I was riding along the road when I heard someone shouting behind me. It was a young shepherd（牧羊人）. He was running across a field, and pointing at something.

　　I looked and saw two wolves running across the field. One was full grown, the other was a cub. The cub had on his back a lamb（羔羊）which had just been killed, and he had the leg in his mouth. The old wolf was running behind.

　　As soon as I saw the wolves, I joined the shepherd and we started in pursuit（追赶）, setting up a shout.

　　When they heard, some peasants started out also in pursuit, with their dogs.

　　As soon as the old wolf caught sight of the dogs and the men, be ran to the young one, snatched the lamb from him, threw it over his back, and both wolves increased their pace and were soon lost from view.

　　Then the shepherd began to tell me how it happened. The big wolf had sprung（跳）out from the valley, seized the lamb, killed it and carried it off. The old wolf allowed the young wolf to carry the lamb, but kept running a short distance behind.

　　But as soon as there was danger, the old wolf stopped giving the lesson, and seized the lamb for himself.

(1) A cub is _______.

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(2) The old wolf allowed the young wolf to carry the lamb because ______.

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A．it was lazy

B．it was being run after

C．it was wounded

D．it was training its cub

(3) The old wolf seized the lamb for himself because _______.

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A．the cub would not carry it any longer

B．the cub was too tired

C．there was danger

D．the cub would not learn

(4) In order to train the cub, the big wolf _________.

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A．showed the cub how to kill a lamb

B．let the cub kill a lamb

C．asked the cub to come to meet him

D．let the cub do what he could

　　Perhaps you have read about “Robinson Crusoe”. Many children like to hear and read about this man who lived alone for years on an island far out in the ocean. His ship was driven on the rocks in a storm and all the other men on board were drowned （淹死）. He alone reached the island. It is a long story and tells of many brave and clever things he did as he lived with his family of animals. When he first swam to the island, he did not know what he would find in this strange place. Here is part of his story. “What should I do? I was very wet and had no change of clothes. I was hungry and thirsty and did not know where to turn to find anything to eat or drink. Were there any wild animals on the island? Would they attack me?”

　　“Night was coming on and I had to look for a place to sleep in. I stood there thinking and thinking. I did not know what to do.”

　　“After a while I made up my mind to do as the birds do. I would sleep in a tree. I looked around and found a tree with strong, heavy branches in which I felt sure I could rest in comfort without danger of falling.”

　　“I had no gun, but I had my knife with me, and with it I cut a thick stick. I wanted to be able to drive off any animal. Then I climbed the tree. As I was very tired, I fell asleep and did not wake up till the sun was high in the sky.”

(1) Robinson reached the island ________.

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(2) It is likely that Robinson Crusoe reached the island________.

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(3) Crusoe made up his mind to sleep in a tree________.

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A．before he was going to the island

B．as soon as he reached the island

C．after he had been on the island a little while

D．when he saw some animals attacking him

(4) Which statement is true?

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A．When the ship was driven on the rocks, only Crusoe was not drowned.

B．Crusoe was saved by someone living on the island.

C．Crusoe could live on the island in comfort at first.

D．Crusoe lived alone on the island for only several months.

　　Hong Kong is a city inclined toward red; in Thailand the color is yellow; India leans toward reds and oranges. These are not political colors, but colors that suggest religious beliefs.

　　To an Asian colors are full of beliefs, religious and otherwise. To the Chinese, red means luck, but to Thais yellow brings good fortune. The combination of blue, black, and white is ,to the Chinese, suggestive of a funeral（葬礼）.

　　Many Western businessmen believe that most Asians have become Westernized in their outlook. This is true in part. But Westernization and education do not usually completely replace the culture and beliefs of an Asian's forefathers. They tend instead to make a more sophisticated（复杂的）combination of his culture and religion. The approach required to sell an Asian any commodity（商品）must follow the basic formula（推测）of following national prides, admitting equality, and understanding the Asian's beliefs.

　　Color is a touchy（须小心对待的）thing. Advertisers are advised to take into consideration the religious and super stitious（迷信的） beliefs connected with colors before using them. The color combinations of green and purple are accepted throughout Asia as these colors seem to have been worn by religious leaders in earlier times.

　　However, using one or both of these colors is no guar antee（保证）of sales, as an outstanding producer of waterrecreation products learned in Malaysia. Its home office received heated request from its distributors（批发商）to shop shipments on all products colored green. The distributors re-ported that numerous customers associated the color green with the jungle and illness.

