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Mary Cochran went out of the rooms where she lived with her father, Doctor Lester Cochran, at seven o’clock on a Sunday evening. It was June of the year1908, and Mary was eighteen years old．She walked along Tremont to Main Street and across the railroad tracks to Upper Main, lined with small shops and shabby houses, a rather quiet cheerless place on Sundays when there were few people about. She had told her father she was going to church but did not mean to do anything of the kind．She did not know what she wanted to do, “I’ll get off by myself and think,” she told herself as she walked slowly along. The night, she thought, promised to be too fine to be spent sitting in a church and hearing a man talk of things that had nothing to do with her own problem. Her own affairs were reaching a burning point, and it was time for her to begin thinking seriously of her future.

The thoughtful serious state of mind in which Mary found herself had been caused by a talk she had with her father on the evening before. Quite suddenly, he had told her that he was a victim(患者) of heart disease and might die at any moment. He had made the announcement as they stood together in his office, behind which were the rooms in which the father and daughter lived.

1．What did Mary mean to do that night?

A．She decided to go to church.

B．She decided not to think about anything.

C．She decided to talk with her father.

D．She wanted to think deeply.

2．What made Mary in a serious state of mind?

A．Her talk with her father.

B．Her fear about heart attack.

C．The speech of the man in the church.

C．Her serious future.

3．Where did Mary live?

A．In the same building as her father’s office.

B．Near the church.

C．In a shabby house near her father’s office.

D．In a small shop.

4．What was Dr. Cochran’s condition?

A．He had a serious heartbreak.

B．He had a light heart trouble.

C．He had a deadly disease.

D．He was hurt when crossing the railroad tracks.

Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry.

In the past, when more Americans live on farms, the typical family had many children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families became smaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary. And large families cannot be moved from place to place as smaller families can. So, at present people tend to have smaller families.

In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now. So families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consist only of a man and a woman. A small number of families may take raising children as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other people’s children, leaving families free to move from job to job.

1．The main topic discussed in the passage is________

A．the development of science and industry in America

B．the influence of science and industry on American families

C．the harmful effect of industrialization

D．the social problems resulting from the highly developed science and industry in .America

2．________ are described in the passage.

A．Families of the past

B．Families of the present and of the future

C．Families of the past and of the future

D．Families of the past, the present and the future

3．According to the writer, one of the reasons that families are getting smaller in America is that________

A．children tend to leave their parents and grandparents when they grow up

B．people stop caring for having children

C．the need for workers who are able to move at any time has been increasing

D．both old and young people like to live by themselves

4．________ will be in charge of raising children in the future.

A．Most families

B．All families

C．Social workers

D．A small number of families

5．From the passage, we can conclude that________

A．science and industry have caused thousands of families to separate

B．children do not like to live with their parents or grandparents

C．large families can hardly exist in modern society

D．Americans are very careful in choosing their jobs

　　 Do you really believe that the ostrich(鸵鸟) buries its head in the sand so that it cannot see the trouble that it is in? Nobody knows just when this strange belief was started, but there are very few people who have not heard it. If the ostrich were silly enough to follow this procedure, it would suffocate(使…窒息), once its head was buried in the sand．The ostrich really has no need for such as defense. It can kick with the full power of a mule(骡子), and it can run faster than a horse. It would be foolish indeed for the bird to stand without protecting itself when in danger.

A suitable title for this paragraph is ________.

A．Stranger than fiction

B．False belief

C．Ostrich power

D．Mules and ostriches

　　 As time goes on, competition for the better jobs becomes keener and keener. Of course the man with the right connections usually has the edge over the one who may be just as well- qualified but who lacks this advantage. All other things being almost equal, the relative of the owner or of the owner’s best friend always have an edge when a position is at stake (生死攸关). However, what happens when no such advantage is held by either man? The nod of acceptance then goes to the man with the higher education. The employer knows that the college- trained man or woman is better equipped to meet the future. College training is a type of insurance that should taken by all who are qualified.

