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1、阅读理解B试卷中的题目说明阅 读 理 解(共 10小题；每小题3 分，满分30分)此部分共有2篇短文，在第一篇短文后有5个正误判断题，从每题后的两个选项中选出正确答案；在第二篇短文后有5个问题。请从每个问题后的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出正确选项。1、Mr.White lived in a small village.His parents hadnt enough money to send him to school.He had to help them to do something in the fields.But he didnt like to live in the poo

2、r place.When he was sixteen,he got to the town and found work in a factory.Three years later he becametall and strong.So he was sent to Africa as a soldier.He stayed there for five years and got somemoney.Then he came back to England and bought a shop in a small town.No people in the townwent to Afr

3、ica except him.And he hoped they thought he was a famous man and that they couldrespect him.The children often asked him to tell them some stories and his life in Africa.One day a few children asked him to tell them something about the animals in Africa.He toldthem how he fought with the tigers and

4、elephants.His stories surprised them all and somepolicemen and workers went to listen to him.It made him happier.Just a man who taughtgeography in a middle school passed there.He stopped to listen to him for a while and then said,Could you please tell us a rare animal,sir?Certainly,said Mr.Turner.On

5、e day I met a rhinoceros(犀 牛)by a river.“Please wait a minute,sir,said the man.nThere aren*t any rhinoceros in Africa at all!”It*s rare just because there arent any!(l)Mr.White was born in a farmers family.A：T B：F答案：A(2)Mr.White hoped to be respected because he was the richest man in their town.A：T

6、B：F答案：B、The children often asked him to tell them something interesting because he knew more thanany other person in the town.A：T B：F答案：A(4)All people believed Mr.White except the children.A：T B：F答案：B(5)Mr.White wouldnt like to admit that he was wrong.A：T B：F答案：A2、If you travel by air across the cen

7、ter of Africa or South America,you fly over forests forthousands of kilometers.These great forests are the oceans of trees.There are thousands andthousands of different kinds of plants and animals.However,the worlds forests are getting smaller all the time.We are cutting down the treesbecause we nee

8、d wood,and we need more farmland.Some people say that there will not be anyforests like these in 20 or 30 years.What will happen if they disappear?If we cut down our forests,a lot of plants and animals will disappear from the world.In a lotof places the new farmland will soon look like the old deser

9、ts.Crops will not grow there.It willnot rain very often,and the weather will get very hot.Perhaps the climate of the world will change.This will be dangerous for everyone in the world.That is why we must take care of our forests.、The passage mainly tells us about the importance of taking care of pla

10、nts.A：T B：F答案：A(2)、Forests are homes for different kinds of animals.A：T B：F答案：A(3)The need for more wood and more land help to protect our forests.A：T B：F答案：B(4)Well have more and greater forestsn in 20 or 30 years in some peoples view.A：T B：F答案：B(5)The writer thinks it necessary to protect the fore

11、sts.A：T B：F答案：A3、What makes one person more intelligent than another?What makes one person a genius,like the brilliant Albert Einstein,and another person a fool?Are people born intelligent or stupid,or is intelligence the result of where and how you live?These are very old questions and theanswers t

12、o them are still not clear.We know,however,that just being bom with a good mind is not enough.In some ways,themind is like a leg or an arm muscle.It needs exercise.Mental exercise is particularly important foryoung children.Many child psychologists。心理学家)think that parents should play with theirchild

13、ren more often and give them problems to think about.The children are then more likely togrow up bright and intelligent.If,on the other hand,children are left alone a great deal withnothing to do,they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.Parents should also be careful with what they say

14、to young children.According to somepsychologists,if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot,then the childis more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things.So it is probably better for parents to say verypositive things to their children,such as That was a very cl

15、ever thing you did.or You are sucha smart child.(1)、The word intelligent in the 1st paragraph probably mean bright.A：T B：F答案：A(2)According to the context we can guess that a genius is a normal person while an idiot is afunny person.A：T B：F答案：B(3)、A person born with a good brain and putting it into a

16、ctive use is more likely to become agenius.A：T B：F答案：A、It is better for parents to praise and encourage their children more often.A：T B：F答案：A、Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live.A：T B：F答案：B4、A man got into a train and found himself sitting opposite a woman who seemed to be

17、 aboutthirty-five years old.Soon they began talking to each other,and the man said to her,Do you havea family?0Yes,I have one son,the woman answered.uOh,really?1 said the man.Does he smoke?“No,hes never touched a cigarette,H the woman replied.Thats good/the man continued.nI dont smoke either.Tobacco

