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1、阅读理解B1、Peter wondered why he didnt have many friends.The reason was he was alwaystaking,never giving.One day Peter told Bill,Id like to give a party on Saturday,Id like you to come andbring Martha,too.叮hanks,Peter.Wed be happy to come.叩erhaps youd like to bringyour violin.You and Martha sing well to

2、gether.Im sure everyone will want you to sing forus/That was how Peter began to plan his party.Next he asked another friend,Betty,tobring a cake/You make the best cake in the world,Betty,and I like to eat your cake betterthan have one from the bakery/Peter invited a few other friends to come to his

3、party.Hedidnt forget to ask something from each one of them.He even asked Jim and MaryJackson to let him give the party at their house!They agreed.The party was a big success.However,as the guests were leaving,they saidThankyou Bill and Martha for the music,Betty for the cake,the Jacksons for the us

4、e of thehouse and to others for their hard work.To Peter they just said,“Thanks for the invitation/1）、The party was held at Peters friends house.A.TB.F答 案：A2）、The Jacksons did hard work for the party.A.TB.F答 案：B3）、All his friends liked Peter.A.TB.F答 案：B4）、Peter tried his best to give the party.A.TB.

5、F答 案：B5）、From the story,we can see Peter was a selfish man.A.TB.F答 案：A2、How men first learnt to invent words is unknown;in other words,the originof language is a mystery.All we really know is that men,unlike animals,somehowinvented certain sounds to express thought and feelings,actions and things,so

6、that they could communicate with each other;and that later they agreed uponcertain signs,called letters,which could be combined to present those sounds,and which could be written down.Those sounds,whether spoken or written inletters,we call words.The power of words,then,lies in their associations-th

7、e things they bring upbefore our minds.Words become filled with meaning for us by experience;andthe longer we live,the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events ofour past;and the more we read and learn,the more the number of words thatmean something increases.Great writers are those w

8、ho not only have great thoughts but also expressthese thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions.This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary style.Above all,thereal poet is a master of words.He can convey his meaning in words which singlike music and whic

9、h by their position and association can move men to tears.Weshould therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately,orthey will make our speech silly and vulgar.1）、The origin of language is.A.a legend handed down from the pastB.a matter that is hidden or secretC.a question diffi

10、cult to answerD.a problem not yet solved答案：D2）、What is true about words?A.They are used to express feelings only.B.They can not be written down.C.They are simply sounds.D.They are mysterious.答案：c3）、The real power of words consists in t he i r.A.propertiesB.characteristicsc.peculiarityD.representativ

11、e function答案：D4）、By association in the last paragraph,the author me a n s.A.a special qualityB.a joining of ideas in the mindcan appearance which is puzzlingD.a strange feature答 案：B5）、Which of the following statements about the real poet is NOT true?A.He is no more than a master of words.B.He can co

12、nvey his ideas in words which sing like music.C.He can move men to tears.D.His style is always charming.答 案：A3、When you take a walk in many of the cities in the West,you often see a lot ofpeople walking dogs.It is still true that a dog is the most useful and faithful animal inthe world.But the reaso

13、ns why people keep a dog have changed.In the old days,people used to train dogs to protect themselves against attacks byother beasts.And later,they came to realize that the dog was not only useful forprotection but willing to obey his master.For example,when people used dogs forhunting,the dogs woul

14、d not eat what was caught without permission.But now,people in the city need not protect themselves against attacks of an animal.Why do they keep dogs,then?Some people keep dogs to protect themselvesfrom robbery,but the most important reason is for companionship.For a child,a dogis his best friend w

15、hen he has no friends to play with.For young couples,a dog istheir child when they have no children.For old couples,a dog is also their child whentheir real children have grown up.So the main reason why people keep dogs haschanged from protection to friendship.1）、It is true that a dog is the most im

16、portant animal in the world.A.TB.F答 案：B2）、According to the passage,dogs were trained for protection against other animalsin the pastA.TB.F答 案：A3）、Dogs were used for hunting because they always obeyed their masters.A.TB.F答 案：A4）、The most important reason for people in the city to keep dogs now forcom

17、panionship.A.TB.F答 案：A5）、The main idea of the passage is that the dog is a useful and friendly animal.A.TB.F答 案：A4、This story is about a young man.He worked very hard at his lessons.He was toobusy to have a rest.At last,he couldnt go to sleep.Every night,when he went to bed,heclosed his eyes and tri

