阅读理解

　　One day while I was reading in the room, I heard a voice coming from next door. “Block party tonight.” Right then I realized summer had arrived in North Dakota.

　　I'll tell you there is nobody who enjoys summer more than North Dakotans, possibly because it takes such a long time to get here. We come out of our cocoons shutting and opening our eyes in the sun and ready to go. We like summer as a girl likes diamonds. We rush to the parks and the swimming pools and the sports fields and the paths and the lakes. You ask a dozen North Dakotans what summer means to them and you will get a dozen different answers .

1．We can conclude that in North Dakota ________.

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A．a block party is an early sign of summer

B．indoor sports are popular in winter

C．the people are strong and healthy

D．winter snows are usually deep

2．To the North Dakotans winter probably seems ________.

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3．The sentence “You ask a dozen…get a dozen different answers” shows that North Dakotan ________.

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4．Which of the following can best show North Dakotans enjoy outdoor sports?

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A．We come out of our cocoons…

B．We rush to the parks and the swimming pools…

C．We like summer as a girl likes diamonds.

D．There is nobody who enjoys summer more than North Dakotans.

5．Cloose a title for the passage.

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阅读理解

　　People who travel a lot fly with Bel Air because they know they will get what they want.

　　They want to go quickly, and safely, across the country, across the sea , or right across the world and they know Bel Air will take them where they want to go, when they want to go. Bel Air flies all the newest and fastest planes, to more towns and cities, in more countries of the world, than any other airline.

　　Do you want to go to Paris. Washington, Tokyo? Bel Air will take you there, at all times of the day or night, right through the week, but Bel Air flies not only to the big cities in the rich countries we fly two or three times a week to towns and cities in the very heart of Asia, Africa and South America.

　　People who travel a lot fly with Bel air, because they know they will leave on time, and arrive on time: They know the food they will receive and films they will watch will be of the very best.

　　Bel Air is second to none. When you fly, fly with Bel Air.

1．Bel Air says that experienced travellers choose to fly with it because ________.

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A．it offers everything a passenger needs

B．its planes fly to distant places

C．it has more planes than other airlines

D．its passengers can watch films on its planes

2．Bel Ais flies to big cities like Paris ________.

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3．Bel Air flies to ________.

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4．“Bel Air is second to none”means ________.

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A．Bel Air is one of the best two airlines

B．only one airline is better than Bel Air

C．no other airline is better than Bel Air

D．Bel Air is among the best airline

5．The passage was written ________.

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A．to give people information about airline

B．to persuade people to fly with Bel Air

C．to tell people about airline service

D．to show people the fastest way of traveling

阅读理解

　　Over a hundred years ago people in London were surprised to see a very unusual boat sailing up the Thames River. The boat was eighty feet long, flat-bottomed, with big wooden eye on both sides in the front and was colourfully painted at the back .

　　People came to know it was a sailing boat from Fuzhou in distant China. The boat had sailed round the Cape of Good Hope (好望角) , up the western coast of Africa and finally to England. It had covered fifteen thousand miles-more than half of the distance round the world .

　　Although it was unexpected, the Chinese were warmly welcomed. The boat carried goods such as silk and tea as well as a number of gifts from the Emperor of China for the Queen of England .

　　People had always mistakenly thought of the Chinese as a people not used to sea. However, from centuries of trading and sailing in dangerous seas, the Chinese had learned how to build good boats and sail them well. The coming of this sailing boat to London proved once again that the Chinese could sail to distant countries in the world.

1．The Chinese sailing boat arrived in London ________.

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2．The boat was considered unusual because ________.

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A．it was a small wooden boat

B．it carried Chinese silk and tea

C．it had travelled fifteen thousand miles

D．it looked strange in several ways

3．According to this article, which of the following is TRUE?

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A．The distance round the earth measures less than thirty thousand miles.

B．The Chinses Emperor gave silk and tea to the English Queen as gifts.

C．The Chinese boat came to London by accident.

D．The Chinese people were not good at sailing in dangerous seas.

4．The boat reached London by sailing ________.

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A．round the southern end of Africa

B．up the west coast of England

C．through the Arctic Ocean

D．round Asia and Europe

5．The writer wants to prove that a long time ago the Chinese ________.

