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　　Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old granddaughter of the late newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped February 5 and held for ransom (赎金) by members of a radical (激进的) group called the Symbionness Liberation Army(共生解放组织). The action resembled (像) some kidnappings in Latin American and other parts of the world. It was followed by other across the nation that had no avowed (承认) political motive, plus countless threats and a few hoaxes. (恶作剧)

　　Miss Hearst was abducted (诱拐) from her Berkeley, California apartment by at least two women and two men. They belonged to a group of both blacks and whites who called   for violent revolution to overturn “all forms of racism,　(种族) sexism, ageism, capitalism, fascism, (法西斯主义) individualism, possessiveness, and competitiveness.”

　　The kidnappers demanded that her father, Randolph Hearst, president and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, provided (提供) as a prelude (前奏) to further negotiations $ 70 worth of top-quality free meat, vegetables, and dairy products over a four-week period to “all people (in California) with welfare cards, Social Security pension (养老金) cards, food-stamp cards, disabled veteran (老兵) cards, medical cards, parole of probation(假释或缓型) papers, and jail of hail-release (释放) slips (监狱释放单或保释单). “Tape recordings were mailed of Miss Hearst's voice and of a speaker who called himself Field Marshal Cinque-reportedly an escaped convict named Donaid Dofreeze.

　　Estimates of the cost of providing the food ran as high as $ 400 million. Hearst said February 19 that he would contribute $ 500,000 to a food-giveaway program, and that $ 1.5 million more would be donated by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Later, he said the Hearst Corporation would put up an additional $ 4 million to continue the program, but only his daughter was released.

　　Another demand later added by the kidnappers was that Russell Little and Joseph Remiro, two SLA members arrested and charged with 1973 slaying (杀害) of Marcus Foster, Oakland superintendent (负责人) of schools, be allowed to conduct a nationally televised news conference. (谈判) Two judges refused to sanction (批准) the request.

1．Patricia Hearst was kidnapped and held ________.

[　　]

A．for political purpose

B．for top-quality food for the lower-class people

C．to save two members of the Symbionness Liberation Army

D．for money

2．According to the kidnappers' demands, Patricia's father has to contribute ________.

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3．What is the meaning to the word “abduct” in Para. 2?

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4．According to the kidnappers' demand, what kind of people cannot get the food provided by Patricia's father?

[　　]

A．People who just got free from the prison.

B．People who had no job.

C．People who were injured in wars.

D．People who live in California.

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

[　　]

A．Patricia was kidnapped by a radical group in Latin America.

B．The kidnappers are all blacks who protest racism.

C．Mr. Hearst received tape recordings of Patricia and Donald Defreeze's voice.

D．Patricia's father accepted all of the kidnappers' demands.

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　　A team of scientists proved that seals (海豹) had a very good sense of heating. These men trained blind seals to expect food when they heard sounds. The seals always began snapping (猛咬) when a strong signal was sounded.

　　It was proved that even a soft signal, a considerable distance (相当远的距离) away, could make these sea animals respond (起反应). That should make the fisherman who makes much noise while working, or talks loudly, start thinking.

　　The same team of scientists also trained seals to recognize different sounds. One bell-tone meant food, two bell-tones meant no food. In the beginning, the seals made mistakes when the two-bell tones were sounded. They were given a light tap after each mistake. The seals were good learners. They easily learned to tell the difference between the sounds.

1．Why was it necessary to use blind seals?

[　　]

A．were unable to use sight for clues (线索)

B．had better hearing

C．were waiting to be fed

D．were the only animals to be found

2．To those seals strong signal meant ________.

[　　]

3．The article doesn't say directly but suggests that fishermen usually think ________.

[　　]

A．seals have no sense of hearing

B．seals have good sense of hearing

C．seals can only recognize bell sounds

D．seals can not hear soft and long distant sounds

4．Light taps were given to those who ________.

[　　]

A．expected food

B．came for food

C．made mistakes

D．recognized the sounds

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　　The orangutan (猩猩) is one of the four remaining kinds of man-like apes (类人猿) left in the world today. Orangutans are found only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. They are growing fewer. There is a danger they may die out.

　　Until the time between the wars, few orangutans were kept in zoos. Little was known about them, As people came to know their gentle and interesting ways, they became more popular. Every zoo wanted to have some of them, but the number of orangutans in the world was small.