18、ed to sleep.But the more he tried,the more he stayed awake.After a while he decided to visit the doctor./ZI just cant go to sleep at night.Whatshould I do?“I have a suggestion/said the doctor./zTry counting numbers.By the timeyou reach one thousand,youll be asleep.I am sure of it.The next day the ma

19、n reached the doctors office.Well,“said the doctor,/zhow are youtoday?Did you try my suggestion?”The man still looked tired.Yes,he said,tried counting one,two,three.up to onethousand.But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine,I began to feel sleepy.I had toget up and drink some tea so that I cou

20、ld go on counting up to one thousand,but then Istill couldnt fall asleep/1）、The young man couldnt go to sleep because he had worked too hard and becameill.A.TB.F答 案：A2）、The doctor asked the young man to count numbers while he was lying in bed.A.TB.F答 案：A3）、The young man returned to the doctors offic

21、e the next day because he wanted tothank the doctor.A.TB.F答 案：B4）、The young man counted from 1 to 569 and got up to drink some tea.A.TB.F答 案：A5）、The young man in fact was not able to count numbers.A.TB.F答 案：B5、Mr Tom Forester lived by himself a long way from town.He hardly ever left his home,but one

22、 day he went into town to buy some things in the market.After he had boughtthem,he went into a restaurant and sat down at a table by himself.When he lookedaround,he saw several old people put glasses on before reading their newspapers,soafter lunch he decided to go to a shop to buy himself some glas

23、ses too.He walked alongthe road,and soon found a shop.The man in the shop made him try on a lot of glasses,but Tom always said,No,I cantread with these.The man became more and more puzzled（迷 惑 不 解），until finally he said,Excuse me,but can you read at all?No,of course I cant!Tom said angrily.If I was

24、already able to read,do you think Iwould have come here to buy glasses?1）x Mr Forester lived alone in a city.A.TB.F答 案：B2）、Tom almost never went into town.A.TB.F答 案：A3）、The old people in the restaurant read their newspapers with glasses off.A.TB.F答 案：B4）、The shop Tom went into sold glasses for peopl

25、e who could not see well.A.TB.F答 案：A5）、What kind of mistake did Tom make?He left his money in the restaurant.A.TB.F答 案：B6S What is the best way to learn a language?We should remember that we learned ourown language well when we were children.If we could learn a second language in thesame way,it woul

26、d not seem so difficult.Think of what a small child does.He listens towhat people say and tries to imitate what he hears.When he wants something he has toask for it.He is using the language.talking in it fthinking in it all the time.If people had touse a second language all the time,they would learn

27、 it quickly.We learn our own language by hearing people speak it,not by seeing what they write.We imitate what we hear.In school z though you learn to read and write as well as to hearand speak,it is best to learn all the new words through the ear.You can read them,spellthem and write them later.1）、

28、Everyone learns his mother language when he is a child.A.TB.F答 案：A2）、A small child learns to speak by imitating what people say.A.TB.F答 案：A3）、People can learn a language quickly if they imitate it.A.TB.F答 案：B4）、It is best to learn new words through reading first.A.TB.F答 案：B5）、The best way to learn a

29、 language is to use the language all the time.A.TB.F答 案：A7、He has done what Mohammed Ali did for boxing,Michael Jordan for basketball,Roger Federer for tennis and Tiger Woods for golf.Twenty-three-year-old MichaelPhelps has become a phenomenon in swimming.At the 2008 Summer Olympic Games,he won eigh

30、t gold medals.That was morethan the whole Australian team could put together.He beat Mark Spitzs 1972 recordof seven wins in the pool at the one Games.Phelps has put his name next to sevenworld records.Nine days,17 games,morning and night he competed and won.He had to beatformer world record-holders

31、 and gold medalists.He had to turn their wins into oldnews.Im just lucky to have the drive that I have,the talent that I have and theexcitement for the sport,Phelps said after winning his last medal.After the Olympics,swimming will not be in the news so much.But Phelps hasdecided to keep working to

32、popularize it.I dont want this sport to be an every-four-years sport/Phelps said.Over thepast four years,its skyrocketed.Im honored to help this sport for the nextgeneration of swimmers who will have it better than I have.1）、Phelps is a swimmer.A.TB.F答案：A2）、Roger Federer is famous for tennis.A.TB.F答

33、案：A3）、竞争is closest in meaning to the underlined word phenomenon.A.TB.F答案：B4）、Phelps wants to change swimming to an every-four-years sport.A.TB.F答案：B5）、Swimming is going to be popular can be the most suitable title for this article.A.TB.F答 案：B8、A couple of months ago,I went to a department store to b

