阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　A famous Renoir had been stolen from a museum. Detective Earl Blackman was to word on the case.

　　Everyone was in the dark before an art professor came to point out the false picture. So the museum even didn't know when the picture had been stolen. Thousands of people came to visit the museum every day. After a long work, some art students were focused on.

　　The five students who had made copies of the Renoir during the last six months were asked to bring their copies to the museum. The fifth student said she had sold her copy, which was later proved to be the one in the museum. She, however, could only remember the buyer was a man with the little finger on his left hand missing.

　　Blackman went back and stayed in his office looking at all the pictures of known thieves. No success.

　　The next afternoon, at about closing time, Blackman went to the museum to ask if the cleaning men were in the museum after everyone else had left. The director told him they had no cleaning man but six cleaning women.

　　As the detective left the director's office, he saw five cleaning women. He stopped one and asked about her work. Then came the sixth cleaning woman. She was dressed just like the other women except the gloves on her hands which made her different. Blackman watched her for some time. When she came near, Blackman caught her. The woman cried out in a man's voice: “What was that?” Blackman was more sure.

1．Everything came to light ________.

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A．when an art student was asked

B．when the cleaning man came into the office

C．when Blackman looked at all the pictures

D．when the cleaning woman cried

2．Arrange the following sentences in the right order.

a. The museum asked for help

b. The four students showed their copies

c. an art professor came

d. The detective looked at all the pictures

e. The thief bought a picture

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3．The cleaning of a museum is usually done ________.

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4．Blackman caught the cleaning woman because of ________.

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阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　The next society will be a knowledge society. Knowledge will be its key resource. Its three main characteristics will be:

　　Borderlessness, because knowledge travels even more effortlessly than money.

　　Upward mobility, available to everyone through easily acquired formal education.

　　The potential for failure as well as success. Anyone can acquire the“means of production”, but not everyone can win.

　　Together, those three characteristics will make the knowledge society a highly competitive one. Information technology, althoungh only one of many new features of the next society is already having one hugely important effect, it is allowing knowledge to spread near instantly, and makes it accessible to everyone. Given the ease and speed at which information travels, every institution in the knowledge society has to be globally competitive, even though most organizations will continue to be local in their activities and in their markets. This is because the Internet will keep customers everywhere informed on what is available anywhere in the world and at what price.

　　This new knowledge economy will rely heavily on knowledge workers: doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants, chemical engineers. But the most striking growth will be in “knowledge technologists”. These people are as much manual workers as they are knowledge workers. In fact, they usually spend far more time working with their hands than with their brains. But their manual work is based on a considerable amount of theoretical knowledge which can be acquired only through formal education, not through apprenticeship (学徒). They see themselves as professionals.

1．Which of the following are knowledge technologists?

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2．What is the most suitable title for the passage?

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A．The next society.

B．The knowledge technologists.

C．Knowledge is all.

D．The knowledge workers.

3．Which of the following statements is true?

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A．There will be no competition.

B．Everyone can succeed easily.

C．Most organizations will move to cities.

D．Knowledage can travel more easily than money.

4．The underlined word “manual” means ________.

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5．“means of production” refers to ________ in this passage.

[　　]

A．a tool for making things

B．a kind of machine

C．knowledge required for the job

D．way to make things

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　New York: China's Yao Ming leads Lakers center Sharquill O'Neal in voting for the National Basketball Association All - star Game to be played on February 9 in Atlanta.

　　After the first two rounds of fan voting, the Houston rookie (新兵) leads all centers with 814,393 votes, more than 158,000 votes over O'Neal.

　　Yao, the first overall pick in last year's NBA entry draft, also ranks fourth overall in the latest reports released on Thursday.

　　O'Neal, of the three - time NBA championship Lakers, missed the first 12 games of the season while recovering from toe surgery.

　　Yao, who has had a shining rookie season so far, may have also benefited from new voting procedures. This season marks the first time that fans can go online and vote in Chinese.

　　Carter, Toronto Raptors forward, has been sidelined for most of the season with a left knee strain but has 871,189 votes. He is second overall in the fan balloting, trailing only Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, who has 958,695.

(Agencies via Xinhua)

1．This message is probably taken from ________.

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2．O'Neal has got about ________ votes.

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3．The way to vote for All - star Game players ________.

