．how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

B．what a hard time Liz had in her childhood

C．why Liz loved her parents so much

D．how Liz struggled to change her life

3．What actually made her go towards her goal?

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A．Envy and encouragement.

B．Willpower and determination.

C．Decisions and understanding.

D．Love and respect for her parents.

4．When she wrote “What drove me to live on….I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that ________.

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A．she had little experience of social life

B．she could hardly understand the society

C．she would do something for her own life

D．she needed to travel more around the world

阅读理解

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　　In the age of reality television, success isn't the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong.

　　Hung recently has made an agreement with US－based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full－length record, titled “The True Idol(偶像) ” on April 6.

　　The idol is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version(改写本) of Ricky Martin's “She Bangs” on the television show “American Idol 3”, on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in mid－act.

　　Hung's response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all. ”That's good, because any common person would have found plenty to regret：The off－key singing. The blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high. The terrible dancing. The hips jerking(摇摆) to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad.

　　But, it was this very bad act that sold well.

　　Marc Juris, president of Fuse, explained it this way：“Everyone of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely off－key and completely unworried. That's what William did and immediately won the hearts of America.”

　　Whatever it is, for the moment it's big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and techno music and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station.

　　So, what does Hung think of this?

　　“There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn't have much respect for me and some were kind of mean.

　　Now he says he's not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour(魅力) or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn't been easy.

1．What is the main idea of this passage?

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A．Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly.

B．Hung's performance attracted the public eye.

C．How an unsuccessful person became famous.

D．Success sometimes does not require hard work.

2．Hung was popular in America for all the following reasons EXCEPT ________.

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3．What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 6 refer to?

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4．Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to Hung?

a．The entertainment firms made an agreement with Hung.

b．The judges cut Hung off in mid－act in the singing contest.

c．Hung became popular among Americans.

d．Hung gave a terrible performance though he tried his best.

e．Three websites put Hung's funny performance on the Internet.

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5．Why was Hung able to win the hearts of America?

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A．His success was based on his own hard work.

B．He attracted people's attention in the contest.

C．He was good－looking though he didn't sing well.

D．His character was completely different from other idols'.

阅读理解

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　　William Shakespeare, who is perhaps the greatest writer in the history of the world, was looked upon in his own day as little more than a writer of popular plays. Yet in this lies the key to his greatness. The theatre of his day gave him freedom, and, he in return gave it the best that was in him.

　　Shakespeare was born in 1564, far from London, in the little English town of Stratford on the river Avon. He is usually believed to have been born on April 23, but all that is known for certain is that he was baptized(受洗) on Sunday, April 26．Stratford was a busy little town, and Shakespeare's father, a rich businessman, had been its mayor for a time. Shakespeare grew up in a comfortable house on Henley Street with several small brothers and sisters.

　　All the boys in Stratford went to the same school as soon as they could read and write, and they learned the same subject：Latin. Perhaps Shakespeare was lucky not to go on to a university. Instead, at 18 he married Anne Hathaway who was 8 years older than him and was the daughter of a neighboring farmer. They had three children.

　　After the birth of the children, there's record of what Shakespeare did from 1585 to 1592 until he was mentioned as a London actor. It was in London, not Stratford, that Shakespeare got his education, learning not only the ways of the theatre but nearly everything else. He read books and met many people－foreigners, old soldiers, the whole lively civilization of that time. London was a port city of 250, 000 people, and Shakespeare could not have come to it at a better time.

1．Shakespeare is usually believed to have been born on ________.

A. Monday B. Wednesday C. Thursday D. Friday

2．In the school of Stratford, Shakespeare learned ________.

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A．how to read and write

B．knowledge required to enter a university

C．how to act and write plays

D．Latin

3．Why did the author say “Perhaps Shakespeare was lucky not to go to a university ”?

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A．Because at that time, universities were not very good.

B．Because he might not have been a great playwright if he had gone to a university.

C．Because so he could marry Anne Hathaway.

D．Because he was not suitable to be a university student.

4．The best title for the article is ________.

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A．Shakespeare's early life.

B．How Shakespeare became a great writer

C．The children of Shakespeare

D．The family of. Shakespeare

5．Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．Shakespeare was regarded as a great playwright in his own day.

B．Shakespeare was the biggest child in his family.

C．Shakespeare married a neighboring girl.

D．Shakespeare's life in London was very useful to his later playwriting.