阅读理解

　　When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are.

　　People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing, reading and sewing, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly.

　　People who are farsighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses too.

　　Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people's eyes become cloudy because of cataracts(白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

　　When night falls, colors become fainter to the eyes and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown used to the dark, you can see better if you use the sides of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you see a small thing to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn your head in its direction. This is because when you turn your head, you are looking at the thing too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they cannot see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this mistake happens because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive(敏感的) in daylight, is not so sensitive as the sides of the eye after dark.

(1)We don't know that our eyes are of great importance until ________.

[　　]

A．we think about our eyes

B．we cannot see clearly

C．we wear glasses

D．we have to do much reading

(2)People who are farsighted ________.

[　　]

A．cannot do a lot of close work without glasses

B．can only see things that are very close to their eyes

C．have difficulty reading a book if they hold it at arm's length

D．have the same problem as the nearsighted people.

(3)Those who suffer from cataracts ________.

[　　]

A．will become blind

B．cannot be cured

C．may be cured

D．must move to other places

(4)To see a small thing at night, it is better to look ________.

[　　]

A．with wide open eyes

B．with half-shut or narrowed eyes

C．straight at it

D．using the sides of your eyes

阅读理解

　　The Currier and Ives printing house was founded by Nathaniel Currier in 1834. James Ives joined the printing house as an assistant eighteen years later just after marrying Currier's sister, and became one of the owners in 1857. The pair showed an unusual ability(能力)to tell what the, American public would rush to buy in the way of cheap art, and actually hundreds of thousands of prints including as many as 7,000 different pictures were turned out and sold from the printing house's shop in lower New York by Street sellers and over shop counters(柜台)throughout the country and even in Europe. They met with success in their business. Though in the course of time Currier and Ives hired some of America's finest artists, art value could certainly not be counted among the printing house' s real aims. Some time after it went out of business in 1907, the prints enjoyed new popularity(受人喜爱) as some people's collection, and the rarer examples brought thousands of dollars in the 1920's.

(1)Ives became one of the owners ________.

[　　]

A．as soon as he married Currier's sister

B．when he could tell American taste in cheap art than Currier

C．after eighteen years of service to the printing house

D．when he had worked for the printing house for about five years

(2)What seemed to make the printing house so successful was ________.

[　　]

A．its feeling for what the public would buy

B．its choice of shop situation in lower New York

C．the fact that it published prints that interested collectors

D．its decision to hire some of great American artists

(3)From the passage, we may conclude that ________.

[　　]

A．during its whole history, the printing hose sold 7,000 prints

B．the printing house's prints were also popular in Europe

C．the printing house was famous for its valuable prints.

D．street sellers were the printing house's most effective sales force

(4)After the printing house stopped producing prints, ________ became most valuable to collectors.

[　　]

A．the ones by the best artists

B．the ones produce earliest

C．the ones of which fewest continued to exist

D．the ones which were most popular in the beginning

阅读理解

　　It's a boy! The first elephant baby to be born live on the Internet entered the world on Saturday, and mother and son are doing well, Zurich Zoo said.

　　Asian elephant Ceyla-Himali gave birth to her baby boy in front of an estimated 46,000 viewers on the Internet. Her offspring took his first steps about 15 minutes after his birth at 5:34 a.m., the zoo said.

　　He weighs around 308 pounds and is three feet, five inches tall.

　　Zoo director Alex Ruebel told Reuters the baby would be named through a competition held with the help of a local supermarket chain. It has to be an Asian name, which is not used for humans. We want to use this process to teach people about the region these elephants call home, Ruebel said.

　　Asian elephants are an endangered species, with only 35,000 left roaming the Asian forests compared to 60,000 about 20 years ago. They are far more rare than their African cousins, which still number some 600,000 to 650,000.

　　Asian elephants have smaller ears than other species and only some males have tusks, making those few animals popular targets for poachers(偷猎者).

(1)What does the underlined word“offspring”probably mean in the first paragraph?

[　　]

A．Summer.　　　　B．Husband.

C．Mother.　　　　 D．Child.

(2)The elephant baby would be given a name ________.

[　　]

A．which has something do with supermarket

B．with Asian characteristics

C．to make people to like elephants

D．given by important people.

