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Foulsham House is a fine, large house of the 1790s．It stands by the River Byer, in twenty—five hectares(公顷)of the best farmland in the southwest．
The house was built by Smithson, and the story goes back to George, the son of King of Whales, who fell in love with the beautiful Lady Kitty, at one of the first Foulsham's wild woods(野外)parties．Many years ago many great men rode on the hills about Foulsham House, and many fine girls took tea in the Green Room．
The house has eight bedrooms, three bathrooms(浴室), two living—rooms, and a dining—room with a real Adam fireplace．Its library has a good view over the park and the river．All rooms are light and airy, with good, high windows, and wood floors．
At the back of the house there is room for four cars．The third Foulsham once kept there．In many other ways, this house of the 1790s meets the needs of the 1990s．
If you wish to know more about Foulsham House, write to：
Harvey．Platt, Longford ＆Son
6, Castle Green, Gilham, Byreside．
1．Foulsham House is ______．
A．an old farm house
B．a 25—house for people to come to listen to its story
C．a large house for people to come to listen to its story
D．a house with a history of nearly two hundred years
2．We learn from the reading that ______．
A．Smithson built the house for wild wood parties
B．many important people had been to Foulsham House
C．George and Lady Kitty loved the house and had many parties here
D．the Green Room is a place for many girls to make tea
3．The sentence 'Its library has a good view over the park and the river, ' means '______'．
A．The park and the river can be seen clearly from the library
B．The library has a picture of the park and the river on the wall
C．The library was built in the park by the river
D．Books about the park and the river can be read in the library
4．Which of the following is true?
A．The 3rd Foulsham often rode his horses at the back of the house．
B．The house has a room for four cars at the back of the house．
C．The road behind the house is wide enough for 4 cars to go．
D．There is some parking behind the house．
5．We can infer(推断) that Harvey ______．
A．wants the house to meet the needs of modern life
B．wants people to know the history of the house
C．wants to sell the house
D．wants some money to make the house meet today's needs
KEY: 1.D 2.B 3.A 4.D 5.C
E-mail is one of the biggest threats (威胁) to your home computer. By understanding how E-mail works, and by taking some steps in how you deal with reading and writing messages, you can keep this threat out of your computer. When you exchange E-mail with someone else, the messages sent between you and that person pass through several computers before they reach their places. Imagine this conversation as it is taking place in an Internet “room”, a very, very big room. Anyone, or more exactly, any program can probably understand what is being said, because most Internet conversations are not hidden in any way. As a result, others may be listening in, capturing what you send, and using it for their own good.
E-mail-borne viruses often arrive in attractive, fantastic appearances, much like the beautiful ads we receive by way of traditional mail that is made to sell us something. By beautiful appearances, an infected (感染) E-mail message seems to be something we want to read from someone we know, not a mean virus ready to destroy or damage our computers.
There are some steps that you can take to help you decide what to do with every E-mail message with an attachment (附件) that you receive. You should only read a message that passes all of these tests:
1) The Know Test: Is the E-mail from someone that you know?
2) The Received Test: Have you received E-mail from this sender before?
3) The Expected Test: Were you waiting for E-mail with an attachment from this sender?
4) The Meaning Test: Do the topic line of the E-mail message and the name of the attachment both have meanings?
5) The Virus Test: Is the E-mail infected?
1. Which of the following is the main idea in the first paragraph?
A. We should not exchange our E-mail with someone else.
B. It is dangerous to read and write E-mail messages at home.
C. We should learn how E-mail works to take care of our computers.
D. Our chats on computers are usually going on in a big Internet room.
2. What does the underlined word “capturing” probably mean?
A. taking B. hiding C. receiving D. destroying
3. As the Internet is open to anyone, we should _________.
A. not read and write messages in our home computers
B. not allow nice advertisements to reach our computers
C. stop our conversations while someone is listening in it
D. be careful with the attractive E-mails sent by strangers
4. What is the passage mainly talking about?
A. The threats of E-mail. B. The safety of home computers.
C. The E-mail-borne viruses. D. The steps to receive E-mail messages.
KEY: 1.C 2.A 3.D 4.B
A friend of mine was fond of drawing horse. He drew the horses very well,but he always began the tail. Now it is the Western rule to begin at the head of the horse, that is why I was surprised. It struck me that it could not really make any difference whether the artist begins at the head or the tail or the belly（肚子） or the foot of the horse, if he really knows his business. And most great artists who really know their business do not follow other people’s rule.They make their own rules. Every one of them does his work in a way peculiar(奇特的) to himself; and the peculiarity means only that he finds it more easy
to work in that way.
