阅读理解

　　While it is impossible to live completely free of stress(压力), it is possible to prevent stress as well as reduce its effect when it cannot be avoided. The US Department of Health and Human Services offers the following suggestions for ways to deal with stress.

　　Try Physical Activity

　　When you are nervous, angry or upset, try to let off the pressure through exercise of physical activity. Running, walking, playing tennis, or working in your garden are just some of the activities you might try. Physical exercise will relieve (减轻)your anxiety and worry and help you to re- lax. Your body and your mind will work together to ease me stress in your life.

　　Share Your Stress

　　It helps to talk to someone about your anxieties and worries. Perhaps a friend, family member, teacher or even your leader can help you get a better view of what is troubling you. If you feel your problem is serious, you might look for professional help from a psychologist (心理学者)or a doctor. Knowing when to ask for help is an important step in avoiding serious problems later.

　　Take Care of Yourself

　　You should make every effort to fat well and get enough rest. If you easily get angry and cannot sleep very well, or if you' re not eating properly, it will be more likely that you will fall into stressful situations, If stress keeps repeatedly getting you to sleep badly, you should visit a doctor.

　　Make Time for Yourself

　　Schedule time for both work and entertainment (娱乐). Don ' t forget that play can he just as important to your overall well-being (健康)as work. You need a break from your daily routine (惯例)just to relax and have fun. Go window- shopping or work on a hobby. Allow yourself at least a half hour each day to do something you enjoy.

　　Make a List of the Tiling; You Need to Do

　　Stress can result from disorganization and a feeling that there' s so much to do, and not enough time. Trying to take care of everything at once can be too , much for you and as a result, you may not achieve anything. Instead, make a list of everything you have to do, then do one thing at a time, checking off each task as it is completed. Set out to do the most important task at first.

　　Go Ahead and Cry

　　A good cry. can be a healthy way to bring relief (减轻)of your anxiety 负担--It might even help you avoid a head- ache or other physical effect of anxiety or stress.

(1)What is most probably the writer' s purpose in writing the passage? ________.

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A．To have more people cry out.

B．To help solve the problem of stress.

C．To release his or her working pressure.

D．To reduce his or her anxiety.

(2)Physical activity can help people release stress in that ________.

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A．only your body movement can help you relax

B．your body and mind can work together in releasing stress

C．your mind can work better lo free you of anxiety

D．physics can always play an important part in reducing nervousness

(3)What is the similar thing between“Share your stress”and“GO ahead and cry”?

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A．They both need physical movement.

B．They both help you let out your feelings.

C．They can help you live an orderly life.

D．They both require mental relaxation.

(4)The sentence Trying to take care of everything at once can be too much for you and as a result, you may not achieve anything“is close to the meaning of”________.

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A．Quietness wins time.

B．Practice makes perfect.

C．Strike while the iron is hot.

D．More hurry, less speed.

阅读理解

Dear Sir.

　　I have to travel every day from So UK Road to the air- port. Two buses travel along this route: the number 49 and the number 16. However, by the time the number 16 bus reaches. So UK Road it is always full, so it is of no use to me. This leaves the number 49 which sometimes has empty seats on it.

　　The timetable stales that there are buses from SO UK Road to the airport every ten minutes. Lf this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day?

　　The instructions state that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must slop at every stop where people are waiting. Why is it, therefore, that half- empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop?

　　The instructions state that no bus may carry more than40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. I counted the other passengers as they got off. There were 129 of them. Clearly printed on the back of every bus is a sign that says maximum speed: 50 mph. The distance from So UK Road to the airport is ten miles. Saturday morning a 49 bus traveled this distance in ten minutes at an average speed of 60 mph. At times it must have done at least 80 or even 90. mph.

　　It is obvious that our bus companies have no respect for the instructions nor consideration for their passengers. Can nothing be done about this?

Yours,

Weary Traveler

(1)The writer prefers to take Bus No. 49 because it________.

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(2)According to the timetable, a 49 bus should travel through its route ________.

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(3)The underlined word“this”in the last sentence of the letter refers to ________.

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(4)The writer is not satisfied with that ________.

