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阅读理解阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项

　　Madame Tussaud is a waxwork museum in central London．It has wax(蜡)models of well-known people：living and dead, kings and queens, films stars and singing stars, government heads of some countries and even murderers．Over two million people visit the museum every year, making it Britain's number one spot

of interest．

　　Madame Tussaud lived nearly 200 years ago．She started making models in wax when she was very young and came to London from Paris in 1802．After traveling around the country with her waxwork exhibition for many years, she set up the museum in 1835．Her grandsons moved it to its present home fifty years later．

　　The team of full-time artists at Madame Tussaud's can't work fast but they do their job well, and the models are surprisingly lifelike．When a model of a particular celebrity(名人)is to be made, he or she visits the museum first to meet the artist, who takes hundreds of photos and measurements．The celebrity usually supplies the museum with clothes for the model to wear．Each model takes about six months to complete because the artists have to work slowly and carefully．They make the eyes separately and put real human hair into the wax one hair at a time．"It's important that people recognize the models．When celebrities are no longer popular, we take away their models quickly and put new ones in instead．" says a person in charge．

　　Madame Tussaud's changes with the times．In the future, with the use of computer technology, the museum is planning to show figures that can walk and talk．

(1)

Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

[　　]

A．

Madame Tussaud's Waxwork Exhibition．

B．

Madame Tussaud's, Past, Present and Future．

C．

Madame Tussaud's, the Works of Best Artists．

D．

Madame Tussaud, Founder of the Waxwork Museum．

(2)

Around which year did Madame Tussaud's move to where it is now?

[　　]

A．

1798．

B．

1802．

C．

1835．

D．

1885．

(3)

In order to make the model lifelike, the artists ________．

[　　]

A．

design new clothes for the model

B．

plant man-made hair into the wax

C．

make the eyes in different workshops

D．

examine closely the pictures of the celebrity

(4)

Why does Madame Tussaud's remain to be an interesting place for people to visit?

[　　]

A．

It follows the general development of society．

B．

It manages to stay the way it has always been．

C．

It has plans to use the computer in the future．

D．

It can make models walk and talk like real people．

答案：1．B;2．D;3．D;4．A;
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三节．阅读理解（40%）
阅读理解下面的短文，然后按要求答题。
I was born in New York, but I grew up in San Francisco. I began to live in London 25 years ago. If I am asked now where I want to live forever, I would say London. But I will always be American.
San Francisco, like London, has many parks. Every day my sisters and I were taken to play in the parks as children. I didn't go to school. I only had three hours of formal education when I was five. I was sent to school in the morning but came home at noon on the first day. I said I didn't enjoy it and hadn't learned anything. My parents thought that school was unsuitable for me. They agreed with me, so I never went back to school.
Then my mother taught me and my two sisters at home, in the way of an English lady who had good education. We learned languages and reading more than sciences and maths. Sometimes she taught us herself, but we also had other teachers. They asked us to take lessons every day. About once a week we walked to Golden Gate Park. While we were walking, my mother taught me to read music. One day I noticed a little toy train in the window of a shop and I remember now how I'd like to have it. I couldn't say "r" when I was small. My mother said if I could say an "r" well, I would have the toy train. I practiced and practiced. Then one morning I woke everybody up with my "r"s. I got the toy train. I usually get the things I want in life — but I work hard for them.
1 The writer ___ .
A. was born in San Francisco      B. likes living in London
C. is living in New York now      D. doesn't like America
2. The writer didn't go to school in America because ___ .
A. his mother wanted him to go to school in English
B. his parents didn't think formal education was right for him
C. his mother wanted him to play outdoors in the parks
D. he couldn't get on well with the other children
3. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The writer was taught by his mother and other teachers.
B. The writer had no education at all.
C. The writer didn't have lessons every day.
D. The writer walked to the park to learn languages once a week.
4. The writer got the little toy train at last because ___ .
A. his mother gave him the money
B. he tried his best to read music
C. he wanted it very much
D. his mother was pleased with his progress