Now the very same thing is true to literature(文学). And the question, "How shall I begin?" only means that you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. That is, you are not yet experienced(有经验的) enough to trust to your own powers. When you become more experienced you will
never ask the question, and I think that you will often begin at the tail --that is to say, you will write the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning.
1. A friend of the writer’s drew the horses ____.
A. very well
B. in the way of western rule
C. in the way of his own rule
D. all of the above
2. The writer was surprised because ____.
A. the artist began to draw at the head of the horse
B. the artist began to draw at the tail of the horse
C. the artist made his own rule
D. the artist did not follow other people’s rule
3. You are not yet experienced because ____.
A. you don’t know where to begin
B. you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail
C. you always asked question
D. you do not trust to your own powers
4. When you become more experienced you will ____.
A. never ask question
B. often begin at the tail
C. should write the end of the story
D. should think of the beginning
5. The topic of the passage is ______.
A. How to draw a horse
B. How to write a story
C. How to make your own rules
D. Trust to your own powers
Key: CDDCD
A traveller（旅行者） came out of the airport（飞机场） There were a lot of taxis. He asked every taxi－driver his name. Then he took the third one. It cost 5 dollars（美元） from the airport to the hotel. “How much does it cost for the whole day?” the man asked. “100 dollars, ” said the taxi-driver. This was very dear, but the man said it was OK.
The taxi-driver took the man everywhere. He showed him all the parks and museums in the city. In the evening they went back to the hotel（旅馆）. The traveller gave the taxi-driver 100 dollars and said, “What about tomorrow? ”The taxi-driver looked at the man and said, “Tomorrow? It's another 100 dollars. ” But the man said, “That's OK! See you tomorrow. ” The taxi-driver was very pleased.
The next day the taxi-driver took the traveller everywhere again. They visited（参观）all the parks and museums again. And in the evening they went back to the hotel. The man gave the taxi-driver 100 dollars again and said, “I'm going home tomorrow. ”The taxi-driver was sorry because he liked the traveller and, above all, 100 dollars a day was a lot of money. “So you're going home. Where do you come from?” he asked. “I come from New York.” “New York! ” said the taxi-driver, “I have a sister in New York. Her name is Susannah. Do you know her?” “Of course I know her. She gave me 200 dollars for you! ”
1．Where did the traveller come from?
A．England B．America C．Canada D．France
2．Why did the traveller take the third taxi? Because ____.
A．the other taxi-driver asked for more money
B．the third taxi-driver was a kind-hearted（热心肠的） man
C．he didn't want to spend his own money on the coming visit
D．the other driver didn't like him
3．Usually the cost of the travelling one day may be ____.
A．＄ 100 B．＄ 200
C．less than＄ 100 D．more than ＄ 200
4．Who asked the traveller to give the money for the taxi-driver?
A．The traveller's sister. B．The traveller himself.
C．Nobody. D．The driver's sister.
5．The driver was unhappy ____ .
A．when he heard the traveller's last words
B．when the traveller asked every taxi-driver his name
C．when the traveller asked him for his sister's name
D．during the two-day visit
Key: BCCDA
Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their everyday life. For example, they can help people save much time, and they can help people work out many problems they can’t do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers, except the old people.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve their studies in school. Yet many of the children use computers to play games, to watch video or to sing Karaoke, instead of studying. So many teachers and parents complain that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind, so computers are locked by parents in the boxes.
In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lost their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble.
Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by people themselves!
1. Computer is a useful machine because _______.
A. our country asks everyone to learn it well B. it can help us a lot
C. we can use it to play games D. it can help us work out difficult problems
2. Many teachers and parents complain that _______.
A. their students and children us computers to play games
B. computers let them lose their jobs
C. computers make the students and children not study better than before
D. computers bring people a lot of trouble
3. In this passage, we know computers ________.
A. also bring us trouble B. bring us happiness only
C. are hated by people D. are bad for people’s health
4. Can computers really help children to study? ________.
A. Yes, they can B. It’s hard to say C. No, they can’t D. Of course not
5. How do you understand the under-lined sentence of this passage? I think it means _______.
A. computers are used by people B. people can live well without computers
C. one must decide how to use computers D. computers are strange machines
Key: BAABC
The first Monday in September is Labor Day in the United States. It marks the unofficial end of summer and a traditional signal that school is about to start.
But now public schools often begin sometime during August. They have different reasons for starting early.
