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　　In our country, power plants that make electricity are often built on rivers. Cool water that is used in making electricity becomes warm as it runs through the plant. Then the heated water is returned to the river.

　　When large amounts of warm water are dumped into a river, the river itself is heated. The temperature of the water may be raised only a few degrees. Yet these few degrees can change the animal and plant life in the river. Heat causes a loss of oxygen in the water. fish no longer do well, and some kinds die. Without enough oxygen, bacteria in the river cannot break down waste matter. The river is no longer clean.

　　In the coming years, new power plants will be built. Many will be run by nuclear energy. A nuclear power plant heats a river even more than a power plant run by gas, oil, or coal.

　　In some states, laws are being passed to protect the rivers. Certain rivers will be called “cold-water rivers” . Power plants will not be allowed to raise their temperature above . The temperature of “warm-water rivers” will not be raised above . Power plants will have to cool the water before they pour into rivers.

1．Water that is used in making electricity ________.

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2．The story does not say so, but it makes you think that ________.

[　　]

A．fish must have oxygen

B．bacteria must be removed from rivers

C．plants need warm water

D．all the power plants am built on rivets

3．Many power plants will be run by ________ .

[　　]

A．cold-water rivers

B．nuclear energy

C．gas, coal, or oil

D．drops of water

4．Why are laws being passed to protect our rivers?

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A．We must save all the water we can to make electricity.

B．People are catching too many fish in our streams and rivers.

C．Without laws, warm water dumped into rivers could kill the fish.

D．Lawyers can have many jobs to do.

5 ．On the whole this story is about ________.

[　　]

A．the changes caused by heating rivers

B．how nuclear power plants use electricity

C．why we must build new power plants

D．where we can find dead fish

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　　These days, experiences, like many other things, are becoming increasingly expensive. One has to pay a lot for them, even an ordinary one.

　　Not long ago, I wanted to invite my friend to lunch. What we really reed was a good and quiet place so that we could talk, not a big meal. So I selected one club. I belong to that club, too. What could be nicer? “Let's go to the club. ” I told my friend.

　　When I ordered a day in advance, I was asked whether I would have a 20 yuan or 30 yuan lunch. I said, “30 yuan . ”I didn't realize until I was asked to pay after lunch, that 30 yuan was for each person.

　　There were five people that day, and all of us were surprised by the quality of the 30 yuan meal (for all, we thought). The bill came at last. It was 216.40 yuan (150 for the five of us plus the money for drinks, fruits and air-conditioning), I paid the bill without a word.

　　What could I say? It was not the club's fault. It was my own ignorance(无知)that made me pay the largest bill in my life. On the whole, it was not so bad, we had a good lunch at a quiet place. Besides, this experience will help in other years.

　　To support my idea, I have developed my own calculation 30 yuan for the lunch and 186.40 for the experience. The experience has made me ten times wiser.

1．Now many things are becoming ________ .

[　　]

A．less experiential

B．are not so experiential

C．as expensive as before

D．more expensive

2．What we really wanted to have was ________.

[　　]

A．a good meal

B．a good and quiet place to talk

C．a club

D．an experience

3．I thought that I had ordered a meld that cast ________.

[　　]

A．me 20 yuan

B．me 30 yuan

C．us 20 yuan each

D．us 30 yuan each

4．What do you think makes me pay the largest bill in my life?

[　　]

A．My fault.

B．My mistake.

C．The club's trick.

D．The club's mistake.

5．“The experience has made me ten times wiser. ”expresses ________.

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A．my thanks to the club

B．my pleasure to be ten times wiser

C．my honesty

D．my anger

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　　Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services. People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.

　　Most of the money today is made of metal or paper. But people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells.

　　Shells were not the only things used as money. In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Phillipine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time. Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.

　　The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and has a square hole in the center . Peoople strung (串联)them together and carried them from place to place.

　　Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money . The first coins in England were made of tin (锡). Sweden and Russia used copper(铜)to make their money. Later some countries began to make coins of gold and silver.

　　But even gold and silver were inconvenient(不方便的)if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. They began to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today .

　　Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today .

1．The main use of money is that ________.

[　　]

A．people use it to buy things to eat

B．people accept money only in exchange for clothes

C．people accept money in exchange for goods and service

D．people will accept money for wing our goods to others

2．Most of the money used today is made of ________.

[　　]

A．paper

B．elephant tusks

C．shells

D．metal or paper

3．What did the first Chinese metal coins look like?

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A．They had square hole in the center.

B．They were just like shells.

C．They were round like the moon.

D．They were round with a square hole in the centre.

4．Who thought of a way to use paper money first?

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A．The Chinese.

