My first reaction was annoyance. It was Friday afternoon, and I was within an hour of finishing my work for the week. As I was leaving, a nurse brought me one more patient message. The statement read: “Mrs. Jones called to say that she has had blurred vision（视觉模糊）ever since her medical test this morning.”I smiled. Suddenly our tests were causing eye problems.

　　This week my patients had questioned everything. My patient with high blood pressure had stopped coming to her treatment on the advice of an Internet chat room. A woman who bad a mental problem was substituting（用……代替）St. John's word for her medication. Now Mrs. Jones was imagining problems. I rolled my eyes.

　　My second reaction was worry. As I looked through her record, I tried to figure out why she would have blurred vision, but nothing in her record explained the new problem. She's probably just anxious, I thought. Still, she wouldn't have called if she had been all right. I picked up the phone.

　　What I next felt can only be described as delight. Before I made the call, the nurse ran in: Mrs. Jones called. Her vision is fine. Turns out she picked up the wrong glasses when she left the office. The X-ray technician has been having the same problem. I let out a laugh. Mrs. Jones had been right. Her vision had been blurred. Now we know why.

　　Finally I felt shame. I came to realize what Mrs. Jones had taught me. I had first know she was wrong, that her anxiety had clouded her judgment. Instead, my medical training had clouded mine. Now I feel thankful that Mrs. Jones figured it out before I made a mistake about our relationship. Patients come to for my help. They pay me to listen, diagnose（诊断）, treat and talk. That suggests trust; I must remember that, and trust them too.

(1) The writer smiled while reading the patient message because he knew

[　　]

A．Mrs. Jones would ask for more tests

B．the patient was being unreasonable

C．the nurse was joking with him

D．Mrs. Jones would call him

(2) What has caused Mrs. Jones' eyes problem?

[　　]

A．Wrong glasses.

B．Medical checkup.

C．Her own imagination.

D．Chatting on the Internet.

(3) The underlined words“clouded her judgment”in the last paragraph probably mean

[　　]

A．made her less trustful toward the doctor

B．put her in control of her own feelings

C．made her less able to think clearly

D．put her in a dangerous situation

　　When Nancy Lublin received $5 000 from her grandfather in 1996，she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off student loans（贷款）. Instead, the 24——year-old New York University law student began thinking about helping low-income women get better jobs.“If a woman goes for a job interview（面试）poorly dressed, she won't get the job.” Lublin says. “But with out a job，she can't a“afford suitable clothes.”

　　So，with the money Lublin founded“Dress for Success” and began collecting women's clothes which were still in good condition but which their owners no longer needed.“So many women have clothes lying around that they will never wear again.”one of Lublin's assistants says.“Nancy's idea is so simple and yet so important to women.”

　　Many women come to Lublin's office before going to a job interview. Here, they receive a suit, shoes and any other things they need. Since it was set up, more than 1000 women have turned to “Dress for Success” for help. Many of them have won jobs. Some have found jobs after being out of work for many years. Jenny, a 32-year-old woman who was recently hired as a lawfirm office manager says,“I made a good impression（印象）because of' Dress for Success.”

(1) What can we learn from the text?

[　　]

A．Nancy's grandfather lent her the money to set up the office.

B．Nancy's office gathers used clothes from women.

C．Low-income women can get jobs at“Dress for Success”.

D．Nancy set up“Dress for Success” to make money.

(2) “Dress for Success” attracts many women because they_______

[　　]

A．like to wear different clothes

B．like the design of the dresses

C．prefer buying clothes at a low price

D．need to look smart when looking for a job

(3) From what Jenny says, we know that_______.

[　　]

A．she got a lot of good ideas from Nancy

B．she is working happily at her present job

C．clothes from Nancy's office helped to get her a job

D．“Dress for Success” has a good business relation with her firm

(4) What would be a good title for the text?

[　　]

A．Keep Your Old Clothes

B．A Helping Hand for Women

C．Nancy: A Successful Law Student

D．A Successful Clothing Business

　　He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the salvage（救援）workers that they called him“our baby”. In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby's grave（墓）, carved with the words：“To the memory of an unknown child.”He has rested there ever since.

　　But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Fintand arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave.“This is our baby,”says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children——including a 13month-old boy name Eino——from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. “We thought they were all lost in the sea. says ”Schleifer.

　　Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby's grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the unknown child with those collected from member of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees no need for a new grave. “He belongs to the people of Halifax,” says Schleifer.“They've taken care of him for 90 years.”