[　　]

A．remains the same as before

B．changes because of Yao Ming

C．changes because of China

D．changes because of the population of China

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　To many web building spiders, most of whom are nearly blind, the web is their basic window on the world: their means of communicating, capturing prey, meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web - building spider without its web is like a man isolated on an island of solid rock, totally out of touch and for sure to starve to death.

　　So important is the web to a web spider's survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being straved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets much thinner, it constructs a web using fewer strands. Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the view of a starving spider.

　　The spider preserves energy by recycling web protein (蛋白质). It simply eats its own web each evening and re - uses it to manufacture new silk. In studies with redioactively labeled materials, it was found that 95 percent of web proten reappears in the next day's web. Most of the energy needed for web - building is used in walking over the strands (线，绳) as they are laid down.

　　Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spider's highly preprogrammed brain, which is larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate (无脊椎动物). If web - building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed, the spider simply retraces its steps to see where the web is left off and then finishes building a normal web. One spider will even finish building the incomplete web of another.

1．That a spider is able to finish an incomplete web of another proves that ________.

[　　]

A．a spider re - uses its web energy to reproduce new silk

B．spiders have a highly preprogarmmed brain

C．the web is everything to a spider

D．a spider is able to mend a destroyed web

2．A spider preserves its energy ________.

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A．because it constructs new webs daily

B．as it walks over the strands it lays

C．by eating its own web protein and then re - using it in the new web

D．by eating only in the evening

3．Without its web a web - building spider would NOT be able to ________.

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4．The underlined word “isolated” in the first paragraph means ________.

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阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个最佳选项。

　　JakartaAbout 20 bombs exploded outside churches in Jakarta and five other Indonesian cities and towns, killing at least 14 people and injuring 47, said Nations Police Chief Gen Suroyo Bimantoro on Sunday.

　　Sunday's attacks follow a rise in Muslim extremism (穆斯林极端主义) throughout the country. The heaviest violence has been in the Maluku islands in Indonesia's east, where about 5,000 people of both Christian and Muslim beliefs have been killed over the past two years. Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim country with 90 percent of its 210 million people, followers of Islam.

　　Christians make up less than 10 percent of Indonesia's 210 million people. Many are from the Chinese minority, which had been attacked by Muslim groups during the past civil unrest.

　　Sunday's bombings were the latest in a series to rock the capital. The worst this year came in September, when a car bomb and the following fire killed 15 people in a parking lot at Jakarta's Stock Exchange. In August, two people were killed when a car bomb blew up outside the Philippine ambassador's (大使) home.

　　The police made arrests after those attacks and several smaller explosions, but have brought no formal charges. Most of the arrested have been set free.

(From China Daily, December 25, 2000)

1．We can infer from the passage that ________.

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A．the Chinese minority was regarded as the enemies of the Indonesians

B．there is much violence in the country because of people's different beliefs

C．Muslim extremists try to control the Christians

D．Sunday's bombings were the heaviest violence over the past two years

2．According to the news report ________.

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A．more than5,000 Christian people have been killed in the past two years in Indonesia

B．the society in Indonesia used to be unrest long ago

C．about 30 were killed this year in violence in Indonesia not including those in Maluku

D．the police caught some people after Sunday's attacks and then set all of them free again

3．The fourteen people died in bombings ________ on Sunday.

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A．in several cities and towns in Indonesia

B．in the city of Jarkarta

C．in the Maluku island in Indonesia's east

D．outside churches in Jarkarta

4．The word “charge” in the last paragraph most probably means ________.

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A．statement that a person has broken a law

B．sudden and violent attack at high speed

C．price asked for goods or service

D．forms given to prisoners

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个最佳选项。

　　When I asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said “the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.

　　Point 1: The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?

　　Point 2: The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,” says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance to her rescue.

　　Point 3: The mobile removes our secret. It allows Marketing Manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and how their last meeting went.

　　Point 4: The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near-but we didn't meet for the first two weeks!”

　　Point 5: The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn't know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they're spacewalking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

1．How do you understand “Point 1: The telephone creates the need to communicate, …”?

[　　]

A．The telephone creates more traffic.

B．People communicate because of the creating of the telephone.

C．People communicate more since the telephone has been created.

D．People communicate more because of more traffic.

2．Which of the following best shows people's attitude towards mobile phones?

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A．Mobile phones are useful when you have an accident.

B．Mobile phones bring convenience to people.