［　　］

A．buses are too crowded

B．bus drivers often go straight past without stopping

C．too few buses are traveling along this route

D．bus services are poor

阅读理解

　　Amos Grundy and Sam Spangler had been playing checkers (棋子) together for about twenty-five years. They kept their scores of wins and losses carefully on yellow- lined paper. You might call it sort of life time checker tournament (比赛). Sam was leading 5,000 games to 0. He liked it that way because he liked to win. Amos kept trying and his motto was “Don't give up. You can't lose them all. ”

　　Now Game 5001 began pretty much like any other game. Sam and Amos sat in their regular chairs-Sam looking confident and unbeatable-Amos nervously rubbing his white rabbit's foot. Rain was banging (猛击) loudly on the windows and there was the rumble (隆隆) of thunder shaking overhead．

　　Sam was playing the blacks. Amos was playing the reds. Neither man smoke. Sam moved . Amos moved．But Amos for once was making all the right moves.

　　He double-jumped Sam.

　　He triple-jumped (三倍的) Sam.

　　He made one king and another king.

　　Amos played the game of his life and he won it!

　　“Rats!” said Sam. He wasn't used to losing. After winning 5,000 straight games a loss was pretty hard to take. He grumbled (抱怨), “But I'm still 4,999 games ahead of you, Amos.” “Maybe so,” said Amos, “but we've got 5,000 games to go. I'm going to win this tournament!”

(1)Amos has lost 5,000 games, _______.

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A．so he would give up

B．so he wouldn't go on playing

C．but he wouldn't be disappointed

D．because he was so old

(2)The reason why Amos won Game 5,001 was ________.

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A．that it had begun pretty much like any other game

B．that he happened to play the reds

C．the Sam had thought to lose it

D．that he had made all the right moves

(3)The final score was ________.

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　　阅读理解

American parents usually think that their children should not have more pocket money than the children with whom he regularly connects, even if they are wealthier. But neither are children expected to compare with the richer if a large family, heavy responsibility (责任) or other conditions make it necessary to give a child less spending money than customary (惯例) in the neighbourhood．

　　Whatever the pocket money is, its entire use is not controlled by the parents, because a child learns to use money correctly only through dealing with it himself. If a seven-year-old child get a quarter as a week pocket money and is made to put it all in his piggy bank to save it up, he gets no idea what the real use for the money is. He gets the shiny coins and they soon disappear. The idea of a bank account (账号) is too early for so small a child, although he can be made to understand and enjoy saving his coins-not all of the, only a part of what he receives-to buy something he especially wants. By the time he is eight, he is old enough to take part in the opening of his own saving account, parents take him to the bank, open a saving account for him, and encourage him to put a certain quantity of any checks he receives as gifts into the bank and watch his hank savings grow as entry by entry (存入) is made. He will he saving, earning, and spending suitable quantities all along in order to learn how to manage money and to keep him in a favourable position with his friends. The boy who can't join his fellows in a sweet shop once in a while, because he has to save every cent he gets or earns for some big unknown projects his parents have chosen for him, is a sorry child．

(1)What do you think a piggy bank is?

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A．It is a kind of bank run by children.

B．It is something in the shape of a pig for saving coins.

C．It is a certain place in which pig are raised．

D．It is a bank whose building looks like a pig.

(2)Which of the following statements is true?

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A．Most of the rich people in American give children much pocket money.

B．American children usually have their bank accounts until they are eight.

C．American parents seldom care for their children's spending money.

D．American children begin to learn how to manage money when very young.

(3)Suppose an 8-year-old child received 10 dollars as his birthday gift, he may probably ________.

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A．spend the money on the things he wants

B．compare the gift with that of his friend

C．have most of it saved in the bank

D．put all the money in his piggy bank

(4)The writer think the boy is a sorry one if he saves every cent he gets or earns because ________.

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A．he can not manage his money and is kept in an unfavourable position

B．he can not join the fellows in a sweet shop once in a while

C．he can not learn the use of money through spending it himself

D．he can not have any other choice but save, earn or spend money

　　阅读理解

The first English dictionary was published in 1604. The dictionary was actually nothing more than a list of about 3,000 difficult words, each followed by a one-word definition (定义，解说). The author (作者), Robert Cawdrey, made no attempt to include everyday words in his dictionary. No one, he reasoned (推理，思考), would ever have to look up a word in a dictionary if he already knew the meaning of the word．During the 1600's more dictionaries were published．Each followed Cawdrey's lead and presented a few thousand hard words. Around 1700 one dictionary maker, John Kersey, did define (下定义，精确地解释词的意义) easy words as well as hard words. But until the 1750's all the dictionaries were rather crude (精制滥选的，不完善的) and not very valuable (有价值的).