34、uy a few things forthe house.I needed a set of curtains for the living room,two table lamps,a rug andseveral cushions.I asked them to deliver the things as soon as possible；but they saidthat they were unable to send them out until 20 days later.After about 3 weeks,Ireceived only the curtains and tab

35、le lamps.I was a little disappointed when I didntreceive all the items I had bought.But nevertheless,I was eager to see what thecurtains and lamps looked like.I first opened the package with the curtains.I hadbought a lovely light blue,and instead they had sent me a horrible dark purple.Well,you can

36、 just imagine how angry I was.Then I opened the boxes with the lamps.Theywere exactly what Id ordered.But one of the lamp shapes was damaged.The next Idid was to telephone them to complain.They promised to come and pick them upimmediately and also to replace them with the correct order.It has been t

37、wo weekssince my complaint.They have neither picked up the wrong items nor sent me therest of my order.1）、The woman want the store to deliver the items was in a couple of weeks.A.TB.F答 案：B2）、The woman was pleased when she saw the items they had delivered.A.TB.F答 案：B3）、Her complaint was ignored in th

38、e end.A.TB.F答 案：A4）、After three weeks,the woman received only the curtains and table lamps.A.TB.F答 案：A5）、Besides curtains,table lamps,the woman bought a cushion.A.TB.F答 案：B9、Modern life is impossible without traveling.The fastest way of traveling is by plane.With amodern airliner you can travel in o

39、ne day to places which it takes a month or more to get to ahundred years ago.Traveling by train is slower than by plane,but it has its advantages.You can see the countrywhen you are traveling through.Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining-cars.They makeeven the longest journey enjoyable.Som

40、e people prefer to travel by sea when possible.There are large liners and river boats.Youcan visit many other countries and different parts of your country on them.Ships are not so fast astrains or planes,but traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.Many people like to travel by ca

41、r.You can make your own timetable.You can travel three or fourhundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day,just as you like.You can stop wherever youwish-where there is something interesting to see,at a good restaurant where you can enjoy agood meat,or at a hotel to spend the night That is

42、 why traveling by car is popular for pleasure trips,while people usually take a train or plane when they are traveling on business.1）、From the passage,we know the fastest way of traveling is by plane.A.TB.F答 案：A2）、The underlined word They in the passage refers to comfortable seats anddining-cars.A.T

43、B.F答 案：A3）、If we travel by car,we can make our own timetable.A.TB.F答 案：A4）、When people travel on business,they usually take a plane or a car.A.TB.F答 案：B5）、Four ways of traveling are mentioned in the passage.A.TB.F答 案：A10、Here is a story told an American general（将军）who was a very important figurein t

44、he American army during the First World War.Everybody in the United Statesknew him and many people wished to have a picture or something of his in theirhomes.Soon after the war the general returned to Washington.One day he went to adentist and had six teeth pulled out.A week later the general heard

45、that his teethwere being sold in curiosity shops（古玩店）at$5 each.On each of the teeth there wasa label with the name of the general and words,nBuy these teeth and show them toyour friends at home.The general got angry.He rushed to his office and ordered sixofficers to go around the city and buy all hi

46、s teeth.The officers went out and visited every curiosity shop in the capital.They wereaway from the office all day.In the evening they returned and put on the table infront of the general the teeth they had bought They had collected 175 teeth.1）、The generals teeth were sold in the museum.A.TB.F答 案：

47、B2）x In the evening,the officers went back with all the teeth which cost$175.A.TB.F答 案：B3）、The general felt angry when he heard his teeth were sold.A.TB.F答 案：A4）、There was the generals picture on the label of each tooth.A.TB.F答 案：B5）、The general ordered his men to look for his teeth and buy all of t

48、hem.A.TB.F答 案：A11、On a practical level,teachers need a wide variety of skills and abilities.Theyhave to be ready to spend many hours at home planning their lessons and preparinghomework.They have to be well organized in class,patient with students,able toappear bright and interested even if they are

49、 in fact tired or unhappy,and livelyenough to control a group of young people for almost 200 days a year.Outside theclassroom,they may have to prepare teaching materials,to choose books to use astexts,to help organize the work of other teachers,or to organize spare time activitiesfor students.If you

50、 think that you have all the necessary qualities,you may feel that you wouldlike to be a teacher.If you live in the United States,one way to decide is by joining aclub for future teachers,such as Student Action for Education.Clubs like this giveadvice about your field,and also allow you to watch tea