阅读理解

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项．

　　Can you imagine how difficult life would become if all supplies of paper suddenly disappeared? Banks and post offices, schools and colleges would be forced to close. Food makers would be unable to cover or label(标明) their products. There would be no magazines, newspapers or books. And we would be no longer be able to write to our friends and relations(亲戚).

　　Those would be only a few of the troubles of paperless world. Everywhere we turn we find paper without it our modern world would come to a stop. Paper is the lifeblood of industry, the bringer of news and the distributor(传播者) of knowledge. It wouldn't be much fun writing our letters or schoolwork on slates(石板)!

1．The author imagines ________.

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A．paperless past

B．the future without paper

C．the world without paper

D．the time we would use slates instead of paper

2．The passage tells us that ________ in a country.

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A．paper is very important

B．paper is badly needed

C．newspapers and magazines are very important

D．we can not use slates now

3．The passage supports which of the following conclusions(结论)? A serious paper shortage(短缺) could ________.

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A．affect(影响) a country's literacy(文化)

B．reduce the level of spending

C．benefit(有益)the tourist trade

D．encourage better education

4．Which sentence in the passage supports the conclusion that paper is a universal(广用的) commodity(物品)?

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A．There would be no newspapers, of books.

B．Everywhere we turn we find paper.

C．We would no longer be able to write letters.

D．Paper is the lifeblood of industry.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　Miss White was the owner of a little bakery．She was forty years old，and she was not married．

　　A customer who came to Miss White's bakery two or three times a week had never asked for any good bread，but，strangely enough，he wanted only two pieces of old and dry bread each time．

　　One day Miss White found on the customer's finger red and brown dirt．

　　She guessed that the customer probably was a poor artist．He lived in an old house，where he painted pictures and ate dry bread．Miss White，a woman with a kind heart，noticed that the customer began to look thinner and very sad，so she wanted to do something for him．

　　As usual the customer came again and ordered two pieces of dry bread．Suddenly a fire car came by with a great sound．When the customer hurried to the door to look，Miss White quickly cut the bread with a knife and put a lot of butter into it．She covered the bread with paper before the customer turned back to the counter（柜台）．Not long after，the customer returned and shouted angry words with Miss White．“I'll kill you．You have made my picture waste．I have been working hard for three months drawing a picture for a new city hall．I always make my drawing in pencil first，and when it's done，I cleaned the pencil lines with dry and hard bread pieces．”

　　Hearing that，Miss White knew how foolish her kind heart was．

1．A bakery was a place where ________．

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A．paper was made

B．pictures were painted

C．colors were sold

D．bread was made and sold

2．The customer only bought hard and dry bread because ________．

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A．he cleaned the pencil lines with it

B．he liked to eat it

C．Miss White only sold it

D．he was very poor

3．In the end，we know that the artist's drawing must be ________．

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4．The story shows that Miss White was ________．

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书面表达

　　假定你是一名高中生，一次一位外国朋友问你，除了在学校学习英语外还有什么其他途径练习英语。请你根据提示用英语写出你参加“英语角”的情况。

　　提示：1．“英语角”于两年前成立，许多中学生参加，有时也有些大学生和外国友人来此。

　　2．活动时间，每周六上午。

　　3．活动内容：练习英语口语，谈论大家共同感兴趣的事情，交流学习英语的经验等。

　　4．谈谈你参加此项英语的体会。

　　参考词汇：“英语角”：English Corner

第二部分　阅读理解（共25小题，第一节第小题2分，第二节每小题1分；满分45分）

       第一节　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（Ａ、Ｂ、Ｃ、Ｄ）中，选出最佳选项。

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The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated(愤怒的) when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy."

The man was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found out the box was empty. He yelled at her, stating, "Don't you know, when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be something inside? The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and cried, "Oh, Daddy, it's not empty at all. I blew kisses into the box. They're all for you, Daddy."

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her forgiveness.

Only a short time later, an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many years and, whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each one of us, as humans beings, have been given a gold container filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is simply no other possession, anyone could hold, more precious than this.

56．The 3-year-old girl was punished by her father for ________.

A．wasting gold                    　　B．wasting wrapping paper

C．putting the box under the Christmas tree  D．bringing the gift to her father

57．What’s inside the box according to the little girl?

A．nothing  　　 B．air  　　 C．kisses  　　　       D．gold wrapping paper

58．The father remembered the love of his daughter by ________.

A．kissing the gold box            

B．putting gold into the box.

C．taking out an imaginary kiss from the box. 　

D．keeping the little girl’s ash box by his bed.

59．Choose the best title for the passage.

A．The kisses in the box.          B．A girl and his father 

C．A love story                 D．The box under the Christmas tree.