15.Thewriterwantedtotell；D.weshouldrememberMarits；Passage36:；Inrecentyears,progressin；Otherssaythatlifeunderan；Sotheargumentgoesonandon；6.Thebesttitleofthispass；7.Peoplecannowlivel
15. The writer wanted to tell us that ＿＿. （D） D. we should remember Marits when talking about Einstein‘s theory.
Passage 36:
In recent years, progress in medical technology has made it possible for people to live longer than in the past. New medicines and machines are being developed every day to extend life. However, some people, including some doctors, do not support these life-extending ways, and they say that people should have the right to die when they want. They say that the quality of life is as important as life itself, and that people should not be forced to go on living when conditions of life have become very bad. They say that people should be allowed to die with respect and to decide when they want to die.
Others say that life under any conditions is better than death. They also say that the duty of doctors is always to extend life as long as possible. So the argument goes on and on without any clear answer.
6. The best title of this passage is ＿＿.（B） B. Life and Death 7. People can now live longer than in the past. It is because of ＿＿.（A） A. the progress of medical technology.
8. According to the writer‘s idea, ＿＿.（D） D. none of the above. 9. The expression D life-extending ways‖ in this passage means＿＿.（C） C. ways to make people live longer. 10. Which of the following is true according to the passage? （A） A. The argument hadn‘t ended yet.
Passage 37:
Many years ago there lived a very rich man who wanted to do something for people of this town. But first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help. In the center of the main road into the town he placed a very large stone. Then he hid behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.
D Who put his stone in the center of the road?‖ said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued his way. Another man came along an then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone in the center of the road but none of them tried to remove it. Later in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone and said, DThe night will b e very dark. Some neighbor will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.‖ The young man then began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his strength to remove it . How great was his surprise at last when, under the stone, he found a bag of money and a piece of paper with these words: DThis money is for the first honest man who removes this stone from the road.‖ 11. What did the rich man want to find out?（C） C. If the people of the town were worthy of his help.
12. What did he put in the centre of the road? （A） A. A very large stone
13. Which of the following statements is true? （C） C. Most people did nothing but complaining. 14. What did the young man find under the stone?（D） D. Both A and B 15. A very rich man wanted to do something for ＿＿. （D） D. the people of the town.
Passage 38:
The moon looks near, but it is very far away. It is 380,000 kilometers away from our earth. Man now can go to the moon in a spaceship. It takes more than three days to get to the moon. A spaceship flies at about eleven kilometers a second. In 1969 two Americans got to the moon in a spaceship. They got out the spaceship and walked for a few minutes. It is too hot in the day and too cold at night. And there is no air or water on the moon. We all know living things need water and air. Everything on the moon is much lighter than on the earth. Walking on the moon is just like jumping and flying. A person can jump much higher on the moon than on the earth.
6. It is ＿＿ from us to the moon.（B） B. very far
7. It takes ＿＿ to reach the moon by spaceship.（A） A. over three days
8. There is ＿＿ life on the moon.（D） D. no 9. It is ＿＿ on the moon. （B）
B. very hot during the day 10. Everything on the earth is much ＿＿ than on the moon. （D） D. lighter
Passage 39:
Now, you‘ll be coming here to brush up your English, so you‘ll want to make as much conversation as possible. Whatever you do , don‘t stay in a place full of overseas students, especially if they come from our country. This if fatal. Don‘t believe all the stories you hear about how unfriendly the English are. It‘s just that many of them are a little shy, and they have this idea about minding their own business. In a train, or restaurant, for example, or anywhere also t but you must break the ice first. Then see them talk! Any subject will do---the weather, their dogs, food, pardon me, not any subject. Don‘t be nosy(爱打听的) about their private life, their incomes and expenditures , or their ages . These English worship (尊重) their privacy. Avoid religion too. The best place to talk is in pubs, but as you are a girl, go with someone else, and don‘t go to the pubs in Piccadilly, Leicester Square and so on. Find one near where you are living and go there regularly. Someone‘s bound to talk to you. Oh! Make sure to let them see you are a foreigner. Pretend to have difficulty in ordering , or something. That should be easy enough. 11. The writer suggests that they had better not stay in a place where there are ＿＿.（D） D. a lot of overseas students 11 12. According to the passage, we should believe ＿ .（C） C. the English mostly friendly
13. We can talk about anything with English except . （C） C. their incomes
14.According to the passage, which of the following facts is TRUE? （B） B. We can talk about something with the English in a train. 15. The best place to talk to the English is ＿＿.（C） C. in a pub
Passage 40:
All big cities are quite similar. Living in a modern Asian city is not very different from living in an American city. However, the same cannot be said about living on farms.
