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　　The latest Harry Potter book may have a side effect.

　　A Washington doctor said that he had treated three children with headaches caused by reading through the 870-page adventure.

　　The doctor called them Hogwarts Headaches, named after the wizard school that Harry attends.

　　The doctor wrote that the three children, aged 8 to 10, experienced a headache for two or three days. Each had spent many hours reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

　　The doctor told his patients to give their eyes a rest. But the spell (咒语) cast by Harry Potter was clearly too powerful.“The obvious cure－that is, taking a break from reading－was rejected by two of the patients,”he said.

　　In each case, the headache went away only after the patient turned the final page.

　　Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in the series, has nearly three times as many pages as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first book, and J. K. Rowling still plans two more books.

　　“If this escalation (页数增加)continues as Rowling concludes the story, there may be an epidemic (流行病)of Hogwarts Headaches in- the years to come,”the doctor predicted(预言). He warned that reading continuously for a long time was very harmful to the eyes.

1．The underlined word“rejected”probably means”________”.

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2．What can we know from this passage?

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A．Harry Potter books are written only for children.

B．Harry Potter books are really attractive to children.

C．Harry Potter books can cause headache.

D．The three children like the treatment in the hospital.

3．What caused the three children’s headache?

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A．Spending too much time reading Harry Potter books.

B．The spell cast by Harry Potter.

C．Some kind of epidemic.

D．The final page of Harry Potter books.

4．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

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A．The first book of J. K. Rowling is three times as thick as her fifth one.

B．J. K Rowling hopes to write at least seven books.

C．The epidemic of Hogwarts Headaches will spread in the near future.

D．Reading for a long time non-stop does good to one’s head.

5．What is the best title for the passage?

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A．How to cure Hogwarts Headaches

B．The 870-page adventure

C．Harry Potter causes headaches

D．Harry Potter and J.K.Rowling

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　　You have heard of Webster Toys. Webster’s have made good, safe, interesting toys for more than a hundred years. Now we sell them, and children play with them, in countries from New Zealand to Norway, and from Japan to Brazil. We’re looking for someone to sell our toys in the Far East. He(or She)will be between the age of thirty and forty. He will already have some years of selling in world market behind him. He will speak good English, and at least one other language of the Far East.

　　The person we are looking for will live in Singapore, and work in our office there, but he’ll travel for up to six months in any one year. He will know the Far East quite well already. He will know how to sell in old markets, and where to find new ones. He will understand money, and make more than ever before, for himself, and for Webster Toys.

　　Webster’s want someone who can stand on his own feet. If you think you’re the person we’re looking for, write to Mr. J. Sloman at our Head Office.

　　Webster Toys Ltd.

　　Church Mill, Watford.

　　Herts, WD36HF.

1．Children play with Webster toys ________.

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A．only in countries a long way from each other

B．in only four countries of the world

C．only in New Zealand, Norway, Japan and Brazil

D．all over the world

2．“He will already have some years of selling in world markets behind him.”means ________.

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A．he has already sold things in different parts of the world

B．he has sold toys for some years

C．he has already sold things for some years

D．he has sold toys all over the world

3．The person will speak ________.

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A．English and only one other language

B．English and a Far Eastern language

C．English or any other language

D．English or any other Far Eastern language

4．He will live in Singapore ________.

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A．for at least 6 months in any one year

B．all through the year

C．for less than six months a year

D．for up to 6 months

5．“Someone who can stand on his own feet”means someone who ________.

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A．doesn’t stand on other people’s feet

B．can understand money

C．understand many languages

D．can work by himself

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　　A giant panda from the Beijing Zoo has been saved by a transfusion of blood from two black bears. It’s still under special care, according to the Beijing Zoo.

　　Yong Liang, two years old, is the first giant panda raised from birth in the zoo. Last month zoo keepers found the panda was suffering from serious anaemia(贫血症) .calling for urgent(紧急的)blood transfusion.

　　The best way, according to the zoo’s experts, to save Yong Liang from anaemia would have been to transfuse blood from another panda. But it was the breeding(reproducing)season for giant pandas, making such a transfusion very difficult.

　　But the experts found that there exists(存在)a close consanguinity(血缘)between giant pandas and black bears, and so they decided to try to take blood from black bears in the zoo and transfuse it to Yong Liang.

