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　　Film stars may come and go, but Paul Newman' s Career(事业) is longlasting. Newman has worked in films for 40 years. His most recent one opened in December.

　　The film is called “Nobody's Fool”, Newman plays a 60 - year - old construction worker named Sully .

　　To some people. Sully seems to be a loser. But he has a lot of charm(魅力) . His life changes when his son comes to town. Late in life, Sully learns to grow up.

　　“I've played a lot of characters and the character I play in ` Nobody' s Fool' is closer to me than any other role I've done. ”says Newman.

　　Newman turned 70 years old on January 26, 1998.“Nobody' s Fool ”is his 52nd film. He has won two Oscars in his career.

　　Newman has found success in other aspects (方面) of life. He has been married 36 years. He took up car racing at the age of 47 and won prizes.

    Twelve years ago, he started a food company called Newman' s Own. He gives away all his money he has helping the poor.

1．The underlined sentence implies ________.

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A．many film stars leave the screen after they become successful

B．it is not easy for a film star to lose his or her charm.

C．not all film stars can remain famous for a long time .

D．film stays are successful not only on the screen.

2．Newman likes the character of Sully because

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A．he finds a lot in the character that is new to him.

B．he likes playing an ordinary person.

C．he has never played such a wonderful role.

D．he sees more of himself in Sully.

3．Newman was born in ________.

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A．1920s

B．1930s

C．1940s

D．1950s

4．The writer wrote this passage mainly to ________.

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A．prove that a person can be successful in many ways

B．show us a most recent film by Paul Newman

C．introduce a famous film star, Paul Newman

D．tell us about Sully, a moving character in a recent film

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　　The name “Television” comes from the Greek word “tele” meaning “far” and the Latin word “videre” meaning “to see” . Thus television means “seeing far” .

　　Television brings the world into our homes in sight and sound. Nowadays there are few families in big cities that don' t have TV sets. Experiments leading to modern television took place more than a hundred years ago . John Baird, a British inventor, found a way to send pictures by wireless. This happened in the year 1925 and it was the beginning of television. It took another thirty years for television to be an industry.

　　During these years, many important uses have been found. For example, television makes it easy for a whole class to see everything a teacher shows. Any number of students may look through a microscope at the same time when television does the “looking” for them. It can also be used to watch process ([pr+uses]过程) in places where it would not be safe for a human being to be present.

1．The name “television” comes from ________.

[　　]

A．the Greek word

B．Great Britain

C．the Latin word

D．Greek and Latin

2．Today ________families in big cities have TV sets.

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A．several

B．few

C．most

D．a few

3．John Baird didn't ________the first TV model until 1925．

[　　]

A．finish making

B．plan to make

C．try to make

D．begin making

4．Televison became an industry ________

[　　]

A．a hundred years ago.

B．in the year 1925.

C．around the year of 1955.

D．after another thirty years.

5．Now television plays an important part in ________

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A．science and education

B．education and many other fields

C．industry and education

D．experiments and education

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　　Annie Dakley Mozee was only nine when she took her father' s big kentucky rifle (步枪) into woods to hunt food. Her father was dead, and the family was poor and hungry.

　　When she found that she could shoot squirrels and rabbits by aiming the rifle carefully, a new life began for her. She began earning money by selling game to Mr Frost, who owned a hotel in a nearby town.

　　Then Annie began to try for a trick shot(高明的射手) ,everyone heard of her skill with a rifle .

　　When she was fifteen, Mr Frost set up a shooting match between her and a famous marksman (神枪手) . And finally, Annie won the match by one point. She was on her way to becoming a world -famous sharp shooter (一等射手) . She now called herself Annie Oakley .

1．Annie first used her rifle to ________.

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A．protect herself

B．shoot birds

C．make her living by hunting

D．be fond of shooting.

2．A new life began for Annie when she ________.

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A．met a famous marksman.

B．met Mr Frost.

C．turned strick shot.

D．found out that she could shoot.

3．Annie Oakley became famous because ________.

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A．the government gave her a medal of sharp shooter.

B．she beat a famous marksman.

C．she was praised for a first - class shot.

D．she turned big- game hunter.

4．The under lined word “game” of the selection means ________.

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A．form a play.

B．sports and exercise outdoors.

C．food fed to poultry(家禽) .

D．animals and birds hunted for food.

5．The best title for this selection is ________.

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A．How Annie Oakley Got Her Start .

B．The Shooting Match.

C．The Girl's Way To A Shot.

D．How To Shoot Game.

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Half the student population of Fairfax Country, Virginia, has a native language other than English, some 100 languages are spoken in schools. All told, the population of US. students whose English are limited has jumped 22 percent in the just two years. Teachers of English, as a Second Language ( ESL) take students in small groups for a period each day to teach them in basic English or team - teach in the classroom to help students understand the work . They seldom use the students' languages to get their message across, unlike bilingual programmers. Bilingual education has opened up an argument about whether teaching children in their native tongues does harm to them in the long run.

