阅读理解

阅读下列短文,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

  The World Trade Organization (WTO), founded on January 1,1995, aims to encourage international trade to flow as freely as possible, making sure that trade agreements are respected and that any disputes (争端) can be settled.

  In the five years since its founding, the WTO has become well - known as one of world's most powerful economic organization, taking its place alongside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

  The system of global rules for international trade, however, dates back half a century to 1948 when the General Agreement on Tariffs (关税) and Trade (GATT) was founded after World War Ⅱ.

  As time went by, it became clear that the GATT had two major drawbacksthe limited areas of trade it covered, and the lack of an effective system to settle disputes.

  After seven years of trade talks ending in 1994, the so - called Uruguay Round finally gave birth to the WTO, complete with an effective system to settle disputes and now rules covering trade in services and intellectual property (知识产权).

  Even after seven years of talks and 22,500 pages of agreements there were still problems, especially the difficult - to - deal - with areas of agriculture and services, which the member nations agreed to revise in 2000.

  The WTO, with its head office in Geneva, has 136 members with 30 more waiting to join.

1.From the passage we know that the GATT stoppped working ________.

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A.soon after World War Ⅱ ended

B.a little more than 50 years after World War Ⅱ

C.just in the year 1994

D.seven years before the Uruguay Round talk

2.Compared with the GATT, the WTO ________.

[  ]

A.didn't pay enough attention to services and intellectual property

B.got its members to sign the agreements more easily

C.has got too many areas of international trade to deal with to work effectively

D.can do better to settle disputes in more areas of international trade

3.In the new century the WTO will ________.

[  ]

A.take the place of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund

B.have more members and settle more problems

C.make complete new rules in every area of international trade

D.have new rules covering trade in services and intellectual property

4.The underlined word “drawbacks” means ________.

[  ]

A.changes
B.weak points
C.strong points
D.improvements

阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。

  I still remembermy hands and my finger - tips still remember! what used to lie in store for us on return to school from holidays. The trees in the schoolyard would be in full of leaves again, and the old leaves would be lying around like a muddy sea of leaves.

  “Get that all swept up!” the headmaster would tell us. “I want the whole place cleaned up at once!” There was enough work there, to last for over a week. Especially since the only tools with which we were provided were our hand, our fingers, our nails, “Now see that it's done properly, and be quick about it,” the headmaster would say to the other boys, “or you will have to answer for it!”

  So at an order from the older boys we would all line up like peasants about to cut and gather in crops. If the work was not going as quickly as the headmaster expected, the big boys, instead of giving us a helping hand, used to find it simple to beat us with branches pulled from the trees. In order to avoid these blows, we used to bribe (行贿) them with the juicy cakes we used to bring for our midday meal. And if we happened to have any money on us the coins changed hands at once. If we did not do this, the blows were re - doubled. They hit us so hard and with such enjoyment that even a deaf and dumb (哑) person would have realized that we were being beaten not so much to make us work harder, but rather to get us into a state of obeying in which we would be only too glad to give up our food and money.

  Sometimes one of us would have the courage to report it to the headmaster. He would of course be very angry, but the punishment he gave the older boys was always small - nothing compared to what they had done to us. And the fact is that however much we explained our situation didn't improve in the slightest. Perhaps we should have let our parents know what was going on, but somehow we never dreamed of doing so; I don't know whether it was loyalty (忠诚) or pride that kept us silent, but I can see now that we were foolish to keep quiet about it, for such beating was completely foreign to our nature.

1.The writer means ________ by saying “My hands and my finger - tips still remember!”

[  ]

A.his hands and finger - tips suffered a lot from the hard work

B.the school work was too hard for the children

C.the work used to be finished by his own hands only

D.his hands proved to be skillful at school work

2.From the way the headmaster spoken, we can learn that ________.

[  ]

A.he was ordering the older boys to do the work at once

B.he actually expected everyone to join in the work

C.he didn't care who did the work as long as it was done quickly and properly

D.he wanted the older boys beat the younger ones so hard

3.When the younger boys complained to the headmaster about their sufferings, ________.

[  ]

A.he decided to give the older boys a lesson

B.he gave the older boys a suitable punishment

C.it only made matters worse

D.it made little difference

4.It can be learned from the passage by inference that ________.

