4. The author wrote this article in order
to __________.
A. tell us that it isn't good to keep feelings inside
B. give us some advice on how to express our feelings
C. make us face the problem that we have to deal with feelings
D. make us know that it isn't always wise to express our feelings freely
Paragraph 4
It is
possible to do many simple tricks with numbers. Here is one trick. It has
several separate steps.
First, write down your house number. For
example, if your address is 73 Lemon Street, you would write down 73. After you
write down your house address, next double it. Then add five to this doubled
number. For example, if your address was 73 and you doubled it, you would get
146. Then, if you added five, you'd get 151.
Then multiply this number by 50. In our example here, you'll get 7550. The next
step is to add your age to this total. For example, if you're 26 years old, you
should add 26 to this total. In our example here, the result would be 7576.
After that you have to add the number of days in a year, which is 365. In our
example here, 365 added to 7576 is 7941.
The final step is this: Subtract 615 from the
number that you have. Take away 615 from the total, In our example, 7941 minus
615 is 7326.
The result here - 7326 - is the trick. The first
part of the number is the address and the last part of the number is the age of
the person. That is, 73 is the address that we started with, and 26 is the age
that we used.
5. The best title of the passage is __________.
A. The number tricks
B. A trick with numbers
C. An interesting problem
D. How to work out a difficult trick
Correct answers:
1-5 DCACB
Passage 1
An
Australian wildlife park attendant survived a crocodile attack after her father
jumped on the huge crocodile's back and dugout its eyes as the horrified
tourists looked on.
Karla Bredl, 21, was
in a fairly good condition in good care in hospital with a broken bone, a
broken leg and some injuries after the attack.
The 4.5 - metre
crocodile caught Karla Bredl around the leg and then
the waist when she fell during a crocodile feeding show for tourists.
Karla's father seized a long-handled tool and
beat the crocodile about the head to force it to let go of her, but the tool
was doing nothing. So he jumped on its back and stuck his fingers in its eyes
and the crocodile let go of her.
1. The best title of the passage is _________.
A. The Hateful Crocodile
B. Father Saved Daughter's Life
C. A Terrible Accident
D. The Dangerous Place
Passage 2
Trees should
only be pruned (剪除) when there
is a good and clear reason for doing so and, fortunately, the number of such
reasons is small. Pruning involves the cutting away of overgrown and unwanted
branches, and the inexperienced gardener can be encouraged by the thought that
more damage result from doing it unnecessarily than from leaving the tree to
grow in its own way.
First, pruning may be done to make sure that
trees have a desired shape or size. The object may be to get a tree of the
right height, and at the same time to help the growth of small side
branches which will thicken its appearance or give it a special shape.
Secondly, pruning may be done to make the tree healthier. You may cut out
diseased or dead wood, or branches that are rubbing against each other and thus
causing wounds. The health of a tree may be encouraged by removing branches
that are blocking up the centre and so preventing the free movement of air.
One result of pruning is that an open wound is
left on the tree and this provides an easy entry for disease, but it is a wound
that will heal (治愈) . Often
there is a race between the healing and the disease as to whether the tree will
live or die, so that there is a period when the tree is at risk. It should be
the aim of every gardener to reduce that risk of death as far as possible. It
is essential (基本的) to make
the area which has been pruned smooth and clean, for healing will be slowed
down by roughness. You should allow the cut surface to dry for a few hours and
then paint it with one of the substances available from garden shops produced
especially for this purpose. Pruning is usually done in winter, for then you
can see the shape of the tree clearly without interference from
the leaves and it is, too, very unlikely
that the cuts you make will bleed. If this does happen, it is, of course, impossible
to paint them properly.
2. What was the writer's purpose when writing this passage?
A. To give practical instructions for pruning a tree
B. To give a general description of pruning
C. To explain how trees develop diseases
D. To discuss different methods of pruning
Passage 3
Like fine
food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the
first taste to the last. And good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly
appear full-blown. Quite the contrary, just as the cook has to undergo an
intensive training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at
his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever
its purpose- schoolwork, matters of business, or purely social communication.
You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the
writing, and the more rewarding.
There are still some remote places in the world
where you might find a public scribe to do your business or social writing for
you, for a fee. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the
service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter
writing with no more than a quick note form. But for most of us, if there is
any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.
We have to write school papers, business papers
or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to paper. It would be
difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters and reports put
into the mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figure must be enormous.
What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes, that this writing
will be read. We want to arouse (引起 ) and hold the interest of the readers. We want whatever we write
to be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some "
letters-to-be-read" file (档案) or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we bend our
efforts toward learning and practising the skills
of interesting, effective writing.
3. According to the author, if your letter is thrown into some
"letters-to-be-read" file, __________.
A. it will receive immediate attention
B. it will be dealt with by the secretary
C. it is likely to be neglected (忽略)
D. it is meant to be delivered