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A．carried silk, tea and other goods to England

B．could reach many parts of the world by sea

C．could sail along the Thames River

D．surprised Londoners with an unusual boat

阅读理解

　　Robert E Peary was a great U . S . explorer (探险家) , He reached the North Pole in 1809 , For more than 20 years, he tried to reach the pole. During much of his this time, he kept a diary of trips. A diary is the writing of a person that tells about his or her life day by day. Here is what Peary wrote in his diary on the day he reached the pole .

　　“The pole at last ! My dream for 20 years. Mine at last ! I cannot bring myself to believe it. It all seemed so simple…”

　　This page was written on the biggest day in Robert E . Peary' s life . But the diary also tells about the hard times he had. Many times during his travels, Peary had to say good - bye to his wife. Once he wrote.

　　“Another good - bye, and there have been so many ! Strong brave woman, You have lived with me through all my hard work . This life is a dog's life. Will I succeed? Will I return?”

1．An explorer is a person who ________ .

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A．makes a short trip

B．flies a plane

C．keeps a diary

D．goes into a place to learn about it

2．On the day he reached the Pole , Peary felt excited and happy because ________ .

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A．his dream had come true

B．his living conditions had been greatly improved

C．he had heard from his wife

D．he had just had a pleasant dream

3．From the last paragraph, you can tell that Peary probably felt ________ .

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A．calm and pleased

B．proud and merry

C．sad and worried

D．silly and lonely

4．In this diary Peary wrote, “This life is a dog' s life ……” It means

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A．this life is an ordinary life

B．this life is a hard life

C．this life is a short life

D．this life is an easy life

5．For which reason do people keep a diary

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A．They tell about all the interesting stories they have heard.

B．They want to keep all the things in their minds.

C．They tell about the most important things they do every week .

D．They write down what they do and feel every day

阅读理解

　　The law is a great many of rules, showing when and how far a man is likely to be punished, or to be made to hand over money or properly to his neighbours . and so forth . These rules are contained (包含) in books . A lawyer learns them mainly by reading books .

　　He begins by doing little else than read, and after he has prepared himself by, say, three years' study to practise, still, all his lifelong and almost every day, he will be looking into books to read a little more than he already knows about some new question which he has to answer.

　　The power to use books , then is a talent (天资) which the would - be (将要成为的) lawyer ought to have. He ought to be very flexible (灵活的) and fine to make it easy for him to collect ideas from printed words , He ought to be ready in finding what a book contains , and something of an instinct (本能) for where to look for what he wants .

　　But although this is the power of which he will first feel the need, it is not the most important. A lawyer does not study law to recite; he studies it to use it and act upon the rules which he has learned in real life. His business is to try cases in court and to advise men what to do in order to keep out or get out of trouble. He studies his books in order to advise and to try his cases in the right way.

1．The first thing a law student has to do is to ________ .

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2．After three years of reading, ________ .

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A．he can study law

B．he can stop reading

C．he still has to continue reading

D．he is able to give intelligent answers

3．According to this passage, a would - be lawyer ought to have the ability to ________ .

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A．make best use of books

B．read every book carefully

C．read any books without difficulty

D．look for books everywhere

4．The main business of a lawyer is to ________ .

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A．discuss the material he has read

B．advise people who have legal (法律上的) problems

C．learn about real life

D．study the law

5．A good lawyer should know how to ________ .

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A．analyse and explain what he reads

B．be flexible in all things

C．collect ideas

D．be powerful

阅读理解

　　You know you have to read“between the lines”to get the most out of anything . I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading . I want to persuade you to“write between the lines.”Unless you do , you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading.

　　I insist, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of damage but of love.

　　There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of buying is only the first step to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. A comparison may make the point clear. You buy a piece of beef and transfer it from the butcher' s icebox to your own . But you do not own the beef in the most important sense until you eat it and get it into your blood. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your blood to do you any good .

　　There are three kinds of book owners . The first has all the standard sets and bestsellers - unread , untouched . The second has a great many books ——a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought . The third has a few books or many every one of them worn, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scrabbled (涂写) in from front to back.