　　With the help of hospitals and the Beijing Blood Donor Station, they made an experiment which proved that the red blood cell in the blood of black bears can be used.

　　On the afternoon of February 15th the first red blood cell transfusion was given to the giant panda, from 600ml of black bear blood. Immediately the young panda started to recover.

1．From the passage we can infer“transfusion of blood”means ________.

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2．The best title of the article should be ________.

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A．Protecting Giant Panda

B．Yong Liang－A Giant Panda

C．Bear Blood Saves Panda

D．A Successful Transfusion

3．Which of the following is not true according to the article?

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A．Giant pandas and black bears are of the same race.

B．The transfusion was based on scientific research and experiments.

C．The two-year-old panda must have been born in the Beijing Zoo.

D．After the special transfusion, the young panda began to regain health.

4．They decided to try another way instead of the best way to save the panda because ________.

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A．it was difficult to find other pandas

B．blood of pandas was too expensive

C．it was the breeding season for the panda, Yong Liang

D．other pandas were producing young at that time

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　　Linda was a few minutes late. Wilson had left the office when she got there. His secretary(秘书)told her he would be back in a few minutes. She had to sit down and wait for a few minutes in the outer office.

　　“I’ll never get this job.”she told herself. For a moment she wanted to run out of the building. Just then, Wilson came through the door and hurried into his office. A few seconds later his secretary took Linda in and introduced her.

　　Linda apologized(道歉)for being late, Wilson did not seem to mind. They chatted casually for a few seconds and then got down to business. Me took out her letter of application.

　　“You’ve never worked in radio or television before, have you?”he said. Now she was ever more sure that she would not get the job. Wilson asked her a few more questions.

　　To her surprise, he seemed impressed(对……印象深)with her other qualifications(资格). She was even more surprised when he asked her if she could start soon.“I wonder if you’d mind starting next month?”he asked with a smile. It seemed she had got the job after all.

1．Why did Linda say she would never get that job?

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A．Because she was late.

B．Because she was tired of waiting.

C．Because Wilson didn’t want to see her.

D．Because she did not like the job.

2．What made her more uncertain of the job?

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A．He asked her a few more questions.

B．He did not seem to mind if she was late.

C．They chatted casually(漫不经心地).

D．She had never worked in radio or television before.

3．Choose the sentence that is true according to the passage.

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A．She didn’t get the job at last.

B．Linda had sent in a letter of application.

C．Linda had never sent in a letter of application.

D．She wasn’t interested in the job at all.

4．From the passage, we can guess that ________.

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A．Linda lost the job at last

B．Linda hadn’t got the job

C．Linda would start working the next month

D．Linda was disappointed at last

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　　Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his work and traveling. But now, Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the limit of its strength on the trip, a chemical change began to take place inside him. The material between his bones became weak. In less than one week after his return, he could not stand. Every move that he made was painful. He was not able to sleep at night.

　　The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure Mr. Cousins' problem and he might never get over the illness. However Mr. Cousins refused to give up hope. He thought that unhappy thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He didn't want to take medicine to cure himself．Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.

　　He began to experiment on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television.. Mr. Cousins quickly found that 10 minutes of real laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night. After that Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could continue his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping whenever he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for exercise.

　　After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to health.

1．Why did Norman Cousins get sick?

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A．He did not rest enough.

B．He traveled too much.

C．His body chemistry changed.

D．All of the above.

2．What part of his body was affected by the illness?

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A．The bones in his feet.

B．His mind when he slept.

C．The material between his bones.

D．His stomach.

3．What did Mr. Cousins think caused his illness?

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A．He often traveled around the world on business.

B．He had pushed his body to the limit of its strength on the trip.

C．Unhappy thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body.

D．His bones became so weak that he could not stand.

4．How long did it take before Mr. Cousins went back to work?

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阅读下面短文，从每题所给四个选项中选出最佳答案。

　　Everybody may have seen the film Death on the Nile(《尼罗河上的惨案》) , but nobody can imagine that the writer of the story, Agatha Christie, saved a baby in a most unusual way.

