阅读理解

　　Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade and they help to prevent drought(干旱)and floods. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, in his eagerness to draw quick benefit from the tree, man has cut down a large number of trees. Even where a government realizes the importance of plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade the villagers to see this. So unless the government has a great system(体系)of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.

　　The results are mom serious: for where there are trees their roots break the soil up—allowing the rain to sink—and also hold the soil, thus preventing it being washed away easily. but where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor.

　　The rain falls on hard ground and flows away on the surface, causing floods, and carry with it the rich top-soil, in which crops grow so well. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert .

1．The purpose that the writer wrote this article for is ________.

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A．to tell people that trees are very useful to man

B．to warn people not to cut down trees any more

C．to warn that man mustn't destroy forests any more

D．to explain how trees help to prevent drought and floods

2．In the writer's opinion, ________, or the forests slowly disappear.

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A．measures must be taken

B．people shouldn't draw benefit from the tree

C．government must realize the serious results

D．unless trees never be cut down

3．According to the article we know it is ________ to prevent the forests from slowly disappearing.

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A．necessary but impossible

B．necessary but difficult

C．impossible and unimportant

D．difficult and impossible

4．In the last two paragraphs the writer to make it clear that ________.

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A．where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor

B．where there are many trees, there are fewer floods

C．where there are no trees, the land might become desert slowly

D．where there are many trees, there are more floods

阅读理解

　　Every February, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday?

　　The history of Valentine's Day—and its patron saint(守护神)—is covered in mystery. But we do know that February has long been a month of romance. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains signs of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition.

　　So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become connected with this ancient tradition? Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were dead . One legend describes that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius Ⅱ decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed (使……不受法律保护) marriage for young men—his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice(不公正)of the rule, fought against Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape cruel Roman prisons where they were often beaten, even killed.

　　According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first “Valentine” greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl—who may have been his jailor's daughter—who visited him during his imprisonment. Before his death, it is said that he wrote her a letter, which he signed “From your Valentine”, an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is gloomy, the stories certainly emphasize his appearance as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It's no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.

1．Why candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones every February?

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A．Mainly to show their love to their lovers.

B．Mainly to remember a person named Valentine.

C．Because they can't spend that day without these things.

D．Because February is a romantic month.

2．From this passage, why have people called that day Saint Valentine's Day?

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A．A priest called Valentine performed marriages for young lovers in secret.

B．A person called Valentine helped to save many Christians.

C．A person called Valentine wrote her lover a letter, which he signed “From your Valentine” .

D．It doesn't tell us exactly.

3．In the fourth paragraph, what's the meaning of the second “Valentine”?

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A．The person “Valentine”.

B．A thing as a gift in that day.

C．A signature in the lovers' day for the first time .

D．No real meaning.

4．What does the passage mainly talk about?

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A．How to spend Saint Valentine's Day.

B．The history of Saint Valentine's Day.

C．Why we should spend Saint Valentine's Day.

D．Why we should remember the person named Valentine.

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　　Reading is the key to school success and, like any skill, it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practising until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. A great athlete practises until he can play quickly, correctly, without thinking. Tennis players call that“being in the zone”. Educators call it“automaticity(自动)”.

　　A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and get the meanings of the words. With practice, he speaks with fewer and fewer pauses and mistakes, reading by the phrase. With automaticity, he doesn't have to think about getting the meanings of the words, so he can pay attention to the meaning of the text.

　　It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found automatic readers in the first grade who were reading almost three times as fast as the other children and scoring twice as high on comprehension tests. At fifth grade, the automatic readers were reading twice as fast as the others, and still outscoring them on correctness, comprehension, and vocabulary. “It's not IQ, but the amount of time a child spends reading that is the key to automaticity.” according to Rossman, any child who spends reading at least 3.5 to 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will most probably reach automaticity. At home, where the average child spends 25 hours a week watching TV, it can happen by turning off the set just one night in favour of reading.

　　You can train your child by giving him one paragraph or two to read aloudsomething unfamiliar but suitable to his age. 1f he reads aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, he probably is an automatic reader. If he reads hesitatingly, one word at a time without expression or meaning, he needs more practice.

1．The main idea of the first paragraph is ________.

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2．The Illinois study shows that the automatic reader's high speed ________.

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A．costs him a lot of work

B．affects his comprehension

C．leads to his future success

D．doesn't affect his comprehension

3．From the passage, it can be inferred that a bright child ________.

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A．also needs practice to be automatic reader

B．always achieves great success in comprehension tests

C．become an automatic reader after learning how to read

D．is born automatic reader

4．The main idea of the whole passage is ________.

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A．how to score high on comprehension tests

B．that reading is the key to school success

C．how to test your child's reading ability

D．that automaticity is important for efficient reading

阅读理解

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　　Now comes July, and with it examinations; but these are soon finished and with them ends the school year. Boys and girls have nearly two months' holiday before them as they leave school by train and car to return home to their fathers and mothers.