　　After the last war, the natives found they could make a lot of money by catching and selling young orangutans. Fully-grown and half-grown orangutans were much too strong to be taken. The only known way of catching the young was to shoot the parents first. This meant that orangutans were lost to wild life for every-one caught, it also meant that fewer orangutans were born. Once caught the young were so badly looked after that at least half of them died. They were usually sold to someone who knew little about looking after them.

1．Besides orangutans, how many kinds of man-like apes are left in the world?

[　　]

2．Before the Second World War, ________.

[　　]

A．people knew little about orangutans

B．people knew they might disappear

C．many orangutans were kept in zoos

D．the number of them was small

3．What makes people sure that orangutans may die out?

[　　]

A．They are found more popular in the zoos.

B．They can live nowhere except Borneo and Sumatra.

C．They come to be loved by people.

D．Selling and catching them are the quickest means to become rich.

4．The natives only caught the young orangutans because ________.

[　　]

A．they were well looked after

B．they could easily fit in with the new places

C．they were light and easily taken away

D．they could be lost to wild life and tamed

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　　In recent years, advances in medical technology have made it possible for people to live longer than in the past. Now medicines and machines are being developed every day to extend life. However, some people, including some doctors, are not in favor of those life extending measures, and they argue that people should have the right to die when they want. They say that the quality of life is important as life itself, and that people should not be forced to go on living when the conditions of life have become unbearable (不能忍受). They say that people should be allowed to die with dignity (体面) and to decide when they want to die. Others argue that life under any conditions is better than death and that the duty of doctors is always to extend life as long as possible. And so the battle goes on and on without a clear and certain answer.

1．The main idea of this passage is ________.

[　　]

A．about life and death

B．about the right to die

C．about modrn medical technology

D．that people think differently about life

2．With the development of medicines and machines people now can live

[　　]

3．Who will usually force a patient to live on when he is under an unbearable condition of life?

[　　]

A．His doctor.

B．His family members.

C．His friends.

D．The patient himself.

4．Which of the following is wrong?

[　　]

A．Medicines and machines make life extend.

B．Some people and doctors say that people have the right todie.

C．Some people say that life is always better than death.

D．People have arrived at a certain condition.

5．Which of the following view-points (观点) do you think the writer agrees to?

[　　]

A．The quality of life is as important as life itself.

B．People should be allowed to die with dignity.

C．Life should be extended as long as possible.

D．The article hasn't told us.

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　　It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible for housework, but with the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.

　　If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.

　　My daughter Carla's fifth-grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a perfect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared (宣布) firmly they could learn what they had missed.

　　You can use the same technique (技巧) when you evaluate (评价) your child's work at home. Don't always scold but give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn't done. If your child completes a difficult task, reward him with a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.

　　Learning is a process of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If your children do not fear a mistake or failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.

1．The whole passage deals with ________.

[　　]

A．social education

B．school education

C．family education

D．pre-school education

2．The author thinks that ________.

[　　]

A．there is no way to get children to help at home

B．it is very difficult to make children responsible for house- work

C．the more encouragement and praise, the more responsible and helpful children will become

D．children can be forced to help with housework

3．The article gives us a good suggestion about how to evaluate your child's work at home. That is ________.

[　　]

A．praise his success

B．reward him with a trip

C．give him a punishment

D．get rid of all the tests

4．The author advises readers to ________.

[　　]

A．learn from himself, for he has a good way of teaching

B．take pride in Carla's fifth-grade teacher

C．do as what Carla's teacher did in educating children

D．follow Carla's example because she never fails in the test

5．Having read the last paragraph, we can conclude that ________.

[　　]

A．pride goes before a fall

B．practice makes perfect

C．no pains, no gains

D．failure is the mother of success

阅读理解

　　One of every 10,000 Americans will be murdered this year. More Americans were murdered from 1970 through 1974 than were killed in Vietnam (越南). Since 1990, more than 800,000 American civilians (平民) have been killed by gunfire—more than the total number of casualties (伤亡) in U.S. wars from the Revolution to Indochina.

　　Two-thirds of all murders in the United States are committed (犯罪) with guns, 92 percent of them handguns. Murder rates are highest in these parts of America with the largest percentage of gun owners, lowest in those with the smallest. Since 1968, the murder rate in the United States has more than doubled.

　　These statistics (统计数字) were culled (拣选) from Dr. Donald T. Lunder's recent monograph (专论), Murder and Madness (available) from the Stamford, Calif.. Much of what he reports has been noted before by others, but rarely if ever has anyone probed so comprehensively (综合性地) the American way of killing.

