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　　Most animals have little connection with animals of a different kind, unless they hunt them for food. Sometimes, however, two kinds of animals come together in a partnership(伙伴关系) which does good to both of them. You may have noticed some birds sitting on the backs of sheep. This is not because they want a ride, but because they find easy food in the parasites (寄生虫) on sheep. The sheep allow the birds to do so because they remove the cause of discomfort. So although they can manage without each other, they do better together.

　　Sometimes an animal has a plant partner. The relationship develops until the two partners cannot manage without each other. This is so in the corals(珊瑚)of the sea. In their skins they have tiny plants which act as“dustman”, taking some of the waste products from the coral and giving in return oxygen which the animal needs to breathe. If the plants are killed, or are even prevented from light so that they cannot live normally, the corals will die.

1．Some birds like to sit on a sheep because ________.

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A．they can eat its parasites

B．they depend on the sheep for existence

C．they enjoy traveling with the sheep

D．they find the position most comfortable

2．The underlined word“they”in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to ________.

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3．It can be learnt from the text that the coral depends on the plant for ________.

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4．What does the second paragraph mainly discuss?

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A．Some animals and plants depend on each other for existence.

B．Some animals and plants develop their relationship easily.

C．Some plants depend on each other for food.

D．Some animals live better together.

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　　John keeps a record(记录) of new words and expressions in English. He usually writes them in a note-book. Then, later in the day, he asks his teacher about them.“Mrs Thomas, these expressions are new to me. ‘She's blue today’, ‘You're yellow’, ‘A little white lie’, ‘She has green fingers’.”After looking at the note - book, Mrs Thomas says, “In everyday English, John, ‘blue’ sometimes means sad. ‘Yellow’ means afraid. A person with ‘green fingers’ grows plants successfully. And ‘a white lie’ is not a bad lie.”“I don't understand. Please give me an example.”“For example, I offer you some cake. The truth is that you don't like my cake. You don't say that. Instead, you say,‘No, thanks. I'm not hungry. ’That's a white lie.”John says,“I see, thanks for the explanation!”

1．“Blue” in spoken English sometimes means “________”.

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2．A person with“green fingers”is one who ________ planting.

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3．“You're yellow to fight” means“________”.

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4．If you say“It's a white lie”, it means that someone ________.

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A．says something unreal and harmful

B．is unfriendly to talk to others

C．refuses to tell the truth in a polite way

D．is telling a big lie

5．When someone offers you something to eat, which you don't like, what should you say?

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　　Once there were both father and son who were ill-tempered(坏脾气) and never gave way to others. One day, the father decided to invite some guests to dinner in his house. He sent his son to buy some meat in town.

　　After he got what he wanted, the son turned back and walked towards the town gate. Just then a man was coming from the outside. Being narrow, the gate couldn't let two men in and out at the same time. But neither of them would give way to the other. They stood straight, face to face inside the gate minute after minute. However, it worried the father.

　　“What shall I do?…He hasn't yet returned home. But I can't wait any more.”He was eager to know what on earth was the matter with his son. Leaving the guests at home, he himself went to town to look for his son. When he caught sight of the array(架势) between his son and the other man, he said to his son, “You may first take the meat home to entertain(招待) the guests. Let me stand here against him instead of you.”

1．In the passage the writer ________.

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A．sang high praise for the father and his son

B．criticized(批评) both of them for their unusual act

C．enjoyed the father and the son's heroic act

D．was surprised at what they both did

2．What worried the father very much was that ________.

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A．he hadn't any meat for the guests

B．his son might fight others again outside

C．his son gave no way to others

D．his son had too much meat to carry home

3．The father left his guests at home and went out because ________.

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A．he would go to town for the meat instead of his son.

B．he knew his son was stopped and would go to help him

C．he was afraid that his son couldn't find the meat spot

D．he was eager to know what was happening to his son then

4．What did the father do when he saw the array between them?

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A．He did what his son was doing.

B．He taught his son a good lesson.

C．He persuaded them not to do so.

D．He gave the other man a good beating.

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　　The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world. It is also, perhaps, the gentlest; but not always!

　　Elephants are like us in some ways. They live for a long timefifty or sixty years. They can remember things very well. They never forget great sadness or great happiness. A female elephant dies, her daughters and her grand-daughters are sad for many months. They stay with the dead body. Then they carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a dear friend.

　　Elephants are like us, but they are also different. They live in families, families of females. There will be a few young malesa few“baby boys.”But the females will soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers, grandmothers and its great-grand-mothers.

　　The females stay together for fifty, sixty…a hundred years. The older animals look after the younger ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.

　　And what happens to male elephants? Well, the young males stay with their mothers for a time. Then they must leave the family. The females just send them away. A bull(雄性) elephant does not often have a friend. He lives apart, away from the family, and often away from other bulls.

　　Sometimes the females call a bull. He can visit them then, and stay for a time. But soon his“wives”and sisters send him away again. The females have a very happy family life. What do the bulls think about it? We don't know.