C．Mobile phones can help people go across the world.

D．Mobile phone number is easy to get.

3．The underlined word “simultaneously” most probably means ________.

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阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个最佳选项。

　　For some time past, it has been widely accepted that babies-and other creatures-learn to do things because certain acts lead to “rewards”, and there is no reason to doubt that this is ture. But it used also to be widely believed that effective rewards, at least in the early time, had to be directly connected to such basic physiological “drives” as thirst or hunger. In other words, a baby would learn if he got food or drink or some sort of physical comfort, not otherwise.

　　It is now clear that this is not so. Babies will learn to behave in ways that produce results in the world with no reward except success in sight.

　　Papousek began his studies by using milk in the normal way to “reward” the babies and so teach them to carry out some simple movements, such as turning the head to one side or the other. Then he noticed that a baby who had had enough to drink would refuse the milk but would still go on making the learned response (回答) with clear signs of pleasure. So he began to study the children's responses in situations where no milk was provided. He quickly found that children as young as four months would learn to turn their heads to right or left if the movement “turned on” some lights-and indeed that they were able to learn some more turns to bring about this result, for example, two left or two right, or even to make as many as three turns to one side.

　　Papousek's light experiment was placed directly in front of the babies and he made the interesting observation that sometimes they would not turn back to watch the light closely although they would “smile and speak” when the light was on. Papousek concluded that it was not the sight of the lights which pleased them. It was the success they were achieving in solving the problem, in mastering the skill, and then there is a basic human nature to make sense of the world and bring it under control.

1．According to the writer, babies learn to do things that ________.

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A．will satisfy their surprise

B．will meet their physical needs

C．are directly connected to pleasure

D．will bring them a feeling of success

2．Papousek noticed in his studies that a baby would ________.

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A．make learned responses when it saw the milk

B．continue the simple movements without being given milk

C．turn its head to right or left when it had enough to drink

D．carry out learned movements when it had enough to drink

3．In Papousek's experiment babies make learned movements of the head in order to ________.

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A．be praised

B．please their parents

C．be rewarded with milk

D．have the lights turned on

4．The babies would “smile and speak” at the lights because ________.

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A．they succeeded in “turning on” the lights

B．the sight of lights was interesting

C．they need not turn back to watch the lights

D．the lights were directly connected to some basic “drives”

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个最佳选项。

　　There are two factors which determine an individual's (个人) intelligence. The first is the sort of brain he is born with. Human brains differ considerably, some being more capable than others. But no matter how good a brain he has to begin with, an individual will have a low order of intelligence unless he has opportunities to learn. So that second factor is what happens to the individual - the sort of environment in which he is reared. If an individual is handicapped (制约) environmentally, it is likely that his brain will fail to develop and he will never attain the level of intelligence of which he is capable.

　　The importance of environment in determining an individual's intelligence can be demonstrated by the case history of the identical twins, Peter and Mark. Being identical, the twins had identical brains at birth, and their growth processes were the same. When the twins were three months old, their parents died, and they were placed in separate foster homes. Peter was reared by patents of low intelligence in an isolated community with poor educational opportunities. Mark was reared in the home of well-to-do parents who had been to college. He was read to as a child, sent to good schools, and given every opportunity to be stimulated (刺激) intellectually. This environmental difference continued until the twins were in their late teens, when they were given tests to measure their intelligence. Mark's IQ was 125, twenty-five points higher than the average and fully forty points higher than his identical brother. Given equal opportunities, the twins, having identical brains, would have tested at roughly the same level.

1．The passage can be titled ________.

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A．Measuring Your Intelligence

B．Intelligence and Environment

C．The Case of Peter and Mark

D．How the brain influences Intelligence

2．The best statement of the main idea of the passage is that ________.

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A．human brains differ considerably

B．the brain a person is born with is important in determining his intelligence

C．environment is more important in determining a person's intelligence

D．identical brains will have the same intelligence

3．According to the passage, the average IQ is ________.

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4．This passage suggests that an individual's IQ ________.

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A．can be predicted at birth

B．stays the same throughout his life

C．can be increased by education

D．is determined by his childhood

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个最佳选项。

　　When John Milton, writer of “Paradise Lost”, entered Cambridge University, in 1625, he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St. Paul's School, London. Like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar schools, he had learned not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it smoothly and correctly. His pronunciation of Latin was English, however, and seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.