[  ]

A.the headmaster was very unreasonable since he put the older boys in charge of the work

B.the younger boys were willing to offer their food and money to the old ones

C.the older boys didn't get any punishment because they had had the whole work finished quickly

D.the writer seems to feel regret for not having told their parents about their sufferings at school

阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。

  Animals seem to have the sense to eat when they are hungry and they do not eat more than their bodies need. It has been demonstrated (证明) that rats will, when given a choice over a period of time, prefer water with vitamins to water without vitamins, even though there is no difference in taste or smell between the two water bottles. When a fragrant (芬香的) flavor (味道、佐料) was added to the vitamins - enriched fluid, the rats did seem to develop a taste for it and kept drinking it, even after the vitamins were changed to the clear water. In time, however, they broke the habit and went back to where the necessary vitamins were.

  In a classic experiments, babies of 6 to 12 months old were placed in a cafeteria (自助餐厅) feeding arrangement, with a wide choice of baby food before them. They were given whatever food they pointed to or appeared interested in. We are told that at first they showed some unusual eating patterns, but that over a period of time they managed to choose a well - balanced diet.

  So in choosing food, rats and babies do seem to know and act on what's best for them. Obviously, there is a kind of “boby wisdom”, which humans soon lose, Most of us do not eat as wisely as we could. Many of our food preference are culturally determined and influenced by long established habits. Some people eat foxes, dogs and blackbirds, while we eat cows and pigs, So what people eat and how many they eat seems to be greatly influenced by what is going around them.

1.In the experiment on rats, a fragrant flavor was added to the rat's drinking water to ________.

[  ]

A.encourage rats to drink vitamins - enriched water

B.find out rat's preference in flavour

C.test whether rats know which drink is good for them

D.Demonstrate the vitamins are tasteless

2.As far as their eating habits are concerned, babies and rats are similar in that ________.

[  ]

A.both have the wisdom to choose a balanced diet

B.both prefer flavoured food and drink

C.both have the same eating patterns

D.both develop a taste for the same kinds of flavours

3.In the classic experiment mentioned in the second paragraph, babies were ________.

[  ]

A.give many choices of drinks

B.provided with various kinds of baby food

C.placed and fed in a cafeteria

D.trained to select a balanced diet

4.According to the passage, adults' eating habits differ from those of babies because ________.

[  ]

A.adults know better than babies what kinds of food are good for their health

B.adults ususlly cannot resist the temptation of various delicious foods

C.adult's eating habits are closely related to the social and cultural customs

D.adults have more choices of food than babies in eating patterns

阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。

  MONTREAL - He may be the world's richest, but that didn't prevent Bill Gates from falling for an April Fool's day joke by two Quebec radio comics (喜剧演员) pretending to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.

  Montreal French - language station CKMF - FM said last Wednesday that staffers (工作人员) Marcantoine Aduet and Sebastien Trudel had a 10 - minute telephone chat with Microsoft Corp boss Gates on April 1.

  The broadcast was aired on their nightly show last Tuesday and repeated last Wednesday.

  “We were happy. We had been calling Microsoft persistently for four weeks,” Trudel said.

  Trudel said he and his colleague had already fooled Canadian pop singer Celine Dion and Formula One (一级方程赛车) driver Jacques Villeneuve on their show.

  “This time, we wanted to give ourselves a challenge with somebody more difficult to reach,” Trudel said.

  He said he was surprised that Gates's assistants did not check to see if it was really the prime minister's office on the line.

  Trudel said that they imitate Chretien's heavily accented English, talking about the economy, asking about Microsoft's Windows operating system and inviting the multibillionaire to visit a well - known Montreal strip joint.

  The radio host said that Gates was not amused by the fake interview.

  “He did not seem angry but he did not find it so funny”, the comic said.

1.Bill Gates was fooled mainly because ________.

[  ]

A.his assistants were not careful enough

B.the Canadian Prime Minister helped the two comic

C.The two comics imitated the Canadian Prime Minister so well

D.It was April Fool's Day

2.We can conclude from the passage that two comics ________.

[  ]

A.liked to fool famous people on their show

B.thought that Bill Gates was a great challenge to them

C.had a good knowledge of Bill Gates and his Windows operating system

D.were not quite satisfied with their tricks

3.Which of the following persons is not among those who were fooled by the two comics?

[  ]

A.Celine Dion
B.Jacques Villeneuve
C.Chretien
D.Bill Gates

4.Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

[  ]

A.Gates ‘April Fooled’

B.Two Comics and Bill Gates

C.Two Comics and their show

D.A Fake Interview

阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。

  Tim Berners - Lee is the man who wrote the software programme that led to the foundation of the world Wide Web. Britain played an important in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners - Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers from packaging materials. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980s scientists were already communicating using a primitive version (原始版本) of e - mail.

