A small group helped Booth to plan Lincoln’s murder．They were all caught and sentenced to death or prison terms.

    Doctor Mudd had nothing to do with Lincoln’s murderer with any of the men who had planned it．All seemed to show that he was an innocent (清白) man．But he had given some kind of help only to leave Booth to escape．This in itself was a crime (犯罪) then．And so, Doctor Mudd was sentenced to prison for life.

    In prison, Doctor saved many prisoners and guards in a yellow fever outbreak, President Andrew Johnson pardoned him in 1869, after the doctor had spent almost four years in prison.

    The American people considered the murder of Lincoln a heavy blow to them．It filled them with bitterness that lasted many years．They hated Booth very, very much and they also hated anybody who had helped the murderer in any way．Doctor Mudd was freed, but people never forgave him and his name passed into American folk speech as something bad, hateful．The Mudd family had also suffered a lot because of the name until not long ago.

1．The best title for this text is ________.

A．Abraham Lincoln, the Great President for the American People

B．Your Name will be Mud

C．Social Problems of the U．S．A during the 1860s

D．Old Law System of the U．S．A

2．Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd was put in prison because ________.

A．he had helped Booth murder Lincoln

B．the American people loved Abraham Lincoln deeply

C．he had broken the American law

D．he hadn’t reported the fact to the American government

3．From the last paragraph it can be inferred that ________.

A．Doctor Mudd has recently been set free

B．Doctor Mudd’s innocence was declared

C．there will be more expressions with mud

D．the American people hate anyone who kills their president

4．If it had not been for President Andrew Johnson, Doctor Mudd ________.

A．would have spent the rest of his life in prison

B．would have been sentenced to five years’ prison life

C．would be thought of crime forever

D．would suffer a lot from the name

5．The underlined word physician means ________.

A．teacher

B．physicist

C．health trainer

D．doctor

How to Deal with Failure?

    Second, is the goal you’re to reach one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be．Think about this question, “If you do succeed in this, where will it get me?” This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn’t be doing anyway.

    The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it’s part of life．Learn to “live with yourself” even though you may have failed．Remember, “You can’t win them all.”

1．This passage deals with ________.

A．ways to success

B．ways to failure and success

C．the “spider-story”

D．the invention of the light bulb

2．In the first paragraph, the author talks mainly about ________.

A．the value of failure

B．success achieved

C．the greatest failures

D．Robert Bruce and Edison

3．“The spider-story” shows that ________ .

A．failure must come before success

B．failure is not always a bad thing

C．n

ature will help us if we let it be

D．people who have failed are sure to succeed

4．One thing the writer does not tell us to do to deal with failure is ________.

A．to check our goals to see if they are right for us

B．to think about failure to find out the cause

C．to recognize failure as part of life

D．to avoid things difficult to do

5．Even if we have failed, we should ________.

A．think about it no more

B．learn to enjoy ourselves

C．learn to live with others in the same house

D．learn to accept it

    “It isn’t,” answered the old lady. “And it is even more difficult when you are shopping for a friend．”

1．Where did the old lady live?

A．In the country.

B．In the state.

C．In the city.

D．In the town.

2．What did she want to do on Saturday?

A．To visit a friend who was ill.

B．To help the sick friend with some housework.

C．To buy herself a pair of glasses.

D．To go shopping for her friend and herself.

3．At least how many pairs of glasses did the old lady try?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

4．What do you think of the old lady?

A．She was too careful.

B．She was strict in everything.

C．She was very helpful.

D．She was fit for her office.

5．What would probably happen in the end?

A．The old lady left the shop angrily without saying goodbye.

B．The shopkeeper was so angry that he quarreled with the lady.

C．The old lady bought a pair of glasses for her sick friend.

D．The shopkeeper persuaded that old lady into buying an improper pair of glasses.

阅读理解

  At one time a traveler could learn about a region（地区）by looking at the houses. For example, he or she could understand what building materials were available. In areas with many wooden houses, the traveler would have guessed that there were nearby forests. Stone houses would have indicated（表明）that stones were easy to get. However, a closer look at the houses would have told the traveler even more about the area.

　　In cold mountain regions of the world, for example, people have traditionally built houses so that one side almost touches the mountain. Thus, this side of the house is protected from cold winds. Modern designers who plan houses are finding this old tradition to be very useful. They are designing houses with one or more walls that touch the surrounding earth. In fact, sometimes the houses are almost completely covered with soil. These houses are efficiently heated and cooled because underground temperatures change very little.

（1）The main idea of paragraph 1 may be that ________ .

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A. houses would tell the features（特征）of a region

B. people travelled in order to learn about houses

C. people built houses only with materials that were easy to get

D. different houses were made of different materials

（2）The houses in cold mountain regions ________ .

[　　]

A. must be located in places without strong wind

B. are built nearly against the mountain

C. have not changed much

D. are built with mud tops

（3）The main idea of paragraph 2 may be that _______ .

