Walt Disney was born in 1901. The Mickey Mouse created（创造）in 1927 made him famous. He died in 1966, but his work and his dreams did not die. Every year, people all over the world enjoy his old Mickey Mouse and other animated cartoons. Millions of people also came to the United States to enjoy Disneyland in California and Disney World and EPCOT in Florida. Although Disney's work was extraordinary, in many ways Walt Disney was an ordinary man. He was born in Chicago and had a rather typical childhood in the Midwest. His family was not rich or successful. In fact, his father failed in business several times. Walt had to work hard, but he did not mind.

　　He was a man who did not give up easily. One summer, Walt wanted a job at the post office, but they told him he was too young. He went home, drew some lines on his face, and put on his father' s suit and hat. Then he went back to the same office and told them he was 18. They gave him the job.

　　Later in his life, Disney had a dream. He wanted to build a new kind of amusement park. It would be clean and beautiful. There would be rides for children and nice hotels for adults. It would be fun for people of all ages. Disney drew a plan for this park. It was called Disneyland. Engineers told him it was an impossible dream. His family and friends thought he was mad, but Disney did not give up his idea. In 1955, Disneyland opened its gates to the public and became the most successful amusement park in the United States.

(1) Perhaps EPCOT in Florida is ________.

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A．Where first Disneyland was built

B．a public amusement place

C．a Mickey Mouse cinema

D．a typical western animated cartoon center

(2) Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．Walt began to work at the post office at the age of 18.

B．Disneylands were not built only for children.

C．Disney' s family thought his dream could not come true.

D．Disney did not have a happy childhood．

(3) The second paragraph implies（意指）Walt Disney was a man ________.

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A．who did very well in drawing

B．who had a strong will

C．whose success came from hard work

D．who told a lie and got the job

(4) Which would be the best title of the passage?

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A．Walt Disney: The Man in Disneyland

B．Walt Disney: The Man behind the Mouse

C．Walt Disney: The Man Full of Cleverness

D．Walt Disney: The Man Born Extraordinary

　　Finally the great day came. Helen went to the airport to meet her parents. The last time Helen saw her family was two years ago. At the airport, Helen gave her parents clothing, and her parents gave her the camera she wanted so much. She didn't lose any time and began to take pictures immediately.

　　Helen and her parents went sightseeing（观光）every day and visited many friends. Wherever they went, Helen took a picture. Toward the end of her parents' stay, Helen noticed that the film in the camera was up to number 39. With each picture, the number advanced--40, 41, 42, 43. She knew that the most film you can have in a camera is 36 pictures. Something was wrong. Maybe the film ripped. She immediately went to a camera store and told the salesperson（售货员）her problem.“Can you check my camera for me? The film keeps advancing. It's already on number 43. But please be careful. Don' t expose the film. I have pictures in there and I don't want to lose them.”

　　“I'll be careful,”promised the woman.

　　She went into the dark room to check the film. About five minutes later she came out laughing.

　　“What did you find?”asked Helen.

　　“Nothing,”replied the saleswoman.

　　“What do you mean by saying 'nothing' ?”questioned Helen.

　　“I mean exactly that! Nothing.”

(1) Helen liked taking pictures, ________.

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A．but she didn't know very well how to use a camera

B．and she knew very well how to use a camera

C．but she had little hope of having a camera

D．and she knew how to fix a camera

(2) The underlined word“ripped”here means“________”.

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(3)“I have pictures in there,”Helen said. She meant she had pictures ________.

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　　On the fourth Thursday of November every year, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. The day is a national holiday which is set aside each year as a time to give thanks to God for our blessing（祝福）.

　　Story has it that the first English settlers in Massachusetts started the custom（风俗）According to the story, the Pilgrimsas they were called gave thanks for having survived（存活）the terrible winter of 1621 and for having harvested their first summer crop. They invited their Indian friends to join them in a large feast（宴会）to share in the reward of the land.

　　Since the day is set aside for giving thanks, it has also become a traditional（传统的）family day. Large dinners with many relatives are common throughout America on this special day.

(1) Thanksgiving Day is ________.

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A．a national holiday

B．a traditional family day

C．a custom

D．a national holiday between White and Indians

(2) From the passage we know Thanksgiving Day began ________.

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(3) Why did the Pilgrim invite Indians to share the feast?