　　As a psychiatrist (精神病学家) who has worked in the police-court-prison system, Lunder notes that the average murderer today is only 20 years old, that 94 percent of all murders are intra-racial, that when they are not, blacks are more often the victims (受害人) of whites, that less than 30 percent of murder victims are strangers to their killers, that the South has the highest murder rate (3.6 per 100,000 that same year), that most murders are committed with little or no planning, that most murderers are easily apprehended (逮捕) and readily confess. (承认)

　　In the majority of homicides (杀人者) the killers had been drinking before hand. Since most homicides arise in the context of a quarrel and involve the most readily available weapon, it is worth surmising (猜测) what would happen if guns were not readily available. Knives—now the second most common weapon-would presumably (大概) become the most likely weapon in the typical assault (袭击) between spouses, lovers, neighbors, etc. In fact the death rate for all victims assaulted with guns is as much as five times that of those assaulted with knives.

1．Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

[　　]

A．In the United States, the civilians murdered from 1970 through 1974 were more than those died in the wars.

B．In the United States, two-thirds of the murders occurred between different races.

C．In more than half of the murders in the United States, handguns are used.

D．In most of the cases, the murderers knew their victims.

2．According to the writer, which of the following statements is NOT the features of the murders occurred in the United States?

[　　]

A．Guns are used more often than knives.

B．Most murders were planned beforehand.

C．Blacks are murdered more often than whites.

D．The average age of the murderers is 20．

3．In most cases, the murder happened in the context of ________.

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A．mind illness

B．a intra-racial conflict

C．a quarrel between strangers

D．a quarrel with a weapon at hand

4．Which is the discovery of Dr. Lunder?

[　　]

A．The murder rate in the United States has risen.

B．The murder rates are highest in those parts of America where the owning percent age of guns are highest.

C．Besides guns, knives are the most common weapons for murders.

D．It's not very difficult to catch a murderer and have him tell the truth.

5．What can we infer from the passage?

[　　]

A．A lot of Americans died in the Wars in Indochina.

B．If the possession of guns are controlled, the murder rate will fall down.

C．As a psychiatrist, Dr. Lunder can do much to help those murderers to confess their guilt.

D．Without guns at hand, no murders will happen in a family.

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　　A young American entered a British train, to discover that all the seats were taken, including the one on which was seated a small dog. To its owner, a middle-aged lady wearing a fur coat, he said gently, “Excuse me, madam, may I sit down here?”

　　He repeated the request three times to the woman who turned a deaf ear to him but only turned the pages of her news paper, Then he opened the window, picked up the dog, and threw it out before he sat down on the empty seat.

　　There was a dumbfounded (尴尬) silence and then an English man sitting opposite said, “You Yankees (美国佬) seem never to do the right thing. You drive on the wrong side of the road; you eat with the fork in the wrong hand; you name the floors in the wrong numbers. And now you have just thrown the wrong bitch (母狗) out of the window!”

1．According to the story, the young American was ________.

[　　]

A．asking for trouble

B．traveling in a foreign country

C．trying to find a job on a train

D．trying to pick a better quarrel with a rich lady

2．The middle-aged woman was ________.

[　　]

A．a polite English woman

B．a rude American woman

C．a gentle American woman

D．an impolite English woman

3．The woman took no notice of the young American because she ________.

[　　]

A．wasn't able to understand his language

B．was too proud of herself

C．was too busy reading her newspaper

D．was deaf

4．When the English man said that Americans always did the wrong thing, he ________.

[　　]

A．meant that the woman should have been punished

B．was scolding the American

C．was taking the woman's side

D．mainly showed pity for the American

5．This story is ________.

[　　]

A．a true story

B．designed to make people laugh

C．meant to be used as moral lessons

D．a serious story

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　　Peter Fern was mad on mountain. Climbing was the love of his life. Church towers, seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains, anything棥—If it's there” be used to say, “then I want to climb it.” So the news of his marriage gave me a surprise. I'd never known him to take much interest in girls. Well, well, Peter Fern a married man! I couldn't get over it. I wondered whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky adventures.

　　She was French perhaps—from that place where he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix, wasn't it?

　　From Chamonix he's climbed Mont Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and one of the Aifulles the day after! That was it, then; she was French, from a family, most of whom like climbing. No doubt. No other explanation.

