阅读理解

　　Enduring Storms

　　Several more rounds of severe storms, tornadoes and flash flooding struck many parts of the American Midwest and Northeast as bad weather continued across the US for a second month.

　　Monsoon Storms

　　A south-west monsoon has caused havoc in parts of SriLanka. Government meteorologists said that unexpected monsoonal winds blew directly across the country from the Southern Hemisphere at about 100 km/h, producing several rounds of stormy weather. Nearly 250 houses in the capital Colombo were damaged.

For the week ending 3 July 1998

　　Mt. Etna Erupts

　　Sicily’s Mount Etna volcano erupted shortly after midnight on July 1, shooting“bombs”of lava nearly 1.5 metres in diameter on the eastern side of the mountain. The 30-minute eruption could be seen for several miles, but did not threaten any nearby villages.

　　Hurricane

　　Hurricane Blas lost strength as it moved over cooler waters in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Mexico. Blasformed off southwest Mexico during the previous week, but squalls on the outer fringes of the storm lashed western Michoacan State, killing four people when their wood and cardboard home collapsed.

　　Monkey Repellent

　　After years of unsuccessful attempts to keep crop-eating monkeys out of Japanese fields, a Tokyo research team believes that it may have finally found a way to prevent the damage caused by the monkeys. Animal raids on crops were successfully prevented by shooting chilli powder into the air, irritating the eyes and noses of monkeys that passed in front of carefully-placed warning sensors.“We’ve tried…all kinds of preventive measures, but the monkeys are smart enough to outwit the tricks,”said Toshiaki Wada, Director of the Tokyo Forestry Experiment Station in western Tokyo.

1．The monsoon is Sri Lanka ________.

[　　]

A．was of average strength

B．destroyed more property than previous monsoons

C．was not typical for that time of the year

D．affected only the outer areas of the nation

2．What aspect of Hurricane Blas does the map show?

[　　]

3．According to the information, which of the following statements is TRUE?

[　　]

A．The eruption of Mt. Etna lasted thirty days.

B．Hurricane Blas was formed off the coast of Italy.

C．The American Midwest had fine weather throughout July 1998.

D．The eruption of Mt. Etna did not destroy local villages.

4．According to the information, the monkeys in the Japanese fields ________.

[　　]

A．destroy crops

B．kill unsuspecting humans

C．spread eye diseases to humans

D．stop farmers from working

5．Toshiaki Wada, Director of the Tokyo Forestry Experiment Station, would describe the monkeys as ________.

[　　]

阅读理解

　　A grown-up person has ten Or eleven pints(品脱) of blood inside his or her body. We can lose a pint of blood without feeling anything, but if we lose a great deal of blood, we feel weak and cold. Our faces become pale. We may die.

　　This is what often happens when somebody is hurt in an accident(事故)or a soldier is hurt in a battle. Many people used to die in this way. But nowadays(当今) they can be taken to the hospital. If they are given more blood at once, they will feel better. Their faces are no longer pale. They do not die.

　　Where does this blood come from? People who are healthy give some blood so that it can be used in this way. Every three months they go to a place where blood is collected. A special kind of needle(注射针) is put into the arm. It does not hurt. The blood runs through the needle and through a rubber tube (胶管) into a bottle. A pint of blood is taken in this way. Then the person who has given the blood drinks a cup of tea or coffee. He sits down for a few minutes. Then he feels quite well and goes off. Three months later he comes back and gives another pint.

　　A person who gives blood in this way feels happy. He knows that his blood will be used to save someone’s life. Perhaps one day he himself will need blood.

　　When you are older, you may decide to give blood in this way. But you cannot do this until you are eighteen.

1．There are ________ pints of blood in a grown-up body.

[　　]

2．When people who have lost a lot of blood are given more blood they ________.

[　　]

A．slowly feel better

B．feel weak and ill

C．become pale

D．feel better very quickly

3．When people give blood, the blood is collected in a ________.

[　　]

4．A person who has given blood can give blood again after ________.

[　　]

A．ten weeks

B．drinking a cup of tea or coffee

C．three months

D．eighteen months

5．A person cannot give blood if he is ________.

[　　]

阅读理解

　　You are what you eat. This saying has provided scientists with clues(线索) about the diet of hominidsour early relatives of 3 million years ago.

　　Studying carbon atoms(碳原子) locked up in tooth enamel （珐琅质), two researchers argue against the widely held belief that hominids ate little more than fruits and leaves. Sponheimer and Julia Lee-Thorp of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, report their findings in Friday’s Science.

　　There aren’t many clues for us to know the life of early hominids. The shape of hominids’ teeth offered the first clues. Large and flatedged with thick enamel, they looked perfect for eating nuts and fruits, different from the sharp teeth one would want to tear into meat with. The first stone tools, which would help in eating meat, didn’t appear until about half a million years later.