(3)Which of the following is true about Asian elephants?

[　　]

A．There used to be 60,000 Asian elephants living in the Asian forests.

B．Asian elephants are as rare as their African relatives.

C．Asian elephants are dangerous animals to people.

D．There are still about 600,000 to 650,000 Asian elephants in Africa.

(4)Some People hunt Asian elephants because ________.

[　　]

A．they have smaller ears than other species

B．some males have valuable tusks

C．these People want to protect them

D．they are becoming fewer and fewer in number

阅读理解

　　People often dream of living in a perfect place where no one would be poor, no one would be rich, and everyone would be kind to everyone else. Such a place is nowhere, and that's what the word“UTOPIA”means. It is made up of two Greek words meaning NOT A PLACE.

　　The word was first used by Sir Thomas More, a sixteenth century English writer whose book UTOPIA, published in 1516.

　　Described a perfect island country. More's idea for his tale came from the ancient Greek thinker Plato. Plato's The Republic described what would be a perfect state.

　　Early legends(传说)among the Norse, Celtic and Arab peoples told of a perfect place existing somewhere in the. Atlantic. These legends were no longer believed when explorations of the America began, but after More's time, it became common for writers to imagine and describe perfect“places”.

　　Today when people want certain changes in government or society, their ideas are sometimes called UTOPIA. Usually the ideas mean that the changes, if effected, would not suddenly make everything perfect because something imperfect exists objectively and only according to the practical situation can we do well in something.

(1)According to the author, UTOPIA is ________.

[　　]

A．somewhere in the Atlantic

B．in people's imaginations

C．no longer dreamed of

D．no longer in existence

(2)UTOPIA in its original form came from ________.

[　　]

A．two Celtic words　　　　B．two Greek words

C．one Arab word　　　　　D．one Norse word

(3)In English, the word UTOPIA was first used by a ________.

[　　]

A．queen　　　　B．musician

C．writer　　　　D．soldier

(4)In modem usage, any idea called UTOPIA is considered ________.

[　　]

A．unnecessary　　　　B．inconsiderate

C．impractical　　　　D．imperfect

阅读理解

　　Indeed, chemistry(化学反应)isn't just something you hear or read about. Though we can't see it, it exists everywhere; what's more, you practice chemistry every day.

　　You practice chemistry in the kitchen when you cook. You practice chemistry when you clean your house, wash your car, or paint a fence. You practice chemistry in the bathroom when you bathe and use cosmetics(化妆品). You practice chemistry when you take medicine or treat an injury. Indeed, some remarkable chemical changes happen while you eat or breathe and even while you sleep. Your body is the most miraculous(不可思议的)of all the chemical factories on Earth. It takes the food you eat and turns it into muscle and blood and skin and bones and brains and a numberless of other miraculous things. Your body takes oxygen from the air and combines it with part of the food you eat to provide you with energy for every activity you need. Chemistry is so important that can't go without it even a minute. Chemistry is so close with your life that we should pay more attention to it in our daily life.

(1)Which of the following is NOT true?

[　　]

A．You don't practice chemistry when you sleep.

B．You practice chemistry when you bathe and use cosmetics.

C．You practice chemistry when you take medicine.

D．We can't go without chemistry for a minute.

(2)We car draw a conclusion according to the text ________.

[　　]

A．Chemistry can't exists everywhere

B．Scientists don't know all the chemical changes that happen in man's body

C．Oxygen combines it with your muscle and gives you energies

D．Oxygen is change into blood

(3)The main idea of the passage is ________.

[　　]

A．everyone is a chemist

B．your body is the most miraculous of all the chemical factories on Earth

C．chemistry is close with your life

D．chemistry is practiced easily

(4)According to the passage, we can conclude that ________.

[　　]

A．our body is a result of chemistry

B．many chemistry could not be seen

C．oxygen is very important in our body's chemistry

D．all of the above

阅读理解

　　One day a lawyer's wife fell ill, and he went to get a doctor. The doctor willingly came to see the woman and to do what he could for her, but before he went into the house, he made a short stop. He knew that the lawyer was famous for not paying his bills, even if they were due(正当的). He therefore said to the man.“But if I save your wife, I am afraid you may not pay me.”