B．The Russian.

C．The Swede.

D．The English men.

5．The best title of this passage should be ________.

[　　]

A．The Chinese Money

B．The History of Money

C．Some Things About Money

D．What is Money

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　　A well-dressed man enforced a famous jewelry shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl for his wife's birthday. The price didn't matter, since business had been very good for him that year. After examing a nice black one that costs $5,000, he paid for the pearl in cash, shook hands with the jeweler, and left.

　　A few days later the man returned and said that his wife liked the pearl so much that she wanted another one just like it. It had to be exactly the same size and quality. As she wanted a pair of earrings made. “Can you give me any advice on how to get such a pearl?” said the man. The jeweler regretfully replied, “I would say it's exactly impossible to find one exactly like that pearl. ”

　　The rich man insisted that the jeweler advertise in the newspapers. offering $25,000 for the matching pearl. Many people answered the adverisement but nobody had a pearl that was just right.

　　Just when the jeweler had given up hope, a little old lady came into his store. To his great surprise, she pulled the perfect pearl from her purse. “I don't like to part with it. ”she said sadly,“I inherited it from my mother, and my mother inherited it from hers. But I really need the money . ”

　　The jeweler was quickly to pay her before she changed her mind. Then he called the rich man's hotel to tell him the good news. The man, however, was nowhere to be found.

1．The man said he wanted to buy a pearl for ________.

[　　]

A．his wife

B．his mother-in-law

C．his own mother

D．no one

2．He paid $ 5,000 for the black pearl without bargaining because ________.

[　　]

A．he was very rich

B．he wanted to make the jeweler believe him

C．he was anxious to get it

D．his business had been successful

3．He told the jeweler to get him another pearl that must be ________.

[　　]

A．exactly the same size as the black one

B．exactly the same quality as the black one

C．worth more than $25,000

D．exactly as big and nice as the black one

4．Many people answer the advertisement because they wanted ________.

[　　]

A．to see the perfect pearl

B．to buy some beautiful pearls too

C．to get in touch with the rich man

D．to sell their own pearl at a high price

5．The jeweler couldn't find the man anywhere because ________.

[　　]

A．he died suddenly

B．he happened to be out

C．he got $20,000 by cheating and had run away with the money

D．he wouldn't show up until the jeweler called him a second time

阅读理解

　　People used to say, “The hand that rocks (摇)the cradle (摇篮)rules the world.” and “Behind every successful man, there's a woman. ”Both these sayings mean the same thing: Men rule the world, but their wives rule them.

　　Most of the American women like making their husbands and sons successful, but some of them want something for themselves. They want good jobs. When they work, they want to be better paid, they want to be as successful as men.

　　The American women's liberation movement was slatted by the women who don't want to stand behind successful men. They don't want to be told that certain jobs of offices are closed to them. They refuse to work side by side with men who do the same work for a higher pay.

　　A liberated woman must be proud of being a woman and confidence(信心)in herself. If somebody says to her, “You've come a long way, baby.” She'll smile and answer, “Not nearly as far as I'm going to go, baby.”

　　This movement is quite new, and many American women do not agree . But it has already made some important changes in women's lives—in men's lives, too.

1．“The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”means________.

[　　]

A．woman can not only give birth to children but rule a country

B．women not only raise their children but support their husbands

C．women do play an important part in men's lives and work

D．a man can't be successful without being married

2．“You've come a long way, baby. ”means________.

[　　]

A．you have walked far from your home

B．she has done a lot and succeeded greatly in freeing herself

C．she has worked outside far from her home

D．you really love me, dear

3．“Not nearly as far as I'm going to go, baby. ”means ________.

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A．the way isn't very far

B．she must go even farther to work

C．she isn't so satisfied with success

D．she is very much satisfied with her the way she covered

4．According to the passage, the writer ________ the women's liberation.

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A．is all for

B．doesn't tell us his idea on

C．is strongly against

D．isn't strongly against

5．The best title of this passage should be ________.

[　　]

A．Something About Women

B．Women And Their Husbands

C．Men's Liberation In The USA

D．Women's Liberation In The USA

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　　Do you dream of a huge comfortable bed? Nearly everyone does. This is not only because rest is necessary for life, but also because there's comfort in a large bed. It's wonderful to stretch out. The narrow single bed really means lonely life in rented rooms. SO, many people buy beds which are even bigger than the traditional double bed. Here, in comfort, they can spend a third of their lives asleep.

　　Perhaps this was why a man called Sir Henry Fanshawe asked a carpenter(木匠)to build the biggest bed in England, called The Great Bed of Ware. It was made in about 1580 and soon became famous, for in 1596 a German traveler saw it and noted that it was wide enough for four couples. Poets and play-writers ( including Shakespeare in “Twelfth Night”)often mentioned it.