The Tucson Unified School District in Arizona began classes on August eleventh. Communications Director Chyrl Hill Lander says the earlier start time makes it possible for students to take semester（学期） exams before winter vacation in December. She says the school district also wants to follow a calendar similar to that of the nearby University of Arizona.
Many schools in Virginia still open the day after Labor Day. But the public schools in Montgomery County, in the southwestern part of Virginia, began classes on August twentieth. Human Resources Director Mark Pashier says his county has been opening schools in August for at least the past eight years.
The main reason, he says, is the tests that schoolchildren in Virginia take every spring. School officials want the students to have the most time to prepare for them -- which means starting the year before Labor Day.
6.When is the American Labor Day?
资料：the first Monday in September
7. Which day shows that a new school semester will begin in America?
资料：The first Monday in September
8. Which of the following statements is the reason why the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona began classes in August?
资料：The earlier start time enables students to take semester exams before winter vacation.
9. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
资料：American public schools will start after the American Labor Day.
10. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
资料：Labor Day and American Public schools
If you ask most Americans, they would say their favorite season of the year is summer. The weather is warm. They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm. Young people do not have to go to school. They can do many activities outside, like playing sports and swimming at the beach or the pool. They like the sunshine during the day and the warm summer nights. People have written and recorded hundreds of songs about summer. These are some of our favorites.
One of the most famous songs about summer is from George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess." He wrote the music in nineteen thirty-five. The opera takes place in the southern United States. It opens with these words: "Summertime and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high." Leontyne Price sings the song.
The nineteen fifties and sixties produced many songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school. The songs are about having fun, swimming in the ocean, driving in cars. However, for some teenagers, summer vacation was not all fun and games. Some of them had to work to earn money.
11. Why do most Americans like summer?
资料：Both A and C.
12. Why did people write and record so many songs about summer?
资料：They like summer.
13. What is NOT true about "Porgy and Bess"?
资料：Porgy and Bess was written by Leontyne Price.
14. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
资料：Many songs are about teenagers having fun in summer.
15. Please choose an appropriate title for the passage.
资料：Songs about Summer
Jean is a bright young woman who comes from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy. Well, almost everything. The problem is that the people in Jean’s family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her. In fact, Jean is quite lonely.
So Jean spends a lot of time on her QQ. She likes being anonymous(匿名), talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often.
Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common(共同的) interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself: He was a tall, good-looking young man with a big, happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.
When Jean’s father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite rock singer. But when she knocked on David’s door in San Francisco, she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim!
1. Jean spends a lot of her time on QQ because she is _______.
A. rich B. famous
C. young D. lonely
2. Jean thought “David” was special because he _______.
A. made her quite happy on QQ B. was from San Francisco
C. sent her a picture of himself D. was tall and good-looking
3. When Jean and “David” met and introduced themselves to each other, who felt surprised?
A. “David”. B. Both “David” and Jean.
C. Jean. D. Neither “David” nor Jean.
4．Which of the following is true?
A. Jean has got everything in her life. B. Both ”David” and Jean enjoy rock music
C. “David” didn’t tell Jean his real address D. Jean’s family members often get together
5. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Don’t believe those you get to know on QQ so easily.
B. People don’t use their real names on QQ so often.
C. Don’t go to meet those you get to know on QQ.
D. People should tell their real names to others on QQ.
Key: DABBA
A friend’s grandfather came to America from Britain. He went into a cafeteria（自助餐厅）in lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order. Of course nobody did. At last, a woman with a plate full of food sat down in front of him and told him how a cafeteria worked. “Start out at the end,” she said, “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”
“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told a friend. “Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you like to pay the money. You can even get success, but you’ll never get if you wait for someone to bring to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”
1.The old man was .
A．English B．American C．Germany D．Canadian
2.“Take his order” here means .
A．have some food booked B．put everything in order
C．eat something D．take his turn
3.Which of the following sentence is true?
A．There was nobody eating in the cafeteria.
B．The woman was a friend of that man.
C．The waiters didn’t like to serve him because he was old.
D．The woman hadn’t been to a cafeteria for the first time.
4.From this story, we know if you want to get success in America, you should .
A．take your order B．know how a cafeteria works
C．get up again if you fail D．try to get everything by yourself
5.The best title of the story is .
A．From Britain to America B．Life is Like a Cafeteria in America
C．How a Cafeteria Worked D．Eating in an American Cafeteria
Key: AADDB
Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, they can help people to save much time to do much work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can't do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers before the twenty-first century, except the old people.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve their studies in school. Yet, many of their children use computers to play games, to watch videos or to sing so that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked in boxes by parents.
