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    Every Saturday, Nasreddin went to the market to buy food and other things. He put them into a big basket, but he was old and weak, so he always paid another man to carry the basket home for him. But one Saturday, while he was walking home in front of a man with the basket, the man ran away with it.

    The next Saturday, when Nasreddin went to the market again, a friend of his said, “Look, there he is! The man stole your things last week!”

    Nasreddin at once hid(藏) behind a shop, and stayed there until the man left the market.

    His friend was very surprised. “Why did you do that?”He asked.

    “Well,” said Nasrecddin,“that man was carrying my basket when he left me a week ago. He willwant me to play him for seven days' work, and that will cost me more than a basket full of things!”

1．Nasreddin went shopping ________.

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2．Nasreddin always paid another man to carry his basket home for him because ________.

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3．The man ran away with the basket when ________.

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A．he was walking after Nasreddin

B．he was walking before Nasreddin

C．Nasreddin was looking after his basket

D．Nasreddin was talking to another one with his basket

4．As soon as Nasreddin saw that man again, ________.

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A．he asked him for basket

B．he caught him at once

C．he did behind a shop at once

D．he paid him for seven days' work

5．Nasreddin thought it better to ________.

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A．ask the man to pay for seven days' work

B．catch the man later

C．let the man go with the basket

D．pay the man and let him go

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　　Millions of words have been written about young people in the USA. There are reasons for this great interest in the ideas, feelings, and others for young people.

　　Today there are about seven million Americans in colleges and universities. Young persons under twenty-five make up nearly half of the American population. Many of these will soon be in charge of(掌管) the nation. Naturally their ideas are important to everyone in the country, and it is necessary for older people to understand what they think and feel.

　　College students today have strong opinions about right and wrong. They are deeply interested in making a better life for all people, especially for those who have not been given a fair chance before now. They see much that is wrong in the lives of their parents. It is hard for them to see what is trouble in American families. Your country may be meeting such problems, too.

1．The writer of this passage that young American today ________.

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A．pay much attention to their own interest

B．know little about their parents

C．care about others very much

D．are much interested in writing about themselves

2．In America today young people under twenty-five ________.

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A．are making up a plan to improve the life of older people

B．are getting ready to take office in the near future

C．want to go to the colleges or universities

D．are nearly as many as 50 per cent of the population

3．College students in America today ________.

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A．have a strong sense of social justice (正义)

B．are in charge of important tasks of the nation

C．do not think much about social problems

D．can not tell right from wrong

4．According to this passage, old people must try ________.

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A．to be strict with their children

B．to understand their children

C．to teach their children how to think and act

D．to write about their children

5．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

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A．There are few disagreements between the young and the old in American families.

B．In America the old people have not been given a fair chance.

C．It seems that not only the USA has such family trouble.

D．College students have different ideas from the others.

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　　The first newspaper was written by hand and put on walls in public places. The earliest daily newspaper was started in Rome in 59 B.C. In the 700's the world's first printed newspaper was published. Europe didn't have a regular newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Germany.

　　The first regularly published newspaper in English was printed in Amsterdam in 1620. In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published once a week. The first daily English newspaper was the Daily current. It came out in March 1702.

　　In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. But not long after it was first published the government stopped the paper. In 1704, John Campbell started the Boston Newsletter, the first newspaper published daily in the American colonies (殖民地). By 1760, the colonies had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1800 daily papers in the United States.

　　Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation (发行量) in the world. But the largest circulation for a newspaper is that of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun(《朝日新闻》). It sells more than eleven million copies every year.

1．The first regularly printed European newspaper was started in ________.

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2．The first daily newspaper in English was started ________.

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3．From the article, we know that ________.

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A．many people in the world read newspaper now

B．the first newspaper was printed in Rome in 59B.C.

C．one English language newspaper has the largest circulation in the world

D．newspapers have a long history in the United States

4．Which of the following is true?

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A．Germany had the earliest European printed newspaper

B．The first American newspaper was forbidden by the government

C．The first English newspaper started in England

D．Newspaper started in 59B.C.

5．Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “Newsletter”?

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　　Mr Brown was at the theatre. He had got his ticket at the last moment, so he had not been able to choose his seat. He now found that he was in the middle of a group of American ladies , some of them middle-aged and some quite old. They obviously all knew each other well, as before the curtain went up on the play they had come to see. they all talked and joked a lot together.

　　The lady sitting on Mr. Brown's left, who was about sixty years old, seemed to be the happiest and the most interesting of the American group, and after the first act of the play, she apologized to him for the noise (喧闹声) of her friends. He answered that he was very glad to see American ladies so obviously enjoying their visit to England, and so they had a friendly talk. Mr. Brown's neighbour explained what they were doing there.

　　“You know, I have known these ladies all my life,”she said. “We all grew up together back in our hometown in the United States. They have all lost husbands, and call themselves the Merry Widows (寡妇). It is a sort of club, you know. They go to a foreign country every summer for a month or two and have a lot of fun. They always go everywhere together. I have wanted to join their club for a long time, but I was not able to become a member until the spring of this year. ”

1．Mr Brown did no get his ticket until ________.