　　A man named Dr. Samuel Johnson changed all this. In 1755 Dr. Johnson produced the first modern dictionary. He included in his dictionary all important words, both easy and hard, and he gave good meanings. He also gave good sentences to show how each word was actually used in speech and in writing. By the end of the 1700's most dictionary makers had followed Johnsons's example. Dictionaries were getting better and better.

　　The 1800's saw the greatest improvement (提高，改善) in the quality of dictionaries. In England scholars (学者) planned and prepared the Oxford English Dictionary , a twenty-volume (卷，册，部) work. One of the most interesting features (特点，特征) of the Oxford Dictionary is its word histories. It traces (追溯，探索) the history of each word from its earlier recorded use up to the time of the printing of the dictionary.

(1)The first English Dictionary ________.

[　　]

A．defined easy words as well as hard ones

B．was just a list of difficult words with one-word definitions

C．included a number of everyday words

D．was considered to be a very valuable one

(2)According to the passage, before 1755 all English dictionaries ________.

[　　]

A．were of no value

B．only defined hard words

C．defined both easy words as well as hard words

D．were far from being perfect

[　　]

(3)Which of the following is not true about Dr. Johnson's dictionary?

A．It was not very valuable.

B．It was the first modem English dictionary.

C．It included easy words as well as hard ones.

D．It gave sentences to show the usage of words.

(4)The most interesting feature of the Oxford Dictionary was that ________.

[　　]

A．it had a complete list of difficult words

B．it gave sentences showing how each word was actually used

C．it was a 20-volume work

D．it showed the history of each word

(5)This passage is mainly about ________.

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A．the difference of English Dictionaries

B．the origin of English Dictionaries

C．the development of English Dictionaries

D．the features of English Dictionaries

阅读理解

　　Multiple-meaning means many meanings for each word．Many of these multiple- meaning words are very commonly used in English and they are usually very short words (often one syllable (音节). They have so many different meanings because these words have been in the English language longest and people have been adding and changing their meanings for several hundred years. If you are not careful with these words and don't make good use of context clues (上下文所提供的线索) to guess their particular meanings, you will misunderstand what you are reading or hearing.

　　Not only do these multiple-meaning words cause difficulty due to their many different meanings, but they also cause difficulty since they change their part of speech depending on the way they are used in any sentence. Here again, notice how important it is to pay close attention to the context in which any word is used．Now let's try to tell the different meanings of the word “post” in the following sentences.

(1)The fence post was rotting.

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(2)The post was full of soldiers.

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(3)Lonaine has a new post.

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(4)The horses were at the post.

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(5)Please post this first thing in the morning.

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(6)Multiple-meaning words are ________ used in English and they are usually________ words.

[　　]

(7)Mulitple-meaning words change their parts of speech according to ________.

[　　]

A．their meaning

B．the way they are used in different sentences

C．the importance of themselves

D．your explanation

(8)If you don't pay close attention to the context, you will easily ________ the multiple meaning words.

[　　]

(9)In the five sentences attached to (附加在) the passage, the word “post” is a noun in

[　　]

(10)In the five sentences attached to the passage, the word “post” might mean ________.

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A．①A ②C ③D ④D ⑤B

B．①B ②A ③A ④C ⑤D

C．①C ②B ③C ④D ⑤B

D．①A ②A ③D ④C ⑤C

阅读下列短文，从每题中所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中选出最佳选项

　　Twenty-three senior high school graduates of 1999 from Wuhan, Hubei Province, have recently left for Germany on a work-study program, according to Xi'an Evening News.

　　They will study hotel management in Bavarian Hotel Management School for a year and then take up two-year practice in Germany. Upon graduation, they will also get diplomas (文凭) recognized internationally. During their two-year practice, they earn no less than 1,200 Deutsche Marks (德国马克) a month.

　　The program, organized by a company in Wuhan, aims at providing the city's high school graduates with new job opportunities.

　　Applicants (申请者) must first pass an exam given by the German side and pay180,000 yuan covering the three years' study and living expenses in Germany. In spite of this, the program still attracted a lot of high school graduates and their parents. And applicants came in a continuous stream.

