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阅读理解1、（治理利用） As long as the sun shines, the earth will not run out of energy. The sun pours more energy on earth than we can ever use. Most of that energy comes to us as heat and light. Energy from the sun is (1)、What form does most of solar energy take to reach us? D：both A and B.(2)、Where does the word solar come from? B：Roman.(3)、Which of the following is NOT true of solar energy? C：It may cause pollution to the air.(4)、What are the problems facing scientists who want to use solar energy? D：both A and B.(5)、What is the writers purpose of writing the passage?A：To give a brief introduction to solar energy.2. Albert Einstein had a great effect on science and history, greater than what only a few other men have achieved. An American university president once commented that Einstein had created a new (1).The main idea of Paragraph 1 is _.答案(C)C. the change in human thought produced by Einstein (2).According to the American university president, _.答案(D)D. Our ideas about the universe are different today because of Einstein (3).According to Paragraph 2, Albert Einstein _.答案(C) C. was famous in the world (4).According to the passage Einstein did his greatest work _.答案(B)B. when he was young (5).It may be concluded that _.答案(C)C. Germans usually have a high respect for science 3、(体力的) A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man the man who has risen to the top through his own (1)、From paragraph 1, we know that in America _A_. A：people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man(2)、According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _B_. B：she takes pride in what she can do herself(3)、The expression wait on table in the second paragraph means _D_. D：serve customers in a restaurant(4)、The authors attitude towards manual(体力的) labor is _A_.A：positive(5)、Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage? _B_. B：American Attitude toward Manual Labor 4、 A million tourists go to Barcelona every year. They want to see Antonio Gaudes church. This unusual church has a strange history. Gaude was born in Spain in 1852. (1)、Which of the following titles best fits the passage? C：A Poor Architects Unusual Works(2)、Which of the following is NOT true? B：Gaudi devoted most of his life to the building of the church(3)、Gaudi sometimes missed classes because _ B：he had to work at the same time(4)、The church is unusual because _. D：all of the above(5)、According to the passage, Gaude _. D：both B and C5. A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiance （未婚妻）. The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present (1).The story took place _.答案(B) B. in England (2).Which of the following is true?答案(A)A. The young mans family was poor while the beautiful girl is rich. (3).Why did the young man want to buy a present for the girl?答案(C)C. Her birthday was coming soon. (4).Why did the shop manager come to talk to the young man?答案(B)B. He looked pale and sad. (5).On the birthday of his fiance, the young man was excited because _.答案(D)D. he was not sure whether his trick would be seen through 6、（任务） A foreigners first impression of the U.S. is likely to be that everyone is in a rush-often under pressure. City people appear always to be hurrying to get where (1)、Which of the following statements is wrong? _D_ D：Americans are impolite to their business colleagues.(2)、In the fourth paragraph, a high priority means _B_ B：a first concern(3)、Americans evaluate a business colleague _D_D：by learning about their past performance(4)、This passage mainly talks about _A_A：how Americans treasure their time (5)、We can infer from the passage that the authors tone in writing is _C C：appreciative (5)、The story tells us _A_. A：how zero came to be used7、（明星） By definition, heroes and heroines are men and women distinguished by uncommon courage, achievements, and self-sacrifice made most for the benefits of others (1)、The passage mainly deals with _C_. C：heroes and icons(2)、Heroes and heroines are usually _D_. D：all of the above(3)、Which of the following statements is wrong? _D_D：Heroes and heroines can only emerge in war times.(4)、Beautiful young Diana Spencer found her genuine love _C_ C：just before her death(5)、What is more likely to set an icons status? _B_ B：Tragic and early death.8、（周年纪念） Britain and France are separated by the English Channel, a body of water that can be crossed in as few as 20 minutes. But the cultures of the two countries (1)、For centuries, the relationship between Britain and France is _D_. D：a mixture of love and hate(2)、The war in Iraq does _D_ to the relationship between France and Britain. D：both good and harm(3)、The British are not so friendly to _A_ and the French are not so friendly to _. A：Germany; America(4)、_D_are more interested in having holidays in _. D：British people France(5)、What does the last sentence mean? _C_ C：France and Britain are near neighbors, and this will help balance the relationship between them.9、 Education in the United States is usually divided into four levels. These are early children, elementary, secondary and higher education. School attendance is.(1)、What topic does the passage mainly discuss? B：The four levels of American education.(2)、Is school attendance required in the USA?A：Yes, it is required in the whole country.