Adapted from People, November 25,2002

(1) The baby travelled on the Titanic with his____

[　　]

(2) What is probably the boy's last name?

[　　]

(3) Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child's grave on Nov. 5, ____

[　　]

(4) This text is mainly about how____

[　　]

A．the unknown baby's body was taken from the north Atlantic

B．the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia

C．people found out who the unknown baby was

D．people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years

　　 “I would almost rather see you dead,”Robert S. Cassatt. a leading hanker（银行家）Philadelphia, shouted when his twenty-year-old oldest daughter announced that she wanted to become an artist. In the 19th century, playing at drawing or painting on dishes was all right for a young lady, but serious work in art was not. And when the young lady's family ranked among（跻身于）the best of philadelphia's social（社交界）families, such an idea could not even be considered.

　　That was how Mary Cassatt, born 1844, began her struggle as an artist. She did not tremble（发抖）before her father's anger. Instead, she opposed（抗拒）him with courage and at last made him change his mind. Mary Cassatt gave up her social position（社会地位）and all thought of a husband and a family, which in those times was unthinkable for a young lady. In the end, after long years of hard work and perseverance（坚持）,she became America's most important woman artist and the internationally recognized leading woman painter of the time.

(1) What in fact was Mr Cassatt's main reason in opposing his daughter's wish?

[　　]

A．Drawing and painting was simply unthinkable among ladies in those days.

B．He did not believe his daughter wanted to work seriously in art.

C．He believed an artist's life would be too hard for his daughter.

D．Ladies of good families simply did not become artists in those times.

(2) What do we know about Mary Cassatt's marriage（婚姻）?

[　　]

A．Her marriage failed because she never gave a thought to her husband and family.

B．She never married because she did not want to be just a wife and mother.

C．After marriage she didn't give up her husband rather than her career（事业）.

D．She did not marry because for a lady of her social position to marry below her was unthinkable.

(3) What do we know about Robert Cassatt's character from the text?

[　　]

A．He was a cruel man.

B．He was a stubborn（固执的）man.

C．He knew nothing about art.

D．He knew little about his daughter．

(4) What do we know Mary Cassatt's character?

[　　]

A．She was brave in going against old ideas．

B．She got tired of always obeying her father．

C．She hated playing at drawing and painting.

D．She did not mind being poor at all.

(5) As we can learn from the text, which of the following was generally considered the most important in the life of a woman in the U.S. in Mary Cassatt's times?

[　　]

　　How many men do housework? Recently a European Commission（委员会）tried to find out people's ideas and reactions to the women's movement. As part of their survey（调查）, they asked many men and women the question, “Who does the housework?”The men answered very differently from the women!

　　The housework they asked people about were: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48％ of British husbands said they did these things. 37％ of Danish（丹麦的）men helped in the house. But only 15 of Italian men said they did the housework, many of them said they never helped at all!

　　But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 38％ of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most trustful husbands; their answers were the same as their wives' answers.

　　Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience.'? Write and tell us what you think.

(1) The survey was carried out in_______.

[　　]

(2) The subject for the survey is_______.

[　　]

A．how many boys do the housework

B．who does the housework at home

C．how many women do the housework

D．who are more diligent, wives or husbands

(3) From the passage we can see that_______.

[　　]

A．there were more husbands who did the housework than wives

B．husbands did half of the housework all the time

C．there were more wives who did the house work than husbands

D．wives did almost all the housework at home

(4) More ________husbands help in the house than ________husbands.

[　　]

A．British；Danish

B．Italian；Danish

C．Danish；British

D．Italian；British

(5) The survey shows that ________husbands were the most honest.

[　　]

　　In Shanxi province you may be offered brains to eat. Frightened? You shouldn't. Because the brains is only a kind of food, which is famous for its unusual name and rich nutrition（营养）.

　　Brains as food was invented more than 300 years ago by Fu Shan, an artist whose mother had been iii for a long time. To help her become well again, he studied medicine and invented a kind of soup made of meat, vegetables and a number of Chinese medicines.

　　Rice Wine（酒）was also used in the soup to help treat illnesses caused by old age. After taking the soup his mother got better little by little and lived a long life.

　　Fu's soup became the talk of the town, many people came to see him. One day a restaurant owner asked him what was in the soup. “I'll tell you,”Fu said.“but if your restaurant is going to sell the soup, you must call it brains because of its shape and colour. And your restaurant should be renamed after my mother.”

