Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America. One was a very rich banker, another owned one of the largest companies in the world, and the third owned many buildings in the center of New York.

  The reporter was talking to them about being important.

  “How do we know if someone is really important?” the reporter asked the banker.

  The banker thought for a few moments and then said, “I think anybody who is invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States is really important.”

  The reporter then turned to the owner of the very large company. “Do you agree with that?” she asked.

  The man shook his head, “No. I think the President invites a lot of people to the White House. You’d only be important it while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the preside of another country , and the president of US said he was too busy to answer it .”

  The reporter turned to the third man. “Do you think so?”

  “No, I don’t.” he said. “I don’t drink that makes the visitor important. That makes the President important.

  “Then what would make the visitor important?” the reporter and the other two men asked.

  “Oh, I think if the visitor to the White House was talking to the President and the phone rang, and the President picked up the receiver, listened and then said, ”It’s for you. ”

  1．This story happened in           ,

    A．England               B．America               C．Japan                    D．Australia

  2．There are                  in this passage.

    A．two men and two women                                B．three men and one woman

    C．three women and one man                          D．four women

  3．The banker thought         .

    A．he was really important because he was a rich banker

    B．the visitor to the White House was not really important

    C．the visitor who met the President of the United States was really important.

    D．the reporter was really important

  4．The owner of the very large company thought          .     

    A．he was really important because he owned one of the largest companies

    B．the banker was really important

    C．the owner of many buildings in the center of New York was really important

    D．the visitor would be really important if while he was visiting the President, the President

would not answer any telephone call

  5．The owner of many buildings thought            .

    A．he was really important because he owned many buildings in the center of New York

    B．the owner of the very large company was really important

    C．the visitor was really important if he was talking to the President and the President received a telephone call for the visitor

    D．the person who worked in the White House was really important

Hearst Castle is in California, America. A person called William Randolph Hearst built it between 1922 and 1939, at a cost of more than $30 million. Last year, I had a trip to that castle.
I spent the whole day looking around. But there was much to see, and a day wasn’t enough. Hearst Castle has four houses. The main house, “Casa Grande”, is the biggest one. Visitors can live in the other three ones. Many of them are Hollywood film stars, and they often come to the parties there.
At Hearst Castle, there are also beautiful gardens and two swimming pools, one inside and a larger one outside. I loved the one outside, the “Neptune Pool”. It was a pity that we couldn’t go swimming there!
The guide told us that Mr. Hearst travelled around Europe with his mother at the age of ten and looked at paintings and castles. He never forgot that tour and wanted his house to look like a castle. When Mr Hearst died in 1951, his family gave Hearst Castle to the people of California. Now it’s a museum.

1. 1.

   The underlined word “Castle” in the first paragraph means _____.

   1. A.
      城堡
   2. B.
      胜地
   3. C.
      城垛
   4. D.
      楼阁
2. 2.

   “Casa Grande” is _____ the other three ones at Hearst Castle.

   1. A.
      younger than
   2. B.
      bigger than
   3. C.
      older than
   4. D.
      smaller than
3. 3.

    There are _____ at Hearst Castle.

   1. A.
      beautiful gardens
   2. B.
      one swimming pool inside
   3. C.
      one swimming pool outside
   4. D.
      all the above
4. 4.

    _____ made Mr. Hearst build this wonderful castle.

   1. A.
      A tour around Europe
   2. B.
      The paintings and castles in Europe
   3. C.
      His mother
   4. D.
      His dream
5. 5.

    Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

   1. A.
      Hearst Castle in California was cheap to build.
   2. B.
      Hearst Castle is on a mountain near the sea.
   3. C.
      Many Hollywood film stars come to Hearst’s parties.
   4. D.
      After Mr. Hearst died, his family lived at Hearst Castle.

The weather in England never gets too hot ________ too cold.

1. A.
   and
2. B.
   or
3. C.
   but
4. D.
   with

The students all behaved respectfully ________ their teachers when they met them.

1. A.
   at
2. B.
   to
3. C.
   for
4. D.
   with

I can’t find the book about famous sportsmen ____ I borrowed from the library yesterday.

1. A.
   which
2. B.
   who
3. C.
   what
4. D.
   whom