(3)、At what level(s) are programs of technical and vocational courses offered? C：The 3rd and 4th levels. (4)、How many grades is the second level of the education divided into?A：Six or eight.(5)、What would most probably be talked about in the next paragraph?B：Post-graduate（研究生）education.10、 How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented (1)、The origin of language is _D_. D：problem not yet solved(2)、What is true about words? _C_ C：They are simply sounds.(3)、The real power of words lies in their _D_.D：representative function(4)、By association, the author means _B_.B：a joining of ideas in the mind(5)、Which of the following statements about the real poet is NOT true? _A_ A：He is no more than a master of words.11. If youve been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e-mail with net pals, you have become one of the millions who write in a special, short form of English. (1).When people are online, they talk by _.答案(D) D. making use of an especially short form of English(2).The Internet makes many people in the world _.答案(A) A. talking at the same time (3).The sentence “Theres neither time nor space for explanations” means that _.答案(C) C. people online have to express themselves in a simple way (4).If you get 19/M/HK as an answer to your A/S/L, it means _.答案(B)B. you are talking to a boy 19 years old and he lives in Hong Kong (5).Which of the following is a way to save online time?答案(A)A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks. 12.（拱门） In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses (1).We may infer from this passage that _.答案(D)D. Ray Kroc was a good businessman (2).The passage suggests that _A. creativity is an important element of business success (3).In the second sentence of the third paragraph, the word “unique” means _A. special (4).This passage mainly talks about _.答案(C)C. the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald (5).Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except _.答案(B)B. a cinema 13、 In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, (1)、What is the main idea of this passage? _B_ B：The role of time in social life over the world. (2)、What does it mean in the passage if you call someone during his or her sleeping hours? _B_ B：A matter of life or death. (3)、Which of the following time is proper if you want to make an appointment with your friend? B：at 4:00 pm. (4)、Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? _D_ D：Promptness is valued highly in American life. (5)、From the passage we can safely infer that _B_. B：the meaning of time differs in different parts of the world14、 I often dreamed about Pisa when I was a boy. I read about the famous building called the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But when I read the word Pisa, I was thinking of (1)、This passage is about _D_ D：Why the writer likes Pisa(2)、The writer used to think Pisa _D_. D：the same as pizza(3)、The Leaning Tower of Pisa is _C_. C：600 years old(4)、The writer _B_. B：likes what the tower looks like(5)、The writer likes the Leaning Tower of Pisa because _. D：its imperfect15、 It has been reported that in colleges across the United States, the daytime serial drama known as the soap opera has suddenly become in. Between the hours of 11 a.m. (1)、What is soap opera? _C_ C：The daytime serial dramas on TV.(2)、What can be the best title of the passage? _C_ C：Soap opera fans.(3)、Which are not the reasons why the soap opera suddenly becomes in according to the passage? _D_ D：Because the young people have to bear the responsibilities for their troubles.(4)、What can we learn from the passage? _C_ C：Young viewers have turned themselves from the seriousness of sixties to enjoyment now. (5)、What message does the author want to convey to us? _B_ B：The peoples favorites to drama works change along with the times.16、 If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak, when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. (1)、Someone cant have a good memory if _. B：he doesnt use his memory(2)、If you dont use your arms or legs for some time, _. D：they become weak and wont become strong until you use them again(3)、Which of the following is true? B：Your memory becomes weak if you do not give it enough chance for practice.(4)、Few people know that it is only _if a friend has a poor memory.B：his parents fault(5)、The writer wants to tell us _. C：how to have a good memory17、 In England, people often talk about the weather because they can experience four seasons in one day. In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. (1)、Why do people in England often talk about the weather? A：Because they may have four seasons in one day.