1．It is learned that in Fairfax Country ________.

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A．50% of the students don't speak English

B．English is the native language of 50% students

C．the English language and another native language are spoken

D．English and another native language are spoken

2．In many schools of Fairfax Country, Virginia, ________

[　　]

A．English is not taught

B．students only learn basic English

C．students are only taught in their native languages

D．English is used as a second language.

3．We may infer that in bilingual programmers teachers are allowed to teach ________

[　　]

A．not only in English but in students native languages

B．only in students' native languages

C．either in the classroom or at home

D．just in basic English

4．What does the writer most probably think of the bilingual education?

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A．It is helpful to the students whose native languages are not English.

B．It can not help students understand their work.

C．It may do harm to students in the end.

D．It does no harm to non- natives of Americans.

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As far back as 700B.C, man had talked about children being cared for by wolves. Romulus and Remus, the old story twin founders of Rome, were said to have been cared for by wolves. It is believed that when a she-wolf loses her baby, she tries to get a human child to take its place. This idea did not become believable, until the late nineteenth century when a French doctor actually found a ten - year- old boy having nothing on walking around in the woods. He didn't walk up  right, could not speak, nor could he relate to people. He only growled (嗥叫) and stared at them. Finally the doctor won the boy' s confidence(信任) and began to work with him. After many long years of devoted and patient teaching, the doctor was able to get the boy to dress, feed himself, recognize and say a number of words, as well as write letters to form words.

1．The French doctor found the boy ________.

[　　]

A．walking in a strange way

B．writing letters to form words

C．dressed in human clothes

D．speaking in an unknown language

2．According to the text we can infer that ________.

[　　]

A．the boy was actually a baby - wolf

B．the boy was brought up by a she - wolf

C．the she - wolf had changed the boy into a wolf

D．having been brought up by a wolf, the boy could never live a human life

3．People before the late nineteen century didn't believe ________.

[　　]

A．wolves were man - eating animals

B．a she - wolf would care for a human child

C．a she - wolf would lose her baby

D．she - wolves were kind - hearted

4．The doctor was able to work with the boy because ________.

[　　]

A．the boy had never lost his mind

B．the boy trusted him

C．the boy liked to dress up

D．the boy worked very hard

5．What do the underlined words relate to mean?

[　　]

A．know

B．recognize

C．understand

D．touch

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　　because plants cannot move or talk, most people believe that they have no feeling and that they cannot receive signals (信号) from outside . However, this may not be completely true.

　　People who studied plants have found out that plants carry a small electrical charge (电荷) . It is possible to measure this charge with a small piece of equipment called “ galvanometer” . 'The galvanometer is placed on a leaf of the plant, and it records any changes in the electrical field of the leaf. Humans have a similar field which can change when we are shocked or frightened.

　　A man called Backster used a galvanometer for his studies of plants and was very surprised at his results. He found that if he had two or more plants in a room and he began to destroy one of them ,perhaps by pulling off its leaves or by pulling it out of its pot,then the galvanometer on the leaves of the other plants showed a change in the electrical field. It seemed as if the plants were signalling a feeling of shock. This happened not only when Backster started to destroy plants, but also when he destroyed other living things such as insects(昆虫).

　　Backster said that the plants also knew if someone had destroyed a living thing some distance away, because they signalled when a man who had just cut down a tree entered the room.

　　Another scientist, named Sauvin, achieved similar results to Backster' s. He kept galvanometers fixed to his plants all the time and checked regularly to see what the plants were doing, if he was out of the office, he telephoned to find out about the signals the plants were sending. In this way, he found that the plants were sending out signals at the exact time when he felt strong pleasure or pain. In fact, Sauvin could cause a change in the electrical field of his plants over a distance of a few miles simply by thinking about them.

1．Most people believe that plants have no feelings because ________.

[　　]

A．they do not move or speak

B．they cannot receive signals from outside

C．this may not be completely true

D．this is unbelievable

2．Backster was surprised at the results of his studies because________

[　　]

A．he destroyed an insect

B．he destroyed a plant by pulling off its leaves

C．he found that plants could express feelings of shock

D．he found that plants could move and speak after all

3．The plants sent out signals ________ .

[　　]

A．only when Backster started to destroy plants

B．when Backster destroyed plants or other living things

C．only when he destroyed things such as insects

D．only when Backster placed the galvanometer on the leaves of the plants

4．The scientist called Sauvin ________.

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A．did not agree with Backster' s ideas

B．did not get the same sort of results as Backster did

C．got different results from Backster's

D．found out some of the same things that Backster did

5．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

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A．The electrical charge plants carry may shock or frighten us.

B．A tree will signal when it has been cut down.