The best title for this selection is ________.

A．Unfair competition

B．Need of insurance

C．Need for college training

D．Better jobs

Frank did not patent (取……专利权) the invention. He was too busy with his discoveries to make more money. Although he was a rich man by the time he was forty-two. Money by itself did not interest him. He valued it because it enabled him to retire from business. Then he had time to spend it on other things that seemed more worthwhile. What he really cared for most of all was science?

Franklin was always trying to answer the question. What makes things act the way they do? At that time learned men were puzzled about electricity. They wondered whether it was in some way like the lightning in a thunder-storm. It might be, but how could you prove it? You know how Ben Franklin proved in by coaxing(哄) some electricity down his kite string. That made him famous in America and Europe. But of course Franklin did not stop there.

He found a way to make the knowledge useful: he invented the lighting rod.

1． According to the second sentence, Franklin ________.

A．was eager to make money

B．had no interest in making money

C．was so attentive to his discoveries that he had no time to make money

D．didn’t know how to make money

2．Franklin valued money because ________.

A．it could make him live a comfortable life after he retired from work

B．it enabled him to get rid of much business

C．it was the thing he cared for most

D．it enabled him to buy a lot of things

3．Franklin’s experiment with the kite ________.

A．was not successful

B．didn’t work

C．puzzled many learned men at the time

D．proved that lightning was electricity

4．After the experiment, Franklin ________.

A．stopped there and enjoyed his happy life

B．didn’t stop there and gave lectures to others

C．didn’t stop there and invented the lightning rod

D．stopped there and found a way to make money

The wind whistled woefully as it wound its way through the nearly leafless trees. The pale yellow moon cast entire shadows as it slipped in and out from behind the clouds like a blinking flashlight. Strange figures could be seen dashing and darting through the streets. Ghosts, goblins—what could they be? What do they want? Whom have they come to haunt? Beware……

What is the author’s main purpose in this passage?

A．To tell a frightening story to young children.

B．to describe Halloween night.

C．To create a mood through description.

D. Both (B) and (C)

National census to be taken in November

Officials call on the pubic for honesty,

accuracy in reporting

The Fifth National Census Office under the State Council has called on everyone for a factual report in the upcoming census due to be taken on November 1．

“Any action which may put down the accuracy of the census is forbidden and will receive severe punishment,” Liu Changsong, deputy director of the office, said at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday.

Almost at all the preparations for the census have been finished, 6 million census workers have been selected and trained and initial residence registration has been accomplished.

The census will start at midnight on November 1．

During the first 10 days of November, census takers will work from door to door.

In order to get accurate (精确的)data on the population, the central government has permitted households who have not registered their children who are “more than family planning policy allows” to apply for lasting residence during the census.

China’s family planning policy encourages urban citizens to have one child per family and rural families with one girl child may have a second child. The policy is more flexible among ethnic (种族的) minority(少数)people and is dependent upon the local autonomous regional government.

People who violate (违反) the regulation have to pay a fine in order to make up for the government’s expenditure (支出) in bringing up and educating the extra children.

According to statistics available to China Daily, China’ s population reached 1.26 billion in 1999.And the central government expects that the figure will be below 1.3 billion in the census.

1. According to the passage, who are (is) going to take up the upcoming census?

A．the government

B．special census workers

C．citizens and peasants

D．statistician

2. China’s family planning policy encourages urban citizens to have ________child (or children).

A．only one

B．two

C．more than one

D．a boy and a girl

3. The word “fine” in “have to pay a fine” means________.

A．good

B．forfeit

C．ticket

D．goodness

As he left the room, he knew that he had been wrong. If only he could control his temper! he had his anger flare up too quickly. His father did not let the remark go by .His mother as usual had sent the warning glance too late. she had kept her customary silence while the loud tones flew across the table. Then came the usual command .As he walked to his room, that anger. All this was so unnecessary. If only he could learn control. If only he could go back into the room and tell them that it was all a mistake. He had let his tongue run away from him .He really did love his parents. They really were trying to do their best to help him grow up with self-respect.