　　“The chance for my child to go to college is small. What's more, it's not easy to find a job．We find the work-study program an equally good way out for him,” a parent said．“We don't worry much about the high costs because the total income from the two -year-long practice will be quite enough to clear them. ”

(1)This text is mainly about ________.

A．a hotel management school in Bavaria, Germany

B．students from Wuhan studying in Germany

C．students going abroad on work-study program

D．new job opportunities offered in Germany

(2)Which of the following words best describes the parents of these 23 students?

(3)We can infer that these applicants found it hard ________.

A．to go to college at home

B．to pay for the cost

C．to pass the test given by the Germans

D．to get a job when they return home

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.

　　If you are planning to study in the United States, you need to consider several factors. Everyone has different opinions about where the best place to live in. Also, the best places to live are not always home to the best schools. Finally, many schools specialize in different areas of study. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, is a great school for computer science and technology-related fields of study. However, if you want to study oceanography, your interests may be better served by attending school in a place that is on a coastline or near the ocean.

　　Now I am sure that you know which schools are considered the best in the country. So I will tell you about which states I believe are the best to live in.

　　California is a nice state. Northern California specifically has very good weather. Los Angeles in southern California is another story though. Life in of excitement and fast, and sometimes dangerous. As for me, I enjoyed the time I spent in Massachusetts, Virginia and Maryland and these states have a lot of history and culture. The weather is not as perfect as California, but it is still quite nice. My favorite area of America is the Midwest. Middle America, I think, is home to the true American sense of values. In addition, there are many good universities there.

　　Also, you need to think about you likes and dislikes and then research the various states. You like sunshine and hate snow? Then you probably won't like the Midwest or even the Northeast. Open space, nature and peace and quiet? Then you probably should stay away from America's larger cities. Are you interested in government? Then Washington D.C. is the only place for you. Whatever you decided, put some thought into it. The place you live could be the difference between a great study abroad experience and a state of great suffering on earth.

（1）From the first paragraph we can conclude that in the USA _______.

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A. all colleges and universities lie in big cities

B. all colleges and universities lie in beautiful places

C. famous colleges and universities lie in nice places

D. famous colleges and universities may not lie in nice places

（2）What should be considered first if you want to study in the USA?

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A. The climate.

B. The scenery.

C. The study condition.

D. The living condition.

（3）From the third paragraph we can find that ________.

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A. California is the best place to live in

B. California is the worst place to live in

C. California is a state with different climates

D. California is a small state in the USA

（4）If you study in Middle America, you can probably ________.

[　　]

A. find the best universities

B. feel the real character of the nation

C. meet the most famous professors there

D. face more difficulty

（5）From the last paragraph of this passage we can get to know that ________.

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A. Washington is the largest city in the USA

B. Washington is the political centre of the USA

C. you can't find sunshine in the Midwest

D. you can't find any universities out of big cities in the USA

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.

　　Fred Michel is one of 7.2 million Americans who moonlight, or hold more than one job.

　　Once a week, after his day job as medical director of a mental health center ,the 40-year-old psychiatrist（精神病大夫）heads to a part-time job at a treatment center for young people. Twice a month, he travels three hour to another teenage treatment center.

　　Last year, 5.4 percent of the American workforce held second jobs, according to the US Labor Department, and that looks set to increase this year.

　　Many workers like the safety that moonlighting provides, says Carl Hausamn, the writer of “Moonlighting: 148 Great Ways to Make Money to the Side.”

　　The information from the US Labor Department shows that 40 percent of US moonlighters in 1997 took a second job to meet household expenses or pay off debts. Others save money or buy some special things.

　　People also take second jobs with an eye to the future, wanting to try out a new field or gain experience.

　　Michel started moonlighting when medical systems were unstable（不稳定的）. He wanted to make sure he wasn't tied to one system that ended up failing.

　　Just as the purposes for moonlighting vary, the moonlighters cross all age and racial groups. And they work in a variety of industries--no longer just service, office and sale jobs.

　　“Technology just affects your ability to make money.” Hausman says. “That makes a frequent change in moonlighting.”

　　As its name means, moonlighting still occurs mostly at night. And that results in some pressures. Chief among them is time.

　　Full-time employers could misunderstand, too. Some companies do not allow after-hour work because they fear it will affect their employees' 9-to-5 performance.

　　The primary employer is saying, “Wait, I'm paying you for the sharp, fresh, energetic you,” says Tom Gimbel, president and founder of LaSalle Staffing in Chicago. “If you're burning yourself at both ends, it's going to show.”