[　　]

A. modern houses are efficiently heated and cooled

B. modern designers dislike the old tradition

C. modern designers have changed the old tradition

D. modern designers have learned from the old tradition

（4）Some modern houses are built ________ .

[　　]

A. in mountain areas

B. half-buried in the ground

C. where modern building materials are available

D. with good heating and cooling systems

（5）The author develops his topic sentence by ________ .

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　　It's seven in the morning. Mr Li needn't go to work today. He knows English and is now looking through a list of TV programmes in today's newspaper. The list is as follows. Read it over and then do the exercises.

　　TV programmes

　　Friday, September 30

　　Channel 2（频道2）

　　9∶50 Olympic Games men's basketball final

　　11∶40 Olympic Games track and field events

　　19∶45 Olympic Games special

　　20∶22 2002 National Day evening party

　　20∶59 TV drama（戏剧）: Juan and Her Braised Ship (1)

　　22∶57 Olympic Games men's basketball final

　　Channel 8

　　9∶40 Daughter of the Sea

　　14∶20 Olympic Games men's tennis single final

　　15∶50 TV drama: Red Leaves Beyond the Mountain (3)

　　16∶37 TV drama: The Tea House

　　18∶00 Olympic Games women's table tennis double final

　　CCTV English Service

　　22∶10 News

　　22∶30 Olympic Games Special

　　Friday, 22nd October

　　Dear Michael and Lisa,

　　You are invited to a farewell party for the“LIU FAMILY'S VISIT TO AUSTRALIA”.

　　Departure（出发）date: 4th of November

　　The best part of our big adventure to Australia will be when we come face to face with kangaroos and other Australian wildlife.

　　Party given by: Mr and Mrs Liu, Liu Mei and Liu Tang

　　Date: Saturday, 6 November, 2002

　　Time: 7∶00 p. m. until 12∶30 a. m.

　　Place: Beijing Hotel

　　Reply by: Tuesday, 2 November

　　Phone: 528--0903

　　Food and drinks will be provided at the party.

　　PS: This event is NOT to be missed!

　　We hope to see you there.

(1) Mr Li wants to find out what day it is the day after National Day. Please help him find it out. It is ________.

[　　]

(2) Suppose Mr Li wants to watch TV in the morning and he doesn't feel much interested in sports or games. Which program would he like to choose?

[　　]

A．CCTV English Service, News.

B．Channel 2,2002 National Day evening party.

C．Channel 8, film: Daughter of the Sea.

D．Channel 8, TV Drama: The Tea House.

(3) From the invitation we can tell ________.

[　　]

A．Liu Mei and Liu Tang will attend the farewell party

B．only Mr and Mrs Liu will travel to Australia

C．the Liu family have been to Australia before

D．the Liu family will not return from Australia

(4) By what date is it necessary to reply to the invitation?

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　　Gates, William Henry Ⅲ, is the American business executive（管理人员）who serves as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft Corporation, the leading computer software（软件）company in the United States. Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 together with his high school friend Paul Allen. The company's success made Gates one of the most successful figures in the computer industry and, at last the richest person in the world.

　　Born in Seattle, Washington, Gates attended public school through the sixth grade. In the seventh grade he entered Seattle's exclusive Lakeside School, where he met Paul Allen. Gates was first introduced to computers and programming languages in 1968, when he was in the eight grade. That year Lakeside bought a teletype（电传打字）machine that connected to a main computer over phone lines. At that time, the school was one of the few that provided students with access（连接）to a computer.

　　Soon afterwards, Gates, Allen, and other students persuaded a local computer company to give them free access to its PDP--10, a new mini-computer made by Digital Equipment Corporation. In exchange for the computer time, the students tried to find flaws（缺陷）in the system. Gates spent much of his free time on the PDP--10, learning programming languages such as BASIC, FORTRAN, and LISP, In 1972 Gates and Allen founded Traf--0-- Data, a company that designed and built computerized car--counting machines for traffic analysis（分析）. The project served to introduce them to programmable 8006 microprocessor（微处理器）from Intel Corporation.

(1) We can judge that an exclusive school is one that is ________.

[　　]

A．very old

B．the only one

C．not found elsewhere and is for the wealthy only

D．not open to students with average intelligence

(2) Which of the following gives the right order of how Gates prepared himself to enter the computer industry?

[　　]

a．learned the basic knowledge and skill of the computer

b．was allowed to use a mini-computer freely

c．got to know 8006 microprocessor for the first time

d．spent much time learning programming languages

e．founded Traf--0--Data

(3) In which field were the products of Traf-- 0--Data mainly used?

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　　We used to go into different chat rooms on different websites. If you wanted to meet someone on the Net, you had to go into the same chat room. But now regular Net surfers chat on OICQ.

　　OICQ is an online chat software which is invented by Tencent Computer System Company of Shenzhen in February, 1999. Since then it has swept the country. Its symbol is a penguin wearing a red scarf.

