阅读下列短文.从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项. British people have a lot of customs and habits．Being English learners.t——青夏教育精英家教网—

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　　British people have a lot of customs and habits．Being English learners，the middle school students should learn something about them．Three“INGS” are the most famous．The three“INGS” mean betting（打赌），drinking，tipping．The ending for each of which is ING．

　　We know that the British people are great lovers of betting．They bet on many things，but they bet mainly on sports activities，such as horse-racing．It is a gambling sport（赌）．This means that they will risk money on a race or on some other events of which the result is doubtful．Not only the amount of the betted money but also the number of the people who take part in it is very large．

　　Drinking is another habit of the British people．Most men have the habit of drinking beer，wine and so on．They also drink tea．Their drinking habits are so normal that they have it in pubs，inns，and restaurants from 11∶00 a．m．to 3∶00 p．m．and again from 5∶00 p．m．to 10∶30 p．m．But usually the hours are different in different places．Every day they have two twenty-minute tea breaks，one is in the morning，the other in the afternoon，during which people stop their work and drink tea．It is reported that the British people use up a quarter of the world total of the tea goods．

　　Tipping is the last of the three．It means you should give a certain amount of money to the person who has served you．The number of the money depends on the type and extent（程度）of the service you have received．In the hotels，a service charge of 10 to 15 percent will be added to your bill，and you might give something extra to the porter（侍从）who carries your bags，and you might give some more money to your taxi-driver besides your payment for the travel．

1．From the habit of betting，we can see that the British people ________．

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A．are fond of riding horses

B．are interested in sports activities

C．make a decision by betting

D．enjoy arguing what will happen by betting

2．Which of the following is right？

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A．All the British people have the habit of drinking beer，wine and tea．

B．The British people spend 8 hours drinking in pubs，inns and restaurants every day．

C．The British people have a break for tea at work every day．

D．The British people drink only twice a day．

3．In Britain you should give a certain amount of money to the ________if he has served you．

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　　To get cash out in the 21st century，you won't need a bank card，a PIN（个人识别编号）or have to move a finger． You will simply have to look the cash machine straight in the eye，declares National Cash Registers，a multinational company that makes automated teller machines，or ATMs．NCR has shown its first example machine that it believes is the future of banking．Instead of asking you for your PIN on a screen，the Super Teller-Stella for short，asks you orally through a loudspeaker to look straight ahead while an infrared camera（红外线照相机）turns to your head，then your eye，and finally takes an infrared photograph of your iris（虹膜）．For identification（识别）purposes，an iris picture is better than a fingerprint，with around 256 noticeable（明显的）characteristics（特征）compared with 40 for fingerprints．This means that the chances of someone else being recognized in your place is about 1 in 10²⁰．Once you've been identified，Stella greets you by name and says：“Would you like cash or a statement？”An infrared port allows the machine to send a bank statement straight to your pocket computer．

1．What does this passage mainly talk about？

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A．A new medical instrument

B．A new type of talking machine

C．A new type of cash machine

D．National Cash Register

2．What is this new machine called？

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3．When you want to get cash out in the 21st century，you will ________．

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A．need a bank card

B．have to put in your PIN

C．move your finger

D．just a look directly at the teller machine

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　　At the west end of the clearing，the men stood in a circle around the snake．Roger tried again and again．He could get the head in the fork，but he tried to bring it to the ground in case it would spit out．And the snake was becoming more and more angry．

　　“It is going to spit，” warned Juror．

　　“Let it spit．It can't shoot this far．”

　　Roger was at least three metres from the snake．

　　In an instant Roger learned a lesson he would never forget．Two white streams shot out from the snake's poison fangs．

　　He would never believe it possible．How could the snake be so accurate？

　　How did it know that the weakest part of an enemy was the eyes？

　　He brushed the poison away with the back of his hand．It did no good．

　　Enough had gone in to give him great pain．Worst of all，he found himself half-blind．

1．According to the passage，which of the following is true？

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A．The moment Roger stopped saying，the snake attacked him．

B．Before Roger realized it would spit，it attacked him．

C．While Roger was having a lesson，it attacked him．

D．When Roger saw white streams coming，he stepped aside．

2．In the sentence“He would never have believed it possible”the word “it” refers to ________．