　　“Sir,”replied the lawyer.“Here I have $500, whether you cure my wife or you kill her. I'll give you all this.”

　　The doctor was reassured (使消除疑虑) and went into the house. When he reached the woman's bedside, it soon became clear to him that he could do little. She was seriously ill, and though he prescribed(开药方) her medicine, she soon died.

　　He told the lawyer he was very sorry, and then asked for the money which he had promised.“Did you kill my wife?”asked the lawyer.“Of course I didn't,”said the doctor.“Well! Did you cure my wife?”asked the man.“I'm afraid that was impossible,”replied the doctor.“Well, then since you neither a killed my wife nor cured her, I have nothing to pay you.”

(1)One day a lawyer's wife fell ill, and the lawyer ________.

[　　]

A．cured his wife

B．got a doctor for her

C．got some medicine for her illness

D．promised to pay $500 to the doctor

(2)Before entering the lawyer's house the doctor stopped for a while, because ________.

[　　]

A．the doctor wanted to ask something about his wife's illness

B．the doctor thought it impossible to save the woman

C．the doctor was afraid that the lawyer would refuse to pay him

D．the lawyer was too poor to pay his bills

(3)Because the lawyer's wife was seriously ill, the doctor ________.

[　　]

A．couldn't do much and didn't save her life

B．tried his best and saved her at last

C．had to do everything he could for her

D．had to spend a lot of time to cure her

(4)After that the doctor ________.

[　　]

A．got nothing but the money for the medicine

B．got nothing but the money the lawyer had promised

C．got nothing from the lawyer

D．wanted nothing from the lawyer because he didn't cure the patient

(5)From the story, we know ________.

[　　]

A．the lawyer was very clever

B．how the lawyer's wife died

C．the doctor was stupid enough to be fooled

D．the lawyer was dishonest and that he fooled the doctor

阅读理解

　　A young man went to a town and worked there. He did not have a wife but a servant did the work in his house. The young man liked laughing a lot, He nailed the servant's shoes to the floor on Monday, and then laughed, because he put his feet in them and fell down. The servant was not angry, but smiled. Then the young man put brushes in his bed on Tuesday. The servant got into bed and hit the brushes with his feet. He was afraid. The young man laughed loudly again. Again the servant was not angry, but smiled. Then on Wednesday the young man said to his servant,“You're a nice, kind man. I am not going to be unkind to you again.”The servant smiled and said,“And I'm not going to put any more mud from the street in your coffee.”

(1)The young man went to a town ________.

[　　]

A．to study

B．to work

C．to see his relative

D．to spend his holiday

(2)He played a joke on the servant because ________.

[　　]

A．he hated him

B．he was not satisfied with the food the servant prepared for him

C．he wanted to get pleasure

D．he liked to show off himself

(3)When the young man played a joke on him, the servant was not angry but smiled because ________.

[　　]

A．he liked the young man's action

B．making the young man laugh is his job

C．he was afraid to be fired

D．he thought he shouldn't be angry with a child

(4)What did the servant do in return to the young man?

[　　]

A．He stole something from the house.

B．He gave a smile to the young man.

C．He had a fight with him.

D．He put mud into the young man's coffee.

5. Why did the young man stop playing jokes on the servant? Because ________.

[　　]

A．the servant showed kind and nice behavior to him

B．the servant told him the truth

C．he wanted to be a good man

D．his father told him to do so

阅读理解

　　Some people were queuing outside the Scalar Theatre for tickets for a very popular show. They had to wait for several hours, and during that time they were entertained by a young man who was playing very nicely on a trumpet. The queue enjoyed his music and put quite a lot of money in the box that he had on the ground in front of him.

　　At last one of the people in the queue said to him,“You play too well to be a beggar”.

　　“I'm not a beggar,”the young man said.“I'm studying to be a trumpet player in a big band, and I have to practice several hours every day, so I thought it would be nice to do it in the fresh air instead of in my small room on days when the weather was nice——and also to get a bit of money at the same time.”

(1)The tickets for the show ________.

[　　]

A．were difficult to buy

B．were easy to get

C．were sold out in a short while

D．were not to be sold out

(2)Why were there so many people waiting outside the Scala Theatre? Because ________.