1．Elephants are very sad when ________.

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A．their parents die

B．a bull leaves their family

C．they are attacked by men

D．they lose a female in the family

2．When a female elephant dies, the others ________.

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A．leave its dead body there

B．shed(流出)tears together

C．take a bit of the dead body away sadly

D．bury the dead

3．An adult bull elephant often ________.

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4．The best title is ________.

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　　Many experiments have been done to see what happens to people if they aren't allowed to naturally follow the sleep cycle (循环). In the experiments people are functional(起作用) normally if they aren't allowed to dream. They are woken as soon as they enter the active part of the sleep cycle where dreaming takes place. They are tested to decide how this has effects on them.

　　In many experiments, the people being tested went to sleep. As soon as their eyes began to move, a sign that dreaming had begun, they were awakened(唤醒). Two important changes took place in people. They became very nervous and easily to get angry if they weren't allowed to dream. And, the more often they were awakened, the more often they tried to dream. In other words, the length of the passive(消极的) part of the sleep cycle became shorter and shorter. The researchers came to the conclusion that dreaming was caused by some chemical in the brain and that the brain produced the chemical for dreaming to take place. The fact that people tried to dream more if they weren't allowed to dream naturally led us to believe that we need to dream in order to be in balance.

1．Scientists have done many experiments to see ________.

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A．whether or not people dream in their sleep

B．how many dreams a person has in his or her sleep

C．whether people can act normally if they aren't allowed to dream in their sleep

D．what kind of people dream in their sleep

2．When one is asleep, the movement of his eyes shows that ________.

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A．he is going to sleep

B．he is going to awake

C．he begins to dream

D．he is dreaming something interesting

3．One becomes ________ if he is not allowed to dream in his sleep.

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　　Today is the date of that afternoon in April a year ago when I first saw the strange and attractive doll (玩具娃娃) in the window of Abe Shefter's toy shop on Third Avenue near Fifteenth Street, just around the corner from my office, where the plate on the door reads; Dr Samuel Amory. I remember just how it was that day: the first sign of spring floated across the East River, mixing with the soft coal smoke from the factories and the street smells of the poor neighbourhood. As I turned the corner on my way to work and came to Sheftel's. I was made once more known of the poor collection of toys in the dusty window, and I remembered the coming birthday of a samll niece of mine in Cleveland, to whom I was in the habit of sending small gifts. Therefore I stopped and examined the window to see if there might be anything suitable and looked at the collection of unattractive objectsa red toy fire engine, some lead soldiers, cheap baseballs, bottles of ink, pens, yellow envelopes and advertisements for soft-drinks. And thus it was that my eyes finally came to rest upon the doll stored away in one corner, a doll with the strangest, moat charming expression on her face. I could not wholly make her out, due to the shadows and film of dust through which I was looking; but I was sure that a deep impression had been made upon me as though I had run into a person, as one does sometimes with a stranger, with whose personality one is deeply impressed.

1．What made an impression on the author?

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A．The doll's unusual face.

B．A stranger he met at the store.

C．The collection of toys.

D．The beauty and size of the doll.

2．Why does the author mention his niece?

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A．She likes dolls.

B．She lives near Sheftel's.

C．He was looking for a gift for her.

D．The doll looks like her.

3．Why did the writer go past Sheftel's?

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A．He wanted to buy some envelopes.

B．He was looking for a present for his riece.

C．He was on his way to school.

D．He was on his way to work.

4．The story takes place in ________.

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阅读理解

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　　Can you imagine how difficult life would become if all supplies of paper suddenly disappeared? Banks and post offices, schools and colleges would be forced to close. Food makers would be unable to cover or label(标明) their products. There would be no magazines, newspapers or books. And we would be no longer be able to write to our friends and relations(亲戚).

　　Those would be only a few of the troubles of paperless world. Everywhere we turn we find paper without it our modern world would come to a stop. Paper is the lifeblood of industry, the bringer of news and the distributor(传播者) of knowledge. It wouldn't be much fun writing our letters or schoolwork on slates(石板)!

1．The author imagines ________.

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A．paperless past

B．the future without paper

C．the world without paper

D．the time we would use slates instead of paper

2．The passage tells us that ________ in a country.

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A．paper is very important

B．paper is badly needed

C．newspapers and magazines are very important

D．we can not use slates now

3．The passage supports which of the following conclusions(结论)? A serious paper shortage(短缺) could ________.

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A．affect(影响) a country's literacy(文化)

B．reduce the level of spending

C．benefit(有益)the tourist trade

D．encourage better education

4．Which sentence in the passage supports the conclusion that paper is a universal(广用的) commodity(物品)?

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A．There would be no newspapers, of books.

B．Everywhere we turn we find paper.

C．We would no longer be able to write letters.

D．Paper is the lifeblood of industry.