(2)、From the story we know that when _B_ come, there is a heavy rain. B：black clouds(3)、The sentence People can also have summer in winter. means it is sometimes too _A_ in winter. A：warm(4)、In the sunny morning some English people usually take a raincoat or an umbrella with them because _B_. B：it often rains in England(5)、The best title for this passage is _C_. C：The Weather in England18、 Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three people wrote 63.To write six hundred and three, people wrote 6 3.The space between six and three (1)、Long, long ago people didnt know how to _B_. B：write zero(2)、Long, long ago if they wrote two hundred-eight, people wrote _B_. B：2 8(3)、Later _D_ was used to mean space. D：a dot(4)、People used circles _C_. C：not to forget the space(5)、The story tells us _A_. A：how zero came to be used19、(药量) Look at the instructions on the bottle of the medicine and then choose the right answers. (1)、John should take _B_ a day. B：3 teaspoonfuls (2)、The medicine should be kept in _A_. A：a fridge (3)、John should _A_ before he takes it. A：shake the medicine well (4)、When kids are _C_ years old, they cannot take this medicine.C：two(5)、John will _A_ the medicine when it is left after Dec.1st, 2002. A：throw away20 Laws have been written to govern the use of American National Flag, and to ensure proper respect for the flag. Custom has also governed the common practice in regard to (1)、How do Americans ensure proper respect for the national flag? _A_A：By making laws.(2)、What is the regulation regarding the raising of the American National Flag? _B_ B：It should be raised quickly by hand. (3)、How should the American National Flag be displayed at an unveiling ceremony? _D_ D：It should be carried high up in the air.(4)、What do we learn about the use of the American National Flag? _C_ C：There are precise regulations and customs to be followed.(5)、How are Americans towards their National Flag? _B_ B：Respect.21、（每秒六便士） Linda and David have traveled by air from London to Sydney, AustraliaLinda has promised her mother that she will ring her to let her know that (1)、Linda is telephoning home to _B_. B：say that she and David have arrived safely(2)、Linda does not think it expensive to ring, because _D_. D：she will speak from one side of the world to the other(3)、David says, Nearly four pounds, because _A_. A：he wants to remind Linda of the cost of the call (4)、Mrs. Lee goes on talking for so long because _B_ B：she likes talking(5)、Linda stopped her mother by _D_.D：promising to write, and ringing off22、 Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go in to their offices or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to (1)、Which of the following statements is NOT true? _B_ B：All the people who work in London prefer to live in the country.(2)、With the same money needed for_C_, one can buy a little house with a garden in the country. C：renting a small flat without a garden(3)、When the garden is in blossom, that one _B_ has been rewarded. B：having spent time working in the garden(4)、People who think happiness lies in the city life would feel that _A_ if they had to live outside London. A：their life was meaningless(5)、The underlined phrase get away from in the 3rd paragraph refers to C：escape from23、 Mr Perkin stood at the bus-stop and watched the cars go by. Many of the cars were new Beta 400s, and most of them were yellow. Mr Perkin always wore the (1)、Mr Perkin wanted a new yellow Beta 400s because_C_C：he liked to do the same as other people(2)、He drove to work in his new car_A_. A：the very next day(3)、He was satisfied with his new car because_B_. B：it was the same as other cars all around him(4)、People gave him a look because_D_. D：he was trying to open more than one car(5)、Mr Perkin had to wait until_A_. A：there was only one yellow Beta 400s in the car-park24. No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water ices and milk ices may have been made by the Chinese between three thousand and four thousand years ago. In time, the dish (1).Ice cream was unknown in France until _.答案(A) A. 1533 (2).Ice cream was introduced to England by _.答案(C) C. King Charles I (3).What will be probably discussed in the paragraphs following this passage?答案(D)D. Development of ice cream in America or other countries. (4).Marco Polos remark shows that he traveled in _.答案(A) A. China (5).This passage is mainly about _.答案(D) D. the history of ice cream 25、 On Christmas Evethe night before Christmas Daychildren all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually (1)、Christmas Eve is _D_. D：the night before Christmas Day(2)、Father Christmas often puts presents _B_. B：into childrens stockings(3)、Whenthe children ere very young,_A. A：they didnt know who Father Christmas was(4)、When the children are older, they _C_. C：know that Father Christmas is really their father(5)、Father Christmas comes into the house through the _A_. A：chimney26、 One day a man and his daughter were going out for a walk. The man had put on a pair of odd shoes, one with a thick sole(鞋跟) and one with a thin sole. As (1)、The man thought that his daughter was _B_. B：clever(2)、It was the _B_ that found the reason for it. B：daughter(3)、The daughter came back, bringing _ with her. B：a pair of odd shoes(4)、What do you think that the man should have done? C：He should have changed one of his shoes.(5)、What do you think of the man and his daughter? D：Either of them was foolish enough.27、 Once an old man was walking in a street with his horse. It was raining hard. The old man was cold because he was walking in the rain. He wanted to stay in a (1)、The old man felt very cold because _C_C：he had travelled in the heavy rain(2)、The people in the restaurant all ran out because _B_. B：they wanted to see the horse eating fish(3)、Indeed, the horse can neither _C_ nor _ nor _. C：sing . dance . eat fish(4)、All the people in the restaurant rushed out _D_ but _.D：to see the horse eat fish . the old man(5)、Why did the old man ask the waiter to take some fish to his horse? Because _C_. C：he wanted to sit by the fire, but wasnt able to do so at first28.（侦探