阅读下列短文，并做每篇后面的题目，从四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

Good afternoon. This is your captain's speaking. We have been warned of the danger of strong air turbulence(气流)ahead for the next forty miles or so. Passengers are therefore strongly asked to remain in their seats with their seat belts(安全带)on for their safety and not to use the restrooms(厕所)during that dangerous period, if at all possible. During the time young children should be firmly fastened(系紧)into their seats.

Please observe these precautions(预防措施)until the seatbelt warning sign has gone off. Lunch will be served after we have passed through the air turbulence zone. Thank you.

1．This passage is ________.

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2．The captain has asked passengers to keep their seat belts on because ________.

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A．the plane is going to land

B．the plan is going to take off

C．the air might become very tough

D．children won't run around

3．The captain asked the passengers not to ________ during this time.

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4．When will the passenger be able to bet up again?

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A．The captain says so.

B．The seat-belt sign goes off.

C．They become hungry.

D．The plane meets another turbulence.

5．The best title for this would be “________”.

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A．The Captain and the Passengers

B．Something About the Strong Air Turbulence

C．For Your Own Safety

D．Don't Move Around, and Keep Still

阅读下列短文，并做每篇后面的题目，从四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

You know you have to read “between the lines” to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to “write between the lines.” Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading.

I insist, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of damage but of love.

There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of buying is only the first step to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. A comparison may make the point clear. You buy a piece of beef and transfer it from the butcher's icebox to your own. But you do not own the beef in the most important sense until you eat it and get it into your blood. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your blood to do you any good.

There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and bestsellers-unread, untouched. The second has a great many books——a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. The third has a few books or many-every one of them worn, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribblied (涂写) in from front to back.

Why is marking up a book necessary to reading it ? First, it keeps you awake. (And I don't mean only conscious; I mean wide awake.) In the second place, reading, if it is active, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The marked book is usually the thought-through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the author expressed.

1．The third kind of owners of books must be ________.

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A．experienced readers

B．untidy readers

C．active readers

D．careless readers

2．Marking up a book means ________.

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A．writing down difficult sentences

B．finding the extra meanings of unknown words

C．writing in the space the ideas you get through careful reading

D．making notes to show you understand what you have read

3．What does the auther persuade you to mark ?

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A．Whatever you have given deep thought to while reading.

B．Words and sentences that bring up rich ideas.

C．Primary questions that challenge you.

D．Whatever disagreements you may have with the book.

4．A great advantage of marking up a book is ________.

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A．to absorb all the brilliant ideas it contains

B．to make yourself a part of it, making further inquiry (查询) easy

C．to make yourself conscious that you are reading actively

D．to enable yourself to pick up the book for continual reading

阅读下列短文，并做每篇后面的题目。从四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

Tom Smith was a writer. He wrote detective(侦探) stories for magazines. One evening he could not find an end for a story. He sat with his type writer(打字机) in front of him, but he had no idea . So he decided to go to the cinema.

When he came back, he found that the had a visitor. Someone had broken into his room. The man had had a drink, smoked several of Tom's cigarettes(香烟) and had read his story. The visitor left Tom a note:

"I have read your story and I don't think much of it. Please read my advice and then you can finish it. By the way, I am a thief. I am not going to steal anything tonight. But if you become a successful writer, I will return!"

Tom read thief's advice. Then he sat down and wrote the rest of the story. He was still not a successful writer, and he was waiting for his thief to return. Before he went out in the evening, near his typewriter he always left a story which had not been finished.

1．Tom went to the cinema because he ________.

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A．Hoped to get ideas

B．was feeling tired

C．hated to see a visitor

D．wanted to see a film

2．The visitor came to Tom's room ________.

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A．to have a drink

B．to see Tom

C．to read Tom's story

D．to steal something

3．The visitor thought that Tom's story was ________.

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A．quite good

B．not well written

C．too short

D．not exciting

4．The thief said that he would ________.

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A．steal Tom's stores

B．write more stories

C．come and steal Tom's things

D．come every night

5．Tom found the thief's advice ________.

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阅读下列短文，并做每篇后面的题目，从四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

Early in the 18th century, Captain Cook, a famous explorer of England, unexpectedly caught sight of an unusual animal during his first visit to Australia. The animal had a large mouse like head and jumped along on its large legs. To his great surprise, the unusual animal carried its young in a special pocket of flesh. Captain Cook pointed to the animal which was eating grass in the distance and asked his native guide what the animal was referred to. The guide seemed not to know what he was pointing at and finally said “Kangaroo”, but their requests were met with puzzled looks of the native people. Before long they got to discover that the native guide who made the answer to Cook's question really meant, “I don't know what you are pointing at. ” Funny enough, the name “Kangaroo”, stuck and it is still in use today.

1．Which of the following sentences best expresses the main idea ?

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A．Captain Cook's guide made a joke.

B．Native Australians could not speak English in Cook's time.

C．Some words have rather funny origings (起源).

D．Captain Cook was a lover of wild animals.

2．When the native guide said “Kang-a-roo”, he really meant “________”

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A．Ah, it is a special kind of animal.

B．I wonder what you have said

C．What do you mean by pointing at that animal ?

D．I have no idea of what you are referring to.

3．We can infer from this passage _________.

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A．we should learn many different languages

B．Captain Cook made a mistake in understanding

C．Captain Cook was a foolish explorer

D．the importance of a language in common

阅读下列短文，并做每篇后面的题目，从四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

When buying a house, you must be sure to have it checked for termites(白蚁). A termite is much like an ant in its communal(群居的)habits, although physically the two insects are different.

Like those of ants. termite colonies(群体)consist of different classes. With its own particular job. The most perfectly formed termites, both male and female, make up the reproductive class. They have eyes, hard body walls, and fully developed wings. A pair of reproductive termites founds the colony. When new reproductive termites develop, they leave to form another colony. They use their wings only this one time and then break them off.

The worker termites are small, blind, and wingless, with soft bodies. They make up the majority of the colony and do all the work. Soldiers are also wingless and blind but are larger than the workers and have hard heads and strong jaws and legs. They defend the colony and are cared for by the workers.

The male and female of the reproductive class remain inside a closed-in cell where the female lays thousands of eggs. The workers place the eggs in cells and care for them.

1．How are termites like ants?

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A．They live in communities, and each class has a specific duty.

B．Their bodies are the same shape.

C．The king and queen are imprisoned(关押).

D．The females' reproductive capacities are the same.

2．Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．All termites have wings.

B．Some termites cannot fly.

C．Workers are smaller than soldiers.

D．Termites do not fly often.

3．Which of the following statements is probably TRUE?

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A．Thousands of termites may move together to develop a new colony.

B．The male and female reproductive  don't go outdoors except to form a new colony.

C．There are more soldiers than workers.

D．A worker could easily kill soldier.

4．What termites are blind and wingless, with strong bodies?

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A．Males

B．Females

C．Workers

D．Soldiers

5．The underlined word“founds”in paragraph 2 means “________”.

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A．sets up

B．looks for

C．finds

D．discovers