In many parts of the world, farmers and their families live in villages or towns. In the United States , each family lives on its own fields. Instead of traveling to the fields every morning , American farmers stay on their land throughout the week. They travel to the nearest town on Saturday for shopping or on Sunday for church. The children ride on buses to large schools for all the farm families living in the area. In some areas, there are small schools for a few families and the children.
Of course, life keeps changing for everyone including farmers. Today there are cars, goods and televisions . And of course there are modern machines for farming, All of these have changed farm life. For many years, farming in America was often a lonely living. Farmers had to deal with their own problems, instead of getting help from others. They now have learned to try new methods , and trust their own ideas instead of following old days.
6. All big cities‘ life is ＿＿. （A） A. nearly the same
7. American farmers stay on their land ＿＿. （A） A. all the time
8. Which of the following is NOT true?（B） B. The farmers have to go to church besides on Sundays. 9. In the last sentence of the passage, the word Dmeans‖ ＿＿. （A） A. ways
10. What would be the best title for this passage?（D） D. Farm Life in the United States
Passage 41:
One day a bookseller(书商) let a big box of books fall on his foot. DGo to see the doctor,‖ said his wife. DNo,‖ he said. DI‘ll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. Then I‘ll ask him about my foot. If I go to see him, I‘ll have to pay him.‖
On the next day the doctor came into the shop for some books. When the bookseller was getting them ready, he told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it.
DYou must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put something on it,‖ said the doctor. He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it. DBuy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed every night,‖ he said. DThank you,‖ said the bookseller. DAnd now, sir, here are your books.‖
DHow much?‖ said the doctor.
DTwo pounds‖, DGood,‖ said the doctor. DI shall not have to pay you anything.‖ DWhy?‖ asked the bookseller. DI told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them to pay me one pound for a small thing like that. But when I go to their house, I want two pounds. And I came here, didn‘t I?‖
11.What happened to the bookseller one day?（B） B. His foot was wounded by a box of books 12. The bookseller‘s wife asked him ＿＿.（C） C. to go to see the doctor 13.The bookseller didn‘t take his wife‘s advice because＿＿.（D） D. he didn‘t want to pay the doctor C. nothing
15. The bookseller paid ＿＿ money for seeing the doctor in the end.（A） A. more
Passage 42: We were sorry that we had to ask the young man to leave the job. It was not that he was unpopular with the other people in the office. Everyone liked him. Nor was it that he was incapable. He had plenty of abilities . The problem was that so much of his work was unsatisfactory, it wasn‘t good enough . Sometimes he would leave a job unfinished , and never come back to complete it. Other times his writing would be so illegible that you couldn‘t read it. Or he might disappear from the office for an hour or so with no explanation of where he had been. Once or twice he sat unoccupied (不做事) for a while, doing nothing at all, until someone noticed him and gave him some work . I supposed he felt that we had mistreated him that we had not been fair to him. But I didn‘t think we had misjudged him. We didn‘t make up our minds until we had given him every chance to show what he could do. However, I confessed that it made me uncomfortable to tell him that he had lost his job. A person sent replace him the next week.
6. From the passage, the young man was asked to leave the job because____.（C） A. he was unpopular
C. he was irresponsible(不负责的)
7. In the passage Dillegible‖ (in Line5) refers to ____.（A） A. difficult or impossible to read 8. We learn from the passage that the author did the following Except ____.（A） A. misjudging the young man 9. The author felt ____ to tell the young man he had lost the job.（D） D. uncomfortable 10. ____ will take the young man‘s place next week.（B） B. a person recommended by an employment agency
Passage 43:
More than 6000 children were expelled(开除) from US schools last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May8. 12
The department gave a report to the expulsions (开除) as saying hand guns accounted for 58 percent of the 6093 expulsions in , against 7 percent for rifles or shotguns and 35 percent fro other types of firearms. DThe report is a clear sign that our nation‘s public schools are cracking down on students (who bring guns to school,‖ Education Secretary Richard Riley said in a statement. D We need to be tough―minded about keeping guns out of our schools and do everything to keeping our children safe.‖ In March 1997 , an 11 years old boy and 13 years old boy using handguns and rifles shot dead four children and a teacher at a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In October, two were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a Mississippi school. Two months later, a 14 years old boy killed three high school students and wounded five in Dasucah, Kentucky. Most of the expulsions, 56 percents , were from high school, which have students from about age 13. 34 percent were from junior high schools and 9 percent were from elementary schools, the report said.
