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阅读理解1. My mother raised me as best as she could, taking on odd jobs in the neighborhood for money.1. From this story, we may guess that the East Side of New York must be a(C poor) area. 2.The author used to behave himself (D badly)3. From the context, we understand that odd jobs in the first paragraph refer to jobs 4.In the first sentence of the second paragraph, the author says, It was lucky for me that. The lucky experience he talks about here is his experience of 5. What is not true according to the passage? 2.PALO ALTO, California 1.The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that 2.According to the passage, the time American children usually spend on watching TV3.The time the group of children in the study spent on TV viewing every day is suggested to be about 4.Which one of the following is right? 5.Why can watching TV increase kidsweight according to the passage? 3.Airline companies are responsible for transporting your luggage.1.If you cant find your luggage at the point of arrival, airline companies will try to find it and 2.Before taking your air trip, you have to make sure 3.The charge for the excess luggage should be paid by 4.In case you have no idea at all where to send your luggage, you can first send it to the address of_provided you have the information. 5.The passage is mainly about CIDAs advice on 4. To us it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains. 1. According to this passage, the umbrella was probably first invented 2.Which of the following statements is not true about the umbrella? 3.A strange feature of the umbrellas use is that it was once used as 4.In Europe, the umbrella was first used against the rain 5.This passage talks mainly about5.As far back as 700 BC, man has talked about children being cared for by wolves. 1.According to the passage, it is believed that 2.Except that the boy knew nothing about the relationships among human families, _facts could show that he was a wolf-child. 3.The word litter in the first paragraph probably refers to 4.It took the doctor a long time to manage to get the wolf-child to 5.Only after many long years of devoted and patient instruction did the doctor manage to 6.Until the twentieth century cigarette smoking was not a widespread habit. 1.When did cigarette smoking begin to become a widespread habit among men and women according to the author? 2.Among which age group of people are you likely to find the highest proportion of cigarette smokers according to the passage? 3.Which of the following has little to do with a persons smoking habit? 4.Which of the following is true according to the passage? 5.What does the author mean by saying Among teenagers the picture is similar. in the last paragraph? 7.Today, computers are a huge and fast-moving field of technology. 1.According to the passage, as early as_, people started trying to build a computer. 2.According to the passage, the computers we use today are different from those old huge counting machines mainly in that _3.What makes it possible for a computer to read the data? 4.Dr. Vinton Cerf 5. Dr. Vinton Cerf compared the Internet to a mirror. When he said, If we dont like what we see in the mirror, then touching up the mirror is not the answer, he probably meant that 8.Do you want to voice your complaint about the oil price,1.What is e-government, according to the passage? (It is the on-line government that people can log onto for information and services )2. In the near future, citizens in big cities in China could expect to pay their bills with just a click on the mouse 3. The effort to move governmental affairs on line in Shanghai has not met expectations, because 4. What is the challenge that governments around the globe face, according to Todd Ramsey? 5. Many governments worldwide are engaged in e-government projects in order to 9.Owning a web page sounds cool. You can be the master of the page, 1. What is the danger of owning a web page of your own, according to the passage? 2. In the second paragraph, in the sentence It will be a headache in the future , It refers to 3. According to Zhang Jing, the problem of junk emails could get worse unless 4. From the passage we understand that 5. To protect peoples privacy on the Internet, we should 10. Suppose you work in a big firm and find English very important for your job because you often deal with foreign businessmen. 1. You work from 9. 00am to 4. 30pm every day. Which schools will you choose? 2.The 21st Century is different from the other three schools in that3. You will probably prefer to go to the International House because it 4. If you take the evening programme at the International House, you will pay about 6. If you want to take a 6-month special course in English for banking, you will probably choose Bill Cooper is portfolio (证券投资) manager of the $13 billion Value Trust Funds, 1.In the sentence of the first paragraph, He is the only fund manager to perform the best for nine years in a row, the phrase for nine years in a row means 2.It was_that Bill learned his finance ABC when he was only nine years old. 3.It was the idea that_that attracted the young boy. 4. From the passage, we know that Bills success lies in his_ 5.Bill Cooper soon learnt after his graduation that a university degree _.Robert was born in a small town in England. 1.Robert can study in the university because _. 2.The English visitor thought _. 3.Robert brought his money out of his wallet because_ . 4.Robert put the note in the wallet because_ 5.In fact, _.I had two jobs growing up and they all helped shape my life.1. The author thinks what he has learned from his first job is _2. The phrase people from all walks of life in the third paragraph means people _3.The author thinks his second job is _4.The author compares his second job to _.5.The business lesson the author gets from selling shoes is_Paper was invented by the Chinese in the first century AD. 1.Where was paper invented?