　　The summer holidays are the best part of the year for most children. The weather is usually good, so that one can spend mast of one's time playing in the garden or, if one lives in the country, out on the woods and fields. Even if one lives in a big town, one can usually go to a park to play.

　　The best place for a summer holiday, however, is the seaside. Some children are lucky enough to live near the sea, but for the others who do not, a week or two at one of the big seaside towns is something which they will talk about for the whole of the following year.

　　In England, it is not only the rich who can take their children to the seaside; if a factory worker or a bus driver, a street cleaner or a waiter wants to take his wife and children to Southend or Margate, Blackpool or Clacton, he is usually quite able to do so.

　　Now, what is it that children like so much about the seaside? I think it is the sand, sea and sun more than any other things. Of course, there are lots of new things to see, nice things to eat, and exciting things to do, but it is the feeling of sand under one's feet, of salt water on one's skin, and of the warm sun on one's back that makes the seaside what it is.

1．Summer holiday starts ________.

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A．with July

B．as soon as the examinations are over

C．in mid-June

D．in August

2．The summer holiday lasts ________.

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A．as long as two months

B．more than two months

C．one and a half months

D．a little less than two months

3．July and August are brightest months for most children, for they can ________.

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A．stay with their parents for all the vacation

B．do more reading

C．play out of doors

D．meet their old friends

4．Children like the seaside so much because they can ________.

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阅读理解

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．

　　Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always creating new words, and we are often able to know where most words come from.

　　Sometimes, however, no one may really know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham? About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany called Hamburg. They didn't speak good English, but they ate good food. When some Americans saw them eating round piece of beef, they asked the Germans what it was.

　　The Germans didn't understand the question and answered, “We come from Hamburg.”One of these Americans owned a restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round piece of bread and started selling them. Such bread came to be called“hamburgers”. Today, “hamburgers”are sold in many countries around the world.

　　Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why any word has a certain meaning is interesting, too. This reason, for most English words, can be found in any large English dictionary.

1．Hamburg is ________.

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2．According to the passage, ________.

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A．few Americans like hamburgers

B．hamburgers are made with beef

C．hamburgers are made with ham

D．hamburgers were first sold about a century ago

3．According to the writer, which of the following can often be found in any large English dictionary?

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A．Where all the new words came from.

B．Where those Germans came from.

C．The reason why a word has a certain meaning.

D．The reason why English is spoken around the world.

4．According to the story, the word hamburgers comes from ________.

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A．China because it has a long history

B．English because Germans don't speak good English

C．the round piece of beef which those people from Hamburg were eating

D．English speakers because they always create new words

阅读理解

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　　A gas company, it seems, had installed a computer to look after its accounts. Sadly, its company forgot to program the machine for people who didn't use any gas for a period of time. One customer who had been out of town for three months received a bill instructing him to pay $0.00 without delay. He decided the best thing to do was to ignore (不理睬) it. Two weeks later he received a reminder (催款单) , again asking for $0.00．And a couple of weeks later, he received a final demand.

　　The customer decided that the best way to silence the machine was to send a check for $0.00, which he did at once. The computer whirred (呼呼急转) , sighed, and felt silent. All was well until four days later, when the customers received a notice to see the manager of his bank.

　　The manager showed him the check and asked seriously, “What's the meaning of this?”

　　“Well,” the customers said. “I had to placate (安慰) the gas company's computer.”

　　“That's all very well,” said the bank manager, “but you've sent our computer in smoke！”

1．The computer was “unhappy” because ________ .

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A．one customer had touched it

B．one customer had destroyed the computer system

C．one customer hadn't paid any gas money

D．one customer had quarreled with the bank manager

2．One customer was always asked to pay $ 0.00 because ________.

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A．he should pay for the gas he had used at one

B．unfortunately the company forgot to program the machine

C．the computer didn't know one customer hadn't used any gas for some time

D．both B and C

3．How many times was the customer asked to pay the gas company in all?

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4．What was the best way to silence the computer?

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A．The customer cared nothing about the instruction.

B．The customer was asked to see the bank manager.

C．The customer solved the problem by phoning the bank manager.

D．The customer sent a check for $ 0.00 into the computer to comfort it.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项．

　　Tom, a student who does computer studies at Texas University, found his own parents with the help of Internet(因特网). The news got around soon and many of his friends came to share his happiness. Some of them even asked him to help them find jobs on the Internet.

　　Before he turned to Internet for help, Tom had spent one year looking for his parents who left him 26 years ago when he was a baby. Using knowledge on computer and network(上网), Tom found out his birth information and sent a notice to Internet in hope of(怀着……希望)finding his parents. Only one day later, Tom's dream came true (梦想成为现实).

　　When Tom flew to Los Angeles to meet his father, Stephen, they embraced each other lovingly and warmly. They enjoyed the family meeting. Later on Mother's Day, Tom met his mother Silvia.

　　Three yeas ago Stephen himself also tried hard to look for his son but his hard try ended in nothing. Tom's try on the Internet has turned to be a happy ending.

1．How long did it take Tom to find his parents by Internet?

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2．Which of the following can we not know from the reading?