18、 is very bad to ones health.And does your son drink wine?”“Oh,no,the woman answered at once.Hes never drunk a drop of it.Then I congratulate you,maam,the man said.And does he ever come home late atnight?“No,never,his neighbor answered.He goes to bed immediately after dinner every night.Well J the ma

19、n said,hes a wise young man.How old is he?Hes six months old today.But he will grow up to be a gentleman,*the woman repliedproudly.(l)The man and the woman are talking about the womans son.A：T B：F答案：A(2)The woman thinks her son will be a gentleman.A：T B：F答案：A、The conversation bok place on atain.A：T

20、B：F答案：A、The word disappointed probably best describes the mans feeling at the end of theconversation.A：T B：F答案：B(5)The woman is so proud of her son that she does not really understand what the mansquestions nean.A：T B：F答案：B5、Mr.Young ran his own business and worked very hard.His wife was afraid that

21、 he wouldget sick if he continued like that,so she often tried to get him to take a vacation.At last shemanaged to persuade him to do so,and she hoped that he would be able to enjoy his vacationwithout any disturbance,so before they left,Mrs.Young went to see her husbands secretary.Shesaid to her,nM

22、y husband needs a vacation very much,so whatever happens,please don*t botherhim with telegrams and letters about business problems while we are away.Just wait till we getback/1After Mr.and Mrs.Young had been away about a week,Mr.Young received a letter from hissecretary which said,Something terrible

23、 happened to your business,but Im not going to botheryou with it while you are enjoying your vacation/(l)Mr.Young was the owner of a private business.A：T B：F答案：A(2)Mrs.Young worried about her husbands business.A：T B：F答案：B(3)、Mrs.Young vas jfraid that ho,huijancfs vacation night be poilt.A：T B：F答案：A(

24、4)、The secretary didnt explain in her letter what had happened to Mr.Youngs business,becauseshe didnt want to spoil Mr.Youngs vacation.A：T B：F答案：A、You can learn from the story that Mr.Young had a stupid secretary.A：T B：F答案：A6、Here is a story told about an American general who was a very important fi

25、gure in theAmerican army during the First World War.Everybody in the United States knew him and manypeople wished to have a picture or something of his in their homes.Soon after the war the general returned to Washington.One day he went to a dentist and hadsix teeth pulled out.A week later the gener

26、al heard that his teeth were being sold in shops at$5each.On each of the teeth there was a label with the name of the general and words:buy theseteeth and show them to your friends at home.*The general got angry.He rushed to his office andordered six officers to go around the city and buy all his te

27、eth.The officers went out and visited every shop in the capital.They were away from the officeall day.In the evening they returned and put on the table in front of the general the teeth they hadbought.They had collected 175 teeth.(l)Many families wanted to have a signature of the general.A：T B：F答案：B

28、(2)The general came back to Washington after the First World War.A：T B：F答案：A(3)The general ordered his men to look for all his teeth and buy all of them.A：T B：F答案：A、The fact that the generals name was on the label of each tooth shows that the general wasfamous.A：T B：F答案：A(5)The teeth they collected

29、most probably cost$1150.A：T B：F答案：B7、The word horsepower”was first used two hundred years ago.James Watt had made theworlds first widely used steam engine.He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful itwas,for at that time there were no units for measuring power.Watt decided to find out how

30、much work one strong horse could do in one minute.He calledthat unit one horsepower.With this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do.He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air on one minute.His engine could lift a 33-pound weight 100 feet in one

31、minute.Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse,Watt called it a ten horsepowerengine.(1)、The p济 sage ays hat Watt rmde he frst wdely ised ieam mgine.A：T B：F答案：A(2)、Watt wanted to find a way to lift a 3300-pound veight.A：T B：F答案：B、He made up a unit of measurement based on the stren

32、gth of a horse.A：T B：F答案：A(4)One hoisepower w)uld qual he veight of oie hose.A：T B：F答案：B(5)The posible itle f)r his pasage s The Qigin of he Term Horsepower.A：T B：F答案：A8 Snowflakes look like white stars falling from the sky.But there have been times whensnow has looked red,green,yellow,or black.Ther

33、e have been snowflakes of almost every color.Think how it would seem to have colored snowflakes coming down all around you.Black snow fell in France one year.Another year grey snow fell in Japan.It was found thatthe snow was mixed with ashes.This made it look dark.Red snow had come down in othercoun

34、tries.When this happened,the snow was mixed with red dust.Most snow looks white,but it is really the color of ice.Snow is ice that comes from snowcloud.Each snowflake begins with a small drop of frozen water.More water forms around thisdrop.The way the water freezes gives the snowflakes its shape.No