_ 2. Scandinavia began to make paper_3.Every four hundred copies of a forty-page newspaper will need_4.All over the world, trees are being cut down_ than they are being planted. 5.The latest things made of paper are_.May you wish upon a thousand stars? May you catch a million fireflies? 1.From the passage, we know for sure that Don and Mary are_ . 2.In the third paragraph, when Mary said, So we decided to live in the home we love best, the home she refers to is actually_ . 3.Which of the following sentences do you think is most suitable to describe the education their children get, taking to the road? 4.At the end of the fourth paragraph, the shortened word GPS stands for_ . 5.The family consider themselves lucky because_ . Dear Folks, Ive been here for about three weeks and already 1.According to Yichen, New York_ . 2.Yichen lives in a dormitory, because_ . 3.The most difficult thing at the moment for Yichen in her learning is_ . 4.Yichen seems to be _ friends with American students. 5.On her arrival in New York, Yichen compares things and people with those in_ . Cynthia Woolly is called the Michael Jordan of womens basketball. 1. From the first sentence of this passage, we know that Cynthia Woolly is _ in America. 2.Cynthia Woolly is now_ . 3.From the passage, we can come to the conclusion that Cynthia Woolly must have started her life_.4. Which of the following statements is not true of Cynthia Woolly? 5.The right thing that Cynthia Woolly believes she is doing for the younger generation of her family is _ according to the passage. I was 15 when I walked into McCarley Bookstore and began to look over the titles of the books on the shelves. 1.How did the author get the job in McCarley Bookstore? 2. According to the author, selling books was one of the most satisfying job experiences, because_. 3.After he helped the fearful lady looking for books on cancer, the author was_4.The author decided to help the poor boy by_ . 5.The main reason that the author thinks his present job is the same as the one in the bookstore is_ . Lillian Hanson, a college student, expects to graduate in about two years. 1. Mrs Hanson couldnt go to college immediately after she graduated from high school because _.2.Mrs Hanson wanted to borrow money from the bank _.3.In the college, what makes Mrs Hanson different from her classmates is_.4.The computer students welcomed Mrs Hanson warmly because _.5.Mrs Hanson is the sort of person who_.The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. 1.According to the passage, around the year 1900 most women married_.2. We are told that in an ordinary family about 1900_.3.When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth-century mother_ . 4. According to the passage, the women of today usually_.5.Which of the following statements is not true? But I just paid $1.69 for this bottle of wine last week. How come the price is now $2.25? Whats going on?1. From the first paragraph, we know that the speaker is_ . 2.The three factors mentioned in the passage cause_. 3.The supply of wine has remained the same partly because_ . 4.What does production costs refer to in the last paragraph? 5.The authors purpose of writing this passage is to_.10th August, 2004Dear Sirs, Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, 1. The company wants to sell_.2.Where is the Head Office of the company? 3.When did the companys annual sales exceed $2 billion? _.4.In the year of 2002. 5.The letter is written to_.In the United States, 30 percent of the grown-up population has1. What kind of physical problem do many grown-up Americans have? 2. Based on the information given in this article, suppose there are 500 grown-up Americans, about how many of them have a weight problem? 3. Are there scientific facts to support that eating too much is the cause of the weight problem? 4.Compared with the grown-up Americans today, the Americans of 1910_.5.What have some modern medical and scientific researchers reported to us? After her husband had gone to work, Mrs Richards sent her children to school and went upstairs to her bedroom. 1. The reason for Mrs Richardss excitement that day was that_.2.Mrs Richards went downstairs with the costume on so as to_.3. The man who was knocking at the door was_.4.What did the man do after he knocked on the front door? 5.The man_ and that made him cry out and run away.Its 8.30, time for John to start work. 1.From the passage we know that John does his job _.2. Which of the following is mentioned as one of the advantages of telecommuting? 3.The passage tells us that telecommuters change jobs less often and so_ . 4.The phrase suited to in the third paragraph means_ . 5.The passage is mainly about _.People travel a lot with Heaven Air because they know they will get what they want. 1.Heaven Air is the name of_ . 2.Traveling with Heaven Air is_ . 3.Heaven Air can take you to Paris_.4Most flights of Heaven Air go to _.5According to the advertisement, Heaven Air believes it is_ . When companies need new employees, 1.What kind of companies are the best choice for a person to write to find a job? _2.Which of the following is not true? _3.When people are looking for jobs, what should they send to companies, according to the passage? 4.If you send your resume to a company that isnt hiring at the time, what might the company do? _5.According to the author, _.Some people think they have an answer to the troubles of automobile crowding and dirty air in large cities. 1.According to the passage, bicycles_ . 2.The idea of special bicycle lanes is most favored by_ . 3.Bicycle lanes in the third paragraph probably means_ . 4. Which of the following is not true according to the passage? 5.The best title for this passage is_ . We often use gestures to express our feel