本文介绍了美国邮政业的发展现状，是属于文化背景知识方面的选材．在高考试卷阅读理解题中有介绍美国飞机、地铁业发展现状的背景材料，这是极力提倡的选材，平时应多看这方面的原文材料，以扩展自己的知识水平．

　　Every town in the United Sates has a post office. Some are very small, and you may also find them in the corner of a shop. Others are large buildings. They are open five days a week and Saturday mornings. From Monday through Friday they are usually open from 8:30 to 4:30.

　　If you know how much the postage(邮资) is for your letter, you can buy stamps at any window. In some post offices you can buy stamps from machines. Stamps are sold at many different prices, from one cent(美分) to many dollars. 1f you are not sure how much postage is for your letter, you may ask the man or the woman in the post office for help. He or she will give you the stamps you need. If you are sending your letters far away, you should use airmail envelopes(航空信封). Remember that postage will be more expensive for a letter to be sent outside the country.

　　At a post office you can also buy postcards. A postcard is cheaper than a letter. Usually the price of postage for a postcard is about half that of a letter. The postcards that you buy at a post office do not have pictures. However, also they are not to be sent outside the country.

　　Letters are an easy and cheap way to keep in touch with people in many different countries.

1．The passage tells us that we can find ________ easily in the United States of America.

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2．The post offices in the United States are open ________.

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3．If you are not sure how much postage is for your letter, you can ________.

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A．go and buy stamps from the machine in the post office

B．send a cheap postcard instead of your letter

C．get in touch with somebody you know in the post office

D．ask the man or the woman in the post office for help

4．The price of postage for ________ is more expensive.

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A．a beautiful postcard

B．a letter written on envelope

C．a letter by airmail

D．a postcard with pictures

5．The passage tells us something about ________ in the USA.

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本文说明优秀读者与优秀司机根据路面情况不断变速一样，会根据不同读物和阅读时的不同要求，而调整自己的阅读速度．

　　A good reader is very much like a driver. He must change his reading speed(速度) to fit(适应) what he is reading and what he is reading for, just as a driver does to fit the road situation(状况).

　　A good reader may read at 1,000 WPM(每分钟……词) when he looks for something for a report in the library. But once he finds what he needs, he may slow down to 100 WPM. A good reader may read newspapers and story books at 600 WPM But he may read his science or maths books at 150 WPM Just as a driver has a wide change of driving speed, so a good reader has a wide change of reading speed.

1．The writer thinks that a good reader can ________.

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A．read at 1,000 WPM

B．read as fast as he can

C．spend more time reading

D．change the reading speed as he needs

2．________ decides the speed of reading.

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A．How many books he is reading

B．What he is reading for

C．Where he is reading

D．When he is reading

3．A good reader may read fastest ________.

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A．when he reads newspapers and story books

B．when he reads something most useful to him

C．when he is trying to work out a maths problem

D．when he is trying to find something for his report

4．The word “once” in the passage means ________.

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5．Which is the best title(题目) for this passage?

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A．The Importance Of Having Different Reading Speed

B．The Difference Between Driving And Reading

C．The Best Way Of Fast Reading

D．A Good Reader And His Reading Speed

　　Do you like to see many beautiful colours all around you? If you do, you should visit New England during the fall(秋季). The weather starts to get cold, and most of the leaves on the trees change colours. In the summer they are green, but in the fall they turn red, yellow, orange, and brown. Every fall New Englanders drive through the country and walk through the forests to see the beautiful colours against the bright blue sky. All the hotels, especially(特别) in New Hampshire and Vermont, are crowded with visitors. They have come to enjoy the colourful leaves.

　　It is interesting to find a narrow country road, it goes up into the mountains. There you can see many small animals running through the fallen leaves. The air smells fresh(新鲜的) and good, and there are still many flowers in bloom(开着). It makes you happy that you live in such a beautiful area(地区) where there are four different seasons.

1．In New England the leaves change colour in ________.

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2．People like to travel in new England in fall to see ________.

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A．all kinds of colours

B．the colourful leaves

C．all kinds of animals

D．the different seasons

3．In fall the weather gets cold and ________.

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A．all the leaves and flowers are fallen

B．some of the flowers are in bloom

C．all the animals go under the earth

D．the mountains are covered with snow

4．Which of the following is true?