(1) Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

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A．Colors Communicate.

B．Green and Purple：A sign of Religious Leadership.

C．An Expensive Lesson in Malaysia.

D．The Westernization of Asia.

(2) What color is considered lucky in Thailand?

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(3) What does the underlined words “home office” in the last paragraph refer to?

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A．The office at the manager's home.

B．The major distribution office in Malaysia.

C．The new type of mobile office.

D．The office in its own country.

(4) What conclusion can we draw from the last paragraph?

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A．Most Asians have become Westernized.

B．Asian businessmen have given up their own beliefs.

C．Western businessmen must respect the Asians' beliefs.

D．All Asians think green means illness.

　　Do you know the kind words and light music have anything to do with plants?

　　Many people talk to their plants. Many people play music to their plants. And many people try very hard to protect their plants from loud noises, strong lights, and unpleasant smell.

　　That's not all. Some people are very careful about what they say or do in front of plants. They won't talk about unpleasant things. They won't beat a fly near their plants.

　　Why? Those people are afraid that they may hurt their plants' feelings.

　　Can you hurt a plant's feelings? Do plants have feelings? Clever Backster thinks so. Many pupils think so. Even a few scientists think that plants can be happy, worried, angry, loving or frightened. Others don' t believe that a plant's feelings can be hurt.

　　Who is right?

　　Then along came the experiments of Backster. From his experiments, Backster decided that plants have feelings. He said that, like people, plants need love and kindness. They can feel worried and happy.

　　Two years later, in 1968, Backster wrote about his experiments in a magazine. And much of the world took notice. Plant lovers of the world were pleased.

(1) The writer thinks that the kind words and light music ______ plants.

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A．have nothing to do with

B．have something to do with

C．are bad for

D．destroyed

(2) Some people think loud noises and unpleasant smells ________.

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A．can protect plants

B．have something to do with plants

C．can make plants grow better

D．can hurt plants

(3) Some people think it better to plants to _______.

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A．play light music

B．talk about unpleasant things

C．shout loudly

D．to beat a fly

(4) _______ plants have feelings.

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A．Only Backster believes

B．Nobody believes

C．Backster and some other people believe

D．Most scientists believe

(5) Backster wrote about his experiments in a __________.

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　　Mr Jackson lived in the center of London but he had a hotel near the airport. There a lot of foreigners stayed for night. He didn't know any other language but English and he found it difficult for him to understand the foreign visitors. Sometimes he had to use the gesture to talk with them, and tried his best to make himself understood. But he was often misunderstood（误解）and it brought him a lot of trouble. A friend of his who taught a few foreign languages in a university would teach him. He was happy and studied hard. At first he learned some, but soon he found it wasn't very easy to remember the words and expressions. His friend advised him to write down the useful expressions in his notebook so that he could use them when necessary. He did as he was told. He found it helpful for him to do so.

　　One evening there were plenty of people in the dining-room. They were all busy eating something except a Japanese. He was wandering（徘徊）there and waiting for his wife who was dressing herself up upstairs. Mr Jackson thought to himself, “The man wants to eat something but he doesn't know any English. Let me help him.”

　　As he knew only a little Japanese, he had to bring out his notebook and showed it to the man, pointing to the sentence “I'm hungry.”

　　The Japanese had a look at it and gave him two pounds and left.

(1) Mr Jackson knew only English because _______.

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A．he was an English student

B．he had never been abroad

C．he couldn't learn by himself

D．he hadn't studied any foreign languages

(2) Mr Jackson had to use the gesture because _______.

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A．he wanted the foreign visitors to understand him

B．he wanted to learn the foreign languages from the visitors

C．he hoped to know the foreign visitors' custom

D．he hoped more foreign visitors would stay for night in his hotel

(3) As not all foreign visitors understand his gesture, sometimes Mr Jackson __________ to communicate with them.

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(4) ______, so he decided to help the man.

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A．Mr Jackson thought the Japanese wanted to stay for night

B．Mr Jackson thought the Japanese was not hungry

C．Mr Jackson knew the Japanese was waiting for his wife

D．Mr Jackson was sure the Japanese couldn't speak English

(5) The Japanese thought _______, so he gave him two pounds.