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A．To show friendship.

B．To thank them.

C．To ask for their help in the coming year.

D．To show that they were kind.

(4) On Thanksgiving Day people usually ________.

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(5) Who were the Pilgrims?

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A．People who invited Indians to dinner.

B．People in the 17th century.

C．First Americans settling in Massachusetts.

D．First English settlers in Massachusetts.

　　When we want to tell other people what we think, we can do it not only with the help of words, but also in many other ways. For example, we sometimes move our heads up and down when we want to say“Yes”,and we move our heads from side to side when we want to say“No”. People who can neither hear nor talk to each other can communicate with the help of their fingers. People who don't understand each other's language have to do the same. The following story shows how they sometimes do it.

　　An Englishman who couldn't speak Italian was once traveling in Italy. One day he entered a restaurant and sat at a table. When the waiter came, the Englishman opened his mouth, put his fingers in it, took them out again and moved his lips. In this way he meant to say,“Bring me something to eat.”The waiter soon brought him a cup of tea. The Englishman shook his head and the waiter understood that he didn't want tea, so he took it away and brought him some coffee. The Englishman was very hungry at this time and looked very sad. He was just going to leave the restaurant when another traveler came in. When this man saw the waiter, he put his hands on his stomach. That was enough. After a few minutes there was a large plate of bread and meat on the table for him.

(1) How do people who don't understand each other's language usually express themselves?

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A．Look for help of words.

B．Move their heads.

C．Use body language.

D．Move their fingers from side to side.

(2) What did the Englishman want the waiter to bring him?

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(3) The writer wrote this article to tell us ________.

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A．how to express“Yes”and“No”

B．how to get food in a restaurant

C．how to use body language

D．where we can get food

　　A thief who dropped a winning lottery ticket（彩票）at the scene of his crime has been given a lesson in honesty. His victim, who picked up the ticket, then claimed the ￡25,000 prize, managed to trace him, and handed over the cash. The robbery happened when maths professor Vinicio Sabbatucci, 58, was changing a tyre on an Italian motorway. Another motorist, who stopped“to help”, stole a suitcase from his car and drove off. The professor found the dropped ticket and put it in his pocket before driving home to Ascoli in eastern Italy.

　　Next day, he saw the lottery results on TV and, taking out the ticket, realized it was a winner. He claimed the 60 million lire（里拉）prize. Then he began a battle with his conscience. Finally, he decided he could not keep the money despite having been robbed. He advertised in newspapers and on radio, saying:“I'm trying to find the man who robbed me. I have 60 million lire for him--a lottery win. Please meet me. Anonymity（匿名）guaranteed.”

　　Professor Sabbatucci received hundreds of calls from people hoping to trick him into handing them the cash. But there was one voice he recognized and he arranged to meet the man in a park. The robber, a 35-year-old unemployed father of two children, gave back the suitcase and burst into tears. He could not believe what was happening.“Why didn't you keep the money?”he asked. The professor replied:“I couldn't because it's not mine.”Then he walked off, spurning the thief's offer of a reward.

(1) The sentence“Then he began a battle with his conscience.”in paragraph 2 implies all of the following EXCEPT that ________.

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A．he knew what he should do as soon as he saw the lottery results

C. he thought for a moment of avenging himself on the robber

D．he came to realize that honesty is more important that money

(2) Hundreds of people phoned professor Sabbatucci because they ________.

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B. hoped to get the money

C．knew who the robber was

D．lost the lottery ticket

(3) The word“spurning”in the last sentence can be replaced by ________.

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(4) If the story appears in a newspaper, the best title might be ________.

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　　Mr. Fuller was a polite young man. He left a college and found a job in a big hotel. He was kind to everyone and ready to help others. Mr. Galt trusted（信任）him and paid him more. And the young man thanked him very much and worked harder.

　　Mr. Galt had a daughter Dianne. The girl was self-willed and never listened to others. She liked nothing but wearing and spent a of time in dancing. The old man liked her always made them obey her. So nobody would marry her. As a twenty-eight-year-old girl, she was worried about it. The old man had to marry her to Mr. Fuller though he came from a poor family.

　　The woman looked down upon her husband at all and never went out with him. Mr. Galt knew all about it, but told the young man to obey her. Mr. Fuller was sorry for it but didn't mind it. He did all at home and never asked her where she had been or who she had met.

