阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从1—10各题所给的A、B、C和D项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Mr Smith was a wealthy industrialist, but he was not satisfied with life. He did not sleep well and his food did not  1   with him. The situation lasted for some time. Finally, after a   2   of sleepless nights, he decided to consult his doctor. The doctor advised a change of  3  . “Go abroad,” he said, “But I’m not good at foreign languages,” said Mr Smith. “It doesn’t matter,” said the doctor. “It won’t   4   you to talk a little less. Go on a voyage. Take plenty of exercise. Try to reduce your weight,  5   rich food.”

       Mr Smith went to Switzerland. He did not know French or German, and had to communicate through gestures. He attended a physical training course. The instructor made him bend his knees, swing his arms, stretch his neck and shake his head rapidly. He had to lie on the ground and raise his right and left legs   6   . After a time his muscles grew hard and firm. The life suited him; he almost put aside his financial  7   and nearly forgot the importance of making more money. He even began to  8   individual trees and individual birds. He ate and slept well. Finally he returned home. But unfortunately his improvement was temporary. Soon he was a   9   businessman again, worried about his property, his profits, his savings, his success in a  10   society, and things in general.

A. agree          B. taste                     C. suit                      D. fit

A. series          B. course                  C. number                 D. few

A. situations   B. surroundings         C. weather                D. life

A. stop            B. hurt                      C. help                     D. prevent

A. eat              B. prepare                 C. avoid                    D. try

A. highly         B. widely                  C. alternately             D. regularly

A. hardship      B. debts                    C. worries                 D. success

A. see             B. notice                   C. glance                  D. consider

A. rich            B. happy                   C. normal                 D. successful

A. struggle     B. business                C. miserable              D. competitive

It’s said that there are plenty of hotels in that town. There ______ be any difficulty for you to find somewhere to stay.  

 A. wouldn’t            B. mustn’t        C. shouldn’t       D. needn’t

______fashions differ from country to country may reflect the culture difference from one aspect. 

A. What     B. That     C. This    D. Which

On September 22, 1986, Jay Brunkella, a police-officer in the Rogers Park district in Chicago, was shot during a drug arrest and died. Shortly af terwards, fellow officer Ken Knapcik, a 20-year veteran (老警官) of the force, returned home after work to find a note from his 15-year-old daughter on the dining table.

Dad-This poem came directly from my heart. I love you so much! It scares and amazes me that you go out every day and risk everything to provide us with all that we have. I wrote this to express how much I love you and how much lost I’d be without you-Laura. P.S.: Hey, let’s be careful out there.

Titled “The Ultimate Cop”, Laura’s poem was dedicated “To all the cops in the world who have daughters who love them with all their hearts. And especially to my dad.” It was about a police-officer’s daughter who sees on the night time news that her father has been shot. Part of poem: “Daddy, my Daddy, can you hear me cry? Oh, God, I need my Daddy, please don’t let him die.”

Ken Knapcik stood alone as he read the poem. “It took me several minutes,”he said.“I’d get through part of it and have to stop before I could go on. I was weeping. She had never told me she was scared.” He took the poem to work the next day and showed it to his fellow officers. “I’ve never seen so many grown men cry. Some couldn’t finish it.”

Knapcik keeps Laura’s poem in the pocket of his police jacket. He takes it with him every time he leaves the house for a new shift. “I don’t want to be out there without it.” he said, “I’ll probably carry it with me forever.”

1.Laura wrote the poem ______.

A.in memory of her father who was shot in the drug arrest

B.to show her great sorrow in losing her father

C.to show her respect to all the cops who lost their lives

D.to tell officer Ken Knapcik how much she loved him

2.All the officers cried because ______

A.Jay Brunkella was shot and died

B.they were greatly touched by the poem

C.the poem was so sad that they couldn’t hold back their tears

D.they thought of their dangerous life

3.Knapcik keeps Laura’s poem in his pocket ______.

A.to treasure her daughter’s love and to value his own life   B.to keep it from missing

C.because he can’t go out without it     D.to mourn over the death of officer Jay Brunkella

4.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A.Poem for a cop                              B.An offier’s death

C.Daughter’s love                             D.Love my job, love my daughter

Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal ad??visors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive (主管的) circle, beauty can become a liability.

While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his. way up the executive ladder, it is harm??ful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.

All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the attractive overnight succes??ses was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the unattractive over??night successes.

Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman considered to be more feminine has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally man??ly position appears to lack the " manly" qualities required.

This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractive??ness on political candidates (候选人). She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.

The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.

5. The underlined word "liability" most probably means ______.

A. disadvantage          B. advantage           C. misfortune         D. trouble

6. Bowman’s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness ______.

A. turns out to be a disadvantage to men

B. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women

C. has as little effect on men as on women

D. affects men and women alike

7. It can be inferred from the passage that people’s views on beauty are often ______.

A. practical            B. supportive          C. old-fashioned         D. one-sided

8. The author writes this passage to______.

A. give advice to job-seekers who are attractive

B. discuss the disadvantages of being attractive

C. demand equal rights for women

D. state the importance of appearance

Thousands of years ago people guessed the time of day by watching the sun.

Later，they found it was easier to tell the exact time by looking at the shadows.Thus， the sundial(日晷) was invented.

The sundial proved a useful timepiece  in sunny weather. However，another typc of  timepiece was necessary  for cloudy weather and nigh time.A sand glass was another  common measurer of time.Two glass bottles were connected by a very  small opening.  The top bottle was filled with sand，which dropped slowly into the botton one in a  certain period of time.Hour glasses were widely used then.Three—minute sand glasses  are still used in many homes to time the boiling of eggs.

The real ancestor of modern clocks was the water clock.In China ,an early  water clock was made up of several bowls. Water trickled(滴) from one bowl to another to keep the clock  going. Visitors to the  Beijing Palace Museum can still see the old  water clocks showing the time there.

In the Middle Ages a wateless clock was invented which  worked by means of  weights. To keep  the  weight  falling  at  the  same  speed，a  system  of wheels  was  invented. The pendulum(钟摆) was  soon  developed  to control  the  speed of the  wheels. Thus the modern form of clock came into being.

9.Which of the following is the correct picturr of a sand glass?

            A.                       B.                       C.                     D.

10.Three minute sand glasses are still used in many homes         .

A.to boil eggs                           B.to measure the time of boiling eggs

C.to hold the boiled eggs                 D.to have eggs boiled

11.If you visit Beijing Palace Museum, you         .

A.will see the old water clocks broken

B.will find the time shown by the old water clocks is wrong

C.can find the old water clocks still telling the time there

D.will find the old water clocks have gone

12.In the Middle Ages the weight falling speed of a clock was kept by .

A.several bowls                         B.a system of wheels

C.a system of pendulum                  D.several springs

______ private cars are bringing us convenience, they also cause more traffic accidents and pollution.

       A. While          B. As         C. If     D. Since

She ＿＿＿＿＿ to the office than she got down to writing the report.

A.has no sooner got     B.had hardly got  C.no sooner got     D.had no sooner got

The plane ＿＿＿＿＿ at 7：00 p.m., so I have to be at the airport by 6：40 at the latest.

A.has left          B.is to leave  C.will have left     D.leaves

She is neither good at Chinese, nor ＿＿＿＿＿ English.

A.is     B.was     C.e good at     D./