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A．Many people go to New Hampshire and Vermont because there are many hotels there.

B．The leaves of the trees in new England change their colours all the time.

C．The leaves of the trees in New England turn colour because the weather is getting cold.

D．The visitors can find animals everywhere in New England.

5．Which is the best title(标题) of the passage?

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A．Fall Leaves

B．Beautiful New, England

C．Different Seasons

D．Beautiful Colours

电视购物是现代时尚的购物方式，起始于美国，风行于欧洲．人们可以通过电视购买衣物、装饰、食品、玩具等．这样的语篇都能大大提高学生：的阅读情趣．

　　For several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping－watching TV and buying things by phone. Now teleshopping is starting in Europe(欧洲). In a number of European countries, people can turn on their TVs and shop for clothes, jewelry, food, toys, and many other things.

　　Teleshopping is becoming popular in Sweden, for example. The biggest Swedish company sells different kinds of things on TV in 15 European countries, and in one year it made $ 100 million. In France there are two teleshopping channels, and the French spend about $ 20 million a year to buy things through those channels.

　　In Germany, until last year teleshopping was only possible on one channel for 1 hour every day. Then the government allowed(允许) more teleshopping. Other channels can open for telebusiness, including(包括) the largest American teleshopping company and a 24-hour teleshopping company. German businesses are hoping this new teleshopping will help them sell more things.

　　Some people like teleshopping because it allows them to do their shopping without leaving their homes. With all the problems of traffic in the cities, this is an important reason. But at the same time, other Europeans do not like this new way of shopping. They call teleshopping “junk(垃圾) on the air”. Many Europeans usually worry about the quality(质量) of the things for sale on TV. Good quality is important to them, and they believe they cannot be sure about the quality of the things on TV.

　　The need for high quality means that European teleshopping companies will have to be different from the American companies. They will have to be more careful about the quality of the things they sell. They will also have to work harder to sell things that the buyers cannot touch or see in person.

1．Teleshopping is ________ in Europe.

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2．People like teleshopping because it is ________.

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3．Some Europeans don't like teleshopping because they ________.

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A．don't like to buy things

B．don't watch TV

C．believe the things sold on TV are expensive

D．think the things sold on TV are bad quality

4．In Germany, teleshopping may ________.

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A．help businessmen get more money

B．keep the shops open longer

C．have fewer buyers

D．bring better TV programmes

5．The best title of this passage is ________.

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A．American Teleshopping

B．Teleshopping Companies

C．Teleshopping in Europe

D．Teleshopping-Junk on the Air

废物利用，加强环保意识，是当今提倡社会公德、文明礼貌建设的又一热门话题，该篇短文围绕这一中心内容加以介绍并设题．

　　“Did you know”, Randy's teacher asked, “that many of the things we throw away can be used again? Using old papers, cans, and bottles to make new things is called recycling.”

　　The class decided to set up their own recycling centre. They made some big boxes, painted(油漆) them and set them out near the school. Red boxes were for bottles and blue ones were for cans. Others were for newspapers students and their families put garbage(垃圾) in the boxes. When the boxes were full, trucks came and took the garbage to factories. There, it was used to make new bottles, cans and newspapers. The factories even paid the class for the garbage.

1．The writer mainly(主要地) tells us that ________.

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A．old things should be kept well

B．red boxes are for bottles and blue ones are for cans

C．many old things can be used to make new things

D．garbage boxes should be set out near the school

2．The underlined word “recycling” means ________.

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3．Which of the following is true?

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A．The class made some colour boxes for different kinds of garbage.

B．The students took the garbage to factories themselves.

C．They found doing this job was more interesting than having classes.

D．Everyone was paid for this job.

4．In which order did the following happen?

a．Painting the boxes.

b．Setting up a class recycling centre.

c．Setting the boxes out near the school.

d．Making some big boxes.

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5．From this passage we know ________.

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A．how the teacher taught the class

B．how the students painted the boxes

C．how the class did this job

D．how the factories did with the garbage

背景文化知识，介绍在美国如何购物、生活．

　　A friend's grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe(东欧). After being processed(移民入境检查) at Ellis Island, 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(点菜). Of course nobody did. At last, a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.

　　“Start out at that 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 are willing(愿意) to pay the money. You can even get success(成功), but you'll never get it if you wait for someone to bring to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”

1．Which is the best title(标题) for the text?