　　Scientists have also found marks on hominids’ teeth with patterns very similar to those on the teeth of modernday fruit eaters. Sponheimer and Lee－Thorp tried a new method, looking at the chemical composition of the tooth enamel. They studied the enamel for the carbon-13. Animals that eat grasses have higher carbon-13 levels than those eating fruits and other plants.

　　What they found was that the teeth of the hominids had an in-between amount of carbon-13, which meant not only they were eating fruits, they were eating a lot of grasses, or animals eating grasses. The lower carbon-13 levels could also come from eating certain types of insects(昆虫).

　　But there are people who understand differently. Prof. Ungar of the University of Arkansas agrees the study offers new suggestions of hominid diet, but disagrees about the suggestion that meat could explain the lower carbon-13 levels.

　　One suggestion might be true though-take good care of your teeth. In 3 millon years, a scientist might be using them to figure out what you ate for dinner.

1．Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

[　　]

A．Protect Your Teeth

B．What the Hominid Ate

C．Where the Hominid Lived

D．The Formation of Tooth Enamel

2．Before the two scientists’ findings, most people thought that hominids ________.

[　　]

A．lived half a million years ago

B．used tools to dig grass

C．ate mainly fruits and leaves

D．had sharp teeth

3．The two scientists’ findings were mainly based on the study about ________.

[　　]

A．the shape of horninids’ teeth

B．the teeth marks of early fruit eaters

C．the grasses of 3 million years ago

D．the make - up of the tooth enamel

4．What is it that Prof. Ungar finds doubtful?

[　　]

A．Hominids possibly ate grass - eating animals.

B．Hominids probably had different diets.

C．Hominids were basically fruit-and grass-eaters.

D．Hominids had lower level of carbon-13 in their teeth.

阅读理解

　　Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely you are there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistable, althought this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather ,dull book. You soon become engrossed(使全神贯注) in some books or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment－without buying a book, of course.

　　This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart’s content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with inevitable greeting:“Can I help you, sir?”You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing(浏览书刊). Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire carefully and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.

　　You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass－rubbing something that had only vaguely interested you up until then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section.

1．“Dust-jacket”(Line 5, Para. l) probably means ________.

[　　]

A．a kind of clothes

B．protecting paper cover of a book

C．book cover full of dust

D．title of a book

2．You may spend too much time in a bookshop because ________.

[　　]

A．the dust-jackets of some books are very attractive

B．you start reading one of the books

C．it keeps raining outside

D．you have to make sure you don’t buy a dull book as a present

3．An assistant help is needed ________.

[　　]

A．as soon as you have entered the shop

B．before you start browsing

C．only when you have finished browsing

D．when you have determined your choice

4．Picking up books that vaguely interest you can be dangerous because ________.

[　　]

A．you may forget about the book you plan to buy

B．you have to give up the best-selling book

C．it make you break your appointment

D．it costs you too much money and time

阅读理解

　　Health officials call it a slight disease, but many thousands of people know better. Their temperature rises to 102°F, yet they feel cold. Their muscles and bones hurt, every cough and sneeze is painful, and they feel so tired that they can hardly reach for an aspirin or a glass of water, even while lying in bed.

　　The cause of all this is A2-Hong Kong-68, better know as“Hong Kong Flu”that travels easily from one person to another with the slightest sneeze of cought. The disease was officially named for the place where it was first found. A Hong Kong newspaper noted sadly,“We want our city to be well known, but not for this.”

　　After spreading quickly to many thousands of men, women, and children in the Far East, the disease travelled with the speed of a jet airplane to the United“We have been running a tide against this flu,”says a Los Angeles medical officer,“and we have lost.”

　　Most people who catch the disease live in crowded cities. For some, it is just a cold that lasts three or four days. But there are others－mainly old people, young children, and heavy smokers－for whom the disease can mean death, either directly, or through other disease that their bodies, weakened by the Hong Kong flu, were unable to fight off.

　　“You wouldn’t tell anybody you had a cold when you could tell them you had the Hong Kong flu,”noted one health officer.

1．The disease is called a slight disease only because ________.

[　　]

A．it travels with the slight sneeze or cough

B．it spread quickly from the East to the West without making any sound

C．there is slight hope for the disease catcher to get well again

D．it lasts three or four days for some people

2．From the passage, we can see the Hong Kong people ________.

[　　]

A．are not glad the disease has the name

B．don’t want to be well known

C．didn’t accept the name of the disease

D．are proud of the disease

3．Which of the following sentences is untrue?

[　　]

A．People who catch the disease feel cold though their temperature is very high.

B．The flu causes death all by itself.

