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　　Surprisingly, no one knows how many children receive education in English hospitals, still less the content or quality of that education．Proper records are just not kept．We know that more than 850 000 children go through hospital each year, and that every child of school age has a legal right to continue to receive education while in hospital．We also know there is only one hospital teacher to every 1000 children in hospital．

　　Little wonder the latest survey concludes that the extent and type of hospital teaching available differ a great deal across the country．It is found that half the hospitals in England which admit children have no teacher．A further quarter have only a part-time teacher．The special children’s hospitals in major cities do best; general hospitals in the country and holiday areas are worst off．From this survey, one can estimate that fewer than one in five children have some contact with a hospital teacher－and that contact may be as little as two hours a day．Most children interviewed were surprised to find a teacher in hospital at all．They had not been prepared for it by parents or their own school．If there was a teacher they were much more likely to read books and do math or number work; without a teacher they would only play games．

　　Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind and maintaining the habit of school to keeping a child occupied, and the latter is of ten all the teacher can do．The position and influence of many teachers was summed up when parents referred to them as “the library lady” or just “the helper”．Children tend to rely on concerned school friends to keep in touch with school work．Several parents spoke of requests for work being ignored or refused by the school．Once back at school children rarely get extra teaching, and are told to catch up as best as they can．

　　Many short-stay child-patients catch up quickly．But schools do very little to ease the anxiety about falling behind expressed by many of the children interviewed．

(1)

The author points out at the beginning that ________．

[　　]

A．

every child in hospital receives some teaching

B．

not enough is known about hospital teaching

C．

hospital teaching is of poor quality

D．

the special children’s hospitals are worst off

(2)

It can be inferred from the latest survey that ________．

[　　]

A．

hospital teaching across the country is similar

B．

each hospital has at least one part-time teacher

C．

all hospitals surveyed offer education to children

D．

only one-fourth of the hospitals have full-time teachers

(3)

Children in hospital usually turn to ________ in order to catch up with their school work．

[　　]

A．

hospital teachers

B．

schoolmates

C．

parents

D．

school teachers

(4)

We can conclude from the passage that the author is ________．

[　　]

A．

unfavorable towards children receiving education in hospitals

B．

in favor of the present state of teaching in hospitals

C．

unsatisfied with the present state of hospital teaching

D．

satisfied with the results of the latest survey

答案：1．B;2．D;3．B;4．C;
解析：

(1)

第一段中，作者告诉我们说“没有人知道有多少孩子在医院里能接受到教育，更少有人知道教育的内容和教学质量”，这与选项B“not enough is known about hospital teaching”的意思一致。

(2)

短文第二段第二、三句说“It is found that half the hospitals in England which admit children have no teacher．A further quarter have only a part-time teacher．”由此可知，一半的医院没有老师，四分之一的医院有兼职老师，那么剩余的四分之一的医院就有全职老师了。

(3)

由“Children tend to rely on concerned school friends to keep in touch with school work”，可知，他们求助的是同学们。

(4)

作者一开头就用surprisingly一词，清楚表达了对医院教育现状的态度。然后通过具体的调查结果，表明了对医院里儿童教学现状的不满。


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　　MANILA, Philippines(AP)－Villagers and veteran hunters have captured a one-ton saltwater crocodile which they plan to make the star of a planned ecotourism park in a southern Philippine town, an official said Monday．

　　Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde said dozens of villagers and experts captured the 21-foot(6.4-meter)male crocodile along a creek in Bunawan township in Agusan del Sur province after a three-week hunt．It could be one of the largest crocodiles to be captured alive in recent years, he said, quoting local crocodile experts．

　　Elorde said the crocodile killed a water buffalo in an attack witnessed by villagers last month and was also suspected of having attacked a fisherman who went missing in July．

　　He said he sought the help of experts at a crocodile farm in western Palawan province．

　　"We were nervous but it's our duty to deal with a threat to the villagers," Elorde told The Associated Press by telephone．"When I finally stood before it, I couldn't believe my eyes．"

　　After initial sightings at a creek, the hunters set four traps, which the crocodile destroyed．They then used sturdier traps using steel cables, one of which finally caught the enormous reptile late Saturday, he said．

　　About 100 people had to pull the crocodile, which weighs about 2,370 pounds(1,075 kilograms), from the creek to a clearing where a crane lifted it into a truck, he said．

　　The crocodile was placed in a fenced cage in an area where the town plans to build an ecotourism park for species found in a vast marshland(沼泽地)in Agusan, an impoverished region about 515 miles(830 kilometers)southeast of Manila, Elorde said．

　　"It will be the biggest star of the park," Elorde said, adding that villagers were happy that they would be able to turn the dangerous crocodile "from a threat into an asset．"

　　Despite the catch, villagers remain cautious because several crocodiles still roam the outskirts of the farming town of about 37,000 people．

　　They have been told to avoid venturing into marshy areas alone at night, Elorde said．

(1)

What can we infer from the passage?

[　　]

A．

The villagers captured the crocodile by chance．

B．

The crocodile the villagers have captured is the largest crocodile captured in recent years．

C．

The town has already built an ecotourism park for the crocodile．

D．

Not all the crocodile live in saltwater．

(2)

What can we know about the crocodiles in this area according to the passage?

[　　]

A．

The crocodiles in the area are very friendly to the villagers．

B．

The crocodiles usually wander about in the center of the town．

C．

The crocodiles in the town have become a threat to the villagers．

D．

The capture of the male crocodile took three months．

(3)

What happened to the crocodile after it was captured?

[　　]

A．

It was sent to the ecotourism park for species found in a vast marshland．

B．

It was sent back to the wilderness．

C．

It was kept in a fenced cage．

D．

It became the biggest star in the park．

(4)

When Elorde finally stood before the crocodile, how did he feel?

[　　]

A．

Nervous．

B．

Proud．

C．

Shocked．

D．

Happy．

(5)

In Elorde’s opinion, the existence of the crocodile in the wild in this area is ________．

[　　]

A．

threatening

B．

puzzling

C．

reasonable

D．

suspecting

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　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

(1)

The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

[　　]

A．

it made Christive evil

B．

it was the apple of Eden

C．

it came from a forbidden land

D．

it was religiously unacceptable

(2)

What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

[　　]

A．

The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

B．

There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

C．

The tomato was still refused in most western countries

D．

Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

(3)

What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

[　　]

A．

To manke imself a hero

B．

To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

C．

To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

D．

To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

(4)

What is the main purpose of the passage?

[　　]

A．

To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

B．

To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

C．

To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

D．

To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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