In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble. Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness?
It will be decided by today's students themselves!
( )1．Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because ______.
A．our country asks us to learn it B．it can help us a lot
C．we can use it to play games D．it can help us to find jobs
( )2．What do many teachers and parents complain about? They complain that ______ .
A．their students and children use computers to play games
B．computers let them lose their jobs
C．computers make their students and children fall behind
D．computers bring people a lot of trouble
( )3．In this passage we know computers ______.
A．also bring us trouble B．bring us happiness only
C．are hated by people D．are bad for people's health
( )4．Can computers really help children to study?
A．Yes, they can. B．It's hard to say. C．No, they can't. D．Of course not.
( )5．How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? I think it means ______.
A．computers are used by people B．people can live well without computers
C．one must decide how to use computers D．computers are strange machines
A million tourists go to Barcelona every year. They want to see Antonio Gaude's church. This unusual church has a strange history. Gaude was born in Spain in 1852. He had to work and study at the same time. He often missed classes because he had to work, but one day he designed a very unusual show-case for an exhibition in Paris. People began to give him work. He designed houses, offices and gardens. They were all very unusual. He was soon rich and famous. Then a rich bookseller said, "Will you build a church for the poor people of Barcelona? I will pay. I will build schools and workshops, too. They will help the people." "I will do it," said Gaudi. He worked for forty years, but he could not finish the church. It was too big. He needed $10,000,000. He gave all his money to the church. He was poor again when he died in 1926, and only the front of the church was finished. But architects, engineers and tourists from all over the world come to see it. It is very strange, very modern and very revolutionary.
(1)、Which of the following titles best fits the passage?
A：Barcelona--- a Famous City
B：A Strange History of An Unusual Church
C：A Poor Architect's Unusual Works
D：Antonio Gaudi's Life
(2)、Which of the following is NOT true?
A：Gaudi was a Spanish architect
B：Gaudi devoted most of his life to the building of the church
C：People all over the world admire the architect very much
D：many tourists go to see Gaudi's unfinished church
(3)、Gaudi sometimes missed classes because ______.
A：he didn't like it
B：he had to work at the same time
C：they were too difficult
D：he had to build a church
(4)、The church is unusual because ______.
A：it's unfinished
B：it's strange
C：it's modern
D：all of the above
(5)、According to the passage, Gaude ______.
A：suffered a lot in his life
B：was full of sympathy to the poor
C：always created unusual works
D：both B and C
Key: CBBDD
It has been reported that in colleges across the United States , the daytime serial drama known as the soap opera has suddenly become “in”. Between the hours of 11a.m. and 4:30p.m. ,college television lounges are filled with soap opera fans who can’t wait to see the next episode in the lives of their favorite characters.
Actually , soaps are more than a college favorite ; they are a youth favorite.When school is out , high-school students are in front of their TV sets. One young working woman admitted that she turned down a higher paying job rather than give up watching her favorite serials.During the 1960’s , it was uncommon for young people to watch soap operas. The moon of the sixties was very different from now. It was a time of seriousness, and talk was about social issues of great importance.
Now , seriousness has been replaced by fun. Young people want to be happy. It may seem strange that they should turn to soap opera , which is known for showing trouble in people’lives. But soap opera is enjoyment. Young people can identify with the soap opera character , who like college-age viewer , is looking for happy love , and probably not finding it. And soap opera gives young people a chance to feel close to people without having to bear any responsibility for their problems.
16.What is soap opera?
A. Plays based on science fiction stories. B. Plays based on non-fiction stories.
C. The daytime serial dramas on TV. D. Popular documentary films on TV.
17.What can be the best titles of the passage?
A. College student viewers B. Favorite TV serials C. Soap opera fans D. College-age viewers
18.Which are not the reason why the soap opera suddenly becomes “in” according to the passage?
A. Because the viewers want to be happy and to enjoy themselves.
B. Because the soap opera makes young people feel close to their people.
C. Because the viewers can find themselves in the soap opera characters.
D. Because the young people have to bear the responsibilities for their troubles.
19.What can we learn from the passage?
A. College students like soap operas more than any other social groups.
B. Young people of sixties liked soap operas more than people today.
C. Young viewers have turned themselves from the seriousness of sixties to enjoyment now.
D. The young as a whole are trying to look for happy love bur in vain.
20.What message does the author want to convey to us?
A. The people’s favorites to drama works have been changed for a long time.
B. The people’s favorites to drama works change along with the times.
C. The people’s favorites to drama works is changed by the soap opera.
D. The people’s favorites have changed the drama works.
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