C．Coughs and sneezes have spread the disease.

D．The Hong Kong Health officials think the flu is not very serious.

4．Why do you suppose some people would tell their friends they had the Hong Kong flu? It is probable that ________.

[　　]

A．once people have had the flu, they won’t get that kind again

B．some people are not afraid of the disease

C．their friends won’t catch the disease

D．their friends are not old ones

5．It is obvious that ________.

[　　]

A．the Hong Kong people are more afraid of the flu than afraid of a cold

B．the Hong Kong people are more afraid of a cold than afraid of the flu

C．Hong Kong is more afraid of the flu than Los Angeles

D．Los Angeles is more afraid of the flu than Hong Kong

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选择中选出最佳选项。

　　Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, but few people are even just a little skilled at pronouncing foreign languages. Now there are many reasons for this some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest that the important reason why people in general do not speak foreign languages very much better than they do is that fail to grasp the true nature of the problem of learning to pronounce, and as a result never set about dealing with it in the right way. Far too many people fail to realize that pronouncing a foreign language is skill, one that needs careful training of a special kind, and one that cannot be reached just leaving it to take care of itself. I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the importance of a good accent, tend to take no notice of, in their practical teaching, the branch of study concerned with speaking the language. So, the first point I want to make is that English pronunciation must be taught; the teacher should be prepared to devote some of the lesson time to this and his whole attitude to the subject should get the student to feel that here is matter worthy of receiving his close attention. So, there should be time when other aspects (方面) of English, such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to take second place.

　　Apart from this question of the time given to pronunciation, there are two other requirements for the teacher: the first, knowledge; the second, technique.

　　It is important that the teacher should be in possession of the necessary information. This can generally be learned from books. It is possible to get from books some idea of the mechanics of speech, and of what we call general phonetic(语音) theory. It is also possible in this may to get a clear mental picture of the relationship between the sounds of different languages, between the speech habits of English people and those, say, of your students. Unless the teacher has such a picture, any comments he may make on his students’ pronunciation are unlikely to be of much use, and lesson time spent on pronunciation may well be time wasted.

1．According to the passage, ________ pronouncing foreign languages.

[　　]

A．few people are extremely good at

B．even modem people are not good at

C．only few people are somewhat good at

D．few people are at the average level in

2．According to the author, pronunciation is a skill that can NOT be ________.

[　　]

A．picked up without consicious training

B．trained consciously

C．be taught

D．be carefully trained

3．In the author’s opinion, ________.

[　　]

A．grammar is less important than pronunciation

B．grammar and spelling should always make room for pronunciation

C．grammar and spelling are sometimes less important than pronunciation

D．grammar is more important than spelling

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选择中选出最佳选项。

　　For Sale, Instructions, & Lost & Found

　　APARTMENT FURNITURE, used, armchairs, couches, desks, single beds, dressers, lamps, and tables. Reasonable priced. 371-2498. CLEAN MATTRESS & box spring $40, sewing machine $20, portable typewriter $15, 351-4458. WOMEN’ S 3-speed Columbia bike, excellent condition, $45 include lock and chain. Call Laurie a. m or evenings, 372-8579.

　　LEARN TO PLAY GUITAR-Group lessons offered in all levels, in guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, singing, clogging and more. Register now at ELDERLY INSTRUMENTS, 541 East Grand River, East Lansing. 332-4331.

　　LOST LAST term-Gold Swiss Bucherer watch, woman’s. If found, call 353-8651 any time. Reward. REWARD $20. Lost Friday night, in Spartan Village, a black, long haired female cat. If know whereabouts, please call 355-1089 after 6.

1．If you want to buy a second-hand women’s bike, you have to call ________ and pay at least ________.

[　　]

2．If you really want to learn fiddle, you should ________ at ________.

[　　]

A．call 349-5179; East Grand River

B．call 355-1089; Spartan Village

C．register now; Elderly Instruments

D．Call Laurie; a.m. or evenings

3．If you find the lost cat, you can get a reward of ________.

[　　]

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选择中选出最佳选项。

　　As you are receiving my note by e-mail, it’s wise to remember how easily this wonderful technology can be misused, sometimes unintentionally, with serious consequences.

　　Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail. Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away, only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor (屏幕), let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:

　　DEAREST WIFE: JUST GOT CHECKED IN. EVERYTHING PREPARED FOR YOUR ARRIVAL TOMORROW.

　　P. S. SURE IS HOT DOWN HERE.

1．From where do you think this passage comes from? It comes from ________.

[　　]

2．What does the underlined word in the first paragraph mean? ________.

[　　]

3．How was the weather in Florida when the story happened? it was ________.

[　　]

4．Why did the old lady fall to the floor? Because ________.