(1) The best headline（标题）for this newspaper article is________.

[　　]

A．A good son

B．A special soup

C．How to make brains

D．How to live a long life

(2) The food is called“brains”because________.

[　　]

A．it looks like brains

B．it has animal brains in it

C．Fu's mother liked the name

D．it makes one clever and live longer

(3) Before Fu told the restaurant owner what was in the food, one of the things he demanded was that________.

[　　]

A．the restaurant shouldn't offer any other food

B．the restaurant should use his mother's name

C．the shape of the food must never be changed

D．the food must be used to help sick people

(4) The food was first invented to________.

[　　]

A．help the aged in the town

B．improve people's health

C．make a restaurant famous

D．help a sick woman

(5) What has made brains a popular food in Shanxi?

[　　]

A．It is served in many restaurants there.

B．It is good for health and has a strange name.

C．It is made of Chinese medicines and wine.

D．It was invented a long time ago by an artist.

Why She Turned Herself into Human Torch

　　She was a lovely and pretty girl but now Liu Siying's seriously burnt face and hands tell people that she might never be as happy again. On January 23,2001, the 12-year-old fifth-grade primary school pupil from Central China's Henan Province was taken by her mother to Beijing's Tian'anmen Square, believing she would enter the“Falun World”. There the two set themselves on fire. She said she was told“the flames can't hurt you. They will only pass through your body and you will reach heaven in the twinkling of an eye... It is a wonderful world. You could become a 'religious queen' and many people will serve you.”She said her mother and other Falun Gong practitioners said this to encourage her to set herself on fire. However, the flames changed everything. The pain and fear made the young girl cry out for help. She was rescued by police .and sent to Jishuitan Hospital, China's leading hospital for treating burn patients.

　　The hospital found the girl had bums to 40 percent of her body and bums to her face. A healthy gift has been physically damaged for life. Siying had been a well-behaved girl. Her mother taught her to practise Falun Gong last March and she became acquainted with a number of Falun Gong practitioners. The followers often praised her for being clever and said that she could become a“religious queen”in heaven. Doctors at the hospital said it was only after 16 hours at the hospital that the shock caused by the burns was controlled. Her head was bandaged and she was given a skin-transplant operation on her left hand.

　　The girl said she set herself on fire because she was“going to heaven”. She said she learnt about Falun Gong from the book“Zhuan Falun”and her mother. She said she had been“fooled”and said she no longer believed in Falun Gong. Doctors said all her fingers may have to be cut off.

　　Scores of days later, Liu Siying died in the hospital.

(1) Liu Siying might never be as happy again because________.

[　　]

A．her face and hands were seriously burnt

B．she didn't enter the“Falun World”

C．she was arrested for her illegal act

D．she lost both of her parents

(2) The underlined phrase“in the twinkling of an eye”refers to________.

[　　]

(3) In the eyes of most people in China, what Liu Siying and her mother have done in Tian'anmen Square is________.

[　　]

(4) After knowing the truth of what Liu Siying has done, ________.

[　　]

A．we should draw useful lessons from it and fight against Falun Gong

B．people find the way to heaven was closed to the poor girl

C．the whole nation regarded her as a hero

D．people sang high praise for her brave act

(5) What is the main idea of this passage?

[　　]

A．Falun Gong——the evil religion（邪教）should be forbidden.

B．The Chinese government dealt with the affairs of Falun Gong correctly.

C．Why Liu Siying set herself on fire on Beijing's Tian'anmen Square.

D．The affair that Liu Siying set herself on fire promised a worse future for her.

  　Have you ever used a typewriter? If not, you've surely seen one. This useful machine has a most interesting history.

　　Although you may think that the typewriter is a modern invention, the idea goes as far back as the early 1700s. It was then, in 1714, that England's Queen Anne granted Henry Mill the first patent（专利）for a machine that typed letters. Called An Artificial Machine or Method For Impressing Letters, the machine remained just a design on paper.

　　Various other typing machines were invented over the next hundred years or so. However, all of them had the same problem: they required more time to use than writing the same material by hand. Things improved a little around 1829 when an American named William Burt invented a machine called the desired letter. He also pressed a bar to link the paper. The machine printed letters well, but it had a top speed of only five words a minute.

　　Finally, in 1874, a more practical machine was introduced to the public. Invented by an American Christopher $holes and some of his companions, the machine was set up by E. Remington and Sons and called the“Remington Model No.1”. It was the first typewriter to have the kind of typewriter keyboard we know today.

