第三部分  阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was at university, I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn't do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students' Union than working in the library.

        Once, at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question, we had to write "True" or "False". While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching television. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan.

        "It's very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I'll take a coin into the examination room. I haven't studied a chemistry book for months, so I'll just toss the coin. That way, I'm sure I'll get half the questions right."

        The next day Fred came cheerfully into the examination room. He sat tossing a coin for half an hour as he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.

        The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor .

        "Oh, good," he said. "Have you got the result of the test? What mark did I get?"

        The professor looked at him and smiled.

        "Ah, it's you, Baines. Just a minute."

        Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.

        "I'm terribly sorry, Baines," he said, "you failed."

1. Fred Baines _______.

A. spent quite some time working in the Students' Union

B. worked hard at his lessons but he failed again and again

C. often failed his tests

D. wouldn't work hard so long as he could pass a test

2 Fred looked perfectly calm before the chemistry test because _______.

        A. he was already well prepared for it

        B. he didn't think the test was so important for him

        C. someone had promised to help him out

        D. he believed he had found out a way to pass the test without any difficulty

3. The professor told Baines the result of the test by tossing a coin because _______.

        A. he hadn't marked all the papers yet

B. he couldn't remember the mark Baines got

        C. he wouldn't hurt Baines' feeling by telling him the truth

        D. he wanted to teach Baines a lesson

 

His failing in the exam ________ us because he was al­ways an outstanding student.

       A．pleased           B．astonished     C．exited             D．frightened

 

When I was at university,  I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students’ Union than working in the library. Once, at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write “True” or “False”. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching television. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll take a coin into the examination room. I haven’t studied a chemistry book for months, so I’ll just toss the coin. In that way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.” The next day, Fred came cheerfully into the examination room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left half an hour before the rest of us. The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor.

“Oh good,” he said, “Have you got the results of the test?”

The professor looked at him and smiled.

“Ah, it’s you, Baines, just a minute.”

Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.

“I’m terribly sorry, Baines,” he said, “You failed!”

1. Fred often went to the Students’ Union where he ________ .

  A. worked extra hours                          B. enjoyed himself in the bar

  C. borrowed books                         D. attended a few lectures

2.This time Fred expected to get ________ .

  A. an excellent mark         B. a low mark            C. his usual mark          D. the pass mark

3.The chemistry professor ________ .

  A. didn’t mark the test papers correctly

  B. tossed a coin when he marked test papers

  C. knew about Fred’s method

  D. thought Fred’s method was good

4.According to the text, we can know working hard is ________ .

  A. unnecessary              B. valuable                   C. useless                    D. a waste

 

One cold January evening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America, I went with my father on an oil burner service call. My father was in his forties at that time and I was about twelve years old. He was always working hard trying to support us seven kids. I enjoyed hanging out with him whenever I could — he taught me so much.
We arrived at the call and after walking over snow and ice, we knocked on the customer’s door. A senior citizen opened the door and let us into her very cold home. She was wearing an old, worn-out brown coat that went down to her knees. On her head, covering her gray hair, was an old and worn hat. The home wasn’t furnished very well and was quite dark, except for a single light bulb over the dining room table. Below the light was an older man counting change from several old coffee cans. He looked up at us as we passed by to get to the kitchen where my dad would fix the oil burner. He didn’t say anything. He just looked up at us. He couldn’t speak English, nor could his wife. She only pointed to the kitchen and smiled at us.
After a short while, my father had the heater up and running, and it began to heat their cold home. The lady asked my dad in poor English how much she owed him for fixing the heater. My dad looked around the house and said that he had to go out to the truck and write the bill.
Once in the truck he marked the bill “no answer at home, no charge”, so they wouldn’t be charged for his work. He looked over at me and said, “He was counting his change to pay me. They need their money more than I do.”
As usual, my father taught me something important that time, which was to be kind to the poor.
【小题1】According to Paragraph 1, we know that the writer’s father                        .

A．often taught the writer how to work

B．worked several jobs at the same time

C．had a very big family to support

D．brought up his children alone

【小题2】The description in Paragraph 2 shows that the old couple                        .

A．had no job

B．led a very poor life

C．didn’t know how to save money

D．were not very friendly to strangers

【小题3】What can we infer from the passage?

A．The old couple had no children in America.

B．The old man didn’t plan to pay money.

C．The old woman felt very embarrassed all the time.

D．The old couple were not native Americans.

【小题4】The writer’s father didn’t charge for his work because                         .

A．he didn’t need that money

B．he felt pity for the old couple

C．he was not satisfied with his work

D．he wanted to set a good example to others

When I was at University I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time playing than working in the library.
Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write “True” or “False”. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Thenhe told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll just toss（掷）the coin to decide the answers. That way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.”
The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.
The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. “Oh, good,” he said to the teacher, “Have you got the result of the test?” The teacher reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.
“I’m terribly sorry, Fred,” he said, “You failed!”
【小题1】This story mainly wants to tell us          .

A．chemistry is really hard to learn

B．there are many questions for students to prepare.

C．good exam results really need studying hard

D．tossing a coin can not always decide the result

【小题2】Fred Baines was one of those who          .

A．did just enough to pass an exam

B．didn’t work hard enough for their studies

C．had more important work to do than study

D．were quite good at passing exams

【小题3】Fred came happily into the exam room because          .

A．he had got ready for the exam

B．he knew the answers already

C．one excellent student would help him

D．he had his special way to finish the exam

【小题4】Which of the following about the chemistry exam is TRUE?

A．The chemisty exam was not very difficult at all.

B．It in fact took an hour to finish the chemisty exam

C．The chemisty exam had more than one hundred questions.

D．The chemisty exam needed to be done by tossing a coin.

【小题5】The professor tossed a coin to tell Baines that          .

A．he was satisfied with Baines’ way for the exam

B．he wanted to make friends with Baines

C．Baines’ way for the exam would never work

D．the exam result depended on the coin