  While working at a laboratory in Switzerland, Tim Berbers - Lee wrote a programme which let him store those messages. This gave him another idea: wrote a programme that will let academics from across the world share information on a single place. In 1990 he wrote the HTTTP and HTML programmes which formed the basis of the World Wide Web.

  The next year his programmes were placed on to the Internet. Everyone was welcome to use them and improve them if they could. Programmers used his codes to work with different operating systems. New things like Web browsers and search engines were developed. Between 1991 and the 1994 the number of web pages rose from 10 to 100,000.

  In 1994 Tim Berners - Lee formed the newly formed World Wide Web Consortium or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and laboratories are respected by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can share equally on the web. “The web can help people to understand the way that others live and love. It helps us understand the humanity of people.” He says.

1.The main idea of the passage is ________.

[  ]

A.when the Internet came into being

B.how Tim Berners - Lee formed W3C

C.why computers develop so rapidly

D.how the World Wide Web started

2.Scientists began to communicate using e - mail ________.

[  ]

A.in 1980
B.after the 1980s
C.before 1990
D.in the 1960s

3.He made up his mind to write a programme that would let people from across the world share information on a single place when ________.

[  ]

A.he was a child

B.He studied in Oxford University

C.he formed W3C

D.he worked at a lab in Switzerland

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

[  ]

A.The number of web pages rose very rapidly in the 1990s.

B.Tim's programmes were placed on to the Internet in 1990.

C.The World Wide Web will have an effect on the social development.

D.Tim Berners - Lee made a great contribution to the computer science.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。

  Conan Doyle became famous for writing stories about Detective Holmes. So he was often asked to settle puzzling problems.

  One day, a woman told him a strange story. Her husband had died 5 years before, and a grave had been built for him. The grave was built like this: on the huge stone base was a big stone ball, in the front of which a cross was cut. The ball would move in winter and the cross in the stone hall could hardly seen.

  Conan Doyle decided to see how matters stood with the woman. The grave was just like the woman had told him. And nobody could move the stone ball, which was put in a very shallow hole in the stone base. So it couldn't roll off. There was water in the hole, too. He thought for a minute and then said to the woman. “The problem is easy to explain, it's very cold and often rains or snows here. So there is always water in the hole. The water turns into ice at night. During the day, the southern part of the ice in the hole turns into water again while the northern part of it still remains ice, so the stone ball leans southward little by little and the cross in the stone ball moves downwards with the ball.”

1.Why did the woman leave her husband's grave built like that?

[  ]

A.Conan Doyle told her to do so.

B.Holmes told her to do so.

C.Her husband told her to do so before he died.

D.The story didn't tell us the reason.

2.From the story we can see that Conan Doyle was a man ________.

[  ]

A.who was always ready to help others

B.who wrote a lot of funny stories

C.who was careful and thoughtful

D.who always explained funny problems

3.On hearing what Conan Doyle had said, perhaps the woman would ________.

[  ]

A.think what Conan Doyle said was responsible

B.feel that she might be fooled by him

C.feel that she was too silly to explain it

D.think that Conan Doyle said was without reason

4.From the following cutaway views (剖视图) choose the correct one which shows the relationship between the stone.

(sl=stone ball  SE=stone base)

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A.
B.
C.
D.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。

  Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition (此外), there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance (容忍) in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity (机会) for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed (明白的).

  Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects (方面) of the culture than in the non - material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early, in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society rather than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex (复杂的) ones; form rather than in substance (物质); and in elements (元素) that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.

  Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale (规模) rather than one with sharp dichotomies (一分成二). This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.

1.The passage is mainly discussing ________.

[  ]

A.two different societies

B.the necessity of social change

C.certain factors that determine the ease (容易) with which social changes occur

D.certain factors that promote social change

2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

[  ]

A.Social change tends to meet with more difficulty in basic and emotional aspects of society.

B.Disagreement with and argument about conditions tends to slow down social change.

C.Social change is more likely to occur in the material aspect of society.

D.Social change is less likely to occur in what people learned when they were young.

3.Social change is less likely to occur in a society where people are quite similar in many ways because ________.

[  ]

A.people there have got so accustomed (习惯于) to their conditions that they seldom think it necessary to change

B.people there have identical needs that can be satisfied without much difficulty

C.people there are easy to please

D.people there are less disputatious (好争辩的)

阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。

  The report came to the British on May 21, 1941.The German battleship Bismarck, the most powerful warship in the world, was moving out into the Atlantic Ocean. Her task: to destroy the ships carrying supplies from the United States to war - torn English.

  The British had feared such a task. No warship they had could match the Bismarck in speed or in firepower. The Bismarck had eight 15 - inch guns and 81 smaller guns. She could move at 30 nautical (航海的) miles an hour. She was believed to be unsinkable.