　　You may have a look at the typewriter keyboard and wonder about the strange arrangement of letters. The arrangement, strangely enough, has nothing to do with making typing easier or faster. As a matter of fact, the keys were so arranged to force typists to type lower. Typing too fast caught the keys of Remington 1 pressed together. They still follow this early arrangement of letters of the keyboard.

(1) What does the writer mainly talk about in this passage?

[　　]

A．What a typewriter is.

B．How the typewriter was invented.

C．The function and use of a typewriter.

D．Remington and his invention.

(2) “An Artificial Machine”was______.

[　　]

A．the first typewriter that was made by Henry Mill

B．highly praised by England's Queen as the first typewriter.

C．hardly produced at all

D．made as the first typewriter in 1714

(3) The first typewriters were made_______.

[　　]

A．from 1700 to 1714

B．in the eighteenth century

C．in the nineteenth century

D．in the twentieth century

(4) That the keyboard was designed so as today is because_______.

[　　]

A．the inventor wanted to make typing easier than writing

B．the inventor meant to prevent the keys from being pressed together

C．that it was arranged strangely

D．it has nothing to do with Remington

(5) We can infer from the passage that modern typewriters are better than and different from the one invented by Sholes and his companions except for ________.

[　　]

A．the size

B．the keyboard

C．the form of letters

D．the arrangement of the letters

　　Fair Way

　　The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state prize. The other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. And then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong on one of the score cards. A 9 had been recorded as a 7. They were not the state prize winner; Woburn High had won.“No one would have known,” said Wobum's instructor, Bob Doran. For Rota, it wasn't a difficult decision: “The prize wasn't ours to take.”

　　Coin Stars

　　“College students are lazy, but they also want to help,” says University of Pennsylvania graduate Dana Hork. So she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coins, and handing out cups to first-year students to keep in their rooms. Her“Change for Change” effort has collected $ 40 000 for charities（慈善机构）,which were decided upon by students.

　　Never Forgotten

　　A school in Massachusetts received a $ 9.5 million check from Jacques LeBermuth. But it took officials several days of digging to discover his connection to the school. Records showed the LeBermuth came from Belgium and studied in the school in the 1920s. When his family fell on hard times, he was offered free room and board. LeBermuth became a trader, owned shares of AT&T and lived off the earnings until he died, at age 89.

(1) What did Greg Rota probably do in the end?

[　　]

A．Took photos of Doran.

B．Had a meeting with Doran.

C．Returned the prize to the organizer.

D．Apologized to Woburn High school.

(2) Greg Rota's decision shows that he was ________.

[　　]

(3) The underlined word“change”in the second paragraph means________.

[　　]

(4) What did the school officials do after receiving the check from Mr LeBermuth?

[　　]

A．They tried to find out why he gave them the money.

B．They went to Belgium to pay their respects to him.

C．They dug out the records that were buried underground.

D．They decided to offer their students free room and board.

(5) Jacques LeBermuth gave the money to the school because________.

[　　]

A．the school asked for it

B．he had no need for that much money

C．the school had helped him in the past

D．he wanted to be remembered by the students

　　During the Second World War, Winston Churchill was the British prime minister. One day he had to go to the British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC) to make an important speech to the nation.

　　An hour before the time of his speech, he stopped a taxi in the street and asked the driver to take him to the BBC; but the taxi-driver, who did not recognize him, said he could not take him anywhere just then, because he wanted to go back to his home at the other end of London to hear Churchill make a speech on the radio.

　　Churchill was so pleased when he heard this answer that he gave the man a pound, which was worth quite a lot in those days.

　　“All right, get in,”said the driver happily, opening the door of the taxi. “I'll take you, and to hell with Churchill and his speech.”

(1) Winston Churchill was the head of______ during World War II.

[　　]

A．the American government

B．the Italian government

C．the British government

D．the French government

(2) One day Churchill went to the BBC to _______.

[　　]

A．make a speech to his people

B．see his friends

C．meet the British prime minister

D．listen to an important speech

(3) The driver refused to take Churchill to the BBC because _______.

[　　]

A．he hated Churchill

B．he had something important to do

C．he wanted to go home in the opposite direction

D．Churchill offered him too little money

(4) According to the story Churchill was_______.

[　　]

A．a modest man

B．a great man

C．a generous man

D．fond of listening to good words