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A．the snake

B．the snake's poison

C．Roger's eye

D．the snake's shooting Roger's eye

3．What lesson shall we draw from the incident？

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A．A snake is very clever．

B．Run away at the sight of a snake．

C．Don't be too sure of ourselves．

D．It is a pity to be half-blind．

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　　Miss White was the owner of a little bakery．She was forty years old，and she was not married．

　　A customer who came to Miss White's bakery two or three times a week had never asked for any good bread，but，strangely enough，he wanted only two pieces of old and dry bread each time．

　　One day Miss White found on the customer's finger red and brown dirt．

　　She guessed that the customer probably was a poor artist．He lived in an old house，where he painted pictures and ate dry bread．Miss White，a woman with a kind heart，noticed that the customer began to look thinner and very sad，so she wanted to do something for him．

　　As usual the customer came again and ordered two pieces of dry bread．Suddenly a fire car came by with a great sound．When the customer hurried to the door to look，Miss White quickly cut the bread with a knife and put a lot of butter into it．She covered the bread with paper before the customer turned back to the counter（柜台）．Not long after，the customer returned and shouted angry words with Miss White．“I'll kill you．You have made my picture waste．I have been working hard for three months drawing a picture for a new city hall．I always make my drawing in pencil first，and when it's done，I cleaned the pencil lines with dry and hard bread pieces．”

　　Hearing that，Miss White knew how foolish her kind heart was．

1．A bakery was a place where ________．

[　　]

A．paper was made

B．pictures were painted

C．colors were sold

D．bread was made and sold

2．The customer only bought hard and dry bread because ________．

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A．he cleaned the pencil lines with it

B．he liked to eat it

C．Miss White only sold it

D．he was very poor

3．In the end，we know that the artist's drawing must be ________．

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4．The story shows that Miss White was ________．

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　　Jane Clark，fair-haired，blue-eyed and tough as steel，just won the most difficult race in the world．

　　In seventeen days she drove a dog team and sledge（雪橇）across 1 050 miles of the Arctic Circle and through some of the most difficult land in the world． In bitter winds and snowstorms she drove her dogs along the Arctic track，in temperatures that reached38℃．

　　When Jane was asked how she felt about being the first woman ever to win the race，she said，“I still can't believe it．”She then went over to inspect her thirteen wild-eyed dogs．

　　David Wilson，who came second，said，“It sure hurts when a young woman is ahead of you．But it doesn't hurt for long．She was a good winner．”

1．Which of the following best gives the main idea of this newspaper article？

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A．Woman drives a dog team across the Arctic．

B．Woman fights bitter winds and snowstorms．

C．Woman wins a sledge race in the world．

D．Woman wins the world's toughest race．

2．What was so special about Jane winning the race？

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A．No woman had ever won this race in the past．

B．Her 13 dogs were wild and difficult to control．

C．She broke the record by taking only 17 days to complete the race．

D．This was the first time she had taken part in this kind of race．

3．How did David Wilson feel about the race？

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A．He had an accident during the race and thought it was not fair．

B．He was sorry to lose but it was fair that Jane won the race．

C．He thought that it was not right to put men and women in the same race．

D．He was very upset because he thought that he should have won．

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　　The distinctive(特别的) architectural feature of the typical Broadway Theatre is that two almost independent buildings are built side by side in such a way that they face and open into each other. The audience sits in the auditorium(礼堂) structure and watch the actors perform in the stage house. This separation is more than an aesthetic(美的) impression, because the building codes(标准) require that a physical barrier(屏障) protect the audience from a fire starting on the stage. A fireproof wall, rather than mere partition(隔墙), separates the structures, and this separation is completed by a fireproof curtain that is furnished in such a way as to fall automatically in case of fire. Automatic fire doors similarly close all other openings between the two structures. The building codes keep such openings to a minimum(最小限度).

　　This separation came about in the nineteenth century as a result of theatre fires. It has produced fundamental architectural change from previous centuries without making much change in the appearance of the building.

　　So far as the audience is concerned(就观众而言), a theatre is primarily a place for entertainment. In the theatre the audience is enabled to undergo(经历) a vivid emotional(情感) experience similar to that undergone by the characters in the play. The audience approaches(走近) the theater with the expression of some sort of excitement. The architect and the decorator(装饰者) try to sustain(保持) and increase this excitement an expectation as the spectator(观众) moves through the theater. One of the familiar architectural devices for this effect is spaciousness(宽敞) of lobby(大厅) and auditorium. Color and ornamentation(装饰品) are other devices for the same purpose, as seen in almost all theatres built before that nineteenth century.