　　Why is marking up a book necessary to reading it? First, it keeps you awake. (And I don' t mean only conscious; I mean wide awake. ) In the second place, reading, if it is active, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The marked book is usually the thought - through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had , or the thoughts the author expressed.

1．The third kind of owners of hooks must he ________ .

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2．Marking up a book means ________ .

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A．writing down difficult sentences

B．finding the extra meanings of unknown words

C．writing in the space the ideas you get through careful reading

D．making notes to show you understand what you have read

3．What does the author persuade you to mark?

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A．Whatever you have given deep thought to while reading.

B．Words and sentences that bring up rich ideas .

C．Primary questions that challenge you .

D．Whatever disagreements you may have with the book.

4．A great advantage of marking up a book is ________ .

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A．to absorb all the brilliant ideas it contains

B．to make yourself a part of it , making further inquiry (查询) easy

C．to make yourself conscious that you are reading actively

D．to enable yourself to pick up the book for continual reading

阅读理解

　　When several different people look at the same person, it is not unusual for each of them to see different things; when you alone observe one behavior or one person at two different times, you may see different things. The following are but some of the factors that lead to these varying perceptions (感知，认知):

　　(1) Each person's perceptions of others are formed by his or her own cultural conditioning, education, and personal experiences.

　　(2) Sometimes perceptions differ because of what we choose to observe and how we deal with what we've observed. It is not necessarily true that person perception is based on observations of a particular person. Your observations may be totally controlled by what others have told you about this person; or you may focus (聚焦) primarily on the situation or role relationship. Most people do not use the same yardstick (标准) to measure their parents, their friends, and strangers.

　　(3) Sometimes we see only what we want to see or don't see what may be obvious to others because of our own needs, desires, or temporary emotional states. This is a process known as selective perception. Selective perception is obviously more difficult when contradictory (矛盾的) information is particularly obvious, but it can be done. We can ignore (忽视) the stimulus——“He's basically a good boy so that I was not shoplifting.” We can reduce the importance of the contradictory information——“All kids (孩子) get into mischief (顽皮). Taking a look from the bookstore isn't such a big deal.” We can change the meaning of the contradictory information——“It wasn't shoplifting because he was going to pay for it later.”……

1．The first factor given by the author that affects our perception is ________.

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A．the abilities of one's auditory (听) and visual (视) sensors

B．cultural background and personal experiences

C．experiences one learns from others

D．critical measures taken by other people

2．While observing a particular person ________.

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A．one is likely to take all aspects (方便) into consideration

B．one pays more attention to his/her advantages

C．children often differ from grown-ups in perception

D．one tends to choose certain cues (提示) to look for

3．Observation of the same person by two people at the same time may differ because ________.

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A．their measuring yardsticks are not the same

B．either of them may be slow to catch information

C．the time for observation is not long enough

D．each of them uses different language to express his/her impressions

4．The word “stimulus” in paragraph 4 refers to ________.

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5．The worst thing in selective perception is that ________.

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A．perceived information runs against your desire

B．facts can be totally ignored or distorted (扭曲)

C．importance of the contradictory information can be overrated (估计过高)

D．the same information may not be dealt with in the same way

阅读理解

　　There were two interesting pieces of news items in the paper a few years ago. One was about a man who received a bill from the telephone company for ￡ 2,000 a month for doing nothing.

　　The connection between the two news items is simple: computers the best invention of the 20th century. The telephone bill came from a computer which made a terrifying mistake; that man's bill was only ￡ 23.26. The other item was not as amusing. A man walked into the unguarded computer room of a large packaged food company and expertly programmed the computer to pay him ￡ 2,000 a month for raw meat which he “supplied” to the company. Of course he never sent the meat, but he certainly received the money. The computer wrote out a bill, and even “signed” it. It was only a random (随便的) check that uncovered the trick. It could be happening in thousands of other companies all over the world.

　　Computers are not the magical workers that some people say they are. They make mistakes, they're sometimes slower than human beings and they're easily fooled.

　　The US used to conscript (征兵) people with the help of a computer. The army sent out a card, which had to be filled in and sent back. It was easy to avoid being called up simply by spreading candle wax (腊) on the card. The computer couldn't read the card, and did nothing with it.