  However, the British had to sink her. They sent out a task force headed by their best battleship Hood to hunt down the Bismarck. On My 24, the Hood found the Bismarck.

  It was a meeting that the German commander Luetjens did not want to see. His orders were to destroy the British ships that were carrying supplies, but to stay away from a fight with British warships.

  The battle didn't last long. The Bismarck's first torpedo (鱼雷) hit the Hood, which went town taking all but three of her 1,419 men with her.

  But in the fight, the Bismarck was slightly damaged. Her commander decided to run for repairs to France, which had at that time been taken by the Germans. The British force followed her. However, because of the Bismarck's speed and the heavy fog, they lost sight of her.

  For two days, every British ship in the Atlantic tried to find the Bismarck, but with no success. Finally, she was sighted by a plane from Ireland. Trying to slow the Bismarck down so that their ships could catch up with her, the British fired at her from the air. The Bismarck was hit.

  On the morning of May 27, the last battle was fought. Four British ships fired on the Bismarck, and she was finally sunk.

1.The Bismarck sailed into the Atlantic Ocean ________.

[  ]

A.to sink the Hood

B.to gain control of France

C.to cut off American supplies to British

D.to stop British warships reaching Germany

2.We learn from the text on 24 May ________.

[  ]

A.the British won the battle against the Bismarck

B.the Bismarck won the battle against the British

C.The British gunfire damaged the Bismarck seriously

D.the Bismarck succeeded in keeping away from the British

3.Luetjens tried to sail to France in order to ________.

[  ]

A.have the ship repaired

B.join the other Germans

C.get help from the French

D.get away from the British

4.Which of the following is the immediate cause of the sinking of the Bismarck?

[  ]

A.The British air strikes.

B.The damage done by the Hood.

C.Gunfire from the British warships.

D.Luetjens' decision to run for France.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。

  In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child's acquisition (学会) of each new skillthe first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting (诱惑) to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities (机会), he loses his natural enthusiasm (热情) for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.

  Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matter, others are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality (及时) for meals. In general, the controls imposed (施加的)represent (代表) the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child's own happiness.

  As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency (一致性) is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality (道德). Also, parents should realize that “example is better than percept (认知)”. If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach (说教), their children may grow confused and emotionally insecure (不确定) when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.

  A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents' principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.

1.Eagerly watching the child's acquisition of new skills ________.

[  ]

A.should be avoided

B.is universal (普遍的) among parents

C.sets up dangerous states of worry in the child

D.will make him lose interest in learning new things

2.In the process of children's learning new skills parents ________.

[  ]

A.should encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they read

B.should expect much of them

C.should achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on their own.

D.should create as many learning opportunities as possible.

3.The second paragraph mainly tells us that ________.

[  ]

A.parents should be strict with their children

B.parental controls reflect only the needs of the partents and the values of the community

C.parental restrictions vary, and are not always enforced for benefit of the children alone

D.parents vary in their strictness towards their children according to the situation

4.In moral matters, parents should ________.

[  ]

A.observe the rules themselves

B.be aware of the marked difference between adults and children

C.forbid things which have no foundation in morality

D.consistently ensure the security of their children

阅读理解

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。

A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first what it contains: the range of news from local crime (犯罪) to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range (范围) of comment and special features (特写)as well, from editorial page to feature articles, from interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre, and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out, glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality(时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient (短暂的) value. For all these reasons, not two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together, out of the pages of that day's paper, his own selection and sequence (顺序), his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self - awareness (意识) as you modify (改变) and apply the techniques of reading.

1.A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ________.

[  ]

A.wide coverage
B.uniform style
C.speed in reporting news
D.popularity

2.According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the “same” newspaper is that ________.

[  ]

A.people scan for the news they are interested in

B.different people prefer different newspapers

C.people are rarely interested in the same kind of news

D.people have different views about what a good newspaper is

3.It can be concluded from the passage that newspaper readers ________.

[  ]

A.apply reading techniques skillfully

B.jump from one newspaper to another

C.appreciate the variety of a newspaper

D.usually read a newspaper selectively (有选择性地)

4.A good newspaper offers “a variety” to readers because ________.

[  ]

A.it tries to serve different readers

B.it has to cover things that happen in a certain locality

C.readers are difficult to please

D.readers like to read different newspapers

5.The best title for this passage would be “________”.

[  ]

A.The Importance of Newspaper Topicality

B.The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper

C.The Variety of a Good Newspaper

D.Some Suggestions on How to Read a Newspaper

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