1．Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

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A．The Difference Between the Auditorium and the Stage House of the Broadway Theater

B．How the Broadway Theater is Decorated

C．Characteristics of the Physical Structure of Broadway Theater and Their Practical Functions

D．High Incidence of Fires in Broadway Theater

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

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A．Before the 19th century the auditorium and the stage house of the Broadway Theater were separated from each other with a fire-proof curtain.

B．Broadway theaters are now more beautifully decorated than they were before the 19th century.

C．More people go to Broadway theatres now than before the 19th century because they feel safer now.

D．None of the above.

3．Which of the following is not mentioned by the author as what increases the excitement the audience expect?

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A．Color.

B．Ornamentation.

C．The spaciousness of the lobby.

D．The plot of the play.

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　　Volcanoes trigger(引发) strange weather. Mount Tamora's 1815 eruption near Java made enormous effect on weather. Summer crops in France failed, causing food shortages. On the east coast of the U. S., it snowed in June, and in July many people in the normally hot American South awoke to find their fields white with frost. The cold touch of a volcano's hot breath made 1816 what came to be called “the year without a summer”.

　　According to current theory, heat welling up from within the earth forces geologic movements of continents and triggers volcanoes. However the upwelling of heat from deep beneath us keeps Earth alive. For one thing, wither would wear away the land. Second, rainfall is constantly washing key elements of life, such as carbon and sulfur, into the world's oceans.

　　Volcanic eruptions bring about other surprising consequences(结果). Despite the risk of future explosion, volcanic regions attract farmers because crops grow wonderfully in their mineral-enriched soils. The Antarctic volcano Mount Erebus dusts the white continent with microscopic particles(微小的颗粒) of pure gold when it erupts. And volcanic conduits called kimberlite[金伯利岩(常含钻石)] pipes in southern Africa and Siberia become depositories(储藏) for diamonds squeezed(从……中获取的) from carbon in the fieryroots of volcanoes.

　　American, British, French and German scientists are developing and testing something called Hot, Dry Rock(HDR) technology. “This technology could offer clean, reliable(可靠的), cheap energy to billions of people around the world,” says Los Alamos HDR Program Manager David Duchane, “and it's under our feet right now.”

1．The 1816 food shortages in France are believed to have resulted f from ________.

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A．the extreme cold weather all over Europe in 1815

B．the frost in southern American states in July, 1816

C．the snowing on the east coast of the U. S. in June, 1816

D．the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815

2．From the passage, we know that frequent volcanic eruptions are caused by ________.

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A．the raging heat from within the earth

B．unbalanced global weather changes

C．geologic movements of continents on Earth

D．the human-created atmospheric heat that envelops our planet

3．Farmers may go and work in the volcanic regions because ________.

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A．they find nowhere to settle down for farming

B．the soil there promises better yield

C．they are curious about volcanic eruptions

D．they are entirely ignorant of the risk of future eruption

4．The HDR technology ________.

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A．is not only inexpensive but also applicable(能应用的) everywhere

B．provides cheap energy but its use is limited to volcanic regions

C．taps geothermal-energy and makes water clean

D．promises an ideal substitute for any forms of energy now in use

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　　We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and exainination system in the name of equality, other, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.

　　Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed－no examination is perfect－but to have to tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in school or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency, the values and the purpose of each teacher.

　　Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them－a form of favourtism will replace equality. At the moment, the bright child from an ill－respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lake of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well－respected school. This defend of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child form a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school's reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.

　　The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.

1．The word “favouritism” in paragraph 3 is used to describe the phenomenon that ________.

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A．bright children also need certificates go get satisfying jobs

B．children from well－respected schools tend to have good jobs

C．poor children with certificates are favoured in job markets

D．children attending ordinary schools achieve great success

2．What would happen if examinations were take away according to the author?

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A．Schools for bright children would lose their reputation.

B．There would be more opportunities and excellence.

C．Children from poor families would be able to change their schools.

D．Children's job opportunity would be affected by their school reputation.

3．The opponents of the examination system will agree that ________.

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A．jobs should not be assigned by systematic selection

B．computers should be selected to take over many jobs

C．special classed are necessary to keep the school standards

D．schools with academic subjects should be done away with

4．The passage mainly focuses on ________.

