阅读理解

　　Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things without being taught to. They learn to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him.

　　We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.

　　If it is a matter of right answer, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time to such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding and how to know what they know or do not know.

1．According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by ________ .

[　　]

A．listening to skilled people's advice

B．asking older people many questions

C．making mistakes and having them corrected

D．doing what other people do

2．Which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do?

[　　]

A．Give children correct answers.

B．Allow children to make mistakes.

C．Point out children to make mistakes to them.

D．Let children mark their own work.

3．According to the writer, teachers in school should ________ .

A．allow children to learn from each other

B．point out children's mistakes whenever found

C．correct children’s mistakes as soon as possible

D．give children more book knowledge

4．The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are

[　　]

A．different from learning other skills

B．the same as learning other skills

C．more important than other skills

D．not really important skills

5．The title of this passage could probably be ________ .

[　　]

A．Let us Teachers Stop Work

B．Let us Make Children Learn

C．Let Children Correct Their Exercises

D．Let Children Learn By Themselves

阅读理解

　　There was great excitement at Thorby police station. The Inspector had received a phone call from an informer (通报者). The man said that a gang (帮、团伙) intended to rob the main post office. He even told the Inspector the date and time for which the robbery was planned. The Thorby police were not used to serious crimes (罪). Except for occasional cases of apple stealing, their peace was seldom disturbed. Hardly did anything more serious happen.

　　The robbery was going to take place at two o'clock on market day. The informer said that one of the gang would have a revolver. This worried the Inspector most of all. On market days,the street near the post office was always crowded. There was danger that someone might be killed. It was the most difficult case the Inspector had ever had.

　　The Inspector wanted to make sure the gang was caught and he made preparation carefully. He ordered his men to wear ordinary clothes so that some of them could mix with the people in the post office. Others were to be in the street outside to prevent the gang from escaping. On the day that the robbery was to take place, all was ready. At two o'clock, a large black car was parked in front of the post office. Three men, with handkerchiefs over their faces, jumped out and ran into the post office. Two of them stayed by the door. The third went up to the counter and pulled out a revolver. No sooner had I done this then the Inspector blew his whistle. The man standing at the counter immediately put the revolver back in his pocket and pulled the handkerchief from his face. “Could I have a five-penny stamp. please? ”he said. “You will have to tell a better story than that to the Judge.”the Inspector said. “And anyway, there is no parking in front of the post office. ”

1．From the story, we may conclude that the Inspector was a very ________ man.

[　　]

A．funny and careful

B．humorous and careful

C．exciting and hardworking

D．strict and serious

2．The Inspector was worried most of all because ________ .

[　　]

A．he was not used to serious crimes

B．it was a very difficult case

C．the robbers had a revolver

D．the post office was in a busy street

3．What do you think a“revolver”is? It's ________ .

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阅读理解

　　Reading is the key to school success and, like any skill, it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practising until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. A great athlete practises until he can play quickly, correctly, without thinking. Tennis players call that “being in the zone”. Educators call it “automaticity (自动)”.

　　A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and get the meanings of the words. With practice, he speaks with fewer and fewer pauses and mistakes, reading by the phrase. With automaticity he doesn't have to think about getting the meanings of the words, so he can pay attention to the meaning of the text.

　　It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in some schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found automatic readers in the first grade were reading almost three times as fast as the other children and scoring twice as high on comprehension tests. At the fifth grade, the automatic readers were reading twice as fast as the others, and still outscoring them on correctness, comprehension, and vocabulary. “It's not I. Q., but the amount of time a child spends reading that is the key to automaticity, ”According to Rossman, any child who spends at least 3.5 to 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will most probably reach automaticity. At home, where the average child spends 25 hours a week watching television, it can happen by turning off the set just one night in favour of reading.

　　You can test your child by giving him one paragraph or two to read aloud-something unfamiliar but suitable to his age. If he reads aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, he probably is an automatic reader. If he reads hesitatingly, one word at a time without expression or meaning, he needs more practice.

1．The main idea of the first paragraph is ________ .