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阅读理解

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　　Mr and Mrs Brown were going abroad for their holiday. They had a dog called Blackie which they were very fond of, but they could not take him abroad with them, so they looked for a good place to leave him in while they were away, and at last found a place which looked after dogs very well while their owners were away. They took Blackie there just before they left for their holiday, and sadly said goodbye to him.

　　At the end of their holiday, they got back to England very late at night, and as they thought that the place where Blackie was staying might be closed at that hour, they decided to wait until the next morning before going to get him back.

　　So the next morning Mr Brown got into his car and drove off happily to collect Blackie.

　　When he reached home with the dog, he said to his wife,“Do you know, dear, I don't think Blackie can have enjoyed his stay at that place very much. He barked all the way home in the car as if he wanted to tell me something.”

　　Mrs Brown looked at the dog carefully and then answered, “You are quite right, dear. He was certainly trying to tell you something. But he wasn't trying to tell you that he hadn't enjoyed his stay at that place, he was only complaining(抱怨)that you were bringing the wrong dog home. This isn't Blackie!”

1．They ________ before they left for their holidays.

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A．asked a friend to take care of the dog

B．left it to their house keeper

C．took it to an old man who looked after dogs very well

D．found Blackie a good place where dogs were taken care of

2．The day they got back to England, they ________.

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A．went to the place right away to get Blackie

B．did not go to the place at all

C．went to collect their dog, but that place was closed

D．waited there for the place to open

3．As the dog ________, he barked all the way.

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A．did not recognize Mr Brown

B．had something to tell his old master

C．had enjoyed his stay at that place

D．knew he was with their masters again

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项．

　　John had a new car, but he had an accident not long before and his car was now in the garage repaired, so he borrowed his wife's old car one evening. He found that it didn't have much gas in the tank(油箱). So he drove to a service station and filled it up. But then the car wouldn't start.

　　He thought there was probably something loose(松动) in the battery(电池), so he took a small wrench out of his pocket and hit the battery with it. The car started at once.

　　Then John saw that one of the lights was not working either.“There is something wrong there, too,”he thought. He hit it on the side with his wrench, and it lit up right away.

　　The garage man was standing by, watching what he did, and then he ran over to John and said,“if you ever want to sell your car, I don't want it at all. But I'd be very happy to make you an offer for that wrench.”

　　“How much do you think you will pay for the wrench?”John asked, smiling with pride.

1．John borrowed his wife's old car because ________.

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A．John's old car was under repairs

B．John's new car was being repaired

C．John hasn't decided to buy another car yet

D．his wife's car needed repairing in the garage

2．John's wife's car ________.

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A．was in excellent condition

B．was an old car, but it was in use

C．didn't work at all

D．was a good one but with something wrong

3．After filling the car with the gas, his wife's car wouldn't start because ________.

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A．there was no gas in its tank

B．there was something loose in the battery

C．the car was locked and John didn't have the key

D．John didn't know how to start it

4．From what we learned in the passage, we can guess that the wrench is ________.

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A．a tool used to repair something

B．a part of his car

C．a short stick

D．something that can help him to do a lot of things in his life

5．What the garage man said ________.

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A．showed that he needed the same wrench as John had

B．showed that he liked the wrench very much

C．was to make fun of John and suggested the car was too old indeed

D．showed that his wrench was really a wonderful one

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项．

　　Mr and Mrs Smith had always spent their summer holidays in New Jersey in the pact, staying in a small inn(旅馆) at the foot of a hill. One year, however, Mr Smith made a lot of money in his business, so they decided to go to London and stay at a really good hotel while they went touring around that famous city.

　　They flew to London and arrived at their hotel late one evening. They expected that they would have to go to bed hungry, because in that small inn in New Jersey, no meals served after seven. They were therefore surprised when the man who received them in the hall asked whether they would take dinner there that night.

　　“Are you still serving dinner?”asked Mr Smith.

　　“Yes, certainly, sir,” answered the man,“We serve it until half past nine.”

　　“What's the time menu?”Mr Smith asked.

　　“Well, sir,”answered the man.“We serve breakfast from seven to half past eleven in the morning, lunch from twelve to three in the afternoon, tea from four to five, and dinner from six to half past nine.”

　　“But that hardly leaves any time for us to see the sight of London!”said Mrs Smith.

1．Mr and Mrs Smith ________ in the past.

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A．has often stayed in a big hotel in New Jersey

B．has traveled to many places

C．had often stayed in a small inn

D．had made a lot of money

2．They decided to go to a really good hotel because ________.

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A．it was famous

B．it was difficult to find a cheep hotel

C．it was near many interesting places

D．they now had enough money

3．When they arrived at the hotel, they found ________.

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A．no meals were served after seven

B．dinner was still being served

C．their plane had arrived too late

D．they had to go to bed hungry

4．When the man told them the times of meals at the hotel, Mrs Smith felt ________.

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5．Mrs Smith ________.

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A．thought she would have plenty of time to see the sights

B．was afraid they would have no time to tour around London

C．thought the hotel was not as good as the small inn

D．thought the hotel was much better than the small inn for its good meals