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2．The group of American ladies enjoyed the play in a theatre in ________.

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3．Which of the following is TRUE?

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A．The person who lived next to Mr Brown was also at the theatre.

B．The American ladies apologized for being noisy.

C．All of the American ladies lost their husbands.

D．The American ladies did not know each other at all.

4．Mr Brown's neighbour at the theatre ________.

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A．did not know these ladies until recently

B．only knew some of them all her life

C．had not known them since she joined the club

D．had known these ladies for a long time

5．The lady sitting on Mr Brown's left finally succeeded in joining the club in the spring of this year when ________.

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A．her husband died

B．the ladies in the club began to like her

C．she got married

D．she pretended to be merry

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　　Jim walked into a store which had a sign (牌子) outside. “Second-hand clothes bought and sold. ” He was carrying an old pair of trousers and asked the owner of the store , “How much will you give me for these?” The man looked at them and then said rudely, “Two dollars. ”

　　“What!” Said Jim. “I had guessed they were worth at least five. ”

　　“No,” said the man, “they aren't worth a penny more than two dollars. ”

　　“Are you sure?” Asked Jim.

　　“Very sure!” Said the man.

　　“Well,” said Jim, taking two dollars out of his pocket, “Here is your money. These trousers were hanging outside your store with a price tag (标签) that said 6. 50, but I thought that was too much money, so I wanted to make sure how much they were really worth. ”

　　Then he walked out of the store with the pair of trousers and disappeared before the surprised store owner could think of anything to say.

1．What were bought and sold in the store?

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2．Jim wanted to ________.

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3．The owner of the thought Jim wanted to ________.

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A．buy trousers

B．sell trousers

C．trouble him

D．give him two dollars for expensive trousers

4．In the end ________.

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　　Joe worked in his father's shop before he worked alone. His father stopped working when he became old. Joe sold more in his shop on Saturdays than on other days. He did not bring all of his meat to his shop himself, because he was too busy. He did not keep much meat in his refrigerator (冰箱), because he tried to sell it quickly. One Thursday a woman came to his shop very late because she needed some meat for some visitors that evening. The woman wanted a bigger piece than the only good one that Joe had, but he did not say that he had not got one. He went into the room behind his shop, opened the refrigerator, put the piece into it, then took it out again and shut the door of the refrigerator with a lot of noise. Then he brought the piece of meat back to the woman and said that it was bigger and dearer than the first one, but it was really the same piece. The woman said with a smile that she wanted both pieces.

1．Joe had to begin to work alone in the shop ________.

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A．when his father became ill

B．after his father passed away

C．when his father stopped to rest

D．when his father became too old to work

2．How did he get his meat?

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A．His father and he brought it to the shop.

B．Other people as well as he brought it to the shop.

C．The seller drove to sell it in the city.

D．He himself drove to buy it in the city.

3．Joe had only one piece of good meat because ________.

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A．all the other meat had gone bad

B．he did not try to buy too much meat at one time

C．he could not get enough good meat that day

D．he could not keep all his meat all day long

4．The woman did not want that piece of meat because it was not ________.

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　　Some people think that all wild animals are dangerous. Actually, very few of them will attack a man if he leaves them alone. If you meet a lion (狮子) or an elephant, suppose you would run away, but even a lion will keep away from a man unless it is very hungry. Lions and tigers only kill and eat men when they have grown too old and too weak to catch their usual food, such as deer and other small animals. If you saw a wild elephant, perhaps you would be frightened. Elephants usually run away at once unless you attack them. Some animals get very frightened if they only smell a man, some take no notice at all but quietly walk in another direction. Wild animals only attack hunters when they are afraid that the hunters mean to harm their young ones, or when the hunters shoot at them and make them angry.

1．The underlined word“attack”is closest in meaning to“________”.

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2．Lions and tigers will not kill or eat men ________.

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A．unless men try to run away

B．if they are too old and too weak

C．if they are able to get enough of their usual food

D．however men act towards them

3．Some animals run away when they smell a man probably because ________.

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A．they dislike the smell

B．they think men are dangerous to them

C．they don't want to eat men

D．they want to eat weak men

4．Some wild animals will become very dangerous ________.

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5．This passage is mainly about ________.

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A．how to protect wild animals

B．how animals look for their food

C．how to make friends with wild animals

D．how animals act towards men

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　　One day while Bradley and his mother were shopping, they talked about how much they like oranges. Mother told Braadley to get some oranges, they looked good, so he went to the fruit counter to look at them. Some of them looked good, and some of them didn't. Bradley knew that he would need to select carefully.

　　He found a nice orange on the top of the display. The next good one he saw was down a few rows, but as he lifted it out, the whole display rolled to the floor. Bradley stood there with one orange in his hand and oranges rolling around his feet. He wished the floor would open up and swallow him.

