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“英语阅读(1)”模拟试题BPart IQuestions 1-1 0 are based on Passage 1.Passage 1ParisIt s a beautiful city!Very romantic!There,s such a lot to see.There sa huge cathedral.T h e r e s a strange iron tower.There s a river whichgoes through the middle of the city.There are lots of wonderful artgalleries.And it s far from EuroDisney.K airoThere are broad avenues beside the Nile and narrow streets in the old city.There are mosques and markets,shops and museums.So many things to see.And the Pyramids are just outside the city,too.Fill in the following blanks and complete the ideas based on theinformation you get from passages 1&2.(20 points,2 points each.)In Paris you may find many things such as1.2._3._4._5.You may go to very easily from Paris for the city isquite close to it.6.A river called go through Egypt.7.In Egypt you may go along avenues beside the river.8.The streets in the old city are quite.9.You have to go to see Pyramids.10.are the things that you ve seldom seen elsewhere.Part IIPassage 2Friday Met Anne&walked to school with her.I really like her.Richardwas still in bed when I left!He,s so lazy!1st lesson Geography.It wasBORING!Saw Richard running past the window during Geog.Met“the gangat break time.Sophie wanted to play a game,but the others all said No.Sophie cried.I feel sorry for her sometimes.Richard caught us up on theway home so Anne and I couldn,t talk.I was really annoyed.He just kepton about something Tony Hatch did in Maths.His lot are stupid!And nowhe won,t lend me his T-shirt.Super play on TV-a mystery story.I lovemysteries!Mum let me stay up to see the end.Read the following statements and then decide whether they are true orfalse based on the information you get from passage 2.Write T for trueif you think the statement is true and F for false if you think it s false.Write your answers on the answer sheet.(20 points,2 points each.)11.The writer of this passage walked to school alone on Friday.12.The writer likes Anne very much.13.Richard got up before the writer left for school.14.The writer likes the 1st lesson very much.15.Richard didn,t attend Geography lesson on Friday.16.All agreed to play a game suggested by Sophie.17.Richard,Anne and the writer walked home together.18.Richard agreed to lend me his T-shirt.19.The writer love mystery story.20.The writer went to bed late on Friday.Part IIIQuestions 21-30 are based on Passage 3.Passage 3If Not for My Mother.How are you sports fans”I am Gu Hao,hosting the summary of this week ssports,and I m very happy to have your radio tuned in to this station On 1 June 1995,when the voice of Gu Hao came over the waves from theZhengzhou Economic Broadcasting Station in Henan Province,his humorousstyle and original view on sports was exactly the sort of thing his stationdirector and partners had been looking for.Gu broke new ground as well,being the first blind talk-show host in China.This achievement did not go unnoticed in China.On the evening of 22December,at China Central Television,s studios for the live broadcastof Sports Salon,Gu Hao expressed deep gratitude to his mother,GuBaozhi,before millions of viewers,saying that he owed his entire lifeto her kindness and care.Without her,he would not have had the confidenceor the courage to fight his disability.When asked what he would like tosee if he could have normal eyesight for one instant,he said withouthesitation he would love to see his mother.Soon there were phone callscoming in to the TV station from all parts of the country,extendingtraditional Chinese greetings and blessings to Gu Baozhi.Gu s mother,meanwhile,has been promoted to deputy dean at the Henan EngineeringInstitute,in charge of teaching.Gu Hao was born on 14 January,1972,during a snowstorm in Zhengzhou.Hisfather,who was working in Luoyang at the time,hurried back to see hisnewborn son.When he was 100 days old,Dr.Han,one of the neighbors,suggested Gu Baozhi take the baby to the hospital for a checkup.Dr.Hanhad noticed the baby s eyes were not focusing.At the ophthalmological institute at Henan s People1 s Hospital,Dr.MaZhenxi,a nationally renowned oculist,said,after examining the child,that he was suffering from a congenital disorder of hyperplasia behindthe tunic fibrosa due to an adhesion of the cornea to the pupil.Thereis still no known cure for this affliction.Gu s mother,now in despair,took Gu Hao to several hospitals in Beijing.At the institute of ophthalmology at Beijing,s well-known TongrenHospital,the chief surgeon examined Gu Hao for a whole day and finallysimply shook his head.Gu was then examined by the Beijing Union MedicalCollege Hospital,the No.301 Hospital of the Chinese People,s LiberationArmy,the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and many others,butall to no avail.There was no cure for his condition.Gu Baozhi wondered,why had this happened to her child?For several days,she was in shock,unable to eat or sleet.She was told by some to sendher baby away to the countryside and have another.Even her