　　One evening Mr. Fuller was busy and forgot to wake his wife up in time. The woman was angry and hit him on the nose. Blood ran down his face and dropped on his white shirt. He picked up a stick and held it up. The woman fell to the floor while she was running towards him. And her beautiful skirt was broken. The young man ran to the police station in a hurry while his wife was looking for a knife.

　　“What's the matter, sir?”asked a policeman.

　　“I beat my wife just now,”answered Mr. fuller.

　　“Have you ever beaten her to death?”

　　“I've come here just because I have NOT.”

(1) Mr. Galt trusted Mr. Fuller because ________

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A．the young man was born in a poor family

B．the young man had studied in a college.

C．the young man often helped others.

D．the young man worked hard

(2) The word“self-willed”in the story means ________

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(3) Nobody would marry Dianne because ________.

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A．they were afraid to live with such a girl like her

B．she was born in a rich family

C．she was twenty-eight years old

D．her father had only one hotel

(4) ________, so the young man married her.

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A．Mr. Fuller wasn't afraid of Dianne

B．Mr. Fuller knew Dianne had much money

C．Mr. Fuller loved Dianne very much

D．Mr. Fuller thanked Mr. Galt very much

(5) Dianne didn't think ________, so she didn't love him.

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A．her husband was polite to her

B．her husband was rich enough

C．her husband could dance with her

D．her husband could do housework at home

(6) Mr. Fuller picked up a stick to ________.

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(7) Mr. Fuller ran to the police station because ________.

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A．he was afraid to be killed

B．he thought he had hurt his wife

C．he knew he had done wrong

D．he had no money to pay for her skirt

　　There have been many inventions, which have changed the way we live. The first invention was one that is still very important--the wheel. This made it easier to carry heavy things and travel long distances.

　　For hundreds of years after that there were few inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800s the world started to change. There was little unknown land left in the world. People didn't have to explore（探险）much any more. They began to work instead to make life better.

　　In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. Among them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These all became a big part of our life today.

　　The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions: sound film in 1926, the computer in 1928, and jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new material（材料）was first made. Nylon（尼龙）came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear.

(1) The first great invention in the world was the ________.

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(2) Before the 19th century, there were ________ inventions which had as much effect as the wheel.

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(3) In the early 1800s people began to work in order to ________.

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(4) A new material which changed our clothes came out nearly at the same time as ________.

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(5) The writer wants to tell us mainly about ________.

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A．when the wheel was invented

B．what were invented in the 19th century

C．how inventions affect people' s life

D．what is the result of the inventions

　　There are few places on earth where nature can be seen in almost primitive（原始的）condition. One is the Galapagos Islands, where, largely unspoiled（未被毁坏的） by man, strange and unusual birds, animals and plants settle and grow--many of which are found nowhere else in the world. These islands lie directly on the Equator, about 1,000 kilometers west of the South American mainland.

　　But the Galapagos is now facing a crisis（危机）.Its human inhabitants, who live on the island of Santa Cruz, want to develop the business and tourist possibility of the islands. Recently, they have been having a bitter struggle with the naturalists who work at the Charles Darwin Research Center, also on Santa Cruz. The naturalists want to keep the island's wildlife alive, which is already suffering as a result of human activities.

　　The animals' greatest danger used to be sailors who, hundreds of years ago, plundered（掠夺）the islands for food. They wiped out about 250,000 Giant Tortoises, causing extinction（毁灭）of several species which lived on some of the smaller islands.The last survivor, an 80-year-old Giant Tortoise called Lonely George, lives under the protection of naturalists at the Darwin Center.

(1) The best topic for this passage is ________.

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A．In Primitive Times

B．Giant Tortoises' Extinction

C．Great Danger to the Galapagos

D．Development of the Island

(2) Which of the following maps shows rightly the position of the Galapagos Islands?

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注： ①“□”stands for the South American mainland.

②“”stands for the Galapagos Islands.

③“--”stands for the Equator.

(3) It can be inferred from the second paragraph that if the business and tourism are developed in the Islands, ________.

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A．there will be a war between the inhabitants and naturalists

B．a great number of wild animals and plants will die out

C．a lot of people will come to the Galapagos for food

D．the inhabitants on the Islands will be well off

(4) The writer describes the Giant Tortoise, George as “lonely” because ________.