[　　]

A．what is automaticity

B．how correctness is obtained

C．how a child learns to walk

D．how an athlete is trained

2．The Illinois study shows that the automatic reader's high speed ________ .

[　　]

A．costs him a lot of work

B．affects his comprehension

C．leads to his future success

D．doesn’t affect his comprehension

3．From the passage, it can be inferred that a bright child ________ .

[　　]

A．also needs practice to be automatic reader

B．always achieves great success in comprehension tests

C．becomes an automatic reader after learning how to read

D．is a born automatic reader

4．The main idea of the whole passage is ________ .

[　　]

A．how to score high on comprehension tests

B．reading is the key to school success

C．how to test your child’s reading ability

D．automaticity is important for efficient reading

阅读理解

　　A young father was visiting an old neighbour. They were standing in the old man's garden, and talking about children. The young man said, “How strict should parents be with their children?”

　　The old man pointed to a string (细绳索) between a big strong tree and a thin young one.

　　“Please untie (解开) that string,” he said. The young man untied it, and the young tree bent over to one side.

　　“Now tie it again, please,” said the old man. “But first pull the string tight so that the young tree is straight again. ”

　　The young man did so. Then the old man said, “There, it is the same with children. You must be strict with them, but sometimes you must untie the string to see how they are getting on. If they are not yet able to stand alone, you must tie the string tight again. But when you find that they are ready to stand alone, you can take the string away.”

1．The story is about ________ .

[　　]

A．how to take care of young trees

B．how strict parents should be with their children

C．how the young father should get on with his old neighbour

D．how to help children to study

2．The young man untied the string ________ .

[　　]

A．in order to throw it away

B．so that both of the trees would grow straight

C．only to find that the young tree bent over to one side

D．in order to see if the young tree grew taller

3．When could the string be taken away? ________ .

[　　]

A．When the old man left

B．When the young mail untied it next time

C．When the young tree grew strong enough

D．When the young tree grew older

4．At last the old man told the young man ________ .

[　　]

A．that he should be strict with his children if they could not stand alone

B．that he should always be strict with his children

C．that he should be hard on his children

D．that he should put a string to his children

5．We learn that the big strong tree and the thin young one are like ________ .

[　　]

A．the young father and the old neighbour

B．parents and their children

C．the young and the old

D．the old neighbour and the children of the young man

阅读理解

　　Frank Smithson woke up and leaned over to turn off the alarm clock. “Oh, no!” he thought to himself. “Another day at that office, a boss who shouts at me all the time.”

　　As Frank went downstairs, his eyes fell on a large brown envelope by the door. He was overjoyed when he opened it and read the letter inside. “Bigwoods Football Pools (足球赌博公司) would like to congratulate you. You have won half a million pounds. ”

　　Frank suddenly came to life. The cigarette fell from his lips as he let out a shout that could be heard halfway down the street.

　　At 11: 30 Prank arrived at work. “Please explain why you're so late,” his boss said. “Go and jump in the lake.” replied Frank. “I've just come into a little money so this is goodbye. Find yourself someone else to shout at.”

　　That evening Frank was smoking a very expensive Havana cigar when a knock was heard on the door. He rushed to the door. Outside were two men, nearly dressed in grey suits. “Mr. Smithson, ”one of them said, “We are from Bigwoods Pools.” “I'm afraid there's been a terrible mistake…”

1．What do we know about Frank?

[　　]

A．He was a lazy man.

B．He was a lucky person.

C．He didn't make a lot of money.

D．He didn’t get on well with his boss.

2．When he heard the knock at the door, Frank probably thought ________ .

[　　]

A．someone had come to make an apology

B．someone had come to give him the money

C．his friends had come to ask about the football pools

D．his friends had come to congratulate him on his luck

3．On hearing“… there’s been a terrible mistake… ”. Frank was most likely to be ________ .

[　　]

阅读理解

　　Strange thing happen to time when your travel around the world. The earth is divided into twenty-four zones (时区) one hour apart. You can have days with more or fewer than twenty-four hours and weeks with more or fewer than seven days.

　　If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean, your ship enters a different time zone every day. As you enter each zone, the time changes one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back; travelling east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.