　　This is not surprising for it is a grand piece of work. It is made of oak(橡木)and measures 3.3 metres in length and width. Except for its size, it is like other beds of the period, a fourposter bed. The posts, the headboard and the cover are richly decorated. The headboard in particular had carved and painted figures and two panels of inlaid wood which show special structure.

　　The Great Bed of Ware became a curiosity. In 1610 it was placed in a small hotel, the Saracen's Head, in the town of Ware. People came to see it and those who slept in it carved some words and their names on the woodwork, just like modern tourists .Over the years, the bed became covered with words, names and dates, the earliest date is 1653. During the nineteenth century, the old bed was moved from one hotel to another until it was finally shown to the public at two pence a head.

1．The Great Bed of Ware ________.

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A．is shown to the public in the Saracen's Head; one ticket costs two pence

B．was named after the carpenter

C．is big enough for eight persona to sleep in

D．was made because people spend a third of their lives asleep

2．Ware is the name of ________.

[　　]

3．We can learn from the passage that ________.

[　　]

A．a narrow single bed at home stands for lonely life

B．a German tourist had an effect on making the Great Bed well-known in the world

C．the Great Bed was shown in “Twelfth Night”

D．it is its size that makes the Great Bed look like other beds of that time

4．How many years has it been since the first date was carved on the Great Bed?

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　　“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its traditional meaning is used to express a temperature that is fairly cold. As the world has changed, however, the word has expanded to take on many different meanings .

　　“Cool” can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a brand-new car in the street, maybe you can't help saying.“It's cool.” You might think, “He's so cool.” when you see your favourite footballer.

　　We all maximize the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new” or “amazing” . Here is an interesting story we can see used to illustrate the usage of the word: A teacher asked her students to describe the waterfall they have visited. On one student's paper was just one sentence. “It's so cool.” Maybe he thought it was the best way to describe what he saw and felt.

　　But the story also demonstrates (表明)a scarcity of words and expressions. Without “cool”, some people have no words to express the same meaning. So it is necessary to improve our word strength to maintain some credibility. As a popular word, “cool” stands for a kind of special culture (文化)that people can accept easily. Excepting “cool”, can you think of many words that make your life as colorful? I can . And I think they are also very cool.

1．The reason why “cool” becomes so popular in our daily life is that ________.

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A．people like it

B．in our vocabulary, we can't use other words to take the place of “cool”

C．“cool” is the best word to press people's feelings of interest

D．as time goes on, people put different meanings on it which can be accepted easily

2．The student uses one sentence “It's so cool.” to express that ________.

[　　]

A．the temperature of the waterfall is low

B．the waterfall is as great as he expected before

C．the waterfall he saw is really great and that he likes it

D．the waterfall is so cool that he has nothing else to write about it

3．The underlined word “scarcity” means ________.

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4．According to the author, what will probably happen about the use of “cool” in the future?

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A．More and more people will use the word “cool”.

B．The word “cool” may not be as cool as it seems.

C．The author will not use “cool” any more.

D．The author will try to persuade other people not to use “cool ”.

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　　What could be simpler than shaking fruit from a tree? Well, the job is a lot more difficult than you might think. There is a right way and a wrong way to shake a fruit tree. And a person who is a good apple tree shaker may not he a good cherry tree shaker. Different fruits take different shakes.

　　As a rule, a slow hard shake is best .This makes the fruit fall much faster than a light, quick jiggle. Most fruits have a set number of shakes per minute that will do the best job of getting them out of the tree and onto the ground . To shake down plums, try shaking the tree four hundred times per minute, moving the tree two inches at each shake. Experts say you'll get three times more fruit from the tree than you will if you shake eleven hundred times per minute at one inch per shake. Cherries, because they are smaller, need more shaking. A good rate of shaking seems to be about twelve hundred shakes per minute. Apples, like plums, need four hundred shakes.

　　Of course, some people may choose to take no notice of all these expert directions for shaking fruit. Keeping track of all the numbers can be enough to drive some people up a tree.

1．The main idea of the passage is ________.

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A．some tasks are more difficult than they look

B．shaking fruit trees can be a real art

C．different fruits require different amounts of shaking

D．shaking fruit trees is a hard job

2．This passage is about ________.

[　　]

A．eating plums

B．how to shake fruit from a tree

C．the value of fruits and vegetables

D．ways in which people shake

3．A smaller fruit tree normally requires ________.

[　　]

A．more people

B．less shaking

C．two people per tree

D．more shaking

4．From this passage we can conclude that ________.