11. From the first paragraph, we can infer that in the US schools ____ .（C） C. safety is a problem 12. The report from the US Department of Education shows that ____.（D） D. guns are out of control in the US schools 13. The main idea of Paragraph 4 shows US ____.（A） A. some examples of shooting in US schools 14. How many students were shot dead in 1997 in US schools?（A） A. 10
15. From this passage we know that ____.（C） C. every American citizen can own guns
Passage 44: Most Americans believe that good education is quite necessary to democracy and social progress. Even during their colonial time the settlers attached great importance to setting up schools for their children, because these puritans were firm believers in education. They tried hard to establish enough schools for their children. The schools were not only to teach children how to read, write and calculate but also to train clergymen. The first college, Harvard, was set up in Massachusetts in 1636. Soon after, the colonial government passed a law requiring every town of more than 40 families to have a school and school master. By the mid-eighteenth century several well-known colleges were founded, including Columbia in New York and Princeton in New Jersey. They were used to train young people.
Education did not develop very fast in the South where big plantation owners did not want to build schools for the children of the poor workers and slaves. Children from rich families usually went to England for higher education. This was one the reasons why the South developed more slowly than the North.
Colonial schools laid the foundation for America educational system in which all the American schools were left to the care of communities or local authority.
Compulsory education has been carried out and primary and secondary education has been open to American children free of charge for many years. 6. Education in most Americans' eyes is _____.（A） A. quite necessary for social development and democracy 7.Which of the following was not a task of school?（D） D To send children to British universities. 8.The south America developed slowly because _____.（D） D education developed quite slowly in the south 9.American educational system was built _____.（A） A on the basis of colonial educational system 10.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? （A） A Princeton University was founded around 1750s.
Passage 45: Worldwide fame burst upon Albert Einstein on November 7, 1919, when British astronomers announced they had found the first confirmation of Einstein's general relativity theory. Einstein had already become known in scientific circles because of his two astonishing theories: the Special Theory of Relativity, published in 1905 when he was only twenty-six and a minor clerk in the Swiss patent office, and the General Theory of Relativity, advanced between 1913 and 1915. He was considered so brilliant by other scientists that in 1914 he was invited to join the prestigious Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and to become head of the research branch at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. He accepted the offer and moved to Berlin. 11.Why did Einstein become famous on November 7, 1919?（D） D Scientist had conclusive proof of the General Theory of Relativity. 12.Einstein's general relativity theory was first presented to the scientific community in_____. （C） C1915
13.The passage implies that before the Special Theory of Relativity was published, Einstein was_____.（C） C unknown in scientific circles 14.According to the passage, Albert Einstein was NOT_____.（B） B famous at the age of 25 15.How does the author seem to feel about Albert Einstein?（C） C Impressed.
Passage 46:
Grandma was a wonderful story-teller, and she had a set of priceless, individually tailored stores with which American grandparents of her day brought up children. There was the story of the little boys who had been taught complete, quick obedience(服从). One day when they were out on the grassy plain, their father shouted, D Fall down on your faces!‖ They did, and the terrible grassland fire swept over them and they weren‘t hurt. There was also the story of three boys at school, each of whom received a cake sent from home. One saved his, one ate all of his , and he got sick, and who do you think had the best ?---why, of course, the one who shared his cake with his friends.
13 6. What‘s the main idea of this passage?（D） D. The grandma‘s stories helped teach the children morals and good manners.
Passage 47:
When Bill was very young, they had been in love. Many nights they had spent walking, talking together. Then something not very important had come between them, and they didn‘t speak . Inpulsively( 冲动之下), she had married a man she thought she loved. Bill went away , bitter about women. Yesterday, walking across Washington Square, she saw him for the first time in years.