　　If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you cross the international date line. By agreement, this is the point where a new day begins. When you cross the line, you change your calendar (日历) one full day, backward or forward. Travelling east, today becomes yesterday; travelling west, it is tomorrow.

1．Strange things happen to rime when you travel because ________ .

[　　]

A．a day is really divided into twenty－four hours

B．the earth is separated into time zones

C．time zones are all the same size

D．you have to set one hour aside

2．In this passage, the writer wants to tell us ________ .

[　　]

A．how to cross the international date line

B．how to make a voyage by ship

C．how to divide the rime zones

D．how to change time backward or forward

3．From this passage, it seems true that the Atlantic Ocean ________ .

[　　]

A．is in one time zone

B．is divided into twenty-four zones

C．is divided into five time zones

D．cannot be crossed in five days

4．According to the passage, if you cross the Pacific from China to American, you set your clock ________ .

[　　]

A．ahead one hour in each new time zone

B．ahead one hour for the whole trip

C．back one day for the whole trip

D．ahead by twenty-three hours

5．(Refer to the map) Suppose you start at 11: 00 A．m. Wednesday from Midway to Wake by plane. The trip takes one hour and a half. About what time is it in Wake when you arrive?

[　　]

A．Wednesday afternoon

B．Wednesday morning

C．Thursday morning

D．Tuesday afternoon

阅读理解

Telephone: 2706030

Address: 9020 Bridgeport Road

Open: Mon. to Fri. 7: 00 a. m. -2: 30 p. m. and 5: 00p. m. -9: 00p. m.

Sat. 7: 00 a. m. -11: 00 a. m. and 5: 00 p. m. -9: 30 p. m.

Sun. 11: 00．A. m. -2: 00 p. m. and 5: 00 p. m. -9: 30．p. m.

Telephone: 73G4431

Address: Vanier park, 1100 Chestnut St. New York America’s largest museum specially in American history and part of our native people.

Open: Mon. to Fri. 9: 00 a. m. -5: 00 p. m. (Monday free)

San. 11: 00 a. m. -1: 00 p. m.

Telephone: 3562376

Address: 5300 No. 3 Road

Open: Mon. Tues. and Sat 9: 30 a: m-5: 30 p. m. Wed. Thurs. and Fri 9: 30 a. m. -9: 30 p. m. Sun. 11: 00 a. m. -5: 00 p. m.

Telephone: 2785161

Address: 3031 No. 3 Road (at Sea Island Way)

The Hangar Den: Wed. to Sun. Lunch from 10: 30 a.m. cffee shop: Men-Fri. 6: 00 a. m. Sat 6: 30 a. m. and Sun. 7: 00a. m.

Mon. –Wed. to 10: 00 p. m. Thurs. -Sun. to 11: 00 p. m.

1．If you want to go out for lunch on Sunday you can call up the number ________ .

[　　]

A．2785161 or 2706030

B．2706030 or 3562367

C．73S4431 or 2785161

D．3562367 or 2785161

2．You do not have to pay on Mondays if you go to ________ .

[　　]

A．Skyline Hotel

B．Lansdowne Park Shopping Center

C．New York Museum

D．Garden Restaurant

3．If you want to enjoy yourself on Sunday morning. you can go to ________ .

[　　]

A．5300 No. 3 Road

B．Vanier Park. 1100 Chestnut St

C．9020 Bridgeport Road

D．3031 No. 3 Road

4．What can you do after 2 o'clock Saturday afternoons?

[　　]

A．visit New York Museum

B．Do some shopping in Lansdowne Park Shopping Center.

C．Have coffee in Skyline Hotel.

D．B or C.

5．How many advertisements are included in this passage?

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阅读理解

　　Brown had been walking since ten in the morning, and now the sun was about to set. His shadow lay long ahead of him. He had to find a place for the night. Half an hour later, the sun went down in the west and black clouds were gathering over the sky. Brown began to run, but it was too late, the rain fell down before he found a hiding place.

　　In the centre of the forest, he found a small hotel with light. He went to the door, opened it slowly and put his head in. He drew his head quickly, as if something had hit him in the face, and he stepped back into the rain. He stood in the rain for some time, and then made up his mind to go in. An old woman was sitting on a chair. Brown asked if he could have something to eat.