　　Still, the good done to the moonlighters can be great. Besides extra income, moonlighters enjoy variety, freedom and chance to do something new. They also may find their part-time jobs strengthen what they do full time.

　　“Besides, it's fun,” Michel says. Not only do his part-time jobs offer a chance to network, stretch his professional skills and make more money, but they also give him the variety he wouldn't find just in a full-time job.

　　“It a way of pulling from the spice cabinet,” he says, “and offering a little variety throughout the day.”

（1）What is the article mainly about?

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A. The ways of moonlighting.

B. The reasons for moonlighting.

C. The problems with moonlighting.

D. The kinds of people who moonlight.

（2）The reason why Fred Michel began to moonlight is that ________.

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A. he found it exciting to do a part-time job

B. he needed to make ends meet with more money

C. he feared he would lose his present job one day

D. he felt more and more pressure from his employer

（3）Some companies don't allow their workers to moonlight because they are afraid ________.

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A. their workers can not do extra-hour work for them

B. their workers will be too tired to try their best at work

C. their workers will one day turn to some other different jobs

D. their workers will not get to work and be off work on time

（4）The underlined sentence “It's a way of pulling from the spice cabinet” in the last paragraph means ________.

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A. moonlighting gets you away from the job you don't enjoy

B. moonlighting offers you freedom to make extra money

C. moonlighting strengthens your professional skills

D. moonlighting brings you chances to do something different

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.

　　For a long time Chester Carlson carried around his little black box--the invention over which he had worked and struggled for years. He showed it to the directors of twenty-one large American corporations, such as “General Electric, International Business Machines（IBM）. Lockheed and RCA.”

　　Nobody wanted it.

　　Nobody wanted to invest a penny in it.

　　It must be painful for those directors to think of Chester Carlson now. For the little black box is the heart of the multi-billion-dollar Xerox Corporation. Carlson is the inventor of “xerography”（from two Greek words meaning “dry writing”）, the dry-printing process used in thousands and thousands of offices, businesses, industries, shops, and government agencies around the world.

　　Thanks to Carlson, it now takes minutes to copy a document which, twenty years ago, would have kept a secretary busy for a whole day. And for a few pennies anyone can have a copy of anything from cooking recipes to Greek poetry. More than thirty billion such copies are made each year.

　　When Chester Carlson went to work in a patent office in 1930, the copying methods were slow, dirty, and expensive. In his job, Carlson had to make many copies of patents for inventions. One night, after working late and painfully, he decided that somebody had better find an easier way to do it. He went to work in the kitchen of his apartment with measuring cups and cooking pots. By 1937, having developed a simple form of xerography, he applied for（申请）his first patent on the Process.

　　Then began Carlson's famous unsuccessful search for investors. Only in 1944 did the Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio, agree to spend $ 3,000 for research on Carlson's invention. According to the agreement, Carlson was to receive25 percent of all profits; his share would rise to 40 percent if he could repay Battelle the $ 3,000 within five years. This part of the agreement later brought millions of dollars to Carlson who, by borrowing from his family, had managed to repay his debt in time.

　　Even with Battelle's help, it took another year to find a company willing to buy Carlson's process. In 1945, Dr. John H. Dessauer, director of research of the Haloid Company（maker of copying machines）, decided to adopt and market the process, which was then named “Xerox.” Three years later, the Haloid Company had changed its own name to become the Xerox Corporation. It is now the thirty-ninth largest corporation in the United States, with sales of over four billion dollars a year.

（1）Chester Carlson was ________.

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A. a director of an American corporation

B. an inventor of a copying machine

C. a company salesman

D. an office clerk in a company

（2）What was Carlson's job in the patent office?

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A. To make copies of patents for inventions.

B. To turn a printing machine.

C. To handle all office work.

D. To help the head of the office.

（3）Which of the following is NOT true?

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A. Carlson was tired of his office work.

B. Carlson was up to his need in the work in the patent office.

C. Carlson was fond of his office work.

D. Carlson decided that somebody should find an easier way to do the copying work.

（4）After a long and painful search for investors. Carlson finally ________.

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A. received $ 3,000 for further research on his invention

B. sold his machine for $ 3,000

C. received $ 3,000 from an institute for his patent

D. agreed to promote sales of the drying-printing process