husband thoughtthat might be for the best,but Gu Baozhi would not hear of it.Her husband did not want the burden of a blind child and six months laterdivorced Gu Baozhi to marry someone else.It was left to the mother aloneto bring up her handicapped baby.Her love for her innocent child wasstrong enough to give her the necessary courage.Once,when she had a highfever,she heard him crying.Gu hao had tried to pour her a cup of waterbut had spilt it instead and scalded his foot.A few years earlier,thoughtall children fall when they start walking,Gu Baozhi agonized watchingher blind child fall and cry and fall and cry again until he succeededin taking his first step.The hardest time came in September 1984,when 12-year-old Gu hao went tothe Zhengzhou School for the Blind,20 kilometers from home.Every daythey had to rise at five,and she had to fetch him after work,an exhaustingtask.Later Gu drew succor from his mother*s spirit and began to learnrapidly,practising Braille by filling in a piece of model board withmillet grain.One dark night,she heard a sound in his room and saw himhard at work.She sat with him until the next morning.As a result of suchdedication.Gu Hao was the first student to master reading and writingBraille.Then Gu had to leave home for boarding school.Gu hao bumped into wallswhen trying to find a classroom or his bed in the dormitory.When goingto the toilet he stepped into the urinal.Back home at the weekends,heonly told his mother all the pleasant things that had happened.It is sad for a woman to be alone.In 1987,Gu Baozhi remarried,to a memberof the diplomatic cor;ps.However,there were more problems.Her husbandexpected her to go abroad with him and had gone through all the formalities.According to regulations,only she alone could accompany him,but not GuHao.She had to decide whether to go with her husband or stay and takecare of her son.Finally she stayed and the ambassador had to go by himself.The viewers asked Gu Hao how he could watch sports if he was blind,andwhy he liked sports to begin with.Gu s house at the Zhengzhou EngineeringInstitute is simple and clean.Tehre is a pair of rackets and aseventy-position certificate for Gu Baozhi(who took part in Henan smiddle-aged and elder ping-pong competition)hanging on the wall of theliving room.Gu Baozhi said that she likes sports,but especiallyping-pong.Once,when Gu Hao had been alone for a whole day,he asked hismother why she came home so late and what she had done.She said she hadbeen playing ping-pong,and he wanted to know what that was.What shedescribed so fascinated him that it awakened his interest and in that wayhis mother accidentally became his sports mentor!Since the time of his diagnosis,Gu baozhi would not hear of the worddisabled to describe her son.When the child could run,she took himwalking and described things to him,such as big trees,green lawns,flowers,little birds,high buildings,flat houses,cars and planes.Whenever they met someone she knew,she asked Gu Hao to say hello,so thatGu Hao felt warmth and friendliness.His mother bought him little treatsto learn by touch.She took him to the park once a week and gave him allthe pleasures that sighted children could enjoy.When the child was old enough,Gu Baozhi told him Chinese and foreign fairytales every day,including stories about Helen Keller,the blind Chinesemusician Ah Bing,and the disable Zhang Hai di.She tried to point out thatthe disabled can be useful to society.This spurred Gu hao on to dosomething worthwhile with his life.His mother taught him to do as muchhousework as he could manage.Although there were the usual parent andchild arguments,his mother never beat or scolded him.She always reasonedwith him and treated his opinions with respect.Gu Baozhi thought about her son s career early on and oversaw his studiescarefully.Gu Hao was musically gifted and learned songs quickly.Hismother bought him a mouth organ,an electronic organ and an accordion andsaved up for him to have lessons.The child studied very hard and sooncould play 150 Chinese and foreign songs.He even won a prize at onecompetition,but his dream was to devote himself to sports.One day 16 years ago,eight-year-old Gu Hao happened to overhear a livebroadcast of a football match between China and Thailand.He wasenthralled by the exciting commentary,and asked his mother what afootball looked like and why so many people enjoyed this particular sport.He said he wanted to play too,and began envisioning a playing field inhis mind.Every day he listened to sports programme on TV and the radio.When he was asked how he saw the sports matches,he said his motherand he shared same pair of eyes.In order to develop his interest in sports further.Gu Baozhi subscribedto newspapers and periodicals,such as Soccer,China Sports and NewPhysical Culture,and read them for two hours every day to Gu Hao for 15years.She cut out,recorded and classified important sports material forhim.With her careful nurturing,Gu Hao gradually became a walkingencyclopaedia on the world of