　　Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way. They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart easier. They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English. As they increased their skill, they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original. The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them. All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in.

　　After several yeas of study, the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read. And as they began to read Latin Poems, they began to write poems in Latin. Because Milton was already a poet at ten, his poems were much better than those painfully put together by the other boys. During the seven years Milton spent at university, he made regular use of his command of Latin. He wrote some excellent Latin poems, which he published among his works in 1645.

1．What does the passage mainly tell about?

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A．How John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost”.

B．How John Milton studied Latin.

C．How John Milton became famous.

D．How John Milton became a poet.

2．Which of the following is true of John Milton's pronunciation of Latin?

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A．It has a strong Italian accent.

B．It has an uncommon accent.

C．It was natural and easy to understand.

D．It was bad and difficult to understand.

2．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

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A．Milton's training in Latin was similar to that of the other boys

B．Milton hadn't learned any foreign language except Latin before going to college

C．Milton's Italian friends helped him with Latin when talking

D．Milton's classmates learned Latin harder but worse than Milton

3．Which of the following is suggested in the passage?

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A．The schoolmaster mainly helped those who were bad at Latin.

B．The schoolmaster usually stood beside the schoolboys with a stick in his hand.

C．The schoolboys could repeat Latin grammar rules from memory.

D．Some of the schoolboys were quick at writing compositions in Latin.

4．What is the meaning of the underlined part “Latin should be beaten in” that the writer wishes you to understand?

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A．Schoolboys should be punished if they were lazy to learn Latin.

B．Schoolboys should be encouraged if they had difficulty in learning Latin.

C．Schoolboys were expected to master Latin in a short time.

D．Schoolboys had to study Latin in a hard way.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从文中所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　How old is “old”? The answer has changed over these years. Two hundred years ago, you were old at 35. That was the average life expectancy then. At the turn of this century, as medical knowledge advanced, the average life span increased to 45. In 1950, 70 - year- olds were really old. Today, a healthy 70 - year- old is looking forward to many more active years.

　　So, how old is “old?” The answer is one you've heard many times, from all sorts of people. “You are as old (or young) as you feel.” The calendar simply tells you how many years you've lived. Your body tells how well you've lived.

　　“Youth,” wrote an author with name not made known, “is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”

　　Old is a point of view. Alice Brophy, when she was with the New York City Commission for Aging, said, “It bothers me when people say ‘Gee, you look young at your age’. What does that mean? Is there some model that you're supposed to look a certain way at 65 and 75 and 85? You know you can die old at 30 and live young at 80.”

　　There are many myths about aging. These myths stereotype people on the basis of age. Here are some of the more common myths and the facts.

　　Myth: Most old people are in poor health.

　　Fact: Not so. There are neither biological nor physiological reasons to connect poor health with growing older. Older people are more likely to be affected with illness and physical disabilities than you are, but old age itself is not disease. It is possible to remain physically fit throughout your life.

　　Myth: When you get old, you become senile.

　　Fact: Older people can be bright as young minds. Senility is a sign of disease; it is not part of normal aging process. In a 1985 study of men aging 20, 40, 60 and 80 years, one proof was found to indicate that aging was connected with an avoidable drop in intellectual performance, in generally healthy people.

　　Myth: Older people are rigid.

　　Fact: Older people are as different in their life-styles and action as are young and middle aged people. In spite of the large pressure they deal with death of loved ones or job, financial, and family problem - they deal with very well. Older people give up smoking and break other bad habits just as successfully as younger people.

1．From the text we can see that a person is really old ________.

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A．until he or she is in his or her eighties

B．when he or she is in poor health

C．because he or she has given up her ambitions, aims, jobs and so on

D．if he or she looks old for his or her age

2．The underlined word “rigid” in this passage probably means ________.

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A．more careless than young men

B．unable to change

C．suffering bad habits

D．thoughtful in making a decision

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

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A．Old people have long formed the bad habits of smoking than the young.

B．Senility has much to do with the change of the power mind to seek and gain knowledge.

C．Most people can stay young at the end of the 21^st century.

D．Many old people are in poor health because they have to deal with a lot of problems in and out of the family.

4．The best title of the passage is ________.

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A．Standards about Old Age

B．Facts and Myths about Old Age

C．Differences between Old Age

D．Signs of Old Body and Mind