阅读理解

先阅读短文，然后根据短文内容从文后每小题的四个选项中，选出一个能完成所给句子或回答所提问题的正确答案。

　　John Russell, aged 83, got on a Chicago bus and saw a sign saying that senior citizens(老年公民) could ride for half the cost. When he dropped his three quarters into the box, the driver asked him for identification(身份证明). John took out an ID card. “You need a special CTA card,” said the driver. John did not have the CTA card because he lives in New York and was in Chicago visiting his two sons.

　　“Put in another three quarters,” said the driver, “or get off the bus.” John said, “Give me back my quarters, and I'll get off.” “I can't－it's in the box. If you don't get off, I'll call the police,” said he, which he did.

　　Two police cars drove over and stopped. “I'm the criminal(罪犯),” said John Russell. Then he and the driver told their stories.

　　“That's what you called me for?” one policeman asked the driver. Another policeman then said to John, “I'll give you three quarters.” John shook his head, “Why should you give me the quarters? He has to give me my quarters.”

　　“Where are you going?” asked the policemen. “Downtown to have lunch with friends,” John said. “Come on,” the policemen said. “We'll get you your card.” So they took him downtown to the CTA office. But the people there wouldn't give him a CTA card－he needed a picture. “What about his quarters?” one policeman asked. The officials discussed, and the decision was made to give John's quarters back.

　　When John got downstairs, the policemen asked where he was going. “To see my friends,” John said. “How are you going to get there?” “On the bus. And all I'm going to pay is 75 cents.” “Good luck,” the policemen said.

　　John got on a bus, dropped three quarters in the box, and said, “I'm a senior citizen…” The driver looked at John and nodded. He didn't know how lucky he was to be a sensible(通情达理的) man.

1．With a CTA card ________.

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A．senior citizens can pay only three quarters for a bus ride

B．senior citizens can pay only half the price for a bus ride

C．men of any age can ride on a bus paying only three quarters

D．men of any age can ride on a bus for half the price

2．John Russell doesn't have a CTA card because ________.

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A．he is not a senior citizen

B．he is not a citizen of Chicago

C．he is only visiting his two sons

D．his ID card is not a real one

3．The decision made by the CTA office was ________.

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A．to give John a CTA card then and there

B．to refuse to give John's quarters back

C．to return the three quarters to John

D．to declare(宣布) that John was a criminal

4．The second driver let John ride on his bus because ________.

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A．he knew John had his own CTA card

B．he knew John was a difficult man

C．he was kind enough to help the aged

D．he knew the police were protecting John

5．Who do you think is (are) NOT sensible?

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A．The first driver.

B．The second driver.

C．John Russell.

D．The policemen.

6．A good title(标题) for this passage is ________.

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A．Helping the Old

B．Giving No More Quarters

C．A Sensible Driver

D．A Senior Citizen

阅读理解

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

　　Computer programmer David Jones makes $35,000 a year designing (设计) new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a credit card (信用卡). Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

　　The 16-year-old boy works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm (公司) puts two new games on the home market each month. But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money. In spite of his salary (薪水), made by inventing new programs within quite a short period of time, with bonus payments (奖金) and profit-sharing (分红), he cannot drive a car, get some money from a bank to buy a house, or get credit cards.

　　He lives with his parents in their house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His firm has to pay $150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive. David got his job with the firm a year after leaving school with six 0-levels and working for a time in a computer shop.“I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs,”he said.

　　“I suppose (认为) $35,000 sounds a lot but actually (实际上) that's not good enough. I hope it will come to more than that this year.”He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother $20 a week. But most of his spare time is spent on working.

　　“Unfortunately (不幸的是), computing was not part of our studies at school,”he said.“But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway.”

　　David added, “I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement (退休) is a possibility (可能性). You never know when the market will disappear.”

1．Why is David different from other young people of his age?

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A．He earns a very high salary.

B．He has no job.

C．He does not go out much.

D．He lives at home with his parents.

2．David's greatest problem is ________.

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A．making the banks treat him as a grown-up

B．inventing computer games

C．spending his salary

D．learning to drive

3．He was hired by the firm because ________.

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A．he had worked in a computer shop

B．he had written some computer programs

C．he works very hard

D．he had learnt to use computers at school

4．He left school after taking six 0-levels because ________.

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A．he did not enjoy school

B．he wanted to work with computers and staying at school did not help him

C．he was afraid of getting too old to use a computer

D．he wanted to earn a lot money

5．Why does David think he might retire early?

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A．Because one has to be young to write computer programs.

B．Because a million dollars is enough for him to live a happy life.

C．Because he thinks computer games might not always sell so well.

D．Because he thinks his firm might go bad.

阅读理解

　　A city man from a big city with a new carriage (马车) and a beautiful pair of horses was driving along a country road. He didn't give much attention (注意) to where he was going. Pretty soon he realized (意识到) that he was lost , but he continued to drive, expecting(希望)to find his way or to meet someone who could tell him how to get back to the town.

　　It was a long lonely road, for many hours he kept on driving. When it was almost dark, he saw a farmer ploughing(耕地) the land. He stopped and called out, “Hello, farmer. ”“Hello, yourself, ”the farmer replied, still ploughing.

　　“Where does this road go?”

　　“I haven't ever seen it to anywhere. It always stays right where it is,”said the farmer, without stopping his work.

　　“How far is it to the next town?”said the driver, speaking a little louder.

　　“Don't know, never measured(测量)it,”replied the farmer.

　　By this time the city man was getting angry. “What do you know? You are the biggest fool(傻瓜)that I have ever seen. ”

　　The father stopped ploughing and looked for a long time at the city man. Then he said scornfully (轻蔑地) , “Maybe I don't know much. Perhaps I am a fool. But at least (至少) I am not lost.”

1．The city man was driving along the country road to ________.

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A．a town

B．a city

C．a village

D．a place he was not sure of

2．Soon he found that ________.

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A．he missed the bus

B．he was lost

C．he had to look for his new carriage

D．he lost a beautiful horse

3．It was a long lonely road, and ________.

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A．only one carriage could run on it

B．it was far from the town

C．it was far from the town

D．he could see some people working in the fields

4．The city man did not stop driving ________.

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A．until he saw a farmer in a field

B．when it was almost dark

C．until he was tired

D．until he and his horses were tired

5．Which of the following can replace(代替)“go”in the sentence “where does this road go”?

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