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1、阅读步步高One afternoon, Mary and her five-year-old brother Tom were playing hide-and-seek in the street just outside a post office.Mary had shut her eyes and was counting up to ten when Tom found that the small door of a letter box was left open. The postman had just taken all the letters out and gone i

2、nto the post office. Tom climbed into the letter box and pulled the door from the inside so hard that it locked. When he knew what he had done, he became very frightened and started crying.At the same time Mary was looking for him everywhere but could not find him. Then she happened to stop outside

3、the letter box and heard her brother crying in it. She ran to tell the postman at once. The man hurried out to unlock the door. Tom was free, but he couldnt help crying.A man goes to church and starts talking to God. He says “God, what is a million dollars to you?” and God says “A penny”. Then the m

4、an says “God, what is a million years to you?” God says “a second”. Then the man says “God, can I have a penny?” And God says “In a second”.SudokuThe 200-Year-Old PuzzleSudoku, the popular puzzle that uses the numbers 1-9, might not be very new. According to some websites, Sudoku is based on the wor

5、k of Leonard Euler, an 18th-century Swiss mathematician. Euler created “Latin Squares”, a grid in which every number or symbol appears once in each row or column.In the 1970s a series of puzzles called “Number Place” appeared in a puzzle magazine by an American publisher. The puzzles were similar to

6、 Eulers “Latin Squares”: every number could be used only once in each row or column. In 1984 a Japanese publisher saw the puzzles and was impressed: he made them easier, called them “Sudoku” (meaning “single number” in Japanese) and published them in a book. The puzzles continued to appear in the Am

7、erican magazine and in Japanese books, but nobody showed much interest in them.That began to change in 1997 when Wayne Gould, a New Zealander working in Hong Kong, saw a Sudoku book in a bookshop and was fascinated by it. In October 2004 he persuaded The Times to publish one of the puzzles.It was an

8、 instant success and now you can find Sudoku puzzles in most British newspapers, on the Internet, and even on mobile phones. There are also monthly Sudoku magazines and even a Sudoku puzzle on BBC Radio 4s Today programme, where the numbers are read aloud.根据短文内容，选出正确答案1Number puzzles were first prin

9、ted in the United States _.Ain the 1700s Bin the 1970s Cin 19842The American publisher called the puzzles _.A“Eulers Squares” B“Latin Squares” C“Number Place”3When the puzzles first appeared in Japan, they were _.Anot difficult enough Bnot called Sudoku first Ceasier than the American puzzles4Betwee

10、n 1984 and 2004, the puzzles _.Abecame very popular in the USA Bbecame very popular in Japan Cexisted, but were not very popular5Wayne Gould convinced The Times _.Ato publish a Sudoku book Bto buy a Sudoku book Cto include a puzzle in the paper测 试 题James wrote a play for television about a family wh

11、o came to England from India, and the play was very interesting. It was bought by an American TV company.James was then invited to go to New York to help them. He lived in Washington, which is an hour away from New York by air. The plane was going to take off at 8:30 in the morning. So he had to be

12、at the airport at about 7:30. He ordered a taxi for 6:30 and went to sleep. He forgot to wind the clock, and it stopped after midnight. Also the driver of the taxi had to work very late that night and he got up very late the next morning.James woke with the feeling that something was wrong. He looke

13、d at his clock. It stood there silently with the hands pointing to ten past twelve. He turned on the radio and knew it was ten. He was late for the plane.He was just preparing his coffee when the radio sent out another news, “Reports are coming in of a plane crash near Washington airport. A Boeing 7

14、07 fly to New York crashed shortly after taking off this morning. Plane number 2234” James suddenly turned pale(苍白).“My plane,” he said aloud. “If I havent been late, “Id have been on the plane!”根据短文内容，判断各句是否符合短文意思，符合的划“”，否则划“”。1James was a writer from England.2He had to reach the airport at half pa

15、st eight.3James would like to take a taxi at six thirty.4The driver came to pick him up on time.5When he turned on the radio he heard the speaker saying that he missed the plane.6James was lucky because he was not able to get on the plane.7The plane crashed while flying towards London.8Sometimes bad things can change into good ones.Key:1 2 3 45678