阅读下列短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said “the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.

　　Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4: 00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?

　　Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,” says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue.

　　Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows Marketing Manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and how their last meeting went.

　　Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near-but we didn't meet for the first two weeks!”

　　Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously (同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn't know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they're space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access (存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

1．How do you understand‘Point 1-The telephone creates the need to communicate,…’?

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A．People don't communicate without telephone.

B．People communicate because of the creating of the telephone.

C．People communicate more since telephone has been created.

D．People communicate more because of more traffic.

2．Which of the following best shows people's attitude towards mobile phones?

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A．Mobile phones help people deal with the emergency.

B．Mobile phones bring convenience as well little secret to people.

C．Mobile phones are so important and should be encouraged.

D．Mobile phones are part of people's life.

3．Which points do you think support the idea that phones improve people's life?

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4．It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through ________.

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A．the TV screen

B．a fax machine

C．the phone line hooked up to the computer

D．a microphone

5．The best heading for the passage is ________.

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阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

　　Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word “obey” is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.

　　Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly expressive as delight, pain,

friendliness, and so on. But since these can't be said to show the baby's intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation (模仿) leads on to deliberate (有意的) imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.

　　It is a problem we need to get our teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation; and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use, at seven months, of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at another times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself. I doubt, however, whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.

1．Before children start speaking ________ .

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A．they need equal amount of listening

B．they need different amounts of listening

C．they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obey spoken instructions

D．they can't understand and obey the adult's oral instructions

2．Children who start speaking late ________ .

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A．may have problems with their listening

B．probably do not hear enough language spoken around them

C．usually pay close attention to what they hear

D．often take a long time in learning to listen properly

3．A baby's first noises are ________ .

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A．an expression of his moods and feelings

B．an early form of language

C．a sign that he means to tell you something

D．an imitation of the speech of adults

4．The problem of deciding at what point a baby's imitations can be considered as speech ________ .

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A．is important because words have different meanings for different people

B．is not especially important because the change over takes place gradually

C．is one that can never be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age

D．is one that should be completely ignored (忽略) because children's use of words is of ten meaningless

5．The speaker implies ________ .

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A．parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds

B．children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak

C．children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly

D．even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating

阅读理解

　　You are cutting something and you accidentally cut your finger. A little blood begins to come out. Your finger will bleed for a few minutes, but you will not lose much blood if the cuff is small. Losing a little blood is not serious because your body has about four and three-fourths liters of blood.

　　Blood is the most important part of the bodies transportation system. It transports oxygen, food, water and other substances. It takes away waste products such as carbon dioxide as well.

　　Human blood, like all living things, has cells. There are three kinds of blood cells: red, white and platelets. Red blood cells carry oxygen. White blood cells fight germs and there-fore give protection to the body. Platelets help your blood to clot, which helps to stop bleeding.

　　All three kinds of blood cells float in the liquid part of the blood, which is called plasma. Plasma is about ninety percent of water. It is colourless. Because plasma contains things such as proteins and salts, it is thicker than water.

1．The term “as well” in the second paragraph means ________.

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2．Some people have a serious problem with their blood because it does not clot. In other words, these people lose a lot of blood if they cut themselves. From this reading, we may conclude that this problem is connected with the ________.

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3．The amount of blood in your body is about ________.

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4．The liquid part of the blood is called ________.

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阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项。

　　Every human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body beat. The usual problem is how to deal with it. But the designers of the Johnstown campus (校园) of the University of Pittsburgh set themselves the opposite problem how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs(灯泡 ) and refrigerators as well. The system works so well that no commonly used fuel is needed to make the campus's six buildings comfortable.

　　Some parts of most modern buildings theaters and offices as well as classrooms are more than amply (充分地) heated by people and lights sometimes must be air-conditioned even in winter. The technique of saving heat and redistributing (再分配 ) it is called “heat recovery (恢复)”. A few modern buildings recover heat, but the University's system is the first to recover heat from some buildings and reuse it in others.

　　Along the way, Pitt has learned a great deal about some of its heat producers. The harder a student studies, the more heat his body gives off. Male students send out more heat than female students, and the larger the student is the more heat he produces. It can be concluded that the hottest prospect for the Johnstown campus would be a hard-working, over-weight male genius.

1．Which of the following is true of the heating system of the Johnstown campus?