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A．Mr Jackson was a beggar

B．Mr Jackson was a translator

C．Mr Jackson could help him

D．Mr Jackson could ring his wife up

Changsha,

Hunan Province

May 6, 2005

Dear editor,

　　Under China's current educational system, there are those who do nothing but study. They of course are thought

　　But I feel that there is another type of student who, perhaps not as diligent（勤奋的）as the first type, uses his time more efficiently and achieves a lot academically.

　　Last year, a classmate of mine was accepted by a top university. It surprised all of us. It was because, unlike most of us, he didn't spend too much of his time studying.

　　When I asked him the secret of his success, he said that the key was properly and scientifically arranging his time.

　　“I spent a lot of time keeping fit and as a result, I was able to better concentrate（集中）on my class work.”

　　The moral of the story is：it isn't necessary to sit at your desk all day long to get high academic（学术）grades.

Yours,

Zhang Zishu

(1) What does the letter-writer（a reader）think leads to the fact that many students do nothing but study?

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A．The present educational system.

B．People's old ideas.

C．The teaching methods.

D．The parents of these students.

(2) It seems that this reader thinks ________.

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A．the first type of student is our model

B．the second type of student is our model

C．both types of students are worth learning from

D．neither of the two types of students are good

(3) The secret of his classmate's success was ________.

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A．properly and scientifically arranging his time.

B．spending a lot of time studying

C．doing nothing but studying

D．playing all the 6me

(4) The reader wrote the letter in order to _________.

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A．call on us to work even harder

B．cause people to think about how to study more efficiently

C．advise people to do research into his classmate's success

D．criticize（批评）China's educational system

(5) What would be the best to stand for the letter writer's opinion?

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A．Secret of success.

B．China's educational system needs changing.

C．Work while you work and play while you play.

D．Keep fit first.

　　If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research findings of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise, and as a result, we are growing old unnecessarily soon.

　　Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why quite healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a rather early age, and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down.

　　With a team of researchers at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain sizes of a thousand people of different ages with different jobs.

　　Computer technology helped the researchers to get most exact measurements of the sizes of the front and side parts of the brain which have something to do with thinking and feeling, and decide the human character. As we all know the back part of the brain, which controls tasks like eating and breathing, does not contract（萎缩）with age.

　　Contraction of front and side parts, as cells（细胞）die off, was seen in some people in their thirties, but it was still not found in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.

　　Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple way to prevent the contraction--using the head.

　　The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those with least possibility, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. While collar workers doing the same work day after day in government offices are, however, as possible to have contracting brains as the farm workers, bus drivers and shop assistants.

(1) The team of doctors want to find out ________.

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A．at what point people grow mentally old

B．how to make people live longer

C．the size of certain people's brains

D．which people are the most clever

(2) Their research findings are based on ____________.

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A．an examination of farmers in northern Japan

B．tests given on a thousand old people

C．examining the brain sizes of different people

D．using computer technology

(3) The doctor's tests show that ___________.

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A．our brains contract as we grow older

B．one part of the brain does not contract

C．sixty-year-olds have better brains than thirty-year-olds

D．some people's brains have contracted earlier than other people

(4) The most possible conclusion of the article is that __________.

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A．most of us should take more exercise

B．the brain contracts if it is not used

C．it's better to live in the towns

D．the more one uses his brain, the sooner he becomes old

　　The big Town Hall clock was striking midnight when Frank began to cross the bridge. The dark night air was cold and slightly wet, and the street lamp gave little light.

　　Frank was anxious to get home and his footsteps rang loudly on the pavement（人行道）. When he reached the middle of the bridge he thought he could hear someone coming near behind him. He looked back but could see no one. However, the sound continued and Frank began to walk more quickly. Then he slowed down again, feeling shame at having acted so foolishly. There was nothing to fear in a town as quiet as this.

　　Just then, he heard short, quick steps closely behind him. By the time he reached the other side of the bridge, he could almost feel someone at his heels（脚后跟）. He turned round and there stood a man in a large overcoat. A hat pulled down over his eyes and very little of his face could be seen. Frank said something about the weather, trying to sound friendly and calm. The man did not answer but asked rudely where Oakfield House was. Frank pointed to a big house in the distance and the stranger continued his way.

　　Then Frank wondered why the stranger had wanted to find Oakfield House at such an hour.

　　He knew that the people who lived there were very rich. Almost without realizing what he was doing, he began following the stranger quickly. Then the man was soon outside the house and Frank saw him look up at the window. A light was still on and the man waited until it went out. When about half an hour had passed, Frank saw him climb noiselessly over the wall and heard him drop on the ground at the other side.