　　“Supper was finished an hour ago. ”

　　“But I had nothing. Grandma. ”

　　“Is that my fault? You didn’t come in time. If you come before six, you’ll get a good supper. If you come before eight, you’ll get supper but a simple one. And if you come after eight, you’ll get only a clean bed. ”

1．Brown was walking towards ________ .

[　　]

2．Brown began to run because ________ .

[　　]

A．it was really dark

B．he wanted to find a place for the night

C．it was going to rain

D．it was raining already

3．When Brown found the hotel ________ .

[　　]

A．he rushed in happily

B．he went in came out quickly

C．he did not dare to go in

D．He took a long and careful look into the house first

4．Brown entered the hotel ________ .

[　　]

A．at ten in the morning

B．at seven p. m.

C．at nine p. m.

D．after eight p. m.

5．If Brown had arrived at the hotel at seven p. m, ________ .

[　　]

A．he would have been late (or supper)

B．he might not have got a big supper

C．he might have got a big supper

D．he could have got only a clean bed

阅读理解

　　Mrs Young was eighty. Her husband died when she was fifty-three and he left her an old car he had had for six years. She learned to drive and loved it very much. She liked driving very fast, and was proud of the fact that she had never been caught for a driving offence (违章) .

　　Then one day she nearly lost her record (纪录). A police car followed her, and the policeman in it saw her pass a red light without stopping and she was taken before a judge. The man looked at her and said that she was too old to drive a car, and the reason why she had not stopped at the red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak with old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

　　When the judge had finished what he was saying, Young opened her handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she chose a needle (针) with a very small eye (针眼), and threaded it at her first try.

　　When she has finished it, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it's your turn. I suppose you drive a car, and that your eyesight is good. ”

　　The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After trying six times, he had still not done it. At last he had to set the old woman free and her record remained unbroken.

1．Mrs Young’s car was ________ years old.

[　　]

2．Mrs Young was never caught for a driving offence because ________ .

[　　]

A．her car was nice

B．she seldom drove her car

C．her eyesight was good

D．she was good at driving

3．As ________, she was taken before the judge.

[　　]

A．Mrs Young’s car was too old

B．Mrs Young hadn’t made way for the police car

C．Mrs Young was rude to the policemen

D．Mrs Young hadn’t stopped at the red light

4．Mrs Young threaded before the judge in order to ________ .

[　　]

A．prove that her eyesight was still good

B．get the man into trouble

C．do some sewing

D．wait for the man’s judgement

5．The judge set Mrs free because ________ .

[　　]

A．she was very old

B．she could thread

C．he thought her sight good

D．he admired her

阅读理解

　　The Winter Olympics is also called the White Olympics. At this, many colorful stamps are published to mark the great Games. The first stamps marking the opening came out on January 25,1932 in the United states for the 3rd White Olympics. From then on , publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule.

　　During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in November 1935. The five rings of Olympics were printed on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the symbol(标记)appeared on the stamps of the White Olympics.

　　In the 1950’s, the stamps of this kind became more colorful. When the White Olympics came, the host countries (东道国)as well the non-host countries published stamps to mark those Games.

　　China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sportsmen began to march into the area of the White Olympics.

　　Japan is the only Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise money for this sports meet.

　　Different kinds of sports were printed on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some athletes.

1．The White Olympics and the Winter Olympics ________.

[　　]

A．are of the same kind of Games

B．are of different kinds of Games

C．are both held in winter

D．are not held in winter

2．It was ________ that the world made it a rule to publish stamps to mark the great world Games.

[　　]

A．After the 2nd White Olympics

B．after the 3rd Whited Olympics

C．rafter the 4th Winter Olympics

D．from the year 1950

3．From the passage we know the symbol of five rings came into being ________.

[　　]

A．in November 1935

B．in the 1950’s

C．Kefirs in Germany

D．before the November of 1935

4．The Japanese sold out 14,500 million stamps in order to raise money for ________.

[　　]

5．So far the Olympics had not been held in ________.

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