[　　]

A．she was in great sorrow

B．she didn’t like to be made fun of

C．she thought the mail was from her husband who died the day before

D．she was in too poor health

5．From whom and to whom was the e-mail intended to be sent? It was intended to sent from ________ to ________.

[　　]

A．the Illinois man; the old lady

B．the preacher; his wife

C．the Illinois man; his own wife

D．somebody unknown; the old lady

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选择中选出最佳选项。

　　Such English idioms as“as poor as a church mouse”and“like a drowned(淹死的) rat”remind people of the unfavorable images(形象) of mice and rats. But with his efforts in the 20th, an American young man Walt Disney changed people’s view.

　　Born in 1901 in Chicago, Walt Disney was a newspaper seller, and was fond of drawing pictures. Later he went to study arts in a Chicago institute. One day when he was thinking hard how to draw a picture in a building, several mice crawled(爬)onto the drawing board. Walt fed them with bread bits, and they played happily.

　　Suddenly an idea struck Walt. He drew a mouse on the paper and named it Mickey. Then Walt began to make cartoon films based on Mickey. He also made use of the newest skill in dubbing(为……配音) in his cartoons so that Mickey was able to talk. In 1932 a Walt Disney cartoon film won the Oscar.

　　In mid－1950s, Walt planned a Disneyland in California, and within 10 years, Mickey, the little mouse, helped him to make 200 million dollars. Then another Disneyland was set up in Florida. Mickey Mouse seemed to become the symbol(象征) of American amusements.

　　In the Mickey Mouse films, when Mickey did anything wrong or foolish, letters of protest(抗议) would soon be sent to. Disney. He then created(创作) Donald Duck and Pluto to do the silly things so that Mickey was always pretty and honest. With Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney challenged(挑战) the worldly view that it was able to change the nature of anything born in dirty surroundings.

1．Mice and rats will bring people some harm ________.

[　　]

A．so people are tired of them

B．because they often destroy food and buildings.

C．and the number of them is increasing very fast

D．because they are the most dirt animals in the world

2．The text tells that ________.

[　　]

A．the cartoon film“Mickey”is one of the best films in the world

B．Americans like rats and mice very much

C．a lot of Americans enjoy drawing rats and mouse in their pictures

D．people all over the world should protect rats and mice

3．In America, when they talk about Mickey Mouse, Americans often think that ________.

[　　]

A．it is a kind of useful animal

B．it stands for amusements

C．everyone hates it

D．it is a sign of a good future

4．One of the following words that can best express Walt Disney’s character is ________.

[　　]

5．Which of the following animals can show the main idea of the text?

[　　]

A．

B．

C．

D．

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选择中选出最佳选项。

　　LONDON- “Everyone else has one!”Lucy declared to her parents, trying to get a mobile phone as a gift for her 14th birthday. Her parents gave in.

　　Curious to know how her daughter would use the phone, Jane Bidder, the mother, followed Lucy to the school bus in the morning. The bus seats 20, of whom half have a mobile phone. One rings and several adolescent owners fumble with their bags.

　　Many parents have just come to realize that the mobile phone is no longer only for travelling businessmen－－it is as likely to be found in school bags.

　　The mobile phone seems to have become something essential for today’s teens in Britain, according to a survey published last week, by NOP a leading market research company in Britain. Research found that 66 per cent of 16-year-olds now have access to a mobile phone.

　　The mobile phone has been turned into a secret messaging service by teen users. When they are talking on the mobile, their parents are not able to eavesdrop on the second line.

　　The interviews with 2,019 young people aged 7 to 16 found that they favour the text messaging services because they offer a secret way of keeping in touch. The days of secret notes in the classroom are dying out.

　　For example,“cya”means“see you”;“lol”means“laughs out loud”; and“2nite”is an abbreviation of “tonight”. All these are based on shorthand phrases used on the Internet.

　　Many schools have banned students using mobile phones. But they are not very successful. Still phones ring in the class and disturb study.

　　Besides, people are worried about the health risk to kids using mobile phones.

　　Scientists believe children are especially vulnerable (易受伤害的) to the mobile radiation.

1．The story of Lucy is told to show us ________.

[　　]

A．British parents meet their children’s needs whatever they are

B．British kids have good relationships with their parents

C．how British parents accept the truth of teenagers owning a mobile phone

D．why every child gets a mobile phone as a birthday present in UK

2．What would be the best title for this news story?

[　　]

A．School bans mobile phones.

B．Parents’ curiosity about children using mobiles.

C．Mobile popularity among UK teens.

D．Secret messages popular among kids in UK.

3．The underlined word“eavesdrop”means ________.

[　　]

4．Interviews discover children like sending messages instead of ________.

[　　]

A．calling each other

B．writing to each other

C．playing games online

D．greeting each other