　　In June 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in Deleville. Doctors there were unable to find out the cause of her illness, so she was sent to a famous hospital in London, where there were many excellent doctors. The baby was so seriously ill that a team of doctors hurried to examine her without any delay. The doctors, too, were puzzled by the baby's illness, and they also became discouraged. Just then a nurse asked to speak to them.

　　“I think the baby is suffering from thallium poisoning(铊中毒) ,” said the nurse, “A few days ago, I read a story A Pale Horse written by Agatha Christie. Someone uses thallium poison, and all the symptoms(症状) are written in the book. They are exactly the same as the baby's.”

　　“You're very good at observing things,” said a doctor, “and you may be right. We'll carry out some tests and find out whether the cause is thallium poisoning or not.”

　　The tests proved that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium. Once they knew the cause, the doctor' were able to give her correct treatment. The baby soon got well and was sent back to Deleville. A week later it was reported that the poison might have come from an insecticide(杀虫剂) used in Deleville.

1．The baby was sent to a famous hospital in London because ________.

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A．the doctors in Deleville couldn't find the cause of the illness

B．there was a nurse who knew about the girl's illness

C．the girl's parents trusted doctors in the big hospital in London

D．Agatha Christie was a good friend of the nurse in the big hospital in London

2．The baby's illness puzzled ________.

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A．Agatha Christie

B．only the doctors in Deleville

B．the nurse

D．both doctors in Deleville and in London

3．Who first suggested the correct cause of the baby's illness?

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A．A doctor in Deleville．

B．An ordinary nurse.

C．A doctor in London．

D．Agatha Christie.

4．From the passage we learned that the baby's illness has something to do with ________.

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A．the poisoned water in Deleville

B．a murder case

C．a kind of medicine to kill pests

D．a famous writer

5．As far as we can tell from the story, Agatha Christie ________.

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A．studied the baby's illness

B．had never met this baby

C．wrote about the baby's illness in Death on the Nile

D．gave some advice to the nurse to save the baby

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　　X-rays were first discovered by a German scientist, Wulhelm Konrad Rontgen, in 185, almost by chance.

　　While he was experimenting with electric current through certain gases in a special glass tube, Rontgen happened to notice that, even when the tube was covered with black paper, some strange kind of radiation was coming through and making a screen nearby glow. Then he put the screen in the next room of a closed door. The screen was still glowing. The screen showed that the strange rays could not only pass through black paper but also wood.

　　Rontgen next put his hand between these unseen rays and a photographic plate, the rays would print a shadow of the bony framework of his hand on the plate.

　　In this way, Rontgen discovered such rays and made the first X-ray picture of a hand, showing just how the bones in the hand fit together. In his account of what he had discovered, Rontgen named these new rays X-rays, which was called by other scientists Rontgen rays.

1．The sentence “Rontgen discovered X-rays almost by chance” means ________.

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A．he was given a chance to discover them

B．he discovered X-rays unexpectedly

C．he devoted his life to the discovery of X-rays

D．he invented X-rays all by himself

2．Radiation is a kind of energy in the form of ________.

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3．Rontgen was the first man who ________.

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A．invented X-rays

B．printed a picture of the hand

C．used photographic plate

D．discovered X-rays and made used of it

4．What do you suppose Rontgen was according to the passage?

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A．He was an X-rays picture maker.

B．He was a chemist.

C．He was a physicist.

D．He was a doctor.

5．Which is the best title for this passage?

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A．The Discovery of X-rays.

B．The Use of X-rays.

C．Rontgen, the Great Scientist.

D．Discovery by Chance.

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　　New York-born Billy Joel was encouraged by his father to learn the piano from the age of four. He played in various local groups before he turned solo, releasing (发行) the first album “Cold Spring Harbor” in 1972. But business problems drove him down to California where he performed in bar sand hotels under the name Billy Martin. A breakthrough crone when Columbia records signed him and released “The Piano Man” album in 1973, the title track becoming his first hit single.

　　The next few albums sold poorly but they established Joe's fame as a writer of memorable melodies (旋律) and story-telling lyrics (歌词). His massive commercial breakthrough came in 1977 with the release of “The Stranger”, becoming Columbia's best-selling record ever.