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A．From Eastern Europe to America.

B．Life is Like a Cafeteria in America.

C．How to Eat in a cafeteria.

D．Eating in an American Cafeteria.

2．Maybe the old man came from ________.

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3．From the text, we know if you want to get success in America, you should ________.

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A．get help from your friends

B．know how a cafeteria works

C．get up again if you fail

D．try to get it by yourself

本文介绍了两种不同对待儿童应用计算机的观点，前者认为弊多，后者认为利多．究竟哪种观点对，请阅读下文．

　　We are already familiar with computers-computers work for us at home, in offices and in factories. But it is also true that children today are using computers at school before they can write. What does this mean for the future? Are these children lucky or not?

　　Many people who do not know about computers think of them as machines that children play with. They worry that children do not learn from experience but just from pressing a button and that this is not good for them. They think children are growing up not knowing about the real world.

　　But people who understand more about computers see that computers can be very good for children. A computer can help them to learn about the real world more quickly, to learn what they want to learn and to think for themselves. And for the future, don't we need people who can think clearly, who know how to get information quickly and use it well?

　　(experience经验information信息)

1．This passage gives two different opinions(观点) about children using computers and the writer seems to agree with ________.

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2．People who hold the first opinion think computers ________.

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A．can do a lot of things for us

B．are a kind of toys for children

C．can help children learn to read and write

D．can help children learn about the real world

3．“Be familiar with” in this passage means ________.

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　　阅读理解：阅读下面短文并根据其内容选择最佳答案。

　　A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettiffer in Britain when he was working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.

　　The meteorite weighed one kilo, and might be over four thousand million years old.

　　“I heard the big noise in the air. I looked up and I saw the tops of the trees coming and going,” he said. “I didn't know what it was.”

　　Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth every year, but only very few are found. Mr Pettiffer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War.

　　Mr Pettiffer is glad. “When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange.”

1．The meteorite was ________ Mr Pettiffer when it fell down.

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A．close to

B．far from

C．hitting

D．coming to

2．The meteorite was already ________ years old.

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A．40,000,000,000

B．40,000,000

C．400,000,000

D．4,000,000,000

3．Mr Pettiffer found the tops of the trees coming and going because ________ .

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A．the trees were afraid

B．the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving

C．it was going to rain

D．the moving was made by wind

4．________ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth often eachyear.

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A．Quite a few

B．Some

C．Few

D．Many

5．Mr Pettiffer was ________ to see the falling of the meteorite.

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A．happy

B．afraid

C．sorry

D．angry

阅读理解

　　阅读下面短文并从文后每题所给选项A、B、C、D中选出合乎原文意思的选项，将其序号填入前面括号：

　　* Comfortable family home with a large garden on north side of town . * Three bedrooms, living room, kitchen, bathroom .

　　* Offer over $ 35,000.

　　The Browns are looking for a new house. Mr. Brown wants to live on the north side of the town near his work . Mrs . Brown wants a house with four bedrooms . Their children don't care what the house is like as long as (只要) the garden is big enough.

Why didn't the Browns buy the house in the advertisement?

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A．It was on the north side of the town .

B．There were not enough bedrooms .

C．There was no dining-room .

D．The garden was not big enough.

阅读理解

　　Smith is one of my friends. He can run very fast. He is proud of this and he is always ready to show people how fast he can run.

　　One day a thief broke into his house, took some of his things and ran out of the house as fast as he could. Smith ran after him, shouting, “Hey! stop! Don't you know you can't get away from me?”

　　But the thief only ran faster. Smith got angry. He tried his best to run. He was soon several miles away from his home. He was still rushing along when he knocked into me. “Why are you in such a hurry?” I asked. “I'm trying to catch a thief, ” said Smith. “But where is the thief ? ” I asked. “Miles and miles behind, ” said Smith with a smile. “He thought he could run faster than I, but you see he's wrong. ”

1．Smith is always proud of ________.

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2．What happened to Smith one day?

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A．A thief stole some of his things.

B．His friend broke into his house.

C．A thief broke into his friend's house.

D．He stole some things of his friends.

3．Smith got angry because ________.

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4．Did Smith catch the thief at last?

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5．Who do you think is foolish?

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