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A．The heat is supplied by human bodies.

B．The heat is supplied by both human bodies and other heat-giving objects.

C．The heat is supplied by both human bodies and commonly used.

D．The heat is supplied by human bodies, other heat-giving objects and commonly used fuel.

2．The technique of heat recovery is used to ______.

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A．find out the source of heat

B．produce a special form of air conditioning

C．provide the heat for the hot water system

D．collect and reuse heat

3．Which of the following persons would produce the least amount of heat?

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A．A fat female who studies hard.

B．A thin female who does not study hard.

C．A fat male who does not study hard.

D．A thin male who studies hard.

4．In the last sentence, the “hottest prospect” refers to _______.

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A．the person who produces most heat

B．the person who suffers most from heat

C．the person who takes in most heat

D．the person who stands most heat

5．A good title for this passage would be ______.

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A．Modern building's Heat System

B．A New Heat Recovery System in Pitt

C．A New Technique in Heating System

D．Recovery of Body's Heat

　　Confucius was born five hundred and fifty years before Christ.Unlike Jesus Christ,he did not bring words of God to the people .He was a clever teacher and a philosopher,looking for truth and wisdom.Most of his teaching was about life in this world .

　　Confucius was very keen to give people good rulers .Someone asked him ,”What does a country need ?”Confucius answered,”Enough food ,a good army ,and a good leader .”The people then asked ,”Which one is the most important ?”Confucius answered,”An army is not very important .All men must die ,so food is not the most important .But if the leader of the country is not good ,then everything will be bad .”

1．A philosopher is a person who ________.

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A ． does not like Jesus Christ

B ． teaches people how to live in this world

C ． seeks after truth and wisdom

D ． is more clever than most of other people

2．According to Confucius ,the most important thing in any country was _________.

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A ．the army

B ．the ruler

C ．life of the people

D ．food

3．Jesus Christ ________ .

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A ．was born more than half a century earlier than Confucius

B ．taught people about God

C ．did no tell people anything about God

D ．was a philosopher sent by God

4．Confucius taught people all these things except ________ .

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A ．How to live in the world

B ．the importance of the leader of the country

C ．any ideas about God

D ．how to make good judgments

5．For Confucius a man ________ .

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A ．could not escape death

B ．would die if he didn’t have a good ruler

C ．was not important compared with food

D．ought to die if he considered food to be the most important for him

阅读理解

　　There are about three quarters of a ton of termites (白蚊) for every person on Earth. It now proves that these insects may be helping to change climate and affect man's life.

　　For years scientists have been saying that carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) sent into the atmosphere by the burning of oil might lead to the rise in temperatures of the whole earth, which was called the greenhouse effect in which the gas prevents the escape of heat into outer space. Now an international team of researchers has discovered that termites produce more than twice the carbon dioxide than oil burning does. And this production, which comes from the insects' eating and digesting of different kinds of vegetables and wood, has risen greatly. This is because man has cut so many trees in order to open more land and thus has supplied large quantities of food for the critters in the form of tiny pieces of wood.

　　Scientists pay more attention to the burning of oil because it is continuing to increase and so far no effective measures have been taken to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide produced in this way: Production by termites, on the other hand, will not increase much more.

1．From the passage we know that “the greenhouse effect” is an effect in which ________.

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A．low temperatures are created by using a house

B．heat is prevented from escaping outside

C．the house is made green in order to keep heat

D．everything is kept green in a house

2．Which of the following are the three words that refer nearly to the same thing in the passage?

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A．termites, critters, insects

B．food, production, effect

C．carbon dioxide, the gas, atmosphere

D．climate, temperature, heat

3．Which of the following statements is true?

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A．Carbon dioxide may make the Earth warmer because it lets the heat escape into outer

B．As carbon dioxide keeps heat form escaping into outer space, the Earth may become warmer.

C．Carbon dioxide may escape into the greenhouse so that the Earth may become warmer.

D．Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere carries heat into outer space so as to change the climate.

4．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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A．The burning of oil produces much less carbon dioxide than termites do.

B．The burning of oil is increasing.

C．What scientists worry more about is the burning of oil.

D．It is the production by termites that caused scientists' attention.

5．The best title for this passage might be ________.