　　In the early 80's, Billy Joel appeared in the hit list with “Tell Her About It”,“Uptown Girl” and “An Innocent Man”. His marriage to top model Christine Brinkley in 1985 put him into family life, but 1989's “We Didn't Start the Fire” and its parent album “Storm Front” (Both US No.1st) found him back in top form. A step forward to that is the single “The River of Dreamers” released in 1993 which is again a wonderful show of his gift as an excellent music and lyric writer.

(1)What is Billy Joel's first hit single?

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A．“Storm Front.”

B．“Cold Spring Harbor.”

C．“Tell Her About it.

D．“The Piano Man.”

(2)Which of the following statements is true?

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A．Billy Joel was born in a poor family in New York．

B．Billy Joel and His brother Bill Martin performed in bars local groups.

C．Billy Joel married a film star Christine Brinkly.

D．Before he became a singer, Billy Joe played the piano in groups.

(3)What does “album” in this passage mean?

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A．A book in used to collect photos and stamps.

B．A tape or disc of one's songs.

C．A magazine on popular stars.

D．A popular songs list.

(4)We can infer from the passage that ________.

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A．Billy Joel was hardworking and often changed his way of singing

B．Billy was less welcomed than other popular stars because he was fond of　family life

C．Billy Joel was popular for a while, then disappeared, and later he became　more successful

D．Although his albums were poorly sold, Billy Joel worked hard to make more

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　　Lillian Hanson, a college student, expects to graduate in about two years. What makes Mrs Hanson different from her classmates is her age--73 years. She has been studying at college, a few courses at a time, for 27 years.

　　When Lillian Hanson graduated from high school, she went to the bank to borrow money for further education. The banker gave her no encouragement. He didn't think that a country girl should borrow money to go to college. He thought she should be at home doing work in the house or around the farm. So Lillian Hanson went home and raised a family of nine children instead of going to college.

　　Mrs Hanson never forgot her dream of getting a higher education. When her children grew up, she tried again.

　　She finds it is the hardest part of going back to school at her age to be sitting in class for long periods of time. Because she is not as quick as she used to be. Mrs Hanson often gets up and walks around between classes to keep from getting stiff (不灵活的). At the beginning of a course in using the computer, the other students all stood up to give her a warm welcome when she introduced herself and explained why she was there and what her aims were.

(1)Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

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A．An Unusual Student.

B．A Kind-hearted Mother.

C．A Cruel Banker.

D．A Strange Woman.

(2)What was the difference between Mrs Hanson and her classmates?

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A．She worked hard at her lessons.

B．She was much older.

C．She was a country girl.

D．She was eager to graduate from college.

(3)Why couldn't Mrs Hanson go to college soon after she graduated from high school?

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A．Because she had got married.

B．Because she wanted to teach herself.

C．Because she was a country girl.

D．Because she wasn't rich enough.

(4)In Which order did Mrs Hanson do the following things?

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A．She had her 73rd birthday.

B．She finished high school.

C．She began her studies at college.

D．She went to the bank to borrow money.

e. She got married and gave birth to nine children.

(5)The writer wrote the passage in order to show us that ________.

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A．a friend in need is a friend indeed

B．one is never too old to learn

C．Lillian Hanson was a great mother

D．Lillian Hanson realized the importance of education

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    From 4^th June 1996, Asian spreads its wings from Beijing to Pusan, Korea's second largest city. Asian is one of Asia's fastest growing airlines, with an ever expanding network, which is why more and more passengers around the world are warming to our service. Service that's based on 5,000 years of traditional Korean hospitality（好客）.No wonder we're bringing so many people from so many places closer together.

*Asian also flies non-stop between Seoul and Beijing/Shanghai

（1）The word“wing”in the first line means ________ .

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（2）More and more passengers are warming to our service because ________ .

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A. our planes are larger than before

B. the fares are cheaper than others

C. we have an expanding network and fast-growing airlines

D. our service is based on 5,000 years of traditional Korean hospitality

（3）According to the schedule you cannot fly from Beijing to Pusan on ________ .

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（4）Passengers can reach _________ from Seoul with a non-stop flight.

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（5）We can infer ________ .

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A. more and more people are taking Asian's planes

B. Beijing and Shanghai are busy cities

C. Asian is opening more lines

D. China and Korea will have a closer tie if the airline is safe