　　It's in our everyday life that computers cause many problems. Let's get back to using people instead of computers, before a mistake that we can't put right.

1．In the first paragraph we can conclude ________.

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A．the paper is telling a lie

B．the first sentence is the topic sentence

C．the two news items made people surprised

D．if a man did nothing at all for the telephone company, he would still get ￡ 2,000 a month

2．The main idea of the second paragraph is ________.

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A．the computers are magical workers

B．the computers can do anything as well as man

C．the computers can write out the bill and even sign it

D．the computers sometimes also make mistakes

3．Computers ________.

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A．were used to conscript people

B．are usually faster than human beings

C．are not so magical as people expect

D．were not easily controlled and always fooled human beings

4．The writer thinks ________.

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A．we'd better use people instead of computers in our everyday life

B．we should not use computers because they always make mistakes

C．computers are widely used in our everyday life

D．if we want to work well, don't use the computers

阅读理解

　　There are two types of twins: identical and non-identical twins. Identical twins are formed from a single egg in the mother's body which divides to form two separate babies. Identical twins look the same, and are often dressed by their parents in clothes of the same colors. It is often difficult to tell identical twins from each other, even when they are standing side by side. Non-identical twins come into being when the mother produces two separate eggs at the same time, both of which grow to form babies. In this case the twins look like normal brothers and sisters and are easy to tell one from the other.

　　In the 1970s and 1980s a scientist did some research into twins. He invited many pairs of identical twins to university and asked them to take part in a week of tests. He was particularly interested in adopted (收养) twins who had been separated at birth. He would give the twins different kinds of tests to study their speed of thinking, their speech, their memory, the ways they saw and heard different things, and so on. Time and time again he found separated twins who preferred clothes of the same color, used the same kind of shaving soap, wore the same shaped square glasses and the same colored socks.

　　There is a third type of twins, but it is a very unusual one. Twins which are joined together at birth are known in western countries as Siamese twins.

1．It is difficult to tell identical twins apart because ________.

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A．they are dressed in the same clothes

B．they are dressed in the same color

C．they are very alike

D．they are standing side by side

2．If the twins are easy to tell from each other, they are ________.

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A．very probably non-identical twins

B．actually not brothers or sisters

C．surely identical twins

D．always a brother and a sister

3．Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?

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A．In the 1970s and 1980s a scientist did some research into the two main types of twins.

B．In the week of tests, he tested their speed of thinking, their speech, their memory and some other things.

C．There were twins who had been separated from each other as soon as they were born.

D．Very often, separated twins were found to choose things of the same kind, the same shape and the same color.

4．This passage mainly tells us ________.

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A．the main types of twins

B．what has been found out about twins

C．how twins are formed

D．how a scientist studied twins

阅读理解

　　Early in the 18th century, Captain Cook, a famous explorer of England, unexpectedly caught sight of an unusual animal during his first visit to Australia. The animal had a large head like mouse and jumped along on its large legs. To his great surprise, the unusual animal carried its young in a special pocket of flesh. Captain Cook pointed to the animal which was eating grass in the distance and asked his native guide what the animal was referred to. The guide seemed not to know what he was pointing at and finally said “Kang-a-roo”, but their requests were met with puzzled looks of the native people. Before long they got to discover that the native guide who made the answer to Cook's question really meant, “I don't know what you are pointing at.” Funny enough, the name “Kang-a-roo” stuck and it is still in use today.

1．Which of the following sentences best expresses the main idea?

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A．Captain Cook's guide made a joke.

B．Native Australians could not speak English in Cook's time.

C．Some words have rather funny origin (起源).

D．Captain Cook was a lover of wild animals.

2．When the native guide said “Kang-a-roo”, he really meant “________”

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A．Ah, it is a special kind of animal.

B．I wonder what you have said

C．What do you mean by pointing at that animal?

D．I have no idea of what you are referring to.

3．We can infer from this passage ________.

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A．we should learn many different languages

B．Captain Cook made a mistake in understanding

C．Captain Cook was a foolish explorer

D．the importance of a language in common