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A．How Greenhouse Works

B．The Result of Burning Fuel

C．Why Carbon Dioxide Can Affect the Climate

D．The Effect of Termites on the Climate

阅读理解

　　Edgar felt quite excited at the thought of his first swim of the summer. He had just smiled and raised his hat to an elderly lady when a man with a camera caught his arm and stopped him. Edgar heard a little buzzing noise from the camera. Then the buzzing stopped, and the man held the photograph in his hand. In a moment he handed it over to Edgar.

　　“Severity pence, sir,” the man said. “It's the bargain of your holiday.”

　　“Seventy pence,” Edgar repeated. “For this?” He stared at the photograph.

　　“They're normally eighty-five, sir, but for a single I make a cut-price offer. It's the best value you'll get in Chadwell. It's better in a way because it's so natural. You had no idea that you were being snapped (拍照). Only seventy pence, sir.”

　　“I've never paid so much for a snap in my life. It simply isn't worth that kind of money. It's not as if I need the thing. Look, I'll give you twenty-five.”

　　“Let me see, then,” The man suddenly took the photograph out of Edgar's hand.

　　“I can't waste any more time with you. It's 70p or I keep it.”

　　“Keep it,” Edgar said. He turned, looked out to sea, then unwillingly, he walked quickly away.

1．Why do you suppose Edgar was in Chadwell?

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A．It was his home.

B．He had gone there on holiday.

C．He was taking part in the making of a film.

D．He went there to have his photograph taken.

2．Edgar smiled and raised his hat to the lady because ________.

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A．he thought he recognized her

B．he wanted the photograph to be wonderful

C．she was having her photograph taken

D．he was feeling excited and cheerful

3．The photographer lowered his price to 70p because ________.

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A．Edgar wanted to bargain for the snap

B．Edgar could not afford to pay the normal price

C．the only person in the snap was Edgar

D．there was only one copy of the photograph

4．What was Edgar's opinion of the photograph?

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A．He thought it made him look like a poor man.

B．He liked it but thought it was too dear.

C．It made him angry because he has not expected it.

D．He thought it was a bargain at the price.

5．Why could the snap be celled a natural one?

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A．Because Edgar did not know he was being photographed.

B．Because it is natural to have a snap taken at the seaside.

C．Because Edgar was a normal, good-looking man.

D．Because it was as good as a studio photograph.

阅读理解

　　In the United States Government, the Congress (国会) makes the laws. The Congress has two parts, which are more or less equal in power. They are known as the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives is larger than the Senate whose 100 members (two from each state) serve for six years, and the number from each state is determined by the population of the state. For example, California, which has a large population, has forty-three representatives (代表), while the state of Nevada has only one.

　　The House and Senate are divided into small groups which take care of special matters such as education or foreign affairs. The most important work of the Congress is often done in these groups, which are called committees (委员会). According to the Constitution (宪法) of the United States, a Senator (参议员) must be at least thirty years old and he must have been a citizen of the United States of nine years at the time of, his election. To be elected to the House a person must be twenty-five years old and must have been a United States citizen for seven years. At the present time, members of Congress include businessmen, farmers, teachers, and especially lawyers.

　　In general, Senators are better known than Representatives because they are fewer in number and serve for a longer time. Many American Presidents served in Congress before they became Presidents.

1．Which of the following statements is right?

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A．50 per cent of all the members of Congress are women.

B．Nearly ten percent of all the members of Congress are from California.

C．Nevada has a small population, but it has two Senators.

D．The House is larger and more powerful than the Senate.

2．What makes Senators more famous than Representatives is that ________.

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A．the Senate has much more power than the House

B．a Senator's salary is higher than a Representative's

C．Senators are older than Representatives

D．there is much difference between Senators and Representatives in number and term of office (任期)

3．It is easier for one to become ________ than to become ________.

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A．a Senator; a Representative

B．a Representative; a Senator

C．president; a senator

D．a Member of Congress; a Representative

4．We can infer (推断) that ________.

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A．Nevada has not more than one million people

B．Nevada is the smallest state in both population and size

C．Nevada is the largest state in size but the smallest in population

D．California is the largest state in both size and population

5．Which of the following statements is right?

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A．All those who, in their forties, have lived in the US for ten years have rights to be elected Senators.

B．A woman of 28 who has been a United States citizen for nine years can be elected to the House.

C．Each member of Congress was surely born in the USA.