1．The boy is most likely________.

A．four years old

B．eight years old

C．fourteen

D．twenty

2．The boy went to his room________.

A．to avoid continuing the fought.

B．to get over his feeling of misery

C．because he had been told

D．to receive his punishment

Throughout the past few centuries there have been recorded reports of space vehicles which have visited our Earth from another planet. In more recent years, these reports of Unidentified Flying Objects(UFOs) have attracted a great deal of public interest.

The reports of UFOs seem to increase over periods of a year or two, and then die down again. Many of the people who claim to have seen them are skilled observers of air, such as airline pilots.

The number of reports runs into thousands, and they come from many parts of the world. There are also a number of supposedly authentic(可信的) photographs of these spacecraft which have earned them elves the nickname of "flying saucers"(飞碟) because of their fault, dish-like shape.

So persistent have been these "sightings" that during the 1960s, the USA set up the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena (国家天象调查委员会) to investigate them. Nearly 11000 reports were analyzed (分析) and after eliminating (排除) sightings which could be explained away as normal phenomena, such as meteorites（损星）, high altitude(高空) weather balloons, and even satellites re-entering the atmosphere, they came to the conclusion that UFOs were genuine. They could not, however, explain what they were or from where they came.

The United States Air Force, on the other hand, also carried out an evaluation(估计) of UFO sightings, and concluded that all but a very few of the thousands of sightings could be logically (合乎逻辑的)explained away, or traced to (追索为) some natural source, and the few unexplained ones were only unexplained because the evidence was insufficient(不足以) to draw any definite conclusion.

Well, are UFOs spaceships from a distance planet, and are they under the control of extra-terrestrial things who are keeping close watch over our Earth? It can only be said that the case for UFOs remains as yet unproved. One thing is certain, man is as curious and determined to find the answer to the problem of UFOs as he is to unravel all the other unsolved mysteries of our Universe.

1．Why have people become more and interested in UFOs?

A．Because many of the people who claim(声称) to have seen them are skilled observers of the air.

B．Because there are some supposedly authentic photographs of UFOs.

C．Because there are continuing reports of UFOs.

D．All of the above.

2．According to the investigation by the U.S., UFOs________.

A．can not be explained away

B．really exist

C．can be explained away as normal phenomena

D．are from an unknown planet

3．Among the thousands of UFO sightings, the United States Air Force can logically explain away________.

A．a very few of them

B．all of them

C．almost all of them

D．many of them

4．The phrase “extra-terrestrial beings” means________.

A．spacemen

B．human beings

C．astronauts

D．airline pilots

The magic spades of archaeology (考古学) have given us the whole lost world of Egypt. We know more about the vanished (消失) Egyptians than we know about any other ancient people, more than we know about the early Greeks and Romans, whose civilization died just yesterday. We know nearly everything there is to know. One of the reasons is that in Egypt almost nothing rots, nothing spoils, nothing crumbles(粉碎) away. Dig up the most delicate carving, the finest substance, and you will find it just as fresh and perfect after thousands of years of lying in the sand as if it had recently come from the artist’s hand. When they didn’t bury the actual objects, the Egyptians buried little models of them, exact reproductions of the real things. Is it any wonder that we have a complete record of their civilization?

1．We have a complete record of early Egypt because________.

A．the civilization was not buried very deep

B．archaeologists used advanced digging methods

C．the climate is exceptional dry

D．the Egyptians used secret methods of preservation

2．The paragraph suggests that________.

A．archaeology is a relatively new science

B．archaeologists are patient

C．the Egyptian civilization served as a model for the Greek and Roman

D．the Egyptians wanted to preserve the past

3．The reader may think that early Egyptians were________.

A．advanced in the art

B．preoccupied with death

C．guided by superstitious(迷信)

D．interested in archaeology

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