35、 two snowflakes are ever just the same size or shape.Sometimes the snowflakes arebroken when they come down.Other snowflakes melt as they fall.All snowflakes are flat andhave six sides,if they are not broken or melted.When the air is cold and dry,the fallingsnowflakes are small and hard.If the air w

36、et and warm,the snowflakes are big and soft.Would you be surprised to see snowflakes as big as your head falling from the sky?Ithappened once in the United States.It could happen again.(l)The first two paragraphs mainly tell us that sometimes snow has different colors.A：T B：F答案：A(2)No two snowflakes

37、 are just the same size,but all snowflakes are hard.A：T B：F答案：B、Snowflakes begin with cloud.A：T B：F答案：B(4)、The bigger the snowflakes are,the softer they are.A：T B：F答案：A(5)Black snow fell only in European Countries.A：T B：F答案：B9、Hobbs was an orphan.He worked in a factory and every day he got a little

38、money.Hardwork changed him thin and weak.He wanted to boirow a lot of money to learn to paint pictures,but he did not think he could pay off the debts.One day a lawyer said to him,“One thousand dollars,and here is the money.As Hobbs tookthe package of notes,he was very dumbfounded(惊呆了 的).He didnt kn

39、ow where the moneycame from and how to spend it.He said to himself,I could go to find a hotel and live like a richman for a few days,or I give up my work in the factory and do what Fd like to do:paintingpictures.I could do that for a few weeks,but what would I do after that?I should have lost myplac

40、e in the factory and have no money to live on.If it were a little less money,I would buy a newcoat,or a radio,or give a dinner to my friends.If it were more,I could give up the work and payfor painting the pictures.But it is too much for one and too little for the other.“Here is the reading of your

41、uncles will/said the lawyer,telling what is to be done withthis money after his death.I must ask you to remember one point.Your uncle has said you mustbring me a paper showing exactly what you did with his money,as soon as you have spent it.”Yes,I see.I will do that,said the young man.、He wanted to

42、borrow money because he wanted to learn to paint pictures.A：T B：F答案：A(2)With the money he got,Hobbs first planned to have a happy life for a few days.A：T B：F答案：B、What Hobbs was asked to do was nothing but to buy some pictures.A：T B：F答案：B(4)What Hobbs really loved to do was painting pictures.A：T B：F答

43、案：A(5)The best title for the passage.A：T B：F答案：B10 Elvis Aron Presley,was often called the king of rock music1,died on August 16th,1977,at the age of forty-two.He left a great influence on popular music,and millions of fans.During hislifetime,Elvis sold more than four hundred million records.After P

44、resley died,many of hisrecords rose quickly.When Presley died,many mourners journeyed to Memphis,Tennessee,Presleys home,to pay their last respects.While most of these fans knew a lot about the songs ofElvis,few of them knew the story of how Elvis had his first record which was for his mother.Hepaid

45、 four dollars to a small Memphis recording shop,and recorded two songs.The songs wereMy Happiness and Thats Where Your Heartaches Begin.Sam Philips,who owned the shopwhere Elvis made the record,liked Presleys songs.He said he would call him some day.About ayear later,Philips did call and ask him to

46、cut a record.This first record had Blue Moon ofKentuckyuon one side,and Thats All Right,Mamaon the other.、The passage is mainly about how Elvis Presley began his career.A：T B：F答案：A(2)、Mourners are usually record-producers.A：T B：F答案：B、Without the record for his mother,Elvis might not have become a st

47、ar.A：T B：F答案：A(4)When Presley died,people went to Memphis for his mothers story of life.A：T B：F答案：B(5)The passage shows that many people loved Elvis.A：T B：F答案：B11 Three men traveling on a train began a conversation about the worlds greatest wonders.In my opinion,the first man said,the Egyptian pyram

48、ids(埃及金字塔)are the worldsgreatest wonder.Although they were built thousands of years ago,they are still standing.Andremember:the people who built them had only simple tools.They did not have the kind ofmachinery that builders and engineers have today.“I agree that the pyramids in Egypt are wonderful,

49、the second man said,nbut I do not thinkthey are the greatest wonder.I believe computers are more wonderful than the pyramids.Theyhave taken people to the moon and brought them back safely.In seconds,they carry outmathematical calculations that would take a person a hundred years to do.He turned to t

50、he third man and asked,MWhat do you think is the greatest wonder in theworld?HThe third man thought for a long time,and then he said,Well,I agree that the pyramids arewonderful,and I agree that computers are wonderful,too.However,in my opinion,the mostwonderful thing in the world is this thermos.uAn