阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　In the United States today, books with suggestion on how to do things are very popular. There are about four or five thousand books with titles that begin with the words “how to”. One book may tell you how to earn more money, another may tell you how to save or spend it, and another may explain how to give your money away.

　　Some “how to” books tell you how to choose a job and how to succeed in it. If you fail, however, you can get a book called “how to turn failure into success”. If you never make any money at all, you may need a book called “how to live on nothing.”

　　One of the most popular kinds of books is one that helps people with their personal problems. If you are unhappy with your life, you can read “how to love every minute of your life”. If you are tired of books on happiness, you may prefer a book called “how to get yourself into trouble”, there is even a book about how to make your own life sad.

1．In writing this passage, the writer is trying to ________.

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A．explain some social problem

B．express his personal opinion

C．tell an objective reality

D．put an advertisement

2．“How to” books are in great need in the U. S. because ________.

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A．they help people earn, save, and spend money

B．the writers are all famous people

C．they meet the needs of different people

D．they help people with their personal problems

3．This passage seems to say if someone in America can't make any money, he ________.

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A．can live without any money

B．may ask his friends for help

C．can't live for even a day

D．will get help from anyone around him

4．We can say that ________ according to the passage.

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A．the most popular kind of books is one that helps people with their personal problems

B．not all these books are good for people

C．none of these books does good to people

D．these books are helpful when people do as the books tell

阅读理解：

阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案．

　A large number of U.S. presidents had experiences in the army. The best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower. Grant was general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they graduated from the same school — West Point Military Academy (西点军校). One may be surprised to learn that neither of them did well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was once fined (受罚) because he broke the rules of the school.

　The jobs of U.S. presidents are tiring. He must keep an eye on anything important that happens at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work await (等待) him to do, and he has to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was once brought to visit President Taft. The old president said to him,　　 “When you grow up, you should not be president. It's a tiring job. ”

(1)Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower ________ .

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A． served in the same army　　　B． graduated at the same time

C． studied in the same time　　　D． were once soldiers

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A．in the American Civil War　　B．in the Second World War

C． schoolmates　　　　　　　D． heroes

(3)In the last passage, “keep an eye on” means “________ ”.

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A． take care of　　　　　　　B． look carefully at

C． make a careful study of　　　D． think about

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A． quite comfortable　　　　　B． not so easy

C． very great　　　　　　　　D． not too satisfied

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A． Eisenhower once broke the rules of the school and was fined.

B． Grant was in the front.

C． None of American presidents did well in the school.

D． It is a tiring job to be U.S. president.

阅读理解

　　The U.S. Department of Labor statistics (统计数字) indicate (表明) that there is an oversupply of college - trained workers and that this oversupply is increasing. Already there is an overabundance of teachers, engineers, physicists, aerospace experts , and other specialists (专家(尤提医科)). Yet colleges and graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs that aren’t there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the professions for which they were trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree. These “temporary” jobs have a habit of becoming permanent.

　　On the other hand, there is a tremendous need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers (铅管工人), TV repairmen. These people have more work than they can handle, and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The old distinction (区分) that white - collar workers make a better living than blue - collar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favors the skilled workmen.

　　The reason for this situation is the traditional belief that college degree is a passport to a prosperous (繁荣) future. A large part of American society equates (认为相等) success in life with a college degree. Parents begin indoctrinating (灌输) their children with this belief before they are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school education were a preparation for college rather than for life. In this case, whether the kids themselves want to go to college or not doesn’t matter. Everybody should go to college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments go up and up, and more and more graduates are overeducated for the kinds of jobs available to them.

　　One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college who do not belong there. Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of them do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year. Some struggle on for two or three years and then give up.

1．What do you think would be the best title for the passage?

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A．Educational Problems in America.

B．College Education in America.

C．Graduate Schools in America.

D．Workers in America.

2．The oversupply of higly - trained people directly caused the problem that ________.

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A．college graduates cannot find ideal jobs

B．none of the college graduates can find permanent jobs

C．none of the college graduate can find temporary jobs

D．skilled workers have more work than they can handle

3．From the passage, we can know that skilled workers ________.

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A．have become white - collar workers now

B．can’t find permanent jobs

C．have not much difficulty finding a job

D．used to have a higher annual income than college graduates

4．The problem of the oversupply of college - trained workers is mainly caused by ________.

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A．the fact that white - collar workers can make a better living

B．the fact that college graduates can find permanent jobs

C．the fact that college enrollments go up every year

D．people’s overemphasis on a college degree

5．The sentence “Many of them drop out within the first year” (Sentence 3, Last Paragraph) means that ________.

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A．many high school graduates cannot enter college at the very beginning

B．many high school graduates fail in the exams within the first year

C．many college students give up their study within the first year

D．many college students fail in the exams within the first year

　　Reading Comprehension

　　About 70 million Americans are trying to lose weight. That is almost 1 out of 3 people in the United States. Some people go on diets. This means they eat less of certain food, especially fat and sugar. Other people exercise, take medicine or even have operations. Losing weight is not easy, and it can also cost a lot of money. But why do so many people in the US want to lose weight? Many people worry about not looking young and attractive. Other people worry about their health. Many doctors say being overweight is not healthy. Almost 30 million Americans' weight is at least 20% more than their ideal weight. In fact, the United States is the most over-weight country in the world. Losing weight is hard work, but most people want to find a fast and easy way to take off fat. Bookstores sell lots of books, which tell readers how to lose weight. Each year, a large number of books of this kind are published. Each one promises to get rid of fat.

1．________ are trying to lose weight.

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2．Those who go on diets ________.

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A．do not eat much fat and sugar

B．do not eat sugar or fat

C．never eat sugar or fat

D．only eat sugar or fat

3．Over-weight people ________ to be thinner.

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4．________ who are trying to lose weight worry about their appearance.

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5．Books on weight-losing ________ in the U.S.

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