sports.Gu Hao has achieved fame because of his love for spots.During the 11thAsian Games in 1990,he answered all the questions on all the competitionsfor three hours from two reporters of the Henan People s BroadcastingStation.Later,because of this program,the two reporters won anationwide prize.Since then Gu Hao has written sports summaries,and inmarch 1993,his articles were broadcast by the Central People sBroadcasting Station.In May 1995,he was invited to be the special hostof a new program A Weekly Summary on Sport during the ZhengzhouEconomic Station,s peak listening hours.Gu Hao s success can be attributed to Gu Baozhi,his mother.If anyone,like this mother and son,is steadfast and persevering in the face ofdifficulty,things will surely change for the better.There is hope forfulfillment in the lives of the disabled.Read the following statements and then choose an answer from A,B and Cthat can best complete the statements base on the information you get frompassage 4.Write your answers on your answer sheet.(20 points,2 pointseach)21.Gu Hao on 1 June,1995.A.was interviewed for a job at the Zhengzhou Economic BroadcastingStationB.started to host a sports programme on radioC.was invited to the Zhengzhou Economic Broadcasting Station as a guestspeaker22.The special thing about Gu Hao isA.he is the first talk-show host in ChinaB.he is the first sports host in ChinaC.he is the first blind talk-show host in China23.Gu Hao thinks his mother,Gu Baozhi isA.kindB.caringC.both A and B24.The first thing that Gu Hao would love to see isif he could have normal eyesight for one instants.A.his teacherB.his motherC.his father25.Gu Baozhi is most probablyA.an engineerB.a dean of a departmentC.a teacher26.Gu Hao was bornA.in winterB.on 14 February,1972C.in Luo Yang,He Nan Province27.Dr.M a ZhenxiA.is Gu s neighbourB.is a well-known doctorC.is working at Tongren Hospital28.Gu Hao was brought up byA.his mother aloneB.his parentsC.his grandparents29.The school that Gu Hao went to in 1984A.was very hard on childrenB.was 20 meters away from homeC.was for the blind30.Gu Baozhi likes sports,especially.A.footballB.ping-pongC.volleyballPart IVQuestions 31 40 are based on Passage 4.Passage 4I learned very soon in our relationship that Kathy was jealous.She didnot like to think that I had anything that she did not have.We would havegreat fun going out shopping.However,if I bought,say,a dress for aparty,and she thought my dress was better than hers,she would start tosay slightly unkind things about it.I could not understand this at all,and even now it puzzles me.The other problem was my mother.She thought Kathy was common.She thoughtKathy had a bad influence over me.She even disliked KathyJ s way ofspeaking.She thought her pronunciation was common.Mum disliked Kathyand looked down on her and kept telling me to stop seeing her.If everI invited her into the house,she would be angry and tell me off as soonas Kathy was gone.Thanks to Kathy I had a wonderful year at the Tech.As a result I lookedforward to going out to work.If the Tech could be such fun,so could work!Perhaps I foolishly imagined that wherever I went I would meet anotherKathy.But at the end of that wonderful year two things happened thatdestroyed out friendship.The students always celebrated the end of the college year with afancy-dress dance.It was a big event.But unfortunately,Kathy and I hadmade other arrangements for the day of the dance.We had booked to go toa theatre.We had talked for ages of going,and at last we had our tickets.For us this was a big event.Then we realised that the students dancewas on the same day.It was a shame.But our hearts were set on the theatre.Then Kathy came round to see me.Mother was in at the time,and I haveto speak to her on the doorstop.I told her I couldn t ask her in becausemy Mum had a bad headache.She smiled and said she was sorry about mymother1 s bad head.But I was sure she knew what had really happened.But she carried on smiling and then she said:aV m sorry but I can tcome to the theatre with you.My brother?s come home and he wants me totake him to the dance.I can t let him down.I hardly ever see him.Andhe d bought the tickets before he told me about it.”She must have seen that I was disappointed.I couldn t believe she couldlet me down.She knew how much I had looked forward to the theatre trip.She hardly ever saw her brother.Kathy had often said that her parentswere worried about him,and that they were convinced he was getting intotrouble.Before she left,she gave me the theatre ticket saying:Take your Mumto see the show.I don t want any money for the ticket.”I was almost in tears.After she had gone,Mum was very kind andunderstanding.uThere aren,t many friends you can trust,“she said.And she made me promise that I would never see K athy again.I agreed,andfelt that was the least I could do by way of revenge for my disappointment.Read passage 4 and then decide whether statements 31-40 are true or false.Write T for True if 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