　　A big man in uniform came over to Bradley.“Well, young man,”he said, “it looks as if we have quite a mess here.”

　　“Yes, sir,”Bradley replied, not daring to say anything else.

　　The man smiled and said, “This isn't the first time this has happened, and it won't be the last. Take the oranges you want, and I'll have someone fix the display.”

　　Bradley took the one orange in his hand to his mother's cart and said,“I think this is all we'll be needing this time.”

1．Bradley did not dare to say anything when the oranges fell because ________.

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A．he was afraid his mother would hear him

B．he was worried that the police might come for him

C．he did not have enough money to pay for all the oranges he wanted

D．he did not yet know how the man in uniform felt about the mess

2．What is the meaning of the sentence?

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A．He wanted to hide in the store so the police wouldn't find him.

B．He wished that he could disappear so no one would see what he had done.

C．He thought that if he got down on the floor he could pick up the oranges.

D．He really meant that he wanted to swallow some orange juice.

3．The story's purpose is to ________.

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A．teach people how to choose good oranges

B．get people to buy more oranges

C．tell about a young boy's bad experience

D．make people afraid of people in uniform

4．Which sentence from the story tells us that Bradley was right to be careful in choosing the oranges he bought?

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A．Some of them looked good, and some of them didn't.

B．As he lifted it out, the whole display rolled to the floor.

C．Bradley took the one orange to his mother's cart.

D．Bradley knew that he would need to select carefully.

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Five…four…there…two…one

　　A rocket launch count down, a common sound in the 1960s. But this was not just another launch. It was the beginning of a historic event. It was the countdown for Apollo Ⅱ, the first flight that would carry man to the first landing on the moon. The ground shook as the huge Saturn V rocket moved slowly up into the sky. It rose perfectly. Someone on the launch crew spoke the words “Good luck”and “Godspeed”. I'm Jack Whistler. Today Stan Busbee and I will tell the story of flight of Apollo Ⅱ in July, 1969.

　　In the spacecraft at the top of the speeding rocket were 3 American astronauts, whose names soon would be known around the world: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Neil Armstrong was the commander of the spacecraft. e was a test pilot. He had flown earlier on one of the 2 -man Gemini space flights. Armstrong was a calm person, a man who talked very little. Edwin Buzz Aldrin was the pilot of the moon lander vehicle. The astronauts gave it the name Eagle. Aldrin had flown on the last of the Gemini flights. He also was a quiet man, except twenty talked about space. Michael Collins was the pilot of the command module vehicle Columbia. He also had made a Gemini flight. He would wait in orbit around the moon as Armstrong and Aldrin landed and explored the surface. Collins was very popular and always ready with a smile.

1．This passage mainly deals with ________.

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A．the countdown for Apollo Ⅱ and a brief introduction of the astronauts related

B．the personality of the astronauts

C．the flight of Apollo Ⅱ

D．the first landing on the moon

2．The word “Godspeed”means ________.

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3．Who of the follwing was not in the aircraft?

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4．The word“twenty”in the second paragraph ________.

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A．is but a number

B．means“a lot”C. means“seldom”D. means“a little”

5．Which of the following statements is true?

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A．Edwin was the commander of the spacecraft.

B．Armstrong was very popular and always ready with a smile.

C．Eagle was the name of the command module.

D．Neil had flown earlier on one of the 2-man Gemini space flights.

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　　Fred was a young soldier in a big camp. During the week they always worked very hard, but it was Saturday, and all the young soldiers were free, so their officer said to them, “You can go into the town this afternoon, but first I'm going to inspect you.”

　　Fred came to the officer, and the officer said to him. “Your hair is very long. Go to the barber and then come back to me again.”

   Fred ran to the barber's shop, but it was closed because it was Saturday. Fred was very sad for a few minutes, but then he smiled and went back to the officer.

　　“Are my boots clean now, sir?”He asked.

　　The officer did not look at Fred's hair. He looked at his boots and said, “Yes, they're much better now. You can go out. And next week, first clean your boots, and then come to me!”

1．The officer told the soldiers that they could go into the town because ________.

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A．the soldiers worked hard during the weekdays

B．it was a weekend

C．he wanted to inspect them

D．the officer was pleased with the soldiers

2．The officer told Fred to ________ before going to the town.

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A．clean his boots

B．stay inside

C．go to the officer's office

D．have his hair cut

3．Fred felt sad when he found the barber's shop closed because ________.

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A．he was afraid that the officer would scold him

B．he wanted to have his hair cut very much

C．he was afraid that the officer wouldn't allow him to go into the town

D．he would be punished

4．How did the officer feel when Fred came back to him?

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A．He was angry because Fred hadn't had his hair cut.

B．He was quite satisfied.

C．He was glad because Fred had cleaned his shoes as told.

D．He was sad for a few minuets.

5．The officer told Fred to ________ next week before Fred came to see him.

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A．clean his boots

B．clean his face

C．cut his hair

D．clean his room