　　A month later I met them both in town. Anna surprised me because she was English. She was a dancer in the theatre. “Never climbed more than sixty steps in my life.” She told me. “Peter has his interests, and I've got mine. No problems.” “None at all,” Peter said, smiling. “Where did you spend your honeymoon (蜜月)?”“I flew to New York to see the Drake Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful show!” Peter said, “I didn't want to miss the good weather. So I went to Switherland and climbed the north face of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great fun, the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I'll show you the photographs we took one day.”

1．“Peter was mad on mountains” means

[　　]

A．he enjoyed to climb mountains

B．he was angry on mountains

C．he losed his senses on mountains

D．he enjoyed climbing mountains very much

2．“The risky adventures” means ________.

[　　]

A．expensive adventures

B．dangerous adventures

C．terrible adventures

D．unkind adventures

3．According to the passage, after Peter's marriage ________.

[　　]

A．He would stop mountain climbing because his wife didn't like it

B．His wife would stop him from mountain climbing

C．He himself would give up his love

D．Peter would continue to keep his love and so he did

4．The writer had thought the only reason why Fern married was that the girl ________.

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A．might the French living near the mountain, and from a mountaineer family

B．would not stop his climbing

C．perhaps came from French

D．might live near the mountain

5．Peter and Anna's marriage is probably ________.

[　　]

A．a failure because neither of them likes the other's love

B．happy because each of them respects the other's love

C．painful because either of them would do one's own thing

D．a mistake because either of them wouldn't care the other's love

阅读理解

　　“Depend on yourself” is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. But all these only help you to help yourself.

　　There have been many men in history. But many of them were very poor in childhood, and no uncles, aunts or friends to help them. Schools were few. They could not depend upon them for an education. They saw how it was and set to work with all their strength to know something. They worked their own way till they became well-known.

　　One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils, “I can not make worthy men of you, but I can help make men of yourself.”

　　Some young men don’t try their best to make themselves valuable to the human beings. They can never gain achievement (成就) unless they see their weak points and change their course. They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live, unless they accept the advice of their parents and teachers, and depend on their own efforts.

1．Which of the following tides fits this article best?

[　　]

A．What Nature Says to Every Man.

B．Hew to Be Famous.

C．Men Must Help Each Other.

D．Depend on Yourself.

2．Many of the great men succeeded because ________.

[　　]

A．they wanted very much to become well known

B．they made great efforts to learn and work

C．they had received a good education

D．they had rich parents

3．According to the famous teacher in England, a teacher can ________.

[　　]

A．make his pupils worthy men

B．help his pupils find a way to be famous

C．help his pupils make themselves useful men

D．make his pupils men of strength and courage

4．If young people depend on their own efforts ________.

[　　]

A．they are sure to be very famous in the world

B．they can be successful in their lives

C．they can live without their families

D．they no longer need any help

5．From this article we can learn the writer ________.

[　　]

A．sings high praise for parents and teachers

B．is a man of strong character

C．thinks highly of those who are struggling for success

D．feels it the most important of all to accept the advice of others

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　　A new law helps people with disabilities. The law says that people with disabilities must be able to get into and out of all public buildings. It also says that business must offer special services to people who have special need. Companies can not refuse to hire disabled workers.

　　Many businesses may have to change their buildings and services.

　　—Ramps(坡道) must be built so people can get into buildings.

　　—Elevators (电梯) need floor numbers in Braille.

　　This law will help millions of people. One woman who has been in a wheel chair for many years, said, “It's like a dream.”

1．The fact that the new law has been passed shows that ________.

[　　]

A．the government has paid no attention to the disabilities

B．the government wants to help these disabilities

C．normal people show mercy (同情) to the disabilities

D．companies will have millions of disabled people

2．According to the passage we can see that ________.

[　　]

A．it will be difficult for the normal persons to get into the public buildings

B．the buildings of all the businesses will have to be changed

C．most businesses used to offer special services to the disabled

D．it was difficult for the disabled workers to find jobs in the past

3．Ramps can help people ________.

[　　]

A．with hearing problems

B．who have difficulty in using their hands

C．who have difficulty in using their legs or feet

D．who don't like stairs

4．Lifts need floor numbers in Braille because

[　　]

A．the new law is passed for the blind

B．it can help people with weak eyes

C．it is helpful to the blind

D．all the blind know Braille

5．What do you think the disabled would feel about the new law?

[　　]

A．They may think the new law reasonable.

B．Some of them are sure to be for the new law.

C．They must feel very excited and happy.

D．They feel it is like a dream.