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【题目】Unlike Chinese people, the ones in the West believe in star signs. Western world has a complete system(系统) of star signs, and they explain them and use them to tell a person’s characteristics and the things they like or dislike. There are a cycle of 12 of them in all. All of them are decided by the date instead of the year of your birth and each of them has its own characteristics.

Sagittarius (射手座) is one of them. Now, let’s take it as an example:

Sagittarius (November 23—December 21)

Sagittarius in short

Sagittarius are fun, loving, generous and very friendly. They seldom tell lies; in fact they’re so open about everything, They have surprising intuitions(直觉) that they should pay attention to. They are pretty clever because they are so interested in everything. They can be a bit rude, that’s only because they’re very honest and will say exactly what they think. They love travelling, fast cars and horse riding. They also love spending money.

More about Sagittarius

Sagittarius are great friends because they are interested in everything and everyone. They are attracted by even the strangest people. With their humour, they are often in a good mood. They can be hurtful to others because they cannot stop speaking what they see as the truth, but they don’t mean to. Money is not their God. Their values are spiritual(精神的) rather than material.

They are hard-working. They are very open-minded about new ideas and love to try ideas out. Usually it does end up working because they have an excellent intuition and can usually tell straight away if an idea is a good one or a bad one. One of their weaknesses is not asking enough money for all the hard work they do, because they love doing it.

【1Whose star sign is Sagittarius?

A. Miss Yao who was born on Mar 18, 1978.

B. Peter, a boy who was born on Nov 22, 1998.

C. Mr. Zhou who was born on Dec 23, 1976.

D. Lucy, a girl who was born on Nov 30, 1991.

【2】Which is WRONG about Sagittarians?

A. Sagittarians often tell lies.

B. Sagittarians can be rude.

C. Sagittarians show great interest in strange things and people.

D. Sagittarians can end up working by using their good intuition.

【3】What can we know from the underlined sentence “Money is not their God”?

A. Sagittarians care too much about money.

B. Sagittarians believe that money is from the God.

C. Sagittarians hate God.

D. Sagittarians pay no attention to money.

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】D

【解析】

试题分析:短文大意:本文主要介绍了西方人很相信信星座,他们把星座分为十二个,出生日期决定星座,每个星座代表的性格也不一样,。

【1】D细节理解题。根据文章第二段的Sagittarius (November 23—December 21),可知,选D。

【2】A细节理解题。根据文章的第三段的第三句话They seldom tell lies判断,故选A。

【3】D主旨大意题。根据文章中第四段的Their values are spiritual(精神的) rather than material,可知选D。

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