[　　]

A．good fruit pickers know how fast or slow to shake a tree

B．most of the fruits are broken when they hit the ground

C．it really makes no difference how you shake a fruit tree

D．too much shaking can break the branches

5．The writer ends this story with ________.

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A．a serious thought

B．a suggestion for other ways to get fruit from trees

C．a joke

D．a warning

阅读理解

　　Dad said it would be an unusual present, and he was quite right. He said, “Go to the telephone and call a ten-figure number. It must begin with 010. Got that 0l0-?, you can please yourself about the other seven figures. ”

　　I called the number 010-6132597 . A few moments later I heard a man's clear voice at the other end, the voice said, “Kikri 2597. Don Flower speaking.”

　　I said, “Hello, Mr. Flower. I'm Robert West, and this call to you is one of my birthday presents. I'm thirteen today.”

　　“Oh, that's great. Many happy returns of the day! Where are you calling from, Robert? You sound very clear.”

　　“I'm at home in London. Where are you?”

　　“You're in London! Well, well—I've never had a call from London before. I live in Kikri, Australia. About a hundred miles from Kikri actually, but it's the nearest place . I've got a small farm here, with about ninety thousand sheep on it. You ought to come and visit me one day. ”

　　“I'd like to very much. Your farm must be very big, Mr. Flower, if you've got ninety thousand sheep on it. ”

　　“Well, there may be only eighty thousand by now. I'm not too sure. There's not a lot of feed for them, you know, and two of my wells have gone dry this month. So we've been driving the sheep around a bit. If you go straight across the middle of my farm, it's a hundred and ten miles. That isn't a great size for a farm in Australia, but it's big enough for me ! ”

　　We talked for three minutes, and it was very interesting. I gave Mr. Flower my telephone number. He promised to ring me on my birth-day next year.

1．If you live in London, what number calls Australia?

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A．010-2597.

B．6132579.

C．010-6132597.

D．Kikri 2597.

2．As far as we can tell from the passage, ________.

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A．Robert West had never rung Australia before

B．telephone calls to Australia are expensive

C．Mr. Flower is a friendly man

D．Mr. Flower wishes that he had a large farm

3．Which of the following is untrue?

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A．Mr. Flower lives in a big city.

B．Australia can have periods with no rain.

C．Robert did rat know Mr. Flower when he first spoke to him.

D．We do not know exactly how many sheep Mr. Flower has on his farm.

4．From the passage it seems that ________.

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A．Australia has the best conditions for sheep farming

B．to make a living in Australia, you must lave a large farm to raise sheep

C．Mr. Flower is finding it difficult to raise sheep successfully because he has a small farm

D．sleep farming in Australia can be a difficult job at times

5．The best title for the passage is ________.

[　　]

A．A Surprise Phone Call

B．An Unusual Present

C．A Phone Call to Australia

D．A Ten- Figure Number

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　　At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the first African slaves were brought across the Atlantic to the West Indias (西印度群岛) . They were sold to landowners all over the Americas. Marry nations joined in this trade and set up slave trading posts along the West African Coast.

　　Between 1510 and 1860, close to 15 million Negro slaves were shipped to the Americas to mix with millions of Europeans and American Indians who also lived there .

　　Slavery made great changes in the world of color in the 300 years after Columbus. In the New World, a whole population of color groups from different parts of the world came into being.

　　The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries brought more changes with the Age of the Machine. People left the land and crowded into cities to work in the factories. Populations grew. Life began to change, and with it, ideas changed. People began to question the old idea that some men were born to be rulers and some to be slaves.

　　So the Age of the Machine also became an age of revolution. People won the freedom after the American and the French Revolutions. And all during the nineteenth century, the fight for democracy(民主)went on. In 1848 alone, there were revolutions in France, Ireland, England, Central Europe, Italy, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia.

1．In the 16th century, ________ went to West Africa to buy slaves.

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A．businessmen(商人)from many countries

B．many people from the West Indias

C．a great marry American landowners

D．millions of Europeans

2．At the end of 1860, the number of Negro slaves living in the Americas was ________.

[　　]

A．about 15 million

B．over 15 million

C．nearly 15 million

D．not known

3．Slavery ________ the Americas.

[　　]

A．changed the color of

B．changed the nature of

C．brought more foreign-born population to

D．brought more Indians to

4．During the Age of the Machine, the ________ in cities grew very fast.

[　　]

A．slave trading posts

B．color groups

C．population

D．rulers

5．In 1848, there were revolutions ________.

[　　]

A．everywhere in Europe

B．in quite a number of European countries

C．in the Americas

D．in Europe and the Americas