阅读短文并做理解题：

　　Can countries, both rich and poor, go on growing without any problems of the world? Or most countries stop their growth? Some thinkers are trying to answer these questions. After making deep studies of the world's resource(资源), they say unlimited (无限制的) growth would be very dangerous. They want to make each country believe that it is necessary to change their ways of production and ask people to have fewer children and use less resource. This, they say, will make every country strong, give people more safety and bring happiness to everyone.

1．The word“production”here means ________ in Chinese.

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2．The word“thinker”in the third sentence means “________”.

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A．people who can't speak

B．people who teaches others

C．people who is good at thinking of problems

D．people who is good at growth

阅读短文并做理解题：

　　When somebody dies, many people believe that the spirit of the person still lives. They believe that the spirit leaves the person's body at the moment he dies but then continues to exist outside the body somewhere else. Ghosts are often believed to be the spirits of the dead, who are showing themselves to the living. The spirit, or ghost, is present but not the body. That is a possible reason why ghosts can travel through solid walls.

　　Some people believe that it is possible to talk or communicate with spirits. This is called spiritualism. Most people can't speak to spirits directly themselves but there are people who have special powers which allow them to speak to the dead. These people are called mediums.

Many people believe that spirits know what is going to happen in the future so they ask a medium to ask the spirits what their future will be.

1．Ghost here means ________ in Chinese.

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2．“Spiritualism”in the passage means ________.

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A．believing there to be ghosts

B．being very noble

C．the belief that it is possible to talk to or communicate with spirits

D．being in high spirits

阅读理解：

　　New York can be a dangerous city－especially at night. Many people do not go out into the street alone after dark. The problem(问题) is especially bad for women. One New Yorker found an unusual way to work out the problem. She is a singer, Brien. She has to drive home after the show.

　　Brien needed a“friend”to keep her safe. Now she has Freddie－a balloon that looks like a man. He sits in the front seat of Brien's car beside her when she drives at night. People on the street think the woman driver has a man with her－and Brien feels safe.

1．Who is Freddie? It is ________.

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A．a singer

B．a friend of Brien

C．a man driver

D．something that looks like a man

*2．Brien puts Freddie in the front seat of her car beside her at night so that ________.

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A．Brien won't be hurt at all

B．Freddie can keep Brien from any danger

C．Freddie can stop her from falling from the car

D．people may think she has a man with her

阅读理解：

　　My grandfather was a teacher. He was the head teacher of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know that he was a kind and gentleman at heart, because when I was young (and he was old), he gave me presents, and sat me on his knee, and told me stories. But I believe the boys at his school were afraid of him.

　　At school, when he walked into a room full of noisy boys, there was silence(平静) at once. When he looked at a boy with a certain look in his eye, that boy went red in face, and looked down at his shoes. If a boy brought him poor, careless work, work that was not the best that boy could do, my grandfather picked up the boy's book and threw it across the room, shouting:“Do it all again, and bring it back first thing in the morning!”If the boy was late, or if he forgot to bring the work, he had to do it again, and again, and yet again. My grandfather never forgot.

　　He was a very different man at school, from the man I saw day by day in his own home.

1．My grandfather was kind and gentle, because ________.

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A．he was the head teacher of a boys' school

B．he gave me presents and told me stories

C．he told me stories about how kind he was

D．he let me sit on his knee and tell him stories

2．When he looked at a boy in a certain way, that boy ________.

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A．went red in the face and could not return my grandfather's look

B．looked back at my grandfather's red face

C．looked at his shoes to see if they were dirty

D．went red in the face because his shoes were dirty

3．My grandfather did not like to receive ________.

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A．worse work than he could do himself

B．work that the boys could not do

C．work that was not as good as the boys could do

D．the most careful work that the boys could do

4．When he received poor work, my grandfather ________.

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A．shouted at the boy and threw his work across the room

B．went red in the face

C．threw the book on the floor, and shouted across the room

D．threw the book at the boy

阅读理解：

　　Johnny lived with his mother and father in a small town in the mountains.

　　One day there was an earthquake(地震)near the town. Many houses were broken down. Everyone thought that there would soon be another earthquake.

　　They were worried that the second earthquake would be worse than the first.“We must send Johnny to a safe place,”Johnny's mother said to her husband.

　　“Many of our friends are sending their children to relatives(亲戚)in other towns.”“We'll send him to my brother, Peter,”Johnny's father said,“He lives a long way away. Johnny will be safe with him.”He telephoned Johnny's Uncle Peter and asked him if he would let Johnny live with him.“He's a good boy,”he said,“He won't give you any trouble.”

　　“All right,”Johnny's Uncle Peter said,“but I'm not used to children. I live a very quiet and peaceful life.”

