The thoughtful serious state of mind in which Mary found herself had been caused by a talk she had with her father on the evening before. Quite suddenly, he had told her that he was a victim(患者) of heart disease and might die at any moment. He had made the announcement as they stood together in his office, behind which were the rooms in which the father and daughter lived.

1．What did Mary mean to do that night?

A．She decided to go to church.

B．She decided not to think about anything.

C．She decided to talk with her father.

D．She wanted to think deeply.

2．What made Mary in a serious state of mind?

A．Her talk with her father.

B．Her fear about heart attack.

C．The speech of the man in the church.

C．Her serious future.

3．Where did Mary live?

A．In the same building as her father’s office.

B．Near the church.

C．In a shabby house near her father’s office.

D．In a small shop.

4．What was Dr. Cochran’s condition?

A．He had a serious heartbreak.

B．He had a light heart trouble.

C．He had a deadly disease.

D．He was hurt when crossing the railroad tracks.

    In the past, when more Americans live on farms, the typical family had many children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families became smaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary. And large families cannot be moved from place to place as smaller families can. So, at present people tend to have smaller families.

    In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now. So families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consist only of a man and a woman. A small number of families may take raising children as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other people’s children, leaving families free to move from job to job.

1．The main topic discussed in the passage is________

A．the development of science and industry in America

B．the influence of science and industry on American families

C．the harmful effect of industrialization

D．the social problems resulting from the highly developed science and industry in .America

2．________ are described in the passage.

A．Families of the past

B．Families of the present and of the future

C．Families of the past and of the future

D．Families of the past, the present and the future

3．According to the writer, one of the reasons that families are getting smaller in America is that________

A．children tend to leave their parents and grandparents when they grow up

B．people stop caring for having children

C．the need for workers who are able to move at any time has been increasing

D．both old and young people like to live by themselves

4．________ will be in charge of raising children in the future.

A．Most families

B．All families

C．Social workers

D．A small number of families

5．From  the  passage,  we  can  conclude  that________

A．science and industry have caused thousands of families to separate

B．children do not like to live with their parents or grandparents

C．large families can hardly exist in modern society

D．Americans are very careful in choosing their jobs

A suitable title for this paragraph is ________.

A．Stranger than fiction

B．False belief

C．Ostrich power

D．Mules and ostriches

The best title for this selection is ________.

A．Unfair competition

B．Need of insurance

C．Need for college training

D．Better jobs

    Franklin was always trying to answer the question. What makes things act the way they do? At that time learned men were puzzled about electricity. They wondered whether it was in some way like the lightning in a thunder-storm. It might be, but how could you prove it? You know how Ben Franklin proved in by coaxing(哄) some electricity down his kite string. That made him famous in America and Europe. But of course Franklin did not stop there.

    He found a way to make the knowledge useful: he invented the lighting rod.

1． According to the second sentence, Franklin ________.

A．was eager to make money

B．had no interest in making money

C．was so attentive to his discoveries that he had no time to make money

D．didn’t know how to make money

2．Franklin valued money because ________.

A．it could make him live a comfortable life after he retired from work

B．it enabled him to get rid of much business

C．it was the thing he cared for most

D．it enabled him to buy a lot of things

3．Franklin’s experiment with the kite ________.

A．was not successful

B．didn’t work

C．puzzled many learned men at the time

D．proved that lightning was electricity

4．After the experiment, Franklin ________.

A．stopped there and enjoyed his happy life

B．didn’t stop there and gave lectures to others

C．didn’t stop there and invented the lightning rod

D．stopped there and found a way to make money

What is the author’s main purpose in this passage?

A．To tell a frightening story to young children.

B．to describe Halloween night.

C．To create a mood through description.

D. Both (B) and (C)

Officials call on the pubic for honesty,

accuracy in reporting

The Fifth National Census Office under the State Council has called on everyone for a factual report in the upcoming census due to be taken on November 1．

“Any action which may put down the accuracy of the census is forbidden and will receive severe punishment,” Liu Changsong, deputy director of the office, said at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday.

    Almost at all the preparations for the census have been finished, 6 million census workers have been selected and trained and initial residence registration has been accomplished.