[　　]

A．there was a young man playing very nicely on a trumpet

B．part of the show at the theatre was a popular entertainment by the young man who played the trumpet

C．the show was very popular

D．the weather was nice

(3)The young man ________.

[　　]

A．was a beggar

B．played better than the usual beggars

C．played the trumpet in the band at the Scala Theatre

D．played in his small room in good weather with his windows open to get fresh air

(4)The young man could ________. by doing so.

[　　]

A．get some money

B．practise playing on the trumpet

C．get fresh air

D．all of the above

(5)The people were willing to give the money to the young man because ________.

[　　]

A．they felt great sympathy for him

B．they were entertained by him

C．he always played on the trumpet

D．they wanted to help him

阅读理解

　　If there is any single factor(因素)that makes for success in living, it is the ability to be benefited by defeat. Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to analyze (分析) defeat and actually learn something from it in this undertaking. Wrongly take defeat for failure, and you are sure indeed to fail. For it isn't defeat that makes you fail; it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success.

　　Defeats are nothing to be afraid of. They are common incidents in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it, analyze it and learn why you failed Defeat, in other words, can help to get rid of its own cause. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing can cause within us such a strong wish to succeed. If you let a baby grasp a stick and try to pull it away, he will hold it more and more tightly until his whole weight is hung up. It is this same reaction(反应)that should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you make full use of the power which defeat gives, you can complete with it far more than you are able to.

(1)What does the author know?

[　　]

A．He knows at least several examples of success.

B．He knows every success in life.

C．He knows every success that has been achieved by man.

D．It's not referred to in the passage.

(2)The person who was able to analyze defeat is likely ________.

[　　]

A．to achieve success

B．to be afraid of his defeat

C．to let a baby grasp a stick

D．to make a living

(3)The author ________.

[　　]

A．advises you to mix defeat with failure

B．doesn't think failure is different from defeat

C．wants you to wrongly take defeat for failure

D．warns you not to wrongly take defeat for failure

(4)What does the author advise one to do with the power which defeat gives?

[　　]

A．One should explain it.

B．One should examine it.

C．One should make the most of it.

D．One should know its usefulness.

阅读理解

　　The biggest threat facing airlines today may not be a terrorist with a gun, but the man with the portable computer in business class In the last 15 years, pilots have reported well over 100 incidents that could have been caused by electromagnetic interference(干扰). The source of this interference remains unconfirmed, but increasingly, experts are pointing the blame at portable electronic devices such as portable computer, radio and cassette players and mobile telephone.

　　RTCA, an organization which advises the aviation(航空)industry, has recommended that all airlines ban such devices from being used during“critical”stages of flight, particularly take-off and landing. Some experts have gone further, calling for a total ban during all flights. Currently, rules on using these devices are left up to individual airlines. And although some airlines prohibit (禁止) passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant to enforce a total ban given as many passengers want to work during flights.

　　The difficulty is predicting how electromagnetic fields might affect an aircraft's computers. Experts know that portable devices give off radiation, which affects those wavelengths which aircraft use for navigation(航空)and communication. But, because they have not been able to reproduce these effects in a laboratory, they have no way of knowing whether the interference might be dangerous or not.

(1)The passage is mainly about ________.

[　　]

A．effective safety measure for air flight

B．a possible cause of aircraft crashes

C．the defects of electronic devices

D．a new regulation for all airlines

(2)What is said about the over 100 aircraft accidents in the past 15 years?

[　　]

A．They may have taken place during take-off and landing.

B．They may have been caused by the damage to the radio system.

C．They were suspected to have resulted from electromagnetic interference.

D．They were proved to have been caused by the passengers' portable computer.

(3)Few airlines want to impose(强加) a total ban on their passengers using electronic devices because ________.

[　　]

A．they have other effective safety measure to fall back on

B．they don't believe there is such a danger as radio interference

C．the harmful effect of electromagnetic interference is yet to be proved

D．most passengers refuse to take a plane which bans the use of radio and cassette players

(4)It can be inferred from the passage that the author ________.

[　　]

A．hasn't formed his own opinion on this problem

B．has overestimated the danger of electromagnetic interference

C．regards it as unreasonable to exercise a total ban during flight

D．is in favor of prohibiting passengers' use of electronic devices completely