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请阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

As an old-fashioned explorer, Paul Salopek sets out on foot to circle the world.He is also a modern-day explorer.On top of a few clothes, a small first-aid kit and notebooks, he is carrying a recorder, a video camera, a small computer and a satellite phone — a telephone that connects to a satellite and can be used in many places where cell-phones don’t work.

The journey is long: 21,000 miles! It will take seven years to complete it.

Salopek was born in California and spent his childhood in Mexico.He says he has always liked to travel and doesn’t like to rush.At the age of fourteen, he climbed Mount Whitney in California and crossed the state’s Sierra Nevada Mountains alone.When he was fifteen years old, he walked the length of Death Valley.He once rode a mule 2,000 miles through mountains in Mexico.

A longtime reporter, Salopek has reported from Africa, Asia and Mexico.Now 51 years old, he plans to keep writing.As he travels around the world, he is writing stories about the people he meets and the way they live.He looks for how people find local solutions to big problems such as lack of food and water.He also records the sounds he hears and takes photos of the sky and the Earth’s surface.

The long walk started in the Rife Valley in Ethiopia in East Africa.Many consider East Africa to be home to the first humans, who lived 160,000 years ago.

Salopek is retracing the paths our ancestors took as they left Africa and settled in parts of the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas.As Salopek is walking, he is learning more about himself and all of humankind.

1.The underlined phrase “on top of” in the first paragraph can be replaced by _____.

A.on the top of

B.in contrast to

C.in addition to

D.on the basis of

2.The author develops the third paragraph mainly by ________.

A.providing examples

B.making comparisons

C.making a careful analysis

D.following the order of time

3.According to the passage, Paul Salopek is a ________.

A.doctor who likes carrying the small first-aid kit

B.journalist who likes traveling, exploring, writing and studying

C.writer who likes traveling, exploring and studying

D.photographer who is good at using satellite communication equipment

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A.Paul Salopek: Following Man’s First Footsteps

B.Paul Salopek: Reflecting People’s Real Lives

C.Paul Salopek: Going for a Seven-year Study

D.Paul Salopek: Looking back upon the Childhood

阅读理解

Dear Dad,

Today I was at the shopping mall and I spent a lot of time reading the Father's Day cards.They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you.Yet as I selected and read,it occurred to me that not a single card said what I really want to say to you.

You'll soon be 84 years old,Dad,and you and I will have had 55 Father's Days together.I haven't always been with you on Father's Day but I've always been with you in my heart.

You know,Dad,there was a time when we were separated by the generation gap.You stood on one side of the Great Divide and I on the other.

The Father-Daughter Duel shifted into high gear ( 档位) when you taught me to drive the old Dodge and I decided I would drive the '54 Chevy whether you liked it or not.The police officer who sent me home,after you reported the Chevy stolen,didn't have much tolerance for a stub?born 16 year old,while you were so tolerant about it,Dad,and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life.

Our relationship greatly improved when I married a man you liked,and things really turned around when we began making babies right and left.Somewhere along the line,the generation gap disappeared.I suppose I saw us and our relationship as aging together,rather like a fine wine.

But the strangest thing happened last week.I was at a stop sign and I watched as you turned the corner in your car.It didn't immediately occur to me that it was you because the man driving looked so elderly and fragile behind the wheel of that huge car.It was rather like a slap in the face delivered from out of nowhere.Perhaps I saw your age for the first time that day.

I guess what I'm trying to say,Dad,is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad today.Honoring a father on Father's Day is about respect and sharing and acceptance and tolerance and giving and taking.It's about loving someone more than words can say,and it's wishing that never had to end.

I love you,Dad.

Love,

Jenny

1.How did Jenny probably feel on the night she was sent home by the police?

A.Disappointed

B.Nervous

C.Guilty

D.Frightened

2.We can learn from the passage that Jenny and her father_________.

A.kept in touch by writing each other

B.are separated due to the generation gap

C.have been getting along very well

D.had a hard time understanding each other

3.Why did Jenny feel strange when she saw her father last week?.

A.She seldom saw him driving that huge car.

B.She had never realized his being old and weak.

C.She didn't expect to meet with him there.

D.She had never seen him driving so slowly before.

4.Jenny wrote his father this letter to _________

A.tell him about their conflicts

B.say sorry for her being stubborn

C.express her gratitude to him

D.remind him of the early incident

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