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A．it is the last one of its species

B．it has lived alone for eighty years

C．the Center doesn't allow it to go out

D．the naturalists keep it alone in the Center

　　Millions of hamburgers are eaten by people in every corner of the world every day. Together with hot dogs and Coca-Cola, hamburgers have been the most important American contribution（贡献）to international eating habits.

　　The name hamburger has nothing to do with ham. It is believed that the hamburger was first brought to the United States by Germans from the city of Hamburg sometime in the 1850s. The first known reference（提及）to hamburgers was in a newspaper in Washington State in 1889. From then on the hamburger became a kind of popular American fast food.

　　Now young people in Asia, Europe and South America have learned to eat while on the move--a hamburger in one hand and a soft drink in the other. There have been cries of anger from Italy and Spain about the shortening of the usual four-hour lunch break. Instead, young people have discovered a lunch for which they don't have to stop at all.

　　However, there are clouds over the hamburger world. People who worry about health dislike the high animal fat in the hamburger. They think the time saved seems a high price to pay for poor health. The packages（包装盒）in which hamburgers are usually served are causing serious pollution problems in many large cities. Big hamburger companies are destroying large areas of South American rainforest to produce the cheap meat they need. So, will the hamburger celebrate its next century?

(1) In which way do hamburgers change people's eating habits?

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A．People can have their meals at any time of the day.

B．They can be served in any restaurant.

C．People can have them with soft drinks.

D．Meal time can be greatly reduced.

(2) The hamburger, as a kind of popular American fast food, ________

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A．has a history of over one hundred years

B．was brought to Europe in the 1850s

C．is usually eaten with the hot dog

D．is better served in Hamburg

(3) Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

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A．Young people in Europe don't have to stop to buy hamburgers.

B．It is suggested that hamburgers be eaten with both hands.

C．Some people in Europe don't like to reduce their lunch break.

D．Young people in many countries are learning how to eat in their cars.

(4) The writer isn't sure whether ________

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A．packages for hamburgers are polluting many big cities

B．hamburgers will remain popular for the following 100 years

C．the meat in hamburgers can cause health problems

D．cattle raising leads to the destroying of rainforest

　　Take a guess. How much do you think an eight-side, red-brown stamp is worth? Well, it was sold by the Robert A. Siegel Galleries in New York City for $ 280,000!

　　The stamp is an 1856 one-cent British Guiana. It pictures an old sailing ship with words in Latin above and below it. You may think the stamp looks rather dull. But it is the only one of its kind in the world.

　　Any stamp collector would like to own the one-cent British Guiana. But you don't have to aim for value in a stamp collection. You may collect bright new stamps that cost very little. The idea is to pick a topic that interests you and then collect every stamp you can find that pictures it in some way. For years a Pennsylvania man looked for stamps showing roofs. Why? Well, the collector's name was John C. Ruhf.

　　President Roosevelt always found time to spend with his stamps. After his death, they were sold for over $ 25,000. No one will even try to put a value on the world's greatest collections. They are those of the British Museum, the U.S. Post Office and the British Royal Family. It is said that the Royal Family owns every stamp ever put out by Great Britain since 1840. No, that's not quite right. There's one stamp missing.

　　Stamp collecting has been a hobby for over 100 years. Going for topical（关于某个主题的）stamps is a good way to appreciate its pleasure.

(1) Why did Mr.Ruhf select the topic of roofs for his collection of stamp?

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A．He wanted to meet one of the rare stamps some day.

B．He liked the stamps that agreed with his last name in pronunciation.

C．He had collected the stamps showing roofs for years.

D．He liked different kinds of roofs more than any other stamps.

(2) The sentence “… and then collect every stamp you can find that pictures it in some way.”means ________

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A．after collecting such stamps you can find them different

B．(and) you may use different methods to collect such stamps

C．then collect as many stamps as you can

D．try to collect such a kind of stamps designed in different ways

(3) In this passage, the writer really means that

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A．picking an interesting topic of the collection is quite a good idea

B．it is no good for collectors completing the sets of the same stamps

C．people have had the hobby of collecting stamps for years

D．it's a good way to collect stamps having something to do with one's name