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A．schools and certificates

B．examination and equality

C．opportunity and employment

D．standards and reputation

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　　Beijing will create 100 smoke-free primary and middle schools as part of a China-UN programme aimed at promoting health education and healthy behaviour for the country's 230 million primary and middle school students.

　　The World Health Organization (WHO) will send experts to help organize the activities, and then the experience from the schools in Beijing will be spread to create more smoke-free places, according to newspaper reports.

　　In smoke-free schools, activities will be organized to persuade teachers and students to give up smoking. The students' parents will also be encouraged not to smoke in front of their children.

　　Figures from the China National Health Education Institute show that 45 percent of the boy students in senior middle schools smoke cigarettes, while the rate for junior middle schools is 34 percent, reports say.

　　Experts are worried that if no action is taken immediately, the rates will go up to 59 and 54 per cent respectively by the year 2000. A report by the China National Health Education Institute says that there are now 350 million smokers in China, with about five million under the age of 18. And of the adult smokers, about 75 percent said that they took up smoking between 15 and 24.

1．In Beijing there will be one hundred primary and middle schools where ________.

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A．nobody is allowed to smoke

B．everybody may smoke freely

C．the teachers may smoke but the students mustn't

D．the teachers warn the students not to smoke

2．How many smokers are eighteen years old and above in China now?

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3．According to the text, in our country ________.

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A．the number of the students in primary and middle school who smoke is reducing year by year

B．it is very serious that more and more primary and middle school children smoke

C．there are no smokers among the teachers in primary and middle schools now

D．most of the students in primary and middle schools ask their teachers to stop smoking

4．Who will send experts to help create 100 smoke-free primary and middle schools in Beijing because ________.

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A．the organization tried to find faults with our country

B．smoking seriously does harm to the students' health

C．the smokers in primary and middle schools ask these experts to come

D．the organization wants to express its friendship for the Chinese people

5．Which of the following sentences best expresses the main idea of the text?

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A．Smoke-free activities and health education in China.

B．China will forbid the students in primary and middle schools to smoke.

C．The number of smokers in primary and middle school is in-creasing.

D．One should stop smoking when young.

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Planet Hunter

　　When Geoff Marcy was 14, his parents bought him a telescope. Every night, he would go onto the roof outside his window to see the wonders of the sky.

　　“What excited me most was whether there were planets(行星) in other solar(太阳的) systems where life might exist,” he says. “I decided to try to find planets orbiting(沿……轨道运行) other stars like our Sun.” And he did. “My fellow researcher, Paul Butler, and I found our first planet in 1995,” Dr. Marcy says. “We worked for ten years without finding anything! But we stuck with it, and our patience paid off.”Since then, the two scientists have discovered 65 of the more than 100 planets found orbiting other stars. Dr. Marcy and Dr. Butler also spotted the first “family” of three planets. In June 2002 they announced another discovery; a Jupiter-like(像木星一样的) planet orbiting star 55 Cancri.

　　At first, the two researchers found only planets that orbit close to stars. Recently, the scientists found planets farther out. The planet orbiting 55 Cancri is a major breakthrough; it is the first sighting of a large gas planet about the same distance from the star as Jupiter is from the Sun.

　　Why is this important? Scientists think that life on Earth may exist because of two special features(特征) in our solar system The first is Jupiter.

　　“Because it's so big, Jupiter pulls comets and asteroids(小行星), or they all come and hit the Earth.” Dr. Marcy explains. “Without Jupiter, life on Earth would likely have been destroyed.”

　　A second feature is that Earth is a rocky planet where liquid water, which is necessary for life, can exist. Unlike gas planets, rocky planets like Earth have surfaces where water can gather in pools and seas, which may support life. A huge space exists between the Jupiter-like planet and two other planets that lie close to 55 Cancri. Is there an Earth-like planet in the space, too small for us to notice? If so, says Dr. Marcy, “We would have two striking similarities to our solar system: a Jupiter-like planet and an Earth-like planet. And there may be life!”

1．What can we learn about Dr. Marcy from the passage?

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A．He is fond of watching Jupiter.

B．He is from a scientist family.

C．He dislikes working with Paul Butler.

D．He is interested in finding life in outer space.

2．Which of the following is true of the recent discovery?

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A．The planet is not as protective as Jupiter.

B．The planet is close to star 55 Cancri.

C．The planet proves to be a gas planet.

D．The planet is as large as Jupiter.