　　Net friends can be divided into a buddy list (for good friends), a stranger list (for people you don't want to talk with at once), or an ignore list (for people you want to avoid on the Net). You can also build up family lists, co-worker lists, etc.

　　You can know whether listed friends are online as long as you use it. The cartoon portrait（画像）of the person turns bright if he is online. And the portrait turns dim if he is not there.

　　Traditional public chat rooms are often chaotic. It is difficult to focus on a conversation. OICQ can conduct a focused talk without interruptions by other chatters.

　　OICQ as a regular daily communication tool.“What is your OICQ number?”has become a modem topic.

(1) OICQ is ________.

[　　]

A．a special chat room for all cyber citizens（网民）

B．a cartoon portrait to recognize friends on the Net

C．an online chat software that helps you talk on the Net more freely

D．a modern phone number used by more and more people

(2) With the help of OICQ, if you don't want to chat with someone, you can put him in ________.

[　　]

(3) In the fifth paragraph, the underlined word“chaotic”means ________.

[　　]

There is a lot of luck in drilling for oil. The drill may just miss the oil although it is near; on the other hand, it may strike oil at a fairly high level. When the drill goes down, it brings up soil. The soil is examined for traces(痕迹) of oil. If they are disappointed at one place, the drillers go to another. A lot of money has been spent, for example, in the deserts of Egypt, in “searching” for oil. Sometimes little is found. When we buy some petrol(汽油) for our cars, we pay not only the cost of the petrol, but also part of the cost of the search that is always going on.

1. The driller is unlucky when the drill_______.

A. goes very near the oil without striking it

B. brings up oil

C. strikes oil at a fairly high level

D. does not bring up oil

2. The cost of unsuccessful drilling is_______.

A. met by the driller

B. paid by the government

C. included in the selling price of petrol

D. returned by the oil wells

3. According to the passage, which of the following is right?

A. The drillers are the kings of the oil field, and the engineers are their people.

B. The drillers always send their drills more than a mile into the earth.

C. Sometimes the oil wells may be destroyed by the fire because the great pressure of gas and oil.

D. If you go to the desert of Egypt, you’ll see a lot of oil wells.

1. One of the extraordinary qualities of glass is that it can carry_______.

A. any signal    　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  B. light signals

C. sound signals    　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. electrical signals

2. Before you can hear a message on the telephone using the new system_______.

A. the light signals have to be changed into electrical sound

B. neither the light nor the electrical signals have to be changed in any way

C. light must first be changed into electrical signals and then into sound

D. electrical signals must first be changed into light signals and then into sound

3. According to the passage the new telephone communication system_______.

A. was put on experiment in 1977

B. had been put into actual use by 1977

C. had been repeatedly experimented before 1977

D. was first put into actual use in 1977

4. From the passage, you can tell that people prefer glass fiber cables to copper cables because_______.

A. glass fiber is easier to make

B. glass fiber is less expensive

C. glass fiber is more up to date

D. glass fiber delivers messages directly

5. Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage?

A. Light signals have changed the use of glass in industry.

B. Glass fibers have reduced the cost of telephone communication.

C. Glass is very useful because it has many unusual qualities.

D. The use of glass fibers to carry telephone messages is an interesting new development.

Brussels(布鲁塞尔) meanwhile has the Manneken Piss(撒尿小童). Think of the Belgian(比利时的) capital and if anything, you think of the small peeing(撒尿) boy—a 60-centimeter-high bronze figure standing on a block, supplying a constant stream of water to the basin under him.

Some might laugh. But for Jacques Stroobants, the statue is up there with the best of them. “I am proud of him. People come from all around the world to see him, ”says 60-year-old Stroobants with a fatherly glance at the little boy.

As the most famous landmark of Brussels, Manneken Piss has a very special place in the heart of Belgians.

The original Manneken Piss dates back to 1388, but the statue tourists see today dates from 1619 when the city built a second one, after the original was destroyed.

There are many stories surrounding the legend of Manneken Piss. Nobody knows why he was created. One story is that he saved Brussels by putting out the flames of a deadly fire with his well-aimed wee-wee(小便). But the most believable story is that the boy—the son of a wealthy nobleman(贵族) —was missing and feared kidnapped(绑架). The father had a statue built in honor of the way his son was found—peeing against a tree.

1. The Manneken Piss is the symbol of__________, which stands on a block of__________.

A. England; the capital

B. Italy; a provincial capital　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

C. Belgium; the capital

D. Swede; the capital

2. Why does the Manneken Piss have a very special place in the heart of Belgians?

A. Because it provides a good resting place for the Belgians.

B. Because it is a special statue with many beautiful and moving legends.

C. Because it’s good-looking with water running continuously.

D. Because it helps the Belgians make a lot of money every year.

3. If Belgians regard the Manneken as a hero, they may be more willing to believe the statue was made__________.

A. for a country boy who was peeing against a big tree

B. in honor of the boy who saved Brussels by putting out the flames of a big fire with his wee-wee

C. in honor of a little Belgian soldier who gave his life for his country

D. for the son of a rich man who was lost