D．Those who didn't serve in Congress have no rights to become Presidents.

阅读理解

　　You get a terrible feeling when you find you've had a (burglar). It isn't only anger against the thief and at your loss (损失). It's much more. For months after my burglar came one night, I hated my house, though I knew it wasn't my house's fault. Poor Jack suffered more: he lived only a month after his “burglars” came, so they were, in a way, his murderers.

　　Jack and I lived opposite each other on the edge of a village. It so happened that July, I had to go into hospital for a week. At the same time, Jack heard from Norway that his sister had died. So we were both away from our houses for about a week. He was going back the day before I was.

　　When Jack returned, his house was gone. All that remained was the hard base on which the house had stood. He went to the police, of course, and the slow questioning began. When I returned, he came to stay with me. We soon found out from many people what had happened. On the third day of our absence, some “workmen” in a truck arrived at Jack's house. They declared that they were there on the orders of the police. They said that the house was an illegal (非法) building and had to be removed before the owner returned. They even said that the police knew all about it. It was all over in less than two days.

　　Jack went out of his mind. As I said, he didn't live long. It is January now, and so far the police haven't found the house or anything else.

1．In Paragraph 1, the word “burglar” most closely means a ________.

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2．Jack had all that he owned stolen ________ before he returned.

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3．The people at the village did not report the accident to the police at the time it happened most probably because ________.

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A．they believed what the thieves said at that time

B．they knew nothing about the accident at all

C．they did no know where the police station was

D．they knew the “workmen” well

4．Jack died soon after he returned from Norway because ________.

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A．he was tired after his journey to Norway

B．he was severely hurt by the loss of all that he owned

C．the police punished him for building his house illegally

D．he had been suffering from a serious disease for years

5．Which of the following statements is true?

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A．It is already 5 months since Jack died.

B．All the thieves have been caught by the police now.

C．The thief never stole anything from the story-teller's house.

D．There were a lot of houses around Jack's house.

阅读理解

　　For some time past it has been widely accepted that babies-and other creatures-learn to do things because certain acts lead to “rewards”; and there is no reason to doubt that this is true. But it used also to be widely believed that effective rewards, at least in the early periods, had something to do directly with such basic physiological (生理的) “drives” as thirst or hunger. In other words, a baby would learn if he got food or drink or some sort of physical comfort, not otherwise. It is now clear that this is not so.

　　Papousek began his studies by using milk in the normal way to “reward” the babies and so teach them to carry out some simple movements, such as turning the head to one side or the other. Then he noticed that a baby who had had enough to drink would refuse the milk but would still go on making the learned response with clear signs of pleasure. So he began to study the children's responses in situations where no milk was supplied. He quickly found that children as young as four months would learn to turn their heads to the right or the left if the movement “switched on” lights-and indeed that they were able to learn quite complex (复杂的) turns to bring about this result, for example, two left or two right, or even to make as many as three turns to one side.

　　Papousek's lights were placed directly in front of the babies and he made the interesting observation that sometimes they would not turn back to watch the lights closely although they could “smile and bubble” when the lights were turned on. Papousek concluded that it was not primarily the sight of the lights which pleased them, it was the success they were achieving in solving the problem, in mastering the skill, and that there exists a fundamental (基本的) human urge (欲望) to make sense of the world and bring it under intentional (有意的) control.

1．According to the author，babies learn to do things which ________．

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A．will satisfy their curiosity（好奇）

B．will meet their physical needs

C．have something to do with pleasure

D．will bring them a feeling of success

2．Papousek noticed in his studies that a baby ________．

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A．would make learned responses when it saw the milk

B．would continue the simple movements without being given milk

C． would turn its head to the right or the left when it had enough to drink

D．would carry out learned movements when it had enough to drink

3．In Papousek's experiment babies make learned movements of the head in order to ________.

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4．The babies would “smile and bubble” at the lights because ________．

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A．they succeeded in “switching on” the lights

B．the sight of the lights was interesting

C．they need not turn back to watch the lights

D．the lights had something to do with some basic “drives”

5．According to Papousek，the pleasure babies get in achieving something is reflection（反映） of ________.

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A．a fundamental human urge to show their learned skills

B．the satisfaction of certain physiological needs

C．a basic human urge to understand and control the world

D．their strong urge to solve complex problems