C．Sauvin could make his plants send out signals some distance away .

D．Plants have feelings because they can receive signals without moving.

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　　Mr. Lewis was a dance teacher. He was a nice man and always had a lot of students who used to come to his classes every week. One year he moved to a new town, and was soon teaching a lot of students in the dance school there, but then he decided to move to a big city where he would have more work.

　　When one of his students who regularly came to his classes heard that he was going to leave, she said to him, “The teacher who takes your place won' t be as good as you are. ”

　　Mr. Lewis was happy when he heard this, but he said , “Oh ,I' m sure he'll be as good as I am or even better. ”

　　The lady said, “No. Five teachers have come and gone while I've been here, and each new was worse than the last. ”

1．Mr. Lewis wanted to move to a big city because ________.

[　　]

A．he hated the small town

B．he had few students here

C．it would be easy for him to make money in the big city

D．it would be difficult for him to become famous

2．One of the ladies who regularly came to his classes thought Mr. Lewis was________.

[　　]

A．a good teacher

B．the best teacher

C．neither the best nor the worst teacher

D．to be the worst teacher

3．Mr. Lewis was ________when he heard that he was better than the new teacher.

[　　]

A．surprised

B．pleased

C．sad

D．upset

4．Before Mr. Lewis five other teachers came to the________.

[　　]

A．town and still stayed there

B．town and some of them went away

C．town and all of them went away

D．big city

5．Mr. Lewis said that________.

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A．the new dance teacher would be better than he

B．he would be better than the new dance teacher

C．would be worse for him to go to a big city

D．should be better for him to stay in the town

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I was awoken at 4 a. m. the following morning by a telephone message from the Foreign Office to the effect that Germany had attacked Russia. The Prime Minister had always said that he was never to be woken up for anything but invasion (侵略) of England . I therefore put off telling him till 8 a. m. His only comment was, “Tell the BBC. I will broadcast tonight. ” He began to prepare the speech at 11 a. m. and except for lunch time, at which Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Cranborne, and Beaverbrook were present, he devoted the whole day to it …. The speech was only ready at twenty minutes to nine.

1．The writer was probably ________.

[　　]

A．a secretary of the Prime Minister

B．a worker in the Foreign Office

C．an officer in the War Office

D．a BBC. reporter

2．Which of the following is ture?

[　　]

A．Germany attacked Russia and four hours later the Prime Minister of England knew it.

B．The writer knew invasion of England four hours earlier than the Prime Minister.

C．The writer was told that Germany had attacked Russia; so he told it to the Prime Minister immediately.

D．Although the writer knew invasion of Russia in the early morning, he didn't tell it to the Prime Minister right away because the Prime Minister was sleeping.

3．When the Prime Minister knew invasion of Russia, he first wanted ________.

[　　]

A．to tell the BBC about it

B．to tell his people about it

C．to write a speech

D．to meet Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Cranborne and Beaverbrook

4．The Prime Minister ________with Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Cranborne and Beaver brook .

[　　]

A．had a meeting to discuss the serious situation

B．broadcast at the BBC

C．heard the writer' s report

D．had lunch

5．The Prime Minister probably broadcast at the BBC  _________.

[　　]

A．at nine o' clock that night

B．at nine o' clock that morning

C．at twenty minutes to nine

D．at lunch time

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　　Mrs. Evans had carefully locked the door when she left the house, but she was surprised to find it unlocked on her return. When she walked into the house, she saw a stranger fast asleep in the chair in the living room. Mrs. Evans left the house immediately and went to a neighbour's house and called the police. The police car arrived in a short while and Mrs. Evans returned to her house with two policemen. But it was obviously too late. The man had disappeared. Just then, to her surprise, her husband appeared at the head of the stairs and greeted her. He explained that he had returned from office early. Then he said, “I've a surprise for you. You've never met my cousin John from Michigan. He arrived this afternoon, so he could get a good job with a good company, and I brought him home with me.”

1．When she found a stranger in the house, Mrs. Evans ________.

[　　]

A．hurried to the nearest police station

B．called the police from a neighbour's house

C．asked her husband to call in the policemen

D．hurried to the telephone and called the police

2．We know from the story that the strange man was ________.

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3．The two policemen arrived ________.

[　　]

A．after Mr. Evans came back from office

B．when the strange man was sleeping

C．after Mrs. Evans saw her husband at home

D．before Mrs. Evans went to a neighbour's house

4．Who do you think opened the door of Mrs. Evan's house?

[　　]

5．John arrived at the Evans' because ________.

[　　]

A．Mrs. Evans had never met him before

B．he hoped to get a better job in Michigan

C．Mr. And Mrs. Evans invited him to live with them

D．he wanted to find a job in a good company

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1．This is a table of contents in a ________ .

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2．Which of the pages would likely contain a series of problems with regard to capacity (能) for doing work , such as lifting or moving an object?

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