    The census will start at midnight on November 1．

    During the first 10 days of November, census takers will work from door to door.

    In order to get accurate (精确的)data on the population, the central government has permitted households who have not registered their children who are “more than family planning policy allows” to apply for lasting residence during the census.

    China’s family planning policy encourages urban citizens to have one child per family and rural families with one girl child may have a second child. The policy is more flexible among ethnic (种族的) minority(少数)people and is dependent upon the local autonomous regional government.

    People who violate (违反) the regulation have to pay a fine in order to make up for the government’s expenditure (支出) in bringing up and educating the extra children.

    According to statistics available to China Daily, China’ s population reached 1.26 billion in 1999.And the central government expects that the figure will be below 1.3 billion in the census.

1. According to the passage, who are (is) going to take up the upcoming census?

A．the government

B．special census workers

C．citizens and peasants

D．statistician

2. China’s family planning policy encourages urban citizens to have ________child (or children).

A．only one

B．two

C．more than one

D．a boy and a girl

3. The word “fine” in “have to pay a fine” means________.

A．good

B．forfeit

C．ticket

D．goodness

1．The boy is most likely________.

A．four years old

B．eight years old

C．fourteen

D．twenty

2．The boy went to his room________.

A．to avoid continuing the fought.

B．to get over his feeling of misery

C．because he had been told

D．to receive his punishment

    The reports of UFOs seem to increase over periods of a year or two, and then die down again. Many of the people who claim to have seen them are skilled observers of air, such as airline pilots.

    The number of reports runs into thousands, and they come from many parts of the world. There are also a number of supposedly authentic(可信的) photographs of these spacecraft which have earned them elves the nickname of "flying saucers"(飞碟) because of their fault, dish-like shape.

    So persistent have been these "sightings" that during the 1960s, the USA set up the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena (国家天象调查委员会) to investigate them. Nearly 11000 reports were analyzed (分析) and after eliminating (排除) sightings which could be explained away as normal phenomena, such as meteorites（损星）, high altitude(高空) weather balloons, and even satellites re-entering the atmosphere, they came to the conclusion that UFOs were genuine. They could not, however, explain what they were or from where they came.

    The United States Air Force, on the other hand, also carried out an evaluation(估计) of UFO sightings, and concluded that all but a very few of the thousands of sightings could be logically (合乎逻辑的)explained away, or traced to (追索为) some natural source, and the few unexplained ones were only unexplained because the evidence was insufficient(不足以) to draw any definite conclusion.

    Well, are UFOs spaceships from a distance planet, and are they under the control of extra-terrestrial things who are keeping close watch over our Earth? It can only be said that the case for UFOs remains as yet unproved. One thing is certain, man is as curious and determined to find the answer to the problem of UFOs as he is to unravel all the other unsolved mysteries of our Universe.

1．Why have people become more and interested in UFOs?

A．Because many of the people who claim(声称) to have seen them are skilled observers of the air.

B．Because there are some supposedly authentic photographs of UFOs.

C．Because there are continuing reports of UFOs.

D．All of the above.

2．According to the investigation by the U.S., UFOs________.

A．can not be explained away

B．really exist

C．can be explained away as normal phenomena

D．are from an unknown planet

3．Among the thousands of UFO sightings, the United States Air Force can logically explain away___

_____.

A．a very few of them

B．all of them

C．almost all of them

D．many of them

4．The phrase “extra-terrestrial beings” means________.

A．spacemen

B．human beings

C．astronauts

D．airline pilots

1．We have a complete record of early Egypt because________.

A．the civilization was not buried very deep

B．archaeologists used advanced digging methods

C．the climate is exceptional dry

D．the Egyptians used secret methods of preservation

2．The paragraph suggests that________.

A．archaeology is a relatively new science

B．archaeologists are patient

C．the Egyptian civilization served as a model for the Greek and Roman

D．the Egyptians wanted to preserve the past

3．The reader may think that early Egyptians were________.

A．advanced in the art

B．preoccupied with death

C．guided by superstitious(迷信)

D．interested in archaeology