　　“You won't know Johnny's in the house,”his father told him.

　　So Johnny, who was five, went to live with his uncle. Two days later, his mother and father received a telegram from Peter. It said “Am returning child. Please send earthquake.”

1．Where did Johnny and his parents live?

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A．In a big town.

B．Near the sea.

C．In the mountains.

D．With his uncle Peter.

2．Why did Johnny's parents send him away?

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A．He was a naughty(调皮的)boy.

B．Their house was damaged.

C．They did not want him to get hurt.

D．His uncle wanted to see him.

*3．Uncle Peter worried about Johnny's coming to live with him because ________.

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A．he was not used to children

B．he was an old man

C．he lived a long way from the mountains

D．he had never met Johnny before

阅读短文并做理解题：

　　People usually hate mice, but one mouse has won the heart of the people all over the world－the famous Mickey mouse.

　　Do you know how Mickey came into being? As a young artist, Walt Disney often worked late in his workroom. One night he heard some mice in his wastebasket. He caught them and kept them in small cages on his desk. One of these creatures became his particular(特殊的)friend and gave him the idea for the famous cartoon character Mickey Mouse. In 1928 Mickey Mouse first appeared in a cartoon film. When sound was starting to be used in movies, Disney immediately made his Mickey Mouse talk on the movie screen. Spectators, old and young, were delighted. Mickey became a great success and has won the hearts of millions. Mickey is a wonderful clean mouse in a cleaned up world, created by Walt Disney, movies about Mickey Mouse have been popular with spectators everywhere around the world ever since it was created.

1．What idea did one of the little mice give him? He would ________.

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A．raise a great number of mice for cartoon films

B．name one of them Mickey Mouse

C．made Mickey his particular friend

D．create such a character as Mickey Mouse in films

2．How many people do you think are interested in Mickey Mouse films? ________.

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A．Old and young

B．Children and adults

C．People all over the world

D．People in cinema

阅读短文并做理解题：

　　Tom lived in a city, and his hair was always cut by the same old man. He always cut Tom's hair as Tom liked it, and while he was doing it, the two men talked about football.

　　One day, when Tom was sitting in his chair, and his hair was being cut as usual, the old man said to him,“Tom, I'm going to be sixty-five years old next month and I feel tired, so I am going to sell my shop to a young man. He likes to cut hair for people.”

　　Tom was very sad to hear this, because he enjoyed talking to the old man, and he was also worried that his hair would not be cut as well by the new young man as it had been for so many years by his old friend.

　　He went to the shop again the next month, and the new young man was there. He cut Tom's hair, but he did it badly.

　　The next month, Tom went into the shop again. The young man asked him how he would like his hair cut, and Tom answered,“Please cut it very short on the right side, but leave it as it is on the left. It must cover my ear. On top, cut all the hair away in the middle, but leave a piece at the front.”

1．Who used to cut hair for Tom?

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A．His new friend.

B．A young man.

C．An old man.

D．His old friend.

2．Why was Tom sad to hear what the old man said? Because he was afraid nobody ________.

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A．would talk about football with him

B．could cut his hair as he wanted it

C．liked to cut his hair

D．would become his friend

阅读理解：

　　Is there a strange something high up in the world's tallest mountains? If so, is it a big bear(熊)? Is it a monkey? Or is it a kind of man? No one knows. This mystery(谜) has puzzled(困惑)the worried for years. In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints(脚印)in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don't walk without shoes in the snow!

　　In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very quickly. Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the“something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the snow man“walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man. From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly that the snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape(猿) man? The mystery grew And the mystery keeps growing. Someday we may find out just what it is that makes the large footprints.

The passage is mainly about ________.

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A．some mountain climbers

B．some strange animals

C．some large footprints

D．the mystery of the Snowman

阅读理解：

　　Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three people wrote 63. To write six hundred and three, people wrote 6 3. The space between six and three was there to mean“not any”tens. Sometimes people did not remember the space. It was hard to see and read.

　　Later people used a dot to hold the space. Six hundred and three looked like this 6. 3. But the dot was hard to see. So people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3. Then people could see the dot. They remembered the space. At last, only the circle around the dot was used. It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero came to be used.

Now zero has many important uses. Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways of using zero?

The story tells us ________.

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A．how zero came to be used

B．how to write zero

C．what's the use of zero

D．that zero means a dot, a circle or space

阅读理解：

　　Let children learn to judge their own work. A child who learns to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him. Little by little, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle－compare(比较)their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself.

　　We do it all for his act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not. If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine(日常的)work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can't find the way to get to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.

The title of this passage could probably be ________.

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A．Let Us Teachers Stop Work

B．Let Us Make Children Learn

C．Let Children Correct Their Exercises

D．Let Children Learn by Themselves