DBill Valker,‖ she said. He stopped. At first he did not recognize her , to him she liked so old. D Mary!‖ Unconsciously, she lifted her face as though wanting a kiss, but he held out his hand. She took it, DI live in New York now‖, she said. D Oh‖―smiling politely . Then a little frown (皱眉) came quickly between his eyes. D Always wondered what happened to you, Bill.‖ DI‘m a lawyer. Nice firm, way downtown‖, DMarried yet?‖ D Sure. Two kids.‖ A great many people went past them through the park. It was late afternoon. Nearly sunset. Cold. D And your husband?‖ he asked her, D We have three children. I work in Columbia.‖
D You‘re looking very….‖( he wanted to say old) D…well,‖ he said.
She understood. She had been older than he in Ohio.
D We live on Central Park West.‖ She said. D Come and see us sometime.‖
DSure,‖ he replied, D You and your husband must have dinner with my family some night. Any night. Incille and I‘d love to have you.‖
The leaves fell slowly from the trees in the square. Fell without wind . She felt a little sick.
D We‘d love it,‖ she answered , D There‘s my bus,‖ she said. He held out his hand. DGood-bye.‖
DWhen …‖ she wanted to say , but the bus was ready to pull off. Suddenly she shrieked very loudly, D Good-bye!‖
11. Mary and Bill broke up because _____.（D） D. Nothing important.
Passage 48:
If you‘ve been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e-mail with net pals, you have become one of the millions who write in a special , short form of English.
Throughout the world, every night children and their elders are D talking‖ online---many of them are talking at the same time.
It‘s fast: trying talking to six people once. It‘s convenient: three or four woods per change . It takes cleverness, concentration and quick fingers.
And it requires very simple language. There‘s neither time no space for explanations. Why waste precious time telling six friends you have to leave for a moment to take care of your little brother when BRB(=be right back ) will do?
Want to enter a conversation? Just type PMFJI (= pardon me foe jumping in ).
Interested in whom you‘re talking to ? Type A/S/L, the common request to know your pal‘s age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a reply from your pal.
If something makes you laugh, say you‘re OTF(= on the floor), or LOL,(laughing out loud), or join the two into ROTFL (= rolling on the floor laughing ). And when it‘s time to get back to work or go to bed , you type GTG(=got to go ) or TTYL,(= talk to you later).
People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing feeling , as it takes more time to hold down the Dshift‖ key and use capitals. Punctuation is going too.
6.When people are online, they talk by -----.（D） D. making use of an especially short form of English. 7. The Internet makes many people in the world-----.（A） A. talking at the same time 8. The sentence D There‘s neither time nor space for explanations D means that ____.（C） C. people online have to express themselves in a simple way. 9. If you get 19/M/HK as an answer to your A/S/L, it means -____.（B） B. you are talking to a boy 19 years old and he lives in Hong Kong. 10. Which of the following is a way to save online time? A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.
Passage 49:
It is now commonly known that AIDS is a deadly disease . It does great damage to human being‘s immune system(免疫系统)， weakening resistance to disease and leading to death due to utter weakness. To this day , there are no existing drugs, that can kill the AIDS virus . It is a deadly battle between science and AIDS.
This is only one side of the story. Although it cannot be cured, AIDS is preventable . For those who have not caught the disease, the knowledge of preventive measures seems to be the most powerful weapon at hand.
Since the discovery of the first AIDS patient in 1985, the number of HIV carriers(艾滋病毒携带者) has been on an alarming rise in China and statistics show that young people are the more likely victims of AIDS. Nationwide there are 214 million people between ages of 13 and 22 , most of whom are students. If no measures are taken to protect these young people, it is almost certain that the threat of AIDS will be real to them. There has been a great deal of misinformation concerning the transmission of AIDS.
One of the most misleading myths (神话) is that AIDS can be transmitted by casual physical contact such as kissing , shaking hands or sharing food containers. Surveys and investigations conducted in some universities show that half of those people questioned are not clear about how AIDS is transmitted , not to mention how it is prevented.