读写任务 (满分25分)    
阅读下面的短文，按照要求写一篇150词左右的短文。
I have a friend who always smiles even when he’s angry. He even smiles when he has got a headache. I ask him about it and this is the answer, “I try to smile even when I’m breathing or even when I’m sad. Smile is good for your health.”
I’m not a medical student, so I don’t know if there is a medical explanation for why smiling is healthy. But my friend looks younger than his age, maybe because of his habit of smiling. He is a funny, nice, and happy person. He handles all the problems that come to him with a patient smile. He’s not a person in a hurry. His life seems so relaxing but I know for sure, his life is full of problems and his job is full of deadlines, as he lives in a big expensive city on a middle salary… I think hurry and stress is normal, but not for him. He keeps smiling.
I try to do it. I have learnt to smile and it’s fun. Every time a problem comes to me, or I’m stressed, or I’m upset, I try to smile.
[写作内容]  1.以约30词概括上文的主要内容。
2.以约120词就“微笑”这个话题进行讨论，内容包括：
(1)你对微笑含义的理解；
(2)你认为微笑有何作用；
(3)你最难忘的微笑。
[写作要求] 作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
[评分标准] 概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。
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第二部分 阅读理解  (满分35分)

第一节　语篇阅读 (每小题2分)

阅读理解下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，指出能完成所给句子或回答所提问题的最佳答案。

Astronomy (天文学) is the oldest science known to man. Thousands of years ago man looked at the stars and wondered about heavens (天堂). But the six planets that he could see with his eyes alone limited man.

The Greeks studied astronomy over 2,000 years ago. They could see the size, color, and brightness of a star. They could see its place in the sky. They watched the stars move as the seasons changed. But the Greeks had no tools to help themselves study the heavens.

Each new tool added to the field of astronomy helped man reach out into space. Until there were telescopes (望远镜), man did not know much about the moon. He did not know that the planet called Saturn (土星) had rings around it. His sight was so limited that he could not see all the planets. In the early 1700s, people thought there were only six planets. Pluto (冥王星), the last of the nine planets to be discovered was seen until 1930.

Before the spectroscopes (分光镜), man didn’t know what kind of gas was in the sun or other stars, without radio telescopes (射电望远镜), we did not know that radio noise came from far in space.

Today, astronomy is a growing science. We have learned more in the past fifty years than in the whole history of astronomy.

1Thousands of years ago, man watched ____ with his eyes.

A. the moon       B. the stars         C. the universe    D. all the planets

2 When the Greeks watched the stars, they could ____ .

A. know what the stars were made of     B. not see their places in the sky

C. help themselves study the heavens     D. watch the stars move as the seasons changed

3Until there were ____ , man knew very little about the moon.

A. telescopes      B. spectroscopes C. radio telescopes   D. spaceships

3People didn’t know about Pluto until ____ .

A. the 1700s      B. 2,000 years ago   C. 1930             D. thousands of years ago

5____ people began to do research on astronomy.

A. 50 years ago  B. 90 years ago  C. In the early 1700s      D. Over 2,000 years ago

 

 

第三部分  阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节  阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项 (A，B，C，D) 中，选出最佳选项。

Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything：animals, spiders, insects...

One day while walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon（茧）of a butterfly. He took it home. A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged（露出） easily.

But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract（收缩） in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.

It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

 Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.

And we could never fly.

56. What did the old man find when walking through the woods?

         A. A cocoon of a butterfly.                                    B. A butterfly.

         C. A spider.                                                               D. A pair of scissors.

57. What would have happened to the butterfly without the old man’s help?

         A. It would have died in the cocoon.                

         B. It would have become a true butterfly.

         C. It would have been strong enough to go farther.

         D. It would have stopped struggling through the cocoon.

58. The underlined word “cripple” in Paragraph 7 probably means ______.

         A. disable                            B. climb                      C. enable                    D. beat

59. What can we learn from this story?

         A. Man can never go against nature.

         B. It’s necessary to live with some difficulties.

         C. One cannot help others without thinking twice.

         D. Mankind should take good care of insects.

 

 

第三部分 阅读理解

阅读下面短文，从题后所给的A、B、C、D四个答案中选出最佳选项。

All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy.

You could turn your back for a moment in my mother's house, leave a half-written letter on the dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had "put it back where it belonged." as she explained.

My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother's house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused, she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks, so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.

These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to (有...的倾向) forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find the every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. "Do you remember what I was doing?" was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered.

Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.

56. Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?

A. She enjoyed removing other's drinks.

B. She became more and more forgetful.

C. She preferred to do everything by herself.

D. She wanted to keep her house in good order.

57. My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother's house because _______.

A. she had already finished them                       B. my mother had taken them away

C. she forgot where she had left them             D. someone in my family was holding them

58. The underlined part to the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______.

A. is happy to clean windows                              B. loves to clean used windows

C. is fond of clean used windows                       D. likes clean windows as my mother did

59. This passage mainly tells us that _______.

A. my mother often made us confused           

B. my family members had a poor memory

C. my mother helped us to form a good habit

D. my wife was surprised when she visited my mother

 

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