　　Now Frank realized what was going to happen. He walked quickly and silently across the street towards a telephone box on the comer.

(1) Frank was feeling shame at _________.

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A．having walked so quickly

B．having made a big noise at midnight

C．having been afraid

D．having been so anxious to go home

(2) Frank said something about the weather to the stranger because _____.

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A．he wanted to know what the weather would be the next day

B．he wanted to start a conversation

C．he was a very friendly person

D．he wanted to hide his nervousness

(3) The man dressed in a large overcoat was _________.

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A．very friendly

B．not polite at all

C．a visitor to Oakfield House

D．a police officer

(4) What did Frank think was going to happen？

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A．Someone was going to rob the house.

B．The stranger would get himself hurt.

C．The stranger would spend the night in the Oakfield House.

D．Somebody was going to make a telephone call.

　　One night about one o'clock, Dr Eyck, a surgeon, had a phone call from Dr Haydon at the hospital in Clens Falls. The surgeon was asked to go there at once to operate on a very sick boy who shot himself while playing with a gun.

　　The doctor was soon on his way to Clens Falls. It was 60 miles away. And it was snowing heavily in the city. The surgeon thought he could get there before two o'clock.

　　A few minutes later, the doctor was stopped by a man in an old black coat. Gun in hand, the man ordered the doctor to get out. Then the man drove the car down the road, leaving the doctor in the falling snow.

　　It was after three o'clock when the doctor arrived at the hospital in Clens Falls. Dr Haydon told him that the boy had died an hour before.

　　The two doctors walked by the door of the hospital's waiting room. There sat the man in the old black coat with his head in his hands.

　　“Mr Cuninghan,” said Dr Haydon to the man, “this is Dr Eyck. He is the surgeon who came all the way from Albany to save your boy.”

(1) Dr Haydon asked Dr Eyck to come to Clens Falls because ______.

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A．Dr Eyck knew the boy was wounded by a shot

B．the boy needed the help of a surgeon

C．Dr Eyck was the boy's father

D．Dr Eyck was Haydon's friend

(2) The surgeon was late because ________.

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A．he was stopped by the policeman

B．the weather was rather terrible

C．Clens Falls was too far away from Albany

D．his car was taken away

(3) Choose the right order of the following events given in the story ______.

a．Dr Eyck was asked to come to the hospital in Clens Falls.

b．Dr Eyck arrived at the hospital.

c．The boy shot himself.

d．The boy died.

e．The man in an old coat reached the hospital.

f．Dr Eyck was robbed of his car.

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A．c, e, f, a, b, d

B．a, c, f, d, b, e

C．c, a, f, e, d, b

D．a, c, f, e, d, b

(4) The boy could have been saved if______.

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A．he had not been sent to the hospital

B．his father hadn't arrived in time

C．Dr Eyck had arrived earlier than the man

D．Dr Eyck had arrived there two hours earlier

　　Before trains, most things went by road. But 200 years ago the roads were very bad, and the horses couldn't pull the heavy wagons（动货马车）very fast. Sometimes, when the road was wet, they couldn't pull them at all! When that happened, the driver took flat pieces of wood and put them on the ground under the wheels; then it was easy to pull the wagons, and the horse could do the job very well when the road was flat. When the road was going down a hill, the horse didn't pull the wagon at all, but when the road was going up a hill, it was very difficult to pull the wagon.

　　On the first railways, the horse pulled the train when the road was flat. There was a wagon at the back of the train to carry the horse when the train was going down a hill. There was an engine with a long rope to pull the train when it was going up a hill. But the engine stayed in the same place all the time; it didn't move with the train. The first engines didn't work very well, and they sometimes didn't work at all, but they often helped the horses to climb up the hills.

　　Then Richard Trevithick had an idea. “Let's put the engine on the train,” he said. And that was the first real train.

(1) 200 years ago _______.

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A．the roads were very good

B．the roads were very bad

C．there weren't any roads

D．there were trains but no roads

(2) When the road was flat, __________.

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A．the horse pulled the wagon very well

B．the horse pulled the wagon very badly

C．the horse couldn't pull the wagon at all

D．the horse didn't pull the wagon

(3) There was a wagon at the back of the train _____.

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A．to pull the horse

B．to carry the driver

C．to carry the horse

D．to pull the train

(4) The first engines ________.

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A．worked very well

B．didn't work at all

C．didn't help the horses to climb up the hills

D．sometimes worked and sometimes didn't work