阅读理解

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项．

　　In the United States everyone has the right to have a trial (审判) by jury(陪审团). If a person is charged with a crime(罪行) he says he did not do. He may have a trial. He is brought before a jury made up of twelve people. The members of the jury listen to facts about the crime. They decide whether the person is guilty(有罪的) or not guilty.

　　Long ago in England, people did not have trials by jury. Other ways were used to find whether or not a person was guilty.

　　A man might have a“trial by fire”. A piece of iron was heated and placed in his hand. He held the hot iron and took three steps. Then his hand was wrapped up. At the end of three days, the hard was unwrapped. If the hand was well, the man was set free. If the hand still hurt, the man was guilty.

　　In the 1100s, trial by jury began in England. Under King Henry Ⅱ, the first juries were chosen. Slowly, trials by fire became less common. A trial by jury was a better way to decide who was guilty and who was not guilty.

1．The story does not say so, but it makes you think that ________.

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A．trial by fire is used today in Europe

B．people in England still have trial by jury

C．people who burn their hands are guilty of a crime

D．people were fairly tried in the past

2．On the whole, this story is about ________.

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3．Why did trials by jury become more common?

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A．People wanted to see what was going on.

B．People wanted a better way to decide who was guilty.

C．England wanted to use iron for other things.

D．It was not worth too much to do that.

4．Which of these sentences do you think is right?

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A．People in England have always had trial by jury.

B．A jury is chosen by the president.

C．Fair trials came about slowly.

D．People thought trials by fire was fair.

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阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项．

　　The world is divided into two main parts. The difference is that one part is rich and the other is poor. In the poor part, a lot of people never get enough to eat. In the rich part, a lot of people eat too much. In one part, children go hungry and in the other, a lot of people get fatter and fatter and go on diets, or do special exercises in order to lose weight, The poorer countries are called“the developing countries”. They have special problems. Sometimes the land is too poor to grow anything on. The land can be improved but a lot of things must be done first. New farming methods must be found. The people must be educated. Water must be found. Many of the problems are too big for one country to solve alone. Help must be given by the richer countries but it must be the right sort of help. Money is not enough. The developing countries must be helped to help themselves. But rich countries have problems, too. They are not always very pleasant. Usually, it is the things that make them rich and that also make them unpleasant. Sometimes the air is too bad to breathe and the rivers are too dirty to swim in or to take water from.

1．In the rich part, a lot of people ________.

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A．go hungry and get thinner and thinner

B．eat much in order to get fatter and fatter

C．never get enough to eat

D．have to do something to prevent themselves from getting fatter and fatter

2．One of the problems to be solved in the poorer countries is that ________.

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A．the air is too bad to breathe

B．the rivers are too dirty to take water from

C．the poor land must be improved

D．water must be made clean

3．The sentence“the air is too bad to breathe” means ________.

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A．the air is bed enough to breathe

B．the air is not bad enough as to breathe

C．the air is so bad that people can not breathe it

D．the air is very bad so that people can breathe it

4．The best title for the passage is ________.

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A．The Developing Countries

B．The Poorer Part of the World

C．The Difference Between the Two Parts of the World

D．How to Help Each Other

阅读理解

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　　The story is told of a foreign student studying in an English-speaking country. She was reading a book by the window when she heard someone shout“look out!”She put her head out to see what was going on. Just then a board came flying down from above, missing her head by just a few feet. She pulled her head in quickly. Then out of anger, she carefully put her head out again and looking up. There was a man doing repairs.

　　“Didn't you hear me call out?”he asked.

　　“Yes, that's what I did,”she answered angrily.

　　True or not, this story shows the problem with idioms(成语) in a language. Idioms are an important part of a language. But they can be a problem for a foreign student of the language. Often it is impossible to get the meaning from the words themselves. In this story, the young woman did look, but“Look out!”as a set phrase has a different meaning. It means“Take care!”when shouted, it is a cry of warning, meaning “Danger!”

　　A beginner is often at a loss when he meets many of the idioms for the first time. What does a particular(特定的) idiom mean? In order to get its meaning, he should look it up in a dictionary. When he first uses such idioms, he is sure to run into a lot of trouble. But he shouldn't give up trying. If he keeps at it long enough, he will learn and things will turn out well in the end.

1．When the man above shouted“Look out!”, he just wanted to tell people ________.

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2．Why did the young woman get angry?

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A．The man above told her to put her head out.

B．The board from above nearly hit her head.

C．The man above shouted at her.

D．Her head was hit by the flying board.

3．The writer tells the story in order to show that ________.

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A．there are many idioms in all kinds of languages

B．people may have many problems with idioms in learning a foreign language

C．each idiom has a lot of problems in a language

D．idioms are an important part of a language though they are difficult to grasp

4．Which of the following does NOT agree with the writer's opinion?

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A．A foreign student of the language often feels headaches when he meets idioms.

B．It is common for a beginner to have lots of trouble at first.

C．If we keep studying the idioms, we are sure to learn well with the help of the dictionary.

D．You must know the meaning of the idioms if you know each word of them.