11.. Why does the passage say that AIDS is a deadly disease?（C） C. Because we haven‘t found a sure cure for the disease yet. 12. By D This is only one side of the story D (Para 2.) the author suggests that ____ .（C） C. although we can‘t cure AIDS, we can manage to prevent 14 against it 13. According to the passage, what has happened in China since the first AIDS patient in 1985?（A） A. More and more people have become HIV carriers. 14. Surveys carried out in some universities show that ____.（D） D. many students have no idea how people become AIDS victims. 15. Which of the following may be the proper for the passage?（B） B. AIDS----A Deadly AIDS Passage 50:
Down the entrance hall of the school walk four eight-grade students. Each one is carrying a small basket with a single egg inside. Soon more students join them----each one of them is also carrying a basket with an egg. The eggs in a basket are part of a new school program that helps young people understand that having a baby is a great duty. At the beginning of the program, the teacher puts the students in pairs----one girl and one boy. Each pair gets an egg, which they must take care of for two weeks. For those fourteen days , the students have to take care of the eggs as though they were real babies. Students whose eggs get broken have to start the two weeks all over again with a new egg.
One person in each pair must have the egg with him or her at all times---twenty ---four hours a day. At no time can they let the egg be out of sight. DIf a teacher catches you without your egg, Dsaid one student, Dshe makes you go get it . They are really strict.‖ The teachers also make the students spend half an hour each day sitting with the egg and just watching it. That can get pretty boring. But it is also something that parents spend a lot of time doing. Children say that the program has helped them understand the duties involved in having a child. DIt also really hard,‖ said one student, DYou had to think all the time about the egg.‖
6. The purpose of the program is to help students grasp the idea of ________.（B） B. bringing up a baby 7. At the beginning ________.（B） B. four students in all were interested in the program 8. In the third line of paragraph 2,‖ they‖ refers to ________ （C） C. eggs 9. Why should the students in the program spend half an hour each day sitting with an egg and just watching it? （C） C. Because only in this way can students understand parents in taking care of children. 10. From the last paragraph , we can infer that________.（D） D. the program is of help to children‘s understanding of parents
Passage 51:
Technology today has stolen away our voices and robbed our children of memories. I‘ve been keeping count of how often people sing around the house these days. The fact is , they don‘t.
My earliest memories are of my mother crooning lullabies
as she rocked each infant in turn. She said she Ddidn‘t have a singing voice.‖ But her low, wavering alto will always mean comfort to me. Every time I have sat through the night with a feverish baby or held a preschooler through a nightmare, the melodies returned, words appearing and disappearing like fragments of a dream but held together by the hum of love. Today, young mothers are routinely presented with Lullaby tapes at the baby shower. When baby cries, the idea goes, they will be able to switch on the high-tech audio system and the little one will drift off----the voices of strangers in his ears, perfectly on pitch. If I had my way, new parents would learn the songs themselves, throw out their stereos, and give their child the gift of their own sleepy voices through the midnight hours. These days, when we go on a trip, my daughters take along tiny personal stereos and headphones. They are lost in their private worlds , and I can‘t help wishing that at least here, in the car my girls would be obliged to listen to their mother‘s voice raised in lost-words-again, sure-I‘m Cout Cof―tune songs that they might then pass down to another generation . Those sophisticated earphones have robbed them of something I think every kid should carry from childhood car trips into adulthood.
11.Which of the following can not describe mother‘s lullaby according to the writer?（D） D. It‘s less beautiful than recorded music 12. What do young mothers often do now?（A） A. They prefer lullaby tapes to comfort the baby 13. What does the sentence D the little one will drift off‖(para.3) mean?（C） C. The baby will slowly fall asleep 14. What‘s the writer‘s attitude towards lullaby tapes and high-tech audio system?（B） B. negative
15. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?（A） A. Children will have wonderful memories if their mothers sing lullaby to them instead of using tapes.
passage 52:
A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancée(未婚妻). The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present on her birthday. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he had no idea how to do it, as he had very little money. The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: gold watches, diamond … but all these things were too expensive. There was one thing he could not take his eyes off. It was a beautiful vase. That was a suitable present for his fiancée. He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him. The young man told him everything. The manager felt sorry for him and decided to help him. A bright idea struck him. The manager pointed to the center of the shop. To his great surprise the young man saw a vase broken into many 15 三亿文库包含各类专业文献、高等教育、幼儿教育、小学教育、生活休闲娱乐、专业论文、电大大学英语B阅读理解试题汇总(已整理)95等内容。　
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